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Of Brendan Schaub’s eight wins in his short career, seven come by knockout. Here’s what his knockout power looks like, as shown on Chris Tuchscherer’s face at UFC 116.

His hard-charging style also leaves him open for attack, as both of his losses are by knockout. Will Schaub or Ben Rothwell end up with the big win on Saturday? Tell us in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.

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Pop quiz: Can you tell what the device pictured above is? If you answered “a clock that represents the essential building blocks of a CPU while using binary and HEX numerals to display time,” then you’re certifiably crazy — and correct. The brainchild of tinkerer extraordinaire Lior Elazary, the “CPU clock” mechanically emulates the application of computer concepts — codes, instructions and checks — to create a “simple” wall clock. To display the time, the middle register uses binary numbers to indicate the hour (a reading of “0010″ indicates 2 o’clock, for example). For minutes, the clock uses the HEX numerals on the outer edge of the device, so “05″ represents “5,” “0A” indicates “10,” and so forth. Keeping the clock up to date is a ball that goes around and activates the various levers to change the time. Given all its geeky goodness, this one easily takes the nerd cake from the wordy QLOCKTWO W and super flashy Sci-Fi watch. For a more clockwork-like explanation about its inner workings, check out the video after the break.

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These days, the typical annual check-up is inevitably preceded by “blood work.” The technician assembles what appears to be enough tubes to drain your tank. (After seeing the little tubes used for babies and young children, I’ve wondered why adults can’t do the same.) You watch the deep crimson liquid flow into the test tubes and hope it harbors no surprises, that everything will be analyzed and found “normal.”

In our medical system, health is defined in the negative, the absence of abnormal findings. Medical language reflects this in the curious nomenclature of test results. A “negative” test result means you’re not sick, a positive thing. The medical field continues to define health as the absence of disease, an impoverished conceptualization that underlies the most fundamental problems in our health care (it should be called sick care) system.

Over the past 20 years, the history-taking (a time when physicians sat with patients and got to know them, who they lived with, the work they did, the family story, the struggles, their habits, their vices and values, in other words got to know what was “normal” for them) and physical exams have been eclipsed by sophisticated blood tests and imaging techniques. This is a casualty of dramatic advances in science and technology as well as financial pressures that encourage abbreviated visits and greater patient volume.

So you might have a quick chat before undressing for a rapid physical exam. When you rejoin your doctor at her desk, she takes a moment and pages through your chart. She scans the lab results checking the abnormal column. If it’s clear, you’re good to go. “See you next year. You’re fine.”

But where do these normal ranges come from? A reasonable person might presume normal ranges are defined by the test results of people whose health has been carefully scrutinized and found to be optimal.

Wrong.

Normal lab numbers are determined by huge reference laboratories. Let’s take blood glucose as an example. All the glucose test results from the past few months are pooled. The middle 95 percent is defined as “normal.” If you fall in the 2.5 percent above or below that range, you have an abnormal blood glucose. In other words, the medical use of the term “normal,” which is understood to mean healthy, is really a statistical concept.

There is an attempt at refining the normal ranges by using information about age, gender, and location. So a 70-year-old male in Flagstaff, Ariz. will be compared to more men around that age than anything else. But no diagnostic history is available to the reference labs. Test results from venues that are thought to have mostly “healthy” people, such as health fairs, are also used. But isn’t someone more likely to get blood drawn at a health fair if they think there might be a problem?

So let’s take a look at how this plays out. Your annual blood glucose creeps up each year, but remains in the normal range for a decade. Year 11, your doctor says, “Bill, I’m afraid you’ve got a sugar problem.” Bill thinks, “Wow, and last year I was fine.”

Bill was not fine.

So there are three fundamental problems. One, we are compared to a population, many of whom are not healthy. Two, 99 percent of physicians do not follow trends in your lab values in order to catch a problem before it’s progressed to a point where it compromises your health. And three, most physicians no longer “know” their patients.

Mant of the most common illnesses of our culture are chronic, such as diabetes, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, and obesity. The kind of medicine I’ve described above is partly to blame. You don’t wake up one day with a chronic disease that you didn’t have the day before. Nobody became obese or diabetic or hypertensive on Tuesday. Until preventive medicine replaces the acute care model, it won’t get better.

What You Can Do:

1. You are the most important member of your health care team.

Own a copy of your test results. The system is broken and you can not assume essential data will be available to the doctors making decisions about your care. It is your job to make yourself “known” to your doctor. You must inform her of what “normal” (as defined above in history-taking) life is for you.

