After waging a roughly 25 year battle with stuttering, this author was able to cure himself. In the process, he developed techniques and methods that work. In the process of discovering these self-cures...stuttering became a great blessing in disguise. His story, techniques and methods are described in this short book.

This is second edition of the book.7 Reasons to Read/Master This BookThe author created this book over a period of 50+ years, extracting words from reading a book or so a week, often classics. He added facts that he was "embarrassed not to know". Then, others found seven reasons to read and master this book: (1) Better vocabularies imply more intelligence & facilitate better thinking. (2) Dictionaries are too big to memorize. (3) Most vocab books are too simple with only a few hundred words vs. 5,000 entries here. (4) The words herein are those used by some of history's greatest classical and contemporary writers. (5) Definitions include elevated synonyms, antonyms and distinguish confusingly similar words. (6) As a bonus, find countless KEY FACTS that most of us are embarrassed not to know but do not know - ideal for party-games, children and grandchildren. Adults need this book for career advancement and self-respect. (7) Finally, as early as age thirty, we need to begin to fight memory loss. This book offers a life-long memory-exercise program.

Happiness in Seven Steps outlines seven specific steps that work, period. While none of us will likely every achieve happiness 100% of the time, we can gain control of it and possess it most of the time for the rest of our lives. Anyone who masters these Seven Steps will gain control of his/her happiness for life.

The Watergate Rhymes aims to educate, reflect and learn from that consumptive scandal, while using satire to see the humor in the human frailties of that maligned administration - and in ourselves, all with the perspective and understanding that only precious time enables. A funny way to explain the Watergate Scandal. Lastly, the book is truly humorous and it refreshes memories or creates a new landscape for the historical time traveler. This is a great book for History and English classes of all levels.

Background: The detection of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (pAF) in TIA and stroke is resource intense with a range of monitoring devices available. Monitoring can be done during inpatient admission for stroke, but strategies optimised for use in TIA and minor stroke clinics are also necessary.Methods: Patients recruited to the Oxford Vascular Study, who were in sinus rhythm at the time of presentation with TIA or minor stroke, underwent clinical assessment, neuroimaging, blood sampling, and 5-day ambulatory cardiac rhythm monitoring. Patients were split into derivation (n=300) and validation (n=300) cohorts. Using logistic regression we determined the predictive value for pAF of candidate variables identified from a systematic review of previous studies: age, NT-proBNP (900umol/L), left atrial dilatation, stroke severity and acute lesion on brain imaging.Result: Among the 600 patients, pAF was identified in 46. Predictors in the validation cohort were age (reference 65; 65-75 u2013 OR=1.12, 95%CI=0.31-4.11; age 75 - 2.95, 1.00-8.68), NT-proBNP (reference 300umol/L; 300-900umol/L - 2.19, 0.67-7.18; 900umol/L - 3.66, 1.03-12.99) and acute lesion on brain imaging (2.52, 1.03-6.16). A possible score based on these variables (age 65-75, 1 point, >75, 2 points; NT-proBNP >300, 1 point, >900, 2 points; acute lesion - 3 points) had reasonable predictive value in the validation cohort (C-statistic=0.79, 0.68-89, p0.001; pAF rate=14% at score 2 and 2.2% at