There are messaging boards and online meetings, members can start their own weight loss-centric blogs, and they can participate in weight loss challenges.
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The AIRarm prototype is essentially a Packbot whose metal arm's been replaced with an inflatable version able to lift four times its own half-pound weight.
In absorption mode, the cloth can hold 340 percent of its own weight -- compared to just 18 percent without the polymer's aid -- and when it warms up, it releases the collected moisture as clean and pure potable water.
That might not seem like much, but considering most rigid robot arms can only lift a fraction of their own weight, it represents a sizable gain in strength-to-weight ratio.
Harper defines toning exercises as body-specific, weight-bearing routines that build lean muscle, often using no equipment and only your own body weight as resistance.
Some of that precious land--quite a lot of it, in fact--is sinking under its own weight.
After "Dateline" aired the "Bridal Diet Challenge" on Friday, July 22, viewers e-mailed and shared their own weight loss goals, diets, challenges, and success stories.
It has long been known that some solid materials, called metal hydrides, are capable of storing small amounts (about 1-2% of their own weight) of hydrogen at room temperature.
Unlike privately owned rivals Jenny Craig and Curves, which maintain their own centers-cum-food stores, Weight Watchers keeps its capital costs to a minimum by allowing its meetings to be held anywhere.
But Lloyds believes that the probability of these loans going bad is negligible, as I have already mentioned, so its own regulator-approved risk model attaches a risk weight to the loans of 2.2%.
You don't have to be a bodybuilder though -- light weights or even using your own body weight for resistance is enough for beginners.
Although this is impressive, America's Department of Energy has calculated that carbon materials will need to be able to store 6.5% of their own weight of hydrogen in order to make fuel-cell cars practical (defined as having a range of 500km, or 310 miles, between refuelling stops).
The problem is that big-government conservatism is already stumbling under the weight of its own contradictions.
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But over time, Comdex became so broad, so over-crowded and so unwieldy that it basically collapsed under its own weight.
By reducing graphene oxide and then applying a hydrothermal molding procedure, the scientists were able to fabricate a sponge-like structure, which can absorb upto 86 times its own weight.
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Because people are recommending stories directly to their own communities, the recommendations hold much more weight and create much higher click-throughs to stories.
The person who isn't overweight also should be aware of his or her own insecurities and possibly a subconscious need to sabotage the partner's weight-loss efforts.
Each of Iridium's 66 satellites has its own phone-switching system, boosting coverage and performance at a cost of complexity and weight.
But in fact he is taking on the weight of U.S.-China tensions just as his own economy is teetering on the edge of breakdown.
The tablet leans up against the lip -- not the most secure fit, with the slate mostly being held in place by its own weight.
During the 30-minute talk he also discussed his daughter Hayley's battles with weight issues and his own personal problems, but for the most part the talk remained light.
In a similar sense, when we do cellular research for even -- like for cancer research, for instance, on Earth the cells actually collapse under their own weight and so their growth on Earth are a little bit distorted.
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The other driver: Now that accounting firms are prohibited from selling higher-margin technology consulting services to their auditing clients, auditing units have to pull more of their own weight.
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