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This is one of our all-time favorite how-tos and it comes from longtime Apartment Therapy reader Art. Way back when, he sent in this fun project as an entry in our January Jumpstart contest. He called it the "I'm Bringing Sticky Back" Doggie Bed Project and it's an easy solution for making a cozy spot for your pet with NO SEWING required...
Project: Flokati Doggie Bed
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One pair of scissors, two 12' boxes of sticky back velcro (with a little bit left over at the end), optional superglue, one Ikea Flokati wool rug, one Ikea Gosa Vila 26 x 26 pillow stuffer and a tape measure.
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4. Measure and cut lengths of scratchy sticky back velcro to cover the other three sides of the other half of the underside of the rug.
5. Remove the sticky back velcro backing and adhere the velcro to the underside of the rug.
6. Lay the pillow on one half of the underside of the rug and fold the other end of the rug over the pillow while crimping the velcro together to seal the pillow up like a giant ravioli.
7. Place your small to medium dog on the pillow and watch them sleep.
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Can you wash that and what about the lent in the dryer/ Also, the fibers from the rug sticking to your dogs nose and eyes? I would not have the rug version with a dog let alone a rug version made as a dog bed.
I see the potential for filth. How does that stuff wash up?
Hey, it's that cute Porkchop!
These are great for indoor dogs that don't shed.
After an initial pee on the flokati rug, our yorkie loved to chew bones on it. :x I don't have the rug on the floor anymore.. maybe this is a way I can make some use out of it instead of tossing it..
What a coincidence. My dog just won the rug war a few days ago and has been enjoying her new bed tremendously.
For some reason she LOVED sleeping, rolling, and drooling on my beautiful flokati rug. You can machine wash it, but it will end up matted and kind of gross-looking. I gave up and tossed it in her slumber corner, in effect giving her a $120 bed.
Hey, hey! It's still a favorite with Porkchop!
(little secret--it's only been washed a couple of times--the pillow that is)
It's been her favorite mobile bed (car, folks' house, our house, friends' house, dog-sitter) since day 1!
"seal the pillow up like a giant ravioli"
Art, the consummate chef! ;-)
Fun project (not to mention adorable dog)!
Our dogs sleep on one of these rugs (yes, they won, too) and we wash it with a little Eucalan in the machine and hang it to dry. Once it's dry, we brush it and, although it's nowhere near as lovely as it was originally, it gets clean, gets some of its loft back and the pooches seem fine with it.
It's hard to tell where the dog stops and the rug starts! :)
my hounds love flokati! unfortunately its to play tug o' war so my flokati and sheepskin attempts at making them dog beds have all ended in disaster. I gave up and just order them by the case from the cheapest place i can find on the net. we go through a bed a month. :( My dogs are soooo disrespectful of any sort of stylish decor! but i love them anyway.
My dogs won the Flokati war, too. I always wanted a flokati, but when I finally got one my dogs just peed on it constantly. I think it's like grass to them. I washed it at the laundromat in one of those big washers, but it got really matted after a few times. Had to throw it out.
my black flokati shed even more than my dog!! and was impossible to maintain.
finally retired the flokati, it was too much of a headache, snug though it was.
My dog is so well-behaved and I made her a flokati bed.
Well she got horribly terribly sick and barfed on it. I cleaned it. She barfed some more. At some point I just threw it out. That was a tough part of her life. She is apparently allergic to most dog foods.
Now that we have solved the stomach issues, I am thinking of getting her a sheep skin. I have two and she likes to lay on them. I thought that maybe since she was a border collie she would protect them or something. She just lays on them. I want her to have her own bed but apparently my bed is just fine for her. haha
That story was great, thanks :)
Uh... great=told in a way that made me LOL
Not great that your dog was sick. Just in case it wasn't clear :)
I may want to try this with my pooch. He's already ruined the flokaki by peeing on it. So perhaps I'll wash it and make a bed out of it. At least the rug will serve some purpose
You can toss a small natural flokati right into the washing machine, no problem. Just don't ever use bleach or Oxyclean on it... cool/warm wash and air dry. They wash up beautifully.


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Cholecystitis means inflammation of the gallbladder. Like biliary colic, it too is caused by sudden obstruction of the ducts, usually the cystic duct by a gallstone. In fact, cholecystitis may begin with an episode of biliary colic. Obstruction of the cystic duct causes the wall of the gallbladder to begin secreting fluid just as with biliary colic, but for unclear reasons, inflammation sets in. At first the inflammation is sterile, that is, there is no infection with bacteria; however, over time the bile and gallbladder become infected with bacteria that travel through the bile ducts from the intestine.
