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Metoda Pilates qe zevendeson palestren

Derby — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:43:14 +0000

Pilates është një lloj ushtrimi, zhvilluar nga Joseph Pilates, i cili thekson zhvillimin e ekuilibruar të trupit përmes forcave kryesore, fleksibilitetit, dhe vetëdijes për të mbështetur lëvizjen efikase.
Pilates është një nga sistemet e stërvitjes më të njohura.

Një nga gjërat më të mira në lidhje me metodën Pilates është se ai punon mirë për një gamë të gjerë njerëzish. Atletët dhe valltarët e duan ate, ashtu si të moshuarit, gratë e renduara nga shtatzënia, dhe njerëz të cilët jane në faza të ndryshme të rehabilitimit fizik.

Përfitimet duke bërë ushtrimet Pilates janë që njerezit bëhen me të fortë, më të gjatë, me te dobet dhe jane në gjendje të bëjne cdo gje me hir dhe lehtësi. Pilates është një metode lehtesisht e adaptueshme.

Modifikimi është çelësi i suksesit te Pilates, ushtruar ne një shumëllojshmëri të popullsive. Të gjitha ushtrimet janë zhvilluar me modifikimet që mund të bëjë një stërvitje të sigurt dhe sfiduese për një person në çdo nivel.

Forca qendrore është boshti i ushtrimit Pilates. Kur muskujt kryesore te trupit janë të forta per të bëre punën e tyre, pasi ato janë të trajnuar për të bërë Pilates, ata punojnë së bashku me muskujt më sipërfaqësore te trungut të cilet jane te mbështetur në shtyllën kurrizore.

Pilates zhvillon fuqinë tuaj kryesore per të zhvilluar stabilitetit në të gjithë bustin tuaj. Kjo është një nga mënyrat me te cilat Pilates ndihmon njerëzit të kapërcejnë dhimbjet. Kur trupi është stabilizuar siç duhet, presioni në anën e pasme është i lehtësuar, dhe trupi është në gjendje të lëvizi lirisht dhe në mënyrë efikase.

Qendërzim, kontrolli, fryma, precisioni dhe përqendrimi:
Këto jane parime Pilates përbërësit thelbësor në një stërvitje të lartë e cilësore Pilates. Metoda e Pilates ka theksuar gjithmonë cilësine mbi sasi, dhe ju do të gjeni se, ndryshe nga shumë sisteme të ushtruara, Pilates nuk përfshijnë perseritje për çdo veprim. Në vend të kësaj, duke bërë çdo ushtrim të plotë, me saktësi, jep rezultate të rëndësishme në një kohë më të shkurtër se c’do të imagjinohet ndonjëherë.
Metoda e stërvitjes Pilates është zhvilluar nga Joseph Pilates në vitet 1920. Ajo është përdorur fillimisht si një program rehabilitimi për të burgosurit e luftës dhe u gjet më vonë të jetë me dobi të madhe për këdo që kërkon një nivel më të lartë të palestres. Puna ishte mbajtur gjallë gjatë viteve nga një grup i vogël i studentëve te devotshem te Joseph Pilates deri në vetëm pak vite më parë, kur shkenca e stërvitjes ka kapur parimet që Pilates kishte ne qellim dhe tani ne gëzojmë evolucionin e pasur te punës Pilates që e kemi sot.

Postime te Ngjashme:

Dieta e pranverës

Derby — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:54:34 +0000

“Te jesh ne diete nuk do te thote te mos hash, apo te neglizhosh vaktet, perkundrazi dieta funksionon vetem nese eshte e balancuar. Kjo do te thote te mos perjashtosh asnje nga elementet ushqyese e te respektosh nevojen e perditshme per kalori. Vetem keshtu mund te humbasesh peshe pa u lodhur e njekohesisht te jesh ne forme te mire shendetesore…”

Mos neglizho asnje vakt

Te gjitha vaktet duhet te konsumohen ne menyre te rregullt. Beni kujdes te hani gjithmone ne mengjes qe eshte edhe momenti me i rendesishem. Kujdesuni te konsumoni (pa e tepruar) buke, makarona apo oriz, sidomos ne pjesen e pare te dites. Ha gjithmone fruta. Keni rruge te lire konsumimin e frutave, por gjithmone pa e tepruar, pasi mund te behen shkak i fryrjeve te barkut. Mos harroni perimet. Perveçse te pasura ne fibra, perimet si te gjalla, ashtu edhe te pjekura, permbajne sasi te konsiderueshme proteinash dhe kriperash minerale. Per me teper nese konsumohen para pjatave te tjera ndikojne drejtperdrejte ne uljen e oreksit, duke ju dhene ndjesine e ngopjes. Proteinat mbi te gjitha. Hani mish ose peshk, ne dreke ose darke. Mundohuni t’i zgjidhni pa dhjame, duke i shoqeruar me nje luge vaj ulliri. Tjeter? Perpiquni te konsumoni buken e zeze ose ate te misrit, mes vakteve zgjidhni nje frut ose kos. Nese nuk keni kohe per te gatuar perdorni sallatat (sidomos ate jeshile) te cilen mund ta shoqeroni me nje cope djathi te fresket jo shume te yndyrosur. Nese doni te hani embelsira duhet te hiqni dore nga frutat dhe buka.

