Seven Ways to Kindle-Proof Your Book

(Source: Garth Risk Hallberg @ The Millions)

As much of an e-reader fan that I am, Garth makes a lot of great points here...

Step 1. Use Color

The iPad and Barnes & Noble’s NookColor have already gone some way toward countering this strategy, and Amazon is rumored to have plans to follow suit with a full color, full-functionality tablet.  As of this writing, however, the top-selling eReader, the Kindle, remains a black-and-white only affair. I suggest, then, that all of you aspiring Kindle-proofers out there familiarize yourselves with the color palette on your word-processors. You may, as Mark Z. Danielewski does in House of Leaves, choose to assign a single word its own color, like the sodapop in the old Cherry 7-Up commercials. (Isn’t it cool…in pink?) Or you may opt for a subtler approach, à la Richard Flanagan. In Gould’s Book of Fish, Flanagan uses a different color for each chapter, to represent the different dyes employed by his ichthycidal narrator. Still not persuaded? I once heard that Faulkner planned to use different-colored type to distinguish the different voices in As I Lay Dying. If it’s good enough for a Nobelist, isn’t it good enough for you?

Step 2. Illustrate, Illustrate, Illustrate

In an essay published in The New Yorker a couple years back, Nicholson Baker complained that “photographs, charts, diagrams, foreign characters, and tables don’t fare so well on the little gray screen” of the Kindle. Of course, as with Step 1, the iPad complicates things, and glossy (“glossy”?) magazine readers are apparently “flocking” to the NookColor. (Constant vigilance is the price of Kindle-proofing!) But it’s worth pointing out that, where words on a page are an abstraction of an abstraction, illustrations are only one representative step away from the visual world. And so the venerable tradition of the illuminated manuscript still seems to favor, at this stage of the game, the codex book. No wonder that, as writers grow anxious about the fate of print, we’re seeing an uptick in illustrated fiction; it’s the literary equivalent of abstract painting’s retort to photography. (This is to say nothing of graphic novels.) Lavishing attention on hand-made illustrations – as in Joe Meno‘s Demons in the Spring – or incorporating photographs, like Rod Sweet and Tim Williams‘ Instructions for the Apocalypse or Leanne Shapton‘s Important Artifacts, is a great way to add an extra exclamation point to your literary pooh-poohing of the eReader.

Step 3. Play With Text, Typeface, and White Space

eReaders currently use two approaches to rendering text. One is quasi-photographic, but the Kindle’s remains the more battery-efficient method of imposing a standard typeface. This makes the effects of a textually playful book like Danielewski’s House of Leaves or Karen Tei Yamashita‘s I Hotel or William H. Gass‘ The Tunnel – difficult to render on a Kindle. If you want to up the degree of difficulty, you can try combining this with step 1, following Gass’ lead in Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife, wherein text in a range of typefaces and sizes curves and distends and floats around and behind the illustrations. And then there’s white space. Mallarmé may have got there first, but Blake Butler‘s There is No Year is moving the ball forward. It’s available for Kindle, but only the good Lord and Jeff Bezos know how it reads there. (I don’t think I need to point out the irony of the Amazon customer review for A Visit from the Goon Squad that finds “the ‘powerpoint’ chapter…extremely difficult to read on the Kindle.”)

Step 4. Run With Scissors

The opening story of John Barth‘s Lost in the Funhouse, famously invites readers to take scissors to it and create a Mobius strip. This cut-up aesthetic is more literal in Jonathan Safran Foer‘s Tree of Codes, which slices and dices the pages of Bruno Schulz‘s Street of Crocodiles to create pages like lace. It’s a piece of found prose-poetry whose sentences change as you turn the page. Except on the Kindle, where it doesn’t – and couldn’t – exist.

