Five Tips to avoid obesity

by: Hadeel

In all over the world people are suffering from obesity in different ages . In addition, it is important first  to know the reasons of over weight to avoid it. Moreover, there are several ways to avoid  obesity, and different strategies that the people can choose the best way for them.

The first step to avoid obesity is the obese person should be ready for a big change in his life.Also, the obese person should try to persuade himself to start dieting, and complete his way till the end.The second step to avoid obesity is to exercise at least one hour a day.For instance, it is very helpful if there is a group, or a friend that can join you during the exercise. Having a partner have helped a lot of people to exercise.The third step is to reduce the amount of food that the person usually eats.Don't ever start a hard dieting it will never last, the perfect dieting that last is to reduce a small amount of food each day and you will not feel hungry.The third step is try not to eat between the meals instead eat fruits.Also, add vegetables to your meals that can help to full your stomach with fibers not fat. Furthermore, the fourth step is to avoid eating from  fast food restaurant it is full of fat, instead it is helpful to cook meals at home .Finally,the last step is to take a break once a month like a reward for your self to encourage you to complete your success of making a wonderful change in your life.  

My University!

by: Takeshi

Hello, everyone.

The last blog which I wrote, I introduced myself. Today, I want to tell you about my university in Japan.

Do you know Kyoto?  It is one of the most famous cities with old temples and shrines in Japan.

Strictly speaking, Doshisha University has two campuses. One is Imadegawa Campus. The campus is located almost the center of Kyoto prefecture. Students mainly in the humanities go and study there.

 

As you can see from the above picture of the campus, the appearance of building looks like European style rather than Japanese, which is not surprising, my university was founded by Jyo Niijima in 1875. He was a pious believer in Christianity.

Near the campus, there are several traditional shrines and temples. For example, you can visit Gosyo, a residence of the past emperor, and the residence is designated one of a national treasures. Students can visit such a good historical place even after finishing their classes!

Let me show you another campus, in Kyotanabe. The head of my department, global communication, is placed in this campus. Compared with Imadegawa campus, Kyotanabe one is surrounded plentiful nature. Students in the science course and a part of humanities attend the campus. Since the campus is neither noisy nor busy place, students can concentrate their work!

The brilliant points of my university is especially that you can feel atmospheres of not only traditional Japan but also highly cosmopolitan. Every year, a lot of exchange students come and enjoy their life in Japan. In addition, a new faculty was founded from this April. Global Region of Culture faculty! I strongly hope that my university becomes more global in the future.

men s/s 2013 collection .

by: abdullah alhouti

spring/summer 2013 collection for men is very light,colorful and Diverse. some runway shows in Milan/Paris week for many different designers show that this summer will be very colourful . fabrics like cotton, eyelet, tropical wool and linen are the most commonly used for spring/summer dresses as well as shorts or beach wear, these types of fabric soak sweat and allow the air to flow in the clothes for a fresher feeling on hot days.

 Strips and plain shorts and trousers are in this summer , many of famous designers such as , versaci , Gucci, Hermes , dolce and gebanna , Micheal kors are using white and black stripes pattern mixed with a shiny summery colors , also multi-colours are back this summer very noticeably .

to make it easier for a men how to choose a great look for this summer follow these steps:

1- choose more light colour ( blue , yellow, white,red,orange,green  and lime) , and stay away off dark colors ( navy, maroon, grey , black ).

2- sandals are more on fashion than shoes this summer , you can choose any type of sandals,leather is the most favourable fabric for this summer.

3- Accessories can complete your look by giving your more summery touches , straw hats , watches, multi-colour leather belts, shamballa bracelet and linen scarfs.

4- jeans shirt is amazing in summer specially if it is going to be a jean vest it will be amazing  summery outfit if  you wear it with any short with a plain t-shirt or strips for  more edgy look.

5- for a night look white , light blue , light gray and beige linen suits are great  look for specail events.     



6- you can inspire form your favourite actor , singer, model and every one you like his style , but it is important to see if it id going to fit you or no .

fashion is nice if you know what to waer? how to waer?



