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My fiance and I LOVE Disney movies and sing the songs often. We are going to watch this right now.

I hope it will still be full of pumpkiny goodness, what with the proported pumpkin shortage! I love pumpkin recipes, and this soup looks delicious.

Ooh, this is a hot topic especially in my town of Chapel Hill - a total college town with a lot of professionals as well. There are tons of great little sandwich shops and cafes, some of which get really heavy traffic for breakfast and lunch. They offer free wireless for most of the day, but turn it off during those prime busy hours. I think this is probably the best solution! Those shops are doing great business with their food customers at popular meal times, but also thrive off of students hunkering down and studying for hours at night.

The book vs. laptop argument is getting more hairy, I think, especially with all the wireless reading devices (and I work as a book publicist, so if there's anyone who wants people reading, it's me!). But, what if you're someone (no names...me....) who reads all of their newspaper subscriptions online? How is that much different than bringing a newspaper or a book in to read while you eat? Granted, I don't tote my laptop around in my purse...but if it were small enough and convenient, I probably would. And what about Kindles? IPhones? I guess the real problem is if you stay lingering at the table, obviously, and that could happen with either a book or a laptop, to be fair.

One of the saddest examples I have of this in Chapel Hill - Strong's Coffee. It was this delightful coffee shop that was frequented by students of all kinds. The shop was wonderful, but the problem is that students would set up their study stations at 8:00 am, buy a cup of coffee, get 25-cent refills, and stay there. All. Day. So the store couldn't make enough money to stay open!

All that considered, it should definitely be within the shop owner's rights to determine whatever book/laptop/study policy s/he desires - but it's a fine line between allowing your business to prosper and turning away customers who are turned off by your policies!

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Water is NOT sufficient to replace the electrolytes that are lost during a tough workout. as a nursing student and an athlete for almost my entire life, any workout longer than 1 hour must be accompanied by some form of electrolyte replenishment. Water is great, but if you drink too much of it without replinishing your electrolytes (or eating too many electrolytes beforehand) can lead to an unbalanced concentration of H20 and additional problems like nausea, headache, dizziness, etc.

Milk is wonderful as a POST-workout drink - protein, fats, natural sugars - but I dare anyone to drink a glass of milk while you're out there sprinting around on a hot soccer field, running, cycling, or any other type of phsyical activity. It's not going to be pretty when your active stomach tries to digest it.

I agree that HFCS is not good for you, but water can't be used on its own. Homemade drinks like AnnieNT's, or the coconut and smart water previously mentioned are your best bets. Or if he can get a good healthy snack in there that's not going to sit on his stomach, like a carrot or banana, along with water, that'd be great.

@mrslucas, we watched that episode the other night! and all it is is like a plate of lettuce, and kirk has maybe one piece and then leaves the room.

what about the instant meals that they put in the ship "microwave" - like the chicken soup in the episode in TOS first season when they travel back to the 1960s and take up two humans as though they're a UFO?

great, great post adam. and incredibly well-researched!

man, i love potluck! yes, pretty much all of our parties are potluck, but that's because that's what everyone wants, and we love that style of getting together. it lessens the financial and prep burden on one person AND you get to enjoy hugely varied styles of cooking. and even when somone DOES offer to provide everything, everyone else always ends up bringing something anyway. it increases the bounty and fosters our friend "communal" feel. but i can appreciate that not everyone is as financially limited as our group of friends usually is, or has the same type of community environment.

Hey Claire! What is the recipe that is pictured in the upper left-hand corner? It looks like a corn soup of some sort? I couldn't find it in the post's links but it looks amazing and I would like to try it.

i've had kopi luwak! tasted like...really good coffee that i could have gotten at my local roaster for 1/8 the price. should have saved my money for a good steak.

definitely tom. i think the fro is way better and also less intimidating than anthony's mop!

Carrot cake! And really good cheesecake. Also, boneless buffalo wings.