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Although the United States is one of the most technologically advanced and industrialized countries in the world, fell into a ditch behind other countries regarding the eligibility of men and health. Who might be interested to learn (and surprised) to that of the United States more overweight people than any other country in the world. Part of the problem might be to have the issue of the American Society for the work of the American dream, rather than the whole timeShare it with your friends, family or yourself. The most important moment of the day is the ?time?, when many people take the time to relax or participate in the exercise.
Another problem with the people in America is the level of stress that many of them are living in today?s society. In an economy from top to bottom, sometimes it can be difficult to come to make ends meet, especially if it were a family to support. Instead of trying to exercise or relaxation methods, many U. Member S.The men console themselves by eating too much. The word ?also? is a euphemism for some people, especially with the fast-food buffet connections available to all TV commercials and repeated attacks of ?Drive Through Clock 1.00 hours, open his mind.
Even if America has the highest number of overweight people than any other country is still time to do something. In fact, it is never too late to take the initiative to their physicaland health. There are many ways to help foster and maintain the ability of people with the right motivation and a wellness program for people who lose weight and get fit too easy. Some of the options for weight loss and fitness available to men join a gym or one of many gyms in some gym equipment at home to invest, read articles and fitness magazines, or even access to a fitness program. Thethe possibilities are almost limitless, and depends only on what works best for individuals.
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Wednesday, October 5: Cru Cellars
Meet up at Cru for their monthly Wine and Words book club meeting. This month's book is Rule of Civility by Amor Towles. Admission includes a glass of wine and cheeses. RSVP: jen@crucellarstampa.com. $15; 6:30-9:30 p.m. 2506 S. MacDill Ave., Tampa, 813-831-1117, crucellarstampa.com
Wednesday, October 5: Parkshore Grill
Take part in a special eveing of fine wines, food and unique art to celebrate the fifth annual Heart for Art wine pairing dinner benefiting Blossom Montessori School for the Deaf. The event will also feature guest speaker Randy Ford from King Estate Winery. RSVP. 6:30 p.m. $79 (plus tax and gratuity); 6:30 p.m. 300 Beach Drive, St. Pete, 727-896-9463, parkshoregrill.com
Wednesday, October 5: Whole Foods Market
Join WFM's French Cheese Club for this informative and tasty class on these select French cheeses: Epoisses, Pont L?Eveque, Brillat Savrin Frais, Chaource, and Rove Des Garrigues. Learn how they're prepared, what makes them unique and how they are best served. This class will be held in the store caf?. Register by the exit lobby or by emailing Maria.Gumina@wholefoods.com. Free; 6:30-7:30 p.m. 1548 North Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa. 813-874-9435, wholefoodsmarket.com
Wednesday, October 5: Willard's Tap House
It's another 'Keep the Pint Night' at Willard's. This time they'll be featuring beers from Florida Avuenue Brewery: Florida Avenue Ale, Blueberry, IPA and their Reserve Amber Ale. Buy a pint of any of the aforementioned brews and keep the logo glass! Free with purchase (while supplies last); 7-10 p.m. 12500 Starkey Road, Largo, 727-581-8600, Willardstaphouse.com
Thursday, October 6: Cigar City Brewing
To celebrate their gold medal win for the Minaret ESB at the recent Great American Beer Fest, CCB is tapping the keg to share its goodness with their hardcore fans back at home base. 4-7 p.m. 3924 W Spruce Street Suite A, Tampa, 813-348-6363, cigarcitybrewing.com
Thursday, October 6: ABC Fine Wine and Spirits - Brandon
It's another installment of ABC's tastings featuring over 50 wine selections from around the globe and cigars. Each guest receives a souvenir wine glass and a coupon for $5 off any purchase the night of the event. $10, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 1405 E Brandon Blvd, Brandon, 813-685-4832, abcfws.com
Thursday, October 6: Centre Club Tampa
It's the Centre Club's first Thursday 'Lotsa Pasta' family night where guests can design their own gourmet pasta dish from a selection of noodles, sauces and ingredients. The grownups can enjoy happy hour prices at the bar (responsibly): $1 wine, $2 beer, $3 wells. RSVP required. $14.95 for adults, free for kids 12 and under; 5:30-8 p.m. 123 S. Westshore Blvd., Tampa, 813-286-4040, clubcorp.com/Clubs/Centre-Club
Thursday, October 6: SideBern's
Take advantage of the great weather we're experiencing and SideBern's last 'Grill & Chill' summer BBQ series taking place on their patio. This month, Chef Chad will be pairing Creole cuisine with brews from Abita, which hails from Abita Springs, Louisiana. Pulled pork with tasso sauce, grilled catfish, and stewed okra are just a few of the many dishes they'll be serving up alongside Abita's tasty beers. Register online here. $50; 6:30-9 p.m. 2208 W Morrison Ave, Tampa, 813-258-2233, SideBerns.com
Thursday, October 6: Total Wine & More - St. Pete
With famous cities such as Avignon, Orange and Nimes, the Rhone Valley not only offers amazing cities to visit, it also offers dazzling vistas and some of the best wines produced in the world. Sample selections from Crozes-Hermitage to Chateauneuf-du-Pape and learn all about this wine growing region at this exclusive class and tasting. Class includes wine selections, tasting sheets, take home educational materials, and discounts on the wine presented in class. Call to RSVP. $25; 6:30-8:30 p.m. 4880 Park Street N., St. Pete, 727-544-6018, totalwine.com
