http://articles.dailypress.com/2010-01-14/features/dp-life_homefitness_0114jan14_1_exercise-equipment-exercise-program-sweat-home
12.15
A few years ago, in January, Barb Lito and her husband decided to bite the bullet and buy some home exercise equipment.
"We both had gym memberships, but with demanding jobs and family commitments, we were not making that time to get to the gym," said Lito, who works as superintendent of recreation programs for Newport News Parks and Recreation.
(X)
Their daughter, who was 10 at the time, was too old for the nursery but too young to turn loose at the gym.
(X)
That doesn't mean that it's necessary to spend thousands of dollars to get a good workout at home. Local experts and enthusiasts we interviewed, including Lito, told us what to look for in home exercise equipment in all price ranges.
(X)
Let's start at the bottom and work our way up, beginning with what you tie on your feet.
Running Shoes ...
(X)
Hand weights
(X)
"With free weights or a stability ball, there are a lot of things you can do without spending a lot of money," said Andre Moore, senior director of wellness and membership at the Newport News YMCA.
(X)
"With dumbbells, you have a choice of neoprene-covered or just iron," he said. "It's just personal preference and comfort." He said the price shouldn't be more than a couple of dollars per pound. "If someplace is asking you to pay $5 or more a pound, go somewhere else."
(X)
For those choosing how much weight to use, Moore suggested using this test: Do two or three sets of 12 to 15 lifts, such as a curl. "If you are straining on the last couple of reps, that's probably a good weight for you."
(X)
Typically, people just starting out use hand weights of 3-5 pounds.
12.16
Exercise balls...
DVDs ...
Exercise Machine...
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2010年12月27日 星期一
12.13-12.14
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2009-11-01/news/0910300086_1_ipod-touch-wi-fi-iphone
12.13
Some people consider devices like iPhones and laptops to be a roadblock to an enjoyable vacation ...
While Google's walking directions came in handy many times, they weren't always correct (they are still in beta), so it's smart to keep an old fashioned paper map as well. When you get back, cancel the international data plan immediately and make sure that AT&T didn't mistakenly charge you for data roaming like it did in our case. You'll also want to carry an iPhone charger with you, or spare battery for when you run out of juice.
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http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2009-11-01/news/0910300086_1_ipod-touch-wi-fi-iphone/2
Wi-Fi is plentiful in Europe, so it's wise to carry a portable Wi-Fi enabled device with you such as an iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry or netbook so you can look up information, get directions, check your e-mail and even make low-cost international phone calls. ...
In some cases, we skipped the museum guides and downloaded free high-quality podcast audio tours from well-known travel author and TV host Rick Steves. The free audio tours can be downloaded from ricksteves.com or iTunes, and they feature pictures for each stop on the tour so you can make sure you are in the right place.
12.13
Some people consider devices like iPhones and laptops to be a roadblock to an enjoyable vacation ...
While Google's walking directions came in handy many times, they weren't always correct (they are still in beta), so it's smart to keep an old fashioned paper map as well. When you get back, cancel the international data plan immediately and make sure that AT&T didn't mistakenly charge you for data roaming like it did in our case. You'll also want to carry an iPhone charger with you, or spare battery for when you run out of juice.
按下一頁
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2009-11-01/news/0910300086_1_ipod-touch-wi-fi-iphone/2
Wi-Fi is plentiful in Europe, so it's wise to carry a portable Wi-Fi enabled device with you such as an iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry or netbook so you can look up information, get directions, check your e-mail and even make low-cost international phone calls. ...
In some cases, we skipped the museum guides and downloaded free high-quality podcast audio tours from well-known travel author and TV host Rick Steves. The free audio tours can be downloaded from ricksteves.com or iTunes, and they feature pictures for each stop on the tour so you can make sure you are in the right place.
12.09-12.11
http://www.heraldextra.com/lifestyles/article_03705fe0-b786-5ccc-9cb2-87fab21da4d0.html
12.09
-- A Lego brick is a Lego brick is a Lego brick.
Except when it's a Lego Star
...
(X) Lego controls the construction-toy rights to licensed properties such as "Star Wars," "Indiana Jones" and "Toy Story" whereas its rivals operate in the less overtly edifying sphere of games, dolls, action figures and vehicles.
...
Considering their stellar results so far this year were achieved in a lousy economy and up against difficult growth comparisons from a year ago, I'd say the future should be even better," said Sean McGowan, an analyst at Needham & Co., in reply to e-mailed questions.