With cholecystitis, there is constant pain in the right upper abdomen. Inflammation extends through the wall of the gallbladder, and the right upper abdomen becomes particularly tender when it is pressed or even tapped. Unlike with biliary colic, however, it is painful to move around. Individuals with cholecystitis usually lie still. There is fever, and the white blood cell count is elevated, both signs of inflammation. Cholecystitis usually is treated with antibiotics, and most episodes will resolve over several days. Even without antibiotics, cholecystitis often resolves. As with biliary colic, movement of the gallstone out of the cystic duct and back into the gallbladder relieves the obstruction and allows the inflammation to resolve.
Cholangitis is a condition in which bile in the common, hepatic, and intrahepatic ducts becomes infected. Like cholecystitis, the infection spreads through the ducts from the intestine after the ducts become obstructed by a gallstone. Patients with cholangitis are very sick with high fever and elevated white blood cell counts. Cholangitis may result in an abscess within the liver or sepsis. (See discussion of sepsis that follows.)
Gangrene of the gallbladder is a condition in which the inflammation of cholecystitis cuts off the supply of blood to the gallbladder. Without blood, the tissues forming the wall of the gallbladder die, and this makes the wall very weak. The weakness combined with infection often leads to rupture of the gallbladder. The infection then may spread throughout the abdomen, though often the rupture is confined to a small area around the gallbladder (a confined perforation).
Jaundice is a condition in which bilirubin accumulates in the body. Bilirubin is brownish-black in color but is yellow when it is not too concentrated. A build-up of bilirubin in the body turns the skin and whites of the eye (sclera) yellow. Jaundice occurs when there is prolonged obstruction of the bile ducts. The obstruction may be due to gallstones, but it also may be due to many other causes, for example, tumors ofthe bile ducts or surrounding tissues. (Other causes of jaundice are a rapid destruction of red blood cells that overwhelms the ability of the liver to remove bilirubin from the blood or a damaged liver that cannot remove bilirubin from the blood normally.) Jaundice, by itself, generally does not cause problems.
Pancreatitis means inflammation of the pancreas. The two most common causes of pancreatitis are alcoholism and gallstones. The pancreas surrounds the common bile duct as it enters the intestine. The pancreatic duct that drains the digestive juices from the pancreas joins the common bile duct just before it empties into the intestine. If a gallstone obstructs the common bile duct just after the pancreatic duct joins it, the flow of pancreatic juice from the pancreas is blocked. This results in inflammation within the pancreas. Pancreatitis due to gallstones usually is mild, but it may cause serious illness and even death. Fortunately, severe pancreatitis due to gallstones is rare.
Sepsis is a condition in which bacteria from any source within the body, including the gallbladder or bile ducts, enter into the blood stream and spread throughout the body. Although the bacteria usually remain within the blood, they also may spread to distant tissues and lead to the formation of abscesses (localized areas of infection with formation of pus). Sepsis is a feared complication of any infection. The signs of sepsis include high fever, high white blood cell count, and, less frequently, rigors (shaking chills) or a drop in blood pressure.
A fistula is an abnormal tract through which fluid can flow between two hollow organs or between an abscess and a hollow organ or skin. Gallstones cause fistulas when the hard gallstone erodes through the soft wall of the gallbladder or bile ducts. Most commonly, the gallstone erodes into the small intestine, stomach, or common bile duct. This can leave a tract that allows bile to flow from the gallbladder to the small intestine, stomach, or the common bile duct. If the fistula enters the distal part of the small intestine, the concentrated bile can lead to problems such as diarrhea. Rarely, the gallstone erodes into the abdominal cavity. The bile then leaks from the gallbladder or bile duct throughout the abdominal cavity and causes inflammation of the lining of the abdomen (peritoneum), a condition called bile peritonitis.
Ileus is a condition in which there is an obstruction to the flow of food, gas, and liquid within the intestine. It may be due to a mechanical obstruction, for example, a tumor within the intestine, or a functional obstruction, for example, inflammation of the intestine or surrounding tissues that prevents the muscles of the intestine from working normally and propelling its contents. If a large gallstone erodes through the wall of the gallbladder and into the stomach or small intestine, it will be propelled through the small intestine. The narrowest part of the small intestine is the ileo-cecal valve, which is located at the site where the small intestine joins the colon. If the gallstone is too large to pass through the valve, it can obstruct the small intestine and cause an ileus.