Step 5. Go Aleatory

Narrative fiction, as Vladimir Propp would tell you, need not proceed in a straight line. Presumably, the HopScotching of Cortazar’s Rayuela would be easy enough to approximate via hyperlink on a Kindle, as might something structured like Raymond Queneau‘s “A Story As You Like It.” But what about a story where the order of the pieces genuinely doesn’t matter. Or one where an Oulippan element of chance is built in? A narrative like Coover’s “deck of cards” story from A Child Again, say. Or B.S. Johnson‘s The Unfortunates, which consists of a beginning, an ending, and 25 middle chapters to be shuffled and read at random. Speaking of The Unfortunates…

Step 6. Put It In A Box

Gass at one point imagined reinforcing the random, “pile of pages” aspect of The Tunnel by printing it loose-leaf and selling it in a box. It can’t be any coincidence that, in the age of the Kindle, the book as boxed set has been making a comeback. New Directions, in addition to The Unfortunates, has given us the slipcovered (and thus far unKindled) Microscripts of Robert Walser. McSweeney’s, another box-loving press, has delivered any number of issues of the Quarterly, not to mention One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in boxed form. And in 2008, Hotel St. George Press published Ben Greenman‘s archetypally box-intensive Correspondences, albeit in a limited edition.

Step 7. Pile on the End Matter

This strategy exploits not so much a technical weakness of the Kindle as a practical one. My theory is that, because the number of pages remaining in a book aren’t palpable on a digital device, readers are less likely to go digging around in appendices, acknowledgments, and so forth. The endnotes function on the Kindle apparently makes it pretty easy to jump from the main text to the famous fine print of Infinite Jest. But with other kinds of end matter, aren’t you likely to hit “The End” and think: I’m done? Writers who sneak interesting and potentially meaningful information into the back of the book are thus a step closer to Kindle-proofing than the rest of us. Here I’m thinking specifically of William T. Vollmann, whose resolutely booktacular books often contain dozens, even hundreds of pages of end matter (interesting in direct proportion to the interest of the main text.) Or Walter Benjamin‘s Arcades Project. But I was struck, reading Georges Perec‘s Life A User’s Manual this spring, by the way the various indexes and appendices offered a variety of possible reformattings of the main text.

Bonus List: 10 Pretty Damn Kindle-Proof (at least, as of this writing) Books:

1. Nox, by Anne Carson (Rules Exploited: 1, 2, 3, 6): In many ways, this boxed version of a mourning journal Carson made after the death of her brother is the paragon of the Kindle-proof book: a book built out of books, and alert to its own status as an object.

2. The Original of Laura, by Vladimir Nabokov (Steps Taken: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5): The chief attraction of this slender posthumous work is its Chip Kidd design, which invites readers to cut out facsimiles of the notecards Nabokov composed on and make their own book…though, given the $35 cover price, I can’t imagine too many readers took Kidd up on it.

3. A Field Guide to the North American Family, by yours truly (1, 2, 3, 5): This is probably the only excuse I’ll ever have to insert my name in a list between Nabokov’s and Jonathan Safran Foer’s. There. I’ve done it.

4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer (1, 2, 3): A Kindle version of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close actually exists, but, even if Amazon were to insert an animation, there is just no way to achieve in e-form the flip-book effect on which this novel’s conclusion rises…and falls.

5. The Principles of Uncertainty, by Maira Kalman (1, 2): Okay, this is actually pretty easy to recreate on an iPad. But who would want to read this gorgeous thing on a screen?

6. Dictionary of the Khazars, by Milorad Pavic (5): The chief Kindle-resistant feature of Dictionary of the Khazars is that it is actually two books: a “male version” and a (slightly different) “female version,” bound back to back. You move from one to the other by flipping the book over and starting from the other end. Kindle that, Amazon!

7. Only Revolutions, by Mark Z. Danielewski (1, 3, 5): Unlike House of Leaves, the National-Book-Award-nominated Only Revolutions is too insanely Kindle-proof to actually be a good book. I found its main text – which takes the flip & read logic of Pavic a step further – to be a hackneyed pastiche of Finnegans Wake. But you can’t blame a guy for trying.

