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At a GlanceThe nation's annual growth rate of medical costs could be halved if the nation were to rigorously pursue the following initiatives, among others:
Few national issues are as important as the need to bend the healthcare cost curve to gain control of the spiraling costs of U.S. health care, especially for Medicare. This topic has been researched and discussed for years. Now, based on the findings of recent research into the potential impact of accountable care organizations (ACOs) and the movement toward value-based payment, it seems quite possible to bend the cost curve downward.a
In presentations on factors driving healthcare costs, we often list 25 factors (shown in the sidebar below) to kick off discussion. The list is based on what others have written or said is the single most important factor driving costs upward. We ask the members of our audience to tell us which factor they think is most important.
The responses tend to vary widely. Our view is that multiple strategies must attack different aspects of cost savings at the same time. In Boston, for example, Partners HealthCare is addressing 20 different aspects of cost reduction simultaneously—including chronic disease, care access, IT enhancements, patient engagement, end-of-life care, and incentive structures. Communities and health systems are likely to disagree about which ways are best for bending the curve. However, multiple approaches will be required to deal with accelerating costs.
A commonly cited belief among industry analysts is that 30 percent of all healthcare spending is inappropriate or unnecessary—that it is essentially waste. This view appears to be well founded. The findings of four industry research entities buttress this opinion.
Truven Health Analytics. In a 2009 white paper, Truven (then Thomson Reuters) explored the question of how waste costing $700 billion per year (2006 dollars, or 30 percent of total spending) could be taken out of the U. S. healthcare system. Waste is defined as "healthcare spending that can be eliminated without reducing the quality of care."b
Thomson Reuters identified six categories of waste and estimated the annual dollar impact for each one:
Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. Researchers at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice point to unexplained geographic variation in healthcare costs. Most notably, Dartmouth researchers John E. Wennberg, MD, and Elliot S. Fisher, MD—working with their associates to mine the Medicare database, and taking pains to adjust all comparisons to reflect the age and health status of the local Medicare population—have consistently found large variations in the amount spent for specific procedures in various small areas of the country.c
Analysis of geographic variation is important to understanding the potential to bend the cost curve because it provides insight into physician-induced demand. For example, a 2011 article for HealthLeaders Media reported the following findings of Dartmouth research:d
Atul Gawande, MD, emphasized the importance of studying regional variations in his widely read article "The Cost Conundrum," published in The New Yorker in June 2009. Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, compared the medical communities in McAllen and El Paso, Texas. Gawande based his discussion on Dartmouth data indicating that, in 2006, McAllen, one of the poorest counties in the country, had the highest Medicare costs per capita in the United States and was experiencing the most rapid growth in costs.
Costs in McAllen were twice as high as those in El Paso, 700 miles up the road and also on the border with Mexico. Hospitals in El Paso had almost the same levels of medical technology, and their quality ratings were comparable. Gawande underscores the variation in physician practices: "Between 2001 and 2005, critically ill Medicare patients received almost 50 percent more specialist visits in McAllen than in El Paso, and were two-thirds more likely to see 10 or more specialists in a six-month period."
McKinsey Global Institute. McKinsey has issued three major studies on this issue. In its latest study, based on 2006 data, McKinsey estimated that the United States spent almost $2.1 trillion on health care in that year—nearly $650 billion more than the nation would expect based on data from 13 peer countries compiled by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.e There is no evidence that patterns have changed over the past six years.
According to McKinsey, the biggest difference—$436 billion per year (two-thirds of total discrepancy between the United States and other developed countries)—is in outpatient services, which include physician office visits, same-day visits to hospitals or their emergency departments (EDs), ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), diagnostic imaging centers, and other same-day facilities. Outpatient services not only account for most of the differences, but also constitute the fastest growing component of costs in the U. S. healthcare system. The report states, "More than is the case in any other country, the United States has effectively moved care from an inpatient setting to an outpatient setting." Anyone working in health care recognizes that this statement is true.
Institute of Medicine (IOM). The highly respected IOM finds that the U.S. system squanders 30 cents of every dollar spent on health care. In a recent report, the IOM finds that the nation's healthcare system wasted an estimated $750 billion annually.f
The research of these four organizations clearly supports the claim that at least 30 percent of all U. S. healthcare spending is wasted. It also seems clear that a significant portion of the excessive healthcare spending in the United States is in the outpatient arena, where the main driver is profit opportunities in performing certain diagnostic tests and surgical procedures. We need only point to our research findings regarding spine surgeries performed in Rapid City, S.D.; Casper, Wyo.; and Oklahoma City: We did not see a single neurosurgeon practicing in these communities who is earning less than $1 million a year. In all three communities, neurosurgeons own all or a large share of the surgical hospitals where they perform spine surgeries, and spine surgery rates per capita in these communities are substantially above national averages.
Where should the nation concentrate its efforts to reduce the high costs and waste in its healthcare system? For a number of reasons, it seems likely the greatest impact on bending the cost curve can be achieved through a focus on 10 of the 25 factors listed in the sidebar below:
Although the importance of the other 15 should not be understated, there are compelling reasons for focusing on these 10 factors.
For example, it may seem counterintuitive to regard fragmentation of care and management of outpatient costs as two of the top drivers of costs, given that most ASCs are less expensive than an overnight stay in a hospital, and they typically deliver high-quality care. But as the McKinsey Global Institute notes, this category (which includes hospital ED visits) accounts for two-thirds of the difference between U.S. healthcare costs and those in other developed countries, and is also a major reason that U.S. costs are growing rapidly. The reality is that an increasing proportion of our total costs are being absorbed in outpatient settings, with relatively little attention paid to how outpatient services are organized to achieve maximum efficiency and quality.
Consider, also, the problem of inconsistent identification and management of those with chronic disease. That fact that newly formed ACOs are intent on tackling this issue underscores its importance in driving costs. These organizations are going where the money is: There are big dollars being spent on those with chronic disease, and there are promising opportunities to apply clinical information systems, computerized analysis of claims data, enhanced care coordination at the primary care practice level, and improved post-acute care to reduce these costs.
