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The major U.S. Olympic trials are under way through July 2 in preparation for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Live coverage of many events can be found on the NBC Sports Network, and selected videos will appear on NBCOlympics.com. Here's what you should watch Sunday, July 1:
The event: Swimming: women's 50m free (semifinal); women's 200m back, 800m free (final); men's 100m fly, men's 50m free (finals).
When: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET, NBC Sports Network and 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET, July 1, NBC.
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Where: CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Neb.
One to watch: At 45, 12-time Olympic medalist Dara Torres continues to prove that age does not have to be a factor in elite competition swimming. If Torres makes it through today's 50m rounds and then finishes in either first or second place in the final, she'll become the first American swimmer to make 6 Olympic teams.
Four years ago in Beijing, Torres won three silver medals and was then the eldest member of the U.S. Olympic swimming team. Since the 2008 Games, Torres has undergone shoulder surgery to alleviate osteoarthritis (a degenerative joint disease) and also had radical knee surgery to reconstruct another joint and grow new cartilage.
Recovery was arduous, the single mother of a 6-year-old daughter tells Sporting News, but adds she's now in the best shape of her life, fitter and more flexible than she was 20 years ago. Torres has no illusions, though, about her age or her teammates. "I'm middle age and I have middle age pains and aches like everyone. My hormones are dropping and it takes me longer to recover," she says. "I envy the younger kids, the way they can bounce back from a hard training and eat anything and then train hard again. There are days when I need a nap, I'm so tired. But this is something I want to do it until my body tells me it absolutely can't take anymore."
What happens: The fastest two swimmers in each individual event earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team bound for London.
Read more about the Olympic swimming trials and events
The event: Track & Field: women's 400m, 1,500m and men's 400m hurdles, 1,500m, and 200m (finals).
When: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET, July 1, NBC.
Where: TrackTown USA in Eugene, Ore.
Ones to watch: It's day 10 of the U.S. Olympic Track & Field team trials - the final day of competition.
Jeshua Anderson grabbed the second fastest 400m hurdles time in the world in 2011. Now 22, this graduate of Washington State aims to challenge two-time Olympic champion Angelo Taylor and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Bershawn Jackson today for a coveted berth on team U.S.A. And he'll be mounting that challenge on the very track that he won a National Championship..
"Man it'd mean a lot to me, especially putting that Team USA on my chest, representing my country. I've been feeling good running well... go out and make that team," Anderson told Washington station KXLY of his London aspirations. And if he does become an Olympian bound for the 2012 Summer Games, his goal is simple: "Any medal will do, but the gold medal is preferred."
What happens: The top three athletes in the men's 400m hurdles will qualify to make the Olympic team and journey to London.
Read more about the Olympic track & field events.
The event: Gymnastics: women's final.
When: 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, July 1, NBC.
Where: HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif.
Ones to watch: Gabby Douglas, 16, is set to give trail favorite Jordyn Wieber a run (or should that be jump?) for the top spot at the women's gymnastic trials today. If Douglas makes the five-woman Olympic team, she will be the first African American appointed since Dominique Dawes in 2000. And if she makes the podium in London, she would be the first African American woman in history to win an individual Olympic medal.
While Wieber is know for her power and consistency in events, Douglas brings a flair that's all her own. Her lightness and agility while in the air led national team director Martha Karolyi to nickname her the "flying squirrel." It's a moniker Douglas - who left her family in Virginia Beach at age 14 to move to to Des Moines, Iowa, to train - has adopted with pleasure. "I took that name in," she told the Mercury News. "I love people calling me the squirrel." Her mom Natalie Hawkins has even had team Gabby t-shirts made with what else, a squirrel on the back.
What happens: Five men and five women will be chosen to represent the United States in men's and women's gymnastics at the 2012 Olympic Games. For the men, two athletes will be identified following the conclusion of the second day of competition, with the remaining members announced July 1 in conjunction with the women's final session.
For women, the individual all-around champion at the conclusion of two days of competition at the trials will automatically make the Olympic Team. The remaining four athletes will be determined by the selection committee and announced on July 1.
Read more about the Olympic gymnastic trials and events.
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No one expects the federal government to be a model of efficiency. But with a projected deficit of nearly $600 billion this year, you'd think officials would do everything possible to help people pay their taxes.
No one expects the federal government to be a model of efficiency. But with a projected deficit of nearly $600 billion this year, you'd think officials would do everything possible to help people pay their taxes.
Kathleen Klein thought so. All the Tustin, Calif., resident wanted to do was schedule an appointment for her and her husband to have some questions answered by an Internal Revenue Service official about their retirement accounts.
Thoughtfully, she even waited until tax season was over before seeking a little of the IRS' time.
What Klein received in return was a bureaucratic runaround worthy of a cable company (I'm thinking of the recent recording of a Comcast worker bullying a customer who wanted to cancel his service).
Klein, 69, reached out to the tax agency by phone, by online chat, by e-mail. She got nowhere.
Worse, she eventually was told that IRS personnel don't answer people's tax questions from April 16 until the following January, which is flat-out untrue.
"All I wanted was confirmation from a real, live human being that I understood the law," Klein told me. "That doesn't seem like too much for a taxpayer to ask."
It doesn't — and the IRS wants everyone to know that.
"Generally speaking, if you want help, you can come into an office and get help," said Raphael Tulino, a spokesman for the agency.
Klein wanted to know whether her and her husband's individual retirement accounts could be combined with their 401(k)s. She also wanted to know whether there'd be penalties for not withdrawing enough money from each account annually.
Klein said she found the relevant IRS document — Publication 590 — online and pored over the many pages. It appeared that IRAs and 401(k)s can be combined, though there are some exceptions, and the rules for minimum annual withdrawals differ for different types of accounts.
This left more questions than answers. So Klein tried to make an appointment for her and her hearing-impaired husband to meet with someone at the IRS' Santa Ana, Calif., office. She called the office's number and discovered she couldn't get past the automated switchboard.
