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Oh, and I always eat chicken, camote and egg whites. |
Yup, that kind of diet shows on those abs. |
#RelatableFitness Question: Do you allow yourself to have cheat days too? If you do, what are your favorite foods you allow yourself to indulge in? |
Yes! I cheat almost everyday. There is a Sbarro near Gold’s Gym DLSU and I love their great white pizza. So i order that once or twice a week. |
Actually, I just eat whatever I like once a day. I have my set meals in the morning to afternoon and one cheat meal a day. |
I know this in particular: You don’t stack ANY supplements on your diet. How do you keep in shape with no supplemental support? |
Yes, since December 2016, i stopped taking supplements. Actually, I just experimented and I was surprised with the results. It is better in my opinion. I just eat more than usual and lift heavier. 😀 |
What are your current fitness goals right now? Do you plan on joining a competition this year? |
I want to have bigger legs! and bigger butt! Haha so i would be a whole package! I also wanna join Gold’s Body Con next year. 😀 |
Before we end this interview, what’s your biggest advise to those who wants to have that beach body with washboard abs, too? |
Just be persistent. Results dont show overnight. You have to work hard for it and you have to want it really bad. |
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'True Story' review: James Franco, Jonah Hill lack complexity in grandiose murder tale |
James Franco appears in a scene from |
James Franco appears in a scene from "True Story." Photo Credit: AP / Mary Cybulski |
A disgraced reporter sees his salvation in the story of an alleged mass murderer. Rated R (language and some disturbing material). |
Lightweight script doesn't help a grandiose premise. |
Jonah Hill, James Franco, Felicity Jones, Robert John Burke |
Journalists and murderers, to borrow from Janet Malcolm, have made for some magnificently conflicted stories, among them "In Cold Blood," "The Executioner's Song" and even Joe McGinniss' "Fatal Vision," for all the revisionist heat it's taken over the years. And it's obvious that writer-director Rupert Goold was lookin... |
But there's a flaw in the DNA of Goold's project (based on Finkel's memoir) because neither Finkel nor Longo -- at least as they are portrayed by Jonah Hill and James Franco, respectively -- possesses anything close to the necessary complexity or tragic nature to make their story more than a pedestrian bromance between... |
Finkel is a highly successful Times writer who creates a "composite" character based on abused youth he's interviewed in Africa, is found out, and fired. Brooding back home in Montana, he learns that Longo -- sought by Oregon authorities for that quadruple homicide -- was passing himself off as Mike Finkel when he was ... |
Redemption tales are always commercially viable; so are homicidal maniacs. But Goold spends so much time mining for deep meaning in the parallels between Longo and Finkel that a collapse is inevitable. Neither Hill nor Franco brings much emotional depth to his character. And while Longo leads Finkel on, with promises o... |
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At first, it wasn't clear what would happen next. Would she follow him? Would they end up divorced? |
The answer: neither. |
"After a few months," Frost said, "we both realized we liked it this way." |
Technically, the two are married. They file joint tax returns; she's covered by his insurance. But they see each other just several times a year. |
"Since separating we get along better than we ever have," he said. "It's kind of nice." |
And at 58, he sees no reason to divorce. Their children have grown and left home. He asked himself: Why bring in a bunch of lawyers? Why create rancor when there's nowhere to go but down? |
"To tie a bow around it would only make it uglier," Frost said. "When people ask about my relationship status, I usually just say: 'It's complicated. I like my wife, I just can't live with her.'" |
The term "trial separation" conjures a swift purgatory, something ducked into regretfully and escaped from with due speed, even if into that most conclusive of relationships, divorce. We understand the expeditious voyage from separation to divorce, the desire for a clear-cut ending that makes way for a clear-cut beginn... |
But couples who stubbornly remain separated, sometimes for years? |
"I see it all the time," said Lynne Gold-Bikin, a divorce lawyer in Norristown, Pa., who is the chairwoman of the family law department at Weber Gallagher. She can cite a docket of cases of endless separation. |
With one couple separated since 1989, the wife's perspective was, "We still get invited as Mr. and Mrs., we go to functions together, he still sends me cards," Gold-Bikin said. |
As for the husband, "He cared for her, he just didn't want to live with her." |
But at his girlfriend's urging, he finally initiated divorce proceedings. Then he became ill and she began taking over his finances -- a bit too wifelike for him. |
"He said, enough of this, there's no reason to get divorced," Gold-Bikin recalled. |
Among those who seem to have reached a similar conclusion is Warren Buffett, the wealthy chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett separated from his wife, Susan, in 1977, but remained married to her until her death in 2004. All the while, he lived with Astrid Menks; they married in 2006. The threesome remained close, ev... |
