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How To Lose Weight with a Spreadsheet and a Web Site

Sat, 03 May 2008 18:49:59 GMT

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How To Lose Weight with a Spreadsheet and a Web Site

For some time now, various people have been asking me to document what I did to lose roughly 50 pounds last year. I've been planning to get around to writing it up it sooner or later, but later just never came.

Enough of that procrastination! Today is my 32nd birthday and roughly one year ago today, I wrote the following a few days after my 31st:

Every January people make New Year's Resolutions that they end up breaking. It was with that in mind that I spent a month trying to figure out what I wanted to do. Around that time I ran across both The Hacker's Diet and Jeff Sandquist's tale of weight loss and finally convinced myself to take it seriously.

I set a goal for myself to drop 30 pounds by my birthday.

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Early Psychosis Intervention

Sat, 03 May 2008 18:34:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.psychosissucks.ca

EPI stands for Early Psychosis Intervention and the program consists of three parts.

It is a special type of health care service that provides the best assistance available to young people who have recently developed psychosis.
EPI provides education to a wide variety of people, including other mental health professionals, schools, community agencies and the general public.
The program is also committed to evaluation and research in order to understand more about psychosis and to improve treatment.

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Psychotic disorder

Sat, 03 May 2008 18:28:56 GMT

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Clip Source: www.psychosissucks.ca

Psychosis affects an individual's thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Some of the more characteristic symptoms include confused thinking, delusions, hallucinations, changed feelings and changed behaviour.

A psychotic episode commonly isolates the person from others and impairs family and social relationships. Difficulties in school and work performance arise and secondary problems such as unemployment, substance abuse, depression, self harm or suicide and illegal behaviour can occur or intensify.

The experience of psychosis varies greatly from person to person and individuals experiencing psychosis may have very different symptoms.

Education about psychosis is the best way to deal with the stigma. Finding out what treatment is available, and how recovery is possible can not only reduce some of the fear associated with psychosis, but can also promote recovery by helping people anticipate and prepare for what to expect from treatment and from themselves.

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Dementia: What Are the Common Signs?

Sat, 03 May 2008 18:21:56 GMT

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Clip Source: familydoctor.org

Dementia: What Are the Common Signs?

What is dementia?

Dementia is a problem in the brain that makes it hard for a person to remember, learn and communicate. After a while, this makes it hard for the person to take care of himself or herself.

Dementia may also change a person's mood and personality. At first, memory loss and trouble thinking clearly may bother the person who has dementia. Later, disruptive behavior and other problems may start. The person who has dementia may not be aware of these problems.

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Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll ... Uh ...

Sat, 03 May 2008 18:14:04 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll ... Uh ...

When David Bunnell, a magazine publisher who lives in Berkeley, Calif., went to a FedEx store to send a package a few years ago, he suddenly drew a blank as he was filling out the forms.

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“I couldn’t remember my address,” said Mr. Bunnell, 60, with a measure of horror in his voice. “I knew where I lived, and I knew how to get there, but I didn’t know what the address was.”

By 2050, according to the Alzheimer’s Association, 11 million to 16 million Americans will have the disease.

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The Enchantress of Florence, too sexed up?

Sat, 03 May 2008 14:58:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.zeenews.com

The Enchantress of Florence, a scintillating account of Jodhabai trying different seductive techniques on Akbar to win him over other queens, has raised quite a few eyebrows.

Where some book lovers have said that the book is far too big a comment on the great emperor�s marital life with it having a wide mention of how Jodha used her "curved, clawlike nails" on the emperor's body to drive him to the heights of sexual pleasure on the other hand, some have gone gaga over the book and have already started checking google for further details on the ancient seductive techniques.

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The real uses of enchantment

Sat, 03 May 2008 14:45:01 GMT

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Clip Source: books.guardian.co.uk

The real uses of enchantment

The Enchantress of Florence

From the sea of stories our master fisherman has brought up two gleaming, intertwining prizes - a tale about three boys from Florence in the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, and a story of Akbar, greatest of the Mughal emperors, who established both the wondrous and shortlived city Fatehpur Sikri and a wondrous and shortlived policy of religious tolerance. Both stories are about story itself, the power of history and fable, and why it is that we can seldom be sure which is which.

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Salman Rushdie's sumptuous mixture of history and fable in The Enchantress of Florence is magnificent, says Ursula K Le Guin

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The Enchantress Of Florence

Sat, 03 May 2008 14:34:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Marriage is definitely better than a live in arrangement

Clip Source: www.oxfordbookstore.com

The Enchantress Of Florence

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Koz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbeg warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerized by her presence, and much trouble ensues.

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A S I L E N T T S U N A M I

Sat, 03 May 2008 14:19:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There should be global review of bio-fuels policy .

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Assessing the global food crisis

"A silent tsunami which knows no borders sweeping the world".

That is how the head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) summed up the global food shortages.

It is certainly a storm that has hit with little warning and has plunged an extra 100 million people into poverty.

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The cost of food: Facts and figures

Sat, 03 May 2008 14:13:11 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

The cost of food: Facts and figures

Rising oil prices and fears over climate change have seen a massive rise in the use of maize to make bio-fuels, pushing up food prices

There will be billions more mouths to feed by 2050, making an increased demand for food a long-term trend

Rising prices will improve the trade balance of major food exporters, but major importers stand to see a greater deficit

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UN urges biofuel investment halt

Sat, 03 May 2008 14:09:54 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

UN urges biofuel investment halt

The UN's new top adviser on food has urged a freeze on biofuel investment, saying the blind pursuit of the policy is "irresponsible".

Palm oil is one of the biofuel crops stirring controversy

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Boifuel

Sat, 03 May 2008 14:05:53 GMT

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Bio-debatable: Food vs. fuel

Amid a global food crisis, some wonder: Is the production of biofuels robbing from dinner plates?

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20,000 Jobs Lost as U.S. Registers 4th Monthly Dip

Sat, 03 May 2008 13:51:23 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The American economy lost 20,000 jobs in April, the fourth consecutive month of decline, in what many economists took as powerful evidence that the United States is almost certainly now ensnared in a recession.

But the number of jobs reported lost by the Labor Department on Friday was significantly smaller than most analysts had predicted, and the unemployment rate nudged down to 5 percent, raising hopes that the economy may not suffer as severely as once feared.

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How To Lose Weight with a Spreadsheet and a Web Site

Early Psychosis Intervention

Psychotic disorder

Dementia: What Are the Common Signs?

What is dementia?

More Information

Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll ... Uh ...

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Bio-debatable: Food vs. fuel

Amid a global food crisis, some wonder: Is the production of biofuels robbing from dinner plates?

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