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Get 100 mpg — Today
I would like to applaud Jack McCornack (Here Comes the 100 MPG Car) for his efforts to help us reduce our dependence on foreign oil and the pollution our vehicles cause. I believe we will see changes in the automotive industry over the next few years, the likes of which we haven't seen in many decades.
I'd like to remind everyone not only to drive a fuel-efficient vehicle, but also drive efficiently. Every driver should be able to obtain a 20 percent to 30 percent improvement over their vehicles' combined EPA ratings just by modifying their driving habits. The most important tip is to slow down. In effect, you'll spend an extra 20 to 30 cents per gallon for every 5 mph you drive above 60 mph.
I'm not waiting on the 100 mpg car — my 2000 Honda Insight has a combined rating of 53 mpg, but by modifying my driving habits I'm averaging above 100 mpg. My last 10-gallon tank covered 1,050 miles, or 105 mpg. Let us not forget the most efficient transportation is still our own two feet.
Reid Stewart
Irving, Texas
Many Roads to Fuel-efficiency
Thanks for the article on Jack McCornack's quest to build the 100-mpg car. It's an interesting project, and I look forward to reading more about its progress.
Looking further down the road to a post-petroleum world, I'd like to see you come up with a project to build a velomobile (i.e. a weatherproof pedal powered vehicle). A few such vehicles are available, but they're ridiculously expensive and most don't have cargo space for even a couple of bags of groceries.
I remember Mother Earth News published plans for a practical and inexpensive recumbent trike some years ago; perhaps these plans could be dusted off and brought up to date!
Robb Smith
Victoria, British Columbia
You can still find the plans in Mother's 'Cut-rate' Recumbent Bike. Learn even more about human powered vehicles at the Human Powered Vehicle Association. — Mother
Get Up 'n Go
I'm sure people out there can easily build a 100-mpg car, but the reason the big companies can't has to do with the greedy lawyers and the government safety rules, such as crash safety, air bags, etc., and the consumer demand for the latest bells and whistles.
If you want 100 mpg you have to build it yourself and hope that the government and the lawyers don't interfere.
I wonder if a diesel engine driving a generator or electric motors, such as those used on trains but on a smaller scale, would work out well. Good luck, and a big thumb's up to these 100-mpg pioneers.
Allen Evonich
Taylor, Michigan
The Best Investment Ever
I just wanted to drop a line (on a recycled card) to let you know that subscribing to your magazine is the best financial investment I've made in a long time.
Thanks to all your articles, I now grow all my own vegetables and have an awesome greenhouse. Plus, I just bought 12 chickens, and am looking for a rooster. I'm also making my own soap and bath supplies. I'm helping out the Earth and my pocketbook, and enjoying it! You're the best!
Julie Goulart
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
That's My Photo!
I was shocked to see my picture (of our duck Uncle Quaker, after his bath) as an "Editor's Pick" (at the Mother Earth News CU Web site). It made my day.
Ernestine Herman
Eldon, Missouri
Kingsolver Kudos
I was thrilled to see the excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver's wonderful book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, (Reclaiming the Kitchen). The article was inspiring (and the book also!). I'd like to see other excerpts from the book — it's filled with a bounty of insight and experiences from the author's life, and features stories from the rest of her family, as well. Keep up the good work. I'll do my part by continuing to renew and reading every word!
Vonnie Haught
Londonderry, New Hampshire
Smaller is Beautiful
Too little attention is given to solving the problem of overpopulation. To "overproduce" the very thing that "overconsumes" our natural resources seems counteractive to me. Overpopulation can be prevented through education, and possibly by offering tax incentives for having small families. This is another important element in conservation and showing our love for the environment.
Jackie Leonard-Dimmick
Atherton, California
Those Dang Wimmin ...
I have figured out what has changed with the magazine. Just look at Page 6 of the August/September 2008 issue. You have a staff of all women who have never farmed or gardened. You are busy promoting a liberal/enviro agenda. There is nothing worth looking at or reading in the last two years worth of issues. Your publication has been ruined by these women who promote their enviro agenda.
William Simmons
Camden, Tennessee
Now That's a Blue Ribbon Issue
I must tell you that I absolutely devoured the June/July 2008 issue. Thank you for mentioning nanotechnology ("Nanotech: Teeny Tiny Particles, Big Risks"). I'm very concerned about nano particles in sunscreens and mineral makeup. Can you do follow-up reports on this?
I loved Barbara Kingsolver's Reclaiming the Kitchen article on cheese making and loved the picture of the women laughing and the caption reading "Laugh at how easy cheese making can be!" That's the spirit. Cheese making is for everyday folks and is lots of fun for kids. Simple, delicious and easy.
I found the "old baking soda" tip to be invaluable ("32 All Time Best Tips"). I used baking soda the next night to put out our Chiminea before we went to bed. My friend, the local fire captain, was very impressed. I will keep baking soda next to my woodstove and in the kitchen — great tip, Jim Payette.
Here's a tip that I found useful: When a tall laundry basket gets broken, cut off the bottom where the lattice meets the base and use it to hold a dog's water dish on a hard wood floor. With a sloppy Labrador, it saved our floor by containing the drips.
How about an article on raising blue ribbon crops for the county fair? I want to enter for the first time and don't know how to go about it. Do you have to prepare your crops in a special way, i.e. withhold water, fertilizer, etc.? I know there are secrets out there. Maybe someone can give them up so I can try my hand?
Lisa Jaeck-Fisher
Saugerties, New York
Got tips on growing blue ribbon crops? Share them here. — Mother
His Shining Star
I started reading Mother Earth News in the '70s. I was never a flower child, and my memories of those times leave me filled with contempt, for the most part. All of that crap and finger-pointing; now most of the mavericks of that time have gone over and become exactly what they opposed then. Then there's Mother Earth News. Common sense and commitment. You have been my shining star. Thank you for leading the way or, at the very least, being a bright light at the end of my very long, dark tunnel.
Bill Tucker
Rockledge, Florida
A Timeless Legacy
I just re-read A Century of a Good Life. Scott Nearing was so right on. I think the article needs to be expanded upon and reprinted for the newer readers.
Marvin Anderton
Trinidad, California
As it so happens, we have a new article about Helen and Scott Nearings' legacy in this issue, Revisiting the Good Life. And you can find numerous articles by and about these legendary homesteaders at the Mother Earth News Web site. — Mother
Bad Advice?
Regarding the tip "Exploding Fire Ants" in "32 All Time Best Tips," (June/July 2008), I don't know what the real cause of success for these people was, but it isn't the grits. I'm a long-time master gardener and work with state entomologists who have done extensive research on fire ants. I have been in many lectures with them, and they've tried to keep people from wasting their time with corn grits. It just can't kill fire ants.
Harriet Turner
Pine Ridge, Alabama
D for Delighted
I am a new subscriber and the last thing I expected was to find a cure for a disorder that was slowly stealing my life away. But indeed that is what I found in Vitamin D: Sunshine and So Much More.
Within 48 hours of starting a D3 supplement my symptoms disappeared and have yet to return. I am telling everyone I know. You just have no idea what a difference it has made not to live in constant pain.
Now I wonder why doctors don't do deficiency screenings. But thanks to your article, I will request one before accepting any new diagnosis. Please let the world know you are right and that they should take this very seriously.
Donna Moore
Jefferson, Georgia
But What About Biogas?
I have been an avid Mother Earth News reader for many years now. I love the magazine and would like to commend you on your attention to alternative energy. However, especially with the price of oil headed through the roof, it perplexes me that you haven't discussed biogas installations. China has been using it since 1958. They're powering entire towns from the methane gas which otherwise would be polluting the environment.
The No. 1 polluter is coal, and following that is methane gas escaping from garbage — that gas can be powering all our present day needs and at the same time we would be contributing to saving our planet. All the human excrement can be converted to methane. Sweden captures its gas and sells it to motorists to power their vehicles. What are we waiting for?!
