Sunday, Aug. 8

Saturday night, long after the sun had gone down but long before the days final sample had been processed, I wandered out to Atlantis bow with a steaming mug of peppermint tea.Hearing the waves lap against the boat, feeling the salty breeze, and looking into the expansive blackness, I tried to savor the moment, anticipating the fact that on Sunday, Id make my first dive on Alvin.

A few hours earlier, at the nightly dive briefing, six of us huddled around a well-lit table in Atlantis computer lab, spreading maps, checklists, and notes over its surface. The dive brings the crews of one days dive together with the crew of the next days dive to discuss what worked well, what didnt, and what can be improved.

Its a time when scientific protocols come up against physical and logistical realities, since the Alvin pilots know the sub and its abilities like the back of their hands. They know that polypropylene rope handles work better than string, experiments for deployment should be positioned on the port side of the sub, and you need about 5 pounds to keep your sample marker from drifting away. Its a remarkably effective partnership.

The plan for Alvin Dive 4636 was ambitious: deploy four experiments and collect eight authigenic carbonates, four Niskin bottles of water, 24 tube cores of seep sediment, one scoop of clams, and two slurps of microbial mat. If we finished all of this in time, we would get an Alvin crews equivalent of recess: an exploratory venture to look for signs of more active seepage and possible temperature anomalies.

(Hydrate Ridge is a cold seep,maintaining a typical seafloor temperature of about 37 degrees Fahrenheit.)

Hydrothermal vents, like the flashier black smokers of Juan de Fuca found about a little over 300 miles west of us, exhibit temperatures well over 500 degrees and occur most frequently at mid-ocean ridges, where plates form and spread outward. Hydrate Ridge (4435N / 12510W, 800 meters deep) is at a convergent plate boundary, or subduction zone, where the Juan de Fuca plate runs into and sinks below the North American plate, so finding hot fluids would be pretty unusual, i.e. very interesting. ) As the final dive of the expedition, this would also be our groups last time seeing Alvin in its current configuration before he goes in for an upgrade in several months.

This morning, as groggy lab-mates staggered out of bed for the launch, Mike Navarro (a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography), pilot David Walters, and I climbed the blue metal staircase and wormed our way into the 6-foot titanium sphere. Sinking beneath the waters surface, I watched as bright turquoise faded to black. Jellyfish, flute-like siphonophores, glass thimble Ctenophores, and galaxies of other organic goo alive or otherwise streamed by the window, sparking with phosphorescence as Alvin disturbed their pelagic slumber. On the seafloor, 2,600 feet down, an alien world resolved before our eyes. Enormous orange crabs, catatonic red-speckled rockfish, slithering blue eel-like fish, and a number of smaller, more frenetic critters stared up at us, blinded by the headlights in their oversized eyes.

But there was no time to play tourist: we had a checklist to get to.

Most of our tasks required both active sites where seeping methane was most pronounced and inactive sites that were indistinguishable from the typical deep ocean bottom. By placing experiments in both sites, were able to tell how much of a given effect is due to the unusual phenomenon of methane seepage and how much would have happened anyway. Cruising above the sea floor to the mellow tunes of Jack Johnson and Melody Gardot (no touching the pilots radio), we searched for the telltale signs of activity: clam beds, shag carpets of gooey white or orange bacterial mat, or, if youre really lucky, strings of bubbles.

At one stop, we deployed a couple of Tony Rathburns experiments designed to test the breakdown rate of foraminifera, microscopic organisms known more affectionately as forams. The fossil record of forams is among the best known of any organism, with well-preserved samples dating back hundreds of millions of years. Thus, a certain type of fossil in a rock layer would point to a given time period, a handy geological yardstick by which to measure key environmental events like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or floods.

Earlier this morning, as we loaded Alvins cargo on deck, Tony showed me the elegant experimental design: mesh-wrapped steel beam cages containing jars of forams, with fine plastic netting to keep the forams in and other bugs out. We placed one such cage in a thick bacterial mat and another on top of an inactive brown rock, next to a thoroughly unimpressed rockfish. Indiana State graduate student Ashley Burkett and Elena Perez, a researcher at Londons Natural History Museum, will be back out here next year to pick up the samples and see the damage. By finding out just how quickly forams break down under methane seep conditions, they will be able to calibrate the foram yardstick and allow geologists to date past events with more precision.

