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Hi Sandra, Do you have any natural medicine tips for cracked and split lips that I just can’t get rid of? Thanks, Sarah.

Hi Sarah, thanks for your question. This is a common problem that causes frustration for many people. Sometimes we can experience a temporary situation of cracked or split lips from environmental exposure such as harsh wind or sun, but if it has become a chronic problem that isn’t resolving, this is an indication that you need to look for deeper causes.

If you haven’t already done so, get a comprehensive check-up with your primary healthcare provider to assess for any underlying problems. Deficiencies of iron, zinc and B vitamins such as riboflavin (B2), folate (B9) and biotin are all associated with inflammation of the lips and cracking at the corners of the mouth. Solving the problem can be as simple as correcting the deficiency if this is the underlying cause. Supplementation for a period is likely to be required and a natural healthcare professional can guide you with this.

Check out the website of the New Zealand Association of Medical Herbalists to find a registered natural healthcare specialist in your area.

Over the long term, you should look to be getting your iron, zinc and B-vitamins from food sources to ensure the problem does not recur. You may also want to check if you have sufficient good oils in your diet as dry lips can be a reflection of too much underlying dryness in the body.

Traditional Medicine also points to malabsorption of nutrients from poor digestion as being a potential cause of lip problems. You can support optimal digestion by eating in a calm manner, choosing real food rather than processed alternatives and promoting stomach acid and digestive enzyme production with the use of bitter plant medicines such as Dandelion root (Taraxacum officinale) and Globe Artichoke (Cynara scolymus) before your meals. Both of these plants increase the flow of digestive juices, enhance the appetite and support the breakdown of food for better nutrient absorption.

While you work on correcting the underlying issue of chronic lip problems, you can soothe your lips and speed up the healing process with the topical application of vulnerary plants – these are herbs that have a healing action on damaged tissue. Two of the best for cracked and split lips are Calendula (Calendula officinalis) and St John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum).

St. John’s Wort flowerheads have proven skin protecting and regenerating properties, and help to repair epithelial damage of skin. Calendula flowers have wound healing, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and skin restoring properties. Healing creams and balms made with plant oils and plant extracts are naturally protective and allow the skin to breathe and regenerate unlike mineral oil derivatives such as petroleum or paraffin in conventional creams which may dry up the lips even further. Apply the natural cream or balm to the lips, three to four times daily, until your lips are healed.

I hope this response has provided some further insight for you. If this condition worsens or does not improve, please see your leading healthcare professional.

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I have a candidate for Bird of the Year; it’s called the red-vented bulbul. Say it out loud – it sounds great, if not a little dodgy.

We all know the scandal that emerged from last year’s annual Bird of the Year competition – the mighty Kea was robbed by an underhanded campaign from a 16-year-old Kokako sycophant who was at the forefront of a lobby group that heralded the supposed virtues of the bird’s heavenly singing voice.

Fair play to the group, but this year I think the bulbul should be in the running.
The red-vented bulbul is quite an ugly, scrawny little thing that’s been described as an “aggressive pest bird”.

You can listen to Dom and Jane discuss the Red-vented bubul in the audio clip above.

When I first heard that phrase from online producer Hanoi Jane I thought she was referring to my wife.

She assured me she wasn’t, but it got me thinking about the other aggressive pest birds in my life. Most of them have been teachers and most of them were at primary school.

They were the sort of teachers nearly everyone’s had at one point or another; disgruntled, bad-tempered old biddies whose enthusiasm for the profession had shortened at the same rate as their fuse. I could mention the villainous nature of one former principal but to be honest, that person doesn’t deserve to be written about.

Let’s just say she bore a striking resemblance to the cartoon version of Cruella de Vil, although her evil streak was a lot worse than the fictitious character.

Still, the effect was to make the ones who still had the desire to do their job stand out like the proverbial. Case is point for me was Mrs Haynes. To a young set of primary school eyes she looked like she was a hundred years old if she was a day, but she had the ability to pique the interest of her underlings.