Postime te Ngjashme:

Dieta antistres

Derby — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:35:20 +0000

Nje diete e shendetshme eshte ilaçi i duhur per te perballuar ankthin dhe stresin perpara provimeve. Rruge te lire ne tavoline per pjatat me baze makaronat, orizin, fruta, perime dhe veze te ziera. Beni kujdes! Dietologet keshillojne sa me pak kafe, qe tradicionalisht shoqeron netet perpara provimeve. Kjo eshte kjo nje diete antistres per te gjithe studentet perpara provimeve, te cilet vuajne nga ankthi dhe pagjumesia. Sipas dietologeve, kesaj diete qe te ndihmon te perballosh kete situate tensioni, nuk duhet t’i mungoje buka, makaronat, apo orizi, sallatrat jeshile, qepa, djathi i fresket, kosi, vezet e ziera, qumeshti i ngrohte, qe ul aciditetin gastrik, fruta te embla dhe te zhytura ne mjalte, qe favorizojne gjumin dhe ndihmojne organizmin te shlodhet, per te perballuar me energjine e duhur dhe perqendrim, sfiden shkollore.

Keto ushqime kane ne perberje nje aminoacid qe ndihmon ne sintezen e serotonines, neuronit te mireqenies dhe neurotrasmetuesit cerebral qe nxit shlodhjen. Serotinina rritet nen konsumin e ushqimeve qe kane ne perberje sheqerna te thjeshta, siç jane frutat e stines.

Mes perimeve vendin e pare e ze sallata jeshile e shoqeruar nga qepa dhe hudhrat

Ndersa pagjumesia provokohet nga kafeja, patatinat me qese e çokollatat, qe jane shpesh te pranishme gjate ketyre dite-neteve.

Ështe e nevojshme qe te shlodhesh mjaftueshem, duke bere kujdes me te ngrenet, duke eleminuar ushqimiet e renda dhe me permbajtje eksituese. Duhet eleminuar kafeja, çaji, kakaoja, per shkak te kafeines, por edhe pijet alkoolike, qe shkaktojne gjume te keq dhe me zgjim te veshtire.

Gjithashtu jashte liste mbeten ushqimet pikante, me ereza, piper te kuq, apo kripe me bollek. Madje edhe ushqimet e konservuara duhen mbajtur larg.

Postime te Ngjashme:

Dieta me molle

Derby — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:04:54 +0000

Frazeologjia angleze e pershkruan kete frut keshtu: “Nje molle ne dite, i thote mjekut ik”, qe do te thote se efektet e saj jane te shumta dhe mjaft kurative. Ne baze te nje studimi qe ka bere studioja e njohur e dietave “San Xhorxh” ne Londer, vihet re se mes 50 personave te cilet kane mbajtur diete me fruta, ata qe kane perdorur mollen si diete kane mundur te humbasin disa kilograme brenda dhjete diteve, pa demtuar organizmin. Studiuesit tregojne se ne shumicen e rasteve aplikimi i dietave behet shkak per prishjen e regjimit te shendetit tone, duke pasur efekte negative mbi shendetin. Nderkohe qe me mollen nuk ndodh keshtu. Me te gjitha vlerat ushqyese qe ka fruti i molles, ai arrin qe te mbaje trupin ne nivel normal, si dhe duke eliminuar dhjamerat e teperta. Flavonoidi, arrin te fute ne aksion fibrat e trupit tone, pa demtuar organizmin, nderkohe qe aksioni do te ndihmohet nga vitamina C, e cila ben te mundur djegien e te gjitha lendeve te demshme qe gjenden ne trup dhe shkaktojne mbipeshen, siç eshte kolesteroli dhe disa oksidante te tjere, te cilet behen shkak per plakjen e parakohshme. Ne 100 grame molle do te gjejme 40 kalori, 10 grame sheqerna, potas, nderkohe qe ajo permban njekohesisht vitaminat B dhe C, acidin nitrik dhe acidin malik. Vitamina B1, e cila gjendet me shumice te molla, te ndihmon te heqesh lodhjen, nervozizmim si dhe mungesen e oreksit, ndersa vitamina B2 i mbron muskujt e gojes, riforcon floket dhe shmang rudhat, ndersa acidi nitrik dhe ai malik bejne te mundur shkrirjen e ushqimeve te renda ne stomak, ne menyre qe te mos e lodhin ate, ndersa vitamina C sherben per te dezinfektuar te gjithe organizmin dhe veçanerisht aparatin e te ushqyerit si dhe arrin te djege te gjitha mikrobet e ndryshme qe gjenden pergjate saj.

Si ta fillojme?

