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Controversial Surgery for Addiction Burns Away Brain's Pleasure Center
Will destroying parts of the brain's pleasure center help addicts to recover?
In 2004, the Ministry of Health in China banned this procedure due to lack of data on long term outcomes and growing outrage in Western media over ethical issues about whether the patients were fully aware of the risks.
However, some doctors were allowed to continue to perform it for research purposes—and recently, a Western medical journal even published a new study of the results. In 2007, The Wall Street Journal detailed the practice of a physician who claimed he performed 1000 such procedures to treat mental illnesses such as depression, schizophrenia and epilepsy, after the ban in 2004; the surgery for addiction has also since been done on at least that many people.
(MORE: Redefining Mental Illness)
The November publication has generated a passionate debate in the scientific community over whether such research should be published or kept outside the pages of reputable scientific journals, where it may find undeserved legitimacy and only encourage further questionable science to flourish.
The latest study is the third published since 2003 in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, which isn't the only journal chronicling results from the procedure, which is known as ablation of the nucleus accumbens. In October, the journal World Neurosurgery also published results from the same researchers, who are based at Tangdu Hospital in Xi'an.
The authors, led by Guodong Gao, claim that the surgery is "a feasible method for alleviating psychological dependence on opiate drugs." At the same time, they report that more than half of the 60 patients had lasting side effects, including memory problems and loss of motivation. Within five years, 53% had relapsed and were addicted again to opiates, leaving 47% drug free.
(MORE: Addicted: Why We Get Hooked)
Conventional treatment only results in significant recovery in about 30-40% of cases, meaning the outcomes are essentially equivalent and experts don't believe any slight benefit is worth the tremendous risk the surgery poses. Even the most successful brain surgeries carry risk of infection, disability and death since opening the skull and cutting brain tissue for any reason is both dangerous and unpredictable. And the Chinese researchers report that 21% of the patients they studied experienced memory deficits after the surgery and 18% had "weakened motivation," including at least one report of lack of sexual desire. The authors claim, however, that "all of these patients reported that their [adverse results] were tolerable." In addition, 53% of patients had a change in personality, but the authors describe the majority of these changes as "mildness oriented," presumably meaning that they became more compliant. Around 7%, however, became more impulsive.
The surgery is actually performed while patients are awake in order to minimize the chances of destroying regions necessary for sensation, consciousness or movement. Surgeons use heat to kill cells in small sections of both sides of the brain's nucleus accumbens. That region is saturated with neurons containing dopamine and endogenous opioids, which are involved in pleasure and desire related both to drugs and to ordinary experiences like eating, love and sex.
(MORE: A Drug to End Drug Addiction)
In the U.S. and the U.K., reports the Wall Street Journal, around two dozen stereotactic ablations are performed each year, but only in the most intractable cases of depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder and after extensive review by institutional review boards and intensive discussions with the patient, who must acknowledge the risks. Often, a different brain region is targeted, not the nucleus accumbens. Given the unpredictable and potentially harmful consequences of the procedure, experts are united in their condemnation of using the technique to treat addictions. "To lesion this region that is thought to be involved in all types of motivation and pleasure risks crippling a human being," says Dr. Charles O'Brien, head of the Center for Studies of Addiction at the University of Pennsylvania.
David Linden, professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins and author of a recent book about the brain's pleasure systems calls the surgery "horribly misguided." He says "This treatment will almost certainly render the subjects unable to feel pleasure from a wide range of experiences, not just drugs of abuse."
But some neurosurgeons see it differently. Dr. John Adler, professor emeritus of neurosurgery at Stanford University, collaborated with the Chinese researchers on the publication and is listed as a co-author. While he does not advocate the surgery and did not perform it, he believes it can provide valuable information about how the nucleus accumbens works, and how best to attempt to manipulate it. "I do think it's worth learning from," he says. " As far as I'm concerned, ablation of the nucleus accumbens makes no sense for anyone. There's a very high complication rate. [But] reporting it doesn't mean endorsing it. While we should have legitimate ethical concerns about anything like this, it is a bigger travesty to put our heads in the sand and not be willing to publish it," he says.