(X) But the future wasn't always so bright.
There was a period around the millennium when, after more than 50 years of unbroken sales growth, this iconic, mild-mannered, privately-held Danish toy firm had lost its way.
It may have succeeded in putting, on average, five plastic bricks into the homes of each and every one of us on the planet, but it was also trying to be all things to all comers by moving away from products that exemplified the creative, open-ended imaginative play on which it cut its teeth.
In 1998 the firm posted its first-ever loss. Profitable licensing agreements with Hollywood buoyed the business for a few years, but when another loss in 2004 signaled a more sustained slump, it was time to start rearranging the bricks.
12.10
Enter Knudstorp, a former kindergarten teacher and McKinsey consultant tasked with halting a sales decline, reducing debt and focusing on cash flow -- all classic turnaround stuff.
...
"The 'retro' aspect is definitely powerful," said Needham's McGowan. "What dad with a 10-year-old son doesn't have fond memories of Lego?"
12.11
A FAMILY AFFAIR
Lego claims that their classic product lines such as Lego City featuring diminutive scenes of fireman, police and hospital workers -- and more recently Lego Power Miners -- give children an insight into how the adult world is organized.
...
As for growth, Knudstorp has a stackable line on that too. At the moment, Europe remains its top market, with Germany alone accounting for 20 percent of sales on the Continent, but Lego has its sights set on the U.S. where it wants to gain on rivals like Hasbro and Mattel, and so move beyond its current 3.5 percent share of the U.S. toy market.
(X)
"We want to make North America our second core business. We are growing strongly there, we want to continue doing that despite the economics in North America right now," said Knudstorp.
"In the U.S. you now have a minister of education and indeed a president who recognize that children need 21st century skills, that they need to become creative problem solvers. We can help with that, which is a completely new way of doing business for the well-established Lego brand."
12.09
-- A Lego brick is a Lego brick is a Lego brick.
Except when it's a Lego Star
...
(X) Lego controls the construction-toy rights to licensed properties such as "Star Wars," "Indiana Jones" and "Toy Story" whereas its rivals operate in the less overtly edifying sphere of games, dolls, action figures and vehicles.
...
Considering their stellar results so far this year were achieved in a lousy economy and up against difficult growth comparisons from a year ago, I'd say the future should be even better," said Sean McGowan, an analyst at Needham & Co., in reply to e-mailed questions.
(X) But the future wasn't always so bright.
There was a period around the millennium when, after more than 50 years of unbroken sales growth, this iconic, mild-mannered, privately-held Danish toy firm had lost its way.
It may have succeeded in putting, on average, five plastic bricks into the homes of each and every one of us on the planet, but it was also trying to be all things to all comers by moving away from products that exemplified the creative, open-ended imaginative play on which it cut its teeth.
In 1998 the firm posted its first-ever loss. Profitable licensing agreements with Hollywood buoyed the business for a few years, but when another loss in 2004 signaled a more sustained slump, it was time to start rearranging the bricks.
12.10
Enter Knudstorp, a former kindergarten teacher and McKinsey consultant tasked with halting a sales decline, reducing debt and focusing on cash flow -- all classic turnaround stuff.
...
"The 'retro' aspect is definitely powerful," said Needham's McGowan. "What dad with a 10-year-old son doesn't have fond memories of Lego?"
12.11
A FAMILY AFFAIR
Lego claims that their classic product lines such as Lego City featuring diminutive scenes of fireman, police and hospital workers -- and more recently Lego Power Miners -- give children an insight into how the adult world is organized.
...
As for growth, Knudstorp has a stackable line on that too. At the moment, Europe remains its top market, with Germany alone accounting for 20 percent of sales on the Continent, but Lego has its sights set on the U.S. where it wants to gain on rivals like Hasbro and Mattel, and so move beyond its current 3.5 percent share of the U.S. toy market.
(X)
"We want to make North America our second core business. We are growing strongly there, we want to continue doing that despite the economics in North America right now," said Knudstorp.
"In the U.S. you now have a minister of education and indeed a president who recognize that children need 21st century skills, that they need to become creative problem solvers. We can help with that, which is a completely new way of doing business for the well-established Lego brand."
12.06-12.8
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/look-whos-curing-cancer.html
12.06
For the past four years, Lauren Moran has devoted herself to groundbreaking cancer research, chronicling the fickle interaction between molecules and proteins. Despite having a full...
