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College costs are going up, but fewer people know about college-savings plans than last year, according to a recent Edward Jones survey.
The May poll of 1,000 adults found that 70% of Americans do not know that 529 plans are a college-savings tool, up from the 63% level in 2012.
In other words, only 30% of Americans can correctly identify a 529 plan as a college savings tool from among four potential options vs. 37% two years ago.
"Despite the fact that the average cost of an in-state public college totaled $22,828 in the 2013-2014 academic year, we have seen a downward trend in 529 plan awareness over the past three years," said Greg Dosmann, principal with Edward Jones, in a press release.
"It seems counterintuitive that the costs of higher education continue to rise while awareness for a vehicle that can make this cost more manageable continues to decline," Dosmann explained. "We like to remind our clients that starting a 529 plan savings program as early as possible will help ease the burden as children near college age."
Specific Findings
There were sharp dips in awareness across the country.
In the Northeast, the level of 529 awareness stands at 39% in 2014 vs. 45% in 2013, while in the Midwest the level of 529 knowledge is 30% this year, down from 36% in '13.
When looking at household income, about 32% of those earnings $50,000-$75,000 know about 529 plans. Last year, this figure was 42%.
By age, respondents 65 and up have the lowest levels of awareness: 18%.
"Grandparents represent an opportunity when it comes to managing the cost of college," said Dosmann. "Talking to grandparents about participating in 529 plans is an excellent way to build assets in a portfolio – and for the grandparents, it's fulfilling and there may be tax advantages as well."
Legg Mason, which surveyed 1,000 grandparents with at least $50,000 income in November 2013, found that about two-thirds were saving or planning to save for their grandchildren's future education. Plus, 40% said they planned to use 529 college savings plans, the survey found.
Special Push
St. Louis-based Edward Jones says its 12,000 advisors and its branches nationwide will recognize Thursday, May 29 as "Save for Education Day."
On that day, branches will host events to remind families about the importance of setting education savings goals.
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Diagram categories
A light post today, as I finish up my packing and get ready to head out tomorrow.
Diagram categories are one of those things that at first blush seem almost trivial, but they turn out to be very useful. In general, we start with some small category that describes the form of a diagram, and then we take the category of functors into the category we're interested in studying.
An easy example is a set — a category with nothing but identity arrows. A functor from a set to just picks out one object of for each element of the set. A little more interesting is the category . This has two objects and two (nontrivial) morphisms. A functor from this category picks out two objects from and two (in general different) parallel arrows from one to the other in .
Even more useful is the category
Of course we can compose the arrows around the upper right or those around the lower left to get diagonal arrows, but we insist here that those two diagonal arrows are the same. A functor from this category picks out four objects and four morphisms that describe a commuting square in .
As a bit of a teaser, notice that the setup for finding a binary equalizer in is exactly a functor from the category to . Similarly, the setup for a binary product is a functor from the category . What categories give rise to diagram categories for the setups for multiple (co)products? (multiple) (co)equalizers? pushouts? pullbacks? How are the setups for pushouts and pullbacks different from the setups for equalizers and coequalizers, and why?
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[…] Cones and cocones There are a few auxiliary concepts we'll need before the next major topic. Let's start with two categories and , and the category of functors . If the following seems very complicated, consider to be any particular toy category you'd like, so this category of functors is a diagram category. […]
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Momentous 12 months marks one-year anniversary of President Graça
Lausanne, Switzerland, September 21, 2013 – Innovation, achievement and development are what will mark Dr. Ary S. Graça F°'s one-year anniversary as President of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) on Saturday.
Twelve months ago, the former South American Confederation and Brazil Federation President was elected to take over from China's Jizhong Wei as the fourth FIVB President at the FIVB Congress in Anaheim, USA and since then has realised an impressive number of initiatives and projects, placing the bar high for his next three years in office.
When President Graça took over the reins of leadership at the FIVB on September 21, 2012 he left people without any doubt of his long term vision and plans for the sport of volleyball and its governing institution.
At the heart of the President's key goals was the need for the FIVB to embrace change in order to make volleyball, and the way the sport is brought to audiences around the world, more appealing and dynamic for today's generation.
"We have a great opportunity to turn volleyball into one of the world's most popular sports but we have to be innovative and we have to be courageous to think outside the box," Dr. Graça, 70, said at the start of his presidency.
As a former volleyball player and accomplished businessman himself, the President has brought together a love for the sport with his specific ability to lead and organise stakeholders so as to achieve short and long term plans. His agenda for change have included the following priorities:
The vision of President Graça, who launched the successful Beach Volleyball Continental Cup in 2010 when he was FIVB Beach Volleyball Commission President, was evident immediately.
A record-breaking FIVB beach volleyball calendar aimed at creating new opportunities for players was unveiled at the start of 2013. This year, for the first time ever, Grand Slams were clearly established as the core events while the number of Open events was expanded to give teams more opportunities and options to participate.
Volleyball also saw an expansion in the number of teams in the World League and World Grand Prix, giving more countries from around the world the chance to participate in these premier FIVB events.
The introduction of the inaugural FIVB Volleyball and Beach Volleyball U23 World Championships provided yet another opportunity for age-group players to participate in an international tournament with the goal of reducing the gap between age-group and senior level volleyball, while innovation was evident with the new Video Challenge System used for the first time during the FIVB Volleyball World League and the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix.
"In order for our sport to stay current and appealing, a revision of our rules, laws and regulations is inevitable," the President said.
On the organisational front the President moved swiftly to set out a new investment strategy for the sport's governing body in order to streamline lines expenditure and maximise revenue. Then in May the President announced a ground-breaking sponsorship deal with Japanese car manufacturer Honda, who became the first ever official partner for professional and elite volleyball and beach volleyball.
Continuing the motto that money from sport should go back to sport, development was another key goal of the President, who, using a model successfully introduced in South America and NORCECA, forged partnerships with key federations to grow the sport in Africa and Asia as well as parts of Europe. With plans in place to help the bottom-up development of the sport of volleyball, the President is well on his way to furthering his goal of taking the sport to all corners of the world.
In a just a short period of time the President has shown that he is not just a manager but someone with a sound knowledge of volleyball. Known for taking to the courts himself, the President has shown that volleyball has an exciting future and under his leadership has no limit to innovation and development over the next three years.


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Q: You serve about 60 percent of your community of about 85,000 residents. How have you made such inroads?