8. One Hundred Thousand Million Poems, by Raymond Queneau (4, 5): This echt-Oulippan ”poetry machine” is a set of 10 sonnets, bound to a spine, but with incisions between the lines that extend out to the edge of the page. Readers can manipulate the pages to form and reform sonnets. Mathematically, there are 1,000,000,000,000,000 possible variations. In theory, an eBook equivalent of this would work beatifully (you’d just have to build in a “shuffle” function) - though by equivalence rather than reproduction.

9. Rising Up and Rising Down (the unabridged version), by William T. Vollmann (2, 3, 5, 7): In theory, this should be the perfect eBook candidate, in the sense that no one wants to lug the damn thing on the subway. It is, in a sense, almost all appendix. I’d bet dollars to donuts, though, that, via the logic sketched in point 7 above, no one would ever get through a digital edition. Vollmann’s detractors would argue that’s a good thing. I’m not so sure…

10. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak (1, 3): The brilliance of Where the Wild Things Are, as a children’s librarian once pointed out to me, is not just the illustrations, but the way they gradually expand to fill the page spreads (what’s called a full-bleed)…and then recede again into white space. It enacts for children the dialectic of wildness and safety that is the book’s explicit subject, and has, this librarian insisted, a deeply therapeutic effect. Wild Things, that is, uses its book-ness beautifully. You could reproduce this on a screen…but unless the aspect ratio was 2:1, it would have to be in thumbnail form. Perhaps the solution, as Reif Larsen has suggested, is to get away from the idea of reproduction altogether. Rather than deluding ourselves that the eBook is a book, we should think carefully about the effects each can achieve that the other can’t, and then work to find equivalents between them. And lo and behold, a fantastically inventive app of Larsen’s The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Steps Taken: 2, 3) is now available for the iPad…perhaps pointing the way to yet another future of the book.

For All of My Readers that Love Documentaries--Vice's Guide to Travel

I'm learning of this half a decade after it originally aired, but I thought I'd share it now for anyone else who hasn't heard of it.

Vice made an 11 part documentary series in 2006 entitled "The Vice Guide to Travel", which details the exploits of several documentarians who travel through some of the most controversial, dangerous or otherwise offbeat locations. This included looking for mutated wolves and boars at Chernobyl, purchasing automatic weapons cheaply on the black market in Palestine, visiting the Boy Scouts of Beirut who are being trained to kill Jews, shedding some light on the origins of the vodka wars between Poland and Russia, hitting up a goth fetish party in a Polish castle and taking an inside look at places like Liberia and North Korea (the former famous for coked out child soldier cannibals, the later a frightening military dictatorship still officially run by a leader who has been dead for more than a decade).

If you watch this series you will find yourself both awestruck by the inspiring sights and cultures, and stupefied at how the world has not already imploded in on itself from the massive amount of undocumented nuclear weapons that are relatively easy to obtain for anyone with money.

Highly recommended. Either download it by torrent, stream it on Netflix or purchase the DVDs. You won't regret it.

How to Crush Clichés -- Amy Sue Nathan

(Source: Amy Sue Nathan @ Backspace: The Writer's Place)

According to Wikipedia:

A cliché or cliche (pronounced UK: /ˈkliːʃeɪ/, US:/klɪˈʃeɪ/) is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, rendering it astereotype, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel. The term is frequently used in modern culture for an action or idea which is expected or predictable, based on a prior event. Typically a pejorative, “clichés” are not always false or inaccurate;[1] a cliché may or may not be true.[2] Some are stereotypes, but some are simply truisms and facts.[3] Clichés are often for comic effect, typically in fiction.

Most phrases now considered clichéd were originally regarded as striking, but lost their force through overuse.[4] In this connection, David Mason and John Frederick Nims cite a particularly harsh judgement by Salvador Dalí: “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”[5] (gotta love this one)

A cliché is often a vivid depiction of an abstraction that relies upon analogy or exaggeration for effect, often drawn from everyday experience. Used sparingly, they may succeed. However, cliché in writing or speech is generally considered a mark of inexperience or unoriginality.

