Storage Trends for Reston Remodeling Projects ? Elite Home ...

There?s a war going on these days between the amount of stuff you can put in your home and where to keep all of that stuff.? Although it may seem like an endless battle, there are plenty of solutions to your storage and organizational problems.? A great place to start tackling your storage and organizational woes is in your media room, office and guest rooms.

Starting in the media rooms, entertainment systems have changed dramatically in recent years and cabinet manufacturers and shops are running fast to keep up.? Today, cabinetry isn?t limited to just your bathroom or kitchen.? Cabinets are more streamlined and plugged-in than ever.? Just as TVs become more streamlined and minimal, so does the cabinetry that accompanies them. Contemporary, floating and open cabinets are all growing in popularity.

Next on the list of places to solve organizational and storage problems is in your home office.? Many home owners today work from home and they need plenty of space within their home to dedicate as office space.? With your house doubling as a home and an office, you can bet storage space is important.? Cabinetry for home offices are becoming more accessorized with more accessories and organizational tools built right into the cabinets.

As the equipment in our office gets more high-tech, so too does our cabinets.? Cabinet makers are coming up with improved storage systems for our gadgets.? Features such as built-in charging stations make your cabinet space work with your electronics.

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Do you have an extra room in your house that you use only as a guest room?? Does it only ever get used when you have guests come over?? If this is the case, you might benefit from having a Murphy bed!? What is a Murphy bed?? A Murphy bed, or better known as a wall beds, is a bed and bed frame that can fold up into a cabinet or wall.? Recent trade and home shows have showcased new styles, new features, new configurations, new easier open-close mechanisms and new lighting and entertainment built-ins for this category.? Murphy beds make a great addition to a guest room because they allow to use the room for many other features throughout the year for all those times you don?t have guests over.

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These are just a few simple solutions to helping you with your organizational and storage problems.? Take a look at the messiest areas in your home to figure out where you need the most help.? Once you?ve nailed that down, you can start creating an action plan to get your space neat and organized.

Give Elite Home Remodeling a call today to find out how we can help you with your cabinet, storage and organizational problems in Reston and throughout all of Northern Virginia.

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Atari made 2600 console that plays all classic cartridgesMuch smaller than it's older woodgrain brotherHas all the features of the original 2600 console
Classic video game system will play all original Atari 2600 cartridges. No games are built in. Sellers may not list original Atari woodgrain VCS 2600 consoles under this heading on Amazon. The rainbow size may vary on the top of the system.

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Gas-filled aspirin is a potent anti-cancer drug

Loading aspirin with gas dramatically boosts its cancer-fighting ability and might even blunt the harmful side effects of taking aspirin every day.

Aspirin has been shown to be effective in reducing the incidence of cancer: a trial last year showed that taking it daily for at least two years reduced the risk of colorectal cancer. Just 18 out of 427 people taking aspirin developed the cancer compared with 30 out of 434 on a placebo. But it can also cause ulcers and bleeding in the gut, which doesn't necessarily make it a good option for healthy people.

The gut lining protects itself from damage by producing nitric oxide and hydrogen sulphide. So Khosrow Kashfi at The City College of New York developed NOSH-aspirin, which produces both gases as it breaks down.

Aspirin is known to damage cancer cells, which is thought to be behind its preventative effect. To test the new drug, Kashfi's team added it to cells from 11 types of human tumour, including colon, pancreas, breast, lung and prostate cancer.

"It turned out to be significantly more potent than aspirin alone," says Kashfi. With colon cancer, for example, NOSH-aspirin was 100,000 times more potent than the original drug, causing the cells to stop dividing, wither and die.

It is not yet clear what caused the increased potency but the results suggest that lower doses would be needed to fight cancer than for regular aspirin.

Further work by Kashfi showed that the new compound appears not to be harmful to animals (Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, in press). In mice with human colon cancer, daily doses for 18 days reduced tumour size by 85 per cent with no gut damage. "We could be looking at a human trial within two years," he says.

"I welcome anything that promises to retain the health benefits of aspirin with fewer side effects," says John Burn at Newcastle University in the UK. "But you have to be cautious whenever you consider giving people who are healthy something for a long time," he says.

