To build lean muscle, three primary subjects must to be attended to: food intake, weight-lifting, plus rest. Each one of 3 is very important, overlook any of these and your muscle mass buildingprogram will suffer greatly or will not work at all. Weightlifting breaks down the muscle, suitable diet and rest rebuilds the muscle.

You need to be positive that you are consuming the amount of calories considered necessary to support your body type, metabolism, activity level, and your desired weight goal. For example, I need 3,500 calories a day to maintain my weight of 175 pounds at my high activity level. A week of averaging less than that amount of calories each day would cause me to drop weight. I consume an average of 4,000 calories per day, 500 calories greater than my maintenance amount, when I’m in a bulking (muscle-building) cycle.

The following are some tips on bench pressing. Remember to always keep your shoulders tight and pulled together. Create your firmest position while doing the press. A stable position will not be possible if your shoulder blades are not on the bench. As the bench size is not as wide as we want it to be, our bodies must be positioned correctly on the bench to get the most of our workout. Learn the proper bench press technique at Bench-Press-Techniques.com.

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I love New Year’s because I don’t get to dress up that often, and this is one of the days where I’ll get to do that. A New Year’s Eve dress is practically a must! Don’t you want to reward yourself for a year well spent by wearing a teen fashion dress you’ll remember always? I certainly do.

A running theme for New Year’s Eve has always been silver white-ish colors which I found out on realy fun websites for kids, so why not stick to the old tradition with these fabulous silver-grey finds.

I found this silver dress at Target for $31.99. It’s strapless, so you’ll want to wear a sweater over it and find some new hairstyles for fine hair. But I like it because it just screams New Year! Tights would look cute under this dress in basically any color you like. You could even try some cool printed tights for a real bold look.

This dress is for a more casual New Year party. The ruffle at the top is what makes the dress great, and at $24.50 from Old Navy, the price is great too. I would wear this little fella over a pair of skinny pants with some long silvery chain necklaces. You could also wear a long sleeved shirt underneath it if you’re cold. That’s what’s so excellent about spaghetti strapped dresses!

This dress is probably my favorite out of them all. It hales from Forever 21 and quenches every need for a New Year’s Eve dress. First of all, it has long sleeves. So the trouble of finding a good sweater to go over your dress is absolutely gone! Secondly, it has the hue I need, and thirdly there’s a whimsical ruffled front that keeps it stylish. What more do we need? The ruffled edges at the cuffs are also a great touch. Wear it with sparkly tights and some slouchy boots, and you’re off to a great start this New Year.

Knowing how to select the right acoustic guitar for you and how to identify a bad one, will save you lots of headaches, not to mention finger aches.

Acoustic guitar bodies come in basically the same hourglass shape, with some variations, but they do vary in size, color, wood-type, style, and extra features. You can even buy an acoustic guitar so small that fits into a hiking backpack.

Guitars come in a very wide range of prices, but when it comes to instruments, in general, you get what you pay for, especially when you buy new. There’s a real difference between getting a bargain and buying cheap.

But whether you buy new or used may be determined by many personal factors including your budget, and each has their own pros and cons.

Buying new, gives you a warranty and, hopefully, a return period, if for some reason you’re not totally satisfied with your purchase, or something goes wrong.

Under ‘usual’ circumstances, a used guitar can usually be purchased cheaper and has already gone through its “break-in” period.

Commercially built guitars, such as a Martin acoustic guitar are usually mass manufactured. “Custom-made” guitars are exactly that. They are custom built and tailored to your specifications by a highly skilled guitar maker.

Prices for a custom-built guitar vary considerably, depending on the skill level of the craftsperson you contract the job to, but, as a rule, they are generally quite higher than a commercially built guitar of “similar” quality. Each custom built guitar is unique and therefore hard to compare in price to a commercially built guitar.

FOR THE “TECHIES”

Understanding some of the parts of a guitar will definitely help you when it comes to the Pre-Purchase Checklist.

BODY: This is the part with the sound hole in the front. It is where the strumming is done, and it can vary in size. The actual size, shape, type of wood, coating, and general build of the body also affects how the guitar will “sound”, whether it’s a rich and warm sound, or a thin and ‘twangy’ sound. The body tends to be the part that also gets scratched, damaged, and generally banged-up the most.

NECK: This is the long piece extending from the body and ends at the ‘head’ of the guitar where the ‘Tuning Heads’ are, also known as ‘machine heads’. The strings travel from the ‘Bridge’ on the body, across the sound hole, along the ‘Fret Board’, which is attached to the front-side of the neck, and finally arriving at the tuning heads where they are wrapped around tuning posts. The tuning heads are then turned by hand, which then turns the posts, making the strings tighter or looser, thus affecting their ‘tuning’. Necks tend to warp and twist if not looked after, or if the guitar is left propped against a heat source.