Ne darke sugjerohet qe te shkojme per te fjetur duke pire fillimisht nje gote me leng molle. Kujdes nese lengu qe pini eshte qind per qind leng molle, ne menyre qe edhe dieta te arrihet plotesisht. Nderkohe qe ne mengjes e nisim diten serish me nje leng molle te fresket. Rreth ores njembedhjete fillojme dhe qerojme nje kokerr molle, pasi ta presim ne feta e vendosim ne nje pjate dhe me pas derdhim mbi te pak leng limoni. Efekti i kurativ eshte shume i madh, nderkohe qe arrin te mbaje ne nivele te pranueshme edhe lekuren e fytyres. Gjate paradites sugjerohet ngrenia e gjysmes se kokrres se molles, nderkohe qe orari tjeter i fillimit te dietes eshte ai i pasdites, rreth ores kater ose pese. Duhet te kemi parasysh qe limiti midis periudhes se pare dhe asaj te dyte, te mos jete me shume se pese ore. Pra nese kemi ngrene gjysmen e molles ne oren 11, gjysmen tjeter duhet ta hame pas pese oresh, pra ne oren kater te pasdites. Nderkohe qe ne mbremje nese deshironi, mund te jeni tolerante, duke ngrene nje darke te lehte, por mos harroni se nese do te hame ushqime gjate dietes, efektet do t’i shihni me vonese. Nderkohe qe mos harroni keshillen qe ju kemi dhene ne fillim para se te shkoni per te fjetur; serish nje gote me leng molle, ne menyre qe te kompletoni dieten e dites suaj. Nese vazhdoni keshtu per dhjete dite, atehere do te shihni se do te humbisni pothuajse nje kilogram ne dite dhe ne rast se nuk i qendroni asaj besnik, atehere serish do te shihni se do te keni humbur disa nga kilet tuaja te teperta. Nderkohe qe brenda dietes se sugjeruar, ju sugjerojme qe ta kompletoni ate me ane te nje maske. Pasdite per te gjitha ata persona qe e shohin se po i shtohen rudhat e fytyres, mund te perdorin nje maske, e cila perbehet nga feta te holla molle si dhe nje gote qumesht. E mbajme ate per 45 minuta dhe me pas e pastrojme me uje te ftohte, ne menyre qe te aroma e molles te mbetet per nje kohe te gjate ne epidermen e lekures, duke sherbyer si nje tonik perfekt i saj.

Mollet qe mund te na hyjne ne pune

Mos harroni se ne treg gjenden shume lloje mollesh. Mendoni se 7 mije varietete kultivohen ne te gjithe boten, te gjitha me aroma, ngjyra dhe madhesi te ndryshme, qe do te thote se efektet nuk jane njesoj. Nder me te zakonshmet dhe qe ka me shume efekt, jane mollet renete, limonelat dhe te famshmet Granny Smith. E para ka efekt vertet te madh, nese do te perdoret ne dieten e sugjeruar. Origjina e molles si frut, vjen nga vendet e Azise Qendrore dhe asaj Perendimore, i cili kultivohet prej shekujsh ne te gjithe boten. Mollet me te mira per dieten tone jane ato me ngjyre te gjelber, kjo per faktin se ato permbajne shume sode dhe menjehere sapo hyjne ne organizem hyjne ne veprim te menjehershem me acidet e tjera te trupit. Kujdes, mos i vendosni mollet ne nje vend me frutat ose perimet me gjelle, pasi ajo prodhon nje gaz natyral qe eshte etileni, se bashku me bananet dhe pjeprin, qe mund te prishe edhe ushqimet e tjera qe gjenden aty. Mollet jane shume te pasura me fibra dhe ndihmojne per te mbajtur ne nivelin baze kolesterolin si dhe parandalojne kancerin. Me ane te nje molle ne dite, ne sigurojme 20 per qind te fibrave te nevojshme ne nje dite, po kaq kalori dhe yndyrna, me perjashtim te kolesterolit. Ne rast se nuk doni t’i hiqni molles lekuren, pastrojeni ate me leng limoni, portokalli ose ananasi, ne menyre qe efekti i dietes se sugjeruar te jete sa me i plote dhe i efektshem.

Efektet e molles

Ne 100 grame molle do te gjejme :
40 kalori
10 grame sheqerna
Potas
Vitamina B dhe C,
Acidin nitrik dhe acidin malik.

Efektet e molles
-Vitamina B1, largon lodhjen, nervozizmin si dhe mungesen e oreksit
-Vitamina B2, forcon muskujt e gojes, riforcon floket dhe shmang rudhat
-Acidi nitrik dhe ai malik shkrijne ushqimet e renda ne stomak
-Vitamina C, dezinfekton organizmin dhe aparatin e te ushqyerit

Postime te Ngjashme:

Dieta me sallatë

Derby — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:14:50 +0000

Po vjen pranvera dhe bashke me te dhe deshira per shume fruta dhe perime! Prandaj dieta qe kemi zgjedhur per ju ka si baze sallaten. Kjo diete do t’ju jape shume energji, perimet e fresketa dhe frutat permbajne ne fakt shume minerale dhe vitamina. Sallata permban pak kalori, prandaj mund te hani racione me te medha. Natyrisht qe edhe me kete diete eshte e rendesishme te pish shume uje (edhe kafe e çaj do te ishte shume mire, por ne doza te kufizuara). Kujtohuni ta perdorni kete diete vetem per periudha te shkurtra kohore.

