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[Dr_Dolan]

Heads up guys, looks like G-N-C has a couple flavors of ON 5lb protein on sale for $31 shipped.

Turns out the deal was too good to be true; I got my order cancelled as did a few other miscers. Thanks anyways for the deal though!

CONGRATS!!!!! Pics of steak dinner pls

Ended up being too exhausted to go out yesterday but I will take & post pics when I do end up getting some tasty steak!

[JOSEF RAKICH]

legs sore as fwark from skwats today. feelsgoodman

[RedSoxBrah]

Fellow meditation brah, what do you think about these exercises to open your third eye?

http://consciouslifenews.com/how-to-...ineal/1138045/

[mgftp]

Dog pics in this thread making me jelly as fawk..... How do you guys/gals with dogs manage it? Do you all have significant others or roommates or something to split responsibilities with? or do you just not have jobs?... I haven't had a dog since I lived with an ex because there would be way too many times I'd need to kennel them or call on people to help me. Living alone there would just be too many times I can't get home in time to let them out, not to mention days out of town for work.

[yg7s7]

that is mesmerizing, what's it from?

no clue brah lol

Fellow meditation brah, what do you think about these exercises to open your third eye?

http://consciouslifenews.com/how-to-...ineal/1138045/

intredasting... might try this tonight

[Nomsayin]

So that's what the gingerbread man does between Shrek movies...

[byrnebv]

I just spent the last few minutes watching this. amidoingitrite?

[iTzDevo]

I just spent the last few minutes watching this. amidoingitrite?

how long did it take you to realize it's a 1 second clip on repeat? I kept waiting for something to pop up beyond the planet

[KoHuskie]

I just spent the last few minutes watching this. amidoingitrite?

how long did it take you to realize it's a 1 second clip on repeat? I kept waiting for something to pop up beyond the planet

I still would prefer to watch this for 30 minutes than 95% of the things on TV nowadays.

[RJT1534]

how long did it take you to realize it's a 1 second clip on repeat? I kept waiting for something to pop up beyond the planet

Mind=blown

[byrnebv]

how long did it take you to realize it's a 1 second clip on repeat? I kept waiting for something to pop up beyond the planet

it took a min or two. still didn't care and continued to watch.

[JDkeystone]

legs sore as fwark from skwats today. feelsgoodman

living that feel right now (from hack squats and angled leg press though)

in b4 not real squats so it doesn't count lol

[XtremeOCD]

All of this dog talk has me going crazy!! I'm a huge animal lover! This is the closest thing I have to a pet right now. This is Seagal (like Steven Seagal). My cousin breeds american staffordshire terriers here in the Bahamas. All are certified and he had a litter of 8 puppies and someone came in the yard and brought the parvo virus with them that killed the whole litter minus the runt of the litter which was this guy. My cousin had to feed him Ensure through a syringe and slowly, but surely he made a comback and here he is almost a year old and roughly around 90lbs. This guy loves children and never bit anyone. Very friendly to strangers which was the temperment my cousin would shoot for. Love this guy!

[/QUOTE]


As for me owning pets, I've owned 4 chow chows growing up. My dad loved them and we had a blue, two tan and one white.Since I left home, I got big into tanks. I joined a forum in 2004 and as mentioned, currently I'm a supermod there with my own dedicated section as well where I take care of the newbies. I took down my last tank right before Spencer was born, but hope to set up another in the near future.

Here are a few of the last tanks I had. I designed them all, plumbed them all, built the stands etc.

My 75 gal we had in our old Townhouse






38gal reef tank. Had crazy flow in here! I turned over the tanks volume about 105 times ever hour.

[iTzDevo]

fish creep me out but that's a pretty cool hobby, xtreme. the tank in the first pic is classy as fawk

just twisted my wrist in a weird way in the gym, feels like an injury.. shooting pains up my arm, sort of in a pulsating pattern. looks like I won't be lifting this week

[XtremeOCD]

fish creep me out but that's a pretty cool hobby, xtreme. the tank in the first pic is classy as fawk

just twisted my wrist in a weird way in the gym, feels like an injury.. shooting pains up my arm, sort of in a pulsating pattern. looks like I won't be lifting this week

Thanks man...Ive had tons of different tanks. That one you liked had 500w Metal Halide lighting and they got so hot that I had to have 6 fans circulating in the canopy/hood where the lights were and that thing off to the left was a chiller. The tank water would pass through it and it would cool it down to my preset temp. I only allowed for a 2 degree swing before it would cut back in.

