Wild Garden Hummus Dip Review

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fI8bJuPSV2A/UcD6aial8ZI/AAAAAAAAIVY/a1JPvPhhDYg/s1600/13+-+2" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fI8bJuPSV2A/UcD6aial8ZI/AAAAAAAAIVY/a1JPvPhhDYg/s320/13+-+2" width="320" /></span></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whether I'm eating crackers or vegetables it needs an extra something such as a dip or cheese etc. A snack that I love that's healthy and delicious and better than a dip that's full of fat and calories is hummus! It tastes great in a sandwich, on crackers, as a dip or on some veggies such as carrots, cucumbers and peppers! </span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I absolutely love hummus and especially if its healthy and all natural it's a huge plus for me because I'm eating healthier and on a mission to lose weight! </span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Any who my love for hummus has brought me to this review today! <a href="http://www.wildgarden.biz/">Wild Garden Hummus </a> sent me a case of their hummus to review along with 2 jars of Mediterranean hummus and also 3 snack packages of their delicious hummus in the cutest little squeezable pouch with pita chips! I love pita chips as well so this is the perfect go to snack for on the go !</span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here is a photo of my late afternoon snack that I chose, it sure was tasty and delicious! </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Chunky Mediterranean :</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">  </span></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x0ZlOqphIi4/UddklvR792I/AAAAAAAAImk/C1MCRATSz6Q/s1600/13+-+1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x0ZlOqphIi4/UddklvR792I/AAAAAAAAImk/C1MCRATSz6Q/s320/13+-+1" width="320" /></span></i></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ran out of some veggies for my sandwich so I used some chunky hummus with some turkey on a bagel! </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i>Roasted garlic hummus and multigrain pita chips snack pack:</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P7C3TJO1KJ8/UcD6anlzLWI/AAAAAAAAIVc/3XYZr7zEXU8/s1600/13+-+3" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P7C3TJO1KJ8/UcD6anlzLWI/AAAAAAAAIVc/3XYZr7zEXU8/s320/13+-+3" width="320" /></span></i></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I loved the taste of the hummus right amount of garlic and wasn't overpowering at all. Went perfectly with the pita chips and was just the snack I needed for late afternoon! </span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I can't wait to try the other flavors of this delicious hummus dip!   </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Sun dried tomato hummus and multigrain pita chips snack pack:</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PXNevDqkT20/UcMPJsVgKBI/AAAAAAAAIWU/m-7_TD6oMG4/s1600/13+-+1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PXNevDqkT20/UcMPJsVgKBI/AAAAAAAAIWU/m-7_TD6oMG4/s320/13+-+1" width="240" /></span></i></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My friend Cristin and I decided to grab some lunch after work yesterday and thankfully I had taken </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the hummus with the pita chips to go along with our sandwiches !</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It was the perfect day to eat lunch outside by the beach with the sun shining and the waves crashing!</span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cristin enjoying her lunch!</span></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">All natural </span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); 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line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Gluten free </span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">No preservatives </span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); 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Wild Garden Hummus Dip Review

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Helpful Diet Advice From Professional Weight Loss Consultants

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Liliana Mills</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Most diets help people to lose weight as long as they follow the program. But no one likes feeling deprived, so few people stay on a diet forever. The pounds creep back on as soon as they resume their former ways of eating. The best way to slim down permanently is by adopting healthier eating habits. Weight loss consultants recommend the following tips to help you lose fat and keep it off.<br /> <br /> Fiber is your friend. Studies show that people who eat a high-fiber diet are less likely to be overweight. Foods rich in fiber take longer to chew and digest and will leave you feeling full. The fiber itself is not absorbed by the body. Fruits and vegetables have higher amounts if eaten unpeeled and raw. To get fiber from cereals, breads and pasta, switch to wholegrain.<br /> <br /> Start your day with protein. Many people who are dieting eat a breakfast of cereal and skim milk. This can result in a mid-morning drop in blood sugar causing hunger, fatigue and cravings. A much healthier morning meal is based around eggs. A medium egg contains only 85 calories and is a great source of protein and nutrients. A two egg omelet with spinach and mushrooms comes in at under 300 calories.<br /> <br /> Steer clear of breaded and battered foods. Frozen fish sticks and chicken nuggets are particularly fattening. Marketed as protein, they are actually full of unhealthy oils and carbohydrates. A skinless chicken breast has less than half the calories as the same sized portion of a breaded chicken burger. Both take the same amount of time to cook.<br /> <br /> Avoid addictive snacks. Foods made up of starch fried in oil and topped with salt are hard to stop eating. It's common for dieters to grab a couple of potato or corn chips and go on to eat the full bag. Starchy snacks that are baked rather than fried have about half the calories. Try wholegrain crackers or pretzels. Or eat roasted, salted nuts for a crunchy snack with protein and fiber.<br /> <br /> Eat your fruit whole. Fruit juice is advertised as a healthy, natural drink. In fact, it's not natural to remove the edible skin and pith from fruit and leave only the liquid and sugar. A 12 ounce glass of apple juice contains the same amount of sugar and even more calories than a can of cola. If you eat an unpeeled apple, many of the calories will be burned off as you chew and process the fiber.<br /> <br /> Don't be fooled by the low fat label. Companies who make processed diet foods replace the fats with additives, sugars and starches. These ingredients raise your blood sugar, leading to energy dips and hunger. What's more, when you consume more sugars or starches than you immediately need for energy, your body converts them to fat for storage.<br /> <br /> <A href="http://MySlimSolution.com">Weight loss consultants</A> agree that of you want to stay slim for life, you need to change your eating habits. Cut out processed food products and eat more natural foods. Cook nutritious meals from fresh produce. Simply making healthier choices could cut your intake by about 200 calories a day.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>You can visit the website <a href="http://MySlimSolution.com">MySlimSolution.com</a> for more helpful information about Professional Weight Loss Consultants Offer These Dieting Tips </div><br /> </div><br />

Helpful Diet Advice From Professional Weight Loss Consultants

By Liliana Mills Most diets help people to lose weight as long as they follow the program. But no one likes feeling deprived, so few peo...