The shortage of primary care physicians is a national disgrace for which we are paying dearly. This shortage is due, in large part, to a lower earning potential and less attractive lifestyle associated with primary care as compared with specialty care. Experiments involving the use of EHRs and secure online messaging—such as those explored by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative—suggest that technology, financial incentives, and creation of chronic care teams may be a major part of the solution.g This problem must be dealt with aggressively if we hope to bend the cost curve.
Many organizations are already substantially reducing costs and bending the cost curve. This assertion has been corroborated in the findings of four cases studies we performed for the American Hospital Association in 2010 and in the results of 10 site visits performed more recently as part of research for HFMA's Value Project.
For example, one of the four AHA case-study organizations is New West Physicians, a medical group composed of 85 primary care providers located in the Denver area. We found that New West is delivering primary and specialty care to a large panel of Medicare Advantage enrollees for substantially less than traditional Medicare would pay.
Another AHA case study, Memorial Hermann, a large multihospital system in Houston, has experimented with groups of uninsured patients to attempt to reduce their utilization of hospital services. In the year before enrolling in Memorial Hermann's Community Outreach for Personal Empowerment program, 600 patients had visited the ED 2,165 times, but in the year after enrolling in the program, their visits dropped to 1,291. Similarly, inpatient visits, which numbered 756 in the year before enrollment, dropped to 391 in the year after enrollment. Savings for these patients amounted to $3.6 million over two years.
A second Memorial Hermann pilot program saw the voluntary enrollment of 540 Medicare patients. These patients had accounted for419 ED visits in the year prior to enrollment, but ED visits actually increased slightly in the year after enrollment, to 467. The program was more successful in its first year in reducing inpatient visits from 2,180 prior to the program to 1,468 after the program kicked in. Total savings amounted to $6.5 million over two years.
Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., one of the HFMA site visits, is actively pursuing several initiatives to reduce costs—including bundled-payment (ProvenCare) approaches for numerous services, such as orthopedics and cardiology.
So what are the most promising strategies for bending both the total healthcare and Medicare cost curves? Here are 10 proposals for initiatives that have the potential to halve the annual growth rate of medical costs.
Move with deliberate speed from fee-for-service to value-based contracting. Medicare, private health plans, and employers should aggressively move away from open-ended, fee-for-service contracts toward payment based on value. Payers recognize that the pace and path of change will vary based on local conditions. Meanwhile, leaders of hospitals, health systems, and physician groups should be more aggressive and creative in preparing to succeed under value-based payment and in approaching customers with new payment models. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) encourages changes in the payment methodology, but a greater sense of urgency is needed by all sides.
Health systems and physician groups have to judge where their "tipping point" is—where they are receiving sufficient value-based (as opposed to fee-for-service) payments to warrant reengineering their approaches to care. Payers and providers must work hand-in-hand for this transition to work.
Even though healthcare systems and markets may move at different speeds, all have to move more quickly if the cost curve is to be bent downward. For example, the transition requires faster movement among physician groups and health systems in adopting new management dashboards, analytics, and other business intelligence, and in creating workable ACOs and similar organizations capable of managing the health costs of a population. Payers also will need to contribute by rapidly increasing incentives (e.g., covering more up-front costs of nurse care coordinators) and the differential between the amounts providers can receive from value-based payments versus fee-for-service.
Increase the supply and effective utilization of primary care physicians and physician extenders. The ACA established five initiatives to promote primary care, but more are needed—and fast. The success of accountable care depends on primary care, including effective use of physician extenders—mainly nurse practitioners and physician assistants. The unacceptable ratio of primary care to medical specialists (one-third to two-thirds) is not a minor factor best left to medical school deans, professors, and students; rather, it is threatening the financial viability of Medicare. Based on our analysis of factors driving healthcare costs, we estimate that the 1:2 ratio of primary care physicians to specialists is costing Medicare—and the country—several billion dollars per year.
Focus still more attention on the management of individuals with chronic disease, or people who are likely to become chronically ill. Some refer to this strategy as prevention, and in some respects it is. But for the millions who already suffer from diabetes, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or asthma, much more effort is needed to encourage patient adherence to clinical guidelines. The care coordination efforts at Catholic Medical Partners in Buffalo, N.Y., and at Geisinger in eastern Pennsylvania are examples of the type of joint health plan and physician group efforts needed for these types of patients. The pilot programs at Memorial Hermann, summarized earlier, also demonstrate what can be accomplished.
Pass tort reform. This strategy should not be seen as a panacea, but in the very least, putting a cap on noneconomic damages offers one relatively simple way to contain insurance premiums and reduce defensive medicine (part of the huge category of waste identified by Thomson Reuters and others). It also would take away some physicians' excuses for not making more serious efforts to reduce costs.
Discourage the use of physician-owned ASCs, imaging centers, and specialty hospitals. The ACA limits the formation of new physician-owned specialty hospitals, but there is a lack of control over the expansion of ASCs and imaging centers. For those interested in bending or flattening the cost curve, continued expansion of many of these types of organizations is counter-productive. Health plans and employers should carefully evaluate the impact of these types of centers on healthcare costs in their communities before doing business with them. Our research and experience suggests that when purchasers analyze the total picture—including impacts on utilization rates and negative impacts on community not-for-profit hospitals and the communities they serve—they will see that these types of facilities often drive up overall healthcare costs.
Encourage the formation of multispecialty group practices and integrated systems. Concerns have been voiced about these kinds of groups becoming too powerful in their markets and violating antitrust laws, but such concerns should be balanced against many of these systems' strong track records in effectively coordinating care and controlling costs. The Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin and Intermountain Healthcare in Utah and Idaho, as just a couple of examples, are national leaders in implementing clinical information systems and monitoring utilization of hospital and specialty services.
