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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://intelligence-and-fun.buzzsugar.com/Trying-get-social-circle-7817561&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I posted an ad online talking about how I would like to meet people in my area for a possible friendship because most of my so called friends decided to leave and a bunch of different BS here and there. I got a few responses which seem promising, but man let me tell you about all those people who post stuff online and they are full of s&amp;amp;*t. I read this one posting on there about how this woman was depressed because she didn&#039;t have a lot of friends due to the fact that she just moved her with her boyfriend and he works long hours and when he does have free time he likes to spend it with his friends instead of her and blah blah blah. I felt really bad for her so I sent her an email. I knew that it was either spam or someone who just likes to hear people feel sorry for her when she emailed back asking if I had Yahoo Messenger. I responded no because I really feel that if someone wants to make the effort into getting to know someone then they would do the email thing and then maybe exchange phone numbers or meet in a public place and so on. She just wrote back that&#039;s cool and that was it. I was thinking, WTF? I really do not like posting ads online because you get those people who are all about hooking up and wanting to come over there or you go over there to get your groove on and so forth. I am not into that at all. I mean, seriously, why would I want to post something online telling people I just want to get down and funky for no reason at all? I guess I am just not that type of person. Then I started talking to a girl I went to high school with, she always seemed like a good person to hang out with and I met up with her through another friend. Of course I am always the one to make the first move, so I texted her. I hung out with her yesterday and it was pretty much a waste of my time. The whole time I was over there, she barely talked unless I started the conversation and then if she didn&#039;t have anything to say on the subject she just turned back to what was on TV. Nothing drives me up the wall faster when you are visiting someone and they indulge themselves in TV, or the Internet or call someone and talk to someone else on the phone for hours. It is like why bother even showing up? I feel that I am a great hostess. I don&#039;t watch TV unless if I am interacting with that person meaning they want to watch to, I also ask them if they would like something to eat or drink, talk nonstop about whatever and if someone calls I answer and tell them I have company and will try to call them back later. I even notice this when I go out ot eat with some of these people. They will spend most of their time texting other people on the phone and I am just sitting there like a bump on a pickle waiting for them to get done. I guess I just don&#039;t understand or I have a way different view on friendship. I had two so called friends call me the last few days. The one wanted me to take her somewhere because she decided to just get rid of her car because she has no money to fix it, so she has no way of getting anywhere and she thought that if she called me I would take her. Well, I didn&#039;t take her and she got mad. I chose not to take her because she is the type of person who just calls when she wants something and now she wants to hang out but she has no money and I would have to do all the driving now, I would have to go over to her house and pick her up and then go do something with my money. The other person wanted to come over today and visit because she has never been to my house but then didn&#039;t call me back and didn&#039;t answer when I called her and then an hour later when she was suppose to call me to get directions she texts me and tells me that she worked out to much and is now puking. No why I know she is lying? Because she kept trying to be all nicey nice over her texts and stuff and sadly to say this has happen to me before. I think this happens because I am an extremely nice person and if I feel that I have a friend I will go out of my way to do things for him or her. Then the only guy friend I have left is not exactly someone who I want to hang out with a lot either. He had to move back home with his parents again, which I can understand but he wants to hang out at my house all the time or go do something and he isn&#039;t really looking for a job. So you can already guess that if we go do something I wind up paying for it and even though he has a vehicle, he doesn&#039;t have money for gas so if I want him to drive I have to give him gas money, which means I am still paying. So I told him that until he finds a way to get money I do not want to go out and do stuff. So you think he can just come over to my house right? No because eventually I get hungry during the day, you know lunchtime. How can I make something and then eat in front of him without offering any? I think that is rude, so if I make something to eat I have to feed him too and it gets to the point where it is not even worth it. He says he feels bad and all about mooching off of me but apparently not bad enough.&lt;br /&gt;
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I was just wondering where are the people that are like me and want to be friends and not have to mooch off of other people? I am beginning to wonder if there are any people left in the surrounding towns of where I live that are like that, so I had to go to the Internet to try and find people. But the problem is all those other people who just want to hook up or they sound really good on their postings or emails and then you start to talk to them and then they decide that it isn&#039;t worth it. I am getting tired of being the one who does all the work in relationships. Does anyone else have this problem?&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://sharpysunshine.popsugar.com/New-Moon-director-gets-away-from-frenzy-7816689&quot;&gt;&lt;img  width=160 height=106  src=&#039;http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/03/11/4/761/7613573/97c3b30848df7314_114.large.jpg&#039;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Chris Weitz was determined to get the moon right. And when you have a movie about vampires and werewolves whose fans pay attention to every detail, it’s important to get the moon right.