I couldn’t have said it better myself. So I didn’t. But when you’re creative writing, especially for publication, you must say it better yourself. That’s the point. Clichés appear witty — after all — the writer thought to use the perfect saying for the perfect moment. In reality? Clichés are lazy. Someone else wrote it and it’s already a well-know colloquialism. Ho hum, booooooring. You didn’t do any of the work. 

But I’ll be honest, for me, clichés have their place and my first drafts are strewn with them, along with phrases like find another word for itch or find a good way to describe a dress. In first drafts I write fast and I write anything to get my thoughts into the Word doc — knowing I’ll revise least three or four times before I officially consider it a first draft. I use clichés “like crazy” because the phrase reminds me of what I want to say, but not how I want to say it. Then I go back and find every cliché, something I learned to do in a Margie Lawson class. And believe me, it takes more than one pass through a manuscript to find them all. They come dressed in literary camouflage. Check out this website for a comprehensive list of clichés — and do the best you can to nix ‘em, by just deleting the clichés, or, fix ‘em, by rewriting them in your own words, in your voice. 

Because saying good-bye to clichés means saying hello to better writing. And that’s the point. Right? 

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Amy Sue Nathan is the editor of STET, the Backspace monthly newsletter and manages @bksp_org on Twitter. In addition writing fiction she also is a published freelance writer and editor. She has two teenagers and two dogs and is a non-repentant chocoholic. You can read more here.

Pen Pals?

Ohayou gozaimasu! / おはようございます。

When I was thirteen (in other words, over a decade ago) I befriended a couple of people in Japan that I had met through an internet pen-pal site. We exchanged letters, talked books, movies and celebrity J-Pop worship. It was one of the most rewarding things I had ever done in my young life, but I eventually fell out of contact with them because my parents were still convinced that everyone on the internet was a sexual predator or serial killer (not having the opportunity to speak with them further I cannot refute this claim, although I find it highly problematic :p).

Well, several days ago I decided to take the plunge and have begun studying Japanese in earnest which has been a goal of mine for quite some time. With numerous books on the market, plenty of free internet resources and a few friends nearly fluent in the language themselves I felt like I had a fighting chance. But what I didn't have was that all important pen-pal. So, for the second time in my life, I set out to find a pen-pal.

Let me tell you--things have drastically changed.

At the end of the 90's the only people looking for pen-pals were students and those genuinely interested in cultural exchange. Unfortunately these days half of the pen-pal sites around are nothing more than casual matchmaker sites in disguise. It took me a good couple of hours to find a site that wasn't completely focussed on international nookie.

After a bit of sleuthing I managed to stumble upon InterPals, which is a pretty impressive site that lets you search for friends in any country. InterPals is focussed on providing its users a place to go in search of pen-pals and all other forms of culture exchange. Anyways, I had been on the site for less than a day before finding who is now my new pen-pal from Chiba, Japan. It's been a few days now and we've already exchanged several letters; I'm quickly re-discovering just how rewarding it is to break down the barriers of geography and immerse yourself in another culture.

Take some time and find yourself a penpal: it's the best way to immerse yourself in an unfamiliar region (apart from actually moving there) and a pretty cool way to make a new friend.

Hiya Taeko-chan!

Yahoo

Silicon Valley and Wall Street alike bash Yahoo a lot these days, but if there was one place and the company has excelled in Asia. AN OUTLET investment alone is one of the best offers on the Internet in China, especially Japan, which supported more than the stock price yahoo. Yahoo also strongholds gate local communities in all parts of South-East Asia, including Indonesia, where he was also one of the most aggressive Valley - employ more local staff from competitors and to do so first Valley acquisition last spring with location-based services called Koprol .

