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Senators Try To Block Funding To Boys & Girls Clubs of America

2010-03-12T13:16:00.000-08:00

Roxannes Spillett Criticizing the chief executive's $1 million pay package and the charity's lobbying practices, a group of Republican Senators moved Friday to block millions of dollars from going into the hands of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

Roxannes Spillett Salary Since federal funds make up nearly 40% of the Atlanta-based charity's revenue, Senators Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), Tom Coburn (R. Okla.), Jon Kyl (R., Ariz.) and John Cornyn (R., Texas) said they were concerned the money was going to fund the CEO's nearly $1 million compensation package, $4.3 million in travel expenses and more than half a million in lobbying fees, instead of going to serve the 5 million children that attend 4,000 local clubs.

The Senators sent a letter to the charity Thursday seeking detailed information about its activities, how it awards funds to local chapters, and compensation, travel, and lobbying expenses.

"It appears that such funds are not reaching the intended beneficiaries, in this case, the youth of this country," the letter said, citing the charity's 2008 tax forms.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of America didn't immediately respond to phone calls and emails seeking comment.

The investigation could block a bill currently moving through the Senate to award up to $425 million to the umbrella organization over five years and threaten the national charity's reputation.

In 2008, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America posted more than a $13 million loss, leading to closures for dozens of local chapters in Washington, Florida and Georgia, among others.

The umbrella organization went to Congress to seek money to stop the closings of local chapters, the charity's Board of Governors said in a statement.

In January the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee voted to give the organization an additional $85 million a year from 2011 to 2014, raising flags for Grassley, a ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, who conducts oversight over nonprofits.

That's because in 1996, Congress authorized $20 million per year as so-called seed money to establish 1,000 new Boys & Girls clubs from 1997 to 2001. The $100 million given to the umbrella organization in 1996 was contingent on the ability of the newly-created clubs to operate without additional, direct financial federal assistance.

The new Senate bill "changes Congress' original intent--providing initial seed money???to providing a perpetual source of funds to sustain the Boys and Girls Clubs," Grassley said in a statement.

Valentine Day Erat dengan Zina

2010-02-13T12:26:00.000-08:00

BUat apa tidak ada kerjaan cari-cari Kata-kata Valentine dan juga puisi valentine day kaerna hari kasih sayang bukan hanya 14 Februari, tapi seperti biasa kebanyakan orang Indonesia bodoh dan tolol serta bisanya cuma latah dan ikut-ikutan termasuk dalam menyikapi Valentine Day.

Setiap 14 Februari yang jatuh hari ini, momen Valentine Day atau hari kasih sayang selalu diperingati di seluruh penjuru dunia. Hari Valentine juga dianggap sangat jauh dari norma-norma Islam. Karena perayaan itu bertolak belakang dengan ajaran Islam yang justru tidak memberi batasan waktu seperti halnya dirayakan setiap 14 Februari.

"Kasih sayang dalam Islam lebih indah, lebih konkrit dan lebih universal dari sekadar kasih sayang versi Valentine Day," ujar Ketua Forum Silaturahmi Lembaga Dakwah Kampus Nasional Wilayah Kaltim Rahman.

Dia menjelaskan perayaan Hari Valentine identik dengan perbuatan kemaksiatan. Karena mereka yang merayakannya sangat erat akan hura-hura, mubazir, berzina, pesta, dan lainnya. Ironisnya, kegiatan ritual yang bukan berasal dari Islam ini juga digandrungi juga remaja muslim di Indonesia. Mereka yang muslim-muslimah menjiplak dan menghalalkan kegiatan negatif yang merupakan budaya barat. Hal ini tentu saja sangat memprihatinkan, karena mereka belum memahami historis hingga terjadinya Hari Valentine. Ditambah juga melemahnya pemahaman mereka tentang ajaran Islam.

"Begitu banyak pelanggaran yang ada dalam perayaan ini. Untuk itu, sebagai muslim lebih baik menjauhinya. Islam sudah mengajarkan bahwa kasih sayang tidak hanya sebatas kepada manusia, Islam menyuruh untuk menebar kasih sayang kepada semua makhluk, termasuk hewan dan binatang tanpa harus ditentukan waktunya," terang Rahman yang juga Ketua Pusat Studi Islam Mahasiswa (Pusdima) Universitas Mulawarman (Unmul) ini.

Rahman juga mengaku sangat menyayangkan sikap para orangtua yang membebaskan anaknya keluar untuk merayakan Hari Valentine. Karenanya tidak heran jika anak-anak mereka pada malam perayaannya tidak pulang ke rumah. Untuk itu, ini sangat erat akan perhatian orang tua dalam hal memberikan pengawasan dan pendidikan agama terhadap anaknya.

Demikian juga, setiap tindakan apalagi yang terkait dengan suatu ritual tertentu mesti harus mendapat perhatian dari orang tua. "Setiap orangtua harus memahami betul ajaran agama yang terkait dengan budaya-budaya barat. Sehingga memudahkan pengawasan terhadap anak-anaknya untuk tidak berbuat kemaksiatan atau yang melegalkan segala pelanggaran norma-norma Islam," paparnya. (air)

Tanya Morgan: Sons Of the Native Tongue

2010-01-27T07:12:00.000-08:00

18+ True Love Never Dies - This is an interview with the hip-hop group Tanya Morgan right after Barack Obama was elected for president. The group speaks about their music and hip-hop in the era of a black president. Most recently, group members Von Pea and Donwill have produced music for Comedy Central's The Daily Show.