Mengjesi

Sallate frutash

Qeroni gjysem papaje (frut ekzotik me fara) (200gr)

Pastrojeni nga farat dhe priteni ne copa te vogla

Qeroni 100gr kivi dhe priteni ne feta

Perziejini frutat dhe shtoni 200 gr manaferra dhe 50ml leng portokalli

Rreth 150 kalori

Paraditja:
Sallate me kastraveca

Lani 200 gr tranguj dhe 100 gr rrepa

Pritini ne copa dhe perziejini

Shtoni disa gjethe çikore

Aromatizojeni me nje luge te vogel majoneze dhe nje luge te vogel me ereza

Rreth 50 kalori

Dreka:

Sallate me domate dhe kerpudha

Lani 250 gr domate, nje qepe, 100 gr kerpudha, 30 gr sallate jeshile

Shtoni 30 gr proshute te pjekur te ndare ne kubike te vegjel

Aromatizojeni sallaten me nje luge te vogel majoneze dhe me ereza

Rreth 200kalori

Pasditja

Sallate papaje

Prisni 200 gr papaje ne kubike te vegjel dhe sherbejini mbi nje shtrese gjethesh sallate. Perzieni 50 grkos me pak leng limoni dhe shtojani papajes.

Rreth 50 kalori

Darka

Sallate specash dhe selinoje

Lani nje spec te kuq (150 gre), 100 gr selino dhe 100 gr tranguj. Pritini perimet ne feta dhe shtoni 40 gr djathe dhe 50 gr bizele.

Aromatizojeni sallaten me pak majoneze dhe me ereza

Rreth 200 kalori.

Postime te Ngjashme:

Did You Know?

Derby — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:54:18 +0000

Looking for Love

*188 million Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion. (This total excludes packaged kids valentines for classroom exchanges.)

*Over 50 percent of all Valentine’s Day cards are purchased in the six days prior to the observance, making Valentine’s Day a procrastinator’s delight.

*Research reveals that more than half of the U.S. population celebrates Valentine’s Day by purchasing a greeting card.

*There are 119 single men (i.e., never married, widowed or divorced) who are in their 20s for every 100 single women of the same ages. Corresponding numbers for the following race and ethnic groups are:
o Hispanics: 153 men per 100 women
o Asians (single race): 132 men per 100 women (This ratio is not significantly different from that for Hispanics or non-Hispanic whites.)
o Non-Hispanic whites (single race): 120 men per 100 women
o Blacks (single race): 92 men per 100 women (The numbers of black men and women in this age group are not significantly different from one another.)

*There are 34 single men (i.e., never married, widowed or divorced) age 65 or older for every 100 single women of the same ages. Corresponding numbers for the following race and ethnic groups are:
o Hispanics: 38 men per 100 women
o Non-Hispanic whites (single race): 33 men per 100 women
o Blacks (single race): 33 men per 100 women
o Asians (single race): 28 men per 100 women
o (Note: None of the ratios for the individual groups differ significantly from one another nor from the ratio for all people age 65 or older.)

*904: The number of dating service establishments nationwide as of 2002. These establishments, which include Internet dating services, employed nearly 4,300 people and pulled in $489 million in revenues.

Be Mine

*2.2 million marriages take place in the United States annually. That breaks down to more than 6,000 a day.

*147,300 marriages are performed in Nevada during 2005. So many couples “tie the knot” in the Silver State that it ranked fourth nationally in marriages, even though it’s total population that year among states was 35th.

*The estimated U.S. median ages at first marriage for women and men are 25.3 and 27.1 respectively, in 2005. The age for women rose 4.2 years in the last three decades. The age for men at first marriage is up 3.6 years.

*Men and women in northeastern states generally have a higher median age at first marriage than the national average. In Massachusetts, for example, women were a median of 27.4 years old and men 29.1 years of age at first marriage. States where people typically marry young include Utah, where women were a median of 21.9 years and men, 23.9 years.

*57% and 60% of American women and men, respectively, are 15 or older and currently married (includes those who are separated).

*72%: The percentage of men and women ages 30 to 34 in 2005 who had been married at some point in their lives – either currently or formerly.

*4.9 million opposite-sex cohabitating couples maintained households in 2005. These couples comprised 4.3 percent of all households.

Candy is Dandy!

*1,241: The number of locations producing chocolate and cocoa products in 2004. These establishments employed 43,322 people. California led the nation in the number of such establishments with 136, followed by Pennsylvania with 122.

*515 locations produced nonchocolate confectionary products in 2004. These establishments employed 22,234 people.

*The total value of shipments in 2004 for firms producing chocolate and cocoa products was $13.9 billion. Nonchocolate confectionery product manufacturing, meanwhile, was a $5.7 billion industry.

*3,467 Number of confectionery and nut stores in the United States in 2004. Often referred to as candy stores, they are among the best sources of sweets for Valentine’s Day.