Reduce administrative complexity. Much has been written on this topic over the years, with cost estimates ranging from 25 to 30 percent. Although such estimates may be high, there is no doubt that the fragmented nature of the U.S. healthcare system adds billions of dollars a year to the cost of health care. As noted earlier, Thomson Reuters estimates these costs to be in the range of $100 billion to $150 billion per year.
HFMA and others continue to work toward invoices that patients can understand. Health plans and physician groups are seeking ways to avoid duplicative efforts to manage care for chronic patients. Healthcare attorneys and regulators are attempting to simplify approaches to antitrust and fraud and abuse under ACO-like organizations.
Stop accepting excuses that physicians and hospitals cannot cover their costs under Medicare and therefore need to shift costs to the private sector. We know that for many specialists (e.g., spine surgery, hip and knee replacement), profits from Medicare can be quite lucrative. Moreover, primary care, if practiced in a group setting and with the support of clinical IT, can cover its costs. New West Physicians in Denver and other organizations have proven that. Site visits performed for HFMA's Value Project disclosed that a number of hospitals and health systems are focusing on this issue. Shifting costs to the private sector based on poor payment from Medicare is counterproductive and must be reduced or eliminated if the nation is to bend the overall healthcare cost curve.
Expect more from the customer. Physicians and others argue repeatedly that patients need to play a role in reducing the high cost of U.S. health care. As one health policy analyst said at a recent conference, "All the work you are doing on health policy and bending the cost curve will be for naught if we don't make progress in the battle against obesity." Of course, efforts to address obesity and other health-related issues affecting Americans also will play a role in helping to prevent chronic disease, thereby contributing to progress in this area, as well.
And progress is being made, but with only a small part of the population. Geisinger's ProvenCare processes encourage patients to participate to receive the benefits of a discounted insurance benefit. As another example, Duke Medicine in Durham, N.C., is using its Integrative Medicine Programs to help strengthen patients' internal motivation by tying lifestyle-based health improvement to self-awareness and overall personal goals. And more broadly, many employers have added incentives for their employees to take specific actions.
Develop strategies that work for end of life. By many analyses, the United States' higher medical costs compared with those in other countries are almost all due to higher spending on care for seniors, and especially costs in the last year of life. Some healthcare systems are bolstering their approaches to palliative care. The Institute of Medicine has slated a major analysis of end-of-life care for 2013.
There is good reason to be optimistic that the healthcare cost curve can be bent. Moreover, the findings of our own and others' research suggest that the potential savings in health care are massive. The necessary changes won't happen overnight, but a focus on the 10 initiatives discussed here could exert significant downward pressure on the cost curve.
It is clear from our research that many organizations are successfully reducing costs. But will the necessary industrywide changes occur fast enough to ease the burden on the national economy and federal deficit? To achieve that kind of result, everyone—payers, physicians, health systems, policymakers, communities, employers, and patients—must play a role.
Keith D. Moore is CEO, McManis Consulting, Denver, and a member of HFMA's Colorado Chapter (email@example.com).
Katie Eyestone is a senior consultant, McManis Consulting, Denver, and a member of HFMA's Colorado Chapter (email@example.com).
Dean C. Coddington is a senior consultant, McManis Consulting, Denver, and a member of HFMA's Colorado Chapter (firstname.lastname@example.com).
The authors served as research and analytical consultants for Phase 2 of HFMA's Value Project.
a. We examined the impact of ACOs in a 2010 study sponsored by the American Hospital Association; our research regarding the transition to value-based payment was sponsored by HFMA as part of the Association's ongoing Value Project.
b. Kelly, R., Where Can $700 Billion in Waste Be Cut Annually from the U.S. Healthcare System?, October 2009.
c. The published findings can be accessed at the Dartmouth Atlas website .
d. Commins, J., "Dartmouth Atlas Finds Vast Regional Differences in Medicare-Backed Elective Surgery Rates," HealthLeaders Media, Feb. 24, 2011.
e. Farrell, D., et al., Accounting for the Cost of Health Care in the United States, McKinsey Global Institute, December 2008.
f. Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, September 2012.
g. Chen, C., Garrido, T., Chock, D., Okawa, G., and Liang, L., "The Kaiser Permanente Electronic Health Record: Transforming and Streamlining Modalities of Care," HealthAffairs, March/April 2009; and Vijayaraghavan, V., and Beasley, G., Group Health Cooperative: A Case Study Series on Disruptive Innovations Within Integrated Health Systems, Innosight Institute, February 2011.
Factors Having the Greatest Impact on Healthcare Costs
1. Aging of the population2. Advances in medical technology3. Inappropriate and unnecessary care4. The fee-for-service payment model5. Not enough primary care providers6. Inconsistent management of patients with chronic conditions7. Defensive medicine/medical malpractice8. Slow application of clinical IT9. Fragmentation of care (e.g., "focused factories" owned by specialists)10. Management of outpatient costs11. Lack of care coordination12. Direct-to-consumer marketing of drugs13. Cultural inertia and unwillingness to change14. Unrealistic patient expectations15. Complexity and high overhead16. Cost shifting17. Insurance industry profits18. Hospital capital investment and high staffing levels19. High incomes of medical specialists20. Ineffective roles of patients and employers in affecting costs21. Uneven access to care22. Poor quality of care23. Obesity24. Fraud and abuse25. End-of-life processes
Source: McManis Consulting.
Organizational Road Maps to Value
The authors of this article recognize differences among various types of healthcare systems and markets in their journey toward improving value, but note that all organizations will have to move faster to close the value gap by improving quality of care while reducing total cost of care. In Phase 2 of its Value Project, HFMA has defined road maps to value for different types of hospitals and health systems, including:
Road maps for each of these organizational types, as well as a common road map to value, are available at hfma.org/valuejourney.
