Small laptops are becoming more and more popular recently. Among the most popular of those are the ones with a 12 inch screen. Technological progress has made it possible for them to be small, have a good battery and be fast enough for all your everyday tasks. In this article I am going to introduce to you the, not only in my opinion, best 12 inches laptop.

Recent technological developments have allowed notebook manufacturers to massively improve their notebooks. Nowadays those mobile computers can be used for any everyday task. Their batteries can last up to 5 hours or even longer. They are equipped with all the wireless interfaces you will ever need. They come with massive hard drives. Long story cut short: They deliver everything a regular user will ever require. And even if not, they can be adapted to your needs within minutes, if not seconds. Add an external display, plug in a huge external hard disk or, if WiFi is not fast enough for you, use the built in LAN port.

It might not be advisable to use 12″ screen laptops as a server, for high end gaming or for video processing, but those are clearly not what i consider everyday tasks.

I, as a notebook aficionado, want to share with you my experience with the most popular 12 inch laptop computer.

I am now going to describe the 12″ screen laptop i think is best.

The Lenovo IdeaPad S12:
What can I say, it’s just great!

The positives
Intel Atom N270 1,6GHz
up to 2GB RAM
up to 250GB HDD
Windows® XP Home or Original Windows® 7 Home Premium
Awesome display, albeit glossy.
Great Keyboard; it’s not too small, and you can even type very long text without feeling uncomfortable
1280 * 800 display resolution (also delivers great brightness and picture quality)
A built in, what they call Quick Start Instant On feature that allows you to access several features without even starting up your notebook – listening to music, surfing the web, looking at your photos.
Comes with great software, that is actually useful and does not just fill your hard disk with trash
Weighs only 1,56 kilograms (3.44 pounds)
Up to 6 hours of battery life
Available in black and white

The negatives:
The battery makes the design look a bit sketchy.

Price: around $350 if you try hard

As I already mentioned. This 12 inch laptop computer will be more than sufficient for any regular user. You can write documents, prepare presentations, watch movies, listen to music, browse the internet, engage in video chat. Do whatever you want to do.

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If you plan on losing weight, that’s easy, a few tweaks to your diet and you will consistently and steadily lose weight. But for a lot of people that’s not enough, they want to lose weight as fast as possible. I will tell you how to do that in a healthy way. Don’t fall for pills or extremely radical diets (some of which even need to be monitored by a doctor – shouldn’t this be concerning enough?)

Of course, if you want to lose weight fast it is important to keep a strict diet, but don’t be afraid, you can eat whenever you want to, you just need to be careful with your selection of food. Roughly you could say: Eat as much protein as you want to, try to add as many vitamins to your diet as possible, avoid carbs, don’t be afraid of fat, but also try to balance it with the rest of your diet.

Proteins are the most important part of your diet. They are absolutely essential and the largest component of your body. When active most of the energy in your muscles comes from protein. Also they are used for regeneration, or “renewal” of your body. Extremely high amounts of protein can lead to diarrhea, but that is very unlikely if you eat natural food. And even with protein powder you would have to intake vast amounts.

Vitamins are essential for your metabolism. Lacking vitamins for a longer period of time can lead to serious medical conditions and can result in almost any disease. Continuous intake can help reduce the likelihood of most diseases on the other hand (even cancer). If you do not want to eat vegetables, take vitamin pills, but be sure that you get enough vitamins.

Carbs, or carbohydrates are the main part of most people’s diets nowadays and that is the problem. I will not get into chemistry with you, so I will try to explain my dislike for carbs through other means. Humans are not made to eat carbs, we were hunters and gatherers for millions of years, and we had next to no carbs in our diets but we were just fine. People back then had to be amazingly fit, and they were, without carbs. Not to forget that modern science has proven that carbs are everything but necessary and they even affect you negatively in various ways. Ever wondered why you are tired and still hungry after eating pasta? Forget carbs! (As long as you eat less than 50g of carbs a day you will be fine, but keep in mind, the less carbs you eat, the faster you will lose weight.)

