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year's resolution: to quit eating candy
"I have an enormous sweet tooth," Johnson said. "This was my way of being healthy."happen only if people don't set their expectations too high or try to tackle too many changes at once; one of the biggest mistakes we make is setting unrealistic goals, said Dalia Llera, a psychologist and associate professor of counseling and psychology at Lesley
But Johnson didn't last a weekend, surrendering to a box of Raisinets. Soon enough, she was back to munching on Tootsie Rolls, Sour Patch Kids, and Charleston Chews. She says she now sees where she went wrong.
"Instead of doing something that is more possible, you go to the extreme and you set yourself up for failure," said the cohost of NECN's "TV Diner." For 2009, she plans to keep her resolution relatively simple: Go to the gym twice a week.
"That will give me an opportunity to succeed and I will feel good about it," she added.
"And maybe next year, I will try quitting candy again

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of excess sagging skin caused by her dramatic weight loss.
She said: “I’ve discovered a whole new world. I’m out every weekend clubbing. I’ve had a lot more boyfriends my parents separated and I got fatter. I couldn’t fit into a school uniform or run around the playground.”
Her mum Dawn, 45, took her to their GP and locked the kitchen cup- boards—but Malissa still managed to steal food at buy Mars bars and Snickers with her pocket money.
At night she would secretly microwave frozen burgers and chicken nuggets for 30 secs—until they were just soft enough to chew—then eat them because I feel much more attractive and confident.”Malissa’s eating problems started when she was just TWO—and spiralled out of control when she was seven. She explained: “My mum had a stillborn baby and with so much upset in the family, food was comforting. When I was seven

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he could. He tried not to imagine what it would be like to drown in the Ankh.
"It won't stop until you give in, you know," said a small voice conversationally.
Rincewind looked down at the iconograph, still hanging around his neck. Its trapdoor was open and the homunculus the side of the box meaningfully. "We'll see who sinks first."
The luggage yawned, and moved forward a fraction of an inch.
"Oh all right," said Rincewind irritably. "But you'll have to give me time to think."
The luggage backed off slowly. Rincewind edged his way back onto reasonably safe land and sat down with his back against a wall. Across the river the lights of Ankh city glowed.
"You're a wizard," said the picture imp. "You'll think of some way to find him."
"Not much of a wizard, I’m afraid."
"You can just jump down on everyone and turn them into worms," the imp was leaning against the trap, smoking a pipe and watching the proceedings with amusement."I'll take you in with me, at least," said Rincewind through gritted teeth.The imp took the pipe out of his mouth. "What did you say?" he said."I said I'll take you in with me, dammit!""Suit yourself." The imp tapped

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The next day I woke up with a head that ached so much I felt as if a million pins were drilling holes to my head. It was already way pass noon time and when I looked at my phone I received a message from him and I thought it was the message I received was sent at 8 a.m. and it was already pass lunch when I replied to it so instead of having him answer my message it was his girlfriend who replied to me saying to stay away from her boyfriend. Angry and depress I left it at that I thought things like that required no replies. When he left our town he messaged me apologizing an apology. When I read it I was even more angry because he told me that he told his cousin that I was there because I was meeting my boyfriend who lived in a different town from ours and that my boyfriend stood me up.And he saw me there alone by chance and comforted me. And that I was to go along with his story so that he’s girlfriend wouldn’t get angry or find out the truth about us. I was so angry that I sent him a message right back saying I won’t go along with his plan but I promise not to tell or confront his girlfriend because I was still hurting both physically and emotionally and I had no strength left to deal with a raging girlfriend. What annoyed me though was the fact that

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To prepare the grounds for analysis, the team first dried them in an oven. They mixed the resulting powder with a combination of solvents that caused the oil to separate from the solution. They extracted the oil, saving the solvents for than these other sources because of its high antioxidant content, found the study, which appeared in December in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Around the world, growers produce more than 16 billion year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The scientists estimate that spent grounds could add 340 million gallons of biodiesel to the global fuel supply.the next round of processing. The remains could still be used as compost, ethanol feedstock, and fuel pellets."We're not wasting anything," Mohaptra told Discovery News. "It's a recycling process." The study showed that used grounds contain about 15 percent oil by weight, depending on the type of coffee. That's not too far off the proportions in soybean, rapeseed, and palm oils, which are also used as sources for biodiesel. oil is more stable