A: There's about 60,000 active participants, and those are people who are participating in an activity, not just coming to watch their kid play basketball—we don't count those folks. They're active, they're taking tennis classes, they're doing aerobics, they're coming to family nights. We have about 7,000 members, not memberships. We actually have a fairly small membership base, but it's growing at a really rapid pace, which is exciting for us.
Q: So a lot of people are doing day passes?
A: Yes, for so long we were really a program-only operation. We had memberships, but we really weren't focused on them. We were focused just on providing a basketball class or aerobics or things like that. When I got here, [I emphasized] what a committed member can do for your organization, so we put a big focus on memberships and what that meant to us as well as what that meant to the individual.
We know that once a member joins, they are more likely to do more activities, they're more likely to participate, and they're more likely to be active and healthy than they are if they just do one program at a time because it's really easy to just not sign up. But if you're a member and you're paying your dues, you are more likely to keep active.
Q: Your revenue increased 38 percent from 2006 to 2007. How did that happen?
A: Our membership growth was definitely a big part of it, plus our program growth. We raised our rates—this year is the first year we are at market value rates. We also had a great year for contributions. Our sponsorship dollars are way up, and we've had a couple of very successful funding opportunities. One site alone took on an extra 60 kids each day for child care. So program growth right there set us up for success.
Q: How is your revenue fairing with the economy in 2008? Are you seeing it increase like it did in 2007 or decrease?
A: We're definitely not feeling the growth that we saw last year. We're pretty well leveled off. We still have membership growth. I think one of the things that's going to help out quite a bit is that we are opening a new facility, so that should help out a little bit with revenues. Contributions are still really stable for us. We are seeing a little bit of downturn in programs for older kids.
From a fitness end, we are seeing a lot of success. Our community has really made it a focus to be a more fit community, so you see a lot of organizations coming together that normally wouldn't come together. Because of that, we are seeing all kinds of new entrants to the fitness market.
Q: What sort of renovating are you doing?
A: We've invested a lot of money this year. We started with the tennis center. We invested just about
$1 million into that facility. The tournament business there is phenomenal because we're so large and because we're so good at what we do. We host a lot of tournaments—the high school state tournaments, college tournaments. We are also home to a premiere women's pro tournament called The Dow Corning Tennis Classic. So because of that, we needed a new entrance, gathering place, a lounge, more bathrooms, so that's what we invested there.
We moved on to the community center site because the community center site is 50 years old. It needed a lot of work on the exterior, not the actual building itself. We had a pretty significant road between our facility's front doors and our parking lot, so you had to walk across a pretty busy street. We've removed that street. We've completely renovated our 12-acre site. We're providing all new parking. We've seen a huge need for additional handicapped parking and senior parking, so we've created specific parking there. [We added] wellness trails throughout the entire 12 acres. We put in a couple of outdoor basketball courts with a special sport court facility, [and we have] an amazing playground with a really cool tree house that's going up. We've added a sports field, a lot of landscaping, a lot of green space, places where you can sit and relax and have picnics. Basically, we created an entire campus around the community center.
On that same community center site, we relocated and built a brand new building, a brand new curling center, so a 14,000-square-foot facility with four curling sheets—very unique. There's only four curling-only facilities in Michigan, from what I understand, and we're one of them. And the curling members alone raised $400,000 for that facility on top of the $1 million that we got from local corporations, companies and foundations. So that building is paid for.
And then the last one we're doing is renovating a middle school to create what we are calling a family center that will provide fitness and a gym, a lot of child care, a teen center, recreation opportunities, sports after school, those sorts of things.
Q: Many for-profits say that non-profits have an unfair advantage due to the tax breaks that they get. How do you perceive that issue?
A: Well, I can definitely understand their feelings. Taxes can make up a big part of whether you can be profitable or not. I look at it a little bit differently. I look at it as a market segment difference. You choose to be a for-profit. You choose to be a nonprofit. When you choose to be a nonprofit like we are, we serve a much different demographic and purpose than for-profits. At one of our sites alone, 50 percent of our participants are receiving a scholarship. That's not a market that the typical heavy-lifter facility wants to go after. They can't afford to have those kinds of folks.
We've also been around since 1917, so we pre-date every fitness center in the area. And we've been doing fitness since we opened. It's definitely been a push and a drive that everybody have the opportunity to have these programs and services.
It's a little bit different being a nonprofit. There are some challenges for-profits don't have. We have to answer to many more constituents about our business practices. We have a lot more people and funders, such as the United Way, driving our business practices than for-profit owners. So, is that a good trade-off? Taxes for the scrutiny? That's something a for-profit person is probably going to answer for themselves. There's an opportunity, if you really want to serve that nonprofit market and you want to be mission driven. You can do that. You probably can't do that being a for-profit company.
Q: I heard that you take some field trips to other facilities. Why do you do that?
A: About every nine months, we take the entire management team on a field trip. We started with the local communities. We branched out and we hit bigger cities like Grand Rapids and Detroit and places in Ohio and Chicago. We look at everything that's service related. We look at the YMCAs and the for-profit fitness centers, but we also look at hotels. Why is a four- or five-star hotel four- or five-star? What are they doing to provide that high quality, and can we learn any lessons from that?
We've seen some really bad facilities, and we said, "Are we doing that?" We've corrected some things from that. We've designed some buildings. We've renovated our locker rooms. We ask a lot of questions.
People in the fitness business are happy when people want to be like them. We all share resources. As long as you're not my competitor down the street, most people don't mind. The only problems we've had is with chains. Sometimes chains can be difficult.
Q: Talk about the children's programs you offer in the summer. What kinds of camps are you doing?
A: Five years ago, we saw a really scary downward trend in our summer camp numbers. At a strategy session, we learned that we were providing the same service everybody else in town was—what we called glorified babysitting. We all said that's not what we're about. So we made the decision that we were going to provide programs that really enhanced kids' creative thought process.
[Since then], we've had specialty camps like the Tour De Midland, where kids ride all over town on their bikes. We've had Survivor camp, where the kids just do some fun and really creative things and learn about new cultures. This is a big chemical science community. Therefore, we have a lot of kids interested in the science, so we've done some science camps. We do a ton of arts and dance, and we also do basketball, hockey, football, all those sports camps as well.
A lot of these kids have to go the whole summer, and others can just go for a week at a time, so we've created some tracks. So if you have to go the whole summer, you can do a really unique track, like I am really artsy and not into sports, so I'm going to do a dance camp one week and I'm going to do a theater camp the next week.
Step two was to make sure that we had the highest standards of anybody, so we sought American Camp Association (ACA) accreditation. Right now, we have over 100 camp opportunities throughout the summer.