Fat is a difficult topic, because scientists do not agree on the role that fat plays in your diet, in fact they do even disagree violently. I can say one thing. Fat does not make you fat if you do not combine it with carbs (I will elaborate this in an article in the future). There are lots of people who claim that it raises your cholesterol, however, and that may surprise you, there is no conclusive evidence for that. There is however evidence that suggests that excessive intake of carbs will raise your cholesterol. Try to balance it with the rest of your diet and be aware that fat should not be it’s main part, and you will be fine.

You will need some discipline to follow that diet and for the first week or so it might even be rather difficult, but I can guarantee you that it will get easier from day to day as your body will stop craving for carbs (after all this is like a cold turkey withdrawal treatment). And, if you want to lose weight as fast as possible, discipline is what you need. And by that i do not mean that you need to bear the feeling of being close to starvation. But i do mean that you should be able to eat meat, fruit and vegetables instead of bread, pasta and sweets.

If you read my entry again and think it through you will realize that this is exactly the diet that humans have been eating for millions of years (with the exception of the last couple of thousand years, when man started farming). It is the diet that man is made for and has adapted to (evolution does not work very fast). With it your body does not create useless fat reserves. Plus, you will end up stronger, healthier and have more energy for your everyday life tasks. Give it a try, go for it!

If you are not sure which kinds of food consist of what i can recommend this Website.

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In Theory, to play the piano, all you have to do is push the right keys to make a beautiful sound. No matter who plays an F on a piano, the sound is identical. A piano key is ¾ inch wide which is nive because even a five year old can learn to play. Therefore, piano has been the instrument of choice for a child. Physically the musical process is very easy- Also adults find is easy as well.

Adults and children alike, can understand and learn to play a simple two-note chord, consisting of any white key, skipping one, and playing the next. With minimal effort a people can plunk out a tune that they recognize, giving them at least a preview of what playing music is actually like. For example, Mary Had a Little Lamb, is a matter of a few moments for any child to learn in Piano by Number. Don’t get me wrong, the piano takes a lot of time and patience to master, but once you do, it is worth it. The piano is one of the most versatile instruments out there and one of the most beautiful sounding.

Playing the piano was always a dream of mine. My mother put me in piano lessons as a child and for some odd reason, I wanted nothing to do with it. I felt that my hands were too small and I couldn’t reach the keys. I also becoming increasingly obsessed with sports so do you think I honestly wanted to sit down at a piano? Not so much, but today I look back and I regret that decision. My mother still sits down to play this beautiful instrument and it makes me envy her talent and the joy she has as she sings along. I love the sounds that echo through my parents home when I am visiting. It brings back memories of when I was a child and my mother would practice choruses and hymns before Sunday Worship. I love my mother- and I love her Piano.

One of these days I will sit down at a piano and try once more for me; for my mother.

Has there ever been a better time to buy real estate? I believe that there hasn’t and property listings show that there are huge amounts of homes for sale.

The recent financial crisis, that has started in the subprime housing market, has caused major erruptions in the real estate market. A big amount of homeowners was forced to put their homes on the market and therefore the prices decreased significantly. This price decrease affected the low and mid price real estate market most, there has not been a significant fall in prices among high value real estates.

Now, you shouldn’t go out and blindly buy all the homes for sale, even though they might offer good value for the money.