*The per capita consumption of candy by Americans in 2005 was 25.7 pounds. Candy consumption has actually declined over the last few years; in 1997, each American gobbled or savored more than 27 pounds of candy a year.

Flowers

*The combined wholesale value of domestically produced cut flowers in 2005 for all flower-producing operations with $100,000 or more in sales was $397 million. Among states, California was the leading producer, alone accounting for nearly three-quarters of this amount ($289 million).

*The combined wholesale value of domestically produced cut roses in 2005 for all operations with $100,000 or more in sales was $39 million. Among all types of cut flowers, roses were third in receipts ($39 million)to lilies ($76.9 million) and tulips ($39.1 million).

*There were 21,667 florists nationwide in 2004. These businesses employed 109,915 people.

Jewelry

*There were 28,772 jewelry stores in the United States in 2004. Jewelry stores offer engagement, wedding and other rings to lovers of all ages. In February 2006, these stores sold $2.6 billion worth of merchandise. (This figure has not been adjusted for seasonal variation, holiday or trading day differences or price changes).
The merchandise at these locations could well have been produced at one of the nation’s 1,864 jewelry manufacturing establishments. The manufacture of jewelry was an $9 billion industry in 2004.

Postime te Ngjashme:

History’s Romantics

Derby — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:48:09 +0000

Sappho

Much uncertainty surrounds the life story of the celebrated Greek lyric poet Sappho, a woman Plato called “the tenth Muse.” Born around 610 B.C. on the island of Lesbos, now part of Greece, she was said to have been married to Cercylas, a wealthy man. Many legends have long existed about Sappho’s life, including a prevalent one — now believed to be untrue — that she leaped into the sea to her death because of her unrequited love of a younger man, the sailor Phaon. It is not known how much work she published during her lifetime, but by the 8th or 9th century Sappho’s known work was limited to quotations made by other authors. In the majority of her poems, Sappho wrote about love — and the accompanying emotions of hatred, anger and jealousy — among the members of her largely young and female circle. Sappho gave her female acolytes educational and religious instruction as part of the preparation for marriage; the group was dedicated to and inspired by Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Her focus on the relationships between women and girls has led many to assume that Sappho was a lesbian — a word derived from the island and the communities of women that lived there — but it is also true that the existence of strong emotions and attractions between members of the same sex was considered far more common and less taboo than in later years.

Vatsyayana, author of the Kama Sutra

This ascetic, probably celibate scholar who lived in classical India (around the 5th century A.D.) is an unlikely candidate to have written history’s best known book on erotic love. Little is known about Vatsyayana’s life, but in his famous book — actually a collection of notes on hundreds of years of spiritual wisdom passed down by the ancient sages — he wrote that he intended the Kama Sutra as the ultimate love manual and a tribute to Kama, the Indian god of love. Though it has become famous for its sections on sexual instruction, the book actually deals much more with the pursuit of fulfilling relationships, and provided a blueprint for courtship and marriage in upper-class Indian society at the time. In addition to his classic work on love, Vatsyayana also transcribed the Nyaya Sutras, an ancient philosophical text composed by Gautama in the 2nd century B.C. that examined questions of logic and epistemology. The Kama Sutra has been translated into hundreds of languages and has won millions of devotees around the world.

Shah Jahan

Emperor of India from 1628 to 1658, Shah Jahan has gone down in history for commissioning one of history’s most spectacular buildings, the Taj Mahal, in honor of his much beloved wife. Born Prince Khurram, the fifth son of the Emperor Jahangir of India, he became his father’s favored son after leading several successful military campaigns to consolidate his family’s empire. As a special honor, Jahangir gave him the title of Shah Jahan, or “King of the World.” After his father’s death in 1627, Shah Jahan won power after a struggle with his brothers, crowning himself emperor at Agra in 1628. At his side was Mumtaz Mahal, or “Chosen One of the Palace,” Shah Jahan’s wife since 1612 and the favorite of his three queens. In 1631, Mumtaz died after giving birth to the couple’s 14th child. Legend has it that with her dying breaths, she asked her husband to promise to build the world’s most beautiful mausoleum for her. Six months after her death, the deeply grieving emperor ordered construction to begin. Set across the Jamuna River from the royal palace in Agra, the white marble fade of the Taj Mahal reflects differing hues of light throughout the day, glowing pink at sunrise and pearly white in the moonlight. At its center, surrounded by delicate screens filtering light, lies the cenotaph, or coffin, containing the remains of the Shah’s beloved queen.