True Love Never Dies - Maybe there's a cohesive energy that dwells in the waters of the Ohio and East Rivers. Just like the collaboration of Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek) before them, the hip-hop trio Tanya Morgan, which consist of Brooklyn emcee/producer Von Pea (Devon Callender) and Cincinnati emcees Donwill (William Donald Freeman Jr.) and Ilyas (Ilyas Shakir Nashid Jr.) -- respectively, have set out to craft a signature sound of music that stands apart from the industry standards.

After meeting online at okayplayer.com and sharing beats and vocals over the internet, the group eventually came together to record their critically acclaimed Solar Suite: the online mixtape, Sunlighting, their 2005 EP, Sunset and their 2006 album, Moonlighting.

After catching the masses off guard with their quirky moniker, Tanya Morgan has resuscitated the breathy voice of true hip-hop with their harmonious production, thought-provoking wordplay and energizing live performances-all which peeks through on their latest work, Brookynati.

China's Hacker Girls On The Move

2010-01-17T08:51:00.000-08:00

Xiao Tian, 20, is the ‘general’ of China’s newest army of female hackers, the Cn Girl Security Team - today, the group has over 2,200 members.

On Xiao Tian’s (小天) blog are plentiful photographs of the Chinese girl posing, well, girlishly. Don’t be misled, though, by her baby-doll looks, her puckered lips or even her moniker, which in Chinese means ‘A little bit of heaven’.

This isn’t some Pretty Young Thing advertising her charms on a dating site: Xiao Tian, 19, is the ‘general’ of China’s newest army of female hackers, the Cn Girl Security Team.

China’s community of hackers, who have waged ‘cyberwar’ on and broken into websites of governments across the world (including India), is still largely a “boy’s club” overrun by the gush of testosterone.

But increasingly, young girls - like Xiao Tian and her band of “hacker babes” — are breaking into this male-dominated domain with an eye on the “rock star” status that hackers enjoy in China, and the “career opportunities” opening up for established hackers.

Xiao Tian says she started up her group when she felt the need for a space for young girls like herself, who felt excluded from the male hackers’ world because their skills weren’t considered “good enough”.

Today, the group has over 2,200 members; although that number accounts for only a small proportion of China’s overall hacker population — estimated at about 4,00,000 — Xiao Tian’s group is probably the largest organisation of female Chinese hackers.

“In China, being a hacker is sort of like being a rock star,” Scott Henderson, a retired US army military intelligence analyst and author of The Dark Visitor: Inside the World of Chinese Hackers, told DNA.

“They give out souvenir T-shirts, caps and sunglasses, and they’re even close to landing movie deals!” A few years ago, a survey of middle-school children’s career aspirations revealed that a third of them wanted to take to hacking. “Naturally, girls too want to be a big part of this sub-culture, although it’s tough for them to be taken seriously,” he adds.

Perhaps the best-known female Chinese hacking team was a group called the Six Golden Flowers, whose members have since broken up.

“Some of the girls in that group were taken pretty seriously,” notes Henderson. Last year, security media sources in China named one of the ‘Six Golden Flowers’ as probably the most active and influential Chinese hacker.

Another female Chinese hacker from the same group, known online as the Dark Angel, has established a “commercial hacker trainer website”, offering individual classes for a fee and even a year-long structured course in hacking, says Henderson. One of China’s top female hackers, in his estimation, is Wang Juan, 27, who goes by the online name of Wollf and is celebrated as “the mother of Chinese Trojans”.

One of the unique aspects of Chinese hackers, according to Henderson, is their sense of nationalism and collectivism, which is in stark contrast to the Western stereotype of the loner working from a basement. But in recent times, he adds, that the nationalist cyber-army has disintegrated into a band of “capitalist criminals”.

A lot of hacking these days is about money - “sometimes legally, by taking ads on their websites, selling hacking programs and classes and magazines, but at other times illegally, by stealing virtual property and virtual currency used in online games, and selling it for real-world money.”

Security experts have characterised China’s hacking community as a “proxy army” that is manipulated by the Communist Party to carry out cyber-espionage on its behalf, but Henderson isn’t entirely convinced of that.

“Beijing sure knows who these people are, but I don’t think it’s right to say these hackers are puppets of Beijing,” he says. It’s one thing, he notes, that hackers would gladly give any information they gather from their enterprise to the government: they would consider it their “patriotic duty” to do that. But it’s more likely, he says, that hackers would happily sell any information they gather to another government. “Sometimes money trumps nationalism,” he points out.

So, can Beijing control China’s hackers to do its bidding? “Yes and no,” says Henderson.

“At times Beijing has had a difficult time maintaining control... However, if tomorrow, there’s a conflict that China is involved in, hackers would self-mobilise. They would automatically get involved in cyberwarfare.”

And, who knows, ‘General’ Xiao Tian could well be leading from the front.

Xiao Tian Hacker - Xiao Tian's Blog on Baidu: Hi.baidu.com/tiantian%E4%BC%A4

Source: DNAIndia

Samsung unveils the new CorbyPRO in Middle East

2010-01-13T02:19:00.000-08:00

Samsung Corby Qwerty, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, a leading mobile phone and telecommunication equipment provider, unveiled its latest addition to the Samsung Corby family, the new CorbyPRO. Through ease of use, hip and young design and advanced technology, the new CorbyPRO , delivers fun and superior functionality and supports the highly connected lifestyles of today's younger mobile users.

