You may be on a roll and working out diligently, but it can be easy for you to backslide away from your work out agenda. It can sneak up on you slowly, but yet unexpectedly.

When you're stuck in a rut and no longer seeing progress, it's important to figure out how to get out of the slump and back on track. When your progress begins to slow, re-evaluate your pl...
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I am in Trinidad now to do a 3 month artist in residence placement, and the first two weeks of my time here were during the Carnival Season (I swear I did not plan it this way!). Though my family is originally from Trinidad and Tobago and I have been coming back home since 1995. I have never come here for Carnival before, but I have been here for Christmas and to perform in the...
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Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, presents a celebration of world-renowned literary heavyweights with the unveiling of its 2010 literary program. From African novelists to Irish crime writers, the 2010 literary lineup features events that reflect on the relationship between an author's written style and their cultural identity....
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If you know that the topic movie stars can earn $20 million per film and that the average time to shoot a movie is six months, you won't be surprised to see that their paychecks make the average person's income look minuscule in comparison. In fact, if these celebrities worked standard eight-hour workdays, it would take them less than a week to earn $1 million.

It is a unique opportunity as a university student to study history as it is happening.

Greatly moved by the campaign and subsequent election of United States President Barack Obama, Joshua Schuster felt compelled to add one to the history books.

So many black women are single, she says, because they are stuck in the groove of a one-track song: sitting alone, waiting for that one "good" black man to come along and sweep them off their feet.

Waiting. Talking to girlfriends. Waiting. Going out alone. Waiting. Going to work. Waiting.

Waiting for a "good" black man, with the same education level t...
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