Cancer of the gallbladder almost always is associated with gallstones, but it is not clear which comes first, that is, whether the gallstones precede the cancer and, therefore, could potentially be the cause of the cancer or the gallstones form because cancer is present. Cancer of the gallbladder arises in less than 1% of individuals with gallstones. Therefore, concern about future development of cancer is by itself not a good reason for removing the gallbladder when gallstones are present.
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Hey! My name is Alana Fernandez and this is my third
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I joined HAWC because I was really interested in how health is a combination of
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Hey! My name is Katarina Juarez, but you can feel free to call me "KJ." I'm a sophomore Psychology major with a focus in public health. I hail from Los Alamos, New Mexico and this is my first year as a member of HAWC! Aside from school, I enjoy working with children, volunteering at the Lifelong AIDS Alliance, watching movies and television shows, appreciating Nicholas Cage, hiking, taking photographs, baking, dancing, and laughing. My personal goals are to improve my lackluster kayaking skills and hopefully be able to knit a somewhat decent sweater. In the upcoming year, I hope to spread awareness about sexual assault and sexual health in order to engage and educate students in both their own personal health and the health of their peers. To me, a proper understanding of Health and Wellness means balance among the different facets of well being. When we are in tune with ourselves physically and emotionally, we are able to maintain a solid foundation for ourselves and be the best humans that we can be.
Hello SU friends! My name is Kara Ortbal and I am a Humanities for Teaching major from Bellevue, WA. I enjoy volunteering, spending time with friends, and eating. This will be my second year on HAWC and I hope to help spread awareness about the prevalence of sexual assault in our communities and how the SU community can support those impacted by sexual assault. For me, health and wellness means balance and well-being of one's mental, physical, and spiritual selves. Happy health!
Hi! My name is Marissa Romeri and I'm a sophomore nursing major and psychology minor. I grew up in a small town outside Sacramento, California, but I love life in the city! Besides being apart of HAWC, I am a member of SU's Student Nurses Association (SUSNA). I also tutor a group of energetic first graders in the afterschool program at Bailey Gatzert Elementary. In my free time I love to go for a run and hang out with friends! I hope to explore as much of the Pacific Northwest as I can and love to go on hikes with the Outdoor Adventure Recreation club! If you see me on campus feel free to say hi anytime!
I am a senior English Literature major from Tigard, Oregon. I have been a part of the office of Wellness and Health promotion as a member of HAWC for two years. I am very excited to be graduating in December of 2013. Although I am sad to leave the program, I am looking forward to executing excellent events during the pivotal Fall Quarter. I am especially interested in Alcohol and Other Drugs education as well as Nutrition.
Hola! My name is Sara Sanchez and this is my second year on the Health and Wellness Crew (HAWC). I am a junior studying International Business with a Spanish minor. I was born in Southern California but raised in a small town south of Olympia, Washington. Outside of Seattle University (SU), I currently work part-time at Costco, and I am applying to business-focused internships at the Paramount Theater, Fifth Avenue Theater, and Global Visionaries. Before HAWC, I have participated in many Albers Business Club events, been involved in attending networking sessions hosted by the Costco Scholarship Fund, and interned during the summer at the Port of Olympia and the Boeing Company. The reason I joined the team is that it is very important to reach out to students who are having a difficult time in life. SU has an obligation to have the resources to help students succeed here, which is where Wellness and Health Promotion and HAWC come in! Therefore, I want to be a resource for students' success, no matter how big or small of an impact I make in their life. Health and wellness plays a big role in succeeding in school, work, sports, etc... I would have never met any of my accomplishments if it were not for keeping my mind, body, and soul healthy.
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By Pat Nolan, Senior Vice-President, DVL Public Relations & Advertising
March 19, 2010
March Madness! It's everywhere this weekend as the nation's three week-long college basketball sports festival is in the full swing of the Big Dance (as the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments are called) with playing continuing into early April.
One of the major parts of the excitement and interest in March Madness involves filling out your brackets, picking which teams of the field of 65 will make it to the Final Four and which team win ultimately win the national championship . This is serious business for many people, which makes you wonder why the politicians want to get involved (except to get some cheap publicity).
But they do want to be involved and they do get some publicity. President Barack Obama, for the second year in a row, is making his picks through ESPN and even one of our Tennessee gubernatorial candidates is getting into the act. I got an e-mail from the campaign of Republican Zach Wamp urging me to come to the candidate's web site and fill out my brackets there. It said I would be competing with the Chattanooga congressman (and others) and that whoever did the best in picking the winning teams would receive as his or her prize the chance to travel around for a day and campaign with Zach what the Wamp e-mail describes as "Big Red RV."
