Archive for July, 2008
Online Dating Coach Reveals His Amazing Secrets to Meeting Fascinating Singles on the Internet
July 19th, 2008 | 
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At the end of a long day at work, what better way to enjoy the evening than to share it with your heart’s companion – your Soulmate. Not only is having a love relationship a healthy way to live, but you’ll feel more fulfilled as a person too.
As an Online Dating Coach, I’ve had the pleasure of working with clients worldwide. People just like you have contacted me from all over the world wanting online dating advice… with the ultimate goal of finding their Soulmate – no matter where he or she may be living. In the global community we all live in today, connecting with and meeting singles online is the most natural thing imaginable.
Today I’ll be your Dating Coach while I share some helpful online dating tips. With my online dating advice to guide you, learning how to find your Soulmate through online dating can be fun and easy – so let’s get started!
A Dating Coach Offers some Tips for Success
One of your first and most important decisions is your commitment to joining an online dating service. Whether you join a large dating site with millions of members, or a dating service that targets matches within a smaller niche, your online dating success will, to a large extent, be the result of how well your Online Dating Profile is written. With this in mind, here are the first steps to finding your Soulmate.
First, make a commitment to joining one or more paid dating services, each of which has enough members living in your general vicinity so you’ll have a variety of prospective Soulmates to choose from.
As your Dating Coach, I’ll help you create your Online Dating Profile, since this will become your “Online Dating Brochure” and “calling card.”
Then, decide who you would truly like to meet. Your online dating services can help you to some extent, but always keep in mind that you’re using computer matching for your introductions. Therefore, to take full advantage of the technology, it would be helpful to first understand how it works! Online Dating services match their clients by performing both a keyword search, as well as a simple match of the preferences you’ve assigned in your Online Dating Profile. When the online dating services ask you to select your “interests and hobbies” for example, you’ll be much better off selecting as many of them as you can while still being truthful. Let’s say, for example, that under “interests and hobbies” you have 25 options to choose from. If you select only one of them, then you’ll be matched with site members who have made that one selection too. Computer matchmaking works by matching the words or phrases from your dating profile with those of other members within your chosen age range and geographic area, while applying your preferences for height, hair color, drinking and smoking habits, and so on. So one of the secrets to getting more matches is to be more flexible with the options you choose, just like in the example I’ve given.
Finally, and most important of all, to take full advantage of the online dating services you join, whether you’re a man or a woman, take the initiative and send some letters of introduction – and if possible, do this every day. Don’t expect the online dating services to do all of the work! My best advice to you as your dating coach is to become pro-active – and be responsible for your success!
My Dating Coach Advice
You really can find your Soulmate on the Internet. So just take a deep breath, make a decision that you WILL succeed, and then get the ball rolling! Today more than 25% of single adults use online dating services, and within the next five years, this number is predicted to double. Will YOU find your Soulmate through Online Dating? To a large extend, the decision is up to you!
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Wali – Egokah Aku (SUPER HQ – Audio/Video)
The 2nd single from WALI. Wali seems always make a good video 
.. Congrats The storyline is so good. The videography is nice. And well, female model in this video is SHIREEN SUNGKAR. And male model #1 is TEUKU WISNU. While male model #2 is ADLY FAIRUZ. All of them are the casts of CINTA FITRI (Indonesian Smash hits tv series). Well, the original file of this video is 67 Mb. It takes a lot of effort for uploading this to youtube (for almost 3 hours using my connection)… SO, ATTENTION … I DONT EXPECT BAD and IRRELEVANT COMMENTS (and also bad stars hehehehe) .. I upload the large size file is to deliver the best quality as possible for you. And, please do appreciate that by not posting comment such , “LAGUNYA JELEK”, “BIKIN NGANTUK”, “KUALITAS MUSIK INDONESIA SEDANG MENURUN.” … MV released : JULY 2008 MV director : CERAHATI ENJOY
Achieving an Elite Level of Fitness
In order to understand exactly what fitness is, or what it means to be “fit”, we have to define it so that we can have a precise understanding of what, how and why. Right? It almost drove me mad trying to find a definition for fitness and being fit! I searched the internet and writings of leading industry organizations and found very odd, misleading and confusing definitions. It’s no wonder everyone struggles to achieve a state that has no clear definition!