(MORE: Anesthesia Study Opens Window Into Consciousness)
Dr. Casey Halpern, a neurosurgery resident at the University of Pennsylvania makes a similar case. He notes that German surgeons have performed experimental surgery involving placing electrodes in the same region to treat the extreme lack of pleasure and motivation associated with otherwise intractable depression. "That had a 60% success rate, much better than [drugs like Prozac]," he says. Along with colleagues from the University of Magdeburg in Germany, Halpern has just published a paper in the Proceedings of the New York Academy of Sciences calling for careful experimental use of DBS in the nucleus accumbens to treat addictions, which have failed repeatedly to respond to other approaches. The paper cites the Chinese surgery data and notes that addiction itself carries a high mortality risk.
DBS, however, is quite different from ablation. Although it involves the risk of any brain surgery, the stimulation itself can be turned off if there are negative side effects, while surgical destruction of brain tissue is irreversible. That permanence—along with several other major concerns — has ethicists and addiction researchers calling for a stop to the ablation surgeries, and for journals to refuse to publish related studies.
Harriet Washington, author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, argues that by publishing the results of unethical studies, scientists are condoning the questionable conditions under which the trials are conducted. "When medical journals publish research that violates the profession'sethical guidelines, this serves not only to sanction such abuses, but to encourage them," she says. "In doing so, this practice encourages a relaxing of moral standards that threatens all patients and subjects, but especially the medically vulnerable."
(MORE: Real-Time Video: First Look at a Brain Losing Consciousness Under Anesthesia)
Shi-Min Fang, a Chinese biochemist who became a freelance journalist and recently won the journal Nature's Maddox prize for his exposes of widespread fraud in Chinese research, has revealed some of the subpar scientific practices behind research conducted in China, facing death threats and, as the New York Times reported, a beating with a hammer. He agrees that publishing such research only perpetuates the unethical practices. Asked by TIME to comment on the addiction surgery studies, Fang writes that publishing the research, particularly in western journals, "would encourage further unethical research, particularly in China where rewards for publication in international journals are high."
While he doesn't have the expertise to comment specifically on the ablation data, he says "the results of clinical research in China are very often fabricated. I suspect that the approvals by Ethics Committee mentioned in these papers were made up to meet publication requirement. I also doubt if the patients were really informed in detail about the nature of the study." Fang also notes that two of the co-authors of the paper are advertising on the internet in Chinese, offering the surgery at a cost of 35,000 renminbi, about $5,600. That's more than the average annual income in China, which is about $5,000.
Given the available evidence, in fact, it's hard to find a scientific justification for even studying the technique in people at all. Carl Hart, associate professor of psychology at Columbia University and author of the leading college textbook on psychoactive drugs, says animal studies suggest the approach may ultimately fail as an effective treatment for addiction; a 1984 experiment, for example, showed that destroying the nucleus accumbens in rats does not permanently stop them from taking opioids like heroin and later research found that it similarly doesn't work for curbing cocaine cravings. Those results alone should discourage further work in humans. "These data are clear," he says, "If you are going to take this drastic step, you damn well better know all of the animal literature." [Disclosure: Hart and I have worked on a book project together].
(MORE: Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2012)
Moreover, in China, where addiction is so demonized that execution has been seen as an appropriate punishment, it's highly unlikely that addicted people could give genuinely informed consent for any brain surgery, let alone one that risks losing the ability to feel pleasure. And even if all of the relevant research suggested that ablating the nucleus accumbens prevented animals from seeking drugs, it would be hard to tell from rats or even primates whether the change was due to an overall reduction in motivation and pleasure or to a beneficial reduction in desiring just the drug itself.
There is no question that addiction can be difficult to treat, and in the most severe cases, where patients have suffered decades of relapses and failed all available treatments multiple times, it may make sense to consider treatments that carry significant risks, just as such dangers are accepted in fighting suicidal depression or cancer. But in the ablation surgery studies, some of the participants were reportedly as young as 19 years old and had only been addicted for three years. Addiction research strongly suggests that such patients are likely to recover even without treatment, making the risk-benefit ratio clearly unacceptable.
The controversy highlights the tension between the push for innovation and the reality of risk. Rules on informed consent didn't arise from fears about theoretical abuses: they were a response to the real scientific horrors of the Holocaust. And ethical considerations become especially important when treating a condition like addiction, which is still seen by many not as an illness but as a moral problem to be solved by punishment. Scientific innovation is the goal, but at what price?


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Of course, such plans aren't free for taxpayers, and legislators in Oregon and Tennessee are deciding whether free tuition regardless of family income is the best use of public money. A Mississippi bill passed the state House, but then failed in the Senate.
