And what about Jenson Button ? He will defend his title with McLaren team alongside Lewis Hamilton, where this team will have British drivers to chase another F1 championship trophy. So, two world champions within one team ? It will be exciting to see whether this Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button combination will be better than Lewis Hamilton - Fernando Alonso combination two years ago.

So, will it be Germany vs England for F1 Championship this year? I don’t so. Ferrari is mature now. They have focused on the development or 2010 car since last year. They don’t want to repeat the same mistakes by focusing on F1 championship in 2008 where it cost them year 2009. So far, the development is running toward the right direction where Ferrari cars is ruling this 2010 practice session.

With Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa behind the wheel, Ferrari looks like a very strong contender this year. And don’t forget Redbull. They are one of two teams that surprise all world in 2009 season by delivering Sebastian Vettel as F1 2009 season runner up.

And it is very pity that Kimi Raikkonen left this 2010 season when all F1 world champions in this decade are still racing each other. I hope that he will join 2011 season. And there is a rumour that he will be back behind Redbull wheel next year.

New teams and new rules are things that will make this 2010 season is different than previous seasons. There are for teams that have approval to join this 2010 season. Those are Virgin, Lotus, Campos and US. But only Virgin, Lotus and Campos that will participate in 2010 season. US has asked the F1 council permission to not participate in this season. Campos also change its name into Hispania Racing Team, which followed the name of their new investor.

The other significant change that has been made is the scoring system. Now, the winner of any F1 races will get 25 points. And the top 10 drivers will get points instead of 8 drivers last year.

And also you won’t see any dramas that occasionally happened when F1 cars are refuelling in pitstop. F1 council has banned any refuelling during races.

New teams, new drivers, new scoring points system have made me to make major changes in my F1 spreadsheet. Basically this spreadsheet is finished about a month ago, before my World Cup 2010 spreadsheet. But, I delayed the posting because I am waiting the final statement from FIA regarding the new rules, teams, and drivers, where they just released it less than two weeks before the first race in Sakhir, Bahrain.

There is no major changes in my spreadsheet layout. I just extended the “Race Result” worksheet to accommodate the top ten drivers who will get points because the previous spreadsheet only can accommodate the top eight drivers.

In “Team and Driver Standings” worksheet, I add a new columns which will show you driver nationality flags and standings movement. The “Schedules and Podium Results” and “Team and Driver” worksheets are remain the same with the previous 2009 F1 worksheets.

You can download this F1 2010 Schedule and Scoresheet file below.

This template is based on my previous Euro 2008 template. Because World Cup 2010 tournament consists of 32 teams, compare with Euro 2008 tournament which only consists of 16 teams, I made lay out modification to make the sheet fit nicely and properly if it is printed within one page A4 or letter paper size.

I am also adjusting the excel formula for deciding and ranking the teams that qualify to the next round after they played all their group matches, if two or more teams have same points, based on World Cup tournament tie regulation where the tie regulation is slightly different with Euro 2008 tie regulation.

I maintain the language and timezone conversion, so you can use or print this template based on your language and time zone. I would like to thanks to Google which provide a very good translation tool which translate my words in this template in seconds. But, I still need a better human translation to make it fully comply with your language. You can help me refining that translation, or add new language translation, by downloading the language file and send it back to me. I will put your name as credit in this site. There 34 different languages and 139 cities timezone available in this version. Just select your language and timezone from the dropdown list in the upper left side of the worksheet to change the appearance of the worksheet into your local language and timezone.

I add a new excel formula to dynamically manage the appearance of team or country flags in Group Standings Table. In the beginning, I plan to put that formula next to every teams in every matches. But, it makes the excel run very slow every time you change cells or fill the scores. So, I decided to drop the formula in any team matches and apply the formula in Group standing table only.

Now, let’s go to the detail on how to use this spreadsheet as your scoresheet. If you ever had download my sport templates, you will be familiar with my sport style template where there are score boxes with blue color which ready to be filled with your estimation score or real score results.And you don’t have to read this instruction. Just use it. For you that download this spreadsheet for the first time, you can read this explanation below carefully to understand how this spreadsheet works.

