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Out-of-the-Box Car Buying Tip: Organize a Garage Sale for the Down Payment

Getting money for making a down payment proves to be the biggest hurdle while buying a car. Everybody knows that more the down payment less is the loan amount. It is the reason why every car buyer tries to pay a higher down payment amount. If you also wish to do the same, there’s a way through which you can accumulate extra bucks and minimize the loan amount: Organize a garage sale.

Organizing a Garage Sale helps you in more than One Way

It may not seem appealing in the first place, but a garage sale has more advantages than you think. Look at some of the advantages that it offers. They may urge you to organize one.

You can earn lot more than you can imagine
You look into your garage and see all the trash lying around for decades. If you want to throw it in the bin, stop and re-think. Something that may look like trash to you can be a treasure for someone else. Restorers and collectors hunt for old mechanical parts, machineries; tools etc. and give a handsome price for it.

A garage sale may surprise you. If you are a collector, the feelings associated with the items that you collect are enormous. Garage sale may not only help you to earn money, but it also ensures that your collectibles go to someone who respects it and cares for it. So, search for old toys, antique tools, documents and photographs because they will help you to increase the down payment amount.

The Gift of Space
A garage sale is a perfect way to clean your garage. It will help you to remove trash from your house. Reorganizing the stuff lying around in the garage also becomes easy once you get rid of the unused things.

The most important feature of a garage sale is that it gives you the gift of space. Selling or getting rid of things from the garage can help you to make room for your new car. Also, keeping your new car in the garage can protect it from theft and damage. So, organize a garage sale because it is a win-win situation for you.

Why not make a Bigger Down Payment?

Make sure that you sell as many things as possible to earn a large amount of money. If you want a successful garage sale, you need to display several things. If you feel that you do not have a plethora of items to display, then ask your parents, relatives and friends to donate some items and contribute to your garage sale.

If you have fewer items to sell, don’t worry. Organize a combined garage sale with your neighbors or friends and decide a commission in advance on each item. It will help you to make a sale quickly.

Organize a garage sale and sell all the things that you think are valuable and can fetch you money. Also, get rid of old things to clear up space for the new car. Use the money from the garage sale for making a down payment. It is because the more money you pay as the down payment; less will be the burden of the auto loan amount on you.

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Steel Structure Industry of China

Seamless steel pipe for steel structure refers to the action of external force metal strength, the ability to resist plastic deformation and fracture. Mainly for the execution of the standard structure with seamless steel tube is used for general structure and the mechanical structure of seamless steel tube. Seamless mild steel pipe for steel structure according to different structure, using the environment using different material, compressive ability is alloy steel material, high temperature resistance corrosion resistant stainless steel material. General conditions using carbon steel material, steel structure with seamless steel tube heat treatment including normalizing, tempering, quenching. Heat treatment’s main purpose is to remove the magazine, make the internal organization of the pipe body more closely, enhance the mechanical properties of the pipe body. Offshore oil production to reach 100 million tons in 2015, ocean engineering equipment enterprise’s goal is to provide 1500 meters to 3000 meters deep mining with a large number of equipment, industry level and scale must be raised; structural steel pipe housing with green environmental protection, energy conservation and emissions reduction and recycling economy policy, the industrialization, standardization of steel structure residential products have broad and unlimited market space; At present, the country’s 590000 highway bridge steel structure bridge is less than 1%, the high-speed railway system development, the new line to bridge the generation road, 80% are prestressed concrete Bridges. And steel bridge in Japan accounted for 41%, the United States accounted for 33%, so the market demand and industry development of China’s steel bridge also has the very big disparity with the developed countries. Around the successful construction of major steel structure, steel structure comprehensive technical level of our country is in the international advanced level. But China’s steel structure industry in industry informatization, since can occupy more market, will be included in the planning and support, and supporting policies. Opportunity is to choose Structural steel pipe industry in China during recent 10 years rapid development, has become a global steel structure construction, manufacturing capacity, the industrial scale, the strongest enterprise scale with the world’s largest steel structure.

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Treating Mastitis With Mother-Baby Friendly “Probiotics”: A Breakthrough In Maternal And Infant Health

One to 2 out of 10 lactating mothers (12-15% of lactating women) suffer from pain, redness and swelling of breast tissue, sometimes accompanied by fever during breastfeeding. This disease is known as mastitis or infection of the breast tissue. This infection is commonly treated with prescribed antibiotics.Mastitis is also a common reason for mothers to stop breastfeeding due to the discomfort it brings the mother, and the fear that the infant might get the infection from breastmilk. Stopping breastfeeding is the last thing a mother wants to do to her infant, because that means depriving her baby of the essential nutrients and benefits of breastfeeding.

Nowadays, probiotics derived from intestinal gut flora have been widely used due to its beneficial effects on boosting the immune system, gastrointestinal health, protection against infections, prevention of atopy or allergies, anti-inflammatory effects, etc.
I have recently come upon scientific studies proving that probiotics can be isolated from human breastmilk. These human breastmilk probiotics can also be used to treat mastitis. Isn’t it promising to know that moms can get rid of this unwanted breast infection without depriving her baby of the benefits of breastfeeding?

In a clinical trial performed at the University Complutense in Madrid, human breastmilk probiotics versus antibiotics prescribed in primary health care centers were given daily for 3 weeks to women suffering from mastitis. This study concluded that those women in the probiotic groups improved more and had lower recurrence of mastitis than those assigned in the antibiotic groups. In mastitis, there is an increase in the staphylococci in human breastmilk and a decrease in the lactobacillus load. Treatment with human breastmilk probiotics will reverse the bacterial load. As shown on day 21 of treatment, those in the probiotic groups revealed lower bacterial counts than in the antibiotic group and also lactobacillus strains were isolated from the breastmilk samples of the probiotic groups.

The increase in the lactobacilli content in mother’s milk after treatment with breastmilk probiotics will be beneficial not only for the mother but especially for the baby as breastfeeding continues. It will provide stronger immune systems for the infant and protection from infections.
Several studies were also carried out to prove the safety of this human breastmilk probiotics. It has been proven to be effective and safe for use for longer than 3 months with no adverse effects even on infants.

So far I can find only one product which contains these specific human breastmilk probiotics, it is made in Australia and is marketed under the name Qiara. Qiara containing at least 1 billion colony forming units (CFU) of Lactobacillus Fermentum in a sachet, taken 1 sachet per day has been studied to be as effective as the current antibiotics being used to treat mastitis. It has anti-inflammatory properties and produces antimicrobial substances such as organic acids, hydrogen peroxide, bacteriocins, etc, that inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria causing acute mastitis such as Staphylococcus aureus.

Lactobacillus fermentum in Qiara produces high quantities of lactic acid bacteria which is responsible for the reduction of intestinal pH inhibiting the development and establishment of pathogenic microorganisms. It also increases the membrane permeability to the Gram-negative bacteria (bad bacteria), reducing the viability of these bacteria and increasing the action of the bactericidal compounds.
The availability of this breast milk probiotic for mothers and their babies is a most exciting development. Every pregnant and breastfeeding mother will be interested in how this can help prevent and treat mastitis and strengthen the health of their newborn.

(Note: SOURCES obtained from the compilation of researches from Pubmed)

By:
ELEENOR GUMPAL, MD,
Dr. Eleenor is a practicing Clinical pediatrician in LAS PINAS CITY

October 16, 2012

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