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Before beginning any home improvement project, take the time to de-clutter and get rid of anything you do not need. You?ll then have all the space you need for moving your furniture around, and your home will be less cluttered in general. Less trash around the home will help you become more organized.
Put up some new trim and art to update your bathroom. Wallpaper trim is a very affordable choice and there are so many options that any home decor design can easily be complemented. Wallpaper trim is very easy to use. With a little artwork that is simple, yet affordable and elegant, you can turn the look of your bathroom upside down.
Give your bathroom a new glaze. This will make your bathroom look new again. A glaze treatment can be done at a much cheaper price than bathroom floor replacement. This is a good way to increase your home?s value without spending very much money.
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You can have a lot of fun improving your home with projects that include the entire family. The addition of a garden can increase a home?s value while making it beautiful.
Make a note to check your roof; look for damage and decay every spring. Besides obviously-damaged shingles, remove and replace any shingles that have blistered or begun to curl at the edges. Resolving minor issues as they occur will prevent your from having any major issues later.
Adding bold prints to your room can make it appear more personable. You could add animal printed rugs, pillows or paintings.
If you feel you are outgrowing your home, whether because of family size or just overall boredom with the property, consider renovating it instead of moving completely. When you renovate your home, you can customize it to be exactly what you want rather than adapting to the designs of another person. All the tasks that come with new home purchase are often more costly and time consuming than simple home improvement projects that pack a big punch.
Planning your project properly can mean the difference between a headache and vastly increasing the value of your home. Use the ideas from this article as you plan to make your next move; you will be thankful you did!
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One thing that really bugs me is the way that prescribing in medicine ignores one of the most fundamental concepts of nutrition:
The Goldilocks Zone: Not too little and not too much
Too little of a nutrient will result in ill health.
Too much of a nutrient will result in ill health.
The key to prescribing is to get things just right! ?The Goldilocks Zone.
Its what you expect of teenage boys trying to bulk up with protein powder. ?Its not what you expect of trained health professionals.
Cells are bathed in a nutrient rich fluid. ?We nourish them by supplying a steady intake of nutrients. ?The last thing a cell wants is a tsunami of a nutrient. ?We would never, ever do that to plants in our vege garden would we? ?We would kill the plants if we gave a month's worth of nutrients in a single hit. ?So why do doctors do this to their patients?
Its madness.
Physiotherapy is similarly affected by this suspension of reality
When we prescribe exercise we apply stress to the body. ?We give only sufficient stress to stimulate a strong compensatory response to build more robust structures. ?This response takes from two to four days of relative rest to be complete.?
We therefore have the rule of consistently cycling between exercise and recovery: Basically one day of exercise, followed by two days of rest, then one more day of exercise etc.
If we break this rule and exercise hard daily, our risk of illness and injury skyrockets. ?All serious athletes know this. ?Apparently, many physiotherapists have never learned this, or have long forgotten.
With physiotherapy, it is common to have injured people instructed to perform sometimes strenuous exercise on a daily basis. ?This is wrong. ?A set of exercises are best performed every second or third day. ?If one is to exercise in between, then it should be an exercise that stresses the body in a different way. ?So if one lifts weights today, they should go for a walk or swim the following day - not lift more weights.
The only exceptions to this rule are activities like cycling, rowing, walking and swimming. ?Lifting weights, stretching cords and running require at least one rest day between sessions.
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The advice in these articles is given freely without promise or obligation. ?Its all about giving you and your family the tools and information to take control of your health and fitness.
Few things in this world will reaffirm your holiday spirit faster than watching a dozen or so uniformed service people cover a room in Christmas wrapping. Also on that short list, it so happens, is spotting one of the aforementioned troops hand-feed an overzealous and noticeably plump squirrel who's anxiously scratching on the door to get in. It's a strangely Snow White-esque moment that unfolds minutes after we set up our gear in the conference room of the Leadership Development Center -- a drab, unassuming office space in the middle of Colorado Springs' Peterson Air Force Base that serves as a training facility for 11 months out of the year. But now, in early December, there's a transformation occurring, as men and women in various shades of camouflage paper the space with Christmas spirit in record time.