Irving Hacker
Glen-Sutton, Quebec
Yes, we are overdue to report on biogas, and will do so soon. — Mother
Don't be Shy: Tell 'Em What You Want
We moved to a seven-acre small farm in the late '70s, after reading Mother Earth News and wanting to be self-sustaining and self-sufficient. The '80s and gas shortages started the ball rolling for smaller cars with better mileage. Then that ball rolled out of sight. Ahem, here we are in 2008, 30 years later, still struggling with the same old issues.
It is a shame that it took $4 a gallon gas for people to see this country needs renewable, sustainable energy sources that aren't dependent on foreign sources. I would encourage everyone to not be shy about contacting your local, state and federal representatives to let them know what you want and require of our government.
Sharon Burwell
Tallmadge, Ohio
Pleased with Pleasant
I have been reading Barbara Pleasant's articles for years, since she was writing on organic gardening for another magazine. She is a good researcher, and has a wealth of knowledge of every aspect of organic methods applicable in a wide range of climates. Her writing style exudes enthusiasm and after reading her articles one feels energized to go out and try her ideas.
Although I now live in the tropics, I still read every article she writes in Mother Earth News. Her recent articles on composting, sweet corn, beans, etc., are all very interesting. I hope this lady continues to grace us with her fine writing for a long time to come. I am anxious to read her composting book.
Charles de Matas
Trinidad & Tobago
Barbara is also writing for the Mother Earth News Web site. Read her posts in our Grow It! blog. — Mother
Instant Garden, Instant Success
I loved the How to Make Instant No-dig Garden Beds article. I signed up right away and built my new garden. Now all my neighbors and friends congratulate me on the beautiful yard/garden I have.
Michael Purtee
Salem, Wisconsin
Lifelong Benefits
I can't thank you enough for being my first and best resource as I research, learn and teach all things useful, pertinent and practical. We are a home schooling family committed to raising our children to embrace hard work, simplicity, self-sufficiency and practical skills. We want to give them the lifelong benefits of being able to take care of themselves and the Earth. We turn to Mother Earth News magazine and your Web site more than any other sources of information.
Alison Lillie
Springfield, Vermont
Simple Changes, Big Results
Regarding New Standards Would Increase Gas Mileage By 25 Percent by 2015, I just bought a 2008 Honda Fit (love it) that is rated at 28/34 (manual transmission), but I am consistently getting 39 to 40 mpg on regular gas (really love that). I drive conservatively, but I'm not fanatical about it. I would say most of my driving is 30 to 50 mph and I go 60 on interstates. I don't jackrabbit start or stop. If I'm in a situation where I know I won't be moving for at least 30 seconds, I turn the engine off (long traffic-light patterns, road work, "quick dash into store," etc.).
Although you're right that the ratings are only averages, it would be good to let people know that by driving like you care about your car and your mileage, and not like you have to be first/best/fastest, it is possible to get significantly better mpg — about 25 percent in my case.
Judith Foster
Freeport, Maine
If You Have Lousy Soil for a Garden ...
I read How to Make Instant No-dig Garden Beds, about "topsoil bag" gardening by Barbara Pleasant with great interest, as I have been doing this for the past seven years.
Necessity and the desire to have an instant garden are what prompted me to try bag gardening. Our soil is poor, mostly pebbles, with just enough topsoil to sustain rough grasses and weeds. I used weed barrier underneath my bags of topsoil to keep the weeds down. Then I poked holes in the bags before turning them over and cutting a rectangle in the tops of the bags for the plants. I had great success, and a bumper crop of tomatoes, beans, etc.
The second year, I decided to reuse the bags, but I added some peat moss to loosen the soil. I cultivated each bag with a hand cultivator to work up the soil and remove weeds. I also added a good flower/vegetable granular fertilizer. And I added mulch between the rows. Again, I had a great harvest. I had considered removing the bags and tilling the soil underneath, but I decided to use them over again the next year.
This has been repeated now for the past seven years, and I am still using the same bags — every year cultivating the bags, pulling weeds and fertilizing — and I'm still getting terrific results. My "bag" garden has grown to 120+ bags and I plant tomatoes, beans, peas, lettuce, cucumbers and herbs every year. With tender loving care, a "bag" garden can sustain your family for many years.
Mary Blanchard
Two Rivers, Wisconsin
Apricot Seed Offer
I just recently read Grow Free Fruit Trees, about growing apricots and peaches from seed. I have a lot of apricot seeds, if any one would like some. Near where I live there is an apricot tree that was loaded with fruit this year, but nobody seemed to want them. Except me. The fruit was small, but incredibly rich in flavor. I saved the seeds to use in Chinese soups, but I'm happy to share with anyone who'd like to try to grow them.
Martha Dahlen
Campbell, California
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Thanks, Martha! Readers — if you ask Martha to send you seeds, be sure to send her a padded self-addressed stamped envelope. — Mother
Horses, Donkeys and, wait, No Deer — Oh My!
I read the report about horse manure being a natural deer repellent (Dear Mother). Since reading that, I realized that donkey poop works too! We supplement our soil with donkey manure, and I realized that we haven't had a deer problem since we began doing so. We enjoy Mother and read it cover to cover several times over, especially the gardening tips.
Mike Shackelford
Fairmont, West Virginia
Daring Deer
A few years ago, I got some horse manure from my dad to amend the soil. I had the most beautiful stand of heirloom brandywine tomatoes — until deer ate them to the ground. In my experience, nothing short of a Jurassic Park-style fence will deter deer. They eat anything and are afraid of nothing. Dogs, garlic, screaming, yelling, hot pepper, an electric fence, etc., do not work.
Karowin Cassell
Glade Valley, North Carolina
To report your experiences with horse/donkey manure vs. deer, click here and leave a comment. — Mother
Too Concerned About Clean?
After reading about the Pennsylvania farmer hauled away by the police for selling raw milk (Raw Milk Renegade), I just had to write. The real reason why states prohibit or strictly regulate raw milk sales is not because raw milk might carry bacteria that could cause illness, but rather it is monetary. Dairy processors pay big bucks — road taxes on their tankers, land taxes on their plants and income taxes on their products' sales. Farmers selling raw milk at the barn door more than likely do so for cash money that doesn't get disclosed to the tax people.
My kids drank raw milk for years, until we unfortunately had to relocate into town. Even then though, we still drank raw milk whenever we went back to the country visiting. My girls are grown now and mothers themselves. They often comment that their kids are sick a lot more than they remember being, and there have been some behavior issues that surprised them and me. We've come to the conclusion that processed foods, artificial flavorings, immunizations and the common consensus of "germophobia" at school is to blame. My girls didn't have childhood immunization, ate only whatever I grew in the garden, their father hunted, or came from farm-reared animals; ran barefoot in the fields, pastures and barn from early spring until October frost. The only time they ever saw a doctor was when they got cuts too deep for me to patch up myself and needed stitches.
Today's mentality about dirt, germs and protecting kids from everything will be the cause of extinction of humans at some point in the future.


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Free Beer & Hot Wings: High School Summed Up in Six Seconds [Video]
High school can be a rough time for some.
It can be great for others.
And for the nameless, faceless majority, it's just a marathon; a survival marathon.
Will you make it four years without a major meltdown? Will you do something completely embarrassing to alienate everyone? Will you be the one that the rumor is started about?
This kid was obviously feeling the pressure.
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Don't get caught off guard by unexpected cost hikes. Learn how to carefully track your direct and indirect costs and then adjust your pricing so that your business remains profitable and healthy.
By Mike Ukena
Have you raised your prices more than once in the past year? If you haven't, you are probably not making as much money as you should be. In fact, you are very likely losing money. For those of you who have not been paying very close attention, prices for everything are going crazy. As usual, it started with fuel costs and it is now trickling down to everything else.
Unfortunately, everything we do in business is somehow linked to the price of oil. When oil goes up, business costs can change rapidly. When oil makes one of its infrequent drops, business costs do not drop nearly as fast as they went up. The key for your business is that you have to be very cognizant of the increases in your costs so you do not get upside down in your pricing structure.
A good example of how to do it right is to look at the oil industry itself. Look at how fast and smoothly oil companies adjust to cost changes in their raw materials. Within days of news reports of the big jump in crude oil prices, we were already experiencing the result at the pump. When crude goes down we do get a drop at the pump, but at a much slower rate.
