Cool Marshall Ramsey Cartoon
But when Brody dreams he dreams of winning The Vicksburg Post's Pet Idol or maybe chasin' squirrels!!!!
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Walking Tips From CookingLight.com
The Better Fitness WalkLearn proper form techniques to make your walks more efficient.
By Gin Miller
Fitness walking is an excellent way to tone muscles and burn calories. In fact, you can burn almost as many calories with a vigorous walk as you can running, and fitness walking is much less stressful on the body. You will need to average about 12 to 15 minutes per mile (measure your distance with a pedometer, available from sporting goods stores). Start by walking for at least 20 to 30 minutes three to four days per week. Increase this to five to six days per week if you're trying to lose weight.
Here are tips for proper walking form:
• Elongate your body by standing tall with head up, chin level, and eyes gazing forward.
• Lift chest, and relax shoulders. Breathe deeply as you walk to get the maximum amount of oxygen to your muscles.
• Bend arms slightly and swing them front to back, not side to side or crossing the body. Do not swing elbows higher than chest level.
• Tilt pelvis forward slightly, and keep abs tight.
• Push off with toes and land on heel, rolling back through to toe to push off again.
• Maintain a natural stride length.
Add speed intervals to your walks to burn up to 10 times more calories than you would during an ordinary fitness walk. After warming up, fitness walk for three minutes, then add a one-minute speed interval. Increase your walking pace to about eight or nine on an intensity scale of one to 10. At the end of one minute, slow back to your fitness speed. Continue alternating three-minute segments of fitness walking with one-minute increments of speed for a total of 10 intervals. You should interval train only twice a week to allow your body time to recuperate between workouts.
Quick Tip: Drink plenty of water before, during, and after your walk, and start with a slow five- to eight-minute warm-up of slow walking. At the end of your walk, cool down and stretch.
More Fitness Walking Articles:
Personal Coach: WalkingWalking can help you tone up, lose weight, and get into great shape.
Add Power to Your WalkThis 35-minute circuit turned one reader's daily stroll into a complete workout.
Personal Coach: High-Country HikingA workout--including basic preparation and training tips--to help you enjoy your time in the mountains
Jump Over Fitness HurdlesSeven obstacles that keep us from working out—and how to beat them.
A Better Beach WalkGive your walk extra calorie-burning power with these simple exercises.
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Vote For Brody
Our dog Brody is contestant #53 in the Vicksburg Post's Pet Idol.... Cast a vote by going by Corner Market or Wal-Mart of Post Offices and picking up a Sunday's Paper... Fill out your ballot and pay your .25 cents per vote... all proceeds go to the NIE (Newspapers In Education) Fund... All votes for round one are due in to the Post by June 25thBrody says "BARRROOOO uewwwwww" That is "THANK YOU!!!" in Basenji!
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Monday, June 18, 2007
There Are Gaps In US Health & Diet IQ!
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Ninety percent of Americans say breakfast is an important part of a healthy diet, but just 49 percent manage to eat breakfast every day, a new survey shows.
And only 11 percent know the amount of calories they should consume daily to maintain a healthy weight, according to the International Food Information Council Foundation's second annual Food & Health Survey. "The only good thing is more people tried to guess than last year," Susan Borra, the president of the Washington, DC-based IFIC Foundation, told Reuters.
IFIC commissioned a survey of 1,000 U.S. adults, this March to better understand people's beliefs and behaviors regarding healthy eating. The survey identified a number of "diet disconnects" between what people intend to do and their actual habits, according to Borra and her team.
Among the most striking "disconnects," Borra said, concerned knowledge about good and bad fats. While current guidelines recommend people consume more polyunsaturated fats, found in fish and some whole grain foods, and monounsaturated fats, found in nuts, avocados and vegetable oils, she noted, 42 percent of those surveyed said they were trying to eat fewer polyunsaturated fats and 38 percent reported trying to cut down on monounsaturated fats.
However, 70 percent of people said they were trying to cut down on saturated fat, more than last year's 57 percent. Saturated fats are found in meats, dairy foods, and coconut and palm oils, among other sources, and have been tied to an increased risk off heart disease and stroke.
