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It’s golf season again! And you might be looking for a gift to
give to someone who’s just starting off in golf. So, here are
some suggestions. These beginner golf gifts target those new golf
souls… the ones who don’t yet know what their in for, or the ones
who are already hooked after just playing a few times.

Golf Lessons

The single best choice out of all gifts for the golf beginner is
golf lessons. There’s nothing that the beginning golfer can use
more. It’s even better than a set of clubs, because it will give
him/her a chance to really decide if he/she likes the game and
wants to stick with it. After all, golf can be extremely
frustrating, but it’s also highly addictive. Start them off right
with a lesson and give them a good swing foundation. Contact your
local golf course or instruction facility to find out what options
you have in your area.

Golf Books

If you can’t afford to buy golf lessons for the beginning golfer,
at the very least, get him/her an instruction book or DVD. There
are lot to choose from, many with the beginner in mind. Don’t
forget that along with frustrating and addictive, golf can also be
intimidating, so help them to be better prepared for their
experience. And even if you do decide on giving lessons,
instruction books or DVDs are excellent complementary beginner
golf gifts.

First Set of Golf Clubs

A lot of new golfers start out by borrowing or renting their clubs
when they play, so to help them along you may want to start him/her
off with their own set of golf clubs. Don’t go with anything
extravagant or expensive with their first set. Clubs are usually a
pretty personal choice, and it’s probable that their first set won’t
be the one they stick with in the long term. This is even more
important if you’re buying the first set of clubs for a child, as
they will most likely outgrow them by the next summer. If you do
get a set of clubs, make sure you get a bag to go with it.

Driving Range Membership

It’s very common for a new golfer to want to just get out there and
whack the ball! Actually, many experienced golfers want to do that.
And while that may not be the best thing to do on the course, it’s
certainly fun to do at the driving range! You can give a membership
to a local driving range. Other options include a gift certificate,
ball tokens, or a 10 bucket pass. What the practice facility offers
in the form of a membership or package deal will determine what
options you have for these beginner golf gifts.

Golf Shoes

Depending on where he/she will be playing, the beginner golfer may
need to wear golf shoesicon to get onto the course. Check into this
first, as many courses have rules in this regard. Consider buying a
pair of either soft spiked shoes, or ones that can be converted to
soft spikes, as this, too, is a requirement for some golf courses.
If they don’t need golf shoes right away, avoid choosing them as your
beginner golf gift selection. We say this for a couple of reasons:
1) any type of shoe is hard to pick out as a gift, and the fit of a
golf shoe is important for comfort, especially if you consider the
amount of walking that a golfer does. 2) It’s actually better for
golfer’s balance to practice without golf shoes, as the golfer cannot
depend on the stability of the spikes to hold them in place. An
alternative to golf shoes as a beginner golf gift is the ever-present
gift certificate, so they can pick out their own shoes.

Golf Balls

Like golf clubs, the type and brand of golf balls aren’t important
for the beginner. While you may want to consider compression when
picking them out (the softer the hitter, the lower the compression),
the type and construction of the golf ball will have very little
bearing when he/she is first starting out. It would probably be a
more appreciated gift if you were to personalize the balls with their
name, nickname, or other custom logo, but that might make them all
the more upset when the balls are lost (and they WILL be lost).

Gloves and Accessories

Don’t forget the accessories! Gloves, tees, and ball markers are
inexpensive items that will add a nice touch for beginner golf gifts.
It’s like giving a golf starter kit. Get him/her a glove – it will
make them feel more confident or credible when holding their clubs –
like a “real” golfer! Remember, the right-handed golfer needs a
left-hand glove (and vice-versa). And get them some tees (perhaps
personalized) and a few ball markers. You don’t want them to feel
left out, do you?

Save the expensive and fancy golf gifts for another gift occasion.
If the recipient of your gifts decides to give up golf, then the
expensive or extravagant gifts would be a waste. If he/she sticks
with the game, then the more elaborate golf gifts will be more
appreciated down the road. For now, focus on simple beginner golf
gifts to get them started.

A Heath is a gift researcher for http://www.the-gift-wizard.com

With their solid-state technology, compact size, and abundant memory, portable mp3 players are the state of the art in portable music systems.

Most portable mp3 players feature storage systems that have no moving parts. This gives mp3 a distinct advantage over other portable music players, such as CD players, because there is no chance of skip, whether the user is jogging, taking a bumpy car ride, or cycling on a dirt path.