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Frances Ha: Engaging portrait of an unfinished soul

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><i>Frances Ha</i> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>(2013) • <a href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/francesha/" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">View trailer</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Four stars. Rating: R, for profanity and sexual candor</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>By <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12885694730612878577" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">Derrick Bang</a></b></span></b></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <br /><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Slowly but steadily, Greta Gerwig has been crafting wry and thoughtful portraits of today’s self-absorbed millennials ... and, more specifically, those who suffer from what has been branded Failure to Launch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitVGeFKoesd-hCI2Lt3cod9eRIsBS6dKPVvwtMgEP0LEnU_pqCi8FKDUEZPio6aZCxEQHutB4-V1AetfdmvtcLVdY-mm6mDuh8rp1_XBzwJ59-QkPvb67yCk2kzRXHznux7wwnNUF0DHw/s1600/Frances+Ha2+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitVGeFKoesd-hCI2Lt3cod9eRIsBS6dKPVvwtMgEP0LEnU_pqCi8FKDUEZPio6aZCxEQHutB4-V1AetfdmvtcLVdY-mm6mDuh8rp1_XBzwJ59-QkPvb67yCk2kzRXHznux7wwnNUF0DHw/s400/Frances+Ha2+blog.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Mourning the apparent loss of her long-time best friend, Frances (Greta Gerwig) drowns<br />her sorrows in a good meal with Lev (Adam Driver), a sympathetic guy-pal who offers<br />the sort of superficial warmth that can obscure emotional pain ... if only briefly. What<br />Frances hasn't yet learned, though, is that true healing must come from within.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’ve seen hints in her stand-out supporting roles in the remake of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2011/04/arthur-poor-little-rich-remake.html">Arthur</a></i>and Woody Allen’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2012/07/to-rome-with-love-woody-lite.html">To Rome with Love</a></i>. Despite having (I assume) minimal creative control over those projects, and being limited to what those directors and scripts allowed, Gerwig nonetheless delivered an irresistible blend of quirky charm and wary vulnerability. The classic Greta Gerwig character — assuming it’s not too early to brand her in such a manner — always seems slightly out of phase with our world, her expression of cautious bewilderment suggesting that, to her, society and interpersonal relationships always are mildly out of focus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gerwig delivered a richer example of such a young woman in last year’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2012/06/lola-versus-undone-by-bogus-script.html">Lola Versus</a></i>, but her often amiable performance was undone by a frequently cruel and tin-eared script that forced too much self-destructive behavior on a title character who clearly should have known better.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cue the arrival of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Frances Ha</i>, a much more satisfying character study of a wayward New Yorker who — despite good intentions and often painful sincerity — just can’t get her act together. Gerwig had a strong hand in this 27-year-old woman’s development, having shared scripting credit with director Noah Baumbach. (They also worked together on 2010’s unsatisfying <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2010/04/greenberg-sheer-torture.html">Greenberg</a></i>.) The result feels far more credibly authentic than the erratic nitwit in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lola Versus</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frances is the sort of forever flustered individual who will promise to do something, and then let the opportunity slip by; or will insist that she <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">won’t</i> do something, but then will. She’s simultaneously endearing and deeply frustrating, and numerous scenes in this film are uncomfortable and unsettling, as we worry over whether she’ll miss another promising opportunity, or yield to another impetuous, ill-advised decision.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She’s tone-deaf during social occasions, forever saying the wrong thing to the wrong people: not because she’s cruel or thoughtless, but mostly because she simply doesn’t pay attention to relationship cues, whether casual or formal. She’s much too self-absorbed: but, again, not in an unpleasant manner. She’s just ... well ... <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unfinished</i>, somehow. And helpless to do anything about it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Gerwig’s performance is so endearing, and so genuinely sweet, that we can’t help forgiving Frances her many shortcomings (even as we groan over them). Watching her flail during an effort to describe wanting that “magic moment” between two soul mates — when eyes lock from opposite ends of a room, and a quick smile of acknowledgment cements the sort of bond that neither time nor God could disrupt — is poetry in motion. It’s a breathtaking, all-in scene: utterly mesmerizing, for Gerwig’s intensity. Watch how she works every square millimeter of her expressive face, from lips and chin to eyebrows.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><a name='more'></a><br /> <div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We meet Frances earlier, during a montage of sorts, which establishes the BFF bond she shares with longtime gal pal Sophie (Mickey Sumner). The two share everything, from future dreams and snarky observations about the guys who wander in and out of their lives, to cigarettes smoked while leaning outside open windows, and hilariously crazed “mock fights” that feel like some sort of friendship performance art.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frances works as a dancer, oblivious to the passing years during which she has failed to advance from apprentice to principal member of the company run by a kindly director — Broadway stalwart Charlotte d’Amboise, as Colleen — who must have been dropping hints for awhile. Naturally, Frances has failed to perceive them. Why worry about the future when she has both a steady job and constant companion?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I’ve always felt that dance is a potent metaphor for things that have an expiration date,” Gerwig comments, in this film’s press notes. It’s a perceptive observation that deftly personifies Frances, whose comfortable but somewhat messy life — she lets clothes pile up where they fall (an obvious but no less apt metaphor) — is rent asunder when Sophie suddenly announces that her seemingly casual relationship with Patch (Patrick Heusinger) has turned serious, and she’ll be moving in — and moving on — with him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frances, viewing this as a betrayal, genuinely damages her friendship with Sophie. While we flinch, groan and try to crawl beneath the theater seat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Worse yet, in one of those celestial bursts of bad timing, Colleen gently tells Frances that she won’t have a spot in this year’s Christmas production ... ergo, a serious jolt to the income stream. That means no apartment, because she certainly can’t afford the rent without Sophie’s contribution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After bemoaning her fate over dinner with a sympathetic friend — Adam Driver, as Lev — she follows him home and shares an awkward evening with his roommate, Benji (Michael Zegen). The atmosphere is laced with sexual tension, although it never quite gels. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wanting to be kind — actually, Frances instills that in people, who instinctively want to help this wounded sparrow — Lev and Benji offer to let her share their apartment. We can see, from their expressions, that it’s one of those gestures intended to be magnanimous, although the guys probably hope she doesn’t accept. But she does, of course, and this act sets the pattern that defines both the film and Frances’ life. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The subsequent narrative charts her course from one apartment to the next — including a stopover in Sacramento with her parents, during the Christmas holidays — and we come to understand that Frances will <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">remain</i> “unfinished” until she truly settles down. Merely “moving” isn’t the same as moving forward, and undefined wanderlust merely postpones the inevitable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of that Sacramento sojourn, it’s a brief but emotionally rich montage — kudos to Baumbach here, for the way he truly nails both the setting and its family dynamic — that draws rich, naturalistic performances from Gerwig’s real-life parents (Christine and Gordon Gerwig), cast as Frances’ mother and father. The entire sequence conveys solid, middle-class warmth: all the stability and heartfelt emotional depth that Frances can neither express nor find, back in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When — visit over — she rides the Sacramento Airport escalator up to her boarding gate, glancing back at her parents as they recede from view, her features again speak volumes: a cheery, superficial smile to let them know that she’s all right (an outright lie, of course), which then morphs into the nervous and even scared realization that she’s once again on her own.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Sacramento-area residents will particularly enjoy this sequence, since Baumbach actually shot in and around California’s capital city.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a friend, long ago, who couldn’t relate to women his own age. His “solution” was to find progressively younger companions, which merely exacerbated the problem as the age divide increased. Frances does something similar, moving backwards through the usual sequence of post-education living arrangements, as if seeking answers in a metaphoric past.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We find her, as the film opens, in the stable arrangement with Sophie. In the normal course of things, when Sophie moves into her more personal relationship, Frances might do the same. Instead, she retreats to the sort of multiple-roomie environment (with Lev and Benji) that ordinarily would have preceded her digs with Sophie. There’s also an impulsive and financially rash sojourn to Paris — the equivalent of the “summer abroad” that many university students enjoy — and, finally, the ultimate indignity: She moves back to her alma mater, Vassar College, for a summer job.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She’s flailing, and our heart breaks. With every awkward action and encounter — now with “kids” she cannot relate to — Gerwig’s mournful bearing reveals that, on some level, Frances <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">knows</i> this isn’t the right path. Answers — and satisfaction — only come when we move forward.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, too, life always throws curves ... so we’re therefore not surprised when Sophie pops up again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sumner is exquisitely delicate as Sophie: restrained “maturity” to Frances’ often reckless spontaneity. It’s always a tougher assignment, being the one who absorbs, reflects and responds to a more baroque acting companion. But Sophie isn’t exclusively a calming influence; she has her own issues, and Sumner excels during the moments where we clearly see that Sophie wishes for some of the “good friend sympathy” that she so often provides her best friend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Driver and Zegen are an ironic hoot as Lev and Benji. They’re another subset of the failure-to-launch generation: young men playing at being “on their own,” when in fact they still sponge off their parents for just about everything.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grace Gummer is memorably chill as Rachel, one of the principal dancers in Colleen’s company, and another brief apartment stop along Frances’ journey toward self-awareness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This story’s ultimate message (marvelously encapsulated in the final scene, which explains this film’s title) is that when life doesn’t offer the options we think we want or deserve, when opportunity seems smaller or less significant than we expect, we make ourselves fit — make the best of what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> available — and move on. Chance favors the prepared, and opportunities as-yet unimagined wait around the next corner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One hopes most millennials have their acts together better than Frances, as so hopelessly — but always beguilingly — played by Gerwig. At the same time, life’s answers come through growth, which also is the stuff of engaging drama. <i>Frances Ha</i> has left many lingering memories, all of them pleasant, many of them thoughtful. You can’t ask for much more from a film.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><!--EndFragment-->