Giacomo Casanova

The name “Casanova” has long since come to conjure up the romantic image of the prototypical libertine and seducer, thanks to the success of Giacomo Casanova’s posthumously published 12-volume autobiography, Histoire de ma vie, which chronicled with vivid detail — as well as some exaggeration — his many sexual and romantic exploits in 18th-century Europe. Born in Venice in 1725 to actor parents, Casanova was expelled from a seminary for scandalous conduct and embarked on a varied career, including a stint working for a cardinal in Rome, as a violinist, and as a magician, while traveling all around the continent. Fleeing from creditors, he changed his name to Chevalier de Seingalt, under which he published a number of literary works, most importantly his autobiography. Casanova’s celebration of pleasure seeking and much-professed love of women — he maintained that a woman’s conversation was at least as captivating as her body — made him the leading champion of a movement towards sexual freedom, and the model for the famous Don Juan of literature. After working as a diplomat in Berlin, Russia, and Poland and a spy for the Venetian inquisitors, Casanova spent the final years of his life working on his autobiography in the library of a Bohemian count. He died in 1798.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The only child of the famous feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the philosopher and novelist William Godwin, both influential voices in Romantic-Era England, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin fell in love with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was only 16; he was 21 and unhappily married. In the summer of 1816, the couple was living with Shelley’s friend and fellow poet, the dashing and scandalous Lord Byron, in Byron’s villa in Switzerland when Mary came up with the idea for what would become her masterpiece — and one of the most famous novels in history — Frankenstein (1818). After Shelley’s wife committed suicide, he and Mary were married, but public hostility to the match forced them to move to Italy. When Mary was only 24, Percy Shelley was caught in a storm while at sea and drowned, leaving her alone with a two-year-old son (three previous children had died young). Alongside her husband, Byron, and John Keats, Mary was one of the principal members of the second generation of Romanticism; unlike the three poets, who all died during the 1820s, she lived long enough to see the dawn of a new era, the Victorian Age. Still somewhat of a social outcast for her liaison with Shelley, she worked as a writer to support her father and son, and maintained connections to the artistic, literary and political circles of London until her death in 1851.

Richard Wagner

One of history’s most revered composers, Richard Wagner set his work on the famous Ring cycle aside in 1858 to work on his most romantic opera, Tristan and Isolde. He was inspired to do so partially because of his thwarted passion for Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of a wealthy silk merchant and patron of Wagner’s. While at work on the opera, the unhappily married Wagner met Cosima von Bulow, daughter of the celebrated pianist and composer Franz Liszt and wife of Hans von Bulow, one of Liszt’s disciples. They later became lovers, and their relationship was an open secret in the music world for several years. Wagner’s wife died in 1866, but Cosima was still married and the mother of two children with von Bulow, who knew of the relationship and worshiped Wagner’s music (he even conducted the premiere of Tristan and Isolde). After having two daughters, Isolde and Eva, by Wagner, Cosima finally left her husband; she and Wagner married and settled into an idyllic villa in Switzerland, near Lucerne. On Cosima’s 33rd birthday, Christmas Day 1870, Wagner brought an orchestra in to play a symphony he had written for her, named the Triebschen Idyll after their villa. Though the music was later renamed the Siegfried Idyll after the couple’s son, the supremely romantic gesture was a powerful symbol of the strength of Wagner and Cosima’s marriage, which lasted until the composer’s death in 1883.

King Edward VIII

Edward, then Prince of Wales, was introduced to Wallis Simpson in 1931, when she was married to her second husband; they soon began a relationship that would rock Britain’s most prominent institutions — Parliament, the monarchy and the Church of England — to their cores. Edward called Simpson, whom others criticized as a financially unstable social climber, “the perfect woman.” Just months after being crowned king in January 1936, after the death of his father, George V, Edward proposed to Simpson, precipitating a huge scandal and prompting Britain’s prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, to say he would resign if the marriage went ahead. Not wanting to push his country into an electoral crisis, but unwilling to give Simpson up, Edward made the decision to abdicate the throne. In a public radio address, he told the world of his love for Simpson, saying that “I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.” Married and given the titles of Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the couple lived in exile in France, where they became fixtures of cafe society.

Edith Piaf

Though her life was marked by sickness, tragedy and other hardships from beginning to end, the famous French chanteuse with the throaty voice became the epitome of classic Parisian-style romance for her legions of fans. Born Edith Giovanna Gassion in 1915, she was abandoned by her mother and reared by her grandmother; while traveling with her father, a circus acrobat, she began singing for pennies on the street. Discovered by a cabaret promoter who renamed her Piaf, or “sparrow,” (and was later brutally murdered), Edith enjoyed a meteoric rise to stardom and by 1935 was singing in the grandest concert halls in Paris. Piaf was married twice, but her great love was the boxer Marcel Cerdan, a world middleweight champion who was killed in a plane crash en route from Europe to New York in 1949. It was for Cerdan that Piaf sang the achingly romantic “Hymne a l’amour,” celebrated all over the world as one of her best loved ballads. After a near lifelong struggle with drug and alcohol addictions, Piaf died of liver cancer on the French Riviera in 1963. Her grave is one of the most visited in Paris’s world famous Pere Lachaise cemetery.