The director of Yahoo global initiatives Michael Smith (yes, another one) a good reason why. I caught with Smith during my trip to Jakarta and I asked him what Yahoo has done well in Southeast Asia, Indonesia has what going for it apart from a large number of the population, and about the deal Koprol.
Yahoo Koprol paid locally and regionally. Indeed, the television commercials in prime time, for the first time in Indonesia according to Rama Mamuaya blogger. There is a long way to go in a country drunk with Foursquare, but Korpol is the closest thing to local rivals the great social media to companies in Indonesia.

If it continues to rise in light of Yahoo, and can give the scene the country's fledgling Web more confidence.

Viagra

Like most scientists and doctors in this area, I chose a career developing drugs in the hope of improving people's lives. 'Hope' I say, because pharmaceutical research and development is often a source of frustration and disappointment. Certainly, we are continuing contribution to the scientific and medical knowledge, but our work does not always result in new drugs. Very few to get one of us to work on vehicles that ultimately benefit patients.
I was one of those fortunate though. In the two decades of research, I have managed to be in the right place at the right time in more than one occasion. But the development program has been a greater interest and participation in one of the drugs in the world's most famous. Scientific name is sildenafil citrate, but it is better known as Viagra.
I first came across this project in the late 1980s, when I learned colleagues in

the laboratories of Pfizer in Sandwich, a small town on the southeastern coast of England, has come up with a hypothesis about the prohibition of selective enzyme called PDE5. They believed they could produce a drug to prevent PDE5 can expand blood vessels and treatment of angina pectoris. While the purpose of the project was fantastic, and I must admit I was doubtful it would be a breakthrough because they had hoped.
By the early 1990s, and was the team discovered a strong and selective inhibitor of PDE5, known at that time in the United Kingdom 92 480. Tests showed early had a moderate impact on the blood vessels of healthy volunteers, which was promising sign. However, only inhibitor in the body for a relatively short period, and when taken three times a day - to maintain a constant effect - it gave some pain in the muscles of volunteers.

In one of the studies, and volunteers for male erectile dysfunction increased after several days of the initial dose. No one thought of us at Pfizer many of these side effects at that time. I remember thinking that even if it did not work, who want to take the drug on Wednesday to get an erection on Saturday? We paid for it with studies in angina pectoris.
At the time I run one of two clinical trials, Pfizer, near Sandwich, where we

studied whether the United Kingdom 92 480 interacted with nitrates - standard treatment for angina. We found that it did not exaggerate the impact of nitrates, which may cause the blood pressure drops too much. This turned out to be one of the many results which reduced the likelihood of becoming the United Kingdom 92 480 treatment of angina pectoris.
However, it has now been increased erectile dysfunction reported in studies on volunteers more than that, so we decided to follow up on these reports to know that it will take us.
Incidentally, it was almost at the same time, other studies reveal more information about the path of biochemical participate in the erection process. This has helped to understand how the drug can amplify the effects of sexual stimulation in opening up the blood vessels in the penis. With opportunities in the United Kingdom 92 480 for the treatment of angina now slim, we decided to run pilot studies in patients who suffer from erectile dysfunction). In the preliminary study, and watch videos while the exciting device to monitor the ring and solid bars of their own. Initial results were encouraging and showed that the drug was more effective than placebo.
However, we have had there is still a long way to go and a lot of question marks. He said that the drug be effective when used in the preparation of less clinical and after a single dose? How can we measure its effects accurately without being intrusive? The work will be in men who suffer from ED due to various medical conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease or prostate?
The next trial included more than 300 patients from the United Kingdom, Sweden and France.