What prompted me to write this article was a discussion I had with a screen printer this summer. I reminded him of the increases that were working their way through the plastisol market and that it was probable that he would also see those kinds of increases in other facets of his business. His response was that he was having difficulty adapting as his customers would not accept a price increase on his work. At that point, I asked how he planned to stay in business if he was losing money on every order he did?
Customers always want the work for as low a price as they can get. It is a fact of life. At the same time, a business cannot survive if it does not make money. The printer in the previous example would actually be better off to not even print orders at the price he felt he was stuck working for. He would lose less money staying home and watching television.
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BOSTON, Mass. – With five different players finding the back of the net, No. 11/12 men's ice hockey claimed their first-ever ECAC East tournament win under the 2013 ECAC East Coach of the Year Peter Belisle as the Beacons defeated the University of New England by the final of 5-2 Saturday afternoon in the Clark Athletic Center Ice Arena in front of a raucous home crowd of 683 fans.
The victory, which marked only the second home conference tournament win in program history, earned the Beacons a spot in this year's ECAC East semi-final, which will be played either at Norwich University or in Boston starting next Friday afternoon.
Norwich, the top-seed in this year's tournament is scheduled to face the eighth-seeded Huskies of the University of Southern Maine. If the Cadets are victorious they will host the two semi-finals and championship games next weekend, unless they were to be upset by the Huskies in which case the final three games of the tournament will be played in the Clark Athletic Center.
UMass Boston, who is the number two seed in this year's conference tournament, will now wait and see who they will face in next Friday's semi-final. The University of New England closed out its season with a 6-17-2 record as the number seven seed.
The Beacons improved to 19-5-2 overall, after earning their first postseason win since the 2009 season, when they stunned the entire conference by advancing to the championship game, where they were defeated by Babson in overtime, 4-3.
Knowing that they were going to have to get on the board early, UMass struck just six minutes in when Jeremy Finger (Orlando, Fla.) snuck the puck past UNE goaltender Colby Drost. Steve Weston (Henniker, N.H.) set-up Finger's goal after firing a shot into the crease which Drost was able to push aside. The goalie was unable to collect the puck, which allowed Finger to sneak in and tap in the first goal of the day. Mark Grinhaus (Scarsdale, N.Y.) was also credited with the assist on the then go-ahead score.
The first 20 minutes would see just the one tally as the two teams battled up and down the ice. The Beacons held the slight advantage in the shots column (9-7), with freshman Zach Andrews (Coral Springs, Fla.) coming up with two big stops in the opening minutes of play to keep the Nor'Easters off the scoreboard.
After the intermission, the Beacons struck early again, this time at the 4:35 mark when Rob Florentino (West Roxbury, Mass.) fired a shot from the blue line that rattled off the back of the UNE cage. Travis Daniel (North Brunswick, N.J.) and Max Reavis (Omaha, Neb.) were each credited with the assist, which put UMB up by two.
The University of New England did end the Beacons shutout bid just around the midway point of the second when Ryan Quinn netted his 11th goal of the year off of a Jared Melman and Adam Laite assist.
Leading by one, the Beacons needed to quickly respond to kill any momentum from the Nor'Easters first tally, which they did just a minute and 22 seconds later. Daniel, who had a three-point day for UMB, drove home his 17th goal of the year to push the Beacons lead back to two with 9:38 left in the period. Reavis and Daniel set-up a nice give-and-go in front of the Nor'Easters net, which Daniel capped off with a solid goal, which sent the crowd into a frenzy.
Neither team would find the back of the net for the remainder of the period, with Andrews once again anchoring the Beacons backline with his 10 saves. The Beacons offense outshot UNE 11-8 in the second, 20-15 going into the third period.
The third period would prove to be a whistle and penalty filled affair. The Beacons, who were called for 11 penalties in the contest, were called for six in the final 20 minutes alone. UNE did manage their only power-play goal on eight attempts in the third when Russ Franey scored his third goal of the year at the 8:36 mark.
UMass Boston also found the back of the cage on the power-play as Cam Harvey (Bow, N.H.) sealed the victory for the Beacons at 10:57 on his fourth goal of the year. Kit Sitterley (Mooresville, N.C.) and Peter MacIntyre (Norfolk, Mass.), who were both named to the ECAC East All-Rookie Team, each earned an assist on the play, their 19th and 13th respectively.
Andrews capped off the victory with six saves to end the day with 20 overall. The single-season wins record at UMB, Andrews improved to 17-5-2 on the year. Drost totaled 29 saves in the loss and ended the season with a 3-8-0 record.
The Beacons special teams were solid all afternoon as they held UNE 1-for-8 on the power-play, while they finished the day 1-for-4. They also outshot the Nor'Easters 34-22 to close out the year with a perfect 4-0 record against UNE.
Men's Ice Hockey will now wait to see who they will face and where they will be playing in next Friday's ECAC East semi-final contest.


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Spellbinding by Maya Gold
There's more than one way to be powerful . . .
It is during a routine school project that Abby Silva–sixteen and nearly friendless–makes a startling discovery: She is descended from women who were accused of witchcraft back in 1600s Salem. And when Abby visits nearby Salem, strange, inexplicable events start to unfold. Objects move when she wills them to. Candles burst into sudden flame. And an ancient spellbook somehow winds up in her possession.
Trying to harness her newfound power, Abby concocts a love potion to win over her longtime crush–and exact revenge upon his cruel, bullying girlfriend. But old magic is not to be trifled with. Soon, Abby is thrust headlong into a world of hexes, secrets, and danger. And then there's Rem Anders, the beautiful, mysterious Salem boy who seems to know more about Abby than he first lets on.
A reckoning is coming, and Abby will have to make sense of her history–and her heart–before she can face the powerful truth.
I received this book in digital ARC form through NetGalley. I read it in three days, which says a lot. I normally have a few books going at a time, but I couldn't put this down. Gold has a magical way with words. She drew me into her story with ease and held me there. I'm now in desperate need of a trip to Salem ASAP. It can't be as charming as she describes, can it? I need to know this!
The concept of a young girl discovering her witchy legacy isn't new. What makes this story amazing are the characters. Gold writes a cast of people you want to know. The hero is charming. The heroine is one of my favorites. She begins small and grows into someone strong and feisty. Every girl contemplating a change will identify with Abby. She makes some questionable choices but redeems herself. No rescuing necessary. She toils with heavy emotional situations and fares as well as anyone could. I appreciate the honesty Gold gives us here. I love a girl who calls the shots, deals with consequences and does it with her chin high. The danger is high. The tension is palpable. The romance is dreamy. The world in Spellbinding is done so well, I wanted to jump in my car and visit. This is a must read for YA lovers. Enjoy!


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The AT&T Byron Nelson begins tomorrow in Irving, Texas. The following piece is from the archives.
ON MARCH 11, 1945, BYRON NELSON won the Miami International Four-Ball with Harold "Jug" McSpaden as his partner. It was the beginning of an extraordinary win streak that has never been matched on the PGA Tour and is one of the greatest individual streaks in the history of sports.
Byron Nelson's 11 Tournament Win Streak
Miami International Four-Ball
Charlotte Open
Greensboro Open
Durham Open
Atlanta Open
Montreal Open
Philadelphia Inquirer Invitational
Chicago Victory National Open
PGA Championship
Tam O'Shanter Open
Canadian Open
Nelson earned just under $35,000 during the streak. "I was almost in a trance," he told Golf Digest in 1970. That year, he won 18 of the 30 tournaments he entered, including the PGA Championship, a match-play event until 1958. He finished second seven times.
A month after Nelson's death in 2006, President George W. Bush approved a resolution to honor the golf great with the Congressional Gold Medal for his numerous contributions to the game.
