| Soup and other low-cal foods fill you up, not out
The success of a healthy diet often relies on your ability to work it into your lifestyle. Of course, if that were easy, Americans wouldn't have an obesity problem. But there are ways to make it easier. And understanding a bit about the science of satiety – the sense of fullness that triggers us to stop eating – is a good start. Barbara Rolls, an obesity researcher at Pennsylvania State University, specializes in that science. Her research shows that when it comes to sticking with a healthy diet, volume matters. The title of her book sums it up: The Volumetrics Eating Plan: Techniques and Recipes for Feeling Full on Fewer Calories (HarperCollins, $16). .
Competitors force Blue Ridge Outdoors to take hike
Campers buying tents in the 1970s likely had a different shopping experience than those looking for them today. Before the Internet and massive discount retailers, locally owned outdoors stores had the edge as prime places to buy hiking, camping and other outdoor supplies. Today, bargains on outdoor gear abound online, from Internet retailers' Web sites to online auction business eBay. And a local outdoors retailer says it has fallen under the pressure of competing with this low-price-hunting game. Blue Ridge Outdoors, founded in 1977, closed its Roanoke and Blacksburg stores this week. The stores at Valley View Mall in Roanoke and on North Main Street in downtown Blacksburg sold apparel, shoes and equipment for hikers, boaters and other outdoor enthusiasts.
Next year she'll be in the tope!
Parking: 4,000 colons ($8). Bathrooms: 200 colons (40 cents). Entrance to the dance club: 2,000 colons ($4). Bringing your own beer: a good idea.
Or at least that's what most of the spectators seemed to think at the horse parade in Palmares Thursday afternoon. The street was full with people laughing, dancing and — drinking beer. The crowd on the sidewalk was so thick it was hard for anyone to move, much less get a view of the parade. Some even started the celebration with drinks on the bus ride to the festival. Many parade spectators had set up their own tents complete with lawn chairs and coolers full of Imperial and Rock Ice.
The horse riders themselves were not to be left out. The men and women in cowboy hats sipped on cans and plastic cups.
Holiday joy reveals life's blessings
Many more family members gave their time to complete the project and helped transport it from our grandparents to our backyard that Christmas eve. They all came Christmas morning with their families to share the joy of the completed project and see the delight on our faces. That was the Christmas we realized how blessed we were to have such a wonderful, loving extended family. — Pamela Kiser Javins, Jacksonville In June of 2005 my company moved its corporate office from Neptune Beach to Orlando. I elected to stay with the company and commute to Orlando each Sunday evening, spending the week nights there and returning to my home in Jacksonville Beach each weekend. Because we're empty nesters, with our youngest daughter off at college, my wife offered to help open the new office in Orlando and stayed on as a member of the office staff.
National award for Fargo recycling campaign
That's me and Harlan Fugelsten thanking Senator Conrad for his strong resolve for energy independence and to help make North Dakota the number one state for development of all our vast energy sources in a clean, sustainable, efficient manner. Here's Senator Klobuchar giving the Tuesday keynote. She's also a strong proponant for energy independence and agriculture. Here's Co-host ND Ag Commissioner Roger Johnson and Governor Hoeven. If we continue to develop our home grown, renewable energy, North Dakota's future is so bright we have to wear shades! Here's Governor Hoeven being a good sport, Lance Gaebe and our new friend Dee at our ND Alliance for Renewable Energy display. Here's the new Alliance for Defense manufacturers group headed up by Kristan Hedger of Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing working to stem the tide of business going to foreign manufacturing to build a coalition of area manufacturers to build more equipment right here in the United States. I asked them to also consider working together to build wind turbines right here as we make the towers, the blades, but the turbines have as much as a two year backlog and the largest projects have them tied up. Another opportunity from developing more of our home grown, terror free, renewable energy.
Admiral: Scrap upper age limits to sign up Most young people are ...
In Las Vegas Saturday to thank Navy reservists for their service, Vice Adm. John G. Cotton said mandatory upper age limits for military enlistment should be discarded in favor of a case-by-case system largely dependent on an individual's physical condition. That kind of thinking by military brass is fueled by the fact, Cotton said, "that 72 percent of our nation's youth are ineligible for military service." Drug use, criminal records, and a lack of education disqualify "a disturbing number of young people," Cotton said in an interview following a talk at the Navy Operational Support Center at Nellis Air Force Base. If people will finally recognize how dire the situation is among the nation's youth, then "a solution can be found," he said. .
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