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Who is John Macnab, and why has his name given rise to the ultimate sporting challenge? The man behind the Macnab Challenge is more than meets the eyeThe identity of John Macnab is a closely guarded secret.Who is John Macnab? “A tall bravo with a colonial accent” or “a gnarled Caliban of infinite cunning and gnome-like agility”, speculates Janet Raden, the indomitable female interest in John Buchan’s novel John Macnab. The second most popular of Buchan’s novels (The Thirty-Nine Steps claims top spot) was written in 1925. Unlike the majority of his work, sixpenny thrillers with spies and codes, John...

Extreme How To - DIY Home Improvement By Matt Weber  Give Wood Floors a Weathered Finish Like fine wine, some things get better with age, and a popular trend in wood flooring is to impart a distressed look to the wood surface, which adds a weathered, timeworn appearance with a great deal of character. This practice can be applied to “age” new floors or to provide older floors a fresh texture. Heartwood Southern Pine is an excellent candidate for such a project because of its richly toned bands and, as a soft wood, it is easy to dent and ding...

REVIEW – We recently moved from a two story home with a game room to a single story home with no game room but the same amount of space.  I rarely went upstairs unless we were hosting a party and using the game room.  Now that we are on a single story, we have a ton of room and it all seems to need cleaning at once.  I easily get my recommended steps per day searching for where I put my phone down.  That being said, trying to vacuum all of that space is extremely time consuming.  I had reviewed...

Courtesy of Clean Ocean Action Much has changed over the 35 years that Clean Ocean Action has conducted beach sweeps along the Jersey Shore. When the Long Branch–based nonprofit first combed the beaches, cigarette butts and metal soda tabs were the most common bits of trash recovered. In recent years, plastic objects—including food containers, shopping bags, trash bags, cups, lids, straws and stirrers—are being retrieved in large numbers. But starting next May 4, this, too, can be expected to change. That’s the date when New Jersey’s statewide ban on most single-use plastics is scheduled to kick in. The legislation, S864,...

First off, a phonetic lesson. The word boer is pronounced: Bo sounds like BOO (with the long oo), and the r is pronounced the same as the first letter r as in red. The e is silent. The word boer is an Afrikaans word taken from the first Dutch settlers to land in the Cape. It means ‘to farm’. Our Afrikaans farmers are called boer (singular) or boere (plural). They labor in the sun, taking great pride in their land, and in true keeping with the spirit of the Boer goat, when they have fun, they really can cause mischief...