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Five ways to become best speaker...

Speaking at events is a great way to spread your important messages and cement your status as an expert.  However, being a great speaker is an art, not a science.  Here are five ways you can quickly become a better speaker.

Don’t memorize your speech: You may think that the best way to give a flawless speech is to memorize the content word-for-word. In reality, that is a myth and is not recommended. Memorization not only lends itself to sounding over-rehearsed (aka not natural), but also, if your mind goes blank at any point during the presentation, you will lose your place and potentially create an awkward silence (or worse, start to panic).

Instead, create bullet points of the content, stories, data and key takeaways that you want to get across in each part of your presentation.  Then, speak naturally about them.  If you remember all of those key points, great, but if you forget some, no sweat- you can move on to another next point.  Having a looser structure also gives you the flexibility to change up stories and information in your speech based on the audience. And, as an extra bonus, you will deliver a more natural sounding, engaging presentation.

Talk to the audience before the presentation: Meeting with the people you are going to be speaking with before you give your speech has several benefits.  First, it warms them up to you.  Second, it lets you gauge their sense of humor, which is particularly critical if you are a speaker that tends to let a curse word fly or uses off-beat stories or language.  Finally, you can get feedback to incorporate into the presentation.  It’s incredibly effective to use audience members as examples or transitions in a speech because it creates intimacy with the audience and more engagement.  If you are talking to small business owners about marketing and Mary told you a great story about how she used an unusual marketing tactic, incorporate Mary and her story into your presentation.  “Speaking of clever marketing, earlier I was talking to Mary, who is sitting in the third row, and she told me how she used a PR stunt with 400 puppies to get new clients…”.

Amp up your visuals: I think most speakers know to not read directly from slides (and if you didn’t before, you do now).  But if you do use slides during your presentation, use them in an unexpected way. Include a short, fun video or use some photos with humor.  I saw John Morgan present recently and when he was talking about how people want to do business with trusted brands, he had a photo of a beat-up old van with “Want some candy?” spray painted on its side to illustrate why you don’t do business with strangers.  Maybe consider having an illustrator like Jocelyn Wallace do some great art for key messages or just consider having your presentation done professionally.  This can take your entire presentation up a level.

Take the pressure off: Even the most seasoned speakers get nervous prior to presenting.  The most effective way to take the pressure off of you is to flip your mindset and think about your audience (rather than yourself or the speech).  Remember that you are there to provide them with valuable information and if the audience members leave with one or two new items, reminders or a new perspective, you have made it worth their while.  Focusing on being helpful or in service of the audience will help you to relax.

Get interactive:  One of the best speakers around is Michael Port, who takes audience participation to a whole new level.  During the presentation, he has the audience repeat back to him or make gestures back of the key points of his speech.  This keeps the audience involved, but even more brilliantly, it gives them devices to remember the material. I often will stop in the middle of the speech to ask audience members to throw out examples of ideas that I present as well.  As you plan your speech, think about where you can involve the audience and what devices you can use to involve them in the presentation so that you are talking with them, not just to them.

Quotes for how to make money?

1. "Early to bed, early to rise, keeps you healthy, wealthy and wise." - Benjamin Franklin
2. "For I don't care too much for money, for money can't buy me love." - The Beatles
3. "Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it." - William Somerset Maugham
4. "A penny saved is a penny earned." - Benjamin Franklin
5. "Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time." - Jim Rohn
6. "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves." - Albert Einstein
7. "Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort." - Helen Gurley Brown
8. "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen
9. "Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money." - Jackie Mason
10. "If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting." - Ben Franklin
11. "What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more." - Seneca
12. "If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to." - Dorothy Parker
13. "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." - Charles Dickens
14. "It doesn't matter if you're black or white... the only color that really matters is green." - Family Guy
15. "My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income." - Errol Flynn
16. "If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some." - Benjamin Franklin
17. "Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it." - Rebecca Johnson
18. "Lack of money is the root of all evil." - George Bernard Shaw
19. "The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last." - Evan Esar
20. "What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us." - Julia Cameron
21. "Money is usually attracted, not pursued." - Jim Rohn
22. "The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket." - Kin Hubbard
23. "Money will come when you are doing the right thing." - Mike Phillips
24. "The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." - H. L. Mencken
25. "You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal." - Johnny Depp
26. "It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." - Kin Hubbard
27. "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope
28. "What's a soup kitchen?" - Paris Hilton
29. "The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any." - Katharine Whitehorn
30. "The art is not in making money, but in keeping it." - Proverb
31. "Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money." - Robin Williams
32. "Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears." - Robert W. Sarnoff
33. "Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." - Will Smith
34. "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game." - Donald Trump
35. "You don't have to die in order to make a living." - Lynn Johnston
36. "I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money." - David Lee Roth
37. "The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money." - IRS auditor
38. "Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man." - Kahlil Gibran
39. "So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" - Ayn Rand
40. "Dogs have no money. Isn't that amazing? They're broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? .. No Pockets." - Jerry Seinfeld
41. "Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be." - Rita Rudner
42. "The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." - Sir Henry Taylor
43. "Money is the best deodorant." - Elizabeth Taylor
44. "Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver." - Ayn Rand
45. "I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with." - Rodney Dangerfield
46. "A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." - Jonathan Swift
47. "He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days." - Anonymous
48. "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." - Oscar Wilde
49. "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." - Yogi Berra
50. "Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil." - Henry Fielding
51. "When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." - Oscar Wilde
52. "Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one." - Benjamin Franklin
53. "Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy." - Groucho Marx
54. "The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money." - Thomas Jefferson
55. "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert Orben
56. "Money often costs too much." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
57. "Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail" - Richard Friedman
58. "Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
59. "If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments." - Earl Wilson
60. "Don't tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I'll tell you what they are." - James W. Frick
61. "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn
62. "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys." - James Goldsmith
63. "Money is the barometer of a society's virtue." - Ayn Rand
64. "It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." - George Lorimer

