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We have eighteen (18) one-bedroom units (two are handicapped accessible)
We have six (6) efficiency units.
|Burkesville Manor Apartments is a 24 unit elderly, handicapped/disabled complex located within walking distance to shopping and doctor appointments.
Families that live with us pay no more than 30% of their adjusted gross income toward rent. Criteria is to meet the income limits established by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and must be age eligible.
The water, sewer and trash is provided along with your stove and refrigerator.
All units have individual water heaters and through the wall heating and air.
The resident is responsible for the electric. Telephone and cable jacks are in each unit.
Apartments have laminate in the living room and bedroom. Screen doors and window shades are also provided.
Burkesville Manor has an on-site laundry facility with two washers and two dryers. We also provide on-site maintenance. The office is open Monday thru Friday.
Monthly dinners, holiday parties, bingo and blood pressure checks are regularly scheduled in the Community Room.
We have an outdoor pavilion with picnic tables, benches and a grill for resident use.
Recent renovations include new roofing and new sidewalks with concrete ramps to each porch eliminating all steps! New water heaters and kitchen ranges have been installed in all apartments.
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We've all been there. Waking up to a screaming alarm, rolling over and groaning, "how is it 6 A.M. already? I feel like I got only 2 hours of sleep!"
It's no secret that lack of sleep can really mess with your day. You roll out of bed and stumble into the bathroom, stubbing your toe on the side of the door. Standing in the mirror trying to apply makeup to eyes half shut, and finally getting your coffee only to realize that you're probably going to need several more cups just to survive the morning!
The will to get out of the bed when you've only had a few hours of good sleep is only the beginning of what it will take to get through the day. Most of us are immediately feeling grumpy when we're not well-rested. We feel sluggish, irritable, and tired, and even the simplest of everyday tasks feel like a real chore to get through!
We may be experiencing an achy back or muscles from tossing and turning, our bodies feel run down and our minds aren't quite up to par either. We find we may not be as productive or easily able to focus on tasks throughout the day. Our minds and bodies resting every chance they get, ready to fall back asleep as we hunch over our desk trying to get through what seems like a mountain of work!
The truth is, not getting the right amount of sleep not only ruins your day, but it can wreak real havoc on your health too. Chronic sleep debt has been shown to negatively affect blood pressure, and it can make you prone to serious medical conditions such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes and more. It doesn't just effect your body either. Lack of sleep has also been linked to depression and anxiety as well.
You may find that even with doing all the right things to help yourself wind down at night (turning off the gadgets a few hours before bedtime, turning down the lights, enjoying something relaxing before bedtime, limiting distractions while you sleep, limiting caffeine, etc) you still find yourself having trouble sleeping at night. While there could be many causes (one of my biggest problems being able to shut my mind off at night), sometimes the solution can be as simple as sleeping in the correct bed.
While most of us already know that we sleep better on certain beds versus others, what you may not know is that the level of firmness of your bed absolutely plays a role on how well you sleep.
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Mary-Kate Olsen may speak with federal investigators regarding the January death of Heath Ledger, whom she was allegedly dating at the time, though she's reportedly requesting immunity from prosecution if she does. [NY Post]
The first photos of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's twins Knox and Vivienne have been published by People magazine. [People]
The photos sold for over $14 million; the money will go to charity. [AP]
Paris Hilton has no thoughts on the most recent John McCain campaign ad. [P6]
In the Hamptons, the battle rages on between Christie Brinkley and ex-husband Peter Cook. Word is that Ms. Brinkley was reduced to tears when, during his visitation weekend with their children, Cook barred her from taking the kids to see her a performance by her other ex, Billy Joel. [NY Daily News]
Calvin Klein has announced that he will host a party celebrating the 40th anniversary of his label in a specially designed, temporary structure on the High Line at 30th St. and 10th Ave. until Sept. 7. The party will feature pre-opening tours of the elevated park, which is adjacent to the site. [WWD]


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Tonight we saw Chinese trade data disappoint markets.
But Chinese data has been coming in weak for some time now. Earlier this year, Nomura said growth could fall below 7% this year. HSBC slashed its GDP forecast to 7.4% in 2013, down from 8.2%.
Remember, in the Chinese version of the State of the Union speech last year, outgoing premier Wen Jiabao said China had set an official growth target of 7.5%. The latest string of data and Chinese policymakers' hardline amid the recent liquidity squeeze suggests that GDP growth could miss this target.
