Bye, bye calories!!!

Yesterday Mary asked in her comment about walking sticks. They are not sticks, they are POLES. Sorry! :)


Background of Nordic Walking 
Nordic Walking uses specifically designed poles to engage the upper body during fitness walking. Nordic Walking was first used as a summer training method by cross-country skiers. 
It was then developed into a fitness exercise with specific training equipment in co-operation with the Finnish sports equipment manufacturer Exel Oyj, researchers in sports medicine, and other fitness professionals. Nordic Walking was first launched in Finland in 1997. It has rapidly increased in popularity and today Nordic Walking is well-known fitness sports.


Here's a very good video but it's quite long, 4 min 12 sec. BUT if you're interested it's worth the time to watch.



Health facts In Nordic Walking
Heart rate is 5-17 beats per minute higher (for example in normal walking heart rate is 130 beats/minute and in Nordic Walking 147 beats per minute i.e. increase is 13%)
Energy consumption increases when using poles by an average of 20% compared with ordinary walking without poles
Up to a 46% increase in energy consumption (Cooper Institute research, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sports 2002 publication)
Releases pain and muscle tension in the neck/shoulder region
The lateral mobility of the neck and spine increases significantly
The muscles most actively involved are the forearm extensor and flexor muscles, the rear part of the shoulder muscles, the large pectoral muscles and the broad back muscles
Does not aggravate joints and knees
Reduces the load on knees and other joints
Consumes approximately 400 calories per hour!!!
(compared with 280 calories per hour for normal walking)
Nordic Walking should be practiced for relatively long periods, i.e. between half an hour and two hours at a time. The pace should be steady and the heart rate should rise to between 120 and 150 beats per minute.


If you're in a hurry
Original Nordic walking on uphill by Original Nordic walker Marko Kantaneva only 15 seconds!!! :)


If you're still interested here's a link to basic technique.


Imagine this: 

The population of Finland is about 

5,3 million and there are about 

1,5 million Nordic walkers!!!

This is pure sh***** part 2.

This is pure sh***** part 2.
Here's part 1.
Sorry if you're new here and wanted something more sexier or naughty or ugly...
No, this is pure SH*****! = = = > S H A R I N G!
This is PURE BEAUTY!
and something very special...Enjoy! 
The video is about 8 minutes but you do not see this kind of documentary every day, right? 


Voices of Cairo is a short film intended to act as a 
preview of Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo
a feature length documentary film, audio archiving and multi-media installation project about the adhan, or call to prayer, in Cairo – 
a 1,400 year old oral tradition that has never been documented or recorded for historical study.

Voices of Cairo from On Look Films on Vimeo.


Using the adhan as the vehicle, Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo
provides opportunity to broaden the understanding of the Muslim world in a contemporary social context.
Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo
seeks to preserve and record Cairo’s muezzins and the adhans they recite in their entirety for the first – and only – time in history.
It is the mission of ON LOOK FILMS, by engaging and inspiring the viewer to reach across cultural divides, to help preserve 1,400 years of human history and contribute to a more peaceful world.


Anna Kipervaser
producer
ON LOOK FILMS


More about the film Voices and Faces of the Adhan


How can you help?

EDITED version: your WOrds & my IMAges = WO*IMA, #54

your WOrds of this IMAge #54:

mythopolis 

In the words Bob Dylan 

spoke to his band when he went electric.....

"Get F...ing Loud!"

JAWhite 

Rock turns me on!

Yaelian 

My guitarra usually gently weeps but this rocks!

SusuPetal 

Please, play with me....

WhiteSockGirl aka The Fabulous Bitch 

Stroke me baby, and I will rock your world!

Susan Higgins 

Like the strings of a guitar

My mind is strummed

Thoughts are like a freight car

Waiting to be succummed

By the melodies of my guitar

tuuluska 

Just hear the clear sound

of the horns

slithering into your ears.

Leave your guitar

waiting on the stand.

Her time will be later.

Today it´s Funky Sunday :D.

SmartBear 

In tune. Anticipating. 

Begging to be touched, heard, absorbed. 

Kerri 

Perspective. It's all about perspective. 

Sometimes you can't hear the music 

until you get your mind in the right place.