For the director of „The Twilight Saga: New Moon,“ though, the impetus for showing the moon phase properly in the shot that opens the film was an astrophysicist, not a Twihard.

„I went to a lecture by Neil deGrasse Tyson where he’s complaining that they’d gotten the stars in ‘Titanic’ wrong,“ Weitz said. „So his voice was in the back of my head, that we had to get the phase of the moon properly.“

„New Moon,“ which comes out on DVD Saturday, did a lot of things properly, indicated by the fans’ support. Though „Twilight,“ the first film in the series, received respectful reviews and good box office, „New Moon“ - which continues the story of lovestruck human Bella and vampire Edward - was the bigger blockbuster, outgrossing the first film by more than $100 million domestically and earning more than $700 million worldwide.

Weitz, who directed „American Pie“ and „About a Boy,“ also had something to show besides moon phases. Coming off the disappointing „The Golden Compass,“ an experience that left a bitter taste in the director’s mouth, he wanted to demonstrate he could take a popular book and make an equally popular film by being faithful to the source material.

Weitz talked to CNN about the „New Moon“ frenzy, an embarrassing shot and those ungrateful actors. The following is an edited version of the interview.

CNN: For the DVD, what do you think the fans will appreciate the most?
Chris Weitz: What they’ll appreciate most is certain scenes that didn’t make it into the film. … There’s basically more Bella [Kristen Stewart], there’s more Edward [Robert Pattinson], there’s more Jacob [Taylor Lautner], and it’s often sort of more extended versions of scenes where things are discussed at greater length rather than entirely new scenes. I think there’s a lot of good stuff in the movie for fans, and at the same time we didn’t want to get rid of any of their favorite scenes.

CNN: At the time the movie came out, you said you were hoping to do the commentary with Pattinson and Stewart. What happened?
Weitz: They blew me off! (laughs)

CNN: Those young actors.
Weitz: I have to say, they had a lot on their plates … and there came a day when it was just me in a room, and I said, „I don’t want to do this alone,“ so we managed to get my editor [Peter Lambert] on a satellite linkup, and we watched the movie together. And I think that it’s frankly rather amusing, because we have a joshing relationship, whereas it may have been a bit more stilted had it been the kids and me, because they’d have to say nice things about me all the time.

CNN: When you watch the movie again, is it the kind of thing that you say, „Why did I make that decision?“ perhaps because there was a deadline you had to hit.
Weitz: Well, there is that old saying, „A film is never finished; it’s abandoned.“ But there’s only one shot in the movie that embarrasses me, because every time I saw it in the movie, everybody laughed, even the most Twihard of them all. It’s when you first see Bella has become a vampire, and she’s running through the woods in this very diaphanous dress, and I guess my corny-meter was off that day. Everyone seems to find that terribly amusing.

CNN: How did a Cambridge-educated, nice, half-Jewish boy get involved with „New Moon“ to start with?
Weitz: (laughs) Well, they asked. I think the first reason that I got involved was that I liked the actors very much. I think they’re very good. Then I went to see the [first] movie in a little theater, and the response of the fans around me was amazing - their degree of devotion, the delight they took in it. And you don’t always get that as a director. You don’t always know that there are going to be people watching and taking pleasure from what you’re doing, so that’s kind of a wonderful opportunity.

