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I read Walden with my environmental history sections last week. Only a couple of them had ever read any Thoreau, although they all had a sense of who he was and what he stood for. It was interesting talking about Walden in a history class, rather than in English, which was where I first encountered Thoreau. I wonder if that led to a greater effort on my part to talk about context—or is that just me?There were certainly things about Walden that surprised me, and that I had not picked up on when I read it as a teenager. One thing was, the way Thoreau seems to jump back and forth from the sublime to the ridiculous. On the same page where he says "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," Thoreau also says "It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to have a northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave driver of yourself." Stephen Fender, the editor of the Oxford World Classics edition, apologizes for this passage by saying Thoreau was one of the first critics of the northern factory system. Fender tries hard to put a "free labor" spin on what really amounts to a ridiculous, ignorant, insensitive statement. But I think it's this middle-class, northern-white-guy ignorance and self-centeredness of Thoreau's that makes Walden so rich and enduring. Sure, there are enough literary and cultural references to keep classicists and concordance-writers happy. But is this why we still read Walden? And there are beautiful, graphic passages about nature, and about Thoreau's experience of the woods and the pond. But I don't think this accounts for his continuing popularity, either. I think it comes down to two things: Thoreau gives us a view of nineteenth-century America from a perspective way outside the frame; and he's a white, middle-class, suburban intellectual, like most of us.It's very difficult to critique the system from within. By leaving and looking at his society from the outside, Thoreau helps us see things that ought to be obvious, but are not. He reminds us that "the principal object" of the new textile factories is "not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that the corporations may be enriched." Once we're pulled out of the frame a bit by that thought, Thoreau continues, "In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high." Thoreau keeps reminding us that his perspective is personal and limited. "Often the poor man is not so cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross," Thoreau says. "It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune." But just when you want to hit him upside the head with a 2x4, he concludes the paragraph by saying "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." When he looks at Concord and sees "the village was literally a com-munity, a league for mutual defense," it's easy to see that culture of fear playing itself out in our own time. Thoreau is right: "if a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with." The wish to "live deliberately…and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" is as contemporary as it could possibly be. Thoreau's critique only becomes stronger, as we move farther from simplicity. In the end, it may be the ahistorical nature of Walden that has made it so enduring. Marching to the beat of a different drummer and cultivating wildness (a fabulous oxymoron!) are timeless. As opposed to something like Bellamy's Looking Backward, which was filled with specific recommendations that don't wear nearly as well, a hundred years later. But I'm reading Walden with my history class, and for all of that timeless wisdom, I question the historical reality of those "lives of quiet desperation," even though the statement is intuitive and resonant. I suspect that it's a projection, both when Thoreau originally said it, and when we read it and nod knowingly. But yeah, there's something to it…Similarly, the idea that they built a telegraph from Maine to Texas, but Maine and Texas have nothing meaningful to say to each other is a sneering, elitist misrepresentation. There will be a lot of data and facts in my dissertation, but the real meat of the thing will come from thousands of letters that people wrote to family members. They clearly thought they had something meaningful to say to each other, even if it was only "I planted six acres of potatoes" and "How is Mother?" Thoreau doesn't deign to consider that type of communication worth the penny postage—but that's his problem.
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News just in is that another Transformers movie is on the way! Michael Bay is one again expected to sit behind the camera as director and thus far all indications is that the movie will be scheduled for release come 2017.
During their stockholder's earnings call, Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner revealed the big picture plan for the franchise as well as some news about the sequel to TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION.
"Our plan with the studio and filmmakers you may have heard some writers being hired and we have in fact brought in Akiva Goldsman to lead a group of writers to really create a strategic plan around Transformers. We think there are any number of stories to be told from the brand that has been around for 30 years with amazing canon and mythology. We would expect the sequel to the Transformers movie [TF4] to happen in 2017."Looks like we're set to get many more Transformers movies for several years to come and I for one am not complaining at all! Bring it on, more explosions, bigger and more badass robots!


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Game of Thrones: The Children
A sprawling Game of Thrones finale leaves us with plenty to think about, and plenty to look forward to.
What this season finale did was essentially destroy everything you knew about Game of Thrones. Whatever characteristic or relationship defined a character for the last four seasons, it changed in this episode. People are traveling far from home, separated from their companions, have lost their most valued possessions, and are completely unmoored from their motivations.
We begin with Jon Snow walking into Mance Rayder's camp to parley. For a while now, Snow has been defined by his internal conflict, his loyalty to the Night's Watch and his love for Ygritte. He tells Mance he was always loyal to the Watch, and this is probably true. His relationship with Ygritte always came off as a boy enjoying a fling with a girl who gets really really attached and clingy. But now that she's dead and a real war between the Wildlings and the Night's Watch has erupted, Jon Snow has no divided feelings. He does understand that it's a complicated situation, though, and might consider Rayder's offer to let the Wildlings come through peacefully. Or he might try to assassinate Rayder in his tent. That situation never plays out because…
Stannis Baratheon comes riding in out of nowhere, unlooked for and unexpected. Last we saw him, he was borrowing a ton of money from the Iron Bank to fund a war against the Lannisters. But Stannis ran an end-around, sailing up the coast of Westeros and coming to shore north of the Wall, bypassing the Wall entirely. Stannis loves going around telling everyone he's king, but at Castle Black neither the Wildlings nor the Brothers will kneel. What's changed for Stannis? Ever since the war ended he's been brooding at Dragonstone. Now he's taking action, and he isn't even fighting against any other kings. Stannis is going to defend the Wall now. As the corpses of those whose watch has ended burned (to avoid reanimating), Jon Snow and Melisandre catch a glimpse of each other through the flames and smoke. A lingering, smoky glance.
There's a lot of family drama between Cersei, Tywin, and Jaime. Cersei refuses to marry into the Tyrell family, openly telling her father she wants to stay at King's Landing to be with Tommen and Jaime. Then she goes and has sex with Jaime. This whole storyline is still royally screwed up by the rape thing.
Now let's see how things are going with Daenarys Targaryen. She's still seeing petitioners as queen of Mereen. One guy is lost and purposeless without being a slave, so Dany allows him to sell himself back into slavery. Why the slaves can't return to their old jobs with a small salary of some kind (and no long contracts) is beyond me. So the woman who defines herself partly by freeing slaves has allowed people to be enslaved again. Then she finds out one of her dragons killed a child. The black dragon is missing, but she chains up the other two in the catacombs, tears in her eyes. She's the Mother of Dragons. That's her thing. But now she has to give that up too.
Back north of the Wall, we find Bran, Hodor, Jojen and Meera trudging through the snow. Now, a lot of people are talking about this being a great episode, but here is where things started going awry for me. First, we have this breathless bouncing around 15 different storylines, the show desperate to deal with plot threads before the season ends. But most of all, this didn't really live up to how I imagined it when I read the books. The attack by skeletons was neat, as was the rescue by one of the Children of the Forest. For a show that's only given faint hints of supernatural things, suddenly we've got animated skeletons, fireball spells and a ward against undead.