We have a partnership with the local school districts. The Title IX schools have summer school, and they were having trouble getting kids to show up to summer school because after summer school, these kids had no place to go because their parents were at work, so they didn't send them to summer school. We created a summer school/camp, so these kids go to summer school in the morning, eat lunch at summer school and then come to summer camp in the afternoon. We take care of them. The schools bus them in the morning, the parents pick them up in the afternoon and we provide all the transitioning staff. We provide all the facilities. Because we are providing the facilities and not the schools, they can combine the grades for all three schools. So instead of one school having five fifth-graders and one school having three fifth-graders, now they can pool all those fifth-graders together. So they went from about 40 kids in summer school to about 150 kids in one year because we've done this. Over 100 of those kids come to summer camp every day.


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Get the Look: Julia Roberts at the Mirror Mirror Premiere./
Lancôme ambassadress Julia Roberts shone at the premiere of her new film Mirror Mirror in Los Angeles on Saturday.
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Since the event was in the morning, makeup artist Genevieve wanted to create a "very soft eyewash," she says. First, she applied Liner Design in Indigo Darling close to the lash line on the upper lid. Next she placed the light shimmer shadow from Color Design Quad in Twirling in Tulle on the inner corner and the dark matte plum shade on the lid, followed by careful blending of the two shades. A few coats of Définicils mascara, applied to both the top and bottom lashes, completed Julia's pretty daytime look.
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HOOVER, Ala. -- Texas A&M needed the best outing of the year from ace right-handed pitcher Daniel Mengden.
Even working on short rest having pitched last Thursday against Tennessee, a complete game gem, the Aggies called on Mengden to start against Florida Tuesday afternoon at the Southeastern Conference tournament.
The Aggies would've preferred to rest Mengden a couple of days, but time was of the essence. Lose to the Florida Gators in their first SEC tournament game, and the Aggies would be headed home, and certainly would be missing the NCAA postseason. Beat the Gators, and the Aggies at least would be keeping hope alive.
As Mengden has done a few times already this season, he willed his way through yet another start, and mowed down the Gators on the way to a 6-3 victory. For now, he has saved A&M's season.
"We just had a hope and prayer that we could get six innings out of him, then hand the ball to [Jason] Jester. He settled in after the first couple of innings and was really good. He really wanted to go back out there for the ninth inning," Texas A&M coach Rob Childress said. "For the last month, Daniel has really grown into that Friday role, and to be honest, he's been as dominant as anyone we've ever had for the last month."
Though Mengden put together another solid performance, his afternoon didn't start off in fantastic fashion, allowing two runs in the second inning to put the Aggies in a 2-0 hole. However, he settled in, and proceeded to get some help from hard-hitting freshman third baseman Hunter Melton, who smacked a towering three-run home run in the fourth inning to give A&M a 3-2 advantage.
Early in the contest, Mengden was rather erratic with his command, but was throwing a true three-pitch mix, along with a few curveballs. Once he settled in, Mengden's stuff went to another level. He was 89-92 with his fastball, touching a few 93s on the radar gun as well. He also had a nice 82-83 slider, along with a typically sharp 78-80 changeup. Mengden also threw those couple of curveballs at 75-76.
"I didn't really get started the way I wanted to, but I was able to get into my routine, started to feel better, and the defense was great behind me," Mengden said. "I was just trying to do what I always try to do, which is get ahead early in the count."
Mengden was near flawless after the fifth inning. Overall, he struck out 11, walked one and allowed just three runs (one earned) on five hits in a complete game performance.
"I thought he really did a nice job of mixing his pitches and staying around the zone," Florida outfielder Harrison Bader said. "I think we did a pretty good job of battling at the plate, but he threw a lot of pitches for strikes."
From a postseason standpoint, the Aggies entered the SEC tournament with much work to do, probably two or three wins to put themselves on the good side of the bubble. However, coach Rob Childress feels like the win over the Gators should get them into the field. Fortunately for him, the Aggies will have a few more chances to add some wins.
As for the Gators, coach Kevin O'Sullivan feels like his club is squarely in the postseason despite having a 29-28 overall record after today's game.
"I think when you look at the things the committee looks at, strength of schedule, we had arguably the toughest strength of schedule in the country, with quite a bit of wins against RPI Top 50 teams," O'Sullivan said. "Sometimes when you have a schedule like that, you leave yourself open to not having a great record at the end of the year.
"This season really had some ups and downs, and the negative is that we didn't finish strong," he continued. "With that said, we put together a difficult schedule and that's what they want. I think we have a pretty good resume."
A&M stays in Hoover with more work to do. Florida, though, will await its fate at home.
Zastryzny shines for Missouri in tough loss
Despite a historic and heartbreaking 2-1 loss to Mississippi State in 17 innings on Tuesday night, everyone got a glimpse at just how good Missouri junior left-handed pitcher Rob Zastryzny can be.
There's been much talk about Zastryzny throughout the spring. The 6-foot-3, 193-pound, left-hander has garnered some serious headlines because he's elevated his fastball velocity up to 94 at times. However, entering the SEC tournament, some questioned his consistency with an earned-run average over 4.00.
At least on this night, Zastryzny silenced any and all doubters. The lefty was terrific against the Bulldogs, striking out seven, walking two and allowing just one run on seven hits in nine stellar innings of work.
"He was phenomenal, focused and on a mission tonight," Missouri coach Tim Jamieson said. "I think that's about as well as he has thrown all-season long for nine-straight innings.
"I think he's the next of our pitchers to make it to the big leagues," Jamieson continued. "He has big-league type of stuff and his competitiveness is off the charts out there."
In many performance this spring, Zastryzny has had a nasty tendency to leave some mistake pitches over the plate. However, he didn't do that against the Bulldogs, as his stuff was crisp and consistent.
From a stuff standpoint, Zastryzny was anywhere from 88-93 on the radar gun, sitting primarily in the 90-92 range with his fastball. Meanwhile, he used a solid 78-81 changeup and 74-77 curveball, both pitches he was able to move around the zone and throw for strikes.
"He had better breaking ball command and fewer mistake pitches. That was the big key," he said. "He threw all of his pitches for strikes tonight, and really did a nice job of keeping things in the bottom half of the strike zone."
Zastryzny potentially could go as high as the second round in next week's Major League Baseball draft.
While Zastryzny was fantastic and left a strong impression on the hundred or so scouts in attendance, junior right-handed pitcher Keaton Steele gave the Tigers a chance to win in extra innings with five strikeouts in seven shutout frames. However, as has been the case the entire season, the Tigers were unable to get key hits at the plate with 10 runners left on base.