The mp3 songs, or other audible media, are usually stored on Flash Memory systems, either built-in or on the Sony Memory Stick, SmartMedia, or CompactFlash cards. These are the same cards and sticks that are often used for digital cameras, and work with the portable mp3 player in a similar manner.

Mp3 files are first prepared on a personal computer, either by downloading music from the Internet, compressing songs from a CD format, or creating original music on mp3 software. The files are then downloaded, via the computer’s USB port or parallel port, directly into the mp3 player, or into a reader or removable drive that takes the card or stick of choice. Many portable mp3 players come with software programs to assist with the download process.

In addition to solid-state memory, portable mp3 players have an advantage over CD players in the amount of data they can hold. A song that requires 32MB on a CD will be reduced to about 1.6MB in the mp3 compression format. This means that even the cheapest portable mp3 player can carry around 4 hours’ worth of music.

If the portable mp3 player is not going to be used in moving vehicles, or carried while walking, cycling or jogging, a model with a microdrive is an option. Microdrives are hard drives, like those used in personal computers, but much smaller. Like with regular hard drives, there is the possibility of skip if the portable mp3 player is jostled. However, microdrives have the advantage over Flash Media in both cost and storage capacity. Microdrives can carry anywhere from 10 to 150 times as much media as Flash, turning the portable mp3 player into a musical powerhouse.

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Back in 1770 the very first tourist accommodation was opened in Chamonix Mont Blanc. Prior to this Chamonix France embodied a uncivilized and tough rural village where the people caught their own animals and farmed their wheat.

Barns at that time were used to farm herds during the summer months. The cows milk was kept by changing it into cheese and butter and kept down in the valley for consumption over the long winters. In the snow season the farmhouses were locked, and any valuables were put safely in a tiny mazot.

Who devised chalet holidays is nameless, however it was likely a few zealous people who recognized a pattern that worked. For entrepreneur Erna Low it commenced whilst she was a unhappy alumna and could not afford to visit her siblings back home in Austria as frequently as she would like to. So in the 1930’s she took a gamble and placed a advertisement in the Times to invite guests on a winter break. The cost was £15 and they traveled to and from the town, enjoyed meals and board in the only inn, and took skiing gear and instruction. The vacation was laborious , there weren’t any chair lifts, no safety fixations, only hard leather shoes, it was so successful that Erna carried on taking skiers on vacation, seeing to it that she utilized excellent chalets and skiing instructors.

These ski trips during the early years were a far cry to the luxury we experience now. Back then hot water was in limited supply, washrooms had to be shared out with all of the clients, and there was no a cook; the punters were expected to help out with the chores. No one knew who might be in the accommodation for the trip, you may be enjoyably surprised by meeting fresh allies, or grimace at the thought of having to spend any more time with them.

Ski holidays were later on publicized on their other benefits. A cook, who served you continental breakfast and dinner and provided you afternoon tea, and {more warm water for washing.

A barrister bookcase is a conventional shelf that is believed to have originated in Britannia. Its telling feature is a flawless field glass front end. This glass front is hinged at the top allowing a person to easily admittance volumes and other collectibles plainly by opening the glass door. A barrister bookcase is perfect for a thousand things. Barrister bookcases were frequently used by lawyers since it was necessary for them to keep on moving. Today, they are also very convenient, particularly if one is forever moving. The doors make this the case. This signifies they can be moved while full.

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Think of your golf game. Visualize connecting with your drive and sinking your putt. Now think of exercise and how it relates to your golf game. Do you do a total body workout several times per week? Do you have a tailored fitness regimen that pays special attention to certain muscle groups? Do you even exercise at all?

Annika Sorenstam has an exercise plan which is adding value to her game as she rules the LPGA tour. There are three key elements to her exercise program that have produced successful results. Can you guess the three elements? They are commitment, discipline, and dedication.

Commitment:
It is crucial to commit yourself to an exercise program. Committing yourself to an exercise program demonstrates that you believe the program will be beneficial. It is also a good idea to be accountable. Write your commitment and set of goals in a workout journal or notepad. Make the commitment a reality by following a specific course of action towards your intended goals for best results.