A few mud cores, a slurp, and a scoop later, David guided us up the Pinnacle, a cliff of craggy white carbonate rock leading to the southern summit of Hydrate Ridge. Huge slabs of fractured rock 10, 20 meters across created a lattice of crevasses several meters deep.

Inside the fissures, white and orange sulfide-oxidizing microbial mats grew several inches deep, fueled largely by the methane-consuming Archaea (ANME) and sulfate-reducing bacteria our lab studies. With an impressive show of dexterity, Alvin gathered some samples, which we will examine back in the lab to learn more about the carbonate formation process and the role microbes play in global nutrient cycles. With each iteration of study, we find that these microbes and other hardy organisms living deep within the Earth are more important on the global scale than we previously believed.

By 3 p.m., our power was running low and we dropped weights, sent home without recess, and 30 minutes later, we were bobbing like a cork on the surface of the North Pacific Ocean.

Since today was my first Alvin diveI was subject to initiation upon my return to the Atlantis. All week, Ive been on the photo-documentation side of the fence, watching with amusement as people were dressed up in ridiculous costumes and doused with frigid seawater.Now, I knew it was my turn, and Mikes (a fellow first-timer), and I prepared for the worst.Sitting on thrones of mud, wearing sampling nets over our heads, we were drenched with two bucketfuls of freezing water, followed, mercifully, by a warm third shower.

It will be months before the epilogue of this expedition can truly be written, since our experiments take time to set up and process. But we couldnt have asked for calmer weather (0 missed dives out of 8 is an exception for the Pacific Northwest), a more supportive crew, or better samples. This evening was a fitting end to the sampling phase of the expedition: wispy orange and pink clouds framed a beautiful sunset as a pod of dolphins played in the ships wake, escorting us southward.

2 August 2010
Last updated at 06:02 ET

By Chris Morris
BBC News, Delhi

Inside India’s ‘production line’ heart hospital

The chest of a thirteen-year-old boy Uday Kumar has been sliced open and a team of doctors are operating on his heart.

“This is for patients who have a single ventricle,” says the senior surgeon Colin John, “with reduced pulmonary blood flow.”

Similar complex procedures are taking place in a line of operating theatres stretching down the corridor.

This is cardiac surgery on the production line, in an extraordinary hospital in India.

The Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore is the largest heart surgery hospital in the world. It has 1,000 beds, and last year it carried out a staggering 6,000 operations, half of them on children.

By contrast Great Ormond Street in London did less than 600.

“We are all products of the National Health Service in the UK, and what we learnt over there we have implemented in perhaps a slightly different manner,” says Dr Devi Shetty, India’s most famous heart surgeon, and the driving force behind the hospital.

“We believe that the only way is to build large hospitals – 100 or 200 beds are not going to be the solution for the current world health problem. We need to build large hospitals where hundreds of operations are carried out every day.”

And here in Bangalore, the theory appears to work. Despite the huge volume of operations, mortality rates are comparable with or better than those in Britain and the US, and costs are much lower.

Lessons from abroad

Little wonder that Dr Shetty and his hospital have been attracting attention from around the world. One recent visit was from a British delegation travelling to India with the Prime Minister David Cameron.

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They were keen to see what lessons could be learnt for health care back home.

“What we’re trying to do in the UK because of our budget problem is to get more for less,” explained Britain’s Business Secretary Vince Cable to a group of senior hospital executives.

“Not having inferior health because there’s less money, but actually getting more out of the system for less resource. And you’ve shown us a model here by which we can do this.”

Alongside the heart hospital are two neighbouring facilities – one dedicated exclusively to orthopaedics, and one to cancer treatment. They call it a health city. Vince Cable described the visit as quite inspirational.

“I just found it overwhelming. It combines what we always see in a good health system, which is humane humanitarian behaviour, with sound economics.”

In a series of wards upstairs, heart patients are recovering from surgery and waiting to go home. The average cost of surgery here is a fraction of what it costs in the West, and patients come to Bangalore from all over the world.