"We almost got two complete games tonight, and this is just a microcosm of what our whole season has been all about," Jamieson said. "We've been more than good enough on the mound and defensively, but we have to be a team that can scratch across more than one run in a game like this."
Missouri finishes its inaugural SEC campaign with an uncharacteristic 18-32 overall record, but Jamieson vows to have a quick turnaround. Meanwhile, with the win over Missouri, Mississippi State avoids the possibility of an 0-1 showing in the SEC tournament. In other words, the Bulldogs are still on track for a host.


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- SteveQ said...
"Shut Up and Let Me Go" is all the Ting Tings one will ever need (LOVE IT). I train where a lot of high school boys want to race me, usually after I've been out for 3-5 hours already. They don't do it twice...
- 21 July 2008 at 17:42
- Danni said...
I can't think of a single time where I've been out running (not in a race) and came upon another runner going the same direction. Round these parts I guess you have to stick to the track ;)
- 21 July 2008 at 21:24
- Danni said...
I mean where I live -- not ever in my whole life
- 21 July 2008 at 21:24
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- 21 July 2008 at 21:42
- sea legs girl said...
Steve, I enjoy imaginging you putting those high school boys in their place. And I can't wait to tell SR that you like the Ting Tings. They rate quite high on his annoyance meter.
Danni, I must admit, I am jealous of your situation. I love running completely alone and as Meghan recently said, enjoying "Miles of listening to nothing but my own footsteps."
- 22 July 2008 at 06:03
- Danni said...
Good rec on the Ting Tings. I hadn't heard them. There's a video on YouTube mixed with Yo Gabba Gabba. Once the Bois is old enough to be subjected to television you should check out the Party in my Tummy video.
- 22 July 2008 at 06:12
- SteveQ said...
Now I have to seek out the "party in My Tummy" video!
I once lived in an apartment that shared a thin wall with a guy who played Chinese classical music full blast at night. I found the only "music" I could play louder to annoy him (as I went to the lab to work all night) was Einsturzende Neubauten. The Ting Tings are wonderful - in small doses.
- 22 July 2008 at 17:58


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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's government signaled willingness on Tuesday to negotiate with Islamist militants holding more than 200 schoolgirls, a month after the kidnap that has provoked global outrage.
"The window of negotiation is still open," Minister of Special Duties Tanimu Turaki told Reuters by telephone.
He was speaking a day after Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau posted a video offering to release the girls in exchange for prisoners held by the government.
Senior officials say the government is exploring options and has made no commitment to negotiations for the release of the girls and Turaki declined to comment on possible talks over the kidnapping itself.
Instead, he referred to an amnesty committee that he heads set up by President Goodluck Jonathan last year to talk to the Boko Haram militants behind a five-year-old insurgency.
The committee's initial six-month mandate expired without holding direct talks with the rebels, though it has spoken to them through proxies. It has since been replaced by a standing committee empowered to conduct talks, officials said.
Boko Haram has killed thousands of people since 2009 and destabilized parts of northeast Nigeria, the country with Africa's largest population and biggest economy.
The abductions have triggered a worldwide social media campaign under the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, and prompted the United States, Britain, France and Israel to offer help or send experts to Nigeria. U.S. surveillance aircraft were flying over remote areas of the northeast on Tuesday.
The video showed more than 110 girls sitting on the ground in a rural location, the first time they have been seen in captivity.
Though at least some of them are Christian, and Shekau described them as 'infidels', they were wearing full Islamic veils and singing and chanting Muslim prayers.
It was not clear when or where the video was filmed or whether Shekau, who sat in front of a green backdrop holding an AK-47 during part of the video, was in the same location as the girls.
Those shown were among 276 abducted on April 14 from a secondary school in the village of Chibok, Borno state, in a sparsely populated region near the borders with Cameroon, Niger and Chad. Some escaped but about 200 are still missing. The group initially threatened to sell them into slavery.
Jonathan returned to Abuja on Tuesday from the Congo Republic, where he held talks with President Denis Sassou ahead of a regional summit in Paris on Saturday.
He asked parliament on Tuesday for a six-month extension of a state of emergency in the northeastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe due to persistent attacks by Boko Haram. The emergency was declared last May and extended in November.
Yobe state Governor Ibrahim Gaidam rejected the proposal on the grounds that local people had suffered under the emergency and this harmed the government's counter-insurgency strategy.
After being accused of a sluggish response to the kidnapping, the government has sent thousands of troops to the region, while the United States and Britain also have teams on the ground to help with the search.
The U.S. State Department said Washington had sent in military, law-enforcement and development experts.
"We have shared commercial satellite imagery with the Nigerians and are flying manned ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) assets over Nigeria with the government's permission," a U.S. official said.
Britain's minister for Africa Mark Simmonds would travel to the Nigerian capital on Wednesday for talks on further assistance, the Foreign Office in London said.
Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima said 77 of the girls in the video had been identified by parents, fellow students and girls who escaped the abductions.
"The video got parents apprehensive again after watching it, but the various steps taken by the governments and the coming of the foreign troops is boosting our spirit," said Dumoma Mpura, a leader at the girls' boarding school.
Additional reporting by Lanre Ola in Maiduguri, Isaac Abrak, Bate Felix, Joe Penney and Camillus Eboh in Abuja, Andrew Osborn in London and Lesley Wroughton in Washington, Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg, Editing by Mark Trevelyan and Janet Lawrence


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Leon Lai is a male celebrity.
He was born on Sunday December 11th 1966, in Beijing, China,.
October 15th 2019 is a 'lucky' day for Leon Lai that also brings progress in his career, and is good for finances.
Leon should utilize today for sharing thoughts and feelings with relatives and friends.
Through love, tolerance, and even sacrifice - Lai is capable to resolve conflicts, and heal the heart of his and of others.
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Just as Leon Lai evolves through a nine-year cycle and experiences the nine-month cycle, he is also subjected to nine-day cycles, even though their impact is subtle compared to the Personal Year and even Personal Month cycles. The Personal Day cycles proceed according to the same pattern - 1 through 9 - that the Personal Year and Personal Month cycles do. The numbers within the daily cycles have a similar impact on Leon to the yearly and monthly cycles - though less pronounced.
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Her feet bare, Aubrey Plaza is curled up on a sofa wearing a flowery sundress, cozy at a West Hollywood hotel. The 30-year-old actress is answering questions about a bunch of new projects — the zombie comedy "Life After Beth," the next-generation "Big Chill"-esque indie film "About Alex," the final season of her sitcom, "Parks and Recreation," which has just begun taping.