An e-mail address was included on the recording, she said, "but it was so garbled I couldn't understand it."
So she went to the IRS.gov Web site and clicked the link for its "interactive tax assistant." This launched an electronic chat with someone named Nina, followed by a supervisor named Vicky.
Both said they could provide the phone number of the Santa Ana office, which Klein already had, but couldn't provide the e-mail address. Klein was advised to leave a message with the office and hope someone called her back.
Turns out you can't leave messages — see a pattern emerging? But after listening to the recording five more times, Klein managed to figure out the garbled e-mail address.
Her message was answered the same day with an e-mail from the Santa Ana office requesting more information for setting up an appointment. She provided it.
Two weeks passed.
Then came an e-mail from a senior official at the Santa Ana office saying that "tax law questions are only answered by an IRS representative from Jan. 2 through the due date of Form 1040, generally April 15."
"If you need help outside this time period," the official wrote, Klein's best bet would be to look for answers online at IRS.gov.
"They're saying that if you have a problem between April 16 and Jan. 1, you're out of luck," Klein told me.
She asked the IRS official to send her a written copy of the policy stating that taxpayers are on their own for eight months of the year. No response ever came.
Maybe that's because there isn't one.
Tulino, the agency spokesman, declined to comment on the e-mail Klein received from the Santa Ana official. And he reiterated the IRS' preference that people seek answers online.
But Tulino said taxpayers can indeed get help from agency workers throughout the year. "Any taxpayer can come in and get answers," he said.
The IRS just isn't going to make it easy.
This isn't merely bureaucratic intransigence, though that may be a factor. The IRS' look-but-don't-touch stance is a factor primarily of ongoing budget cuts.
Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives seem determined to cripple the agency and drastically curtail its enforcement powers. As a result, many services have been pared back.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in April that budget cuts probably will mean that about a third of people calling the agency simply won't get through. He also said waits of three hours aren't unheard of at field offices.
"Essentially, the federal government is losing billions in revenue collection to achieve budget savings of a few hundred million dollars," he said.
Tulino said it is possible to make an appointment to visit an IRS office. But Klein's experience shows how challenging that can be.
Your best bet is to look online for your nearest office and just drop by during business hours. There'll be a wait, maybe a long one, so bring a good book.
Tulino apologized for what Klein went through. "That's not something we want to happen," he said.
If so, then the IRS can clearly do a better job of informing taxpayers of their options and not making interaction with the agency seem like a chapter from "Catch-22."
And a quick thought for our friends in Congress: Many people want to pay their fair share of taxes to the government. Putting obstacles in their way is self-defeating at best, an act of gross stupidity at worst.
Klein said that after I roused the IRS from its April-January hibernation, she received a call from an official to schedule an appointment to visit the Santa Ana office.
See? That wasn't so hard.

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With Black Friday sales behind us and the holidays quickly approaching, the volume of goods being sent through the mail is reaching its yearly peak. Unfortunately for a couple of Canada Post drivers in Surrey, British Columbia, someone decided to rob their trucks.
Police were pretty sure the thief was trying to get hold of the gift that could keep on giving throughout the high-volume holiday season — mailbox keys. Either that or Cyber Monday deliveries.
One of the drivers whose truck was hijacked grabbed hold of the mirror as the robber drove away, yelling and clinging on for dear life as the truck picked up speed. He finally let go when his assailant brandished a can of mace at him, and broke his wrist when he fell.
He admitted that his proactive resistance to the theft went completely against how they taught him to deal with such situations in mailman school. But this guy's part of a higher order who live by a noble creed: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. But mail truck reivers can. (Hat tip to Will!)
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
John Newsinger – The Blood Never Dried – A People's History of the British Empire
One of the unexpected consequences of the "War on Terror" has been an attempt to reinvent the history of the British Empire. To justify the actions of the American government around the world, it's important to show the benovolance of previous Empires.
John Newsinger's book has been written in response to this re-writing of history. In turn, Newsinger writes short and sharp pieces on moments and places of the British Empire. So we read how the British government decided that the free market would solve the Irish Potato famine of 1846 – resulting in a million deaths. We discover how the British murdered their way around countries from Egypt to China. How, in the interests of Free Trade they fought two brutal wars (though war is hardly the right term for such unequal conflicts) for the right to sell Opium to the Chinese, and along with this, raped, pillaged and plundered the country.
The "Jewel in the Crown" of the Empire, India, makes for several interesting chapters. Newsinger documents how the manner of British rule led directly to the uprising of 1857. Newsinger calls the events of 1857 an uprising (his authority is no-less a figure as Benjamin Disraeli who described the war as a "National revolt") rather than the mutiny that it is normally described as.
Newsinger argues that the brutal nature of the uprising, described with glee in the media of the time, was only brutal because it was a response to the violence of British Rule up to that point. He quotes Karl Marx, writing at the time, that however violent the action of the rebels;
"it is only the reflex, in a concentrated form, of England's own conduct in India, not only during the epoch of the foundation of her Eastern Empire, but even during the last ten years of a long-settled rule."
The violence of the British troops in putting down the revolt, was often glorified as bravery, worthy of many medals. This violence of course was characteristic of all of Britain's colonial rules. From the utter brutality of the British response to the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, to the violence vested on those in countries like Malaysia, Egypt, Iraq or China who dared to question rule from London.
Newsinger's book finishes with a reflection on the new aspect of Imperialism. How Britain has become so linked to the new American Empire. The author argues that this is not something new, and it is actually a characteristic of Labour government policy over the years. Newsingers conclusion is hopeful; he argues that historically while Empires are brutal, they are also weak. The hope he says must be that those resisting new attempts at neo-colonialism, can eject the oppressors from their lands.
You can read the full article by Karl Marx on the Indian Revolt, September 16th 1857 here.
The second edition of John Newsinger's book is now available from Bookmarks here.