But it all seemed a little lame without Coldhands. And when they finally get underground and meet the Greenseer, he was way more human than I'd pictured him. I'd always envisioned a being so entwined with the trees that he appears to be made from roots, and connected to the tree's roots. The Children looked more human than I'd imagined them too. It was a nice high fantasy style shot of the tree backlit by the sun when they found it though. Beautiful work, there.
Far more interesting: Brienne, the Hound, and Arya. An epic swordfight, the probable death of the Hound, Arya striking off on her own. So much changed here. One gets the sense that, for all her skill, Brienne has never been in a real, serious, life or death fight before. A lot of her naïve ideas about honor evaporated in that moment when she punched Clegane in the nuts. She won in the end, but lost Arya, who stared balefully at the Hound as he performed his own eulogy, then begged her to finish him off. She did not.
What she did do is head for a nearby dock to try and buy passage north, to the Wall. The captain, however, was heading to Braavos. She remembers Jaqen H'ghar telling her the coin he gave her would buy passage to Braavos. When she says, "Valar Morghulis," the captain's demeanor changes and he offers her a cabin on the way to the free city.
For Brienne and Podrick, their gallant, epic quest to rescue the Stark daughters has turned irrevocably sour. The daughter she finds refuses to be rescued. The great sword she was given marks her as a friend of the hated Lannisters. For the Hound, his sad, violent life seems close to its end. And Arya, who has simply spent the last few years surviving, being lead here and there by various captors, is on her own, making her own decisions, and finding her own destiny.
The dramatic linchpin, of course, was Tyrion and Tywin. Jaime refuses to let his brother be executed, even if it's the insane will of his sister. He frees him, having arranged with Varys to smuggle Tyrion out of the city. But Tyrion uses his knowledge of the keep's secret passages to sneak into his father's room. There he finds Shae, the final betrayal: she's been sleeping with Tywin. Enraged and emotionally destroyed, Tyrion strangles her. Then he grabs a crossbow and tracks down his father, who at the moment is on the toilet.
There was some pretty good interplay between Tywin and Tyrion, as Tywin tried to Tywin his way out of being killed. He just turned the Tywin up to 11, but it didn't work. Some of the emotional resonance was lost because they didn't call back to the earlier incident in Tyrion's backstory, where he married a woman that his father then revealed was a whore, then made Tyrion watch while all the Lannister guards raped her. I feel like that all turns the heat up a bunch of notches. Not that Tyrion's actions weren't totally understandable anyway.
Varys loads Tyrion into a wooden crate, which is put on a ship heading for who knows where. Then Varys notices the city about to go bonkers since Tywin's death has been discovered, realizes he's a little too close to that situation, and hops on board for the trip as well.
Has any character been demolished as thoroughly as Tyrion? He's defined himself by his opposition to (and simultaneously working towards the impossible approval of) his father. Now he's murdered his father. He's also defined himself by his ability to navigate Westeros politics, but he's been effectively exiled. Tyrion will never play the Game of the Thrones again. Or at least, not for the foreseeable future. It's kind of fun that we're pushing out toward the edge of the published books, so we genuinely don't know where things are going any more.
It's interesting to note how the season ended. Not with the death of Tywin, but actually with the scene where Arya gets on the ship for Braavos. A friend of mine observed that it offered up a "new beginning" type of scene to linger on (with a gorgeous choral version of the show's theme song), rather than a death. But then, readers of the books were looking for Lady Stoneheart, which would have been a different sort of new beginning.
No matter how they ended it, it is going to be a hard wait for next season.
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Co-ops have a long history of serving members in Western Canada.
For over eight decades, Heritage Co-op has proudly served our members and communities. In 1929, we started as Minnedosa Consumers Co-op with just 35 members. Today, Heritage Co-op serves over 21,000 members with close to 275 employees in five communities – Minnedosa, Brandon, Wawanesa, Erickson and Sandy Lake.
Giving back to our communities over the years has been a tradition we are proud of. In 2012, we continued our commitment by donating over $74,000 to various organizations, teams and events, and by paying out over $3 million to our members in patronage refunds.
Proud of our longstanding involvement in the communities we serve, Heritage Co-op invites you to visit our many locations. We want you to know "You're at home here".
In 1929, farmers in the area formed the Minnedosa Consumers Co-op Ltd with 35 members and assets of $1,800 in cash. Farm fuel was the first commodity, sold from a 330-gallon tank on a truck. The following year, sales expanded to include coal and twine.
By 1943, Minnedosa Co-op moved into a line of groceries, dry goods and appliances, and in 1952 a lumberyard was added. A service station was built in 1956 next to the store. The Minnedosa grocery store was replaced by a modern shopping center in 1965.
In 1982, the Brandon Co-op closed and Minnedosa Co-op bought their petroleum and agro divisions including the Wawanesa location. Our name changed to Heritage Co-op in 1983 with this expansion outside of the Minnedosa area.
Erickson Co-op amalgamated with Heritage Co-op in 1997, increasing our membership and adding a food store and gas bar to our locations.
The grocery shopping centre in Minnedosa, built in 1965, was replaced with the construction of a new food market concept store featuring the addition of a bakery, deli and coffee shop.
Heritage Co-op made a major expansion in 2003, opening a new food store in Brandon. This was a huge undertaking, to re-enter the Brandon market and replace the food facility lost by the Brandon Co-op in 1982. Alongside the Richmond Marketplace, a gas bar and touchless car wash were built. Our staff doubled when the Richmond locations opened, and our membership quickly grew with the success of these new businesses.
The Sandy Lake food and hardware store was purchased by Heritage Co-op in 2005, and the premises were upgraded in 2006. Renovations to the Erickson food store and gas bar were completed in 2005 to modernize the facilities.
In 2007, a brand new cardlock facility was built in Brandon at our 6th St location. One year later, another cardlock opened at Minnedosa. In addition to these new locations, Heritage Co-op expanded its business in Brandon, opening a state of the art 8-lane gas bar, convenience store and touchless car wash on 18th Street.
Heritage Co-op opened a new farm hardware sales floor in the relocation of the agro division across from the Minnedosa cardlock site. Two large mechanic bays were opened, replacing those at the service station that was upgraded to a modern gas bar with wand car wash bays.
Our cardlock at Highway 1 & 10 was replaced with a brand new 7-lane cardlock facility, built beside the new corporate bulk that opened in early 2013. In the spring, we purchased the Rona lumberyard in Erickson and converted it to our new Erickson Home Centre that opened its doors in late May.


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Landscape Designer Anna Harrison is the new face behind The Balcony Garden. With a recent change in focus, The Balcony Garden are now purely dedicated to all things pots. Having experienced difficulty finding stylish and contemporary garden pots, their focus is now entirely upon designing, creating and sourcing pots. For Anna, it was an obvious next step for the business.
