The brown recluse spider can be found in the Southeast and Midwest portions of the United States. It prefers dry, dark climates, such as attics, old barns and woodpiles. Though not actively hostile, its venom is quite toxic. Along with the black widow, it is one of the only spiders in North America that pose a threat to human beings.
The danger of a brown recluse spider bite is dependent on where the bite occurs. It is most dangerous when the bite is near an important part of the body, such as on the head, just above a vital organ or near a joint.
If left untreated by a physician, a Brown Recluse’s bite can cause blistering, necrosis of the skin with underlying fat, open lesions, organ damage as venom enters the bloodstream and (rarely) death.
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Crizal® has become the industry standard term for a high quality lens coating. Made by Essilor, the world’s largest lens company, Crizal® sets the standard for durability and scratch resistance for eyeglass lens coatings. Essilor originally introduced Crizal® , but later that technology was superceded by Crizal® Alize®, and then Crizal® Avance™. Crizal® is not used much anymore, and it is almost always dispensed as Crizal® Alize® or Crizal® Avance™.
Did you know that…
Over 80% of the information we receive through our senses is provided by our eyesight? As the only link between that information and your eyes, eyeglass lenses play an essential role. The greater their transparency, the more information they transmit.
Smudges, dust and reflections make lenses less transparent and consequently their optical performance is less effective. Your lenses are constantly exposed to these three enemies that can impair contrast perception, and as a result, lens performance.
Crizal lenses by Essilor provide longer lasting transparency.
Essilor of America, Inc. has teamed with 3M Company to debut a state-of-the-art lens, Crizal Avance with Scotchgard Protector, the Anti-Reflective lens that’s made to stay clean. This exciting new generation of Crizal® lenses offers customers an unprecedented level of lens performance, cleanability and clarity.
Leading-edge technology makes these reflection free eyeglass lenses resistant to scratches, dust and smudges. They are easier to clean than ever! Plus, their exceptional clarity ensures optimal quality of vision.
Crizal® Alize and Crizal® Avance™
Crizal® Alize® is less expensive than Crizal® Avance™. Crizal® Alize® offers double-sided integrated hardcoat, integrated multi-layer anti-reflective stack, super hydrophobic topcoat, and a pad control system. Crizal® Avance™ offers all of these, plus the anti-static technology of Scotchguard®. Crizal® Alize® offers superior scratch resistance, and also helps with glare and reflections during the day or at night. Crizal® Alize® is easy to clean and comfortable to wear.
A clinical study shows that a Crizal lens improves contrast perception by 20%*, versus an ordinary lens with no anti-reflective coating. This translates to greater visual comfort, especially for the wearer who works on a computer, or under fluorescent lighting.
Crizal is shown to improve eyeglass wearers’ perceived contrast threshold up to five times* in a simulated night driving situation combining dim light and bright glare from oncoming headlights.
More than 260 million Crizal-treated lenses have been sold worldwide since the product was launched in 1992. In fact, the satisfaction rate of the latest generation of Crizal lenses was above 90%*. (* International study – 689 Eyecare professionals – August 2009)
Crizal lenses perfect transparency allows you to enjoy the world with no limitations.
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Daily activities burn more calories than you might imagine. If you become a little more active in your daily life, you’re on you way to losing weight.
The number of calories needed to maintain a specific weight varies dramatically from person to person depending on genetic factors and on the amount of daily activity. Weight is gained only if the number of calories consumed is greater than the number of calories burned. Similarly, with weight loss, the number of calories consumed must be fewer than the amount of calories burned.
Assume that your BMR turns out to be 1,300 calories a day. If you determine that you burn an additional 500 calories a day through daily activities and exercise, that means your total calorie expenditure would be 1,800 calories a day. To maintain your weight, you would need to consume 1,800 calories a day. If you consumed fewer calories than you burned, you would lose weight. If you consumed more calories than you burned, you would gain weight.
It is possible to burn more calories and to speed up the burning process. By building muscle tissue, your body works harder, thus enabling you to expend more energy or calories. On average, for each additional pound of muscle amassed, about 50 additional calories are used daily. In other words, with a regular weight program, your BMR can experience an increase of 15%. Simply from moving around more, your daily activity level can easily rise.