How to make vodka cocktails for delicious drink..?

The following are a few cocktails that taste best with Absolut Vodka..They also go fine with other vodka but I prefer them with Absolut or Blue Smirnoff

#Moscow Mule

60ml Vodka

30ml Fresh Lime

Ginger Beer

Build ingredients over ice into a Collins glass

#Vespa

50ml Absolut Vodka

25ml Banana Liqueur

Top up with Ginger Ale

Stir with ic e in a tall glass

#Somthing Wonderful!!!

3 ounces of Vodka

1 Teaspoon Sugar

3-4 Mint Leaves

1 ounce of water

Shaker Full of Ice

#Salty Dog

60ml Vodka

125ml Grapefruit juice

Build ingredients over ice into a salt rimmed glass

#Watermelon Martini

60ml Absolut Vodka

A dash of sugar syrup

A slice of Fresh Watermelon

Muddle the watermelon with the sugar syrup in the bottom of the shaker

Add the Vodka and ice then shake and strain into a frozen Martini glass

Garnish with a small wedge of Watermelon

#Sex on the Beach

60ml Absolut Vodka

30ml Peach Schnapps

200ml Fresh Cranberry juice

100ml Orange Juice

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a tumbler filled with fresh ice

Garnish with orange and lime slices

#Madras

60ml Vodka

200ml Cranberry juice

100ml Fresh orange juice

Shake with ice and strain into a highball filled with ice

Garnish with an orange slice

# Vodka apple

Ingredients

30 ml vodka

8 tsp apple cider

# Vodka and Tonic

Ingredients

30 ml Vodka

60 ml tonic

1lime wedge

Pour the vodka in a high glass with ice, add the glass with tonic add the lime wedge as garnish.

# Vodka collins

Ingredients

30 ml vodka

juice of ½ lemon

1 tsp sugar

8 tsp club soda

1 orange slice

1 lemon slice

Combine everything but club soda in a shaker and add ice , shake well, pour in a high glass with ice, fill the glass with club soda and add the lemon and orange as garnish.

# Vodka Daisy

In gredients

30 ml Vodka

juice of ½ lemon

½ tsp sugar

1 tsp grenadine

Combine everything into a shaker with ice and pour in a high glass.

# Vodka Orange Punch

Ingredients

3 liters Vodka

36 tsp frozen orange juice concentrate

16 tsp cointreau

3 sliced oranges

Combine everything in a punch bowl. Stir well and serve.

#Vodka Paralyzer

Ingredients

6 tsp milk

1 tsp Vodka

1 tsp Kahlua

6 tsp Coke

Combine everything in a high glass in the order given above.

# Vodka Sling

Ingredients

30 ml Vodka

juice of ½ lemon

1 tsp water

1 tsp sugar

Orange twist

Combine the lemon juice, water and sugar in a glass, stir until sugar dissolves add ice and the vodka. Use the orange twist as garnish.

Types of Lock

A lock is a mechanical or electronic fastening device that is released by a physical object (such as a key, keycard, fingerprint, RFID card, or security token) or secret information (such as a keycode or password), or combination of more than one of these.

Typically, in pin-tumbler and wafer-tumbler applications, a lock in the rest position is closed. The key has a series of grooves on either side of the key (the key's blade), which limit the type of lock the key can slide into. As the key slides into the lock, the grooves on the blade of the key align with the wards in the keyway allowing or denying entry to the cylinder. Then, a series of pointed teeth and notches on the blade called bittings allow pins or wafers to move up and down until they are in line with the shear line of the inner and outer cylinder, allowing the cylinder or cam to rotate freely inside the lock and the lock to open.

