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  1. Most of my body was quite warm during the race.
    The 15 minutes between when I dropped my jacket off and when the race started were brutal. In addition, I did not think to wear gloves, so my hands were numb for an hour or two after the race was over.

    Overall, it was a great experience and I would it again.

  2. Speaking of Barrons, the below quote had me cracking up, since I hadn’t heard this before.

    And this is in context with the move (again) by some asshole to redact the N word out of Huck Finn, and replace it with ‘Slave’, a move universally frowned upon by every Black intellectual I have read on the issue.

    Here goes…

    “Mr. Boehner retained sufficient composure to begin his chamber’s reading aloud of the Constitution. In truth, the House chose to recite a redacted version of that historic document to recite, eliminating certain passages – like the reference to a slave being three-fifths of a person – in the interest of political correctness. It struck us as kind of like eliminating the ‘begets’ from the Old Testament. Forgive us for assuming that Republican dogma held that there could be no ad-hoc changes to the Constitution (except, it turns out, when expediency trumps principle).”

    Remember, this is not Mother Jones or the Village Voice here, this is Barrons’ lead columnist.

  3. Hey dibs, yeah, saw that. I believe it said 13% which is the amount of US Cap vs the world? And that applies to fixed income as well as equities.

    So if you are 60% equities and 40% bonds, 10% of the equities AND 10% of bonds should be overseas.

  4. And, people who knew the shooter are saying this was entirely predictable and that they expected this from him. But what can one really do if you think someone is capable of going postal based only on their strange behavior?

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