She speaks in that monotone, bored/sarcastic-sounding cadence that has become her comic signature. Her actual words, though, are engaged, witty and even a little enthusiastic.
Plaza's August movie releases could make people look at her differently than they have for the past six years. In "Life After Beth," she plays the dead girlfriend of heartbroken Zach (Dane DeHaan of "Chronicle" and "The Amazing Spider-Man 2"), who's mysteriously resurrected as a zombie infestation hits the San Fernando Valley.
"We've been calling it a zom-com-rom-dram because we feel that it's not only a zombie comedy, it's also a drama and it's very romantic," Plaza says of the movie, in which her Beth character gradually decomposes from a cheerfully clueless college student into a ravenous monster. "I think it's a really interesting film that's different from anything I've ever seen before."
She almost didn't see it, which is weird considering her longtime boyfriend, Jeff Baena, wrote the script about a dozen years ago.
"I had always heard about it. It was like this mythological thing, and I'd never read it," Plaza admits. "An agent I had was one of those people who had read the script years ago, and he said to me, 'By the way, you should probably read your boyfriend's script because it's really good.' So once I did, I said, 'We've got to make this movie and I have to play that character.' "
"Life After Beth" is now Baena's feature directing debut, and he hopes it's a showcase for all Plaza can do.
"Aubrey is an amazing actress," Baena says, "and she can simultaneously be hysterical and poignant. She has obviously had a career so far being deadpan and funny which, I think, pigeonholes her. She is entirely capable of the entire gamut of acting."
For Plaza, the best part was throwing herself — often literally — into Beth's more monstrous behavior: wallowing in dirt, lumbering around with a stove strapped to her back, chomping down on just about anything, etc.
"The most fun stuff was toward the end of the movie, when I got to be more of a zombie," admits the actress, whose Twitter handle is @evilhag. "I haven't done anything that physical before, so it was really fun for me to come up with weird stuff to do with my body. And it was fun to destroy things."
Turning into a ghoul is not without consequences, however. Plaza proudly displays a scar on her pinkie that she earned when Beth smashed a guitar and tossed it into the ocean. And abdominal muscles were painfully strained before a better harness for that heavy stove was devised.
All in a day's work, Plaza shrugs, when you're making a movie about the agony of twice-lost love.
"It echoes the idea of when you love someone, you have to let them go," she deadpans as to "Life After Beth's" metaphorical meaning. "When you really love them, you can't hold onto that someone too tight, or they'll try to eat you."
"About Alex," an ensemble piece that includes Jason Ritter, Maggie Grace, Max Greenfield, Nate Parker and Jane Levy, gave Plaza a chance to play a neurotic young lawyer who could not be more upfront about her feelings.
"That character was actually the closest I've played to who I actually am in real life," she reveals. "It appealed to me to play someone who was my actual age and going through things that I am going through currently.
"I think people associate me with April Ludgate from the television show and that kind of persona that I've created. Hopefully, people will see 'About Alex' and see that I'm more than that. But also … who cares?"
Plaza does, maybe, despite her in-character protestations. Just listen to what she says about going back to work on "Parks and Rec" for the final time.
"I'm going to really miss it," she confesses. "I'm sad, actually. We had our table read this morning for the first episode, and I almost cried before we even started reading it. So I don't even want to think about it, or I'll start crying."
We had to make her think about one thing: What is work going to be like with Chris Pratt, who plays April's doofus husband on the show, now that he's a bigtime movie superstar in the hit films "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "The Lego Movie"?
She didn't cry.
"He is the nicest guy ever," Plaza says of Pratt. "That guy could be the most famous person in the world — in the universe — and still be the most grounded, nice person you've ever met. He's just like a golden retriever puppy. He's a puppy dog in a superhero's body."
As for her own future in movies and television, Plaza hopes to grow the twin pursuits of dramatic acting and comedy that she began in high school in Wilmington, Del., and continued through simultaneous stints at New York University and with the Upright Citizens Brigade improv troupe.
"I really like the combination," she says. "I think the ultimate goal would be to do both and have it not be jarring for an audience. It's tricky to be thought of as a comedian and as a dramatic actor. There's a select group of people who make it work."
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Foxy, also known as Foxy! and Foxina on FurryMUCK is a British furry and anime fan artist and writer.
Fandom involvement[edit]
Her stories and artwork have been published in Anthropomorphine, Fürst, and Fur Visions. A black and white image by Foxy! is printed in the Further Confusion 2006 conbook.
At Lazy Fox Studios, Foxy publishes fanzines, including the UK regional furry zine, AnthropoMORPHINE.
External links[edit]
- Foxy's Den - Foxy's personal homepage
- Foxy! on the Yerf Historical Archive
- Foxy on the UK Comics Wiki
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OK i thought Rupert sounded very petty there, i didnt think it was funny. He thought nothing of eating a steak while Tom ate a cold potato. They did not have to bring back anything...
Poor Tom! Wendy is going to be soooooo upset! He never saw it coming even though Lex, Kathy, ShiiAnn and Rupert ALL told him it was coming. Sheesh!Do you think he deserved it for being so damn dumb?
I love when you stick up for Tom!!
Markopolo's note: This is a GREAT clip. It tells us a LOT of inside info. It appears Rupert and Tom aren't as far apart as the episode showed today. Tom's Alicia vote also helps that theory. Read on!Amber (confessional): Today at the challenge when she was talking non-stop about how she needed it so much. I know she needed it, but it's like, enough already, we know. But I don't blame her for scrambling. That's exactly what I would be doing if I knew I was going. And now that she's not going, I don't blame her for trying to bond with somebody. She is the person left out. I don't blame her at all. But it's hard being on the other side because you get annoyed easily.CUTWe had dinner with Rupert. He chose to bring every single one of us. I knew he would. Everybody knew he would. And of course he got the biggest, and gave Rob the second biggest. And I think that's because Rob hasn't been able to eat too much around here (HE'S BEEN GNAWING ON YOU TOO MUCH). He definitely needs it. And I knew for sure that Jenna would come after Rob because Rupert and Jenna, you know, (Amber crosses her fingers to show that they are "together"), they are inseparable. Then me. I pretty much predicted that order. I knew it would be that way.He knew that Big Tom was pretty much, ya know, he's eating well. He doesn't really need any extra strength. He didn't have a lot in the beginning so he's not that much competition.And I think Rupert feels that Tom really trusts Rupert, because they have become really close and tight. They're always collecting wood together and stuff like that. So he really wasn't worrying about his relationship with Big Tom too much.Shii Ann got the smallest. That was predictable. Then he kinda put Alicia in the middle, which is pretty much where she always is within the tribe. She's always in the middle.