Types of locks

Locks may be entirely mechanical, or electromechanical. They may be operated by turning some form of removable key, by keying or dialling in a combination which directly or via electromechanical means operates the lock, with some form of magnetic or other card reader, or by moving a part on a safety lock intended to prevent accidental operation rather than to prevent unauthorized access.

Warded lock

The warded lock is one of the earliest types of locks. It said to have been developed in China.

Tumbler locks

Pin-tumbler lock

The Pin tumbler lock is the most widespread lock in the western world. Pin-tumbler locks have been around in some form since 2000 BCE. The Egyptian form of this lock was large, heavy, and made of wood, with pins made of metal, usually bronze, but sometimes iron. This design in its modern form was first patented in 1805 in England. The patent holder was an American named A.O. Stansbury. In the middle of the 18th century, the American locksmiths Linus Yale Sr. and his son, Linus Yale Jr., refined the lock design into the form recognizable today. These early versions of the pin-tumbler lock were expensive to produce, and did not become widely available until mass production became feasible.

Wafer-tumbler lock

The first patent for the wafer lock was issued in the United States in 1868 to P.S. Felter. The wafer lock is relatively inexpensive to produce and is often used in automobiles and cabinetry. This type of lock is generally made of die-cast zinc alloy.

Lever locks

Lever locks were invented in Europe in the 17th century. This is a popular lock type for safes and North American prisons today, as they are generally built of strong materials. They are also used as door locks in some countries. This is the type of lock that replaced the medieval warded lock in the 19th century. Robert Barron of England patented the double-acting lever in 1778. Jeremiah Chubb would follow with his own detector lock in 1818.

Disc tumbler lock

The disc tumbler lock or Abloy lock was invented in 1907, and is widespread in Finland. The mechanism contains no springs and is durable. Picking the lock is too hard compared to alternative means of gaining entry.

Other types

There are also many other types of lock, such as warded locks, tubular locks, electronic locks (itself a huge area) and also many variations of the various types, such as dimple locks, which are a variation on Yale's original cylinder lock in which the pins interact with the side of the key rather than the edge, "laser track" car locks, which are a variation on wafer locks, and some higher security lever locks also include the types of warding found on warded locks.

List of common locks

Bicycle lock

Cam lock

Child safety lock

Combination lock

Cylinder lock

Deadbolt Lock

Liver Lock

Disc tumbler lock

Warded lock

Cruciform (or Zeiss) lock

Biometric lock

Chastity Belt Lock

Chubb detector lock

WindowsXP OS Lock

Electric strike

Electronic lock

Keycard lock

Luggage lock

Magnetic lock

Padlock

Police Hand Cuff Lock 

Protector Lock

RFID Lock

Time lock

Chamber lock

Top Ten Ways to Improve Your Technical Skills

In 10 Reasons to Develop Your Technical Skills, I explained why it’s important to develop your technical skills as an integral part of your personal development efforts.  Strong technical skills can save you time, increase your income, and enable you to extract the most bang-per-buck from your technology purchases.

I promised you an article on the how, so here are 10 things you can do to improve your technical skills, regardless of your current skill level:

1. Read technical books

One of the best ways to improve your technical skills is by reading books.  As a teenager I used to buy computer books at the local bookstore.  Today it’s far better to shop online because you can more easily find the true gems and avoid the lemons.  Visit Amazon.com, search for a book on a particular topic you wish to learn, and check the reviews and ratings.  Look for books with at least 4 out of 5 stars (I usually don’t buy any with less than 4.5 stars).  Take advantage of Amazon’s browsing features to quickly find the best books in any field.

Even when you opt to buy technical books locally (such as for an easy return if it doesn’t suit you), you can still check the online reviews to rule out the bad ones.  Take your time previewing books in the bookstore or online, especially if cost is a concern.  If you can’t understand the first chapter, don’t waste your money.

Although technical books can be expensive and are often padded with lengthy code listings and other fluff, the good ones make up for it with clearly organized, well-edited, well-indexed content.  Books in their second edition or later are a great choice because they’ve already been through at least one round of testing in the marketplace.

2. Read online tutorials

The advantage of online tutorials over books is that they’re accessible, timely, and of course free.  The disadvantage is that they usually aren’t professionally edited, which can leave them lacking in completeness and/or clarity.  However, they often sport other features like abundant interlinking, user comments, and interactive demos.  Sometimes the comments are better than the original information, since they can contain lots of additional tips and suggestions.  I find this is particularly true of reference sites like php.net (a reference site for PHP).

