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Seven Secrets of Self-Made Multimillionaires | Entrepreneur.com - 0 views

  • No. 1: Decide to Be a Multimillionaire
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      quick memoir
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    What is your thinking about each of these highlights? What connections, question, comment, inference,etc can you make? Leave a sticky note with a summary of the 7 secrets.
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Dieting and Metabolism - 0 views

  • Dieting and Metabolism
  • Dieting and Metabolism
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      i know metabolism is a lll about burning calories. 
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  • restricting calories actually prevents our bodies from burning unwanted fat stores effectivel
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      So they are suggesting that starving ourself actually keep us from makes us fat.
  • This mechanism
  • evolved as a defence against starvation
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      So your body begins to hoard fat because it thinks you are going to need it later. 
  • never going below 1,000-1,200 calories a day if you're dieting on your own
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      Never go below 1000 calories a day.
  • Ultimately, muscle burns a lot more calories than fat so when we lose muscle, our metabolic rate drops and we burn fewer calories
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      Muscle burns more calories. SO work out.
  • Fortunately not! The idea that yo-yo dieting permanently lowers your metabolism has been relegated to the archives.
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      Stick with it. even if it fails. Basically, this article is about how you need to exercise and keep eating when you when you want to lose weight. Starving yourself actually works in the opposite way than you want it to. 
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Let Them Drink at 18, With a Learner's Permit - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Let Them Drink at 18, With a Learner’s Permit
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      He wants to teach kids to drink?
  • If you infantilize someone, do not be surprised when infantile behavior — like binge drinking — results.
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      We let them do everything els. If we treat them like babies they'll act like babies
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      We are basically alone in the world on this issue.
  • f you infantilize someone, do not be surprised when infantile behavior — like binge drinking — results
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  • . Although our laws acknowledge that at age 18 young adults possess sufficient maturity and judgment to operate a motor vehicle, serve in the military, perform jury duty or sign a contract, those same laws deny 18-year-olds the right to purchase, possess or consume alcohol.
  • "binge driving" problem.
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      If we didnt train people to be safe behind the wheel we'd have similar problems as overdrinking
  • by first educating and then licensing and permitting them to exercise the full privileges of adulthood so long as they demonstrate their ability to observe the law
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      license to drink.
  • The United States is one of only four countries
  • hey also know that a law perceived as unjust, a law routinely violated, can over time breed disrespect for law in general.
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      young people don't respect laws that disrespect them.
  • Let us treat young people who turn 18 as the adults who the law, in every other respect, says they are.
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      Big message. This writer works with young people away from home and he knows that something needs to be changed. To keep young people from abusing alcohol he proposes having a program like drivers ed, where 16 would be educated about the risks of alcohol and their responsibilities as members of society.
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Citizens Defending Libraries urges de Blasio administration to help the Brooklyn Public... - 3 views

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      That's a lot of money. are the libraries that bad?
  • n February to hawk the city-owned
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      What do they mean "hawk"?like gly around the building?
  • “Libraries cost very little money and they more than pay for themselves in economic benefit,”
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  • hawk the city-owned building at 280 Cadman Plaza West to a private developer in order to build a ground-floor library topped with condos.
  • Brooklyn Heights
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski removes makeup before live audience at women's confe... - 3 views

  • addictive"
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      whats addictive about makeup?
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