As a youngster I was a cricket tragic – an insufferable bore who studied every aspect of the game morning, noon and night. When it came time to write stories I would immaculately produce cricket scorecards of fictitious matches, with impeccably drawn columns for overs, maidens, runs and wickets.

I was under the impression this was fiction writing at its finest; cobbling together cricketing XI’s from around the globe and matching them against each other at the famous venues of the world. Come on, it was the mid-eighties in South Dunedin!

The point is, Mrs Haynes saw where my interest lay and started introducing me to the world of cricket literature. The first book she lent me was Jeremy Coney’s, ‘The Playing Mantis’, quite a weighty tome for a first delve into autobiography, but I read it cover to cover nonetheless.

From there my father started buying me books like the 80s staple, ‘The Crowe Style’, where it showed you the correct footwork for dancing down the wicket!

I digress – in fact I’ve almost derailed. I was talking birds. Bird of the Year… the red-vented bulbul… the aggressive pest bird! Apparently MPI is offering a thousand dollars to any sighting of the bird in Bay of Plenty that leads to a capture.

They want to eradicate the introduced bird that ravages fruit and vege crops and carries out vicious attacks on native New Zealand birds.

They’re described as dark brown/grey coloured, about the size of a starling with a Mohawk-like hairdo and a distinctive crimson-red patch of feathers beneath their tails. Successful eliminations of the bird have been carried out in the past and MPI and DOC are looking to repeat the dose.

It’s thought the latest arrivals are stowaways from Australia or the Pacific Islands; illegal immigrants, as it were. Now they’re being hunted down and killed, with price tags on their heads like they’re outlaws in the Wild West.

I say these belligerent, crop-ravaging pests should be considered candidates for greater recognition. We may not like them, but they’re certainly having an impact. Just as the likes of Hitler, Stalin and George W. Bush have all been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, this winged pest deserves to be in the conversation for Bird of the Year.

After all, the red-vented bulbul has created headlines, headaches and manhunts; and that seems to befit the times quite nicely.

Source: New Zealand Herald

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ” Britain’s Prince Charles joined in a traditional folk dance Thursday during a visit to Romania, the first stop in a three-nation trip seen as an effort to reassure European Union nations that Britain remains a close ally.

The prince’s nine-day tour is designed to “highlight the U.K.’s relationship with European partners” in areas such as military ties and combating human trafficking, according to his official website.

Britain formally triggered two years of negotiations to leave the EU on Wednesday.

Romania’s ambassador to Britain, Dan Mihalache, said Romanians were concerned about their future status after Britain formally leaves the bloc. He estimated there are up to half a million Romanians living in Britain” many more than the 190,000 officially registered there.

“We don’t have a formula, we have many varieties; that’s what I’ve heard from British officials,” Mihalache said. “Probably during the negotiations, a formula will be defined.”

He said the embassy has advised Romanians to get a resident’s permit and to make sure they were working on a legal contract.

Meanwhile, Charles visited an open air museum in Bucharest that features rural houses from Romania’s different regions. He joined women and girls dressed in embroidered peasant blouses in a traditional jig known as the “hora” and watched craftsmen painting eggs and religious icons on stone and wood.

Charles is enamored of Romania’s rural traditions and owns two properties in the northwest Transylvania region, which he visits every year. He even boasts of sharing common lineage with Vlad the Impaler, the 15th century Romanian prince who was the inspiration for the Dracula character.

The heir to the British throne later visited the Vacaresti wetland park, which was developed from a project initiated by late Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu in 1986 to connect Bucharest to the River Danube, 60 kilometers (40 miles) south of the city.

The project was abandoned after communism ended in 1989.

He also met Patriarch Daniel, who heads the Romanian Orthodox Church to which more than 85 percent of Romanians belong. He earlier met Romanian Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu.

