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From Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad, Black and White to Heal the World, Michael Jackson overwhelmed the world with his spiffy dance moves and voices. Being gone of a sudden, the man astonishes us again by his huge influence on global music and culture, which goes far beyond America and Europe, even to his root land Africa and the overseas East. When he was alive, he broke down racial barriers and paved the way for younger generations on pop music through a wealth of exquisite music videos. Now the great entertainer is passing forever, is there anything we the MJ addicts can do to remember him?

The answer is definite. As to fans of MJ MVs, I think a good memory practice is to make a distinctive video as a tribute to him. Rather than listening to an existing music video of his, a homemade video writing our wishes for MJ will make more sense on his voyage to heaven. Some may fear that it is hard to make a video without sufficient competence in audio and video editing. Fortunately, there is an easy workaround – Write and edit memory messages in PowerPoint & Save to video with Moyea PPT to Video Converter. MS PowerPoint offers a simple solution for us to add magic to plain text, with a crafty mix of animations, sounds and movie montage clips; while Moyea PPT to Video Converter, a professional PowerPoint-to-video software program, processes a ready presentation to various videos that supported by the Web and many portables.

Guides on Memory Video for Michael Jackson Whether good at video editing or not, every MJ fan can manage to make a video out of PowerPoint with these 2 steps:

Step 1: Structure a MJ presentation in PowerPoint

To make an awesome MJ presentation, a clear clue is a must. Sort the memory words to a complete story with beginning, development and ending. It can be a photo album of the gracious singer, a MJ memory collection from all sides of the society, a self-recorded song with lyrics for the musician, or anything else that is particular and proper to express our deep feeling for MJ. Add in animations, transitions, sounds or even movie clips for a dramatic effect. Remember not to make it too long, just keep it within a quarter. Related sources that you may need:

Free PowerPoint Templates of Michael Jackson

Free Michael Jackson Wallpaper

Michael Jackson Music

Step 2: Finalize the MJ presentation in video

When the MJ memory presentation is completed, forward the conversion task to Moyea PPT to Video Converter. Import the presentation, and let the smart helper output it to a seamless video in AVI, MP4, MOV, FLV, 3GP and etc. Click here for details of converting PowerPoint to video

Now our final video comes out, the next concern is

Where does this MJ memory carrier go?

The destination varies according to the specific format set within the PPT to Video converter.

Stop 1 – Internet We can upload the MJ memory video to a string of social networking sites, e.g. YouTube, MySpace, blogs, podcasts, inviting friends and other MJ fans to share the affection for the Pop of King. Besides, there are special sites for MJ fans to submit memory messages, photos and videos, such as the “At Memorials for Michael Jackson” on MSNBC Stop 2 – iPod or similar mobile gadgets To stay alone with the late artist, connect the MJ memory video to an iPod, an iPhone, or a mobile phone like Blackberry. These personal gadgets are best choices for a separate prayer, unique, tranquil, and solemn enough to keep the bygone undisturbed. Yes, we love him.

May Michael Jackson Rest in Peace!

“May I know how long does it take to visibly grow muscles?” Well, as a professional fitness personal trainer, I get variations of this question from almost every new client.

So how can I answer that question because there are also many variable factors like for instance, if you are fat, you can’t see your muscle growth unless you take the fat off or what is being visible is subjective from person to person.

For the hardgainers (people who have difficulty in gaining weight), gaining weight or muscles can be very a difficult and tedious process without professional help. For the genetically endowed, muscle growth can be very fast while some others may make only little progress or even no improvement at all (the latter being lack of muscle building education).

Therefore, if you are wondering how long does it take to grow muscles, then I must be forthright with you and tell you that there is just no direct answer.

However, the good news is that if you eat and exercise correctly, your muscles will definitely grow, even for hardgainers.

Unknown to many people, muscles do not grow in a linear process but in a series of spurts and as such, no matter how hard you workout your muscles and how much you eat, your muscles will probably not grow at predictable pace. I know that this fact will surprise many people.

There are many more reasons influencing your muscle growth and not everyone will build muscles at the same rate even if they are working out with the same weight, exercises and eating the same food.

Some people are genetically predisposed to growing muscles and will see amazing results after only just a few months. We all know that the Mesomorphs (sporty body frame) will grow muscles faster than the Ectomorphs (slender body frame).

Your rate of muscle growth will also depend largely on how close you are to the upper limit of what you are naturally capable of in terms of growing muscle mass. This phenomenon is known as the adaptation ceiling.

What this means is that closer you are to this upper adaptation limit, the slower your muscle will grow. To put it in simpler terms, someone who has been working out with weights for a few years will grow muscles much more slowly than a novice who is new to weight lifting.

Another fact is that it is not uncommon for people to gain body fat when they are growing muscles. The amount of fat you gain will depend on how much you eat, what you eat and also on how lean you were when you first started to fuel your muscle growth with what you eat. Eating to propel muscle growth is commonly referred to as “overfeeding”.