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I found out today that our baby has a choroid plexus cyst on her brain. The Dr. did not seem worried, although he did see it at the 18 week ultrasound and didn't tell us. He is a very respected Dr. in our community, and I'm trying to believe that he just didn't want us to worry. She also had a slightly enlarged ventricle at that time (higher side of normal), but it has since returned to well within normal size.
I am trying to stay off of google and convince myself that she doesn't have clenched fists, since he didn't say anything about that. But in all of her pictures, it looks like her hands are closed.
He said that he will look again once I get past 30 weeks, but that seems really, really, far away.
Anyone with experience with this that can reassure me?
ETA: We did do an NT scan, and our results were 1 in over 10,000 for Downs, Trisomy 18 and 21
ETA2: Even if you don't have experience, T&Ps are appreciated.
ds2 had 3 at the 20 week ultrasound, my docto told me not to stress about it as it is common. most will go away by the 27th week of pregnancy.
I had a repeat ulteasond at28 weeks and all three were gone
My LO had a choroid plexus cyst at our 19 week a/s. Everything else looked fine, so the doctor said the chances were less than 1% of it being indicative of a problem.
We decided not to do any testing (we didn't do the NT scan to begin with).
We had a follow up u/s on Monday (28.5 weeks) and the cyst had resolved itself. Apparently they are very common and usually resolve themselves, and in our case that was true.
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An Aggie does not lie, cheat, or steal nor tolerate those who do.Of course this is not followed by all Aggies, but we hold ourselves to a higher standard or at least I hope we do. If we don't, then we have a school full of liars, cheaters, and thieves like most others do. Here is what a new study says:
In the past year, 30 percent of U.S. high school students have stolen from a store and 64 percent have cheated on a test, according to a new, large-scale survey suggesting that Americans are too apathetic about ethical standards.This is very disturbing. Here is more:
The survey found that 35 percent of boys and 26 percent of girls — 30 percent overall — acknowledged stealing from a store within the past year. One-fifth said they stole something from a friend; 23 percent said they stole something from a parent or other relative....We are raising generations of children that are learning to lie, cheat, and steal. If you didn't think our society needed renewal, then maybe this study will help change your mind. We need renewal in our society and it will only come through faith in Jesus Christ, not teaching kids to be "nice" or "respect others", when the mantra of our society is "me, me, me".
_Cheating in school is rampant and getting worse. Sixty-four percent of students cheated on a test in the past year and 38 percent did so two or more times, up from 60 percent and 35 percent in a 2006 survey.
_Thirty-six percent said they used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment, up from 33 percent in 2004.
_Forty-two percent said they sometimes lie to save money — 49 percent of the boys and 36 percent of the girls.
The only reason to act in an ethical manner is to find something that means more than "me" and live for it and there is only one solid truth that will not fail - Jesus Christ.
But, we each need to play our part in living and spreading the Gospel for this to happen. Otherwise, the Aggie Honor Code becomes another piece of fiction for the history books we plagiarize from.


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I have U-Verse, and my phone wouldn't bring it up when I was on wi-fi. Just switched it to 3G, and it worked. I think you're right.
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That's not my job, it's your responsibility to know you are up. Especially when I work all day then the Saints play 15 minutes after I get off.
We can bid over our cap space right?
Is there a limit to how many offers I can send out?
I've got multiple FA targets but only 6 million to spend. I think I should be allowed to send out multiple offers at once. At least 3, it would be dumb if the plan B signed to a team for 3 million when I would have paid 6 and I lose plan A... Gm's have discussions with multiple agents at once.
Yes I would also like to know how many players we can bid on at once and how it works in regard to cap space. Will it be first to sign is who i get or could i chose between two players if they both want to sign but only have room for one.
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I've pm'ed few people letting them know, but most people have still gotten their picks in without notice from me.
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Pete...congrats!!! Awesome axe! Hope you enjoy the heck out of it!!!
Thanks everyone!!
This is my 5th PS I have spec'ed myself, all have been amazing.
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SATURDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) -- Even when they report severe pain, black children and teens are less likely than white youngsters to receive medication for abdominal pain when they're treated in U.S. emergency departments, a new study finds.
Researchers analyzed 2006-2009 national data on nearly 2,300 patients younger than age 21 with abdominal pain who were seen at an emergency department. Fifty-three percent of patients were white, 23 percent were black and 21 percent were Hispanic.
"The emergency department serves as our nation's health-care safety net, where all children can receive care regardless of their insurance status, ability to pay or race," study lead author Dr. Tiffani Johnson, a pediatric emergency medicine fellow at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and a postdoctoral scholar at RAND-University of Pittsburgh, said in an American Academy of Pediatrics news release.
"It is concerning to find that black children are less likely than white children to receive pain medication for treatment of their abdominal pain," Johnson said.
The researchers also found that black and Hispanic children were more likely than white children to stay in the emergency department for more than six hours. However, there were no racial differences in what tests were conducted to determine the cause of abdominal pain or in how many of these children were admitted to the hospital.
The study was scheduled for Saturday presentation at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Boston.
"All children deserve equal access to high-quality health care," Johnson said. "Identifying racial differences in the care of children is an important first step in improving the quality and equity of care that children receive in the emergency department. We need to do more research to help understand why these differences exist."
The data and conclusions of research presented at medical meetings should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Title: Writing I've been up to
Posted: March 26, 2012 (05:48 PM)
I decided to join on the Apollo 18 20th anniversary tribute which was posted to the text adventure forums back in December. I probably took too many games--the organizer wanted them all to be claimed by January 1 or so and so I stepped in with some ideas by January 15th, worrying nobody was going to take things. So I feel bad having taken so much, and I didn't really go after reciprocal testing, but I have to say this: it was a ton of FUN when I had the time, and despite being rather sick for 10 days, the 3-month buffer was enough.
