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Halloween guide
September 30th, 2008 | Article by Alien | Culture and Society, Recreation and Leisure
Halloween is one of the most exciting holiday because we get to dress up and attend many Halloween parties. Halloween is fun but you have to make sure your children are safe. If you’ve been lazy about Halloween in the past then you shouldn’t be anymore because celebrating the holiday will bring many good things to you like friendship, fun, self enjoyment and many more.You should plan to celebrate this coming Halloween. You can plan to attend Halloween party in your community such as house party, night club, college and church. When you celebrate you get to meet new people and do something fun for yourself and something good can happen in the process. You can open your own party if you don’t want to attend someone else’s party. You can start a party and invite everyone you know to come that night. This can be more fun because you will get to spend more with your close friends. At your party you can plan to have a pot luck where everyone bring their own food. You can also cook a great deal on your own. You can have music, games and dancing. You can have a costume party where everyone is in costume. This will be more exciting and fun. You should decorate your house with creepy creatures for your guests to enjoy.
You can have a lot fun but don’t forget your children. You should include them in your party too. You should dress your children in costume too. Allowing your children to participate in your party can make them more sociable. They can learn the tradition and feel good about themselves too. You should give candy away but you should beware of unsafe visitors. One fun thing that you can do on Halloween is to have a costume contest. This is a common practice and it gives people a chance to really come up with their favorite costume. If you’re worry about budgeting you can do a few things to cut down the cost. You can cook at home instead of ordering out. You can make your own costume from fabric instead of buying.
Where can you find a good Halloween party? It depends on how much fun you’re willing to have. Some clubs are very wild and some church party are more conservative. If you’re an elderly you may enjoy the calmness of a church or friend party than the loud, crowded party at the clubs. If you’re young and want to find some explosive fun then you can get to the local night clubs. There are many games and decoration and loud music to quench your taste. If you’re conservative and want to network at school then you can attend college or corporate party. If you happened to be in Vegas then you can catch some really elegent party with a large crowd and great service. The views in Vegas is spectacular during Halloween. If you want to stay home then you can host your own party with many foods and drinks and decoration. You can whip up some fun milk shakes and coctails for your guests to enjoy.
Do you want to have some flexibility by decorating your own costumes or even making it or matching it at home? I think this is great too if you want to use your creative sides for once. One of the hottest trend nowaday is body and face painting instead of wearing costumes. Not only that it’s new but also very sexy and appealing. You can wear a short or a bikini top to cover yourself. If you want to be bold you can just wear short only for male and go topless. This will sure catch the ladies eyes. I think this is a more refreshing way and also very cost effective. You can achieve this look by buying body paint spray from your art store or Halloween section in some stores. You can start to paint yourself in any shapes and colors you want. Some people like multiple colors and stripes. You can decorate to your favorite theme. People like the devil theme, superman, mermaid, spider man, and anything that you fancy. I would rather paint my body than wear a full costume. It’s just more sexy and appealing and creative. You and your kids can all be one family of dalmatian if you all paint yourself like a dalmatian. It gives you a chance to match with each other.
If you’re into making your own costumes you can buy the accessories at stores and start making them. You can make them from fabrics, or any other materials that will be suitable. Some people would wear a pumpkin over themselves. Some people would use coconut shells to wear as a bra. Let your creative sides come out and don’t be afraid to show new stuff on the street at all. There are lots of ways you can make costumes using fabric. You can use white fabrics to make a ghost costumes, black to make a witch costumes or capes, ninja costumes, or a black ghost. It doesn’t take a lot of money and time to come up with an awesome costumes.
Although you can buy costumes but they won’t be as creative or fun as the one that you’ll make. You can do a maid look with a black short dress and a cute apron. You can wear your own wedding dress and be a bride ghost. You can wear a nice prom dress and wear a crown to be a prom queen. A guy can wear black pants and a bow only to be a chip and dale gentlemen. The list is endless and use your creativity. You’ll look more unique and you’ll feel good knowing that you put it together. The great thing about it is that you can save it for next time too. Just remember to watch out for your safety and your children’s too. Don’t enter anyone private home, it’s not a good idea and unnecessary.
Dress to look thinner, taller, or more curvy
September 30th, 2008 | Article by Alien | Beauty, Men's Issues, Women's IssuesDo you want to look 10lbs lighter? Yes! You can learn to dress so that you can look 10lbs lighter. You can do this by choosing the right color, texture, patter, size, style, to fit your particular shape. Some people that are thin already don’t need this advice. If thin people want to look more curvy then they can learn to achieve this goal too. You can dress to look taller or shorter. You can achieve the desire looks by choosing your clothing by its particular shape, pattern, colors, and length.
