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David Gets Interviewed – The Talking Shop Podcast
Business & Entrepreneurship, General Awesomeness, Interviews
I recently went on my friend Matt Tometz's podcast. Matt is a strength and conditioning coach out of the Chicago area, and we linked up to talk about some of the biggest lessons I've learned in my career, from how I started out as a trainer, to how I originally met John, to what I think has allowed me to excel in the fitness/strength and conditioning space.
I'm excited to be doing little fun things like this, and super happy Matt gave me that opportunity. So, let's show him some love and give his podcast some downloads.
Full episode transcription.
Matt Tometz: Welcome to the TSP podcast and today I'm joined by David Rosales, who does a ton of stuff.
He's the co-owner of Roman Fitness Systems, he's the head editor of prohockeystrength.com, which is the official website the Strength and Conditioning Association of Professional Hockey (SCAPH), he's written for places like Muscle & Strength, the Personal Trainer Development Center, as well as ghostwritten for places like Simplifaster.
We've been best friends for about a week now.
David Rosales: Yeah, now we're working on our 1-week anniversary.
Matt Tometz: Oh my gosh, so sentimental. But David is the product of another genuine Twitter DM. We hopped on a call to make sure he wasn't a robot, and we kind of vibed for over an hour, and I figured it would be a good fit with his kind of interesting story and a different lens on this world of performance with a job and roll that not many of us know people do, and people who can do what you do. So I'm very excited to get right into it.
So first of all, how are you doing? And second…
What's the story that has been most fundamental to your career?
David Rosales: Thanks for that introduction, it reminds me of all the things I have to do now, for all those different projects I have going on. I like intertwining different lessons from different industries and that explains my career path in a lot of ways.
For this lesson we're going to have to go back first to when I was 14 years old when my family — I'm from a small town in Vermont, called Jericho, Vermont — hosted an exchange student from Barcelona, Spain. And he was in high school, I was in middle school so he was like an older brother to me.
After I graduated high school four years later in 2017 he reached out to me and said "Hey, come to Spain for the summer, it would be such a good experience." But I was like "Oof, Spain for the summer sounds amazing but like I don't know if I can do that, I just got my personal trainer certification. But in the end I knew it was an opportunity that I couldn't turn down.
A little bit more background about me: my last name is Rosales, which is Rosales in Spanish, so you may assume I speak Spanish, but at the time, I actually didn't. Even though my dad is from El Salvador, which is a small Central American country, my mom is a white girl from Massachusetts, which basically means even though half of my household's first language is Spanish, I grew up not speaking it. And it was something I was really insecure about.
When I got the opportunity to visit my exchange student's family in Spain, I thought to myself, this is going to be the best opportunity I have to learn Spanish. I mean if half my family speaking the language isn't enough, then if I couldn't go to another country and be immersed and learn it, then there would really be no hope for me in learning the language.
And I promise this all connects back to strength and conditioning.
So I get on a plane to Spain, and I have a book with me: Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss. For those of you who don't know Tim Ferriss, who hosts a big podcast where he interviews world-class performers. This book is the collection of the highlights of a lot of those interviews. Reading this book, there was a theme that came up over and over. It was the importance of successful people and how often they just take action, and have courage to take action.
When I thought about what I wanted to learn in Spain, to finally nail down the Spanish language, I knew that could only happen by getting out of my comfort zone consistently and at every opportunity I could. However that's much more easily said than done.
I get off the plane in this amazing country, it's a sunny, warm Barcelona summer day and everyone around me is speaking in ways I can hardly understand. Our natural instinct as human being in this situation is to shudder and just talk to my one friend who can speak English. But really if you want to learn a language you need to get out of your comfort zone.
So I started that day. We would go to a grocery store and Álvaro, my exchange student brother would say "I'll order for you what do you want?" And I would say "No, this is my opportunity to speak the language." And I did. Sometimes I couldn't because I was too scared. There are obviously people who are harder to approach than others. But I learned that over time the only way to learn a language is to get repetition after repetition after repetition, and every time you have to get out of your comfort zone.
It means that when I didn't know a word, I had to be like, "what does this mean?" And my friends would laugh at me. But that is just part of the learning process. I joke that after 4 days in Spain I had learned more Spanish than I did in 4 years of Spanish in high school…
…but that wasn't the most important lesson.
Because when I returned from Spain, speaking, dreaming, and thinking in Spanish, I realized that the skills I learned language learning carried over into so much more.
When I got back to my job as a personal trainer, I realized that I now had the courage to have difficult conversations with clients, to reach out to people.
I had no more fear to say, "Oh, I need to go out and get 10 more clients and this is how I'm going to do it. These are the steps I'm gonna take. And you know what, if it fails, it doesn't matter."
That was another thing I learned speaking to people. Anytime we're about to enter a difficult conversation — we've all had those conversations where we have butterflies in our stomach — we know it's gonna be hard. But then once you have it, there really was not that much risk. And even if it goes poorly. Let's say you want to go up and talk to a stranger. You're scared and nervous, and it goes horribly, that's it. It's over. The interaction is over and there's actually no long-term downside effect.
That's something I learned in Spain that carried over into my career as a personal trainer. I had the courage to now take risks and do thing that other people just wouldn't do because they were scared to, and they were listening to the butterflies in their stomach and lacked the courage to take action.
There's a quote in that book by Tim that I try to embody in my everyday life and that is, "A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have."
As strength coaches, if you can't have uncomfortable conversations, it's going to be so much harder to build relationships, to move forward in your career, to retain clients, because sometimes clients need to hear difficult things. In the long-term, those are things that they're going to appreciate.
Matt Tometz: Jumping right into it speaking that Español right off the plane, I love it. And I think that there's so much to be said to having the growth mindset in the back of your mind and understanding that "yes, I'm going to have to take action." And it sounds like that book was pretty fundamental in giving you that. But David is quite the storyteller and that's one of the benefits of being a pretty legit writer as well, just the ability to communicate, which I believe is one of your next stories *wink wink*.
So you went to Spain and then you came back and it's so interesting that I hear all these different stories on TSP. And I always say that there's value in everything if you make it so or see it so. One thing that I definitely believe is that things are more similar than dissimilar.
Although there are few places like the inside of a weight room and interacting with athletes but there are all these skills that transfer regardless and all these skills you can take from other places. Being able to understand that instead of just a vacation, it was an opportunity to set you up for literally everything else. Anything else on that story when you kind of came back? Did you feel like a new man or just more comfortable having those kinds of conversations.
David Rosales: I thought that just having another language would change my life. And it absolutely did. If anyone wants to go through the hardest learning experience, go try to learn a language. It is amazing. You literally learn to think in a completely different way. But like you said, what's most valuable Is the skills I learned learning that language.
And that is one of my core learning philosophies: that nothing exists in a vacuum. For example, a life-changing book for me… I played junior hockey and I was known for reading on the bus. And teammates would be like haha Rosie — my teammates called me Rosie — is reading on the bus. And I'd be like yeah I'm reading on the bus, I wanna be smart, I don't know about you guys. So for our team secret Santa — and I also played a lot of chess, which I was also known for on our hockey team — my friend said "Rosie likes to read books and he likes to play chess so here's a book about chess.
That book was called the Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin. Josh Waitzkin was in his youth an international chess master, considered a prodigy, and then went on to become a Tai Chai Push Hards world champion and later a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under probably the goat of BJJ, Marcelo Garcia. In that book, Waitzkin talks about how the skills he learned playing chess transferred directly over into Tai Chi. I thought about his skills from chess and how those transferred into hockey and into strength and conditioning.
For example, in the chess world we have this saying that you want to learn the endgame before you just memorize opening repertoires. Because when you learn how to get checkmate with a pawn and a king versus a king, you can learn about the innate power of a king. Whereas if you're just trying to memorize openings and trick other players, yes you might win games, but you're not truly learning.