[Sawa3]

I stay home and the kids are starting to help with caring for the pets.. I have had friends that send their kids to doggy day care before.
Love seeing the nice pets.. minus snakes! LOL

[byrnebv]

Dam. They must be huge. Post big pics for Luzz

luckly, ball pythons don't get that big. probably 5' or so. burmese pythons get to like 12' and are nearly unmanageable at that size.

per your request. sorry for the others that don't like snakes!

this is pocahontas. our other (male) is chief.

[proudmanlet]

luckly, ball pythons don't get that big. probably 5' or so. burmese pythons get to like 12' and are nearly unmanageable at that size.

per your request. sorry for the others that don't like snakes!

this is pocahontas. our other (male) is chief.

[img]https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/72236_1590884324312_4176704_n.jpg

mirin snake brah

not reposting pic for benefit of luzz223 lol

[iTzDevo]

luckly, ball pythons don't get that big. probably 5' or so. burmese pythons get to like 12' and are nearly unmanageable at that size.

per your request. sorry for the others that don't like snakes!

this is pocahontas. our other (male) is chief.

serious question, do you let it just chill outside of the cage like that? wouldn't you be worried about it deciding to wrap your angus? not a snake guy....

[byrnebv]

serious question, do you let it just chill outside of the cage like that? wouldn't you be worried about it deciding to wrap your angus? not a snake guy....

we let them out quite a bit. we are too big, so they don't see us as food. we keep the cats separated from them. the cats are too big as well and probably wouldn't be attacked, but the snakes could kill them if they tried. for sure, they couldn't actually eat the cats. the largest they can unhinge their jaws would be for a medium sized rat (2" to 2.5" diameter).

[iTzDevo]

we let them out quite a bit. we are too big, so they don't see us as food. we keep the cats separated from them. the cats are too big as well and probably wouldn't be attacked, but the snakes could kill them if they tried. for sure, they couldn't actually eat the cats. the largest they can unhinge their jaws would be for a medium sized rat (2" to 2.5" diameter).

that's a terrifying paragraph... have you ever been bit?

[byrnebv]

that's a terrifying paragraph... have you ever been bit?

a couple of times. it was my fault because I had just touched a rat (their food) and I went to pull her out of the cage. the female is the aggessive one out of the two. they can smell the rats in the room even if I don't touch them, so I will usually throw a towel over her before pulling her out of the cage.

I feed them separately. the male stays in the cage, the female goes into the stand up shower.

if there's no food, neither one is aggressive and they won't bite at you.

[MITCHAPAL00ZA]

this is the only "snakes" I like

[JOSEF RAKICH]

Its so blue..

I love fish tanks, bring a place to life. One day I want to have a massive fish tank/aquarium in my house. (serious)

[PhiDelt234]

Its so blue..

I love fish tanks, bring a place to life. One day I want to have a massive fish tank/aquarium in my house. (serious)

I watched this one show on mtv cribs they were doing on the craziest cribs and there was this one house that had a room that was surrounded by an aquarium tank, it was cool

[Doollas]

Doing a little meet vid whoring, please to enjoy -x- threaders

[Sawa3]

mirin snake brah

not reposting pic for benefit of luzz223 lol

Glad I'm on phone and pic didn't pop up. Ick, just not a fan of snakes.
I am always sure to stay away from the one in our biology lab. Lol

[mgftp]

Ever just go out and catch pets for your tanks? Those animals are so exotic to us, but they are right in your backyard.

[XtremeOCD]

Its so blue..

I love fish tanks, bring a place to life. One day I want to have a massive fish tank/aquarium in my house. (serious)

Yea, I'm ready to set up a big one! Freshwater is a piece of cake, but saltwater is quite a bit more involved.

I watched this one show on mtv cribs they were doing on the craziest cribs and there was this one house that had a room that was surrounded by an aquarium tank, it was cool

There's one guy on our forum that was featured on the show million dollar rooms. He has a 20,000 gal tank and uses scuba gear to go in it and clean it. He just posted on the weekend that he is building a submarine for his dog so he can go in the tank as well. Looking forward to seeing that!

Ever just go out and catch pets for your tanks? Those animals are so exotic to us, but they are right in your backyard.

I always did man. I have tons of pics on my computer of fish I've caught for my tanks etc. I have a blast going out and catching them.

[proudmanlet]

new study gives more support for Mediterranean/good fat diet cutting heart disease

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/he...pagewanted=all


Mediterranean Diet Can Cut Heart Disease, Study Finds

About 30 percent of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil, nuts, beans, fish, fruits and vegetables, and even drink wine with meals, a large and rigorous new study found.

The findings, published on the New England Journal of Medicine�s Web site on Monday, were based on the first major clinical trial to measure the diet�s effect on heart risks. The magnitude of the diet�s benefits startled experts. The study ended early, after almost five years, because the results were so clear it was considered unethical to continue.

