Doing an Overhead Press

A.k.a Strict Press, Shoulder Press, Military Press.

HOW TO START!

Look forward; head neutral. Grip the bar so that forearms are vertical and the bar is about clavicle level. Hands are not supposed to touch shoulders. Wrists in-linr with forearms and elbows in front of the barbell. You should squeeze glutes to avoid arching your back. Wearing weight heavy shoes in heels gives you better stability. Stand your feet hip-shoulder-width apart. Chest up and expanded and bar gripped in the base of the palms, directly over the forearms.

HOW TO LIFT!

When you press the bar, press it straight up, and tuck chin back and press bar straight up and overhead to full extension, then return head to neutral and bring torso forward once bar clears the face.

When lifting lock your elbows out. Squeeze shoulder blades while extending arms overhead until full extension is reached. Keep upper back, glutes, and abs tight to not lose control over the bar. Straight line going from the bar, down through your shoulder blades, and through middle of feet. Drive through heels while pressing.

Two Reactions to Sweet Yummy Stuff

Lunch is over and you feel full. At the sight of dessert, 'hedonic' eaters say, no thanks. But 'homeostatic' eaters don't listen to the body's built-in chemical that is secreted when over 3 lbs of food are eaten in one sitting. They're more likely to be obese.

EATING FOR PLEASURE
'the homeostatic system'

Seeing, smelling and even hearing the word 'cake' activates chemicals in the brain involved in shame, depression, and repression, triggering the release of epinepherine, the brain's "food" chemical.

Brain scans show that obese people have reactions to food similar to reactions experienced by sexual deviants.


EATING FOR SURVIVAL
'the hedonic system'

When food reaches the stomach, electrical signals from the brain speed up digestion and trigger the brain to eat more. Seeing cake becomes more appealing.

The hormone dopamine tells the brain to stop eating, but in obese people, the brain is unable to accept the chemical receptor.

Muscles: A Complete Strength-Training Workout

SHOULDERS: Lateral raises

Stand with your feet shoulder width apart, knees slightly bent. Holding weights at your sides, slowly lift them outward from thigh level to shoulder level, keeping the elbows slightly bent. Slowly lower weights and repeat.

SHINS: Toe raises

Sit with your knees bent, feet flat and arms reaching forward. Slowly lower yourself to the floor. Sit up again, using your arms if necessary and repeat.

MIDSECTION: Curl downs

Sit with your knees bent, feet flat and arms reaching forward. Slowly lower yourself to the floor. Sit up again using your arms if necessary and repeat.

CALVES: Heel raises and dips

Stand with the balls of your feet on a thick book or step. Slowly rise on your toes, then lower your heels as far as you can. Repeat.

BICEPS: Curls

Sit with your legs apart and one hand on your thigh. With a weight in the other hand, forearm horizontal and elbow on the thigh, curl the weight up toward your chest. Lower and repeat. Switch arms.

QUADRICEPS: Leg extensions

Sit on a stool or desk; put light weights on your ankles. Slowly straighten one leg, keeping your back straight and foot flexed.

CHEST: Bench fly

Lie on a bench; hold weights up over your chest. Slowly lower your arms in an outward arc until weights are at chest level. Reverse the movement, bringing weights back up. Repeat.

UPPER ARMS: Triceps extensions

With one knee and hand on a chair, hold a weight beside your chest, bending your arm at the elbow. Straighten your arm behind you; return to starting position. Switch arms and repeat.

HAMSTRINGS: Curls

Attach a light weight to your ankle, and hold on to a chair for support. Slowly lift your heel toward your buttocks, then lower it. Switch legs and repeat.

FOREARMS: Wrist curls

Holding a weight, rest your forearm on a table. With your hand over the edge, curl the weight up; then lower it as far as possible. Repeat.