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Thank you all! WO*IMA again on Saturday!

you give me WOrds and I give you an IMAge = WO*IMA #54

my IMAge #54:

as usual you have time till Sunday 6 pm Cairo time
Here's a link to world clock :) 

kuten ennenkin aikaa on sunnuntaihin asti klo 18 Kairon aikaa


Don’t know what WO*IMA is about?

Every Saturday I give you an IMAge.

You give me YOUR OWN WOrds: thoughts, a quote, a poem etc.

however the IMAge i n s p i r e s you

by leaving a comment with a title: 'my WOrds'. 
On Sunday I’ll publish your WOrds WITH YOUR LINK.

You can check previous WO*IMA posts to get the idea. 
ps. IF this is your first time here 

please add your blog URL in your comment like http://BLOGitse.blogspot.com,

helps my work, thanks! :)


Have fun!


in Finnish: Et tiedä mistä WO*IMAssa on kysymys?

Joka lauantai postaan kuvan johon toivon teiltä OMIA sanoja kommettina otsikolla 'my WOrds': mietelauseen, runon, letkautuksen jne. 
mitä kuva mielikuvissanne herättää.

Sunnuntaina julkaisen sanat KIRJOITTAJAN LINKIN KERA. 
Voit tutkailla aiempia WO*IMApostauksia päästäksesi jyvälle.

Huom! sanat tulee kirjoittaa englanniksi TAI englanniksi ja suomeksi.

EI vain suomeksi.

Täällä ei kiinnitetä huomiota kielioppiin tai kirjoitusvirheisiin.

Muutama sanakin riittää jos kieli ei syystä tai toisesta taivu! :)

Tule rohkeasti mukaan!
ps. jos osallistut ensimmäistä kertaa laita kommenttiin blogisi URL, esim. http://BLOGitse.blogspot.com
Se nopeuttaa minun hommaani, kiitos! 

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It's FUNK time!!! Enjoy while you write down your WOrds!

piano stairs - people love WALKING UP too!

It's time to have fun!

Enjoy!

Let's walk and play!

UPDATED!!! what women want...how to punish a rapist?

December 2009 issue of the What women want magazine 

includes an article
'If I were Queen of Egypt' 
by Amany Eid   This chapter is about rape.
"As Queen of Egypt, it means I am female, so this means, I will not tolerate rape. So any rape incident that happens - the rapist, will get one of two choices, either he gets castrated or gets executed. This will make everyone think a million times before touching a girl without herconsent. If a man is caught harassing a girl sexually, he gets hid head shaved, whatever way female choses. For example, she could decide to shave the head completely with the word "idiot" on his head, or any label for that  matter."

If you were a Queen or a King of your country 

what kind of punishment a rapist should get?


UPDATE 4.1.2010

TRANSLATED by google translator

A 51-year-old policeman raped TWICE a 16-year-old runaway girl in Helsinki, Finland.

In November 2006, began to deal with rape occurred only two years later, the police through the internet.

Police had met a girl in the street the morning. The girl said that she was runaway and free overnight.

The girl also said that his mobile phone was switched off and that her parents didn't know where she was.

Constable said that he's a police and showed his badge of office. That is why the girl had the courage to go his home.

The constable offered strong beer to underage girl. The girl passed out. The police raped her twice.

Immediately after the rape, the man took 17 photos of her, some of which were close-ups. Images he saved on his computer.

Web Police scorch Police rapist

In 2008, the girl contacted the Internet community in IRC-Gallery, through contact with the police in Helsinki online Marko Forss.

- I do not think that this action would have never discovered without Web Projects. Indicate the threshold of such an offense is high, Forss said.

The girl was approached Mr. Forss almost immediately after the Helsinki police, the police close the virtual group started in 2008. 

Three polices are acting on their own faces by young people face online forums such as IRC-Galleria, and now also on Facebook.

Eventually the girl in the Internet connection Mr. Forss, which held the girl's report logical and credible. The girl had already told the same story to a friend and physician, and repeated the same pre-trial investigations and in court.

The accused changed his story. Photographs supported the prosecution.

The district court sentenced the police two years of conditional imprisonment for the rape.

The girl was ordered compensation of EUR 15000 psychological harm or mental suffering.

Constable convicted of dismissed last fall.