There are two worksheets that are shown in this spreadsheet, the first one is “todo-holiday-event” worksheet. And you can start to use it as your 2010 monthly calendar by setting the month and the year in the first rows of this worksheet to January 2010. You change it according to your preference. After that, you can put your to-do list in to-do list column. You can use  this list as your reminder list also. For example, you can put your favorite movies schedule, your concert show, your favorite sport teams schedule etc. And you don’t have to type it in sequence, because the excel formula will display and order it automatically in the calendar. So, you can add it anytime without thinking of ordering the dates.

The second column is a holiday column. There are US holidays time that I put as a default. You can change it based on your country national holiday, or your own private holiday. The description of the holiday will be displayed next to the date of the calendar and the row of that date will turn into red.

The third column is an important event column. In case you want to separate your important event with your to-do list, like your birthday or your beloved one birthday, you can put it in here where the event will be displayed differently in the calendar. It will be displayed next to the date of the calendar with blue color. It will share the place with the holiday information. So, if the important event and holiday are happened at the same date, the important event will become priority to be displayed.

The second worksheet is a calendar worksheet where you can see your customize calendar before you print it. There is a slider tool on top of the calendar that you can use to slide between months. You can slide it right to go to the next month and slide it left to go back.

That’s all guys. You can download it here.

There are several methods to calculate body fat percentage, and usually the parameter for men and women also different. I choose two popular methods. The first method is Caliper method, which developed by A.S. Jackson, and M.L. Pollock in year 1985, that include weight in the calculation and the second method is developed by US Navy that include height in the calculation. You can read more information about Caliper method here.

Parameters based on US Navy method are :
- Weight (men and women),
- Waist (men and women),
- Wrist (women only),
- Hip (women only),
- Forearm (women only)

Parameters based on Caliper method are :
- Height (men and women),
- Neck (men and women),
- Abdomen (men and women),
- Hip (women only),

If you compare the results of both method, you will find that the variation of the body fat percentage for men are very high for some values. And there is no exact body fat range classification based on the calculated results. Different authorities have different classification based on their research. So, use this result as your brief reference. Always consult your doctor or your health advisor to give you a better objective valuation.

The guidance to use this spreadsheet is simple, just enter your body fat parameter measurement in the corresponding boxes, and the excel formula will give you the body fat percentage and the health classification range based on that percentage.

You can download the file here.

So, using the same approach with that monthly calendar, I created this bill payment organizer that will allow you to organize your bill payments with additional recurring day and dates adjustment formula. But, I choose to create it in weekly calendar first due to limitation concerns. If your due dates which share the same dates are more than five bills, I think this calendar will be your solution. If you want to have the bill reminder for one full month, you can print it four times with four different week period.

This spreadsheet consist of two worksheets. The first worksheet is a bill payment data entry and holiday setup worksheet. In this worksheet, you can type all your bills and select or type its due dates. For example, you have Mastercard credit card that due every 2nd date each month, and then you have to type Mastercard name in Detail column, Credit Card in type column and minimum amount you usually pay. What if the amount is changing each month ? If this is the case, typing the date in fixed date column is a current solution. You can expand the use of this scheduler as a reminder of any bill payments. For example, day reminder of weekly allowance reminder, where you want to have the calendar display the reminder of giving your son weekly allowance every Monday.

Once you finished entering all of your bill payments or other reminders, you can go to the second worksheet to see how the calendar display your due dates in a week period plus the sum of your bills amount. First, you have to type the start date reference, where it will be used as the sliding bar reference. After that, you can slide right or slide left to customize the weekly period for your printing. There is a red color mark at the date title if the day is Sunday or if the day is a national holiday. You can add more holidays in the first worksheets or modify the holiday since these are US holidays.

There are maximum 20 bills that can be displayed at the same date using this bill payment calendar.

You can download the file here.

I am not an expert in finance, but I know finance well because I am running several companies. I have some people who works for me to do all financial things where I have to use their financial reports when I made some business decisions.

You can use this NPV method if you positioned your self only as an investor that received a fixed amount of money in a short period. In my experiences, for a longer period of time, say more than 3 years, and with uncertain  business risks, you should make a detail financial plan to justify your business plan.

Microsoft Excel already provide a tool to calculate this NPV where you can use it directly. And in this spreadsheet, this calculation is used to compare three different projects or investments based on discount rate, period, initial cash flow and yearly cash flow. And as I mention above, it is suitable only for a business with minimum business risks.