While 84 percent said they were physically active at least once a week for health benefits, only 44 percent said they "balanced diet and physical activity" for weight management. "That concept of calories in, calories out isn't quite making the consumer radar screen," Borra said. "That's another big disconnect."
And while most people surveyed knew about the benefits of functional foods; for example, 80 percent knew such foods could benefit the heart, just 42 percent actually ate such heart-healthy foods.
"Consumers are interested in health, they want to have a healthy lifestyle, but they're just having a tremendous difficulty achieving it," Borra said, adding that people's "hectic, crazy lifestyles" and the confusing mix of information out there don't help matters.
Borra recommends people stick to good sources of information on diet and health, such as IFIC's Web site; the federal government's mypyramid.gov; the American Dietetic Association; and the American Heart Association .
She also urges people to make incremental changes in their lifestyle habits, rather than trying to do everything all at once, and recommends IFIC's "Your Personal Path to Health: Steps to a Healthier You" as a good source for identifying ways to make these small changes.
"If you just make a couple of small steps a day, you're doing a lot to achieving a healthy lifestyle in the long run," Borra said.
And only 11 percent know the amount of calories they should consume daily to maintain a healthy weight, according to the International Food Information Council Foundation's second annual Food & Health Survey. "The only good thing is more people tried to guess than last year," Susan Borra, the president of the Washington, DC-based IFIC Foundation, told Reuters.
IFIC commissioned a survey of 1,000 U.S. adults, this March to better understand people's beliefs and behaviors regarding healthy eating. The survey identified a number of "diet disconnects" between what people intend to do and their actual habits, according to Borra and her team.
Among the most striking "disconnects," Borra said, concerned knowledge about good and bad fats. While current guidelines recommend people consume more polyunsaturated fats, found in fish and some whole grain foods, and monounsaturated fats, found in nuts, avocados and vegetable oils, she noted, 42 percent of those surveyed said they were trying to eat fewer polyunsaturated fats and 38 percent reported trying to cut down on monounsaturated fats.
However, 70 percent of people said they were trying to cut down on saturated fat, more than last year's 57 percent. Saturated fats are found in meats, dairy foods, and coconut and palm oils, among other sources, and have been tied to an increased risk off heart disease and stroke.
While 84 percent said they were physically active at least once a week for health benefits, only 44 percent said they "balanced diet and physical activity" for weight management. "That concept of calories in, calories out isn't quite making the consumer radar screen," Borra said. "That's another big disconnect."
And while most people surveyed knew about the benefits of functional foods; for example, 80 percent knew such foods could benefit the heart, just 42 percent actually ate such heart-healthy foods.
"Consumers are interested in health, they want to have a healthy lifestyle, but they're just having a tremendous difficulty achieving it," Borra said, adding that people's "hectic, crazy lifestyles" and the confusing mix of information out there don't help matters.
Borra recommends people stick to good sources of information on diet and health, such as IFIC's Web site; the federal government's mypyramid.gov; the American Dietetic Association; and the American Heart Association .
She also urges people to make incremental changes in their lifestyle habits, rather than trying to do everything all at once, and recommends IFIC's "Your Personal Path to Health: Steps to a Healthier You" as a good source for identifying ways to make these small changes.
"If you just make a couple of small steps a day, you're doing a lot to achieving a healthy lifestyle in the long run," Borra said.
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Friday, June 15, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
Friday, June 08, 2007
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
WOW
D-Day Soldier's Dog Tag Found In Sand
By KRISTIN M. HALL
HUNTINGDON, Tenn. (AP) - The family of Pvt. William Bernice Clark never had a funeral for him, never got to say goodbye and never really accepted his fate among the fallen during the Normandy D-Day landings in World War II.
That was until the young soldier's dog tag, recently discovered in the sands of Omaha Beach in France, was returned to his native Tennessee on Wednesday - exactly 63 years after that tragic day.
"This feels like an ending," said the soldier's first cousin, 79-year-old Lota Park, who along with another cousin accepted the dog tag at a ceremony in the small town of Huntingdon, about 90 miles west of Nashville.
The tag has blackened with age, but his name, identification number, religion (Protestant) and blood type (Type O) are all clearly visible.
It remained out of sight for more than five decades until a collector from England found it five years ago while combing the beach for D-Day artifacts, likely near the very spot where the 20-year-old Clark was killed. The collector gave the dog tag to a World War II buff from New Jersey, who turned it over to the National D-Day Memorial.
