Weight Loss Guides

How we dropped 20 stone: Diet secrets of the women who had everything to lose
While the average new-year dieter cracks after 78 days, these four women stayed the course following their 2009 new year’s resolution and lost more than 20 stone between them - the equivalent of 127 bags of sugar! Here they open their weight-loss diaries to Andréa Childs.

Loss of Specialists Highlights Doctor Crisis
“The reported loss of cancer specialists highlights the wider senior doctor workforce crisis in New Zealand public hospitals,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today.

Tobi Tobias on Dance et al.
On Christmas morning last year, I walked the reservoir track in New York's Central Park, since the gym was, naturally, closed for you-know-who's birthday. Hundreds of people, most of them armed with cameras, were strolling around the loop in the delicious sunshine. Few of them were speaking English.

Doctor Brings Spiritual Principals to Weighty Matters
A new program to be launched at the Brainerd BX on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. will help those who are overweight or obese discover healing in ways they haven’t imagined, leaders said.

Bookmarks
Much Ado committee adds two accomplished authors to lineup of annual festival

Do you know how Kanneliya celebrated Independence Day, Mr President?
Ask any little child about rainforests and that child will murmur ‘Sinharaja’. Few, though, children or adult, would have heard about Kanneliya. Kanneliya was in ancient times part of the Sinharaja Rainforest.

Get More From Scoop
Vanja Draganic, a performer/devisor who Die Deutsche Bühne called, “inspired and terrifying” (Schulte 2007), makes her New Zealand directorial debut in this exploration of the effects of power on ordinary people.

Northville Etc.
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OAK PARK & RIVER FOREST Community Calendar
Oak Leaves and Forest Leaves welcome items for the Community Calendar, as well as items for Business Briefs, Campus News, Community Briefs, School Digest and Newsmakers. Items must be received minimum of 10 days prior to publication; earlier is better.

IBM-Neon Fight Flares
IBM has countersued Neon Enterprise Software, the uppity little Texas outfit that had the temerity to try to use IBM's special mainframe processors to break Big Blue's stranglehold on the mainframe market. Out to tarnish the ISV so users get scared and slink away, IBM used a poison pen to write its filing. It told the Texas court where Neon lodged its anti-competitive suit a month ago that Neon ...