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Amy, I just tried this: "For running planks, get into 'up' position (as though you were about to do a push-up) and using your core as well as hips just a bit, lift the opposite leg up and aim it towards your elbow. " That is brutal!

Good information from both of you. Cheers!

Well, yesterday I got through 40 miles before deciding to stop. Various factors weighed in but I had tested myself and achieved quite a lot. Despite not making my 50 mile goal, I feel euphoric.

Thanks. Yes, the goal of community health makes me want to share this with as many people as possible but I'm not really a high visibility sort of person. Feel free to link it or re-post anything in as many places as you'd like.

Yeah, they are chewy. (If they weren't, they wouldn't be any good, would they?) I think one day I made them for my son and we had no gran sugar so it was all molasses and a tiny bit of brown sugar left in the pantry. Those were actually the best. Let me know what you do with them. Recipes are like the hoop to shoot…

I had forgotten you're vegetarian Karin. I need to share a recipe for a yummy dessert with you. Me, too. My wife is lactose intolerant so that pushed me into vegan cooking for the most part. I use honey and some goat cheese occasionally. My family likes the goat cheese but my body seems to have a rougher time with that…

I have things to share with both of you on those topics. Though I don't normally do this, friend requests going to both.

The author (DZ) wrote me with corrections. His explanation follows. E: Please tell me if I've got this right for the AiA. Everything put in the auction for allocation to member agencies in the greater water district. (A wholesale mechanism, not individuals.) Establish historic water rights for units per member…

ok, If your minimum bid is sufficient to qualify in the top range of the number of bids, not the value of bids, you may get that really low end unit. In effect, if you're willing to sell at $x price, the assumption is that you will buy at the same price. That's what eliminates the endowment effect where we feel we chould…

Reading this I saw someone who made me say: ¡Vaya, querida! But now I can't find her.

Thanks, all. Significance, the thing I didn't make clear in this and had already identified was the multilateral (or simultaneous) action. The assumption is that since it's an all-in auction, there is no need to make buy bids when the participants have already declared acceptable prices. Of course, this only works with…

5 is actually the point at which we determine the minimum satisfactory price for selling. By asking participants to set sell prices in a range if desired, we get a threshhold which allows us to identify all bids which result in an actual exchange. The market element comes into play since there is presumably more demand…

OK, #5 Count down from the top bid the number equal to the number of units available for minimum bid price. (When bids are submitted and arranged in descending prices per stage 4,) Identify the number of valid (highest) bids by selecting a group equal to the units of water available in the auction. These are all adequate…

Good. Again, cheers. 3. Participants bid based on the number of units they are contributing to the total. 3. Participants place a number of bids equal to the number of allotted water units from 2 above defining acceptable sell prices. If I have 4 units allotted me, I place 4 bids. These may vary, be all extremely high, or…

Good. Thanks. 2. Establish historic water rights for units per member (participating agency). Becomes something like this: 2. Determine the allotment for each participating agency in the water auction based on historical rights and prior use patterns. In years of drought, this might be a percentage of the whole supply…

Ok, so I"m going to go one number at a time. 1. Every potential water unit is available and up for purchase at the auction to member agencies in the water district. (not individuals) Does that sound clear? Whether the water unit is gallons or acre feet doesn't really matter. In theory, it would be some vague amount like…

Really? Is it just not comprehensible at all or that a reflection of the subject in general? I needed to move on to other parts of the work but maybe I should go back to it.

Sometimes I want to but that can go wrong. Of course I do. I'm hopeless. Sometimes I'm scrolling down through a thread and have to stop and dive into the most striking eyes I've seen in ... 2 or 3 minutes. Others are simply great conversationalists. And then there are the , well, the other reasons.

That's a pretty good sample size. (More than I would've expected.) Can you tell how many participants came from any given link?

Looking forward to seeing results. Driagnor, I would be interested in reading your additional comments, as well.

I had an idea to make this a bit of public education so I contacted the local newspaper. Today they wrote back saying they're interested in hearing more about it. I'll educate myself for what I want to say to sum up my journey and purpose.

Auntie Babs, I like the idea of choosing different destinations for walks with different people. I'm fond of quiet thinking time while walking so it's less appealing to me but I see it as a symbolically powerful endeavour.

Losingg, I went in a completely different direction with the stuffed pepper since the people above have made the basic suggestions I would have added. Why not try a Mediterranean palette? Using the brown rice (I'd "overcook" it to make it quite soft.) Olives, chopped or sliced. Hummus mixed through. Rosemary Maybe a bit of…

I just discovered that the Trails app is measuring in straight lines. If you click at the beginning of a curvy road then click at the end of that curvy section when you turn off in a new direction, the distance covered in the winding course of the road will not be included in the distance. You would need to click into each…

The Camino de Santiago (all the north of Spain) is gorgeous. When we lived in Spain while I was doing a paper on the history and architecture of the Camino we spent time in Santiago. I didn't do the trail itself though. I would like to with my boys in a few years. If yo do it,I would recommend deciding whether you want to…

I love it! I think my pulse actually quickened. I've sort of been logging some of the things I see on my walks this week. That needs to be more thoughtful. My favorite was the great blue heron. Blog. What I want to do now (in the future) is to walk from John o'Groats (Scotland) to Land's End (England). Hmmmm, with friends…

Kayemme & Suzoz, I will definitely keep you posted. Is the RI trail dirt or paved roads? Dirt I can see being slower if the surface is rough, gravelly, rutted. Something I hadn't thought about: If the journey requires pitching and striking camp and cooking in the open, that changes the experience tremendously. To me, a…

HAHAHAAH. Aaawww, that's sweet. At first I thought it was just for the restaurant. That's a long walk.

Oh, I don't mean it as a virtual walk for myself. I'm going to do it. I think I might try to publicise it a bit as an informal call to realise how near the ocean is. Around here we have painted curbs and storm drains that say: Flows to the Bay. I'll sort logistics. It may be next year. It may be later. I will do it though.

Great news. I hope this is the start of a trend. A friend of mine who runs a CSA (community sustainable agriculture) told me a story of one of his friends/former farming partners who lost his crop because the seed had been infected by GMO intellectual property (manufactured seed). There was nothing the small grower could…