When I heard that lesson, that was directly applicable to two things for me: At first it was applicable to hockey. Because in hockey and sports, we get caught up in routes, and strategies, and tactics, and special teams, but really maybe we just need to go back and learn how to skate better. In hockey that's a fundamental skill. Maybe we need to go back to the basics.
In strength and conditioning, that lesson of starting with the endgame transferred into learning the basics first. You have no business doing power cleans and Olympic lifts and a lot of stuff before you can goblet squat or split squat or do a push-up. That has become a core learning philosophy that you can always learn from what is a seemingly completely different field and apply it to everything else.
To strength and conditioning, to hockey, to chess, to Tai Chi in the case of Josh Waitzkin. And I think just approaching life with that mindset, that learning doesn't exist in a vacuum, you're just going to notice learning opportunities around you.
Matt Tometz: Fantastic, and the skill of learning new skills, and the skill of being better at something. I think this might be a little cliché, but how you do something is how you do everything. So I don't know if I fully believe in that. But the ability to do something is kind of how you do everything or how you approach it. I'll give a quick example of myself on that topic.
In quarantine my skill was to learn how to make videos because I always watched a lot of YouTube and I really got into streaming Netflix. And I love those like 10-20 minute documentaries that look legit but are just made my regular people. And I got a camera and I was just like at my house and used whatever we had and I just had this goal of learning how to make videos.
And how I would describe it more, is I've turned it into freelancing, and I've traveled across the US for 1080 Motion and I always say that it's pretty similar to training and coaches athletes where it's very abstract and you have these shots and you want to create the mood and the emotions and all this kind of stuff, similar to how you have your athlete and you can do anything under the sun when you train them. But I think how my mind works is understanding these abstract parts but I needed something objective to wrap my head around it.
With all the Youtube videos I watched I understood framing, composition, the beats of music, how to edit and all these technical aspects. There are these things in training. You know, there's the principle of progressive overload, specific adaptation to imposed demands, volume and intensity over time, and these objective components.
But, how you put it together is where the abstract comes in. It's crazy but maybe that's why I'm okay at making videos because I know how to put these abstract things that by themselves mean nothing into something. It's crazy how things are more similar than dissimilar.
David Rosales: I loved your story of connecting video to editing and strength and conditioning. That is my passion, is connecting learning across fields. And as we'll see in later stories, when you learn how to learn and how to communicate what you learn, the possibilities are endless. I would encourage strength and conditioning coaches, and we'll get to this later, to put down the strength and conditioning textbook and pick up a book like The Art of Learning.
Matt Tometz:
So is that the coolest story or is that the first big story?
David Rosales: That was, let's see. That was my coolest story. That was a pretty cool story.
Matt Tometz: But this story, I know you told me the first time we chatted. What is the next fundamental story that without X, you would not be here.
David Rosales: So now I've come back from Spain have this new language this new ability to approach people.
Matt Tometz: What year was Spain?
David Rosales: This was 2017. I was 18 years old. And that was also the same time I graduated high school and I — this is important I should've said this — decided to take a gap year. I said I'm gonna go work at a gym, and I was playing competitive junior hockey, if you know hockey you know junior hockey. So I was playing hockey and I was working at a gym. And my personal training stuff was going well. I was meeting people, running youth classes, running adult classes, waking up at 4:30 to teach a 5:30am client. All that stuff that we've all done that we've all done.
But I knew there was something more for me. I didn't want to wake up at 4:30 for the rest of my life. That sounded terrible. And I was 19 now and I was already kind of sick of it so I didn't want to do it forever.
I was looking at schools as well, thinking about moving to New York City, and that was when an old trainer who I followed, his name is John Romaniello — If you were in like the bro-meathead fitness space from like 2012 to 2015, you definitely know him. If you weren't in that space you probably don't know him.
(Note: I wrote an article about meeting John which you can read here)
But basically, he wrote a New York Times bestselling book, had a big blog, all that big stuff in like 2012-2015, and since then has left fitness, but I kept following him. He was well-known in the fitness industry for being a great writer, and I had an affinity for writing. He had an Instagram story that was advertising 1-on-1 writing mentorship. Now, John Romaniello is not the kind of guy I could cold email or cold DM and be like "hey, be my friend."
That had worked for getting clients, that did not work for super successful people who charge $1000 per hour for their time. But he did advertise coaching. And it was $5000 for a 3-month writing mentorship. And I had this quote going through my head as I saw this and going through this. It comes from Graham Duncan, who's a billionaire hedge fund manager, smart dude.
He said, "I invest a disproportionate amount of my income into an ever growing collection of coaches and trainers." I had translated that to mean, if you're investing in developing skills and relationships, by definition, you're always going to be getting better. If every project you have going on if you're learning new things — learning skills — and meeting people — building relationships — even if on paper financially it's not a smart decision, and maybe it doesn't work out, you're still going to come out of that situation with more skills and more relationships. If you keep doing that, you can't fail.
So I had that going through my head, as I decided to spend — now, I was doing well as a personal trainer but as you guys know, on the floor trainers can only do so well. I took a risk, but a calculated risk to spend my money and hire John.
I knew I would build skills, become a better writer, specifically he had a lot of expertise in the fitness industry, and he would get to know me and although I didn't have ideas of becoming his best friend but I knew I wanted to move to New York, I knew he lived in New York, and I figured he had a lot of New York fitness connections. So I thought maybe he could help me get an internship somewhere or introduce me to people. So: skills and relationships.
At the end of our three months, John and I kind of hit it off, and he was like "hey I was actually wondering if you wanted to come to New York and work for me." And was like you don't have to sell me on the opportunity to work for you. Now he doesn't run a company, it's just him, he's an entrepreneur.
And so there I was, I moved to New York in the fall of 2019, so I took two gaps years, I shouldn't said that, and I would Citi bike — I lived in the Village he lived in Hudson Yards — up 8th Ave through Madison Square Garden all that mess of Midtown to go hang out with him in his apartment and basically take his phone away so he would write his books and stuff.
Since then John and I have built an immeasurably close bond. To call him my Obi-Wan Kenobi is I think an understatement because he means more to me than Anakin recognized the value of Obi-Wan, or even Luke Skywalker recognized the value in Obi-Wan. So we're even closer than that. And on e a financial standpoint I've now taken over his old fitness company Roman Fitness Company and made back that financial ROI.
So my advice to strength coaches is, yes, have courage. Go out and reach out to people. But there comes a point where you have to be willing to invest in your education. And I know that comes from a place of privilege in that I had that money. But I think if you have the funds, you will never regret spending it on something you feel like you can definitely learn a ton from that could change your life, and give you connections that could change your life.
Matt Tometz: And kind of speaking on investing in yourself or investing in other coaches versus just doing stuff that directly affects your athletes, I'll take a step back on, let's say, consulting. You know. Most of my content is geared towards helping caches. Because I can help 20 athletes or I can help 20 coaches that then help 20 athletes. You can pay for just better writing skills to help you post stuff better for your listeners or you can pay for yourself that'll elevate all the consequent content, if that makes sense.
So that's definitely an interesting mindset shift on like: how is this really going to pay dividends? What's the most effective use of this resource? Whether that's time, money, et cetera.
When you were kind of going through this thought process trying to weigh both sides, the money, just kind of his legginess and credibility, do you remember if you had all the se sticky notes and a whiteboard with pros and cons, or what is chatting with people who'd done this before? Or can you kind of just walk us through what that process was from first coming across that ad to committing and shaking his hand.
David Rosales: In life you have to say no to a lot. You always miss out on something. So if something's not a hell yes, it should be a no. In most instances. And obviously there are instances, especially when you're starting at, where you have to say yes to a lot, but with John for me it was a full-body Hell Yes.
There was no I was going to let this opportunity slip. Same thing for other people. If it's a hell yes, and there's a coach who you feel a connections with and you've followed for years — I followed John literally since I was in 8th grade. This was a person I'd followed and I'd read his book in 8th grade. From age 14 up until I was at this point 20.