"The Samsung Corby family places users at the centre of the social media revolution with a wide range of social networks support, such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. The diverse Corby range complements the Samsung's touch screen strategy, 'touch for every lifestyle' by targeting the youth market. According to our research, the Middle East region has the youngest population when compared to rest of the world, 63% of the region's population is under 29 years old and has the second highest rate of urbanisation,"

commented Sandeep Saihgal, general manager of mobile phones at Samsung Gulf Electronics

Saihgal continued, "The Middle East's young people are living in changing cultures, in an evolving region. We are passing through a period of dynamic and dramatic movement in attitudes and aspirations. For many young people in this region, Technology is now a fashion statement - Youth are going through great lengths to learn more about technology. More are becoming familiar with new handsets in the market, unique features such as touch phones. We see strong growth opportunities in this sector and will continue to pioneer new markets with innovative technology."

Equipped with a 2.8-inch QVGA touch screen, The Samsung CorbyPRO is a hybrid slider which takes the cutting edge design of the original Samsung Corby and adds a full, slide out QWERTY keyboard. The slide out QWERTY keyboard provides its owners with a finger-friendly messaging and emailing experience without sacrificing the style of the original Corby. It also combines the features business users demand with a variety of entertainment and multimedia capabilities, all delivered in a stylish design. Features include push email services, conversational SMS and access to Facebook and MySpace.

Similar to Corby, the new CorbyPRO comes with additional back covers (also called 'Fashion Jackets') - a unique pattern design cover and a standard black cover inside the package. These interchangeable back covers ensure that users can quickly adapt their mobiles to reflect their personal style. A wider variety of coloured covers and designs will be made available in the future. This focus on cutting-edge design extends to the user interface through a Cartoon UI (user interface), a highly stylised graphical menu and wallpaper that adapts according to handset functionality.

The handset also supports 'one finger zoom' and 'smart unlock,' Samsung's own unique technologies that are incorporated in most of the company's premium full touch devices. 'One finger zoom' enables consumers to zoom in and out with one finger while 'Smart unlock' is a feature which enables users to unlock the phone and use the menu by drawing a letter on the screen.

In addition, the Samsung CorbyPRO packs a 3-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, 3G/HSDPA and quad band connectivity. From an entertainment perspective, the mobile also has a 3.5mm earphone jack and dedicated music keys.

Samsung CorbyPRO is equipped with a 3.5G network support which provides the user with the opportunity to download data at speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps, making web browsing an enjoyable experience.

Benyamin S, Jadi Ikon Enjoy Jakarta Music Festival

2009-12-25T17:15:00.000-08:00

Enjoy Jakarta Music Festival menampilkan ikon Betawi Bunyamin S akan ditampilkan di Museum Fatahillah, mulai 5 Desember 2009 mulai pk 09:00 hingga 22:00 mendatang.

Atraksi musik khas Betawi yang dikolaborasi dengan instrumen modern disuguhkan pada acara ini, kata Tinia Budiarti, Wakil Kepala Dinas Pariwisata dan Kebudayaan (Dinparbud) DKI Jakarta.

Beberapa band terkemuka juga akan berpartisipasi, seperti Naif dan Jiung Band, didukung band pendatang baru seperti One Foot Japan, Mazagi, Defour Chamber serta tampilnya musisi anak jalanan dari Yayasan Himata memeriahkan festival musik ini.

Konsep perpaduan musik modern dengan kesenian khas betawi juga akan ditampilkan yaitu ambang kromong, tarian, band. “Pada acara ini juga akan dilakukan kolaborasi gambang kromong oleh DJ Beignt Bimo yang dibawakan abang-none,” ujar Tinia, Senin (30/11).

Inovasi lainnya juga dilakukan pada tian betawi seperti tanjidor, ondel-ondel, kasidah, gambang kromong, rebana biang, samra dan tari nandak ganjen yang ditampilkan dengan breakdance dan modern dance. Aneka suvenir dan kuliner betawi juga akan ada difestival ini,” ujarnya.

Sedangkan mengenai pemilihan Benyamin Suaeb sebagai ikon kegiatan ini, Tinia mengaku legenda betawi ini merupakan tokoh paling tersohor terkait kebudayaan Betawi. Selama berkarir, Benyamin telah menghasilkan lebih dari 75 album musik dan 53 judul film sepanjang kariernya.

Artis serba bisa yang meninggal pada 5 September 1995 dalam usia 75 tahun ini juga mengundang decak kagum artis dan penyanyi lain karena telah berhasil mengkawinkan kesenian betawi seperti gambang kromong dan lenong dengan tarikan suara blues dan rock.- Festival Museum Nusantara

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2009-12-12T21:47:00.000-08:00

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Lifestyle and Breast Cancer

2009-12-07T16:26:00.000-08:00

Astaga.com lifestyle on the net Although all of the genetic and environmental factors are important to consider, the overwhelming evidence is that breast cancer is related to lifestyle. The following paragraphs outline the negative impact and positive impact on breast cancer of several common lifestyle related issues.

lifestyle Post-menopausal Obesity Increases Risk: Despite the evidence on the protective effect of pre-menopausal obesity on pre-menopausal breast cancer, the evidence that obesity increases the risk of post-menopausal breast cancer is very clear and not debatable. Some have suggested that tumors are harder to find by physical exam and mammography in obese women. This theory has largely been disproved in studies looking at mammography sensitivity and specificity, as well as studies looking at breast exam diagnosis in obese patients. If the correlation between obesity and cancer mortality is entirely causal, some scientists even estimate that an overweight condition and/or obesity now may account for one in seven of cancer deaths in men and one in five in women in the US.

