Safe Practice with Yoga Mats
July 31, 2011 by AndrewTraub
Filed under Art, Light, Yoga
In the world of yoga, the yoga mat has become one of the most important equipment aids within the market place. For obvious reasons, safety issues are a real concern and yoga mats are designed not to slip, so extreme postures can be made with the full confidence of the student.
Although not particularly costly, it may be advisable for a student new to the discipline of yoga to purchase a mat initially especially if the plan is to attend a yoga class. Quite often teachers will bring yoga mats with them or there will be available mats through the gym or sports centre where the sessions are held. Although these may not be the best mats in the market place they will enable the student to practice safely and to have support on the joints in the kneeling postures.
The humble yoga mat could be deemed the latest fashion accessory as they come in a variety of colors and textures and have different densities. They also provide traction, which is essential to stop you slipping during some of the postures.
Yoga mats can be used at home or at the class and most come in handy bags and can be rolled up to avoid taking up space. They are lightweight and easy to carry too. Some mats come complete with a pillow, which can be used in some of the postures, should you wish to.
Another important factor to purchasing your own yoga mat is to choose the color, texture and style, which suits your personality and surroundings. It helps to personalize your yoga space, which is important and will help you to practice more diligently.
When your class is almost finished and you lay down for the relaxation section, your mat will protect you from a hard, cold floor so enabling you to benefit from your relaxation session.
Good yoga mats can be obtained from a variety of sources. The internet for example will have the web addresses for possibly thousands of yoga mat suppliers and they can be bought from many retail outlets these days also.
If you are seriously looking for yoga mats, you will find as you begin to look around other items such as belts, exercise balls and blocks which are also available as part of a yoga practice. Iyengar yoga often uses props to help the student achieve greater alignment when the body is not flexible enough to be able to reach the full position. These props are reasonably priced and you may find some special offers enable you to buy a yoga mat quite reasonably when you purchase some other yogic aids at the same time.
Your Questions About Frys
July 31, 2011 by AndrewTraub
Filed under Q&A
Daniel asks…
What should i buy to save the platy frys?
I have 2 guppy, 2 mollies and 1 pregnant platy and 3 other platies in a 10 gallon tank. What should i buy to keep the platy frys in the tank or should i just buy another tank, but what size?
AndrewTraub answers:
For now, add one nice-sized bunch of hornwort, the largest you can get at your petshop. It is fine leaved so it will have lots of hiding spots for the babies. It needs to float or be lightly weighted down as it does not form roots to anchor it to your substrate (gravel). So don’t try to plant it.
It is inexpensive and easy to find at most shops, even places like Petsmart. It doesn’t require high-powered lights; the typical fluorescent strip light that comes with tank ‘kits’ will do fine, as long as you keep it on for about 12 hours a day. It doesn’t require fertilization or other special attention.
Your adult fish will like the sense of security that it will provide and it will help add more oxygen to your water as it photosynthesizes.
Please don’t use a mesh or plastic ‘breeding trap’ as they upset the mother and lack the space or good water circulation that the fry will need after a few days. Hornwort is cheaper and healthier for all the fish.
If you expect to raise them all, you should start on setting up an additional tank soon because your other fish are all livebearers too and it won’t be too long before they have baby fish too (usually every 28-35 days or so). New fry in a separate tank require several feedings a day and partial water changes every 1-2 days. It’s a lot of work!
Good luck. Even if not all of your fry survive, you will enjoy watching those which survive grow and develop.
Chris asks…
how do i stop my angal fish from eating the frys after they hatch?
can i move the frys to a new tank if so how do i keep them alive?and when do i move them?
AndrewTraub answers:
Do not use any sort of breeding net, if this was a viable option someone like me would be doing it instead of having a rack of 5 & 2.5 gallon hatching tanks.
You will have to get a baby brine shrimp hatchery up & running, newly swimming fry need the motion of live food to stimulate their feeding instinct. Once again, if something worked better I would be using it.