2013 Adam Driver Greta Gerwig Indie Drama Michael Zegen Mickey Sumner Noah Baumbach Frances Ha: Engaging portrait of an unfinished soul

Frances Ha   (2013) •  View trailer   Four stars. Rating: R, for profanity and sexual candor By  Derrick Bang Slowly but steadil...

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Changes In Lifestyle As Suggested By A Personal Trainer Carlsbad

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Patricia Neill</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Many people think that simply exercising at the fitness center is enough to make them physically healthy and fit. A personal trainer Carlsbad would be quick to correct you of the notion. True physical health needs more than just a workout every other week or so.<br /> <br /> To help you make the most out of your new workout routine, your professional trainer is going to give you some advice on what to do when you are not working out in the gym. Here are the most commonly given tips in improving your lifestyle.<br /> <br /> 1. Changing Your Sleeping Pattern<br /> <br /> Proper sleep is essential in making sure that you do not completely burn yourself out. It helps rejuvenate your body and helps it recharge its energy levels so that you can put it through another session of grueling crunches and what not. Depending on your current sleeping pattern, your personal trainer Carlsbad may encourage you to either add or drop a few hours to your sleep schedule, and even give you tips if you find it hard to stay asleep.<br /> <br /> 2. Changing Your Diet<br /> <br /> Food is what fuels the body, and as you are exercising, you will need a healthy and constant source of good nutrients. Although you will not have to force yourself to eat plain and nutritious food, your new diet will definitely be affected by how you are working out and what your current level of fitness is. You may also find yourself adjusting to different eating periods, as many personal trainers from Carlsbad encourage eating small amounts of food every few hours.<br /> <br /> 3. Changing Your Habits<br /> <br /> If you are the type of person who practices habits that are bad for your overall health, like smoking or drinking, a personal trainer Carlsbad will stress strongly to you the need to cut these habits out of your life. Not only do they damage your body, they also actively stop you from making the most out of your overall training towards a healthy lifestyle.<br /> <br /> 4. Changing Your Exercise Routine<br /> <br /> When it comes to working out your whole body, it is simply not enough to just go over the same routine again and again. Your body is made up of different muscles, each with different requirements. And as a routine that completely works out every single part of your body has yet to be invented, variation is the key. A proper workout must consist of different exercises that train your entire body.<br /> <br /> Why Trust A Personal Trainer Carlsbad?<br /> <br /> Carlsbad is a great place for people who are wanting to get in shape, as many of the local population are accustomed to healthy lifestyles. Therefore, every personal trainer Carlsbad in that area has been professionally trained to handle people of all types and with various needs. He or she will also have been educated in the various ways in which a person can become healthy, and is going to be able to effectively give you a workout that is unique to your own situation based on your history of health.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Being in good shape with the help of <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-carlsbad/">Carlsbad Personal Trainer</a> not just boosts your own entire body but also your well being too. The rewards that one can obtain from <a href="https://plus.google.com/117219889004260885472/about">Personal Trainer In Carlsbad</a> are countless.</div><br /> </div><br />

Changes In Lifestyle As Suggested By A Personal Trainer Carlsbad

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Really good organisms

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Trust me, us girls <i>really</i> like some good organisms!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4QNU2FeaQ04MrCsRxe2tNFMh44049FqikcKiSRT_0_RA3-afjEnASqh3rxkzuOKgPVwSSWpHicT-DC6DjtxzgG7rS4MK08ZgPFzVzVGl25kxlGyC_qNdRy8IEj86gW7NwPzjkx7Lm48E/s1600/photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4QNU2FeaQ04MrCsRxe2tNFMh44049FqikcKiSRT_0_RA3-afjEnASqh3rxkzuOKgPVwSSWpHicT-DC6DjtxzgG7rS4MK08ZgPFzVzVGl25kxlGyC_qNdRy8IEj86gW7NwPzjkx7Lm48E/s400/photo.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />

Really good organisms

Trust me, us girls really like some good organisms!

