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If obese people stop overeating, switch to a healthful diet and start exercising, they lose weight. However, they may quickly gain it back again. The reason, say researchers, is not a lack of willpower but injury to brain cells, or neurons, in the hypothalamus - a struc-ture deep in the brain that helps control a number of body functions including appetite and weight.

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Schwartz’s team put laboratory mice and rats on a high-fat diet to make them gain weight. When they looked for evidence of inflam-mation in their brains, they made a startling discovery.

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• If you’re a sun worshipper, then Yuma, Arizona, is the place for you! This Southwestern community receives more than 4,000 hours of sunshine a year, making it the sunniest place on earth. Yuma also has the lowest precipitation average in the United States, receiving just under 3 inches (7.6 cm) a year, and its record high temperature is 124˚ F (51˚ C).

• The hottest temperature ever recorded on earth was back in September of 1922 in El Azizia, Libya, when the mercury soared to 136˚ F (58˚ C). The North American record belongs to Death Valley, California, at 134˚ F (57˚ C) in July of 1913.

• Baby, it’s cold outside! How about 129˚ below zero (-89.6˚ C) reached in Vostok, Antarctica, in 1983? Russia gets plenty cold, too, with low temps recorded at -90˚ F (-68˚ C) on more than one occa-sion. • Alaska is the coldest U.S. state overall — at least five cities have had low temps dip under -60˚ F (-51˚ C), with Barrow ranking as the coldest city. Down on the mainland, the honor of coldest city goes to International Falls, Minnesota. Neighbor-ing Duluth, Baudette and Hibbing aren’t far behind. Two North Dakota communities, Grand Forks and Fargo, offer some stiff competition with average temps from December through March in the single digits. • The world’s least sunny place is, not surprisingly, the South Pole, where the sun shines just 182 days a year.

• The combination of heat and humidity can be stifling on a summer day. Phoenix, Arizona, is ranked as No. 1 on the list of “Most Uncomfortable Cities.” One of the nation’s hottest summertime cities, its average July temperature is 104˚ F (40˚ C). Several Texas cities are close behind — Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Dallas, Waco and Houston are all within the Top Ten. • If you don’t mind consistency and predictability, then San Francisco and San Diego are the places for you. They are ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in the category of “least weather variety” based on temperatures, precipitation and wind. In fact, Cali-fornia holds eight out of the Top Ten spots in this group. • Over a 24-hour period back in 1916, the tem-perature in Browning, Montana, dropped from 44˚ F to -54˚ F (7˚ C to -48˚ C).

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*If you don’t like your schedule, change it! You’re the one who makes it, so make the changes necessary to be more manageable, and less stressful.

*You are a product of your surroundings! If you’re surrounded by people who don’t bring happiness, or support into your life, they must go! Negative, selfish, unhappy people who only take, can suck the life right out of you!

*Get rid of the excuses and pity parities! We all have busy lives, we all have challenges, obstacles & ups and downs. At the end of the day, there’s only one person who’s responsible for your choices – YOU! If you spend your life making excuses why you’re not taking care of yourself, eating right, exercising, taking a “time out” to get your mind and your soul in a healthy place – you’re going to get no where fast! AND, you’ll surely stay where you are! Get a new perspective!

Let go of self pity, excuses, blame and resentment and allow yourself to feel happy. Create happiness by doing the things you need to do for yourself, as well as, your family and friends! It’s ok to have “you time”, but you must create it and make decisions which will allow you to have time for you! One of my favorite quotes, “Don’t be jealous or envious of anyone if you’re not willing to put in the work they did to achieve what they have.” - Joyce Meyer

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¥ You might be surprised to learn that some ants can live more than 15 years.

¥ Yes, there’s a name for it. The next time you’re opening a bottle of wine, take a moment to consider the spiral part that is inserted into the cork: It’s known as a worm.

¥ Washington is the only U.S. state named for a president.

¥ Celebrated 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud wrote for only a few short years in his late teens. Despite critical suc-cess, he gave up writing when he was 20 years old and spent the rest of his life as a soldier and a merchant.

¥ In medieval Japan, dentists removed patients’ teeth with their bare hands.***Thought for the Day: “Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.” -- Hodding Carter

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9. Make sure that your child knows his or her full name, address,and phone number, the place where you work or can be contact-ed, and how to dial 911, make collect calls, and dial the operatoron a pay phone.

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Give them a description of your child’s clothing, along with yourChildPrint ID Kit® . Let them know when you last saw him/her.Request that your child’s name be entered into the National CrimeInformation Center Missing Person File (NCIC), which enables anylaw enforcement agency in the U.S. to identify them. Call theNational Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST to have your child enter ed into their database. Post signsaround your neighborhood and town with your child’s photo andvital information. Be persistent in your sear ch efforts and keep hopealive that your child will be found and returned home safely.