Related Reviews
Newsinger - Fighting Back: The American Working Class in the 1930s
Newsinger - The Dredd Phenomenon: Comics and Contemporary Society
Sunday, May 27, 2007
John Ray - The Rosetta Stone and the rebirth of Ancient Egypt
There is no doubt that the Rosetta Stone has captured the imagination of many thousands of people. It's intriguing combination of scripts, unreadable except to the expert seem to conceal all the excitement of ancient Egypt. John Ray makes the point at the start of this little history of the Stone, that it is probably the British Museum's most popular object. Certainly sales of Rosetta Stone postcards, mouse mats and t-shirts must bring in tremendous funds for the museum.
This is one of the excellent series of books on the "Wonders of the World". However, I am not sure that it works in this context, as well as some of the others – however important the Rosetta Stone is to archaeology, it is not the Roman Colosseum or The Parthenon.
That said, the story of the stone (and the "rebirth of Ancient Egypt" that took place as a result of its study) is fascinating. While the inscription on the stone isn't as exciting as perhaps we'd hope, the combination of three written languages allowed the unlocking of the language of the Ancient Egyptians. This in turn allowed scholars to read the words of the Egyptians for the first time since antiquity and in turn, re-opened their world to study.
John Ray does a superb job of bring the story of the translation into the open. Two main characters dominate, the Englishman Thomas Young, described accurately as a "polymath", who started the process of unlocking the mysteries of Hieroglyphics and the Frenchman Jean-Francois Champollion, who perhaps single handed created the arena of history now known as Egyptology.
John Ray takes us through how they worked out the meaning of the words – first translating the ancient Greek, then gradually associating the different Hieroglyphics with the intermediary demotic script. We also read a potted history of other attempts to translate ancient writings and get a short breakdown of the step-by-step processes that are used. We also get a fleeting history of Egypt. The Egypt of the Pharaohs (and the sort of things they wrote about, including an amusing account of Egyptian erotica) and the Egypt that was fought over by French and British colonialism. A conflict that eventually lead to the Rosetta Stone spending the last two centuries in the British Museum.
John Ray also briefly examines the thorny question of who should own the Stone, or similar artefacts. Should they be returned to their country of origin? Can anyone really "own" such items? John ducks the issue slightly I feel .Certainly I think that Egypt has a greater claim on the Rosetta Stone than some of the more complex examples he raises. The Stone was imperial plunder from the region, and certainly Egypt's museums are more than capable of looking after it and similar items.
But this is really a digression from what is an entertaining, informative and well-written account of one of the most important archaeological pieces in museums anywhere. Uniquely, its importance, as John Ray points out, isn't simply about the information contained within its inscriptions, but it's also about the history that has developed around the Stone and what it enabled historians to understand about the past.
Related Reviews
Keith Hopkins & Mary Beard - The Colosseum
Monday, May 21, 2007
Mike Gonzalez - Rebel's Guide To Marx
Mike Gonzalez's contribution to the excellent "Rebel's Guide" series must have been the hardest to even consider. How do you compress the life, times and political thought of one of the world's most important and influential philosophers into a book of less than 50 pages?
I have to say that Gonzalez does well. There are many more indepth and longer biographies of Marx - and the author hasn't tried to out do them, rather he's tried to draw out the key strands of Marx's thought and put them beside a description of how Marx develops politically. Starting from Marx's early student days, Gonzalez looks at how the radicals of the time where starting to view society and life as being based on material realities, he then charts Marx's development along the route of historical materialism.
Gonzalez never pretends Marx was simply a philosopher. Quoting Marx's famous comment "The philosophers have merely interpreted the world... the point is to change it", Gonzalez shows us a Marx immersed in the radical activities of the time, helping to instigate the First International and attending meetings of the International Working Men's association. Much of Marx's writings come of out these activities - The Communist Manifesto being the best example. But Gonzalez also shows us how Marx's examination of the Paris Commune helps him develop his theories of the state and political organisation.
Ultimately there is much that must be left out. But this is as close to the best short introduction to Karl Marx and his ideas that you can get and Gonzalez gives plenty of other suggestions for further reading.
Releated Reviews
Choonara - A Rebel's Guide to Trotsky
Bambery - A Rebel's Guide to Gramsci
Birchall - A Rebel's Guide to Lenin
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett - Good Omens
This hilarious novel combines a clever spoof of the horror genre (in particular the Omen films) with razor sharp wit centred on the real-life horrors of the 16th Century Witch Trails.
Given the two authors probably haven't written an unfunny word in decades, you'll enjoy this if you need to escape the taxation of reading long books about philosophy, history, or, indeed if you have the 'flu.
I'm actually considering doing one of those lists - Top 100 books to read while sick in bed. This would be in there somewhere.
Of course, this classic (!) tale of good versus evil can't have a simple ending - neither good, nor evil actually wins. But that doesn't matter.
Can anyone tell yet that even though I only finished it yesterday, I am so unwell I've forgotten most of the plot? I also really liked the character of "Dog" - Hell's Hound, who for reasons that I can't go into, is a Yorkshire Terrier. Or some such small dog. Oh I'm giving up and going back to bed, read the Wikipedia entry on it, it's more comprehensive.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Harry Mount - Amo, Amas, Amat... and all that; How to Become A Latin Lover
Harry Mount might well be amused, given his impassioned plea that the end of this book for more people to learn and be taught Latin, that my partner, upon seeing his work on my bedside cabinet assumed that it wasn't about learning a new language at all.
That aside, this is an interesting book about what is commonly joked as being the "dead language". It's a basic introduction to the vocabulary and grammar of, as the author makes clear, the language used to write some of "the most heartbreaking poetry ever written". His style is amusing and accessible - he starts of by translating the tattoo on Angelina Jolie's belly "Quod me nutri me destruit" - "What nourishes me destroys me". Even if you don't know who Angelina Jolie(*) is, you can find amusement in the fact that this inscription was one her heavily pregnant belly.