The very poorest are never turned away either. Under a subsidized scheme, CS Manju Nath, a local man, had complex heart surgery here for next to nothing.

“I couldn’t work because of illness,” he says, sitting up in bed. “I used to get tired so easily. But I just didn’t have the money for surgery. It’s only because of this hospital that I could have an operation.”

In other words, some patients are treated for a significant financial loss to the hospital. But the volume of operations is so large, that it still makes an overall profit.

Now Dr Shetty is expanding his business interests. He’s building a new hospital in the Cayman Islands – a joint venture with the government there – designed to appeal to patients in nearby Florida who may not have full insurance cover.

And he says he’s interested in creating a ‘health city’ in Britain as well, where he predicts costs could plummet.

“When one building and all the specialists in that building do only one procedure – that is taking care of the heart – obviously the results get better,” he argues. “And the costs go down significantly.

“In the US a heart surgery costs perhaps 20 or 30 times what it costs here. We are able to do a complex heart surgery for $US1800, and we want to bring it down to $US800.”

He has been called the ‘Henry Ford’ of heart surgery. It is mass production, which appears to be a resounding success.

A simple business plan, but potentially quite revolutionary.

Could this be a vision of the future for health care, in Britain and around the world?

The number of beds at Maryland hospitals has declined after rising steadily since 2000, which means fewer Marylanders visited the hospital for medical services than in years past.

This seems to run counter to a national trend of hospitals seeing more patients as the demand for medical care increases.

The Maryland Health Care Commission released a report July 14 finding that the number of acute care hospital beds has increased steadily since 2000. But throughout Marylands 94 hospitals, the number of licensed beds dropped by 121, or 1.1 percent, from 10,880 in fiscal year 2010 to 10,729 in fiscal year 2011, which began July 1.

Pamela Barclay, director of the Center for Hospital Services at the Maryland Health Care Commission, explained that the licensure capacity is set for the next fiscal year at 140 percent of a hospitals average daily census. For example, a hospital with an average of 100 patients per day would be granted licenses for 140 beds.

Everybody loves their sleep and were all able to toil through our day with work, school, college etc with the comforting thought that we can come home and just crash on our beds. So wouldnt it be even cooler if we could come home to awesomely creative beds that just get your senses tingling with out of the ordinary delight? Take a look at these beds

Designed by Dutchman Janjaap Ruijssenaars, this magnetic floating bed has enough magnets to keep 900 kilograms (1,984 pounds) floating in the air. To make sure that the bed doesnt float away because of hard wind or weird movements, its tethered to the walls by four cables. Technically, the magnetic floating bed is for sale, but at a price of 1.2 million euros ($1.53 million), youre not likely to find it in your local mattress store.

Havent you ever wanted to curl up inside a juicy hamburger? No? Well, too bad. The Internet loves hamburgers and therefore the glorious Hamburger Bed has over 1,000 fans on Facebook and a sesame seed duvet.

You might not have realized you needed a power-napping bed but once you have seen this futuristic creation by Napshell youll feel your life is totally incomplete without it. Ergonomically designed to be good for your back and spine, the Napshell beds super comfy shaped mattress will fit a wide range of body types and heights. Visual and acoustic elements within the bed make instant, deep relaxation possible at the press of a button. Complete with LED lights, MP3 player and sound proof walls, the Napshell is a busy businesspersons ultimate dream come true.

Made of 120 sofa balls covered with elastic fabric, the Feel Seating System designed by Animi Causa has a really unusual shape. It is inspired by a molecular structure, the basic form for all objects is the universe. If you are a playful person you can use it in many creative ways, because the structure of the feel allows to create multiple forms.

Wave your magic wand and this carriage may appear to make your little princess dreams come true. This fanciful coach bed is the most extraordinary childrens bed weve ever seen. Handcrafted in England of wood and fiberglass, the oval shaped interior measures just over 6 ft. in diameter. Construction and delivery time on this piece is over 6 months. The bar is set with this magnificent piece; it simply has no equal outside of fairy tales. Linens and interior options priced upon request. The price of a dream come true? $47,000.

