Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
WHAT IS A GLOW PARTY??--EXPERIENCE THIS ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT
What exactly IS a GLOW PARTY?
It's a Party were participants will literally be aglow when they enter a room that is illuminated with black lights.
WANNA GLOW? HERE'S SOME TIPS
3*GLOW Necklaces, Bracelets and rings are available AT ANY DOLLAR STORE IN ATLANTA
4* GET READY FOR FUN FUN FUN!!
WANNA GLOW? HERE'S SOME TIPS
1*Please wear white or fluorescent-colored pants/shirt/wigs etc IF YOU WISH TO GLOW
2*Take advantage of our Glow- in-the-dark paint application TABLE for added Fun! (only $1.00)
3*GLOW Necklaces, Bracelets and rings are available AT ANY DOLLAR STORE IN ATLANTA
4* GET READY FOR FUN FUN FUN!!
ZUMBA HALLOWEEN/GLOW PARTY
HAPEVILLE'S FIRST
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31
6:30 -8p
HOYT SMITH (Hapeville Rec Center) 3334 N. Fulton Ave Hapeville GA 30354
*7 minutes from downtown Atlanta near Hartsfield Airport*
HOYT SMITH (Hapeville Rec Center) 3334 N. Fulton Ave Hapeville GA 30354
*7 minutes from downtown Atlanta near Hartsfield Airport*
Only $5.00
Add $1.00 to be painted in glow paint
**KIDS FREE** (WITH ADULTS)
GAMES, PRIZES **FREE SNACKS**
SAFE FUN FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY
WE WILL ALSO BE INTRODUCING NEW ZUMBA INSTRUCTOR
REGINA K-- SHE WILL BE MAKING HER TEACHING DEBUT!!
DONT MISS IT!!!!
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
10 Surprising Fears That Keep People from the Gym
10 Surprising Fears That Keep People from the Gym
The gym is a portal to good health, but it can also be a scary place for a newcomer. Learn how to conquer your fitness fears with these expert tips
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“I can’t do a single pushup”
“I don’t want to get too bulky”
“I don’t have time to get results”
“I’m going to get hurt on the treadmill”
“I’ll get bored”
“I look fat”
“I’m going to get an infection”
“I won’t be able to stick with working out”
“I don’t know where to start”
“I’m going to be sore”
Scare Away Your Fitness Fears
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A fear of flab might motivate many of us to go to the gym, but for some, fitness-related apprehension is a roadblock to starting a workout routine. According to a 2011 Mintel report, people who do not belong to gyms often cite “feeling out of place” as a reason for not joining. Jim White, RD, ACSM, owner of Jim White Fitness & Nutrition Studios in Virginia Beach, VA, says gym jitters are normal, but not insurmountable. “At first [new gym-goers] are nervous, but after one month they start losing weight and building confidence it’s like they own the place,” he says.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
100 year old marathoner--what strong will and motivation
100-Year-Old Marathoner Fauja Singh Runs For Late Loved Ones, And For All Of Us
Monday, October 17, 2011 1:28 pm
But for one of us, it's the starting line.
Fauja Singh, born in 1911, ran an entire marathon in Toronto over the weekend. That's amazing enough. He did it in 8 hours, 25 minutes, and 17 seconds. That's even more remarkable. But consider that Singh started running competitively only after losing his wife and son 11 years ago, at age 89.
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Singh found something, and he put his whole heart into it. He didn't want to simply make it to 100. He didn't settle for a piece of cake and a nap. He wanted to break a record. And he did. Singh wasn't just the first centenarian ever to run 26.2 miles. He beat five other runners. He's now in the Guinness Book of World Records.
And he did it with a sense of humor, wearing a T-shirt that read "Sikhs in the City."
This isn't his first marathon, either. He's completed 10, running a 6:41 at age 89, a 5:40 at 92, and a stunning sub-five-hours at 94. Only days before his historic feat, he accomplished something just as incredible: He set eight world age group records in one day -- running the 100 meters in 23.14, the 200 meters in 52.23, the 400 metres in 2:13.48, the 800 meters in 5:32.18, the 1500 meters in 11:27.81, the mile in 11:53.45, the 3000 meters in 24:52.47 and the 5000 meters in 49:57.39.
Singh's story, which started on a farm in the Punjab, has captivated many around the globe, who refer to him as "The Turbaned Tornado." Now he wants to participate in the torch relay for the London Olympics next year.