Thursday-Saturday, October 6-8: Dunedin Brewery
It's three days of beer, live music and great food at Dunedin Brewery's annual OktoBEERfest. Thursday at 7 p.m. kicks off Literstein night where their official 1-liter stein will be for sale and only liters and steins brought in will be filled (no pints for sale). Friday and Saturday will see the OktoBEERfest street party on Douglas Avenue where revelers can enjoy plenty of Dunedin brews and German food for sale, as well as live music under the big tent and inside the brewery. Call for more info. Thursday: 7-11 p.m., Friday: 5 p.m.-close, Saturday: 11 a.m.-close. 937 Douglas Ave., Dunedin, 727-736-0606, dunedinbrewery.com/oktobeerfest
Friday and Saturday, October 7-8: Frenchy' s Original Caf?
To celebrate 30 years in business on Clearwater Beach, Frenchy's family of restaurants is throwing a two-day, birthday block party bash. During the two-day event, Frenchy's will be serving up some of its signature items, including she crab soup, seafood gumbo, boiled shrimp and fresh grouper sliders. There will also be drink specials, live bands and kid-friendly activities. Free; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. (both days); 41 Baymont St., Clearwater Beach, 727-449-2729, frenchysonline.com
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Here are the Kansas City deals from Living Social, Living Social Escapes, Muncharoo, Mamasource, Groupon, Restaurant.com, Entertainment.com, and Plastic Jungle for Thursday, October 6, 2011. Click on the links below.
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$10 buys $20 worth of cookware, kitchen gadgets and lots more at Function Junction
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$6 buys $12 of Kansas City's favorite burgers and more from Westport Flea Market
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$7.50 buys $15 worth of home cooked breakfast and lunch from The Cook Shack Cafe
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$7.50 buys $15 of rib sticking BBQ from Little Pig BBQ
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$10 buys $20 of beer, pizza and desserts for dinner, or $5 buys $10 for lunch at The Dish Famous Stuffed Pizza
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$10 buys a $20 admission to the Community Services League Wine Festival on Saturday, October 8
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European-Style Home Furnishings at British Traditions in Grandview. Two Options Available.![]() Bare walls have plenty of advantages: ample surface area for finger painting, an absence of disapproving Churchill posters, and no mirrors reminding you that your hair is on fire. Fill rooms' middles with furnishings so you can keep walls clear with today?s Groupon to British Traditions in Grandview. Choose between the following options:
British Traditions manufactures authentic European country furniture, relying on modern production techniques and more than 20 finishes to create antique replicas for dining rooms, bedrooms, and living areas. High-quality, new home furnishings are created with a strong emphasis on design and meticulous craftsmanship, such as dovetail drawers and mortise-and-tenon construction. Customers can flaunt their studiousness with the richly appointed Castletown desk with shelf ($1,530+) or show off fine china and silly straws with a classic hutch ($1,230+). The Marleybone entertainment center ($1,605+) swathes the customer's plasma television in style, and the 60-inch English farmhouse table ($1,080+) allows levitating plates a brief moment of respite. British Traditions? 20 unique finishes, ranging from hand-applied English wax to distressed alternatives, allows patrons to customize individual pieces to their personal taste and d?cor. Groupon SaysThe Groupon Guide to: Children's Literature Do you and your talking dog even have anything in common? Read more... | |
Tapas-Style Meal with Starters, Small Plates, and Drinks for Two or Four at The Drop Bar and Bistro ![]() The Founding Fathers held their initial meetings in a neighborhood tavern, which explains why the Declaration of Independence's first draft had a long, rambling subsection devoted to how powdered wigs are a natural icebreaker. Revolt against the tyranny of boredom with today's Groupon to The Drop Bar and Bistro. Choose between the following options: For $30, you get a tapas-style meal for two (up to a $62 total value):
For $55, you get a tapas-style meal for four (up to a $124 total value):
The Drop Bar and Bistro fuels social outings with a handful of menus that spotlight expert flavor pairings. Groups pluck from the starter menu's finger foods, including house-marinated olives or the mixed plate of imported meats and artisan cheeses sliced beside dried fruits, grapes, and cracked-pepper crostini. The small plate menu packs dishes with savory combinations such as marinated steak kebabs skewered with vegetables or crimini mushroom caps injected with truffle-infused goat-cheese mousse and sprinkled with artesian bread crumbs crafted by a now more discerning Hansel and Gretel. Signature concoctions in 13 varieties await on the specialty cocktail menu, including the red wine martini with vodka, Chambord, and pinot noir. Exposed brick walls enclose the upscale lounge area at The Drop Bar and Bistro, and tall chairs elevate diners, protecting them from ambushes by hungry Lilliputians. Meanwhile, a music-video jukebox entertains with nearly 15,000 music videos. Groupon SaysThe Groupon Guide to: Hors d'Oeuvres Are you going to finish all of that snakeskin? Read more... | |