Alicia, even today I tried to ask you to go get (water?) and you asked where the spring was. We've been living here eight days and you don't know where the spring was? That means you ain't been getting any water. (rest is inaudible)
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Esther van Dijk necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 203 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
Pendion is a publisher of educational books and magazines based in the Netherlands. We develop and publish textbooks for both middle and higher education. Subjects range from science and mathematics to languages and economics. We are looking for a new logo to be used on our website and stationery.
Schools, teachers and students.
We are looking for an original logo with a fresh and modern look. The logo must reflect the quality of our products. Sharp color selection and font type is imperative. The logo can be easily recognizable or be something more abstract. It must include the word 'Pendion' in a sans serif font. Please do not use any clichés (e.g. a graduation cap).
The new logo is the first step in redesigning our identity. Next will be our website and stationery. These will probably also be commissioned via 99designs. The winning logo designer will be given special consideration when choosing a designer for our website.
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The Sun Shines on the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Concours d'Elegance
The stars, being the cars, were aligned for the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Concours d'Elegance at the Rose Bowl and adjacent Brookside Golf Course in Pasadena on June 3, 2007. The weathermen gave the green light on good weather, and it was a glorious day.
The 2nd Annual Los Angeles Concours d'Elegance was presented by Assistance League of Southern California. Some 350 extraordinary automobiles sparkled in the abundant sun from the famous Round Door Rolls-Royce to American and European prewar and postwar classics to vintage race cars.
The Best in Show Prewar trophy winner was the 1936 Delahaye owned by Ken and Ann Smith and the Best in Show Postwar trophy was given to the 1964 Ferrari Lusso owned by Alan Hart.
Thousands of auto enthusiasts, friends, guests and press welcomed the second Los Angeles Concours d'Elegance, doubling last year's attendance. The proceeds benefit more than 100,000 individuals served each year through the eight program services of Assistance League of Southern California (ALSC), a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation founded in 1919, providing a variety of programs that enable individuals with critical needs to lead independent, productive lives.


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Metro-North's replacement of the Port Jervis line's 1940s signal system will begin in earnest now that a contract for equipment has been awarded.
Metro-North's replacement of the Port Jervis line's 1940s signal system will begin in earnest now that a contract for equipment has been awarded.
"It's a critical project "� a major, major project, to improve safety and reliability on the Port Jervis line," said Howard Permut, the railroad's president.
Metro-North's oversight committee at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved the $14 million contract for signal houses and supply cases Monday.
Their installation will be performed by Alstom Signaling Inc., a division of the company that made the Port Jervis line's Comet V rail cars. In July, another company, Ducci Electrical Contractors, was awarded the $22 million job of digging foundations and laying cable for the new equipment along the 66-mile rail line.
"I think of cab signaling as a way to run trains closer together and faster — safely," said Susan Metzger, Orange County's representative to the MTA.
"In the long picture, this is a step toward better service because, when ridership warrants more trains, we'll have the ability to expand capacity, " she said.
Metzger explained the cab signaling system, commonplace throughout the rest of Metro-North's rail network, will transmit the signals that control train movements directly to the engineer's operating console — giving him the information he needs at a glance to proceed and regulating speed for the different sections of track.
Now, engineers on Port Jervis line trains have to rely on seeing signal lights — similar to traffic lights — alongside the tracks to know conditions ahead. This wayside signal system is problematic when visibility is poor, and difficult to maintain because parts are virtually obsolete and have to be built in-house.
Cab signaling, in addition, will position the Port Jervis line — along with the rest of Metro-North's lines — for conversion to positive train control, a safety-oriented system the federal government has mandated most railroads to adopt.
The mandate arose from the 2008 collision of a freight train and a passenger train in California that killed 25 people.
The project, when it is completed in 2015, will represent an investment of $67 million, including the work Metro-North's own employees will do to install, test and commission the system; as well as contracts for design, construction management and positive train control.


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Check out who made the cut on our football team of the week...
1. Mark Jackson (Wicklow)
There was no disputing who the star of the Garden County's extra-time win over Offaly was - the Baltinglass goalie top scored for his team with 0-7 and also saved a penalty!
2. Eoghan Ban Gallagher (Donegal)
Donegal issued a statement of intent with an impressive 2-20 to 1-15 Ulster SFC preliminary round victory over Cavan.
3. Sean Andy O Ceallaigh (Galway)
It wasn't a game for the purists in Castlebar but that won't bother O Ceallaigh and his Galway team-mates who now switch their focus to a semi-final date with Sligo.
4. Keith Higgins (Mayo)
The four-time All-Star kept plugging away but a third defeat in-a-row at the hands of their arch rivals was Mayo's lot.
5. Stephen Attride (Laois)
The O'Moore County captain raised two white flags as they produced a Lazarus-like comeback against Wexford
6. Paul Brennan (Donegal)
The former Leitrim footballer enjoyed a fine outing in the heart of the Tir Chonaill side's defence.
7. Diarmuid Walshe (Carlow)
Walshe found the target with 1-2 as the Barrowsiders continued on their upward curve at Louth's expense.
8. Michael Murphy (Donegal)
The 2012 All-Ireland winning captain produced a five star performance in Ballybofey.
9. Ciaran Duggan (Galway)
Making his championship debut, the Annaghdown youngster's overall performance was central to the Tribesmen's hard-earned victory and he kicked two points for good measure.
10. John Tubritt (Wexford)
Tubritt - who scored four points - and his Model County team-mates suffered a heart-breaking defeat against Laois.
11. Donie Kingston (Laois)
The physically imposing Kingston led the O'Moore County's fightback and he top scored with 1-6 for John Sugrue's side.
12. Gearoid McKiernan (Cavan)
The Breffni County's talisman took the fight to Donegal and sent over 0-7 (five from play) but his efforts didn't get the rewards they deserved.
13. Paul Broderick (Carlow)
Broderick continued his rich vein of scoring form with 1-8 (1-3 from play) against the Wee County.
14. Damien Comer (Galway)
The Galway captain scored two points early on to help his team settle but his influence waned as the game progressed.
15. Donal Lenihan (Meath)
Meath got their hands on the O'Byrne Cup and Lenihan - who finished with 2-8 to his name - was a constant thorn in the side of the Westmeath defence.