To keep me from having to key in 6 pages of info, check out this article I wrote a few years back; http://www.fishforums.net/content/New-World-Cichlids/96104/Angelfish-Spawning-and-Breeding/
Maria asks…
How do I get rid of frys without killing them?
My dalmation molly had six fry’s but I don’t want them anymore.My 25 gallon tank has the dalmation her frys another molly and guppies.I wanted to put in another fish but now I cant because it will be to crowded.Our pet store wont take them because they have to many and the get shipped to often for them to be out of stock.My neighbors don’t want them either.Any ideas how to get rid of them.
AndrewTraub answers:
This is for bettas but it works the same:
Sell Them
Some pet stores will take your extra stock from you for about a dollar per fish, or in exchange for store credit. The internet is also a popular venue for selling bettas, with resources like online aquatic auction houses available at cheap (or free!) listing fees. If your skills as a breeder become good enough and your reputation as a seller grows, you can also try your hand at selling surplus stock from your own website. Be prepared with the proper shipping boxes, bags, and heat packs, and invest in a decent camera. All potential buyers would much rather see a photograph of the actual fish in question than a stock photo representation that ensures them their fish ‘Looks something like this’. More times than not, the fish they receive looks nothing like the one used in the ad, leaving the customer disappointed. And disappointed customers are not return customers!
Cull Them
For the purpose of this section, I’m far more comfortable using the term ‘cull’ than ‘kill’, although that is essentially what most betta breeders mean when they refer to culling their spawns. Although it may seem brutal and heartless to kill a perfectly healthy betta just because it may not show a trait you want, or you do not plan to use it in your future breeding program, breeders who face the problem of hundreds and hundreds of bettas and no outlet for them may have to consider their options. Until a new breeder gains enough experience, I wouldn’t recommend culling for anything except poor health or physical deformity until the fish finishes developing. Many times a young betta will not look like it will amount to much, then suddenly develop into one the best fish from your spawn. You will develop an ‘eye’ for what to look for as you look at enough baby bettas, but until then just look for the usual problems — crooked spines, swimming problems, weakness, deformities, excessive color wash, etc. Although I’ve always been of the opinion that an ethical breeder should take responsibility for the lives he or she brings into existence through intentional breeding, any breeder who is so overwhelmed through sheer numbers of bettas to care for that they can’t take proper care of their fish needs to find a way to cut back on their numbers. If you can’t sell them or give them away, euthanization is an option.
There are several methods of euthanization. Out of all of them, I think feeding them to a larger culling fish is the least painful, quickest, and best way of destroying an unwanted betta. Oscar cichlids are great for this job. Get one at least 5 – 6 inches long; at that size they can handle anything up to medium-sized adults in one quick gulp. Keep in mind that Oscars can reach a size of twelve or so inches, regardless of the size of their tank, and produce a lot of waste. An adult Oscar will require a tank of at least 40 – 50 gallons and weekly partial water changes.
I have used freezing as a method of euthanizing fish that were sick beyond recovery and suffering. Just place the fish in a small cup or bag of water, place him in the freezer, and try not to think about it too much. I know a breeder that culls all his fish this way, taking his young culls and putting them all together in a large bag and then freezing them. Supposedly their temperature drops and they just go to sleep. Well, it seems a blessed relief for sick fish (they truly do look like they just quietly and peacefully die), but keep in mind that young, healthy fish have been observed to struggle during the freezing process, which may not make this as humane an option as originally thought.
If you have access to clove oil, you can put the fish to sleep seemingly painlessly. Mix it with water about 3 drops oil per 1 liter of water. This is sufficient to put the fish to sleep, and once it is unconscious add 3 more drops to kill it. There has been some suggestion of using clove oil with vodka, but vodka is an irritant to the fish, it seems to hurt the fish, and it isn’t necessary. You can get clove oil at your health food store, or in the toothpaste section of most pharmacies.