Introduction from Tony

By Tony

Hi, everybody. I Chinese name is Yitao, or you can call me Tony. Now, I am a student in UCR Extension. Today I am going to introduce myself to you. To begin with, I would like to talk about my home town - Beijing where I grow up. Beijing is the capital city of China, also a very big city with huge population. It’s big and with huge population, because Beijing is the center of the politics and economic for many years. As a result, most of people who working and living in Beijing were from the places all over of China; thus, people brought their own culture and food into Beijing,  so you can found most kind of Chinese food in Beijing. Next, I want bring out my education background and my future plan. I just finished my high school education while I came to U.S., right now I am about to transfer to one of the community college in California. After two years community college, I will continue to the university and maybe work here for few years after the graduate school. Science is always intertied me since I was in junior high school, I would love to spent many time and doing experiment in the science lab, and I really want to be an electronic engineer in the future. Eventually, I like to share my hobbies and interests with you guys, my love to go skiing during winter time. Skiing is a very excited and healthy sport to me, and I am attracting by skiing. Movie is my other interest, my favorite kind of movie is science fiction movie, they always been a kind of magic show to me.

                              This is all about me, and Think you for reading my introduction.                                                                     

Why do we like music?

by.Yoko

I found an interesting article. Do you like to listen to music? Have you ever thought why we do like music? I like music because it makes me happy or relaxed although it also makes us sad. Today I want to share what I read.

In 2001, some neurosciences found the fact that when we hear music, our certain part of brain areas which are called limbic and paralimbic are activated. It brings us euphoric reward responses which are also brought from sex, good food, and addictive drugs. It is easy to understand that we feel euphoric reward when we do something that necessary for us to survive but why music can also bring it to us?  Actually no one knows the truth. Though there is one strong theory.

Satisfaction is what we get from listening to music. We feel happy when we found something that we were looking for. It’s same to music and we unconsciously predict what note will come next and when it was correct we are satisfied and we will love it.

Prediction was once has been essential for our survival to get food or to avoid dangers and still it is when we cross the road.

This article is so interesting for me because my idea of music is something that we just feel and have fun. But it was not. We had a reason to love music.

I’ve heard of another interesting result about music that the flowers which grow with Mozart’s music grow well. How interesting powers it have!

My name & my story

by: Cary

     My name is Cary, and my Chines name is Gaojia Cai. Cai is my last name, I get is from my ancestor. Gaojia is my fist name, Gao is part of my first name, but I get if from the pedigree of my clan, it means the number of my generation. Last but not least, jia is another part of my first, my parents give it to me, they wish me to be a respectable person. I come from Chaozhou, a small ancient city in China. My family has 4 members, including my parents, my elder brother and me. My parents have their own company and my elder brother work for them now. In fact, my mother is also a housewife, she is in charge of all the housework.

     When I reflect on my education, including university, there is one event that have change my life. In fact, it is a mechanical competition. When I was sophomore, I accidentally participated a competition about my major, Mechanical engineering. But at that time, I only learn little about my major, and other teams were almost junior. However, at first, it made me and my team members become lack of confidence. But after we strive to think deeply and design our works, we all became exciting and confident. I think even the junior, even though they only learn more several curriculum than us, our ideas may more attractive and creative. At last, we won the second price but some of the junior teams were awarded with nothing. After the competition, I knew more about my major and found how I love my major and how I love to design a machine..

Reading in your mind is now possible

by: Ashley
  
Recently, researchers from UC Berkeley School of Information under the lead of the professor John Chuang have discovered an alternative to traditional passwords : it is now possible to extract these information directly from your head. In fact, a wireless headset which costs only 100 dollars will be placed on your head with a sort of microphone stuck on your forehead, and read your mind. They use electroencephalography sensors. Everyone emits specific brainwaves that are different from other people. These brainwaves will identify you every time you would like to be connected on your e-mail box for example. They called it pass-thought. In that way, you don't have anymore to be afraid of forgetting your passwords.

    This concept has an error rate below one percent which is really low. They think that it is more accurate than other sophisticated bio-metric authentication systems like fingerprint or iris scan which are described as slow, intrusive and expensive, and, of course, safer than common typed passwords which could be hacked quite easily.