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Born in 1939 in Alexandria, Louisiana, Kathleen Woodiwiss was a young wife and mother when she began writing romantic fiction as a response to her dissatisfaction with the existing “women’s fiction” of the time. In 1972, she published her first novel, The Flame and the Flower, set on a Southern plantation in the late 18th century. Its historical setting and theme, florid prose style and steamy sex scenes inspired a legion of imitators, and its smashing commercial success sparked a new boom in romance fiction. Woodiwiss was given credit for inventing the modern romance novel in its current form: thick period melodramas packed with an array of dashing and dangerous men and bosomy women in low-cut dresses. She herself wrote 13 of these so-called “bodice-rippers,” including “Shanna” (1977), “A Rose in Winter” (1982), “Come Love a Stranger” (1984) and “The Reluctant Suitor” (2003). In an interview with Publisher’s Weekly, Woodiwiss firmly denied the characterization of her books as erotic, maintaining that she wrote only “love stories, — with a little spice.” By the time of her death in 2006, Woodiwiss’s spicy love stories had sold more than 36 million copies in 13 countries.

Elizabeth Taylor

An actress since early childhood, the dark haired, violet-eyed Elizabeth Taylor has won two Best Actress Oscars (for Butterfield 8 in 1960 and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966) but is perhaps best known for her rare beauty — and her epic love life. She has been married a total of eight times — twice to the same man, the actor Richard Burton, whom she has called “one of the two great loves of my life.” The first was the film producer Mike Todd, who died in a plane crash in 1958. Taylor and Burton met on the set of Cleopatra, when both were married to other people; their affair soon made headlines around the world and earned a public rebuke from no lesser authority than the Vatican. Their own married life together was a study in extremes, soaked in alcohol and characterized by a passion that was no less intense when they were fighting than when they were getting along. After divorcing in 1973, they found it impossible to stay apart and remarried in 1975, only to break up four months later. Barred from Burton’s funeral in 1984 by his last wife, Taylor still received legions of condolences, honoring her and Burton’s place in the pantheon of history’s most celebrated love stories.

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Valentine’s Day: Quotations

Derby — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:40:51 +0000

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

- Aristotle

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

- Lao Tzu

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.

- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

- Anais Nin

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires;
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

-Helen Keller

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

- Zora Neale Hurston

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.

- Leo Tolstoy

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

- Dorothy Parker

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

- Alice Walker

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way
than this: where I does not exist nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

- Pablo Neruda, “Love Sonnet XVII”

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Great Romances

Derby — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:32:01 +0000

The Trumans

He first saw her in Sunday school when he was six years old and she was just five. “She had golden curls and beautiful blue eyes,” he recalled. They graduated from high school together in 1901, but went their separate ways — he moved to Kansas City and she to Colorado for a year — until becoming reacquainted nine years later. It was then that Truman, who once wrote of Bess, “I thought she was the most beautiful and the sweetest person on earth,” began his first and longest campaign — to win the heart of Bess Wallace.

Bess lived in her family home in Independence, Missouri. Harry was a hard-working farmer from Grandview, twenty miles away. So he courted her, in part, by mail. Their correspondence would continue for nearly fifty years — an exciting ride through nine years of courtship, fifty-three years of marriage, family, career changes, and political fortunes that thrust them to the very center of the world stage. More than 1300 letters from Harry to Bess Truman survive in the Truman Library collections.

Sadly, most of her letters to him have been lost to history. After showering Bess with attention and letters for more than a year, Harry proposed to her in 1911, but she turned him down. He persisted, and eventually she fell in love with him. He had a standing invitation to dinner at the Wallace home on Sundays, often sleeping across the street, afterwards, on the floor of his cousins’ house because travel between Grandview and Independence was arduous. To win her favor — she was from a wealthy family — and better his prospects, he entered into a series of business ventures — mining, drilling for oil, and other speculations — most ending in disappointment. Although he also served as Grandview postmaster and as a county road overseer, his future remained uncertain.
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Harry Truman joined a Missouri National Guard field artillery regiment. Federalized as the 129th Field Artillery Regiment of the 35th Division, the unit trained for combat in Oklahoma. Arriving in France in April 1918, he had additional training before taking command of Battery D, a unit known for rowdiness and intransigence. He won respect for his leadership and courage under fire, seeing action in the Vosges Forest, the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and near Verdun. Throughout his military service, Truman carried Bess Wallace’s picture in his breast pocket. Writing to her frequently, his spirits were buoyed by her promise to marry him upon his safe return.

Harry Truman returned from World War I determined to make changes in his life. He and Bess Wallace married in June 1919 and moved into the Wallace family home. In 1922, Truman entered politics with his election as a Jackson County judge, serving all but two years until 1934. The birth of their daughter Mary Margaret in 1924 brought joy and fulfillment to the Trumans, and her childhood coincided with the growth of Harry Truman’s reputation and political career.

Harry Truman jumped at the chance to run for the U.S. Senate when it was offered to him in 1934. Elected, he served for what he called “the happiest ten years of my life.”

He soon built a reputation for hard work and dedication, concentrating on transportation and interstate commerce during his first term and investigating the national defense program in his second term. Loyal to the New Deal, but also accepted by more conservative party members, Truman became Franklin Roosevelt’s vice-presidential running mate in 1944. During these years, Bess Truman often returned to Independence for extended periods, leaving the Senator lonely in Washington, but giving them both an incentive to correspond in lengthy and endearing letters.