Let’s begin with individuals that want to look thinner. You want to choose these colors: black, brown, gray, green, burgundy and any darker colors to make your look thinner or hide your curves. You want to avoid these colors: white, silver, pink, red, and anything that is pastel or light because it’ll accentuate your figure. You know this is true because you probably have seen someone in a bright white pants that show all of their figure before. I guess its alright if you don’t mind looking that way. Its your choice but you can find ways to look thinner. Next time you’re going shopping just avoid the bright colors because it doesn’t help.
Next is the type of fabrics you should choose to look thinner. You want to avoid these : tight jeans, spandex, pastel pattern, thick cordouroy, jeans, non-stretchy fabrics, these will only make you look bigger. Fabrics you want to choose are stretchy fabrics, sweats, cotton, knits because these will make you look slimmer and gives you plenty of room to breathe.
Next is the type of clothing that should avoid: tight jeans, tight pants, tight non-stretchy shirt, short-short or skirts, the keyword here is to avoid tight. This should make sense to you because tight clothing will reveal your figure more and make you very uncomfortable. Clothing you should choose are easy, stretchy, breathable clothing. The keyword here is loose, stretchy, and plenty of room to breathe. This type of clothing would hide your figures and make you more comfortable.
The types of pattern that you should choose are busy pattern like stripes, circular, busy designs with many things on it, these will make you thinner because it hides your shape. You should avoid wearing solid or singular lines that accentuate certain body parts. You can add heels to make you look taller and thus thinner. You should not wear too many flats if you’re short, this will only make you look bigger.
If you want to look more curvy because you are too thin then you can try all of the things that the big person avoids and you can achieve that goal. You can wear brighter colors because it will accentuate your figures. You can try tight clothing and non-stretchy because it will put like 10 lbs on you. You can wear solid colors to show off your shape instead of hiding it like busy pattern. You can wear flats to make you shorter and more curvy.
Asian Cuisine cooking guide
September 30th, 2008 | Article by Alien | Food and DrinkDo you always want to cook Asian food like Chinese food but don’t know where to start? Asian cuisine uses different cooking method, ingredients, flavors, sauce than other kinds of food. Some American food don’t use the sauce that Asian food uses. Chinese food uses fish sauce, sweet and sour, soy sauce, oyster sauce, floors, fruit sauce and so forth. The sauce and flavors are the things that makes Chinese food distinct from American food. American foods uses different types of sauce and cooking method. Americans don’t use fish sauce or soy sauce sometimes.
Most country in Asia uses the same cooking methods and ingredients to cook their food. There are lots of identical dishes from most country in Asia like Chinese, Vietnamese, Thailand, Korea, Japan. There are some distinction but most are alike. If you want to cook a recipe specifically you have to look it up online. There are so many good recipe online just search it on Google. You would need to shop at an oriental grocery store to get all the ingredients you want.
Sauces that gives the recipe the oriental flavor include fish sauce, soy sauce, sweet and sour sauce, orange sauce, vanilla, curried powder, spices, pepper, chicken broth, meat broth like beef broth and vegetables colors to add colors to the food. As you can see it’s very different from Americans flavors and some are not familiar in the western culture. Some Americans have a hard time eating some of these flavors and so that’s what they have to do. Vietnamese food sometimes use the blood of chicken to make a recipe out of it and some Americans can’t eat this item. It’s alright if you’re not use to it. Every culture eat differently.
The cookware that Asian food requires are large wok, chopsticks, large pot, pan, blenders and all other that will help your recipe. It’s very similar to other country’s cookware. Asian foods usually use noodles, rice, and soup broth frequently. You may have seen many different dishes of noodles, rice and noodle soups. They also uses lots of vegetables like beans, spring sprouts, bok choi, brocoli, herbs and so forth. Asian chef uses powders frequently to coat their foods and to prepare for a recipe. For example, the thick coat on orange chicken you have use is powders. They also marinate their food for a long time with herbs, curried powders and fish sauce or soy sauce. The Asian chef uses lots of herbs to enhance the taste and smells of the foods that American chef don’t know about or don’t use at all.
