They’re getting smaller and smaller, those living spaces of ours. Yes, thanks to the price of real estate and the fact there’s so many single people living on their own these days, furniture designers have been stretching themselves to come up with new forms of interior living design.Welcome to fold-up furniture. These are objects which either don’t take up too much space to begin with (ie they are scaled down versions of ‘average size’ tables, couches, storage units etc ) or they half in size when folded together.This type of multi-functional furniture is nothing new, of course. As children

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There have been concerns about microwaving food in plastic for quite some time. It's been said that harmful chemicals can leach out of the plastic into the food. But is there any truth to this? Or is it safe to microwave food in, or on plastic?To explore this, we need to know a little about the microwave itself. A microwave is an electromagnetic wave with a wavelength as large as 1 meter, down to 1 millimeter, and a frequency range between 300 MHz and 300 GHz. What this means is that it is an energetic wave that can be very tightly focused, unlike FM, or AM waves. Use of microwaves was

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As I sit in a chair on my front porch facing the north portion of the property, I see my children playing in the yard with their father.  A fluorescent green softball wafts in the air until I hear the snap of it being caught in a leather glove.  Just a short decade ago, I can vividly remember sitting in this same spot with newborn twin girls, watching my husband mow grass with his shirt off.  I remember feeling more in love at that single moment than I had ever been before and felt like nothing in the world could top this feeling. That was until today.  In the 10 or so years that

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Through extensive research and rigorous testing, Brad Pattison has developed an extremely high quality martingale style-training collar.  When faced with the task of creating a collar to withstand the intensity of his training, Brad Pattison found the highest quality martingale style collar on the market, tested it, and then modified it eliminating all the failure points.   Brad chose the martingale style collar over any other training collar because it is safe for the dog, offers flexibility for corrections from either the left or right side, is rugged, can withstand extreme conditions, and

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