Whatever you do, never flush a live betta! This is the cruelest and most inhumane way to dispose of a fish. Contrary to popular belief, sewage treatment doesn’t typically involve harsh chemicals on the outgoing side of things. Furthermore, the majority of the waste product running through sewer pipes is water. It is not only possible, but also probable that the fish will survive the flushing only to die a slow and painful death in the sewer. Flushing a fish is also not an environmentally sound practice, so don’t flush the dead ones either. Your best bet is to put the dead ones in a bag of water and throw them away, or give them a nice funeral in the garden.
Richard asks…
When can I introduce baby frys into the tank?
I have marigold platy frys. They are a little over 2 weeks old now. What age can I introduce them into the tank without being eaten?
AndrewTraub answers:
I have breed fish millions of times and i usually wait until the fish are a little bigger then the head of your fish, just to be safe. It can’t hurt to wait a little longer, but it can hurt to rush this.
Make sure you have plenty of hiding places for the babies, floating plants, hallow rocks, that kind of stuff.
Donald asks…
When is the catalog for frys black friday comming out this year?
When does the catalog come out and where can i find one? do they only have the catalog at frys? do they have one online i can dl maybe a pdf version or something. thanks.
AndrewTraub answers:
Http://www.blackfriday.info/
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Your Questions About 2011
July 30, 2011 by AndrewTraub
Filed under Q&A
Charles asks…
2011……………………………..?
Hello, I’m Italian, with American roots and I wanted to wish you a good 2011 to all of you in america.
Unfortunately, here in Naples, a man lost his life: (
AndrewTraub answers:
Happy 2011. Hope this helps.
Ruth asks…
2011 …………………………..?
will we die, will we be lifted up if we are christians? why do i see this f8cking number every time i wake up, every time i look at a clock, its haunting me more than it is warning me…. i read the bible alot… i wanna finish the muther f8ck bfore i die…..!
gods are imaginary? huh? well by your name why would you even answer my question…. when you die youl turn into a beautiful tree right. its only in my mind to forgive you for your ignorance, yet its ignorant of me to result to yahoo answers for guidance, and sure ill write you that check once im gone.
AndrewTraub answers:
You wake up at 8:11 PM a lot. Are you a night worker or something?
Carol asks…
How to add different Headers and Footers on word 2011?
Im writing a formal report, which consist of 14 pages, and I’m trying to have different headers and footers on all pages. I tried tutorials online line but they seem different than Word 2011.
My paper is completed, all I need is the headers and footers.
Does anyone know how to do it step by step but with Word 2011 version? I know it has something to do with page break.
AndrewTraub answers:
It is not a page break, it is a section break, which, since I have ten years in Microsoft Word.
First insert sections. Go to the page layout drop down tab, under the page setup section, use breaks,and a continuous section break at the bottom of a page, where you put the page break.
Then navigate to place your cursor where the second header is located. Then go to the design tab, navigate section and click the “Link To Previous” to link to previous. It wil ask you if you want to link to previous. I did that once, then checked to see if it was linked, it was. Type in one header, they both changed. So, I went back into the header. It will ask you if you want to delete the connection to the previous header. Delete there, charge the text, and it will not appear on the previous page.
Chris asks…
How to unistall Windows Live Messenger 2011 and change it back to the previous version?
I accidentally installed the new Windows Live Messenger 2011 version and I don’t like it. How do I change it back to the previous version (which I think is the 0.7 version)?
AndrewTraub answers:
I wrote up a detailed guide on how to uninstall and where to find the old version. It definitely helped a bunch of my friends.
Mary asks…
What is the difference between the 2011 and 2010 demarini voodoo baseball bats?
is it worth the extra $50 to get the 2011 version?
AndrewTraub answers:
Doesn’t matter about the bat, its how you hit with it. A bat will not make you a better baseball player
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Physical Therapy Rolfing Arizona
July 28, 2011 by AndrewTraub
Filed under Light
Anyone who is looking for the best physical therapy Rolfing Arizona has to offer needs to seek out skilled professionals. There are many ways to do this. You can go online and insert the words Rolf Practitioners in the search engine and the web addresses will show up for you to click on. You can also contact the Guild for the Rolf Institute and find every practitioner in your state.