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Library Media Specialist - Staples High School, Westport

<strong>Library Media Specialist - </strong><strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Staples High School</span></strong></strong>, Westport. 2013-2014 School Year. Qualifications: Appropriate CT Certification Required (062); High school experience preferred; Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Salary Range: According to the Teachers contract (2013-2014) (see website <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.westport.k12.ct.us" href="http://www.westport.k12.ct.us/" target="_blank">http://www.westport.k12.ct.us</a> – personnel contracts). Starting Date: August 2013. Application Deadline: Open until position is filled. To Apply: Internal applicants must send a letter of interest and resume to the Human Resources Department, Town Hall, Room 305. External applicants: Must submit an on-line application via our website (<a _fcksavedurl="http://www.westport.k12.ct.us" href="http://www.westport.k12.ct.us/" target="_blank">http://www.westport.k12.ct.us</a>) and follow posted directions. Paper copies will not be considered or accepted. Employment decisions of the Westport Public School system are made without regard to race, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other discriminating basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

Library Media Specialist - Staples High School, Westport

Library Media Specialist - Staples High School , Westport. 2013-2014 School Year. Qualifications: Appropriate CT Certification Required (0...

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Www.acerLawsuit.Com - Acer Class Action Lawsuit

Have you bought an Acer Laptop recently?<br /><br /> Go to the <b>Acer class action lawsuit settlement page</b> to see whether you are eligible for any claims. The Acer Class action lawsuit was for the Acer Laptops sold with pre installed Windows Vista but didnt come with enough RAM to support the O/S. If you are eligible and submit the Claim form - you might get checks ranging from 10-100 USD or a 16 GB USB Flashdrive.<br /><br />Go to <a href="http://www.acerlawsuit.com/">http://www.acerlawsuit.com/</a> for more details on the<b> ACER Class Action Lawsuit</b>, the FAQs and the claim forms. Do check out the deadlines for the claims.<br /><br /><br />

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Have you bought an Acer Laptop recently?  Go to the Acer class action lawsuit settlement page to see whether you are eligible for any claim...

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Monday, Monday - Tuesday Edition

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.archidose.org/wp/">A Weekly Dose of Architecture</a> Updates**:</span><br /><br />This week's dose features the <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/06/17/amar-childrens-culture-house/">Ama'r Children's Culture House</a> in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Dorte Mandrup Architects:<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/06/17/amar-childrens-culture-house/"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Jun13-17.jpg" title="This week's dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The featured past dose is the <a href="http://www.archidose.org/Jul08/07/dose.html">Kastrup Søbad</a> in Copenhagen, Denmark by White arkitekter:<br /><a href="http://www.archidose.org/Jul08/07/dose.html"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://www.archidose.org/Jul08/07/image03.jpg" title="featured past dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />This week's book reviews are <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/06/17/designing-suburban-futures-original-copies/"><i>Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb</i></a> by June Williamson (L) and <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/06/17/designing-suburban-futures-original-copies/"><i>Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in China</i></a> by Bianca Bosker (R):<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/06/17/designing-suburban-futures-original-copies/"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/williamson.jpg" title="This week's book review" /></a> <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/06/17/designing-suburban-futures-original-copies/"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bosker2.jpg" title="This week's book review" /></a><br /><br />: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :<br /><br /><b>**NOTE: The next weekly dose will be 2013.07.01.**</b><br /><br />: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">American-Architects <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/pages/50x50">Building of the Week</a>:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/41645_jobie_l_martin_classroom_building_hinds_community_college">Jobie L. Martin Classroom Building, Hinds Community College</a> in Jackson, Mississippi, by Duvall Decker Architects:<br /><a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/41645_jobie_l_martin_classroom_building_hinds_community_college"><img alt="this week's Building of the Week" src="http://c214210.r10.cf3.rackcdn.com/files/projects/41645/images/900:w/jobielmartin1.jpg" title="Current Building of the Week on american-architects.com" width="640" /></a><br /><div style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">Jobie L. Martin Classroom Building, Hinds Community College - See more at: http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/41645_jobie_l_martin_classroom_building_hinds_community_college#sthash.RCX3i1us.dpuf</div>

Monday, Monday - Tuesday Edition

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Tune into our SchoolNet webinars this week “Even MORE uses of Powerpoint’ and ‘Inspiring Educational Gaming projects’

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhND-7vR_S5KetCsRuiieJuCP3U3OHj3UNxhloEod3lPFHPju3U1tJVxacSYItDmPFAlMHHTxuD6VDaRJ0prUjpmqbG04eU506o6iXHUyjCydLdCTWaD6v8UZUEcy9PpirzM3U0UCPXeLg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We invite you to two useful short webinars this week. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(1) Even MORE amazing uses of PowerPoint</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week our webinar was entitled ‘Did you know PowerPoint could do all this?’ where we looked at 10 uses of PowerPoint apart from the normal use of making a presentation. The recording and Slideshare have been posted on this blog. This week we look at Part 2 of the series entitled ‘Even MORE amazing uses of PowerPoint’. Do we realise the potential that lies within this Microsoft product? You’ll be astounded to see how many more uses there are for PowerPoint and that it could be one of the most powerful and diverse applications you use. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Name</u>:Even MORE amazing uses of PowerPoint<br /><u>Summary</u>: This is part two in the series about Microsoft's PowerPoint showing even more uses than we looked at last week. You will discover that PowerPoint is both powerful and diverse in the ways that it can be used. <br /><u>Presenter:</u> Fiona Beal from SchoolNet<br /><u>Start Time</u>: Wednesday June 19th at 3:30 PM<br /><u>Duration</u>: 15 - 30 minutes<br /><u>URL</u>: <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/powerpoint2/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/powerpoint2/</a><br /><u>Access</u>: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(2) Inspiring Educational Gaming projects created by teachers</span></strong> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will be running a three part series on the popular topic of Educational Gaming.  Today we look at some of the inspiring ways that teachers use Gaming in Education. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Name</u>: Inspiring Educational Gaming projects<br /><u>Summary</u>: In this webinar you will hear about amazing gaming projects created by teachers in South Africa and further afield. <br /><u>Presenter:</u> Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet<br /><u>Start Time</u>: Thursday June 20th at 3:30 PM<br /><u>Duration</u>: 15 - 30 minutes<br /><u>URL</u>: <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/gamification1/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/gamification1/</a></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It will be great if you can attend either or both of these webinars. If it is your first time in attending an Adobe Connect webinar you might be prompted to install an add-in. If so, just follow the prompts. See you in the cloud maybe! </span><br /><br /></div></div>

webinars Tune into our SchoolNet webinars this week “Even MORE uses of Powerpoint’ and ‘Inspiring Educational Gaming projects’