Moran's laptop displays a screen saver of her latest WCG assignment, but the science, she admits, is "way over my head. I just know when I'm not using my computer, it's crunching numbers that could lead to a cure."
12.07
Most of us use our computers about as efficiently as we use our brains: We scratch the surface, never tapping the full potential. WCG exploits this unused computing power by borrowing ...
WCG, which hosted one project its first year, now runs a half dozen or more simultaneously. The latest: In hopes of discovering new organic electronic materials that could lead to cheaper solar cells, Aspuru-Guzik is screening about 2 million chemical compounds for photovoltaic properties. That's roughly 20,000 times more compounds than he could analyze on a single computer. And the project will take only a couple of years, instead of two decades.
12.08
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/look-whos-curing-cancer.html?page=0%2C1
The IBM team is acutely aware that its public grid is only as effective as the public allows it to be....
Worldwide, there are several dozen large public grids, says Berstis.Their membership tends to top out in the tens of thousands, while WCG continues to grow by several thousand members a week. Although IBM promotes the effort on Facebook, at conferences, and internally, the volunteers themselves are the best recruiters. Some 400 companies and schools that have signed on as partners receive marketing tools to spread the word. Today, people on some 24,000 teams -- from Slashdot Users (3,953 members) and Facebook (382) to Team Boulder (413), run by teenage brothers Grant and Max Buster in Colorado -- blog and post Web videos about the grid.
12.06
For the past four years, Lauren Moran has devoted herself to groundbreaking cancer research, chronicling the fickle interaction between molecules and proteins. Despite having a full...
Moran's laptop displays a screen saver of her latest WCG assignment, but the science, she admits, is "way over my head. I just know when I'm not using my computer, it's crunching numbers that could lead to a cure."
12.07
Most of us use our computers about as efficiently as we use our brains: We scratch the surface, never tapping the full potential. WCG exploits this unused computing power by borrowing ...
WCG, which hosted one project its first year, now runs a half dozen or more simultaneously. The latest: In hopes of discovering new organic electronic materials that could lead to cheaper solar cells, Aspuru-Guzik is screening about 2 million chemical compounds for photovoltaic properties. That's roughly 20,000 times more compounds than he could analyze on a single computer. And the project will take only a couple of years, instead of two decades.
12.08
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/look-whos-curing-cancer.html?page=0%2C1
The IBM team is acutely aware that its public grid is only as effective as the public allows it to be....
Worldwide, there are several dozen large public grids, says Berstis.Their membership tends to top out in the tens of thousands, while WCG continues to grow by several thousand members a week. Although IBM promotes the effort on Facebook, at conferences, and internally, the volunteers themselves are the best recruiters. Some 400 companies and schools that have signed on as partners receive marketing tools to spread the word. Today, people on some 24,000 teams -- from Slashdot Users (3,953 members) and Facebook (382) to Team Boulder (413), run by teenage brothers Grant and Max Buster in Colorado -- blog and post Web videos about the grid.
2010年12月26日 星期日
12.03 -12.04
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/12/world/la-fg-china-characters-20100712
12.03
For Ma Silang, the long descent into forgetfulness began after he graduated from high school, went off to London ...
(X)"People don't write anything by hand anymore except for name and address," admitted Ma.
...
Almost any Chinese person you meet will confess to a lapse of memory, almost like a senior moment. The hand clutching the pen or pencil is poised above a sheet of paper about to write a character learned in childhood and memorized in countless repetitions when — suddenly — an embarrassing pause.
12.04
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/12/world/la-fg-china-characters-20100712/2
(點選下一頁 就會到上述網址)
In China, the situation rises to the level of a cultural crisis since the characters, more than any other facet of life, epitomize thousands of years of tradition.
Writing, moreover, is not merely about communication — in Chinese culture, it is an art form and spiritual ...
"These characters are in the soul of every Chinese person," said Wang Jianxue, a 38-year-old calligraphy teacher from Harbin who was lovingly leafing through the stacks at a bookstore in Liulichang, a street of quiet shops that sell brushes, ink stones, rubbings, scrolls and curios. "The nation has to maintain its personality through its characters. They are our cultural heritage. The computer is just a tool."
Many young Chinese are sufficiently concerned that they have taken it upon themselves to study calligraphy.
"It will take a lot of effort to preserve our Chinese characters. It is the same way they try to preserve these old hutongs," said Zhu Linfei, 24, a Beijing graduate student, referring to the traditional Beijing alleys, now rapidly succumbing to the wrecking ball.
