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Serves meat, vegan options available. Part of a franchise chain throughout the U.S. Has vegan menu items including a black bean burger pita with toppings like hummus and a variety of veggies. Also serves salads and smoothies. Reported closed to HappyCow, Dec 2014.
Category: Vegan-friendly, American, Fast food, Delivery, Take-out, Middle Eastern, Non-veg
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I stopped here on the way back to Salt Lake for a quick bite. I'm vegan, and the options they have available are: Falafel Pita (falafel and veggies), Hummus Pita (hummus and veggies), or Garden Pita (just veggies). I got the Falafel, and paid a bit extra for hummus and the veggies come on every pita for no extra charge, so it was like a combination of the 3. They also have a cheese falafel on their veggie menu, and they can do salads. The pita we had was good, but they heat up the falafel on the same grill as the meat that they serve, so it ends up being falafel covered in meat residue. There are tons of options around this area - so I was glad to find this place even though it wasn't ideal.
Pros: Tasty food, Restaurant seemed clean
Cons: Mostly meat based menu, Few vegan options, Falafel heated on same grill as meat
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So had Yvonne Bezerra di Mello, a 48-year-old millionaire's-wife, turned angel-of-mercy, who was making her daily visit to Rio's homeless street children. "There's one or two dead almost every day. Children, babies. Life and death means nothing here," she told me. The neighbours wanted her to get rid of the body. Rio's slum dwellers are not keen on going to the police and the sentiment is reciprocated.
Joseph was not a child. He appeared to be in his thirties and, by all accounts, was one of many Fagin-like males who dominate groups of orphaned street children. Neighbours said they had seen ragged boys as young as six living in his hut. They had disappeared earlier that morning, presumably after finding him dead.
No one knew his second name or whether he had a family. They knew only that he wore his frizzy hair in a bun, sold his body and probably those of his boy companions to men by day and sniffed glue or drank sugarcane alcohol in hut number SMH 120 by night. One of these vices seems to have killed him.
It was just another day at the "office" for Dr Bezerra, a philology graduate from the Sorbonne whose husband, Alvaro, is president of the Brazilian Hotel Association, a member of the family that owns the giant Othon hotel chain and one of Brazil's wealthiest men.
Two years ago, after police executed seven street children outside Rio's Candelaria church just to get them off the streets, she put away her jewels, gave up her coffee mornings and dedicated most of her days to helping street children survive.
Every weekday morning, around 8am, her chauffeur, nicknamed Ayrton because of the way he weaves through Rio traffic, takes her from her luxury penthouse on Flamengo beach to a shanty settlement known as Coqueirinho (Little Palm) beneath concrete flyovers in the poor Sao Cristovao district. On the way, she stops to pick up coffee, cocoa, bread, butter, beans, cheese and rice.
At the shanty town she is rushed by children who clutch at her legs and climb to stroke and smell her clean, well-groomed hair.
On the day I accompanied her, the first order of the day was Joseph's body. She told his neighbours she would call the police on her way out. The neighbours replied that they would move out of the area until the police had gone. Nobody wanted to deal with the police, whom they blame for nightly killings in Rio's favelas (slums).
"He'll be buried in a communal grave without a name, almost as if he never existed," Dr Bezerra said. "In a way he didn't. These people barely exist. They have no hope. All we can do is help them survive another day."
Dr Bezerra and three friends set up the Centre for the Defence and Rights of Children and Teenagers with four main concerns in mind: First, the murder of street children, which they say continues almost nightly, one or two at a time, to avoid attracting the publicity of the 1993 Candelaria massacre, and often carried out by off-duty policemen hired by businessmen who see the children as social undesirables. Dr Bezerra estimates there are 4,000 street children in Rio de Janeiro and tens of thousands nation-wide.
Their second concern is child prostitution, involving both girls and boys, sometimes no more than five years old.
The third is forced child labour, estimated to involve up to 7 million Brazilians between the ages of 10 and 17.
The fourth is the kidnapping of street children, usually carried out for prostitution or child labour. It's a kind of modern "white slave" trade, usually involving light-skinned girls aged 11 or 12 who sometimes surface more than 1,000 miles from their homes.
Describing herself as an unarmed guerrilla - "the changes we need in Brazil require that kind of action, not words" - Dr Bezerra said no killers of street children had ever been convicted: "The three policemen detained for the 1993 Candelaria massacre have never been tried. Five others involved were never picked up. The killing has continued, with 1,500 street children aged between 11 and 17 murdered last year, often as they slept, in Rio, Sao Paulo, all around the country.
"The people who do this, or hire the gunmen, do not see these kids as human. They see them more like animals. They think they're just 'putting them down'."
On 23 July 1993, a policeman approached a group of children sleeping outside the downtown Candelaria church with what appeared to be a bowl of soup. But he pulled a gun from the bowl and opened fire. Several other police officers appeared and did the same, according to witnesses.
After the massacre, many, if not most businessmen and workers in the area, said the killings were justified, blaming the children for robberies. Nine months later, an advertisement in a newspaper in the town of Londrina, apparently financed by businessmen, carried the headline: "Kill a Child Criminal." The editor said it was aimed only at intimidating street children after they were blamed for robberies, including that of the editor's bicycle.
As for child prostitution, the Brazilian President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, this month launched a campaign against it, partly due to Dr Bezerra's pressure: "Cardoso was very upset by what I was saying. I'd become a real pain in the ass.
"I'd told him denouncing things was not enough. It's no good telling people to call emergency number 190 to denounce a child brothel when that same number is inundated by callers complaining that their cat's stuck up a tree.