For one month a year, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) converts this area into holiday central for NORAD's Santa Tracker, a half-century-old program that has become a thing of legend -- a curious juxtaposition of warfare preparedness and storybook magic. It's one that, somehow fittingly, is rooted in a mistake -- a phone number misprinted in a 1955 Sears catalog, prompting local children to call Santa's "private number." Those calls from excited boys and girls were routed, the legend goes, to the big red phone in the war room of NORAD's predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD), where quick-thinking Col. Harry Shoup asked his troops to play along. Now, 57 years later, it's a massive undertaking, as volunteers in military garb and Santa hats answer calls from children in hundreds of countries.
Ronnie Wood wants to be Sally Humphreys' man for good.?The 65-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist married his 34-year-old fiance Friday at London's Dorchester Hotel, according to multiple reports.?
Faces mate Rod Stewart served as best man and the VIPs in attendance for the intimate ceremony included Stewart's wife, Penny Lancaster, and Sir Paul McCartney and wife Nancy Shevell. (Perhaps Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts don't do weddings.)?
Just how many people has Mick Jagger slept with over the years?
This is Wood's third marriage and he has three grown children. He and Humphreys announced their engagement in October after about six months of dating, though they first crossed paths, per the bride, eight or nine years ago when he was having an exhibit of his paintings close to the theater where she was working at the time.?
"There is an age gap," Humphreys told London's Evening Standard earlier this month, at the same time also laughing off rumors that she was pregnant. "I would prefer it if there wasn't but there is. But maybe I'm a bit older and he's a bit younger at heart."
See more celebs who tied the knot on the down-low
Asked if she was concerned about her new husband's wild past, the theater producer shrugged it off.
"You can't be jealous of a past, because I wasn't part of it," Humphreys said. "It's there, so you deal with it, or walk away. His three girlfriends since his split from (his second wife) is not an excessive number."?
Amazon deforestation brings loss of microbial communitiesPublic release date: 24-Dec-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Klaus Nusslein nusslein@microbio.umass.edu 413-545-1356 University of Massachusetts at Amherst
An international team has found that a troubling net loss in diversity among the microbial organisms responsible for a functioning ecosystem is accompanying deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, leaving it less able to deal with added outside stress
AMHERST, Mass. An international team of microbiologists led by Klaus Nsslein of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found that a troubling net loss in diversity among the microbial organisms responsible for a functioning ecosystem is accompanying deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
Nsslein, an expert in tropical rain forest microbial soil communities, says, "We found that after rainforest conversion to agricultural pastures, bacterial communities were significantly different from those of forest soils. Not only did the pasture soils show increased species numbers, these species were also less related to one another than in rainforest soil. This is important because the combination of lost forest species and the homogenization of pasture communities together signal that this ecosystem is now a lot less capable of dealing with additional outside stress."
He and colleagues studied a large farm site over the past four years at the frontier where farmers drive agriculture into pristine rainforest in Rondonia, Brazil, to convert rainforest to agricultural use. Findings in part validated previous research showing that bacteria in the soil became more diverse after conversion to pasture. However, in its fourth year, their study overcame limitations of earlier investigations to show that changes in microbial diversity occurred over larger geographic scales. Results appear in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In addition to Nsslein at UMass Amherst, the research group includes first author Jorge Rodrigues at the University of Texas at Arlington with Brendan Bohannan at the University of Oregon, James Tiedje at Michigan State University, and others at the University of Sao Paulo. Lead investigators Nsslein and Rodrigues emphasize that the study is an equal collaboration among the four research groups.
Findings do not support earlier study conclusions, instead they show that the loss of restricted ranges for different bacteria communities results in a biotic homogenization and net loss of diversity overall. Scientists worry that the loss of genetic variation in bacteria across a converted forest could reduce ecosystem resilience. The researchers hope their work will provide valuable data to those making decisions about the future of the Amazon rainforest.
Biologist and first author Jorge Rodrigues of the University of Texas at Arlington adds, "We have known for a long time that conversion of rainforest land in the Amazon for agriculture results in a loss of biodiversity in plants and animals. Now we know that microbial communities which are so important to the ecosystem also suffer significant losses."