And other people started picking things off. Some members of the Chicago-IF group took one here and there. Some other people I'd never heard of dropped in, too, some writing their first games. And if there aren't any super-big-long-time-historic traditional names writing (except Nick Montfort) I really enjoyed the opportunity to beta-test other people's games, which gave me ideas for my own.
I have a hard time finding what sort of criticism and creative trade I like, but with text adventures, I think I am really happiest at the moment. The sort of criticism where I know someone is going to fix Obvious Bug X (e.g. they say there's graffiti there and the player can't examine it) or they don't respond to a standard verb (e.g. SING in a game with a guitar, or maybe BURN PHOTOGRAPH in a game where the room is on fire.) It gives a chance to be positive and suggest a person can do more. That's when criticism's at its best.
So whom would I recommend? I had a blast playing Carl Muckenhoupt's game (My Evil Twin) before it was fixed, and I know he will--his game The Gostak will either annoy you or blow your mind or both.
I was able to provide a lot of checking for Ben Collins-Sussman and Jack Welch's Narrow Your Eyes. As they co-wrote it, and they live a thousand miles apart, they used Google Code. I enjoyed being able to report issues to the issue page and also being able to see the source--which I learned so much from.
Ryan Veeder also won IFComp 2011 (just ahead of someone else here's fine effort on HonestGamers) and his two games are almost certainly worth playing. He writes funny stuff.
Whether or not you're familiar with TMBG, it's probably a lot of fun to poke around. I have to admit, I've got a potential embarrassment if some of my games don't work (hint: Space Suit received the most testing) but I think if you're in the mood for a quick text adventure game, any of the Fingertips will do. They're all intended to be 1-movers and many have VERY different ways of looking at things.
And I just like how this collection acted as a sort of farm system for people who were maybe newer to writing text adventures to join in.
Anyway. That's what I've been up to. I'm already planning my next game, too. It may not get wide exposure, but after my 2011 IFComp entry, I finally wrote a game (as I wanted to.) Now I want to write one really well.
So I know Jason has a full-length novel. What's everyone else doing writing-wise outside of HG?
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Jones isn't perfect but offers revealing rat-race insights beyond the densely-packed jokes that never get cynical or fluffy. I found myself calculating how to cram in quick cheap education before week's end, or even working way more than I needed to or putting off asking for a raise (yes, it's just a game. Yes, guilt from playing it at work may've factored.)
It showed me that, yes, RPGs can transcend language. Maybe none can as well as your average puzzle game. But BW has lots more fun trying and getting far closer than expected.
I felt little guilt replaying through it with cheats on, and I recommend anyone who wants to check it out do the same...But fortunately the cheap deaths will fade away much sooner than the bears on unicycles and such instead.
Your idle band members mug and smile cluelessly even when your current guy gets hit. Then he falls and pouts and bangs his fists on the ground to the chorus of "Who's Crying Now." This is my favorite musical gaming pun by a long shot.
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It's more fun to watch the little dot-cars that multiply and move between businesses and residences as your town grows--or even turn away from the long dead-end road you forgot to industrialize. Single pixels were never so cute.
I figured once I became a big college student or even an adult, I'd be able to breeze through a game like this with my life smarts. That'd I'd be stronger and quicker and more mature and--well, I did realize stuff. Like how grossly unfair early video games were.
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That couldn't disguise the exact same levels made by kids pulled off the street long ago back in 1980...when so many Lode Runner games come with level editors (also part of the original) that the developers themselves never seem to use, it's hard to believe much care went into these products.
Q*Bert is one of the first arcade games I feel I really solved. I don't mean that I figured how to beat the hardest level until I got bored of it, like you would in Asteroids or something. I also don't mean reaching the end like when you flip the level bit in Pac-Man or even escape Dr. Boom in Cloak and Dagger.
After getting frustrated with one level where I made a dumb mistake, I walked around to take my mind off the game. I started whistling a tune, and I realized it was one from the game itself. I sat back down and got it right.
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Imagine Boulderdash, but instead of collecting goodies and shooting enemies, your character is hoarding for the winter and finding his wife and, occasionally, a new son.
Bard's Tale IV never came--in name, anyway. It took a couple times through Dragon Wars (DW) for me to see I'd found something as good.
The too-short Wizard's Crown series from Strategic Simulations, Inc. had a simple solution: quick combat where the computer ran everything and flashed text of your party's health every second. It left time for the actual story and exploration.
I was able to game early chess computers pretty easily by locking up the pawns and then watching them flail. That made me feel smart. Othello was the computer's revenge.
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Game: Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (Miscellaneous)
Posted: November 15, 2010 (01:47 AM)
Sequels usually promise a bigger world, more spells, more detailed combat, and so forth, but when it comes to the previous game's narrative faults, they don't say much. Ultima V (U5) isn't just shinier; it makes a complaint about its predecessor the focus of the plot. Many people thought U4 micromanaged how the player gained and kept virtue. So the villain in U5 is a quasi-theocratic dictator, Blackthorn, who has deposed Lord British since U4 with the help of nebulous spirits called the S...
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Game: Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (Miscellaneous)
Posted: November 14, 2010 (11:41 PM)
Before Ultima IV (U4,) people took being the good guy on faith. Maybe you'd get your butt kicked if you robbed a shopkeeper or attacked a townsman, but generally it was you against skeletons and goblins and the like. It was great fun, but Ultima III took things too far. The best strategy was to kill druids in one town until you were strong enough to kill guards in another town with a huge treasure vault. Then you could go kill a computer. Technically, the game was a strong achievement, and it so...
Q*Bert's Qubes(QQ) certainly has a niche market--people who figured how to tread water in the toughest levels of Q*Bert. It's the arcade equivalent of a Rubik's Cube, and it's certainly one every action puzzler fan should see, even if it isn't much to look at.
For a month or two, Superstar Ice Hockey (SIH) pushed my buttons perfectly. I could win regularly--two seasons in an afternoon--but it'd never be too obvious I had it in the bag. Game time was a relative concept that went quicker when fewer players were in the puck's third of the rink. With three goals max per game and four-game seasons, playoff possibilities were on a knife-edge until the final game. In real life, my team would have been the most negative, boring, dislikable bunch you co...