I knew what he knew, I knew what he'd done, and was a full-body yes. I didn't have a whiteboard, I didn't do pros and cons. Not that those things aren't valuable. I think every person could probably approach it differently, but I think at the end of the day, if your body is saying I need to do this, this is a huge move… Or if you ask, what if I pass up on this? If that sounds worse, that's always a reason to do it.
Matt Tometz: That's definitely a good question to ask, and a lot fo the times we'll ask, oh what if I do it and it doesn't work out? What if I don't do it how would that make me feel?
David Rosales: Yeah, actually just to tie it in to the first point with the courage story is that a lot of the time fears aren't that scary once you take them. When you think about the scenario is of that, worst case scenario I'm out $5000, I can work for two more months and make that back but best case scenario is knowing someone super smart who can help me in so many ways.
If you think about the upside and downside, the downside sounds a lot worse, but when you really think about what am I actually afraid of and what could actually happen?
That's something that the Stoics talk about a lot is like, "Is my fear valid?"
Matt Tometz: Big stoic guy, I definitely enjoy stoic philosophy. I think Ryan Holiday does a pretty good job with all of that. Next can we chat about the progression and development with a mentorship from the time you met him to you know, feeling comfortable to feeling like your best friend.
David Rosales: Speaking of Ryan Holiday, Ryan's a good dude. Really really good dude. Everyone should buy all his books. Anyway, Ryan has a great essay called The Canvas Strategy. And the thesis of this essay is when you're starting out young, is you should be a canvas for other people to paint on. Don't worry about money, don't worry about credit. Just let other people point on the canvas you provide.
When I stepped into that mentorship with John, I was just there for him to ask good questions, to be there for support, to take his phone away when he wouldn't get off his Instagram. Just be there for support. And I think then things come back around. Even now, I'm still in that apprentice, I'm a canvas for him to paint on role.
I'm helping him with his book, like I'm not going to have any credit for that book, as I shouldn't, and so I think that's the attitude you have to have. Just be a canvas for them to paint on, I come back to that all the time.
Matt Tometz: Do you remember the first day you had to take his phone away from him.
David Rosales: Yeah dude it was the first day. He was like yeah we're writing this thing, but I just gotta respond to these DMs. And he has a lot of followers os he could spend all day responding. So I was just like dude gimme your phone and he was like all right fine.
Matt Tometz: It wasn't some big thing.
David Rosales: No he didn't he was like you're right I told you to do this. And I guess that's part of the natural rapport him and I have where I feel like I can do what he asked me to do and he could push back and I could push back against him.
Matt Tometz: Last part of this question and then we'll move on. When did you realize that this was going to be more than just a 3-month thing?
David Rosales: That's a good question. Throughout our paid mentorship, we texted, I drove to New York City to see a girl I was seeing and I was like hey John, let's get lunch. And we got bagels, classic. New York City bagels. And at that lunch, I felt some rapport just a good, smooth, connection and we started to talk about those things that I'd hoped would help come to fruition like he could help me meet people in New York
At that time I realized that after the three months, I wouldn't lose contact with him. When he asked me to work for, I didn't expect it. I was thrown off and it replays in my head and — I was in Vermont so I went in my backyard — and I played my favorite song and started fist bumping and all that stuff.
Matt Tometz: You had all these cloudy, vague assumptions, and then in that moment you felt it was real. I can only imagine what that must've felt like.
David Rosales: Yeah, there's no doubt it was a risk. I took a risk. And I'm not saying you should throw caution to the wind and invest in Gamstop, that's a bad idea. But. If you really look at what the downside of what the decision is and you look at the potential upside, you can work through that and in my case, I saw that it had a ton of potential upside with very little downside once I thought of it.
Matt Tometz: Mhm, so it's like…
…what's the best case scenario, what's the most realistic outcome, unrealistic negative outcome, realistic negative outcome, and then like what if I just don't do anything?
David Rosales: Yeah, and what's the cost of doing nothing? This is a stoic exercise, it's called Fear-Setting. If you Google fear-setting either Ryan (Holiday) or Tim (Ferriss) had a good article that kind of translates what the stoics meant.
So if you have an exercise you want to make and scared of making it, just Google fear-setting and you'll find that exercise.
Matt Tometz: Fantastic, tying it into action already. So last kind of big question/story. We went through the beginning, middle and now we'll get to the present.
What's the story you're most proud of and the biggest full-circle moment thus far?
David Rosales: I actually want to take us back a bit to 2017 because I've hinted I'm a writer. I've written for some big fitness publications, I've worked for John, but that doesn't really tell the full story of why I think writing is important. So I'm going to go back to the 2017 Fall Cressey Sports Performance Seminar. Everyone knows Eric Cressey, Cressey Sports Performance, now works for the New York Yankees, so everyone should know him. And this will tie back into courage also.
This is another piece of good advice: when you go to seminars, usually theres' a pre-day event where there's like one speaker. Always go to that because there are going to be 1/5th the people but all the presenters will be there. So it's a good opportunity to talk to and meet the presenters.
So I go the day before and Eric Cressey is just there hanging out, because it's his gym and there's maybe 30 people. So I get the opportunity to ask Eric Cressey a question. And I say, "Mr. Cressey," he says, "Please call me Eric, that makes me sound old." By the way, Eric Cressey is sneaky jacked. In person he's actually an absolute freak. So I was little bit intimidated. I was 19, I had just turned 19. I said, "What do you think are the most important traits as a young strength coach to build a foundation?"
He said two things:
1.) Learn anatomy
I made a mental note to get an anatomy textbook.
2.) Learn how to communicate.
All the best strength coaches you know, the reason you know them is because they know how to give their message effectively to a broader audience. Whether that's learning how to coach better, or market better, or even specifically, or even how to write better.
On my drive home from that seminar, that's what stuck in my head. I was thinking about the trainers I knew, the ones I followed the most, and I realized that they're all writers. Eric Cressey has had a blog for years. Mike Boyle has written tons of books. Even if they're not the best x's and o's strength coaches, they're the ones we think of a lot because they're also writers, and they're good writers.
So I thought, I wanted to become a better writer. How do I do that? Yes, I hired John eventually. But I was also thinking about how I could continue this in a higher education setting. Now again, going to college was a lot of privilege on my hand,. My parents also said that I didn't have to but we'll support you if you'd like to go.
But I didn't know what I wanted to study. I think a lot of people assume that if you want to be a strength coach, you should go study exercise science. That's perfectly a valid path, and there's nothing wrong with that, but I felt like I had gotten tons of hands-on experiences from reading books, doing courses, going to seminars, and most importantly, actually coaching people.
I think every coach can attest that the only way to really learn how to coach people, is to actually coach people. My plan was to continue to coach people to learn how to coach people, so I didn't feel the need to study something like exercise science.
But I did want to become a better communicator, a better writer. When I found at New York University which is in Manhattan, called the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. In that program, every student makes their own major.
And this isn't an advertisement for Gallatin, but I think you've read Range by David Epstein — I think you mentioned that on a previous podcast. The idea of being a generalist. That's pretty much the philosophy of Gallatin. Every student, regardless of your major, you learn how to think, how to learn, how to write, how to communicate, and that's what I wanted.
My advice to other strength coaches, especially if you're young, is to question the assumption of what you need to study in college and think about what skills you want to learn. You don't have to learn to be a better writer in school just like you don't have to learn how to be a better strength coach in skill.
You can learn those through other avenues. There are books, courses, mentors, in-person, actually doing the thing. And then of course, higher education is an option.
I ended up enrolling in Gallatin, moving to New York, and working for John while in school, and that in combination is what propelled me to becoming a much better writer.
But I want to get back to why this is so important to our industry. We're all writers. Whether we're writing emails, texts, social media posts, articles, even if you don't identify as a writer, you're a writer. And if you are increasing the way you communicate, obviously your marketing stuff will do much better, but also the way you talk with your clients will improve.
Because writing is really just thinking on paper.