"His will cannot be captured," biographer Khushwant Singh told the TV show Amazing Indians. "It cannot be trapped."
Singh has said, "I won't stop running until I die."
Words to live by.
From the POST GAME --Yahoo! Sports
Monday, October 17, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Love across VERY different cultures**AMAZINGLY TRUE STORY**
Lovestruck, she was determined to get her Masai
Nina Hoss and Jacky Ido in a birth scene from the film.Corinne Hofmann spotted her Masai warrior on a ferry headed for Mombasa in Kenya. On holiday with her boyfriend in 1987, she could not take her eyes off the beautiful stranger wearing a loincloth, braided red hair and masses of jewellery.
She's not the first tourist to have that reaction. Driving through Kenya and Tanzania a few years ago, I was mesmerised by the elegant Masai men striding across the savannah in their scarlet blankets with a straggle of goats or cows. But the fascination stops there for most of us.
Hofmann was weak-kneed with love. When the Masai appeared again to guide her through Mombasa, she took it as a sign. A 27-year-old blonde beauty from the world's neatest country, she went home to Switzerland, sold her clothing shop and returned to Kenya without knowing what would happen next.
"I had the deepest feeling I had to follow that man," she says on the phone from Swtizerland. "I had to look for him through the whole of Kenya. For three months I tried to find him. I was tired and hopeless and thought I would never see him again. But I found him and I was so pleased just to sit with him."
She found Lketinga, a Samburu tribesman, in his village three days' rickety bus ride from Mombasa. Against all logic - she was warned that women are less valued than goats - she moved in with him and his mother.
Home in Barsaloi was a manyatta, a hut made of sticks and cow dung, and the diet was goat meat, sugary tea, and milk mixed with blood. I have been in a manyatta, too - for about 10 minutes, until I began to choke in the dark, smoky, back-stooping burrow. Hofmann stayed for 3½ years.
The story of that time is told in her book The White Masai, which has sold 4 million copies in Germany and after eight years is still a bestseller. Translated into 26 languages, it was published in English last year.
"In America I think they feared the story of black and white," she says. "Now I get emails every day from the States and from Australia saying, 'Thank you for sharing your story'."
The book is now a film, made by the German director Hermine Huntgeberth. The White Masai stars European actors Nina Hoss and Jacky Ido and faithfully portrays Hofmann's drama against the colourful chaos of Kenya. Like the real lovers, the characters speak in three languages - German, tribal Maa, and simple English - with subtitles.
"The main line of my story is in the movie," Hofmann says in her much improved English. "My life there was much stranger but you can't put in all these things. I have seen the movie six times and I cry every time."
Problems quickly mounted up. She bought a four-wheel-drive and opened a shop to feed the village. But the rough trip to town, mechanical break-downs, theft and corruption made every task traumatic and emptied her Swiss bank account.
Malaria, hepatitis and malnutrition weakened Hofmann until her 1.8-metre body weighed 48 kilos. When she gave birth to a daughter, Napirai, only an emergency flight to hospital saved their lives.
Sex was never more than perfunctory with Lketinga, though she taught him to kiss in the Western way. Worst of all, he resented her independence and suspected her of infidelity. Wound up by jealousy and a local stimulant, miraa, he became violently abusive.
In 1990 Hofmann left Kenya with her daughter under pretence of taking a holiday in Switzerland. That's where the film ends. But the story continues, as Hofmann has written in two further bestsellers, Back from Africa and Reunion in Barsaloi (due out in English in October).
She stayed with her mother to regain her health and gather some money. With income from her books and lecture tours, she now lives comfortably on Lake Lugarno with 17-year-old Napirai. A "big love story" with a former schoolmate ended because he couldn't cope with the attention on her Masai life.
Hofmann and her daughter revisited Barsaloi for the first time when the film was being made. Still married under local law, she had been frightened.
"It was fantastic," she says. "My mother-in-law is like a mother to me. Lketinga has a good lifestyle, with two local wives and a daughter. He was so proud to show us the village."
For good and bad, he belongs to the last generation of traditional Masai warriors. Barsaloi has a school, 14 shops and a waterhole, so women no longer make the long daily walk to the river. Children learn English and the boys no longer adorn themselves or spend a ritual year alone in the bush to kill a lion.
No longer in love, Hofmann can't imagine living there now. But her passion echoes clearly as she says, "I'm proud to have been almost four years with these wonderful people."
