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Papers of Edith Gratia Stedman, 1833-1978 (inclusive), 1913-1978 (bulk)
Correspondence, diaries, writings, etc., of Edith Gratia Stedman, social worker, college administrator, and writer.
Majority of material found within 1913-1978
Materials in English.
Access. Collection is open for research. An appointment is necessary to use any audiovisual material.
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Edith Gratia Stedman as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
2.5 linear feet ((6 file boxes) plus 1 oversize folder)
This collection consists of personal and business papers, tapes, and photographs mainly documenting Edith Gratia Stedman's social work overseas and her fundraising activities on behalf of Dorchester Abbey. It includes a study of her work at Radcliffe's Appointment Bureau and her published and unpublished writings. Additional material from the Radcliffe Alumnae Pamphlet Collection was added to #82 in June 2018.
Series I, Personal and Employment, contains photographs, personal correspondence with friends and colleagues, diaries and accounts of her work in France and China, and the source material for a study of the Appointment Bureau under her Directorship during the Depression (1930-1941); this study was carried out by Nancy (Harper) Creshkoff in 1968-1969.
Series II, Dorchester Abbey, contains the records of her fundraising activities on behalf of Dorchester Abbey and her journal and writings about the Abbey. Audiotapes of meetings and interviews with Stedman about the Abbey are shelved as T-98.
Series III, Writings, consists of Stedman's other published and unpublished writings.
Edith Gratia Stedman, social worker and college administrator, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 29, 1888, the daughter of George Herbert and Gratia (Holt) Stedman. The family moved to Belmont, Massachusetts, where Stedman attended high school. She was graduated from Radcliffe in 1910 and then worked for Jessie Hodder in the Social Service Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1911, when Hodder was appointed Superintendent of the Framingham Reformatory for Women, Stedman went with her and became Head of the Social Service Department there. She resigned under pressure from her brother and for two years, 1915-1917, ran a candy store in Boston.
In 1917 she and two friends, Margaret Deland and Sylvia Anable, volunteered for service overseas; she served as a canteen worker with the Young Men's Christian Association in France and occupied Germany until 1919. In 1920 she went overseas again, as a medical social worker in the Episcopal Mission of the Diocese of Hankow, under Bishop Logan Roots, in Wu Chang, China. The eruption of civil war there in 1927 forced her to leave. On her return to Boston she was offered a position as executive secretary at the Judge Baker Foundation, the guidance clinic for children.
In 1930, Ada Louise Comstock invited her to head the Appointment Bureau at Radcliffe. Challenged by shrinking job opportunities, Stedman introduced vocational programs to give students training in marketable skills: the summer secretarial course, waitress course, and counseling and camp handicrafts course. She created the Summer Playgroup, which employed students under a professional director, and began the Publishing Procedures Course in 1936 and the Training Course in Personnel Administration in 1937. Stedman served as Director of the Training Course until 1941. Its scope expanded until, in 1962, it merged with the Harvard Business School.
Formal retirement from Radcliffe in 1954 opened a new range of activities for Stedman. In 1955-1959 she volunteered at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Beginning in 1959 she spent six months of every year in England, living with friends at the Manor House, Dorchester, Oxfordshire. She founded the American Friends of Dorchester Abbey, which raised money for the conversion of the Cloister Garden into an Anglo-American Garden, to restore the great Jesse window in the East End, to erect a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill, and to restore the fabric of the Abbey. She created and ran a gift shop in the old monastic guest house, and was instrumental in arranging a Festal Evensong attended by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in 1970. In appreciation of her efforts her English friends had her likeness carved on a corbel at Dorchester Abbey, and in 1976 she was awarded an honorary O.B.E.
After retirement, Stedman also had time for writing. Her Dorchester Abbey Journals were copied and circulated among the American Friends. Besides an unpublished autobiography, she wrote numerous works that were published: A Monastery Guest House Cookbook (1965, with nine subsequent editions), A Yankee in an English Village (1972), Anglo/American Double Talk (1972), Finger Prints, and many articles. She also wrote stories, religious pieces, poems, and essays on old age that were not published but that are in this collection. Menieres disease and deafness prevented her from travel at the end of her life and she spent her last years in Sherrill House, an Episcopal nursing home in Boston. She died on July 16, 1978.
The collection is arranged in three series:
I. Personal and employment
II. Dorchester Abbey
III. Writings
Accession numbers: 418, 70-74, 71-12, 71-66, 72-51, 73-4, 75-153, 75-298, 76-349, 78-M127, 79-M89, 80-M162, 80-M180
This collection was given to the Schlesinger Library by Edith Gratia Stedman beginning in March 1962, and after her death by her estate.
Box 1: 6-14
Box 2: 14a-26a
Box 3: 27-40
Box 6: 67a-82
Processed: March 1983
By: Jane S. Knowles
Rehoused: April 2017
By: Margaret Dalton
Updated and additional material added: June 2018
By: Anne Engelhart
China--Description and travel
Chinese--Missions
Church architecture--Conservation and restoration
College administrators
Depressions--1929--United States
Europe--Description and travel
Fugitive slaves
Great Britain--Description and travel
Journals (notebooks)
Medical social work
Missions--China
World War, 1914-1918--Women
Stedman, Edith G. (Edith Gratia), 1888-1978. Papers of Edith Gratia Stedman, 1833-1978 (inclusive), 1913-1978 (bulk): A Finding Aid
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Edith Gratia Stedman Papers, 1833-1978; item description, dates. MC 345, folder #. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00923/catalog Accessed January 29, 2023.