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PLYMOUTH, N.H. – For the second straight year the Panthers of Plymouth State University (14-16, 3-3 Little East) had volleyball's number as they handed the Beacons (15-8, 6-1 Little East) their first conference loss of the season as they edged the Beacons by the final of 3-2 Tuesday evening at Foley Gymnasium in the final Little East Conference regular season match for both teams.
Even with the loss, the Beacons remain atop the conference standings and will host the semi-final and championship round of the conference tournament next Saturday and Sunday at Quincy High School. Last season the Panthers stunned the Beacons at home ending UMB's regular season home win streak. In Tuesday's match, the Beacons jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, but it was Plymouth State that would have the final say as they recorded the final three wins to end the Beacons run at perfection for the second straight year.
In the first set, UMB earned a 25-19 victory, while in the second the Beacons cruised to a 25-18 win. Plymouth State would win the final three sets by a combined nine points, first taking a 25-21 victory in the third. They then notched a 25-23 decision in the fourth and finally a 15-12 win in the fifth to clinch the victory.
Despite the loss the Beacons as whole combined to hit .252 on the night. Plymouth State was just as strong as they hit .244 in the conference match. Casey Stoodley led the Panthers to the win with 21 kills, while Shannon Thompson (Moorpark, Calif.) finished with a team-high 17 kills. Kirsten Morrison (North Reading, Mass.) was the only other player to finish in double-figures as she the sophomore posted 11 kills on the night.
Freshman Molly Witzmann (Encinitas, Calif.) posted a match-high .444 attack percentage as she went 8-for-18 on the night. Defensively the Panthers had four players finish in double-figures in digs, while for UMB it was Kayla Wilson (San Jose, Calif.) who put-up a match-high 14 digs. At the net the two teams exchanged blocks all night, but in the end it was UMass Boston who finished with one solo block and 20 block assists. Plymouth State finished with 10 block assists of their own.
Setters Emma Rocha (Boynton Beach, Fla.) and Megan Pollock (Wilton, Calif.) combined for 46 assists, while their Plymouth State counterpart Kirsten Perrotta tallied 45 helpers.
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SEATTLE — People openly lit joints under the Space Needle and on Seattle's sidewalks — then blew the smoke at TV news cameras. To those looking to "get baked," the city's police department suggested pizza and a "Lord of the Rings" movie marathon.
What, exactly, is going on in Washington state?
Marijuana possession became legal under state law Thursday, the day a measure approved by voters to regulate marijuana like alcohol took effect. It prompted midnight celebrations from pot activists who say the war on drugs has failed.
But as the dawn of legalization arrives, Washington and Colorado, where a similar law passed last month, now face some genuinely complicated dilemmas: How on Earth do you go about creating a functioning, legal weed market? How do you ensure adults the freedom to use pot responsibly, or not so responsibly, while keeping it away from teenagers?
And perhaps most pressingly, will the Justice Department just stand by while the states issue licenses to the growers, processors and sellers of a substance that, under federal law, remains very much illegal?
"We're building this from the ground all the way up," said Brian Smith, spokesman for the Washington Liquor Control Board, which is charged with regulating the drug. "The initiative didn't just wave a magic wand and make everybody here an expert on marijuana."
The measures approved Nov. 6 have two main facets. First, they OK the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana by adults over 21. That took effect Thursday in Washington, though it remains illegal — for now — to sell pot, so people have to keep getting it from the marijuana fairy.
In Colorado, where pot fans will also be able to grow their own plants, the law takes effect by Jan. 5.
The other part of the measures, the regulatory schemes, are trickier. Washington's Liquor Control Board, which has been regulating alcohol for 78 years, has a year to adopt rules for the fledgling pot industry: How many growers, processors and stores should there be in each county? Should there be limits on potency? How should the pot be inspected, packaged and labeled?
To help answer those questions, officials will turn to experts in the field — including police, public policy experts and some of the state's many purveyors of medical marijuana. Smith anticipates undercover monitoring operations to make sure the private, state-licensed stores aren't selling to minors.
The marijuana will be taxed heavily, with revenues possibly reaching hundreds of millions of dollars a year for schools, health care, basic government services and substance abuse prevention.
Unless, of course, the Justice Department has something to say about it.
Few people question the states' ability to simply remove all penalties under their own laws for marijuana. The federal government would remain free to raid state-licensed growers or stores and prosecute those involved in federal court, just as they remain free to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries in states with medical marijuana laws.
So the Justice Department could likely sue to block the regulatory schemes. But will it? What's better, from the administration's perspective — an ounce of weed legalized with regulation or an ounce of weed legalized with no oversight?
The department has given no hints about its plans.


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Businesses are typical adaptive systems. We use the word "business" as a synonym of "work". Businesses need to adapt to the environment in order to achieve the permanence of their transcendent goals and the personal goals of their participants.
Adaptive systems for work are entities that interact with the environment having the characteristics of a complex system but with an implicit and explicit duty to produce a predefined result.
Work is an environment that generates the need of adaptive systems in order to produce results and administrative systems to use and control the methods used.
The maximal strategy implies achieving or overcoming the planned results using procedures with the necessary flexibility and controlling them based on the feedback of the market.
The minimum strategy is based on using strict methods that use rigid procedures and intrinsic control systems based on accepted standards.
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Everyone's favorite mosquito repellent, DEET, works by making a smell that mosquitoes can't stand, or by blocking their ability to smell humans, depending on who you ask. But even the greatest repellents won't stop all mosquitoes. New evidence suggests why.
It turns out that the Anopheles gambiae have a second family of olfactory sensors, previously unknown, which sniff out and activate due to completely different smells than the ones we already knew about. This could help explain why it's so hard to develop efficient repellents, and maybe help stop the spread of diseases from the insects.
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Last year, at least 628 fracking operations occurred in the state, according to a voluntary oil industry survey, but the state has had no rules requiring public notification, disclosure of chemicals used and other key issues surrounding the practice.
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Thursday, 31 July 2008
Goals for the end of summer
The first is a 10 hour triathlon in Superior, WI in September. We'll be doing it as a relay. We're aiming for 4 sprint distances each, but that's a really lofty goal.
The second is a 50 mile race in Manistee, MI at the end of September. I don't have a particular goal for this right now. Basically this race gives us an excuse to run more long runs.