How Nelson Ranks: Sports' Greatest Individual Streaks
(From the Page 2 editors of ESPN.com)
1. Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak (1941)
2. Glenn Hall's 502 consecutive games played by a goaltender (from 1955 to 1962)
3. Cal Ripken Jr.'s 2,632 consecutive games played (May 30, 1982 to Sept. 20, 1998)
4. Byron Nelson's 11 straight PGA victories in 1945
5. Wilt Chamberlain's seven straight games of 50 or more points (Dec. 16-29, 1961)
6. Johnny Unitas' 47 straight games with a TD pass (1956-60)
7. Wayne Gretzky's 51-game points streak (1983-84)
8. Edwin Moses' 122-win streak in the 400-meter hurdles (1977-87)
9. Tiger Woods' four straight major pro golf titles
10. Harry Broadbent's 16-game goal streak (1921-22)


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Blippy is one of those ideas that at first sounds so hilariously misguided that you'd be forgiven to think it a joke: It's a service that hooks into your credit card so everything you buy gets broadcast to your friends. Eventually you'll even be able to Twitter your spending. Ack!
Fortunately, the real story is more nuanced, more interesting, and more intelligent than you might think if all you read is the knee-jerk Twitter posts from people like me.
I talked today to Blippy co-founder Philip Kaplan about the service. He admits, "When we launched it, we thought we were kind of crazy." But I do believe he is on to something, and it it has more to do with collecting your financial data than sharing it.
Blippy lets you hook credit and debit cards into the service, as well as accounts at online stores like Amazon, Zappos, and Apple's iTunes store. Eventually it may even connect to physical retail, like Safeway. Blippy's very useful trick, which the company is still working on refining, will be collecting your financial transaction data at a very granular level. It will tell you not just where you're spending money, but what products you're spending it on and--if you set up the privacy settings appropriately--who else is buying the same stuff as you. It will combine all your spending data into one big stream and let you compare your purchase data to that of other people, again at a granular level. Eventually you'll be able to see if you're paying more than other people for Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey, I gather, and find deals on items you like or purchase regularly. Mint, by contrast, shows you comparative data by category and vendor, but not by item.
That's the vision, at any rate. Currently, in Blippy's very closed alpha test, it's a system for sharing transaction data. You give it a credit card account and other account info, and it will tell your Blippy friends what you're buying, and vice versa. For example, you can see what music and apps your friends are buying on iTunes, and then you can have a conversation about those purchases. There are privacy controls, of course, and you can "pause" Blippy's data collection if you want to buy a secret gift on Amazon. Or, as Kaplan says, if you want to buy something private on a credit card, don't use a card connected to Blippy.
It sounds like the last thing anyone with a sense of personal space would use, but Kaplan maintains that much of our commerce is not only not private, it's not even "important enough to tweet." Judging from the activity on Blippy, it can still be a decent conversation starter. And indeed, in a future release Blippy will be able to (optionally) update Twitter and Facebook when its users transact.
Future privacy features in Blippy may include the capability to lock out certain vendors from credit card data collection, and possibly an approval step for transactions before they're made public. Already you can set up your account as either open or protected, meaning, as on Twitter, you can let anyone follow you or lock it down to just those you approve.
I'm intrigued by one of the tenets of Blippy: Kaplan is interested in what he calls "passive sharing" of information. With this service, you can "check in" with your friends when you buy something--like a coffee at your corner Starbucks. Your transaction is a location beacon (I'm not sure the credit card data is updated quickly enough, but that is the vision). "Nobody is taking advantage of the fact that I'm swiping my credit card everywhere," Kaplan told me. Twitter, Facebook, Fourquare, and Gowalla require a more active check-in. (Another location check-in service, Stalqer, has a neat trick for passive check-in.)
It's not likely that old-fashioned relics like me will use this service to share financial data, mind you, but I do find the concept of using a financial system as a Foursquare-like input tracker interesting. And I would like a system that does an even better job than Mint of tracking my spending and comparing it to others.
Kaplan says he's not working on the revenue strategy yet. The company was incubated at and funded by Charles River Ventures, where he was Entrepreneur-in-Residence until last week. Potential revenues may include an affiliate model that kicks some referral money back to users when their connected friends buy what they've bought, but Kaplan doesn't want to "pay people to use Blippy," so the idea would need refinement. Blippy may also get its own credit card deal; right now you have to connect an existing card to the system to use it.
Blippy is in a closed alpha test right now. You can sign up for an invitation on the site, and it will open up in stages over the next few months.
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Monster Jam 2011 is all about authenticity, personality, and fun, with 30 officially licensed Monster Jam trucks, including fan-favorites Grave Digger, Maximum Destruction, and Grinder. Players can also create and customize their own trucks with thousands of options, unlocking new parts and upgrades as they progress through the game.
Eight real life stadiums from the Monster Jam circuit help bring the live atmosphere to the living room, with explosive truck introductions, pyrotechnics and lighting, and a roaring crowd. In single player mode the goal is the same as for real life drivers - rise through the ranks of ruthless competitors to ultimately battle against the best at the Monster Jam World Finals! Head-to-head multiplayer modes take the heart-pounding competition to another level.
This version of Monster Jam comes packed with a racing wheel controller accessory to accentuate the gameplay.
Also known as: Monster Truck Jam 2011, Monster Jam 3 [working title]
Release Region: United States
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Publisher: Activision
Release Region: United States
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Publisher: Activision
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Floyd Gift Card
$5.00 including GST
This greeting card features Floyd the frog, framed in silhouette. Floyd is one of the much adored pets featured in the Family Portrait Series. The range is printed in vibrant 50s inspired colours.
Professionally offset printed in Sydney onto 70% recycled paper stock, this card is accompanied by a blue C6 envelope and comes individually packaged in a clear plastic sleeve. It is blank inside for your own message.
Minimum retail order for purchasing cards only is 4 cards (any mix of designs). (This would bring the order total to $20, qualifying for free postage.) Minimum wholesale order is 36 cards (packs of 6). Actual card size is 150 x 107mm, C6 envelope measures 162 x 114mm.


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Caps Can Thrashers
Down by a goal midway through the game on the night they were awarded the President's Trophy, which recognizes the team with the best record in the NHL, the Washington Capitals, fueled by Alex Ovechkin and Niklas Backstrom achieving individual milestones, escaped Verizon Center on Friday night with a 5-2 victory over division rivals, the Atlanta Thrashers.
Ovechkin, Washington's leading scorer, who entered the game with 48 goals, registered his 49th and 50th goals of the season, with Backstrom collecting his 100th point of the campaign on the 50th goal.
Backstrom banged home the only goal of the first period, depositing Ovechkin's rebound behind Atlanta netminder, Ondrej Pavelec, at 14:44. Backstrom's goal was his 32nd of the season, and 4th at Atlanta's expense.
Despite Backstrom's goal, Washington's tough as nails winger, Quintin Laing, had the best two opportunities of the first period, but had both of his quality bids were rejected by Pavelec.
"It would have been nice for them to go in," said Laing, who has only two goals on the season. "As a fourth liner, you don't get many chances like that, at least I don't usually. Whenever you get chances like that in tight, you want to put them in, but they didn't go my way; I'll just have to work harder on those in practice tomorrow."
Laing, who has missed sizeable portions of the last two seasons in the District as a result of him sacrificing his body to block shots, knows that despite playing in seven of the last nine games, playoff time for him is anything but guaranteed.
"We'll see; we have three extra forwards, and every game, three guys will have to sit out," said Laing, who has never appeared in a Caps playoff game. "I'm going to be ready whatever my role is, and it's just a matter of being ready and staying sharp and making the most of it when you get your opportunity."
Backstrom's goal stood as the only goal of the game until 11:15 of the second period, when former Bear, Evgeny Artyukhin, banked a shot off the skate of Washington forward, Brendan Morrison, to knot the affair at a goal each.
Less the two minutes after Artyukhin's tally, and with the Caps on a power play, Clarke MacArthur stole Ovechkin's point pass and then beat Washington goalie, Jose Theodore, on a breakaway attempt, depositing the biscuit high into the net to give the visitors a 2-1 lead at 13:07. MacArthur's marker was reviewed by the off-ice officials, but the goal was allowed after the video review clearly showed the puck had entered and then exited the net.