We spend around a third of our lives asleep but that cant justify spending $60,000 on a bed, can it? The makers of Cosmovoide think it can. Their luxury bed is shaped like an egg (to either give you Morkian dreams, or wrap you up in cozy cosmic harmony or some such nonsense), has hammock-like suspending springs, seven rainbow-colored LEDs, a telephone, and a DVD/home theater set-up including a TV at its foot. Most fascinating? Its twin electric relaxation bed frames, which just get the mind boggling. That price is the base model, by the way: its customizable, according to its french manufacturers.

The Quantum Sleeper is a bed that hermetically seals itself as you sleep to protect you from Bio-Chemical terrorist attack, natural disaster, kidnappers/stalkers and affords Bulletproof Saferoom protection. It also has one-way mirrors so intruders can watch themselves futilely try to get in while you sit inside and call the police on your mobile, shortwave or CB radio. You can cower in style with the optional CD and DVD players and microwave oven. The price of protection? 160,000 dollars.

The Private Cloud, designed by Manuel Kloker, is a patented rocking frame for a bed that moves back and forth like a rocking chair. It sells for an average of about $6,800 depending on the size ordered, without the mattress.

Designed by Guido Rosati for Saba Italia, Scoop! is a sophisticated and innovative answer to the demand for combining the sofa function with the bed function. The two semi-circular sides of the bed can be separated resulting two new pieces of furniture. This bed is a great way to surprise your guests, and also you can be proud to have a stylish contemporary bed and two sofas in the same time.

The computer bed is a normal bed which makes an intelligent use of the space below the bed. The gas pistons enable the bed to double up as a computer table. Invented by European designer Linos son Francesco, this twin model comes with a reinforced metal frame in your choice of several different kinds of wood. Prices start at $3650.

The sonic bed is a king-size bed with 12-channel surround sound. It may look like a wooden tank from the outside, but inside its got enough speakers to dwarf any home theater set up. Created by Kaffe Matthews as a museum exhibit (no plans for retail as of yet), the bed requires 220 volts of electricity and covers every inch of your body in sound.

According to the product copy, owners of Lomme Beds will benefit from state of the art light and sound therapy, which remove outside disturbances and allow you to wake naturally feeling refreshed and full of energy.

Coming from the house of Decadrages, the designer BedUP model offers you a perfect comfort level without occupying much space. Suspended from the ceiling, this novel furniture piece can be accommodated in 4 sq mt space of your apartment. By day, the bed is stored on the ceiling, the under-surface becomes ceiling with the possibility of integrating lighting. At night, the bed can come down in the manner of an elevator and stops at the height previously requested, thus avoiding moving furniture that would have been placed underneath it.

Created by italian designer Andrea Lucatello, the bed is not actually hanging but, it does looks like floating on the floor. The Hanging Bed comes in two sizes, the Queen European King and Double and many colors. The gorgeous bed sells for almost $5,500 excluding the mattresses.

The Casket Furniture Company designed a bed for those who wants to know the feeling of sleeping in a coffin. According to their site, this long awaited item can be yours for only a little over $4,000. Its constructed of Solid Pine with a removable top and bottom and adorned with a handmade metal cross and gothic pall bearer handles. Finished with an ebony stain and lacquer with a burgandy velvet interior. Disturbingly, their site also indicated locks and latches are available at an added price.

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Raised beds can solve a vast array of gardening problems, such as poor soil or bad drainage. Allow me to show you the benefits of owning one.

In addition to this, they also offer the option of adding interest to flat spots. They can also help to provide level ground that may be a problem in sloping gardens.

Raised beds offer so much more versatility and can be a real advantage when looking to grow crops all year round that it is surprising they do not feature in more gardens.

They are the perfect solution to the problem of boring, flat gardens by adding height and interest. There is a huge range to choose from. View the complete range now.

In a compact garden they will work well with paving and the result is an intimate courtyard garden.The beds can be of various shapes including square or rectangle and they can be designed to fit a corner in the garden.

Raised beds hold a lot more soil than the conventional container and as a result, they are much easier to look after and you can grow a much wider variety of plants and crops.