We included men with diabetes, to extend the duration of treatment for four weeks and tested three different doses and placebo. Questioned by some doctors in this area that the drug through the mouth can be opened selectively in the blood vessels in the penis, but we persevered, and I remember a distinct air of excitement at the first meeting with the investigators - who were doctors adminstering drugs in the next trial.
It also provides for the trial, and I began to feel more and more nervous the possibility of knowledge of results - not least because we have now spent several millions of dollars on this project until now, was to deliver the drug for use. The investigators reported encouraging results, but to assume that most of these patients were on placebo? We have obtained the right dose? Will patients understand the drug works only with sexual stimulation? Do we have the questionnaires and diaries make it clear enough, and patients will complete correctly? I asked myself all these questions over and over again.
Statisticians in the team is the first to see the data - it's important to analyze the results and verify the figures. People are being careful, and they do not like to exchange information so they are quite confident of the results. I remember a desperate attempt to read the language of statistical our leadership in the body in the days before the results. But it was distinctive deadpan and I was able to deduce something from his behavior.
When the results came at the end of the day through it exceeded the wildest expectations we have. There was a correlation between dose and response beautiful, with about 90 per cent of patients responding at the highest dose. This drug was also well tolerated, with a very small number of patients reporting pain in the muscles and a very small number of school drop-out. Diaries and questionnaires also provided accurate results and consistent. Impossible not to feel the thrill and excitement at this stage of the study, and I'm not sure.
But the nature of drug development means that you can not taste the highest level for a long time. We were preparing to embark on the most expensive stage of drug development - clinical trials, long-term for thousands of patients in all parts of the world. This requires hundreds of millions of dollars - and we still did not get a chance and only one out of every five of the drug to pass these tests and obtain a license. Therefore, the company will continue to fund a project we have?
The program has already attracted some unexpected publicity, and I am concerned what impact this may have on this resolution. Fortunately, he had written a large number of those who suffer from impotence to us how the situation has had devastating effects on their relationships, and how they were desperate for effective treatment. These letters, and convinced us there is also an urgent need for the treatment of ED and encouraged us to continue to pay the program internally.
We have received funding from the outside and as we continue the clinical program and found the results were better and better. And worked well in the men drug with a variety of causes of ED, including diabetes and spinal cord injury. It also continued to be well tolerated.
12 years after the project began, eight years after the first synthesis of the year in the United Kingdom 92 480 and four after the pilot study the first ED, we had enough information and finally to be confident of the best dose, and drug safety and effectiveness. We applied for a license from the regulatory authorities in 1997.
The rest, as they say, is history. Are being prescribed Viagra for some men 30000000 in all parts of the world. It's very rewarding to see our work has benefited many people. It is this fact that makes the long days and frustration, which is an integral part of development, and drugs intolerable.
I would like to remind myself that I have just one member of a great team - in about 100 specialties of experts to have played a role in making Viagra available to patients. Like many successful scientists, I have had my fair share of luck.

Love

The idea that adolescents in the United States practice oral sex instead of intercourse to maintain "technical virginity" was rejected on Tuesday by the study team, which examined the sexual practices of adolescents in the United States.
Previous studies in 2002 - 2005 was articulated that teens engage in oral sex in order to maintain "technical virginity." But the new study, which falsified the previous studies published in the Journal of Adolescent Health; The study was based on a survey of 2271 of females and males age 15 to 19.
According to the survey, said 55 percent of the adolescents they had engaged in oral sex, but this practice was more common among those who may also participate in the exercise of sex through the vagina. Acknowledged that the youth began having sex through the mouth and vagina in about the same time - for a period of six months after first vaginal intercourse, also participated, 82 percent in oral sex.

In a statement, said Laura Lindberg of the Guttmacher Institute in New York, who led the study, "There is a belief, widely accepted that adolescents engage in forms of nonvaginal sex, oral sex in particular, as a way to be sexually active while claiming it is still technically They are virgins ".
"However, our research shows that this replacement is supposed oral sex for sex through the vagina is largely a myth, and there is no strong evidence that adolescents who did not try out the practice of oral sex with a group of partners," said Lindberg.