"It's in pretty remarkable condition, considering it was buried in the sand for 58 years," said National D-Day Memorial Foundation development director Jeff Fulgham, who presented the tag to Clark's surviving family members.
The D-Day Memorial, based in Bedford, Va., keeps records of nearly every American and Allied soldier killed during the invasion, and it helped locate Clark's family in Huntingdon a couple months ago.
"I remember the day the soldiers came and told his mother (that Clark had died)," Park said. "They never accepted it because there was no proof, no body."
The family has only a few personal effects from Clark: two yellowing photos, a couple of letters during his short service and his Purple Heart. His remains were buried in a cemetery for American soldiers in France.
The return of a small piece of metal has reconnected his family to the young soldier's life that was cut short.
"We were just like brother and sister," said another first cousin, Ava Smothers, 84.
The collector from New Jersey, Bill Santora, said that the dog tag was the most cherished piece in his World War II collection, but that he was happy to give it up when the memorial officials told him it could be returned to his family.
"I always wondered who it was," Santora said. "I feel more connected to the soldier, a little connected to family and I think they are going to be happy to have this memento back."
Relatives, community leaders and veterans gathered Wednesday in Huntingdon at a park that honors area soldiers who have died in war.
"I am reminded that this park is the place where the train carried Pvt. William Clark and other soldiers from Carroll County to war," Fulgham said.
Clark was one of more than 4,000 American and Allied soldiers killed during intense fighting on D-Day, a crucial turning point in the war. The D-Day Memorial is in Bedford, Va., because that town lost 19 soldiers, the highest per capita loss from any single town in the United States.
Clark belonged to Company E, 116th Regiment, 29th "Blue and Gray" Division. "This was just such a nice thing to do for Bernie," Park said, calling him by his nickname.
Clark's name was also recently added to a plaque at the D-Day Memorial.
"When you stand in the middle of that plaza, in the middle of the memorial, you're surrounded by nearly 4,400 names," Fulgham said. "This is one more way we can remember him now that we have a special connection because we had his dog tag."
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On the Net:
National D-Day Memorial http://www.dday.org/
By KRISTIN M. HALL
HUNTINGDON, Tenn. (AP) - The family of Pvt. William Bernice Clark never had a funeral for him, never got to say goodbye and never really accepted his fate among the fallen during the Normandy D-Day landings in World War II.
That was until the young soldier's dog tag, recently discovered in the sands of Omaha Beach in France, was returned to his native Tennessee on Wednesday - exactly 63 years after that tragic day.
"This feels like an ending," said the soldier's first cousin, 79-year-old Lota Park, who along with another cousin accepted the dog tag at a ceremony in the small town of Huntingdon, about 90 miles west of Nashville.
The tag has blackened with age, but his name, identification number, religion (Protestant) and blood type (Type O) are all clearly visible.
It remained out of sight for more than five decades until a collector from England found it five years ago while combing the beach for D-Day artifacts, likely near the very spot where the 20-year-old Clark was killed. The collector gave the dog tag to a World War II buff from New Jersey, who turned it over to the National D-Day Memorial.
"It's in pretty remarkable condition, considering it was buried in the sand for 58 years," said National D-Day Memorial Foundation development director Jeff Fulgham, who presented the tag to Clark's surviving family members.
The D-Day Memorial, based in Bedford, Va., keeps records of nearly every American and Allied soldier killed during the invasion, and it helped locate Clark's family in Huntingdon a couple months ago.
"I remember the day the soldiers came and told his mother (that Clark had died)," Park said. "They never accepted it because there was no proof, no body."
The family has only a few personal effects from Clark: two yellowing photos, a couple of letters during his short service and his Purple Heart. His remains were buried in a cemetery for American soldiers in France.
The return of a small piece of metal has reconnected his family to the young soldier's life that was cut short.
"We were just like brother and sister," said another first cousin, Ava Smothers, 84.
The collector from New Jersey, Bill Santora, said that the dog tag was the most cherished piece in his World War II collection, but that he was happy to give it up when the memorial officials told him it could be returned to his family.
"I always wondered who it was," Santora said. "I feel more connected to the soldier, a little connected to family and I think they are going to be happy to have this memento back."