If you took the time to search yourself, you might find definitions for fitness such as:
in good physical condition; in good health or sound physically and mentally; healthy; to conform correctly to the shape or size of <it doesn’t fit me anymore> (1): to insert or adjust until correctly in place <fit the mechanism into the box> (2): to make or adjust to the right shape and size; Capability of the body of distributing inhaled oxygen to muscle tissue during increased physical effort; the genetic contribution of an individual to the next generation’s gene pool relative to the average for the population, usually measured by the number of offspring or close kin that survive to reproductive age. (Huh!!)
Wow! Even the NSCA, the National Strength and Conditioning Association who is one of the most respected authorities on exercise physiology doesn’t even attempt to give a definition of fitness.
How’s that for maddening? Well let me share with you what my definition of fitness is. You see, creating a fitness program without clearly defining what it is that the program must deliver would be ambiguous and leave you unclear about what you had to do to achieve the outcome you want. I believe that defining fitness plays a crucial role in your success. The keys to understanding the methods and achievements of the perfect fitness program are embedded in our view of fitness and in some basic exercise science.
At Ultimate Potential we use five different principles or systems for evaluating and guiding you in achieving your Ultimate level of fitness. These five systems define our view of fitness perfectly. All of these systems combined creates a holistic body (or being) and lifestyle.
Each system is a vital component and each has a distinct importance in understanding your overall fitness level or that of a program’s effectiveness in serving you to achieve a higher level of fitness. Mastering each of these 5 systems combined create what we define as world-class or elite level fitness.
1st System – Train All 10 of Your Basic Physical Skills
The first system identifies and outlines the 10 generally recognized basic physical skills you must train your body for. They are defined as:
Cardiovascular
Stamina
Strength
Flexibility
Power
Speed
Coordination
Agility
Balance
Accuracy
The truth is, you’re only as fit as you are developed in each of these 10 basic skills. And like a chain, you are only as strong as your weakest link. Improvements are always made with training and practice. Keep in mind that all of these skills have one common theme: if you don’t use them, you will lose them. All of these skills make a contribution to your quality of life. Identifying where you are weakest in these 10 categories and then choosing the right fitness training program that allows you to develop and achieve balance in all of these skills is YOUR goal in the first system.
2nd System – Functional Training means you train for life
The second system is based upon the fact that your human body is meant to perform in functional, multidirectional movement patterns using multiple joints and muscles at any given time. This is why we train your body with primarily Functional Training using the right intensity and methods in our Fitness Training programs. If you think about your functional movement patterns in a day, they might include: squatting, overhead reaching, twisting, bending, pushing, pulling, lunging, quick multi-directional movements, stepping, climbing, etc. Imagine not being able to do any of those when you needed to the most? Imagine having a better body and quality of life because you’re stronger and capable of handling anything that comes your way!
Life is a consistently unpredictable event! You never know what will be thrown your way or how you will have to respond at any given moment. Having a higher level of fitness means you must be able to execute physical tasks, especially those that are unusual movements and combined in infinitely varying combinations.
Here’s a big myth that I want to dispel. The myth is that in order to achieve the perfect body you have to work out doing the same consistent exercises, with a specific number of reps and sets on the same days of the week. Let me tell you how wrong that is! It’s extremely important to know that following a routine with a set number of reps, sets, exercises, order of exercises or routines is not an effective way to train your body! Back and shoulders one day…arms and legs another. That’s right! The best way to train your amazing, beautiful human body is to constantly mix up training techniques, use combination movements, keep your workouts varied and challenging and always push yourself to the next level. Routine is the enemy!
You will make progress toward achieving a fitness goal when you are consistent and engaging yourself with fun, challenging and diverse exercises that you enjoy. Mix it up at least five or ideally six days a week for at least an hour at a time at varied intensity levels.
In our Outdoor Fitness Training programs, we never have you do the same workout twice and you never know what you’ll be doing until you get there! You see, no predictability means you keep your body guessing, keep it on the edge and keep making progress toward your goals. This is what you must do as well if you are planning to embark on your own fitness program.
3rd System – Understand how to use your energy systems to your max fat and calorie burning advantage!
The third system is the secret to burning the maximum amount of fat and calories you can while increasing your level of fitness faster. What the secret, you want to know? The secret lies in the right prescription for magic “metabolic conditioning.”