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5. Let your child know that adults DO NOT ask children for helpnor do they threaten them. If they do encounter these situationsthey should immediately scream, “NO!” and run quickly in theopposite direction and tr y to ¡nd a tr usted adult. They should neverapproach an unknown car or get into a car with an adult that theydo not know. If someone tries to grab them, they should scream,“THIS IS NOT MY PARENT!” to attract attention.

6. Share an easily-remembered secret CODE WORD . Tell your childthat if anyone approaches them and says that they are a familyfriend, they must ask for the code word. If the person really is afriend, they will know it. If they don’t, then your child should runaway as quickly as possible.

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On Jan. 28, 1855, the Panama Railway, which car-ried thousands of unruly miners to California via the dense jungles of Central America, dispatches its first train across the Isthmus of Panama. The track went through Panamanian jungle roughly along the route followed by the present-day canal.

On Jan. 24, 1908, the Boy Scouts movement be-gins in England with the publication of the first in-stallment of Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. In September 1909, 10,000 Scouts showed up at the first national Boy Scout meeting in Lon-don.

On Jan. 27, 1926, John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a true television system in London. The “televisor” used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving im-ages into electronic impulses, which were trans-mitted by cable to a screen.

On Jan. 29, 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., elects its first members: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mat-thewson and Walter Johnson. The Hall of Fame has elected 296 individuals in all.

On Jan. 23, 1968, the U.S. intelligence-gathering ship Pueblo is seized by the North Korean navy and charged with spying and violating territorial waters. Negotiations to free the 83-man crew of the U.S. ship took nearly a year. The crewmen re-ported horrific treatment at the hands of the North Koreans.

On Jan. 26, 1979, “The Dukes of Hazard,” a tel-evision comedy about two good-old boys in the ru-ral South and their souped-up 1969 Dodge Charger known as General Lee, debuts on CBS. The show was known for its car chases, stunts and General Lee, which had an orange paint job and a Confed-erate flag across its roof.

On Jan. 25, 1980, on arrival at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, Beatle Paul McCartney is found to be carrying nearly half a pound of mari-juana in his baggage -- an amount he assured Japa-nese authorities was intended solely for his per-sonal use. Facing a seven-year prison sentence, McCartney was instead released and quickly de-ported from Japan.

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GREAT RATES ∙ LOCAL UNDERWRITING ∙ INTEGRITY ∙ TRUST900 W. Castleton Rd ∙ Suite 150 ∙ Castle Rock, CO 80109Direct 303.300.5000 · jbeck@epeoples.comwww.mpeoples.com/jasonbeck

Exo ic TansFormally Executive Tans

9321 E Lincoln Ave #200Lonetree, CO

At the intersection of Yosemite &Lincoln, next to Heritage Liquor Store.

NOW OPEN UNDER NEW MANAGMENT

Honoring all prior minutesfrom Executive Tans through

December, 2011!

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Sun 10-3

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Two sisters, one blonde and one brunette, inherit the family ranch. Unfortunately, after just a few years, they are in financial trouble.

In order to keep the bank from repossessing the ranch, they need to purchase a bull so that they can breed their own stock. Upon leaving to buy a bull, the brunette tells her sis-ter, 'When I get there, if I decide to buy the bull, I'll contact you to drive out after me and haul it home.' The brunette arrives at the man's ranch, inspects the bull, and decides she wants to buy it. The man tells her that he will sell it for $599, no less. After paying him, she drives to the nearest town to send her sister a telegram to tell her the news. She walks into the telegraph office, and says, 'I want to send a telegram to my sister telling her that I've bought a bull for our ranch. I need her to hitch the trailer to our pickup truck and drive out here so we can haul it home.' The telegraph operator explains that he'll be glad to help her, then adds, it will cost 99 cents a word. Well, after paying for the bull, the brunette realizes that she'll only be able to send her sister one word. After a few minutes of thinking, she nods and says, 'I want you to send her the word 'comfortable.' The operator shakes his head. 'How is she ever go-ing to know that you want her to hitch the trailer to your pickup truck and drive out here to haul that bull back to your ranch if you send her just the word 'comfortable?' The brunette explains, 'My sister's blonde. The word is big. She'll read it very slowly.... 'com-for-da-bul.'

Two blondes were going to Disneyland. They were driving on the Interstate when they saw the sign that said Disneyland LEFT. They started crying and turned around and went home.

Two blondes living in Oklahoma were sitting on a bench talking, and one blonde says to the other, 'Which do you think is farther away... Florida or the moon?'

The other blonde turns and says 'Helloooooooooo, can you see Florida ?????'

A blonde pushes her BMW into a gas station. She tells the mechanic it died. After he works on it for a few minutes, it is idling smoothly.

She says, 'What's the story?'

He replies, 'Just crap in the carburettor'She asks, 'How often do I have to do that?'