Discipline:
Discipline involves sticking to the exercise plan. Don’t allow excuses to prevail. Once you have a specific golf fitness exercise plan, then follow it as it is laid out. If the plan calls for a specific core muscle exercise then do the core muscle exercise whether you prefer to do it or not. There are times when certain exercises are more preferential and beneficial in your exercise program. There are also specific times when stretching can be helpful to your game. Everyone has days when exercise is not at the top of their list of favorable activities. However, it is your discipline that will produce the consistency you are looking for in your game.

Dedication:
Dedication comes into play when the going gets tough. You will no doubt have obstacles along the way such which prevent you from following even the most detailed plans of action. Remember though that the main difference between those who are successful and those who are not usually comes back to a golfer’s dedication with his or her golf exercise program regardless of the interference. Top fitness doesn’t happen over night. It is essential to stick with your fitness program even if the results are slow to surface.

Annika Sorenstam has taken commitment, discipline, and dedication to heart. The results have been displayed through her successful LPGA record. Become healthy, fit, and strong by making exercise a focal point of your golf game. A decrease in your handicap will prove that your commitment, discipline, and dedication to exercise were well worth it.

Susan Hill is a fitness trainer, CHEK golf biomechanic and sports nutrition specialist. She can be reached online through her innovative and advanced golf fitness site at http://www.fitnessforgolf.com.

Flexibility exercise for golf is a critical component to performing a repeatable, powerful, and mechanically sound golf swing. Senior golfers are the prime target to benefit the most from flexibility exercise for golf. With a declining level of both flexibility and strength, the muscles of the senior golfers are not as pliable and responsive to the physical demands of the golf swing.

The golf swing requires a higher level of flexibility to produce maximum power. Turning your upper body (shoulders) 90 degrees, while maintaining less than half that with your hip turn takes a tremendous amount of dynamic strength and flexibility.

It always surprises me when I speak to a golfer and really spell it out to them. I’ll even go through the swing visually and explain and certain points where physical restrictions can ruin your golf swing. I think the combination of my showing the golfer and explaining it really hits home for them.

It’s tough via an article like this, or any of my websites to get the golfer to understand these physical demands on flexibility (and strength). I can, and will do my best to always explain it in a way that gives you a good visual.

The sooner you realize flexibility exercise for golf is a necessity, the sooner you will see improvement. I’ve been fortunate enough to experience total “golf transformations” with the golfers I’ve worked with.

Testing them before they started, on backswing range; follow through range; initial posture set up and restrictions: I’ve seen miraculous results with golfers. The senior golfers are the ones who see the biggest improvement. That’s mostly based on their initial level of fitness when they started.

That’s why I always tell golfers I come intact with…”it’s NEVER too late!” Never! Everyday that goes by is another day you’ll have wished you would have started. Don’t let one more day go by. Get started right away!

Now…to define flexibility exercise for golf you just need to take a look at the golf swing. Get in your golf posture right now, and bring the swing down into phases. Imagine taking a club back just a couple of feet.

Where do you feel the tension so far?

If you’re really paying attention to your body, you will feel the back of your legs (hamstrings), your left hip, the back of your left arm, and even your lower back. This is if you are a right-handed golfer.

Now take it back further. Where do you feel it now?

You’ll start feeling tension in your right shoulder, your core (from rotating), more in your upper left back muscle and shoulder.

Isn’t it amazing to slow the swing down and realize how restricted you are? It’s a wake-up call to embark in flexibility exercise for golf right now.

I don’t want to spend 5 more pages going through the entire swing, but hopefully you get the idea of the muscles that need to be stretched regularly to release the tension in your golf swing and improve the power you can produce.

The key now, is to start stretching those ‘golf muscles’ we just talked about. Get back in your posture, make a partial swing and stop. Take that position just a little farther and hold for 15 seconds. You can literally do this throughout the entire swing. This is called static (holding) stretching. You will definitely want to incorporate some dynamic (moving) stretching as well.

I hope you new realize the importance of flexibility exercise for golf.

About The Author: Mike Pedersen is the featured expert for Golf Magazine’s GolfOnline.com site, one of the top golf performance experts in the country, author and founder of several cutting-edge online golf performance sites. Take a look at his just released golf performance dvds and manual at his golf swing tips site – Perform Better Golf.

Remember the Peter Stuyvesant cigarette ad they used to show in the movie theatre … the one with the beautiful models playing in a winter paradise of crisp clean snow, wide open spaces and the commanding presence of the mountains towering in the crystal clear air? (I know I’m showing my age, but bear with me a moment.)