BRIDGE: The Bridge is normally located on the front of the body, by the sound hole, and on the side of the hole opposite to the neck. The strings are usually fed through the bridge first before they cross the hole and travel up the neck to the tuning heads. The bridge is like an anchor-point for the strings. Metal bridges are best, but on most acoustics they are either hard plastic or wood. Bridges have a tendency to crack and split over a long period of time.

FRET BOARD: The fret board is glued to the front of the neck. This is the part you press the strings onto to make chords or play individual notes. Because it’s glued on separately, a fret board can be made of a wood that’s different from the neck.

The strings travel over the fret board and the distance they are above the fret board makes a difference to the playability of the guitar. If the strings are too far above the fret board, then they will be hard to press down, making the guitar hard to play.

When a beginner plays a guitar, initially his or her fingertips are very soft and need to be hardened. A guitar with the strings too far above the fret board, also known as having a ‘high action’, will cause the player’s fingers to hurt so much that they are likely to put the guitar away in discouragement and possibly stop playing altogether.

STRINGS: Acoustic guitar strings, come in a wide variety of ‘flavors’. They can be made out of nylon, brass, steel, or a combination. Nylon strings are usually only found on Classical guitars and Student guitars, because they’re easier on the fingertips. They have a rich, warm sound to them.

Strings sets come in different ‘weights’, or sizes. Strings that come from a package marked ‘Heavy’ are usually quite thick in size and sound “beefy”. Strings that are light, or extra light, are very thin and usually have a brighter sound to them, but are also quieter sounding than heavy strings.

String choices are purely personal taste. Light strings are easier to press than heavy strings but also sound quite different. The more often strings are played, the dirtier they get. If a cloth isn’t run over and under them, from time to time, the sound becomes very dull

THE PRE-SHOPPING CHECKLIST

- Before you buy an acoustic guitar, cost-compare against the price of a new one, unless the guitar is quite old. You could also compare its used price to other used prices by going to an online auction and either searching for the same or a similar guitar.
- Check the overall condition of the wood for cracks, scratches, splits, dents, chips, etc.
- Also check the lacquer finish for cracks and splits.
- Check the neck/fret board for warping and twisting. You can do this by holding the guitar flat on its back, with the sound hole facing upward. Bring the guitar up to eye-level, with the neck running away from you and the edge of the body almost touching your face. Let your eyesight skim across the front of the body and down the fret board. You should be able to see if the neck is twisted or bowing.
- Tune the guitar, or have the seller tune it for you.
- If you know how to play about five or six chords then play them. If you don’t know how to play, ask the seller to play them for you. This check ensures that the neck of the guitar is not warped, even though you couldn’t physically see it. If the neck is warped, and the guitar is properly tuned, then some of the chords will sound good, but others will sound as though the guitar is not tuned. If this happens, check the tuning again. If it persists, then don’t buy the guitar.
- Check the bridge of the guitar. If it’s made out of wood or plastic, make sure it’s not cracked or splitting. The bridge needs to be rock-solid, as a lot of pressure is exerted on the bridge by the strings.
- Check the tuning heads. Do they turn easily, or are they very stiff and hard to turn. Even with the high tension of the strings, a quality guitar will have tuning heads that are fairly easy to turn.
- Check the ‘action’ of the guitar. Are the strings a fair distance from the fret board? Are they easy or hard to press down at various points on the fret board?
- If you are buying the guitar for yourself, and you know how to play, even if you’re a beginner, then play the guitar.
- How does it feel?
- Is it easy or hard to play?
- Can you fit your hand around the neck/fret board comfortably to play chords?
- Is the guitar a comfortable size and shape for your body? Is it easy to hold?
- If you plan to play standing up, ask for a guitar strap.
- Do you like the sound, the color, etc?
- If you don’t play, have someone else play it for you so that you can judge what it sounds like.

PLACES TO BUY

Buying a guitar from a physical retail music store allows you to ‘test drive’ the guitar and ask more questions up front. Buying online from places like Guitar Center com or from a catalog may bring you more cash savings.

No matter where you buy your guitar, if you know what to look for, and spend a little extra effort in your search for that ‘perfect’ guitar, not only will your fingers thank you, but also your ears, and all those who will come to join you around the campfire, or even go to see you in concert. Who knows?