Zhu, who was touring the old bookstores of Liulichang with her classmates to buy calligraphy books, estimated that she had already forgotten about 20% of the characters she knew in high school.
"But it's not such a big problem," she said. "If I don't know a character, I take out my cellphone to check."
12.03
For Ma Silang, the long descent into forgetfulness began after he graduated from high school, went off to London ...
(X)"People don't write anything by hand anymore except for name and address," admitted Ma.
...
Almost any Chinese person you meet will confess to a lapse of memory, almost like a senior moment. The hand clutching the pen or pencil is poised above a sheet of paper about to write a character learned in childhood and memorized in countless repetitions when — suddenly — an embarrassing pause.
12.04
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/12/world/la-fg-china-characters-20100712/2
(點選下一頁 就會到上述網址)
In China, the situation rises to the level of a cultural crisis since the characters, more than any other facet of life, epitomize thousands of years of tradition.
Writing, moreover, is not merely about communication — in Chinese culture, it is an art form and spiritual ...
"These characters are in the soul of every Chinese person," said Wang Jianxue, a 38-year-old calligraphy teacher from Harbin who was lovingly leafing through the stacks at a bookstore in Liulichang, a street of quiet shops that sell brushes, ink stones, rubbings, scrolls and curios. "The nation has to maintain its personality through its characters. They are our cultural heritage. The computer is just a tool."
Many young Chinese are sufficiently concerned that they have taken it upon themselves to study calligraphy.
"It will take a lot of effort to preserve our Chinese characters. It is the same way they try to preserve these old hutongs," said Zhu Linfei, 24, a Beijing graduate student, referring to the traditional Beijing alleys, now rapidly succumbing to the wrecking ball.
Zhu, who was touring the old bookstores of Liulichang with her classmates to buy calligraphy books, estimated that she had already forgotten about 20% of the characters she knew in high school.
"But it's not such a big problem," she said. "If I don't know a character, I take out my cellphone to check."
12.01- 12.02
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2010-06-21-justinbieber17_CV_N.htm
12.01
It's not much past 6 a.m., and Justin Bieber looks like any 16-year-old should at such an hour ...
(X)
If you had landed here from another planet, it would be easy to think that Bieber is some sort of local deity. But often it's Bieber who feels like the alien, teleported from the galaxy Obscurity — aka Stratford, Ontario— directly into the maw of the American music machine.
(X)
"It's crazy," Bieber says during a rare respite as he prepares for his aptly named My World tour, a six-month headlining run whose sold-out first leg kicks off Wednesday at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. "Sometimes, I can't believe I'm doing this. I wake up and I think, where am I?"
(X)
Relaxing in a Midtown hotel, playing video games on his iPad the day before his Today appearance, Bieber looks every bit the average teen — admittedly, one who has been blessed with no acne, a pixie-like grin and a mop of sandy hair that covers all but his face.
(X)
But it's what happens when Bieber opens the mouth that has stripped him of a normal childhood. The cute kid can sing.
"He's a one-man Beatles," says Matthew Rettenmund, editor of Popstar! magazine, who bowed to reader requests and put Bieber on the cover in January. Now he plans to include him in every cover's collage of faces this year. "Justin is the heir to that throne occupied by Shaun Cassidy and countless others, but he's also the first real example of someone discovered by the Web."
...
"It wasn't overnight, I put in a lot of time on the road going to radio stations at 6 a.m. and singing, all in the middle of my growth spurt." The 5-foot-6 singer laughs. "Thanks to the music industry, I'm going to be really short."
最後接
Of his hair, he shrugs and says: "I just kind of liked it, and now people are copying it. I used to have a buzz cut as a kid."
12.02
In 2007, when he was 12, Bieber entered a local singing competition and placed second doing Ne-Yo's So Sick. Mallette thought it would be fun to post a video of that performance on YouTube. Millions tuned in. More videos followed.
Usher is convinced Bieber can make the leap into adulthood without losing popularity, much as he and Timberlake have done.
"Justin (Bieber) is a talented child and one I felt I could nurture," Usher says. "He has a passion more than anything. I remember having that as a kid, and I see it in his eyes. ..
"I like that he stands up for himself, but also is very open to direction."
Bieber also is human. And the grind required to forge a career often gets to him. When he recently complained that he missed just being a normal kid, "I told him you have to be dedicated," Usher says. "It's about sacrifice, so be sure it's what you want." (In the end, Usher relented and flew in a gaggle of Bieber's buddies for a weekend of goofing off.)
