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Tips for making New Year's resolutions you can actually keep 12/26/2013 10:30pm • WASHINGTON - With 2014 rapidly approaching, New Year's resolutions are on many minds. Often, those resolutions fade away by, let's say, February. But if done right, they can be a prescription for success. "New Year's resolutions are actually a wonderful idea," says clinical psychologist Gregory Wright Way: I Know What To Do So Why Can’t I Do It? 12/26/2013 03:30pm • Editor’s Note: This sponsored health and fitness column is written by Virginia Wright, founder of BbG Fitness, which offers group fitness classes around Arlington. Sign up for a free class today. You eat healthfully and you’ve been exercising for a long time. You’ve 100 shelter pets come home for the holidays in D.C. 12/24/2013 10:18pm • WASHINGTON - "Home for the holidays" -- it's a phrase that carries a lot of emotional weight. And that's no different at the Washington Humane Society. Last week, the surge of surrendered pets was capped when 26 dogs arrived within 48 hours. In response, WHS waived the normal adoption fees and in Car Report: Cadillac ATS, an entry-level luxury sedan 12/23/2013 06:46pm • WASHINGTON - This week we take a quick peek at the entry- level luxury sedan, Cadillac ATS, an athletic entry to the small sports sedan market. The ATS is against some big hitters -- the BMW 3 series and the Audi A4. This time Cadillac has come to compete. With four trim levels, three engine cho Ho, Ho, Ho humbug: What has us feeling like grinches during the holidays 12/22/2013 04:53pm • WASHINGTON - 'Tis the season to be jolly. Or, maybe not, according to a Consumer Reports holiday poll. In its latest holiday poll, Consumer Reports finds there are plenty of things that are driving us nuts about Christmas. Topping the list of things that can turn some of us into grinches: With alternative therapy, stress floats away 12/19/2013 02:53pm • WASHINGTON - Before I climbed into the 9-by 5-foot tank -- baring nothing but panic-induced goose bumps -- and shut the door to sit in complete darkness and 11 inches of water, I was told my "floating" experience would be like no one else's. "Some people come out and say they're floating in space 'American Hustle' is a modern pop masterpiece 12/19/2013 01:52pm • WASHINGTON - Three years ago, David O. Russell directed Christian Bale to an Oscar with Amy Adams in "The Fighter." Last year, he directed Jennifer Lawrence to an Oscar across Bradley Cooper in "Silver Linings Playbook." Today, he combines all four stars for his greatest achievement yet, "Amer Holiday survival guide: Stay healthy this season 12/17/2013 02:27pm • Josef Brandenburg, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON - Americans tend to gain between 1 to 10 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's -- and we're not talking muscle. Unfortunately, most never lose this extra gift of holiday cheer, since losing weight is much harder than keeping it off in the A 21st-century method for fighting PTSD 12/12/2013 04:46pm • Rick Massimo, wtop.com BETHESDA, Md. - In a small room within the sprawling Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are immersed in what looks like a video game, complete with a hand-held controller and virtual- reality goggles. It may look Wright Way: Green is the New Black 12/11/2013 01:00pm • Editor’s Note: This sponsored health and fitness column is written by Virginia Wright, founder of BbG Fitness, which offers group fitness classes around Arlington. Sign up for a free class today. What the heck does green have to do with the color black? Well to begin with, both black and gree Fast Growing Workplace Health Company Expands In Bethesda 12/10/2013 04:10pm • Fiona Gathright’s company needed space to grow. It also needed a space that better reflected what her company was selling. Gathright’s Wellness Corporate Solutions, one of the country’s 500 fastest growing companies, moved from Cabin John to the office space at 7617 Arling Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 12/10/2013 01:01am • Hear all of the weather-related on air interviews on our Live Blog. 7:40 p.m. - Greg Stebben, WTOP Tech Guy Download Considering a smartwatch this holiday? See more on smartwatches: Samsung Gear Qualcomm Pebble Visitors try out the new Galaxy Gear smartw Introducing ARLbiz, A Local Business E-Newsletter 12/09/2013 03:35pm • ARLnow.com will begin publishing a new email newsletter called ARLbiz next month. ARLbiz will be published weekly and will be geared toward local entrepreneurs and business professionals. It will provide concise original reporting on local business matters and links to other outlets’ Arlington Are holiday Evites and thank you emails bad etiquette? 12/09/2013 01:44pm • WASHINGTON -- The holiday season is in full swing and you might be thinking about going digital when it comes to social invitations and thank you notes. But is using services like Evite OK, etiquette-wise? "Absolutely," says Daniel Post Senning, the great-great-grandson of Emily Post. "It's beco An iced-over tree? 'Leave it alone' 12/09/2013 11:04am • WASHINGTON - It's a common sight in the area today: Trees and shrubs encased in ice, with branches bending from the weight. You may think you're doing the plants a favor by breaking the ice off, but an expert says, "leave it alone." Christine Moore, an arborist and curator of the National Herb