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Allow your child have a head start with these admired educational toys for kids. Young kids would like support to develop and learn, and these learning playthings are ideal to boost your kid’s learning.

Parents might not spend a ton of time thinking about the make-believe educational toys they supply to their children, however perhaps they must start. A closer look at play time shows that totally different types of toys stimulate completely different sorts of child development.

Parents are always looking out for brand new and interesting baby toys that are coming out within the market. The precise and decisive factor in the selection is the additional benefit such toys offer. More than the fun factor that one’s kid gets - is the tutorial feature which will conjointly result from these.

Think about choosing a gift that allows parents to interact with their child to create skills important for later educational success. It is important for toddlers to be exposed to letters, letter sounds, and numbers. Search for brightly colored blocks, oversized flashcards, or puzzles with letters and numbers that will additionally have a tactile component like a fuzzy duck or shiny moon. Some phonological based toys also speak or sing to children. Parents continuously enjoy helping their kid explore and create with outsized paper and crayons, or clay.

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There is one situation that everyone dreads; a breakdown of their automobile. When this happens, it is always a struggle to find an honest, reliable mechanic that can fix the car or truck at the right price.

Luckily, for those looking for this type of auto repair in Rockford, Carz R’ Us is around. At Carz R’ Us they offer a broad range of repairs for all types of automobiles. They are a full service, family owned automotive shop.

They aim to provide premium quality automotive services and one hundred percent satisfaction. Their service includes, but isn’t limited to, oil changes, tire rotations and replacements, brake jobs, suspensions, exhausts, belt replacements, engine maintenance and rebuilds, performance upgrades, transmission rebuilds and replacements, and electrical diagnostics and repair.

If the service work they perform last more than an hour, they also offer free rides to nearby shopping. If the repair takes a full day, they also offer free rides to and from customer’s places of employment.

Carz R’ Us has employees with a broad range of backgrounds, and a long history of quality mechanical work. Rockford Il auto repair cannot offer a better staff. Carz R’ Us also offers a ten dollar discount for customers who refer a friend, as well as discounts to veterans.

At Carz R’ Us they also do fantastic work on classic cars, as evidenced by the 1978 Chevy Truck and the 1957 Ford Fairlane featured on their website. Carz R’ Us offers the best in Rockford auto repair, so there is no need to look anywhere else for quality automotive care.

One of the many ways you can earn money as a photographer is to specialise on events. Sports, Charity Balls, Schools proms and all sorts of other events where people make memories can be beneficial business. The best thing is that all you need is a good camera, lots of memory cards and some business cards at one end of the market or a potable studio and printer at the other. Oh and you need to be a good photographer as well, it does help.

Capturing the Images

It’s vitally important that you get creative on where to take photos. The best possible events are events where people want to keep the memories alive. Bonus points can be had if the event is the type of happening where people demand extra high quality, or if you can offer something which means that the people couldn’t have taken the photos themselves. Or you can add value with on site prints.

People are making a health income off photographing football. Here in England, kids are dreaming of being the next Beckham or Best and their parents are often very encouraging of their sporting efforts. What the photographer does is that he calls up the team manager, ensures it is okay to take images at a football game. They then attend the game and takes photos.

When the photographer pitchesup with a huge 400 mm lens - same as all the parents have seen on TV - they are taken seriously and they take great care in making sure they’ll get a couple of action shots of every kid on the field. At the end of the game, they hand out flyers (printed cheaply from an internet printing company.) Later in the evening, they’ll upload all the photos to an event photography website and sells the prints. The only costs incurred is the petrol for driving to the game and the flyers, which cost next to nothing.

At bigger tournaments, they can shoot 8-9 teams in a single day, hand out around 100 flyers and in the longer term sell around £300-500 worth of photos.

Using the same event photography model you can apply this to weddings.

You arrange to photograph the wedding reportage-style and make sure that you capture everybody. People talking and drinking along with all the ‘official’ photos you do. You can charge the normal fee for photographing the wedding and in addition you can arrange for your internet site to be printed on the wedding invitation (offer the happy couple a 30% discount to get the website on the invitation and on any other paperwork they distribute, then make sure to mention to everyone you photograph that they can buy the photos on-line on the URL on the invite).

It’s a lucrative business and in addition you are offering a service most photographers don’t being the option of letting anybody get copies of the prints easily and conveniently.

The key point is to find a niche market where you can prosper by being the best photographer in the room and offering an quick easy way for people to buy your photos. Horse shows, car shows, livestock competitions, fashion shows, plays, festivals, portraiture - everywhere there is a market, you can try and do event photography. In addition, for many of the events, you can make money by selling your best images as stock!