Iltasanomien artikkeli kokonaisuudeessaan/Iltasanomat news in Finnish here

In Finnish

Keski-ikäinen konstaapeli houkutteli virkamerkillä asuntoonsa 16-vuotiaan karkuritytön Helsingissä ja raiskasi tämän harvinaisen röyhkeällä tavalla.

Marraskuussa 2006 tapahtunut raiskaus alkoi selvitä vasta kaksi vuotta myöhemmin nettipoliisin kautta. Tekijäksi osoittautui 51-vuotias poliisimies.

Uhri oli 16-vuotias kotoaan karannut tyttö, jonka konstaapeli houkutteli asuntoonsa poliisin virkamerkin avulla.

Helsingin järjestyspoliisissa työskennellyt 51-vuotias oli tavannut tytön aamuyöstä kadulla. Tyttö kertoi olevansa karkumatkalla ja vailla yösijaa.

Tyttö sanoi myös, ettei hänen matkapuhelimensa ollut päällä ja etteivät hänen vanhempansa tienneet, missä hän oli.

Konstaapeli kertoi olevansa poliisi ja näytti virkamerkkiään. Siksi tyttö uskalsi lähteä miehen asunnolle.

Siellä konstaapeli tarjosi nelosolutta alaikäiselle tytölle. Tytön sammuttua mies yhtyi häneen kahdesti.

Heti raiskauksen jälkeen mies otti tytöstä kännykkäkameralla 17 kuvaa, joista osa oli lähikuvia. Kuvat hän tallensi tietokoneelleen.

Two years in prison and that's it?

What do YOU think about that?

The Khan el-Khalili bazaar, Cairo, Egypt part 2.

The Khan el-Khalili bazaar, Cairo, Egypt part 2.

Part 1. here

Info about the bazaar in Wikipedia

the main entrance

hungry?

it was quiet...about 11 am

new dress?

Your first visit here?

You might think why the hell I've put those annoying watermarks on top of the pictures. Because an online news site misused one of my pictures.

If you're interested to get any of my pictures without watermarks please ask! Very simple! :)

email: toblogitse at gmail.com

EDITED version: your WOrds & my IMAges = WO*IMA, #53

your WOrds of this IMAge #53:

askcherlock 

I am not sure I like 

what I see in your world.

Tuula 

Hello! I am here and see you, 

but you don`t see me!

mythopolis 

"Here mousie, mousie,.....here mousie, mousie....meowsie...meowsie....meow....meow....."

RennyBA's Terella 

Watching You, watching Me aHhhhhhhhhaaaa ..... 

or was it Love in the ABBA song? ;-)

SusuPetal 

Peeping through the hole

seeing the whole

of the world

is enough.

Melissa B. 

That's a kitty who knows EVERYTHING that's going on. 

Call her a Clandestine Cat, perhaps?

tattytiara 

They never let us see them 

when they're smiling at us. 

We'd get too confident 

if we had proof that they liked us.

Martha@Menagerie 

Peek-a-boo! :-)

Scriber's Web 

She haunts me with her eyes.

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Thank you all! WO*IMA again on Saturday!

Have a great week ahead!

your WOrds my IMAge = WO*IMA #53

my IMAge #53:

as usual you have time till Sunday 6 pm Cairo time
Here's a link to world clock :) 

kuten ennenkin aikaa on sunnuntaihin asti klo 18 Kairon aikaa


Don’t know what WO*IMA is about?

Every Saturday I give you an IMAge.

You give me YOUR OWN WOrds: thoughts, a quote, a poem etc.

however the IMAge i n s p i r e s you

by leaving a comment with a title: 'my WOrds'. 
On Sunday I’ll publish your WOrds WITH YOUR LINK.

You can check previous WO*IMA posts to get the idea. 
ps. IF this is your first time here 

please add your blog URL in your comment like http://BLOGitse.blogspot.com,

helps my work, thanks! :)


Have fun!


in Finnish: Et tiedä mistä WO*IMAssa on kysymys?

Joka lauantai postaan kuvan johon toivon teiltä OMIA sanoja kommettina otsikolla 'my WOrds': mietelauseen, runon, letkautuksen jne. 
mitä kuva mielikuvissanne herättää.