When you write, you're taking the thoughts you have, that internal monologue in your brain, and you're swirling it out of your head and onto a page. That's your thoughts on a page. But now that it's concretized, now you can see where your thought process is flawed, where you're not supporting it with good evidence, and that can make you a better thinker.
On top of making you a better coach and communicator, writing is just a great thought exercise. That's why I think there should be more emphasis on it in our industry. Personally it's what has allowed me, at the age of 22, already meet a lot of amazing coaches because I have a skill a lot of them don't, so that's an asset for me.
Matt Tometz: Very interesting. That was something I was going to ask if it didn't come up: why writing and a less traditional path? But I think it makes perfect sense.
I have my own story about Cressey, actually. It was the summer of 2016 in between my sophomore and junior year of college, my boss went out to Cressey's place and Boyle's place and Cressey came by and he said he doesn't really got out to the midwest and he'd love to host a seminar if he could do it at our facility. And my boss said heck yeah.
It was my 20th birthday I think, and I'm setting up chairs and everything, but then my boss walks in with Eric Cressey. I watch all of his videos, read all of his articles, and now he's right here in front of me. So my boss is like, hey Eric this Matt, he's an intern, a college baseball player, he's doing an awesome job this summer. And I just didn't say a world I fangirled so hard. But there were three things to kind of come out of this.
It was during the first intermission and everyone was going up and talking to him and waiting in line like the patient little intern I was, and eventually I got up and said, "Hey Eric, I just want to let you know I'm a college pitcher if you need someone to demo." Obviously there's a hands-on. So I tell him that. He goes back up speaking and 15 minutes later he says, "This is Matt, he's an intern here. He volunteered to do some of the demos."
So I'm up there and I stumped Eric Cressey. My right shoulder is lower than my right shoulder but I'm a left-handed pitcher. And some pitchers get looser from throwing and tighter from throwing, and let's just say I'm one of those pitchers that gets tighter when they throw. So I took my shirt off and he's like you're a righty and I'm like nope. But that was the summer before I took anatomy. And I asked him the stupidest shoulder question and I'm still scarred but it's fine. But having the courage to go up and ask — like who I am to tell Eric Cressey if you need me *wink wink*. And I did. And I have the pictures on my back from where he drew on my shoulder blades and stuff.
Super cool, and it's kind of being courageous. And a friend of mine from Louisville when he first met Mark Verstegen, asked, "what's the one thing that's going to differentiate me?" The same concept of your question.
And Mark Verstegen said, learn how to deal with soft tissue injuries. Rarely will you have a 100% healthy team. So learning how to — not becoming a PT or an AT — but just learning the mechanisms, how to treat it, and modify your S&C to fit those problems. So It's interesting that you asked that question and how it set you up on literally the path for everything else.
But being able to communicate — I always say that the difference between what's in your head and your head, and in the head and heart of others' is through your mouth. So super cool story. Just meeting Cressey and all that stuff and what brought you to writing.
I understand both sides, because I've had co-workers at TC Boost who did not have an exercise degree. One had an accounting degree and was a national champion heptathlete, cross fitter, had a 10-pack. But she's like, "What's a motor unit?" She was a great coach. But there were some things — I think there's value in getting outside the box, and you'll become a way better coach than you ever have, and having done that internship in the middle of my undergrad, it ruined the next two years of classes for me because I was like, "that's not how it really is in real life." So I think there's definitely value in applied experience but the foundations are the foundations for a reason. Do I think they could be tough more effectively? Yes. But there's value in both, and it's cool that you were able to make all of those connection points, on like really what is the point of all of this? Which is definitely more of an applied lease.
David Rosales: Yeah, just to speak off that. You need to know that stuff, I'm not saying you don't know the basics of anatomy — that was the first part of Cressey's answer — but going back to questioning the assumptions of the world, which I think is just a good foundational learning thing, how you learn something can be different. You can learn what a motor units are through books and courses, not necessarily by paying $50,000 by going to a school. Where you learn something you can question that assumption also.
Matt Tometz: And then the context where you apply it, the kind of "what's the point?" I think that there's so much that's missed in that mass-consumption mode of content. And it's like, "oh, I watched this awesome video, watched this awesome book," but tell like three action steps that are going to make you a better practitioner. And it's like, "uh, I tweeted about it and it got some likes."
Not to target anyone but I think it's funny when people are like books of the month and are like oh I've read twelve books. So you're telling me that each of those twelve books has helped you do your job? Versus let's say you take two months per book, one month to read it and one month to reflect on the material with this new lens. So that's just sort of one example. I'm not targeting anyone, I could read more myself. But just that example of "what's the point."
And that relays to our last point. Here on TSP I love the stories. They're relatable, they're funny, they get your brain going, and honestly, some people on my show have said that these are the toughest questions they've had. At the end of the day, we're practitioners, we have to be good at what we do to pay the bills. So, tying this into action, if you had to give the listener one question to ask themselves on a daily or weekly basis, what would that be?
David Rosales:
Am I cultivating courage as a way of life?
To go back to the first story, I think that's the foundation of so many successful stories is just taking action. Doing the damn thing. And that's so much easier said than done. So another way to phrase is "Am I doing something today that's uncomfortable? Am I having an uncomfortable conversation today?" I think if you're doing that, you're going to be successful.
Matt Tometz: And uncomfortable doesn't necessarily mean negative. It can positive also.
David Rosales: No for sure. Something that's not acceptable in culture that I think should be is telling your bros you love them. That is not a comfortable thing to do at first. To your friend you always say, "hey what's up man good how are you." Actually say, "Hey I deeply appreciate you as a member of my life." That's an uncomfortable conversation. But it's a positive one.
Matt Tometz: Yeah and that example of intense deep emotions. That's something that I've struggled with, with my parents, expressing that deep, genuine emotion. And here's another example: hopping on the phone with a stranger who DM'd you about being on his podcast.
Or if you're networking and job searching I always say that I literally couldn't quantify the hours I spent on the phone just talking to people and networking. Those first two minutes with a person who has a Ph.D, they've been in college or pro sports for 10+ years, they've done all this stuff, and you just have to navigate that first two minutes.
I have imposter syndrome all the time like who am I to ask for their time? So it's just having the courage to hit send, but then also hitting call and just knowing this could go professional, this could go casual, nobody's going to teach you that stuff you just have to do it. So, "am I cultivating courage?" This week, did I do something intentionally that I wouldn't have done otherwise.
I think if someone can accumulate more weeks, and more days doing that, that would be an awesome indicator of progress.
David Rosales: If I can give one more and give the audience two questions, it's kind of cool and trendy to talk about how important communication is right now, pretty much since Brett Bartholomew's book. But I don't think people really say how you become better at that, as well as we could. So I'll just give one actionable step.
If you know you're a very good strength coach, and you know a lot of the X's and O's, but you feel like your bottleneck is communication, but down your strength and conditioning textbook you're reading right now, walk to your local bookstore, and get a fiction book. Whether that's The Great Gatsby, Catcher in The Rye, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, I don't care. Get a good fiction book.
Because those books are so well known for a reason. The storytelling is so beautiful, the writing is so beautiful, and just the act of reading that will make you a better communicator because you're seeing how good stories are told and what good language looks like.
Matt Tometz: Interesting. Definitely something different. Before we say goodbye, I'm opening up the floor to you. Giving you the red carpet, plug whatever you want to plug.
David Rosales: Thank you for that Matt. This has been super fun. You have a really good podcast voice, I hope somebody has told you this before.
Matt Tometz: People would probably say that they're tired of my voice, but that is the first time I've heard that so thank you. It's the mic.
David Rosales: Yeah, you have a nice mic. Where people can find me. Most of my writing is on Roman Fitness Systems. If you train hockey players at all, the reason I'm trying to do podcasts is to talk about SCAPH, but we didn't talk about it all, which is fine. But if you train hockey players, prohockeystrength.com, where I am the head editor. So we have articles from all of the NHL strength coaches submitted to that website, so there are tons of free articles there. Then if you want to get in touch with me, really I'm a Gen Z who's addicted to their phone, so please do not email me. Just send me an Instagram DM and I will probably respond right away that's @davidrosalesfitness.