CNN: In the DVD commentary, you said you let the opening shot of the moon go on and on because you figured there would be 30 seconds of screaming when the titles came up. Was that true?
Weitz: The first time I saw it, there was quite a lot of screaming, just because of the buildup and anticipation were so great. People had been waiting so long to see it that it was good that they had a bit of time to calm down before you first saw Bella.

CNN: Were you reluctant to get involved in this, having come off „The Golden Compass“ - another big studio project, best-selling book series, where you had both fans who knew the books backwards and forwards and a studio that wanted a big hit?
Weitz: Well, no. I had something to prove, which was that if you really made a movie that was faithful to the book that it was going to succeed, and I felt that hadn’t been the case on „Golden Compass.“ … I knew I could do it properly if given the right kind of support. So there was a bit of redemption that I was looking for in that regard.

CNN: I don’t want to get too much into „The Golden Compass,“ but do you think the studio was reluctant because of the atheistic themes in the original books?
Weitz: I think they were reluctant because there were any religious themes at all, actually. I still to this day really don’t consider it an atheistic series of books, and in a funny way, I’ve bounced from a movie which, if anything, would be considered irreligious to a movie that some people consider to be a hidden advertisement for religion and chastity and all those things. But I think New Line was frightened of the source material. But that’s crazy, of course, because if you’re going to make a movie of a book, you should be familiar with the book’s content.

CNN: Are you surprised by the Beatles-level frenzy that has surrounded the „Twilight“ actors and the making of the film?
Weitz: I wasn’t prepared for it, honestly. I knew it was a big deal, but it’s one thing to deal with that conceptually and another to fear for their lives in the presence of thousands of teenagers. I was really astonished … to encounter that level of devotion, and I’m very happy, I must say, to be able to lapse into complete obscurity again and never be recognized for the rest of my life.

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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://intelligence-and-fun.buzzsugar.com/Trying-get-social-circle-part-2-7817646&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;For most people who have followed my postings, they know that I am unable to work at this time, but I do have a source of income from my mom and my boyfriend. I really do not go out and do things that much and both the BF and my mom do not mind if I go out to eat and so forth because I pretty much take care of my mom and her bills and her house and then the BF and his kid and my house and so forth, so I am definetly earning my keep here. The thing is, the so called friends that I have know that I don&#039;t have a job and it really made me upset the other day when the guy friend asked me to meet him for lunch at his college. I said I only had four dollars on me and I don&#039;t know how much gas I had. Well, he said that he would actually buy me lunch and give me some money for gas. So I decided what the heck since it was a nice day out. So I get down there and we are standing in line, and I am telling this lady what I want to eat. Now, for your information here, anytime we go out to eat, meaning him and I, he always orders what he wants and I always pay I never give him restrictions on anything because I am just that kind of person. So, anyway, he has money on his card for lunches at the college through financial aid and he has already told me that there is like $500 on it still, so I started ordering and it comes to under $20 for the both of us. We sit down, and I started eating and right away I could tell something was wrong with him. I asked him and he said that it was kind of expensive for lunch. I almost back handed him off the chair, at least that is what I felt like doing, because I don&#039;t know how many times I have paid for him. So I did get upset but refrained from yelling and just told him what was going on and he honestly felt like he did nothing wrong even though he said he was sorry. I mean, WTF? I am running into these type of people everyday. Heck, when I was eating there were a group of girls sitting next to me and they were debating on whether or not they wanted to invite this other girl over cause she was sitting all by herself. One girl said she didn&#039;t like her cause she was thin but she was really smart and was in the same class, the other girl felt like they were just fine with the three of them and didn&#039;t need another person and the last girl actually did feel sorry for her and wanted to ask her to come over. So they eventually invited this girl over and I could tell by the look on her face that she was shocked and didn&#039;t know whether to go or run away. So she sat down and then preceeded to be ignored by the other girls. I really do not know what has gotten into people lately or have they been like this always and I am now just noticing.&lt;br /&gt;
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 <title>Rob on the cover of Vanity Fair Italy + new interview </title>
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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://sharpysunshine.popsugar.com/Rob-cover-Vanity-Fair-Italy-new-interview-7816673&quot;&gt;&lt;img  width=119 height=160  src=&#039;http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/03/11/4/761/7613573/8c166bf4cd7183aa_img017.large.jpg&#039;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;If humanity is divided between the party of “I wish but I can’t” and the party of “I could but I don’t want”, I propose Robert Pattinson as candidate of the second faction. 23 years old, vampire in spite of himself, unwillingly sexy icon, the boy with the case ( he has three of them, really, like the years that he spent among hotels ), he looks at the world from a porthole and thinks: “Boh?!”. But then he plays a DO, drinks a beer, crunches a Twix and goes on.