2. You provide your own normal lab reference range. Get a baseline set of blood work when you’re well in order to keep track of your results over time.

Address trends early and do not wait until results have hit the abnormal range.

3. Take all medical statements about your health with a dose of skepticism. The doctors can provide information about large populations. That is not the same as knowing what is necessarily in store for you.

Do your homework. Read about your condition. Get second opinions.

For more by Paul Spector, M.D., click here.

For more on personal health, click here.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Milovan Mirosevic and Olman Vargas, Columbus’ top offseason acquisitions, scored and the Crew beat the expansion Impact 2-0 on Saturday.

Mirosevic converted in the 30th minute after Montreal defender Felipe Martins tackled Emilio Renteria on the right side of the box.

The goal came 11 minutes after Montreal’s Jeb Brovsky was given a red card for an elbow to the back of the head of Mirosevic, the Chilean midfielder making his home debut.

Olman scored off a snap header from 6 yards in the 66th minute.

Goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum made a key stop on Martins in the 87th minute for Crew (1-1).

Montreal (0-2-1) remained winless.

REVOLUTION 1, TIMBERS 0

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) – Saer Sene scored his first MLS goal on his first shot in the first minute of play, and the New England Revolution beat the Portland Timbers.

Sene, a native of France playing in just his second match for New England, converted a header 28 seconds into the game for the eighth-fastest goal in MLS history. Chris Tierney set it up with a cross from the left side.

It was the first goal of the season for the Revolution (1-2), who were shut out in each of their first two games. It also snapped an eight-match winless streak dating to last season.

Portland (1-1-1) had three good scoring chances during the first half, but Diego Chara’s shot in the 13th minute went wide left and headers from Kris Boyd in the 25th and 31st minutes also sailed wide left of New England goalkeeper Matt Reis.

Reis, in his 15th MLS season, earned his 65th shutout and became just the sixth MLS goalie with 1,000 career saves.

EARTHQUAKES 3, TORONTO FC 0

TORONTO (AP) – Chris Wondolowski scored two goals and Shea Salinas added another, leading San Jose to the victory.

Wondolowski almost had the hat trick, but he hit the goal post from close range in the 87th minute.

Toronto (0-2) has never beaten San Jose (2-1) at home, going 0-2-3.

The opening goal came nine minutes in when former Toronto FC midfielder Sam Cronin found Wondolowski unmarked in the penalty box. The San Jose forward, whose six-game scoring streak was snapped last week against Houston, headed it past Milos Kocic.

Toronto began to put some passes together and Ryan Johnson had a chance in the 27th, but couldn’t get a clean shot at the ball as a defender harassed him in the box.

FIRE 1, UNION 0

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (AP) – Dominic Oduro scored for the second straight game, leading the Fire to the win.

Rookie goalkeeper Paolo Tornaghi collected his first shutout of the season, stopping four shots in the Fire’s home opener.

Oduro scored with a well-placed header in the 28th minute. Midfielder Marco Pappa beat Philadelphia defender Chris Albright with a fake before feeding Oduro, who was about eight yards away when he sent a curling header past goalkeeper Zac MacMath low to his left side.

Philadelphia has lost its first three matches and scored only two goals. Gabriel Gomez had a pair of promising free kicks in the second half Saturday night, but Tornaghi was there each time.

The Fire (1-0-1) forced MacMath to make five saves.

CHIVAS USA 1, REAL SALT LAKE 0

SANDY, Utah (AP) – Casey Townsend scored the first goal of the season for Chivas USA in a victory against Real Salt Lake.

Townsend met RSL goalkeeper Nick Rimando in midair, landing to find the ball at his feet in front of an open net in the 72nd minute.

Chivas (1-2) had enjoyed few opportunities to that point, though midfielder Peter Vagenas had forced Rimando to stretch out to deflect a point-blank volley early in the first half.

RSL dominated play for much of the rest of the match, but was unable to put many shots on target in front of a sellout crowd of 20,415 at Rio Tinto Stadium.

The home team’s best chance came in the 84th minute when Alvaro Saborio took a pass from Fabian Espindola, and sent a shot over the head of goalkeeper Dan Kennedy that hit the crossbar.

D.C. UNITED 0, WHITECAPS 0

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) – Joe Cannon made three outstanding second-half saves and the unbeaten Whitecaps played a scoreless draw against D.C. United.

Cannon secured Vancouver’s third consecutive shutout by foiling Canadian star Dwayne De Rosario in the 84th minute, making a leg save on a shot from close range.

Cannon has recorded two of the three shutouts. He pulled himself out of last weekend’s 1-0 win at Chivas USA because of a quadriceps injury, and the victory went to backup Brad Knighton.

