By Eric Boehm - March 17, 2020 at 12:30PM
It hasn't been talked about at any of the White House's almost-daily coronavirus press conferences, but the Trump administration acted twice this month to reduce tariffs on imported medical equipment.
It won't be talked about, of course, because those quiet maneuvers amount to an admission of guilt. President Donald Trump's trade policies made it more difficult and expensive for American hospitals to buy the equipment they needed to confront a pandemic like the one now facing the world—ts—from the United States to other markets," says"and
Before the trade war, tariffs on medical equipment imported from China were low or non-existent. More than a quarter of all medical equipment imported to the U.S. came from China, according to PIIE's data.
Trump's tariffs certainly put a dent in those imports. The first round of tariffs on Chinese imported goods, imposed in July 2018, put a 25 percent import tax onand more. The subsequent rounds of tariffs, imposed in September 2019, added 15 percent to the cost of imported surgical gloves and other types of medical protective gear.
According to PIIE data, American imports of thosebetweenand 2019.
The Trump administration had ample warning that tariffs on imported medical gear and equipment would leave America less prepared for a major public health crisis. At the August 2018 hearings that evaluated the necessity of Trump's proposed China tariffs—hearings that, as I reported at the time, consisted of hundreds of American business owners pleading with the government to spare them from this supposed "protection"—multiple members of the American medical community warned about exactly what is now happening.
"Any disruption to this critical supply chain erodes the healthcare industry's ability to deliver the quality and cost management outcomes that are key policy objectives of the country," Matt Rowan, president of the Health Industry Distributors Association
At a hearing on additional proposed tariffs in June 2019, more warnings were issued. Lara Simmons, president of Medline Industries, told the tariff committee that it was not possible to quickly find alternative suppliers of many health care items imported from China. That meant hospitals and healthcare providers wouldreated by tariffs—and, therefore, would likely buy less.
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Trump's so-called "phase one" trade deal with China resulted in the lifting of a few tariffs, but the tariffs on medical equipment and gear remained in place. That Trump has lifted those tariffs now is good, but not imposing them at all would have been far better.
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Some on the neo-nationalist right are using the coronavirus outbreak and the stressed supply chains it has caused as evidence that a national industrial policy is necessary to ensure America has adequate supplies to counter a pandemic. But autarky would result in less efficient markets and more expensive products. It would leave America with the same results—higher prices and lower supply—that the tariffs did. That's not a good solution.
We need more free trade, not less, to be better prepared for future pandemics.
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is Cycling class!
Okay, I have issues. And those issues come in the form of a confession. Not a true confession, I suppose, because I am pretty sure I have shared with you my fear of trying new group exercise classes. It’s irrational. It’s dumb. But that’s how I feel. And the “what ifs” are killing my fitness spirit! A few of the classes I’ve wanted to try are Zumba, BodyPump, Resistance Training and Cycling.
BodyPump…
I have no idea what to expect. And the fear of the unknown is enough to keep me away. What if I drop a weight on my foot? Or worse, my neighbor’s foot? But I love the idea of figuring this one out the most!
Resistance Training…
I have an idea of using some sort of resistance band and it snapping back and taking out my eye. Or the eye of someone near me.
No idea what to expect other than a lot of pedaling. But how do I set up the bike? And what if I tip the bike over? Let’s face it, those bikes look pretty small compared to a regular bike. And guess, what? I have fallen over on a regular bike before.
Now before you tell me my fears are ridiculous, I will say this. I KNOW. I honestly know they are. I also know I am not the only one that feels this way about new classes. Or just new things in general, I suppose.
Next the instructor arrived about two minutes before the class was to start. I introduced myself to her, telling her it was my first cycling class and asked for assistance with my bike. While we got me set up, two guys joined the group. And then we got started!
The class was good, but I realized I had a problem pretty quickly. I hadn’t counted on having to stand up to peddle so often. I hadn’t even realized that would be such a factor. And the problem with standing up, you ask? I didn’t wear my ankle brace. And I could feel it. My ankle was throwing a fit.
But I was stupid. I didn’t quit. I kept going the best I could. And I have been paying for it ever since. I’ve had nagging pain in my ankle for the last week. Every morning I wake up thinking today will be better and I will be able to run. It has not happened. I think I am probably aggravating it by being on my feet a lot more than usual working extra hours. At work I’m on my feet pretty much non-stop. I think I am going to run tomorrow anyway. I honestly don’t think I am going to irritate it anymore by running. And besides that I am going nuts. We are enjoying what could be the last of the warm weather here and I hate missing it.
Back to the cycling class. Would I do it again? Yes, but not sure about this instructor. I didn’t find her to be very motivating. And I kind of hated the music she played. More than half of it was country music. Seriously, country music! Shoot me now. I don’t enjoy most country music and I certainly don’t find it energizing enough to work out to. Horrible, just horrible. I will probably try another class with her to see if she changes it up a bit, but I don’t think I could handle another class like the last one.
What should I expect in a BodyPump or Resistance Training class?
The reasons to fear them are a tad funny 😉 (Sorry!) but I can totally relate with the klutziness 🙂
Woo hoo! Good luck! Let me know how it goes.
Yay congratulations!! Love cycling classes 🙂 If it makes you feel better, I was terrified to try yoga and now I’m obsessed with it….but at my third class I was flipping over for a pose and kicked the girl next to me ….. awwwwkward. Luckily she was cool about it!
Oh no! I’m glad she didn’t make you feel bad about it.


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Coxsackie now says the developer must submit new plans for approval, and has halted work on the hotel in the interim. A new review process will now need to take place by the Planning Board, once new plans are submitted. In a written response, the developer said, "nce."
The village issued a statement to the public, which in part read, ". ."
In an update on the situation, the village decided to hold off on the reappointment of the Building Inspector until the Flach project is sorted out. He remains on the job for the moment, but the public was made aware of the decision to pause his reappointment at their village's annual organizational meeting on April 4th. During the meeting, the Mayor, Mark Evans, read a statement about the situation, where he described that they are "slowly piecing together a timeline and understanding of events and approvals made and oversight of the (hotel)."