"Besides, even if the police take action, they'll close the whorehouse but who looks after the girls? Some girls sell their bodies in the streets to survive. Others are exploited in their homes. Brazilian women in the slums change their partners regularly. When the latest partner tires of the old lag, he turns to the daughter of seven or eight. To him she's much more tasty.
"Prostitution among little boys is probably worse," Dr Bezerra said. "We've had boys as young as five with venereal diseases or Aids. The girls will sell themselves for two or three dollars, the boys for one. One of the problems is that street boys tend to have only homosexual relationships among themselves until they're around 13. So they start prostituting themselves early."
President Cardoso said recently that forced child labour affects 3 million children aged between 10 and 14. The government's National Statistics Office cites a figure of 7 million, or around 10 per cent of the workforce, but that figure includes children up to 17.
In most Brazilian states, one in seven children between 10 and 13 is forced to work, according to a leading sociologist, Herbert de Souza, who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaign against poverty: "In some northern states, that figure is nearly one-in-three. The structure of slavery from our colonial past remains intact."
Dr Bezerra said a spate of kidnappings of children in Rio was partly to find child labour but mostly for prostitution. "My group is currently searching for 26 missing girls aged between 9 and 12, kidnapped between their shanty homes and shops. They're usually mulatto [mixed race] girls, sold mostly to coffee farmers and wealthy landowners. They want virgins because of the increasing incidence of Aids," she said.
"We found one girl, Samantha, aged 12, 550 miles from here, after someone recognised a picture we'd put on television. She'd been abused and addicted to drugs, including heroin. One of the problems now is getting her and her mother to re-adapt to each other after the new life she has lived."
In the tiny hut she has turned into kitchen, school and community centre, beneath a motorway flyover at Coqueirinho, Dr Bezerra sat cross-legged to teach "her" children, mostly black, of their roots. Some had come running to her. Others she had to fetch from alcoholic mothers who kept them padlocked in the family hut.
On the nearby kerb, Ayrton, the driver, was doubling as a doctor. Sitting on the back of Dr Bezerra's car, he poured disinfectant over the gory stumps of two of a screaming middle-aged woman's fingers. Badly cut also on the face, she had been attacked by her partner.
"These kids' inborn image of themselves is one of slaves," Dr Bezerra said, as a couple of dozen children clutched mugs of cocoa and buttered bread rolls. "I teach them that they came from Africa, a land where their ancestors were kings and queens. When a man has no pride in his ancestors he has nothing. I tell them that they helped build this country, that they have rights."
As she read to them, she cuddled six-year-old Filipi. "When we found he had syphilis, we discovered he'd been raped by a man six months ago," she said. "They yearn for affection. That's all we can give them.We can't even give them hope."
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"Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity." -Emma, Jane AustenĀYour own daughter. . . one of the popular girls?
On the first day of middle school, Lydia Meadows, a former lawyer turned full-time mother, is startled to discover that her daughter Erin is one of the popular girls, a tight foursome whose mothers are also great friends. ĀLydia has always thought of popular girls as ambitious little manipulators who enjoy being cruel.Ā But Erin is kind and well-adjusted.Ā Maybe this popularity thing won't be so bad after all.
Then a new student ruthlessly targets Erin to boost her own popularity, and Lydia helplessly wonders what to do when her daughter's phone stops ringing.Ā And the uneasiness among the girls begins to affect the friendship of the mothers--even though they are all grown women who should know better.Ā Has their driven energy, once directed toward their careers, turned into an obsession with the social lives of their daughters?
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Jewellery and its history
Human beings have had the desire to adorn themselves from the dawn of time. Initially using painting, body paint and natural colours and dyes produced from plants, earth and stones, they later developed body art into a system of symbolism that indicated the status of its wearer. Certain materials and forms of decoration were reserved for the use of specific people such as heads of tribes, chiefs, medicine men or shamans. The times and rituals chosen for the wearing of these adornments also varied depending on their nature. Certain types of ornaments and body art were carried out for specific occasions, such as betrothals, weddings and marriages. Only later did people begin to produce actual jewellery. The feathers and bones which formed the first 'jewellery' later gave way to ornamental stones. Jewellery production became more widely differentiated, with distinctive types of jewellery for specific occasions, forms of use and wearers, as people abandoned their nomadic lifestyle and established settlements. The tasks of daily life were shared among the community and individuals gained free time, enabling outstanding artistic creations to be produced even in the earliest periods of human history.
If you have a particular interest in gemstones, we recommend our Gemstone Lexicon. You can find more detailed information on diamonds in our Diamond Dictionary.
Bracelets and bangles are first mentioned extensively in medieval and Renaissance times. In Europe, gold bracelets were worn over clothing and against bare skin. Bracelets were extremely popular in the 16th century; lavishly and elaborately ornamented with gold, silver, precious stones and pearls, these accessories were coveted by all those who could afford them. Outstanding works were created in the Classical and Romantic eras. As travel for pleasure became more widespread, Oriental influences became more prevalent.
Brilliants (from the French for 'radiant' or 'lustrous') are diamonds cut in a special form. The term is often confused with 'diamond'; however, 'diamond' is applied to the raw gemstone prior to receiving the brilliant cut. Developed in the early 20th century, this cut is designed to enhance the diamond with breathtaking lustre and beauty.
Cabochon is an unfaceted round or oval cut used for gemstones, with a flat underside and convex domed top. The term comes from the French meaning 'head of a nail'. The RenéSim Rocks collection contains stones we have called 'faceted cabochons', a term indicating that these special stones in the shape of classic cabochons have been cut and faceted in a way that combines the features of both the cabochon and faceted cuts.