My favorite way of finding online tutorials is to use Google.  If I need a CSS tutorial, I’ll search on CSS tutorial.  I usually find something halfway decent in the top 5 results this way.  Other variations that work well include how to XXX, XXX reference, and simply XXX, where XXX is whatever you wish to learn.

3. Hang out with geeks

If you spend enough time with technical people, some of their knowledge will rub off on you.  Even geeks learn from other geeks, but if you aren’t much of a geek yourself, a great way to accelerate the development of your technical skills is to join a local computer club or users group.  Use APCUG (Association of Personal Computer User Groups) and/or WUGNET (Windows Users Group Network) to find a group near you.  Such groups usually welcome new members of any skill level.  Contact one of them and attend a meeting as a guest to see if you like it.

Once you join a computer club or other geek-ridden association, volunteering is a great way to make fast friends.  These nonprofit associations are frequently in need of volunteers for committee and project work; even if your technical skills are weak, they often just need raw manpower.  When I decided to become active in the Association of Shareware Professionals during the late 90s, I put a lot of energy into volunteering.  I wrote articles for their newsletter and served a year each as vice-president and president of the association.  It was a lot of work to be sure, but I learned a great deal from working closely with the other volunteers.  Many of those lessons have proven invaluable in running this personal development web site.  In fact, writing those articles, which gradually became less technical and more motivational, contributed to my 2004 career switch from software development to personal development.

4. Subscribe to technical magazines

Technical magazines used to be one of my favorite outlets for learning, but I cancelled all my magazine subscriptions years ago.  During the early 80s, I spent many long hours typing in BASIC programs from Family Computing and similar magazines (it took me a long time because I hadn’t yet learned to type).  While I think print magazines are less useful today — the same info can often be found online for free – they’re an inexpensive way to improve your general technical skills, especially if you’re unlikely to push yourself in other ways.  The professional editing and experienced writers are a big plus.

5. Take classes

If group learning is your thing, look for college extension courses and other classroom and workshop offerings in your area.  Periodically I get catalogs in the mail from UNLV, and while I lived in Los Angeles, I received them from UCLA, Learning Tree University, Pierce College, Santa Monica College, and others.

A key advantage of classroom learning is the opportunity to interact with an experienced educator.  Teachers with decades of experience know plenty of educational distinctions you won’t find in books or online tutorials.  And unlike many technical writers, they know how to teach.

If you really want the degree, consider going to college and majoring in a technical subject.  I earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics.  But given my path after college, these degrees were unnecessary busywork rather than practical skill building.  I started learning to program when I was 10 years old, and while I did pick up some additional distinctions in college, it would have been a better use of my time to skip college altogether and learn the info on my own.  In the long run, I found my math and physics classes far more useful than my computer science ones — my knowledge of the former didn’t become obsolete so rapidly.

6. Create your own web site

Long-term readers of this site know I’m a big fan of experiential learning.  Setting a goal to create a basic web site is a great way to learn practical skills like HTML and CSS.  When you have a compelling reason to learn, your goals will accelerate your learning, and you’ll learn with a focus on practical application.

I learned HTML in 1995 when I wanted to make my first web site.  I created the site as I learned the HTML language, gradually evolving it from the basic “Hello, world” example.  Later I learned CSS, PHP, MySQL, and RSS, so I could do more interesting things than plain vanilla HTML would allow.

Erin learned web programming in the same manner.  She wasn’t a technically adept person when we first met, but attempting to create her first web site got her in motion.  Eventually she started a web consulting practice, creating dozens of small business web sites.  She also built her own sites including VegFamily.com and ErinPavlina.com and generates most of her income from them.  So the simple decision to make some basic web sites eventually led to generating abundant sustainable income from online businesses.  We learned by doing.

7. Build your own PC

If you want to develop better hardware skills, a great project is to build your own PC from scratch.  I did this in 2004 and found it very rewarding.  You’ll save money, learn a lot about how your computer works, and end up with a nicely customized machine that you can easily upgrade.  After all the components arrived, it took me about a day to assemble everything and install the necessary software.  This may or may not be a good use of your time, but I found it worthwhile for the experience.  I still use this same PC today, and it’s plenty fast enough for my needs.

A detailed, novice-friendly, step-by-step tutorial I used can be found at My Super PC.  I used PriceWatch.com to find the best online prices for all the components, which beat local retail prices by about 30% on average.  I remember buying several components from NewEgg.com.

If this project makes you nervous, I wouldn’t recommend it.  But if you feel comfortable researching and selecting components and carefully following assembly directions, it’s a rewarding way to spend a day.