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Low-Level Lead Exposures Affect Adult Heart Health
By: Janet Lubman Rathner
Exposure to low levels of lead, long known as hazardous for children, may be more dangerous for adults than previously thought, particularly when it comes to heart health. New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) linked lead to about 400,000 deaths every year in the U.S., many from heart disease. That's 10 times higher than previous estimates of lead-related deaths.
LHSFNA Management Co-Chairman Noel C. Borck
According to OSHA, more than 17 million American workers are potentially exposed to lead on the job and more than half of those people work in construction.
"Exposure to lead is a serious risk for LIUNA members working on renovation and demolition projects, bridge maintenance and other tasks where lead paint was used. Workers can also be exposed during cleanup, when lead residue may be in soil or water," says LHSFNA Management Co-Chairman Noel C. Borck. "These new findings from the CDC should serve as a reminder for employers to be vigilant about worker exposure to lead and make use of controls that can protect workers."
What Does Lead Do?
Most workplace exposures to lead occur when workers inhale lead as a dust, fume or mist or when they ingest it. No matter how it enters the body, once lead enters the bloodstream, it circulates throughout the body and settles into bones, organs and tissues. As exposure continues, the amount permanently stored in the body increases and can slowly cause irreversible damage. In addition to heart disease, chronic exposure to lead in adults can cause high blood pressure, affect the kidneys, nervous and reproductive systems and cause cognitive decline.
From a Contributing Factor to a Top Killer
Heart disease is a leading cause of death for both Americans and Canadians. Between the two countries, heart disease kills almost 700,000 people every year. Exposure to lead is a known risk factor for heart disease. However, prior to the study above, a common belief was that lead did not become a factor until a person's blood lead level (BLL) was greater than five micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL). In other words, a BLL of five µg/dL was thought to be safe for adults. Researchers now believe lead's toxic effects can occur at much lower concentrations and that low-lead exposures could be responsible for 265,000 premature deaths from heart disease among U.S. adults every year.
"Our finding, that there is no threshold for toxic chemicals, should no longer be surprising," said lead study author Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH. "We and others have found that there are … steeper increases in risk at the lower levels of exposure for some of the most well-studied toxic chemicals, like lead, air pollution, benzene and asbestos. These studies indicate that we need to achieve near-zero exposures to protect people's health."
What Should Employers Do?
OSHA's current lead standard establishes a permissible exposure limit (PEL) of 50 µg/m3 and an action level (AL) of 30 µg/m3. (The AL is when monitoring, medical surveillance of exposed workers and training requirements become mandatory.) To reduce exposures below the PEL, employers should implement engineering and administrative controls that include tool exhaust ventilation and time limits for workers involved in tasks that expose them to lead. Employers should also provide personal protective equipment (PPE) including respirators, gloves and clothing that can be cleaned or disposed of at the end of each shift. To protect family members, workers should be instructed to never take PPE home. It's also important that workers never eat or smoke in areas where they can be exposed to lead.
To find out more about preventing lead exposure on your job site, order the LHSFNA's Lead Poisoning Health Alert through the online Publications Catalogue or call the OSH Division at 202-628-5465. The LHSFNA also helped develop a guide, available at the Federal Highway Administration's website, which details safe practices for bridge repair, renovation and demolition projects.
Will There Be New Regulation?
The new information on lead toxicity comes as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is struggling with how to assess the risk of lead exposure in public and commercial buildings and whether to issue a ruling that regulates lead-based paint abatement.
Before making a decision on whether a ruling is necessary, the agency wants to revise a questionnaire sent to nearly 20,000 contractors and other employers about the potential for lead dust exposures to occupants during renovations.
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This week's hidden figure is a Staff Counselor in the Buchanan Kiewit Wellness Center. She talks with students one-on-one about anything under the sun, like depression, anxiety, stress, family and interpersonal traumas. Her name is Krystal Light. I'm not kidding.
Prior to Lawrence, Light worked in outpatient mental health and with children in foster care. This is her first time working on a college campus. The work she does at Lawrence is more crisis counseling than ongoing counseling, which means that students can come in and talk anytime they need to rather than waiting for an appointment that may not be easy to get to. At Lawrence, she finds the concept of a residential college unique, as she did not have that college experience. She attended Truman State University in Missouri. She believes that students living on campus provide her the opportunity to reach more people and make meaningful change. She has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and English from Lindenwood University, and a Master's in Arts and Professional Counseling. She was initially a Math and English major because she wanted to be a teacher. However, her natural interest in her psychology classes caused her to change her major.
"When I graduated I did social work, and as I started working with people I realized they needed more support than I was capable of giving at the time, so I went back for my Master's," added Light.
Light admires the resilience of Lawrence students, despite the fact that we may be overwhelmed with the demands of a shortened schedule. She also admires the advocacy to push to create change on campus, as that is how change occurs. In her college experience, students were good at being frustrated and going about their day, and to her that is not a healthy way to live.
"Working with students, seeing change and seeing them believe in themselves is what keeps me going," stated Light.
Light spends the majority of her time with her five kids. She tries to have movies and family game nights. When she gets some "me time," she enjoys cooking. Family soul food dinners have made a huge impact on her life. When she has time, once a month she will try some of her family's recipes. Her five-year-old daughter gets on a stool and helps her. She does not play an instrument but appreciates listening to music, particularly soul and jazz. She will try to find something calming that speaks to her. Her most favorite thing on her desk is her miniature figurines. Her daughter likes to put figurines in her bag before she leaves for work to make her happy. "Sheriff Callie," a cat in a pink cowboy hat, has a home in her office and is her new favorite.
Light is not interested in pursuing a career at the administrative level, even though that also serves an important purpose. In fifteen years she sees herself at the same position working one-on-one with students to impact change.
One thing students may not know about Light is that she had a family member who struggled with severe mental health issues, and it didn't end well for him. Her family had a stigma of shame and guilt and reluctance to ask for help. She wishes she grew up with a different model in her family where it is okay to ask for help when you are struggling. She believes a healthy way to live is knowing that you are not alone and that you can talk about it instead of thinking you are weak or that your feelings are wrong.
Light is full of love and light, and is a great supporter of students who need a little push to get back on their feet. She promotes a safe and healthy community, making a huge impact on campus. Light, more light!