    To test their prototype, they ask the participants to realise some tasks like choosing a secret, color counting, singing a song or focusing on their own breathing. The participants didn't seem to mind doing it every day. However, the users find hard to imagine doing sports without moving at all.

    They presented their finding at the 2013 Workshop on usable Security at the Seventeenth international Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security in Okinawa in Japan.

    In my opinion, it seems more convenient, but I believe that it is more intrusive that any bio-metric authentication system because after all, the system will read directly in your mind. Also, what will happen if some evil-minded person uses this device to hack your mind and extract any information they want about your life ? I think we should be careful with this sort of new technology. I am maybe too pessimistic. The future will tell us what will happen.

    In the meantime, what do you think ? Would you be okay to develop this new alternative to replace your passwords ?

   For information, another similar technology has been discovered by Japanese scientists at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories who claim that they can read in people's dreams using magnetic resonance imaging.

 

Exchange pictures plan in Ghana Tomoe Kusubae

Hello!!!!!!  This is Tomoe Kusubae.

Today, I would like to explain about my project i did in Ghana.


Exchange pictures plan in Ghana

１、Background and Reason

     In the world, there are many people and many differences between countries.  From now on global thinking will be more and more demanded.  Children are the support and driving force of future.  If children experience cultural exchange, it will encourage such thinking. 

     It is good experience to exchange Japanese children’s pictures and Ghanaian one because they can find some difference and commonness and it became first step of internationally-minded person.  

２、detail

Place: Sakae kinder garden in Japan and nursery school in Ghana

Person in charge：Tomoe Kusubae

Contents：

 First stage

target	Japanese children [3 ~5years old, 35 people ]  internship student in Japan
period	In early August  [it has done]
activity	Drawing picture about family
The others things	One child drew one picture.

Second stage

target	Japanese internship students in Ghana
period	In the last August or early September
activity	①     Get First stage’s pictures by mail. ②     Show and Explain the picture to Ghanaian children.   ③     Make them draw the pictures about family.  ④     Make them explain the pictures and take a video.  [The time is 30seconds in a person.  Total is 3minute] ⑤     Take a picture [the shot is children having own picture.]（*1） ⑥     Send data[④and ⑤] by a net system.（*2） ⑦     Bring back the pictures [③]
The others things	＜preparation＞ ・Crayon or color pencils ・Papers

      They explained their family in front of the classroom.  I was happy to make workshop with school’s help.  I hope many students can learn culture. 

Yousef Intro

Hi...

My name is Yousef Alahmadi. I am form Medina, Saudi Arabia, a very famous city in the Middle East for its unique history, which started with the beginning of Islam. Millions of people visit the city each year, and a wide range of people with different backgrounds live there; thus, people there are used to interact and coexistence with other nationalities. They are famous for being well behaved, polite, and open-minded. There are also knowing for there generosity with there guests. For instance, my mother used to tell me many stories about how my grandfather used have a lot of visitors from other countries and how they used to share there house with them for a month or more.

Furthermore, I am scientific researcher at KACST, Saudi Arabia. As part of my job, I have to complete master degree in electrical engineering. Therefore, as soon as finish my study at the University of California-Riverside Extension, I hope to join a master program in the United States.

Finally, I just had a baby girl. Her name is Lana, and she is 5 weeks old. In case you are wondering, her paper works was the reason for me to miss the the first week of the quarter. Me and my wife are really enjoying watching her growing up; however, still we are not very experienced with her. We are doing our best.

This was a short introduction about myself. I hope that you found interesting. 

Ashley's personal background info

by: Ashley

Hello everybody !

My name is Ashley. I was born in the United States in the state of California. However, I grew up on Raiatea island in French Polynesia. Maybe you don't know where it is. French Polynesia is a group of islands located at the south of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The most famous island is Tahiti. This aforementioned island like Bora Bora or Huahine is a very popular destination for tourists. A lot of people from France come to this place. They enjoy the tropical landscapes with the sea, the beach and luxurious vegetation. There is a lot of activities such as going underwater, doing whale watching, doing a hike and more. It is really sunny there, but it rains periodically too. The temperature is not too hot or too cold, so it is rather nice. One problem is maybe that there is a lot of mosquitoes. They usually bit foreigners and not the local people. 