The next stop on Charles tour’ is Italy, where he plans to meet up with his wife, Camilla. After that, the royal couple will head to Austria.

HELSINKI (AP) ” With less than a year to go until the Olympics, figure skating star Evgenia Medvedeva looks unbeatable.

On Friday, she didn’t just secure a second consecutive world title, she did it with a new world record and finished 15 points ahead of her closest rival.

Unbeaten since November 2015, the 17-year-old Russian is formidably consistent. Despite the aura of invincibility that comes with her dominance, Medvedeva said her final skate pushed her to the limit of her “emotional strength.”

“There were a lot of doubtful moments where I was right on the edge of a collapse,” she said. Toward the end, “you’re skating and thinking, ‘When will this be over?'”

Medvedeva admitted to sometimes struggling with distracting thoughts she compares to “bugs in my head, scratching,” adding: “Sometimes they try to put you off and you have to cope with it, and I managed to do that today.”

Medvedeva’s free program ended with an expression of despair as her character learned she lost a loved one. That quickly turned to a broad grin of satisfaction with another impeccable skate, and a new record score of 233.41 points.

Medvedeva’s success in winning consecutive titles bucks a recent trend for Russian skating stars to burn out after a major championship success. Both the 2014 Olympic champion Adelina Sotnikova and 2015 world champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva struggled to recapture the form that took them to their greatest successes.

Medvedeva insists she doesn’t mind the spotlight that will come with being the favorite for the Pyeongchang Olympics ” and the star of a Russian Olympic team which has faced repeated scandals.

“I’ll feel that people support me and that will give me strength. I really hope for that,” she said, though she also said she tries “never to think about” the games.

Canadian skaters left with silver and bronze as Kaetlyn Osmond took second place with 218.13 points, and Gabrielle Daleman was third with 213.52. They were Canada’s first women’s medalists since 2009.

Osmond’s silver medal capped a remarkable comeback story after she broke her right leg badly in 2014, putting her skating career in jeopardy, while Daleman’s biggest struggle has been to convince herself she belongs among the world’s best in a breakout season for the teen.

“I just felt so relaxed and so confident going into this program,” Daleman said, admitting that until recently “I didn’t really trust or believe in myself.”

U.S. champion Karen Chen led the American team in fourth, and last year’s silver medalist Ashley Wagner was seventh. The 17-year-old Chen said of her worlds debut, “There were a few mistakes, but I’m very happy with what I accomplished here.”

Russian Anna Pogorilaya finished her skate in tears after falling three times. She had been one point off third place following the short program, but plummeted to 13th.

Russia, Canada, and the United States all secured the maximum three entries for the Pyeongchang Olympic women’s competition, but traditional skating powerhouse Japan earned only two as its top two skaters finished fifth and 11th.

Earlier, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir took the lead in the ice dance, chasing a third career title following a lengthy career break.

The Canadians scored a record 82.43 points to a Prince medley, and beat their own short dance world record by almost two points.

Virtue and Moir, who won the 2010 Olympics, skipped two seasons before returning to competition last year. They last competed at the worlds in 2013.

“That was a great skate. We felt the pressure today,” Moir said. “We knew we had to bring our best, and that’s why we came back.”

Despite being unbeaten since their comeback, Moir said he and Virtue were nervous.

“You’re feeling the butterflies and you’re trying to eat lunch and it won’t go down. You get out and you’re shaky, exhausted at the beginning of your program, but we’re happy with the skate,” he said.

Two-time defending champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France were second with 76.89. Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue of the United States were third with 76.53.

The free dance is on Saturday.

Source: New Zealand Herald

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When hiring an external IT support Auckland service you must take into account different aspects to make a good decision and achieve a successful relationship between both companies. Adapting to the needs of your business, its relevance within the market or the cost of its services are some of these aspects to consider, but it is also important to look to the future and understand that a company of this type should also be there when things go wrong.