8. Embrace a variety of software

General software productivity improves with breadth of experience, so use many different software programs (online or offline) to improve your overall ability to get things done through software.  I started using software in 1981, and such broad experience makes it easy for me to learn new applications quickly.  I usually dive in and start using them without going through the tutorials or reading the manual.  This saves me a lot of time and makes it easier for me to justify the effort of installing new software and upgrading old software.

When Erin has trouble figuring out how to do something in one of her applications, I’m often able to solve her problem in seconds even if I’m not familiar with the program.  After using hundreds of different software programs, you eventually learn to think like an interface programmer, so you intuit how certain features are likely to be implemented.  Think of it as technical intuition.

Branch out from software myopia, and experience the full richness of using many different interfaces.  You’ll learn a lot about interface design from image editing programs, programming tools, and of course computer games.  The greater the variety of interfaces you experience, the faster you’ll be able to learn and master each new program you use.

9. Learn to program

Programming is the art of instructing a computer to perform a task.  The key to accomplishing this feat is learning to think like a computer.  Programming is one of the most mentally challenging tasks a human being can perform, but nothing compares to the satisfaction of engineering a piece of code to solve a specific problem.  Ask any programmer. 

I learned to program in BASIC at age 10 and later went on to learn over a dozen programming languages.  The challenge of developing my logic and analytical skills at such a young age has served me well my entire life, even in seemingly non-technical pursuits.

For example, I tackle many personal development problems with a programmer’s mindset.  How do we define the problem?  What are the possible solutions?  Which solution best meets our constraints?  What are the instruction steps to implement the solution?  Does the solution produce the desired output?  Can we make this solution more elegant or optimal?  I’ve taken the common programming process of requirements gathering, architecture, design, coding, debugging, and optimization and applied it to personal development.

While humans certainly aren’t as precise or predictable as machines — we have major compatibility issues, sometimes even with ourselves — a programmer’s mindset can generate effective solutions to very human problems.  Intuition is a big factor in both personal development and programming, but I like that there’s a structured fallback process that works in both fields.  It’s much harder to use this process in personal development though because we know how a computer thinks, but we’re still figuring out how humans think.

10. Marry a geek

Your final salvation on the road to geekdom is to – gasp – marry a geek.  I shudder to think of the technical purgatory Erin would be wallowing in right now if we’d never met.  I almost cried when I first saw her slogging away on a 10″ monochrome Mac in 1994, and I soon gave her a pity upgrade to a PC with a 14″ SVGA monitor.  I told her that if I die first, she’ll need to marry another geek right away – an easy task for someone with her social skills.

If you aren’t a geek yourself, then do what you can to recruit one into your family.  If that’s too much to ask, at least find a geek you can befriend.  They can really save you in a jam, and they’ll keep you from falling too far behind the rest of the world.

Be kind to your geek friends, and offer them fair value in exchange for their help.  Creative trades are often welcome.  For example, Erin and I are both inept when it comes to fashion and home decorating (my colorblindness certainly doesn’t help), so someone who can teach us how to dress and buy furniture that matches would be a welcome ally.  Right now the best we’ve got is our six-year old daughter.  She’s very sure of herself, but I’m not sure her advice can be trusted.

In case you haven’t noticed yet, geeks are taking over the world.  How many geek billionaires are there now, including the richest person in the world?  Technical skills are of major importance these days, and the technical have-nots are more estranged than ever.  As hockey legend Wayne Gretzky says, “Skate where the puck is going, not where it’s been.”

How to Quit Smoking? World's Best Advice For Teen Age Boys

For teenagers struggling to quit smoking, a new study has some advice. To break the habit, try breaking a sweat.

It showed that teenage boys who took part in a smoking cessation program and combined it with exercise were several times less likely to continue smoking than those who received only traditional anti-smoking advice. Exercise did not have a comparable effect on teenage girls; researchers aren’t sure why. But the research is among the first to show that an exercise plan for teenage smokers can help them kick two bad habits at once, smoking and inactivity, which often go hand in hand.

For young smokers, breaking the habit before adulthood can be particularly crucial. Studies show that starting as a teenager makes it much more difficult to quit later on. About 80 percent of adult smokers began their habit before turning 18. Yet every day, 3,500 teenagers light their first cigarette.

The new study, published this week in the journal Pediatrics, took place in a state with one of the worst teen tobacco problems, West Virginia, where roughly a third of all high school students are smokers. Previous studies have shown that in adults, exercise — even if it’s just a walk around the block or lifting some weights — can help curb smoking by easing withdrawal symptomsand controlling cravings when people are confronted with cigarettes and other strong cues. Since West Virginia also suffers high rates of teenage obesity, the researchers wanted to see what effect exercise could have in combating two major health threats.