Diamonds are a girl's best friend: and Marilyn Monroe was not the only one to sense their magical attraction.
As the decades-old saying goes, 'diamonds are forever'. One of four possible modifications of carbon, diamonds are considered the hardest known mineral in the world even today. They have an array of uses in industrial processes such as grinding tools, and are also used in medicine for cutting tools (e.g. diamond scalpels).
However, the most prestigious use of diamonds is probably as high-quality gemstones.
Diamonds are regarded as the ultimate gemstones because of their ability to refract light and their brilliant sparkle. Their special features are revealed by cutting, a process in which individual facets are carefully worked into the raw stone using a predetermined scheme of angles. Cutting reveals the unique brilliance of a diamond from the body of the stone; popular cuts are brilliant, pear (pendeloque), emerald cut, navettte (marquise), baguette, oval and heart. The brilliant cut is the best-known, with a classic triangular cone shape. The value of a diamond is measured by its size (dimensions), clarity and colour. Diamonds may have many different colours from flawless white through yellow, orange, blue and pink (extremely rare) to black. The colour of a diamond is graded by comparing it to a set of 'masterstones'. Coloured diamonds are graded into 'fancy colours' based on a colour chart. White (clear) diamonds are graded into Exceptional White, Rare White, White, Slightly Tinted White, Tinted White and Tinted Color.
The beauty of a diamond also strongly depends on its clarity. A diamond may show internal structural imperfections known as inclusions. A grading system separating especially clear diamonds from others has been used since the early 20th century.
Clarity grades are: LR/IF (no inclusions visible even under magnification), VVS / vvss1 + vvss2 - 'very very slightly included' (extremely small inclusions, inclusions almost impossible to detect under magnification), VS / vss1 + vss2 (very small inclusions difficult to detect under magnification), SI / si1 + si2 (small inclusions, easily visible), P1 - piqué 1 (larger inclusions, immediately visible under magnification, hard to detect with the naked eye, brilliance slightly impaired), P2 (several larger inclusions, immediately visible under magnification, easy to detect with the naked eye, brilliance somewhat impaired) and P3 (numerous large inclusions, immediately visible under magnification, immediately visible to the naked eye, brilliance significantly impaired).
The size of a diamond is measured in carats. The carat is a unit of measurement which denotes the weight of a gemstone, but also the purity precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum etc.
The world's most famous diamonds:
Star of Africa or Cullinan I
The largest cut diamond in the world, it is set in the sceptre of the Crown Jewels of England (kept in the Treasury of the Tower of London).
Found in 1878 in the De Beers Mine, the Tiffany Diamond was purchased by the famous jeweller of the same name. It is still in the possession of the family.
Blue Wittelsbach
Believed lost in 1931, the Blue Wittelsbach Diamond was rediscovered in Antwerp in 1961 after an eventful history. It is owned by a wealthy collector.
Dresden Green
Kept in the "Green Vault" of the National Art Collection of Dresden, the Green Dresden diamond is believed to originate from Brazil. Other opinions claim that the diamond is the 'green tear' of Shah Jahan (the builder of the Taj Mahal in Agra).
Hope Diamond
The Hope Diamond is one of the most legendary and renowned diamonds in the world. The blue stone weighs 44.4 carats. It is said that the diamond was once in possession of the Indian god Vishnu, but was stolen from him; since that time the diamond has been under a curse bringing bad luck to all its owners. It was worn by the French monarchs Louis XIV and Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, all of whom died under tragic circumstances. The stone was stolen again during the French Revolution and did not reappear until 1830, when it was purchased by Henry Philip Hope. Later owners of the Hope Diamond included Pierre Cartier and Harry Winston; the latter presented the stone to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. in 1958. The Hope Diamond is said to be worth between 200 and 250 million US dollars.
Diamond Rings
Diamond rings are available in a wide variety of different designs. A classic engagement ring is the diamond solitaire ring; other attractive options are memory rings encircled in diamonds, or rings that combine diamonds and coloured gemstones.
Ear jewellery (earrings, ear clips, chandelier earrings, post earrings, studs)
Archaelogical finds have delivered evidence that in ancient times not only women and children, but also men (primarily hunters and warriors) wore earrings as an integral part of their clothing. The Italian Renaissance period saw ear jewellery reach a culmination of artistry, as Italian women adopted the custom of wearing large gemstones and large pearls. As ear jewellery spread throughout Europe, styles and types began to diversify. While the north of the continent favoured pearls and gems on clips and studs in shorter, simpler and plainer styles, southern regions preferred long, dangling earrings and their vitality and movement.
Gold is a precious metal and a chemical element with the symbol Au. Gold is among the first metals that were worked by early human beings, and has been coveted for millennia. It is used as a means of payment (e.g. coins) and in the creation of jewellery, and is extremely valuable because of its permanent yellow lustre and rarity. Gold has served as an element of ornament and ritual, but also as the (former) basis of many currencies and thus as a cornerstone of our economic system. A number of gold alloys are used in making jewellery. Pure gold is known as 999 gold.