High Fat Diet and Breast Cancer: Although breast cancer publications and the media have promulgated the idea that a low fat diet reduces cancer risk, most clinical trials have not successfully demonstrated this direct beneficial effect. There have been several methodological explanations for this failure. However, the reverse observation that a high fat diet increases breast cancer risk remains solid. For example, a large study funded by the National Institute of Health looked at 188,736 postmenopausal women and fat intake, based on both "food frequency questionnaires" and "24-hour dietary recall questionnaires". With the food frequency questionnaires, researchers found that women who got 40% of their calories from fat had about a 15% increased risk of developing breast cancer compared with women who got 20% of their calories from fat. With the "24-hour dietary recall questionaire", they found a 32% increased risk of breast cancer among women with a high level of fat in their diet.

Alcohol: Based on scientific evidence, exposure to alcohol is associated with increased breast cancer risk in a dose-dependent fashion. Even less than one drink/day on a daily basis can be associated with up to a 30% increase in breast cancer mortality among postmenopausal women compared to non-drinkers. The risk may increase by 7% for each drink per day. Studies have shown that stopping alcohol use may reverse this risk.

Exercise: Exercise has been consistently linked with reduced breast cancer risk. A regimen of approximately 30 minutes per day of moderate-intensity exercise should be adequate, and perhaps even one to two hours per week is enough to be helpful. It appears that longer duration and greater intensity of activity may bring even more health benefits.

Supplements: Americans spend billions of dollars on vitamins and mineral supplements. Recent large studies, however, have demonstrated that these pills and capsules do not decrease the risk of many types of cancer. One explanation is that as long as one is not deficient of any particular vitamin or mineral, ingestion of super-normal levels of supplements does not help. Many women have low levels of vitamin D, and some data have shown that increasing its level (whether in a pill or by sun exposure) can protect somewhat against future breast cancer. In our opinion, botanical dietary supplements derived from green tea extracts represent a potentially widely available method for reducing the risk of breast cancer. Next to water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world, and its ingestion in reasonable doses is considered safe. Many population observation reports have shown that green tea may decrease the risk of breast cancer.

Teknik Yoga untuk Ibu Hamil

2009-12-01T09:39:00.001-08:00

Relaksasi dulu dan tidak akan ikut latah Ngobrol seputar bisnis online mendingan membuat postingan yang berhubungan dengan lifestyle, yaitu Yoga untuk Ibu-ibu yang mau melahirkan.

SAAT hamil tak jarang muncul rasa tegang, otot kaku, dan pegal-pegal. Untuk mengatasinya cobalah melakukan relaksasi dengan cara melakukan pengaturan napas.

Ambil posisi yang paling nyaman dengan mencoba sesantai mungkin. Bisa dalam posisi duduk atau berbaring sambil memejamkan mata. Relaksasikan otot-otot seluruh tubuh, mulai dari otot kaki, pinggang, punggung, leher, dan wajah. Bernapaslah lewat hidung, tarik dan embuskan perlahan-lahan. Ulangi selama 10 sampai 20 menit atau sampai kita merasa nyaman. Sambil melakukannya, tekan perut ke arah luar. Hitunglah sampai empat. Biarkan otot pundak dan leher kita relaks.
Lalu, keluarkan napas perlahanlahan dan tenang.

Inilah bentuk latihan oleh tubuh yang sangat baik bagi ibu hamil. Yoga melatih otot-otot tubuh disertai oleh napas. Melalui gerak tubuh yang disertai teknik pengaturan napas dan pemusatan konsentrasi, fisik Anda akan lebih sehat, bugar dan kuat. Emosi Anda pun akan lebih seimbang. Berikut teknik yoga untuk para bumil:

Duduk bersila

Letakkan kedua tangan di sisi badan dengan siku lurus.Angkat kedua tangan dari samping ke arah kepala sambil menarik napas sampai kedua jari-jari tangan bertemu. Turunkan tangan ke depan sambil menghembuskan napas. Manfaat: Melatih kekuatan otot lengan, melenturkan sendi pundak, serta menenangkan perasaan. Menimbulkan perasaan "membumi dan terpusat".

Merangkak dengan kedua siku tangan lurus

Pandangan ke depan dan punggung rata. Tarik napas, lengkungkan punggung. Hembuskan napas sambil mengembalikan punggung ke posisi semula. Manfaat: Melepaskan ketegangan, menguatkan rahim, meringankan beban perut dan menghilangkan pegal-pegal tubuh.

Berbaring

Kedua kaki menempel di dinding dan kedua tangan dis amping badan dengan telapak tangan terbuka. Tarik napas, angkat panggul dari lantai. Hembuskan napas sambil menurunkan kembali kedua kaki. Manfaat: Mencegah varises di kaki, menghilangkan kelelahan kaki akibat pertambahan berat badan selama hamil, serta relaksasi tubuh dan jiwa.

Yoga For Beginners

2009-11-30T13:06:00.001-08:00

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User Reviews about Yoga For Beginners

Simple yet detailed.

Rate Given : 5 | on : 2009-11-24

This video contains vital details of the yoga form for the beginner. The instruction also offers simple modifications as well, from less intense to more challenging. It is simple to follow and I would recommend this to others.

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Fantastic instruction for beginners

Rate Given : 4 | on : 2009-11-14

Brilliant introduction telling what the DVD will cover. She gives slack pace movements because it IS for beginners.

A Fantastic Start

Rate Given : 4 | on : 2009-11-11

I am recovering from spinal surgery and this video has such a slack pace into positions it allows me to work only as much as I can at a time. I would certainly recommend this video.