She's not the first tourist to have that reaction. Driving through Kenya and Tanzania a few years ago, I was mesmerised by the elegant Masai men striding across the savannah in their scarlet blankets with a straggle of goats or cows. But the fascination stops there for most of us.
Hofmann was weak-kneed with love. When the Masai appeared again to guide her through Mombasa, she took it as a sign. A 27-year-old blonde beauty from the world's neatest country, she went home to Switzerland, sold her clothing shop and returned to Kenya without knowing what would happen next.
"I had the deepest feeling I had to follow that man," she says on the phone from Swtizerland. "I had to look for him through the whole of Kenya. For three months I tried to find him. I was tired and hopeless and thought I would never see him again. But I found him and I was so pleased just to sit with him."
She found Lketinga, a Samburu tribesman, in his village three days' rickety bus ride from Mombasa. Against all logic - she was warned that women are less valued than goats - she moved in with him and his mother.
Home in Barsaloi was a manyatta, a hut made of sticks and cow dung, and the diet was goat meat, sugary tea, and milk mixed with blood. I have been in a manyatta, too - for about 10 minutes, until I began to choke in the dark, smoky, back-stooping burrow. Hofmann stayed for 3½ years.
The story of that time is told in her book The White Masai, which has sold 4 million copies in Germany and after eight years is still a bestseller. Translated into 26 languages, it was published in English last year.
"In America I think they feared the story of black and white," she says. "Now I get emails every day from the States and from Australia saying, 'Thank you for sharing your story'."
The book is now a film, made by the German director Hermine Huntgeberth. The White Masai stars European actors Nina Hoss and Jacky Ido and faithfully portrays Hofmann's drama against the colourful chaos of Kenya. Like the real lovers, the characters speak in three languages - German, tribal Maa, and simple English - with subtitles.
"The main line of my story is in the movie," Hofmann says in her much improved English. "My life there was much stranger but you can't put in all these things. I have seen the movie six times and I cry every time."
Lovestruck, she was determined to get her Masai
She married her Masai in a traditional ceremony, wearing a white bridal dress, and avoided premarital circumcision only because Lketinga lied to the community that she had been cut as a baby.Problems quickly mounted up. She bought a four-wheel-drive and opened a shop to feed the village. But the rough trip to town, mechanical break-downs, theft and corruption made every task traumatic and emptied her Swiss bank account.
Malaria, hepatitis and malnutrition weakened Hofmann until her 1.8-metre body weighed 48 kilos. When she gave birth to a daughter, Napirai, only an emergency flight to hospital saved their lives.
Sex was never more than perfunctory with Lketinga, though she taught him to kiss in the Western way. Worst of all, he resented her independence and suspected her of infidelity. Wound up by jealousy and a local stimulant, miraa, he became violently abusive.
In 1990 Hofmann left Kenya with her daughter under pretence of taking a holiday in Switzerland. That's where the film ends. But the story continues, as Hofmann has written in two further bestsellers, Back from Africa and Reunion in Barsaloi (due out in English in October).
She stayed with her mother to regain her health and gather some money. With income from her books and lecture tours, she now lives comfortably on Lake Lugarno with 17-year-old Napirai. A "big love story" with a former schoolmate ended because he couldn't cope with the attention on her Masai life.
Hofmann and her daughter revisited Barsaloi for the first time when the film was being made. Still married under local law, she had been frightened.
"It was fantastic," she says. "My mother-in-law is like a mother to me. Lketinga has a good lifestyle, with two local wives and a daughter. He was so proud to show us the village."
For good and bad, he belongs to the last generation of traditional Masai warriors. Barsaloi has a school, 14 shops and a waterhole, so women no longer make the long daily walk to the river. Children learn English and the boys no longer adorn themselves or spend a ritual year alone in the bush to kill a lion.
No longer in love, Hofmann can't imagine living there now. But her passion echoes clearly as she says, "I'm proud to have been almost four years with these wonderful people."
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Here's an 8000 Calorie Burger --TALK ABOUT EXCESS
Restaurant Serves Up 8,000 Calorie Burger
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If you’re going to laugh in the face of obesity by opening a restaurant that serves an 8,000-calorie burger, you might as well open it in Sin City.
And that’s just what Heart Attack Grill owner Jon Basso is doing. On Wednesday, the owner opens the doors to his third Heart Attack Grill location, this time in Las Vegas.
