I'm not Christian however

Your revile against pre-marital/non-marital sex and the "choice" to have children without a spouse (Diablo 3 Gold) - let's examine how well that works.

So a woman has sex and gets pregnant. Whether planned or accidental doesn't matter.

She doesn't marry the man for whatever reason.

She won't or can't get child support from him for whatever reason.

So what happens?

Husband Government eagerly steps in and provides funds for food (Diablo 3 Gold), housing, medical, day care, school etc.

It's definately NOT the life style you and I would consider living high on the hog. But for someone with nothing to start with it can seem a pretty darn good deal.

So much a good deal there's no need to change it! No need to eventually get married. Or even wait to have another child (planned or accidental) because Husband Government has a bottomless pocket.

Are we - and by that I mean the American family and society - better off today than 45-50 years?

Depends on where you stand. 

What an utterly disingenuous claim-the notion that these alleged zoning requirements

What an utterly disingenuous claim-the notion that these alleged zoning requirements "were initiated by lenders/municipalities, in an attempt to force Americans to build bigger homes, thus incurring larger debt (so lenders could make more$) and municipalities could charge higher taxes."

That certainly is a benefit to them in some cases (Diablo 3 Gold), but no mention whatsoever is made of the fact that developers (many of whom are politicians or cozy with them) benefit too, as well as trade and other unions that can use their clout to ramp up costs, work kickback deals, etc.

But even more important is the fact that size and occupancy codes have a lot to do with things like parking availability, sewer and water infrastructure limits, safety egress requirements (unobstructed hallways and walls that can handle egress sized windows take space), ADA requirements that define minimum door and passage sizes....the list goes on and on (Diablo 3 Gold).

Fact is that there are under 1000 sq' residences all over the US, and the reason most places aren't building more is because

a) there's already more than enough residential units to supply any demand, called apartments and condos

b)there's already more than enough residential units to supply any demand for small houses in the form of cottages and similar small houses from the early-mid 20th century- like the 400 sq' house I lived in built in 1913, one of hundreds of similarly small houses standing in that San Diego neighborhood alone.

c) because lots and permits are so expensive that it makes no sense to build a tiny house at that expense

d) because to actually make any difference to the overall amount of smaller units available you have to increase population density and that causes all kinds of havoc to everything from roads to schools to postal service to trash service to pest control to crime statistics, and none of that stuff is made better by packing more people into the same space (Diablo 3 Gold).

Don't forget that those neighborhoods built in the early 20th century often still have streets and off street parking designed for the cars of that day, that can't even handle modern cars passing each other going opposite directions, let alone three or four times as many houses full of people driving and parking on them. 

Here's some tips

Manx2004 is totally right about the body weight exercises. Here's my take on things.

3-4 days per week, go for a walk. The pace should be fast enough to get your heart rate up (Diablo iii Gold), but slow enough that you can still hold a conversation. This may be challanging at first, the point being to not be going so fast that you're panting and gasping.

3-4 days per week do push ups, sit ups, and chair squats (just sitting back onto a solid chair or stool, then standing again, no weights). Try for 3 sets of 10 of each of those.

Use knee push ups if you have to, no worries. I'm sure the sit ups may be a bit of a problem, just do the best you can and don't pull on your head/neck. Start with your arms down at your sides, then as you can finish the sets progress to hands on shoulders, then hands on ears, then hands behind head (still not pulling on your neck). As you get better you can progress to burpees (you can google it for a description).

Make sure to have a day or two each week where you're not exercising. Your body needs to recover (Diablo iii Gold), and if you're cutting back your calories it needs time. This is a big change, so take it easy and do small steps that you can stick to, just add to or improve those as time goes on. The little steps add up. That's enough to last you a couple months at least, progressing to slightly faster and longer walks, and better/more reps for your other exercises.

As Manx said, it's mostly diet anyway, but exercise is important too. 

You don't know Tormis? Shocking!

It was either Fanfare or American Record Guide that reviewed the ECM recording of Tormis 's"Forgotten Peoples", a cycle of six choral works (unaccompanied, male, for the most part) on the theme of now- or near-extinct ethnic groups around the Baltic: the Vepses, the Izhorians, the Livonians, etc.