Marketing the Photos

You can get great success by having flyers printed - simple A5 flyers in full colour, with 2-3 of the best photos, and an internet site.. Mention who you are, mention how easy and cheap it is to buy pictures from you and hand them out to anyone who might want to buy your pictures .

If you can get a commission as an ‘official photographer’, it’s worth setting up a booth at the event as well. Hire someone to sit there with a printer and a computer and print out the best images there and then, allowing people to buy them, but make sure to have a stock of business cards or flyers as well, to allow people to buy the photos at their leisure, at home, via the internet.

How to Sell the Photos

The mechanics of selling photos can be quite complicated. Back when many started doing concert photography, they decided to have a go at doing it all themselves - and Rockprints is a testament to that (incidentally, Rockprints was designed by the same guy who did the current Photocritic design - Martin Jacobsen). Most ended up using commonly available gallery software called Coppermine and hacked the hell out of it so they could use it to sell photographs via on line print web sites.

Retrospectively, it was a clumsy and extremely annoying way of doing things. The solution wasn’t particularly scalable and most spent more time adapting the PHP code than actually uploading photos.

Much has happened since then those days. New ways of working have improved the work flow for the event photographer.

There are quite a few specialised sites out there, who help you out by providing ways of selling photos.

Luckily, there are plenty of solutions out there to choose from so you find one that suits you best. Photo Stock Plus offer a ‘events-photography-in-a-box’ solution, which works very well.

The company takes a fee up-front each year. For your money, you typically get a 500MB printing account, which can store up to say 10,000 images. All you need to do is to use the uploading tool (which also watermarks and resizes your photos for you, saving you a metric tonne of time) to create events galleries, and you’re up and running.

A Final Word of Warning

Event photography is damn hard work. No, seriously. You’ll be constantly on your toes , trying to get the best images, fielding questions from people around you, handing out flyers, travelling to locations, copying images, preparing galleries, etc. You’ll hate it until you’ve managed to get used to the pace of the work and managed to work out a good workflow. Or done as many now do only sell print on demand there and then and not bother with the web galleries.

On the other hand, there is a great deal of money to be made if you are content with put in the hours.

Event photographers can earn a good salary from this kind of work.

Most of the event photographers have a similar setup to this whenever they do weddings, to maximise their income. Good luck!

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While Think and Grow Rich might be the writing that Napoleon Hill is generally renowned for, it was not his first and certainly not his final, either. This book did go on to grow to be among the world’s all- time best- selling books(selling more than 30- million copies and counting) not merely in its genre, but among many categories, and it goes on to go strong today. The reason is that the message and education extended in Think and Grow Rich is timeless—a message of success and achievement, of gaining the largely of life. It is furthermore a message that is in sound company with the rest of the works for Napoleon Hill.

It is practically not possible to list all of the works of Napoleon Hill. Just like almost all authors, you can find countless texts that in no way found the light of publication day, and also several works that preceded his fame that went without the fanfare and notice of his further crucial and well known self empowerment works.

Amongst the starting of Hill’s works were many newspaper posts that he wrote as a “mountain reporter” in Wise County, Virginia, in the United States(the area where Hill was born into virtual poverty) . His occupation as a reporter spanned a lot of years, starting at the rather youthful age of 13 and continuing on into his early adulthood. Though a good deal of that work is effectively misplaced to us these days, it did function set the stage for many of his later works. Had it not been for the reporting assignment which led him to Andrew Carnegie’s door, there would certainly be no Think and Grow Rich, or several of Hill’s supplementary treasured works.

Andrew Carnegie encouraged Hill to do the job to uncover some formula of success that’s general among many americans of wealth and accomplishment. This may be the work which afterward inspired in addition to served as a cornerstone of Think and Grow Rich. But equally before and past this book was written, the lessons and knowledge gathered from that understanding also birthed additional works for Hill’s. Those most prominent of those happen to be these following here.
The Multiple Works Associated with Napoleon Hill

1. Hill’s Golden Rule Magazine. Among Hill’s initial works was Hill’s Golden Rule Magazine, which Napoleon Hill edited as well as published himself through 1919 to 1920.

2. The Law Of Success. The Law of Success was the initial work that compiled the activities Hill discovered via his interviews using more than 500 of the world’s most wealthy and successful americans. It was originally provided as a home- study program around 1928. This program was furthermore supplied by means of a 17- volume study course called the “Mental Dynamite” series through 1941, although the outbreak of World War II placed an end to the series of that instance.