On April 12, 1945, with the death of FDR, Truman was thrust unexpectedly into the presidency, but soon adjusted to the awesome responsibility that had been placed on his shoulders. The end of World War II, the use of the atomic bomb, the establishment of the United Nations and the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall plan, and the beginning of the Korean War are just some of the momentous events he would preside over during his eight years in office. Living in the White House, and in the Blair House during the White House renovation from 1948 to 1952, the Trumans were a close-knit family that preferred not to entertain extensively or to hold grand state dinners. When he traveled or when she was away in Independence, Harry and Bess Truman continued to correspond on an almost daily basis in letters containing warmth, gossip, humor, and insight on world events. As they had both grown up around the turn of the century, they preferred writing letters to making phone calls, and used notes to keep abreast of each other’s lives as well as to remind each other of their affection.

Typical of their relationship, they wrote to each other whenever circumstances kept them apart on June 28th, the anniversary of their marriage. Often they even wrote these anniversary notes when they were together, hand-delivering the letters to each other. These anniversary letters changed little over time, showing the same devotion after decades of marriage that they had shown from the beginning of their union. Click here for samples of the Trumans’ legendary correspondence and journey with them from Missouri in the early years of their courtship to the White House in the waning days of World War II.

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Një grim me provën e lotëve

Derby — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:47:38 +0000

Per nje dite speciale duhet edhe nje make-up special. Me keto produkte nuset jane te sigurta: emocioni i tyre nuk do te lere shenja. Mbi te gjitha, nje trukator profesionist, di te percaktoje me kujdes ngjyrat, ne funksion te ngjyres se lekures dhe te flokeve.

Make-up i pershtatshem

Fillimisht duhet qe t’i tregohet nje foto e fustanit dhe pastaj modeli i flokeve, para se te arrihet ne percaktimin final te make-up.

Kremi puder: Ky do te zgjidhet ne baze te tipit te lekures. Nese eshte shume e thate, me mire nje krem puder, superhidratues, qe garanton ne te njejten kohe make-up dhe trajtim per te gjithe diten.

Lekure e shndritshme? Nje krem puder, qe i pershtatet zonave te ndryshme te fytyres, duke vepruar ne menyre te ndryshme ne te ashtuquajturen zona T (balli-hunda-mjekra) dhe ne pjesen tjeter te fytyres. Nese ke nje fytyre te lodhur dhe te stresuar, perdor nje krem me efekt lifting. Ke frike qe mos te besh pis fustanin e bardhe? Zgjidh nje krem puder 24 oresh dhe rezistent ndaj ujit. Beni kujdes mos vini shume make-up, pasi e rendon fytyren dhe thekson linjat e shprehjes dhe rrudhat.

Korrektori: eshte nje aleat i vertete per te fshehur te gjitha paperfekshmerite e momentit te fundit (nje puçerr qe ka dale naten, nje skuqje e papritur, syte e nxire…).

Rimeli duhet te jete absolutisht kunder ujit, pasi mund te shpetojne edhe disa pika lot. Dhe per ato qe duan nje shikim akoma me joshes, eshte “extension”, (Tufa te vogla me qerpike), te cilat vihen nga estetistja nje dite para dasmes. Pas nje muaji do te bien vete.

Buzekuqi: sa puthje duhet te jape nusja pergjate nje dite? Dhe sigurisht qe nuk do te kete kohe per te rinovuar ngjyren e buzeve. Zgjidhja eshte buzekuqi, i cili zgjat deri ne tete ore, ne versionin hidratues, duke i lene buzet shpesh te buta.

Ja nusja perfekte

Fjalekalimi per nje grim te suksesshem eshte qe te mos teprohet. Kete duhet qe ta mbaje mend nusja ne percaktimin e make-up. Ne keto raste eshte e keshillueshme qe truku t’i besohet nje profesionisti, duke evituar thenien klasike te nuseve te reja “i bej te gjitha vete, pastaj une çdo dite lyhem”. Make-up i nuses duhet te jete nje miks i ashtuquajtur “i shoh, nuk shoh”, ose e thene ndryshe; duhet te jete, por ne te njejten kohe nuk duhet te jete shume i dukshem. Pastaj, duhet te jete ne sintoni me stilin e fustanit dhe me stinen.

Ështe fare e kote nje krem puder i erret ne dimer ose nje fustan i bardhe akull; duhet evituar pudra dhe nuancat roze nese lekura eshte e zeshket. Fustani ne ngjyre ari nuk shkon nese ti do te martohesh ne vjeshte. Pra, nje trukator i zoti, di te jape sugjerimet e duhura per te percaktuar produktet ideale per te patur nje efekt mendafshi, te heqe shkelqimin e tepert, te evitoje kullimin e mundshem te make-up. Dhe te kamufloje te gjitha defektet e fytyres, duke e pergatitur ne menyre perfekte per te qendruar nga mengjesi ne mbremje, ne qetesi te plote, perpara aparatit fotografik.

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