                        

Tahitian people like to welcome new comers. When you come out by plane, there is always a local dance with music. My hometown is a really small island. People know and like to talk to each other. In Tahiti, people are a little more cold because they are more busy and it is a bigger island. About the food, I can say that it is pretty heavy, so you have to be careful about what you eat but it is good so don't be afraid to try new flavors. I like to eat "poe" which is like a jelly cake or "poisson cru" that is a dish of raw fish with vegetables. 

           

I like to listen to music and in particular, pop and rock. I enjoy watching television, movies and series like How I Met Your Mother or Big Bang Theory. I also appreciate reading mystery and fantastic books even if I don't read so much lately.

           

What can I say about academic background ? I graduated from high school in French Polynesia. Then, I went to study in France in a preparatory class. Now, I plan to continue studying in the United States. I am interesting in global studies, but I am still open for other field of study. I plan to go first in a community college in fall, and then, I might go to a four year undergraduate college or start working right after.

introduction of Yoko Haraguchi

Hello:) My name is Yoko Haraguchi. I'm from Japan.
My hometown is Yamanashi which is located near Tokyo. We can go to Tokyo in 2 hours by train. It's famous for fruit especially for grapes and peaches. They put out the largest amount of them in Japan. It's valley so it's so hot in summer and surrounded by mountains. We can see Mt.Fuji so beautifully.
I have many things that I like to do.I like music. I like seeing musicals very much. I like sing and dance.I decided to take conteporary dance class this quorter. I also like to spend a quiet, relaxed time like reading novels. I like detective novels, essays, and romance novels. I like to go to museums and concert,too. I like to eat delicious food. My favorite food is Japanese food.
Now I want to talk about my academic background.I'm major in Pharmacy in Japan. I want to be a pharmacist in hospital. I'm a third grade student so I have 3 more years to study in my university. In first 2 years, I studied general subjects and in third year I studied more clinical things so it became interesting to learn. I'm preparing for TOEFL test because I need that score to take a UCR credit program. In the UCR credit program, I want to take classes which I can not study in my majar. I want to know about new things. To understand classes, I want to improve my English skills.
During this stay, I have to work hard on study(already I have a lot of homework everyday) and also I want to work hard on to challenge new things, make new friends and enjoy myself:)

Nice to meet you!!

Hello everyone.
My name is Takeshi Kometani.Two weeks has passed since I arrived to Riverside.
Today I am goin to tell you about myself.


Before I start to introduce myself, I want to ask you a question. Do you know where is Japan? Japan is next to China in the east, and she is called the easternmost island! My hometown, Osaka prefecture, is located in almost the middle of Japan. The climete is basically so worm that we can sent comfortable lives. Thanks to the good climate and atomostphere, you can see beautiful flowers and lively trees especially in spring and summer. Very nice place :)



If you have a chance to visit Osaka, I strongly recommend you to try to eat some food which is made from flour. Osaka is very famous for the delicious food even in Japan. The tipical good food is takoyaki! It is a kind of baked small bowl made from pasted flour. In the baked small bowl, you can find there is a bite-sized octopus. I heard that some American people dislike octopus and do not eat it, but please try it!! It's sooooo delicious. Brown sauce and mayonnaise extract further good taste :)




Next, let me tell you about my academic background. My own school is Doshisha university in Kyoto. My major is global commuication and I mainly study the cultural context between countries and some effective ways to communicate with people. The studying extent includes Japanese cultures. Last year, I learnened Japanese pop-culture, movies and something like that. If you have interesting about Japanese culture, please ask me without hesitancy. I will answer your questions as far as I know.



At last. I want to tell you about my personal interests. My hobby is to play sports especially basketball and swimming. When I was a high school student, I was in a swimming club. In adition, I love reading books. I mean, I am addicted to novels a little ;D   If you know books you recommend, please tell me!!