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Rate Given : 3 | on : 2009-11-09

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Nintendo DS Lite Black Friday

2009-11-27T09:16:00.000-08:00

The Nintendo DS Lite is a dual-screen handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo.

It seems that everyone is clamoring for a Nintendo DS Lite this Black Friday. I’ve checked Walmart’s website and it seems that all Nintendo DS Lite which are priced at $98 each are already out of stock. Where can you find Nintendo DS Lite this Black Friday other than Walmart?

Nintendo DS Lite Sold Out at Walmart

I conducted my research and here are some of the online sources where you can possibly buy a Nintendo DS Lite this Black Friday.

Gamestop: Gamestop offers different Nintendo DS Lite gadgets this Black Friday. Checking out Gamestop’s website reveals that they have four (4) variants of Nintendo DS Lite that are available. These are Nintendo DS Lite Cobalt/Black, Nintendo DS Lite Crimson and Black, Nintendo DS Lite Metallic Rose, and Nintendo DS Lite Metallic Silver.

All of these Nintendo DS Lite are available for $129.99. You can check out these Nintendo DS Lite deals here.

P.C. Richard & Son: P.C. Richard & Son has also available Nintendo DS Lite in their site. Its color is Crimson and Black and retails at $129.97. You can check out this Nintendo DS Lite deal here.

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2012 Film Review

2009-11-21T10:23:00.000-08:00

A Sony Pictures Entertainment release of a Columbia Pictures presentation of a Centropolis production. Produced by Harald Kloser, Mark Gordon, Larry Franco. Executive producers, Roland Emmerich, Ute Emmerich, Michael Wimer. Co-producers, Volker Engel, Marc Weigert, Aaron Boyd. Directed by Roland Emmerich.

Jackson Curtis - John Cusack
Adrian Helmsley - Chiwetel Ejiofor
Kate Curtis - Amanda Peet
Carl Anheuser - Oliver Platt
Laura Wilson - Thandie Newton
President Thomas Wilson - Danny Glover
Charlie Frost - Woody Harrelson
Gordon Silberman - Tom McCarthy
Tony Delgatto - George Segal

The notion of playing God is implicit in the job of a film director, and rarely has the sense of a wrathful, vengeful deity at the helm, albeit a pagan one, been so comprehensively felt as in "2012.'' For demolition maestro Roland Emmerich, "Independence Day,'' "Godzilla'' and "The Day After Tomorrow'' were mere appetizers for the lip-smacking smorgasbord of global annihilation laid out here. This simultaneously spectacular and risible concoction looks likely to trigger a worldwide B.O. tsunami for Sony.

Hooking their doomsday scenario on an interpretation of a Mayan calendar that points to an earthly catastrophe in Film 2012 -- specifically on 12-21-12 (what movie will pin its release to that date?) -- Emmerich and writing-producing partner Harald Kloser begin by dumping Los Angeles into the sea and follow with the destruction of Las Vegas, Yellowstone National Park, Washington, D.C., the Vatican, India, Tibet and a giant cruise ship.

Anyone who stops to think about it between grabs of popcorn might pick up the hint that Emmerich is taking particularly gleeful aim at the United States (which other director has destroyed the White House in his films not once but now twice?) and Catholicism (he goes out of his way to detail the collapse of St. Peter's and Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue), while no other religion gets taken to task. But then, that would be taking this eye-popping display of movie pyrotechnics far too seriously. Or not.

Coming up with halfway decent characters with which to populate disaster films has always proved an almost insurmountable problem, but Kloser and Emmerich have brought a measure of wit to the enterprise. Pic's Everyman is Jackson Curtis (John Cusack), a rumpled author whose most recent unsuccessful novel happens to have been called "Farewell Atlantis,'' and who never paid enough attention to sexy ex-wife Kate (Amanda Peet) and their two young kids (Liam James and Morgan Lily). He's now forced to look on as Kate shacks up with Gordon (Tom McCarthy) while he scrapes by as a limo driver for L.A.-based Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov (the very engaging Zlatko Buric).

As SoCal hopes for the best amid an alarming upswing in tremors and cracked streets, government scientist Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) alerts U.S. President Thomas Wilson (Danny Glover, almost too predictably grave) that increased solar fires (happily, for a change, not man-made global warming) are about to turn the Earth inside out in a way not experienced since the day the dinosaurs died.

While Wilson's chief of staff, Carl Anheuser (Oliver Platt), readies the evacuation of the elite and the president deliberates about how to preside over the planet's final chapter, Curtis leads his kids on a series of escapes and near-misses worthy of Indiana Jones -- in a limo, RV, private plane (flown by nonpilot Gordon), giant Russian cargo jet and, ultimately, the biggest vehicle ever built. The action is preposterous by any standard, but that's designed as part of the fun; eye-popping indeed are the sights of the streets of Santa Monica rippling like so many ocean waves, molten meteors spewing out of Yellowstone, the sea claiming a ship the size of a football field and a six-engine jet crash landing on a Himalayan glacier.

Unfortunately, it's not easy scripting the final act of a movie about the end of the world when you don't really want the final image to be a charred rock. Let it be said that "2012'' plummets from reasonably distracting spectacle to sheerest silliness when, in the pointlessly protracted final reels, it tries to maintain interest in the (confusingly staged) jeopardy of a handful of characters when much of the world's population has already been wiped out or is about to be. Never has Rick's observation in "Casablanca'' been more true, that the problems of a few little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

On any level other than as sheer visual sensation, "2012'' is a joke, for the simple reason that it has no point of view; the film offers no philosophical, metaphysical, intellectual and certainly no religious perspective on the cataclysm, just the physical frenzy of it all. But to ask this would be taking the picture far too seriously. Or not.