Whilst recently viewing the new Willow range from The Balcony Garden, I took the opportunity to ask Anna a few questions about their new direction and also for her expert pot advice and how to achieve the best result.
How does The Balcony Garden differ from other pot suppliers?
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Our aim is to constantly adapt the range so we're always at the forefront of new design trends. We'll always keep a standard range of stock including popular shapes like the oblong, rubix and tub. But will also have a more contemporary range including custom designs like our new 'Pineapple' pot.
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We have a couple of different suppliers based in South East Asia and are always on the hunt for more. Since starting the garden pot side of the business I've been on one buying trip and looking to go again early next year.
What should we look for when purchasing a pot?
The type of pot you buy is generally dictated by the space you're looking to use it in as generally the space chooses the pot and not the other way around.
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My favourite at the moment for outdoors is Crassula 'Blue Bird', I love the colour tones and natural shape of the plant – it also works perfectly in almost all our pots.
For indoors I love Adiantum, Maidenhair Fern, although a little high maintenance at times, I love the softness of this plant – it looks amazing cascading over a hanging pot in a bathroom.
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Brad has devoted himself to improving the lives of persons with disabilities. He served for 10 years on the Board of the Kingsbury Center and for four years as its Chair. He was instrumental in leading the institution through a change of leadership and a strategic planning process. Brad has also served on the Boards of the American Association of Persons with Disabilities and Global Rights.
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Felix has been attending a three-year-old program at his future school for a few weeks now. It's one afternoon a week where the children attend with their parents and get accustomed to school. They'll do a few art activities, play outside, and come back in for a story and songs. It's been great and Felix loves it, and he's even more excited now about starting school next year.
On the final day, he went with Phil and my mum, because I was taking Victor to his usual clinic visit at PMH. When I finally arrived home at 6pm, I noticed a line of dried blood between his top tooth and the gum. Phil explained that he'd bumped it on a chair at school. Felix said it still hurt, and it was difficult for him to eat. He'd slipped and came crashing down on the chair directly on his top teeth, as if he were biting it.
The next day, it looked worse. The top gum was bruised, a dark purple colour, so I took him to see the dentist. This was his first ever dental visit, and he was a bit nervous, but the hygienist was very nice and took the time to explain everything to him. She had a look and agreed that the bruising was pretty bad. She decided he needed an x-ray to see if the tooth had moved at all, become fractured, and basically just to get a clearer view. He did so well...stayed nice and still, and we had our x-ray.
The good news is that the tooth hasn't appeared to have moved at all, and we couldn't see a fracture. This is great, because we certainly don't want the baby tooth to be pushed up against the adult tooth and possibly cause issues with his permanent teeth. She decided it just looked like soft tissue damage, but we booked in to come back again in two weeks' time.
So, two weeks later, he was back in the chair. The bruising has healed up really well and he's not having any more pain from it. He's able to eat normally again. The bad news is that the tooth, and the one next to it, now looks slightly discoloured; a pale grey. This could mean that the nerve of the tooth has died or become damaged, which leads to that grey colour. The best case scenario is that this means nothing. He continues on with life, the tooth eventually falls out and is replaced with the permanent one. The worst case scenario is that he could develop a chronic or recurrent infection in that tooth, which could affect the permanent one waiting above it. There's just no way to predict at this point what might happen.
Our plan is to visit the dentist one last time this coming week, and if the tooth has discoloured even further then they will refer us to a pediatric dentist. This could mean the tooth needs to come out...but that's getting way ahead of ourselves. It probably just means we need to keep an eye on it and have the tooth-extraction conversation if problems ever arise down the track. If we do get a referral, it will be good to get a second opinion anyway and learn more about what's happened.
Have I ever mentioned I'm terrified of the dentist? Yeah, I am. I'm not afraid of any other medical procedure...needles, blood, guts, surgery...don't care. There's just something about the dentist that I just can't stand. The last time I went I was given a prescription for Valium for the next visit (and I never went back!) So you should see me hold it together in that dental office for Felix. I am the perfect image of a calm, dental-loving mother. I could pass for someone who sees the dentist for fun. I could win an Oscar for my performance in there. Although, to be fair, all they've really done is look with a mirror and taken an x-ray. They haven't brought out the big guns that originate from my darkest nightmares. That little scrapey metal hook....can't even deal. But, I am determined to not pass my fears onto him.
So that's what's been going on lately. I'm really hoping that nothing eventuates from this. Add the suspected spider bite he got on his leg the other week and the poor boy has been through the wars! Aside from that we're good. Just enjoying our last few weeks together full-time before he goes off to school...the end of an era.


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Hi friends!
I am just about halfway through my work week. Like I said yesterday, aren't short weeks the best!?!
My favorite holiday is quickly approaching so be sure to check back here tomorrow for my last post for this week and my thoughts on Thanksgiving.
We have plans to spend a cozy evening with Mark's parents, sister, and family on Thursday night. Their Thanksgiving meal never disappoints. Friday morning we will be up bright and early with a cleared out living room, entry, and kitchen all prepped for demolition!
I've mentioned it a few times already, but we recently decided to replace our flooring in about half of the house. Our house was built in 1960 and has been renovated (poorly) a few times already. We've already taken a sledgehammer to the kitchen, but this time we are ripping out floor tile in our entry and kitchen/breakfast room area as well as taking up the carpet in our living room. We have decided to go with a wood laminate flooring over hardwood for many reasons:
-ease of install
-wear and tear that comes from dog claws, to be specific
-rate of return in our specific neighborhood
-cost of product in relation to the possibility of future rental
We aren't prepared to tackle this project completely by ourselves so we opted to hire out for the demolition (the hard part) and we will be installing the flooring ourselves (the easy part-we hope). I am personally hoping to be done by the end of the weekend, but it's going to be a lot of hard work!
We also plan to replace all of the base trim in the house, but we will start with the areas that are getting the new flooring and pace ourselves from that point. We are going to do something tall and simple, something a little craftsman-like similar to this (but maybe not that tall):
...and similar to what we had in our apartment:
...and similar to what we had in our apartment:
SO that's what we will be up to this weekend!
Anyway, with new floors come new rugs, am I right? I have rugs under my kitchen table and living room furniture right now to simply define the space, but I think we will need them for sound control and slippery floors after we make the flooring switch.
Here's the house as of this summer when I did my one year recap:
Here's the house as of this summer when I did my one year recap:
living room looking into breakfast room
living room looking into entry
kitchen and breakfast room
I'm really liking the idea of a jute rug and also the cowhide rug, but I need your help! Should I replace both the kitchen rug as well as the living room rug? I've done my research and here is what I've come up with:
my case for a cow hide rug
I love a cow hide rug. It would add a little bit of an eclectic vibe (which I love) and also a tiny nod to Texas, all in our little bitty living room! I think I would definitely choose to use this in the living room instead of the kitchen.