If your soil prevents you growing a particular favourite of yours, a raised bed will offer you the opportunity to grow plants in your garden that otherwise would fail to thrive.

The soil in the raised beds will warm up quicker than garden soil. This is a great advantage as you can start off new plants earlier in spring. A massive bonus if you are planning to grow early maturing vegetables or flowers.

For anyone who finds it difficult to bend, raised beds are welcome solution. You can choose the height of the raised bed to suit your needs. This can be done by purchasing raised beds in modular form. This allows you to buy as many panels as you wish to make the perfect height.

The majority of raised beds are available in wood (from FSC approved sources) and recycled plastic (PVC). Many raised bed kits are available and they can easily slotted together.

Raised Bed. The cost.

Nowadays, raised beds cost a lot less than you think. You can even get one for just 9.99. View the whole range now.

Now you know the basics, why not follow my series on using a rasied bed. This will show you how to build, fill and grow successfully.

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How To Choose Mattresses And Beds For Your Kids?

Beds for kids are an important part of the room of your kid. Furniture is to be of great importance when it comes to decorating a kids room because it is not only style but comfort as well should be. The beds are very important in this respect. These moving parts must be carefully selected if you ant to make your kids happy with how their room looks. There are certain beds which can be searched while going to buy a bed for your kids room. The kid is to spend the whole night on this piece of very mobile, which should be both comfortable and elegant.

While going to buy a bed for the baby, the first step you should take is to ask the interests of your kid if he or she is old enough to want things the way he or she wants. You can take that kid with you also so that he or she can choose according to your personal taste.

Beds that are meant for a kids room tend to be of different types. It may be the bunk bed that is known for creating a broad vision of the room. Many parents for example, have two kids usually tend to go for bunk beds, because they are two beds to be placed vertically. It takes up much less space than two single beds. If you have a kid, bunk beds are still very useful because they can be used to host a kid as well. There are several types of bunk beds as a bed under a bed or a bunk bed in the shape of L.

Stacker beds are another preferred type of kids. These beds are two single beds that get to be stacked together effectively on top of each other. Trundle beds are those which are prepared with four-poster beds, under which there is a low wooden bed. Cabin beds are also a popular type of bed being selected for a kids bedroom. These are like a wooden bed frame to be on top of a series of four drawers or drawers. You can keep stuff your son in those drawers and chests. Loft Beds are also very popular to be how to get off the ground and the left space below can be used to string your kids toys, books, etc.

cots are available in different types and these types of kids to be read are selected on the basis of demand from the room, your kids interest and requirement.

It is also important to choose a quality mattress for your child in order to avoid problems with the back and neck. A bad sleep will negatively influence you child.

If you are really taking care of your health when on journey by recreational vehicle, then take care of healthy sleep as well. And RV mattress will help you with that. All sorts of rv mattress products and even custom RV mattress are available here your rv mattress pad web resource.

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Raised Beds are sections of elevated soil. Raised bed gardening has a lot of positive factors brought about by holding the soil at this elevation. The most significant factors can be shown beneath.

Raised Bedsare far more useful when watering. It is much more effective in holding water in the soil, within the bed.You have no reason to be apprehensive in relation to the soil developing over-saturation of water as it purely drains through the raised bed. This amalgamation of factors in water preservation and the competence to let water pass freely throughout, is what makes raised beds wonderful for accomplishing a wide-ranging medley of crop yield.

A Raised bed has improved ability in controlling the compost mix that is chosen. Its easy to add a number of compost types, with the purpose of getting the best combination so as to allow for the most favourable growing environment. in a raised bed, vegetation will obtain a superior allocation of food. The common types of plant can develop exceedingly, on a two-week nourish of everyday fertiliser.On the other hand, plants similar to the tomato will prosper better when specific fertiliser is used. Raised beds promise thatfood is contained inside the enclosed space increasing the effectiveness of plant feeding.

Shielding your plants in a raised bed is undemanding as the strong casing makes it very painless when attaching a net to it, ensuring unwanted pests and birds than can attack the crop cannot cause any damage. Varied types of netting can be used to prevent any threat. The height of raised beds eliminates the need for much digging.