Numerous studies have shown that during a period of overfeeding, you will gain more muscle and less fat if you are the lean body type. During the cutting phase to get rid of body fat to show muscle definition, it is known that fatter people tend to lose more fat and less muscle when they cut, but the leaner ones will find it harder to lose fat without losing muscle.

Why does this happen? Well, it could be merely be psychological.

Take for example when you have worked very hard to get your well defined six-pack abs, then you will not want to put the fat on again and obscure your hard earned abs and thus you may be reluctant to eat the amount of food necessary to gain significant muscle growth. Make sense?

Another reason could be hormonal inbalances as some studies do show a correlation between low body fat and low testosterone (male hormone) levels. If your testosterone is low, it is also difficult for you to grow muscle mass.

So how long does it take to see muscle growth will depend very much on your genes and many other factors besides merely exercising with the proper workouts and eating correctly.

There’s something different, something special about Christmas in the country - a uniqueness which sets it apart from the same holiday in the city. Something more serene and seemingly more meaningful. A quieter, more reflective time. A time to actually contemplate what Christmas is really about.

Christmastime in the city is typified by hustle and bustle, tension and stress, and is certainly infinitely more expensive. Not so for a country Christmas.

In a rural area, Christmas is much more a time of fun and anticipation. A time for simple excitement, more meaningful giving, a truer grasp of the real spirit of the holiday.

Country folk do not get overly wrapped up in the commercial aspects of Christmas as is the case with most urban dwellers. They take more pleasure in simple gifts from the heart than store bought expressions of the holiday. Country folk tend to not place as much importance on the price of a gift as they do on the underlying meaning and thought put into it.

A batch of fresh baked cookies, homemade and delicious, packed into a nice Christmas tin, go a long way in satisfying the spirit of giving. Baking those favorite cookies takes much more thought and effort than purchasing a gift from some overcrowded store – much more.

Some country folk give the gift of doing a favor of love such as repairing an older person’s roof or doing odd jobs for another, especially an elder who may no longer be capable of doing such things themselves. They do so much more than their city cousins. Such expressions of thoughtfulness go a long way to assuage any guilt of not buying a present and, I suspect, are much more appreciated by the receiver.

In the country, one does not go to a tree lot to buy a dried out and sometimes scraggly, exorbitantly priced Christmas tree. Instead, in rural areas one packs their recently sharpened ax, heads to the nearest wooded area, scouts out the best pine tree there, and harvests it.

Tree cutting day is an exciting time for kids. I remember vividly my brothers and my adventures into the woods to find the perfect tree to take home. Most times we had scouted that tree for years prior to actually cutting it. We watched it grow year by year until it had reached just the right height for our living room. A few weeks before Christmas, and once we deemed it the best we could find, we cut it down, tied it to our Flexible Flyer sled, and slid it all the way home to the back porch. (There always seemed to be snow at that time of year.)

A tree freshly cut from the woods always seems to smell so much better, look more Christmassy, and provides infinitely more satisfaction than one bought at an urban tree lot. Always did for me anyway. I always felt sorry for city kids who never got to experience this pleasure.

Even a snow storm at Christmas is cause for celebration in the country whereas in the city it causes distress. City people may find themselves stranded in traffic or at airports. Tempers flare, rude behavior surfaces, and the Christmas spirit fades. Snow in the city at Christmas is not something to wonder at or enjoy for its serenity inducing effect.

In the countryside, as Robert Frost notes in his poem “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”, a snowstorm at Christmas is an event to appreciate and marvel at. It somehow enhances the spirit of the holiday. Robert Frost points this out. Even though he had “miles to go before I sleep”, he reins in the little horse pulling his sleigh while passing down a wooded country road at night to “watch his (a landowner’s) woods fill up with snow”. He takes a moment to observe the snow and even listen to the distinct sounds of a snowy evening where he notes “The only other sound’s the sweep, Of easy wind and downy flake”.

Country folk eagerly anticipate snow at Christmas; in fact, they are truly “dreaming of a white Christmas”.

 Yes, Christmas in the country is manifested by the simple pleasures country folk get from simple things as opposed to a more consumer-minded, materialistically affected city dweller. One of my favorite gifts as a child was a pair of hand-knitted mittens I received each Christmas for many years from an elderly lady, a friend of the family, who must have spent countless hours of loving labor to make them special. They had my name knitted into them. I was the only kid in school who had mittens like that. I was as proud and appreciative of those warm hand coverings as I would have been had they been bought in the finest store on 5th Avenue in the busiest, most harried city at Christmas possibly in the world. Those mittens were something real and special – bright colored, expertly made, and toasty warm even on the coldest days. Those Christmas mittens were an expression of how much the lady loved me and I knew it even at a young age.

Does anyone knit mittens for Christmas anymore?