I've seen these on craigslist and Ikea for the best prices...any other tips on where to score a nice one? Maybe Overstock?
I've seen these on craigslist and Ikea for the best prices...any other tips on where to score a nice one? Maybe Overstock?
my case for a jute rug
I also realllllly like the jute rug. I think this would be a nice contrast against our floors and sofa in the living room, but I could also see it in the kitchen.
my case for a layered look
Or what about a layered look? I see this everywhere-it's obviously quite a trend!


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Environmental Assessment of Safe Drinking Water Supply Systems in the Rural Communities within the Nile Delta Region
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Safe, clean drinking water and sanitation are a human right. Improved drinking water for human consumption should be free from pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, protozoan parasites and chemical contaminants to meet biological, physical and chemical criteria. However, inadequate sanitation, waste treatment and disposal are responsible for pollution of water resources. The large proportion of the population in developing countries, especially in villages where there is no safe drinking water supply and suffering from water-borne diseases, especially diarrheal diseases. Egypt has made significant progress in terms of direct access to safe drinking water at the household level (92.4%) and basic sanitation (92.9%). Unfortunately, there are many rural villages in Egypt that are still dependent on water delivery and waste disposal systems are outdated, unhealthy and therefore unsafe, and as a result, the situation with regard to safe drinking water. The objective of the research is to assess the water supply especially by hand pump system in rural communities within the Nile Delta region in order to protect the water quality at the hand pump. Also highlights the areas that have a problems related to the bad sanitary conditions around hand pumps used for drinking purposes in urban and rural areas through monitoring the deep and shallow wells near to sanitation systems may affect by it . The selected governorates are: (El Sharkya – El Menofya and El Gharbya). Laboratory analytical procedures will include chemical, biological, and microbiological, these analyses will carried out on a number of up-to-date and fully automated analytical instruments that are capable of handling large number of environmental parameters. A socio economic survey will implement from the three governorates will study by Meeting s (local community, students, women, and men), Formulation of an action group, and Questionnaire-based analyses. It concluded that rural communities within the selected pilot areas provided with an environmentally safe, socially accepted, and sustainable water supply source through shallow ground water hand pumps. In addition, public awareness within the pilot areas rural communities improved regarding the environmental aspects and safety protection measures for the hand pumps installed on the top of shallow groundwater wells.
Keywords: Water and Health, Water Borne-Diseases, Hand Pump in Egyptian Rural Areas, Safe Drinking Water Supply system.
Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.5 (Sept/Oct 2017)


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101 Lang Ha Hanoi Well Appointed Apartment Rental
Post ID 101-157
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⚆ Location: 101 Lang Ha, Dong Da, Hanoi capital
✔ Accommodation type: 163 m2; Partially furnished and fully fitted status
✛ Design: 2 - 3 beds, combine living room dining and kitchen; Car parking, 24/24 hour security service
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➞ Price starts at: 600 USD/month
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This modern spacious apartment building is situated at 101 Lang Ha, Dong Da district, West Hanoi, just 25 minutes' taxi to Hoan Kiem Lake, 5 minutes drive coming to National Cinema Centre (Thai Ha - Huynh Thuc Khang intersection overpass), around 10 minutes' taxi away from Daewoo Hotel, quite close BIG C supermarket Hanoi, famous schools (Luong The Vinh Nam Trung Yen, Amsterdam High School) and local offices, being a reliable address of busy people.
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We are providing 2 and 3 bedrooms apartments, unfurnished or fully furnished at both low and high floors at 101 Lang Ha, Dong Da area, Hanoi for residency or office purposes.
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ADSL (high speed internet connection); Phone line (IDD); cable TV (digital, cable or sattilite); Gas; System of electricity, water; Air conditioning.
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Pricing: (subject to be changed depending on the demand of market).
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The link to the Backyard Chickens article is the one I also found and very useful to keep as a bookmark.
I use small tubes (25g) of Activon Medical Grade Honey. The price varies where you buy it from and I usually pay around £3.50-£4.00. A tube lasts 90 days after it's been opened and a little of the honey goes a very, very long way. I do use Sudocrem, mainly for scaly leg, but the honey is a completely natural product and is used on human wounds.
The post on Amazon will tell you a bit more about its uses.
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Manda's right about the focused spot/scab in bumblefoot, but I've also had scabs on several of my girls' feet that turned out not to be bumblefoot just to frighten me!!


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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Idaho Appointments
As for the rest of us: We are loving being with family in Idaho and Utah. We love and miss the rest of you. Cory and his Dad are having the time of their lives in Greece, Italy and France. Happy Mother's Day to all you amazing mammas out there!
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- AMeriKanne said...
Happy Mother's Day, Kerri! I'm so glad to hear that Izzy's appointments went well. We miss you ALL here in Michigan. Thanks for keeping us posted.
- May 12, 2008 at 9:06 PM
- Lisa said...
Glad you made it safely and that you like the doctors there, so nice for Izzy that she got to sleep through her spinal tap!
Sorry we didn't get to say goodbye, we'll be keeping tabs though!
- May 12, 2008 at 9:37 PM
- Sara said...
So glad everything is going well out there! Miss you tons!
- May 12, 2008 at 9:49 PM
- LCM said...
Ah, the sleepy medicine. Fiona liked it, but hated having to wait so long to eat. She was so irritated, she wanted to try not being sedated, but just having fentynal and valium...crazy kid.It worked for her. Those steroids... It's amazing what kids can go through and deal with. I don't know if I would be that cheery. It is weird when they fall asleep all of a sudden though.
- May 12, 2008 at 9:54 PM
- Bobbi said...
Glad you made the trip safely. So are you in Idaho or Texas?
- May 13, 2008 at 3:26 PM
- Byron & Michelle said...
So glad things are going well, I know the Drs switch was kind of scary. Enjoy your family to death!
- May 14, 2008 at 2:39 PM
- Andrea said...
Kerri...my mom told me about Izzy and my heart goes out to you. I found your blog from Bobbi's who I found through Amber. I will be praying for you from a mother to a mother...that your heart and faith will stay strong. Izzy is beautiful! Hope to see you this summer at the reunion! Blessings!
Andrea used-to-be Obenchain
- May 14, 2008 at 6:26 PM
- *NaTaLiE SaNdaLL* said...
I'm so glad to hear that things are going smoothly! Are you here in Idaho now!?! We need to see you guys! We are seriously a couple of miles away!
- May 14, 2008 at 11:40 PM
- Seth and Sharon said...
I'm so glad things are going well, we miss you guys! So, when you you get to go to Europe?
- May 15, 2008 at 7:34 PM
- Valerie Matteson said...
So glad to hear all is going well there. We miss seeing all of you and your beautiful smiling faces. Take care.
Valerie Matteson
- May 18, 2008 at 5:58 PM
- The Yost Family said...