Ovechkin, the league's reigning Rocket Richard Trophy winner, symbolic of goal-scoring superiority, atoned for his power play slipup by sizzling a slapshot by Pavelec at 16:04 to tie the game. Ovechkin's goal was his 49th of the season, and featured a sole assist to Alexander Semin who started the play in the neutral zone.
Theodore saved his best work for the third period, denying Maxim Afinogenov's point-blank backhand bid and laying down the leather and gloving Bryan Little's bid at 7:35 to keep the Thrashers from taking another lead.
Ovechkin was at it again just shy of the midway point of the final period, lasering a low missile by the stick side of Pavelec at 9:49 to give the Capitals a lead they would never relinquish.
Ovechkin's goal was his 50th of the season, and was assisted by Backstrom and Semin. Backstrom's helper was his 100th point of the season, and his coach, Bruce Boudreau, who has seen Backstrom develop into one of the premiere players in the league during his three seasons behind the Washington bench, couldn't be happier for the 22-year old Swede.
"I'm just really proud of him," said Boudreau. "You know he's such a great young man. You like to see great people and good people succeed. I was sitting there going, 'Nicky just got his 100th and Alex just got his 5oth; whose picking up the puck'?"
Jason Chimera (7th goal as a Capital) and Backstrom struck later in the third frame within a 49 second span to finish out the scoring and give the Caps their 54th win of the season and their 30h home ice triumph.
Theodore, who stopped 29 Atlanta shots on the night to register his the 30th win of the season, has now accumulated 30 or more wins in four different seasons in the NHL, including the last two with Washington.


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I have been taking a break from the blog but I haven't abandoned it. I have a bazillion posts that I need to write, but I thought I'd write a quick one.
One of the easiest forms of digital scrapbooking is creating a blog and then printing it. However, what if you don't want your personal and family information made available on the internet? Well, create a 'blog' on your own computer. Most every computer comes with a text program (MS Word, Open Office Writer, and Apple TextEdit).
All you need to do is create a text document. Set up the document 'blog style' in that you have a title for your entry, a photo, and the date. I love to include the weekday on my entries. But that's just me.
In any case, add your entries for a year and save them on your computer. When you're ready to print, save the file to PDF and submit the PDF to lulu.com. For a reasonable price, you can get a laminate, hardcover book that has your offline blog printed in one place.
That's really all there is to it. If you want more technical specifics, I'll be happy to share. However, this is enough to get you started thinking and have a resource of where to print.
By the way, this application can easily adapt to family history purposes. Someday I might do one so that I have a sample of what I mean. I just know that printing books has never been easier, or more affordable. All we have to do know is find the time to create so we can share.
By the way… many people ask when I have time to do something like this while raising the kids and handling my other responsibilities. The secret is I don't do this every day. (I probably should, but I don't). When I have chunks of free time throughout the year, I'll write a week's or a month's worth of entries. I also would rather work on personal and family history than to watch TV. So, it can be done. Hope that is helpful to know.


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A fun floral embrace in bright and cheery assorted seasonal blooms.
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Although the actual bouquet may not precisely match the photo, its temperament will. Occasionally, substitutions of flowers or containers happen due to weather, seasonality and market conditions which may affect availability. If this is the case with the gift you've selected, the local florist will ensure that the style, theme and color scheme of your arrangement is preserved and will only substitute items of equal or higher value.


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Michael Grace
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Yale PRs
800m 1:58.89
1000m 2:34.47
Mile 4:33.28
High School PRs
800m 1:56.66
1600m 4:32.89
2011-2012: Ran his PR in the 800-meter run at the Yale Springtime Invitational, where he took 14th…24th in the mile run and 14th in the 800-meter run at the Yale Collegiate Invitational.
High School: State champion in the 800m for North Carolina independent schools...School records in 800m, 4x800m and 4x400m...All-State in 2010 and 2011...Team MVP...Athletic Department Sportsmanship Award...Two-time team state champion.
Personal: Timothy Dwight College...Possible engineering major...Long-time soccer player and cellist...Avid fan of the Chicago Bears and Duke basketball.


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Constellation's version, directed by Allison Arkell Stockman, is acted with bravado by a cast that loves Shaw's language, savors his ridiculous plot, and reveals the core of human feeling at its heart. Mark Krawcyzk's explosively comic take on the pompous accidental hero Sergius is spot on, as is M.J. Casey's wry and self-possessed take on the mercenary Bluntschli. And the topsy-turvy competition between mistress and servant at the heart of Arms and the Man is wonderfully enacyed by Amy Quiggins (Raina) and Brynn Tucker (Louka).
Indeed, the excellence of the production got me wondering all over again about the play's roots in the nasty, brutish and short war in 1885-86 between Bulgaria and Serbia that inspired the play's meditation on the follies of war and romantic love -- and just how Shaw employs the Balkans in the play.
The war was indeed a short one. Spurred on by its own feelings of political pique and lost influence in the region due to the unification of a former Ottoman province in (present day) Western Bulgaria with Bulgaria proper in September 1885, Serbia declared war on November 14 and immediately invaded the disputed province. (The Austrian-Hungarian Empire also opposed the Bulgarian move and dangled its support for Serbian annexation of some of the land in question as an inducement for the declaration of war.)
Only two days later, the Serbian army arrived on a battlefield near the Bulgarian town of Slivnitsa. A three-day battle in the vicinity ensued, with Serbians making initial advances and then being repulsed. On the third day (November 19), the Serbs retreated and were pursued all the way back into Serbia. Another battle was fought near the town of Pirot on November 27 and the Serbs again lost, retreating deeper into South Serbia. A ceasefire quickly followed and a treaty was signed in February ending the war and leaving the border unchanged.
The brevity and seeming frivolity of the war no doubt attracted Shaw to its potential as a platform for a comedy -- though Bluntschli's view of war as a terrible business best survived with a full belly and no glory wins our definitively in the end. But how does Shaw employ the Balkans in the play.
Even in 1894, a full 20 years before another violent act of nationalism in the Balkans set off a much more horrible world conflict, the region is depicted as a wild landscape in which nature dominates and broods ("a peak of the Balkans," he writes to set the scene, "wonderfully white and beautiful in the starlit snow, seems quite close at hand, though it is really miles away.") The otherness of Shaw's Bulgaria also extends to the culture -- largely unspoilt by civilization and in a state of emerging enlightenment that sees Bulgaria in the throes of a romanticism in vogue in England a full eight decades before. (One wonders if Rebecca West got her initial impressions of the place from Arms and the Man.)
As an example, take Shaw's introduction to Bulgarian officer Sergius Saranoff:
Major Sergius Saranoff, the original of the portrait in Raina's room, is a tall, romantically handsome man, with the physical hardihood, the high spirit, and the susceptible imagination of an untamed mountaineer chieftain. But his remarkable personal distinction is of a characteristically civilized type. The ridges of his eyebrows, curving with a ram's-horn twist round the marked projections at the outer corners; his jealously observant eye; his nose, thin, keen, and apprehensive in spite of the pugnacious high bridge and large nostril; his assertive chin, would not be out of place in a Parisian salon, shewing that the clever, imaginative barbarian has an acute critical faculty which has been thrown into intense activity by the arrival of western civilisation in the Balkans. The result is precisely what the advent of nineteenth century thought first produced in England: to wit, Byronism. By his brooding on the perpetual failure, not only of others, but of himself, to live up to his ideals; by his consequent cynical scorn for humanity; by his jejune credulity as to the absolute validity of his concepts and the unworthiness of the world in disregarding them; by his wincings and mockeries under the sting of the petty disillusions which every hour spent among men brings to his sensitive observation, he has acquired the half tragic, half ironic air, the mysterious moodiness, the suggestion of a strange and terrible history that has left nothing but undying remorse, by which Childe Harold fascinated the grandmothers of his English contemporaries.