Relatives, community leaders and veterans gathered Wednesday in Huntingdon at a park that honors area soldiers who have died in war.
"I am reminded that this park is the place where the train carried Pvt. William Clark and other soldiers from Carroll County to war," Fulgham said.
Clark was one of more than 4,000 American and Allied soldiers killed during intense fighting on D-Day, a crucial turning point in the war. The D-Day Memorial is in Bedford, Va., because that town lost 19 soldiers, the highest per capita loss from any single town in the United States.
Clark belonged to Company E, 116th Regiment, 29th "Blue and Gray" Division. "This was just such a nice thing to do for Bernie," Park said, calling him by his nickname.
Clark's name was also recently added to a plaque at the D-Day Memorial.
"When you stand in the middle of that plaza, in the middle of the memorial, you're surrounded by nearly 4,400 names," Fulgham said. "This is one more way we can remember him now that we have a special connection because we had his dog tag."
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On the Net:
National D-Day Memorial http://www.dday.org/
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Here We Go Bulldogs
Here We Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Super Regional starts Friday at 11 am on ESPN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Game Two will be Saturday at 11 am and Game three if needed is Sunday at NOON!
Call in sick if you have too....................
Cause its root root root root for the Bullies
If they don't Wyn it's a shame
Cause it is one two three strikes you are out at the old ballgame!
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Just DO It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fall In Like With Exercise
You don't have to love it, you just have to do it for 30 minutes
You don't have to love it, you just have to do it for 30 minutes
by Bob Greene
from www.prevention.com
I remember the first time I worked out with Oprah 15 years ago--she hated it. But exercise is the reason she's been able to keep off 90-plus pounds--and that's why she keeps at it. You can learn to stay motivated, too.
I remember the first time I worked out with Oprah 15 years ago--she hated it. But exercise is the reason she's been able to keep off 90-plus pounds--and that's why she keeps at it. You can learn to stay motivated, too.
Here's how:
Try anything--once: There are so many ways to exercise; you just have to find a couple you like. Test out a new workout DVD one week, take a kickboxing or dance class the next--and keep experimenting until you find an activity you enjoy (or can at least tolerate).
Extend your errands: Give yourself an extra 5 minutes for every chore--and use that time to walk the dog a little longer or to take another spin around the grocery store. This can quickly add up to 30 minutes of walking a day--or more. Plus, you get the benefit of slowing down to focus on what you're doing now, instead of rushing to your next task.
Distract yourself: Pair your routine with something you love. Load your iPod with your favorite fast-paced tunes for a brisk walk, read on a stationary bike, or relish the quiet time while you're swimming laps. Can't miss your favorite television show? You don't have to--lift hand weights while you watch.
Focus on your goal: In all my years, I've never met anyone who wasn't happy she exercised once she was done. So get out there. Feel your blood pump, your head clear, and that amazing and satisfying sense of accomplishment.
(Posted June 2007)
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Bob Greene, a certified personal trainer and exercise physiologist, has transformed the lives of millions, including Oprah Winfrey. Get a personal plan designed by Bob at thebestlife.com.
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Bob Greene, a certified personal trainer and exercise physiologist, has transformed the lives of millions, including Oprah Winfrey. Get a personal plan designed by Bob at thebestlife.com.
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Saturday, June 02, 2007
I Can Do All Things Through Christ Who Gives Me Strength!
Bring The Rain
by MercyMe
I can count a million times
People asking me how I
Can praise You with all that I've gone through
The question just amazes me
Can circumstances possibly
Change who I forever am in You
Maybe since my life was changed
Long before these rainy days
It's never really ever crossed my mind
To turn my back on you oh Lord
My only shelter from the storms
But instead I draw closer through these times
So I pray
Chorus:
Bring me joy, bring me peace
Bring me joy, bring me peace
Bring the chance to be free
Bring me anything that brings You glory
And I know there'll be days
When this life brings me pain
But if that's what it takes to praise You
Jesus Bring the Rain
I am Yours regardless of
The dark clouds that may loom above
Because You are much greater than my pain
You who made a way for me
By suffering Your destiny
So tell me what's a little rain
So I pray
Chorus:(Repeats)
Holy, Holy, Holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
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