Many people think of Rolfing as a type of massage, but it really isn’t. The effects of massage, even deep tissue massage lasts for only about 24 hours, but Rolf therapy is much longer lasting and is cumulative. The more treatments you get the more beneficial it is. Just as physical therapy works to bring the body back into balance to promote mobility and wellness, so does Rolfing. Physical therapy Rolfing Arizona works to bring the body into vertical alignment and in balance with the body’s center of gravity.
If you were to talk with someone about physical therapy Rolfing Arizona, he/she might tell you that the mind and the body live in harmony to one another. The body is controlled by the mind and that with Rolfing the mind and the body are educated to become stabilized and balanced. To find the perfect physical therapy Rolfing Arizona has to offer, find some practitioners in your area and send them an email or call them for an interview. Just like you might interview a new doctor who will be a guide in your health care, you would also want to talk to the practitioner that is going to be restructuring your body through the use of his/her hands.
To find the best physical therapy Rolfing Arizona practitioner, you might want to ask some questions. You might ask how Rolfing techniques vary from deep tissue massage. If you are not familiar with Rolfing, you might ask about the Rolf philosophy. You might ask a little about the history of Rolfing. Finding the best physical therapy Rolfing Arizona practitioner for you will have to be decided by you, so making an informed choice of professional is vitally important.
Manipulation of the body’s connective tissue can be a bit painful, so if you are someone who is very sensitive to pain you may need a practitioner that has a lighter touch. Finding the best physical therapy Rolfing Arizona professional is a matter of talking to people. You can ask a practitioner if you could talk to some of his/her clients. This is anecdotal evidence, but is there anything better than talking to a client to see if he/she is being helped by the Rolf therapy? Word of mouth is the best advertisement. This is a very good way of finding the best physical therapy Rolfing Arizona has to offer.
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School of Natural Healing: Learning the Natural Way
July 25, 2011 by AndrewTraub
Filed under Acupuncture, Alternative Medical Treatments, Aromatherapy, Art, Herbal, Light, NaturalYou can learn to heal yourself the natural way by enrolling in a school of natural healing. There are quite a number of these schools that you can enrol in and learn about the natural way of living and healing, and the best school of natural healing that you can find is usually one that has been around for quite some time. A good school of natural healing will help you get the kind of education you need to begin living life the natural way, and it will teach you techniques as well as principles associated with the art of healing through nature.
There are people who enrol in a school of natural healing for purposes other than simply wanting to learn how to live life the natural way. There are people who study the doctrines and the different ideals that are presented in a school of natural healing so that they can put up businesses that are in line with what these schools teach. A lot of the people who are in businesses that are associated with the different aspects of natural healing that are taught in these schools often put up establishments like health spas, and health stores, and some of them may even manufacture health foods and herbal remedies that they have learned in these schools.
While the business opportunities that come with an education in a school of natural healing may seem rather enticing, you cannot convince your future customers to follow your lead in going the natural way if you are not a practitioner of natural healing yourself. Practicing what you preach is one surefire way to get people to patronize your business, since your customers will see that you do indeed believe in the products you are selling, and that you are knowledgeable enough to give them advice on certain products that they wish to buy.
The things that people learn in a school of natural healing include healing techniques that take into consideration the forces of nature. Water, air and sunlight play vital roles in the natural healing process, and other elements that are included in the healing process can be very effective as well. These healing elements may often include herbs, vegetables, exercise and other naturally existing or non-synthetic elements in nature.
You can also find that these different institutions teach a lot of alternative healing methods such as acupuncture, acupressure, aromatherapy and many more. These alternative forms of medicine and healing options can be part of what you learn from a school of natural healing, and you can use the knowledge you gain to your advantage, so that you can help other people live a healthy life.