There are other familiar notions of the Balkans here as well: the running joke about the Petkoff family library -- which Shaw notes in his stage directions, "is not much of a library" -- but does have an electric bell to summon the servants. And there is, too, the hint of senseless violence associated with honor that had also gone by the wayside in late Victorian England:
Shaw's Balkans aren't the Coast of Bohemia. Indeed, the continuing power of the image of the wild and black and backward Balkans that comes down even to this day lends it a certain power. Yet Shaw's Balkans in Arms and the Man come most powerfully alive when portrayed as region under the sway of large powers -- pawns, perhaps knights on a larger chessboard. That, too is an image closely associated with the Balkans -- yet one nearer to the mark from the First World War to the Second World War to the Cold War and into the battle of Kosovo's independence:
SERGIUS. You have deceived me. You are my rival. I brook no rivals. At six o'clock I shall be in the drilling-ground on the Klissoura road, alone, on horseback, with my sabre. Do you understand ?BLUNTSCHLI [staring, but sitting quite at his ease] Oh, thank you : that's a cavalry man's proposal. I'm in the artillery ; and I have the choice of weapons. If I go, I shall take a machine gun. And there shall be no mistake about the cartridges this time.SERGIUS [flushing, but with deadly coldness] Take care, sir. It is not our custom in Bulgaria to allow invitations of that kind to be trifled with.BLUNTSCHLI [warmly] Pooh ! dont talk to me about Bulgaria. You don't know what fighting is. But have it your own way. Bring your sabre along. I'll meet you.
CATHERINE. A Swiss ? What was he doing in the Serbian army ?PETKOFF. A volunteer, of course keen on picking up his profession. [Chuckling] We shouldnt have been able to begin fighting if these foreigners hadnt shewn us how to do it : we knew nothing about it ; and neither did the Serbians. Egad, there'd have been no war without them !RAINA. Are there many Swiss officers in the Serbian Army ?PETKOFF. No all Austrians, just as our officers were all Russians. This was the only Swiss I came across. I'll never trust a Swiss again. He cheated us humbugged us into giving him fifty able bodied men for two hundred confounded worn out chargers. They werent even eatable !SERGIUS. We were two children in the hands of that consummate soldier, Major : simply two innocent little children.
More information about Constellation Theatre Company's production of Arms and the Man here.
(Brynn Tucker as Louka and Mark Krawcyzk as Sergius in Constellation Theatre Company's production of Arms and the Man. Photo by Scott Suchman.)


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Mitochondrial Toxicity
What are mitochondria? What do they do? And how does it affect me?
Take into account that our bodies are made up of billions of tiny cells with different functions that help us live. The mitochondria are tiny organisms inside the cell, and their job is to produce energy for the cell. Many sources call them the "power plants" or "powerhouses" of the cell. Mitochondria utilize and break down the oxygen, fat and sugar of the cell to produce adenosine triphosphate or ATP. This process gives energy to the cell when needed. The cells then generate this energy throughout our body. This energy helps us run a mile, or be able to walk 3 blocks without getting fatigued, or simply to get up in the morning. It is uncertain how many mitochondria live in the cell, and it depends on how much energy the cell needs. It can range from a couple of mitochondria to thousands. The cells with high mitochondrial levels are found in the muscles, liver and nerves.
Dysfunctional Mutations
One of the particulars of the mitochondria is that, although they are a component of the cell, they reproduce independently of the cell. The genetic composition of the mitochondria is unique as it uses a different DNA to replicate itself than the nuclear DNA that the cell uses for reproduction. However, the mitochondria are very delicate in their reproduction because they can reproduce defective mitochondria, and are not able to correct themselves like the nuclear cells do. Gradually, the mitochondria, at some point, will reproduce more dysfunctional mutations and less functional ones. With fewer functional mitochondria in the cell, the less energy the cell will be receiving. In order for the cell to receive the needed energy, it utilizes a process called anaerobic (without oxygen) metabolism, which is inefficient and produces more lactate. Some experts believe that the process of getting old is related to the gradual break-down of the mitochondria. When the mitochondria stop performing, many illnesses can arise. This is what is called mitochondrial toxicity. Some diseases related to mitochondrial dysfunction are lactic acidosis, neuropathy, muscle wasting, anemia, and pancreatitis, among many.
How does mitochondrial toxicity relate to HIV infection?
Lactic Acidosis
The mitochondria use an enzyme to reproduce similar to the reverse transcriptase enzyme that many anti-retroviral medications use. Experts are theorizing that long-term use of some anti-retroviral medications (AZT, 3TC, ddI, ddC, d4T, and abacavir) may affect the ability of the mitochondria to reproduce properly, thus causing some side effects related to mitchondrial toxicity. For example, lactic acidosis is a rare condition, which affects the muscles, and can create a high build-up of lactic acid in the blood. This condition, if not checked, can be fatal. The symptoms associated with lactic acidosis are nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and recent weight loss. It is very important to see a doctor if a person is experiencing these symptoms while taking any of the anti-retroviral medications. It is also believed that lipodistrophy syndrome is associated with mitochondrial toxicity. The National Association of People with AIDS' A Guide to Understanding Lipodystrophy Syndrome (NAPWA 2000) states that "Some researchers believe NRTIs may affect the mitochondria in fat cells, leading to changes in the distribution of body fat." The medical research about this subject is very limited. Many experts also associate mitochondrial toxicity to the effects of HIV infection itself. However, it is still uncertain if medications or HIV is the cause of mitochondrial failure. Yet, many people with HIV have been experiencing many of the diseases stated above. It is important that you become informed and talk to your doctor, and experts on HIV infection about the long-term effects of anti-retroviral medications, and how to manage the possible side effects associated with them.


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Pillowcase Trick-or-Treat Bags
Source: Martha Stewart Living Television
For the serious Halloween reveler, the trick-or-treat bag isn't merely a vessel for the evening's spoils; it must also be a spooky accessory to his or her costume. To create a bag equal to the task, all you'll need is an old pillowcase, a bit of rope, and some iron-on patches. Choose from our assortment of ghostly faces, or you can create your own gruesome expression.
White pencil
2 black 5-by-5-inch iron-on patches, such as Dritz patches
White or light-color pillowcase
Press cloth
1 1/2 yards heavy rope or string
Safety pin
To make the eyes and mouth, print out our templates, and cut them out. Lay each template on the back of an iron-on patch and trace it with a white pencil. (You can also draw the eyes and mouth yourself). Using scissors, cut them out.
Lay the pillowcase flat. Place the eyes and the mouth, fusible side down, about 12 inches from the pillowcase's opening. Lay a press cloth over the eyes and mouth, and press with a dry iron set on medium.
To make a drawstring, cut 2 oval-shape re-enforcement holes about 1 1/2 inches long and 1 inch wide from the remaining iron-on material. Iron them onto the inside of the pillowcase hem, on either side of the seam. Using a small pair of scissors, cut vertical openings about 1/2 inch long at the center of each oval. Cut a piece of rope, such as clothesline, to approximately 54 inches. Attach a safety pin to one end of the rope, and pass it through the pillowcase. Remove the pin and knot the ends together. If you have a small child, shorten the pillowcase by cutting the bottom and sewing it closed.


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Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix wiktionary:-logia, "study of") is a branch of specialty (medicine) dealing with neurological disorder. Neurology deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the Central nervous system and peripheral nervous systems (and their subdivisions, the autonomic nervous system and somatic nervous systems), including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue, such as muscle.
A large number of neurological disorders have been described as List of neurological disorders. These can affect the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), the peripheral nervous system, the autonomic nervous system, and the muscular system.
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or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (US), M.B.B.S. (UK), M.B. B.Ch. B.A.O. (Republic of Ireland) Many neurologists also have additional training or interest in one area of neurology, such as stroke, epilepsy, neuromuscular, sleep medicine, pain management, or movement disorders.
In the United States and Canada, neurologists are physicians having completed postgraduate training in neurology after graduation from medical school. Neurologists complete, on average, about 8 years of medical college education and clinical training, which includes obtaining a four-year undergraduate degree, a medical degree (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine or Doctor of Medicine), which comprises an additional four years of study, then completing one year of basic clinical training and four years of Residency (medicine). The four-year residency consists of one year of internal medicine internship training followed by three years of training in neurology.
