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neighbors. Who can you turn to when you’re down and need a pick-me-up? Keep a mental list of these special sleep is the first thing to go. With a little time management, and some self-discipline, you can meet your shut-eye needs. Aim for seven to eight hours each night, and try to keep your bedtime and waking time consistent. That way, your sleeping patterns can normalize and you’ll have more energy. Try not to oversleep—those twelve-hour snoozes on the weekend can actually make you more tired. Don’t forget naps! A short (ten to thirty minute) afternoon nap may be all you need to re-energize midday. people and don’t be afraid to ask for help or encouragement when you need it. Something as simple as a phone call, a chat over Coffee, or a nice email or letter can brighten your mood. 10. Catch Some Zzzz’sPeople naturally want to sleep a little bit more during the winter. But with all we have going on, sometimes

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Brilliant constellations shone down on the Discworld. One by one the traders shuttered their shops. One by one the gonophs, thieves, finewirers, whores, illusionists, backsliders and second-storey men awoke and and years hence, he'd hear the sound of hundreds of tiny feet accelerating down the road behind him...
"You’ve got the wrong man!" he moaned. "it's not my fault! I didn't kidnap him!"
The box moved forward slightly. Now there was just a narrow strip of greasy jetty between Rincewind’s heels and the river. A flash of precognition told him that the box would be able breakfasted. Wizards went about their polydimensional affairs. Tonight saw the conjunction of two powerful planets, and already the air over the Magical Quarter was hazy with early spells. "Look," said Rincewind, "this isn't getting us anywhere." He inched sideways. The Luggage followed faithfully, lid half open and menacing. Rincewind briefly considered making a desperate leap to safety. The lid smacked in anticipation. In any case, he told himself with sinking heart, the damn thing would only follow him again. It had that dogged look about it. Even if he managed to get to a horse, he had a nasty suspicion that it would follow him at its own pace. Endlessly. Swimming rivers and oceans. Gaining slowly every night, while he had to stop to sleep. And then one day, in some exotic city

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perceived enjoyment (of each wine) correlated with what was happening physiologically in their brain. And guess what? It That’s right, not only do we have the capacity to create our own pleasure and pain but we also have the ability (via our thoughts, beliefs and expectations) to actually create significant bio-chemical changes in our brain. In other words, we can think ourselves to pleasure. Or misery. Literally. Our beliefs create our reality - even when it comes to the pleasure a cheap wine can give us.did. The wine which they perceived to taste the best and give them the most pleasure actually created a comparable pleasure response in their brain. And of course, the cheap wine showed the opposite; a lower level pleasure response. Now, all those results are interesting but what’s totally fascinating is that the two wines (the cheap and the expensive) were actually…. the same wine! There was no cheaper or more expensive version; they were both a relatively cheap wine.Doh!!

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they fell on her again, three big brutal men, and she was only a child, shocked and terrified; and they tore Pantalaimon away, and threw her into one side of the cage of mesh and carried him, struggling still, around to the other. There was a mesh barrier betweenhigh wild howl of her daemon, Lyra heard a humming sound, and saw one man (bleeding from the nose) operate a bank of switches. The other two looked up, and her eyes followed theirs. The great pale silver blade was rising slowly, catching the brilliant light. The last moment in her complete life was going to be the worst by far.
"What is going on here?"
A light, musical voice: her voice. Everything stopped.
"What are you doing? And who is this child-"more, he was still her own dear soul.Above the panting of the them, but he was still part of her, they were still joined. For a second or so men, above her own sobs, above the

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of unprotected sex.
They found out about the baby when Chantelle was 12 weeks pregnant.
But told The Sun: I’m tired after the birth. I was nervous after going into labour but otherwise I was quite excited.
Chantelle told how she discovered she was expecting after going to her GP with really bad stomach pains. She said: he and Alfie went. The doctor asked me whether we had sex. I said yes and he said I should do a Pregnancythey kept it a secret until six weeks later when Chantelle’s mum Penny, 38, became suspicious about her weight gain and confronted her. After that Alfie’s family told only those closest to them for fear he would be emonised at school.Chantelle gave birth to Maisie on Monday night after a five-hour labour at Eastbourne Hospital, East Sussex.Last night she

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once. The long needle trembled on the dolphin, the helmet, the baby, and the anchor, dancing between them and onto the crucible in a complicated pattern that Lyra's eyes followed without hesitation, but which was incomprehensible to the two men.
When it had completed the movements several times, Lyra looked up. She blinked once or twice as if she were coming out of a trance.
"They're fifteen times and it just got clear at that level but nowhere else. And the helmet means war, and both together they mean pretend to go to war but not be serious. And the baby means-it means difficult-it'd be too hard for them to attack it, and the anchor says why, because they'd be stretched out as tight as an anchor rope. I just see it all like that, you see."
Dr. Lanselius nodded.
"Remarkable," he said. "I am very grateful. I shall not forget that."going to pretend to attack it, but they're not really going to, because it's too far away and they'd be too stretched out," she said."Would you tell me how you read that?""The dolphin, one of its deep-down meanings is playing, sort of like being playful," she explained. "I know it's the fifteenth because it stopped