For gardeners that are deficient in dexterousness, raised beds are a delight.

There is a diverse range of materials that can be made into raised beds. More usefully, materials like recycled plastic are far long-lasting, than those made from timber. Preservatives can be added to raised beds made from wood. This however, does not compare to one made from recycled plastic.It is very probable that a recycled plastic raised bed will last you the whole of your life. We know this because plastic takes years to decompose in landfill. Nonetheless, wood can come under assault, from the effects of the elements and also from insects.

Landscaped homes have more appeal to buyers. You can — and should — give buyers an impression of a comfortable entry and a well-maintained space as they view your home for the first time.

One way to accomplish this is by making sure paving is smooth and well maintained, the joints free of weeds and the paving edged, presenting a clean appearance. Gutters, paint, roofing, entries, mailboxes and landscape lighting make important first impressions. A comfortable entry is one that leads people to enter the house efficiently and without confusion. It should not be overwhelming. Walkways should have no more than a 5 percent grade with a width of at least 42 inches.

You might want to consider redesigning paved areas if they are in poor condition. If steps are necessary, always plan on having at least two. A single step is a “trip step.” Build each riser a maximum of six inches high and make the part you walk on — the tread — at least 14 inches deep.

Use lighting for aesthetics, security and safety. Illuminate entries in aesthetically pleasing styles. Install down-lighting from trees and shine a few lights against the house and on plants that have interesting growth habits. This helps invite buyers to experience your property in the evening, offering a completely different atmosphere.

Trees add the greatest value, according to the American Nursery and Landscape Association, so install them first. And color in the landscape — especially delivered by flowers — gets properties noticed.

Take pictures of the garden at its showiest times of year. Clients have told me that, when sellers have passed along photos of their garden, along with information about the plants’ requirements, they found that to be as useful as any other information they received about their new homes.

Here are other landscape design suggestions:

– Balance the front of your property so it is equally weighted — a large tree to one side and shrubs to the other. Ornamental plantings should highlight the entire front yard, not hide the house. Sweep beds wide, across eight to 12 feet, around the front corners of the house, with a vertical element, such as a holly, hinoki false cypress, water lily star magnolia or chindo viburnum, planted about eight feet off the corners, anchoring the house to the landscape. This adds an expansive appearance to the property. Large plants placed tightly against walls will make houses seem smaller.

– Design beds so plants are sequenced with low flora in the front and tall ones to the back, with two feet or more open to the house walls. Large beds are very effective, allowing room for a wide variety of foliage and color. Selections of plants can be installed in groupings for impact.

The front of the bed could be edged with pulmonaria if the location has filtered sun, backed by several very compact, dwarf weigela, which have maroon foliage. Back these plants with Iroquois or Oneida viburnum bred for their flower, berries, attractiveness to birds and fall color. Fill in with assorted groupings of shade-tolerant perennials and annuals that flower at various times throughout the growing season. This type of arrangement needs a bed 12 to 15 feet deep to accommodate mature plants.

– Color, texture and form get your property noticed. Use sweeps of the same or similar colors for the greatest impact. Use shrubs with interesting architectural form and texture, fall color, berries, flowers, summer leaf color and foliage variations. Choose shrubs for their year-round ornamental value, especially if you don’t know when you will be selling. Some shrubs and trees offer 12-month interest, such as kousa dogwood, with spring flowers, edible summer fruits, fall color and a winter bark that is mottled tan and brown. Virginia sweetspire has at least three seasons of interest. It displays deep maroon stems in winter and thick-textured, maroon fall foliage. Its white fragrant, eye-catching, horizontally growing panicles open in spring.

– Repeating plants in mass, using the same colors in large sweeps, has an eye-catching effect. So if you’re planting black-eyed Susans in full sun, for selling over the next several months, plant them in groups of three to five in several open, sunny beds on the property. Purchase mature plants in flower now. They seldom fail to catch your eye and you can assure the buyer that they will return annually. Bath’s pink dianthus is another good plant that yields fragrant flowers in the spring. It provides an evergreen mat of blue-green foliage that, in four years, has spread six feet in diameter over asphalt and flagstone on our property.