The restaurant offers a Quadruple Bypass Burger that contains four beef patties, cheese, bacon and reportedly, about 8,000 calories. Along with its staple sandwich, the menu offers a milkshake with the world’s “highest butterfat content” (garnished with a tab of butter) and flatliners fries that are deep fried in pure lard. People who weigh more than 350 pounds eat at the restaurant for free.
The Heart Attack Grill did not immediately return requests for comment.
”[This is an] amazing marketing concept, but unfortunate that eating extremes are a part of that concept,” said Connie Diekman, director of University Nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis. ” I hate to see a restaurant provide food choices that are so contrary to current dietary uidelines, but people do have a choice and they can choose not to go there.”
Upon walking into the restaurants, customers are required to wear hospital gowns. Sexy waitresses dressed as nurses serve the outlandish food, and Basso himself, who prefers to go by Dr. Jon, wears a doctor costume.
The restaurant’s slogan? “A Taste Worth Dying For.”
“This is like physical comedy and spoof, which dives so far into what makes us uncomfortable that suddenly it’s funny,” said Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale Prevention Center. “But unfortunately, the ‘let’s laugh at fate’ [attitude] can turn very ugly when fate gets the upper hand.”
Sadly enough, fate did get the upper hand when Blair River, a Heart Attack Grill spokesman, died after coming down with the flu earlier this year. He was 29 and weighed 575 pounds.
But that doesn’t stop the infamous restaurant’s marketing tactics.
“We would not find it cute if a particular bar catered to alcoholics and gave them gallon-size drinks to guarantee that everyone would fall down drunk,” said Katz. ”We would not find it cute if a facility opened for bulimics that included a public vomitorium. We know that some behaviors are harmful, and the right approach is to help people over them, not pretend they are OK.
By Mikaela Conley ABC NEWS
Saturday, October 8, 2011
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Leading Merengue Demo at Griswells' Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
‘Embracing Hispanic Culture’
Griswell Center celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
The J. Charley Griswell Senior Center tried something new on Monday, as a way of recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month and encouraging more people of Hispanic descent in county to join the center.
The seniors there launched its first “Hispanic Heritage Celebration,” said Melissa Myers-Bristol, the center’s program coordinator.
“We have such a diverse group of seniors, and we felt that it would be great to show something a little different, so our seniors could experience what it’s like for the Hispanic culture,” said Myers-Bristol.
The festivities, replete with music, food, dancing, trivia games, and a slideshow presentation that showcased the accomplishments of Hispanic and Latin American peoples, were held in the center’s dining hall.
Romona DeLeon, a volunteer at the center, who also teaches Spanish classes, spearheaded the event. She said she got the idea after the center held a Korean Festival earlier.
“[I thought], you know, we need to do something Latino,” she said, “After all, it is Hispanic Heritage Month. They [staff members] said go for it–– you’re in charge,” she said jovially.
Once she got approval, she said, the wheels in her head began turning out ideas, and in a month’s time, it all came together.
DeLeon said much of the success of the event, which the seniors in attendance clearly seemed to enjoy, was due to sponsors, community members, and her co-workers, who donated supplies and time to make sure the program went off without a hitch.
“I approached the subject with several members, and they said, ‘Romona, we’re in, and we’ll do whatever you want,’” she said.
Diana Myers, 56, who was one of those enjoying the festivities Monday, said she loves everything about the Hispanic culture. “I love the food and I love the language,” said Myers. “It’s such a beautiful culture.”
During the celebration, the center’s Zumba instructor, Regina Cannan, taught the audience how to do the Merengue –– a dance which originated in the Dominican Republic, she said.
Diana Myers said the dance lesson was one of the highlights for her. For DeLeon, the audience participation was what satisfied her most, but she did say she was quite fond of the song-and-dance performance by a duo known as Najuma and Oreatha, whose song selection was “Angelitos Negros,” which means “little black angels,” said DeLeon.
Her hope, she added, is that this celebration will encourage more Latinos to join the center. “We don’t have a lot of Latinos, who are members,” she said, “and we hope to change that one day.”
Bristol said this will be an on-going event for the center, and she can’t wait to start planning for next year’s celebration. “We are all here together to celebrate something that’s great and wonderful,” she said. “We’re one group of all different races and all variety of cultures.”
FROM CLAYTON COUNTY DAILY NEWS TUESDAY OCT 4, 2011
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