“It seemed logical to address these two together,” said Kimberly Horn, a professor of community medicine at West Virginia University and the lead author of the paper. “Exercise is known to mediate factors that often co-occur with smoking cessation, like increased stress levels, weight gain, withdrawal and cravings.”

To find out, the researchers recruited 233 smokers ages 14 to 19 at West Virginia high schools, and randomly assigned each to one of three groups. Some students received a single smoking-cessation session. A second group went through a 10-week anti-smoking program called Not on Tobacco, or NOT. And those in the third group went through the NOT program and were given pedometers and counseling on starting an exercise plan, which they could then schedule on their own time.

After three months, the study found that only 5 percent of the students who got the single anti-smoking session had quit smoking. But almost twice as many who went through the 10-week program had quit. When exercise was added to the mix, the effect on boys was remarkable: 24 percent of male students in the exercise group quit smoking, while only about 8 percent in the 10-week program that did not encourage exercise had stopped. They were also more likely to have stayed away from cigarettes after six months as well. The teenage girls in the exercise group, though, were no more likely to have quit smoking than those who received only counseling on quitting smoking.

“The kids in this study were pretty hard-core smokers,” Dr. Horn said. “They smoked about a half pack a day during the week and up to a pack a day on weekends. They were pretty addicted, and most started when they were about 11 years old.”

The data did not explain why a gender divide would exist, but Dr. Horn speculated that a few things could be responsible. Teenage boys are generally more enthusiastic about engaging in vigorous exercise, and are “more confident in their ability to be physically active,” Dr. Horn said, while physical activity levels typically plummet as teenage girls get older.

“It’s puzzling to us; it was a surprise finding,” she said. “I think we also need to look at issues of self-confidence. It could be the girls started with some stronger fitness barriers to overcome than boys.”

Nonetheless, the results over all were encouraging, since getting teenagers to give up smoking — or change any potentially harmful habits — can be notoriously difficult.

“One of the important things to point out is that oftentimes people believe that kids aren’t interested in quitting smoking,” she said. “I think this demonstrates that kids can quit, they’re interested in quitting and they can be successful, given the right tools.”

Make money with Twitter using Sponsored Tweets

How long do you think it’ll take you to earn your first dollar blogging? Ask bloggers who’ve actually earned an income and almost all of them will tell you that you won’t see a cent for the first few weeks. Your first dollar? HA! You’ll have to outlast the 80% of bloggers who never made a single dollar — ever!
How long do you think it’ll take you to earn your first dollar with Twitter? You can earn your first dollar in less than a day!

Here’s how Sponsored Tweets work. An advertiser sees your profile and offers to pay you to make a tweet. You accept the offer, click a Tweet button, and the money goes into your account.It’s easy as:

1. Clicking on my Sponsored Tweet referral link.
2. Signing up as a Tweeter.
3. Setting your price.
4. Waiting for offers.

That’s pretty much it. You can always tweak your info and settings to get the right advertisers. And if the advertiser isn’t aligned with what you want to tweet, simple decline the offer.
You will get the opportunity to set your own price but Sponsored Tweets will give you a suggested price based on your Twitter stats. One important stat is the number of followers you have so get that number up (watch your following/follower ratio though). Look for my article on how to increase your Twitter followers soon.
I’m going to offer you a parting tip. The quickest way to get your first tweets going is to price your tweets at 25% of the Sponsored Tweets suggested price. So if Sponsored Tweets recommend a $2.00 price per tweet, set your price at $0.50. It’s better to experiment with pricing while earning something in the process. If you start high and slowly work your way down, you won’t make anything for a while.

Bra Wearing Techniques

Dark Clothes

  Wear a dark colored bra under dark colored clothes so nothing shows through when you lean over, stretch down, etc.

 

White, Light, or Sheer Clothes

 Wear a flesh-colored bra under white, light or sheer clothes. White, black, patterned or any other color will show through under bright lights and in sunlight. Opt for a seemingly invisible flesh tone instead.

Strapless

If your top is strapless or has spaghetti straps, opt for a strapless bra to match.

Halter Tops or Criss-Cross Tops

 If you have a number of tops with odd sleeves or necklines, consider investing in a flesh-colored convertible bra with clear straps that you can wear in a variety of ways, like strapless, halter, criss-cross, etc. You’ll be surprised by how much use you get out of it.

Deep-Plunging Neckline

 If your top has a daring décolletage, look for a deep-plunging bra that works well under the top. If your breasts aren’t that big or don’t need a lot of support, consider going braless instead.

