"aj-cook" Articles & Blogs:
Criminal Minds cuts female cast members
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This should be filed in the are you fucking stupid category.
CBS has decided to make the bone headed decision to completely fire one female cast member AJ Cook. who played JJ the agent who handled the press, and cut back the episodes of Paget Brewster ...[Read on] |
Food for Fitness: Zucchini Pancakes
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Growing up with a vegetable garden, my family always had the best pick fresh produce right at arm’s length. We grew corn, lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, broccoli, and a variety of squash including zucchini.Although we had a fairly wide selection available,...[Read on] |
Healthy Asian Chicken Salad Recipe
| If you’re tired of same-old, same-old chicken salad, give this zesty alternative a try! This Asian Chicken Salad (courtesy of World’s Healthiest Foods) is low on calories, high of flavor and packs a vitamin and mineral punch! By using th...[Read on] |
Food for Fitness: Breakfast Omelet
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Breakfast has always been my favorite meal of the day, simply because breakfast foods are the best in flavor and variety in my opinion.You probably roll your eyes when you hear “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day” because you have heard...[Read on] |
Food for Fitness: The tantalizing Tastes of Tempeh
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I have considered life without meat. I have friends who are vegetarian some even that are vegan, and I have eaten their kinds of food with them and enjoyed it greatly sometimes.
However, I just do not think that I could live without consuming a thick, ju...[Read on] |
Overcoming college health obstacles
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We all know the difficulty in establishing any routine in college, much less maintain a consistently healthy diet and fitness schedule. When you are suffering the effects of the ten too beers you had the night before or your friends are getting ready ...[Read on] |
Julie & Julia
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If you’ve ever been to a Weight Watchers meeting one of the first things you are told is to never, ever go to the supermarket when you are hungry. The same should be said for seeing the film Julie & Julia which opens today in almost 3000 theatres (mor...[Read on] |
Lean, Clean & Green: A Chick’s Guide to Reducing Her Carbon “Cookprint”
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Environmentalists have been warning us for years about the damaging effects our lifestyles have on the planet. They spoke and we listened. We followed their recommendations and changed the way in which we shopped, consumed, drove and worked.
We replace...[Read on] |
Simple Ways to Smooth Away Stress
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Stress: we’ve all been there, and we probably haven’t left yet.
We always deal with it, but how well do we actually combat it? We can’t really help the paper we have due in a few hours that has yet to be begun, the presentation at work that our job...[Read on] |
Mother daughter team create new TV show
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Being a formerly fat person myself who struggles with food issues each and every day I was really surprised, happy and cautious to see the new ABC Family TV show Huge.
But I did breathe a sigh of relief when I saw that it was co-created by Winnie Holzman...[Read on] |
Why it is important to find time to exercise
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I don’t know about you chicks but college life is pretty stressful and hectic for me. My week seems to be work, school, work, school, work, work, sleep, repeat and it’s so hard to fit much else into my schedule.
The problem is, because there is so...[Read on] |
Food for Fitness: Truth about Truvia
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Mary Poppins sang about how a spoonful of sugar would help the medicine go down, however, she did not sing the facts about the granulated ingredient.Sugar, also known as sucrose, is the most common of sugars and is used to sweeten most things found in res...[Read on] |
A Chick’s Guide to Pampering Herself on a Tight Budget
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I worked close to 32 hours a week this summer. That was on top of having two online internships and babysitting two days a week. Needless to say, I was a busy chick.
Pay day was always exciting until I thought about my expenses. There was gas, car insura...[Read on] |
Olympic athletes to sport vintage-inspired style
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The Countdown to the Olympics includes a lot of important preparations, not the least of which is what the athletes are going to wear.
As he has done before, Ralph Lauren will have a hand in outfitting the athletes. His affinity for Americana will be...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: A Mixed Bag of a Weekend
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Kathryn Bigelow at the Broadcast Film Critics Awards
My weekend started out with a second viewing of The Hurt Locker. I had seen it so long ago and I needed a refresher on it as the awards season gets into high gear. It was actually better the seco...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Lauren Berger: Intern Queen Helping Dreamers
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Lauren Berger is the self-proclaimed Intern Queen, so called because in her four years of college, she completed a record 15 internships!
“My mom called me and said, ‘Well, you better get into this interning thing,’” shares Berger in a 2009 Pomon...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Lauren Berger: Intern Queen Helping Dreamers
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Lauren Berger is the self-proclaimed Intern Queen, so called because in her four years of college, she completed a record 15 internships!
“My mom called me and said, ‘Well, you better get into this interning thing,’” shares Berger in a 2009 Pomon...[Read on] |
Self-conscious Fandom and supporting women’s soccer In The United States
| This weekend I came across an article regarding women’s soccer in this country and how its existence could possibly hinder the growth of the men’s game in this country. I’m not that great paraphrasing so here, in the author’s own words:
“Do...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Sure to be saved?
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(Ed. Note: Artist (and good friend) Eve Beglarian is paddling, biking and hiking the length of the Mississippi River in search of musical inspiration. This is one in a series of journal entries.)
This morning I went to the Joy Baptist Church in Fort Madi...[Read on] |
Michelle Obama combats Obesity with Let’s Move
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On February 9, first lady Michelle Obama spoke out against childhood obesity and introduced her new plan of action called Let’s Move. The goal of this nationwide campaign is to solve the issues surrounding the epidemic of obesity within this generation ...[Read on] |
Tips on recycling your used motor oil
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Do you change your car's motor oil? If so, you're considered a do-it-yourself (DIY) oil changer! According to the American Petroleum Institute, more than 50 percent of all motorists fall into this category. DIY oil changers generate approximately a quar...[Read on] |
When you're a woman in motorsports, All's fair in love and racing
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You may recall the name Dina Parise from an article written in 'Ask Patty' a couple years ago. It was then that Dina, a former professional skater for the 'Ice Capades,' traded her skates for seat in her husband's 1967 Camaro and began her Drag Racing ...[Read on] |
More Women at Toronto
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The Toronto Film Festival has added more films including Emily Blunt as Queen Victoria in The Young Victoria as the closing night film. (description from indiewire)
Set between 1836, the year before her ascension, to 1840, the year she married Prince Alb...[Read on] |
Interview with Lone Scherfig - Director of An Education
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Danish director Lone Scherfig is one of several women being mentioned this year for a potential best director nomination for her critically acclaimed film An Education. Here’s what I wrote earlier about the film. She took some time to answer some qu...[Read on] |
Changing the Culture that Creates…. Us
| (Ed. Note: Author Crystal Allene Cook is the former executive director of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.)
Whispering Wall
At the beginning, none of us probably really understood what was needed to
do the job. Granted, I’d been invol...[Read on] |
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