As Nsslein and colleagues point out, the Amazon represents half of the world's rainforest and is home to one-third of Earth's species, yet the Amazon has one of the highest rates of deforestation. Agriculture is one of the largest and most dynamic parts of Brazil's economy, so dealing with standing rainforests in the tropics will be tricky, but nevertheless, it is vital that the issue is tackled."
Rodrigues says he and colleagues are currently compiling findings about the potential for recovery of the microbial diversity after pastureland is abandoned and returned to "secondary forest." At the same time, Nsslein and colleagues are leading an effort to investigate how the redundancy of functions provided by soil microbes provides resilience to the effects of agricultural land use change to support a stressed ecosystem to recover stability.
"Whether bacterial diversity will completely recover from ecosystem conversion will depend in part on whether the taxa lost due to conversion are truly locally extinct or whether they are present in the pasture sites but of such low abundance that they are undetectable in our study," the authors write.
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This work was supported by grants from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the Research Support Foundation of the State of So Paulo.
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Amazon deforestation brings loss of microbial communitiesPublic release date: 24-Dec-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Klaus Nusslein nusslein@microbio.umass.edu 413-545-1356 University of Massachusetts at Amherst
An international team has found that a troubling net loss in diversity among the microbial organisms responsible for a functioning ecosystem is accompanying deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, leaving it less able to deal with added outside stress
AMHERST, Mass. An international team of microbiologists led by Klaus Nsslein of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found that a troubling net loss in diversity among the microbial organisms responsible for a functioning ecosystem is accompanying deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
Nsslein, an expert in tropical rain forest microbial soil communities, says, "We found that after rainforest conversion to agricultural pastures, bacterial communities were significantly different from those of forest soils. Not only did the pasture soils show increased species numbers, these species were also less related to one another than in rainforest soil. This is important because the combination of lost forest species and the homogenization of pasture communities together signal that this ecosystem is now a lot less capable of dealing with additional outside stress."
He and colleagues studied a large farm site over the past four years at the frontier where farmers drive agriculture into pristine rainforest in Rondonia, Brazil, to convert rainforest to agricultural use. Findings in part validated previous research showing that bacteria in the soil became more diverse after conversion to pasture. However, in its fourth year, their study overcame limitations of earlier investigations to show that changes in microbial diversity occurred over larger geographic scales. Results appear in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In addition to Nsslein at UMass Amherst, the research group includes first author Jorge Rodrigues at the University of Texas at Arlington with Brendan Bohannan at the University of Oregon, James Tiedje at Michigan State University, and others at the University of Sao Paulo. Lead investigators Nsslein and Rodrigues emphasize that the study is an equal collaboration among the four research groups.
Findings do not support earlier study conclusions, instead they show that the loss of restricted ranges for different bacteria communities results in a biotic homogenization and net loss of diversity overall. Scientists worry that the loss of genetic variation in bacteria across a converted forest could reduce ecosystem resilience. The researchers hope their work will provide valuable data to those making decisions about the future of the Amazon rainforest.
Biologist and first author Jorge Rodrigues of the University of Texas at Arlington adds, "We have known for a long time that conversion of rainforest land in the Amazon for agriculture results in a loss of biodiversity in plants and animals. Now we know that microbial communities which are so important to the ecosystem also suffer significant losses."
As Nsslein and colleagues point out, the Amazon represents half of the world's rainforest and is home to one-third of Earth's species, yet the Amazon has one of the highest rates of deforestation. Agriculture is one of the largest and most dynamic parts of Brazil's economy, so dealing with standing rainforests in the tropics will be tricky, but nevertheless, it is vital that the issue is tackled."
Rodrigues says he and colleagues are currently compiling findings about the potential for recovery of the microbial diversity after pastureland is abandoned and returned to "secondary forest." At the same time, Nsslein and colleagues are leading an effort to investigate how the redundancy of functions provided by soil microbes provides resilience to the effects of agricultural land use change to support a stressed ecosystem to recover stability.
"Whether bacterial diversity will completely recover from ecosystem conversion will depend in part on whether the taxa lost due to conversion are truly locally extinct or whether they are present in the pasture sites but of such low abundance that they are undetectable in our study," the authors write.
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This work was supported by grants from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the Research Support Foundation of the State of So Paulo.
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