Bloomberg BRIEF's Michael McDonough tweeted this chart of China's GDP forecasts for the second, third, and fourth quarter of 2013. Clearly economists are expecting slower growth:
He later tweeted that policymakers would have to do more to meet the 7.5% GDP target.
China's government will most likely need to react to defend its 7.5 percent growth target. — Michael McDonough (@M_McDonough) July 10, 2013


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Conan O'Brien on Cowboys & Aliens.
Screened lists the top five wrong (or right?) movie rules.
Watch a 10 minute documentary on how Christopher Nolan and his team filmed the zero gravity hotel corridor sequence in Inception.
Buzzfeed lists the 10 weirdest Cowboys & Aliens tweets.
Spotted at the Medicom Toy 15th Anniversary Exhibition is a "Noisy Boy" Kubrick from the upcoming robot-boxing film Real Steel.
Roman Polanski's Carnage will open the New York Film Festival.
Watch Jon Favreau surprise a crowd at the Arclight, to introduce the Edgar Wright-produced Joe Cornish directed film Attack The Block.
Austin's Fantastic Fest is looking for helpful volunteers.
Writer/director Kevin Smith tweets about the possible positive effects of piracy.
Movie ticket prices have reached an all time high, with the cost of admission rising 17 cents in Q2 of 2011, a per ticket average of $8.06.
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Southbank Christmas Market with Sailor/
If you haven't met Sailor yet, she's my Borrow My Doggy mate (Tinder for Dogs) and she arrived yesterday morning like a little drowned red squirrel due to the rain! After a good rub down and waiting for the rain to stop, we headed out for a day trip.
If you ever want to experience extra joy in the world, take an extremely small dog about town. You'll hear gasps, people bursting out into a joyful giggle and strangers wanting to tell you how cute it is. We rode the bus to London Bridge, and awaited my friend with her young toddler.
It turns out that Sailor isn't a fan of babies, which luckily due to her size is funny, rather than too annoying. Little dogs definitely seem to suffer from short-stature syndrome.
After walking along the river to Southbank, we swung by the Rekorderlig Cider Lodge for a hot fruity cider. Yum.
Don't be fooled by her cuteness while she licks my face. She randomly decided she didn't like one lady in the cider lodge (who was minding her own business) and kept barking at her. Whoops! She's usually as good as gold, but maybe the cider fumes were making her extra ballsy ;-)
The actual Christmas market was a let down, no music playing (perhaps they only play it at night time?) and the stalls were pretty rubbish. I'd hoped to get into the seasonal spirit after decorating my little christmas tree at the weekend, but it failed to get my bells in a jingle. I'm off to Winterville next to see if that can fare any better!


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Coming to dvd August 14th
Plot-Darius Hendricks is this political activist who is on the brink of telling the nation something huge, about the US military that has been secretly developing a virus. This virus can be used in some biological warfare. When, Darius and his partner get a hold of a sample of it, instead of bringing it to the press, he decides to inject himself with it. Why, so he can show people a living example of the illegal military experiments going on. As you can guess before this discovery can go public, he is killed by some government assigned hit men. Now they have this mess to try and clean up and sweep under the rug. Enter the cleanup crew which consists of Jarius and his female partner Greer. When a mysterious man named Mr. Johnson offers them this job they have little or no care to worry about it, and just take it.
Well, we learn this will delay Jarius to see is lover, but he is being offered huge money and after all money to some is greater than love. They have to clean the scene of evidence or traces of anything that can be tracked back to the government and dispose of some dead bodies. And they soon find out, that if one of them is so called dead but has been exposed to this virus is the body really dead?
Looking at this art work and reading the quotes on the box, I was not stoked at all about this film at first. How many low budget zombie films have promised the world and only delivered the ashes of it? This film was enjoyable almost to the point I wanted to re-watch it with a friend, to turn them onto this as well. While not a perfect film, or movie of the year, it was not a bad indie zombie film and really delivered on great characters, and a chemistry that is so lost on indie horror films it seems. You could tell Greer had feelings and was hoping he would ditch his bitch girlfriend for her. The script in this film was so well thought out executed. These characters actually made you want to see this film, just to see how they would play out.
They are also joined later on by a male duo called Jeff and Ted; whole exchanges were so humor filled and film impressions that it was so over the top fun. This was just so cheese, that you are rolling your eyes one second and laughing the next. In the first part of the film these four hold it together till we get the zombie stuff. This is not a gore film, but it has enough blood to make you know it is a zombie film. This seemed like what the start of this epidemic could be like. You know with only four characters in a warehouse to clean up, you won't get an all-out zombie kill film. And that worked for me; because what it offered I thought was fun enough to recommend. If you can get over the disbelief in the first five minutes how easily someone can break into this lab and get out easily with no guards and armed with a Bobbie pin looking pin-pick? Then, this film will be a good little watch.