In Cusack and Ejiofor, "2012'' has two actors who convey above-the-norm intelligence for characters in this sort of fare, although even they can't keep up the pretense as the film degenerates. Most casting choices are agreeably offbeat down through the ranks, with Woody Harrelson supercharging his scenes as a wackjob radio sage who issues on-the-air reports from the front lines of destruction.

Except for some patchy work when St. Peter's crumbles, the visual effects are pretty sensational, delivering the cutting-edge CGI goods auds want and expect. It will be hard to watch "Earthquake'' ever again after this one.

Screenplay, Harald Kloser, Emmerich. Camera (Deluxe color, Panavision widescreen, HD), Dean Semler; editors, David Brenner, Peter S. Elliot; music, Harald Kloser, Thomas Wander; production designer, Barry Chusid; supervising art director, Don MacAulay; art directors, Dan Hermansen, Ross Dempster, Kendelle Elliott; set designers, Jay Mitchell, John Burke, Peter Ochotta, Douglas A. Girling, Nancy Brown, Peter Stratford, David Clarke; set decorator, Elizabeth Wilcox; costume designer, Shay Cunliffe; sound (Dolby Digital/SDDS/DTS), Michael McGee; supervising sound editor/sound designer, Paul N. J. Ottosson; visual effects supervisors, Volker Engel, Marc Weigert; visual effects and digital environments, Uncharted Territory; visual effects, Scanline VFX, Double Negative, Pixomondo, Hydraulx; special visual effects and animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Digital Domain; special effects supervisor, Mike Vezina; stunt coordinator, John Stoneham Jr.; associate producer, Kirstini Winkler; assistant director, Tommy Gormley; second unit director, Aaron Boyd; second unit camera, Don McCuaig; casting, April Webster. Reviewed at Regal Cinemas, Los Angeles, Nov. 3, 2009. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 158 MIN.

Virtues for Fitness Success

2009-11-12T01:31:00.000-08:00

Kerja Keras Adalah Energi Kita If you want your fitness endeavor to be successful the following virtues must be practiced 1.) Desire 2.)Commitment 3.) Goal orientedness 4.) Intensity 5.) Persistance and Perseverance.

Desire is a force of the will which leads people to seek to change their present reality. It is a powerful thing when a person who has long desired to change their body, finally becomes so fed up, that in their their mind there is no alternative but to begin taking the steps to create change. In short, a person has to want to change, and to truly create radical physical change takes total commitment.

Commitment is a dirty word to many in our culture today, but with respect to creating physical change total commitment is necessary. What is total commitment; it is being willing to do whatever it takes to achieve your goal, no matter what.

Re-creating your body necessitates a 24/7 commitment. Your food intake must be strictly regulated every meal and snack, every day. You cannot miss workouts just because you are not feeling one hundred percent that day. You cannot miss workouts because you had a bad day or your boss or your spouse is angry with you. Success necessitates that a person overcomes all adversity and sticks to the workout program and eating plan no matter what, without any excuses.

Goal orientedness is having, at the very least, a mental picture of how you want the outcome of your training to be. I strongly advise each and every client of mine to obtain a picture which represents how they want to look. I require that it be a person of similar physical structure who has optimized their physical condition. Constantly meditating on that image keeps a goal visually present and helps immeasurably in fueling the desire to go on to total success

Intensity, if you want to get results from your training, you must train with sufficient intensity. What does this mean? It means pitty-pat workouts will not do the job. I, as a personal trainer have seen people who are wasting time in the gym with low intensity workouts.

They go through workouts which do not create results for months, even years, but results will never come unless they put in the sweat and elbow grease it takes to reshape a body. Proper intensity is training as hard as you are capable during the entire length of the workout. Workouts without deep muscle burn will not create change.

In my opinion, if you feel no need to grunt and groan at all in your workouts, you are training without sufficient intensity. Sweating is good thing, it is the body's response to vigorous exercise. No sweat in this trainer's book equals insufficient intensity.

Persistence and perseverance. Do you want to succeed? Dogged determination to create results must be practiced for a successful training program. What is persistence? It is doing what needs to be done to create physical change each and every scheduled training day without exception.

Intense weight training sessions done as scheduled without calling off and never missing your cardio sessions, this will create change Perseverance is gutting it out, sticking to the program even when your mind tells you that you are wasting your time.

There will be times when you think that you are not changing quickly enough and it is at these times that you will be tempted to throw in the towel and quit. Perseverance causes a person to do the work necessary for a long enough period of time to attain one's goals.

Meditation Techniques – How To Master Your Mind

2009-11-09T06:35:00.000-08:00

I am frequently asked by people for advice regarding their personal and professional lives and I usually start with questions such as, “What happens in your mind? What do you see, hear, feel, and think ?”

It is shocking how few people are able to answer these relatively straightforward questions, yet the answers are crucial to overcoming the challenges. The good news is that it is fairly easy to develop this self awareness.

A simple, yet powerful, meditation technique is to create a silent watcher over our own mind. Its a simple practice that you can begin to develop into a daily habit. Take a small part of your attention and assign this part the task of watching everything that flutters through your mind.

Imagine this part as a video camera that records everything, to be stored and analyzed almost immediately after it occurs.