We invite you to two useful short webinars this week. (1) Even MORE amazing uses of PowerPoint Last week our webinar was entitled ‘Did you k...

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The Landscapes of Le Corbusier

Head over to World-Architects to read <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/pages/le-corbusier-moma">my write-up of the MoMA exhibition</a> <i>Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes</i> in the <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/emagazine/architecture-news">current eMagazine</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/pages/le-corbusier-moma" title="Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes" height="480" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3759/8996978856_a4dbf35e4c_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>

The Landscapes of Le Corbusier

Head over to World-Architects to read my write-up of the MoMA exhibition Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes in the current eMagaz...

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Two Summer Exhibitions in NYC

In addition to the <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/pages/le-corbusier-moma">Le Corbusier retrospective at MoMA</a>, the upcoming <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2013/06/rpbw-fragments.html">Renzo Piano show at Gagosian Gallery</a>, and a must-see <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/upcoming/james-turrell">James Turrell show at the Guggenheim</a>, here are a couple smaller exhibitions in New York City worth checking out this summer.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.acfny.org/event/the-vienna-model/">The Vienna Model</a></b><br />Austrian Cultural Forum New York<br />April 17 - September 2<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9054205524/" title="The Vienna Model by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="The Vienna Model" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7391/9054205524_f55b05792a_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9051978655/" title="The Vienna Model by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="The Vienna Model" height="480" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7432/9051978655_557de6dd1f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9051979351/" title="The Vienna Model by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="The Vienna Model" height="640" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5453/9051979351_5b4cc118c3_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9051975121/" title="The Vienna Model by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="The Vienna Model" height="480" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2884/9051975121_79e27f4090_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><b><a href="http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=upcoming&expid=251">FitNation</a></b><br />Center for Architecture<br />June 13 - September 7<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9052732739/" title="FitNation by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="FitNation" height="800" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3828/9052732739_a4b2406b37_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9052731925/" title="FitNation by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="FitNation" height="541" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5441/9052731925_bf09cbe27f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9052730885/" title="FitNation by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="FitNation" height="480" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3830/9052730885_51c61bb486_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>

Two Summer Exhibitions in NYC

In addition to the Le Corbusier retrospective at MoMA , the upcoming Renzo Piano show at Gagosian Gallery , and a must-see James Turrell sho...

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Origami

Origami is a marvelous little sushi restaurant located in Duval Square.  We sat at the bar and Ciaran ordered a beer.<div><br></div><div>While we were waiting to order we were given an amuse bouche of a cucumber salad with the most lovely dressing.</div><div><br></div><div>Ciaran ordered a dinner box while I ordered some shrimp tempura sushi, spicy tuna sushi and some tuna sashimi along with some steamed pork gyoza.  I didn't realize how much food that was going to be!!</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGlPrqn61frENNhndbl431mWrVJ0pZNsIiiwnxRWuqPVnT5SPQzbNuB9Bk-_W4gb2bWHv2JmkTSCor6Yf5zXONoYF2m1sMVBQUJHa3pbqBxLNVo32GZUf7GMVga3H_TAX0mvWh_UhRfbg/s640/blogger-image-2009290098.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGlPrqn61frENNhndbl431mWrVJ0pZNsIiiwnxRWuqPVnT5SPQzbNuB9Bk-_W4gb2bWHv2JmkTSCor6Yf5zXONoYF2m1sMVBQUJHa3pbqBxLNVo32GZUf7GMVga3H_TAX0mvWh_UhRfbg/s640/blogger-image-2009290098.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjagA75uhDNQXY39-qsUnuiq6S-4ZbZw4KmBowEFyaESuh2TYS9DT3p3cUShB2bd-r6sxu_Clc-quiaYnLLP9ZBtCCWw6MBjljLPtH6n09FzvTXbp5_G_BzHg9vJssr3WiSVjMJWKXh-1q_/s640/blogger-image-927281755.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjagA75uhDNQXY39-qsUnuiq6S-4ZbZw4KmBowEFyaESuh2TYS9DT3p3cUShB2bd-r6sxu_Clc-quiaYnLLP9ZBtCCWw6MBjljLPtH6n09FzvTXbp5_G_BzHg9vJssr3WiSVjMJWKXh-1q_/s640/blogger-image-927281755.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOtuNU3e5vUa-A1df4KdRANtOwe2iOP_UOzk4MSsVDGUfPbPxDCZxOQdOREYblFAqMPxvk4aWUqRO-vsv2ndc8Gql1yy6jwJ-OicEt575P7FOAuiCxHnAopmrWWxGj6rxXOxGJuxBaun5D/s640/blogger-image-178194555.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOtuNU3e5vUa-A1df4KdRANtOwe2iOP_UOzk4MSsVDGUfPbPxDCZxOQdOREYblFAqMPxvk4aWUqRO-vsv2ndc8Gql1yy6jwJ-OicEt575P7FOAuiCxHnAopmrWWxGj6rxXOxGJuxBaun5D/s640/blogger-image-178194555.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7e7gi9lROEA7lwa6LBovCOuijp8-AGS2YBeGAx3-FsswwEJm0ysL5iydOFKTenUrHFhR7kAF_EMl6Cgh9lZ9GKOa8eYjC-fPyOIiGZAZm4Hd1Gf12LDvg0HnHogJrRegVCjeAh9k-FOXy/s640/blogger-image-1523922484.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7e7gi9lROEA7lwa6LBovCOuijp8-AGS2YBeGAx3-FsswwEJm0ysL5iydOFKTenUrHFhR7kAF_EMl6Cgh9lZ9GKOa8eYjC-fPyOIiGZAZm4Hd1Gf12LDvg0HnHogJrRegVCjeAh9k-FOXy/s640/blogger-image-1523922484.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We split and shared all of the food.  Afterwards we went to CVs and bought peanut butter ice cream for dessert back at home.  This was such a treat - first time I had tasted peanut butter ice cream as you can not get it in Ireland!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpxlEr2LpeMvYLPV1-fuPIOpdiI5ugT1zhvhvG-t3XDO4Un8m2rf46WmabacF3NJ4GYyvNBUviJyGaBuD7YTBYVxkOpZb91CCnP2wsjSsQ07rBhOCOP0hWKUF5i3-TE0_l8tYx6Ky3OMJf/s640/blogger-image-1512179091.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpxlEr2LpeMvYLPV1-fuPIOpdiI5ugT1zhvhvG-t3XDO4Un8m2rf46WmabacF3NJ4GYyvNBUviJyGaBuD7YTBYVxkOpZb91CCnP2wsjSsQ07rBhOCOP0hWKUF5i3-TE0_l8tYx6Ky3OMJf/s640/blogger-image-1512179091.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><br></div><br></div><br></div><br></div>

