Pronunciations Across America

I found this exercise to be pretty funny - do your pronunciations line up with the norm for your geography? There are 22 more maps here.

The DoD Grants $2 Million Towards SCI Research

Good news:

The DOD awarded the two-year, peer-reviewed grant to the Reeve Foundation’s North American Clinical Trials Network (NACTN), a consortium of university hospital neuro-surgical and neuro-rehabilitation teams to bring promising therapies into clinical trials. Led by Dr. Robert G. Grossman, professor of neurosurgery at The Methodist Hospital Neurological Institute in Houston, NACTN gathers and documents patient medical information in a data registry to better understand the body’s natural course of recovery after injury; uses standardized patient assessment protocols and develops new ones; and conducts new trials of therapy for spinal cord injury. 

It's clear some combination of public and private financing and cooperation will be necessary to make spinal cord injury recovery a reality - the $$$ just isn't there without the help of the federal government. Glad to hear they'll take a break from reading our emails and do something helpful :)!

New Walking Video

Have a great weekend!