Asian cuisine has so many soup base dish comparing to American dishes. Example of soup dishes are pho which is noodle soups in almost every flavor: chicken, seafood, and beef. They also have lots of stir fry dishes like beef and bok choi stir fried, fried rice, egg roll, vegetables stir fried with meat. The major different with Asian cuisine is that it uses very exotic sauce to make their food deep in taste whereas some other country, their food is not deeply ingrained in sauce. Asian cuisine uses lots of noodles, meats, broth and vegetables. The types of meat they use in other country don’t use like chicken organs, chicken blood, lamb, pork and beef bones and frogs legs. They may use chicken head and legs that Americans don’t use. These are the differences if you need to cook Asian cuisine one day.
How Do Cancer Cells Form?
September 30th, 2008 | Article by Alien | HealthCancer is one of the deadliest disease in the world. Cancer is irritating and agitating for all patients. The treatments medication produce very agitating side effects like bleeding, pain, and losing hair. At least with other disease you still have your hair and you don’t bleed taking your medication. Cancer patients also have to amputate their body parts too if the cancer has progressed to that area. Some cancer patients have a very short time to live and other a longer time.
I had known lots of cancer patients because I use to be in the healthcare field. I had learned that some patients will have a longer time to live and other a very short time like a couple of months or years. Cancer can be caused by exterior agents and genetics factors too. You have seen it on alcohol labels and cigarettes label that alcohol can cause you health problem and one of those is cancer. Alcohol and cigarettes can give you cancer later on in your life such as when you’re 60 years old. I have seen lots of people in this age range die of cancer. People smoke when they’re younger and think that it won’t affect them but it will. Most people don’t care at all whether they will get cancer later on or not.
Other exterior agents like fumes, second hands smoke, chemical of any kinds, nails chemical, construction chemical and others that you’ve heard about or will learn. All of these things if taking in every single day or long enough can cause you cancer. Lots of soldier from the war ended up with cancer because of the chemicals that they’re exposed to. If your jobs has these agents then you need to wear a mask at all time. It might look weird but it’ll save you from cancer.
There are some people that will get cancer from their genetics. This is one of the unfortunate ones or they get it because their parents uses unsuitable chemical at the time of their pregnancy. It’s extremely important that you don’t take in unsuitable chemical at time of pregnancy.
How do cancer cells developed?
When we don’t have cancer cells our DNA is intact and when our DNA material is destroyed or ruin in some ways then we will end up with cells that grow uncontrollably and every where in mass into our lungs and hearts and all other organs and is called cancer cells. Let’s take an analogy for example, if you have an intact cup of water then the water is sitting in one place but if the cup breaks then the water would run all over the place to anywhere without control and you don’t have water to drink, it’s now just drops all over and it’s useless. The cup is like your DNA, if it’s intact then it’s good, if it breaks then you have cells spatter all over the place without a useful function. The cancer cells will grow into area that will cause you to die if not treated. Just like your spilled water has burst onto the control center of your laptop and ruining it. Certain places in your body are not suitable for cells to grow into. It needs to be the way it is. For example, your lungs will be ruin and cause you to die if cancer cells grow fully into it.
Cancer cells are cells that have no useful function and their DNA have been destroyed in some ways by chemicals or cigarettes or alcohol. Let’s take a closer look, if you take a piece of your muscle and put it on a pastry dish and pour alcohol or suffocate it with cigarettes then you will see in a week or month that the cell DNA would be destroyed. The cells would be less than what it use to be and it’s like a cell that doesn’t have a brain anymore and it doesn’t know what to do , so it grows all over the place. This is how cancer cells grow. This is why people say you can get cancer from too much sun exposure because the heat can destroy your cells’ DNA.
If you understand how cancer cells develop then it will be to your advantage to not do the things that will cause cells to become cancerous such as smoking, drinking, drug use, sun exposure, and chemical exposure. If it’s genetic cancer than you can’t prevent it but other types of damages can be prevented. Understand how cancer cells grow you will see the function of chemotherapy. Chemo is there to stop your cancer cells from growing and it also stops some other cells from growing and that’s why you lose your hair. The function of most cancer regimen is to stop cancer cells from growing and destroy cancer cell like radiation.
You can take preventive pills to help prevent cancer like flax seed oil, fish oil, omega 3, 6 fatty acids and some more fish oil. These supplements have been studied and shown to be very effective in cancer patients. Flax seed and omegas are part of the medication prescribe to cancer patients. Flax seed is the best one because it contains more omega than fish oil. Flax seed has been shown in case study of cancer patients at advance stage to be very effective; it subside the cancer cells and calm it down very good. These supplements can be taking by any healthy individuals to prevent cancer from growing. There is no side effects to these; it only helps you so much more with so many other conditions like high cholesterol, heart problems and skin problems.