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A few weeks ago, Tim travelled to the Langalanga Lagoon on the island of Malaita. An area of small villages nestled on the edge of the picturesque waterway is home to speakers of the Wala Language. With little land and the sea at their doorsteps, these people depend on the sea for their livelihood. Christianity came to the Wala people about one hundred years ago, but in early 2008 they will finally have a New Testament in their own language.
Tim has been working with Wala speakers to produce a reading primer book which will be used to teach people how to read and write their language. This last week Tim returned to the Lagoon with the newly printed reading primer to hold a training workshop for teachers. There are now 35 teachers who are ready to start beginning reading classes in their home communities. We hope many Wala speakers who donâ€™t know how to read today will be in the beginning stages of reading by the time the New Testament is ready to be launched early next year.
Tim has held many teacher training workshops around the country, but this one a bit special. In addition to the participants who attended the workshop, Tim invited literacy trainers from the Literacy Association of the Solomon Islands to come along as well. This committed group of people are serving in communities around the Solomons, training teachers and overseeing literacy projects. They are in the capital city for a few weeks to attend their Annual General Meeting and have been getting refresher training themselves. Going to the Wala workshop with Tim provided an opportunity for some good refresher training for them and they also helped supervise the teacher trainees in small practice groups.
Both the teacher trainees and the literacy supervisors found the workshop very helpful and are excited to use their newly attained skills.


kulu wangkapai, you know sometimes we was working with tourism panya, tourist-angka and, ‘why these people climbing? Kana, ‘Something is coming’. I always talk panya. Ka, ‘why don’t they close it?’ Ka uwa its coming always, ngaltu tourist tjuta, visitors. Some people, ‘I want to climb’ sometimes visitors climb Uluru munu ngalya pitjala on tour, why I climb? Alatji, why don’t they close it. Ka wiya, it’s coming now you know, nintintjaku, visitors kulintjaku munta-uwa. Uwa minga tjutangka wangkapai, always.
Visitors-ngku panya kulilpai, ‘ai nyangatjaya patinu ka nganana yaaltji yaaltji kuwari? Nganana wai putu kulilpai’. Wiya, Tjukurpa ngarinyitu ngura, outside. Not only this park unngu kutju palu tjukurpa nganananya help-amilalatu ngapartji ngapartji ka nganana ngapartji katinyi visitors tjuta. Some reckon nobody living in the homelands but this good story to tell to the visitors panya. Ka nganananya help-amilantjaku kulu kulu. Government gotta really sit down and help. We got good places up here.
Money is the land whitefella see, ka Anangu see the ngura, the land is Tjukurpa. Tjukurpa wiyangka tjinguru wiya. Culture kanyintjikitjala mukuringanyi. Culture tjinguru mala, another fifty years tjinguru panya, another hundred years, culture is gone, ma-wiyaringanyi. Nyara palula we gotta be strong. Ngapartji ngapartji panya government will understand, munta-uwa, what they saying. It doesn’t work with money. Money will go away, it’s like blowing in the wind, panya. Walpangku puriny waninyi. Culture panya Ananguku culture – Tjukurpa is there ngarinyi alatjitu.
Tjinguru nyaa kulintjaku you know… I built a coca cola factory here. That coca cola factory might say no! Hello, close it otherwise he’ll take me to court. Pala purunypa is Ananguku panya.
Iritinguru Anangu nguluringanyi nguwanpa, nguluringanyi, ah! someone is watching us like with a gun: ‘Don’t close it please’… don’t point me with a gun. Pukularintjaku Anangu and piranpa, together, tjungu, uwa munta-uwa, patinu palya nyanganyi the playground.
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That's pretty accurate, except for the part about managing a responsible transition. As long as large numbers of American troops remain in Iraq to protect American interests and "promote stability," there's no transition at all. That's what the troops are supposedly doing right now, before the promised end of the war. I'm all for declaring victory and going home, as long as we actually go home. Re-branding occupation as victory is neither transformative nor responsible.
d last month that 13 soldiers had been electrocuted. Last week the Pentagon said the number was 16. Now the oversight committee says it has documents indicating 19 deaths.
KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton until last year, recently won yet another contract for Iraq reconstruction.
Congress should not allow the US Army to ignore powerful physical evidence from investigators, withhold requested information and force family members through years of denials and delays. Worse, it appears that the LaVena Johnson case is not unique, and there is a pattern of the Army calling rape-murders suicide and covering up the crimes. This is a disgrace.
McCain is running on foreign policy, but he doesn't know what he's talking about. CBS is covering for him and the New York Times is covering for CBS.
The story doesn't go into detail about the nature gag order. I assume it applies to the individuals involved in cases under adjudication, not to the BBC reporters directly.
Last year, I interviewed an attorney who specializes in representing whistle blowers. He told me that it's not unusual for gag orders to be imposed in these types of cases.
In fact, whistle blower lawsuits are automatically sealed for a couple of weeks after they are filed in order to give the DOJ a chance to decide whether to pursue the matter.
It's not clear whether that's the type of gag order covering the 70 cases the BBC alludes to, above.
The story says there's one gag order for all these cases. If that wording is literally accurate, and a single gag order covers 70 cases, then the whistle blower in question might have brought a very big case indeed.
News just came in that our dear colleague Bilal Hussein is free at last!! Hemos recibido la noticia que nuestro querido colega Bilal Hussein esta libre al fin!!
The AP confirms that the 36-year-old photojournalist was released to his colleagues in Iraq last night. The U.S. military accused Hussein of collaborating with insurgents.
An Iraqi court exonerated Hussein earlier this month of terrorism charges against him . The United States issued a statement this week saying that Hussein was no longer considered a threat.


Your beach-capade doesn’t need to be a once-a-year deal. Bring the coastal vibe in your condominium through cool condo unit interior design tips. With the right wall paint, furniture and décor, you can have the triple S (sun, sea and sand) all year round within the comforts of your home.
Scientists and designers note that colors can be used to influence moods and cause physiological reactions. “What color you paint your walls isn’t just a matter of aesthetics. It’s a tool that can be leveraged to affect emotions and behavior,” says Connecticut-based color consultant Leslie Harrington. Chromotherapy, or the use of colors to heal, is a concept dating back to ancient cultures. Red was believed to increase blood circulation while yellow was used to stimulate the nerves. Blue, as it is seen today, was thought to have soothing effects to the body and mind.
In turning your DMCI Homes condo into an extension of Boracay, you are creating an eye-candy as well as relaxing your body and mind. Check out these color palette suggestions for a beach-like condo.
Brighten your day with yellow + sea blue
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See the sun regardless of the weather outside by splashing yellow on your condo living room ceiling. “Yellow is such a happy color and brightens up just about every space,” lifestyle blogger Amy Goetz said. Paint your walls greying blue to create an illusion of the ocean on a blissful April morning. These colors can go well with your existing condo design theme whether it is minimalist or French country. You can add cabinets repainted with pastel colors to get the shabby chic look.
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If you’re not a cheery person (but loves the laidback coastal life), you can do away with bright shades and opt for more subdued palettes. Try Paradise Beach or Cedar Key on your walls and Water Drops or Crystal Springs for your curtains. Your furniture may be a combination of other coastal hues such as Water’s Edge, Hale Navy and Gentleman’s Gray. Evoke the European coastal life in your condo community in the Philippines!
Lift your spirits with aroma hues
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Imagine waking up to lilacs, mint and other French vineyard colors every morning. Splash spring all over your condo bedroom by complementing with yellow chiffon curtains to exude the sun’s magnificent color. For an easier and more affordable way of incorporating beach colors in condos, you can go for thematic home decors and furniture. Arrange your beach finds—sea shells, beach glass, etc.—on a bookshelf. Choose pillowcases in Novel Lilacs, Water Crest and Pink Cloud. Adorn your dresser with fresh lilac and carnations for a natural feel. Let your imagination work and share your ingenious ideas with your peers in DMCI Community.
The sun, lemonades and lots of fun
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Summer in the Philippines attracts millions of visitors from all over the world. We can’t really blame them. The country is home to the best islands in the world: Palawan and Boracay. Add the tropical weather, the never-ending list of activities and the fun-loving natives and you’ve got a memorable summer. With the right palettes, designing your condo is a piece of cake! According to color psychology, yellow-greens and blue-greens stir happy feelings. Paint your kitchen walls with pale yellow color. Place indoor plants, such as mini cacti, near windows and on shelves to complete the lemonade feel.
Romantic sunset inside your condo space
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Another set of colors for making your condo feel like the beach is the pastel sunset. Splash on your wall in the following order, from the top to the bottom: Novel Lilac, Lemon Chiffon, Bubble, Belize and Synergy. Create an ombré effect by smoothly transitioning from the colors of the skies to the shades of the waters.
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France gave birth to the infamous nautical stripes in the 1850s when the pattern was used as uniform for navy officers in Brittany. It was Coco Chanel who introduced the navy-and-white stripes to the fashion industry and as they say, the rest is history. Interior design for condos can have various purposes. You can use it to express your personality, celebrate a current interest (e.g. Filipiniana, Roman history, etc.), or to exude a certain feeling. With the nautical stripes, you may be paying tribute to the French navy or Chanel or simply celebrating the sea and summer. Paint your walls with creamy white shades accentuated with navy blue stripes. Adorn your cabinets with nautical pieces from your granddad’s collection or Federico Fellini’s screenshots by the sea.
“She sells sea shells by the seashore.”
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DIY summer projects are worthwhile relaxation activities. Instead of splurging on expensive items you don’t need, you can let your creative juices flow and create new things. Bring the beach in your condo by getting country beige tiles for your living room and bedroom. Paint your walls with Seaside Sand hue. The Lime Light shade is perfect for your bathroom, while the Horizon palette works well with in cozy dining rooms. These earthy hues are also believed to stimulate conversations. “These are colors that encourage people to sit around and talk,” Virginia-based color expert Kate Smith notes. Decorate your rooms with beach vignettes such as shells arranged in beautiful bowls and photos of the underwater life.
You can play with colors and come up with your own beach-inspired palettes. Your perspective of the coast may be different from others. Others may prefer the stark blueness of summer noons while a few may favor melancholic afternoons by the sea. You can also go for hues that influence certain moods and reactions. Use a combination of blue, purple and green to radiate calmness and tranquility. Pump up your energy by surrounding yourself with reds, oranges and yellows. “Reds tend to increase blood pressure and heart rate, and stimulate activity,” color expert Leslie Harrington shares.
Make the most of condo living in the Philippines. Live a resort-style life in and out of your condo space.


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Documentaries – students will watch a range of documentaries, deconstructing key ideas and examine features used by film-makers.
The Woman in Black – students will study this relatively modern novel reminiscent of a 19th century ghost story. It is an excellent novel to explore structure and language, and will be used as a stimulus for their own writing.
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38Mystery Baby Quilt a.k.a. Airplane Quilt
A little while ago I shared a tutorial called Quick Triangle. We decided we needed to make a quick baby quilt. Andrea’s bestie is pregnant and due just a few days after her. She is expecting a boy, and the theme she chose is antique airplanes. We found blueprints of an airplanes and some coordinating blue fabric that works perfectly.
Mystery Pattern Choices 1 and 2:
Mystery Pattern Choice 5:
Chevron was Sue’s choice and also the mom-to-be’s choice. I posted a poll on our Facebook page, and it was close . . . but the mom-to-be’s vote pulled rank on all other votes. ~smile~
The quilt went together very quickly. Once the HSTs were trimmed down to their final 8″ size, and we had the layout, it was all together and pressed within a few hours. We found a blue boy-ish backing fabric, layered it up and it was ready for quilting. I decided to mirror the chevron pattern in quilting, which was a first for me. Here’s a shot of the quilting and also the cute backing fabric.


I have been experiencing all the problems since day 1 on my VZ 5 -- tried every suggestion on this thread and no permanent solutions. I did hear from our IT group that at least Microsoft had formally acknowledged the issue and that they were working with Apple on a solution. Really hoping it's solved in 6.0.1. Also hoping the latest news on the management shakeup doesn't delay things...I do have a question. I have never seen the apsd crash in the diagnostics & usage data log. I have had many other items appear there (then they mysteriously disappear after a day or two). Just wondering if someone would point me to a resource to explain what the other error logs mean. Also if I'm not getting that apsd error, is it possible that there is some other issue at play here?Have others who are experiencing the push problems not seen that error log?
I'm still good after 27 days (lucky I guess) and all I did was this...
Don't get your hopes up folks. Installed 6.0.1 E-mail pushed for a bit, then stopped. Same old, same old....
Original poster here. This issue is still not resolved for me in update 6.0.1. I'm still not getting mail pushed to my phone...
Well, I upgraded and it is working great, on all my push accounts corporate and Gmail. Please don't break....please don't break.......
This is very disappointing. For those who already see the failure, can you confirm if you still get apsd crashes?
Frank: No ASPD crashes on my phone. I assume you're still getting the crashes now with iOS 6.0.1 on your AT&T?
Can someone spell out where to find the ASPD crash reports so I don't have to parse through 34 pages in this thread?


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even set up multiple share locations at once, for example saving a file to your computer as well as automatically uploading it to your Google Drive account.
Image Capture Mode
I’m not entirely convinced how useful most of the effects options would be, but there are a couple that could be pretty useful, such as Capture Info, Watermark and Image Resolution. The others are primarily cosmetic adjustments, but they’re still more efficient than adding the effects in later by hand.
The other major difference found in using Image mode is that your Share options are different. It’s fairly obvious why the printing options aren’t available in AiO mode – printing a video would be time-consuming, to say the least – but it would be nice to have the Email option more widely available.
Snagit Editor
TechSmith has developed a great mobile companion app for Android and iOS that works with two of their most popular software packages, Snagit and their video editor Camtasia. While it’s a bit more useful for Camtasia so you can use your mobile device as a media source, it’s not a bad way to get screenshots of apps and other content into the Snagit Editor. Connecting your mobile app to your installation on the computer is a simple process, thanks to the QR code and these handy instructions.
No matter what you want to capture, Snagit will handle it quickly and easily. You can capture the whole screen, certain sections of running programs, or a custom area all with just a few clicks, and then automatically share them to a range of popular online services. You can annotate your image captures with highlights, text overlays and range of visual effects to help you make your point more clearly.
Snagit Alternatives
TechSmith Jing (Free, Windows/Mac)
Greenshot (Free, Windows only)
Greenshot is a free, open-source screen capture program, but it can only capture still images and not video. It can turn screen captured text intn, hide certain areas of an image that might contain personal data, and add in basic annotations. It can also share your files with a range of online services, but it’s not quite as feature-rich as Snagit.
ShareX (Free, Windows only)
Skitch (Free, Mac/iPad/iPhone)
Skitch from Evernote is a great alternative to Snagit for Mac, and it’s free. With Skitch, you can take basic screenshots, even timed screen snaps and window screens from specific apps. It also allows you to add custom callouts, pixelate sensitive parts of the screenshot, and much more. However, compared to Snagit, Skitch is still limited in features as it doesn’t offer the ability to take video screenshots, capture scrolling windows, etc.
Read: The Best Screen Recording Software
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and the promotional work -- and not to mention that it's published by the right-wing Regnery Press, a publishing house with origins in McCarthyism and other extreme right-wing activities -- suggests the book is seems more tailored to attract a readership through controversy than to seriously address the Japanese-American internment and the issues raised by it.
In other words, it is entirely possible that, in early February of 1942, FDR had a valid reason to


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Mr Rudd kept to the script as he introduced the Premier, David Bartlett.
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Health was at the centre of Mr Bartlett's re-election pitch, with more than $600 million in promises dominated by improvements to the Royal Hobart Hospital.
"The health needs of Tasmanians are Labor's top priority."
But the funding is dependent on agreement by every state and territory for Mr Rudd's of health.
"Tasmania's economic growth rate in the last financial year was the second highest across all the Australian states. Congratulations Tasmania."
The Liberals' Health spokesman, Brett Whiteley, has poured scorn on Labor's health promises.
"He's put a house of cards in place for his new health plan and a new Royal Hobart Hospital that will cave in on April 11th at the COAG meeting when Labor Premiers will reject, by the look of it, the health reform that Kevin Rudd is proposing."


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That last one can be so very hard to achieve, and it takes so much work that at times it pushes people away because the results don't just jump right up and slap you in the face. There are so many parts to the equation, from your diet to your routine.
This following link has a neat bulking calculator, give it a try, it's rather helpful:
When you first start out, almost anything will work, but don't let that fool you. If it's not meant to be, you will see the returns diminish rather quickly... At this point, it's time to switch it up, do barbell curls instead of dumbbell curls. Do box squats rather than front squats. Try 5x6 rather than 3x12.
One of the Most Important Things to Remember...
While working out and lifting weights and getting in shape is meant to be hard...one thing that you should never forget is...
You Should Have Fun Doing It!
Remember when it was still fun? Remember when you first started and you actually looked forward to each day? Then, you started learning too much...you started paying attention to numbers too much. You started basing your workouts off of everyone else's. You aren't going to get the same results as person A because you aren't person A. Also, just because they enjoy doing it doesn't mean that you will. You could possibly end up hating it!
Don't do that to yourself. It's a great way to lose motivation and to possibly even stop working out. Enjoy yourself! Have fun! But at the same time, get in shape!!
Okay, so here it goes, it's time to try another workout routine, something that I know I will stick with and hopefully enjoy. What's sad is I have had so little motivation lately that if my routine gets too difficult or demanding, I just stop...I used to not be that way AT ALL...and it's extremely frustrating...
I workout at home, always have...and I've never had a problem with doing it that way. I had my workout partner (who was my nephew) and we had great workout days. Then, there was the whole "life crisis" that lasted a few months...and it's kind of made me turn for the worse when it comes to being motivated. Now my nephew has a girlfriend, and he's pretty much stopped working out all together...So I no longer have a workout partner, which means I don't have a spotter or anyone to help me put weights on the bar or anything...which I guess can be considered nice because that means that my workouts can actually flow better. I get into it and I finish it without having to wait on him (because that was his downfall...he was slow and easily distracted). However, when it feels like you are spending more time changing weights and adjusting bar heights, etc, it gets hard to want to do that because it takes so long to get to the actual lifting...
Anyway, that's enough of that... I will go into detail into my new workout routine and why I chose to do it that way in my next post.
Well, I haven't updated for a while, but here goes. I failed, miserably, at HST. I gave it a go, but doing a full body workout, 3 days a week, all by myself burnt me out rather quickly. I made it for maybe 5 days (workout days that is) but then had to stop. I wasn't motivated at all to continue and I was overly tired every day. I am sure that a great deal of it had to do with the fact that working out at home definitely doesn't make this very long workout routine any more tolerable, as I am constantly having to adjust this, and move that, and switch the weights from this bar to that one...
Oh well, maybe I will try HST again some other time...that or maybe I will just stick with what I know and what has worked for me. That, and one thing that HST does is it focuses solely on size and not really at all on strength, and I kind of like knowing that I can lift a pretty good amount of weight and would rather not risk losing those maxes that I have worked so hard to reach.
On to the next routine I suppose...makes me kind of sad as I was so excited initially about getting into HST...
Okay, so one week of HST has gone by and here is what I have to say about it so far...
I was amazed that the weights that were so much lighter than what I have been doing are so difficult to lift. I was convincing myself before I started that doing it fifteen times wouldn't be all that much of a challenge....
I was wrong, oh so very wrong...
When I finish for the day, I am tired, I have no energy left to even think about doing an extra set or anything...and I am so drained and excited about my days off from training.
We all know that just because you are tired or sore that doesn't mean that there will be mind blowing results, and as I have only finished one full week I can't say for sure whether or not it is doing anything other than kicking my butt... However, it is kind of fun, especially in the sense that I both look forward to it and dread the idea of doing it...
PS. After the initial 30 squats...so far I have consistently felt nauseas for the rest of my lifts....just an FYI.
HST - Week One - Review of First Day
Well, I promised that I would go over my feelings of HST as far as results and if I feel that it is being effective at all...and, well, though skeptical at first, day one has already made me change how I felt about it.
I am sore, still, from Monday. Even with those very small weight, the volume was enough to kill me!
For example, I did 2 sets of 15 reps for squats. My legs are feeling it, and I only did 165 pounds!! I am used to doing 390 pounds, and that little bit of weight kicked my butt harder than the higher weights!
If it continues like this, I have a feeling that even if the results aren't quite what they are hyped up to be, it's going to be one heck of a ride.
Today will be day two. We shall see how it turns out!
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...not starting HST until next week...
Well, here I was so excited last Friday about starting up my first Hypertrophy Specific Training cycle this week, and well, I ended up postponing it...
I wanted to be completely and utterly prepared for this, so I want to make sure that I have no distractions and that I have everything that I need set in place. Also, I thought I might as well do a full 2 week deconditioning phase before I even got started up.
That...and for some unknown reason I have been dog tired for the past month or so...
Hope to come back with good news next week...
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Today is the day of "The Blonde Myth"
That's right, I felt like posting some pics of Lee Priest. Why?
PURE INSPIRATION RIGHT THERE!
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Getting excited. Can't wait to start the new routine next week.
Ok, this is it. It's coming down to the last couple of days before I embard upon the training known as HST, or Hypertrophy Specific Training. I have it all worked out, and the next 8 weeks are completely planned out for me.
I really do hope to get the results that one would expect from going for strict hypertrophy. I know, it's not strength like I am used to, but still, I want some size before I go back to focusing on strength. I started out as more of a strength trainer, and it was okay at first because I was making rapid gains...but then it tapered off rather quickly, and rather than making gains in size I have been making only gains in strength.
Now, that's not all bad, not at all. I am glad that I can boast being able to squat over 400 pounds, and that my bench has broken through many plateaus...but I still like the idea of being as big as my strength implies.
As always, keep motivated, and keep looking for what works for you.
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I think that perhaps this man's physique was ideal.
He had all of the good traits of a bodybuilder, without overdoing it. He was big, vascular, and lean.
Today's bodybuilders seem to focus more on sheer size, less on aesthetics. Arnold was from a time when a bodybuilder looked much more like they were chiseled from stone.
Here are some pictures of Arnold to look back on what bodybuilding used to be like.
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Thinking about trying a fat burner...
Hmm, okay, so I am bouncing all around with new ideas and trying to change this and that all at once...
I have way too much going on in my head all at the same time, gets a little crowded in there...
I am definitely thinking about trying a fat burner. I know, I am normally all about losing the fat with my lifting and burning it with the extra muscle that is built in the process....but I am becoming desperate. I was down to exactly where I wanted to be, and now it has jumped back up to being not quite what I want...so now to put a little extra help in there....
I think that I may end up going with Nutrex Lipo 6x... Why? Because, after doing a month's worth of research, which I know isn't much, but still, it was rather intense research, I have seen more good reviews and more good feedback on Lipo 6x than other products, so why not give it a try? It also has a very good ingredient profile, and that definitely doesn't hurt.
Just like with my HST, once I start on the Lipo 6x I will be sure to report back with progress/changes/likes/dislikes.
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Hypertrophy Specific Training (or HST for short)
Okay ladies and gentlemen, I am about to embark on another fun offset journey in my weight lifting... I have been trying to figure out lots of things about bodybuilding, and powerlifting, and in the end, I have come to realize that most of what I have been doing is powerlifting and not getting bigger. Granted, my lifts continue to go up and my strength keeps increasing, but my size is pretty much stuck in one place.
I have to get out of this rut...well, I keep saying that...
So, I stumbled upon the idea of training just for the sake of hypertrophy. Namely, the kind of hypertrophy that promotes size moreso than strength.
Don't get me wrong, one of the main things that I want out of this is strength, but, if I can get a great deal of mass and then pick back up on the strength later, what would that hurt?
The idea of HST is very simple, yet very difficult all at the same time. What makes me say that? Well, let's go over the basics, shall we?
For starters, your training is broken up into 8 week "cycles". Your first 2 weeks are based around 1 set of 15 reps for all of your lifts. Your second 2 weeks should fall somewhere around 20 total reps for each lift, meaning you could break it up into 1 set of 10 and 2 sets of 5, or 2 sets of 10. Basically, that second week is "supposed" to be your 10s week, but you have to be creative and mostly try to get 10 in there somehow. And finally, you hit your 2 weeks of 5s. This is where you are still trying to total 20 reps, however the way that you do it is all up to you. My plan is to do 4 sets of 5. After that, you have a few choices as to what to do with the final 2 weeks, but my plan is to continue with my 5s and see how far I can go with it.
The way that you should ideally split this up is into 3 intense, full body workout days. That way, you give your body plenty of time to recover, and you will be hitting those same body parts 3 times a week.
Another rule of thumb is that you will go up EVERY single time you do another lift. And it takes a bit of math, but it's not OVERLY complicated, especially if you use a RM calculator to figure it out for you. What you want to do is find your max for each of the rep ranges, and that is the number you want to be at by the END of that specified length of time. For example, if your 10 rep max is 140, you should go something like this:
Week 1: 115 120 125
Week 2: 130 135 140
See, simple in its complexity....
Oh well, that is the gist of it. I will be keeping you all updated though on how this ends up working out for me.
In the meantime, lift heavy and eat heavy!
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I think that pictures really can say a million words..
I promise that my posts will become more informative again soon, I just have little bursts as of late and thought, why not? I'll just get some pics and movies up to keep inspiring everyone, but only if they are good quality pictures of course...
So, here we go with another day's worth of pictures.
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Pictures of Markus Ruhl
Okay, I have been doing research on this man and I am quite impressed by him on many different levels. For starters, he's actually a very fun loving guy (or at least he lets off that kind of vibe).
You see him laughing a great deal, as well as being playful, and he seems to love his wife dearly...
And, on top of all of that, you cannot deny his size. He is massive, all over, not just in choice spots here and there.
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I thought that today I would throw in some pictures of a guy that I was introduced to from the Animal Arms DVD that I got with a purchase from bodybuilding.com.
This guy is HUGE, not only that, but his arms are MASSIVE. Highly impressive. Take a look for yourself!
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Today's video isn't so much a motivational video as it is an instructional video.
Today we will be taking a look at the proper form to be used for close grip bench press.
This lift focuses on the triceps.
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6/9/2009 Motivational Video of the Day
Markus Ruhl, if you know who I am talking about, this man is a MONSTER.
He is huge, and he definitely puts in the effort to be big, take a look for yourselves!
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What to do...lost in a sea of testosterone...
Okay, I know, pretty cheesy sounding title, but maybe as I go on you'll understand what I mean...
Looking back on when I first started, it feels like it was only yesterday... literally...though yesterday feels so far away...
I remember back before I lost the fat, before I got into some sort of "good shape"...I really didn't think too much about my day other than enjoying myself and enjoying my life (well, whatever I had that I called a life that is)... I would eat whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, I would go home and just game to my heart's desire, I did the things that, at the time, I thought were fun. What is sad, is more than anything, the fact that I have always felt that girls just never looked my way twice has made me want to push myself more and more to be better looking.
And now, here I am, a few years later and it seems that everything has to be in place, every single day, and if I even slip slightly it's frustrating. I have to eat at certain times, every day. It has to fit into what is "healthy" and "muscle building". If any fat shows up on me at all, I freak out and try to figure out what in the world I could have possibly done wrong when I haven't changed my diet at all. Every day is about going home and working out before I can do anything else, and then as soon as I get done working out I am back in the kitchen cooking up another meal to eat before I can relax.
Looking back, I kind of miss not having so many "obligations" during the day. I mean, yeah, I look better, sure, but when it comes down to it, but is it worth it? I don't even try to have any "fun" anymore really, and normally, after being at work for 9 hours a day and then working out as soon as I get off, I really don't even have any real time to relax...
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Three Day Weekends? Good, or Evil?
I just got back from a three day weekend (thank you Memorial Day!). Man, that can get you so off course for everything...
Luckily I'm a bit ridiculous...My mom did some of my favorite outdoors cooking (can you say barbecue ribs?...) and I turned them down because I had hard boiled eggs for dinner (yumm, right?).
And, on top of that, while the rest of my family was outside playing around, enjoying each other's company.......
I was lifting weights in my weight room....I was pushing for another "pump" in my forearms...
Yeah, it was still a good Memorial Day, in my own sad way...and now here I am, back at work...wondering why three day weekends even exist...because when they are over, how many of us are stuck thinking, "Man, I don't want to go to work this week at all..."?
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Did deadlifts last night...
Okay, so one week after I did a pretty good job of hurting myself, I decided to do deadlifts again...and, well, it actually didn't end too bad. Yeah, I kind of aggrevated it by doing it, but I am not in any more pain, and if I keep feeling better like I have been I see myself being ready for a full assault next week.
I did play it safe, however! I didn't do as much as I did last week, I actually cut the weight in half. That, and rather than doing it with a bar, I did it with dumbbells.
It actually didn't hurt at all yesterday, and now it's only slightly sore, but nothing compared to what it felt like last week.
I need to stop hurting myself...
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Motivational Video Of The Day 5/22/09
What works for me...? Could it work for you?
Okay, so I have been through tons of different workout routines, I've tried everything that I've thought might work or might be interesting.
Ever heard of Doggcrapp (or DC)? Yeah, well, if you haven't and you're anything like me, then stay ignorant of it. If you have, then you know just how intense and demanding it is. I stuck with it for a month and I was done, but what makes it hard to do something intense like that for me is the fact that I do my workouts in my very limited, small gym at my house. Just freeweights and a bench. No machines or anything fun like that to supplement my freeweight workouts....
Then, I tried this one little program that doesn't have a name (as far as I know)...and man was it crazy... I feel that it was most likely geared to those, well, on gear, and as I wasn't it did nothing but make me feel overly tired and in the end I think I actually got weaker after I did it. Basically, when broken down to its simplest form, this program was basically two weeks where you only get one day of rest, and the rest of the days you are working out basically twice a day. So here I was, getting up at 5 in the morning to do squats before getting ready for work, and then as soon as I got off of work I was back at it, all over again...Yeah, not fun... On top of that, doing sixty reps of deadlifts EACH DAY was oh so painful...
Now, as for the one thing that seemed to work best, and I have gone back to it, is the tried and true 5x5 workout routine. It's as cut and dry as it sounds, 5 set of 5 reps on each and every lift, and when you can do all 5 with good form, you increase your weight. That simple. I think that what made me stop doing it the last time that I was happened to be that I hit a brick-wall of a plateau, and I wasn't going up in weights in anything but squats... I was ready to call it quits with 5x5...but looking back, I was in the best shape during that time period, I made the best, most noticeable gains back then, and I've definitely lost some of my definition since I've stopped doing 5x5s.
To each his own though, so try them all! Switch it up, but when you find something that works, stick with it, push yourself to overcome the hurdles that it throws at you...and yeah, change the lifts you are doing once in a while to shock your muscles.
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Addicted? Ridiculous? Stupid? Dedicated?
I don't know, maybe I'm all of those...
Last week I hurt my back pretty bad doing deadlifts. I have been doing what I can to nurse it this week, but it still hurts. Well, it's that day again, and I'm going to do deadlifts again, knowing very well that my back isn't fully healed and that it still hurts to bend over certain ways...
Okay, you are probably thinking to yourself, "Man, what a freaking idiot." And you know what, I can't say I dont agree with you. Yeah, it's stupid, especially since your back is one of those things that you just don't want to screw with, because once it's messed up you are pretty well S.O.L. However, I've had such a boost in confidence and self worth since I got myself into shape that I don't want to lose what I've worked so hard for.
Back to one of my earlier posts...when I hit a hard patch last year, my whole world fell apart. And it did so for a long time...and since all of that has happened what I had worked so hard to achieve had slowly fallen apart. Well, I'm still paying for it, as I also took a whole month off from working out and had pretty well lost my "perfect" diet....
On one hand, it's deterring me; it's making it harder for me to want to keep at it, and on the other hand it makes me want to push myself that much harder. I look at the videos of the pros, and it gives me something to push for (well...as close to that as you can get naturally)...but since I've taken so many steps backwards, it makes me feel like I am failing, like I'm starting all over again...it makes me feel like I'm hopeless...
I don't want to lose it, but at the same time I almost feel like I already have...
*sigh* Back to the drawing board I suppose...
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Motivational Video Of The Day 5/21/09
This is another legend, if you are a serious weightlifter you should know about him.
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I know that this blog isn't meant to be a personal account of things that happen to me in my lifting, but at the same time I guess this is a golden opportunity to share with everyone and maybe help someone else from ending up in pain like I am.
Last Thursday, while doing deadlifts, I was going along at my normal pace, and it was going just fine. Well, around the middle of set four, I started to get sloppy and my form was off. At that exact moment when I went back up for another rep, I felt something pull in my lower back, and felt a surge of pain that went from my legs down and my torso up...I almost dropped the weight then and there. I finished out the set, but then for the rest of that day I was in excruciating pain.
It's now Tuesday, and my back still hurts pretty bad...I hope it's nothing major, and I'm going to pretend that it will get better with time, but it still hurts, and it's making doing lots of things difficult/uncomfortable. Even sitting at my desk at work is painful...
So, try not to EVER give up form for speed or to try and jerk around higher weights then you are capable of lifting. In the end, all you are going to end up doing is hurting yourself which in turn hurts your potential gains.


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Disney XD announced a dedicated programming block titled Marvel Universe and will premiere on the network April 1st. They are also introducing a new series, Ultimate Spider-Man.
In the storyline of Ultimate Spider-Man,!
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The need for a compliance system that included specific client guidelines resulted from client growth.
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This fascination may be due to the fact that the technology is akin to catching lightning in a bottle—literally. An ultracapacitor is an electronic device used to store electrical energy. It can charge and discharge electricity almost instantaneously, albeit at low voltage, hundreds of thousands of times without being depleted.
Now it just so happens that a San Diego company called Maxwell Technologies (NASDAQ: MXWL) has been developing ultracapacitors for the past 15 years. So this flurry of recent announcements left me confused. Doesn’t the technology needed to make ultracapacitors already exist?g()


As the angels are gathering for the great Feast of the Synaxis of the Archangels, those of us wary of believing in angels at all may question their very nature. Yet we are standing as close to a mighty explanation as Psalm 104:4, and to Psalm 103:20-21 for the powerful efficacy of their ministry revealed. God who “,” as the Psalmist says, is both terrifying and gorgeous to behold. That the angels of God “excel in strength, do his commandments, hearken to the voice of his word…and do his pleasure,” identifies them as front-facing essential workers in the economy of Salvation and in our lives among the faithful.
“Take a close look at a branding iron,” Basil the Great teaches us, “and the nature of angels’ holiness will become plainer: Remember that fire is required to heat it; yet, we would not claim that the branding iron and the fire are the same substance. The angels are a similar case; they are essentially aerial spirits, composed of immaterial fire, as it is written, ‘’ (Ps 104:4). Angels exist in space, and when they are seen by those who are worthy, they assume an appropriate physical form” (On the Holy Spirit, PG38.138A). For us then, in our deepest prayer and praise, we are able to see the divine illumination of angelic appearances in the same manner as viewing, perhaps, a rainbow, which can truly appear visually and radiantly upon occasion, and can powerfully signify God’s promise in Scripture, but has no physical bodyngels, Book of Enoch, Pseudo-Dionysius, VK McCarty on November 2, 2021 by Public Orthodoxy.


Now that's out of the way, on to the desserts!
Upon arrival, we were escorted to our table. During our seating, there were a half dozen tables filled, and each table had its own serving team, plus the executive chef, plus the sommelier, plus the pastry chef and team in the kitchen. It felt like as each course was brought out, there were more serving people around to assist in the experience than there were people experiencing it!
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OUR VIEW: Alabama and its lawmakers need to seriously address growing problems of violence behind bars
on June 10, 2012 at 5:45 AM
A corrections officer, left, looks out over inmates in a dormitory at the St. Clair Correctional Facility on
Alabama's prisons are in a deep, dangerous hole, dug in large part by years of underfunding, understaffing and overcrowding. As News staff writer Robin DeMonia has reported over the past two weeks, state prisons have seen a surge in recent years in reported violence in its men's prison and rape and sexual abuse in its prison for women.
Unfortunately, the state has been too slow and has done too little -- the exception is sentencing reforms aimed at keeping some nonviolent offenders out of prison -- about the root causes of that violence. In fact, lawmakers are making the staffing shortage worse by cutting $16 million from an already anemic prison budget.
In last Sunday's Birmingham News, DeMonia reported that three prison inmates -- two at the St. Clair Correctional Facility near Springville and one at the Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent -- have been killed by other inmates just since the Oct. 1 start of this budget year. For comparison, in the four previous years, prisons reported at most one homicide.
But that's just the tip of the prison violence iceberg. In the 2010-2011 fiscal year, there were no homicides, but inmate-on-inmate violence rose 40 percent from the previous year. Assaults resulting in serious injuries doubled, from 47 to 95.
State prison officials say the increase in the number of reported acts of violence is due to better record-keeping. If that's true, statistics on prison violence were greatly misleading in the past, not painting for the public an accurate picture of just how bad prison conditions were.
Even prison officials admit violence is a ongoing worry, made worse by too many inmates and too few officers.
And that, again, is what makes the state's approach to its prisons so infuriating and worrisome.
Over the years, the state has paired get-tough-on-crime laws with inadequate funding for corrections -- with the expected results. Despite a shortage of corrections officers, Alabama prisons house almost In 2005, the state prisoner-to-correction officer was 9-to-1 -- the worst of any state. Now, it's 11-to-1.
And that number, incredibly, could go higher. Besides the $16 million budget cut -- 4 percent -- for the Department of Corrections come October, prisons could lose an additional $35 million should voters in Septembeoney from a state trust fund to the General Fund.
Still, there is at least some glimmer of hope. As noted before, the state has a better system in place now to keep track of assaults and fights. (The prison system, though, still needs to do much better in notifying the media and public of violent episodes, including deaths.) The sentencing slow the flow of nonviolent criminals into overcrowded prisons.
And the reports of increased violence and sexual misconduct have gotten the attention of a legislative committee that oversees prisons. The Joint Legislative Prisonwill meet June 20 to hear about rising violence at men's prisons and sexual abuse of inmates by staff at the state's Tutwiler Prison for Women.
 of prison Commissioner ThomasThat point is even more relevant since it's lawmakers who control the state's purse strings and determine how much money prisons get to operate. Plus, lawmakers are responsible for the many various laws passed over the years, like three strikes, that have multiplied the number of people sent to prison for longer sentences.
That's a tall order, we know. But it's going to take that -- a tall ladder rather than a shovel is one way to look at it -- to get state prisons out of its very deep hole.


It can be a pleasure if you can ignore past due notices, and your impulses at Walmart, and eat cheaply, and never go to the mall, and be perfectly happy with a 1995 Isuzu Trooper that leaks a large amount of oil all over your rented 1.4 million dollar houses driveway.
This place in Wendell is Idaho in its most simple form: grass, trees, blue skies, and noone around.
The tents provided hours of fun and pleasure for the kids. Lily climbed in the tent when we set it up and did not exit for several hours. Everyone that walked by got an invitation to “come play with me”. She had found her home.
The kids make the reunion fun and exciting. Nothing is too much fun and anything goes. This photo was taken after the “so you think you have talent” variety show. This is most of the kids. Several didn’t make it to the photo. They were too busy playing on the swing set
This is the swing set that I was speaking of. Its an old-school steel one. At one point during the reunion someone screamed and the rumor immediately circulated that one of the kids had cut themselves badly on an errant part of the swing set. All the parents sprinted over to the swing set to find out that it was untrue.
We didn’t believe that that old thing could be safe. Its too old.
The first night we were foolish. The day was warm and the evening got cool. At 2AM it was freezing. Grace sobbed all night in her crib in our tent. The next night I resolved to put 2 pairs of Jammies on her. She slept quietly all night. It got fiercely cold at night. You can feel it settling through the nylon walls of the tent.
My Father is a gentleman. His favorite things in this life are his wife, his 8 children, his 20 some grandchildren and his grounds. He and I stood out looking at the front yard and he said “there’s nothing like grass. Grass is civilizatioin” 30 acres is a lot of grass.
July 2nd, 2009 at 6AM I soaked my shoes walking around Ball Manor. It was perfectly still. All you could hear was the birds.
I had a friend at Brooks who always said with mystery in his voice “only the dead inhabit photographs”. Sad.
The temperature was probably 101. These three cousins were born within 9 months of eachother. They were reluctant to participate but the dogs were on hand as was Sams hand.
There are parents who take good care of their children and then there are parents who let their children sit in their high chairs for too long without food
I gathered those of us who played the game for a group shot. Justin always finds the most unique ways to pose in a picture. Here he is face down doing the deadman. His pose certainly adds a strong horizontal element to the photograph. If you zoom in you can see his eye through the bl


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One day Solomon decided to humble Benaiah ben Yehoyada, his most trusted minister.
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“This too shall pass”… Four magical words which convey two dif
To those in the first group who take great pride in their wealth, possessions, power, accomplishments etc and who live for themselves, these words remind them that all of these will surely pass away. It will not matter what you owned,what brand you wore or what you were owed, What will matter is how many lives you have helped change with the resources you had.
Tmost turbulent phase of their lives, those who are struggling today, those living without hope and are in despair, for them, these words provide comfort. , your troubles are not here to stay, they for sure will pass away.


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