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Avocado, chives, tempura crumbs, kanikama crab, topped with seared pepper tuna, with two special spicy sauces. Wrapped uramaki style
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Shrimp tempura, avocado, coconut. Topped with crab mix and mango with a mango sauce (seasonal, request availability)
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Eight Secrets of Brazilian Beach Culture
I read once that local of Rio often say "tenha uma boa praia," or "have a good beach" over the much more standard translation for "have a good day." It's a culture-revealing phrase not unlike Thailand's famous "gin khao reuyang?", a way of asking "what's up?" which literally translates as "have you eaten rice yet?"
In much of Brazil, the beach isn't a place you go for a few hours on vacation. It's a lifestyle. I was warned ahead of time that Rio in particular has a strict beach etiquette and rules that had to be heeded , luckily when it comes to all things sand and sea, I'm a quick learner.
Despite wildly overscheduling my trip and visiting in autumn, when Brazil's beaches are lightly buzzing but not overblown with people, I managed to hit the beach in Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Buzios, and Jericoacoara. Here are a few strict rules I learned along the way , the rare kind that are more fun to follow than to break.
Take as little as possible
The frumpy schlep of coolers and chairs and endless beach supplies is a major faux pas in Brazil. A towel in particular is considered a horror-inducing no-no. A canga (the Brazilian term for a sarong), some cash, and maybe a volleyball are basically the only acceptable items to take , anything else you need can be supplied on the sand.
Cangas are fabulous alternatives to towels , they can be worn as cover-ups walking to and from the beach, they can be laid out on the sand to lie on, they can be used as scarves and towels and a million other purposes in a pinch. In my mind, they are a travel essential! They also make for amazing gifts and souvenirs , Ilha Grande in particular was a fun place to shop for a few.
Wear as little as possible
In Brazil, tops stay firmly on – regardless of how small – but another body type entirely is on display. You can't talk about Brazilian beaches without talking about butts. Women of every age and every size subscribe to the "suns out, buns out" line of thinking, and men don't stray far behind with their own sunga swimsuits, a kind of modified speedo that would leave most American men recoiling in horror. Why put any extra fabric between your body and the beautiful sun, sand and sea, the thinking seems to go?
I quickly purchased several teeny, cheeky bikini bottoms for myself after receiving several stare-downs for wearing a fralda (or "diaper", as Brazilians refer to the more full-coverage American bikini). Believe it or not, wearing more modest American styles is apt to draw even more attention than a teeny tiny thong , you'll stand out as a gringa and some say make yourself more of a target for petty crime from those who target tourists!
While I felt seriously self-conscious at first letting my cheeks and inhibitions fly, I just looked around the beach for inspiration , Brazilian women appear unburdened by the body-hang ups that plague many other cultures, and I marveled at the confidence that strutted down the sand in so many different shapes and sizes.
One government worker from Brasilia who I met while she was vacationing in Jericoacoara told me she dreamed of visiting Miami, but the horror of wearing an American bathing suit had stopped her so far. I am afraid people will look at me in my bikini, but, I just cannot wear that diaper! I cannot!
Brazilians are known as some of the sexiest people on the planet and having shared the sand with them, I feel like I now know their secret , it's confidence! It speaks to the major difference in our cultures that I uploaded and deleted the following photo so many times, wondering if it was inappropriate to post on my own dang travel blog, even though it's a beautiful photo that I love taken by one of my closest friends , because the wrong square inches of skin are showing. In Brazil, a grandmother wouldn't bat an eye wearing these bikini bottoms to the beach with her family. I love this aspect of Brazilian culture!
Say yes to snacks
It's almost considered rude to bring your own food to the beach in Brazil. Acai cups, caipirinhas, seasoned cheese on a stick, iced tea, puffed crisp Globo and empanada vendors will walk along the beach calling our their offerings and you simply wave them over if interested. Eating out is incredibly expensive in Brazil and so sitting on the beach and grazing on snacks all day is not only fun, it's also a great way to balance out the pricy dinner you might go out for later.
The very cool thing that I loved was that unlike in other countries where you apparently sign a blood oath to make a purchase if you so much as accidentally make eye contact with a beach vendor, the Brazilian ones were fairly low key and didn't mind if we called them over to take a look and then decided not to buy. Everything was low-key and done with a smile. (We did encounter one over-aggressive bikini salesman who had a hard time hearing no in Copacabana, but he was the exception to what seemed to be the chilled out rule.) Normally I loathe beach vendors but in Rio they were one of my favorite things about the city.