My Mom in Law may be one of Izzy's nurses. She's either in IF or Rexburg. Can't remember- be on the look out for a Yost. We're excited to have you guys here in the big D!
- May 28, 2008 at 12:06 AM
- Sara said...
Is it poor form to comment on here that we want more blog posts?! :)
- May 31, 2008 at 9:21 PM


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A theatre festival in the city is going to showcase some of the most-loved stage productions of the yearart and culture Updated: Oct 06, 2012 00:53 IST
As 2012 winds up, Delhiites can get a glimpse of the best theatre plays that came out this year at the Old World Theatre Festival this month. Beginning October 12, the festival will stage seven plays over 10 days covering different genres. "Since Delhiites already have easy access to theatre groups in the city, we are trying to bring them the best plays of the year that's gone by, from other cities apart from Delhi, during this festival," says Vidyun Singh, Director, Programmes, IHC. The festival will begin with the premier of Mahesh Dattani's Where Did I Leave My Purdah. Directed by Lillete Dubey, the play revolves around the story of an actor during partition.
In tune with today's generation is Anuvab Pal's The Bureaucrat - A Comedy, inspired by Anna Hazare's protest.
Though in its 11th year, there are many firsts associated with this festival. The National school of Drama Repertory comes to the festival for the first time with Dafa 292 — an Urdu short story during the 1940s and 50s, which is based on the life and times of late Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto. The festival marks the directorial debut of actor Nandita Das in theatre with the play, Between the Lines. Revolving around the life of an affluent couple who's professional rivalry affects their personal equation, the play also pairs Das with her husband Subodh Maskara on stage for the first time. "The plays also marks Subodh's acting debut," says Das, adding, "I am looking forward to performing in Delhi after eight years. The crowd in Delhi is very enthusiastic and vibrant."
The festival provides an opportunity to budding directors and actors under The Collegiate Theatre category every year. Seven of the best plays from the university will be staged simultaneously at the amphitheatre during the festival. Plays from colleges such as Maitreyi, Ramjas, Kirori Mal, Lady Shri Ram, Indraprastha College for Women, SGTB Khalsa and Hansraj will be performed during the festival. "We try to display the year's best college plays. Apart from the script, it's the direction, design and acting that are the key factors for selecting plays," says Keval Arora, curator, Collegiate Theatre.
Watch out for:
October 12;
6.30pm and 8pm:
Where did I leave my Purdah?
Written by Mahesh Dattani and directed by
Lillete Dubey;
October 13;
6pm and 8.15pm:
The Bureaucrat;
directed by Rahul da Cunha;
October 14 and 15;
Chinese Coffee;
directed by Danish Hussain;
October 16 and 17;
Dafa 292 ;
directed by Anoop Trevedi;
October 18;
6.30pm and 8.30pm,
Nothing Like Lear,
directed by Rajat Kapoor
October 19 and 20;
Between the lines;
Directed by Nandita Das;
October 21;
4pm and 7pm
Ramchandra Singh
Catch it here
What: Old World Theatre festival
When: October 12 to 21
Where: Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road
Tickets: R100, R300, R400
Available at: Can be purchased at the venue.
For more info:www.habitatworld.com
Nearest Metro Station: Khan Market
First Published: Oct 05, 2012 19:20 IST


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Happy Birthday To Me :)
Today, 1st Feb 2010 is a very special day for me. Guess why ? It's my B'day today!!!
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Happy B'day dear Datta!!!
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Today is very special day in another aspect, that is the date today is 01022010 (DDMMYYYY). If you read it Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left its the same 🙂
Once again wishing myself a Very Happy B'day!!!
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Hi Tamas, On 26/07/05, Tamas Szabo <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I had some code which gets the properties of a bean and puts them in a Map. > Now I switched to Commons Beanutils, and I'm using > org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtils.describe(Object ) > to do the same, but I learned that the Object.getClass() is considered a > getter, so I get a class property in the Map. > In my own code I explicitly checked that the properties are not comming > from java.lang.Object. > > When I write a Bean I declare all the properties explicitly for it, but > because every object extends java.lang.Object > ==> I will have a class property in all of my beans. > > Is this the normal behaviour? > Should Object.getClass() be considered a getter and class a property of > every JavaBean? > I'm not sure it should be considered a JavaBean property indeed, but anyhow, in our project at worked, we simply created a dumb utility method that removes the "class" property from the map. As a plus our code, except that utility class, doesn't depend on beanutils, anywhere. (Actually, we needed this to get plain and dumb DTOs from entity EJBs, so our util also removes references to the home interface etc.. from the Map) I suppose this doesn't really *help*, but maybe makes you more confident in removing that property. ... but in the end, it all depends what you do with that Map.. All we needed was something we could simply display in a jsp ;-) Cheers, g --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Names, dates, places — such memories are lost to the unforgiving chasm of Alzheimer's disease.
But when 84-year-old Jim Byerlee stepped up to the driving range at Cupertino, Calif.'s Deep Cliff Golf Course, he swung with the graceful rhythm of a long-ago athlete, sending the ball skyward in an elegant arc.
"You get lucky sometimes," said the bemused Byerlee, a renowned U.S. Geologic Survey geophysicist with a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Life with dementia can feel cloudy, confused, sleepless and agitated.
But once a week, a handful of residents of Belmont, Calif.'s Silverado Senior Living briefly defy gravity, and their illness, with a simple game of golf. Facts fade, but a fairway is forever.
"I was trying to hit it short," explained Matilda McNaughton, 71, who exchanged her walker for a wedge, then hit a perfect pitch shot onto a lush carpet of green.
As America ages and the Alzheimer's population grows, caregivers and geriatricians are working to rethink the possibilities of life with the disease, a catastrophic deterioration of the mind.
There is no cure. No drugs have been proven to do more than slow the progression of the disease, caused by damage and death to brain cells.
An estimated 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer's, a statistic expected to grow according to the Alzheimer's Association as baby boomers pass through their 60s and 70s.
But experts say that outdoor activities — particularly those that were enjoyed in younger years — can make day-to-day life more pleasant, even enriching.
And muscles remember what the mind cannot.
"The nature of the disease is that it doesn't march uniformly, from cell to cell," although eventually it affects every aspect of life, said William H. Fisher, CEO of Alzheimer's Association of Northern California. "I have known patients who could still play the piano very well. In art therapy programs, some people who are pretty shut down will re-engage," said Fisher. "My grandmother went to same Presbyterian Church every Sunday, sitting in the same pew, and she knew the drill — when to stand up, when to sit down."
Research has shown that one of the areas of the brain most immediately affected by Alzheimer's is the medial/temporal lobe, especially the hippocampus, which consolidates and stores short-term memories.
But other types of memory that appear to rely on different neural systems in the brain remain accessible longer, say scientists. These include procedural memory, such as how to count from one to 10, or motor memory, such as how to ride a bike — or swing a golf club.
There are other benefits, say experts.