There are a few things to consider:
Realestate Taxes : Many states tax real estate on living space or area of your property, so even though the property you bought might be a bargain, it could end up costing you a ton and make you wake up with a big and ugly hangover. Real estate agents often fail to mention this (not so) tiny little detail.
Neighborhood : In formerly nice living areas and decent neighborhoods (or neighbourhoods for our british friends) the real estate crisis has forced many home owners to sell, and lots of them will not have been able to sell their property. They have ended up in private brancrupcy, and their former home is now being neglected. There is no realestate management that takes care of those homes. It even happens that homless people move into those real estates and occupy them. That
causes whole neighbourhoods to decline and turn formerly nice neighborhoods into ones that you would definitely not want to live in. Owning a house there would also certainly not end up being profitable, because it will take decades for those neighborhoods to recover, if they recover at all.
Recent experience: The burst of the housing bubble has shown us, that the times where you could just buy any random house and be sure that it will rise in value are definitely over. The real estate market should now be seen like any other market. One where you need to make good descision to be able to make money. You need to know what you are doing and you need to be cautious. Don’t fall for cheap real estate websites or the first realestate sign you see.

Don’t fall for the same trap as many many others did.

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Have you ever hungered for weeks just to lose a few kilos? Only to realize that the kilos returned twice as fast as you lost them? Lose weight without hunger. All you need is just a little bit of discipline in your dietary choice, that’s it, I promise.

First of all I want to clarify my one and only point: If you want to lose weight it is best to avoid carbs.
That is really all that there is to losing weight. You do not need expensive pills, special books, extraordinary diets that demand extremely costly food. Just avoid carbs.
You do not believe me? You think that there has to be a trick?
The only “trick”, if you want to call it one, is finding out which foods contain high concentrations of carbs (a small amount of carbs every day is fine, like 40 grams or less) and avoiding them.
I will go ahead and name a few kinds of food that you should avoid if you want to eat better nutrition.
Flour and therefore bread and other products that contain a big amount of it. It contains an extremely high concentration of carbs and is therefore really bad. Not only for your weight, but for your health in general.
Potatoes The same thing really. Nutrition Weight Loss and potatoes have nothing to do with eatch other.
Rice Avoid it, it is not good for you. You will have a better nutrition with out it.
Sugar Food that contains big amounts of sugar should be avoided too. Watch out, that does also include fructose in drinks. No apple juice, no soft drinks.
Noodles Seriously, do not eat noodles if you plan on losing weight any time soon.

Now that I have told you what not to eat, i can tell you what you can eat, even in insane amounts if that is what you want. Fat and protein. Did i just say fat? Yes i did, eating big amounts of fat is absolutely no problem as long as you do not eat carbs with it. You won’t gain weight. That means you can eat meat and fish and all kinds of vegetables. Cheese is also great.

I know that this may sound tough at first, but be aware that you can eat as many of those as you like. Ever had a steak in the morning, for lunch, and in the evening? Well you can, and you will not gain weight, as long as you do not have potatoes with it.

If you cannot handle this, rather strict diet. Go ahead and eat loads of carbs one day a week, it might even help you lose weight even faster because it upregulates your thyroid activity (i cannot warrant that though) and it certainly help you to stay disciplined the rest of the week.

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What a cold winter we’ve had! It looks like we haven’t done enough for global warming yet. At least when you ask your cabriolet that is parked in your garage, crying its headlights out. Now what do we have to take care of for our car to be maintained after winter?
In winter your car gets stressed. The paint of your car had to suffer from rocks, salt and moisture. Road salt is dangerous! Resolved in water it is gnawing even the smallest piece of your car. Especially on your vehicle’s undercarriage this salt water is the main cause of rust.

Follow these steps to maintain your car:

The occasion of spring cleaning can be used in order to check your car after the winter. In the state of fluids such as oil, coolant and windscreen wash water should be checked. It is also important to check tires. The tire pressure should be reviewed on all wheels, including the spare wheel as well. Even intact tires slowly lose air. Have a look at the wear of the tires and make sure they still have more than 0.1563 inch (5/32″) profile. Similarly, you should check the tires for damage, such as one-sided abrasion, foreign bodies, cracks, dents or cuts.

After you’ve cleaned your car, make sure to repair any damage (such as defects in paint work) immediatly to avoid costly repairs in the future.

Pomades reached their all-time high in the early 20th century before today’s hairspray and gels took over. But established pomade producers such as Murray’s, Black & White and others are aiming to recapture possession.