I have to get a little scientific on you here for a minute but don’t worry this will all make perfect sense to you in a moment. I’ll bet no one has ever taken the time to explain to you how your body’s energy systems work and why it’s important to know and understand how this information is going to benefit you.
There are three distinct metabolic pathways that provide the energy for all of your actions. These metabolic engines are known as the:
The Phosphagen pathway
The Glycolytic pathway
The oxidative pathway
If this all sounds too technical to you, relax, because I’m going to break it down for you…
Your phosphagen and glycolytic pathway supply the majority of energy used in moderate to high-powered activities that last less than several minutes. So, think weightlifting, sprinting, circuit and interval training here. These activities are primarily called anaerobic. Anaerobic activity causes the biggest increase to your cardiovascular fitness level, allows you to develop muscle tone faster and gives you the biggest decreases in body fat, surprisingly more than aerobic activity. Anaerobic conditioning gives you the biggest bang for your buck by creating the body you want faster and more efficiently. Anaerobic activity will also develop your level of aerobic fitness without losing valuable muscle tone that often occurs with long endurance aerobic exercise where your heart rate is kept at a steady, easier rate. Decreased muscle tone means increased body fat. No one wants that!
The third pathway, the oxidative pathway supplies energy for low-powered activities, those that last in excess of several minutes. Think fast walking, jogging, running (whether it’s around the block, long-distance or ultra endurance), biking, swimming etc. there is no argument that aerobic training builds your cardiovascular engine and decreases body fat. But what’s important to know is that if you only train your body aerobically you will never develop a higher level of fitness without training anaerobically. Aerobic exercise is important for reducing body fat and developing your cardiovascular baseline of fitness but without developing muscle you will struggle to increase your metabolism. Without balancing aerobic and anaerobic exercise you simply will not create the results you want to see.
You must tap into all of your body’s energy pathways while doing the most effective combinations of fitness training that gives you the greatest results in the minimum amount of time. The secret to your success lies in higher intensity circuit and interval training techniques and in always mixing things up! Remember, keep your body guessing, and always keep upping the ante!
4th System – The Magic of the Right Nutrition
This system is one of the most critical and often neglected. And it’s the one system that people seem to struggle with the most. But I’m going to make it easy for you. Your nutrition plays one of the most critical functions in achieving your health and fitness success . Let’s be honest and straight up here…simply choosing exercise alone in an effort to lose weight or become fit or healthy without eating right will not get you where you want to be. Period! Exercise and nutrition are not mutually exclusive of each other. Also, having the mindset that because you’re working out means you can eat whatever you want will only leave you frustrated and with a lack of results. That doesn’t work either. What does work?
The only thing that works is adopting a complete fitness and eating lifestyle that embraces the right exercise, a winning nutrition plan and consistent action and effort to engage in both every day. Only this combined effort will bring you to the highest level of fitness success and create the body you dream of having.
What does a winning nutrition plan consist of? One that actually increases your metabolism and helps you burn body fat? Only real whole foods that create a balanced nutrition profile (carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, mineral), help you burn fat and increase your metabolism. The bottom line is if it comes in a box, wrapper, can and isn’t living, whole food it doesn’t belong in your body. You want to think live food vs. dead food, more raw foods vs. cooked. Organic versus conventionally grown…you definitely don’t need to ingest more pesticides or be exposed to more toxic substances than you already are. Your body spends a lot of time trying to detox itself as it is. Eating more raw vegetables and fruits will also create the right pH balance in your body.
What should your nutrition plan look like? All vegetables, small portions of fruit, berries, nuts and seeds along with beans and peas, certain whole grains, flax and chia seeds, wild fish, eggs, high quality whey protein powder and the right nutritional supplements.
If you want to see progress and permanent changes to your body, you have to give up dairy, sugar, very little alcohol (even wine!), any and all processed foods, refined grains and starches and eat in a way that supports high energy and even levels of blood sugar stabilization throughout your day. This means eating six small meals spread out throughout the course of your day and not eating after 7pm. The most important focus has to be on eating only enough calories to support your level of physical fitness and not increase body fat by eating in excess of what your body burns in a day.
Know that eating the wrong foods, especially in the wrong proportions, will squash every attempt you will undertake in trying to make progress.
5th System – Fitness Success isn’t necessarily what you do to your body…it’s what you do to your mind!
The fifth and final system is the single most important one of all! It’s all about creating a powerful mind.