Origami

Origami is a marvelous little sushi restaurant located in Duval Square.  We sat at the bar and Ciaran ordered a beer. While we were waiting ...

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TRAI announcement regarding roaming voice calls and text sms

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 18.71875px;">TRAI cuts the ceiling for national roaming calls and SMSs and instituted a new regime for providing flexibility to service providers. The TRAI has announced the quite relief in the roaming charges but the totality but it is not free at all.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday declared  lowered national mobile phone roaming charges for voice calls and SMS. But, cell phone users wouldn’t be able to enjoy free national roaming now. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Roaming tariff has now been cut to Rs 1 per minute for outgoing local calls and Rs 1.50 per minute for outgoing STD calls. Earlier the roaming tariff was fixed at Rs 1.40 per minute for outgoing local calls and Rs 2.40 per minute for STD calls.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">The customs tariff for those who available in national roaming services through STV (Special Tariff Vouchers) and combo vouchers, Roaming tariff for incoming calls have been cut of Rs 1.75 per minute to 75 paise per minute, while outgoing local SMSs would be charged at Rs 1 per SMS and outgoing STD SMSs at Rs 1.50. Incoming SMSs remain free.</div></div>

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Mayhem in the AM Shut Down by the PC Police

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal">Hola all you politically correct folks out there! Well, the PC Police got ‘em another one, or uh, three on Monday as the three DJ’s from the “Mayhem in the AM” show on 790 the Zone in Atlanta got canned for their “insensitive” and “offensive” remarks on the air. What did they say? Well, they mocked former New Orleans Saints player Steve Gleason who is suffering from ALS. If you would like to hear the 2 minute segment you can <a href="http://deadspin.com/heres-the-steve-gleason-bit-that-got-three-atlanta-rad-513889322" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a>. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I don’t know anything about the history of these guys so I don’t know if this is more or less offensive than their usual shtick. I also don’t know if it rises to level of deserving to be fired over. It was certainly lame, and completely unfunny, and I can see how people found it insensitive and even OUTRAGEOUS. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">This comes on the heels of my spending some time reading and digesting Patton Oswalt’s “<a href="http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew&id=167" target="_blank">A Closed Letter to Myself About Thievery, Heckling and Rape Jokes</a>” If you haven’t read it, I do recommend that you set aside a free afternoon and do so if you’re a fan of comedy. (It’s kind of long.) <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKqcM9ZRIl8Pmlw7SVxQed2FUxPRWmyhQccF9AQEBSTYkNHe6S8mSN1_YVxSFClHDXpkvGJMRPPfh-KFC3n7wh2HHvFvoS6LRLUHYGA6J4EKIdsTG6YLxmcudPKE_8NKRSbVZ0fFtL5zI/s1600/Jay+Stand+Up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKqcM9ZRIl8Pmlw7SVxQed2FUxPRWmyhQccF9AQEBSTYkNHe6S8mSN1_YVxSFClHDXpkvGJMRPPfh-KFC3n7wh2HHvFvoS6LRLUHYGA6J4EKIdsTG6YLxmcudPKE_8NKRSbVZ0fFtL5zI/s320/Jay+Stand+Up.jpg" width="249" /></a>Although I do love and follow comedy very much, I’m not a comedian. I’m not a stand-up comic and I’m not a professional humorist. I occasionally say or write something that is funny, but that’s usually by accident. But, I am the cohost of the (usually) number one rated comedy show on <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid" target="_blank">BlogTalkRadio</a>. This doesn’t make me any kind of big expert on comedy or anything like that, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have opinions on comedy either. (BTW, a big pet-peeve of mine is all these people who just up and call themselves comedians and suddenly declaring themselves the equal to people like George Carlin, Bill Hicks and Chris Rock.)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">These radio hosts who did the lame bit on Steve Gleason aren’t comedians either though. They’re shock jocks who are hired to … well … shock people! You know, all these “morning zoo” shows are pretty much the same. And most radio station and network owners are basically like sports team owners when it comes to steroids. They’re fine with it as long as it doesn’t cause TOO much controversy or cost them money. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">For a country full of people who love to brag about how “politically incorrect” we all are, we sure do demand the complete and total destruction of someone’s entire livelihood when we decide they’ve said something mean or offensive, don’t we? We are all about wagging our finger at folks who get out of line or go too far. Good thing we’re all so pure and perfect in our own lives and none of us ever tell any off-color or race or gender joke ourselves or we would look like a bunch of hypocrites, huh? <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The problem with amateurs such as these guys on 790 the Zone is that after the “shock joke” there usually isn’t anything else. We’re not professional comedians so the “shock joke” isn’t usually part of a bigger picture or a deeper critique of society or culture or whatever. That’s why people like Carlin and Chris Rock are so great. There’s subtlety to their jokes or stories about black people, white people, stupid people, fat people etc that is actually saying more about society and our culture than the people they’re supposedly mocking. I don’t know about “rape jokes” though. Those are kind of hard to do. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Generally I don’t care about what comedians decide to joke about. I feel like they should feel safe and free to bring up any subject up there on stage. They certainly aren’t free from the consequences of what they say, or above being criticized though. Radio hosts on the other hand have to worry about bosses and advertisers and if they go too far and damage the show and kill the revenue then they’re goners. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">That’s what’s so awesome about blogs and podcasts like <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid" target="_blank">I’m With Stupid</a>. We are free to say or write whatever we want. People might disagree, quit reading or listening and maybe even let us know we suck, but at least we can’t get fired from it.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">And, thank God we can’t get fired otherwise we would have been sent packing a looooooooong time ago! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://facebook.com/Jayman68" target="_blank">Facebook.com/Jayman68</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS </a>  <o:p></o:p></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>