The other beach cities I visited didn't necessarily have the roaming vendors walking around, but they did have little stands where you could grab any snack you'd need.
Where you beach matters
In Rio especially, all sand is not made equal. The city's main southern beaches stretch across over five miles of shoreline and are divided by 12 postos, or numbered lifeguard stations. These are for more than just giving directions; they are for finding your tribe. There is a saying in Brazil that you can tell everything you need to know about a person by three things: their favorite soccer team, their favorite samba school, and which posto they lay their canga at.
While Copacabana is the most widely-known to foreigners, it's far from the hip place to be among Cariocas, or Rio residents. We spent an afternoon on touristy Posto 4 in Copacabana but far preferred the trendy, see-and-be-seen Posto 9 in Ipanema, where we spent two beach days in Rio. Certain Postos denote gay beaches, family beaches, and beyond.
Each posto is lined by barracas, semi-permanent beach bars where you can buy fresh coconut water, cold beer, and more caipirinhas, and also hire beach chairs and umbrellas. I was particularly enamored with Barraca Uruguay at Posto 9, both for the lively atmosphere of the easy-on-the-eyes crowd and the fact that the employees were primarily from Uruguay and Argentina, which meant we could chat in Spanish.
When you beach doesn't really matter
Because there's never a bad time to be at the beach. We were pretty amazed that even on a Monday in May, the beaches of Rio were pretty darn busy. While summer (December-February) is certainly the most popular time for Brazil's beaches, don't expect to ever have the popular ones to yourself. But no worries , that's part of the fun!
Watch your stuff
This is probably fits int he "duh" category for most travelers, but don't go swimming in the sea and leave your stuff unattended. Brazil's crime problem is pretty notorious so I'm guessing most travelers don't need to hear this, but it does warrant a warning. If you're really blending in with Brazilians, you brought next-to-nothing to the beach (kudos!) but if you're like me and can't resist bringing your phone and camera, too, ask a trustworthy-looking neighbor to watch you things while you go for a dip.
It's common practice in Brazil and as a bonus, is a great way to get your feet wet with Brazil's notoriously social beach vibes (see what I did there?)
Don't you dare bring a book
I'd read before my trip that Brazilians almost never read or listen to music with headphones in at the beach. Well, they can do what they want but I'm going to read my darn magazine, I thought, stubbornly throwing an old issue of Afar into my tote en route to Ipanema.
Yeah, no. I didn't crack a single page. The beaches of Rio are alive in a way that you just can't look away from. Impromptu fútball games, flirty chats with the barraca boys, beach vendor picnics.... who could read when there's so much to do and see?
I suddenly understood the disdain for towels and personal beach chairs. Some beach-goers, I noticed, more or less spend the whole day standing. If they aren't already engaged with someone, they are scanning the crowd and checking out the scene. It's one of the most hyper-social situations you can be in, and the people-watching is unmatched.
Heather and I weren't even being particularly outgoing; with our busy schedules our beach days did double duty as our hangover days and we were still just soaking it all in and getting into the Rio groove. Yet one day, we had a long, in-depth conversation with an empanada entrepreneur around our age who plopped down on the sand to answer our questions about the legalities of beach selling, and on another it only took two trips to our barraca for coconut waters before I was politely asked for my phone number by a cute Argentinian who intended to take me on a date. Some things are worth skipping the next chapter in your beach read for!
Stay for sunset
Don't leave, the party is just getting started! Sunset on the beach in Brazil is, quite simply, a must. In Ilha Grande, we booked a hostel on the water so we'd never miss one. In Rio, we took it in at Aproador where a huge crowd had gathered to watch surfers and sip caipirinhas delivered by an enterprising local with a cooler. In Jericoacoara, it was a nightly ritual for the entire town.
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It's no secret that in many ways I found Brazil to be a frustrating and challenging country. And yet all that seemed to melt away when I was by the sea , I left Brazil completely enamored with its unique and special beach culture.
As much as I loved the tours I went on and the attractions I took in, I vowed that my next trip will involve summer, and include about four times as many unscheduled days to do nothing but plop my bare bum on the beach and watch the Brazilian world go by.
So Brazilians , and Brazil lovers! , tell me what I missed!
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Of course, a few days baking in the Brazilian sun hardly make me a cultural anthropologist , please forgive me any misinterpretations of the local culture, and feel free to set me straight in the comments if I've erred!