Every morning as you begin your day, practice visualizing yourself exactly as you want to be as if you have already achieved your goals.
Start each day by focusing on exactly what you want to create for that day and exactly how you want to be and what you want to achieve. See it happening exactly the way you want it. With practice it becomes reality.
Your mind is the most powerful tool you have. Always know that you are the one who’s in control of all of your thoughts, feelings, emotions and their resulting actions. If you are always telling yourself that you are fat, ugly, unlovable, unsuccessful, unwanted etc… then this is exactly what you will create as your reality. On the other hand, if you start your day telling yourself how much you love yourself, how you admire the way your body is taking on a new shape, noticing all the new small little changes and appreciating your body as it’s developing and loving yourself for who you are, not only will you be magnetizing yourself toward your goals, you will experience a profound level of inner peace and satisfaction. It’s all about changing your vibration and focusing on creating positive results for yourself and your life. Bottom line is…you have to LOVE living in your own skin!
All of these systems combined will lead you successfully toward achieving an elite level of fitness success. Having a coach and a mentor to help you set goals and navigate successfully toward them is invaluable. Studies have proven that Coaching is a powerful and effective tool that has helped more people reach a higher level of success than they could possibly achieve on their own.
If you are still doing the same thing in the gym you will always get the same results, plateau, struggle endlessly to reach goals or eventually burn out or get bored!
France Gall – Der Computer Nr 3 – 2008 Edition
Der Computer Nr 3 as performed live by France Gall, 1968. 2008 Edition: Based on recommendation by a German friend of mine, I went ahead and refurbished this 40 year old TV footage with limited success. Nevertheless, I took the liberty of replacing the “bored audience” footage with some of her other works of this period. [Note: High-ish Quality version available by clicking button below video]
Sony HandyCam DCR-SR42 Digital Camcorder
The Sony handycam DCR-SR42 Digital Camcorder has a true 30GB hard drive inside! It’s also got a touch screen LCD for easy menu selection, and more! Check it out at tigerdirect.com by following this link: www.tigerdirect.com
Extract audio from VOB Video and convert to MP3 on Mac
How to Extract Music from VOB Video and convert to MP3, then put to any MP3 Player, iPod, iPhone…
“I want to convert DVD Audio to MP3 and put to my MP3 Player from my Mac computer. How to do this?”
You can convert your VOB Video in DVD folder or DVD disc to MP3 and put to MP3 Player with VOB to MP3 Converter for Mac OS.
Here show you the process of converting VOB to MP3 on Mac with an easy to use VOB to MP3 Converter – iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac.
With it, you can also convert Video to Video, Audio to Audio, Video to Audio on Mac.
MP3 is currently the most powerful algorithm under the sponsorship of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and formalised by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). If you want to enjoy your DVD Audio on your MP3 Player, you need to convert VOB to MP3 on Mac. MP3 can save you a lot of space of hard disc with its high quality and small size.
You can enjoy DVD VOB Audio on more music player after converting VOB to MP3. With iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac, you can convert whole or segments of VOB Video to MP3 music on your Mac OS. Add a batch of VOB Videos to it and convert VOB to MP3 one by one for a time. You can also merge some VOB files to one MP3 music file.
Free Download: Intel Version, PowerPC Version
Step 1. Run iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac.
Double click the icon of iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac to run this VOB to MP3 Converter for Mac on Mac OS.
Step 2: Add VOB files. Click “Add Files” button to open your hard disc source and choose VOB files on your Mac computer for your source file. The VOB files will list in the souce file list area as following picture.
Step 3: Output settings. Choose “MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio(*.mp3)” for output music format in format drop-down list.
Click “Browse” to choose a folder to save your output MP3 audio file. You can save the output MP3 to hard disc folder or transfer MP3 to MP3 Player directly. Just connect MP3 Player with Mac computer and choose it for target path.
Step 4: At last, click the button, VOB to MP3 Converter for Macshall start to work automatically.
After successful converted VOB to MP3 for Mac, the interface will like below. The converted MP3 audio shall be stored in the folder you have previously selected.
Ok, we have finished the whole process of converting VOB to MP3 for Mac OS X.
If you connect your MP3 Player with Mac computer, the output MP3 music will be transfered to MP3 Player directly.
