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• When drilling deep into the crust of the Earth, geologists have found that the temperature steadily increases with depth, and is generally constant at the rate of 1.4° F for every 100 feet.

• However, at the Norris Geyser Basin where the magma is closest to the park’s surface, drillings show that the temperature increase is 89 times faster, increasing at the rapid rate of 124°F for every 100 feet down. Water that trickles down in this area heats up rapidly the lower it gets.

• Geysers are hot springs that erupt periodically as the result of super-heated water deep underground becoming trapped in chambers with channels that lead up to the surface. As the subterreanean water boils and steams it expands, creating immense pressure that eventually explodes upward through the channels to burst forth at the surface.

• There are an estimated 10,000 thermal features in the park including hot pools, fumaroles, mud pots and seeps. Only about five percent of Yellowstone’s thermal features are considered geysers, which are defined as hot water that spurts forcefully out of the ground. Only six of Ad Proof: the park’s geysers erupt 100 feet or higher on a Unique regular daily Touch basis.

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Most controversial is the recommendation by a group of psychiatrists who suggest that grief should be labeled a disease after as little as 2 weeks. This condition is referred to as “abnormal grief,” “prolonged grief disorder,” “traumatic grief” or, most frequently, “complicated grief.” Virtually every grieving person experiences profound sorrow and sadness, disbelief, loneliness, anger, insomnia, inability to concentrate and an unwillingness to engage in normal conversation. Grief may express itself through crying and wailing or complete silence and withdrawal.

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The late Elizabeth Kubler Ross was the first to describe the characteristics of profound grief: First comes denial (this cannot be happening to me) Then anger (we must blame someone, ourselves, or God).

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Please help. fections, including cold sores, is widely known. The cardiovascular events in people age 55 and older I have had two colonoscopies with 10 polyps fly in the ointment is that, for most, it doesn’t work who are already taking medication for cardiovascufound -- half and half, both kinds. I noticed on successfully as it has for you. There is some scientific lar disease or who have diabetes. my medical bill that I am at high risk. I was basis for lysine. It’s an amino acid, one of the build- Here’s the big news: The risk of dying from ADVERTISING PROOF told that some new medicine might be available ing blocks for proteins. Lysine blocks the action of a heart-related event was reduced by 35 percent. A TUES., JULY 26 arginine, anotherDUE: amino acid, necessary for herpes Changes 5:00 healthy p.m.. diet also meant a 14 percent lower risk for soon. I’m ver y scared. What could help me? Final viruses to replicate.

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wife who passed away two years ago, and I have no idea what the set is, or what it was used for, or if it has any value.

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called Atlantic Creek; the other the Pacific Creek. There is no other place on earth where a single creek drains into two separate oceans!

• Yellowstone Lake also has an underwater geyser. Once every 25 minutes, the water roils and boils when this submerged geyser erupts about 20 feet below the surface. Researchers !

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• Much has been written about the geologic underpinnings of Yellowstone Park, particularly the aspect of the park sitting atop a gigantic supervolcano with the potential to one day explode in a cataclysmic eruption a thousand times greater than that of Mount St. Helens.

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• Individuals suffering from extreme agoraby Rob Stanger phobia rarely leave their homes, due to their fear College Golf Center, Palm Desert, CA of public or open spaces and the inescapable Bel Air situations that may occur there. Only home is Gputts reens Hole out more short safe.

The tricky thing about putting is that you’re • Some phobias can be a learned behavior that seldom going to have a straight and level putt into comes from listening to others describe a the cup. Breaking putts are sometimes difficult to sink since you have to consider two variables: the traumatic event. An individual in one’s life can speed of the ball, and the slope that will always trigger a phobia, such as peladophobia, the fear influence its direction. of bald people. Those with nosto-phobia, a fear I believe it’s more important to focus on speed of returning home, may be able to contribute since speed dictates the amount of break the ball will take in the roll. A faster moving ball will have their panic to a specific incident. less break than a slower one, and a downhill putt • People who are afraid of looking into mirrors will take less stroke than an uphill one.

Let’s give ourselves two speeds to work with have cataptrophobia, while those with on our sloping putt: Exact speed, and one step cyberphobia have a fear of working with past the hole. computers. A person with an anxiety about With exact speed you are calculating that the Hole Out More Short Putts memories is a mnemophobe. ball will have just enough roll to trickle into the hole.

The slower speed The tricky thing about putting is that you’re not always in or • Don’t confuse levophobia, the fear of objects seldom ever going this to haveputt a straight putt into the hole.

These means you will breaking putts are sometimes difficult to hole out since you to a person’s left, with dextrophobia, the fear have allow the maxihave to calculate two things; to the speed the for ball will be rolling as it nears the hole and the amount of tilt in the slope that is going mum amount of influence of objects to the right. to influence the direction the ball is rolling.

I feel that it is more important to focus speed since the slope willonhave on speed the dictates the amount of break the ball will take in the putt. A • Although some of us fear the possibility of thatthan thea slower ball moving will faster moving ball direction will have less break ball. To figure out the speed of the putt start off by pacing off roll. You want to putt for a cancer, an extreme carcinophobe will convince your putt and give yourself a number in your head, one or two steps from the hole.point The next just thing toshort do is determine of thewhether cup himself he has cancer because he touched the putt is up hill or down hill than take a look at the putt from the feed the low side; an up and hill putt allow from behind the slope ball and ato down hill putt from behind the hole. When you take a look at the putt from someone who has it. the ball into the hole. the low side, that will help you determine how aggressive you

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The “one step extra” speed calls for a more agressive stroke toward a point you establish behind the hole, as illustrated in Aiming for a spot behind the hole for afor spot the photo. Because the isAiming a good strategy holingbehind short putts the hole is a good strategy ball is rolling faster in this for holing shorter putts. putt you will want to play less break. To provide more force in this stroke you want to keep the handle of the putter moving through to your finish.

Try this strategy the next time you’re on the practice green and you’ll be playing less strokes!

will want to play the putt. I would say that if the putt is up hill than play more aggressive. If the putt is side hill or down hill than putt more conservatively.

Now that you have figured out the speed you will putt with, lets focus on direction. If you are going to play the putt aggressively than putt for an object that is a couple of feet behind the hole. (as seen in the photo) By putting for an object behind the hole you will be hitting the putt with more force so you will want to play less break. To provide more force be sure to keep the handle of the putter moving through to your finish. The faster moving ball will not take as much break than a ball that is traveling at exact speed.

If you are putting on a side hill or down hill slope than the slower moving ball or what I call “exact speed” is a good play. Exact speed basically means that the ball will trickle into the hole on its last rotation. When putting for exact speed you will want to putt for an object short of the hole and than allow the slope to feed the ball into the hole.

Next time you are on the putting green try this strategy for holing more short putts.

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