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Washington Examiner streamlines site

Check out the new and improved <i><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/">Washington Examiner</a></i><br /><blockquote>Everything you know and like about our coverage of politics and policy is still here — it’s just better than ever. - Stephen G. Smith, Editor</blockquote>On Monday they rolled out the new, streamlined site:<br /><blockquote>We've redesigned our site to improve your digital experience by expanding our award-winning reporting and commentary on national politics and issues.<br /><br />The navigation is smarter so you can get where you want to go faster. Breaking news and daily updates are front and center, where they belong. We've made it easier to find our most popular sections - including Beltway Confidential - as well as new features such as Data, which you can customize to learn more about elected representatives and bills. It's all designed to better serve your passion for being where you want to be - in the know.</blockquote>

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Getting Body Wraps That Work

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Ginger Taylor</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Are you ready to lose inches, better your skin and detoxify your body without spending an arm and a leg at an extravagant spa? If this sounds good to you then you have to try a body wrap at home!<br /> <br /> Within the last five years I have found out that body wrapping at home can be just as successful as spa wraps if you have any of the following goals:<br /> <br /> a. Tightening saggy skin<br /> <br /> b. Reducing cellulite<br /> <br /> c. Getting Slimmer<br /> <br /> d. Detoxing your body<br /> <br /> The true secret to obtaining impressive results is implementing the right strategies in combination with the best ingredients.<br /> <br /> I will be the first to tell you that there is a bit of a learning curve in the case of doing home body wraps. Five years ago I wasn't absolutely certain what I was doing, so it was an interesting experience to put it mildly!<br /> <br /> The thing is five years ago body wrapping at home was a somewhat new concept and there was not really any body wrap information or pre-made slimming wrap kits out there, so I had to experiment with a variety of recipes and techniques to find what essentially worked.<br /> <br /> What I Have Figured Out About Wrapping At Home<br /> <br /> I learned quite a bit of things while performing experiments over the years. Here are a few of the most crucial things that I've learned because of personal experience:<br /> <br /> 1. Pick Ingredients Carefully - Not only is it paramount that you use high quality organic ingredients in your wrap, but using the appropriate blend of ingredients for your goals is a key to success. You could possibly have found some basic body wrap recipes, but what you have to recognize is that your targeted goals require certain ingredients to be able to work properly.<br /> <br /> 2. Be leery of Poor Quality Body Wrap Kits - If you look at the ingredients in some of the most popular ready made body wrap kits (like the Hollywood Detox Body Wrap), you will notice that almost all of the ingredients are man-made - not the kind of substances you want to be using on your skin! There are pre-packaged body wrap kits such as the It Works Ultimate Body Applicator that are an exception because as the name hints, they really work! These are my personal favorite because they are easy to use with no mess or hassle.<br /> <br /> 3. Take the time to Exfoliate! - It's very important that you open the skin pores before conducting your home body wrap. This assures that the formula you apply to your skin during wrapping is absorbed down to the deepest layer of the skin. I always brush my skin, and spray my body with a special toning spray to ensure I get the most out of each wrapping session.<br /> <br /> 4. Exercise & Eat Well - so as to get the most out of your home wraps, a healthy lifestyle is a necessity. Your body really needs to be working correctly from the inside, and your circulatory system should be in top shape. Eating a high-quality diet, exercising regularly and performing two weekly slimming wraps is a awesome combination that will help you lose weight and feel great. Drinks lots of water too.<br /> <br /> 5. Be Consistent - Like most things in life, to be able to realize results you need to be committed. Even if you are ecstatic with the results you bring about after your first home wrap, don't stop there! You can amplify your results by doing at least one or two wraps weekly.<br /> <br /> I hope these recommendations are helpful to you, and wish you the best of luck with your first home wrap! I am certain that if you follow the steps I've discussed, you will get incredible results as if you went to a fancy spa.<br /> <br /> Stop following all those extreme diets and trying to do bootcamps that are way too strict for you, discover a new you with <a href="https://worksbodywrap.myitworks.com/shop/product/135">It Works</a>! <br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>You owe it to yourself to try the ultimate makeover <a href="https://maximizepotential.myitworks.com/Shop/Product/507">DC Body Wrap</a></div><br /> </div><br />

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Find Success With These Excess Fat Loss Strategies!

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Belinda Norbert</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Losing weight is arguably the New Year's Resolutions people make.<br /> <br /> You can still eat your favorite foods when they are intentionally made to include less calories. Hunger and food cravings for specific foods cause many people to fail in their diet plans.You could choose the reduced-calorie types of your favored foods, and this will help you to lose weight while still leaving you satisfied.<br /> <br /> Novelty diets can seem to be a fantastic way to lose weight rapidly. Even more scary is the fact that these meal plans do not instruct you on correct nutrition. It is much better to choose a process of eating that educates you how to choose nutritious food choices.<br /> <br /> Consume lean meat dishes when you are attempting to lose weight. Try opting for lean cuts of meat, barbecue or steak gravy. This can prevent your meat from appearing dry or dry. Chutneys are sweet and fruity tastes and add excellent flavor to your healthy proteins.<br /> <br /> Keep wholesome snacks on hand.Get yourself a jumbo-sized Tupperware container.Get ready your veggies, fill the base of the container with ice and a small amount of water and store the greens in the refrigerator. You can generally have a very simple and well-balanced snack that is easy to take along with you!<br /> <br /> Try tolessen pressure in your stress.Stress will tempt you to take in foods that are undesirable for you.<br /> <br /> One effective way to reduce additional weight is to drink a glass of milk before meals. Milk is rich in calcium for building muscles and will keep your bones solid as well as create muscle mass.<br /> <br /> A pedometer can track of your jogging when you are taking. You should be taking at least 10,000 steps every day. When you realize your average amount of steps, you can motivate yourself to take more steps. Each step you take helps you nearer towards attaining your goals.<br /> <br /> You can use Tupperware or baggies and containers to hold your carefully measured. Having prepared food at your fingertips indicates you'll be less possibly to overeat.<br /> <br /> There are a lot of diets out there today that won't get you your preferred results. Strive to get a gym membership or get into a fitness program. You can't just diet; you need exercise as well as food regimen. This will allow you to reduce the calories that you consume.<br /> <br /> If you are one person who did make this goal this year, simply reading this article will give you a great beginning. With these tips, you are now more aware of possible strategies and tips to develop a healthy and sustainable weight loss plan. We hope you achieve your goal!<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>To learn more about on how to lose weight using <a href="https://www.inspiredwellbeing.com/products/grocery-and-home-food-and-snacks-gluten-free/orgran-gluten-free-gluten-substitute-gfg-120g">coeliac diet plan</a>, click on the link. Or visit <a href="https://www.inspiredwellbeing.com/contact-us">https://www.inspiredwellbeing.com/contact-us</a> to contact Inspired Wellbeing.</div><br /> </div><br />