You should always try to screen your IT support service as closely as possible. And if you want to learn how to do that, then you have come to the right place. Here are a few tips that you can follow to help you find the right IT staff to work with.

Pay attention to their communication

Communication is going to be the basis of your relationship, that is why it is very important that a support of this type knows what is the best way to reach you and your company. By phone, by email, in person, or whatever method of communication they choose to use. Analyze what is the best channel for you and choose those companies that respect it.

Look for on-time solutions

You may want to pay close attention to the fine print of the contract that the IT support company offers, in which you can include aspects such as deadlines to ensure that everything always goes as you need. Here you can also include a maximum waiting time so that when a problem arises it can be fixed as soon as possible and thus avoid the company being stopped or with technical problems for a long time.

Look for personalized support

The closer and more personalized the technical support is, the greater the confidence it inspires in its clients, that it recommended that you decide on the one who takes the time to understand what you need and who is interested in seeing how your company works, surely when it comes to the IT solutions that your company needs. They must try and be very involved in your business.

Ask them what kind of technical support model they use

The external technical support company needs to know all the details to be able to solve the problem in the best possible way. So it is important that you ask them to show you a concrete model that can be filled in order to know about a look at all the necessary information to be able to start the procedure. It does not have to be in writing, but it must include some lines to be developed to condense the information and that both parties will save time. This model that the IT support company shows you, must detail the flow of the solution of the problem and how one specific technical problem can be solved by the company.

It is really crucial that your business has the best IT support Auckland company to work with. This is because your business’s productivity could hinge on the fact on whether or not your IT support is competent or not.

 

 

Do you own a warehouse? Then you must know that how you can use a warehouse for your profit. Well, over the years, with the production of the companies rising high, they have looked for warehouses and spaces where they can keep their goods safe and sound. What you can do is make sure you have a warehouse and put it on rent, so that big industry people will contact you and you will have the money. Now the point is, to keep their products they will always look for an organized way, so if you can have it in advance, they will be delighted really. If you want your warehouse to work systematically, you will need to use the pallet racks. This is the best way to use every inch of space and you can also get the best out of your warehouse as well.

So, to have an advantage over the other warehouses, it is necessary that you buy the pallet shelving Auckland and design your warehouses in a better way. But before you can buy the racks and design them, there are few points that are a must for you to go through really.

The size: when it comes to the pallet shelving Auckland the size of your space is very important. If you buy an oversized pallet rack, it will be wastage of money, if you buy a small one, it will waste your space. This is why measuring the space you have in your warehouse is necessary and also make sue to contact the experts before buying the shelves. This is because in some cases you might need to build a rack that will be customized and will not fit any readymade pallet shelves. In these kinds of situations you will surely need an expert.

Built of the racks

Check each and every unit in the pallet shelves. This is important to know that the built of the shelves are sturdy enough to store the goods safely. If you have no idea about the weight and the standard of the quality, you can even ask an expert to check it for you. Also, you can ask for a warranty on the materials or for the whole rack while buying the pallet shelving Auckland.

Cost

Cost is in a very important aspect, whenever you are buying something. In this case too, cost is important. Once you are sure that you have chosen the right size and the quality, then you need to think about the price. You see, the price you will get for the warehouse will eventually take that money out for you, but till then, you will need to be on a negative side of the money. So, it is better to talk with multiple providers and then choose the one who is offering pallet shelving Auckland service at a lower price range. Also look for special deals online or in the local shops for the pallet shelving services.

Whatever you do, make sure you know what you are doing, because one bought, you cannot just change the parts everyday or buy a new one every week So, take care while choosing and it can be a good investment.

 

Crystal meth, also known as glass, ice or shards is a highly addictive man-made drug. It is created synthetically and belongs to the phenylethylamine and amphetamine class. It looks like transparent shards of broken glass, hence the name. It also comes in the form a powder and is very bitter tasting. Methamphetamine is generally administered into the body through injections, snorting or smoking. The drug triggers dopamine release in the brain, thus causing intense euphoria. However, it also causes massive side effects to the central nervous system, even resulting in an irreversible damage to brain cells. Methamphetamine abuse is still prevalent although the drug has been categorized as strictly illegal, as a Schedule ll substance. It is also not used in any of the medical practices. The triggering question, however, is how the chemical stays in the body once ingested.