The art of dancing
September 30th, 2008 | Article by Alien | Culture and Society, Music and MoviesDid you always wanted to dance but didn’t know where to start? You should learn a few trick to get you start dancing. There are people that don’t dance at all when they go to a night club with their date. You could leave your date feeling lonely. Dancing is fun and you can go out more with your friends if you can join them and dance. If you’re young and single then you definitely have to learn how to dance.
Where do you begin? There are many different types of dance to different music. It all depends on what you like and what clubs you usually go to. It also depends on your age. Young people like freestyle hip-hop dance, trance, head banging rock and slow dance. Older people prefer ballroom dancing to slow music because it’s more suitable for them. Older people may not enjoy rap, trance, or head-banging heavy metal. Its just more appropriate. Different clubs and party plays different kinds of music. You don’t want to go to a country club if you don’t like to do line dances.
Lets talk about the dancing movement? How do you do it? You dance to the music, to the rhythm, and to the particular styles of the music. Just move your body with the music and match it with the rate that the music is going. If the music is slow you don’t want to dance like you had too much coffee. Unless you want to invent a new revolution of dancing styles. You just need to move symmetrically with the music and to the correct speed and types of music. You don’t have to worry too much about the routine because it’s not necessary unless you’re on stage performing.
Let’s start out with a simple lesson. You can turn on the radio to a slow song and move from side to side and match it with the rate of the music. This side to side movement is also use for slow dancing. Have you seen couple slow dance. They move from side to side and around and around. They have to match the music.
Let’s start with country music. Country dancer have to follow a particular form of routine and you can take a class to do this. You can freestyle country dance by grapping your partner hands and start moving from side to side but faster to the beat.
If you want to learn ballroom dancing you have to take some private lessons. Hip hop music you can do freestyle. You can dance anyway that you want as long as it matches the beat of the music. You don’t want to do slow dancing with rap music because it’s not right. When it comes to punk rock, heavy metal people just jump up and down and head bangs. Trance music has a very fast beat and you can dance very fast to it. You can do anything you want to as long as it’s fast and match the beat. If you want to learn specific routines then you have to take a private lessons. You can try watching learning videos on youtube and you can learn a lot from there too.
Beaches in California
September 30th, 2008 | Article by Alien | UncategorizedPeople love to visit the beach when they’re in California. There are as many as 40 beaches in California. The weather is great in California and therefore you can always find a good beach to surf or swim. The water here is clean and the beaches are very safe. You can locate any beach along the California pacific coast highway. The beach is from San Diego to San Francisco.
Even though there are many beaches there are famous ones versus non-famous ones. Beaches in San Francisco are not that suitable for swimming or surfing. Beaches in Southern California and San Diego are more suitable for swimming. Some beaches in California has many homeless and is not safe for visitors. Famous beach with many goers is Huntington Beach in Orange County for surfing. The waves are suitable for surfing at this particular beach in Orange County. Other beaches in California are not that suitable for surfing. You would need high waves for surfing and other beach waves are not that great. There are professional surfing competitions all the time in Huntington Beach in the summer time.
Huntington Beach is a very safe beach to go to. There has not been any criminal reporting that much at this particular beach. The waves here are high and are good for surfing but may be harsh for swimming. There is also dog beach at Huntington Beach where you can observe cute dogs or bring your dogs along. Famous beaches for swimming are Corona Del Mar beach, Newport Beach, Laguna Niguel Beach, San Diego beaches, Hermosa Beach, Santa Monica, Santa Barbara and Malibu beach. These beaches have low waves and are clean to swim.
Some beaches that are not rated so high are Seal beach, Long Beach and Venice beach. Seal beach is nice to look at but the water is very dirty. Long Beach is nice too but it may not be that safe. Venice Beach has many homeless and they live there on the beach. It can be unsafe for you because they may steal from you or attack you. The beach can be dirty too. The bathrooms are very dirty. The homeless there do use drugs sometimes. Other than the homeless you can expect many street vendors at the sidewalk selling their art, dance, and so forth. You have to watch out because there will be lots of beggars bothering you for money too.