They (the cigarette company) were hell bent on showing you the lifestyle of the rich and famous and making you wish you had it… Well, snow skiing is one of those recreational activities that takes you one step closer to living the Lifestyle!

So here is a short guide to Snow Skiing for Beginners.

Tip # 1- Get Some Lessons

You’ve made the decision to boldly venture where you’ve never gone before – balanced precariously on small slender pieces of wood & metal on a slippery surface that will get you all wet. Sounds simple and easy enough, but it takes a lot of courage to get out on that limb for other people to see just how green you really are. But even one lesson will build your confidence, lessen your fear and help you appreciate the grace and beauty of cross-country skiing.

It’s essential to take a lesson early in your skiing career to help you get the basics such as balance, control and stopping under your belt on a flattish surface before you take on the slopes. You won’t get all of it down pat in the first run – you’ll slowly apply and perfect them as you continue – but being aware of them will help you gain confidence. Skiing is a confidence sport – the more confidence you have in your own ability, the better you’ll be able to cope with what the slopes throw at you!

And you don’t need to fork out the big bucks for private lessons either. Lessons in small groups help you learn from other’s mistakes, not to mention building camaraderie with other newbies like yourself.

Most Ski Resorts offer beginners classes so be sure to check it out with your chosen ski resort and reserve your spot in the first class on offer on the day you arrive.

Whether you’re a total novice having never ventured onto skis in your life before or been on the slopes a couple of times, regular lessons in your burgeoning skiing career will help you to improve your skills, correct any bad habits you might have picked up and set your skis on the path to total enjoyment and freedom.

Remember, speaking to experts and more advanced students is still the best way of getting all the practical info you need.

Yolande runs the site http://www.skiingtips.org/ which is a collection of skiing tips from the Beginner to the Expert Skiier.
To read part 2 in this series, please visit Snow Skiing Tips for the Beginner

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“USA, Aug 8 (VNN) By Shashi Tharoor, United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information.

IN an earlier column I wrote of how the roots of Indian science and technology go far deeper than Nehru. I cited a remarkable new book, Lost Discoveries, by the American writer Dick Teresi, which studies the ancient non-Western foundations of modern science. While Teresi ranges from the Babylonians and Mayans to Egyptians and other Africans, it is his references to India that won me. Where my previous piece focused on ancient India’s remarkable breakthroughs in mathematics, in this column I’d like to cover the other sciences in which our ancestors excelled.

For a nation still obsessed by astrology, it is ironic that Indians established the field of planetary astronomy, identifying the relative distance of the known planets from the sun, and figured out that the moon was nearer to the earth than the sun. A hymn of the Rig- Veda extols “nakshatra-vidya”; the Vedas’ awareness of the importance of the sun and the stars is manifest in several places. The Siddhantas are amongst the world’s earliest texts on astronomy and mathematics; the Surya Siddhanta, written about 400 A.D., includes a method for finding the times of planetary ascensions and eclipses. The notion of gravitation, or gurutvakarshan, is found in these early texts. ‘Two hundred years before Pythagoras,’ writes Teresi, ‘philosophers in northern India had understood that gravitation held the solar system together, and that therefore the sun, the most massive object, had to be at its centre.’

The Kerala-born genius Aryabhata was the first human being to explain, in 499 A.D., that the daily rotation of the earth on its axis is what accounted for the daily rising and setting of the sun. (His ideas were so far in advance of his time that many later editors of his awe-inspiring “Aryabhatiya” altered the text to save his reputation from what they thought were serious errors.) Aryabhata conceived of the elliptical orbits of the planets a thousand years before Kepler, in the West, came to the same conclusion (having assumed, like all Europeans, that planetary orbits were circular rather than elliptical). He even estimated the value of the year at 365 days, six hours, 12 minutes and 30 seconds; in this he was only a few minutes off (the correct figure is just under 365 days and six hours). The translation of the Aryabhatiya into Latin in the 13th Century taught Europeans a great deal; it also revealed to them that an Indian had known things that Europe would only learn of a millennium later.