D.C. (0-2-1) went with backup Joe Willis because No. 1 Bill Hamid is playing for the U.S. under-23 team at the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament. United defender Perry Kitchen also is on the American team, while gifted winger Andy Najar is with Honduras in the same competition.

The Whitecaps (2-0-1) played without midfielders John Thorrington (quad) and Michael Nanchoff (heel) and striker Atiba Harris (knee).

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FILE – In this May 27, 2007, file photo, May Rupert Boneham, from the television show “Survivor,” pumps up the crowd before a race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis. Libertarian Party members are set to nominate the former television reality series star as their candidate for Indiana governor during its state convention on Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Indianapolis.. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

FILE – In this May 27, 2007, file photo, May Rupert Boneham, from the television show “Survivor,” pumps up the crowd before a race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis. Libertarian Party members are set to nominate the former television reality series star as their candidate for Indiana governor during its state convention on Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Indianapolis.. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Libertarian Party members are set to nominate former television reality series star Rupert Boneham as their candidate for Indiana governor.

Libertarian officials say the fan favorite from 2004′s “Survivor: All-Stars” is unopposed for the party’s nomination and that he’ll be formally nominated at its state convention in Indianapolis on Saturday. The tie-dye wearing Boneham won $1 million on the TV show and donated some of it to his Rupert’s Kids charity, which provides mentoring and job-training to at-risk youths.

Boneham will face Republican Mike Pence and Democrat John Gregg in the governor’s race.

Former Libertarian gubernatorial nominee Andy Horning is unopposed for the party’s U.S. Senate nomination.

The Libertarian convention will also feature a debate among four candidates for its presidential nomination, including former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson.

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Advanced Marketing Designation Recognizes Deep Understanding of Internet Marketing Strategies for Helping Customers Buy & Sell Homes

Ridgewood, NJ ? Al Donohue, a leading real estate professional and Operating Principal with Keller Williams in Ridgewood, NJ has been awarded the Internet Marketing Specialist designation for his proficiency in using Internet marketing strategies to help his customers market their properties throughout the Web.

Donohue is now a certified expert in marketing real estate across the Internet, including on all the major search engines, social media channels, CraigsList and more ? with proven strategies that drive the maximum traffic and inquiry volume to help Ridgewood homes get sold fast and for the highest price possible.

?The most important attribute in choosing a real estate agent today is mastery of the Web as a marketing tool for your home or property,? said Ben Kinney, founder of the Internet Marketing Specialist Designation.? ?Al has mastered the Web marketing best practices I actively use in my practice, and has differentiated himself among other real estate professionals in the market with these skills.?

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Donohue, who serves as Operating Principal with Keller Williams Village Square Realty, ranked first in terms of sales production for January, with closed sales totaling $2,079,000. Donohue was also recognized as the #1 agent among all real estate companies in closed Ridgewood Sales for the month, based on data provided by the New Jersey Multiple Listing Service for January 2012.? Donohue opened Keller Williams in Ridgewood less than a year ago and the office has since grown to 110 agents and ranks among the top real estate offices in New Jersey. Active in his community, Donohue is a Ridgewood resident with two sons, both of whom attend Ridgewood schools.

?Al has the ability to really motivate and connect with our sales team. He wants us all to learn and succeed in our own businesses, so he leads by example,? noted Marlisa Zebaida, Team Leader with Keller Williams Village Square Realty. ?He is a valuable mentor and coach who has built a very successful real estate career. Through his training classes, he shares with us the very same sales methods and creative strategies that have made him a sales leader.?

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As you probably know, we’re in a lot of exclusive, behind-closed-doors briefings of products that won’t find their way to retail availability for months to come. We do our best in every post to give you the full experience and virtually bring you along with us, but for the first time we’re doing something different. Next week, Panasonic will be giving the media an up-close look at some of its biggest home entertainment products shipping later this year, including the 55-inch WT50 IPS LCD and the VT50 plasma (successor to last year’s HDTV of the Year). This time, we’ve been given permission to take a lucky few of you along for the ride.

The event takes place next Tuesday, March 27th in New York City at 7:00pm. To get a chance to attend, you need to email nycevents [at] engadget.com with your full name. If you make it, we’ll respond back with details on the event, but it’ll be up to you to find your way to Manhattan.

Winners will not only get to check out Panasonic’s 2012 line of cameras, HDTVs, Blu-ray players and other home entertainment products but a few particularly lucky attendees will get to take some of them home. Yes, there will be giveaways, and they’ll be good ones.

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