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Take a 3 Minute Vacation Right Now
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Take a 3-Minute Vacation Right Now: Jabbawockeez
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There's only been one thing worth watching on MTV in the last ten years: this spring's "America's Best Dance Crew." Put a mental spring in your step and enjoy the winner: Jabbawockeez from San Diego! "You are changing our country!" commented judge Lil' Mama. "You are the future!" Warning: you have to endure a 30 second commercial first. :( but it's worth it.
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Take a 3-Minute Vacation Right Now: Check Out Today's Front Pages
Instead of heading to your favorite coffee place, why not take a 3-minute vacation by reading the front page of the Pensacola News-Journal, Today's Zaman (Istanbul), Asahi Shimbun English Edition (Tokyo), the GlosSzcecinski (Poland), the Telegraph (Calcutta), or any one of today's front pages from 500 newspapers from more than 50 countries? And our thanks to the nonprofit Newseum in Washington, D.C. for this great resource, and for being a champion of freedom of the press.
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Take a 3-Minute Vacation Right Now . . . to New York City
How about taking in the people and places of our Great Metropolis without the blare of taxis or the expense? Stroll through the streets by strolling down Joe's NYC. Award-winning Joe Holmes stands out among the army of New York photographers and photo-bloggers by poking his nose (and camera) in places you would never think of. He even makes New York's trash look intriguing.
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Seen and Heard
What are you listening to now?
"Alicia Keys. My 10-year-old son and I share the same MP3 player. I'm listening to Alicia Keys and he's listening to Chris Brown. I should make more time for music in my life."
Wendy Sefsaf
Washington D.C. Office, New America Media
As a national collaboration of ethnic media and an advocate for ethnic media, New America Media brings the voices of the disenfranchised into the national discourse.
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Take a 3-Minute Vacation Right Now: Hummingbirds
Love the idea of the "3 minute vacation." The [Alvin Ailey] dancers were so different from the cultures in which I live and work, it was a real break. My "time-out" when I am volunteering in Ecuador (at the moment I'm in the UK) is to watch the hummingbirds, which never fail to make me smile. If you think others might enjoy them, I'd like to suggest my hummingbird photos as a "3- minute vacation."
Sarah Clifford, volunteer for CRACYP (which stands for Rural Reforestation and Progress Network Corporation, in Spanish)
Seen and Heard
What are you listening to right now?
Bjork!
Why?
Because she's so original!
Carlos Ramirez
Center for Nonprofit Management
Los Angeles, California
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Take a Three Minute Vacation Right Now: Visit an Art Gallery
Take a fast visit to the nonprofit Houston Center for Photography and see some beautiful photographs from their current exhibit.
"Sometimes there are so many depressing things in the world the only
thing I can do is go look at something beautiful for a while." -- Mieko
Kosobayashi, volunteer for the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation
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Take a Three Minute Vacation Right Now: See a Dance Performance
Take a virtual trip from your desk this minute to see the legendary Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre doing an excerpt from their signature piece, "Revelations." Feel your shoulders drop as they relax and your spirit lift up.
Take a 3-Minute Vacation Right Now: Chamber Music!
Spirit yourself to an intimate chamber music concert, played on historical
instruments: Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2, iii, performed energetically by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. http://youtube.com/watch?v=6jtk4ETAx8g
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Taste-Testing Protein Bars
You're hungry. You know you should have made a salad before going to work, but. And yesterday you had a hot dog and a muffin for lunch. Maybe you should have a protein bar today! It's low fat, high protein, good for you, right?
Blue Avocado asked the staff of the Center for Nonprofit Advancement in Washington, D.C. to taste test protein bars for the rest of us. They were pretty disappointed. On a scale of 1 - 5, with 5 at the top, the highest score was a lackluster 3.5, and that was for a bar priced almost three times higher than the average.
Comments
Atkins Advantage Chocolate Chip: "Most like a Clark Bar. But not very much like a Clark Bar."
Balance Gold Chocolate Peanut Butter: "Good & chewy" "Bad aftertaste!"
Clif Bar Chocolate Chip Peanut Crunch: "Weird texture and taste."
Power Bar Triple Threat Caramel Peanut Fusion: "Good chocolate taste."
Zone Perfect Chocolate Peanut Butter: "Please, no!"
Susan Sanow (pictured), along with Betsy Johnson, Jeff Kost andCorey Schnaut lent their taste buds to this project. The Center for Nonprofit Advancement has 850 members, 13 staff, and holds classes in nonprofit management, provides insurance policies for nonprofits, and has an array of other services for nonprofits in the Washington, D.C. area.
Thanks, you guys!