If Aryabhata was a giant of world science, his successors as the great Indian astronomers, Varamahira and Brahmagupta, have left behind vitally important texts that space does not allow me to summarise here. The mathematical excellence of Indian science, which I described in a recent column, sparkles through their work; Indian astronomers advanced their field by calculations rather than deductions from nature. Teresi says that ‘Indian astronomy, perhaps more than any other, has served as the crossroads and catalyst between the past and the future of the science.’ Inevitably, Indian cosmology was also in advance of the rest of the world. By the Fifth Century A.D. Indians became the first to estimate the age of the earth at more than four billion years. Teresi’s book has a fascinating section relating Hindu creation myths to modern cosmology; he discusses the notion of great intermeshing cycles of creation and destruction and draws stimulating parallels with the “big bang” theory that currently commands the field.

The ancient Indians were no slouches in chemistry, which emerges in several verses of the Atharva Veda, composed around 1000 B.C. Two thousand years later, Indian practical chemistry was still more advanced than Europe’s. The historian Will Durant wrote that the Vedic Indians were ‘ahead of Europe in industrial chemistry; they were masters of calcination, distillation, sublimation, steaming, fixation, the production of light without heat, the mixing of anaesthetic and soporific powders, and the preparation of metallic salts, compounds and alloys.’ An Indian researcher, Udayana, studied gases by filling bladders and balloons with smoke, air and assorted gases. The ancient Jain thinkers predicted the notion of opposite electrical charges and advanced a notion of the “spin” of particles which would not be discovered by the West till the 20th Century.

So what about physics? Indian metaphysicists came upon the idea of atoms centuries before the Greek Democritus, known in the West as the father of particle physics. In 600 B.C. Kanada established a theory of atoms in his Vaisesika-sutra; the Jains went further in later years, expounding a concept of elementary particles. Indians also came closer to quantum physics and other current theories than anyone else in the ancient world.

The Upanishadic concepts of svabhava the inherent nature of material objects and yadrchha (the randomness of causality) are startlingly modern. The Upanishads developed the first classifications of matter, evolving into an awareness of the five elements and later of the five senses. When the Samkhya philosophers explained, in the Sixth Century B.C., that “the material universe emanates out of prakriti, the rootless root of the universe,” they anticipate Aristotle. And when Indian philosophers spoke of maya, or that which gives illusory weight to the universe, they did so in terms that evoke the 20th Century idea of the Higgs field, the all-pervasive invisible field so beloved of particle physicists, which gives substance to illusion.

Which brings us back to technology. Did India have any technology of its own before the IITs? The answer is an emphatic yes. I have already mentioned last time the extraordinary achievements of the Harappan civilization, which included terra cotta ceramics fired at high temperatures, a sophisticated system of weights and measures, and sanitary engineering skills in advance of the West of the 19th Century. Our skill at digging up, cutting and polishing diamonds goes back millennia. In the Sixth Century A.D. India made the highest-quality sword steel in the world. Iron suspension bridges came from Kashmir; printing and papermaking were known in India before anywhere in the West; Europeans sought Indian shipbuilding expertise; our textiles were rated the best in the world till well into the colonial era. But we were never very good with machinery; we made our greatest products with skilled labour. That was, in the end, how the British defeated us.

Shashi Tharoor is the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information.” (3- From Hindunet.com)

Clearly this man and his predecessors did not believe in a Flat Earth. We are lead to believe various Europeans like Copernicus or Galileo discovered these things too. It is a sad state of affairs which sees propaganda invade science for the purpose of ego and bigoted war-mongering and colonialism.

Author of many books available at Lulu and World-Mysteries.com

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Easter is soon upon us, a mere two weeks in fact, so what better thing to do than to gather at the water cooler and discuss the best sorts of eggs to buy. There are literally thousands to choose from, millions probably. From the upper end of the spectrum there are the organic, fair-trade varieties with the miniature truffles accompanying them. These are probably misted in perfume and can be gif-wrapped upon request. Then there’s the mid-range type. The Cadburys and Nestles with branded chocolate bars and standard garish packaged boxes. These are perfect for the kids, or for mum perhaps- not if she’s on a diet mind. The worst variety of all are the own -brand, dust encrusted ones you used to be able to purchase from Woollies- back in the days when Woollies still existed that is. The chocolate in these ones tend to have a rather suspect coating of powdery white stuff. No this is not what you’re thinking. It’s usually a sign that the chocolate is a bit old. Rather than the melt-in-the-mouth feel, you get more of a crumbly, tasteless sensation. The best kind of chocolate is the stuff that has a sheen on it, and that snaps off easily when you apply pressure. Now that’s what I’m talking about.