We'll be doing a 20-25 mile run this weekend in Devils' Lake state park. We'll be bringing The Bois as usual and switching off running with the baby jogger. SR's family is beginning to think we are crazy. His mom said she is worried that we'll become less intelligent with all the exercise (I guess there was an article about that in the newspaper there). To which I replied with 4 studies showing exercise prevents cognitive decline. :). No, even the family isn't spared from my studies.
SR has also in the last 48 hours turned into a calorie counter. He's attempting to lose a few pounds and now weighs or measures out everything he eats and records it in a log. It is even beyond anything I would do, but it is interesting to watch. Yesterday he kept his intake to 2100 calories (and ran). The readers will probably be more receptive to the idea of a calorie counting guy than a girl.
My weight has been stable at 50kg. Right where I want it. Thanks so much for all of the food recommendations. But, to be honest, I'm still eating the same things. Just more of them. I'll let you know if creativity strikes me and I try one of the recipes/suggestions.
And The Bois' weight. Well, I don't know. All I know is he is curvy and beautiful a la Edouard Manet.
Running Song of the Day: Downtown Boys by Infernal
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- olga said...
First of all, congrats to both on 5k run. As for the accident - shit happens, sometimes literally. No harm in it.
Secondly, about SR's kids and your moving. That's a toughy. Of course everybody'll adjust to whatever will happen. I never thought I'd be so fine with my older son living elsewhere and having a rare check on him via myspace, but I am. So will you.
I can't believe SR is loosing weight on purpose! Like, from his elbows? :) I gained 4 lbs since Bighorn and can't shake them off. This week I finally started training (as opposed to lolly-gagging) and eating better (all that travel...), and still, no budge. Argh!!!
Yay on 50 miler! Obviously, I am not into tri's, but I am just in owe of those. Go, team!
And awesome picture lay out on Bois!
- 31 July 2008 at 17:18
- SteveQ said...
Did you pose the little guy, or did the picture remind you of The Naked Maja? Either way, I laughed.
I'm supposed to be the expert on trail 50s in the midwest, but don't remember the one you're doing; must not be in the UP, or it'd be on my calendar.
- 31 July 2008 at 18:01
- sea legs girl said...
Olga, it's good to hear from you and thanks for your perspective on your son.
Glad I made you laugh since your blog is constantly making me laugh.
The photo reminded me of the painting (no posing involved). Maja? Is that referring to the Goya painting?
And, yeah, the run is in lower MI.
- 31 July 2008 at 21:37
- Danni said...
OMG the two pictures together are too hilarious!!!
Sounds like good goals -- you will have fun with those I'm sure.
I have no problems with anyone counting calories -- the concern I would have is only if the intentional restriction is too much. I weigh my food sometimes just for a reality check on how much I am eating. And I keep a tally in my head a lot of times since I have a tendancy to overeat and get fat. But I know from experience that it can all make you crazy and awfully hungry which makes one cranky -- if you're not reasonable in your approach.
I am not smart enough to convert KG to pounds. Your audience is Amerrrrrrrican!
- 1 August 2008 at 00:46
- sea legs girl said...
Good point, Danni. I don't mean to be annoying. 50 kg is 110 lbs.
But strangely enough, the readership is more than 25% outside of the US. Not that that's the majority, though.
I also just have this conviction that the US should start using kgs and I want to be part of the revolution.
- 1 August 2008 at 16:24
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- 1 August 2008 at 16:30
- Danni said...
It doesn't annoy me. :-) I'll join your revolution but I need to work on my math skillz.
- 1 August 2008 at 16:31
- sea legs girl said...
So, maybe I overestimated the foreign readership. It's about 20%.
- 1 August 2008 at 16:32
- IVF Running Mama said...
Hi there--I have been reading your blog because I would like to continue running through my pregnancy. I have been running 50-60 miles a week and am 26 weeks pregnant. The past two weeks I have noticed that I have been having a lot of BH contractions...sometimes a couple in an hour. I went to see my midwife/doctor and they said I was slightly effaced and that I should stop running COMPLETELY even though my cervix was still long and closed. I think that I just haven't been drinking enough water b/c it is very hot where I live right not. So, what's your advice? Stop running? Cut back? Get a new doctor that doesn't jump to the conclusion that running is the source of all problems? Congrats on exercising through your pregnancy and after. I hope to be able to do the same!
- 4 August 2008 at 05:10
- sea legs girl said...
ivf running mama,
Great to hear from you. I'm happy you've been able to run so much and hope you can continue. Unfortunately, I don't know enough to advise you either way. What I would say is you should stop running as recommended, but try to get in to see another doctor for a second opinion. Try some other forms of exercise in the meantime, if you have not been advised against them. Swimming and spinning were my personal favorites during the time I was unable to run (SI joint injury).
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uh, yeah right. I bet you're going to get right on that.
It's not like you have a practice to run or anything.
A guy I stopped for DUI the other day gave me his attorney's card. He wanted me to call the attorney to discuss the guy's DUI from 2 weeks ago, and based on that decide whether I wanted to proceed with the current one. Sadly, I had already decided.
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Treat the childlike self absorbed as you would treat a child.
Pulling out a card from my parental index box, one I have used more than a few times, in more than one form, I give you all the benefit of the script.
Usually starts out with: I would like to go to Cancun on Spring Break(new car, computer,tattoo) or some other such nonsense--then is followed by:My saying.
I would like to hit the mega bucks lottery for 200 million, we have about the same chances of gettting what we like .
alternate form : I would like you to treat your mother and father with as much care as you seem to treat yourself.
Make changes as you see fit. I don't get to use them anymore as both children have turned into wonderful young adults.
Would love to hear how you handled this, Dr. G.
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While they won't call EACH and EVERY one of these folks, they will charge you an hourly fee to explain how and where you downloaded all this stuff and whether it's legitimate. It might take a while.
Once you're done with the librarian, I'd be happy to give you another appointment, for which you'll pay another copay and I'll be happy to explain what I'm going to do.
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If you need me again, please call Mary and she'll make you another appointment for us to chat.
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Great Idea! I'll go cancel all of my patients for the rest of the month, so I can get right on that. As soon as your check for $50,000 clears...
Three points gained for doing his research! Five points lost for being a complete moron!
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I bet your office inventory carries a clue-bat. If it doesn't, it should.
I use this with my 10 & 8 year olds. My version is: "Well, I would like a million dollars, and that ain't gonna happen either." Both seem to think an eyeroll is the proper response.
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In his first television interview since the election, the former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential nominee told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" that he was convinced he'd win until Ohio's vote came in, and that he damaged his campaign by failing to attract black and Hispanic voters and speaking too freely in his infamous "47 percent" comments.
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