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Ethiopia's Prosperity Party: A Revolutionary Necessity
January 8, 2020 January 8, 2020 Lawrence Abiy Ahmed, Adwa, Amhara, common good, common humanity, constitution, economic growth, EPRDF, Ethiopia, Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ethnicity, Homo Sapiens, Medemer, nationalism, Oromo, Prosperity Party, Sidama, Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Front, synergy, Tigray
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has embarked on a bold effort to transform the political terrain of Ethiopia while simultaneously launching new economic reforms. The creation of the new Ethiopian Prosperity Party (PP) replaces the Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front-(EPRDF), founded in 1988. Dissolving the reigning EPRDF and fashioning a new national party, or what some refer to as a Pan-Ethiopian party, is a courageous and daring move, essential for Ethiopia's future. This emerging nation of over 105 million people, already a leader in economic development, is now embarking on a challenging path to create de novo a national party.
The EPRDF, which had governed Ethiopia since May 1991, was composed of four Regional States, plus the cities of Addis Ababa (the capital), and Dire Dawa. The four regional parties are: the Tigray People's Liberation Front-(TPLF); the Oromo People's Democratic Organization-(OPDO) (renamed early this year as Oromo Democratic Party-(ODP); the Amhara National Democratic Movement-(ANDM), (renamed early this year as Amhara Democratic Party-(ADP); and the Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement-(SEPDM), (a coalition of the 56 ethnic groups).
The EPRDF was fashioned to address Ethiopia's earlier history of dictatorial and monarchical rule. The designers of the governing party believed that acknowledging ethnic identity, which was not recognized for centuries, would solve the tensions of that time. Recent conflicts in Ethiopia have shown this arrangement to be ineffective.
Of the four parties that comprised the EPRDF, only the TPLF has refused to join the new PP. Already the governing parties representing 5 regions, which were not members of the EPRDF, but were recognized as allies of the EPRDF have joined the PP in preparation for May 2020 elections. They are: 1) Afar National Democratic Party (ANDP); 2) Benishangul-Gumuz Democratic Party (BDP); 3) Somali Democratic Party (SDP); 4) Gambela People's Democratic Movement (GPDM); and 5) Harari National League (HNL). The PP will be inclusive, intending to represent all communities, inviting Tigrayans, who live in and outside the region to join. The PP program will have Amharic as its working language as per the constitution. However, Afan Oromo, Tigrigna, Somali and Afar will also be the working languages of the new PP.
Prime Minister Abiy's founding of the PP on December 1, just six months before Ethiopia's national elections, is fraught with personal risks for the new Prime Minister. However, this endeavor is bursting with the potential to transform politics and social relations in Ethiopian society. Ethiopia has a splendid history thousands of years old, rich with a multiplicity of cultural backgrounds. The PP is intended to harmonize the diversity of the nation with a national non-ethnic based party.
Chair Persons of the eight parties who also represent eight Regions as governing parties worked under the umbrella of the EPRDF coalition signed a document for the establishment of Prosperity Party. Photo Credit OPM
Nationalism: Not Ethnic Nationalism
A sovereign nation-state is not a mosaic of diverse groups competing with each other for control of the government or pursuing administration posts to obtain economic and financial rewards. A sovereign nation should have a national identity and a mission orientation for its people; all its people, regardless of ethnic heritage. Contributing to the distinctive identity of Ethiopia was its military defeat of the Italian Empire in the battle of Adwa on March 1, 1896. Consequently, this victory, uniquely allowed Ethiopia to remain free from colonialism. Although this triumph occurred over one century ago, it is part of the psychological composition of the identity of all Ethiopians; whether they are conscious of its effects or not. Ethiopia's decades' long determination to develop from a disadvantaged nation to an aspiring lower middle-income nation with nascent light manufacturing industry is another feature of Ethiopia's national identity.
Professed ethnonationalism errs in that it attempts to substitute the demands, often for legitimate needs, of one particular group above the interests of all the citizens. A nation-state cannot survive in a Hobbesian war of all against each other to obtain the most goodies for "my people." Dare we forget the horrors of the ethnically driven tragic Biafran war in Nigeria from 1967-1970, and how geographic-ethnic distinctions have determined every unhealthy aspect of political and social life in Nigeria today?
Recriminations from the past are no excuse for actions today. Decisions concerning the best strategy for securing the future of Ethiopia must be based on how that policy will benefit the well-being of all citizens.
Medemer and Synergy
In his acceptance speech for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Prime Minister Abiy spoke of the philosophy of the Medemer.
He said: "Medemer, an Amharic word, signifies synergy, convergence, and teamwork for a common destiny. Medemer is a homegrown idea that is reflected in our political, social, and economic life. I'd like to think of 'Medemer' as a social compact for Ethiopians to build a just, egalitarian, democratic, and humane society by pulling together our resources for our collective survival and prosperity…At its core, Medemer is a covenant of peace that seeks unity in our common humanity." One could appropriately, add for the "common good" of humankind.
Our "common humanity" exists in all of us. We are all born in the image of the Creator. All human beings are universally related by our endowed powers of creative mentation, more commonly known as reason. What distinguishes all human beings from the animal species is our mental power to discover new scientific and cultural principles embedded in our universe. All of us homo sapiens, regardless of where we were born, or any physical characteristics, are substantially more alike than we are different. Therefore, our needs, desires, and aspirations in life are similar. All human beings not only share a common interest to enhance our lives, but we also share a desire for a better future for our posterity. There is no class of superior people, who have more rights than others due to privileges of birth, religion, or skin color. Each of us are placed here on earth to contribute to the common good of our common humanity using our individual talents.
If we accept synergy to mean cooperation and collaboration to achieve an enhanced effect, then let us act synergistically to ensure a prosperous Ethiopia that provides for all its citizens.
The Constitution and Sidama
Inherent problems of the 1995 Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia are evident in the November 2019 referendum conferring autonomy to Sidama. Ethiopia's constitution stipulates that with this lawful vote, the people of Sidama, the fifth largest ethnic group, will become the tenth ethnic regional state. Eight of the existing nine regional states are governed by the dominant ethnic group of that geographical region. However, the Sidama people reside in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region–(SNNPR), where many other small ethnic groups (around 56) also exist.
The Preamble of Ethiopia's Constitution properly emphasizes the conception of a united nation with a common purpose and goal for all its people. It deliberates on "advancing our economic and social development," "common interest….and the emergence of a common outlook," and "to live as one economic community." Article 14 resonates with the US Constitution, stating: "Every person has the inviolable right to life the security of person and liberty." The same principle is echoed in Article 43 of the Constitution: The Right to Development. "The basic aim of development activities shall be to enhance the capacity of citizens for development and to meet their basic needs."
The drawback to the Constitution begins in Article 8:Sovereignty of the People, where sovereign powers are divided up between "Nations, Nationalities and Peoples of Ethiopia." This is an obvious compromise to ethnicity. In truth; there is only one Ethiopian people and only one Ethiopian nation. The divisions in Ethiopian society are made explicit in Article39: "Every Nation, Nationality and People in Ethiopia has an unconditional right to self-determination, including the right of secession……the right to a full measure of self-government…" This separation of Ethiopians into multiple groups, outlined in the Constitution, is the seed for the tensions gripping Ethiopia today.
In the aftermath of the Sidama referendum, Ethiopia potentially faces a conundrum. Will other ethnic minorities now choose to follow the same path as Sidama in calling for autonomy as delineated in the Constitution? It appears so. In addition to Sidama Zone*, which is now claiming to be the 10th state, there are other Zones in the Southern Region that want to follow the same route to statehood. To quote William Shakespeare, "there's the rub." Clearly the Ethiopian Constitution, despite the best intentions, has proven to be unsuccessful in governing this multi-ethnic nation.
The Challenging Course Ahead
The emergence of a national party such as the PP can commence the process of uniting the nation by moving away from a society where ethnic interests are placed above the welfare of the nation. Ultimately the problematic features of the Ethiopian Constitution will have to be revisited. Not to address this thorny issue will allow instigators to use ethnicity to disrupt what is most necessary for Ethiopia to move forward; a healthy process of dialogue and debate on the future of Ethiopia.
This discourse should include a discussion by the Ethiopian people on changing the structure of ethnic-based parties. For example, Ghana's Constitution stipulates that "Every political party shall have a national character, and membership shall not be based on ethnic, religious, regional or other sectional divisions." That no political party shall be formed "(a) on ethnic, gender, religion regional, professional or other sectional divisions; or (b) which uses words, slogans or symbols which could arouse ethnic, gender, religious, regional professional or other sectional divisions."
The lack of vibrant Ethiopian nationalism creates a fertile environment for those who want to manipulate misplaced ethnic passions. The danger presents itself during times of social or economic stress, when the population's frustrations can be channeled along ethnic fault lines, manipulating Ethiopians to act against their true self-interest: progress for the nation of Ethiopia. Opportunistic ringleaders will attempt to misdirect the population against each other via competing ethnicities, instead of uniting society behind a national policy. A policy of economic growth that includes a strategy to generate employment opportunities for the millions of youth preparing to enter the workforce is in the vital interests of all citizens.
Of course, it will take time for people to shed their desire to control policy making through ethnic-based parties. It is an existential moment for Ethiopia, and a national grounded PP is a needed first step. It should be understood, that a sovereign nation, whose national mission is to promote the general welfare of its people does not require the elimination of historical cultures. On the contrary, the uniqueness and beauty of each ethnic culture can be synergistically woven into an elevated national character that transcends ethnicity.
*Zone is the middle tire next to the regional state in the governing structure that is also formed under ethnic lines the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region (SNNPR).
Lawrence Freeman is a Political-Economic Analyst for Africa, who has been involved in the economic development policy of Africa for 30 years. He is the creator of the blog: lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com
Lawrence Freeman, Political-Economic Analyst for Africa…
is an outspoken opponent of the current policies of neo-colonialism. He is a highly respected researcher, writer, and speaker on a variety of topics concerning Africa. An outspoken critic of the ICC attacks on African countries, Freeman led a delegation of American State Legislators to Sudan, who subsequently exposed the charges that the Khartoum government was engaged in slavery as fraudulent. Insisting that Africa no longer be forced to live in a dark age, he has consistently brought African governments a roadmap for transformative infrastructure projects. As the author of dozens of articles and reports on Africa, having traveled to the continent 25 times, Freeman served as a member of AFRICOM's Advisory Committee under U.S. General Kip Ward. Most recently, he was appointed Vice Chairman of the Lake Chad Basin Scientific Committee and is currently working on a project to replenish the shrinking Lake Chad. Presently, he is teaching courses on the history of Africa, utilizing his decades of experience and knowledge.
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Library Co-Publishes New Volume on History of the U.S. Supreme Court
A new volume in The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the U.S. Supreme Court describes the closing of one era in constitutional jurisprudence and the opening of another. "The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941" is a comprehensive study of the court under the leadership of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.
Written by Mark V. Tushnet, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School, the book is the 11th volume in the series, which is published by Cambridge University Press in association with the Library of Congress.
Tushnet's examination of the court's work in constitutional and public law finds that the Hughes Court justices accepted the broad premises of a progressive theory of government and the Constitution. While the progressive view was diminished by a rise in interest group pluralism at the end of the 1930s, Tushnet contests assertions of a 1937 Constitutional Revolution.
The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise was established by Congress in 1955 to administer funds bequeathed by the associate justice to document and disseminate the history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
"The Hughes Court" is available in hardcover ($260) and e-book formats. It can also be accessed online via the Cambridge Core Collection. For more information, visit Cambridge University Press.
Cambridge University Press publishes a wide range of research monographs, academic reference, textbooks, books for professionals, and large numbers of books aimed at graduate students.
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/* -*- mode: C++; c-basic-offset: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- */
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 *  Main authors:
 *     Guido Tack <tack@gecode.org>
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 *  This file is part of Gecode, the generic constraint
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 * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
 * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
 * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
 * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
 * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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 * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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#ifndef GECODE_GIST_MAINWINDOW_HH
#define GECODE_GIST_MAINWINDOW_HH