Calculating Your BMR (basal metabolic rate)
Height, weight, and age help determine how many calories a woman needs to maintain her weight. All of those components are factored into your basal metabolic rate, or your BMR. The basal metabolic rate is the number of calories you burn when you are exerting the least energy, such as staying in bed all day. It is important to know your basal metabolic rate because the BMR takes into account the fact that lean body weight declines as you grow older. The number of calories you need to maintain your weight now is different from what it was years ago.
The formula to calculate the BMR for women is:
655 + ( 4.35 x weight in pounds ) + ( 4.7 x height in inches ) – ( 4.7 x age in years ) = BMR
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1-2 week disposable colour contact lenses are daily wear colour contact lenses that can be worn up to two weeks. These contact lenses keep your eyes moist and they always feel very breathable. The choice in this category is huge: 7 brands with dozens of available colors.
Acuvue 2 Colors Opaques
Acuvue 2 Colors Opaques change your eyes’ color completely. Choose from Sapphire Blue, Deep Blue, Pearl Gray, Jade Green, Hazel Green, Warm Honey and Chestnut Brown.
Acuvue 2 Enhancers
Acuvue 2 Enhancers are enhancing your light eyes’ color. Acuvue 2 Enhancers feature a full circle of uniform transparent pigment (there is no pattern on the lenses). As the pigment covers the pupil hole area as well as the iris area so your eye color change will look very natural. Available in Ocean Blue, Aquamarine and Emerald Green.
Focus 1-2 Week Visitint are weekly disposable contact lenses manufactured by Ciba Vision. Focus 1-2 Week Visitint offer the freedom of crisp, clear vision and enhanced comfort through frequent replacement. A comfortable contact lens designed for easy handling and for the convenience of one to two week replacement lenses. Wear the same pair every day – clean them every night for up to two weeks, and then replace with a new pair. Replacing your contacts more often reduces the chance of irritating buildup. Focus 1-2 Week Visitint lenses are conveniently packaged so you’ll always have spare pairs. You’ll love the freedom of crisp, clear vision, and the enhanced comfort of Focus1-2 Week replacement lenses.
Focus 1-2 Week Visitint contacts are also available in an array of beautiful COLORS.
With Focus 1-2 Week SoftColors (color version)there’s no need for a new prescription. Your Focus 1-2 Week Visitint prescription could be used to purchase Focus 1-2 Week SoftColors (color version).
Focus 1-2 Week Softcolors
Focus 1-2 Week Softcolors contact lenses from Ciba Vision provide the same comfort and clarity as Focus 1-2 Week contacts, but come in 3 exciting colors: Aqua, Evergreen, and Royal Blue. Focus 1-2 Week Softcolors are weekly disposable color contact lenses and are approved to be worn for up to 2 weeks.
Freshlook Colorblends
FreshLook ColorBlends contact lenses provide a unique 3-in-1 technology, blending three colors into one to create the subtle, natural depth of beautiful eyes. Choose from different shades of blue, green, brown, gray, and amethyst. FreshLook ColorBlends contact lenses are approved for monthly wear. “Honey” is very similar to the contact lenses used in the movie “Twilight” for the character Edward Cullen. Try FreshLook’s new vibrant contact lens colors! Sterling Gray, Gemstone Green, and Brilliant Blue.
Freshlook Dimensions
FreshLook Dimensions contact lenses from CIBA Vision. Designed for light eyes, these semi-transparent, colored contacts enhance your natural eye color. FreshLook Dimensions contacts are available in Caribbean Aqua, Sea Green and Pacific Blue.
Freshlook Radiance
FreshLook Radiance contact lenses from CIBA Vision. Add sparkle and an illuminating effect to brighten your natural eye color. The effect created by each of these contacts will differ according to your natural eye color: Autumn for a bronze glow, Sunrise for a gold sparkle, Moonlight for a silver effect, Eden for a green sparkle.
Moonlight and Eden contact lenses are recommended for light eyes only. Sunrise and Autumn contacts are recommended for dark eyes only.