The study, funded by the Guttmacher Institute studies sexual and reproductive health issues that have participated and about one in 10 teens in anal sex. This was the teen more likely to also participate in the exercise of sex through the vagina. The study also found that teens from the white race and socio-economic situation and higher is likely to have practiced oral sex or anal intercourse.
Participants, the researchers wrote in the study, "Teens of white ethnicity and socio-economic situation of higher were more likely than their peers to have ever had oral sex or anal intercourse."
Lindberg stressed that the results of the study show that the Bush administration's focus on school programs teaching sexual abstinence until marriage "does not give adolescents the skills and information they need to be safe."
According to the researchers, showed statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the March was infected more than one in four U.S. teenage girls with the disease through sexual contact, and at least one movable. The Center for Disease Control in December the birth rate for adolescents in the United States rose in 2006 for the first time since 1991.

Lindberg said the findings of the Guttmacher Institute of the effects of health

policies. She said: "While the oral sex and anal does not involve any risk of pregnancy, engaging in these behaviors, although it can put adolescents at risk of sexually transmitted diseases. Counseling and education should take into account total STI risk by addressing the full range of behaviors that teens engage in, including the practice of oral sex and anal.

Yoga

Yoga is derived from the word yoke of work, it means that the combines - "a combination of mind, body, soul and spirit"
 Is a scientific method of physical and mental fitness. More than three hundred years ago it was originated in India. The purpose of yoga is to achieve the highest potential and to experience good health and happiness. Yoga can help to extend healthy and productive years of life and also improve our living conditions.
Yoga is not something that is very easy as it seems. Yoga can cause fatigue in some cases, but yoga a few tips can reduce the frustration that occurs during yoga.


Best yoga tips:

1. Consult your doctor
One should consult a physician before taking yoga classes whether it would be good for his health or not.

2. Read some books on yoga
Read books on yoga are very helpful for an individual to learn tips and yoga yoga as well.

3. Methods of Yoga
There are different styles of yoga such as fitness, stretching or strength. One should practice a particular style that suits your body.

4. The best time for Yoga
The best time for Yoga is in the morning when I was with an empty stomach, do not eat anything before yoga for at least 4-5 hours, and can make you feel heavy and tired, that's why the morning is the best time to practice yoga. Also, avoid eating anything after that I did with yoga for an hour at least half.

5. Important points
Yoga moves on breathing, it is a breathing exercise as well as for meditation as well, and so it is important hygiene for all. Bowel and bladder emptying and cleaning the nose, and throat clear before doing yoga.

6. Starting from the positions of easy
If you are a beginner then start with yoga positions rather easy with a bang of some difficult situations, which can cost you, so be patient and start with ease; to go with easy exercises and then move slowly for a period of difficult.

7. Care of your body
Slight movements of the practice and stop doing so if you feel tired.

8. Try different classes, with instructors
Every coach has his own way to hold classes in an attempt to classes with different instructors, and check with whom you feel comfortable.

9. Stretch
Attempt to stretch before and after the situation as it will help to avoid injuries.

10. Patience
Yoga Positions seem very easy but in reality it is not easy to do, so be patient when trying to position any new yoga.

11. Be scheduled
Be the deadline for yoga classes because the act of yoga positions in a sequence so make sure you do not miss any new yoga position. Try to find a partner in yoga class. Will enjoy and support each other.

12. Clothing
Try to wear loose clothing so that air can pass through it and that can be done easily movements.

13. In case of illness
If you are injured or ill, do not tell your boss that it can be addressed with some of the easiest positions of yoga that you can do easily.

14. Pain during yoga
If you feel pain during yoga, and made it clear that you're doing something wrong. One should feel the pain in the practice of yoga and if I felt that tried some other positions that fit your body.

15. Yoga Accessories
Use of accessories such as yoga yoga belt, foam blocks, pillows and rubber mats for the yoga practice yoga.

If you feel stressed, depressed or feeling anxious; just can not wait, and start practicing yoga. The mind can dull and tired limit creativity, and work efficiently. The practice of yoga can lead to a healthy life and prosperous as yoga has many benefits for managing stress, and physical comfort and spiritual revolution.