Necklaces and pendants (chokers, chains)
Necklaces and pendants have been worn as decorative ornaments since the dawn of humanity. They originally took the form of simple wood carvings or small stones worn around the neck as decoration to protect against spirits or demons; as our ancestors' skills in metalworking advanced, necklaces increasingly adopted ever more finely worked symbols and motifs in precious metals (gold, silver, platinum, enamel, steel). Neck jewellery established its status as a craft with pendants, chains, medallions, chokers and sophisticated, highly artistic creations. The church also played a significant role in the development of the pendant as a fashion accessory. Crosses and half-moons, for example, have been popular forms of pendant since Renaissance times. Choker necklaces are the finest and most complex form of neck jewellery and experience their pinnacle in haute joaillerie; designs may include bands of velvet, cord, leather or rubber and chains set with diamonds, emeralds, rubies or sapphires in heart, star or pear shapes. Fashion has played an outstanding role in the development of neck jewellery, inspiring many designers and creative artists to produce magnificent and striking designs. Today as ever, many a neckline is enhanced and further beautified by necklaces in styles from elegant and filigree to chunky and heavy, from short to waist-length.
The symbolic nature of neck jewellery and the status of its wearer also played a role in more modern times from the medieval era to the late 19th century. Only certain classes were permitted to wear and own specific precious stones; for example, the wearing of official decorations and certain gemstones such as opals was restricted to the aristocracy. As society advanced, the craft of jewellery making increased in sophistication. Metals such as gold, white gold, rose gold, red gold, silver, platinum, iron, steel and bronze were incorporated as elements of jewellery. Items of everyday use were transformed into desirable objects, and the creation of beautiful works of art reached its pinnacle in the 'era of kings and emperors'. The aristocratic classes used these objects to advertise their status and as a congenial way of expressing their appreciation of exclusive and beautiful things. In the industrial age and the early 20th century, the advancement of division of labour enabled major international brands such as Cartier, Boucheron, Tiffany, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, etc. - still familiar names today - to establish themselves and grow. Then as now, the jeweller's art, exquisite taste and supreme craftsmanship play key roles in the design and production of jewellery. Professions have become more specialised; today's world of jewellery spans not only goldsmiths, but also silversmiths, stone polishers, stone setters, dealers in precious stones, jewellers and even jewel exchanges or 'bourses', large-scale factories and large jewellery and luxury goods chains, department stores and costume jewellery, which allows everyone the chance to adorn themselves in keeping with fashion trends and to express their personal identity and individuality in unique and characterful ways.
Palladium is an extremely valuable silver-white transitional metal forming part of the platinum group of metals.
Pendants are classic jewellery pieces. They are often set with gemstones and used to create sparkling highlights on simple, modest chains; however, pendants often feature more striking highly ornamented designs.
Rings were originally not intended as decoration or adornment. In fact, a ring was the symbol or characteristic of a specific office; even today the high offices of churches (such as abbots, bishops and cardinals) wear amethyst rings, while the Pope wears the famous Ring of the Fisherman. Medieval faith and religion played key roles in the development of the ring. Rings with engravings of religious motifs became common among the clergy from the 12th century. Decoration or settings with gemstones were also popular among women, children and men alike. Ordinary citizens and farmers also wore rings. The common people followed the aristocracy in adopting the use of coats of arms, which conquered the world of jewellery in the form of seal rings. Gemstones were often associated with specific powers, their wearers seeking protection from disease and disaster and hoping for strength, calmness and equanimity. The early 17th century saw changes in the shapes of gemstones, and ornamentation and special cuts (such as figurative shapes) now came to decorate rings. Scientists and artists developed rings which had specific functions; a ring might now be the setting for a watch, or for astronomical or mathematical aids and instruments. As polishing techniques grew in sophistication, gemstone rings came to the fore and settings receded in importance, becoming plain and simple backdrops against which their stones could sparkle and shine. The best-known of all rings still retains its symbolic character today.
Rose gold
Rose gold is a special type of gold alloy used in jewellery, with a subtle rose hue created by the addition of copper.
Stud Earrings
As the name indicates, stud earrings are held in place by a stud or post secured behind the ear with a 'butterfly'. Stud earrings usually feature delicate, filigree designs and are a great way to create subtly sparkling highlights. The most popular settings for stud earrings are prong settings and bezel settings.
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Yellow gold
Yellow gold is a special alloy of pure gold used extensively in jewellery.


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Saturated Fat 11.2 g55.9%
Trans Fat 0 g
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SINGAPORE - 09 Jan 2014: DBS Bank and IBM today announced an agreement in which DBS will deploy IBM's Watson cognitive computing innovation to deliver a next- generation client experience. This collaboration is part of an ongoing journey by DBS to shape the future of banking.
For a start, DBS intends to apply Watson to its wealth management business to improve the advice and experience delivered to affluent customers. Watson is a cloud-based technology that can process enormous amounts of information with the ability to understand and learn from each interaction at unprecedented speed, representing a significant shift in the ability for organizations to quickly analyze, understand and respond to vast amounts of Big Data.
DBS' implementation of IBM's cloud-based Watson Engagement Advisor solution – targeted for rollout in the second half of the year – comes as the bank continues to execute on strategy to be a leading regional wealth player. DBS will look to progressively deploy these capabilities to its other businesses over time.
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With the way in which customers live, work and bank changing dramatically, DBS has been innovating the way it does banking. As an example, in 2010, the bank formed a Customer Experience Council and Innovation Council, both chaired by CEO Piyush Gupta, to deliver innovation anchored around three big ideas:
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With Asia creating wealth faster than anywhere else in the world, coupled with increasingly sophisticated and digitally-savvy customers, banking relationship managers need to be empowered with sophisticated and intuitive tools that enable them to respond more speedily with insightful and tailored solutions.