Team Bieber consists of roughly a dozen people, including Usher, Smith and Mallette (Bieber's father, Jeremy, is remarried and has two young children). But none are around when Bieber sits down to chat while he digs into a plate of Boston Market chicken. Leaving a teen star alone with a reporter is far from typical public-relations protocol, and it speaks to the team's confidence in the star's grounded nature.
Grew up in the church
This decidedly un-MTV Cribsattitude likely has roots in his pious upbringing. Bieber says he and his mother have always attended church and "are really involved with God. He's always been like, I don't know, he's held our family together. We grew up with not a lot of money, my mom and I. She was young when she had me. We struggled, but we never blamed him."
A bit later, Bieber's mother hustles over to the Today stage in anticipation of her son's performance. A petite woman with an easy smile and a copy of the Billy Graham book Angels in her hand, Mallette shrugs to deflect a question about how she is coping with her son's sudden and outsized popularity.
"Sometimes it's crazy, sure," she says. "But we just try to take things one day at a time."
12.01
It's not much past 6 a.m., and Justin Bieber looks like any 16-year-old should at such an hour ...
(X)
If you had landed here from another planet, it would be easy to think that Bieber is some sort of local deity. But often it's Bieber who feels like the alien, teleported from the galaxy Obscurity — aka Stratford, Ontario— directly into the maw of the American music machine.
(X)
"It's crazy," Bieber says during a rare respite as he prepares for his aptly named My World tour, a six-month headlining run whose sold-out first leg kicks off Wednesday at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. "Sometimes, I can't believe I'm doing this. I wake up and I think, where am I?"
(X)
Relaxing in a Midtown hotel, playing video games on his iPad the day before his Today appearance, Bieber looks every bit the average teen — admittedly, one who has been blessed with no acne, a pixie-like grin and a mop of sandy hair that covers all but his face.
(X)
But it's what happens when Bieber opens the mouth that has stripped him of a normal childhood. The cute kid can sing.
"He's a one-man Beatles," says Matthew Rettenmund, editor of Popstar! magazine, who bowed to reader requests and put Bieber on the cover in January. Now he plans to include him in every cover's collage of faces this year. "Justin is the heir to that throne occupied by Shaun Cassidy and countless others, but he's also the first real example of someone discovered by the Web."
...
"It wasn't overnight, I put in a lot of time on the road going to radio stations at 6 a.m. and singing, all in the middle of my growth spurt." The 5-foot-6 singer laughs. "Thanks to the music industry, I'm going to be really short."
最後接
Of his hair, he shrugs and says: "I just kind of liked it, and now people are copying it. I used to have a buzz cut as a kid."
12.02
In 2007, when he was 12, Bieber entered a local singing competition and placed second doing Ne-Yo's So Sick. Mallette thought it would be fun to post a video of that performance on YouTube. Millions tuned in. More videos followed.
Usher is convinced Bieber can make the leap into adulthood without losing popularity, much as he and Timberlake have done.
"Justin (Bieber) is a talented child and one I felt I could nurture," Usher says. "He has a passion more than anything. I remember having that as a kid, and I see it in his eyes. ..
"I like that he stands up for himself, but also is very open to direction."
Bieber also is human. And the grind required to forge a career often gets to him. When he recently complained that he missed just being a normal kid, "I told him you have to be dedicated," Usher says. "It's about sacrifice, so be sure it's what you want." (In the end, Usher relented and flew in a gaggle of Bieber's buddies for a weekend of goofing off.)
Team Bieber consists of roughly a dozen people, including Usher, Smith and Mallette (Bieber's father, Jeremy, is remarried and has two young children). But none are around when Bieber sits down to chat while he digs into a plate of Boston Market chicken. Leaving a teen star alone with a reporter is far from typical public-relations protocol, and it speaks to the team's confidence in the star's grounded nature.
Grew up in the church
This decidedly un-MTV Cribsattitude likely has roots in his pious upbringing. Bieber says he and his mother have always attended church and "are really involved with God. He's always been like, I don't know, he's held our family together. We grew up with not a lot of money, my mom and I. She was young when she had me. We struggled, but we never blamed him."
A bit later, Bieber's mother hustles over to the Today stage in anticipation of her son's performance. A petite woman with an easy smile and a copy of the Billy Graham book Angels in her hand, Mallette shrugs to deflect a question about how she is coping with her son's sudden and outsized popularity.
"Sometimes it's crazy, sure," she says. "But we just try to take things one day at a time."
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