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A great way to refresh your look, whether it is for a special occasion or simply to vary clothing and make-up possibilities is to wear Circle Contact Lenses. Unlike traditional colored contact lenses, which cover only the iris of the eye, circle lenses extend to cover part of the whites as well, which make the wearer’s eyes look huge.
Circle contact lenses have become quite a fashion trend these last months, especially after Lady Gaga used them for her Bad Romance video clip. Aside from the Lady Gaga allure, many young women claim that they wear them to make their eyes look bigger.
Circle lenses were available before the Gaga explosion, and in fact their popularity originated in Japan, Singapore and South Korea where many young women wear them to accentuate their eyes to resemble Japanese anime characters. The decorative contact lenses come in a variety of colors and give the wearer a doe-eyed, “manga charachter” appearance. 
Circle Contact Lenses are special extra-wide cosmetic contact lenses which make the eye appear larger, because the circle contact lenses are bigger in diameter and these lens even cover the whitish area around the iris thus making eyes look bigger than normal.
Since 2005, it has been illegal in the United States to sell any type of contact lenses — corrective or cosmetic — without a prescription, which is why no major manufacturer in the United States sells these contacts. Most young women end up getting them through online sellers that they have found out about through message boards and YouTube videos.
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Is popular singer Lady Gaga wearing circle contact lenses designed to enlarge the iris of her eye in her video “Bad Romance?”
Lady Gaga’s “doll-like”, cartoonishly large eyes were most likely generated by a computer, but teens and young women across the country have been copying them with special big eye contact lenses called “circle contact lenses” imported from Asia. Known as circle lenses, these are colored contacts — sometimes in weird shades like violet and pink and with special effects — that make the eyes appear much larger because they cover not only the iris, like ordinary lenses do, but also part of the whites.
Check out Lady Gaga’s enormous, manga-like eyes on her pop video, “Bad Romance.”
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FreshLook® Colorblends are contacs, which were designed to correct vision sight and change the color of eyes. Each contact lens contains a blend of three colors to create a subtle color change. FreshLook Colorblend contacts come in an array of colors, including blue, hazel, green, gray, sapphire and brown. To find a color that works for you, visit the FreshLook Colorblends website, where you can upload a color photograph of yourself and “try on” different colored lenses. FreshLook® offers a wide palette of beautiful colors. Color selection depends on your natural eye color, hair color, skin tone, and the type of change you’d like. As with all contact lenses, FreshLook Colorblends are available with a prescription from a doctor.
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The high cost of health INSURANCE can be directly tied to the high cost of health CARE. Why does the care cost so much? That is the million dollar question. There are many reasons for the high cost of care. I will outline one that we all forget here. TECHNOLOGY. We all want it when we are sick or hurt.
Decades ago we had X-Rays, yes old fashioned X-rays. Today, we have MRI’s, CAT Scans etc. When we are sick or hurt, we want the latest imaging technology to be employed to diagnose our issue or pain.
Decades ago, we had aspirin. Today we have all kinds of pain killers, cholesterol lowering drugs, mood altering drugs etc. I could go on and on.
Would you like to purchase a health insurance policy that does not cover those fabulous things? When we pay the premium yes. When we need care, no way.
Health Care Costs Continue to Rise
Health Care costs in New Hampshire continue to rise for a multitude of reasons. The reasons are very complicated and interconnected. This blog will be attempting to raise the level of awareness, empower the consumer and frame a discussion of the possible solutions.
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When cared for properly, soft contact lenses can provide a healthy, comfortable and convenient vision correction option. Whether you are new to contact lenses or have been wearing them for years, the following tips will help you to enjoy the benefits of contact lenses.
Furthermore, proper follow-up care by your eye doctor is essential to ensure eye health throughout your life. Over time, your eyes and lenses can change, often without symptoms or warning signs which may put you at risk for developing potentially serious complications, including vision loss. Regular ongoing professional care can help to ensure a lifetime of good vision and eye health.
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed the sweeping health care reform legislation that was passed by the House of Representatives on Sunday night.
The legislation will massively revamp the nation’s health care delivery and financing system. By far, the biggest changes would be expanding Medicaid and establishing federal health insurance premium subsidies to the lower and middle-income uninsured. Congressional budget analysts estimate those changes could result in as many as 32 million uninsured gaining coverage.
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