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Representative Matt Pierce (D-61st, Bloomington) introduced HB 1190 into the Indiana General Assembly January 7, 2010. The bill is the first comprehensive proposal for a system of feed-in tariffs in the current legislative sessions that have begun in states across the US.Read More..
Portugal's national grid operator, REN, announced at a workshop in late November that wind generation delivered 71% of the nation's electricity on November 15, 2009.Read More..
The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has confirmed that it will pay Ontario farmers $0.145 CAD/kWh for their wind generation under the province's new feed-in tariff program launched October 1, 2009.Read More..
The New York Solar Energy Society (NYSES) has sent out an action alert calling on its members to support Senate Bill S2715A, the New York Renewable Energy Sources Act. The bill was introduced by State Senator Antoine M. Thompson (D-Buffalo), Chair of the Senate's Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation.Read More..
The Solar Alliance, the US industry trade association for solar PV manufacturers and project developers, has recently posted a position paper supportive of feed-in tariffs (FITs) to their web site.Read More..
With activation October 5th of a 9.1 megawatt (MW) solar PV project in eastern Ontario, the Canadian province has rocketed to the top ten solar jurisdictions in North America.Read More..
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Spanish Lemon And Lime
|Instant nonfat dry milk
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Cold milk
|1 Quart (Icy Cold)
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|Lime juice
|2⁄3 Cup (10.67 tbs)
|Lemon sherbet
|1 Pint
|Crushed ice
|1 Quart
Stir the dry milk into the cold milk until blend ed.
Stir in the sugar until dissolved.
Add the lime juice and sherbet and beat with hand rotary or electric beater until foamy.
Pour foamy beverage into a pitcher or individual glasses over part of the crushed ice.
Garnish with lemon and/or lime slices and fresh mint leaves, along with the remaining ice.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 1910 Calories from Fat 328
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 36 g56.1%
Saturated Fat 20.5 g102.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 152.1 mg50.7%
Sodium 1147.4 mg47.8%
Total Carbohydrates 329 g109.7%
Dietary Fiber 0.38 g1.5%
Sugars 289.5 g
Protein 75 g149.8%
Vitamin A 20.2% Vitamin C 57.1%
Calcium 257.7% Iron 2.1%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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How to Make Fitness Dates with Friends
I would venture to say 75% of my plans with friends involve some form of working out or exercising. Most of the time food or drinks or coffee are thrown in there afterwards, but we're always getting some sort of activity in. From yoga to SoulCycle to runs to hiking… I basically don't know what people do for fun with their friends that don't involve being active. (Okay, I do know – it involves food or drinks or getting your nails done or shopping because I do those things, too.)
Last Friday Gabby invited me to the Friday Night Social at Sweat Republic and told me to invite friends… which I did! I'm so thankful that I had friends already living in SF before I moved here… and even more excited that some of my friends (hi, Emily) will be West Coasters this week! As I mentioned before, my friend Sam introduced me to Amazing Yoga in Pittsburgh and she's always down for a good fitness date so I asked her to come along.
The theme for this past week's Friday Night Social was yoga and astrology. I'm super into astrology, as in I like reading about things about my sign because I like having excuses to back up my personality
flaws traits: crippling self-doubt, indecisive, lazy about things I don't care about. We started class learning a little bit about each type of sign – wind, earth, fire and air – and then throughout class, Jessica, the instructor, told us which poses are good for which signs. Apparently I should be doing more rabbit pose and obviously, fish.
Afterwards we had raw juice and snacks from the new Union Street juice bar, Urban Remedy. Local fitness brand Akrovita was there selling their super cute line as well.
Tips for Making Fitness Dates with Friends
- Pick a class you've never been to before.
If your friend may not be disposed to going on a fitness date, try a class you've both never been to before. Sometimes new classes are scary but when you're both bopping around like geeks you can't help but laugh. My first friend "date" with Erin was actually at a barre studio nether of us had been to before!
- Trade after work happy hour for an after work run.
When we both still lived in Pittsburgh, Emily and I would run 5-6 miles after work every Tuesday. Sometimes our friends Lesley and Sangam would join us. Even though we weren't fans of after-work workouts, it was so nice to stretch our legs after sitting all day and bitch about work. (#sorryimnotsorry)
- Turn your coffee date into a walk and talk.
Why sit at a coffee shop when you can walk around the neighborhood, being all Taylor Swift with your coffee cups in hand? You can pop into little shops, burn some cals and get some vitamin D. Don't use "it's too cold out" to walk and talk as an excuse. A and I would go for a walk every day when I was home and it was like 10 degrees out. And I live in California and am not accustomed to the cold. Not an excuse unless the windchill are negative. Just bundle up.
- Spend a weekend day doing an outdoor sport.
Go hiking! Go kayaking! Go stand-up paddle boarding! The possibilities are endless. Then you can feel less guilty if you indulge in a glass (or two!) of wine or ice cream afterwards. I usually do both. Whoops.
- Go to a special event.
Studios are always having social events. Go to them! They are super fun. Don't be afraid that you won't know anyone there. I've done yoga on the Andy Warhol Bridge in Pittsburgh with Emily and Lesley and went to special yoga classes like candlelight yoga with Angela in Pittsburgh
- Do a challenge together.
I have always wanted to do a 30 days challenge. I actually did one at Pure Barre in Pittsburgh and if my wallet could handle dishing out $600 for SoulCycle a month, I would do the challenge the Palo Alto & Union St. studios are doing in March. You can do prAna's 30 Days of Yoga challenge FO' FREE at home. Grab a friend and challenge each other to go to class together once or twice a week and Snapchat some photos of you crowing it up at home on days you don't go to class.