Unfortunately, at least for me, Harry Mount failed completely to achieve his stated goal. I read this book as an entertaining read - enjoying the explanations of the origins of common words, or famous Latin phrases that we see on a regular basis - but I came away from reading it, not knowing Latin at all, and certainly not inspired to learn or study it further. Perhaps this is my old hatred of foreign languages coming to the fore. Though I would have thought I would have been within Mr. Mount's target group - I do enjoy reading Roman authors in translation, and perhaps I would benefit from reading heartbreaking poetry.
There is interesting stuff here - I now know why there isn't a year zero between 1BC and 1AD for instance, but very little of it is actually about speaking the language.
Finally, Mount's impassioned plea in his final chapter for more Latin teachers, harder Latin examines and more taught Latin doesn't ring true. I take his point, after-all, Latin is something that is required for many other subjects, but I'd rather see an education system that looks forward to new ways of learning and improving education wholesale, rather than harking back to the days of prep-school Latin and enforced translations of Catullus.
(*) A film actress apparently.
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Kohlschreiber beats Seppi 6-3, 6-4 at Halle
HALLE, Germany (AP) — Former champion Philipp Kohlschreiber defeated Italy's Andreas Seppi 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the Gerry Weber Open on Monday.
The 30-year-old German, who won the grass-court tournament in 2011, struck nine aces and converted both his break point chances to win in 1 hour, nine minutes.
Kohlschreiber will next face French qualifier Pierre-Hugues Herbert, who upset eighth-seeded Jerzy Janowicz of Poland 7-6 (5), 6-2.
Also Monday, German wild card Dustin Brown beat Russia's Andrey Kuznetsov 6-3, 6-4 to set up a second round meeting with French Open champion Rafael Nadal.
Another German wild card, Peter Gojowczyk, defeated Poland's Michal Przysiezny 7-5, 6-4 for a meeting with third-seeded Milos Raonic of Canada.
Portugal's Joao Sousa beat Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff, another wild card, 6-4, 6-3 and next faces six-time champion Roger Federer, who is seeded second behind Nadal.
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'Fault in Our Stars' Amsterdam bench missing
AMSTERDAM >> The city of Amsterdam isn't quite sure whether to blame fate or human error, but a bench upon which the star-crossed teenage lovers talk and kiss in the hit film "The Fault in Our Stars" is missing.
The green bench that used to sit on the Leidsdegracht resembles hundreds of others around the city, and its absence went unnoticed for at least a month — probably because someone placed a large flower pot on the spot.
Suspects in the disappearance include the city itself, which may have simply taken the old bench away for repairs, as well as neighbors unhappy with extra tourist traffic, vandals or even fans wanting to own a small piece of film history.
"It's a bit embarrassing, because we do keep good track of them, but it's gone all right," said city spokesman Stephan van der Hoek.
He said Tuesday the bench will be replaced within weeks, depending on whether the city's works department has a replacement in stock. He said fans of the movie visiting Amsterdam had begun asking where the bench was — perhaps because maps of significant sites from its 2013 filming have begun to circulate.
Another site of interest is the Anne Frank House museum. Contrary to the impressions of some filmgoers, scenes that appear to occur in the museum were actually shot on a stage set. Visitors to the museum can't enter the attic, where the stars also kiss.
"We do get visitors asking about the film," said spokeswoman Annemarie Bekker.
City spokesman Van der Hoek said that his best guess is that neighbors chipped in to buy the flower pot — a frequent occurrence in Amsterdam. But he figures the bench itself was probably taken away intentionally, as there are no marks on the ground suggesting it was violently wrenched from its spot.
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What are the elements of narrative writing? How do authors describe people and places in their writing? From exposure to this lesson, students will gain a clear understanding of setting, characters, problem/solution, and plot. Each day students listen to a read-aloud of a story and are guided by discussions related to the focus story element for the lesson. After working collaboratively, students engage in independent activities such as completing a character map; a setting illustration; a problem/solution chart; a beginning, middle, and ending activity; and a story map. Activities can be modified for early readers by allowing them to work with partners.
Story Map: Students can use this interactive to complete a story map for the narratives they explore in this lesson.
Fisher, D., Flood, J., Lapp, D., & Frey, N. (2004). Interactive read-alouds: Is there a common set of implementation practices? The Reading Teacher, 58, 817.
A study determined the components of a read-aloud by observing expert teachers. The researchers concluded that all of the following findings are vital for a read-aloud:
- Children should be read aloud to everyday.
- Teachers should select books based on the needs and interests of the students.
- Teachers should preview and practice reading the book before reading aloud to students.
- There should be a clear purpose of every read-aloud, and students should understand this purpose.
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Saturday, July 07, 2012
Diary of a Two Year Old Princess
OK I am.
She's spoiled.
I can't really help it. First of all she's hilarious even in her tantrums. Second of all, she's SUCH a girl that she just melts me with her lovey snuggles and cuddles and affection.
I think she gets away with way too much though, simply on account of her cute. Disobedience, defiance, doing things her own way when she is very specifically told NOT to, she counts these things in her repertoire of acts.
But what I sort of adore the most is her INSISTENCE that she be paid attention to when SHE wants it.
This morning, I made her go in the living room while I cleaned up breakfast. This was NOT on her agenda, so she had a wee fit of pretend crying, putting her face in the sofa as I walked off to the kitchen. I could hear her, making lots of noise at it "MOOOOOMMMMMMYYYYYY" but, disingenuous as any two year old ever was. After about 20 minutes I realized Charlie needed changed as he was muddy and called him to get cleaned up.
She tries to climb up on me "I want up, I want up." I hugged her and told her I loved her, kissed her cheek and said "Charlie needs changed now" and put her down.
At which point she stomped a foot at me, made a very cross face and said "BUT I CRYING!!!!"
Yes. She is a two year old Princess.
She better marry a lawyer. No one else is going to be able to afford her.
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Anakreon is based on a 3,500 year-old fresco from the palace in Knossos on Crete. It was Estrid Ericson who first discovered the Minoan mural with its blue bird, which Josef Frank transformed into the Anakreon print in 1938. It is named after the Greek poet (Anacreon) from 500 B.C., famous for his love- and drinking songs.