"With Alzheimer's, the big behavioral problems that come along with the diagnosis are agitation, present in 60 percent of patients, and sleep disturbance, which is present in 70 percent of patients," said Jeffery Newell, research coordinator for the Aging Clinical Research Center in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University's School of Medicine.
"Getting patients outside and doing things like golf, as a general rule, wears them out and exposes them to sunlight, which helps them sleep better at night," he said. "Our first recommendation to families is to get them outside for physical activity — a walk, gardening, even sewing — to get some sun. It helps keep the peace. If someone is agitated, and throwing the remote control at you, you can't take care of them."
The retired executives, engineers and other professionals who can afford to live at Silverado — a $72,000 to $108,000 a year "memory care" facility tucked into a verdant hillside, on a six-acre manicured campus with secure fencing, locked doors and 24 hour nursing — look forward to the Wednesday outings. Five staff accompanied seven golfers.
"They are very accomplished people and we can't forget that," said Silverardo administrator Daizel Gasperian. "It gives them a sense of freedom, and dignity. Everything is right. They feel empowered and more energetic. It's normalcy." Two hours before tee time, Ralph Dinardi waited patiently, a putter in his hand, "like Bing Crosby and Bob Hope." When not on the course, the retired Westinghouse mechanical engineer likes to practice his putting in his carpeted bedroom, hitting a whiffle ball into a Hula-hoop.
"I find the game fascinating," he said, in a written statement he had carefully typed out himself. "I understand the dimples on the balls make them travel almost twice as far."
Deep Cliff pro Gerry Benton celebrated each shot like it was the 18th hole at Pebble Beach.
"It is deeply satisfying," said Benton, who as a child grew devoted to his maternal grandmother.
"One rule I made for myself: Take the word 'remember' out of my vocabulary," said Benton.
"I used to go into the 'golf teaching mode,' almost reflexively," he said. "I would say 'Remember we worked on this? Remember how you put your hands like that?' But, of course, they don't."
"Now we start new, every time. It is very much 'in the moment.' It's not five minutes from now. It's not building on something we did before. All of my attention is there. I'm not thinking about the future, or past," he said. "It is really refreshing."
Byerlee grew annoyed when a plastic tee tipped over. "What do I do with this?" he asked. Nearby, Don Thor, sharply dressed in Dockers and topsiders, just sat quietly and watched.
But in the warm sunshine, in the late afternoon of their lives, no one fretted about scores, sandtraps or hitting par.
"I'm a late bloomer," giggled Annette Hotz, 87. "I really truly love the game."
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Apr 18, 2017 04:39 AM EDT
If human begin to establish a colony on Mars or Moon, they will need a limited amount of resources from the surroundings. The first colony on Mars could be 3D printed. It allows human on Mars to 3D print everything from tools to house using the rubber-like material.
Northwest Engineers have revealed the ability of 3-D print structure with follows of Martian and Lunar dust. Material scientist Ramille Shah said, "Every planet in space have a limited amount of resources, people would need to use that for survive". This new 3D printing technology is capable of printing different structures to make a resident beyond Earth.
Meanwhile, any trip to Mars would need a big spaceship in order to carry more fuel and all the things that human will need in their daily life. It would be impossible for the scientists. Now experts have claimed that in order to colonize the Mars, some supplements from the local environment will be required. Their goal would be to develop a super tool using the local resources.
Researcher Shah and her team used simulated dust based on real lunar and Martian samples. But synthetic dust contains mixtures of aluminum oxide, silicon dioxide, iron oxide and other compounds. According to the researchers, Martian simulated dust is made up of rounded and less irregular particles. While the hard particles reproduce the lunar surface often have imitated, as reported by Live science.
Recently, scientists amplify a process that mixes simulated lunar and Martian dust. This is a mixture of solvents and a biopolymer to create these extraterrestrial inks. Then, the inks can be used for 3D printing of different shapes by using an emitter. These objects are composed of 90 percent of dust, which is tough and flexible similar to rubber.
Researcher Ramille Shah reported this material can be cut, rolled, folded and shaped after being 3D printed. Currently, the researchers are trying to figure out the ways to fire this 3D printed structure. It is an optional process that can convert these rubbery polymers into ceramics like structure. Finally, researchers still believe that this new technology could open a new way to survive on Mars and other planets.
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Artificial intelligence can predict survival of ovarian cancer patients
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So after still more procrastination and why? I don't know. I came to this
It is not what I intended to do when I originally made the houses — funny how it never is. It still isn't finished, but it will be soon. Here's hoping you all make progress on your WIPs = Works In Progress whatever they may be,


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A slight swell and rolling of the ship during the night wasn't an indication of the almost glass like quality of the sea as we entered Hornshund fjord. We had rounded the southern tip of Spitsbergen, and entered the mouth of this wonderful fjord on the south-western tip of the island, with clear blue skies and almost no wind to compliment the 4oC temperatures. This was to feel much warmer as the morning, and the continuous sun, progressed. The views as we sailed along the length of the cutting were superb, with glaciers flowing from high peaks. The terminus of the fjord was even more spectacular, with large glaciers flowing down to the water's edge as rugged ice cliffs. This was to be the zodiac destination of the morning, running the length of the ice at the North end. It was obvious that numerous calving events of the ice stacks from the main sheet occurred, shown by the multitudes of small icebergs in the bay. We did hear some cracking, and one or two small boulders of ice gave way, but no mass fall this time.
Even from the deck, one or two birds could be seen plying to and fro. The strangest was a Purple Sandpiper which circled the ship before making towards the shore. A lone Arctic Skua ignored the Arctic Terns which were in small numbers over the water. While one or two Black Guillemots had been seen from the ship, the closest encounters were from the zodiac. Some birds were highly inquisitive, and almost came within touching distance. One small group was the only one to contain 2 juveniles. After a Glaucous Gull flew over the ice edge, it was followed by two sightings of Ivory Gulls. The most frustrating was a group of 3 Ivory Gulls, which flew over our heads and landed on the iceberg we had just left behind!
For the afternoon, we headed back towards the head of the fjord, and then into an offshoot which again had a glacier at the end. On the way up here, there was plenty of ice floating by, and there were 2 Bearded Seals on a couple of these, more than content to lay and snooze as the ship parked itself close by. The zodiac cruise took us straight back to where one of the seals was still trying to rest, until it eventually tired of our presence and left. We then set off towards the glacier ridge, and drifted close to a group of Kittiwakes perched on some ice. There were also a few Black Guillemots near to the ice edge, and the driver of the zodiac coaxed a pair closer by wiggling his fingers – unbelievable but it worked! The sun on the valley was lower than earlier, but the fjord was stunning.


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Fairy Tale Thematic Unit
Fairy Tale Thematic Unit
Also available at Teachers Pay Teachers!
Strategically teach the common core standards and have a lot of fun as well using this "Developmentally Appropriate Thematic Unit, Fairy Tale Fun.