Like my outfit in this post? I'm wearing the Piper Top and Gabi Legging c/o prAna. You can save 15% off any prAna gear and twin it up with me by entering code psps15AGIT at checkout! I keep getting TONS of complements on these pants so you should definitely snap up a pair.
I was compensated by prAna for this post but all opinions are my own.
Chat with me:
Do you go on fitness dates with your friends? What is your favorite way to workout with your friends? Have you ever done a fitness challenge?
38 comments on "How to Make Fitness Dates with Friends"
Yay! This is wonderful! So happy for you, Gabby seems lovely :) i may still need these tips/….I have a few friends, but not really a group yet, so I need to work on it, and these would help a lot. So funny we were talking about this a few weeks ago, and now you are putting it into practice :)
Tina muir recently posted…Meatless Monday- Creamy Avocado Hummus
I love, love the astrology idea!!! It must have been so spiritual and magical! I find that I enjoy it the most when I try new classes, the laughs from all the awkward moves are just so great! ;)
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I've been loving my run dates with Erica and the ladies every Saturday. I really hope that I get to stay a part of them after the marathon!
Also, add brunch to the deal. Works every time!
Susie @ SuzLyfe recently posted…Weekend Recap and Theo Chocolate Factory Tour (Seattle)
These are great ideas. Would you mind if I linked to it for a post I am doing in my Workouts for Busy Moms series? The article with your link would go live next Saturday morning.
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FYI, my post goes live 2/28 at 5 am CST. Thanks!
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Working out with friends is the only thing that consistently gets me motivated. It makes me show up!
Kristy as Giftie Etcetera recently posted…The Wisdom of a Weekly Plan
Every week I look forward to Saturday, and not to sleep in but to get up early and run with a great friend of mine. We chat the entire run. I haven't gotten her to try many new classes with me (she likes to stick to just running) but we do do a race together at least once a year and have a blast doing it.
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I love doing active things with friends. Most of my friends in Baltimore I met through November Project so I'm guaranteed a running date every Wednesday and Friday… and sometimes more. A lot of my non-running friends aren't as into fitness as I am so unfortunately I can't always convince them to work out with me, but they're usually down for a walk along the water. And of course I'm dating someone who is as fanatic as I am about working out so bike dates are in our near future. It's more fun to be active with the people you love- food is great, but sweating together is even better :)
Yes. I think my life is now fitness dates. I went with you to SoulCycle, another friend wants to do Barre by my house. It makes me feel a little better about my life to have so many friends who enjoy working out. :)
Kay @ Kay Bueno recently posted…Weekend Recap – How I walked San Francisco
I need to do more friend workout dates! I used to do it all the time but haven't in a while!
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Seriously working out with friends makes such a difference! The motivation is so much easier for me when someone else is involved. And I love those cute workout clothes!
Well you know I agree with all points in this one! LOVE fitness dates. :)
Ashley @ A Lady Goes West recently posted…A weekend "Day in the Life" recap + fitness
This is so inspirational! I have been thinking a lot about starting to work out again and this post came at a great time! I'm totally going to grab my girlfriends and start working out more!
I love this! The best I've done so far is getting them out of the coffeeshops to instead walk around and shop on our meet-ups. This might be a little easier on my wallet!
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I have a weekly yoga date night with one of my girl friends, and my pole and aerial classes are like one giant friend group workout since you get to know everyone in class closely after a while :) I need Akrovita to come to Colorado for an event like this – I bought a pair of their leggings last month and have been living in them ever since!
I love fitness dates with friends, probably about as much as I love HH dates with friends. I think a Sunday sweat session followed by brunch is the best thing my friends and I have ever come up with :) xoxo, ganeeban
ganeeban recently posted…Rose & Thorn [38]
I'm a huge fan of fitness friend dates too! That's what I love about our blogging community – you can always find local blog friends to do stuff with you. This past weekend, a few of us Calgary bloggers went to Bodypump!
Then, LOTS OF WINE. But I didn't go to that part. :(
Jo @ Living Mint Green recently posted…Friend Dates: Bodypump & Brunch!
Fitness dates are the best! :D Whenever I go back home to visit, we usually meet up either to make food or for some kind of fitness-related awesomeness! :]!
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I'm with you, I feel like most of my girlfriend get togethers are active dates too…and I love it! We usually will go for a hike, get smoothies and go for a walk along the beach, head to a fitness event or try out a new class. It's great because I'm getting my workout in while also spending time with friends.
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There has been much talk and worry about the 'Do Not Track' legislation proposed by Federal Trade Commission in early December 2010, and now that Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox both have plugins/features to block certain types of third party cookies (and we also know that Internet Explorer 9 is gonna have it too) the worry has built up even more.
Over the past two days I've spoken with folks in nearly every major affiliate network (namely Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, and AvantLink), and none of them could confirm that such brower plugins will have a negative affect on affiliate tracking. The major reason being is that the focus of the 'Do Not Track' proposal is actually on very particular type of tracking. Reading the original FTC's proposal we see that they are looking to establish "a uniform choice mechanism for online behavioral advertising" which would make the practice of personalized behavioral advertising visible and transparent to consumers who are being tracked to be served "targeted advertisements" (pp. 12-13). With this in mind, they propose that consumers should be able to "control the collection and use of their online browsing data", considered specifically in light of "targeted advertisements" and "behavioral advertising" (p. 14) [underlining mine]. Page 16 continues:
…the Commission supports a more uniform and comprehensive consumer choice mechanism for online behavioral advertising, sometimes referred to as "Do Not Track." The most practical method of providing uniform choice for online behavioral advertising would likely involve placing a setting similar to a persistent cookie on a consumer's browser, and conveying that setting to sites that the browser visits, to signal whether or not the consumer wants to be tracked or receive targeted advertisements. [again, emphasis added by me]
In discussing Firefox's newest "Do Not Track" plugin AvantLink's CTO David Clark has confirmed to me that it should not affect their tracking in any way. The focus of the mechanism is just different. It is not affiliate cookies that they're concerned with, but the behavioral targeting type tracking; and while some affiliate networks do set behavioral type cookies, affiliate tracking isn't tied to them.