Sports Wear

 Sports bras help keep “the girls” in place during exercise and ofter much-needed support in fabrics that wick away moisture. If you exercise, run, or play sports regularly, invest in one. If you keep excessive bouncing a minimum, you can also minimize potential ligature damage.

Can’t Wear a Bra Apparel

 If you don’t have large breasts or if the outfit you’re wearing is too revealing for a bra, consider wearing an adhesive bra that sticks under and to your breasts to give a little support and coverage.

Want to go braless but don’t want all eyes on your nipples? Keep them out of sight with nipple tape.

How to Speak in this World?

Speaking clearly and efficiently proposing your ideas is a must in modern society. We would be lost in society if we can't speak clearly, but however this article shows the speaking Rules you need to know!

1. Don't study grammar

This rule might sound strange to many ESL students, but it is one of the most important rules. If you want to pass examinations, then study grammar. However, if you want to become fluent in English, then you should try to learn English without studying the grammar.

Studying grammar will only slow you down and confuse you. You will think about the rules when creating sentences instead of naturally saying a sentence like a native. Remember that only a small fraction of English speakers know more than 20% of all the grammar rules. Many ESL students know more grammar than native speakers. I can confidently say this with experience. I am a native English speaker, majored in English Literature, and have been teaching English for more than 10 years. However, many of my students know more details about English grammar than I do. I can easily look up the definition and apply it, but I don't know it off the top of my head.

I often ask my native English friends some grammar questions, and only a few of them know the correct answer. However, they are fluent in English and can read, speak, listen, and communicate effectively. Do you want to be able to recite the definition of a causative verb, or do you want to be able to speak English fluently?

2. Learn and study phrases 

Many students learn vocabulary and try to put many words together to create a proper sentence. It amazes me how many words some of my students know, but they cannot create a proper sentence. The reason is because they didn't study phrases. When children learn a language, they learn both words and phrases together. Likewise, you need to study and learn phrases.

If you know 1000 words, you might not be able to say one correct sentence. But if you know 1 phrase, you can make hundreds of correct sentences. If you know 100 phrases, you will be surprised at how many correct sentences you will be able to say. Finally, when you know only a 1000 phrases, you will be almost a fluent English speaker.

The English Speaking Basics section is a great example of making numerous sentences with a single phrase. So don't spend hours and hours learning many different words. Use that time to study phrases instead and you will be closer to English fluency.

Don't translate

When you want to create an English sentence, do not translate the words from your Mother tongue. The order of words is probably completely different and you will be both slow and incorrect by doing this. Instead, learn phrases and sentences so you don't have to think about the words you are saying. It should be automatic.

Another problem with translating is that you will be trying to incorporate grammar rules that you have learned. Translating and thinking about the grammar to create English sentences is incorrect and should be avoided.

3. Reading and Listening is NOT enough. Practice Speaking what you hear!

Reading, listening, and speaking are the most important aspects of any language. The same is true for English. However, speaking is the only requirement to be fluent. It is normal for babies and children to learn speaking first, become fluent, then start reading, then writing. So the natural order is listening, speaking, reading, then writing.

First Problem
Isn't it strange that schools across the world teach reading first, then writing, then listening, and finally speaking? Although it is different, the main reason is because when you learn a second language, you need to read material to understand and learn it. So even though the natural order is listening, speaking, reading, then writing, the order for ESL students is reading, listening, speaking, then writing.

Second Problem
The reason many people can read and listen is because that's all they practice. But in order to speak English fluently, you need to practice speaking. Don't stop at the listening portion, and when you study, don't just listen. Speak out loud the material you are listening to and practice what you hear. Practice speaking out loud until your mouth and brain can do it without any effort. By doing so, you will be able to speak English fluently.

4. Submerge yourself

Being able to speak a language is not related to how smart you are. Anyone can learn how to speak any language. This is a proven fact by everyone in the world. Everyone can speak at least one language. Whether you are intelligent, or lacking some brain power, you are able to speak one language.

This was achieved by being around that language at all times. In your country, you hear and speak your language constantly. You will notice that many people who are good English speakers are the ones who studied in an English speaking school. They can speak English not because they went to an English speaking school, but because they had an environment where they can be around English speaking people constantly.

There are also some people who study abroad and learn very little. That is because they went to an English speaking school, but found friends from their own country and didn't practice English.

You don't have to go anywhere to become a fluent English speaker. You only need to surround yourself with English. You can do this by making rules with your existing friends that you will only speak English. You can also carry around an iPod and constantly listen to English sentences. As you can see, you can achieve results by changing what your surroundings are. Submerge yourself in English and you will learn several times faster.