Fairy Tale Activities include:
Shared Reading Activities:
Retelling a Story: Sequencing a Familiar Story
Once Upon a Time: Identifying Story Elements
Literacy Lessons:
My Kingdom: Distinguishing Between Similarly Spelled Words.
Kiss a Frog: Sight Words
Race to the Rose: Decoding Words
Spinning Gold: Counting Syllables
Story Boxes: Retelling Familiar Stories
Digraph Pairs: Identifying Digraphs
Grandma's House: Writing Simple Words
Math Lessons:
Knight School: Making Sums of 10
Climb the Beanstalk: Identifying Missing Numbers
Cinderella's Shoes: Adding Fluently
Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Comparing and Writing Numbers
Dance All Night: Telling Time
Rapunzel's Tower: Comparing Measurements
Fairy Tale Word Wall
Writing Prompts: Fairy Tales, Dragons
Writing Center Activities:
How To, Label It, Make a List
Guided Reading Books:
Jack & The Beanstalk
Science: Magic Bean Seeds
Art Projects:
Draw a Castle
Castle Construction
Frog Prince Construct
King or Queen Construct
Poof! I'm a Giant


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I know Venkat used to come smiling to us and listen well...He explain well if there is new product on display and really helpful guy.
I know Venkat used to come smiling to us and listen well...He explain well if there is new product on display and really helpful guy.
I think we should not take the cafe concept too literally. It is designed to be primarily a showroom with a cafe atmosphere so consider this before taking all of your friends there like it was Kamat restaurant. And, it is not easy for the dealers to offer a true cafe experience with such low sales of their bread and butter i.e. cars.
I am happy that people are sharing their opinions freely and it is good to know the pros & cons on the FIAT Caffe.
But if the people who are visiting the Caffe aren't treated properly why should one go there again or recommend the same to others?
The only people who would go there have some love & affinity towards FIAT Brand and if the people who are running the show do not do their job well that means they are not competent as this is a service industry.
They should remove the Caffe tag line then and not say FIAT Caffe!
If FIAT cannot manage its own FIAT caffe which is operated by one of its dealers and gives such horrible experience to the people who have gone and been treated it shows bad on FIAT Brand and nothing else.
It is very clear the people who are inside the counter and the man in-charge are oblivious of all this and probably know they cant be fired for not doing their job properly. It is also possible the people who have invested so much also do not know the ground reality of how their staff are treating the customers and lost customers do not show up again and will never recommend other to go there also.
I don't know why they simply cant invite the customers with a warm welcome smile & ask them inside and make themselves comfortable & say they will attend to them and give them water to drink, offer the menu to select & take order and serve, clean the tables neat & clean well all this is not a very complicated job.
How do we get treated in SHELL Petrol Pumps...only those who visit will share. The fuel attendant comes to you with a Namaste hands folded and asks you to park your car properly and requests you to switch off your car engine and asks whether Petrol / Diesel and how much quantity and reconfirms & dispenses the fuel and then takes the payment & offers you the bill and then says thanks for visiting SHELL and to come back again.
The man on the ground makes the difference. You aren't going to the SHELL Pump because of its MD / CEO / Brand image..even if the fuel is slightly expensive you go for the experience.
So I believe FIAT Caffe is supposed to be an experience and not a foody joint and I really will say that they need to improvise on their service aspect if they need to run it as a Caffe and in this Caffe prospective buyers are supposed to know more about FIAT's history & products and imagine if these people aren't treated properly they go home unhappy.
These are my personal views.
Love My Passion MYFIATWORLD - Warm Regards, MN - Mahesh Natarajan
Actually I thought the Caffe concept was very good and it should have been promoted more, Why?
Most dealers run to malls and offices to display their cars because of the number of people who visit such places, won't it make sense if the Caffe's in each city become the happening place, one Fiatian might bring along 10 friends to hang out and at least 4 might check out the cars . You at least manage to increase the number of enquires on your cars and the showrooms start to look like they have some life ( Look at the Fiat Caffe in Pune, it looks like a haunted house. The Bangalore Fiat Caffe looks far better) . The dealers could generate revenue from this as well if they just apply themselves a little ,the Caffe was a great idea but seems to be lacking in implementation big time.
Even if the dealers are not able to run it themselves properly they could probably outsource/rent it to Barista or some other Caffe shop!!!!
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When you look at the tacho rather than the speedo you know your having fun!!!
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Agree with MN. If it is termed and advertised as a caffe, then it should really attract crowd. If not for cars, atleast for people to hangout and get together. The brand name matters here. The courtesy exhibited will definitely make people turn towards the brand.


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Every patient's tattoo responds differently to laser tattoo removal. This is a result of different skin types being treated and different inks being used in each tattoo. There is currently no regulation in what type of materials should be used for tattooing, so it is impossible to predict exactly what material we are targeting during tattoo removal. We know that certain lasers work best for certain colors, which is why we take pride in having a variety of lasers in our practice, to offer the best treatment for each individual tattoo. Most patients require between six and ten treatments, though difficult to remove tattoos can sometimes take up to twenty treatments. Advances in tattoo removal techniques now allow us to perform the newest method of tattoo removal, called the R20 method. This technique enables us to perform up to four treatments during a single visit. This treatment regimen allows each treatment to penetrate deeper into the tattoo ink and to drastically cut the number of visits it takes to removal a tattoo.
Where is the new, faster method of tattoo removal performed?
At Schweiger Dermatology in Manhattan, our tattoo removal specialists began utilizing the R20 method of tattoo removal soon after the clinical studies on this technique were published in 2011. We find that this faster method of tattoo removal benefits our patients by making a previously lengthy tattoo removal process much faster.


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Your health by numbers
Do the maths and see how your health's adding up
Health recommendations are constantly changing and it can be hard to keep up – so we've rounded up the stats and facts you really need to be aware of to stay in shape.
How much protein should you eat a day?
Aim to eat a minimum of 1g of protein a day per kilo of your weight. "If you weigh 60kg (9st 6lb), you should eat 60g of protein each day," explains nutritionist Judy Watson. "From a 100g piece of chicken you will get 30g of protein. From 100g tuna, you will get 25g. Adding a handful of nuts and a glass or milk or a yogurt will bring you up to 60g. Aim to eat some protein with each meal to balance your blood sugar levels and crush cravings."
How much cholesterol is too much?
4 is your ideal upper level of cholesterol, combining two types – HDL and LDL. "You should also aim to have your LDL under 2mmol/l and your HDL above 1 mmol/1," says Emily Reeve, Senior Cardiac Nurse at the British Heart Foundation. "LDL (low- density lipoproteins) are known as the bad type of cholesterol. They carry cholesterol from your liver to the cells that need it. HDL (high-density lipoproteins) carry cholesterol away from the cells and back to the liver to be broken down.
