Fitness column: Overweight, obese women improve quality of life with a little exercise

The American Heart Association shared the following information in the Web site ScienceDaily on March 17, 2008. Fitness column: Overweight, obese women improve quality of life with a little exercise Todd Smoot The American Heart Association shared the following information in the Web site ScienceDaily on March 17, 2008.

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Speaker inspires packed room

Inspirational speaker Bryan Dodge encouraged a packed audience Thursday during the Keene Chamber of Commerce's monthly luncheon to make 2008 the best year they've ever had for themselves, their businesses and their city."Reach down and grab the reins of your life," Dodge said to the 110 people at the meeting. "Decide where you want to go." Dodge, speaking at the Senior Center, emphasized personal development and goal setting during his speech to an increasingly enthusiastic audience.He encouraged audience members to write down their goals and pursue them."Goals are a responsibility," he said. "They're not an option." He pulled five cards out of his pocket, one for each member of his family. Written on each of the cards were 18 goals for him, his wife and his three children. He said setting those goals had helped bring him and his family to where they are today.Dodge said audience members had 48 hours to write their goals down, according to the rule of diminishing intent."What you do today, you'll do," he said.


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Speaker inspires packed room

Inspirational speaker Bryan Dodge encouraged a packed audience Thursday during the Keene Chamber of Commerce's monthly luncheon to make 2008 the best year they've ever had for themselves, their businesses and their city."Reach down and grab the reins of your life," Dodge said to the 110 people at the meeting. "Decide where you want to go." Dodge, speaking at the Senior Center, emphasized personal development and goal setting during his speech to an increasingly enthusiastic audience.He encouraged audience members to write down their goals and pursue them."Goals are a responsibility," he said. "They're not an option." He pulled five cards out of his pocket, one for each member of his family. Written on each of the cards were 18 goals for him, his wife and his three children. He said setting those goals had helped bring him and his family to where they are today.Dodge said audience members had 48 hours to write their goals down, according to the rule of diminishing intent."What you do today, you'll do," he said.



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The Jacoby Factor

As a Native American warrior, your ultimate triumph in battle was not to kill your enemy. It was to use your speed and your smarts and your wiles to get close enough to touch him, and then to slip away. The message was irrefutable: There was still breath in his chest only because you allowed it. Talk about power. Talk about speed. Talk about pride. Native Americans had a term for their definition of victory. They called it counting coup. When Billy Mills was 8, his mother died. His father, a member of the Lakota nation in South Dakota, stroked the boy's arms and told him, "You have broken wings." He used a stick to draw a circle in the dirt. "Step inside your soul," he said. "It is the pursuit of the dream that will heal you."

He encouraged his son to find his dream in sports, which were providing the Indian with a new way to compete against the white man after centuries of slaughter and treacherous treaties.



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Namibia: Johannes Keeps Flag Flying High

Sport competitions are much more essential than the physical action that fans watch on the field of play, because sports is all about friendship, understanding and respect for rules, improvement of athletes' health, self-confidence, the provision of role models and the enhancement of peaceful co-existence amongst individuals and nations globally where peace is lacking.

These were the words of the Minister of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture John Mutorwa in his opening remarks at the 2nd AIBA African Olympic Games qualifying tournament at the University of Namibia Gymnasium in Windhoek on Monday.

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Corrie McDermott: An inspiring example of faith, love and self-sacrifice

HESPERIA — Mothers show their love in countless ways.

In the meals they cook. In the way they soothe skinned knees and hurt feelings.

But Corrie McDermott, a 25-year-old student teacher from Hesperia, showed her love by making the ultimate sacrifice — giving her life so her unborn baby would live.

In 2002, the future looked bright for Corrie and Donnie McDermott. They had a wonderful little daughter, Rachelle. And Corrie, who graduated with honors from Hesperia High School in 1997, was pursing a bachelors degree and enjoying her work with special education kids at Maple Elementary School in Hesperia.

But months into her pregnancy with her second daughter, Corrie was diagnosed with melanoma. The undetected cancer was hidden by the aches and pains of pregnancy and had spread quickly, fed by the rising levels of estrogen in her body.


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Biofuels: can they really save the planet?

Among green innovations, powering buses with old chicken legs is one of the more inventive. The use of 100% sustainable biodiesel made from tallow (rendered animal fat) and used cooking oil has certainly caught the imagination of passengers on Stagecoach's Stewarton-Darvel service. "We've seen an increase in the number of passengers travelling on the route," says Stagecoach spokesman Steven Stewart. The six-month trial has had another green spin-off: in the first two months, 5000 containers for used cooking oil were issued to households along the route, which could then be taken to an East Ayrshire Council recycling centre in return for money-off bus vouchers. Eight tonnes of oil were collected, giving the whole enterprise a pleasingly self-sustaining nature.

The biodiesel comes from Argent Energy near Motherwell, which was the first large-scale biodiesel plant in the UK when it opened in 2005.


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