The debate comes in a midterm election year in which income inequality and the burdens of student debt are likely going to be significant issues.
"I think everybody agrees that with a high school education by itself, there is no path to the middle class," said State Sen. Mark Hass, who is leading the no-tuition effort in Oregon. "There is only one path, and it leads to poverty. And poverty is very expensive."
Hass said free community college and increasing the number of students who earn college credit while in high school are keys to addressing a "crisis" in education debt. Taxpayers will ultimately benefit, he said, because it's cheaper to send someone to community college than to have him or her in the social safety net.
Research from the Oregon University System shows Oregonians with only a high school degree make less money than those with a degree and thus contribute fewer tax dollars. They are also more likely to use food stamps and less likely to do volunteer work.
A Gallup poll released in late February found 94 percent of Americans believe it's somewhat or very important to have a degree beyond high school, yet only 23 percent of respondents said higher education is affordable to everyone who needs it.
As at four-year universities, the price of attending a community college has risen sharply because of reduced state support and higher costs for health care and other expenses. The average annual cost of tuition nationally is about $3,300, and books and fees add to the bill.
It's cheaper than university, but expensive enough to dissuade someone who's unsure whether to pursue higher education.
In Tennessee, Republican Gov. Bill Haslam wants to use lottery money to create a free community college program for high school graduates. It's central to the Republican's goal of making the state more attractive to potential employers by increasing the percentage of Tennesseans with a college degree to 55 percent by 2025 from 32 percent now.
If approved by the Legislature, the "Tennessee Promise" would provide a full ride for any high school graduate, at a cost of $34 million per year.
Meanwhile, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber signed a bill March 11 ordering a state commission to examine whether free tuition is feasible. Among other things, the study will determine how much money the program will cost, whether the existing campus buildings can accommodate extra students and whether to limit free tuition to recent graduates.
The commission will also look at California, which offered no-cost community college until the mid-1980s, when a state fiscal crisis contributed to its demise.
The findings are due later this year and will help lawmakers decide whether to pursue the idea in 2015.
"What is exciting to us about the idea is that it signals that the state understands there needs to be significant reinvestment in community colleges in some way, shape or form," said Mary Spilde, the president of Lane Community College in Eugene, Ore., where in-state students pay $93 per credit hour. Back in 1969-70, baby boomers paid $6 per credit hour _ about $37 in today's money, adjusted for inflation.
Tennessee and Oregon are looking at the "last-dollar in" model, where the state picks up the tuition not covered by other forms of aid. Because students from poor families often get their tuition covered by Pell Grants and other programs, the state money would disproportionately help those from more comfortable backgrounds.
"If you're paying for two years for everybody, then you're paying for students whose families can afford to do it," said Kay McClenney, director of the Center for Community College Student Engagement at the University of Texas. "And is that your best use of dollars within the public interest?"
There are other concerns. Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education, generally praised the bills, but said students are more likely to be successful if they have "skin in the game" and pay something toward their education.
Patricia Schechter, a Portland State University professor active in the faculty union, worries that students will be induced into taking the community college route _ "arguably against their interests" _ and about the effect on public universities, whose students won't get a tuition break.
"We start competing for first-year students in a way that seems a little unfair if they can go somewhere for free," she said. "It doesn't address the creeping costs of higher ed. It just diverts them."
Hass, the Oregon state senator, countered that the university presidents he's spoken with, including Portland State's, support the idea.
"There's an old saying," he said of the criticism. "You can marshal an army to preserve the status quo."


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A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
The first census in 1801 simply divided people into those employed in agriculture and
those in trade or manufacturing, and the 1841 census, the first to gather detailed
occupational data, imposed no real order on it at all.
However, the first occupational classification, introduced in 1851, was clearly
concerned with social status as well as with what people made: it began with the Queen,
followed by government officials and then by 'the learned professions'.
In the twentieth century a separate system of social classes was devised.
Originally created to help understand mortality, the Registrar General's Social
Classification was tabulated by the census from 1951 onwards.
However, the Office for National Statistics no longer officially use the
social classification, but instead provide data for an essentially similar
set of 'Social Grades' defined by the British Market Research Society.
To provide a longer perspective we have re-organised earlier occupational
information to the same system.
Like the published 1951 data, all our figures are limited to men.