Armor All Pro Car Wash or Gift Card at Squeaky Clean Car Wash ![]() Driving a shiny car is a great way to experience luxurious transportation without the hassle of chartering a yacht or riding a peacock to work. Transform regular vehicles into ritzy rides with today's Groupon to Squeaky Clean Car Wash, valid at locations in Kansas City, Lee's Summit, Liberty, and Raytown. Choose between the following options:
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$30 for 30 Visits to Element Fitness in Lenexa ($300 Value) ![]() Thomas Edison declared that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, a fact he discovered while inventing the volcano. Work up a healthy sweat with today's Groupon: for $30, you get 30 visits to Element Fitness in Lenexa, KS (a $300 value). A mosaic-tiled front desk welcomes gym-goers into Element Fitness, where modern facilities, advanced machines, and motivational group classes guide fit-seekers to health. The main gym floor basks in the glow of lime-hued walls that envelop a fleet of cardio equipment, including ellipticals, cross-trainers, and treadmills. Nearby resistance-training machinery and hand weights mold muscles and turn calories into a sweaty sacrifice. Element Fitness also corrals camaraderie-centric exercisers into more than 80 weekly group classes. Amid the calming water of the gym's pool, aquatic sessions swaddle achy joints in submerged resistance training. For a more intense calorie ousting, spin classes strap students onto a cycling bike for endurance and speed training. Element Fitness also instructs weightlifting, yoga, and SilverSneakers sessions, which cater to discarded trophies hoping to get back into the game. Groupon SaysThe Groupon Guide to: Children's Literature Do you and your talking dog even have anything in common? Read more... | |
One or Two Tickets to the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra's "A Tribute to Gerry Mulligan" at Unity Temple on October 14 at 8 p.m.![]() Getting front-row seats to a concert often requires fans to overpay scalpers or name their firstborn child 93.1 FM. See a show on your terms with today's GrouponLive deal for tickets to see "A Tribute to Gerry Mulligan," performed by the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra at Unity Temple on the Plaza on Friday, October 14, at 8 p.m. All seats will be general admission in the balcony, listed as the sanctuary balcony on the seating chart. Choose between the following options:
In a city rich in jazz heritage, the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra culls some of the finest saxophonists, trumpeters, trombonists, and rhythm players from the local scene to revivify music from jazz's booming big-band era. During the "Tribute to Gerry Mulligan" concert, the orchestra revisits the legendary baritone saxophonist's repertoire, backed up by the musician's longtime rhythm section of bassist Dean Johnson and drummer Ron Vincent. Along with Miles Davis, Mulligan helped fuel the cool-jazz movement, inspiring other players to tone down their tempos, lighten the tones, and wear sunglasses at night. Although his songs marked a sophisticated revolution for the genre, they also contained gritty, soulful elements mimetic of Mulligan's edgy personal life, including a drug arrest that the Guardian named the 20th key event in the history of jazz music, coming in right behind the day Charlie Parker blew a newborn dove out of his saxophone. Housed in the acoustically sound, 1,400-seat concert hall at Unity Temple on the Plaza, the "Tribute to Gerry Mulligan" concert will celebrate the delicate side of the big-band sound. With a stageful of top-notch musicians and a song list of throwback jazz classics, the evening makes for a date night more innovative than dinner and a stenography lesson. Though Kansas City Jazz Orchestra offers students balcony seats for $5, this Groupon offers the best deal for most. Groupon SaysThe Groupon Guide to: Hors d'Oeuvres Are you going to finish all of that snakeskin? Read more... |
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The idea of a physical PayPal store may seem somewhat counterintuitive, but that's exactly what the company is planning to open next month, in Manhattan. As TechCrunch recently revealed, the forthcoming pop-up store is slated to open its doors on November 1st, as part of a campaign designed to promote PayPal's new slate of in-store technologies. Located at 174 Hudson Street in Tribeca, the outlet will also sport a large QR code on its exterior, which passers-by can scan with their smartphones to find more information on the company's new mobile payment services. Inside, merchants will be able to better familiarize themselves with PayPal's commercial offerings, which include location-based promotions, cross-device payment services and real-time inventory checks, among others. The store will be open for about three and a half months, and PayPal's new features should be making their way to physical retailers in the near future. No word yet on specific partnerships, though the company is expected to announce them soon. PayPal to open NYC pop-up store next month, showcase new mobile payment services originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) ? Campaigners for a loosely regulated Internet are alarmed at the risk to Web freedom from fast-growing BRIC and other emerging economies seeking more say in how the online realm is policed.