Upscale beaches with wealthy residents and celebrity are Newport Beach ,Malibu beach, Corona Del Mar, Laguna Niguel beach, and Santa Monica beach. These beaches are celebrity’s favorite. They live along these beaches. The neighborhoods real estate are expensive in these areas.You can enjoy a great time at these beach and don’t have to worry about safety issues. These beaches have very exotic views. You can bring your date here and you won’t be disappointed.
California beaches have curfew just like any other beaches. The curfew is 12pm to 5am. Some beach do not allow dogs in certain areas but have dogs beach. There are lifeguards on duty at business hours such as 9-6pm. There are also police and paramedics on site. The beach here prohibit alcohol, dogs, skateboarding in certain areas.
Features of each beach are all different. One of the most noticeable beach with many features is Santa Monica beach. Santa Monica beach is the site for tourists. There are many features on the pier itself. There are also lots of filming here and you can spot celebrity sometimes. There is a wheel carnival on the pier and you can go for a ride. There are many artists and singers performing for tips. There are many shops to buy merchandise and great restaurants.
Malibu beach has great views from the plateu landscape. There are houses right on the beach that are about several hundreds feet above the beach and you can look down on the beach. These are great views. It’s a great spot for lovers. Malibu is has many celebrity and elegant houses. It’s very elegant around this beach. It has the VIP atmosphere. You’ll love it here. There’re great restaurants and shops. It’s very peaceful here.
Santa Barbara beach is magnificent too. It’s absolutely beautiful here. It’s very quiet here too. It’s great to come here to relax. Michael Jackson used to live here. Laguna Niguel and Newport Beach have great views too from hundreds feet above the beach. These places are great for your dates. There are many great cultural restaurants here and shops too. You may run into celebrity as well. Newport beach has the Tentation club. It’s one of OC hottest night club for young people. The real estate in these areas are expensive because it’s quiet, upscale and has many amenities.
Hollywood and the film industry
September 30th, 2008 | Article by Alien | Career, UncategorizedHollywood is one of the hottest attraction of Los Angeles!
Hollywood and its studio are spread out from Downtown LA to Burbank. There are thousands of production companies and film studios in LA. Most filming happens on the streets of LA, while and others happen in other states or other countries.
Hollywood productions include feature film, music, theater, dance, comedy, television shows, and writing. There are many other types of production too. Hollywood is about making movies and shows and this is done inside the studio or outside. Filming can be anywhere from Monday to Sunday. The time can be from 5am to 5 pm. The production usually work 12-17 hours per day. Filming can be inside the studio or they can drive all of their equipment into the street and set it up. Actors, singers, dancers, writers, directors, producers, comedians, models, designers, hair and makeup artists, costumes crew, film crew, stage crew and many more make up the work force in Hollywood.
The major studio that are very well known are Universal Studio, Warner Brothers, KTLA, CBS, Fox, Paramount, and Gower. Some of the major production company include DreamWorks, Touchstone, Fox, CBS, Universal, Warner Brothers and Paramount picture. Actors have a very high paying job. Some actors get $300 a day and some gets $30 million a movie, it all depends on how famous the actor is and their role in the movie. Employees in Hollywood get pay from hundreds to millions, it depends on their role, title and experience. Hollywood is the place to work for if you want to make millions. Films and TV shows makes money from advertisers and audiences. TV shows make their money by selling airtime to advertisers on their shows. Films make their money from audiences buying their movie tickets, DVD rental and selling products. Films and TV also make money from selling products with their brands.
Hollywood is a good place to work for because there are many opening and advancement. The compensation for artists are very good because it can be up to as much as $20 million per movie that you’re chosen to do. Filming would takes about several months to a year but you’ll be making millions. No other work industry offer this kind of compensation or opportunity.
How do you go about getting started in Hollywood?
First you must determine your abilities. What are you good at and what do you think you’ll be chosen to do. The thing is that they have to pick you out of a crowd in order for you to make some decent salary. If you want to be pick out of three hundred other people you have to be better than all of them or possess some kind of trait that would make you better than all of them. It could be that you are more beautiful, more in shape, more talented or you have the right look that they’re looking for. You have to be more distinct than other people. There’s some steep competition in Hollywood. You shouldn’t worry too much though because one day they will need your looks and nobody has your looks but you. You may be freckled with large glasses or tall and handsome. Your uniqueness will pay off. There are all kinds of genre of productions, music, movies and shows in Hollywood that needs different looks all the time. If you think about it, it will make sense to you. A movie has many different characters and scene and you’ll be able to fit in somewhere or maybe one of the character requires you to wear a mask and your looks doesn’t matter anymore.
