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LIVE: Chat About the Best Tech. Technology seems to take us away from "active" activities like sports for recreation instead of video games or just walking around a physical store rather than shopping online.

LIVE: Chat About the Best Tech

But, plenty of innovations help us live more healthily. In today's Hangout we'll discuss these things with Derek Flanzraich, founder and CEO of lifestyle site Greatist. The following are a few topics we'll be discussing in today's Hangout. Fitness A digital lifestyle can allow for a flexible schedule and traveling — which makes those visits to the gym even harder to fit in. Workouts at home are nothing new, but digital workouts stand out from the VHS or DVDs that domintated the past few decades — a digital workout can be different each day.

What workouts are best for you when you can't make it to a formal exercise class or the gym? Food For engineers used to programming the tedium out of daily tasks, it was only a matter of time until one of them decided to disrupt food, right? Wellness Image: Flickr, Kazuhiro Keino. The terrible and wonderful reasons why I run long distances.

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Guide to swimming pools around Jerusalem. Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard! Good Life Project TV. Why I Am Not Modern Orthodox. July 2, 2013 Studio Armadillo “Hevruta-Mituta,” Hadas Kruk and Anat Stein Some time ago, I met a man named Avremel.

Why I Am Not Modern Orthodox

Avremel was a Satmar Hasid, and when I told him that I too was once Hasidic but am now no longer religious, he did not know what to make of it. “What do you mean, you are no longer religious?” We had met at the Chulent, an underground weekly event in New York City for the non-conformist among the Orthodox: Hippie ex-Hasids mingling with weed-smoking, Lakewood yeshiva guys; Breslov Na-nach-nikim chatting up artsy young women from Borough Park or Monsey. “But you still keep kosher, yes?” I told Avremel that I did not, in fact, keep any of those things, and he grew visibly agitated.

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15 Phenomenal TED Talks You Need to Watch Today. Often, we inbound marketers learn from inbound marketing blogs written by inbound marketers who sell inbound marketing software or run inbound marketing agencies ... and it can get kind of stale.

15 Phenomenal TED Talks You Need to Watch Today

We're all writing and reading about the same thing, so it becomes this vortex of similar content that can be hard to sift through to find things you didn't already know. It's hard to stay inspired, too. There is one type of content that can help us get out of this vortex: TED Talks. Featuring presentations from some of the most brilliant minds in the world, TED Talks cover every topic under the sun in an easy-to-understand and inspiring way. So to help you break out of your typical content mold and learn something new to make you better at your job, we've compiled 15 of our favorite TED talks. On Marketing and Branding 1) Renny Gleeson: “404, The Story of a Page Not Found” San Francisco, San Jose, Bay Area Food Carts and Trucks.

The 2013 Best Food Blog Awards: The Winners! 's ongoing mission to chronicle a world of authentic cuisine, we find what we're looking for more and more in one place: online.

The 2013 Best Food Blog Awards: The Winners!

Of the tens of thousands of nominations that came in this year—blogs great and small, visual and textual, humorous and profound, technical and amateur, exuberant and austere—we found not just great writing, great photography, and a great commitment to the importance of food to storytelling and community-building, but also some blogs that truly spoke to us. We're thrilled to shine a light on the sixty-eight unique blogs that are finalists in the fourth annual Best Food Blog Awards—and even more delighted to announce the winners in each category. Congratulations to all! Credit: Good Beer Hunting Credit: Green Kitchen Stories Credit: Behind the Food Carts.

INSPIRATION. Hyperlipid. Esther Katcoff: Listen to Your Husband; He Knows Better Than You. "My husband doesn't like it.

Esther Katcoff: Listen to Your Husband; He Knows Better Than You

" Sunilda, a Paraguayan woman my age, stood in front of me explaining why she'd stopped coming to my weekly Peace Corps computer class. "He thinks I leave the house too much. Demasiado celoso es. " Celoso. Shy at work? 7 ways to speak up - Ask Annie -Fortune Management. FORTUNE — Dear Annie: A friend sent me a recent Fortune article about how women need to learn to “conquer confidence killers” in order to be more visible at work.

Shy at work? 7 ways to speak up - Ask Annie -Fortune Management

I can really identify with that, even though I’m a guy, because I have always been too self-conscious to speak up and express my ideas. (Even as a student, I never raised my hand in class.) The reason I’m writing to you is that just this morning, for the thousandth time, I was in a meeting where I thought I had a great solution to a complicated problem my team is facing, and I was right. Saturday Strategy – Scott Dinsmore: How to Find and Do Work You Love – The TED Talks.

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A mining concessionaire cannot use at will the water it finds. A mining concessionaire cannot use at will the water it finds.