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The Dallas Morning News
Section ETuesday,January12, 2010
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Arts, Entertainment & Life
Asthe ninth season of
American Idol
revs up, thenation has questions.Since Simon Cowellconfirmed Monday he won’t bereturning next year and willfocus instead on a new talentsearch show, is this the beginning of the end? WillPaula Abdul’s absence make us wistful or joyful? How weird will it be to see EllenDeGeneres at the judges’table? And when will we fully accept Kara DioGuardi?Sure, the show has weathered cast shakeups in thepast, but they’ve never beenthis dramatic. (It seems tohave managed without Season1co-host Brian Dunkleman.)But in a conference call withreporters on Friday, Randy Jackson tried to steer the talk back to the basics.
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Let’s focus on what we’re judging and what the real meat
‘Idol’ changes will facenation’s scrutiny
TELEVISION
Simon saysbye-bye afterthis season
ByDARLA ATLAS
Special ContributorFox
Host Ryan Seacrest
welcomed auditioners in Boston.
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7tonight and Wednesday, Fox(Channel 4). 2 hrs. tonight, 90 mins.Wednesday.
Just like buying a house,location is one of the mostimportant considerations when choosing a gym —ideally, close to home or work. Some fitness chainslet you have it both ways,allowing you to work out atmore than one location.
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The gym that’s mostconvenient for you is the one you’re more likely to go to,”said Kelli Houston,assistant fitness manager at24 Hour Fitness Sport inSouthlake.Many gyms will let youtry before you buy. Forexample, 24 Hour Fitness will give you a seven-day pass to give it a spin,Houston said. While you’re trying out agym, pay attention to itscleanliness and whetherthere are enough cardiomachines to meet demandduring peak hours.Don’t forget to put yourpersonal tastes and needsonthe checklist: hours thataccommodate yourschedule; sign-up andmembership fees that fit your budget; child care; andavailability of amenities you would enjoy, such as aswimming pool, sauna orsenior workout programs. Ann Orsinger of Dallasrecently tried the ParkCities Family YMCA withfree passes.
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Itried the yoga class because a Y membership isless expensive than what Iam currently spending…and I thought it would begreat if I could get yoga, apool and all the other benefits of the Y for lessthan I am paying now,” she
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In the classes,
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Ifound support, care and camaraderie that have both encouraged me and challenged me.”
Natalie Dickey
KYE R. LEE/Staff Photographer
Body Pump
atGold’s Gym in Arlington has helped Natalie Dickey (front) drop 85 pounds.
To get fit, find the right fit
Make sure your gym will work out for you
A
new year, a new you. You told yourself you were going to join a gym — andactually keep going this time. Just likelast year. And 2008. And 1998.Fitness centers provide some of the bestopportunities to shape up. What you need is a gameplan for finding the right place, making fitness goalsand sticking to them.
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Special Contributor
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B
ras sure do come inlots of colors. Thisinformation is courte-syof Facebook, whosemembers in recent days havelatched on to a viral status-updating campaign. Its originsare unclear — some suspect itstarted overseas — but theintent is simple: Update yourFacebook status each day withthe hue of your bra to raiseawareness for breast cancer.The result: status lines thatsimply say,
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plaid.” Or
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cham-pagne.” Perhaps
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canary yellow with pink trim.”Silly? Sure. But the Dallas- based Susan G. Komen for theCure breast cancer foundationcouldn’t be more pleased. Although the idea didn’t comefrom Komen, the group’sFacebook page has reaped the benefits.Komen spokeswoman Andrea Rader says the pagehad 134,000 fans on Friday morning. After people beganposting their bra colors, thenumber jumped to 136,000. By Monday, the total was 142,784and counting.
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We’re so delighted,” Radersays.
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We think this is just aphenomenal example of howpowerful the Internet can be ingetting this message out.” Although most of the postson the Komen Facebook pagehave been positive, Rader saysthe foundation has heard fromafew who feel that tellingeveryone about your bra trivi-alizes breast cancer.
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And it’scompletely understandable if you’re a survivor or you’re goingthrough this,” she says.
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But the way we look at it, this gets somany people engaged andinvolved that we see it as apositive thing.”On Monday, the KomenFacebook wall had a new colorupdate every few seconds:
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Pink! I’m a survivor!”
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Ilost my grandmother,mother and I’m a survivor. Getchecked early … I’m wearing white.”Could bra-color revelationsreally lead to lives saved? Rader believes it’s possible.
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The majority of people whoread something we put out,they do something about it,” shesays.
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They schedule a mam-mogram or make a donation ortalk to their family. Awarenessis half the battle here.”The campaign may also beraising awareness on a purely fun front.
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White,” one person wrote.
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But after the first post-ing of this, I went and bought apretty purple one!”
Darla Atlas is a Fort Worth freelance writer.
darlajatlas@yahoo.com.
Facebook postscolorful for cause
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ByDARLA ATLAS
Special Contributor
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