?The electronic management of health care through mobile devices? or, more simply, ?mHealth? is rapidly on the rise and a recent study shows just how much of a positive impact it is having. From everyday apps that assist with general health and fitness to more medically-purposed ones that can monitor blood pressure, the presence of mHealth is ever-growing and the benefits are starting to show.
The infographic was put together by AlliedHealthWorld.com using information from a variety of sources. mHealth comprises any mobile technology that can help you to improve your well-being, that includes running apps, calorie counters, diet advisers and plenty more. Without repeating too much of what is in the infographic below, it was found that the spread of mHealth was far and wide, with many users not even realising that they were part of it. The industry has grown so much, so quickly that even the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has gotten involved and last year began an approval process to ensure health care claims were in fact legitimate.
Check out the infographic for the full breakdown and let us know in the comments what your stance is on mHealth, and whether you would use it at all.
Spend time together . . . just the two of you. ?Yep, all the relationship experts say this is important. ?But sometimes when you have small children, it just isn't all that easy. ?You have to dedicate time, call on family for help or hire a sitter and then pay said sitter. ?
Dan and I love going out on date nights. ?We love the spending the time together but truth be told, we get out on a date night once a month . . . maybe. ?Our main hitch is that when we have a sitter (usually family), there is another event to attend and those kind of things tend to fill the schedule taking a priority over time alone. ?
But then I saw an idea for a Date Night Jar?and my wheels started spinning. ?The original idea comes from Sarah at Taylor Design Studio. ?She was throwing a bridal shower and had the guests write date night ideas on the craft sticks. ? (Seriously, if you haven't headed over to?like her Facebook page, you've got to do it. ?She is an interior designer with great little tips and ideas.) And while date nights out are important, sometimes when you have kids, date nights at home are simply more feasible. ?And that is where this idea comes in. ?Here are 30 ideas for Date Nights "At Home." ?Try choosing one date night idea each week. ?Most require no forethought or effort. ?But some may require a quick run to the store.
The point? ?Be intentional. ?Relationships don't improve without attention. ?(<-tweet this) ?Spending deliberate time together even if at home after the kids are in bed can be a great blessing to your marriage. ?Time spent together, whether talking, sharing, playing or laughing is what we're after. ? ??
Date Nights "At Home"
1. ?Play a Board Game
2. ?Video Record the Story of How You Met & Fell in Love
3. ?Cook a Late Night Dinner Together
4. ?Rent a Red Box Movie
5. ?Write a Prayer List & Pray Together
6. ?Make Smoothies or Milkshakes
7. ?Share 5 Goals Over a Late Night Snack
8. ?Do a Puzzle Together
9. ?Play a Card Game
10. ?Have a Chip & Dip Night - Add Conversation
11. ?Set up a Practical Joke for the Kids
12. ?Make Calzones Together
13. ?Give Each Other a Foot Rub
14. ?Play a Game with High Stakes - Make a Bet!
15. ?Record Each Other Sharing a Recent Memory 16. ?Tackle a FUN Project 17. ?Write a Gratitude List Together 18. ?Have an Ice Cream Sundae Night 19. ?Play a Video Game Together 20. ?Search for Funny YouTube Videos 21. ?Grab Take Out & Eat By Candlelight 22. ?Give Each Other a Back Rub 23. ?Share Where You Want to be in 5 or 10 Years. 24. ?Play a Prank on Someone 25. ?Set up a Scavenger Hunt for the Kids 26. ?Watch a Home Video Together 27. ?Write a Story Together - Mad Libs Style 28. ?Make a Dessert Together 29. ?Read Something Together
People have always been interested in home improvement. Some people are looking to upgrade their home, some need more space, and others just want to spruce up the appearance. When you?re a homeowner, you?ll likely find that your house can always use a little home improvement work. Read this article for information about making changes to your home.
If your home has low ceilings, use window treatments to add the illusion of higher ceilings. To make the ceilings seem higher, simply position the curtain rod, drapes and valances, higher up on the wall above windows.