This is only possible where we have very detailed occupational statistics at
district-level, so these earlier censuses are limited to
1841, where the replies to the occupational question were tabulated almost
raw; 1881, where we can use complete data from the enumerator's books; and
1931, which produced the most detailed of all occupational reports.
We hold these detailed statistics for Plympton, which we graph and tabulate here:
Available datasets | Period covered | Variables (number of categories) |
Grouped Social Class | 1951 to 1971 |
Registrar General's Social Class, grouped
(4) |
Social Class | 1951 to 1971 |
Registrar General's Social Class
(6) |
Socio-Econmic Groups Total (males only) | 1961 to 1971 |
Total of all Socio-Economic Groups
(1) |
Socio-Economic Group (males only) | 1971 |
Socio-Economic Groups, with sub-groups
(39) |
Socio-Economic Group (males only) | 1961 to 1971 |
Socio-Economic Groups
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Who's a cute widdle Dunny bunny? It's you, it's you!*
(Pamela found it on Flickr and it was made by Cakes by Ashley. Thanks!)
From the embossed pattern in the chocolate fondant to the sweet little chick on the top, this is one gorgeous cake. I've kneaded and rolled my fair share of fondant, so I can tell you that that egg was not easy. (If I had done it, there would be a big jagged seam up the back and pleats all over the place.) Also, Jen says the colors are "faboo", which I think means "cool."
And finally, here's a cake that both Jen and I looked at for a moment and said, "Wow, it's beautiful - but what is it?"
** Great name for a rock band.


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A single sentence sums up President Obama's challenge in winning congressional support for a strike on Syria. Congressman Elijah Cummings said it yesterday on NPR's TELL ME MORE.
REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS: Let me tell something. When you've got 97 percent of your constituents saying no, it's kind of hard to say yes.
INSKEEP: The Democrat says he has not decided how to vote, but he needs the president to win over his Maryland constituents. We've heard many voices in this debate all week, and now Tony Blinken is on the line. He is the president's deputy national security advisor.
Welcome to the program, sir.
TONY BLINKEN: Steve, thanks for having me.
INSKEEP: OK, so we've heard the president's case on chemical weapons in Syria. We've heard people raise concerns about a military strike. And I want to just go directly to some follow-up questions, here, like, give you a chance to answer some specific concerns that people have raised.
Joe Manchin, Democratic senator, West Virginia, says he's against using force. He says we must exhaust all diplomatic options before acting. Have you exhausted the diplomatic options?
BLINKEN: You know, I'm very sympathetic to what Senator Manchin said, but I think the fact is we have. We have imposed severe sanctions on Syria and on the Assad regime. We've squeezed and squeezed and squeezed. More to the point: We've gone repeatedly to the United Nations, to the Security Council, trying to get the Security Council to act on much lesser things, just to criticize and condemn what was going on in Syria, the civil war, the conflict, the violence being perpetrated by the Assad regime. Time and again, almost a dozen times, we've been blocked in the Security Council.
So, at this point, we unfortunately have exhausted everything. And, in that context, to have this horrific chemical weapons attack that took well over a thousand lives, including hundreds of children, for that to go unanswered would lead to even worse things.
INSKEEP: Manchin is also saying that you need a comprehensive plan for international involvement before acting. Have you really done everything you can do to line up allies, here?
BLINKEN: You know, as we speak, the president is in Europe, working with the G-20 and working to build that international support. Secretary Kerry is heading this weekend to Europe, where he'll see Europeans and Arabs. Country by country, at the United Nations, here in Washington, we're reaching out to build support. And I believe we're getting it. We're seeing dozens of countries directly criticizing the Assad regime, pointing out that the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable, and an increasing number saying that something needs to be done about it.
INSKEEP: I want to ask about another concern that's been raised in different ways, a concern about a wider war, the reality that the enemy has a vote. There could be a response. Something could happen beyond what you're promising, here. If people, in the end, in Congress vote yes with you, should the country be mentally prepared for a wider war?
BLINKEN: No. And, Steve, let me tell you what I think is going on, here, and it's very understandable. When people hear about the prospect of military conflict in Syria, when they hear about the potential use of military force in Syria, the prism through which they process that is the last decade. They're thinking about Iraq. They're thinking about Afghanistan. They're thinking about 150,000 American troops in one, 100,000 in another.
So it's very important for people to understand what this is and what this isn't. What this is is a very targeted, very focused, but we believe effective use of force to deal with the fact that chemical weapons were used, and to try to make sure that Assad doesn't use them again, or that it's more difficult for him to use them again if he tries.