Wow! By the way, there is no truth to the rumor that second prize is riding around and campaigning with Zach in the "Big Red RV" for two days. J
Once again we have a come to a potentially climactic vote in the fight over the future of national health care. The House of Representatives is set to decide this weekend (March 19-22) whether to, first, go along with the bill passed by the Senate late last year ("deem it be approved") and then vote on a second proposal that incorporates additional changes to the Senate plan which House and Senate members have supposedly agreed upon.
This process is quaintly called "reconciliation" although it has been anything but that inside the halls of Congress or across the country the last few weeks. Even though this process has been used before by both political parties to pass major and controversial legislation, it has re-opened the whole debate about what is the proper way for our elected officials to go about approving legislation.
You know the old saying: "There are two things you should never watch too closely: How sausage is made and how legislation is approved." Well, reconciliation is the latest round of "sausage making" on the Hill, which while it appears to remove some of the more controversial "deals" made in the previous legislation (special consideration for states like Nebraska and Louisiana on health care funding), the reconciled bill seems to create new ones and leave other potentially controversial matters unresolved for now (abortion funding restrictions).
And then there is the whole issue of the House "deeming the Senate bill to be passed." That means there will be no "up or down" vote by House members on that proposal. Why would they want to do that? It's simple. It is to avoid the problem that Senator and 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry (and lots of other lawmakers) get into sometimes on the campaign trail. That is, charges by their opponents that "they voted for items in a piece of legislation, before they voted against it," or vice versa.
Because of the strong, vocal opposition to almost all of the pending health care plans in Congress, you can be sure many lawmakers in the House wish to only vote on the "reconciled bill" not what is in the Senate bill they don't support. But all this is rather hard to explain to folks who aren't political or public policy junkies. So some lawmakers like Nashville Democratic congressman Jim Cooper (who is a political and public policy junkie) said he preferred an up-or-down vote on the Senate bill. After all, this whole process of debating national health care has seemed to only further enhance public distrust in government. And, it appears that Congressman Cooper thinks, what seems to be a sleight-of-hand political maneuver (deeming the Senate bill approved), no matter how well intended, is likely to only make matters worse.
However, it appears Congressman Cooper and the Republicans have lost that vote and now the question is do the Democrats have the votes they need to pass the "reconciled" bill? The votes of our Tennessee congressman will be key. Already Congressman Bart Gordon, who voted against the original House health care bill, says he will vote "yes" this time. Gordon is not seeking re-election and neither is his Tennessee colleague John Tanner, who, so far, along with Cooper and Congressman Lincoln Davis, have not shown their cards and committed on how they will vote. With no Republican support expected, the vote in the House could be close enough that how these Democratic congressmen vote could make the difference one way or another.
Your guess is as good as mine, but I suspect that Congressman Cooper will vote in favor (especially with large area employers like Vanderbilt University issuing a last minute endorsement of the health care plan). I also suspect Congressman Tanner will vote "yes." Congressman Davis I suspect will most likely stay a "no" vote.
All this does the raise the question again: Despite their large majorities in both houses of Congress, why are the Democrats struggling so to govern, to pass anything on health care? Yes, their first attempts ran afoul of the 60-vote filibuster rule. But even there, the Democrats had 60 votes they thought they could call on. What they didn't plan were individual Senators taking the bill hostage at key times and the strong areas of disagreement between Democrats in the House and the Senate that made finding a consensus bill almost impossible (until perhaps now).
Faced with the likelihood of spending well over a year on this matter, and coming up with nothing to show for it, it appears the Democrats are finally coming together and could eke out a narrow victory in the House. Then it is on the Senate, where only 51 votes (not 60) are needed for approval this time. That should be achievable, although given the past history of this debate, who knows for sure.
A House victory is critical for President Obama. This has been his major focus almost since he took office. He's even delayed and now postponed an overseas trip to stay in Washington to help with the latest minute lobbying and a little arm-twisting that is likely to be necessary to get this matter approved.