Get an electrician to install outlets inside cabinets located near your appliances. You can now hide the cord to your microwave. This relatively simple step makes a big difference in the way your kitchen looks.
When you are redoing a room, make sure you consider the 60/30/10 rule. You should use your dominant color in 60% of your room, your secondary color in 30% of your room and the remaining 10% of your color choice as the accent color. In most rooms, you?ll find that this means employing the dominant color on the painting of the walls, the secondary shade in the upholstery of the furniture, and the accent color on accessories.
As you consider home improvement projects, think how long any appliances you may buy will actually last. New refrigerators last about 20 years, but dryers and washers only last a bit more than half of that time. When you are doing improvements, invest in good appliances.
People put a lot of time and money into installing showy features like radiant floor heating. That said, they don?t invest in the needed repairs like exterior paint. Potential buyers are more likely to notice these obvious flaws and believe the home to be a fixer-upper. The first impression your buyers get is very important.
Work with construction adhesive and remove the squeaks from your floors. You may need to do it from your basement or even the crawlspace, but this is one improvement that is worth the effort. You will basically be gluing each floor joist to its neighbor by applying a glue line along each one with a caulking gun.
Chandeliers might also be a nice touch. A sparkling chandelier is ideal for adding visual impact to your living area or formal dining area; many designs are available for only a few hundred dollars. For more brightness, get a lighting fixture with wattage between 200-400.
Maintaining a home improvement budgets goes a long way toward maintaining or increasing the value of your home, so aim for setting money aside as a budget for handing any repairs or upgrades. Anyone who owns a home and is able to commit a certain amount annually toward home maintenance ensures his or her home stays in tip-top condition. If there is money left in this budget at the end of the year, it can be saved for bigger home improvement projects in the future.
If your contractor want you to pay cash in return for a discount, it is often a warning sign that something illegal is going on. Paying with cash won?t give you the records you?ll need to produce should anything go wrong.
Notify your neighbors if you plan to be making home improvements that require street use. Blocking some or the entire road is usually needed when doing major renovations, for shifting equipment and making deliveries. Giving your neighbors plenty of warning will be appreciated.
Inspiration is all around you! Check out home improvement and decorating blogs, home and garden shows and popular magazines for ideas. Don?t worry, if you aren?t planning any projects, just now. Defining your style and planning for future projects is a great way to avoid problems when you do start your project. As well, if you know what you want to do well in advance, you can start buying materials a bit at a time.
As stated previously, home improvement projects have been popular to a lot of people because the could both increase their house?s value and also improve the way it looks. In even the newest home, there is always an opportunity for improvement. If you follow the advice from the above article, you can make home improvements that fit your skills and needs.
Richie Vee, the site?s editor, is the Chief Engineer of one of the largest Platinum LEED buildings in NYC. His extensive engineering experience helps guide consumers through home improvement projects for the average homeowner. Using home solar energy and roofing repair ideas to save them money.
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Yesterday we reported that select Samsung handsets running its TouchWiz UI were affected by a flaw that could allow them to be remote wiped after clicking on a malicious link. Samsung has confirmed it has patched the flaw for its flagship Galaxy SIII handset.
Hubble goes to the 'eXtreme' to assemble the deepest ever view of the universePublic release date: 25-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Richard Hook rhook@eso.org 49-893-200-6655 ESA/Hubble Information Centre
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small area of space in the constellation of Fornax (The Furnace), created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004. By collecting faint light over one million seconds of observation, the resulting image revealed thousands of galaxies, both nearby and very distant, making it the deepest image of the Universe ever taken at that time.
The new full-colour XDF image is even more sensitive than the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, thanks to the additional observations, and contains about 5500 galaxies, even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness that the unaided human eye can see [1].
Magnificent spiral galaxies similar in shape to the Milky Way and its neighbour the Andromeda galaxy appear in this image, as do large, fuzzy red galaxies in which the formation of new stars has ceased. These red galaxies are the remnants of dramatic collisions between galaxies and are in their declining years as the stars within them age.