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test and said I was pregnant. I started crying and didn’t know what to do.
He said I should tell my mum but I was too scared.
He didn’t what was going on after buying Chantelle a T-shirt which revealed her swelling tum.
Chantelle admitted she and Alfie — who are both being supported by their parents — would be accused of being grossly irresponsible. She said: He know we made a mistake but I wouldn’t change it now. We will be good loving parents.
I have started a church course and I am going to do work experience helping other young mums.
I’ll be a great mum and Alfie will be a great dad. think we would need help from our parents. You don’t really think about that when you find out you are pregnant. You just think your parents will kill you. But Penny figured out

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’t a lot of ergonomic options. But if you can take a break at least once every hour and just move around a little bit, back, but if you can relax enough to work for even a few minutes, you’ll be ahead of the game 4. Ask for Consideration If you have to get your work done, there’s nothing wrong with asking for a little consideration. Maybe you need a chatty companion in the waiting room to give you a little quiet or maybe you’d like them to move over a seat so that you can spread out some paperwork. No matter what you need, there’s nothing worng with asking for it. The worst that could happen with a “Would you mind..?” is that you’ll be turned down and the situation won’t change.you’ll find that you can work more comfortably. Even just walking up and down the aisle of an airplane can be enough to let you stretch. 3. Breathe Deep If you meditate, now might just be the time for some of that calm you’ve been cultivating. A little meditation — or even a few deep breaths — can cut through the stress and let you concentrate on your work. It may not be enough to continually block out the baby screaming three aisles

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know, from space, that Dust."
"What do you know about Dust, Lyra?"
"Oh, that it comes out of space, and it lights people up, if you have a special sort of camera to see it by. Except not children. Itwas talking to the Chaplain about Dust and I was just passing and it sounded interesting so I couldn't help stopping to listen. That's what it was."
"I see," said Mrs. Coulter.
"Is it right, what he told me? Did I get it wrong?"
"Well, I don't know. I'm sure you know doesn't affect children.""Where did you learn that from?"By now Lyra was aware that there was a powerful tension in the room, because Pantalaimon had crept ermine-like onto her lap and was trembling violently."Just someone in Jordan," Lyra said vaguely. "I forget who. I think it was one of the Scholars.""Was it in one of your lessons?""Yes, it might have been. Or else it might've been just in passing. Yes. I think that was it. This Scholar, I think he was from New Denmark, he

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They're pirates-"
"They en't pirates," corrected another gyptian. "They're cannaboles. That's why they call 'em Gobblers."
"They eat kids?" said Lyra's other crony, Hugh Lovat, a kitchen boy from St. Michael's.
"No one knows," ," said a gyptian girl. "They come and talked to this lady while another man took her little boy out the
"Yeah," piped up Charlie, a gyptian boy. "I seen 'em do it!"
"What did they look like?" said Lyra.
"Well...l never properly saw 'em," Charlie said. "I saw their truck, though," he added. "They come in a white truck. They put the little boy in the truck and drove off said the first gyptian. "They take 'em away and they en't never seen again.""We all know that," said Lyra. "We been playing kids and Gobblers for months, before you were, I bet. But 1 bet no one's seen 'em.""They have," said one boy."Who, then?" persisted Lyra. "Have you seen 'em? How d'you know it en't just one person?""Charlie seen 'em in Banbury

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had a chance to sleep," Frank explains, "As soon as the animal had a chance to sleep, we saw all the machinery of memory start only memory; the same mechanism could play a role in all neurological plasticity processes.
As a result, this study could pave the way to understanding, on a molecular level, why humans need sleep, and why they are so affected by the lack of it. It could also conceivably lead to novel therapeutics that could compensate for the lack of sleep, by mimicking the molecular events that occur during sleepto engage." Equally important was the demonstration that inhibition of these enzymes in the sleeping brain completely prevented the normal reorganization of the cortex.Frank stresses that this study did not examine recalling memories. For example, these animals were not being asked to remember the location of their food bowl. "It's a mechanism that we think underlies the formation of memory.” And not

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appears Facebook has run the gamut when it comes to advertising efforts. What began with fliers, display banner ads and even the very similar Facebook Polls have not yet inspired marketers to run in droves to the popular social to wait and see. What do you think?
Update: Facebook has contacted us and said that the technology demonstrated at the conference was not a new service and that there have been no changes to the company's existing polls and Engagement Ads services. We'll be making a new post later today to discuss why the prospect of this new service has raised so much interest and concern.
networking site.But could this be the year things turn around for them? Maybe. Change certainly is in the air at Facebook. Zuckerberg had noticeably dressed up for Davos, telling blogger Robert Scoble it was to denote that this was Facebook's 'intense' year. The Facebook founder bio page has had a recent addition. And as for Engagement Ads? Well, we'll just have

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already," says Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University. "So the question becomes, where do we stop it, when does all of this become dangerous?"
The answer, "That's really a political decision because there's more at issue than just the science. It's the issue of what the science says, plus what's feasible politically, plus what's reasonable economically to do," Oppenheimer says.
But despite this grim prognosis, Solomon says this is not time to declare the problem hopeless and give up.
"I guess if it's irreversible, to me it seems all the more reason you might want to do something about it," she says. "Because committing to something he says, is sooner rather than later. Scientists have been trying to advise politicians about finding an acceptable level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The new study suggests that it's even more important to aim low. If we overshoot, the damage can't be easily undone. Oppenheimer feels more urgency than ever to deal with climate change, but he says that in the end, setting acceptable limits for carbon dioxide is a judgment call.