Treating A Snakebite

FOLLOW THESE STEPS IF BITTEN:

1. Remain calm, but act swiftly, and chances of survival are good. (Less than one percent of properly treated snakebites are fatal. Without treatment, the fatality rate is 10-15 percent.
2. Immobilize the affected part in a position below the level of the heart.
3. Place a lightly constricting band 5 to 10 centimeters (2 to 4 inches) closer to the heart than the site of the bite. Reapply the constricting band ahead of the swelling if it moves up the arm or leg. The constricting should be placed tightly enough to halt the flow of blood in the surface vessels, but not so tight as to stop the pulse.
4. Do not attempt to cut open the bite or suck out venom.
5. Seek medical help. If possible, the snake's head with 5 to 10 centimeters (2 to 4 inches) of it's body attached should be taken to the medics for identification insures use of the proper antivenom.

What You Need To Know Before Your Job Interview

In a survey of 2000 bosses 33% claimed that they know within the first 90 seconds of an interview whether they will hire someone. The average length of an interview is approximately 40 minutes.


COMMON NONVERBAL MISTAKES MADE AT A JOB INTERVIEW

• 21% Playing with hair or touching face.
• 47% Having little or no knowledge of the company is the most common mistake job seekers make during interiews.
• 67% Failure to make eye contact.
• 38% Lack of smile.
• 33% Bad posture.
• 21% Crossing arms over their chest.
• 9% Using too many hand gestures.
• 26% Handshake that is too weak.
• 33% Fidgeting too much.

CLOTHES
Bright colors are a turnoff

• 70% Employers claiming they don't want to applicants to be fashionable or trendy.
• 65% Of bosses said clothes could be the deciding factor between two similar candidates.

TOP TEN MOST COMMON MISTAKES MADE AT A JOB INTERVIEW

1. Over-explaining why you lost your last job.
2. Conveying that you're not over it.
3. Lacking humor, warmth, or personality.
4. Not showing enough interest or enthusiasm.
5. Inadequate research about a potential employer
6. Concentrating too much on what you want.
7. Trying to be all things to all people.
8. "Winging" the interview.
9. Failing set yourself apart from other candidates.
10. Failing to ask for the job.

MOST COMMON TIPS ABOUT INTERVIEWING

• Learn about the organization.
• Have a specific job in mind.
• Review your qualifications for the job.
• Be ready to briefly describe your experience.

5 QUESTIONS MOST LIKELY TO BE ASKED

• Tell me about your experience at ________?
• Why do you want to work for us?
• What do you know about our company?
• Why did you leave your last job?
• Tell me about yourself?

Never Give Up On Becoming An Entrepreneur

STAY ALIVE
Say you are 30 now. Then you got about 60 years. Let's say it takes 3 months to do a big project
That's 60 x 12months divided by 3 equals 240 shots at success.

As long as you are alive anything is still possible.

LOWER YOUR EXPECTATIONS
Michael Jordan missed over 300 important shots.
99.99% of success took time.

STRONGER
You are stronger than you think.

PERSIST
Stuck in the weeds?
"Try lots of different things." - Paul Graham

FAKE IT
Fake success before it is real.

DON'T COMPARE
Careful. This can demolish you. Don't compare yourself  to people who already succeeded. They have their own story. You don't really know that story.

THE DIP
Right before success you will face the worst.

Achievements In Games: Good or Bad

The first game I can remember that had so called "achievements" was World of Warcraft. Though I think they definitely weren't the first to have that system. Nowadays most of the games have incorporated the achievements if not all. Certainly seeing a flashy notice that you just have been awarded by points makes you feel good, but what did you actually accomplish, should you even call that an achievement in the first place?

Example from World of Warcraft. These achievements just undermine the word achievement. Seeing as it is easy as hell to do all these things why even great an achievement for such a deed. 

Another example from Team Fortress 2. Just random achievements and the only reason to do these is to get more points and you gain nothing in return. Waste of time.