In December of 2010 Lucas Brown of HasOffers wrote:
I don't think the FTC is really targeting the affiliate marketing industry specifically. Rather, they are interested in preventing those that control some of the largest distribution channels from mining data and selling it as behavioral user data… The FTC is really more concerned about the abuse of behavioral advertising…
Today an affiliate marketing industry's veteran, one of the original founders of Commission Junction, and a co-founder of Impact Radius, Todd Crawford told me:
Personally, I am confident that performance advertising will not be impacted by this type of legislation because the companies doing the tracking can limit the data they capture to ensure that they are in compliance.
What do you think?
About Geno Prussakov
CEO & Founder of AM Navigator – an award-winning OPM agency. Founder & Chair of Affiliate Management Days conference. Author of numerous books including "Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day" (2011) and "Quick Start Guide to Affiliate Marketing" (2013), international speaker, marketing consultant, affiliate and influencer marketing evangelist.
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14 Responses to "Will FTC's 'Do Not Track' Proposal Affect Affiliate Marketing?"
Thanks for increasing awareness of this Geno! Though I don't think they are targeting the affiliate marketing industry specifically, I do think any movement toward this type of regulation is bad for the user, the advertiser, and of course the publisher. Please leave comments on the FTC website!
The PMA with the help of the lawyer group, is drafting a response to the FTC questions they issued, so hopefully we can prove to the FTC that we can self regulate without them stepping in.
Interesting to see this. I assume it is more to do with pervasive Targeted Advertising!. This could affect earnings from "Adsense" though!!
Hi Geno,
Let me chime in with a little political perspective. There's been a lot of speculation as to why the FTC put out this proposal. The most common opinion is they're doing this to stimulate industry to do a better job at self regulating. Not just the performance marketing industry but ALL of advertising (online and offline). It is definitely a shot at the behavioral side where more and more consumer information is being collected. The FTC is responding to consumer privacy groups.
In theory, we completely support industry self-regulation, especially where it deals with protecting consumer privacy. It is politically important that regulators and legislators know that our industry takes this stance, and that we're aligned with other advertising groups (AAAA, IAB, NetChoice, DMA, ERA, etc).
We're actually participating in 3 different responses:
– A general industry response to the Department of Commerce, authored by the DMA and signed by several groups including the PMA.
– A similar general industry response to the FTC, same author and signers.
– Very specific detailed response directly from us, focusing on the elements that will impact us.
Part of the reason the PMA is preparing our own response is to show that we can indeed be supportive and influential in public policy debate. And the other part is to make sure that specific elements in the proposal that are critical to our industry, have very specific responses, relevant to our industry's perspective. We can't afford to be an afterthought.
By looking at the political climate, we realized this isn't necessarily a heavy handed way for the FTC to shut down the internet (which it would do if you could opt out of cookies, for example). But we have to make sure they don't make a proposal that has unintended consequences they hadn't considered.
Case in point: to opt out of tracking would require a consumer to provide personally identifiable information, into a system that currently doesn't store that info, we look at unique, anonymous identifiers. So the solution would cause more of a problem than currently exists.
Great post Geno – and fantastic discussion in the comments. It is definitely an issue we are following closely.


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The followup to "Cuts" by Japanese noisemaker Merzbow (aka Masami Akita), Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and Hungarian drummer Balazs Pandi, adding Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore to create a supergroup of vicious sonic improvisation spanning 4 nations.
Gustafsson, Mats / Merzbow / Balazs Pandi / Thurston Moore
Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper [VINYL 2 LPs]
Label: Rarenoise Records
Released in: USA
"How did renowned Japanese noisemaker Merzbow (aka Masami Akita), Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and Hungarian drummer Balazs Pandi follow up their majorly intense statement made on their tumultuous debut album, Cuts, which was released in 2013? By adding another ingredient to the volatile mix, in the person of skronking guitar hero and Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore things are taken up a notch or two on the Richter scale on their RareNoise Records follow-up recording. With Gustafsson's roaring baritone sax blending with Moore's shriekback guitar, Pandi's intensely throbbing beats and Merzbow's subversive white noise barrages, it all adds up to a sonic pummeling of epic proportions on the remarkable two CD-set, Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper."-Rarenoise Records
"The Cuts Quartet is a sort of assembled supergroup. But we are not talking Traveling Wilburys or Audioslave here. Groups where the sum is certainly less than the parts. No, the amalgam of Japanese noise artist Merzbow (aka Masami Akita), Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson (Fire! Orchestra, The Thing), American guitarist Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), and Hungarian drummer Balazs Pandi (Metallic Taste of Blood) comes at the ears more like John Coltrane's Ascension (Impulse!, 1965) or Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz (Atlantic, 1961).
Like those seminal recordings, it is possible to get lost in the four lengthy tracks spread over 2 discs (both LP and CD). Lost, both purposely and unexpectedly.