Also in the ranks of the un-divorced: The artist Willem de Kooning had been separated from his wife for 34 years when she died in 1989. Jann and Jane Wenner separated in 1995 after 28 years but are still married, despite Jann Wenner's romantic relationship with a man. |
Society is full of whispered scenarios in which spouses live apart, in different homes or in the same mega-apartment in order to silence gossip, avoid ugly divorce battles and maintain the status quo, however uneasy. In certain cases, the world assumes a couple is divorced and never learns otherwise until an obituary p... |
Indeed, the recession, with its real estate lows and health care expense highs, adds incentives to separate indefinitely. |
"He would not get medical treatment if he weren't on my insurance," she said, and giving him that is less expensive than paying alimony. "Besides, I care about him and want to make sure he gets the medical help he needs," she said. |
There are still sticky issues: Sanchez's boyfriend is unaware that she is still married. Her daughter from a previous marriage views her husband as a father figure. And he got custody of the family dog. But Sanchez plans to stay separated. |
"I don't have much desire to remarry so there's no benefit to me from divorce," she said. "I guess that sounds pretty jaded, but it's just not as important as it used to be." |
Sharon O'Neill, a marriage therapist in Mount Kisco, N.Y., has seen four cases in the past two years in which couples separated but stayed in the same home. In a depressed market, couples may not want to sell a house they purchased at the market's height, or one party can't maintain the mortgage or the other can't affo... |
"The financial collapse has made people say, 'Let's not rush into a divorce, let's see if we can make something else work,'" O'Neill said. |
The added value of marriage is also hard to kick. |
"Many people I've worked with over time enjoy the benefits of being married: the financial perks, the tax breaks, the health care coverage," said Toni Coleman, a couples therapist in McLean, Va. "They maintain a friendship, they co-parent their kids, they may do things socially together. Sometimes they're part of a pol... |
What Coleman finds surprising is that the primary consideration is practical and financial, not familial. The effect of endless separations on the children rarely seems a priority. |
"People split up and have these god-awful joint custody arrangements, so you would think that they stay separated for the kids' sake, but I'm not seeing that," she said. "It usually comes down to money." |
Others believe separation is easier on the children than divorce. A 48-year-old social worker from Brooklyn, separated eight years, traded places with her husband in the same home, so that their children would not have to shuttle from one home to the other. The couple had an apartment where each would live when not at ... |
"In hindsight, it was probably more confusing for the kids," she said. "But we did it with their best interests in mind." |
But long-term separation can create big problems. If a husband and wife aren't divorced, their lives are still legally and financially intertwined. |
If your estranged husband goes on a spending spree, you're responsible for the ensuing credit card debt. If you win the lottery, that's community property. Finances can swing wildly, creating an alimony boon or a bombshell should one partner eventually want a divorce. |
"I just had a situation where after 15 years of separation, the wife wanted to remarry," said Elizabeth Lindsey, an Atlanta divorce lawyer. "But over the years, his assets had completely dissipated." The wife would have profited from divorcing earlier. |
A separation can also go on longer than anyone anticipated, even until death, leaving a mess for survivors. In New York state, for example, a spouse, even if separated, is entitled to a third of the partner's estate. |
There's also the risk that you could lose track of your erstwhile partner altogether. |
"We see cases, usually with foreign nationals, where the husband goes back to the Philippines, and the wife wants to marry James but she's still married to Ted," said Steve Mindel, a managing partner at the Los Angeles law firm Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein. Judges now often require that a professional be hired to loc... |
But more often than not, a delayed divorce simply reflects inertia. Celeste Liversidge, a divorce lawyer in Los Angeles, most frequently sees people who are avoiding an unpleasant task. |
"It's often so ugly," she said. "People get to a point where they can't live with each other but going through the divorce process is too painful." |
In the end, some people just don't want to divorce. Perhaps one spouse desires it and the other drags his or her feet. Sometimes, people are just confused; separation can be a wake-up call. |
In other cases, initiating divorce ultimately serves that purpose. |
Last year, a 67-year-old professor in New York filed for divorce from the man she married in 1969 and separated from in 1988 after she had an affair with a woman. |
"I had images of Vita Sackville-West, but it was very messy and the children suffered a lot," she recalled. "My husband had been more attached to me than I thought." |
And she considered him a pal; they even took vacations together. |
"I think I liked that we were still married in some way," she admitted. "But last year I met someone who minds that I'm still married to someone else." |
And thus, time to divorce. Call it an old-fashioned romance. |
The price lies |