Some neurologists receive additional subspecialty training focusing on a particular area of the field. These training programs are called Fellowship (medicine), and are one to two years in duration. Subspecialties include brain injury medicine, clinical neurophysiology, epilepsy, hospice and palliative medicine, neurodevelopmental disabilities, neuromuscular medicine, pain medicine, sleep medicine, neurocritical care, vascular neurology (stroke), behavioral neurology, child neurology, headache, multiple sclerosis, neuroimaging, neurorehabilitation.
In Germany, a compulsory year of psychiatry must be done to complete a residency of neurology.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, neurology is a subspecialty of general (internal) medicine. After five to nine years of medical school and a year as a preregistration house officer (or two years on the Foundation Programme), a neurologist must pass the examination for Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (or the Irish equivalent) before completing two years of core medical training and then entering specialist training in neurology. A generation ago, some neurologists would have also spent a couple of years working in psychiatric units and obtain a diploma in psychological medicine. However, this requirement has become uncommon, and, now that a basic psychiatric qualification takes three years to obtain, the requirement is no longer practical. A period of research is essential, and obtaining a higher degree aids career progression. Many found it was eased after an attachment to the Institute of Neurology at Queen Square, London, London. Some neurologists enter the field of rehabilitation medicine (known as physiatry in the US) to specialise in neurological rehabilitation, which may include stroke medicine, as well as brain injuries.
Neurologists examine patients who are referred to them by other physicians in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Neurologists begin their interactions with patients by taking a comprehensive medical history, and then performing a physical examination focusing on evaluating the nervous system. Components of the neurological examination include assessment of the patient's cognitive function, cranial nerves, motor strength, Sensory nervous system, reflexes, Motor coordination, and gait.
In some instances, neurologists may order additional diagnostic tests as part of the evaluation. Commonly employed tests in neurology include imaging studies such as computed axial tomography (CAT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound of major blood vessels of the head and neck. Neurophysiologic studies, including electroencephalography (EEG), needle electromyography (EMG), nerve conduction studies (NCSs) and evoked potentials are also commonly ordered. Neurologists frequently perform lumbar punctures to assess characteristics of a patient's cerebrospinal fluid. Advances in genetic testing have made genetic testing an important tool in the classification of inherited neuromuscular disease and diagnosis of many other neurogenetic diseases. The role of genetic influences on the development of acquired neurologic diseases is an active area of research.
Some of the commonly encountered conditions treated by neurologists include headaches, radiculopathy, neuropathy, stroke, dementia, seizures and epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Neurosurgery is a distinct specialty that involves a different training path, and emphasizes the surgical treatment of neurological disorders.
Also, many nonmedical doctors, those with doctoral degrees(usually PhDs) in subjects such as biology and chemistry, study and research the nervous system. Working in laboratories in universities, hospitals, and private companies, these neuroscientists perform clinical and laboratory experiments and tests to learn more about the nervous system and find cures or new treatments for diseases and disorders.
A great deal of overlap occurs between neuroscience and neurology. Many neurologists work in academic training hospitals, where they conduct research as neuroscientists in addition to treating patients and teaching neurology to medical students.
Clinical neuropsychology are often called upon to Neuropsychological assessment brain-Human behavior relationships for the purpose of assisting with differential diagnosis, planning Physical medicine and rehabilitation strategies, documenting cognitive strengths and weaknesses, and measuring change over time (e.g., for identifying abnormal aging or tracking the progression of a dementia).


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Daggerfall's freeware now if you want to check out what I personally consider to be the worst RPG ever made.
Point and Click adventure RPG hybrid set in an Arabian Nights setting with furries. You can be a warrior, a wizard, or a thief (though you can multiclass somewhat). Has some life sim elements. Puzzle solutions are dependent on your class/skills. Combat is real time and based around blocking and attacking at the right times. It's quite engaging.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/102500/Amalur's on sale. You can get the pack with the DLC for 12 bucks. Also it's the Steam version so uh, no Origin?
Quote from: MeshGearFox on February 01, 2014, 10:50:56 AMhttp://store.steampowered.com/app/102500/Amalur's on sale. You can get the pack with the DLC for 12 bucks. Also it's the Steam version so uh, no Origin?Thanks for the tip! Believe it or not I have NEVER bought/played/used steam yet... I know nothing about it... I suppose I should stop being so ignorant in that regard
I thought steam had to drop it for awhile on account of stuff happening and the game becoming public property of the state of Rhode Island.


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Maitland is a city in the lower Hunter Valley, approximately a 166 km drive from Sydney. Evidence of my FRAYNE, WILLIAMS and KELLY convict ancestors can be found in this area from the 1840's (possibly earlier), and with the prospect of having a number of regional family History Societies accessible on one day, I set off in search of more information about my law breaking ancestors. I might add, that my ancestor, Joseph Williams who married (or didn't) Mary Kelly, has been solidly embedded in the footings of a stubborn brick wall.
Once at the Fair, and after purchasing too many books, journals and other family history paraphernalia, enjoying a chat with Ben Mercer from Inside History Magazine and seeing a few other familiar faces such as Kerry Farmer, I filled out an application form to join a group known as Convict Connections which is an interest group of the Genealogical Society of Queensland and I proudly purchased a 'Convict Aristocracy' T-Shirt. Then, leaving details of my illusive convict 5 time great grandparents, Joseph Williams and Mary Kelly with the very helpful ladies who were efficiently manning the Maitland District and Family History Society table, I set off to the nearby historic town of Morpeth for afternoon tea.
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In the 1940 Leaving Certificate Br Alfred was placed first in NSW in physics and third in Mathematics. At University he pursued studies in Maths, English, Latin, French and Greek.
Br Alfred loved his sport and developed into a very good fast bowler in cricket and had a single digit handicap in golf.
His students had a strong sense of respect and loyalty for Br Alfred. They found him to be a challenging teacher, a man of very deep wisdom, a good listener and advisor.
About 1970 Br Alfred and three others produced a new, very different Religious Education program for senior students. It was a winner.
Br Alfred came to St Gregory's in 1983. He was the Senior Maths teacher. Some of his students gained top places in H.S.C. for Maths.
Brother developed blood circulation problems in his legs. This caused great pain and made him less mobile. But, he wanted to keep teaching. He went to class in a wheelchair then on a golf buggy. Then, as Brother's health worsened the 4 unit Maths group was taught in Br Alfred's bedroom.
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With all this nice weather here on the East Coast, it's beginning to feel a lot like summer. Yeah, yeah, it's only the middle of April and we're probably getting ahead of ourselves, but still: There are some important things you can do right now to start getting ready for America's greatest season. Here is our list of ten ways to get an early jump on making Summahtime 2012 the best one ever.
Speaking of the city being gross in the summer, you know how black and horrible your feet get when you wear flipflops while walking around town? Well, no more. Nope. Right now, with this first early blush of warm weather, this is the time to declare to friends, family, whoever will listen that your feet shall turn grimy and horrifying no longer! No more flipflops. Yes they are the most comfortable things ever and so easy to put on and who can bother with socks in hot weather, but really. It's just too gross. So, declare yourself flipflop free from now on and then the minute it's above 85 promptly slap on a pair and head off because what are feet, really?
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One of the perils of summer is that it ends a long winter hibernation that has not involved going out and spending money. Sure there was Christmas, but mostly you just stayed indoors and hid under a blanket instead of traipsing all over town in the blistering cold or waiting for your car to warm up in vain. But now the weather is nice and everyone's feeling free and funky and it's time to go out again and oh god it's going to be expensive. Those outdoor drinks you're going to spend half your summer gleefully guzzling down? They add up. So just plan accordingly. Maybe switch to the half-ply toilet paper for a while or invest in some off-brand cup o' noodles or something, just to fatten your wallet. The summer is wonderful and social! But it's also financially brutal.
Make Ice Coffee
Pull out the pitcher from the back of the cupboard and begin to siphon your remaining hot coffee into it, each morning. This is your ice coffee stash, and while you may never drink it, it is a strange comfort in times of trouble, just knowing it is there, the glass pitcher in the back of the refrigerator, sweating the way it sweats, sitting quietly and proud. At the end of the summer you'll dump it all down the drain and amaze yourself by how mildew has the power to grow in coffee. This is called a science project, and counts as extra credit in life. Also, make ice. Lots of ice. It never goes bad.