Noise has been incorporated into improvised music to great effect. Wolf Eyes recorded with Anthony Braxton, and Merzbow has worked with Jamie Saft, Richard Pinhas, and Elliott Sharp, as well as each of the musicians here. The previous trio recording, Cuts (RareNoise, 2013) with Merzbow, Gustafsson and Pandi was a bit of a revelation. Propelling noise with a drummer's pulse opens new avenues for its reception. By adding Moore's additional guitar, the road expands into a spacious boulevard. Pandi's drumming recalls that of Charles Hayward from Massacre or Ted Epstein from Blind Idiot God. He has the ability to draw from micro to the macro, always the impetus here.
It's not that Gustafsson, Moore, and Akita need assistance. Each player can dominate as a solo performer. It's just that each player dials back their extroverted nature in service of the music. Gustafsson eschews his luxury liner baritone sax for electronics for lengthy periods, Moore often adopts silence, and Akita's wall of sound (noise) doesn't inundate. That said, the music is fierce, passionate, and intense. Like Coltrane's Ascension or Coleman's Free Jazz listeners can absorb the whole or focus on a player by following an individual through each piece. That way there is a choice between maelstrom and well, melody."-Mark Corroto, All About JazzAlso available on CD.
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"Born 1964 in Umeå, Northern Sweden.Saxplayer, improviser and composer. Solo artist and international tours and projects with a.o. Sonic Youth, Merzbow, Jim O´Rourke, Barry Guy, Otomo Yoshihide, Yoshimi, Ken Vandermark and in working groups The Thing, FIRE!, Gush, Boots Brown, Swedish Azz and Fake (the facts). Large ensemble work with Barry Guy New Orchestra,FIRE! Orchestra and the NU - ensemble.over 1800 concerts and over 200 record productions in Europe, Australia, Africa, North & South America and Asia.Collaborations with contemporary dance, theater, art, poetry as well as projects with noise, electronica, contemporary rock and free jazz.Discaholic - running the discaholic corner website.Producer of international festivals and concert tours as well as work with own record labels Slottet, OlofBright Editions and Blue Tower Records."-Mats Gustafsson Website (http://matsgus.com/archives/category/bio)
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"Masami Akita (秋田 昌美 Akita Masami?, born December 19, 1956), better known by his stage name Merzbow (メルツバウ Merutsubau?), is a Japanese noise musician. Since 1980, he has released over 400 recordings.
The name Merzbow comes from the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork Merzbau (German pronunciation: [ˈmɛʁtsˌbaʊ̯]), in which Schwitters transformed the interior of his house using found objects. The name was chosen to reflect Akita's dada influence and junk art aesthetic. In addition to this, Akita has cited a wide range of musical influences from progressive rock, heavy metal, free jazz, and early electronic music to non-musical influences like dadaism, surrealism, and fetish culture. Since the early 2000s, he has been inspired by animal rights and environmentalism, and has become a vegan.
As well as being a prolific musician, he has been a writer and editor for several books and magazines in Japan, and has written several books of his own. He has written about a variety of subjects, mostly about music, modern art, and underground culture. His more renowned works were on the topics of BDSM and Japanese bondage. Other art forms Akita has been interested in include painting, photography, filmmaking, and Butoh dance.
In 2000, Extreme Records released the 50 CD box set known as the Merzbox. Akita's work has been the subject of several remix albums and at least one tribute album. This, among other achievements, has helped Merzbow to be regarded by some as the "most important artist in noise"."-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merzbow)
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Released: 2015
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Recorded at Park Studios, in London, England, by Daniel Sandor.
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Energy transition and climate
"Affordable solar for all is our best option to tackle emission issues"
Organized in conjunction with the Moroccan Business Confederation (CGEM), the French Business Confederation (MEDEF) and the Terrawatt Initiative, the first Solar@COP conference was held as a side event at COP22 in Marrakech on Tuesday, November 15. ENGIE CEO Isabelle Kocher was one of the industrial, political and financial leaders invited to speak on the subject of solar energy as a key solution in the fight against global warming.
"Funding solar should be as easy as making yourself a coffee"
Jean-Pascal Pham-Ba, Secretary General of the Terrawatt Initiative, sees solar power as a massive potential market. In an interview with La Tribune, he explains in detail the goals of the international organization launched in the run-up to COP21, and the financial and structural resources deployed to achieve them.
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"We will need to co-create, co-conceive, co-invent and co-manage solutions"
Isabelle Kocher, ENGIE Chief Executive Officer, talked about partnerships and collaboration, during the second session of the opening plenary of the 2016 edition of the World Cities Summit, in Singapore.
"The 21st century will mark the end of fossil fuels"
ENGIE CEO Isabelle Kocher sees the disappearance of fossil fuels and their replacement by renewables as the great challenge of our time. In Le Monde, she sets out what the Group is trying to achieve in practical terms to promote the international energy transition.
"The potential of solar is enormous: twenty times the level of global energy consumption"
Isabelle Kocher gives her views in an interview with Capital.fr in which she explains the strategic vision and objectives of the Group to lead the global energy transition.
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- Features the FREE KARL poster image from the TV comedy, Workaholics!
- Officially Licensed Workaholics
- Adult men's US sizes, standard fit and length.
- Very Soft, Smooth, Lightweight Blend of 50% Polyester, 37% Cotton, 13% Rayon
- Machine washable. "Preshrunk" makes the fabric less likely to shrink, but it doesn't mean it won't shrink again, so dry low or air dry.
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