He admits that he never has had the sacred fire of art, but he was a cute guy, and the acting school of Barnes Theatre Company was the right place to meet girls. One thing leads to another, and so it happens that you find yourself on the set of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Then it happens that you hears they are doing a screen test for Twilight, and then you shoots a video with one of your friends, but this is so disgusting that you not even send it. But since lucky is even more stubborn of you not looking at her, they call you the same, and you gets the protagonist role.

If Pattinson had read attentively Twilight before answering yes – or he had made his sister read it – he would have perceive that Edward Cullen ( the intellectual and torn hunk that all women dream ), would have bled him dry first. But he didn’t read it, and the rest is history, if not of the cinema, at least his history: daily chronicle of the prisoner of luxury suites, forced of room service, incredulous witness of collective hysteria phenomenon by fans.

Trying to separate Edward Cullen’s canines from his neck, between one episode and another of the saga by Stephenie Meyer, he shoot Remember Me, a romantic drama movie directed by Allen Coulter and place in New York, where he plays Tyler, student from a rich and devastated family, who despises icy dad’s money ( Pierce Brosnan ) and lives in a revolting apartment with a idiotic roommate. But Ally ( Emilie De Ravin ), even her with a baggage of troubles, comes putting in order his heart and his kitchen. The two of them fall in love, save each others, loose each others and then who knows: the ending leaves the audience still and silent, so we can’t tell it.

But since movies go faster than life, when I met him, in London, he has already the features of his new character Georges Duroy ( “one which hates everybody. He was needed after all this romantic stuff. Being always good is annoying” he tells me ), the Bel Amy of Maupassant: polished moustaches and beard, under them his t-shirt with shapeless neck makes a strange effect.
Just a warning about the interview for all those people who can’t sleep at night asking if Robert is still ( still? Has he ever been? ) or not with Bella / Kristen Stewart: yes, I wanted to ask him about this, no, I couldn’t. “No pics, autographs and questions about private life, or the interview will end”, they threatened us. We have to stick to the official statement: “ we are just friends”. It is certain that there is ( or there was?) feeling between the two of them, “many and complex feelings” said Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke. In their private life they are such as in the movie: between them there is an intense attraction that you can’t realize. In fact, during the shooting, Kristen was ( officially) with her historic boyfriend, actor Michael Angarano.
So, I wish but I can’t. Perhaps.

Biographic notes that accompanies every movie of yours, describes you like a good and humble person, but it is really possible not getting big –headed when you are perpetually surrounded by screaming girls?
“Yes, even because the effect of all of this is more terrifying. Success is a thing in which I literally fall into. Probably, if I have worked hard to achieve it, I would see things in a different way, but since I didn’t do anything, I am, how can I say, perpetually surprised.”

Интервюто и останалите сканове след прочетете повече…

It doesn’t seem such a great sensation. Did you ever think: give my previous life back?
“No, thinking like this would be absurd. I regret some things: meeting people who don’t know who I am, being able to go in a shop, do not asking to myself if people is acting in a certain way with me because I’m famous. While I was shooting Remember Me, it happened that there were 40 people around the corner, ready to take a picture of me, or asking me an autograph. Well, this all is weird.”