Every characters will get a chance someday. Although all looks are needed there seems to be some looks that are needed most of the times. Some of the looks that they use all the times are hot girls, hot guys, bad guys, nerdy kids, kids, criminals, lawyers, doctors, different ethnicity, models, dancers, cheerleaders, muscular men and the list goes on. These looks belong to some of the main scene and theme and they’ll always need one of these characters.
It’s no doubt that Hollywood loves to use models in their movies so that it can sell more because it’s appealing to people. If you have the model look then keep up with that because it will pay off very big. They can use the model looks in a lot of scene like the bars, night club, girlfriends of the actor and so forth. It’s kind of sad to say but good looks are very beneficial in Hollywood although professionals, funny characters are needed as much too.
Once you have decided what you want to do you can start to get your portfolio together and get an agent. You need to get a sag card before any good agent will accept you. A sag card is a union card that allows you to join the Screen actor guild. The screen actor guild is a union for all actors nationwide. You can only earn your maximum compensation if you have this card. If you don’t have this card, you only get non-union pay. You can obtain this card by landing a role or getting it through extras work. You can get this on set if you do something that the crew needed and they will give you a voucher which pays more but once you get three voucher you will get to join the union.
It cost $2000 to join the union and then you pay several hundred dollars a month after that. There is the Aftra union and the Sag union. The Sag union is where most films and TV shows fall under. Once you join the union you can get an agent to start booking you for audition. The audition is an unpaid thing and you only get pay when you get hired. Therefore it’s beneficial that you get a side job to pay your bills.
You can try doing movie extras work to get more exposure and learn more about the different productions and get a chance to network more. On film set you’ll get a chance to meet producers, directors, and other famous stars. You can introduce yourself and give them your headshots and contact number. You’ll never know when you’ll get discover and becoming a star. Brad Pitt did this for awhile and he eventually become a star. Most stars were movie extras first.
You’ll also get a chance to develop your resume with more specific jobs that you’ll get. You should try to do some student film too so you can have more to put on your resume. Experience and education would set you apart from other people too. You should sign up with all the casting agency in Hollywood and have your picture in their database and you’ll never know when you’ll land a big gig.
You should attend as many open calls as possible to get a chance to audition and meet more important people. It’s important that you attend events and everything so that you can network more. Hollywood is more about who you know then anything else. Keep trying to audition and soon you’ll land a good gig. After you have been in lots of movie you can start to get more offers from other company. In no time you’ll be a celebrity.
Preventing injury while playing sports or working out
September 29th, 2008 | Article by Alien | Fitness, HealthInjury is common with athletes. We have seen during the Olympics that one performer from China has to withdraw because his ankle was injured when he’s one of the best performer. It’s unfortunate and he’s missing out a chance in his lifetime. Therefore, preventing injury is very crucial so that you can continue to play without withdrawing from your team or more importantly you won’t be permanently disable like breaking your legs or your back.
Believe it or not people don’t do the proper preparation for some workout or even sports. I don’t know why but people don’t do it. I have seen people run in slippers or wear regular shoes with no support. I’ve seen people workout in jeans. People don’t stretch before they workout. I’m sure you have seen these things too. Doing this will cause you injury and maybe even cause you pain. Working out is just like cooking, you wouldn’t throw the meat into the hot pan without washing it first and chopping it out right and even seasoning it. If you don’t do this preparation, you will have a dirty big uncooked pork patty and it wouldn’t be good for anything. The same is with working out, you can’t jump to lifting a 100lbs weight machine without proper stretching and warming up and previous preparation. You can’t run when you haven’t crawl yet.
I have seen so many athletes injure themselves and become permanently disable and ended their career. I had a professional dancer friend who broke her back and now she doesn’t have a dancing career anymore. Its very common that athletes get injured. They could be battling with their opponent and get injured or just rushing through the routines. Preventing injury should always be their goal so that they continue to play sports.
The steps in preparing to prevent injury are stretching, warming up, drinking enough fluid, wearing the right shoes with the right support, wearing the right clothing (stretchy), working out on the right platform, and doing minimum workout until you’re ready for more vigorous workout. You have to wear the right shoes and socks for your workout. You need the support so that you don’t get injure. You should not workout bare footed or wearing slippers or casual shoes with no sole supports. I have often seen these and they’re not correct gears. You need to wear breathable, comfortable, stretchy clothing. You need room for your routines and also to breathe and for good circulation. Have you ever try to wear a metal robotic suit and work out before? If you do, you’ll know why the right clothing is required for a good workout. Restriction likes belts and jeans should be avoided.