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Your Questions About 1040
July 22, 2011 by AndrewTraub
Filed under Q&A
Michael asks…
Do you have to file 1040 or 1040A to get a lifetime learning credit?
I filed the 1040EZ forgetting about the life time learning credit, I went to file a 1040X and the lifetime learning form it asked for questions from the 1040 or 1040A, how do I go about getting the credit? Do I need to file a 1040 or 1040A now?
AndrewTraub answers:
File the amendment on form 1040X – you can’t file another return now, you already filed, so you have to amend your original, not file again. But next year, if you qualify for the credit, file a 1040A – you can’t claim an education credit if you use a 1040EZ. When you are doing the education credit form, put in the number from your 1040EZ that corresponds to the same info on the 1040A or 1040. But fill out the education credit form and send it with the 1040X.
Mark asks…
What is a 1040 form and where can I get one?
I am rolling my innuity to my 401k and I was asked for a 1040. I do not know what it is nor where to get one.
The annuity is from the Carpenters union and they request a 1040 so there is proof that I havent worked for them for the last two years.AndrewTraub answers:
Form 1040 is a US Individual Income Tax Return. The 401(k) custodian has no reason to see your tax return. Ask him why they want it.
Edit: Your tax return won’t show that fact. You don’t list your employers on your tax return. Tell them to try again.
John asks…
How to file a 1040 when SSI and retirement benefits are paid to a state Medicaid office?
I am the guardian for a brother who is incompetent and institutionalized. His SSI and disability retirement checks are mailed to the nursing home who in turn forward them to the state Medicaid office. The IRS is looking to collect taxes on the income. How should I account for the Medicaid payment on the 1040? It might be naive of me, but I am looking for an outcome that says no taxes owed.
AndrewTraub answers:
First question, you aren’t trying to claim him as a dependent are you? One he’s not and even if he was, the dependency standard deduction is a mere $950 if he’s under 65.
The SSI isn’t taxable. Neither is the Medicaid, so they are not part of the equation.
The retirement check is apparently through work and paid on a W-2 or a 1099-R. If this is more than $9350, then he *does* have a filing requirement and potentially taxable income. Part of this is $5700 for a standard deduction. So, if you hope to reduce his tax bill, you need to itemize. To itemize, you need to get a document from the nursing home showing his total bill for the year and the portion he paid. Subtract 7.5% of his AGI and if this is more than $5700, he itemizes. Itemizing lowers his income and lowers the tax.
Say his retirement is $27,000. His nursing bill–again you need proof– is also $27,000. Less 7.5% is $24975. $27000 – $24975 – $3650 = $0
Linda asks…
What’s the difference between the 1040 and the 1040ez tax forms?
I guess the 1040ez is easier (duh!), but are there any restrictions on it that would cause me to choose the 1040 form instead?
AndrewTraub answers:
Anyone can use the 1040. But, 30 years ago, the 1040 was about 10 pages, so Congress told the IRS to simplify it.
The 1040A and 1040EZ are simpler forms, for people with simple-to-calculate income taxes.
If you’re single or married, no dependents, and the only income you have is from one or more jobs (W-2 forms), you can use the 1040EZ.
If you have something more complicated (sold some stock, gambling winnings, own your own business, etc.), then you can’t use the 1040EZ.
Sandy asks…
On your 1040 Tax return form, how do you write off your car that you use for you business?
Does your company need to make a certain amount of income? Like how much money can you spend on the car and still have the 1040 cover it?
AndrewTraub answers:
If you are in business for yourself, then you will be using the Schedule C. Then you have the option of depreciating the vehicle and claiming actual vehicle expenses, or claiming the standard mileage deduction (but you cannot switch between the two each year; you must stay with one method). The most beneficial deduction is the one to go with.
Now, if you are employed by another company, and use your car for business, then the deductions will be on the Form 2106, which then flows to the Schedule A, and is subject to 2% of your income.
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