Where and how are you able to find a little peace?
“There are a couple of friends who are close to me. And the presence of my sister Lizzie also ( a singer of discreet success ), helps me to maintain things the most normal as I can. Having some targets give me peace, I must always know what I’m doing, otherwise I get stressed.”

Tyler, your character in Remember Me, is so different from Edward. How has it been returning human?
“Even Tyler is not such a normal person. It’s strange, but I never performed an ordinary person. Also because the roles of ordinary people are rather boring. Tyler is simple, but not too much simple. I liked the idea of being not a vampire, but at the same time non a banal one.”

Was it difficult?
“Yes, from a certain point of view, but also not, because I could follow my instinct more. With Edward you can’t improvise. But I allowed myself to give Tyler little things of mine: I thought about how I was at 21, totally at the mercy of my emotions.”

Were you one person willing to beat life, too?
“Of course, and I’m still so. I know well that anger without any specific object”

And how do you get over this?
“Splitting everything.”

When you go out with a woman for the first time, what do you tell about you first, to make splash?
“I don’t talk about me, at the beginning. I think that it is always better listening than talking.”

Now that you are famous, is it easier or more difficult to seduce a woman?
“I think it’s more difficult, for different reasons. First, I can’t go where I want without someone being able to recognize me, and many of the women approaching me are doing this for exhibitionism. People don’t understand, but I’m not interested in this kind of conquests. So, at the end, all becomes really stressful: distinguishing who is authentic and who is not, fearing to hurt who is really kind. It’s all different from before, when nobody noticed me.”

How do you distinguish the good ones from the bad ones?
“The good ones call the day after…”

Remember Me tells us that love can save a life. Do you believe in this, or is it a romantic thing?
“I believe that is a really beautiful and important idea. I think that even seriously ill people can heal, literally, thanks to love all around them. Love gives you purposes. Tyler hadn’t any of them, but he met Ally and his perspective changes. She is like a pair of glasses, and you can see things through them. All begins easier when she arrives.”

The movie also tells the things can end in an instant. There are people who spent all their life agonizing over this. And you: would you be ready to loose everything, happy about what you have received?
“All movie turns around happiness and being able to see it. Having, here and there in life, moments of consciousness about our happiness makes life deign of being lived.”

Do you recognize those moments?
Yes, I think so. They last a little, e and I am always ready to ask myself: and now how much time will pass before I will regret or worry about something else? But between a trouble and another, there is peace.”

Could you tell me one of those moments?
“Little odd things: seeing how my little dog behaved in her last two days of life, how she was proud. I realize that it is a such a depressing thing to be told as happy moment.”

What do you do to make the many hotel rooms you attend like home?
The presence of my guitar makes much home, to me. And even going to Skype. Last year I practically didn’t talk to anyone and only when I returned to London, I realized that my social life has been completely collapsed. Now I put it again on its feet, and I cultivate it in the distance. Then, luckily, there are people in flesh and bones, the colleagues. Emilie De Ravin, beside that fragile aspect, is a tough person. One evening she drunk 25 beers in succession without feeling the blow. I need two weeks to recover myself and I stopped before her.”

Sorry, but what do they mean the words SB on your hat?
“I believe Santa Barbara. But I bought it in Tokyo. At least it seems to me….”
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 <title>Scientists Reveal The Real Reason Ladies Love Rob</title>
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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://sharpysunshine.popsugar.com/Scientists-Reveal-Real-Reason-Ladies-Love-Rob-7816701&quot;&gt;&lt;img  width=114 height=160  src=&#039;http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/03/11/4/761/7613573/4ca660cb60515211_DETAILS-Pattinson-cover.large.jpg&#039;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Robert Pattinson is loved by millions of fans around the world and now it has been revealed that there could be a scientific reason for the infatuation.

Scientists (with one of the best jobs in the world) at the University of Aberdeen have spent their time studying the preferences of more than 4,500 women in their twenties, from 30 different countries.