The diet helped those following it even though they did not lose weight and most of them were already taking statins, or blood pressure or diabetes drugs to lower their heart disease risk.

�Really impressive,� said Rachel Johnson, a professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont and a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association. �And the really important thing � the coolest thing � is that they used very meaningful end points. They did not look at risk factors like cholesterol of hypertension or weight. They looked at heart attacks and strokes and death. At the end of the day, that is what really matters.�

Until now, evidence that the Mediterranean diet reduced the risk of heart disease was weak, based mostly on studies showing that people from Mediterranean countries seemed to have lower rates of heart disease � a pattern that could have been attributed to factors other than diet.

And some experts had been skeptical that the effect of diet could be detected, if it existed at all, because so many people are already taking powerful drugs to reduce heart disease risk, while other experts hesitated to recommend the diet to people who already had weight problems, since oils and nuts have a lot of calories.

Heart disease experts said the study was a triumph because it showed that a diet is powerful in reducing heart disease risk, and it did so using the most rigorous methods. Scientists randomly assigned 7,447 people in Spain who were overweight, were smokers, had diabetes or other risk factors for heart disease to follow the Mediterranean diet or a low-fat one.

Low-fat diets have not been shown in any rigorous way to be helpful, and they are also very hard for patients to maintain � a reality born out in the new study, said Dr. Steven E. Nissen, chairman of the department of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

�Now along comes this group and does a gigantic study in Spain that says you can eat a nicely balanced diet with fruits and vegetables and olive oil and lower heart disease by 30 percent,� he said. �And you can actually enjoy life.�

The study, by Dr. Ramon Estruch, a professor of medicine at the University of Barcelona, and his colleagues, was long in the planning. The investigators traveled the world, seeking advice on how best to answer the question of whether a diet alone could make a big difference in heart disease risk. They visited the Harvard School of Public Health several times to consult Dr. Frank M. Sacks, a professor of cardiovascular disease prevention there.

In the end, they decided to randomly assign subjects at high risk of heart disease to three groups. One would be given a low-fat diet and counseled on how to follow it. The other two groups would be counseled to follow a Mediterranean diet. At first the Mediterranean dieters got more intense support. They met regularly with dietitians while the low-fat group just got an initial visit to train them in how to adhere to the diet followed by a leaflet each year on the diet. Then the researchers decided to add more intensive counseling for them, too, but they still had difficulty staying with the diet.

One group assigned to a Mediterranean diet was given extra virgin olive oil each week and was instructed to use at least 4 tablespoons a day. The other group got a combination of walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts and was instructed to eat about an ounce of them each day. An ounce of walnuts, for example, is about a quarter cup � a generous handful. The mainstays of the diet consisted of at least 3 servings a day of fruits and at least two servings of vegetables. Participants were to eat fish at least three times a week and legumes, which include beans, peas and lentils, at least three times a week. They were to eat white meat instead of red, and, for those accustomed to drinking, to have at least 7 glasses of wine a week with meals.

They were encouraged to avoid commercially made cookies, cakes and pastries and to limit their consumption of dairy products and processed meats.

To assess compliance with the Mediterranean diet, researchers measured levels of a marker in urine of olive oil consumption � hydroxytyrosol � and a blood marker of nut consumption � alpha-linolenic acid.

The participants stayed with the Mediterranean diet, the investigators reported. But those assigned to a low-fat diet did not lower their fat intake very much. So the study wound up comparing the usual modern diet, with its regular consumption of red meat, sodas and commercial baked goods, to a diet that shunned all that.

Dr. Estruch said he thought the effect of the Mediterranean diet was because of the entire package, not just the olive oil or nuts. He did not expect, though, to see such a big effect so soon. �This is actually really surprising to us,� he said.

Not everyone is convinced, though. Dr. Caldwell Blakeman Esselstyn Jr., the author of the best-seller �Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure,� who promotes a vegan diet and does not allow olive oil, dismissed the new study.

His views and those of another promoter of a very-low-fat diet, Dr. Dean Ornish, have influenced many to try to become vegan. Former President Bill Clinton, interviewed on CNN, said Dr. Esselstyn�s and Dr. Ornish�s writings helped convince him that he could reverse his heart disease in that way.

Dr. Esselstyn said those in the Mediterranean diet study still had heart attacks and strokes. So, he said, all the study showed was that �the Mediterranean diet and the horrible control diet were able to create disease in people who otherwise did not have it.�

Others hailed the study.

�This group is to be congratulated for carrying out a study that is nearly impossible to do well,� said Dr. Robert H. Eckel, a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado and a past president of the American Heart Association.

As for the researchers, they have changed their own diets and are following a Mediterranean one, Dr. Estruch said.

�We have all learned,� he said.