#include <gecode/gist.hh>
#include <gecode/gist/qtgist.hh>

namespace Gecode { namespace Gist {

  /// Display information about %Gist
  class AboutGist : public QDialog {
  public:
    /// Constructor
    AboutGist(QWidget* parent = 0);
  };

  /**
   * \brief Main window for stand-alone %Gist
   *
   * \ingroup TaskGist
   */
  class GECODE_GIST_EXPORT GistMainWindow : public QMainWindow {
    Q_OBJECT
  private:
    /// Options
    Options opt;
    /// Whether search is currently running
    bool isSearching;
    /// Measure search time
    Support::Timer searchTimer;
    /// Status bar label for maximum depth indicator
    QLabel* depthLabel;
    /// Status bar label for weakly monotonic propagator indicator
    QLabel* wmpLabel;
    /// Status bar label for number of solutions
    QLabel* solvedLabel;
    /// Status bar label for number of failures
    QLabel* failedLabel;
    /// Status bar label for number of choices
    QLabel* choicesLabel;
    /// Status bar label for number of open nodes
    QLabel* openLabel;
    /// Menu for solution inspectors
    QMenu* solutionInspectorsMenu;
    /// Menu for double click inspectors
    QMenu* doubleClickInspectorsMenu;
    /// Menu for move inspectors
    QMenu* moveInspectorsMenu;
    /// Menu for comparators
    QMenu* comparatorsMenu;
    /// Menu for bookmarks
    QMenu* bookmarksMenu;
    /// Menu for direct node inspection
    QMenu* inspectNodeMenu;
    /// Menu for direct node inspection before fixpoint
    QMenu* inspectNodeBeforeFPMenu;
    /// Action for activating the preferences menu
    QAction* prefAction;
  protected:
    /// The contained %Gist object
    Gist* c;
    /// A menu bar
    QMenuBar* menuBar;
    /// About dialog
    AboutGist aboutGist;

  protected Q_SLOTS:
    /// The status has changed (e.g., new solutions have been found)
    void statusChanged(const Statistics& stats, bool finished);
    /// Open the about dialog
    void about(void);
    /// Open the preferences dialog
    void preferences(bool setup=false);
    /// Populate the inspector menus from the actions found in Gist
    void populateInspectorSelection(void);
    /// Populate the inspector menus from the actions found in Gist
    void populateInspectors(void);
    /// Populate the bookmarks menus from the actions found in Gist
    void populateBookmarks(void);
  public:
    /// Constructor
    GistMainWindow(Space* root, bool bab, const Options& opt);
  protected:
    /// Close Gist
    void closeEvent(QCloseEvent* event);
  };

}}

#endif

// STATISTICS: gist-any


As an experienced and well-educated real estate broker, you already know that a CRM can do many things for you like automating your follow-up and increasing your production. However, despite their popularity, many brokers are struggling to realize the full value of using a CRM or haven't figured out the best way to implement one into their business yet. If you fall into one of those two categories, this article is for you!
Lead Tracking – When a CRM enables your agents to track their leads, it also enables you to be able to track their performance and offer coaching in areas where they may be hitting roadblocks.
Automation – There are few real estate agents and brokers out there saying that they have too much time on their hands. The promise of a properly managed CRM is that it will free up precious time by automating or simplifying many common client management tasks.
Regular Reminders – As an experienced broker, you understand that most agents can benefit from regular reminders to follow-up, tackle important tasks, and implement best practices into their routine. When they do, the result is more closings for them and more income for you.
Just Listed/Sold – Communications around just listed and just sold are one of the best opportunities you have to reach out to your sphere of influence with interesting content that puts your local brand in front of people. A good CRM makes this easy by giving you a professionally designed template and managing the list of client email addresses for you, so you can send it to those who may be most interested.
In many cases, brokers that purchase a CRM fail to get all of their money's worth out of the software because they are unaware of all that it can actually do for them. The Weichert Pro CRM, for example, does a whole lot more than just store all of an agent's prospects, leads, and past clients. It also provides agents and brokers with integration to the Weichert lead network, templates for automated email marketing, and tools for complete open house management before, during, and after the event. This is a proprietary CRM which is provided to all Weichert affiliates.
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Managing technology in your brokerage is an octopus with many heads. The way in which you choose to implement processes and procedures around this plays a big role in how efficient and effective your business can be.
A CRM is just a tool, what really counts is how you use it. This is an area where Weichert can help. Through training, best practices and tips from peers, we help our affiliates leverage our technology to its fullest potential. To learn about other tools and systems available to Weichert affiliates, click here.


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Storms cause some events to be postponed
Sports plans and a SpaceX launch had to be changed as thunderstorms rolled through the Treasure Coast on Wednesday.
Storms cause some events to be postponed Sports plans and a SpaceX launch had to be changed as thunderstorms rolled through the Treasure Coast on Wednesday. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/weather/2016/05/04/storms-cause-some-events-to-be-postponed/89385106/
TCPalm Published 10:44 a.m. ET May 4, 2016
Storm clouds hang over Vero Beach May 4, 2016, as motorists deal with the aftermath of morning thunderstorms. (LAMAUR STANCIL/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS)
Storm clouds hang over Vero Beach May 4, 2016. (LAMAUR STANCIL/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS)
Wednesday's weather left some Treasure Coast residents without power, while others had to postpone their plans.
During the day, dozens of Florida Power & Light Co. customers briefly lost power on the Treasure Coast. Vero Beach Utilities also reported sporadic outages Wednesday morning.
Rain chances remain high for Wednesday night. The forecast led officials to reschedule Wednesday night's high school state softball tournament at Historic Dodgertown in Vero Beach. John Carroll Catholic School's state semifinal against defending champion Lakeland Christian has been moved to 9:50 a.m. Thursday.
In Cape Canaveral, the weather forced SpaceX to move its Wednesday night launch for its Falcon 9 rocket to 1:21 a.m. Friday.
WEATHER IMPACT
Weather delays start of FHSAA state softball tournament
Stormy day ahead for Treasure Coast
SpaceX launch moved to Friday morning
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Cooler temperatures on their way
Treasure Coast was near-record hot Sunday
After four busy hurricane seasons, will 2020 give us a break?
Heavy rain expected for pre-X-mas weekend
Turnpike reopens after Martin County crash
That wet stuff out there, that's rain, and some of it is heavy


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Q: Java - Split a String? My String is ,
   String myString = "Hello   Boom,  Ho3w are || You ? Are  ^  you ," fr45ee   now ?";

I tried the below to split the string as ,
"Hello,Boom,Ho3w,are,You,Are,you,fr45ee,now" - where comma indicates the separation of String to String array. My code is
  String[] temp = data.split("\\s+\\^,?\"'\\|+");

But it is no working . Hope You people helps.Thanks.

A: Your example won't compile as you have an unescaped double quote in your myString variable.
However, assuming it is escaped...
//                                                               | escaped " here
String myString = "Hello   Boom,  Ho3w are || You ? Are  ^  you ,\" fr45ee   now ?";
//                 | printing array
//                 |               | splitting "myString"...
//                 |               |               | on 1 or more non-word
//                 |               |               | characters
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(myString.split("\\W+")));

Output
[Hello, Boom, Ho3w, are, You, Are, you, fr45ee, now]

A: I believe this should work:
String myString = "Hello   Boom,  Ho3w are || You ? Are  ^  you ,\" fr45ee   now ?";
String[] arr = myString.split("\\W+");
//=> [Hello, Boom, Ho3w, are, You, Are, you, fr45ee, now]

A: If you literally only trying to split on the characters in your original regex, you should factor out the + and put everything into a character class.
public class Split {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String myString = "Hello   Boom,  Ho3w are || You ? Are  ^  you ,\" fr45ee   now ?";
        String[] temp = myString.split("[\\s\\^,?\"'\\|]+");
        for (int i = 0; i < temp.length; i++)
            System.out.println(temp[i]);
    }
}

Output:
Hello
Boom
Ho3w
are
You
Are
you
fr45ee
now

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Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee have been photographing for a combined 85 years. Their photographs have been collected by 140 art museums worldwide. They conduct occasional workshops at home and abroad to share their experience and knowledge. They have no secrets.
The purpose of this workshop is to help you make better photographs, and through doing that, to experience personal growth. And if you already make beautiful photographs, but find that you don't do so consistently, then this workshop is for you.
In most all photography workshops everyone learns something and has a good time. But afterwards they do not necessarily, in their own terms, make better photographs. After our workshops, most everyone makes better photographs. This is because, we have been told, we have a way of describing and demonstrating an approach to making photographs that is exceedingly helpful and unique.
In this workshop you will not learn any "rules." You will go "beyond composition." You will learn to see more than you already see and to take a more creative approach to photographing, and, as a result, based on our past experience with former participants in our workshops, your photographs will be better and you will have a higher percentage of keepers.