Stop reading for a few brief moments, and try this RIGHT NOW! As you begin to develop this ability, you can notice thoughts, stories, narratives, emotions, reactions, and many other processes going on in your mind.

By watching and then analyzing yourself at all times, in all situations, you can discover what kinds of thoughts are going through your mind, which will quickly bring realizations and epiphanies about your own beliefs, motivations, actions, and reactions.

The only way a fish can understand water is by getting onto the shore, and looking back down into the water. You are the fish and the water represents your thoughts. In order to understand, analyze, and ultimately steer your mind, you first need to watch yourself from the outside, as a passive observer.

At first, this may seem to be strange, or daunting as the self now how has to pay attention to the self, but it quickly becomes second nature. I want to make it very clear that the watcher or observer must not participate or be in any way involved in what is going on in the mind.

This means that it should not make comments or judgments on what is seen, but simply observe passively and report, similar to a surveillance camera.

Be patient and do not become discouraged if you forget or become distracted, this is completely natural. Keep with it, and in time you will develop the ability to keep mental track of the chaotic landscape of the mind without becoming distracted from daily activities.

If I could recommend any one meditation technique in the world, this would be it. It is crucial key to opening the door to self awareness, personal growth, stress management, mental clarity, and peace of mind.

Kerja Keras Adalah Energi Kita

2009-11-06T03:56:00.000-08:00

Kerja Keras Adalah Energi Kita. Muscles are made of protein. This statement is rather obvious to all of us. So to build muscle, equally obviously, you need to take proteins. This can be found in eggs, fish meat, cottage cheese or protein concentrates like protein powder.

Kerja Keras Adalah Energi Kita To appreciate the importance of proteins in your body, you have to understand that your body cells are constantly being replaced by new ones. The tissue, made of protein, is in a state of flux, constantly being changed as old cells die and new cells replace them.

Rheo Blair states "It is as if you lived in a building whose bricks were systematically taken out and replaced every year.

If you keep the same blueprint then it will still look like the same building. But it won't be the same in actuality. The human body is in a constant state of flux, it loks the same from day to day, but through multiple biological processes, it is always rebuilding itself."

Kerja Keras Adalah Energi Kita like Science has proven that 99% of the atoms in your body are replaced within one year. Every cell in your body is always being recycled. Protein is what is used in the creation of new cells. It is the building blocks of your body.

Skin, hair, bones, hormones, and antibodies are formed of protein. Save for water, protein is the most abundant substance in your body. Like other nutrients, proteins are made of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. But unlike other nutrients, proteins are the only nutrients that bring nitrogen into the body.

Thus by measuring the amount of nitrogen in ones excreta, compared to the amount taken in, one can estimate the amount of protein used for muscle growth. If the difference is positive, then muscle is being made.

But if the difference is negative, there is a negative nitrogen balance, and the body literally begins feed on its own muscle to produce energy. Proteins are broken down by digestive acids like protease to smaller units called peptides.

This occurs in the stomach where there are acidic conditions necessary for the digestion of proteins. The peptides are in turn are digested by peptidase, found in the duodenum, into amino acids. These are what the body actually absorbs and utilizes to form body tissue, including muscle.

There are 20 amino acids that are required for the normal growth of the body. Eleven of these are naturally made in the body and thus are called non-essential amino acids. The other nine have to be ingested into the body as it cannot synthesize them and are thus called essential amino acids.

Foods containing both types of amino acids in the exact amounts as they are needed by the body are called complete proteins. Only when all the essential amino acids are available can the body grow muscles.

Otherwise it starts breaking down body tissue to suffice the amount of essential amino acids for growth and repair purposes. Thus lack of these amino acids actually leads to muscle loss with Kerja Keras Adalah Energi Kita.

Fast Weight Loss Diet with Losing Motivation?

2009-11-04T23:38:00.000-08:00

Many times in my over twenty years as a personal trainer, I have seen clients make awesome progress with regard to following the customized eating plan I give them only to become complacent and slip back into the unhealthy dietary habits that brought them to the point of desperation.

The question is how do we maintain the mindset that created success with regard to weight loss. The answer is that we must unswervingly focus on the end goal we established when we began on the program.

Let's say a client comes to me who weighs two-hundred and fifty pounds and he desires to take his weight down to two hundred pounds. The client, in order to remain motivated, must constantly, reaffirm the commitment he originally made to drop his weight to two hundred pounds.

I firmly believe in using weight loss related mantras in order to stay motivated. The question is what is a mantra? A mantra is a constantly repeated saying which will affirm the client's goals until the mantra becomes a part of the client's belief system. Is this brainwashing?

Maybe, but for thousands of years this has been a method which has been used in religion and in education to form belief systems and ingrain powerful and useful truths. In their spare time, I instruct my clients to constantly repeat the success mantra until it becomes such a part of them that nothing could stop them from achieving their weight loss goal.

Another power technique involves obtaining a picture of a body which is representative of what the client's end goal is regarding appearance. Every day that picture should be looked at, and I instruct the client to spend one half hour creating a mental picture of themselves with this goal body.

This technique is called visualization and if practiced with regularity will never fail to aid in the quest to remain motivated.

In order achieve success in their fitness program it is necessary for the client to dedicate themselves in totality in achieving their goals. Success only comes when a person dedicates themselves unreservedly in the pursuit of their goal.

No negative self talk can be tolerated; examples of this would be "I have never been able to go more than two weeks on a weight loss diet," or "I will always be fat," statements such as these are the exact opposite of the success mantra described previously in this article.