Journal reference: Medicinal Chemistry Letters, DOI: 10.1021/ml300002m

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The US Geological Survey Has Photographs That Rock

By Alex Wild?| March 6, 2012 |??

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Aerial view of eruption of Mount St. Helens. Skamania County, Washington. May 18, 1980.

I just spent an hour surfing about in the United States Geological Survey photographic library. What a trove of treasures! The archive isn?t all just old images of rocks, volcanos, national parks, and earthquakes, either. The library also holds early photographs of native cultures, political figures, historical events, and more. Here is a sample:

Guatemala Earthquake 1976. Motagua fault trace crossing a soccer field at Gualan.

Native Americans at Greenland Ranch, Death Valley, California. 1901.

Arches National Park, Utah. An example of rock art. "Moab panel" on a cliff of Wingate Sandstone above U.S. Highway 163 between Courthouse Wash and the Colorado River is believed to be the work of "Barrier Canyon" style people. September 1973.

Yosemite National Park, California. Three Brothers and the forest at their feet. 1892.

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. 1969-1971 Mauna Ulu eruption of Kilauea Volcano. Lava fountains and lava cascading in Aloi Crater. October 20, 1969.

About the Author: Alex Wild is an Illinois-based entomologist who studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books, and media outlets. Follow on Twitter @myrmecos.

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Sri Lanka thrash Australia by 8 wickets

Sri Lanka blazed to an emphatic eight wicket victory over Australia at the Adelaide Oval Tuesday to take the tri one-day international series to a decider.

The World Cup finalists easily ran down Australia's 271 for six to post 274 for two with 34 balls to spare.

Man-of-the-match Tillakaratne Dilshan smashed 106 off 119 balls and skipper Mahela Jayawardene hit 80 off 76 balls to give Sri Lanka a flying start.

Their opening stand of 179 off just 165 balls set the platform for victory.

Kumar Sangakkara hit the winning runs to remain 51 not out with Dinesh Chandimal on 17.

"No one gave us a chance when we came to Australia, we've done a lot of hard work, we just need to do that on Thursday, execute our game plan," Jayawardene said.

Jayawardene was fined 10 percent of his match fee for clashing with umpires after Australian counterpart Michael Clarke, while batting, appealed to umpires for a waist-high no-ball ruling, which was subsequently granted.

"I was probably the culprit in dragging it for too long," Jayawardene said.

"I thought initially the umpire didn't make a call ... I had no issue with the no-ball, but I felt after Michael had spoken to them, that is when they made the call."

It was Sri Lanka's fourth win over Australia in the tri-series and gives them all the momentum heading into Thursday's decider.

Jayawardene had an early let-off when he was caught behind off a Clint McKay no ball while Dilshan was given not out on 77 with television replays showing him edging to wicketkeeper Matthew Wade from Shane Watson's bowling.

"If the ball is there I'm going to hit it. We've shown how good we are," Dilshan said

Australia have an injury concern ahead of the third final with skipper Clarke.

"I have done something to my left hamstring, I don't know to what extent," he said.

"But it's obviously not feeling good at the moment, that is for sure."

Clarke limped through the latter stages of his resolute innings of 117 from 91 balls and fielded until the 38th over of the Sri Lankan run chase before leaving the ground for treatment.

He has a history of back-related hamstring injuries and only returned to the tri-series from a right hamstring strain last Sunday.

"Our bowling was poor, our fielding let us down," Clarke said. "On good wickets you need to maximise your powerplays, you need to make 300 on that wicket.

"The boys are working hard, we are just not executing against quality opposition. We've got to find a way."

Warner reeled off his second consecutive century with 100 off 140 balls to set Sri Lanka what in the end proved a below-par target to level the series.

Sri Lanka did not help their chances, with sloppy outfielding and five dropped catches as Clarke and Warner shared in a 184-run stand for the third wicket after Wade (14) and Watson (15) fell cheaply.

Clarke smashed four sixes and five fours in his blazing century, while Warner, passed fit before the match from a groin strain, backed up his 163 in Brisbane with another ODI ton.

Warner played more conservatively, with four fours and a six in his 100.

Clarke received three let-offs from the Sri Lankan fielders.

The most notable was on 77 when Lasith Malinga spilt a chance on the deep square leg boundary with the ball flicking out of his fingers over the ropes for six.