Pomade often is linked with the old classic movies, where you mean no harm describing men’s hairstyle as slick. But even in the modern world stylists use pomade to prepare the hair of supermodels and actors, while you would not notice it due its use in a more modest way.

What is pomade?
The Pomade’s balance of natural oils to (bees)wax is the result wether a pomade is more light or heavy. The lighter mixtures consist of more oils, while there’s a higher proportion of wax in the heavier ones. Due to its ingredients pomade is not drying out like hairsprays or gels yet even modern hairwax, which results in a lasting and tamed look. It also is glamorizing your hair with a majestic shine no matter the amount you choose to put in your hair (it doesn’t look greasy!).

And it’s natural!
Pomades are not tested on animals, because they don’t have to. All its ingredients are natural, there are no chemicals involved at all. Unlike every other hair product that is released today.
The mixtures’ mineral oils are even meant to take care of your hair and protect it.

Because pomades are produced for such a long time you have a wide palette to choose from. Not only from different brands, but for different purposes and hair types. For example:

Murray’s Superior Hair Dressing Pomade
The world-leading pomade comes from Murray’s. Worldwide stylists praise this pomade’s versatility and ability to create any given style. It creates texture, shines and lifts while taming at the same time. For all hairtypes as well.

Royal Crown Hair Dressing
is told to be the favorite pomade of the king Elvis Presley himself. Having origin in Memphis, Tennessee this pomade is medium to heavy weight, giving an enormeous shine.

Black & White Lite Pomade
The most beautiful women swear by this versatile hair dressing pomade. It is giving a superior shine and texture all day. Labeled as a light pomade it really is managable for every hair type.

Mick Jagger (66) is supposed to have slept with Angelina Jolie (34) while he was engaged to Jerry Hall, which still was married to Johnny Lee Miller. Oh Hollywood, your lovestorys should not be this confusing!

There are new speculations about Angelina Jolie’s, let’s be polite, “love life” every day. Now it’s Jenny Paul, who is set to reveal delicate insight into Jolie’s bedtime stories in her new biography “Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: The True Story”.

First time both Jolie and Jagger are supposed to have met on the set of the Stones video “Anybody Seen My Baby”. Jolie caught a role in this production, the role to put her clothes off. She played a stripper who is being attacked by a band.

Now is Angelina the maneater the press is imputing her to?

There’s a rumor about her and Brad pitt (46) already had an affair while he was together with Jennifer Aniston. Both are denying this, but it was Angelina Jolie who disclosed that Brad and her was falling in love during the making of “Mr. And Mrs. Smith” in an interview. At that time he still was allied with Jen Aniston though.

It was after “Mr. And Mrs. Smith” was finished, when the Mick Jagger incident is supposed to have taken place.

Jenny Paul is reporting in her biography about Brangelina, that the Rockstar Jagger and Angelina are reputed to have had met even six years after their first romance, 2003 in Bangkok. Obviously Mick Jagger had a girlfriend back then already: L’Wren Scott, who still is with him.

The bio allegedly reveils even more affairs of Jolie. It’s said that she actually was getting close to Colin Farrell (33) during their shooting of “Alexander”, which was highly speculated through the press.

The end. You think so? The show must go on:

When Angelina and Brad finally got together in 2004, she is supposed to have maintained two sexual relationships with the Actor Ralph Fiennes as well es her ex husband Johnny Lee Miller.
Sigh. Come on Jenny Paul, this sounds crazy. Paul defends those storys as facts as she was researching those for over 6 years, talking to Jolies companions.

By the way, Jolie is shooting a new movie these days named “The Tourist” playing alongside nobody else but Johnny Depp. Be strong Vanessa Paradis!

Nowadays people often suffer joint injuries due to bad shoes, sports or one sided strain. Bauerfeind Braces can help you make them less painful or even prevent then.