Of course, this debate also has another Tennessee angle. Two GOP gubernatorial candidates are working hard to show that they are "protecting Tennesseans" from a government takeover of health care. As a member of the House, Congressman Wamp has taken to the floor pledging to use all his strength and do anything within his power to stop the health care legislation, particularly provisions that require everyone to have health care insurance or pay a penalty. Meantime, one of Wamp's opponents, Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey is trying to do his part from the General Assembly, urging quick House approval (the Senate has already done so) of a bill that would try to declare void any federal mandate for everyone to have health insurance and to get the State Attorney General to provide legal assistance if required.
Given the long-time precedence of federal law trumping state law, a lot of these efforts by Wamp and Ramsey may be just political theatre, but conservative votes in the August GOP primary are also at stake here. As are some pretty important and far-reaching public policy decisions that will impact this country for many years to come. This could be (finally) the weekend of decision. Or maybe not.
My guest this weekend on INSIDE POLITICS is Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kim McMillan. The former State House Majority Leader and gubernatorial aide is running a spirited, if underfunded campaign against Mike McWherter, a Jackson businessman and the son of a popular former governor.
McMillan told me no one has suggested that she drop out and she seems to have absolutely no intention to do so, but unless the next campaign finance report, due in April, shows a major upswing, it is hard to see how she can mount a major challenge in August. But stranger things have happened.
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I don't know if it's something in the water, the air or the sap rising in the trees as spring approaches.
But several times in recent days, I've seen events occur that has made me wonder: "What were they thinking?"
Now anybody can make a mistake, even a big one. Lord knows I have made my share and will likely make more in the future.
But when you read and watch news reports involving the recent incidents surrounding tourism PR guru Walt Baker (forwarding a racist e-mail), medical examiner Bruce Levy (arrested on felony drug charges), John Arriola and the Metro Court Clerk's office (bringing slot machines into the office for employee recreation), even the Brentwood youngsters involved in that bizarre St. Patrick's Day bank holdup (that resulted in their deaths), you have to ask what was going through folks' minds when they got caught up in all this?
I think sometimes it is technology, which not only enables us to do more, but in some cases, it may lead us to act so quickly we don't think through all the ramifications of our potential actions, and sometimes that can have devastating consequences.
In some cases, such as County Clerk Arriola's, further reflection can give you the opportunity to step back and try and correct (apologize) matters (especially a top aide shoving a TV reporter). But in other cases, the permanent damage seems almost beyond repair.
But on a more positive note, sometimes we see some very good thinking in our community. Bravo to those who decorated (dressed) the Musica statue on Music Row for St. Patrick's Day. It was a prank that I think gave a chuckle and lift to the entire city. It could also open up a whole new area for civic booster efforts and perhaps fund raising, although I would urge some caution that we not get into somethink like this without thinking it through as well.
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Recently, the National Council on Teacher Quality released a troubling report on teacher preparatory programs. The conclusion of the studythat many programs are not adequately preparing new educators to teach effectivelybegs the question of whether the lengthy process prospective teachers go through in these colleges is always the best means to ensure that a teacher will be effective in the classroom.
The raw numbers of the NCTQ study are alarming. Only 4 of the 1,200 elementary and secondary education prep programs surveyed were given four out of four stars. In contrast, 163 of the programs were given no stars and a warning label for candidates to those schools, saying they were unlikely to get much return on their investment.
There are two sets of victims here. The first are would be educators who are investing in these inadequate programs and coming out ill-prepared to teach. The second are students who are not receiving the level of quality instruction needed to prepare them for college or the workforce.
What, then, are the options? To a certain extent, this problem must be addressed at the higher education level. Reforming the education colleges, and holding them accountable based on their outcomes, will be a strong step toward ensuring more of our teachers are well prepared when they enter the classroom for the first time.
A second option would be to go around the education colleges altogether. Thomas Fordham, in a report entitled The Teachers We Need and How to Get More of Them: A Manifesto, called for widening the entry paths into the teaching profession. He suggested that lengthy certification processes with an emphasis on pedagogy would only serve to block otherwise highly qualified individuals from getting in front of our classrooms.
According to Fordham, [A] better solution to the teacher quality problem is to simplify the entry and hiring process. Get rid of most hoops and hurdles. Instead of requiring a long list of courses and degrees, test future teachers for their knowledge and skills. Allow principals to hire the teachers they need.
In Texas, that means streamlining the certification process as much as possible and shortening the time it would take a qualified professional, say a former engineer interested in teaching calculus, in front of the classroom.
That said, getting high quality talent in front of the classroom is only the first step Texas should take toward strengthening our teaching pool. Encouraging excellence in the classroom is also important, as is rewarding it. Unfortunately, the manner in which we currently compensate our teachersthrough a state mandated minimum salary schedule that rewards experience over excellence on an incremental, yearly basisdoes neither of those things.