Success mantras, if diligently practiced, will drown out negative self talk. Negative self talk is the number one enemy of program success and must be overcome by diligent practice of the techniques mentioned previously in this article.

Success is a certainty if motivation is maintained and I hope the motivational techniques mentioned in this article will enable you to achieve success in your weight loss endeavor.

Yoga Exercise Styles

2009-11-04T03:14:00.000-08:00

Dou you know about Yoga Styles ? Is Yoga Right for you With yoga being as popular as it is there should be no surprise that there are many different yoga exercise styles. Some of today's yoga exercise styles have been around for hundreds of years while other yoga exercise styles have been created and based off some of the most common yoga postures and poses.

Yoga exercise styles vary in level of difficulty; almost all of the styles are broken down into beginner and advanced levels. The yoga postures used, will depend on the level of the yoga exercise style you are practicing. Each yoga exercise style has a specific purpose and uses different methods and yoga postures.

Hatha yoga is one of the more laid back yoga exercise styles. Most often Hatha yoga is a slow paced yoga class. It is most commonly designated as the best yoga exercise style to take part in when just beginning to practice yoga.

These are because of it slow pace and ease into each of the yoga postures used during a session. This yoga exercise style uses many different areas of each style of yoga. It does this by introducing the beginner level yoga postures of each different yoga exercise style.

Vinyasa is another yoga exercise style that encompasses many different styles of yoga. The word vinyasa translates to mean a series of breath synchronized movements. This yoga exercise style is more energetic than Hatha yoga.

Vinyasa uses a group of yoga postures called sun salutations. Vinyasa is a yoga exercise that will start off slow with a series of sun salutation yoga postures as a method of warm up and then move into more intense yoga postures and stretches.

One of the more popular forms of yoga exercise used today is Ashtanga yoga. This type of yoga is also commonly referred to as Power yoga. Power yoga is one of the most intense forms of yoga exercise practiced. It involves a series of yoga postures; each of the yoga postures is always performed in the same sequence.

This yoga exercise style is very physically demanding because of the pace needed to keep up in the class when switching yoga postures. It is not recommended for beginners. Bikram yoga is another of today's most popular forms of yoga exercise. Bikram yoga is also known as hot yoga.

During a hot yoga session you will complete a series of 26 yoga postures in a room that is 95 to 100 degrees. The idea behind practicing these yoga postures in a room that hot is that is acts as a way of body cleansing because of the profuse sweating one will experience.

Also do yoga postures at that temperature will allow for your muscles to loosen fully, meaning you will be better able to do the yoga postures given to you.

It is best to consult with your doctor before deciding which yoga exercise style would be best for you. Some styles may be too strenuous to begin with.

Yoga Styles Hanny most popular types

2009-11-03T20:29:00.000-08:00

After the last posting Is Yoga Right for you ? For the perfect solution that helps women cope with their busy days, I'll sharing about Yoga Styles :

Vini Yoga. This is a personal practice that could be developed through the incorporation of meditation, proper breathing, and posture as well as prayer and rituals. The amount of all these aspects that could be incorporated into your yoga practice will have to be changed though as a woman and her needs change and develop. Therefore, if you are still a student or a young professional, then the physical aspects of yoga might be more important for you, while older women might focus more on the spiritual, mental, and emotional aspects.
Ashtanga Yoga. Also considered as the power yoga, this style is known to be flowing and athletic. Breathing is very important in this yoga style as a woman flows through a series of postures. This is able to generate a lot of sweat and body heat, thus helping women detoxify their bodies.
Ananda Yoga. This yoga style makes use of temperate poses. This is gently meditative and perfect for those who would like to practice a yoga style that helps them to look inwards so they can focus on making their emotions better.
Hanny Yoga. This yoga style make extra ordinary template, for man and women who love together. HY style most popular types of yoga styles. Hanny Yoga is the best style I have ever met in my life. Hanny Yoga Style didn’t only poses of yoga, Hanny Yoga Style made me amazing, Hanny Yoga Style tought me to do things right, and to teach the same for students without keeping anything for myself. Hanny Yoga Style always told me., no matter how good you are in your headstand, if your student cannot do it… I know what Hanny Yoga Style meant… I wish and pray for her health everyday. Find the yoga style most appropriate for you. Good some poses are for Thyroid problems.

Is Yoga Right for You?

2009-11-03T12:51:00.000-08:00

A lot of women perform yoga exercises not just to lose weight or maintain proper body weight but also because they want to be healthy emotionally and mentally.

Yoga is also known to contribute to the decrease of a number of problems during menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause. There is research to prove this, but it’s easy to see the physical, mental, and emotional benefits evident on those women who practice yoga.

Yoga Helps You Cope with a Busy Lifestyle

If you are still undecided about yoga, then there are a number of things about it that will help you decide. One of these is its relevance to today’s world, even if it is one of the most ancient practices of all times.

Yoga is considered as the perfect solution that helps women cope with their busy days and the resulting mental and physical stress. This is especially true if they are working moms who need to deal with the pressures of both work and home.

Sitting behind a desk or even driving a car for several hours every day would already result in a woman’s having shoulder and back problems that will not only affect their lives at the office but also at home when they are dealing with the family and household chores.

Choosing the Best Yoga Style Helps

Deciding if yoga is really right for you would also require you to choose the yoga style that will fit your lifestyle, personality, and needs. If you are a working mom, your yoga needs might differ from those women who are just working at the office for long hours every day.

As such, it is very important to find the perfect teacher or trainer who has the right knowledge about yoga who is not only qualified and accredited but also compassionate and sensitive to what you really need.