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leaned on the bedrail looking down at her. She asked if I could help put on her socks. Instead, I launched into a monologue that went something like this: "How are you feeling? Your sugars and blood pressure were high but they're better , authoritative voice. "Sit down, doctor. This is my story, not your story."
I was surprised and embarrassed. I sat down. I helped her with the socks. She began to tell me that her only son lived around the corner from her, but she had not seen him in five years. She believed that the stress of this contributed greatly to her health problems. After hearing her story and putting on her socks, I asked if there was anything else I could do for her. She shook her head no and smiledtoday. The nurse mentioned you're anxious to see your son who's visiting you today. It's nice to have family visit from far away. I bet you really look forward to seeing him."She stopped me with a stern

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knowledge, all of it written and edited – from scratch – by absolutely anyone with a bit of time to spare.
Now it is one of the 10 most-visited sites on the web (there are different measures of this list, but Wikipedia itself has agreed eye, it cannot be beaten for the bare-bones facts on any subject you can think of – and several million more you can't. As a result, it is a godsend for stressed researchers and idle students. One New York University professor shakes his head and tells The Independent that he has given up trying to prevent his charges from citing Wikipedia as a source in their essays. Instead, he now spends some time each week checking the accuracy of its entries on the subjects he teaches. that it is the eighth most-visited). Should you need to settle a bar-room row about the scorer of the equaliser in the 1993 FA Cup final, it is to Wikipedia that you instinctively turn. Increasingly, when you want to find out the latest facts on a developing news story, Wikipedians are upsite in real time for you, too. As long as you have a critical

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getting the ad in front of more eyeballs."
At the time, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said that ads systems are "built over time through continual tweaking." She added that Facebook's existing ad offerings were doing well but "undersell Facebook's broader opportunity."
If the Telegraph report is correct, Engagement Ads have had a massive tweak; companies will be able to pose questions to and receive feedback from selected members in real time based on user information that
Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook's Global Markets Director, told the Telegraph that companies are excited about this new polling system. "It takes a very long time to do a focus group, and Businesses often don't have the luxury of time. I think they liked the instant responses," she said.Facebook's advertising Attempts
Facebook's foray into advertising over time has been weak at best. Forrester's Jeremiah Owyang has called Facmarketig toolset 'confusing', adding that brands will only succeed with engagement advertising if they lean on user behaviors like communication, self-expression, and social exploration.
When Facebook launched it's much hyped advertising strategy

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headquarters. Keith Coleman, Gmail's program manager, told me that from the beginning, Google aimed to build something suitable for people who got a ton of mail—because in the future, everyone will get a ton of mail. Gmail's main features are all catnip for folks who find themselves buried under the weight of their inbox. There's a search systems. Coleman told me that the team is constantly measuring and tweaking the responsiveness of its interface. (The software gives coders a readout of how long, on average, various tasks take to complete.) The Gmail managers are also gaga over user-interface tests: Before instituting any major feature, developers bring users into a whiz-bang lab outfitted with cameras and eye-tracking see how people react to the new stuff.
engine worthy of the Google name, a slate of keyboard shortcuts that make organizing your messages brutally efficient, and a crowdsourced that keeps out unwanted messages. Best of all, Gmail is fast—you can switch between messages and folders quicker than you can in any other e-mail program, even desktop-based

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the other, they could do all kinds of good...
But Lyra was shaking her head.
"No," she said in a quiet wail, "we can't, Will...”
And he suddenly see farther than they could, and there was a calm hope in her expression, too.
Will swallowed hard and said, "All right. I'll show you how to close a window. But I'll have to open one first, and make another Specter. I never knew about them, or else I'd have been more careful."making things up. It is a form of seeing."
"Not real traveling, then," said Lyra. "Just pretend..." "No," said Xaphania, "nothing like pretend. Pretending is easy. This way is hard, but much truer."
"And is it like the alethiometerit anymore."
“What work have I got to do, then?" said Will, hut went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always he thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll