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Live in atleast 3 different countries for atleast 1 year in each.
become the biggest guy in my gym.
Go to the Olympia/Arnold weekend atleast once in my life.
thats all. What can i say, i'm...
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Live in atleast 3 different countries for atleast 1 year in each.
become the biggest guy in my gym.
Go to the Olympia/Arnold weekend atleast once in my life.
thats all. What can i say, i'm...
lol. Thats some funny shiat. I dropped a 40lb DB on my face, but that was back in the day when i was a newb.
i want to get one, but i'm almost completely broke. Maybe...
He's said before that he hasn't used synthol. he said it was some stronger sh*t.
He was a crazy ass dealer and was busted last year, i think. Now he's under close watch and his arms shrunk...
is it your birthday too?
I'm not a big beer drinker, and from the few types of beer that i have had, i like Corona the most.
Say what you want, but drinking DOES make a party more fun, no one can argue with that, and if...
Yesterday i was doing weighted dips holding the dumbell between my legs. I don't have a belt so i have to improvise. 30lb dumbell falls right on my right big toe.
It hurt like a bitch, but i...
i can sympathize with you man. I'm up at 530am and i don't get home until 8pm.
Tuna sandwiches are your friend:D
yes, keep it. But only during/post workout.
I was just about to ask this, as my mom always told me to eat honey when i had a sore throat (some old Russian home remedy or something).
We have a few of these things in my household, like...
20 calories x bodyweight (in pounds)
EDIT: I should've been clear on that from the beginning, sorry.
i'm not totally sure on this, but i've read that dextrose is absorbed quicker than the maltodextrin* so when you get 1/2 from dext and 1/2 from malt you get a sort of 'time released' insulin spike.
Even if you're a newbie i think 10lbs a month may be a bit much. Maybe the first month or so, but each subsequent month you'll probably gain less and less.
That aside, you need to start counting...
Check the website.
My guess would be that its pretty bad.
well she still needs to do some type of exercise.
Her calories are also undoubtedly low. Get her on a good diet. Adjust cals so she loses .5-1lb/week.
a nice macronutriently balanced meal plan will suffice with a calorie deficit.
In end end she will need to count calories.
don't be too strict on foods, make sure she...
Yep, that thread pretty much sums up my whole standpoint on High intensity vs. med/low.
Okay before i continue, by low impact you mean low intensity correct? As in jogging for 30 min or something similar?
EPOC = Excess Post exercise Oxygen Consumption.
It refers to the fact that...
I just want to re-iterate something that has been said before. Majestic (although i got this originally from Lyle) stated that the amount of aspartame they use in studies to induce these insulin...
Over a 24 hour period your body will equalize everything out, and in the end all you need to have is a cal deficit. Doing low intensity cardio will use calories from fat stores, however your body...
well my favorite on the go, balanced meal is tuna with mayo/olive oil on whole wheat bread. But i guess you can sub the tuna for chicken and make a chicken salad on whole wheat bread with celery.

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Mike Connell
Port Huron has too many poor people.
The debate over whether this poverty is homegrown or imported isn't irrelevant, but it's becoming a distraction, a chance for folks to come across as righteous and noble, or self-righteous and ignoble, while sidestepping the fundamental issue.
Port Huron has too many poor people!
Exclamation point!
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FOR THOSE WHO are wary of anecdotal evidence, let's review a few statistics.
In the past five years, Port Huron's poverty rate has averaged 26.4 percent, if we are to believe the U.S. Census Bureau.
Coincidentally, that is exactly double the 13.2 percent poverty rate for St. Clair County as a whole. It is considerably higher than the statewide poverty rate of 15.7 percent, and it is nearly 10 points higher than Port Huron's poverty rate of 16.9 percent in the 2000 census.
Or, to put 2,739 faces on it, the number of individuals living in poverty in Port Huron jumped from 5,342 in 2000 to 8,081 in 2010.
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PORT HURON isn't an anomaly. Indeed, there are 102 communities in Michigan with higher poverty rates.
The list includes the usual suspects - Benton Harbor at 48.7 percent, Highland Park at 43.7, Saginaw at 37.4, Flint at 36.6, Kalamazoo at 35.4, Detroit at 34.5 and Pontiac at 32, for example.
It also includes places that might not jump to mind, such as tiny Applegate with a poverty rate of 38 percent, Carsonville at 28.6, Bad Axe at 28.4 and Sandusky at 26.8.
None of which makes Port Huron's situation less dire.
George Galster, a Wayne State professor and an expert on urban poverty, has identified a poverty "tipping point" of roughly 15 to 20 percent. What happens if a community's poverty rate exceeds this threshold?
"All hell breaks loose," Galster said, describing a maelstrom of crime, drug use, teen pregnancies, drop-out rates and the like.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT is a necessary first step in dealing with many of life's ills.
The alternative, denial, is the son of sloth. It's intellectual laziness, and it's disastrous. Look no further than Detroit, a community that steadfastly refused to take responsibility for the choices that have destroyed it.
Whatever criticism City Manager Bruce Brown might deserve, no one can accuse him of ignoring the issue of poverty in Port Huron. Given that his resignation takes effect in six months, ducking it would have been easy, too.
A sensible goal for Port Huron might aim at lowering the poverty rate to 16.9 percent by 2025. This would give the city 12.5 years to get its poverty rate back to where it was 12.5 years ago.
But how?
"Jobs cure all," former council member Jim Fisher wrote in a Facebook post earlier this month. "If we can make Port Huron attractive for employers to locate here and (for) businesses to open, that would be a great start."
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HE'S CORRECT, of course, but if all men are created equal as Jefferson proposed, the same cannot be said of jobs.
In 1910, when Port Huron began the decade of its most robust growth and boasted of itself as "the City of Industry," the typical factory hand could buy a modest house and maintain a comfortable home for his family without a second income.
For half a century, paychecks from employers such as Mueller Brass, Grand Trunk, Prestolite, Acheson and the paper companies built the city's leafy neighborhoods.
Then came the half century after Port Huron developed its industrial park, dedicating millions of dollars and decades of civic enthusiasm to the pursuit of jobs.
Unfortunately, too many of the recruited employers paid low wages, meaning the average worker could no longer afford a mortgage payment or the cost of a new roof. Inevitably, the city's housing stock deteriorated.
Factories came and went, often staying only as long as their tax breaks. Port Huron lost its way, trundling down a road paved in good intentions.
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EVEN AS PORT HURON cheerfully offered tax breaks to fly-by-night manufacturers, it deliberately gouged another group - the average, middle-class family.
"If we can remove the tax penalties of living in Port Huron, it would be a great help," Fisher wrote.
How's that?
As an example, consider a house with a taxable value of $100,000. Property taxes on this home are $3,831 a year in Port Huron, which is $874 more than they would be in Port Huron Township, $1,242 more than in Fort Gratiot and $1,593 more than in Clyde.
Then there is Port Huron's municipal income tax of one percent. It's as if the city were sending a message: Welcome, fools!
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BETTER SERVICES are the justification for higher taxes, but Port Huron has spent a decade making deep cuts in the municipal payroll. Such slashing comes with a price.
I remember the budget planning session where council members agreed to eliminate part-time lifeguards at Lakeside and Lighthouse beaches.
At the time, it struck me as a gesture that would do a dollar in damage to the perception of Port Huron for every penny it saved the bottom line. And that was before a child drowned in the shallows at Lakeside Beach.
Across Gratiot Avenue, at Lakeside Cemetery, the city employs one full-time worker. Twenty years ago, it had five full-time and seven seasonal workers on its payroll.
Does it matter? Take a stroll through Lakeside, then amble through the church-owned Mount Hope Cemetery, which is lovingly maintained. The two cemeteries are separated by a canal, but it might as well be a chasm.
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IT'S A CONUNDRUM, isn't it? If the city is to encourage the investment necessary to create the jobs that lift people from poverty, then it should lower its taxes even as it restores the level of its services.
Given the scarcity of magic wands, residents might look for the next best thing - imaginative, energetic leadership.
Port Huron is holding municipal elections this fall, and it will be hiring a city manager in six months. These are opportunities to look for bold, visionary leadership.
Just remember that a dash of boldness mixed with a cup of vision is a recipe for controversy. And many of the issues facing Port Huron - zoning, blight, rental housing and the uncomfortable question of whether poverty is being imported - are sure to be controversial.
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IF PORT HURON could do only one thing to better itself, it would be to cherish the virtue of neighborliness.
To paraphrase T.J. Gaffney, who spoke at a housing summit last month, turn off the TV, go to the back fence and meet your neighbors.
Or as Jim Relken, a former mayor, suggested: Let's encourage close-knit neighborhoods, maybe shutting streets to create culs-de-sacs, and teach our children to take pride in where they live.
Today's last word goes to Fisher, whose Facebook post closed with this passage: "Finally, if we could learn to appreciate and be positive about the rare beauty and great neighborhoods of Port Huron, it would attract people willing to purchase homes and live here."