Peppered across the field are tiny, faint, and yet more distant galaxies that are like the seedlings from which today's magnificent galaxies grew. The history of galaxies -- from soon after the first galaxies were born to the great galaxies of today, like the Milky Way -- is laid out in this one remarkable image.
Hubble pointed at a tiny patch of southern sky in repeat visits made over the past decade with a total exposure time of two million seconds [2]. More than 2000 images of the same field were taken with Hubble's two primary cameras: the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3, which extends Hubble's vision into near-infrared light. These were then combined to form the XDF.
"The XDF is the deepest image of the sky ever obtained and reveals the faintest and most distant galaxies ever seen. XDF allows us to explore further back in time than ever before," said Garth Illingworth of the University of California at Santa Cruz, principal investigator of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2009 (HUDF09) programme.
The Universe is 13.7 billion years old, and the XDF reveals galaxies that span back 13.2 billion years in time. Most of the galaxies in the XDF are seen when they were young, small, and growing, often violently as they collided and merged together. The early Universe was a time of dramatic birth for galaxies containing brilliant blue stars far brighter than our Sun. The light from those past events is just arriving at Earth now, and so the XDF is a time tunnel into the distant past when the Universe was just a fraction of its current age. The youngest galaxy found in the XDF existed just 450 million years after the Universe's birth in the Big Bang.
Before Hubble was launched in 1990, astronomers were able to see galaxies up to about seven billion light-years away, half way back to the Big Bang. Observations with telescopes on the ground were not able to establish how galaxies formed and evolved in the early Universe.
Hubble gave astronomers their first view of the actual forms of galaxies when they were young. This provided compelling, direct visual evidence that the Universe is truly changing as it ages. Like watching individual frames of a motion picture, the Hubble deep surveys reveal the emergence of structure in the infant Universe and the subsequent dynamic stages of galaxy evolution.
The planned NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (Webb telescope) will be aimed at the XDF, and will study it with its infrared vision. The Webb telescope will find even fainter galaxies that existed when the Universe was just a few hundred million years old. Because of the expansion of the Universe, light from the distant past is stretched into longer, infrared wavelengths. The Webb telescope's infrared vision is ideally suited to push the XDF even deeper, into a time when the first stars and galaxies formed and filled the early "dark ages" of the Universe with light.
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Notes
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
The HUDF09 team members are G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), M. Carollo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH)), M. Franx (Leiden University), I. Labbe (Leiden University), D. Magee and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), M. Stiavelli (Space Telescope Science Institute), M. Trenti (University of Cambridge), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and V. Gonzalez (University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory).
[1] The faintest objects detected in the XDF are 31st magnitude.
[2] The total exposure time is approximately two million seconds, or 23 days. Because Hubble can only observe for about 45 minutes of every 97-minute orbit, the observations that make up the XDF represent 50 days of telescope time.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team
Links
* Images of Hubble: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/category/spacecraft/
* NASA release: http://hubblesite.org/news/2012/37
Contacts
Garth Illingworth
University of California
Santa Cruz, California, USA
Tel: +1-831-459-2843
Email: gdi@ucolick.org
Richard Hook
ESO
Garching, Germany
Tel: +49-89-3200-6655
Email: rhook@eso.org
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, USA
Tel: +1-410-338-4514
Email: villard@stsci.edu
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Hubble goes to the 'eXtreme' to assemble the deepest ever view of the universePublic release date: 25-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Richard Hook rhook@eso.org 49-893-200-6655 ESA/Hubble Information Centre
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small area of space in the constellation of Fornax (The Furnace), created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004. By collecting faint light over one million seconds of observation, the resulting image revealed thousands of galaxies, both nearby and very distant, making it the deepest image of the Universe ever taken at that time.
The new full-colour XDF image is even more sensitive than the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, thanks to the additional observations, and contains about 5500 galaxies, even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness that the unaided human eye can see [1].