Clarke thrived from his let-off to smash Farveez Maharoof for 23 runs off the 44th over clubbing six, four, six and four from successive deliveries.

The run flurry enabled Clarke to beat Warner to a century and the Australian captain hobbled from the field when run out by Rangana Herath after being unable to push his running between wickets in the latter stages of his knock.

Malinga, who also finished the innings in discomfort, finished with three for 40 off 10 overs.

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Sandra Fluke, Gender Reassignment, and Health Insurance | MRCTV

Sandra Fluke is being sold by the left as something she's not. Namely a random co-ed from Georgetown law who found herself mixed up in the latest front of the culture war who was simply looking to make sure needy women had access to birth control. That, of course, is not the case.

As?many have already uncovered?Sandra Fluke she is, in reality, a?30 year old long time liberal activist?who?enrolled at Georgetown with the express purpose of?fighting for the school to pay for students' birth control. She has been pushing for mandated coverage of contraceptives at Georgetown for at least three years?according to the Washington Post.

However, as I discovered today, birth control is not all that Ms. Fluke believes private health insurance must cover. She also, apparently, believes that it is discrimination deserving of legal action if "gender reassignment" surgeries are not covered by employer provided health insurance. She makes these views clear in an article she co-edited with Karen Hu in the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law.

The title of the article, which can be?purchased in full here, is Employment Discrimination Against LGBTQ Persons and was published in the Journal's 2011 Annual Review. I have posted a transcript of the section I will be quoting from?here. In a subsection of the article entitled "Employment Discrimination in Provision of Employment Benefits" starting on page 635 of the review Sandra Fluke and her co-editor describe two forms of discrimination in benefits they believe LGBTQ individuals face in the work place:

"Discrimination typically takes two forms: first, direct discrimination limiting access to benefits specifically needed by LGBTQ persons, and secondly, the unavailability of family-related benefits to LGBTQ families."

Their "prime example" of the first form of discrimination? Not covering sex change?operations:

"A prime example of direct discrimination is denying insurance coverage for medical needs of transgender persons physically transitioning to the other gender."

This so called "prime example" of discrimination is expounded on in a subsection titled "Gender Reassignment Medical Services" starting on page 636:

"Transgender persons wishing to undergo the gender reassignment process frequently face heterosexist employer health insurance policies that label the surgery as cosmetic or medically unnecessary and therefore uncovered."

To be clear, the argument here is that employers are engaging in discrimination against their employees who want them to pay for their sex changes because their "heterosexist" health insurance policies don't believe sex changes are medically necessary.

Additionally Sandra Fluke and her co-editor have an answer for why exactly these "heterosexist" insurance policies, and the courts that side with them, deem sex changes as medically unnecessary:

"In?Mario v. P & C Food Markets, Inc., an employee who was denied such coverage brought claims under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security (ERISA) and Title VII. The court rejected the ERISA claim, finding the plaintiff's mastectomy and hormone therapy were not medically necessary. The court's ruling was based upon controversy within the medical community regarding that treatment plan. Much of that controversy has been linked to ignorance and bias against transgender persons, and the American Medical Association has declared the lack of coverage to be discrimination."

You see, all opposition to the determination that sex changes are medically necessary, and therefor must be covered by private employer provided health insurance, is based on "ignorance and bias against transgender persons".

The section on discrimination against those seeking ?gender reassignment ends with Sandra Fluke and her co-editor wondering why more lawsuits aren't filed against private employers on these grounds. Especially in comparison to the frequency with which these types of cases are filed against Medicare, Medicaid, and even the prison system:

"The reason for this lack of cases is unclear. Private employee insurance plans do not more frequently cover this need, so it may be a sign that transgender employees do not see the courts as likely to provide any assistance against private employers."

The argument made in this article edited by Sandra Fluke and Karen Hu is quite clear. "Gender reassignment" is a medically necessary set of procedures that must be covered under employee provided health insurance policies. If it is not covered by those policies that is tantamount to discrimination and legal action should be taken against the employer.

So, as you can see, Sandra Fluke is not what she is being sold as. Instead she is a liberal activist pushing some rather radical ideas. Keep that in mind as the left holds her up in the spotlight.

Source: http://www.mrctv.org/blog/sandra-fluke-gender-reassignment-and-health-insurance

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