Thank you reading :)

who is abdullah alhouti ?!?

hello everyone ,

as regards for my biography , i would mentioned  that  my name is abdullah alhouti , a male who is 18 years old,  i made in Kuwait ( lucky me !! ) . Kuwait is a small country in middle east , it is famous for oil as a main industry .

my native language is Arabic and i speak English too .

i am a part of a small family( mom,dad,me and my younger brother).

my education background starting with a high school diploma , i was graduated from high school in June 2012 with a high GPA in biology, geology, math ,chemistry ,English and Arabic literature .

. in addition i have an open scholarship for all majors again ( lucky me !!) . i choose  petroleum engineering as Major because, it is the main industry in Kuwait also it is a good career for a Kuwaity person to have a bachelor degree in that major, plus i applied for Houston university in Texas and Marietta college in Ohio , i am  still waiting to be accepted for one of them . after finishing my bachelor degree i made a plan to complete studying and get a master degree in biology and a PhD in education and i hope some day i can be an professor in Kuwait university .
As for my hobbies, i would say that i am in love with all kind of art ( singing , playing music , writing lyrics, drawing.designing and writing poems ) also i am interest in swimming ,cooking, traveling , reading and for sure (shopping !!) .
now i am working in small project which is it a man/woman spring/summer collection it is all about clothing and this collection was inspired by animals and African culture .
i hope some day i will have a big brand on my name such as ( versaci, dolce &gabbana and Chanel) .

wish me luck!!



best regards,



Tomoe's introduction:)

Hello, this  is Tomoe Kusubae.
I want to talk about my background:) 

I'm from Japan.  My hometown is Kagoshima which exist in south area of Japan.  


This is very hot city but cooler than California and humid.  
We have a beautiful sea, volcanoes and traditional place. 

 People are very kind so we have close relations each other.  when we meet anyone in my city, we greet everyone.  I love my hometown.








My hobbies are listening music, watching sports games and travel.  Especially,  my favorite singers are Flo rida and Rihanna.  I like watching sports so I went to L.A. to watch Lakers basketball game.  It was so so interesting!!!  In addition, I like to travel around the world so I went to Indonesia, Bangladesh, Russia, Dubai and Ghana.  I was in Ghana as the volunteer for 6 weeks. I got great experiences and improve myself.  I want to go abroad many times in my life.



My academic goal is to make business model for the patients who have chronic diseases.  My major is international relation and research field is international welfare.  Actually, I was interested in developing countries' social structures so I went many developing countries.  However I found my chronic disease, in addition I heard many chronic patients and disabled people have difficulty to get jobs live by themselves.  They want to work and pay for some services but there are few jobs and some companies which do such business for those of them.  That's why I'm interested in welfare.  Furthermore, I found patients' lives change because of not diseases themselves but the countries where they live.  Through these experiences, I'll do field work about patients' needs or difficulties and establish business model to solve and improve their situations.




I'll take TOEFL in this university and I'm applying for UCP next session.  I want to improve my English skill so PLEASE study together:)  I also like to travel to many famous place in the U.S.  If you have a time let's go together!!!!!

Hadeel's Backround

 My name is Hadeel, and I am a mother of two adorable kids. I am from Saudi Arabia, and I live in a city called Jeddah which is located in the West region near the red sea . In addition, the weather in Jeddah is hot and humid most of the year,and it's rare in my city to have a cold weather.Moreover, the people in Jeddah are nice and easy to talk with.During the vacations, people from other cities usually visit Jeddah in their vacations because it has a beautiful beaches, and there is also the tallest fountain that people can enjoy the view of it.Furthermore, the food in Saudi Arabia is fabulous, the most famous food there is called Kabsah which contain rice with meat or chicken with different kinds of spices.In addition, Saudi Arabia have special kind of coffee called Arabic coffee ,and we usually serve it with dates.

 In 2009, I came to the U.S with my husband to complete my education. My major is Child studies, and I came to UCR last year to learn English ,and in order to pass the English proficiency test that all the universities in the U.S requires it for the international student. In addition, my goals for know is to be accepted in one of the universities in the U.S.for master degree in Psychology. After I finish my master degree I will go back home and find a job.