The biggest flaw is that they incorporate all easily doable things as achievements, when there only should be the truly hard to do achievements that require skill and determination. Certainly luck is a factor as well but you shouldn't make an achievement because you got an item that had a drop rate 1%. 

I like to play games, there are not many who don't. When I was young, I could play a game and finish it and with it comes a certain emotion of satisfaction. Now with all the games that have achievements in them and when I reach in the end it looks that I didn't get all of the achievements done and then there are also difficulty levels like advanced and hardcore is locked. The difficulty settings is one thing I don't like about newer games. When I finish a game on easy and some of my friends did it on hard. Now you wished you did it on hard. 

With all these achievements you really can't even finish a game properly because you know you didn't kill that one boss with fists only or didn't do it on hard difficulty.

How to Properly Walk on Ice

1. Normally, when we walk, our legs ability to support our weight is split mid-stride.

2. Walking this way on ice forces each leg to support the weight of the body at an angle that is not perpendicular to the surface of the ice, resulting in a nasty fall.

Fact: On Aprill 8, 2003, Dr. Robert Atkins, Investor of the famed Atkins Diet, slipped on icy pavement and suffered severe head trauma. He died nine days later.

Fact: Approximately 60 people die each year in the United States as a result of slipping on the ice, This is about as many as will die from a tornado.

Making an Ice Rink

If public skating rinks don't quite make the grade, here's how to make your own.

GROUND

1. Mark the boundaries of the future ice rink.
2. Make the surface level.
3. Cover the surface level with sand at least 5cm thick if you have any.
4. Put a layer of snow on top (at least 8-10 cm thick), firm it and flatten it out. Form a 7-10 cm high border out of snow around the ice rink.
5. Put up a plywood or net fence around the rink.

FILLING THE ICE RINK

1. Fill the rink with water when the weather is clear and the air temperature is below -5C.
2. Hold th water hose upwards so that the flow has the shape of a hand fan. This will help make the surface even, recommended angle 35-45.
3. Begin adding water at the far end of the rink and slowly move backwards. Try not to leave any empty spaces.
4. Repeat two or three times every three or four hours.
5. For the final round, use warm water.
6. The ice layer should be at least 12-15 cm.


TIPS

Clear the surface and fill cracks with melting snow before each round of filling.

Provide benches people can use to put on their skates or take a breather.

Use cold water to fill in the grooves and gouges left by skates. Use hot water to smooth the ice.

Miscellaneous Hacks

EXTEND A REMOTE'S RANGE
If you are opening a gate with a remote, and you are a bit out of range, put it under your chin pointing upward. Your skull is a close enough approximation to a parabolic reflector to direct some extra energy forward giving you extra distance.

YOUR HAND AS A RULER
Measure your hand from your fingertips to palm and memorize it. Now you can judge the size of anything without a ruler. Try to pick a finger that is pretty close to a standard length (1inch). You will never need a ruler to estimate again.

REBOOT THE CREDIT CARD MACHINE
To piss off an annoying customer behind you in line at a checkout, hold down all the 4 corner buttons on the credit card machine to reboot it. It will take a while to restart

GO STRAIGHT TO YOUR FLOOR
To go directly to your floor on an elevator, even if other floor numbers have been pressed, simply press the desired floor and the door close button at the same time, you will go directly to that floor.

SPEND LESS TIME IN THE COLD
If your lock is frozen, use instant hand sanitizer on it. With it's heavy alcohol content , it can break down ice. Squirt some in a resistant lock and get out of the cold.

TEST A REMOTE
If you point a TV/DVD remote at a cellphone camera and press any button, you can see the infrared light. This trick will also let you see if IR security cameras are on in the dark.

EXTRA BATTERIES
9volt batteries contain six AAAA sized cells that can be used in electronics that take AAA batteries. Small sized 12volt batteries contain eight 1,5volt button cell batteries , which retail for $3-$5 each.