TalkEnglish Offline Version is now ready for download. In this package, you can utilize over 8000 audio files to completely surround yourself in English. There are over 13.5 hours of audio files that are not available in the web form. All conversations and all sentences are included, so even if you don't have many English speaking friends, you can constantly surround yourself in English using your MP3 player. This package is available at the English Download page. Take advantage of this opportunity and start learning English faster. Click on the link or go to http://www.talkenglish.com/english-download.aspx.

5. Study correct material

A common phrase that is incorrect is, "Practice makes perfect." This is far from the truth. Practice only makes what you are practicing permanent. If you practice the incorrect sentence, you will have perfected saying the sentence incorrectly. Therefore, it is important that you study material that is commonly used by most people.

Another problem I see is that many students study the news. However, the language they speak is more formal and the content they use is more political and not used in regular life. It is important to understand what they are saying, but this is more of an advanced lesson that should be studied after learning the fundamental basics of English.

Studying English with a friend who is not a native English speaker is both good and bad. You should be aware of the pro's and con's of speaking with a non native speaking friend. Practicing with a non native person will give you practice. You can also motivate each other and point out basic mistakes. But you might pick up bad habits from one another if you are not sure about what are correct and incorrect sentences. So use these practice times as a time period to practice the correct material you studied. Not to learn how to say a sentence.

In short, study English material that you can trust, that is commonly used, and that is correct.

How to Speak Clearly

Practice enunciating your words.

1. Speak slower. You have no idea how helpful it is to give your words an extra second or two to fully come out of your mouth. Pausing also works, because pausing allows the person you're speaking to to digest all of the words you've just said.
2. Practice your grammar. If your grammar is bad, your thoughts and ideas may not be perceived clearly. It also helps to read a wide range of books to expand your vocabulary. Inserting a few appropriate, intellectual words here and there can make you seem smarter. But beware, if used incorrectly or out of context, you will not be taken seriously.
3. Learn some vocabulary. Learning the right words to say certain things is also very helpful.
4. Think before you speak. That will keep your head clear and faster for what you're going to say.

How to Stop Mumbling and Speak Clearly

Mumbling is when you speak so low or skimp on enunciation to the extent that people DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND what you're saying, and often ask you to repeat yourself. This can be an annoying habit, but chances are that you already know how to speak without mumbling. You have probably had a phone conversation when the connection was poor or spoken to somebody who was hard of hearing, and in these situations you probably spoke loudly and clearly without even thinking about it. Can you do that consciously and make it a habit? Here are some techniques to try.

1. Stand up straight. Even if you're nervous, good posture will help to give the impression of confidence. Good posture also helps to keep your airways open, so your breath can be stronger.
2. Don't be afraid to say the wrong thing. You might; everyone does. Just correct yourself or move on. It is a skill and some people are extremely gifted at it. If you need to practice, realize it is a skill that you aren't particularly strong in but is something you can learn.
3. Open your mouth wider as you talk. Not as much sound will come out if it has to snake past your closed teeth and lips first.
4. 

   Your whole mouth is required to articulate.
   Articulate. Make sure you actually stop the air for consonants like 't' and 'b'. Differentiate between your vowels.
5. Slow down. Talking too fast is a common symptom of nervousness, but it won't help your words be understood.
6. Speak up. Aim to speak at least a little bit louder. You will automatically use more breath, and you will probably slow down and articulate better in the process.
7. Practice. Talk into a tape recorder or use your computer with a microphone (Audacity is a good recording program to try). Then, listen to your recordings. Don't let them scare you; do take the opportunity to notice what is unintelligible, where your sentences trail off, and so on.
8. Listen to others who are good at enunciating, such as radio and television announcers, and notice how they pronounce words, at what speed they talk, and so on.
9. Speak with inflection. Questions should go up in pitch at the end. Statements should go down. Notice, also, what syllables and words get emphasis. Try exaggerating your inflection, the way you would if you were reading to a small child and hamming it up a little bit.
10. Support from your diaphragm. Use the muscles in your stomach to support your breath as you speak. Even if you speak no more loudly, you will speak more clearly this way. Place a hand over your stomach, just below your ribs. You should feel the muscles there move as you speak.
11. 

    Sing.
    Sing. You don't have to sing while anybody is listening, but try singing alone in your shower or in your car. You'll exercise your voice and get used to using it. You'll also learn about using air, articulation, breath, and phrasing.
12. Shout. Don't squeak or scream or raise the pitch of your voice. Bellow. Keep your voice at about its normal pitch and see how loud you can go. Cheering at a sporting event or talking over loud music is an opportunity to practice, or you could just close the door. Notice how you control your air when you shout.
13. Practice pronouncing words by reading things out loud and pronouncing every word correctly and slowly. If you mumble, go back and repeat the sentence.