The next step is to do some stretching. This should be your favorite thing. You should stretch out all body parts before working out. You can spend at least 20 minutes on stretching. Doing yoga would have a stretching effect too. Important body parts to stretch are legs, calfs, neck, shoulders and waist. Stretching allows your muscle to extend and become flexible and ready for a workout. Stretching also allows you to loosen up you joints and bones so that they don’t injure during your workout. Not stretching out before your workout is like wearing a metal suit and trying to run, dance or something like that. It doesn’t work out too well.
The next step is warming up. You should give yourself 10-20 minutes to warm up before you do some serious workout. Warming allows you to become loose and flexible and to get your heart started. Warming up allows your blood circulation to move around and get ready for a workout. You can jog around to warm up or jump in place. Just some slow movement to get you ready. Once you have done your warm up you can proceed to working out.
You should do repetition or routine that are for beginners first if you’re a beginner and increase your repetition or routine weekly instead of hourly. You should not jump into the hardest routine first because your body is not ready and you can injure yourself. The best way is to build your momentum upward. Your body is like a car you have to build up your speed and not just jump to 100mph right away because it can be bad for your car.
During your workout you should drink plenty of fluids and electrolytes because you will be losing them during your workout. Losing too much fluid without replacing it could give you dehydration and make you tire or give you a headache. Electrolytes are needed by your cells to work properly. Electrolytes drinks are Gatorages and other drinks label as electrolytes drinks. During your work out you should breathe regularly so that you can take in oxygen adequately. You should stretch after your workout so that you don’t have pain or sore because of acid accumulation.
Business coaching
September 28th, 2008 | Article by Alien | Business and FinanceDo you want your business to be better?
You can do a few things to improve your business. It’s like a car you have to continuously monitor and replenish it with more fluids and clean it up often so that you don’t run into car trouble. This is also true with business. You have to continuously analyze your business and fix things around. It’s not a good idea to keep the same business model if it doesn’t work that well for you.
- The first step is to analyze your business to see how you’re doing. If you couldn’t be happier with the results then you can rest your mind but if it’s in trouble or not doing well then you can try several things to fix it. Analysis give you a point to start out.
- The second step is to identify where the problem is and work on that problem.
- The third step is to finish working on the problem.
- The fourth step is to add or delete your business plans or model.
- The fifth step is do financial analysis of your business and cut down cost.
- The sixth step is to marketing and management analysis and cut down expenses or change management.
- The seventh step is to do product analysis and to cut down or buy more products.
- The final step is to do a total analysis of all the changes you have made and see if it will improve your business.
The first step: analyzing your business. You can sum up your business to see if it needs improvement or if it’s doing very well and don’t need much work. However, most business can use some tune up. If your business is slower than usual then you can implement plans to bring in more customers. Without customers, you can’t make much money. If your employees are good then you can keep them but if they’re doing poorly then you can counsel them or let them go. I find that employees sometimes are the problems. Employees can cost you money by not working, wasting product, theft, cheat in other ways and chase away your customers. If you need better employees then take that step. It’s not nice to say but some company have very poor employees output. There are employees that don’t work, skip work, not productive and hostile at work. Do you think that these kinds of employees will make your business bloom or fall? There are some employees that doesn’t care one bit about the well being of their employer’s business. If you hire a manager and you’re in some other state then you’re at risk for low productivity from employees. Although not all employees are like this.
The second step is identifying your problematic area. The problematic area can be from the management department, products, customers, finance, marketing, cost and so forth. Find your problem and start fixing it. Your problem could be that your manager is not meeting sales goals. Your products are not selling or being returned. Your customers are not coming back for a second visit. Your customers are not happy. Your cost is too high. Your marketing channel is not effective. Your overall damage and cost are too high. Just turn your problem around.
The third step is looking at your business model. Do you need to change it? Some business model or products are no longer hot. Gap was doing poorly for awhile. Some styles will go out of style and you need to discontinue them and start buying hotter and trendier style that more people will buy. You are outcompete with other business. Other business have a lower price than your same product. Laptops are more often purchase then large home pc. Brand names car are more purchase than non-brand name car. High fats foods are not that appealing to Americans as healthy delicious food like the ones at Trader Joes. Products and styles and preferences are changing every single day and we need to change to be more competitive. If your products are not selling like Lee’s jeans then you need to discontinue it and bring in hotter products. It’s not nice to say but some store like Sears and K-mart have very outdated merchandise. You want to appeal to the young generation who will spend not the old generation who won’t spend.