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WHISTLER -- It was supposed to be their track. It was supposed to be their home ice advantage.
Yet one by one Canada's national skeleton team racers (had been taking) took turns blowing it Friday night at the Whistler Sliding Centre. And then Jon Montgomery came roaring down the run.
Montgomery the 30-year-old car auctioneer from Russell, Man., with the turtle painted on the front of his racing helmet, made it his track Friday, out-running Latvia's Martins Dukurs on his fourth and final run to win the men's 2010 Olympic skeleton gold medal.
"That was what I'd set out to do at the top of track before the fourth run," said Montgomery, who finished with a four-run combined time of three minutes, 29.73 seconds.
"It feels, is stupendous a word. It's outrageous, unbelieveable,. all those things rolled into a big ball. It's bearing down on me. I don't have words to describe it.
"I was happy with that performance. I said to myself coming up the out run that that's gotta be close to good enough."
After he'd finished he had to stand and watch Dukurs, who'd had a 0.18 second lead heading into the final run. Dukurs's lead kept shrinking as he went down the track. He had trouble with the final corner and bumped the wall of the track slightly with about 100 metres to go.
But slightly is deadly in this sport of 100ths of seconds. His time of 3:29.80 went up on the board. Montgomery did a series of five or six fist pumps in celebration. He high-fived the crowd. The crowd chanted 'Johnny, Johnny, Johnny.'
"I was biting my nails for sure," said Montgomery who came in last night thinking he could win.
"I knew if I came out and performed today like I did yesterday that it would be a close race," he said. "I didn't feel it was beyond my capabilites and beyond reach. Perhaps that's what helped me keep it in perspective and stay calm about it all."
"Montgomery's run salvaged what had been a crummy day for Canada.
Mellisa Hollingsworth tumbled from second to fifth with a disastrous final run in the women's event. Calgary's Jeff Pain, the 2006 Olympic silver medalist ended up xxth in the men's. And Toronto's Michael Douglas got disqualified because of a snafu in the inspection area before the start of the men's race.
But Montgomery came away golden and all seemed well. The medal was Canada's eighth of these Games. There are now four gold, three silver and one bronze.
Russia's Alexandre Tretyakov got the bronze in 3:30.75.
Dukurs was nothing but classy in defeat, assuming that's what you chose to call it.
"All training I was fighting with this curve," he said of No. 16. "That's my black curve.
"Actually not," he said when asked if he was surprised that Montgomery was able to catch him. "This is home track and he can do that. In training he was smashing down and doing some good runs. That's the sport and that's home track advantage. Canadians need that. They built the track and Canadian won so I'm also happy."
After two runs Montgomery was second with a time of 1:45.17, 0.26 back of Dukurs. Montgomery closed the gap to just 0.18 with a 52.02 run, the fastest of the heat.
The win came in the wake of Hollingsworth's disappointment and what must be agony for Douglas, who didn't even get to race.
"You feel for athletes when they don't perform to their level of expectation and to their capabilities,' Montgomery said. "My good buddy and close friend had a heartwrenchign day. My heart bleeds for him. You have to put those things out of your mind and put them out of mind."
Toronto native Mike Douglas, 38, was seventh after the Thursday's runs with a time of 1:45.87. But he was late for an equipment inspection prior to the start of Heat 3 and was disqualified.
Calgary's Jeff Pain, 10th after the first two heat and 11th after three finished ninth in 3:31.86 after a strong final run of 52.65 seconds.
"I couldn't do my Olympics in a better way, with Canada watching," the 2006 bronze medalist from Turin said. "I was trying to be as focused as I can because this is a fast track. I was really happy with my final run. I was able to focus all the way to the finish line. My last run was a really good run."
Pain battled through a torn right oblique injury that he suffered in a race at Igls, Austria on Jan. 22.
"We were hoping it would come around," said the 39-year-old Pain, a silver medalist at the 2006 Games in Turin, said Thursday night. "I re-aggravated it today. We've done everything, anti-inflammatories, pain killers."
Montgomery had won the World Cup here last season. A silver medalist at the 2008 world championships in Altenberg, Germany and a fourth place finisher in 2009 at Lake Placid, N.Y., Montgomery had one World Cup podium this season, a win Cesana, Italy, on Dec. 4. He started Friday just 0.26 seconds back of Dukurs, who led after heats one and two with a combined time of 1:44.91. Montgomery was a 1:45.17, just ahead of Russia's The sport made its Olympic debut as a full medal sport in 2002 at Salt Lake City. Canada didn't reach the podium in 2002.
As for the turtle, Montgomery got that just before coming here. The inspiration came after members of the national team visited with a sport shaman in Revelstoke, B.C. last September. Among the things the athletes did was find their spirit animal. Montgomery's was the turtle so he had Vancouver native artist Phil Gray design the artwork.
"He accompanies me on my helmet and sled," Montgomery of the turtle, which is painted in a native theme along with a thunderbird.
"The thunderbird is the main theme but it was my idea to put the turtle on the helmet," Montgomery said earlier this week.
"I thought it was fitting to pay respect to the First Nations people and apparently their folklore states that the thunderbird lives up behind Blackcomb Mountain. It's a powerful animal and one of their most prized symbols. I thought it would be good to pay respect to that and honour the people here and have my spirit animal guide me down the track."
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How to find someone who you only saw once? Is it a possoble task? When Jane sees a boy in a shopping center she finds out how big this small world can become. The only thing that connects her with him is the place where they met. Soon she will have to answer a lot of questions. Are the people we create in our imagination better than the real ones we can meet?
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Love and Rust Spots
Roughly three years ago, my girlfriend climbed into her car (a 1986 VW Golf, if you're curious) to leave for work. Just before she shut the door, she said "I love you" for the first time. Being an emotional, nineties kind of guy, I paused, glanced at the steely grey sky to savor the moment, then redirected my gaze at her car to say what any true romantic would, given the same circumstances:
"I should really fix these rust spots before winter."