Shortly after my friend Aric pasted me in GBA Basketball Two-on-Two on his Apple IIgs--retribution for all the RPGs I'd solved--I found the IIe version cheap at Babbage's. I felt frugal--it probably didn't have all the extras, like the crowd that disappeared as it became doubtful I would avoid getting doubled up. But it had two-on-two play, which had to be a step up from the wonderful One on One, and the back-of-box blurbs seemed comparable, if the in-game pictures didn't. Jealousy...
"Adjust tint til blue field is green." That's the opening screen of Championship Baseball (CB,) with "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" blaring. I never bothered. Blue grass is just one of the things that aren't true to life in CB but are probably more fun. With only so much disk space, only the most exciting bits of baseball survive. You draft your own team complete with abilities that don't matter except for batting. You get to name everyone: eight fielders, three starting pitchers, two utility me...
The heck with Jumpman fighting Donkey Kong for a woman--I'll take Domino Man's balding, emotional protagonist fighting society for his art. All the poor guy wants to do is build up domino chains in a city block, a golf course, and a construction zone, but the people and animals around keep knocking down his work. A frumpy washerwoman, a drunk on a golf cart, various construction workers--and time itself, in the form of a clock that walks, err, clockwise around the screen--conspire to keep...


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When a candy craving strikes, satisfy it the old fashioned way at a store devoted to the almighty sweet treat. These cool candy stores across the U.S. make an art of serving you sugar. Sweet!
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Candy Baron - San Francisco, Laguna Beach, and Santa Monica, CA
With three outposts in the Golden State, Candy Baron offers a massive assortment of candies with an old-timey touch. From barrels of candy classics (remember Squirrel Nut Zippers?) to novelty sweets like roast beef bubble gum, there's something to appeal to every sweet tooth. Candy Baron also stocks rare and hard-to-find candies from the U.S. and Europe.
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Shihan Reishin Kawai
Reishin (Munenori Toshio) Kawai, 8th dan, was born on 28th February, 1931, in the town of Yasugi, Shimane, in Japan. During his boyhood his health was fragile, which lead him to receive acupuncture treatment, and to practice Sumo wrestling and Kenjutsu. In his youth he became an uchi-deshi for 7 years in the household of Torataro Saito, who taught him oriental medicine - as well as Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu and Ueshiba-ryu (!) Aiki-Budo. Technically, Kawai Senseis entire foundation was therefore old school, in line with that of Gozo Shioda Sensei (Yoshinkan) and Morihiro Saito Sensei (Iwama).
Subsequently, he studied at Tsukushoku University, under the tutelage of Mishimasa Nishizawa, graduating as an M.D. in Oriental Medicine. Kawai Sensei proceeded to become an associate professor in the subjects of general acupunture and moxa technique at the Faculty of Oriental Medicine at Tsukushoku University. At the same time, he continued and updated his Aikijujutsu studies at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo - primarily studying with Saito Sensei on Sundays - for two years, before emigrating to Brazil and setting up practice as an M.D. there. Six years later he took a sabbatical to study Aikijujutsu and Aikido with Aritoshi Murashige Sensei, who encouraged him to also establish a dojo in Brazil - which Kawai Sensei then proceeded to do.
In 1963, the Founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, presented him with the Shihan diploma (the official recognition as a Master level teacher) in recognition of his high standards and of his efforts to disseminate Aikido - which Kawai Sensei ceaselessly continued to do throughout all of South America. From 1976 to 1984 he was Vice President of The International Aikido Federation (IAF), subsequently becoming Director General of The South American Aikido Federation, and the official repesentative of Aikikai Hombu Dojo in that subcontinent. In Brazil he married Leticia Okubo and became the father of two daughters, Cristina and Lilba Okubo Kawai, and the grandfather of two grandchildren, Lariza and Matias.
Until his untimely death, Kawai Sensei was the highest ranking Aikido practitioner in South America. He dedicated his life to promoting Aikido and training Aikido instructors. Kawai Sensei continued teaching until just before his passing on 27th January, 2010. It was impressive to feel the energy flowing through his every move, and to behold the knowledge and mastery with which he wielded the techniques of aikido - until the very end.
Kawai Sensei expressed his view of life thus:
"Illness comes from acting contrary to the rules of Nature. We must live in harmony with Nature, following the natural movements of the body without too much effort, in order to maintain good health and a long life. A martial art characterized by movements that attune you harmoniously to nature - that is Aikido.
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Welcome My New Hunter Boots!
I'm happy to report I bought my first pair of Hunter rubber boots yesterday! I really wanted a 'fun' color (like lime green), but ended up buying black. I just can't help it.
I've been looking online for a pair of black Hunter boots in size 8 but they're always out of stock. I guess this is another reason I should've picked a different color. Anyway. I finally found a pair at the Bellevue Nordstrom — the last one.
When I called about the boots they explained to me the boots had a white film or 'blooming' all over them. Apparently a natural aging effect. This wasn't discouraging to me since Nordstrom has a fair return policy and they mentioned Armor All would clean up the 'blooming.'
Since I'm impatient and always a sucker for something that needs to be fixed, I bought the boots. And guess what, Armor All works great!
10/13/2010 Update:
I was on the Hunter Boots Web site and found their recommendation to fix the blooming:
Every Hunter rubber wellington boot is made from 100% natural ingredients and small amounts of wax are included in the rubber compound during the vulcanization process that is used to make each pair. When exposed to certain environmental factors, this wax can "bloom" to the surface and appear as white marks.
This is not a defect with the boots, and is completely natural. If this does happen, you can wipe this blooming clean with a warm, damp cloth. We also recommend UV Tech* Spray which can be found at boating, hunting or fishing stores.