This homemade breakfast sausage recipe is going to up your breakfast game. Big time.
Breakfast sausage is one of those things that's difficult to find fresh––it's all usually in the frozen foods aisle. Pre-cooked, probably some preservatives thrown in there, and a bunch of ingredients that are hard to read.
When a certain ingredient or food is hard to come by, what do we do? We figure out how to make it ourselves at home!
We would buy spices, toast them, and mix them up at home to create spice blends for spicy Italian sausage, sweet Italian sausage, and of course, breakfast sausage. We would then put the mixes into little Tupperware containers, hop in a cab, and ride to a local wet market, where we beelined for a very particular butcher's stall specializing in pork. Oh, and sorry for the bad photo quality!
The woman behind the counter would help us pick a piece of fatty pork shoulder, grind it to the texture we specified, mix in our spices, and then stuff the sausage into casings while we did the rest of our shopping.
On our way out, we would pick up a bag full of fresh sausage links for the freezer.
The texture of the ground pork is very important. You generally want a coarser grind than the ground pork found at the supermarket. The best thing you can do is hand-chop the meat. My mom has a great post on how to grind meat without a grinder––just a knife or cleaver.
Fat is very important to great sausage. For this recipe, you want a mixture of 70% meat, 30% fat. Another reason to hand-chop your meat! You can control how much fat is in the mix.
Ok, let's get to it. Making breakfast sausage at home is easier than you think!
Toast the fennel seeds and peppercorns in a pan over medium low heat until fragrant. Add to a mortar and pestle or spice grinder along with the sage, thyme, rosemary, marjoram, pepper flakes, and cloves. Grind the spices and herbs until you have a coarse powder.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the pork with your spice mixture, salt, and maple syrup.
Allow to chill for at least 2 hours.
Form into patties and fry in a lightly oiled pan over medium high heat until browned and crispy.
If you want to store the sausage for later use, form into patties and put between squares of parchment paper. Transfer to an airtight container or freezer bag and transfer to the freezer.
This homemade breakfast sausage has a strong, but nuanced flavor, and goes wonderfully with just a couple eggs and toast, pancakes, omelettes, or any other breakfast item you can dream up!
This homemade breakfast sausage recipe is going to up your breakfast game. Big time. Breakfast sausage is one of those things that's difficult to find fresh––processed, pre-cooked, frozen, with preservatives.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the pork with your spice mixture, salt, and maple syrup. Allow to chill for at least 2 hours. Form into patties and fry in a lightly oiled pan over medium high heat until browned and crispy.
Great recipe! Exactly what I wanted. Thank you.
Wowser! You did it again. Your recipes Always work for me. I used bog standard supermarket ground pork and let the spices marry overnight in the fridge.
What a great result…..in fact too good. I had envisioned freezing much of the batch for Sunday brunches but hubby snapped it up and made sausage rolls. They were awesome also. Looking forward to the Italian sausage recipes as we can't get them here in Scotland.
Thank you again for another taste treat and accurately written recipe.
Will this work for turkey also?
You could certainly try it with turkey––just make sure there is enough fat in the mixture, or the sausage will be very dry.
ooo..are you doing a post on the spicy italian sausage mix?
Yes, that's definitely on the to-do list!
Is that photo of the Sanyuanli Market in Beijing? I shopped in that one many a time.
Lay an 18 inch long piece of plastic wrap on counter or board. Take a one-pound lump of the mixture, shape it into a single, fat sausage about two inches in diameter, and place it on the near edge of the plastic wrap. Roll the sausage away from you, enclosing it in the wrap. Gather the loose "tails" of the wrap in each hand, squeeze to compress the ends of the sausage, and then, holding the tails of the wrap, roll the sausage towards you to twist the tails closed. Do this several times to tighten the wrap, then place the wrapped sausage on a tray for freezing. When frozen place in plastic bag, label and date, and store until needed.
Wow – looks amazing and is now in my queue of things to make.


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The York Road Project exists to support people facing homelessness in the Borough of Woking. A single new building will be built for the charity providing accommodation (both emergency and longer term), an outreach provision supporting rough sleepers and people in insecure accommodation and a specialist day centre.
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Best performance by a female actor in the 2021 festival
Arlene Murchison-Doggart for the role of Aggie in "Mourning Glory"
Best performance by a male actor in the 2021 festival
Joey Ferguson for the role of Angel in "The third life of Eddie Mann"
Recipient of the Ross Award! for the best director of a play in the 2021 festival
The award goes to Bruce Williamson for "The third life of Eddie Mann"
Best Play in the 2021 festival
"Rosa and Leo" By Adam Szudrich directed by Amanda Dempsey-Laughlin
A special tribute in the 2021 festival
Goes to Kira Rosenbloom for directing and composing the original music for the play "GILDA" and to an outstanding group of young actors in the VUTC Young Company for their performance of GILDA
Script Submissions 2023 Script submissions for the 2023 Newmarket International Festival of One Act Plays have begun to arrive much to the delight of Reading Committee Chair, and past festival's award winning Director, Bruce Williamson. Said Bruce, who until very recently had been very involved in the construction of Fun Home for Theatre Aurora, " […]
Tom Pearson is the new President Paul Bath, the long-time President of the Very Useful Theatre Company (VUTC) and producers of the prestigious Newmarket International Festival of One Act Plays, has announced that Tom Pearson assumed the position of President as of Oct. 1 of this year. Mr. Bath made the announcement at the recent […]


It's time for Season 2!! The A-Team is back, and they are all here, Hannibal Smith (George Peppard), Face (Dirk Benedict), Murdock (Dwight Schultz), B.A. (Mr. T) and Amy Allen (Melinda Culea)… and they are on their way to Africa in Diamonds 'n Dust.
Written by Patrick Hasburgh, this episode originally aired 20 September, 1983, and saw the team hired by Toby Griffin (Kristen Meadows) to help her and her father protect their diamond mine.
It seems a local tycoon, Fletcher (Albert Salmi) isn't above murder to get the mine away from them, and our Team needs to transport a dangerous load of dynamite to the mind to help with its production (shades of Wages of Fear, though nowhere near as explored as I would have liked it to be).
While not a serialized show, it's nice when there are nods to continuity, in this case, there is mention of Beller Air from last season which is a nice touch, and may explain how they get on an international flight with an incapacitated B.A.
Murdock continues to be the most enjoyable character, always bringing a sense of play to things, this time, with a stuffed bear named Bogey, who goes with him everywhere… until the baddies shoot him to pieces.
And despite Face's best efforts, he ends up getting absolutely nowhere with Toby, though they may end up being business partners.
A fun start to the season, but we'll see how the rest of it plays out.
Up next is Recipe For Heavy Bread, which aired on 27 September, 1983 and was written by Cannell.
Face, for reasons that are best perhaps unexplored, and unexplained, brings the team to lunch at one of his favorite restaurants. He thinks some of the food tastes familiar, and they recognize that one of the cooks, Lin Duk Coo (Mako) violated camp rules in the POW camp the team spent some time in during Vietnam, by feeding them.
But the camp's General, Chow (John Fujioka) is also there, and he is running heroin, and sees Lin, as well as the A-Team as a threat. He's also working with a former camp prisoner, Tom Anderson (Marjoe Gortner), who wasn't above betraying his comrades for better treatment while he was being held in the camp.
Personally involved this time, the A-Team is intent on taking down Chow and Anderson and making sure that Coo is safe, and happy in his new life in America.
Poor Face really gets it this episode; he may not be able to go back to that restaurant ever again, and then when the Team takes over his penthouse apartment (he has been posing as an interior decorator), he'll be lucky to get a nice place ever again.
This is a fun, fairly fast-paced episode that shows that shows that both sides the war were guilty of betrayals, and not everyone on either side was good or bad. Though it gets a little lost under the fun stuff going on like… Murdock trying to start a golf ball revolution.