Tears welled up in her eyes. The moment was more than she could bear. She turned the key in the ignition once, twice, and sped off to her workplace.
Not much later that day, I received a telephone call from the very same girlfriend. Rather than greeting me with an enthusiastic "hello, my love" as I felt I had every right to expect, she was downright bitter. According to her, my response to her confession of love was callous and insufficient.
My viewpoint was somewhat different. In fact, I argued, by promising to fix the rust spots on her car, I had gone beyond telling her I loved her. I was actually extending the intention to demonstrate it in a most tangible way.
She didn't buy it.
In fact, three years later, she still tells the same story to everyone willing to listen. She also tells the one about the time I gave an overweight septugenarian the Heimlich Maneuver in a busy restaurant until she said (between thrusts) "you're....hurting...me" but that's a different story, rife with the potential for litigation.
Anyhow, the message finally got through to Nellie (the girlfriend) that the promise of rust repair equals love. On September 11th, 1999, we're to be married. She still drives the 1986 VW Golf. And by God, I should really fix those rust spots.
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I did the ITC (isothermal titration calorimetry) between an enzyme with its known substrate on Microcal ITC200. The concentartion of the ligand (substarte) is 1mM; and the concentration of the enzyme is 100 uM; 1.8 ul/injection X 22 injection;
However, there is no heat of binding observed in the raw data (isotherms). (dilution of substrate(substrate to buffer control) seems to consume some heat; dilution of protein (buffer to protein) seems to produce some heat); while titrating substrate to enzyme seems to be the sum of heats from the two controls.
About the buffer: both the substrate and the enzyme are in 10mM HEPES, 300 uM ZnCl2 and 4% DMSO;
I did not expect that I cannot even observe the binding curve in titration between the enzyme and its substrate!!
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P.S. the data is attached
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Further Furthur proof that Colorado rivals San Francisco as the Dead Head capital of the world: before 2012 comes to a close, original Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir will have played nearly 10 combined shows in the Centennial State this year.
Three of these gigs include a late September run at Red Rocks Amphitheatre under the banner of Furthur, the most recent and perhaps best Grateful Dead incarnation to arise during the past 20 years.
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Furthur — featuring Lesh, Weir, Jeff Chimenti Joe Russo, John Kadlecik and vocalists Sunshine Becker and Jeff Pehrson — will headline Red Rocks Sept. 21-23, promoter AEG announced this morning.
The group played a similar run at Red Rocks in October 2011. Said Reverb writer Candace Horgan last year: "If you closed your eyes at Red Rocks Friday night … it was easy to feel transported back in time to vintage '80s-era Grateful Dead shows."
Tickets, $55-$60, go on sale 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster.
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Emotionally Focused Therapy: Bolstering Couples' Emotional Bonds
Western culture views independence as a virtue. We've been taught that a truly strong person doesn't need anybody to survive and thrive. But being attached to your partner is actually a good thing.
In fact, a secure attachment underlies the strongest relationships. And both partners in such relationships tend to feel "calm, connected, centered and safe," according to clinical psychologist Lisa Blum, PsyD, who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy and leads workshops for couples with her colleague Silvina Irwin, Ph.D. Also, a secure attachment helps partners as individuals, too. ""Good secure bonding helps you be bolder in the world and feel more empowered," Blum said.
Founded by Drs. Sue Johnson and Les Greenberg, emotionally focused therapy or EFT draws on attachment theory, which asserts that humans are hardwired for strong emotional bonds with others. According to EFT, couples have relationship problems when they've "experienced emotional disconnection with their partner at key moments, which then leads to struggles" with negative cycles of criticism and anger (among other emotions and reactions). Therefore, the aim of EFT is to help couples overcome these negative cycles, re-establish their connection, and strengthen their emotional bond.
Research has shown that EFT is highly effective. "Seven out of 10 distressed couples [who seek EFT] show marked improvement, move out of distress and stay there," Blum said. (The International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy website lists several noted research publications.)
What It Means To Be Securely Attached
A secure attachment signifies a successful relationship. So what does a securely attached couple look like? According to Blum, both partners in a secure relationship are able to tune into, identify and accept their own emotions and needs. They're able to recognize when they're feeling disconnected and distant from their partner and to speak candidly about their needs and emotions.
Take the example of a wife who's working on several big projects at work, which take her away from home more and more. Her husband understands and supports his wife. The first week he's perfectly OK with the situation. The next week, though, he starts to get uncomfortable. By the third week, he's angry and "prickly toward her." At this point, he considers his feelings and behaviors. He realizes that he's feeling lonely and like work has become his wife's number one priority over him. He's able to tune into his feelings, identify them and accept them, Blum said.
(On a side note, many people, especially men, feel ashamed about feeling lonely or needing their partner. Again, there's an expectation in our society that we shouldn't need anyone. But remember that we're hardwired for closeness. So don't put yourself down for these thoughts and reactions.)
Trust is another part of a secure relationship. Both partners must be able to reach out to each other and trust that they'll respond sensitively. Again, take the above example. The husband knows that when he talks to his wife about his feelings, she will care and listen to his needs and feelings. He'll be able to be vulnerable with her and reveal that he misses her and ask her to make more time for their relationship.


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The Hartford brings Junior Fire Marshal®
program to the city and will donate a total of $20,000 to the school
district and fire department for fire safety education
HARTFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–According to The
Hartford's Home Fire Index, Philadelphia, Pa. ranks No. 13 among the
100 U.S. cities with the highest home fire risk. The Index is based on
an analysis of the U.S. Fire Administration's National Fire Incident
Reporting System (NFIRS)¹ and a survey conducted by The
Hartford on fire safety and prevention behaviors among the general
A home fire is reported in the U.S. every 86 seconds and 33 percent of
home fires are started by children 6-9 years old.² As part of the 70th
anniversary of The Hartford's Junior Fire Marshal program, which is one
of the country's oldest corporate-sponsored public education programs,
The Hartford is donating a total of $20,000 to the Philadelphia public
school district and fire department for fire safety education. The
donation is part of a larger commitment the company made to all the
cities on The
Hartford's Home Fire Index.