INSKEEP: And you're sure...
BLINKEN: What it's not is boots-on-the-ground. What it's not is open-ended. What it's not is Iraq, Afghanistan, or even what we saw in Libya.
INSKEEP: And you're sure that Iran won't respond, that Syria can't respond? That Hezbollah and other groups will not respond to this?
BLINKEN: Steve, we spend a lot of time when we think about these things trying to game out every possible contingency, every possible unintended consequence. And no one can give you 100 percent guarantee. But we work to mitigate. We work to make sure that if anyone tries to do anything to escalate, we're in a position to respond. But our best assessment - including by our intelligence community - is that none of these countries have an incentive to pick a fight with the United States.
INSKEEP: One quick question before we go away, Tony Blinken. Has the president decided what he will do if Congress votes no on using force?
BLINKEN: You know, Steve, when - after the events of August 21st, we reached out to Congress, and we had conversations with members of Congress across the country. And the one thing we heard from nearly all of them was that they wanted their voice heard and their vote counted in this.
INSKEEP: Just a couple seconds, here. Will he strike?
BLINKEN: And the president, of course, has the authority to act, but it's neither his desire nor his intention to use that authority absent Congress backing him.
INSKEEP: OK. Mr. Blinken, thank you very for the time.
BLINKEN: Thank you.
INSKEEP: Tony Blinken is President Obama's deputy national security advisor. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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I know some of you will roll your eyes in despair because I replaced the dark chocolate in this recipe with white chocolate, but let me at least say that it worked really well! The ice cream itself is not overly sweet, so don't worry about going into a sugar coma.
Think of this as a nice change – unlike replacing one of the greatest rock 'n' roll singers of all time with this guy.
Cherry ice cream with white chocolate
from here
1 ½ cups pitted ripe sweet cherries (from about ¾lb/340g cherries)
¾ cup (180ml) milk
1 ¾ cups (420ml) heavy cream
½ cup (100g) sugar
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons crème de cassis, kirsch, cherry liqueur, or rum (optional) – I used rum
112g (4 ounces) white chocolate, melted
Put cherries, milk, 1 cup (240ml) of the cream, sugar, and salt into a medium saucepan. Heat on medium heat until the mixture is steamy, then lower the heat to warm and just let sit for about 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Pour mixture into a blender, or use an immersion blender, and carefully purée (Be careful because you are dealing with a hot liquid. Make sure you hold the cap down on the top of the blender while puréeing).
Put mixture into a large bowl. Stir in the remaining ¾ cup (180ml) of cream. Chill for several hours in the refrigerator until completely cold (Can also place bowl over an ice bath, to speed up the cooling process).
Before putting the mixture into your ice cream maker, stir in the lemon juice and the crème de cassis or other liqueur (or rum) if you are using. Note that you can skip the alcohol if you want, but the addition of it will help the ice cream from getting too icy, and the flavored liqueurs such as kirsch or crème de cassis can add a nice flavor boost to the ice cream. Churn the ice cream in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions. When ice cream has finished churning, carefully pour chocolate in a slow stream directly onto ice cream as it churns and continue to churn 30 seconds (chocolate will harden in streaks).
Put in an airtight container and place in the freezer for at least an hour, preferably several hours.
Makes about one quart (950ml)


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Meb Keflezighi First American Since 1983 to Win Boston Marathon; Women's Winner Sets Record
On Monday morning, Meb Keflezighi won the Boston Marathon, becoming the first American to do so since 1983, when Grand Rapids native Greg Meyer won. The women's race saw Rita Jeptoo, of Kenya, set a new course record of 2 hours, 18 minutes, 57 seconds.
"The crowd was phenomenal. I used them and they used me," Keflezighi said after the race. "The energy was just phenomenal. Toward the end I was remembering the victims who passed away. I said 'I'm going to use the energy to win, just like the Red Sox did [at last year's World Series].'"
Jeptoo won her second straight and third overall Boston Marathon, breaking Margaret Okayo's course record by 1 minute and 46 seconds. Marathon officials said that 35,755 people ran in this year's race.
This year's race has received a huge amount of attention, as it is the first Boston Marathon since the terrorist bombings at last year's event. That an American won for the first time in more than 20 years is an especially proud way for the city of Boston to celebrate the return of one of its most popular annual events. It's been a week of commemorative ceremonies to remember the horror of last April, in which twin bombings near the finish line killed three people and injured more than 260.