The next step is doing financial analysis on your company. Some company file for bankcrupcy because their cost exceed their revenues. Costs could be done by employees, managers without the owner’s knowlege until it’s too late. Sometimes your buyer staff are not cost effective and they buy you products that don’t sell. You would end up putting these things on clearance and you can’t even get rid of it. Sometimes damage products by your customers and employees will cost you money. Sometimes utility and overheads are too high because of incorrect use like K-mart’s light sign that is too costly and causing them to close up.
After you evaluate all aspects of business then you can be sure that you can head toward a better business. you should do this tune up almost every single month to make sure that all is good. Things can go wrong pretty quickly. Remember that high cost will put your business at risk.
Night Clubs in Orange County
September 28th, 2008 | Article by Alien | Culture and Society, Hobbies, Men's Issues, Music and Movies, Recreation and LeisureThe nightclub in Orange County is very fun and crowded. The clubs open most days of the week and on the weekends. The Orange Country clubs have very upscale goers because most cities in OC are very wealthy, with very upscale residents. The clubs play wide in variety of music types from country to hip-hop to jazz and rock. The bars are great and busy. People in Orange County love clubbing and you can find a crowded club anytime during the week.
The clubs are open on different nights for different group of ethnicity. They open on certain nights for under 21 years old and certain nights for over 21 years old. You can go to the club’s website to get on for free as a VIP guest if you don’t want to pay but you have to do it early enough for the tickets to arrived in your mail. When you attend the club here, there will be dress codes such as no sandals and no tennis shoes and hat. There will be a pat down and electronic check at the gate.
Club safety here is high with many security on duty and sometimes police officers at the front door but there are fights sometimes at the club. There are at least five to six nightclubs in each city and they are not as loud and wild as the LA clubs. You might have more fun at the LA clubs; these are more wild and different with very famous artists.
The clubs in OC usually have DJ music but not live performances. Only Asian clubs have live performances. There is a popular club calls Shark in Costa Mesa with open night from Thursday to Sunday. Each day for a different group of people and different theme such as gay night or Asian night. This is a 21 and over club but it’s one of the most famous clubs in OC for young people from 21-35 years of age. They play trance, hip hop and other types of music depending on the night’s theme.
One of OC’s top notch clubs is Tentation in Newport Beach in Mcauthur blvd. This is a very elegantly decorated club with 48 foot long waterfall that bathe the entire club. Door charge is $20 and drink is around $12 because it’s good. This is OC’s best nightclub.
Another famous club is Boogie in Anaheim. This club functions like Sharks club, plays hip-hop and trance and also other types of music. They also have performances by girls and is for young people. There are fights sometimes at the club when there are young people going. Shark club has a safer environment than this club. Other clubs are: Vegas and Detroit in Costa Mesa.
In Westminster there are clubs Can, Allstar, Majestic, and Bleu. Different type of music is played on each night. There is different theme with each night; different languages; there are also gay, lesbian, and straight nights. There is FREE entrance for ladies before 10 PM and around $5-10 for male. Each club has a different twist to them. Club Can has stripping on Sunday, and 18 and over on Friday night and is for young people only. Club Allstar is for young people too because the theme is designed for young people. There are mostly young goers here. Majestic is a more upscale club and it’s for young and older people. Bleu is for young people and old people too. Some of these clubs open all week long like club Bleu. You can rent out the club’s space for your own event you just have to check with the local office. Club Majestics is mostly open for community organization that can put events together. The club space is for rent nightly too. You have to check with the club owner.
Out of all these club, Majestics is the most expensive and classiest one. The musicians that play here are professionals famous in the community and they’re not beginners at all. The dance floor is larger and the atmosphere is elegant. The charge to get in is $20, service here is more courteous and it’s safer here with less fighting going on than other clubs. The crowds that go here are more professionals, they are in their thirties whereas other clubs have younger kids and not a lot of professionals. Majestic is a club for Vietnamese and the singers sing in Vietnamese. Club Can has Vietnamese, English and Spanish in different night. Club Allstars is for Vietnamese goers. Club Bleu has different languages in different night. Club Can is located on Westminster and Euclid. Club Allstars is located on Beach and Trask. Club Bleu is located on Beach and Westminster. Club Majestics is located on Beach and Garfield. These clubs are in Westminster and Huntington Beach.