There can, however, be no specific answer to this question. Meth testing conducted on the users have revealed that the time period for which the drug stays in the body completely depends on the amount of the stimulant that has been ingested and the frequency of use. Depending on these factors, the time taken for methamphetamine to completely leave the body can vary largely.

• Considering the different stages of addiction, the greater the amount one has consumed, the more likely it is to stay inside the body.
• The time period for which the drug is going to stay in the body also depends on the frequency of use. Meth testing has revealed that the more frequently one has been administering the drugs, the more will be the body’s tendency to retain the drug.
• The metabolic rates also determine how long crystal meth is going to stay in the body. The greater the metabolism, the greater will be the speed of detoxification. So if the metabolic rate of the user is slower, the drug can also stay in the body for a relatively longer period of time. Since weight, age and general health of the person go into determining the metabolic rate of the body, they also contribute to how long the drug is going to stay in the body.
• There is one more thing known as methamphetamine resistance. Just like the body has a certain degree of resistance to other foreign items, they also have some tolerance towards methamphetamine. The consistency of ingestion could also determine the level of tolerance. Meth testing has found that users with frequent intake have higher tolerances than normal.
• How you administer the drug also determines how long the drug is going to stay in your body. This is because the body takes a different amount of time to process the drug when administered through different processes. Meth testing shows that the drug shows fastest results when injected directly into the bloodstream. In this case, the drug remains in the body for around 72 hours. When taken through smoking, it can take around three to five to clear out of the system.

 

 

 

Looking around us, you will see buildings and structures that house businesses in our community.  We can also see residential buildings scattered within the area. Buildings such as high rise residential towers and commercial establishments dominate our skylines. A structure such as bridges and subways owes us with their structural designs and they always become the landmark of our society.  All these are made possible by architects.  Just like Auckland Architects, they are experts in the conceptualization, design, planning and construction of whatever project they are into.  But, their expertise will be put to use only, if they have gathered the exact details about the project.

After a close consultation and all the details was handed to them, it is when they will be able to continue to the next phase. So, before hiring an architect, you should have considered the following.

 

What is the planned project? Is it a building, a residential house, a multi-storey house? Will it be for a long term? Or short term? How would it look like? It is essential to be specific about what exactly do you want.

 

What is the budget for the whole project? Before considering hiring an architect, it is important to be able to establish the budget for the implementation of the project.  The Architect would want to know the financial aspect of the project so that he/she can determine if it is feasible or not, considering the materials you suggest.  You also have to consider that aside from the architects, you still need to hire engineers and labourers.  You also need to consider the materials needed.  So if you have the financial capacity, you can have it done continuously.  If you don’t have enough, you can have it done by phases.

 

The time frame you required for the entire project, from finish to start.  You have to be specific about this requirement, but the architect will determine for you if the time frame you suggested is feasible. He has to look into the availability of all the materials. Some might be available locally and should be ordered from other big cities. He will look through all the details to be able to do that.

 

The specification of your projects is important to determine first. What is made of the roof,

floor, windows and doors?  How about the furnishing, will it be included in the contract.

What are the specific services you required of the Architect? The many or most architectural firm covers the whole project from conceptualization, design, planning, implementation and supervision.  You must be specific in the services that you required.  You may just require

An architect for design and documentation only or you want an architect only for consultancy purposes.

 

Conceptualizing a project is so stressful. It involves a lot of things. There is the time you require of the contractor, the money involves and the required finish product.  Architects are there to help you with their expertise and most of the time, give value to your money.  But, again, before you even contact them for consultation, have all the details that they will need to be able to do the job.