The review made this 2-CD set sound pretty interesting (Diablo 3 Gold), so I toddled off downtown and bought a copy at A & B Sound, then a paradise for classical lovers, now alas gone with the wind. Got in the car, shoved disk 1 into the CD player, and drove off up Johnson Street.

Just as I was approaching Vancouver Street (where the dropper is on that Google map), the music took a turn that so seized by attention that I nearly ran up onto the sidewalk about here. Yowza!

One warning: only Finnish and Estonian choirs can do Tormis right. There's a recording of Tormis by the BBC Singers led by Bo Holten to avoid: whereas the Baltic groups' performances are redolent of the out doors, as though you were standing on a rocky outcrop with clouds scudding by overhead in a stiff wind (Diablo 3 Gold), the BBC Singers sound like you have entered the confines of a high-class brothel, complete with red velvet drapes, dim pink lights, and incense scented air. Don't say I didn't warn you.

My brother was adopted out before I was born.

He found us all last year. I was 6 months pregnant with my second daughter (Diablo 3 Gold). I had many complications in my pregnancy, and no one in my family contacted me to tell me that he was going to call. I almost lost my daughter, as a result. I've only had limited contact with him, because I don't know how to take him. He keeps asking my (our) mom for money when she lives on disability. He does, too. He has some states of mental retardation. I really don't know how to approach him. He came to my (our) grandma's funeral over the summer, and I ignored him. I feel horrible, but I don't know how to take him coming into my life. I never knew him. He was adopted out 3 years before I was born. Our parents are pressuring me to have a relationship with him, but I really am not ready. How will I know when I am? Will I know? He tells me he hates his adoptive family, and I keep telling him that they were the ones who loved him enough to give him a home. They cared for him when no one else would. He keeps telling me how much he wishes he weren't adopted out (Diablo 3 Gold), but my childhood wasn't much better. I was in foster care when I was 12. Spent the rest of my childhood there. I don't want him to think he has to ruin his relationship with his adoptive family to have one with his birth family.

 

 

       

Just a refresher for the forum

Feel free to call me on this matter (Diablo 3 Gold). I can be reached at my cell at 503-725-XXXX.

Robert Vervloet (JESTER) was NOT paid by Portland State Football to give instruction to any of our players for either the 2010 or 2011 football seasons. If he is listing me as a reference to confirm his status as a coach, I need to let you know that this is definitely not the case for the 2010 or 2011 seasons.

Robert has tried to associate himself with our team, but we declined to bring him on board in any football coaching capacity. He was able to convince our head athletic trainer to allow him to do sports injury rehab work in his department this past spring where he may have had some interaction with the athletes on our team. For him to suggest that his efforts had any tangible result in the improved performance of our team is an insult to the faculty and the me.

I was not on staff for the 2009 season (Diablo 3 Gold). NCAA rules limit the number of paid coaches on a college team staff, so I can say with confidence that Robert was not a football coach at PSU for the 2009 season either.

Let me know if you need any other information at any point. 

I can totally sympathize with you on the needle thing

I can totally sympathize with you on the needle thing (D3 Gold). i've been trying to overcome passing out pretty much my whole life, with very limited success. i'm okay to a point and i won't look, but i feel like i can't get air and gets the sweats fast. i'm accustomed to the feeling but it's such a weak helpless one.

as it happens, i have lousy veins and at my first ob appointment they ended up taking 8 vials of blood. after the third poke, they had one vial and blew two veins...lol. when the lab person saw i was about to pass out in the chair, she called for help from the other lab people but i guess i didn't respond to them soon enough, because then she called urgent care and they hauled me off to a bed. by the time all 8 vials were done, i'd spent about two hours there- they wouldn't try for more for awhile because my blood pressure took awhile to come up (which is low anyhow) and i drank a can of orange juice and just had to lie there. the ice packs felt good though. in good news, everybody was really swell and it only took 6 stabs to get it done. next time though, they are starting me out on a bed. i feel like sort of a fool for that, but it's gotta be better, right?

How do you handle the unexpected birth? We do not have family that we can trust that live near us. We have several people to call and we hope on the day of we can use someone. Anyone have this situation? Just scary it can not be planned. Hoping my husband can be with me (D3 Gold), but we figure worse case he will have to stay home with our toddler.