3. The Magic Ladder to Success. One of Hill’s following inspiring works was The Magic Ladder to Success, publicized in 1930(every so often called in basic terms, The Ladder to Success) . This book is thought to be something of a pre- cursor and condensed edition of the achievement formula that would later develop to develop into Think and Grow Rich. It details every of the rules in accomplishment that Hill deduced.

4. Think And Grow Rich. Though we have previously talked plenty in relation to it, there might be no listing the works of the remarkable Napoleon Hill devoid of including the classic empowerment text released in 1937. Think and Grow Rich, the foundation for our own Mindset Mastery sequence, is an even increased elaborate as well as detailed discussion with the principles of achievements. The book stops barely short of truly telling people what the secret to victory may be, as Hill believed it was much more strategic for you to understand for yourself after careful learning from the book as well as its important rules.

SIA training is a vital component of the UK’s] government’s attempts to regulate and improve standards of full time doorman in bars, discos and other establishments where the likelihood of disorderly behaviour is seen to be likely.

It is no longer allowed for individuals to act as a “bouncer” (as it’s traditionally referred to) without the appropriate training and qualifications. This term of course has been superceded with the name doorman or door supervisor and it is part of the overall strategy to move away from the old image of tough mean and large looking men providing unregulated security and moving towards ways of avoiding the likelihood of any trouble occurring in the first instance. In fact, woman door staff are in ever increasing demand as they are deemed a far more friendly face when greeting guests into a venue.

With good door supervisors training, the emphasis is heavily put onto conflict resolution and removing any need for for force or violence. In fact, the best form of security is to be aware of any potential problems long before they are ever allowed to turn into the kind of situation which can pose a risk to both the people in the venue or the staff.

The raising of standards over the years is because of SIA training which has been made compulsory for all door staff wanting a career in door supervision. Whilst this is course an expense and large commitment at first, it does put those people who do get qualified into a superb position to get long term employment in a safe working environment.

Door Supervision courses are available throughout the UK and usually include a three or four days of training and include a written examination. Once passed, the participant is able to apply for their SIA badge and subsequently is legally allowed to provide security and protection for one of the thousands of venues which need door staff on a regular basis throughout the UK.

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With the year rapidly drawing to an end, one of the most romantic days of the year is nearly upon us. Like Christmas, Valentine’s Day is a time for sharing, and like Christmas it is also a time to show those closest to us how much we care.

But this year, how about surprising your partner with something ‘truly unique’. How about giving them a gift that the two of you can share and, unlike chocolates or flowers, why not give them a gift that will be part of your lives for many years to come.

If you are looking for something truly unique, something you can share and something to last a life time then it’s hard to go past the Breville Fountain Juicer. Who needs sweet romantic pick up lines when you can brighten her day with a glass of freshly squeezed juice. The Breville Fountain Juicer is like, ‘that special song’….it’s something you find yourself returning to time and time again. This is the juicer I use every day. It’s like one of the family because it is, quite simply, a fantastic all-round appliance.

Two features make the Breville Fountain Juicer ‘truly unique: it’s incredibly fast and it’s extremely easy to clean. And when I say ‘fast’, I’m talking ‘Carl Lewis’ fast…this juicer can knock up a glass of juice in under 6 seconds and is rightly hailed as the fastest juicer in the world.

Further adding to the ‘convenience factor’ is the ‘easy-breezy’ cleaning feature of the Breville Fountain Juicer. If you’ve ever spent hours bent over the sink trying to clean your favourite juicer and then been forced to refer to the handbook to get it back together then you’re going to love the Fountain Juicer. With specially designed, easy-to-assemble parts cleaning is now a breeze. Just rinse, then put the ‘dishwasher friendly’ parts into the washer and get on with your day.

They say that ‘variety is the spice of life’. Why not surprise your partner with a different juice every weekend or just spend some time playing in the kitchen together, experimenting with exotic concoctions. The Fountain Juicer’s dual-speed feature allows you to do this. With 2 speeds, the lower setting is perfect for softer fruit such as honeydew and strawberries while the higher rotation is ideal for harder varieties of fruit and vegetables such as beets and apples.

Finally, if sleek designer looks set your heart a ‘fluttering’, then you’re going to love the classical die-cast finish of the Breville Fountain Juicer. The stainless steel finish is not only elegant, it’s also durable and will compliment the look of most kitchens.

So this Valentine’s day, why not be a little adventurous. Instead of showering your partner with chocolates and romantic pick up lines, give them something ‘truly unique’. Something the two of you can share, something they’ll love and something that will last a ‘life time’. Say “No” to romantic pickup lines…..instead, surprise them with a Fountain Juicer.