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=Happy New Year to one and all. Best of wishes for an interesting and fruitful year - one without research!=

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Hangover Remedies Most hangover "remedies" simply attend to one or more of the symptoms and don't really provide a cure as such. The hangover won't stop until the alcohol is out of your system, but here's a few things that will ease the suffering a bit:


 * **Berocca** - Puts the vitamin B back in, as well as the big glass of water it' s mixed with. It's probably best to do this before you go out.
 * **Coke** - Fizz for the nausea, liquid for the dehydration, and a caffeine and sugar hit to make you feel a bit more lively.
 * **Coffee** - Same as Coke but without the bubbles to help ease the nausea. Try it with honey instead of sugar since the fructose is absorbed quicker than the sucrose in normal sugar, and it's better for you.
 * **Ginseng** - It's been noted that since caffeine is a diuretic like alcohol, it can actually make the dehydration worse, so try the herbal equivalent instead.
 * **Vegemite On Toast** - Something in your stomach is good, and salty is even better. Plus you get a Vitamin B top up. The same reasons also make peanut butter a good choice, but the oily nature might make some sensitive stomachs feel a bit yucky. If you do try try this one, skip the butter and just have dry toast.
 * **Cold Pizza** - Who knows, but it seems to work.
 * **Asprin** - Simply attends to the headache and does nothing for the level of alc ohol in your system. Don't take them before you go to bed.
 * **Bananas** - Sugar in the form of fructose, and potassium, which is one of the things you lose lots of when you drink. Bananas are also a natural antacid to help with the nausea, and are high in magnesium which can help relax those pounding blood vessels causing that hangover headache. For a variety of reasons try a **peanut butter, honey and banana sandwich** on white bread.
 * **Vitamin C** - Another thing the alcohol takes out that you're advised to put back in as soon as possible. Orange juice, tomato, a 600mg Vitamin C tablet - doesn't matter, just do it.
 * **A Hot Bath** - The heat will sweat out the toxins that are causing all the problems. You'll feel a bit woozy at first but go with it and you'll feel better afterwards.
 * **Chocolate Milk** - This one was sent in by Michael and sounds like it's worth a try - "Regarding your hangover remedies, I would like to suggest chocolate milk. The store bought kind seems to work best, due to ease of attainment (unless you blew all your money at the bar hoping to get lucky), quietness (no loud banging of the teaspoon trying to mix the homemade stuff), and ease of use (the opening is the perfect fit when you have the jitters and no messy clean up). The suggested minimum dosage is the pint ( 1/2 litre) size, though the new quart (litre) can be used for extreme episodes. Other than the rehydration factor, I find that chocolate milk offer s the tummy a soothing coating for the nausea. It also repletes some of the vitamins your body is now woefully lacking. The sugars (lactose & sucrose) and salt seem to be the perfect balance of the carb/salt fix. Many women can attest to the beneficial, relatively inexpensive, and legal effects of chocolate against depression, whether physiological or psychological. Last, the flavor seems to do wonders for that ghastly "did I try to mop the floor with my tongue?" taste in your mouth. So, on your way home, stop by your convenient convenience store, head on over to the cooler, grab one more "cold one" (chocolate milk, that is), and bring it home for the morning. Your mother shall compliment you on at least one healthy drinking habit."
 * **Sauerkraut** - Casey reckons "I know only a few people who will try this hangover remedy but those who do it swear by it, sauerkraut. It makes some sense - the acid/nadh balance and the nutritional value - but from first hand experience it works rediculously well. I've seen it work in the most extreme cases." If you can't bring yourself to eat the actually chunky bits, try sauerkraut juice (out of the sauerkraut bottle) mixed with tomato juice, or a good helping of Sauerkraut Hangover Soup (recipe below). Actually while doing a bit of poking around checking out the vailidity of this claim, it appears that eating raw cabbage has been used right through history for preventing as well as curing hangovers, so Casey could well be onto something here.

How's this for combining my outcome areas?

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=NZ Top Ten green resolutions=
 * 1.** Set up a composting system or worm farm at home. The Environment Ministry, says nearly half the contents of rubbish bags taken to rubbish dumps could be composted.
 * 2.** Just say no ... to plastic bags at the supermarket check-out. Do you really need more plastic bags cluttering your home?
 * 3.** Recycle. Find out what recycling services and facilities are available in your area. When you're in a public place with no recycling take recyclable bottles and containers home to your own bin.
 * 4.** Insulate your hot water cylinder. Water heating is the single biggest energy consumer in the average home. Cut your power bill and reduce the energy your household uses by investing in a wrap for your hot water cylinder.
 * 5.** Go car-free one day each week. 1.2 million of us drive to work every day. Think what would happen if we all left our cars at home one day a week and walked, rode a bike, or used public transport instead.
 * 6.** Lose the road rage and save vital energy. If you have to drive your car, lay off the aggressive behaviour - as much as 25 per cent extra fuel is used in heavy acceleration and braking.
 * 7.** Get involved in a conservation project. Nature in your backyard is amazing, so get out and meet other people looking after it in your area. Join a local tree planting, beachcare or stream restoration group.
 * 8.** When buying new whiteware make sure you read the energy rating label so you make sure of getting the most energy efficient model.
 * 9.** Celebrate WWF's Earth Hour. On March 28 at 8.30pm people worldwide will turn out their lights for one hour to show their support for action that tackles climate change. [|www.earthhour.org]
 * 10.** Don't make Earth Hour a one night stand - commit to switching off. Switch appliances off at the wall to increase energy savings.

This stuff is developing a 'teaching presence' (new phrase, I read it in Garrison and Vaughn (2008)).
It's where I design the environment for learning to occur. // “The design, facilitation and direction of cognitive and social processes for the purposes of realising personally meaningful and educationally worthwhile learning outcomes” (p. 29) // //.//


 * History**

"Happy New Year!" That greeting will be said and heard for at least the first couple of weeks as a new year gets under way. But the day celebrated as New Year's Day in modern America was not always January 1. [|this site] discusses other historical and present traditions around new year.

What about getting kids to develop a 'what's on' site for their fellow students? Here's [|Auckland's] site to show people what's happening over the holiday period. Here's a site that blogs [|new year's celebrations all around the world]. Imagine if kids looked at these and did some comparisons and tried to figure out why the similarities and differences are there.
 * Social Science**

Or... Get them to create a[| blog] and be responsible for a different part of the world. Be a junior reporter!
 * Current Events**

What about finding out what was the news of the day on New Year's Day? [|this one was particularly tragic.] And what were we doing [|a few years ago].?

 