In my last Blog Entry about running shoes, i have mentioned, that wearing the wrong shoes, specifically shoes with ecessive cushioning or high heels can, and most likely will in the long run result in pain or injuries of ankles or your knees. Those shoes will lead to degenerated muscles in your legs (more correct ankles or knees) and make you more prone to injury.
While, you should wear proper shoes to prevent such injuries in the long run, the company Bauerfeind offers great braces to help making those injuries less painful. They do the job that your, now degenerated or strained, muslces should normally do. They support your joints and give you the ability to do sports, even though you are injured, or to overcome your daily routine without experiencing pain.
From my past as a runner who was using improper shoes i can tell you that i had various injuries. Ankle, knee and even elbow (that one was from playing Tennis though). And the things that have always helped me most were not ointments or painkillers. Braces were by far the most helpful thing during that time. You wear them when you need them and take them off when you don’t.
I have tried various differend kinds and brands of braces and i have wasted a lot, and i really mean a lot money on relatively cheap, but abolutely useless braces. No matter which body part was hurt, i always ended up with a Bauerfeind brace. They are of superb quality, have good design (nearly all of them are available in different colors and even different shapes) and are very durable and robust. You can even throw them into the washing washing machine, even though the packaging tells you not to (i am doing this for years now and it has neither loosened or shown any other signs of wear and tear).
Last but not least i want to add that they offer comfort that cannot be matched by any other manufacturer of braces. They might feel a little tight in the first place but after a few minutes of wearing them, and following your usual routine you will not even realize that they are on your knee, ankle, elbow, whatever.
Yes, Bauerfeind products have their price, but if you think about it, and consider the amount of joy that they can bring back to your favorite activities, they are really cheap, you might even call them a special offer.
I know that i might sound like Bauerfeind employee, but i just haven’t found a downside of those amazing products.

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“Gosh, what am i going to wear tonight?!” You propably have heard this sentence quiet often or use to say it yourself. They say that fine feathers make fine birds, that clothes would make the man. Is this really true? And do we have to worry about what to wear more than what we do?

There is a novel on this topic from the swiss poet Gottfried Keller. In his Telling “Clothes make people” the tailor Strapinski is dressing well despite his poverty. He arrives in a foreign city and is regarded to be a polish count by his appearance. Once out of shyness, he has failed to explain the confusion and tried to flee. But as a young lady, daughter of a prominent citizen is introduced. The two fall in love, which makes Strapinski continue to play the role of a count that has been forced upon him. A despised rival ensures that the supposed imposter is exposed. The engagement party ends in an inescapable desaster for Strapinski, who got unmasked not to be what he pretended to. He flees, but his bride finds him, saves him from freezing to death and takes him to task. When she had convinced herself that his love is genuine, she confesses to him and enforces the marriage. The tailor founded a studio with her property and brings it to prosperity and prestige, thus the saying “Clothes make the man” proved its worth?

Now what is it, that is so pleasing about him?

The story implicates that everybody is the same, but it’s fortune that seperates people. In the end it was Strapinskis naked love that has appealed to her and his clothing just got her in the situation to fall for him.

In the novel we’ve talked about a character said: “I’m not exactly the man i seem to be“. and i’m worried.. why? Mark Twain knows the answer when he says: “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.“.

Where does the bad smack comes from?

Clothes, as the visual indicator of wealth, mock peoples equality. Everybody is worth the same, but not everybody is worth the same amount of fortune? That doesn’t sound right, but fortune is not equally shared. I’m going to skip this topic.

So, “Gosh, what am i going to wear tonight?!”.

One thing we haven’t talked about yet is, Strapinski was a tailor. You can say that he was able to wear his abilities. Even though he was poor, his tailoring skills made him look like “one of them”. One of those whos abilities already made them become wealthy. You know what had happend in the end.
Tell me which ability is valued most in today’s society. Let me give you a hint: Regression is not godgiven.

“Johnny (Cash) always wear black, because he identified with the poor”