Beds in full sun can be filled with masses of petunias now and mums in the fall.

– Containers can enhance any entry and wow a prospective buyer. Almost any plant that can be placed in the ground can be grown in a container. And virtually any object that will hold soil can serve as one, whether it’s a clay or foam pot or any object in which holes have been punched for drainage.

Think of containers as you would a garden. You can install trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials and most fruits and vegetables, provided the container is a proper matching size for the plants. You can have plantings in places they wouldn’t ordinarily grow, such as on a deck, patio, balcony or roof. They can provide a garden around homes with no space for a traditional one and will help overcome problems of poor soil aeration and drainage.

The greatest risks of container gardening are soil drying and drainage. Container plantings are much more susceptible to drought than flora planted directly in the ground. Watering at planting time is essential. Containers, especially in hanging baskets, might require watering every day during the summer if they are in the sun.

Although clay pots are more aesthetically appealing from a design standpoint, plastic or fiberglass that looks like clay will be far better for moisture retention. Plastic containers don’t “breathe,” so they won’t need to be watered as often as clay. They also are lightweight and easy to move.

– Position a piece of outdoor art or feature a specimen plant near the entry, but use only a piece or two. The sculpture can serve as a contrasting element with the garden and serve as a focal point to set off the entrance. Design plants and sculptural elements in proportion to the size of your home or property. A large home can accommodate larger plantings than a small property.

Remember, the first step is developing ideas. Look for what will invite a buyer to your home by researching combinations of plantings, structures and paving, and dress up your front yard according to these theories and guidelines.

Well-maintained landscaping shows prospective buyers — and your neighbors — that you care about your property.

Joel M. Lerner is president of Environmental Design in Capitol View Park.

Bunk beds are the proper resolution to your growing family. Parents love bunk beds for their affordability and area-saving features, kids love them for their fortress-like feel. Bunk beds are typically the one choice for getting twin beds into a small room with restricted flooring space. Bunk Beds are especially important in rooms shared by siblings; or simply as well-liked for sleepovers. All beds here are tremendous sturdy, durable and basic in their styling.

Bunk beds are great for small rooms but they are an easy method to provide additional area in a larger room. Bunk beds are constructed of either wood or metal. The wood is bigger and can be more clunky looking. Bunk beds are an important area-saver for a small bedroom. If kids should share the room and twin beds arent an choice, take into account bunk beds.

Bunk beds are usually supported by four poles or pillars, one at each corner of the bed. To get to the second bunk a ladder is used, although taller kids typically find different sooner, more inventive strategies of climbing into them. Bunk beds are beds stacked one above the other. Bunk beds are well-liked for sleeping areas with restricted flooring space. Bunk beds are very useful, affordable, fashionable, children love them, and they are completely safe.

Bunk beds are used when there isnt any available area to sleep i.e. A ladder is used to get to high beds. Bunk beds are sometimes used in establishments resembling prisons . As well, they are typically used in public services resembling homeless shelters and bomb shelters . Bunk beds are broadly used as of late mainly as a result of it might reduce the area it takes up while making the most of the available flooring space. Kids love them as a result of they are outstandingly made and fun.

Bunk beds are commonly used in purposes the place residing area is restricted, resembling in small flats and recreational vehicles. To further make the most of residing area in such purposes, bunk beds typically have sleeping decks which can be hinged to the wall in order that they are often pivoted into a storage place when not used. Bunk beds are real area savers. Since beds are positioned one on high of the other, you are able to use the identical spot for 2 beds. Bunk beds are safer now than ever. Higher materials, better development, and better design have all factored into a much safer bed than even a decade ago.

Bunk beds are the commonest type of different bedding, with an upper bunk stacked above a decrease bunk. Some bunk beds stack identical-sized mattresses horizontally, while others stack a twin bed above a full dimension bed or perhaps a futon that can function a larger sleeping or residing area. Bunk Beds are great for that goal! In case you are in need of saving some flooring area in your kids s room, a bunk bed can do exactly that. Bunk beds are perfect for a multi-child room or to create an additional sleeping space. Our collection of bunk beds for teenagers contains twin over twin, twin over full, and full over full designs.

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