7 Tips for Doing Your Own Home Theater Entertainment Review
So you have decided you want a home theater system. You may even have made the decision of free-standing or in wall-mounted depending on your budget and room- size. Yet there are some many choices. How to you know which system is the best investment for you? Here are seven tips that my husband and I used to make our decision making a bit easier.
Ask yourself if you want to purchase a brand name you know or are the brands online or less known just as reliable? We found brand name did not always mean top-quality nor did it mean high prices.
So what do you need to know before you buy?
Even if you have already purchased a system and found that you should have done your own personal home theater review you can use these tips to make your home theater entertainment the fun-zone in your home.
To find out what style of home theater you want to buy, it’s best to do your research and we found that online saved us time and money. You too can spend less time researching online and then looking in your local stores. Doing a home theater review simplifies the research online for you if you desire an easy way to see what is available from brand names to the best pricing start online. For us we found once we knew what we wanted a visit to the local retail store just helped us see the home theater systems up close yet the price online saved us over twenty-five percent so we ended up purchasing online and even got free shipping.
Many local stores may have a great selection and offer online discounts if you buy through the internet with the same warranty. With a little digging I found out there is only a few places that provide the warranty-service for all home theater systems regardless of where you purchase them. The best deals aren’t always what are on sale many are the less-known brand online or the close-out only offered online through your local retailers online store.
Your home theater system is not something to purchase spontaneously. While it won’t increase the value of your home in most cases it will add to your enjoyment of your home. When you decide to sell your home the right look can increase selling power and a wall mounted system will add dollars.
It is essential to get precisely what you desire for your home theater. Research is the key to a good home theater review. Compare not only major brands of receivers but also the lesser known. Look at speaker packages and will your current TV work or should you include a new TV in the scope of your research and review? Find out what you exactly need, and what best fits for your lifestyle. Many websites give you an opportunity to build your system and see what you really want and what you thought you needed. When we did our home theater review it was surprising to find we missed a few things that would make our system sound better for less. This review can let you know exactly what you should get without having to purchase anything or get in your car and have a sales person ‘sell’ you more than you really need. By building a system you feel you need you can have a better idea of the investment you would like to make and what you really want without purchasing extras you’ll never use.
So ask yourself, what do you need for your home theater?
In order to have a first-class home theater system that meets your budget you will need:
1. To have a screen or television that is fitting to your needs. So ask yourself how big is the room and how many people do you want to seat? Is the room going to be a true theater setting or a home entertainment room like a living room?
2. You want to decide how big you want the picture to be, and whether you should use a television or a screen with a projector based on your answer to the above question. Each choice has benefits and should be found at your local home theater store. A television has more options, while a projector and screen can cover a bigger space.
3. With a screen, you will need to have the projector and get it set up. If you find that a television like a HD or plasma is what you are looking for you will need to have the correct cable and various plug-in types for a DVD, CD and other entertainment.
4. Do you want to add a DVD player or a cable hook up for your input? Be sure to check out the audio wireless home theater systems in your review. You must also use a home theater review for parts like cables to ensure best quality. It is up to you as a consumer to review all of the components you will need and make the best decision for you.
5. Next is our readers’ favorite the correct speakers and hook-ups for the speakers. A great screen and receiver are nothing with cheap speakers. Your speakers should provide a surround sound type of atmosphere, so you should be sure to get all of the correct types of speakers that you will need. Most times a minimum of 5 speakers is needed to get the sound dynamics you want.
6. When doing your home theatre review make sure you can find out where you can also purchase home theater pieces. Today you can have a wireless speaker system and a sound expert will be able to help you make these kinds of decisions. You should be able to find someone with sound expertise wherever you purchase your home theatre system even online most stores have a toll-free number to assist you when you are ready.
7. While most people already have their living room ready for entertaining there is a numerous movie-style seats, chairs and so on to add to the experience. You will also want to make sure the lighting works for both theater style movie viewing and perhaps gaming on your system. So in the end you will want to look at your setting and build upon what you have and how you plan to entertain in your home theater.
Entertain and show your new system off!
Finally you have your home theater system setup and ready to go by doing a stellar home theater review, don’t forget the most important part. In order to entertain and show off your home theater you will need to load up on pop-corn and other fun foods. Host a pot-luck or even a game night with your favorite concert playing on DVD in back ground. A home theater and how you can now entertain friends or just enjoy your home with a special person are now at fingertips. From watching your favorite movies, listening to music or playing video games in a big way are now up to you!