Magnificent spiral galaxies similar in shape to the Milky Way and its neighbour the Andromeda galaxy appear in this image, as do large, fuzzy red galaxies in which the formation of new stars has ceased. These red galaxies are the remnants of dramatic collisions between galaxies and are in their declining years as the stars within them age.
Peppered across the field are tiny, faint, and yet more distant galaxies that are like the seedlings from which today's magnificent galaxies grew. The history of galaxies -- from soon after the first galaxies were born to the great galaxies of today, like the Milky Way -- is laid out in this one remarkable image.
Hubble pointed at a tiny patch of southern sky in repeat visits made over the past decade with a total exposure time of two million seconds [2]. More than 2000 images of the same field were taken with Hubble's two primary cameras: the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3, which extends Hubble's vision into near-infrared light. These were then combined to form the XDF.
"The XDF is the deepest image of the sky ever obtained and reveals the faintest and most distant galaxies ever seen. XDF allows us to explore further back in time than ever before," said Garth Illingworth of the University of California at Santa Cruz, principal investigator of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2009 (HUDF09) programme.
The Universe is 13.7 billion years old, and the XDF reveals galaxies that span back 13.2 billion years in time. Most of the galaxies in the XDF are seen when they were young, small, and growing, often violently as they collided and merged together. The early Universe was a time of dramatic birth for galaxies containing brilliant blue stars far brighter than our Sun. The light from those past events is just arriving at Earth now, and so the XDF is a time tunnel into the distant past when the Universe was just a fraction of its current age. The youngest galaxy found in the XDF existed just 450 million years after the Universe's birth in the Big Bang.
Before Hubble was launched in 1990, astronomers were able to see galaxies up to about seven billion light-years away, half way back to the Big Bang. Observations with telescopes on the ground were not able to establish how galaxies formed and evolved in the early Universe.
Hubble gave astronomers their first view of the actual forms of galaxies when they were young. This provided compelling, direct visual evidence that the Universe is truly changing as it ages. Like watching individual frames of a motion picture, the Hubble deep surveys reveal the emergence of structure in the infant Universe and the subsequent dynamic stages of galaxy evolution.
The planned NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (Webb telescope) will be aimed at the XDF, and will study it with its infrared vision. The Webb telescope will find even fainter galaxies that existed when the Universe was just a few hundred million years old. Because of the expansion of the Universe, light from the distant past is stretched into longer, infrared wavelengths. The Webb telescope's infrared vision is ideally suited to push the XDF even deeper, into a time when the first stars and galaxies formed and filled the early "dark ages" of the Universe with light.
###
Notes
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
The HUDF09 team members are G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), M. Carollo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH)), M. Franx (Leiden University), I. Labbe (Leiden University), D. Magee and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), M. Stiavelli (Space Telescope Science Institute), M. Trenti (University of Cambridge), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and V. Gonzalez (University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory).
[1] The faintest objects detected in the XDF are 31st magnitude.
[2] The total exposure time is approximately two million seconds, or 23 days. Because Hubble can only observe for about 45 minutes of every 97-minute orbit, the observations that make up the XDF represent 50 days of telescope time.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team
Links
* Images of Hubble: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/category/spacecraft/
* NASA release: http://hubblesite.org/news/2012/37
Contacts
Garth Illingworth
University of California
Santa Cruz, California, USA
Tel: +1-831-459-2843
Email: gdi@ucolick.org
Richard Hook
ESO
Garching, Germany
Tel: +49-89-3200-6655
Email: rhook@eso.org
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, USA
Tel: +1-410-338-4514
Email: villard@stsci.edu
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My husband Al would love to own an all terrain vehicle. He has been looking at the different models that are currently available to decide which one that he would like to buy. We recently purchased a nice home with a lot of land that is located in the country, so we have the perfect area in which to ride a Seattle ATV. Al is hoping that he will be able to buy his all terrain vehicle before the start of the summertime.
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