I have worn Hunter boots for years, but at Chelsea flower show last year I discovered Dubarry. They are wonderful, once you try them there will be no going back. Their stand was just up from our Bulldog Tools stand in Eastern Avenue. Well worth a try.January 31, 2010
Enjoy! I've had my navy blue Hunter Boots for about 15 years. Someday I'm going to try the fleece liners they have on the website. I feel so Brit in them (good enough for the Queen, good enough for me).February 2, 2010
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I have had my Hunter wellies for 5 years and they are great. I recently bought a pair for my girlfriend at a place in Spitalfields Market, East London called Marsh-Mellow (http://www.marsh-mellow.co.uk) They have a massive range and are always well stocked… cool website as well :-)February 8, 2010
They are great boots… I love mine… but geeze what a chore to get them on and off! Please let me know if you come up with any ideas for making this easier… long shoe horns? Happy gardening! When that time comes! ;>)February 10, 2010
Rick Mullen #
May I ask if over time the blooming came back??February 11, 2010
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ArmorAll degrades rubber.February 14, 2010
Peter #
I've had Hunters for years (one pair for ten). Simply, I wash with tepid water and dry off with a cotton cloth. This removes dirt, brings up a shine and makes 'em last longer. Cheaper and better than chemicals :-)March 4, 2010
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saw some hunter boots on sale here at women's black boots as well.May 25, 2010
Recently studded boots have become extremely popular once again because of the versatility that they provide to the owner. Such footwear can be matched with almost every sort of fashion look or image.June 8, 2010
Jenny #
Thanks for the post. This was very helpful information and great comparison picture. I'm going to Armor All my new black boots tonight. =)September 14, 2010
I like to keep things in order but just like you, I am also short tempered. Wellies with light colors easily gets dirty and the stains are hard to take off. So choosing the clack wellies is a great pick.July 24, 2011
I love hunter boots because they have so much colors and to keep them in shape I use boot buffer http://bit.ly/qTr1h9August 4, 2011
I think you made the right choice with black…. they can go with anything really. Lime green, not so much!October 30, 2011
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Well, the alarm didn't go off this morning. Funny thing, you feel like when you are running late, your whole day has to head into warp speed to make up for the few minutes you lost. Its not like you didn't exist during the time you should have been getting ready, but were sleeping, but you feel like you have to overdo the rest in order to play that game of time-clock catch-up with Father Time. So now I am at work (finally....) and I have started to clean up. I started with the toilets (the least fav of mine) and I am letting the Lysol Cling really do its stuff before I tackle them. Next I will vacuum and take out the trash. I might dust in between. In my haste, I didn't grab anything to eat this morning on my way out... tsk, tsk.
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Air Koryo expands in Asia with flights to Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – North Korea's state-owned carrier Air Koryo has launched weekly flights to Malaysia.
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Air Koryo also flies to Thailand, China, Russia, Switzerland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, according to its website. Its operations are restricted due to its aging planes.
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Postano Lets Universities Live-Screen Social Media Engagement At Sporting Events
College sports is a multimillion dollar business in the U.S., and TigerLogic Corporation's social platform company Postano is capitalizing.
Postano now allows colleges and universities to use its software to create social media command centers, real-time social displays on campuses and in stadiums, and social hubs for websites all within a single platform.
Schools already signed on with Postano include the University of Virginia, University of Oregon, and Arizona State University.
Said Grace Hoy, Social Media Coordinator ASU in a statement,
"The game day experience is truly unique, and Sun Devil Athletics aims to provide our fans with an interactive experience at Sun Devil Stadium. With Postano video board and website integration, we are able to highlight fan content from social networks like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook on the video board during ASU athletic events and increase overall fan engagement."
The Postano Platform allows users to aggregate, curate and moderate content from 14 different social content sources – including Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Vine, Facebook and more. The social hub can be housed on a microsite, mobile site, or website, and easily screened large-scale.
Here's what the University of Oregon's Postano-powered social hub looks like for its Ducks football team:
In addition, University of Virginia's Postano-powered Command Center allows them to see the entire gameday social media conversation, visually.
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What is IJTEMA?
Ijtema is the Arabic word for "congregation" or "gathering". The aim of the editors at IJTEMA is to gather together the best of the Muslim blogosphere in one place, as a showcase of what we truly believe to be, real Muslim voices, and real Muslim talent.
Why are you doing this?
Because we have no choice.
The mainstream media seems to have an agenda: to propagate the idea of a supposed 'Clash of Civilisations'. The most vocal elements on both sides of the camp – those who are for or against this idea – are mainly non-Muslim; it seems that the Muslim community has lost its ability to reach out. In the meantime, a handful of media moguls gets to choose what the West (or, in fact, the rest of planet Earth) hears about Islam, and our Ummah. And sure enough, the likes of Bin-Laden (who, incidentally, are disliked by most of Muslim World) come across loud and clear.
This kind of misrepresentation makes us mad, uneasy, and restless.
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Infection of the respiratory tract resulting in bronchopneumonia is a common complication of respiratory tract injury from inhaled sulfur mustard. It appears that most deaths following inhalation of sulfur mustard result, at least in part, from pulmonary infection, often complicated by septicemia (Hosseini et al., 1989; Keshmiri, 1989; Papirmeister et al., 1991; Willems, 1989). Immunosuppression from systemic absorption of sulfur mustard probably plays a major role in the pathogenesis of these infections, although its importance relative to the local pulmonary injury is not well understood. Pulmonary infection and septicemia, despite modern antibiotic therapy, were still significant causes of death in Iranians taken to Europe for treatment (Willems, 1989).