In addition, to the monetary donation, The Hartford will also distribute
Junior Fire Marshal educational materials to children in kindergarten
through third grade in the Philadelphia public school district. The
Hartford Junior Fire Marshal classroom kit comes with The Hartford's
signature red fire helmets, an educator and parent guide and coloring
posters designed to introduce fire safety concepts to children.
"The Hartford is proud to bring this program to the city of Philadelphia
with the goal of empowering everyday kids to become everyday heroes,"
said Debora Raymond, spokesperson for The Hartford's Junior Fire Marshal
program. "By having kids take an active role in reducing the fire risk
in their homes, the Junior Fire Marshal program continues our legacy of
helping communities stay safe."
Many Philadelphia residents engage in behaviors that can increase the
risk of a home fire according to The Hartford survey. Charging a phone
overnight is considered moderate risk, yet charging a phone overnight on
your bed, leaving your kitchen with the stove on, or leaving a room with
a candle burning are considered high risk. The survey found:
57 percent admitted they had charged a device (e.g., cell phone,
tablet, laptop) in or on their bed overnight in the past year –
compared with 34 percent nationally,
65 percent said that in the past year, they have left the kitchen
while cooking something on a stove – compared with 58 percent
37 percent revealed that they have left a room with a candle lit at
least once over the past year – compared with 37 percent nationally.
The Hartford to Host Junior Fire Marshal Day at Franklin S. Edmonds
The Hartford will host a hands-on fire safety day for students in
kindergarten through third grade at Franklin S. Edmonds School in
partnership with the Philadelphia fire department. This includes a
simulated fire and smoke demonstration in The Hartford Fire Safety
House, an opportunity to meet local firefighters, tour their fire truck
and try on gear. The event will take place at Franklin S. Edmonds School
on Tuesday, May 9 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. EDT.
The History of the Junior Fire Marshal Program
The Junior Fire Marshal program was started in 1947 by an employee of
The Hartford. Since the program's inception, The Hartford has deputized
more than 110 million Junior Fire Marshals.
The company's signature red fire helmets have been displayed proudly by
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Over the years, celebrities such as Ron Howard, Dick Van Dyke, Jack
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Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan have helped The Hartford
recognize children who participated in the Junior Fire Marshal program.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency based on data submitted by fire
departments from around the country. The data was standardized based on
population size and adjusted as needed to reflect the voluntary nature
of the data within the system.
2According to the National Fire Protection
3Based on an analysis of The Hartford claims data
in the city of Philadelphia between 2010 and 2016
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The Hartford Home Fire Index is based on a study of the largest U.S.
cities with a minimum of 80,000 housing units as reported by the 2010
U.S. Census. The Hartford calculated a rate of residential fires using
the number of residential structure fires from the 2014 National Fire
Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) data, dividing by 2010 U.S. Census
housing units. The Hartford also conducted a survey on fire safety and
prevention behaviors among the general population in late 2016 and in
early 2017. Survey respondents (approximately 100 per city) were given a
score based on adoption of fire safety best practices. Standardized fire
rates and survey scores were averaged to produce a composite score for
each city.
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Ponyboy and Soda decide to convince Darry to take them to a hotel in Kansas for winter break. A vacation away from such a dangerous place like Tulsa and with your best friends sound tuff, right? However, some escaped mental patients just so happen to be on the lose. They just so happen to want revenge!
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The crew of space shuttle Atlantis have wrapped an inspection of the spacecraft's thermal protection system, ahead of the veteran spaceplane's planned return to Kennedy Space Center on Thursday morning.
NASA reports: "They used the 50-foot long Orbiter Boom Sensor System to conduct a high fidelity, three-dimensional scan of areas of the shuttle that experience the highest heating during entry - the wing leading edges and nose cap. Managers and engineers in Mission Control will review the data today and tomorrow to validate the heat shield's integrity."
Since every shuttle report now has to contain the word "final" at least once, the agency adds: "This marks the final use of the shuttle's robotic arm, dating back to its inaugural flight on the shuttle Challenger in April 1983 on the STS-7 mission, operated by the first American woman to fly in space, Sally Ride."
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SEATTLE — Public comments are being collected regarding which issues should be included in a study of the environmental effects of a proposed export marine terminal near Bellingham.
The proposed Gateway Pacific terminal would serve as a place to send coal, grain, potash and scrap wood for biofuels to Asia. The terminal, proposed by SSA Marine, Inc. of Seattle, would bring up to 18 more trains per day through Snohomish County — nine full and nine empty.
The Gateway Pacific terminal would mean jobs, according to proponents. It also could mean long traffic delays at railroad crossings and pollution from coal dust, opponents say.
Three public meetings have been held regarding the controversial proposal and four more are planned. Comments also may be submitted by email by Jan. 21.
The closest meeting to Everett is scheduled for Dec. 13 in Seattle. Earlier meetings were held in Bellingham, Mount Vernon and Friday Harbor. Other meetings are planned for Nov. 29 in Ferndale, Dec. 4 in Spokane, and Dec. 12 in Vancouver, Wash.
"We had hoped there would be a hearing in Snohomish County," Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring said. "The city will be submitting written comments, largely based around the traffic concerns. We've encouraged our residents to the do the same if they would like to."
There was no slight intended toward Snohomish County in scheduling the meetings, said Larry Altose, a spokesman for the state Department of Ecology.
"We couldn't be in every location," he said.
The trains would bring coal from Montana and Wyoming across Washington state to Vancouver, and then north, eventually running through Seattle, Edmonds, Mukilteo, Everett, Marysville and Stanwood. In Edmonds, Marysville and Stanwood, the trains run at the same grade as automobile traffic, potentially adding to backups.
The meetings and study process are being run jointly by the Ecology Department, the Army Corps of Engineers and Whatcom County.