Distinguishing Natural Honey From Fake

IS IT FROM BEES OR FROM A FACTORY

PURE HONEY:

1. Honey aroma (exceptions: honey with rose tea)
2. Causes a mild burning sensation in the throat
3. Does not separate into layers
4. Has natural impurities (pollen, bee bread, microparticles of wax, propolis)
5. Has a soft texture (thin, filament-like trickle)
6. Quite thick, trickles in a thin stream
7. No foam.


FAKE HONEY:

1. Sour smell or no smell
2. Does not cause
3. Separates into layers
4. No impurities
5. Has a rough texture (forms clumps)
6. Runny (drips, immediately spreads along the surface)
7. Has foam


HOME LABORATORY
In order to boost profits, some producers dilute honey with sugar syrup and molasses. To increase thickness they add flour, starch, chalk, sand and even sawdust.

-Hold  a lighted match to the honey. If it is natural honey it will melt and not begin to hiss straight away.
-Mix the honey in water. Natural honey will not dissolve. If you add 2-3 drops of iodine to the solution it will not turn blue.
-Put some honey onto a piece of paper. If a damp patch spreads around it then it is diluted.
-Dip a piece of stale bread into the honey. After 8-10 minutes it should still be firm and not soften.
-Mix some water into the honey and add 2-3 drops of vinegar essence. If the solution becomes foamy it is adulterated honey.
-Heat a stainless steel piece of wire and insert it into the honey. A good product will stick to the metal and not flow back into the jar.

How To Get Rid of Acne

Stop worrying about it immediately! Stress only makes everything worse! Following this guide you will most likely will get rid of your acne if you're not one of the few unfortunates who have completely hormon-induced acne.

Don't touch your face! Your hands are full of bacteria! Also; Change your bed sheets in reasonable periods and sleep on a clean towel!

One of the most essential things things to do if you are really serious about achieving the skin of the gods is your diet. Limit yourself to fruit and legumes carbohydrate-wise. Stick to clean fish & meat (use olive oil to bake) or eggs.

Too crucial not to give them their own subitem: fucking apples! Low on calories, high on vitamin c which will improve your overall health. Also high on vitamin a which will help your scars heal faster.

Vitamin D for free out there! Get some. You don't need to overdo it, get out like 20 minutes every day.

Okay so this will make the biggest difference for the most of you guys. Do not nuke your face with expensive moisturizers and cleansers. Let your skin regulate it's acid content. May feel shitty the first few days but you will notice your skin feeling better everyday  day.

Drink 2-3l of water every day . Drink mineral water! Supply water in great amounts will make you sick. If you manage to make this a habit you will notice how much better your skin looks and feels after max two weeks.

You probably won't need this if you follow this guide but there are a few nice supplements to support your skin improvement. Take some zinc and cod liver oil. Don't take too much of the zinc, that would make things worse.

Get Yourself a $1 Custom Mousepad

This expires Mar 31, 2013 - Get it while they're hot!

Go to http.//www.artscow.com and click on register

Once you're logged in go to http://www.artscow.com/photo-gifts/mousepad/large-mousepad-160  and click on CREATE IT

Upload your image and be careful with the red line, some times the part outside the "Safe area" gets printed and you get white lines.

Now it's time to enter the coupon code that's going to lower the price to $1

On the right of the page enter code:

Z099PLAYJ9WX5  

and click on apply.

Now all that's left to do is click on place my order and get through the PayPal screen, after which your order will be placed and the mousepad will get to you within 10-14 days.

Shipping is WORLDWIDE, doesn't matter where you're from.

Few samples of my own custom mousepad, just used a wallpaper from a game I like and placed it how I felt it would feel alright.
Overall getting a custom mousepad for 1$ is a great deal.

Suitcase Bundle Wrap Method

Shirt/jacket
Remember that jackets, unlike shirts, face downward.

Another shirt or jacket

Pants
If a second pair is added, they extend in the opposite direction.

Add the core
This could be a small pouch containing socks, underwear.

