Touted by Weight Watchers as incorporating a decade of science compared to the prior Points-based plans, the focus remains on assisting members in creating a calorie deficit to lose weight using a reformulated calculation approach for computing target daily points ( e. g., approximately how many calories per day should be eaten ) and the costs of food ( the PointsPlus values of food ).

Touted by officials as " the most elegant barracks in history ," it housed soldiers during the Boca Raton Army Air Field's operation.

Touted by some as a future Hall of Famer, his career was permanently altered on April 8, 1984, when he was hit in the face by a Mike Torrez fastball.

Touted by Fairbanks-Morse as "... the most useful locomotive ever built ..." upon its introduction in 1953, the 2, 400 horsepower ( 1. 8 MW ) H-24-66 Train Master was the most powerful single-engine diesel locomotive available, legendary for its pulling power and rapid acceleration.

Touted as A Mexican Street of Yesterday in a City of Today, Olvera Street was an instant success as a tourist site.

Touted as the next Wayne Carey early in his career, Brown was an unspectacular but consistent contributor during his first few seasons and, at 195 cm and 105 kg, was an imposing target across half forward.

Touted as the Gateway to Mindanao, Lipata Port serves as the entry point to Mindanao Island forming part of the extensive Pan Philippine Highway also called Maharlika Highway AH26 that originates from Laoag City to its southern terminus in Zamboanga City.

Touted as a " Mario Lanza with sex-appeal ," the connections between the two tenors would diminish but not stop.

Touted as " what many people consider to be the most eagerly awaited album of 2006 " ( according to Norwegian magazine, Plan B ), the record debuted at # 3 on the sales chart in her native Norway.

Touted features included a combined file manager and web browser, the ability to seamlessly open Microsoft Office documents from within Internet Explorer using ActiveX technology and a way to place dynamic webpages directly on the desktop in place of the regular static computer wallpaper.

Touted as a healthy alternative, it contains no caffeine and has 2 grams of carbohydrates per serving, as well as 5 % apple juice, which is uncommon among American market carbonated beverages.

* ICON Health & Fitness – Touted as the world's largest developer, manufacturer, and marketer of fitness equipment.

Touted as the British version of The Monkees, The Bugaloos attracted more than 5, 000 young actors and actresses to audition for the show's four lead roles, each having to demonstrate aptitude in dance, singing, and acting.

Touted primarily for its physical training aspects, Sanchin also contains many applicable martial techniques.

Touted as special event programming, the hour-long episode aired just before the Daytime Emmy Awards on June 23, 1992.

Touted as a producer ’ s hero, Venki ’ s movies are always made well within budget Venki ’ s latest film is Chintakalaya Ravi and here the actor has glamour queens Anushka and Mamta Mohandas to match him in his duets and histrionics.

Touted as " one of America's most haunted homes ", the plantation is supposedly the home of at least 12 ghosts.

Touted as the world's biggest underground depot, it officially opened on 4th March, 2009, employing 300 staff members.

The word marina was coined by NAEBM originally to describe a waterfront facility where recreational boats could find protection and basic needs to lay over in relative comfort.

Perlemoen-diving has been a recreational activity for many years, but stocks are currently being threatened by illegal commercial harvesting.

Alkaloid-containing plants have been used by humans since ancient times for therapeutic and recreational purposes.

In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).

Synthetic shuttles are often used by recreational players to reduce their costs as feathered shuttles break easily.

A recreational scuba diving expedition by the luxury liveaboard safari boat M / V Nautilus Explorer dove the reefs around Clipperton from April 15 to 20, 2007 to observe the marine life and compare these observations with those reported by the Connie Limbaugh ( Scripps ) expeditions in 1956 and 1958.

The St. Peters Canal is no longer used by commercial shipping on Cape Breton Island but is an important waterway for recreational vessels.

The early history of disc golf is closely tied to the history of the recreational flying disc ( especially as popularized by the trademarked Frisbee ) and may have been invented in the early 1900s.

Although some recreational fishing for consumption is permitted, all other food is shipped in by sea or air.

Mainly used by recreational watercraft in the recent past, the canal saw an upsurge in commercial traffic in 2008.

Expenditures by type of out-of-home dining were as follows: 40 % in full-service restaurants, 37. 2 % in limited service restaurants ( fast food ), 6. 6 % in schools or colleges, 5. 4 % in bars and vending machines, 4. 7 % in hotels and motels, 4. 0 % in recreational places, and 2. 2 % in others, which includes military bases.

A legend grew around the fateful IBM-DRI meeting ( encouraged by Gates and various journalists ), suggesting that Kildall had irresponsibly taken the day off for a recreational flight, and he tired of constantly having to refute that story.

Little Wars is recognised today as the first recreational wargame and Wells is regarded by gamers and hobbyists as " the Father of Miniature War Gaming ".

Many small cities in Northern Michigan and Door County, Wisconsin are centered on a tourist base that takes advantage of the beauty and recreational opportunities offered by Lake Michigan.

Though the 1960s and 1970s brought positive changes such as Women's Liberation and the Civil Rights Movement, Mormon leaders were alarmed by the erosion of traditional values, the sexual revolution, the widespread use of recreational drugs, moral relativism, and other forces they saw as damaging to the family.

However, it still has the original requirement on the lease, that the land will only be used for " recreational purposes ", as stipulated by the Bute family.

Semi-automatic versions of the AR-15 are popular recreational shooting rifles, with versions manufactured by other small and large manufacturers in the U. S.

As a result, a large proportion of manatees exhibit spiral cutting propeller scars on their backs, usually caused by larger vessels that do not have skegs in front of the propellers like the smaller outboard and inboard-outboard recreational boats have ..

In 2009, of the 429 Florida manatees recorded dead, 97 were killed by commercial and recreational vessels, which broke the earlier record number of 95 set in 2002.

In some applications, for example a marine radar mounted on a recreational vessel, a radar with a magnetron output of 2 to 4 kilowatts is often found mounted very near an area occupied by crew or passengers.

This narcotic is among the top 10 drugs reported by medical examiners in recreational drug use deaths.

She championed recreational drug prevention causes by founding the " Just Say No " drug awareness campaign, which was considered her major initiative as first lady.

In China recreational use of this drug began in the fifteenth century but was limited by its rarity and expense.

As of July 2009, limited visits to the refuge are allowed, including by private recreational sailboat or motorboat.