The Seattle meeting was originally planned for North Seattle Community College but was moved to the Washington State Convention Center to accommodate more people, Altose said. The auditorium at North Seattle Community College holds about 1,000 people while the convention center holds 3,000, he said. Also, the convention center is located near I-5 and public transportation.
About 1,800 people attended the meeting in Bellingham, 1,000 people showed up in Mount Vernon and 450 in Friday Harbor, Altose said.
Still, he said, that pales in comparison to the emails received so far since the comment period began in late September — about 6,300 and counting.
SSA Marine, Inc. is paying $900,000 for the study process, including the meetings, Altose said. The amount was negotiated by the company and the three agencies, he said.
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Q&A with famous ultra runner
Well, I had really bad diarrhea this morning, but otherwise I'm lovely and looking forward to spending the weekend in Madision with my family. Plus I like the fact that my own blog is interviewing me.
In Madison? So you are running the Mad City 50k just 3 weeks after 3 Days of Syllamo?
Yeah, well, a week ago I actually couldn't walk due to bleeding into my lateral quadriceps muscle on my left leg which caused my knee to lock up anytime I went a little downhill and then I would either wobble or fall over. But it doesn't hurt anymore. We'll see how far I can run tomorrow before the pain comes back. I'm treating this as a training race even though it is the Wisconsin championship in the 50k. I would after all like a plaque in the shape of Wisconsin, but that is probably not going to happen tomorrow unless I buy one. To tell you the truth, I would most like a plaque in the shape of Hawaii because it would have to be attached by so many strings.
Do you have any goal races for the year?
Well, last night I found out I got into The Ice Age 50 Miler, so that is my new goal. Cassie Scallon also got in off the wait list, though, so my chances of placing in the top two and getting into Western States are pretty slim. My other two big goals are Voyageur 50 miler and by default Challenge Copenhagen Ironman. I say by default because you can't do an Ironman "just for training", can you?
I don't know SLG, if you don't define the rules of endurace athletics, who does?
Good point.
Speaking of which, what is the coolest endurance sport?
Biathlon. I say this never having tried it. Our plan as a couple was to really get into it this past winter, but there was no snow.
What is the geekiest endurace sport?
Don't even ask...
You wrote about losing a lot of weight and being anorexic and dealing with mania and anxiety. How is that going?
First of all, I am a lot happier now that we have settled into life in La Crosse. And after we got back from Syllamo, life just got a lot calmer. But if I could get a neurosurgeon to ablate that part of my brain that causes anxiety and ocd, I think that would be a good option for me and my family (it's probably like that little spot right next to the amygdala! - go for it!). Otherwise, I've noticed that just forcing myself to do highly distracting things like reading, working on my PhD and playing music are very effective. But the biggest thing that has changed is I tell myself to see every day as a gift so I don't waste it. As far as the weight is concerned, I have lost more weight and think I look ugly (in fact it is to the point where I am embarrassed to go out into public, but I feel good and I don't have the desire to eat more). Are you going to ask me any more anxiety-inducing questions?
No, um, what is your biggest fear?
Ha! That Alicia Hudelson will beat me at The Chippewa 50k.
What world record would you like to set?
I would like to hold a plank for the longest. The current world record is 33 min and 40 seconds.
What would you do if you weren't a professional ultramarathon runner?
But I'm not a...
Oh yeah, that's right. The reason I read your blog is because you have like the cutest kids in the blogosphere. Do you have any pictures of them?
Geez. I can't find my camera. Wasn't there any other reason you read my blog? ... Ok, I'll go look for the camera.
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7 comments:
- mmmonyka said...
I agree with the interviewer, those kids are the cutest! :)
I am glad you are getting into groom in La Crosse and feel good.
So, how can you do biathlon recreationally? I have never ever though about it but now I am curious. Do they sell biathlon rifles to anyone in Denmark or WI and they have shooting areas set up for people who are interested in trying it?
I do not agree that triathlon is the geekest endurance sport, it is only that a lot of triathletes are plain idiots who take themselves too seriously and think that if they have all the coolest gadgets they are cool. They do not even want to be fast!
Ok, I am not going to go into that because I can go on and on and I will probably offend 99% of triathlon community.
- 30 March 2012 at 23:45
- cherelli said...
Yup, those kids are cute, that is for sure! Maybe it's just me but I was thinking you were looking really thin in your pics recently too; I guess if you feel healthy and happy it's ok, as long as it's not a form of denial in dealing with something? It seems like you have great ways for dealing with some of your anxiety issues though - music, PhD etc. And your running is going awesomely - good luck in getting through to your goal races and doing well!!
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- 31 March 2012 at 13:37
- Alicia Hudelson said...
Bryon Powell is going to be sad that you got in there for the interview before he did:)
I'm confused--are you still doing the 100k in Denmark? Or is Ice Age replacing that? I remember seeing a ton of fast people (both men and women) on the Ice Age signup list so you should be in for a good race there.
Ha, you have absolutely nothing to worry about from me at Chippewa. My only goal is to be less than 27 minutes behind you! Personally I think you should have to wear 5-pound weights on each leg to make the race more fair...
If you're not going to Denmark, any interest in coming to Zumbro and volunteering with me? Divesh and I were going to go for a nice long run after the race is over.
- 31 March 2012 at 17:09
Sealegs, I feel that the point of this post is to express that you are actually NOT happy and healthy and that you are deep into a serious eating disorder/exercise-life-imbalance. I wish I could appeal to your common sense (and concerning other areas than diet and exercise you have a lot of it!) and tell you that you are not going to loose any more body fat, that you are wasting away precious muscle (you know, which make your body look athletic and tight) and that you need to recompose your body (re-build muscle mass and possibly some fat along with it), you need it for bone health, hormonal balance and to look athletic and fit I think you do not wish to end up a skeleton with some mush hanging around! But I am sure you know the arguments. You will focus more and more on ultras, have a lot of followers here on the blog that might express mild concern but in the end, encourage you to follow that path further that eventually make you sick and unhappy. I seriously wish I could help you in any way but you won´t want to here me, so I shut up :-(
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