How can we expect school districts to reward their best teacherspotentially at the six figure levelif the existing system constrains them into paying all their employees more or less the same wage? Furthermore, what incentive do educators who have not yet honed their craft have to improve? Whether they perform well or poorly, the salary schedule system grants them a raise the following year.
We have many excellent teachers in Texas public schools. Unfortunately, the report by NCTQ highlights the fact that nationwide, not just in Texas, we have a serious problem with educator preparation.
Problems in educator preparation lead to problems in the classroom, which is unfair to both the teachers who were short-changed in their learning experience and, in turn, unfair to students who are being short-changed in the classroom. The education colleges need improving, there is no doubt. But there are ways Texas could improve entry paths into the teaching profession, as well as improve the incentives toward becoming a great teacher. There are a lot of great teachers in this state. Theres no reason we cant have more.
James Golsan is policy analyst for the Center for Center for Education Policy with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin. He may be reached at email@example.com.
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Since Harris started its sports poll in 1985, baseball's popularity has plummeted 7% while college football is up 1%. For advertisers, college football is already the second in command. During their 2011 seasons, the National Football League took in $3.3 billion in national ads, college football earned $975 million and major league baseball trailed with $784 million, according to Nielsen (NLSN). Football is only padding its lead; baseball's sluggish pace is costing that sport more ground as years progress.
The Harris poll indicates that college football is most popular with viewers 18-to-24 years old. Baseball's key demographic is 50-to-64 years old. The passion for each sport among those key fan bases is also headed in opposite directions. ESPN's 2011 Sports Poll among Americans ages 12 and up put Major League Baseball at No. 2 with 11.7% of the vote, well behind the NFL's 25.6% but just ahead of college football at 10%. When polling "avid" fans, however, ESPN found that college football was the favored sport among 24.6% of that audience and trailed only the NFL's 33.3% margin. Major League Baseball came was in third with 20.6%, which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't tied with college football at roughly 17% in 2001.
With baseball losing steam and no other sport drawing more than 10% of fans' attention, it's getting a lot easier for advertisers to figure out what dates on the sports calendar are worth throwing piles of money at. For college football's national championship game on Monday, for example, Ad Age says ESPN got companies including Nissan (NSANY), Discover (DFS) and Yum Brands' (YUM) Taco Bell to pay $1 million for 30-second spots. That's about a third of what Anheuser-Busch (BUD), Pepsico (PEP) and others are paying CBS (CBS) for Super Bowl ads this year, but it's double what Fox brought in per 30-second ad during a four-game World Series in October.
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Best Peel For Hyperpigmentation/ Red Marks?
Posted 21 June 2013 - 07:08 PM
Oh and I've also started drinking mostly water, eating healthier and working out everyday.
Posted 21 June 2013 - 07:16 PM
have you tried a fade cream yet? i dont recommend trying a peel yourself. i did it, but you get to look very ugly for a week and you also have to pray you heal alright. you might get hyperpigmentation (i am still trying to see for myself). dont do anything dangerous to your skin.
Posted 21 June 2013 - 08:47 PM
Posted 21 June 2013 - 09:54 PM
You could could try this super green face mask...details are here: http://www.acne.org/...rass/?p=3360113
It's helping me so far, and yes, don't use peels, HQ or any other harsh topicals....you're only 16 and your skin has been overworked that why it's red/ thinned/ raw...it needs to be nourished, healed and rebuilt (and the cell's DNA needs restoration); so your skin needs good, healing, natural 'skin food' and nutrients, minerals, a detox, vitamins, protein (amino acids) & growth factor stimulants...so stick with gentle natural ingredients to heal your skin....
Also, time should heal the redness as you're only 16 (i.e. you should have excellent innate skin repair capability/ growth factors)...give it 6-12 months for the redness to totally heal (yes, you must learn patience - NB it takes 1 month for skin cells to renew and 2-3 months for new collagen to be made).
PS Great to hear you're eating healthy...also, try daily gentle exercise (10 minutes to 30 minutes) & fresh veg/ fruit juices daily (like beetroot/ apple/ carrot/ ginger & a spoonful of super greens i.e. chlorella/ spirulina/ barley grass/ wheat grass)... a natural holistic approach to healing your skin is the best long term treatment for healthy clear skin.
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Posted 23 June 2013 - 05:16 PM
I liked a BHA+ peel when I used it in the past.
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