Thomas Kinkade HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

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in the same place or worse (emotionally, psychologically, sociologically) because what they were chasing things in our external, physical world will automatically create an internal state of peace, contentment, joy and total Happiness is an unhealthy and unrealistic mindset to inhabit.What We Want and What We Need
Sometimes we need to look beyond the obvious (superficial) goals to discover wasn’t really what they were needing. What we think we want will rarely provide us with what we actually need.We all set specific goals to achieve/acquire certain things (a job, a car, a partner, a better body, a bank balance, a title, a victory) because on some level most of us believe (consciously or not) that the achievement of those goals will bring us what we really seek; joy, fulfilment, happiness, safety, peace, recognition, love, acceptance, respect, connection. Of course, setting practical, material and financial goals is an intelligent thing to do considering the world we live in and how that world works but… setting goals with an expectation that the achievement of certain

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she intended this time to make a proper voyage before being turned out. If she and her cronies from the could get as far as Abingdon, they could play havoc with the weir....
But this year there was to be no war. Something else happened. Lyra was sauntering along the edge of the Port Meadow , you half-arsed pillock?"
It was a mighty voice, a woman's voice, but a woman with lungs of brass and leather. Lyra looked around for her at once, because this was Ma Costa, who had clouted Lyra dizzy on two occasions but given her hot gingerbread on three, and whose family was boatyard in the morning sun, without Roger for once (he had been detailed to wash the buttery floor) but with Hugh Lovat and Simon Parslow, passing a stolen cigarette from one to another and blowing out the smoke ostentatiously, when she heard a cry in a voice she recognized."Well, what have you done with him

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lost.
The two dark figures of the bene elim had not moved. But they spoke: "You must come with us now. Lord Asriel needs you at once. The enemy's power is growing every minute. The shaman has told you what your task is. Follow us and help us win. Come with us. Come this way. Come now."
And Will looked from them to Lyra's rucksack and back again, and he didn't hear a word they said.are Watchers. Bene elim. In your language, angels."
Will was silent. The speaker went on: "Other angels have other functions, and other powers. Our task is simple: We need throat, and only the dashing rain cooled the hotness in his eyes. The little lantern still flickered and flared as the draft through the ill-fitting window licked around the flame, and by its light Will knelt and put his hands on the man's body, touching his face, his shoulders, his chest, closing his eyes, pushing the wet gray hair off his forehead, pressing his hands to the rough cheeks, closing his father's mouth, squeezing

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have poisoned Lord Asriel, and that would've been the end of it."
"Yeah, I suppose… Who d'you think Will's father is, though? And why's he important?"
"That's what I mean! We could find out in a moment!"
And she looked wistful. "I might have and saw that he knew what it meant: the atoms of his body responding to her command, and he joined in, urging his leaking blood to listen and obey.
She put his hand down and turned to the little iron pot over the fire. A bitter steam was rising from it, and Will heard the liquid bubbling fiercelyweep and bleed and flood,
hammered it and tempered it,
plunging it in icy water,
heating it inside the forge
till your blade wasready. He held out his hand, and as Serafina daubed the steaming mixture on the bleeding stumps of his fingers he looked away and breathed in sharply several times, but he didn't flinch.
Once his open flesh was thoroughly soaked

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being happy, however, remained as distracted by a pretty face as ever.Tests suggests this belly button would rate pretty well, being oval, vertical, slightly hooded, and indented but not too cavernous.Many mammals have virtually no noticeable belly the reproductive potential of fertile females, including
This unconscious attentional bias probably evolved to help men and women stay in monogamous relation­ships, which in humans tend to have a reproductive advantage, Maner explains: “This whole research area is guided largely by an evolutionary perspective. These biases have been built into our psychology to enhance people’s reproductive success.”button. We humans, however, are left with an umbilical scar that is not only obvious but which varies dramatically. Some are seen as beautiful. Others are deemed ugly.Aki Sinkkonen at the University of Helsinki in Finland thinks the belly button, aka the umbilicus, serves a greater purpose than mere cosmetics: It may be an indicator of mating potential in fertile women."I propose that umbilicus, together with the surrounding skin area, is an honest signal of individual vigor," Sinkkonen wrote in the latest issue of The FASEB Journal. "More precisely, I suggest that the symmetry, shape, and position of umbilicus can be used to estimate