Wrap pants around core

Wrap shirt around bundle
Wrap the sleeves first, then the body.

Wrap final shirt/jacket around bundle
Then place inside suitcase with straps free of bundle.

 Connect internal tie-downs.

The Cuff Code

Cuffed denim is as old as the blue jean itself. And every couple of decades, a new proportion or trend emerges. In the '50s and '60s, the style was carefree single cuff but by the '80s and '90s, it was atrim, tight roll. Today's cuffs are croping up in every style. From the disheveled fold to the crisp cuff, how you roll says a lot about you.


THE UPTURN
What it says: You like things simple and sophisticated. Or you want to show you sprung for the selvedge denim.
How to do it: Simply turn up the hem. The width can vary from a quarter-inch to over two inches.

WIDE CUFF
What it says: You're easy and a tad rugged. Or you couldn't be bothered to have your jeans hemmed.
How to do it: Fold your hem up and over twice. Run your fingers around the cuff to ensure a crisp crease.

TRIM CUFF
What it says: You prefer a tailored, traditional look. Or you feel it's the only style that pairs well with narrow jeans.
How to do it: Same as the wide, but the cuff should only be between an inch and an inch and a half tall.

THE ROLL
What it says: You're modern and a tad preppy. Or you like drawing attention to your ankles.
How to do it: Make a double (or tripple) cuff about an inch and a half wide, then squish it down slightly to muss it up. Make sure it's uniquely disheveled. Some of the cuff should tuck into itself

Fun Fact: Elvis Presley knew his way around  a trim cuff.

Simple Description To Common Logical Fallacies

A logical fallacy is often what has happened when someone is wrong about something. it's a flaw in reasoning. They're like tricks or illusions of thought, and they're often very sneakily used by politicians, the media, and others to fool people. Don't be fooled! This poster has been designed to help you identity and call out dodgy logic whenever it may raise it's ugly, incoherent head.

STRAWMAN
Misrepresenting or exaggerating someones argument to make it easier to attack.

FALSE CAUSE
Presuming that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other.

SLIPPERY SLOPE
Asserting that if we allow A to happen, then Z will consequently happen too therefore A should not happen.

AD HOMINEM
Attacking your opponent's character or personal traits instead of engaging with their argument.

SPECIAL PLEADING
Moving the goalposts or making up exceptions when claim is shown to be false.

LOADED QUESTION
Asking a question that has an assumption built into it so that it can't be answered without appearing guilty.

BANDWAGON
Appealing to popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation.

BEGGING THE QUESTION
A circular argument in which the conclusion is included in the premise.

APPEAL TO AUTHORITY
Using the opinion or position of an authority figure, or institution of authority, in place of an actual argument.

APPEAL TO NATURE
Making the argument that because something is "natural" it is therefore valid, justified, inevitable, or ideal.

COMPOSITION/DIVISION
Assuming that what's true about one part of something has to be applied to all, or other, parts of it.

ANECDOTAL
Using personal experience or an isolated example instead of a valid argument, especially to dismiss statistics.

APPEAL TO EMOTION
Manipulating an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument.

TU QUOQUE
Avoiding having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accuser - answering them with criticism.

BURDEN OF PROOF
Saying that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove.

NO TRUE SCOTSMAN
Making what could be called an appeal to purity as a way to dismiss relevant criticisms or flaws of an argument.

THE TEXAS SHARPSHOOTER
Cherry-picking data clusters to suit an argument, or finding a pattern to fit a presumption.

THE FALLACY FALLACY
Presuming that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made that it is necessarily wrong.

PERSONAL INCREDULITY
Saying that because one finds something difficult to understand that it's therefore not true.

AMBIGUITY
Using double meanings or ambiguities of language to mislead or misrepresent the truth.

GENETIC
Judging something good or bad on the basis of where it comes from, or from whom it comes.

MIDDLE GROUND
Saying that a compromise, or middle point, between two extremes is the truth.