Katrina Kaif

Katrina Kaif is a Bollywood actress who was born in Hong Kong from a Kashmiri father, Mohammed Kaif, mother of a British Christian, Suzzane. Her mother, a graduate of Harvard University, a lawyer, but became later involved in charity work. Her parents separated when Kaif was very small. Kaif and seven siblings. Where she was raised in Hawaii, and later moved to her mother’s home country, England. At the age of fourteen and approached by an agent and began modeling; whose primary function was to drive jewelry. And continued modeling in London.

Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber may win an Oscar. If you think this is wonderful or one of the first signs of an imminent apocalypse, it is certainly good news. This week, issued the Academy of Arts and Sciences Film Festival list of 41 songs eligible for the award for Best Original Song. Rules for the award of the state must be the song "consisting of words and music, both original and written specifically for the film", and "must be used, and clearly heard clearly, and delivery substantive both melody and lyric in the body of the film, or as cue the music first in the end credits." It seems likeBieber duet with Smith, Jaden of the child karate, never say never, and it fits in the guidelines. Piper Smith and compete against the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, which was nominated for two of her songs from a strong state, and Cher and Christina Aguilera offers of irony, and songs from Toy Story (3) and Alan Menken - comprising interrelated. Seem to have some stiff competition. IfBieber do not win, he'll have to add a chapter to his memoirs. And 83 will be broadcast the Oscars live from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

Nicole Kidman

With frizzy red hair, milky white skin and dust of freckles, was not a Hollywood beauty Nicole Kidman traditional.
But it is now. In addition hairstyle golden smooth and perfect skin has a freeze-frame face, free from even the weakest lines of expression.
Not to plastic surgeons and lining up to take the credit. He claimed one of its unfortunate "is facing," Look at the development of other women of cosmetic treatments.
Academy Award 40 years), the winner is so "over-Botoxed" is to give the industry a bad reputation, "said Dr Martin Brown at a conference of medical experts.
Denied Miss Kidman has always using Botox injections. "I'm perfectly normal," she said in a recent interview with the magazine. "I do not have anything in my face or anything."

Spot wrinkles: The remarkably smooth face last month, Nicole Kidman

But was convinced by Dr. Brown, who runs the biggest Botox clinic in Canada, and Miss Kidman was "enthusiastic user".
Botox paralyzes the facial muscles for between four and six months, and soften the appearance of any wrinkles.
"Nicole seems to get Botox to perform two or three weeks before the big event, when it was, for example, go up on stage to collect her Academy Award she looks strange and frozen," Dr. Brown said in a conference cosmetic medicine in the state of Queensland, Australia.
As they were: Nicole as a fresh faced 24 years), before the alleged Botox
"It looks like a bat with a lot of brow lift (outer). We have fallen in the middle of the forehead. It's crying accepts her Oscar, but nothing is moving."
Dr. Brown claimed that users should be injected 2-3 months before this major event to allow for the influence of drugs to wear off. Actors especially the use of the minimum of the product.
Blamed effectively Miss Kidman and other stars to undermine his work.
"This is really doing anything to help in our work because we've got women coming to us saying: 'This is what we do not want to look like'," he said.
After the conference, said Dr. Gabrielle Caswell from Cosmetic Physicians Society of Australia, said she believed Miss Kidman had stopped using Botox in pregnancy. It's expecting a baby in the summer.
"She was using a little too much, especially in the forehead," said Dr Caswell. "Obviously it's not at the moment because she is pregnant, and the images appear a lot of expression."
Last night, said a spokesman for Miss Kidman said she had no comment.
Speculated on Hollywood gossip sites that have been injected with celebrities such as Celine Dion, Madonna, Cher and Sylvester Stallone with fat but only a few admit it - including veteran comedian Joan Rivers.
Sir Cliff Richard also admitted that it is trying, but after giving him his eyebrows, "It seems that the decline and I do not like the look of it.