Their results revealed that the modern day woman much prefers pretty boy looks to rugged macho men who were previously thought to be the dish of the day.

This means females are more inclined to fancy Pattinson, Zac Efron and boyband types, than actors like Sean Connery and Bruce Willis.

The reason for this shift in preference? Good health. The scientists discovered when health is poor, women want rugged men in the hope they will give them strong, healthy babies.

When things are on the up, disease rates are falling and general health standards improve, ladies prefer more gentle men with softer natures like R-Pattz and co.

The findings – part of ongoing University research into facial attractiveness and how people choose a mate – are published on Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Dr Lisa DeBruine, who together with Dr Ben Jones heads the University’s Face Research Lab, said: „We found that women from countries with poorer health, which have higher mortality and increased incidence of communicable disease, were more attracted to masculine faces than women living in countries with better health.

„People used to think beauty was arbitrary and that different cultures have different preferences.

„However our research shows that preferences may instead be explained by responses to different environmental factors like a low level of health in the population.“

In conclusion, next time your man moans at you for drooling over your Twilight DVD, you have every right to tell him: “I can’t help it darling, it’s a scientific effect don’t you know.”



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&lt;p&gt;For more on the client&#039;s impressive features, read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sobees only works in Windows 7, XP, and Vista; you can also use a web-based version for Silverlight, and they&#039;ll be releasing a mobile app soon. The site offers an impressive and exhaustive list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://sobees.com/help&quot; onclick=&#039;trackOutboundLink(&quot;/outgoing/sobees.com/help&quot;, &quot;&quot;); return true;&#039; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;help topics&lt;/a&gt;, from showing you how to update your Facebook status using Sobees, to how to change the layout of the page to any one of its 16 (!) layout options. I&#039;d be lying if I said I wasn&#039;t jealous of Windows users this time around - Windows users, tell me what you think! &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;Running is generally a cheap sport - good shoes and good music are generally all you need. However, like most other sports, the deeper you get into it the more you start eying professional gear. For runners, that means heart rate monitors and GPS devices. They help you quantify data about your speed, your heart rate, and your distance. When used properly, they can help push your runs to the next level. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;Runkeeper Pro is a $10 download for iPhone, and one of the highest rated running apps available. It tracks your distance and time with your iPhone’s GPS chip. The $315 Garmin Forerunner 405 is a top-of-the-line GPS watch. It uses the same technology to track your runs, and has an optional heart rate monitor. Can a $10 iPhone app compete with one of best reviewed pieces of running equipment available? Read more to find out! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;For intermediate runners out there, Runkeeper Pro will do just fine. The interface is actually superior to the Garmin Forerunner. Tap the green button, and it starts tracking your run, end of story. If you’ve downloaded music to your iPhone, you can specify a playlist to listen to while you’re working out. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;There are several problems with Runkeeper Pro. First of all, it doesn’t track your position or speed with a great deal of accuracy. You can watch it estimate your speed, and it will fluctuate between much slower and much faster than you’re actually going. The second problem is the dealbreaker - if you try to turn the screen off to save battery power while running, it sometimes accidentally ends your run! Eventually, I learned to just leave the screen on the whole time and it helped - but then I ended up with a half-drained battery for the rest of the day. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;Looking at your runs afterwards is really fun with Runkeeper Pro! You just swipe over and you get an interactive map of where you’ve been. I really preferred having this information on my iPhone instead of on my home computer like my Garmin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;The $315 Garmin Forerunner 405 is great piece of gear, but has a lot of problems. The interface just sucks. The idea is that the metallic bezel of the watch acts like the scroll wheel of an iPod, but it doesn’t work in practice - it’s not very sensitive. The watch is a non-intuitive mess of menus and submenus. A glaring mistake is that you can’t easily lock the watch in heart-rate monitor mode for running on a treadmill. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;Secondly, the watch is massive for a woman. I have very thin arms - but the Garmin is almost as thick as my wrist! It’s the smallest one they make, and it’s surprising to me that including a GPS chip is an afterthought in an iPhone, yet has to be this big in the Garmin. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;I also found installing this watch on the Mac to be a total pain. It syncs wirelessly with an Ant transmitter that goes in your USB port. Once you get it set up it works fine, but I found the process to be clunky and very un-Maclike. When you do have it set up, you can review your heart rate, elevation, and speed data after a run - which is extremely helpful. But I wasn’t thrilled at having my single USB port blocked since I use a Macbook Air. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;All its problems melt away when you take the Garmin for a spin outside. Given the problems, I was doubtful - but the experience is excellent. It tracks your speed much more accurately than Runkeeper Pro. It was very helpful in telling me to speed up and slow down. The accuracy of the GPS is far superior to Runkeeper. Looking at the map after a run, it was even able to tell which side of the sidewalk I was running on! There is no doubt that when you get it working, the Garmin is a more accurate piece of gear. I’m a lot more likely to run off and explore a new part of Boston when I know my mileage will be tracked accurately.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;But is it $305 better that RunKeeper pro?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;The Runkeeper does it’s job impressively for just $10. On top of that it’s easier to use, though it’s less accurate and prone to ending your runs prematurely. Also, as a woman, I would really prefer to always carry my cell phone with me for emergencies. Sexual violence is not an imaginary threat. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;But if you’re a serious runner, I would say the Garmin is worth stepping up to. Most runners hit a wall in their development at some point. The Garmin has been very useful in helping me determine when I am in the aerobic and anaerobic thresholds. You don’t feel as guilty about slowing down when you can justify it with heart rate data. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://group-therapy.tressugar.com/I-love-him-i-hate-him-7815842&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;oikay so i have been dating this guy for almost a year. were still in high school and young. He&#039;s going to college this summer and were completly cool with it. We know each others boundaries and we know what were not alllowed to do. So i really do love him. I have had a very rough recent life. My family has broken apart beacuse of mistakes i made. my parents cant stand to see eachother cuz of me. my brother is a year younger than me and is terrified i will hurt him, i haev serious anger issues. At one point i didnt even want to live anymore. But in all honestly my boyfriend kept me alive. he is the only reason i did not give into suicide. i love him so much and he has helped me through alot.&lt;br /&gt;
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we have an amazing time together and we go together perfectly. absolutely perfectly. but we have our good days and our terrible ones. one day i love and adore him and the next i want to never speak to him again all over  little things. everyday there is certain things about hm that drive me crazy and i hate his guts for them. stupid dumb things like his hair is messed up, but it makes me hate him.&lt;br /&gt;
i lvoe him to death and would love to marry him and spend eternity together, but he absolutely has things that make me hate his existence.&lt;br /&gt;
please what do i do?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;The Hollywood actress may not be necessary to pay for the bra of evening dress, but at the same time of enjoying this for free,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;MsoHyperlink&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dress4sale.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;evening dresses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt; they have to pay a little price. A Stars’ coach ,Duck,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;MsoHyperlink&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itiffanyjewellery.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;tiffany jewellery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt; as the body sculpting, said: “I have often recommended them to do 12 push-ups as well as the first 30 seconds to 1 minute rope skipping, and then repeat 3 or 4 times.” Duke’s students, including Julianne Moore, Rachel Weisz, Chanel Eryi Man, Gwen Stefani, as well as many other popular actress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;3. sniff as long as possible&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linksgift.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;links london&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;some actress, after they have enjoyed the meal , they would do like this, other actress would take this preparation when she would stand up and do speech. Behind the bright lights of the stars, standing a group of experienced coach of body sculpting. They must suppress their own stomach , which is ashamed to see people, under the guidance of coach. Duke said: “try to make the navel tend to the spine, which is very important. To learn how to use the abdominal muscles, do not hold your breath. Either calling a taxi or standing in a grocery store, in short, no matter what to do at that time, you have to set your eyes on the navel as far as possible to tend to the spine. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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