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Balance: Knee Lifts on the Board

You could slip, trip or otherwise sprain an ankle or end up on your butt later today. And off both feet for six to eight weeks. So take a minute to consider three minutes a day of Balance Training. One leg at a time. Just Press Play.
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Slower Sunday: Under the Boardwalk

It's a little spooky down here, but it's cool. You feel like you're in some surfer version of the underworld. Thirty feet up there, thousands of people. Down here, not a soul. Just the timbers holding up the old pier. Take a minute in a slow, cool place. Just Press Play and drift. Just for a minute.n
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Pumpkin Pops. This is a test.

They look great. They smell great. They taste great. They're like bite-size pumpkin pies on a stick, only better. No soggy pie crust and no gelatinous filling. A small random sample of adults love them. But only tomorrow - and the kids - will decide: trick or treat.
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The Walk That Ate Santa Monica

Want to eat your way through Santa Monica and burn more calories than you consume? You'll have to spend some time on the beach. If you're OK with that, here's an all-day culinary tour that leaves you with a serious calorie deficit.
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Halloween Curry

Surprise your pumpkin: don't carve it, curry it. Less than a dollar for the baby pumpkins I used for two big servings. Less than 50 cents worth of spices. Delicious. And the entire apartment smelled like an exotic spice market (and I mean that in a really good way) for hours.
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You need to make his bread to believe it

A killer loaf of bread. In your own oven. Without kneading dough. Really. No kneading. Almost no work at all. Add some water to bread flour, salt and yeast, stir for 30 seconds, wait for 18 hours. Truly a Better Cheaper Slower bread.
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Balance: Standing on one leg

You could slip, trip or otherwise sprain an ankle or end up on your butt later today. And off both feet for six to eight weeks. So take a minute to consider three minutes a day of Balance Training. One leg at a time. Just Press Play.
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Slower Sunday: 90 seconds at 25,000 feet

Think about climbing to the top of one of those. That ought to slow you down. Yeah, you really had to be there, in Nepal. But take a little break right now, just 90 seconds to look at something spectacularly beautiful. It's Sunday. Just Press Play.
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Stuffed Two Ways

When my CSA farm share came with a bunch of truly beautiful looking poblano peppers, the ones grown to become chili rellenos - I knew what the leftover polenta, acorn squash and salsa verde were meant for.
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The Trek That Ate (Organic in) Nepal

I don't know about you, but my jaw doesn't actually drop all that often. When I got up to the ridge line, my jaw dropped. Every peak in sight is higher than 20,000 feet - a lot higher. You're miles away from these mountains - but your neck's craned up at a sharp angle so you can see the summits.
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