This week in class, we are reading about energy policy and how, in a democracy, policy has to appeal to the majority of people. This causes a big problem when the majority of people don’t see there being an energy crisis – when we are having one. And people want cheap gas so much they cannot see the cost. |
We trust that there is a market reflecting supply and demand working in the background of our gas purchases. Our gas prices have remained somewhat steady (or at least only tripled over the last ten years), therefore we must not be facing any shortages. In reality, there is less and less oil available every day – it i... |
Lopsided subsidies. |
Companies get paid ridiculous amounts from the federal government to drill and mine fossil fuels. They get paid much less to harness cleaner or renewable energies. (There’s this pesky myth about large solar subsidies circulating that is just plain false.) They get paid to drill or not drill from their reserves. The... |
This graph is only partial, because it doesn’t contain the costs of maintaining our highway and road infrastructure – and doesn’t contain the military costs of assuring international supply. |
Confused values |
Low gas prices are considered patriotic, a virtue. This Valentine’s Day, one man was considered a hero for founding a nonprofit with the intent of getting gas stations to sell gas for less – for $2.14 this holiday. Never mind the fact that station owner’s profit is only pennies on the gallon. Or that the $.80 per ga... |
Eco-modding: the car of tomorrow tomorrow (literally) |
I remember when I first heard about car modification. I was watching the movie Clerks, and heard the customer ask about Mini Trucker Magazine. I was boggled, what was a mini-truck anyway? It turns out, there is a wide world of people who love their cars, and people who can improve their cars one piece at a time. |
Today, a group of men and women have updated the whole concept with a sustainability twist in Ecomodding. Ecomodders tinker with and change their cars with an eye for fuel economy instead of speed. |
Ecomodders are known for starting with small cars – think Toyota Camry or Geo Metro. The process normally starts with some improvements to aerodynamics, then perhaps a conversion to run on plug-in electricity along with gas. From there, the sky is the limit. Perhaps a home ethanol still. |
The best thing about it is that anyone with a little bit of either experience or brains can start this hobby with a handful of tools, so owning a sustainable car is not limited to those who can afford the price tag on a new Prius. |
I’ve got a 10 year old Ford Escort. It does well on gas, but I’m certain I could do better. And I don’t mind (at all) it looking like an art-car. I wonder where is a good place to start? |
1975 Honda Civic met the 1975 U.S. Clean Air Act standards without a catalytic converter and it got 40 mpg. |
What risk is enough? |
Nulear power arises as a major example of the risk calculation. Odds are that a nuclear power plant will work forever without any extreme or catastrophic incidents. However, if something goes wrong, it goes very, very wrong as we have seen at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi. Today, the plant is surrounded by The Zone, jus... |
Image from the Stalker |
What lesser risks are still acceptable from our power generation? I’m ready to cede migratory bird puree as a necessary evil – are you? (I say this largely because more birds have been killed by coal-fired power plants – and cats – than any wind turbines.) The textbook I assigned my class has a large graphic that m... |
The chart above says don’t eat any caught fish other than mackerel. Most bought fish look low in mercury, but you should limit your consumption to less than once per week for the first 6. |
We may have to balance these problems when we have limited money and time to fix the problems – but this balance makes me very uneasy. For coal, I know the authors are trying to bring attention to impacts that are often ignored because of the very high costs for their remedy. However, it minimizes very real effects t... |
What we do right now is place the burden on the individual. I need to research and see how much of which kind of fish I’m comfortable eating. If I own crop or forest land, I have to budget for productivity losses caused by ozone. I plan my vacation to avoid polluted places like the Blue Ridge Parkway. I hope I have... |
Somehow, this individual maximum-utility balancing doesn’t seem to make much sense – it misses the larger scale. We rely too much on individual change when only societal change can make a difference. |
(1) Lee, R. (2002) Environmental impacts of energy use, Chapter 3 in Energy: Science, Policy, andthe Pursuit of Sustainability, Robert Bent, Lloyd Orr and Randall Baker (eds.) Washington, DC: Island Press. |
Critical Review: Carvy – A Digital Stylus for Pottery Makers |
December 9th, 2015 by Chong Guo |
How I get there: |
I started with a question, people use tools to shape the outside of the pottery piece. But how could the tools help people to craft the inside of clay. |
Context and scenarios: |
For the first scenario, maybe you are trying to hide something inside a ceramic jar. You need a tool to guide you to shape from inside. And one more use case will be that crafters need a tool to quantify the making process and the material. Under current technologies, they have to build a mould. Creating a mould is not... |
A state of smarter objects: |
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