Sunnuntaina julkaisen sanat KIRJOITTAJAN LINKIN KERA. 
Voit tutkailla aiempia WO*IMApostauksia päästäksesi jyvälle.

Huom! sanat tulee kirjoittaa englanniksi TAI englanniksi ja suomeksi.

EI vain suomeksi.

Täällä ei kiinnitetä huomiota kielioppiin tai kirjoitusvirheisiin.

Muutama sanakin riittää jos kieli ei syystä tai toisesta taivu! :)

Tule rohkeasti mukaan!
ps. jos osallistut ensimmäistä kertaa laita kommenttiin blogisi URL, esim. http://BLOGitse.blogspot.com
Se nopeuttaa minun hommaani, kiitos! 

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I love sharing but hate stealing part 2.

My regular readers know what I'm talking about.
Part one of the story is deleted. Gone. Forever.
I saved the 'Thank you' posting with links.

What you might have seen recently is this text:

Your first visit here? 

You might think why the hell I've put those annoying watermarks on top of the pictures. 
Because an online news site misused one of my pictures 
+ people are downloading my pictures without saying a word. 
Now they get them with my signiture on. 
If you're interested to get any of my pictures without watermarks 
please ask! Very simple! :) email: toblogitse at gmail.com

How did I know about that stolen picture?
I have a counter where I can see how long people are surfing on my blogs, where they're coming and going, download activity etc., plus I have a tiny little Sherlock Holmes living in :) me plus intuition...

I try to make this short. Going to be diffficult.

The 24th of December 2009 I found out that my picture was stolen

- from my stats - somebody downloaded my old pictures - why?

- IP address was in Egypt - not mine! :)

- I did thinking: why one year old picture, somebody from Egypt...

- I googled my blogpost permalink > there it was!

On top of my blog post and of course I had a little bit luck...or is it my curiousity which led me to the right spot...

The original picture was cropped > that's why the watermark has to be in the middle or in the area where the idea of the picture is gone if cropped!

- I use several search options: I google search with BLOGitse, google image search both with the name of the picture and BLOGitse - try those with your pics and your blog/screen name.

I have had StatCounter from the beginning of my blogging.

I've known my pics have been downloaded but last 6 months or so it's been really wild.

About.com: Digital Cameras says:

"If you’re planning to put some of your digital photos on the Internet then you might want to get ready to go to war. The Battle of the Images is a growing problem with no foreseeable truce in sight. Before you know it, you’ll be trying to think of military-style tactical maneuvers to protect your coveted images. Whatever you come up with to protect your images, someone else will come up with a way to steal them.

The most surefire way to keep your images “your images” is not to put them up on the web at all."

About.com: Web Design/HTML: How to protect your digital photos from being copied

How to Watermark your pictures.

An article by pcworld: watermarking your pictures

Digimarc and their solution. Digimarc blog post

And now back to StatCounter.

Here are couple of pictures which explain the idea.

These pics are from StatCounter demo page!

You click that magnifying glass...

Can you see the red spot? That's where this visitor came to this site...

Here you can see all the details...

more details...

for example recent downloads...

Go to StatCounter home page

Look at the live demo - you can play with it to get the idea how it works!

> > StatCounter live demo < <

 

Now I show you how to copy a work in RESPECTFUL way.

I wrote an email to Hugh MacLeod at gapingvoid gallery and told him that this cartoon is going to be published on my blog and if he wants me to remove it asked him to let me know.

I like his work. I get these cartoon by email and he makes me smile, great art!

WARNING! If you download this cartoon from my site I'll send all the information to Hugh.

His art work is protected by Creative Commons A note of that is attached at end of his email.

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RESPECT!

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Let me know if you have StatCounter..

How long you've had it?

How do you use it, what for?

If you're going to open an account there please let me know what you think  - more headache when you KNOW but can't really do anything about it? autch!

EDIT

Blogs. If you've recently added a blog to your site, or
if your site is a blog site, it's possible that a visitor
could post infringing materials (e.g. text, video links,
images). Under the strict principles of copyright law,
you'd be a copyright infringer even if you were unaware of
the posting. Your liability could be significant. The
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provides a "safe
harbor" from liability provided you publish a DMCA notice
and register with the Copyright Office.

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