If you are a student who want to learn the implementation of NPV method, you can play around with this spreadsheet or modify it to suit your purposes. And you can read also the explanation in the Excel Help menu. Or just googling this Net Present Value term, and you will get hundreds of sites that provide detail information about it.

You can download the file here.

The ratio is applied both to women and men. It is calculated by measuring the smaller circumference of the waist, usually just above the belly button, and dividing by the hip circumference at its widest part of the buttocks or hip. You can classify your health risk based on its result.

Studies show that WHR value 0.7 for women and 0.9 for men correlate with general health and fertility. Women on that range will have optimal levels of estrogen and are less susceptible to major diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disorders and ovarian cancers, where men on that range, will be more healthy and fertile with less prostate cancer and testicular cancer possibility. You can continue finding some studies or research in internet about this Waist to Hip ratio, and in the mean time, you can use this simple tool to find your ratio.

You can download the file here.

This is the solution of that request where you can easily list your TV shows and let the excel formula display your listing in weekly calendar. This TV schedule will display the date, the time, the TV station and the TV shows. And you can slide right or left to customize the weekly period before you print it.

This TV schedule consists of two worksheets. The first worksheet is TV listing worksheet where you can list your favourite TV shows based on recurring day (for example Heroes movie that is aired every Monday), recurring date (for example Music live show event that occur once a month), or fixed date (for example a Los Angeles Lakers matches). There is a holiday column where you can customize if you have other holidays date instead of default USA holidays.

Once you finished listing your TV shows, you can go to the second worksheet and see how the formula organize your listing in corresponding day and dates. Input the starting date for slider bar reference. And after that you can slide right or slide left to customize the weekly period of TV schedule.

You can download the file here.

Like the Western calendar, The Chinese Lunar Calendar is a yearly one, with the start of the lunar year being based on the cycles of the moon. Therefore, because of this cyclical dating, the beginning of the year can fall anywhere between late January and the middle of February. This year it falls on February 12th. A complete cycle takes 60 years and is made up of five cycles of 12 years each.

The Chinese Lunar Calendar names each of the twelve years after an animal. Legend has it that the Lord Buddha summoned all the animals to come to him before he departed from earth. Only twelve came to bid him farewell and as a reward he named a year after each one in the order they arrived. The Chinese believe the animal ruling the year in which a person is born has a profound influence on personality, saying: “This is the animal that hides in your heart.”

The sequence of Chinese year are as follows :

1. Rat           1924     1936     1948     1960     1972     1984     1996    2008
2. Ox           1925     1937     1949     1961     1973     1985     1997    2009
3. Tiger        1926     1938     1950     1962     1974     1986     1998    2010
4. Rabbit      1927     1939     1951     1963     1975     1987     1999    2011
5. Dragon    1928     1940     1952     1964     1976     1988     2000    2012
6. Snake      1929     1941     1953     1965     1977     1989     2001    2013
7. Horse      1930     1942     1954     1966     1978     1990     2002    2014
8. Sheep      1931     1943     1955     1967     1979     1991     2003    2015
9. Monkey   1932     1944     1956     1968     1980     1992     2004    2016
10. Rooster   1933     1945     1957     1969     1981     1993     2005    2017
11. Dog         1934     1946     1958     1970     1982     1994     2006    2018
12. Boar        1935     1947     1959     1971     1983     1995     2007     2019

I won’t explain too detail about this Chinese calendar history. You can read more detail here. There are two worksheets in this calendar. The first worksheet is a holiday and event worksheet where you can put your gregorian holiday and event, and Chinese holiday and events in lunar and solar column. Once you finished customize them, you can go to the second worksheet to see the calendar. The calendar is based on Gregorian calendar where Gregorian dates are above Chinese dates. And I put “moon” lookalike next to Chinese dates. The starting date of a month will have black moon next to its date, where the date 15th of the month will have white moon with red background to symbolize full moon.

The default year of this calendar is 2010, so you can use this as your Chinese calendar 2010 reference. You can send me feedback on how to improve this calendar. You can download the file here.

This tool is a database tool where you just put your weight, select your activities type and period, and the calories burned per day for each activities will be displayed. And there is a sum formula that will sum all calories burned. I provide until maximum 15 activities that can be selected.

I collected the calories burned per activities per 1 pound from internet. So, I cannot guarantee that the number is 100% correct. You still need to check your doctor or health advisor to make sure that the number of burned calories is correct for your recurring activities.

You can download the file here.