"It was not about me," Keflezighi said. "It was about Boston Strong."


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Even if you aren't considering selling your home in the near future, a finished basement offers more living space – something most homeowners dream about.
If you are considering selling, you'll recoup 70 percent of the cost of the remodel, according to Remodeling Magazine's 2017 Cost vs. Value Report. Furthermore, keeping your basement-finish budget to no more than 10 percent of your home's appraised value makes it a smart investment, Lending Tree Home Pros' Neil Salvage tells HGTV.
And, you won't be alone. The National Association of Home Builders places the project as the third most requested, behind kitchen and bath remodels and additions.
The nationwide average cost of a basement remodel is between $10,583 and $27,103, according to HomeAdvisor. But, some homeowners pay as little as $4,800.
You don't necessarily have to go full-blown remodel to whip that basement into shape. Use a few of these DIY ideas to turn it into a livable area that will add value to the home.
Wet basements aren't livable
More than 60 percent of homes with a basement have leaks, according to the American Society of Home Inspectors. Furthermore, 38 percent of those homes run the risk of developing basement mold. So, before you tackle the decorating and design aspects of your unfinished basement, undertake the repairs necessary to set a good, healthy foundation for all of your hard work.
You'll need to find the source of the leak, which is easier said than done in many cases. The most obvious place to look is the area of the wall where pipes enter. Also check that the landscaping outside the basement slopes away from the home and that the gutters on the home aren't clogged with debris and that they extend at least 4 feet away from the structure.
Fixing leaks may sound intimidating but many repairs are inexpensive and easy. Filling in cracks with epoxy, installing additional downspouts, re-sloping the landscaping (the University of Minnesota recommends a slope of one inch per foot for at least six feet away from the foundation wall), and installing flashing are DIY projects that won't break the bank.
Consider purchasing a dehumidifier for the basement as well. Then, seal the walls. Tom Silva at thisoldhouse.com suggests applying waterproof masonry cement to walls.
Start at the top and work your way down
Sure, you'll want to paint the ceiling but what else is up there, hanging from it, that can ruin the comfy vibe you're aiming for? Pipes, air ducts and more can be painted to match the ceiling, in the hopes of making them blend in.
Or, look for products like coffered ceilings or wood planks that add style and the results are easier to achieve than most people think.
Then, of course, there is always the option of using drywall or large, removable tiles (to allow access to all that "stuff" hanging from the ceiling). Get more ideas on ways to camouflage ceiling "junk" at houselogic.com.
What will you walk on?
Naturally, carpeting is the flooring of choice for most basements, according to research by the National Association of Home Builders. But, factoring in the cost of moisture-resistant padding and carpet can be a bit pricey.
If you're on a tight budget, consider vinyl. Some of the new wood-look luxury vinyl floor planks add a surprisingly realistic wood-look to a room, they're inexpensive and can be easily installed by homeowners.
If you fear water leaks, tile may be a better choice. Since basements are notoriously moist, however, shop for tiles with anti-slip finishes, such as glazed ceramic tile. Or, consider leaving the concrete floor exposed and acid-staining it. With lots of area rugs scattered about, feet will stay warm.
Create a warm ambience
Proper lighting is crucial in a basement that you plan to use frequently. Choose ceiling fixtures, such as track lighting or pot lights and then add table lamps around the room.
The effects of a low ceiling and lack of natural light in most basements can be thwarted by choosing light-colored accessories, such as upholstery fabrics, rugs, pillows and artwork.
Choose soft rugs, thick blankets and fluffy pillows to seal the warm ambience of your newly-finished basement.
Finishing a basement is a big project but not only will it give you more living space, it will help sell the home in the future. Tackle as many DIY project you can to keep costs down.
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A combination of fixed rate and adjustable rate loans:
Fixed-Period ARMs
Borrows often lock into 3 to 10 years of fixed rate payments before the initial interest rate change. At the end of the fixed period, the interest rate adjusts annually. Fixed-period ARMs are typically tied to the one-year Treasury securities index: 3/1, 5/1, 7/1 and 10/1.
ARMs with an initial fixed period beside of lifetime and adjustment caps usually have also first adjustment cap. It limits the interest rate you will pay the first time your rate is adjusted. First adjustment caps vary with type of loan program.