"Too much LDL can cause fatty material to build up in your artery walls, encouraging heart disease. The risk is particularly high if your HDL levels are low, meaning your body's not removing cholesterol effectively." Speak to your GP about having your cholesterol checked – it is part of the NHS Health Check offered to 40-74 year olds every five years.
Is eating five-a-day still necessary?
You're still on target if you're getting your five-a-day fruit and veg, says Judy. "The official guidelines still say five-a-day, but we know there are more health benefits from eating above this number. Aim for seven to ten portions if you can." Recent research found that eating ten portions of fruit and vegetables a day could reduce your risk of heart disease by 24 per cent, stroke by 33 per cent and cancer by 13 per cent.
How much salt should you eat in a day?
6g of salt is your daily maximum. "That's one heaped teaspoon," says Judy. "The best way to monitor your salt intake is to avoid take-aways and supermarket meals and cook your own meals from scratch. Check the labels of anything that is processed. Only buy bread containing less than 1g salt per 100g (about two slices)."
How long should it take you to fall asleep?
The number of minutes it should take you to fall asleep at night is 15 if you are getting enough sleep, says psychiatrist Dr Craig Hudson, author of Feel Great Day and Night: the natural approach to treating insomnia.
"Most people need between six and eight hours a night, but falling asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow is a sign you're not getting enough. A classic mistake is to try and pack too much into your day, persuading yourself you don't need much sleep, when you do.
"Stinting on the shut-eye you need can cause you to gain a pound a week for every lost hour of sleep per night. You're also likely to suffer hangover-like symptoms of headache and poor concentration because you've been sleep-deprived."
If it's taking you longer than 15 minutes to get to sleep, try having a tryptophan-rich snack such as half a banana and a few almonds before bed. Your body will convert the tryptophan to the sleep hormone melatonin to help you nod off faster.
How much exercise should you be doing?
You should aim to take at least 21 minutes of exercise every day, or 150 minutes a week, according to government guidelines. A 12-month study of 6600 people found that moving from no exercise to this level (which includes brisk walking) increased life expectancy by 3.1 years.
How much fibre should you be eating?
Your recommended daily grams of fibre is 25g. "To put it in context, you'll get 10g fibre from your five-a-day, and 4g from a slice of wholemeal bread or half a cup of brown rice, oats, or lentils," says Judy. Fibre not only helps to keep you regular but is important for managing cholesterol, blood sugar levels and your weight.
How much sugar is too much?
The maximum number of grams of sugar you can safely consume in a day is 30. "This is the same as about 8 tsp of sugar," says Judy. "Read every label carefully – you'll get 9 sp from a 300ml can of cola, a carton of fruit juice, or a Mars bar. And you'll get five teaspoons from some tins of soup!"
What's a healthy waist size?
If your waist measures 31.5 inches or more, you have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes. Your risk also goes up if you're over 40, have ever had high blood pressure, and have a family member with type 2 diabetes. "Measure your waist at the midway point between your lowest rib and your hip bone. This is likely to be level with your tummy button," says says Diabetes UK Senior Clinical Advisor, Libby Dowling. For help losing inches visit www.yours.co.uk/1inch
How much fat is too much?
The number of grams of fat recommended daily for women is 70g. "But note that only 20g of that is from saturated fats, the rest should be from healthy fats from oily fish, nuts and seeds," say Judy.
Know your fats
Salmon fillet (100g) = 13g fat, 3.1g sat fat, 7.7g healthy fats
Almonds (28g) = 14.2g fat, 1.1g sat fat, 12.4g healthy fats
½ avocado (75g) = 10g fat, 2g sat fat, 8g healthy fats
How high is healthy blood pressure?
If your "bottom" blood pressure number is 90 or above, your blood pressure is too high and may need to be treated with drugs if you cannot manage to bring it into a normal healthy range with diet and exercise alone. "Ideal blood pressure is in the range of 90/60 to 120/80. Persistent high readings over 140/90 may lead to an increased risk of strokes, so always see your doctor or nurse if you're concerned," says Dr Riccardo Di Cuffa of your-doctor.co.uk
- For more health tips, pick up the latest issue of Yours magazine


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Howdy! It's been less lazy and more crazy lately, truth be told. June flew by, and here we are in the thick of summer, praising God for a "cold front" this week with highs in the mid 80s. 🙂 I'll take it. Cloudy weather is my fave.
Husband and I returned July 3rd from a trip we had been planning for and praying about since last fall. We went to Italy, and it was everything that you might expect. It was amazing. I'll talk about our trip over the next few posts.
I don't think we would have made the decision to go to Italy just on our own. We would have had too many justifications for not going. BUT, the reason we decided to take this epic trip was the best reason of all…LOVE. Specifically, one of my best friends from college lived in Italy for more than two years, she met a wonderful man from Sicily, and they fell in love. When they decided to get married in Sicily, we knew we wanted to be there.
We got to spend some time with the happy couple and get to know Dario a bit when they visited Texas before getting engaged.
I asked Andrea to be a bridesmaid in my wedding in 2011, and she bestowed the same honor on me.
So we planned and prepared for many months. My ambitious husband even started learning Italian, much to my chagrin. (No, Honey! If you learn a third language, then I have to get another degree.) I might have an inferiority complex. 🙂
Anyway…our journey started with three flights. Texas==>London==>Rome==>Sicily. The trip went very smoothly, overall. The first long flight was rough for me for the last two hours or so. I'm convinced that I have undiagnosed restless leg syndrome. I could not get comfortable. Then, in London, the only real almost-mishap happened. We thought we had about an hour, so Bryan got in line at a sandwich shop while I went to the restroom. When I emerged, I heard them over the loudspeaker doing a LAST CALL for our gate. What?! I panicked for about three seconds and decided to run to my husband (the opposite direction of the gate). When I got there he was still waiting in line. I breathlessly conveyed to him that our flight was boarding, and they were about the close the gate. "I'm going to tell them to stop the plane! You come as fast as you can!" I believe those were my exact words. Please keep in mind that this is after an overnight flight with no sleep.
I grabbed a coffee from him and started running. Bad combination. I'm not one to enjoy being stared at (particularly in a negative situation), but there was no way I was letting us miss that plane to Rome. Latte splashing, purse flopping, I jogged through the terminal and arrived in front of two slightly amused women working at the gate. I explained as they looked at me with sympathy. They wanted to know if my husband was running, too. Minutes passed. They called him over the intercom. I smiled nervously. It seemed inevitable that they would give up and send me on my way at any moment, and then Bryan sauntered around the corner with our sandwiches. I beckoned to him to run as the ladies reached for my boarding pass. I was picturing a full flight with every person glaring us down as we made our way to our seats at the back. Strangely enough, once we made it into the tunnel, we found ourselves in line. There were at least 15 or 20 people ahead of us not quite on the plane yet. No one even knew that we were late. We sat down with our hearts still pounding, so relieved. A few minutes later a cart came by with–you guessed it–sandwiches. We just looked at each other and laughed. And so began our Italian adventure…