They fear tighter government control by authoritarian countries will strangle the liberal culture which has allowed the still-young Internet to thrive as an engine of economic growth and innovation.
China, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan last month proposed to the United Nations a global code of conduct embodying among others the principle that ?policy authority for Internet-related public issues is the sovereign right of states.?
China exercises comprehensive censorship and surveillance over its Internet population of half a billion, the world?s biggest, while Uzbekistan is considered an ?enemy of the Internet? by press-freedom group Reporters without Borders.
?Some of those countries have a more authoritarian character, and so they?re accustomed to interfering with what would otherwise be thought to be freedom of expression,? Internet pioneer Vint Cerf told Reuters in an interview at last week?s Internet Governance Forum in Nairobi.
India, Brazil and South Africa have also proposed setting up a new UN body to form global Internet policies ? frustrated that their growing economic power is not reflected in the multiple bodies that together keep the Internet running.
The BRICs are not alone in favoring more control.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has championed a law to deal with online copyright piracy by cutting offenders off the Internet, this year convened an Internet summit in Paris, the e-g8, where he made the case for more regulation.
The issues at stake are complex. The same relative absence of regulation that has spurred enormous innovation and empowered the revolutionaries of the Arab Spring has also allowed the spread of child pornography and global online fraud.
The Internet now accounts for 21 percent of GDP growth in mature economies, according to a recent McKinsey study, while its power to mobilize political opposition through sites like Twitter has alarmed governments from China to Iran to Egypt.
Many governments are no longer content to share power in this crucial arena with companies, non-profit organizations, engineers and ordinary citizens through organizations they see as ineffectual.
Currently, the Internet is run by a loose consensus of overlapping interest groups and institutions that have grown up as it has evolved from an academic network under the control of the U.S. government to a global, commercial powerhouse.
Some of these come together once a year at the Internet Governance Forum, which was set up by the United Nations in 2005 in response to a general bewilderment that no one was in charge of something so big and important.
But the IGF?s lack of decision-making powers are increasingly frustrating many governments, whose attempts to stop cybercrime, copyright piracy or block content they consider undesirable are largely futile on the borderless Internet.
?We are trying to go into a discussion that makes the participation ? and also the government participation ? of developing countries more effective,? Romulo Neves of Brazil?s Ministry of External Relations told Reuters in Nairobi.
Neves was emphatic that the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) proposal was a draft and a compromise between three countries, and that Brazil supported the so-called multi-stakeholder model embodied by the IGF.
But many delegates were not convinced, said Lesley Cowley, chief executive of British Internet registry Nominet which manages .uk domains.
?The IBSA proposal for a new UN body that would provide oversight of the existing bodies in this field met with strong criticism from many of those present, who believe this would be an inter-governmental mechanism,? she told Reuters.
Cowley said she saw a ?long and difficult debate? ahead ? a feeling echoed by Cerf, who said some means would need to be found to deal at least with issues like child porn and fraud.
?If you don?t have reciprocity, I don?t know how on earth you ever get to the point where you can deal with some of the abuses on the Net,? he said.
?So I think there?s a big debate that needs to happen, and the IGF may be the best place to start. It won?t end there, but it is a place to start.?
(Editing by Chris Wickham and David Cowell)
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