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Must-Do Fun Beach Workouts Together With A Newport Beach Personal Trainer

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Patricia Neill</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Newport Beach is one popular place for swimming and other beach activities in the US. This is why the area is flocked by many holiday seekers looking to relax and have some fun under the sun. In the summer season, it's a great opportunity to enjoy and be physically fit at the same time. With a Newport Beach personal trainer, you can get the best result from must-do beach exercises.<br /> <br /> What's the Catch?<br /> <br /> Beach workouts are definitely not different from the workouts you usually do inside a fitness center. However, these routines integrate fun that's why it gets easier to do. It's not made up of strict guidelines that might bore you out in the process.<br /> <br /> There are many beach exercises that you could do while having fun. Swimming, playing volleyball, biking, and running are some effective beach workouts.<br /> <br /> Rowing<br /> <br /> For improving your upper and lower body strength, rowing is the best beach activity to do. This is because it requires a repetitive motion from your chest, shoulders, arms, thighs, and legs. It's a fun activity since you can do it in a group. Dragon boat enthusiasts usually have events on the beach where you can join and have fun.<br /> <br /> Sprints and Jog Circuits<br /> <br /> Circuits are series of routines that are done in a simultaneous manner. It requires some skill but it's very easy to grasp. Sprints and jog circuits are very effective when done in a beach. This is because you need to apply more force in your lower body to push yourself forward.<br /> <br /> For improving your upper and lower body strength, rowing is the best beach activity to do. This is because it requires a repetitive motion from your chest, shoulders, arms, thighs, and legs. It's a fun activity since you can do it in a group. Dragon boat enthusiasts usually have events on the beach where you can join and have fun.<br /> <br /> Beach Volleyball<br /> <br /> Another fun way to stay fit and have fun in the beach with a Newport Beach personal trainer is playing beach volleyball. Well, you can get competitive or enjoy a casual game with your family and friends - the result is having a great full body workout while having fun. You can also try a variant of beach volleyball which is water volleyball. This is more difficult but it's more effective than playing the sport on land.<br /> <br /> Swimming<br /> <br /> People don't go to the beach just to show off their abs and curves - they swim! Enjoy playing with the waves and swim. Your Newport Beach personal trainer will definitely say that swimming is one of the best cardio exercises that don't require overpriced equipments. In fact, you can incorporate other activities while playing in the water such as water jogging or running.<br /> <br /> If you're sick and tired of doing repetitive routines in a gym, you may want to look outside and have fun while doing various workouts. A Newport Beach personal trainer knows how to combine workouts and fun activities under the sun. Instead of getting bored, have fun and achieve the same results under the sun.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Being in good shape with the aid of <a href="https://plus.google.com/116618666336536176190/about">Newport Beach Personal Trainer</a> not simply boosts your entire body but furthermore your health as well. The advantages that one can receive from <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-newport-beach/">Personal Trainer Newport Beach</a> are limitless.</div><br /> </div><br />

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When You Should Go to a Personal Trainer

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Moises Lamarre</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Lots of people hate to work out in spite of all of the good reasons to participate in workout routines. And despite all these good reasons in mind, they still find it quite hard to become determined. If you don't want to exercise yet you have to do it frequently, think of obtaining the expertise of a personal trainer. Still not sure? Here are some other good reasons why a skilled trainer may be the remedy to all of your exercise nightmares.<br /> <br /> When You Want Something Fresh<br /> <br /> Even those who believe that they're exercise specialists may reach the stage of being uninterested in what they're performing. Getting bored is addressed by introducing something different. Diversity keeps you interested and thrilled with your workout routines. What is great about having a personal trainer is that it can bring life to all these, and allow you to view a totally new perspective to keeping your mind and body in good condition. There is no need to meet your trainer every single day. Even a number of visits each week is already beneficial. Your trainer can provide you with new tips regarding how to enhance your way of living.<br /> <br /> If You Want To Prepare for an Event<br /> <br /> Athletes always look like they know what they're doing when they are on the playing field, arena, court, or ring. It's because of the training they get from their personal trainers. If you're planning to join an event or sport, you also have to go through proper training.<br /> <br /> If You're Not Obtaining the Outcomes You Desire<br /> <br /> You have been following this or that diet regimen to the letter, but do not seem to be obtaining the outcomes you have been told you will be acquiring following a specific period of time. You allow it much more time. The days extend to weeks and to months and you just notice a small bit of change which can be very annoying indeed. Must you still spend a lot of effort and time on it? Or is it time to attempt something different? What can keep you from sensing as if you have misused a lot of time for nothing, not a single thing at all? You require a personal trainer. A specialist could review your workout program, make corrections which will work to your benefit, be sure you stay focused on realistic and achievable objectives, and ultimately allow you to achieve them one by one.<br /> <br /> When You're Unwell<br /> <br /> Old age and traumas shouldn't discourage you from remaining in shape. In fact, they are excellent explanations for you to give attention to your overall health. Search for an expert trainer who is competent enough to work with your doctor so they could produce a program that will help in the process of recovery, and make sure that those muscle tissues will not wither to waste.<br /> <br /> Should you go into any of these classes, you have to think about finding a personal trainer. You don't have to be someone famous and it doesn't have to be performed just for vanity reasons. You are going to do it for your physical health and overall well-being.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>For much more information on why you need to hire a personal trainer, visit our <a href="http://personaltrainerphiladelphia.org/">website</a>. You will find a good deal of beneficial data on this and various other subjects.</div><br /> </div><br />

When You Should Go to a Personal Trainer

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