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Since strength training has been added to the new exercise guidelines you might be looking for a little guidance. Here are a few tips to help. The new guidelines recommend strength training 2 days a week. The days should be non-consecutive since you need to give your muscles time to recover. Warm up with some cardio before lifting by spending 10 to 20 minutes on the treadmill, elliptical or Read more
This week's Mad Men brings back a character we haven't seen in a while, Paul Kinsey, and gives us a look at a relationship between two characters — Joan and Don — who we don't often see interact (but wow, when they do, is it entertaining). Financial problems also start to make Lane Pryce sweat in a subplot that's obviously leading to something far more serious. The Paul story line kind of Read more
We can't all be celebrities and pay personal assistants to do mundane chores we dread doing. However, you can hire someone to do one-off tasks: the website TaskRabbit hooks up those looking to pay for assistance with people who want to earn money for chores. When I was looking through the website, I discovered pretty much every imaginable task you can think of. Here are some examples: Ikea Read more
David Beckham had the honor of bringing the Olympic Flame from Athens, Greece, to England yesterday. He participated in a welcome ceremony in his home country that marks the beginning of a 70-day relay for the flame before the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The flame has since moved into the hands of three-time Olympic sailing champion Ben Ainslie, who is the first of 8,000 Read more
For 44 years, kids have been racing Hot Wheels cars around their homes, on the sidewalks in front of their houses, and, if they're my kids, down the slides on the playground. Playground play aside, most die-cast car play has been strictly horizontal since that time. Now Hot Wheels is shaking things up — really up! — and moving car play vertical! Hot Wheels Wall Tracks, the company's new line Read more
Come Fall, the only recognizable thing about The CW's schedule will be The Vampire Diaries. Everything else is getting a major overhaul. While the network is keeping a lot of their series, nearly all of them are shifting times or days. 90210 is moving to Mondays, bumping Gossip Girl back an hour; Hart of Dixie will now be on Tuesdays before the new show Emily Owens, M.D.; and Supernatural has Read more
It's CBS's turn to take center stage at the upfronts, and this morning the network unveiled its new Fall schedule. CBS has kept most of its ratings-strong schedule intact, but there are a few changes to make room for the new shows. Most notably, Two and a Half Men will move to Thursdays, forming a bit of a comedy block with The Big Bang Theory, which will surely not please the folks at NBC. The Read more
ABC has announced its brand spankin' new Fall schedule, and there are a few big things to take note of. Obviously the network's new series are built in, but a few returning series have new spots in the lineup, like Revenge, which is shifting to Desperate Housewives' vacated Sunday night slot. Happy Endings and Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 are moving to Tuesdays, giving a new comedy the Read more
It's that time of the year again! It's Upfronts Week and that means the networks are unveiling their Fall schedules. NBC has already revealed its lineup and now Fox has given us a peek at what their new season will look like. Glee will be moving to Thursdays while several new shows will be debuting. New medical drama The Mob Doctor will be sliding into the Monday slot currently occupied by House Read more
NBC is the first network to take center stage at the upfronts this week, which means we'll be hearing more about NBC's new Fall shows in the coming days. But for now, we've got your first peek at the new schedule. Most of NBC's veteran series are staying in their old time slots, but the network has also added The Voice to the Fall lineup, and notably moved Whitney and Community to Friday nights. Read more