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Americans to become more economically competitive, say the authors of the paper, Dr. David Ludwig, of Children's Hospital Boston, and Harold Pollack, of the University of Chicago's Center for Health Administration Studies. In the absence of such action, they say, obesity and public are likely to worsen.
"The economic , consumers tend to eat less costly, high-calorie products, they say. Membership in gyms, fitness classes and sports leagues declines. Some schools may even cut physical education time. The economic stimulus plan, however, could create jobs and invest in the nation's such projects as building school kitchens to cook nutritious food; building sidewalks, bike paths, parks, centers; and changing government policies to revitalize farming.
Today's Los Angeles Times story on the stimulus plan debate notes downturn can be expected to reduce and physical activity, worsening obesity prevalence when society is least able to bear the escalating financial burden," they wrote.In times of economic stress

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was the boundary?"
"There are invisible places in the air," came the answer. "Gateways into other worlds. We can see them, but you cannot."
Ruta Skadi couldn't see the invisible gateway, but she didn't need to: witches could navigate better than birds. As soon as the angel spoke, she fixed her attention on three jagged peaks below her and memorized their configuration velvet black of the high heavens. And on the very rim of the world, where the light was increasing moment by moment, a great mountain range reared its peaks—jagged spears of black rock, mighty broken slabs, and sawtooth ridges piled in confusion like the wreckage of a universal catastrophe. But on the highest point, which as she exactly. Now she could find it again, if she needed to, despite what the angels might think.They flew on farther, and presently she heard an angel voice: "Lord Asriel is in this world, and there is the fortress he's building…"They had slowed, and were circling like eagles in the middle airs. Ruta Skadi looked where one angel was pointing. The first faint glimmer of light was tinting the east, though all the stars above shone as brilliantly as ever against the profound

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There was a squeal of brakes, a shout, a bang. He flung himself down to look.
Lyra was lying on the grass. A car had braked so hard that a van had struck it from behind, and knocked the car forward . On the grass next to him, Lyra was moving her head about, blinking hard. Will saw the wasp Pantalaimon crawling dazedly up a grass stem beside her.
"You all right?" Will said. "Move your legs and arms."
"Stupid!" said the woman from the car. "Just ran out in front. Didn't look once. What am I supposed to do?"
"You still there, love?" said the van driver.
"Yeah," muttered Lyra.anyway, and there was Lyra, lying still—Will darted through after her. No one saw him come; all eyes were on the car, the crumpled bumper, the van driver getting out, and on the little girl."I couldn't help it! She ran out in front," said the car driver, a middle-aged woman. "You were too close," she said, turning toward the van driver."Never mind that," he said. "How's the kid?"The van driver was addressing Will, who was on his knees beside Lyra. Will looked up and around, but there was nothing for it; he was responsible

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Since the '80s, further research has indicated that the atmospheric soot would also destroy the ozone layer, letting in more extraterrestrial radiation and further cooling the planet.
The odds of total It's now thought that every spiral galaxy, including our own, has a supermassive black hole at its center.
Smaller black holes are formed by the collapses of large stars, and can be expected to keep moving in the same orbits around galactic centers as they did before the collapse.
The problem is that we'd no longer be able to see them, and nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia seem remote now, and no other nations currently have the thousands of warheads it would take for such a doomsday scenario to occur. But there's always a chance of a full-scale nuclear exchange between future superpowers.An artist's impression of three stages of a star like our sun being devoured by a black hole.Black hole: Bottomless gravitational pits from which not even light can escape were first theorized in the 1960s, but since then they've been "spotted" throughout the universe.

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felt her tremble, and then under his hands the delicate bones of her back began to rise and fall, and he heard her sob quietly. He stroked her warm hair, her tender shoulders, and then he kissed her face again and again, and presently she gave a at her fur.
"A marten," he said, finding the name for Pantalaimon, "a pine marten."
"Pan," Lyra said as he flowed up onto her lap, "you're not going to change a lot anymore, are you?"
"No," he said.
"It's funny," she said, "you remember when we were younger and I didn't deep, shuddering sigh and fell still.The daemons flew back down now, and changed again, and came toward them over the soft sand. Lyra sat up to greet them, and Will marveled at the way he could instantly tell which daemon was which, never mind what form they had. Pantalaimon was now an animal whose name he couldn't quite find: like a large and powerful ferret, red-gold in color, lithe and sinuous and full of grace. Kirjava was a cat again. But she was a cat of no ordinary size, and her fur was lustrous and rich, with a thousand different glints and shades of ink black, shadow gray, the blue of a deep lake under a noon sky, mist-lavender-moonlight-fog... To see the meaning of the word subtlety, you had only to look