The above descriptions of the acute effects come primarily from humans who died following World War I (WWI) gas attacks and from animals that died as a result of experimentally induced lesions (Papirmeister et al., 1991). There is little contemporary information regarding the pathogenesis of the respiratory lesions or few data from people or animals exposed to nonlethal concentrations of sulfur mustard vapor. There are even fewer studies in which the histopathology of the recovery process has been studied in animals exposed to sulfur mustard. However, two studies conducted during WWI suggest that low-level exposure or survivable exposures in dogs and rabbits may produce scar tissue following small ulcerations in the trachea and larynx, causing contractions of these areas (Warthin and Weller, 1919; Winternitz, 1919). Nevertheless, the descriptions of the more severe lesions of the respiratory tract of animals exposed to sulfur mustard vapor and those in humans appear to be quite similar in type and location (Papirmeister et al., 1991). Thus, further studies in animals conducted to follow the repair of the acute respiratory tract lesions from nonlethal, inhaled sulfur mustard vapor would be of value in determining the persistence and course of such lesions in people. However, it has been difficult to induce a chronic bronchitis that persists following cessation of exposure in animals (Greene et al., 1984).
The acute effects of inhaled Lewisite vapors are similar to those discussed above for inhaled sulfur mustard vapor. A major exception is that the irritating effect of Lewisite is immediately detectable by the exposed person. Data on the histopathological lesions in the respiratory tract from inhaled Lewisite are available only from animals, but the reported lesions are generally very similar to those discussed above for sulfur mustard. However, at high concentrations, Lewisite-induced pulmonary edema appears to be more prominent than with sulfur mustard. Hemoconcentration, presumably due to this pulmonary


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Travis Perkins is about to become the largest plumbing and heating business in the UK after agreeing to buy the BSS Group for £557.6 million.
"Our respective businesses are complementary and we look forward to working with BSS's customers, suppliers and employees," said Robert Walker, chairman of Travis Perkins.
But job losses are feared as Builders' merchants Travis Perkins, which also own Wickes, will want to cut costs by more than £25 million.
The deal is subject to shareholder approval, although Travis Perkins said it had already received undertakings of support from around 35% of BSS investors.
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Today: Eight tips for knowing if you're boring someone.
'Tis the season of merry-making, which means you're probably more likely than usual to find yourself making polite and perhaps awkward chit-chat. One of the challenges of the holidays!
If you have trouble talking to a stranger in those situations, here are some tips to consider.
But once you're talking, how do you know if the other person is interested in your conversation – or not? One challenge is that the more socially adept a person is, the better he or she is at hiding boredom. It's a rare person, however, who can truly look fascinated while bored.
Here are the factors I watch, when trying to figure out if I'm connecting with someone. These are utterly unscientific – I'm sure someone has made a proper study of this, but these are just my observations (mostly from noting how I behave when I'm bored and trying to hide it):


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The first weekend in October, my dad took my mom and me on our very first hunt to Tiger Island Outfitters to hunt trophy hogs.
My dad worked with my mom and me for a couple of weeks before the hunt so that we were able to shoot straight and accurate. He also taught us the right place to shoot the animal. It is a hunt I will never forget.
It was the first animal I had ever harvested. It was a great experience for me and my mom who also got to take her first animal. I thanked my dad for being so kind to help me to learn to shoot and take an animal the proper way. My first hog weighed 145 pounds and had 2-inch teeth. I shot him with my dad's .30-30 rifle.
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Smoked salmon kedgeree
By Barney Desmazery
Cooking timePrep: 15 mins Cook: 40 mins
Skill levelModerately easy
ServingsServes 8
This kedgeree is totally delicious. Treat everyone to an extra special brunch.
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- 508
- protein
- 26g
- carbs
- 37g
- fat
- 30g
- saturates
- 14g
- fibre
- 1g
- sugar
- 4g
- salt
- 3.3g
- 300g basmati rice
- 8 eggs
- 400g pack sliced smoked salmon
For the sauce
- knob of butter
- 450g red onions, sliced
- 8 garlic cloves, sliced
- large knob of fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
- 1 tsp each fennel and cumin seeds
- 6 cardamom pods
- 4 bay leaves
- 1 tbsp tomato purée
- 1 heaped tsp curry powder
- large bunch coriander, leaves reserved, stalks chopped
- 1l chicken stock, preferably fresh
- 284ml tub double cream
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- To make the sauce, heat the butter in a large pan, then tip in the onions, garlic, ginger, spices and bay. Fry over medium heat for 8-10 mins until the onions colour. Stir in the purée, curry powder and coriander stalks, then cook for a few mins until everything is sticky. Pour in the stock and cream, season, stir well, then bring to the boil. Gently simmer for 15 mins until reduced by half. Strain through a sieve into a container. Keep covered in the fridge for up to two days.
- Rinse the rice in several changes of water, then put in a pan with enough cold water to cover it by 1.5cm. Cover the pan, then place over a high heat. Bring to a fast boil, stir, return the lid, turn heat to minimum, then leave the pan for 2 mins. Turn the heat off; leave for a further 10 mins. If making ahead, cool quickly, then refrigerate.
- On the day, poach the eggs, then set aside. Roughly chop the salmon and coriander leaves. Reheat rice until piping hot. Heat sauce until simmering, then stir in the rice. Stir though salmon and most of the coriander. Spoon into bowls
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- 1 orange
- 1 lime
- 3 lb. broiler-fryer chicken
- 1/2 red onion
- 1 T. honey
- 1 t. low-sodium soy sauce
- Cut 3 slices each from orange and lime.
- Squeeze juice from remaining pieces of lime and orange and reserve peels for chicken and juice for sauce.
- Prepare chicken for roasting.
- Loosen breast skin and arrange citrus slices under it.
- Stuff cavity with orange and lime peels and onion.
- Tie legs.
- Roast at 400 degrees with a meat thermometer, loosely covering chicken with foil during first 30 minutes of cooking.
- Cook until thermometer reaches 185 degrees, about 1 hour.
- Discard stuffing and skin before carving
- Simmer citrus juices, honey and soy sauce over low heat in a small saucepan for 3 minutes. Serve with chicken.
NotesThis is very good and very easy. Will make many times in the future.
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