The advantage of these loans is that the interest rate is lower than for a 30-year fixed (the lender is not locked in for as long so their risk is lower and they can charge less) but you still get the advantage of a fixed rate for a period of time.
Balloon Loan
Balloon Loans offer a fixed rate for a specified time period, typically 5 or 7 years, and then adjust to the current market rate. After the adjustment the mortgage stays at the new fixed rate for the remainder of the loan period.
Graduated Payment ARMs
Graduated payment mortgages initially offer lower payments at the start of the loan that gradually increase at preset times. Lower initial payments allow borrowers to qualify for a larger loan amount. Loan amounts negatively amortize during the early years of the loan then pay off the principal at an accelerated rate through the later years.
GPM payment plans will vary by rate of payment increases and number of years over which payments will increase. The greater the rate of increase, or the longer the period of increase — the lower the initial mortgage payments.
Convertible ARMs
If an adjustable rate mortgage is convertible, the borrower may convert to a fixed rate mortgage, when interest rates begin to rise, without refinancing. The new rate is established at the current market rate for fixed-rate mortgages. The terms of convertibility vary among lenders. Typically it involves a nominal fee and minimal paperwork. The downside is that the conversion interest rate is often a little higher than the market rate at the time of conversion.
A fixed rate loan with a rate reduction option allows borrowers, under predetermined conditions, to adjust to the current market rate for a nominal fee. The discount points or interest rates are often slightly higher for convertible loans.
Buydown Mortgage
A temporary buydown initially offers a lower interest rate and lower monthly payments. In order to reduce monthly payments during the first years, borrowers make an initial lump sum payment or agree to a higher interest rate. Over the years, the interest rate gradually increases until it peaks at a fixed rate. Borrowers who chose this loan often expect a significant increase in their income.


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A comb is a tool consisting of a shaft that holds a row of teeth for pulling through the hair to clean, untangle, or style it. Combs have been used since prehistoric times, having been discovered in very refined forms from settlements dating back to 5,000 years ago in Persia.
Combs consist of a shaft and teeth that are placed at a perpendicular angle to the shaft. Combs can be made out of a number of materials, most commonly plastic, metal or wood. Combs made from ivory and tortoiseshell were once common but concerns for the animals that produce them have reduced their usage. When made from wood, combs are largely made of boxwood, cherry wood or other fine-grained wood. Good quality wooden combs are usually handmade and polished.
Combs come in various shapes and sizes depending on what they are used for. A hairdressing comb may have a thin, tapered handle for parting hair and close teeth. Common hair combs usually have wider teeth halfway and finer teeth for the rest of the comb. Hot combs were used solely for straightening hair during the colonial era in North America.
A hairbrush comes in both manual and electric models. It is larger than a comb, and is also commonly used for shaping, styling and cleaning hair. A combination comb and hairbrush was patented in the 19th century.
Combs can be used for many purposes. Historically, their main purpose was securing long hair in place, decorating the hair, matting sections of hair for dreadlocks, or keeping a kippah or skullcap in place. In Spain, a peineta is a large decorative comb used to keep a mantilla in place.
In industry and craft, combs are used in separating cotton fibres from seeds and other debris (the cotton gin, a mechanized version of the comb, is one of the machines that ushered in the Industrial Revolution). A comb is used to distribute colors in paper marbling to make the swirling colour patterns in comb-marbled paper.
Combs are also a tool used by police investigators to collect hair and dandruff samples that can be used in ascertaining dead or living persons' identities, as well as their state of health, toxicological profiles, and so forth.
An unbreakable plastic comb is a comb that, despite being made of plastic rather than (more expensive) metal, does not shatter into multiple pieces if dropped on a hard surface such as bathroom tiles, a hardwood floor, or pavement. Such combs were introduced in the mid-twentieth century. Today most plastic combs are unbreakable as technology has reached a point of understanding the causation of brittleness in these products.
Modern artisan combs crafted from a wide variety of new and recycled materials have become popular over recent years. Used skateboard decks, vinyl records, brass, titanium alloy, acrylic and exotic wood are a few of the materials being used.
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maria fitted sheet
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Mulberry-silk-woven Maria Collection — ideal for romantics looking to bring some peaceful vibes home!
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- 100% Mulberry silk sateen
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- Very mild fine wash
- Do not bleach
- Do not tumble dry
- Low iron
- Do not dry clean
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