Track Down a Summer Reading List
Remember school? Remember when school would be over for the year and it was so exciting but then, wtf, it wasn't really over because they gave you a freaking reading list to complete over the break? It was awful. But what was once a childhood horror now sounds, out here in the hurried world of adulthood, actually kind of great. Wouldn't it be nice to have a list that helpfully tells you what good books to read? Y'know, a little external guidance and pressure? You never seem to find time to open a book these days but maybe if there was a list, something clear and easy to follow, maybe you would. So spend the next month or so looking on blogs or asking friends and find a list of good summer books and try your best to stick to it. Obviously you will only barely get through one and a half by the time Labor Day rolls around, just like in middle school, but at least you will have tried.
Take Stock of Your Air Conditioning Situation
Yes, air conditioning. Do you have it? If not, buy it. If you've stored it for the winter, return to the dank confines of the storage unit to which it has been designated, and re-install it in your window, carefully, judiciously. Have someone strong help you, if necessary. Do not allow it to drop from the window and topple upon someone's head, for that is a surefire way to kick off a wretched summer full of lawyer fees and regret. Install your A.C. now, before the first heat of the season occurs. Oops -- too late.
Promise Yourself You'll Make That Move
Summer can be a romantic time. Everyone's outdoors all the time and nobody's wearing much clothing and there are the crickets and the wind chimes and fireflies and all that stuff. So why not, just to psych yourself up, make a commitment to yourself today that this summer, this will be the time: You'll finally ask Deborah on that date. It'll be sometime in early June, maybe. You'll be out with friends, sitting by the water somewhere and the sun will be setting and a warm wind will be blowing (start picturing this exact, impossibly lovely scenario in your head right now), and you'll just casually ask her out and she'll say yes and, boom, summer romance. Or plan on playing a jokey/flirty game of touch football with the gang some night after work, the park all pretty in the twilight, and after enough touchy-touchy, Greg will figure it out, he'll know what's up, and you'll spend the rest of the warm months holding hands and looking at lighthouses, or whatever summer flingers do. Definitely start working up the courage to do this right now. That way the crushing defeat you feel when Deb or Greg bring a date to Lulu's 4th of July party will feel even sweeter. Nothing like summertime melancholy!
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CALLE PEDRO CLISANTE 141, EL BATEY. Dominican Republic.
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The El Colibri Resort is a 2-star hotel with 32 rooms managed by Dutch staff who are keen to make your stay a comfortable one.
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The first thing that may throw you off about this resort is the fact that the prices I'm afraid might be a little on the high side and many people might not be able to afford or may think that the price is not worth it especially because it may be their first time but take it from me, I have seen the place first hand and have witnessed their service, the price is totally worth it, don't take it for granted or think it's too expensive. The hotel has very comfortable and spacious rooms that will be enough for you and it even depends on the size of the guests as in family or solo. The rooms are even air conditioned, the air condition never went bar. Now I have to say that this resort has the best bathroom design and decoration I have ever seen. The bathrooms in this hotel have separate showers which are becoming a welcoming idea that other resorts should learn from, it's the best. The bathroom is spacious and has enough space for the toiletries and other bathroom features. The hotel generally has a modern decoration that beats most of the hotels I have seen in this vicinity. The staff here tries their possible best to give their all to the clients; it is so nice of them. They have good and strong internet connection that works fast and that was like the thing that glued me to the hotel. Thanks for a nice time here.
"Love the Colibri"
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I had a 2 week trip booked at another resort close by but ended up staying here the whole time. You can have friends hangout with you on the resort all day or overnight no extra charge, the locals just have to give their id to the security to be allowed on the resort with you. Staff were super nice and helpful. Food was great. Rooms were clean and were a great price the longer you stay the cheaper it is. We ended up getting a suite with a kitchen and fridge which was nice we cooked a lot of food. There is a grocery store just down the road where you can get most things and a few more down the road with a bigger selection. The owners were super friendly and willing to help accommodate you in anyway. They have free internet which was awesome. this hotel is right on the main strip, lots of bars and clubs within walking distance. I'm definitely going to stay here next time I go down to Dominican. Love this Place.
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When I decided to travel to sosua it was very hard to find a pet friendly hotel. when I called colibri it was very accomadating perhaps because they have dogs them selves i stayed in the apt which wasnt as nice as it should have been basically it needs renovation but the grounds are beautiful extremly well maintained the staff is very nice and accomadating the resteraunt serves some of the best food I've had in sosua and I've tried every resturaunt and a agreat price to boot pool is great problems with there generator could be less and room makeovers would be a plus but still a pleasant exp especially if your a pet owner.
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On the matter of GMOs – and subsequently on co-existence – politicians are split with no clear battle lines. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are having a strong influence on politicians resulting in such events as the Mayor of Moscow declaring the city GM free. Generally it appears that Russia will adopt an EU approach to co-existence and is moving in that direction.
Organic farmers have little voice in Russia but organic agriculture is being pushed hard by NGOs. Most farmers are generally keen on having GMOs if they provide good financial returns.
The food and feed industries have a relaxed position on GMOs. As long as there is no intense protest from consumers against GMOs, they are not particularly concerned.
The general awareness for GMOs remains low, and generally there is little public concern. The level of debate is poor and ill informed.
NGOs are making more impact at both the general public and political level. Opposition to agricultural biotechnology development in Russia is driven by the concept that biotech crops have unknown origins and pose unpredictable danger to human health, animals, and the environment. This concept is widely supported by Greenpeace Russia.
There has been some limited debate on GM food, but there have not yet been discussions on co-existence between the government and various stakeholders.
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For someone who was being hailed as the "answer" for the nation's energy woes just a few months ago, corn growers and ethanol manufacturers have been getting a boatload of negative press recently.
Ethanol and biofuels have always had their naysayers: "Ethanol producers can't compete without subsidies." "Ethanol requires more energy to produce than it produces." "Higher corn prices are driving up the price of food items, such as sweet corn."
The criticism took a nasty turn recently when a United Nations official said manufacturing fuel from food crops was a "crime against humanity" and a "recipe for disaster." Jean Ziegler, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, called for a five-year moratorium on biofuels.
The National Corn Growers Association, biofuel groups in Canada and Europe, the Ethanol Production and Information Council and others fired off letters to the UN, protesting the statements.
I suppose there's a kernel of truth in those, but consider this: When was the last time you read about an ethanol spill fouling the waters of the San Francisco Bay or read about an ethanol refinery being shut down for maintenance and causing prices to jump 10 cents a gallon at the pump?
When was the last time a rise in corn prices was attributable to unrest in the oil fields in Nigeria or to continued attacks on the pipeline for the oil that was supposed to help pay for the war in Iraq?
Ethanol and biodiesel and other renewable fuels have their drawbacks. The National Academy of Sciences has released a report saying corn-based ethanol was exacerbating water quality and quantity issues in the upper Midwest.
Growing more corn for ethanol (14 million additional acres in 2007) requires more nitrogen fertilizer, which, in turn, places more demand on natural gas, a feedstock in the production of ammonia nitrate and on other fuels for transporting it, not to mention the energy needed to plant, spray and harvest the crop.
The 2007 farm bills include funding for research on cellulosic ethanol feedstocks that conceivably would require less nitrogen fertilizer and perhaps use less energy for planting, harvesting and transporting.
A few days ago, the House passed the Energy Independence and Security Act that includes a 36-billion-gallon renewable fuels standard with 15 billion gallons of those set aside for grain-based ethanol. The bill (H.R. 6) requires 9 billion gallons of renewable fuels in 2008 and increases the requirement to 36 billion gallons by 2022.
At press time, the Senate was beginning deliberations on the measure — after another failed cloture vote — but it was unclear whether the upper chamber would be able to complete work on the measure before it adjourned for the year.
Those 36 billion gallons would not replace the country's petroleum-based fuel supply. Far from it. But it could help decrease U.S. reliance on energy from places where the United States is not looked on with great favor these days.