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The Embraer ERJ family is a family of regional jets produced by Embraer of Brazil. Like the Bombardier CRJ family, it features engines mounted on rear of the fuselage. The passenger capacity ranges from 37 passengers for the Embraer ERJ 135 up to 50 passengers for the Embraer ERJ 145.
The tires are of the same ultimate size for all designations of Embraer ERJ aircraft but with slight differences in some aspects of the tire dimension, the speed and the ply rating.
The ERJ 135 operates with four 30x9.50-14 (DR31116T) tires on the main gear and two 19.5x6.75-8 tires on the nose. The same tires can be fitted to the ERJ140.
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A World Without The Beatles: 10 Ways In Which Things Would Be Different
Danny Boyle's new film imagines a world without The Beatles. But what if that really happened? Here are ten ways in which the world would be different.
Martin Chilton
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The Beatles are arguably the most influential pop band of all time. Speaking to uDiscover Music, Little Steven has described seeing them on TV in 1964, on The Ed Sullivan Show, as "the most important moment of my life". The plot of Danny Boyle's new movie, Yesterday, is about what would happen if only one person in 2019 knew about the group. Here are 10 ways in which a world without The Beatles – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – and their music would be very different from the one we know today.
Listen to the best of The Beatles on Apple Music and Spotify, and scroll down to read how a world without The Beatles would differ from the one we know today.
A World Without The Beatles: 10 Reasons Why That Would Be Terrible
1: The Beatles Pioneered Fan Power
As well as having a dramatic impact in popularising the guitar-electric bass-drums format for rock bands, The Beatles also inspired the fan phenomenon "Beatlemania". As they gained a mass following in the early 60s, The Beatles opened up a world of possibilities to energised teenage fans who had the disposable cash and leisure time to follow them. 60s counterculture writer Timothy Leary said The Beatles "were endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing free men".
One such follower was Sting. On 2 October 1964, the day he turned 13, The Beatles were filming a TV special called Shindig!, having just taken America by storm. "The Beatles were formative in my upbringing, my education," said Sting. "They came from a very similar background: the industrial towns in England, working class; they wrote their own songs, conquered the world. That was the blueprint for lots of other British kids to try to do the same."
Beatlemania spread across the world and even helped change attitudes about Western culture among the young in communist bloc countries during a Cold War era that was still reeling from the Cuban Missile Crisis.
2: Stadium rock started with The Beatles
The Beatles' triumphant tours of America opened the doors for a "British invasion" that allowed other bands, including The Rolling Stones, to become huge in the US. Little Steven told uDiscover about his "indelible memory" of being among the 73 million Americans who saw The Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February 1963. "It was the most important moment of my life and left a mark on my generation," said Little Steven, who was 12 at the time. "It was the equivalent of a flying saucer landing in your local park, only it was more impactful than that because you had seen flying saucers land in the park in the movies. You had never seen anything like The Beatles."
The 1963 appearance on American television triggered a clamour to see The Beatles live. When they returned to America in August 1965, they played Shea Stadium, in Flushing Meadows, Queens. There, 55,600 screaming fans, then a record for a popular music concert, greeted the band with a frenzy. That New York show was the first stop of an 18-day, 11-city tour. Beatles biographer Bob Spitz said that the 1965 tour marked "a giant step toward reshaping the concert business. For promoters everywhere, the Shea Stadium concert was a major breakthrough. It freed them from the constraints imposed by a gym or cinema, thus turning a pop performance into an event."
3: They brought a lasting message of hope
Influential social historian Arthur Marwick said that The Beatles helped changed attitudes about how the young could behave and ushered in a "mini-renaissance in the rights of individual expression", persuading a generation that "all we needed was love".
John Lennon's anti-war campaigns – and his song of peace, 'Imagine' – still resonate five decades later. "The general theory, which I think is true, is that we were in an extreme depression over John F Kennedy's assassination – on my 13th birthday – and so we were just desperate for some uplifting moment and here came The Beatles," said Little Steven. "One must remember that what The Beatles communicated, first of all in their music, was unbridled joy."
4: Bands followed their musical lead
After starting out recording covers and two-minute pop hits, The Beatles changed their sound and helped popularise the idea of the full-length album in the late 60s, laying the template for other bands' musical evolutions. In terms of experimentation, much of popular music in the half century after 1967 owes something to Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which was a unique adventure in sound, songwriting, studio technology and even cover art. The album helped inspire Pink Floyd's 1973 masterpiece, The Dark Side Of The Moon, among many others. "I learned from Lennon, McCartney and Harrison that it was OK for us to write about our lives and express what we felt… More than any other record it gave me and my generation permission to branch out and do whatever we wanted," said Roger Waters.
5: The Beatles were technology trendsetters
The Beatles helped drive analogue recording technology into a new era. The production of Sgt Pepper was the result of new standards in expertise and innovation. An estimated 700 hours of work went into recording the album and, according to producer George Martin, it helped re-define "the studio as an instrument". The use of multi-tracking was also groundbreaking, as Martin helped blend Western music with Indian music, jazz with psychedelic rock and pop. According to McCartney, the album made "the big difference" in popular music culture because it persuaded other bands not to "play it safe".
6: Music and media have not been the same since
Long before MTV, The Beatles promoted their music through feature films and television appearances. They made a lasting contribution to the world of cinema through five influential movies – A Hard Day's Night (1964), Help! (1965), Magical Mystery Tour (1967), Yellow Submarine (1968) and Let It Be (1970) – which made irreverence fashionable in mainstream culture. The Beatles' press officer Derek Taylor brought a media-savvy, forward-thinking edge to their promotional activities, exemplified in taglines such as "The Beatles Are Coming". The band's members also led the way with ironic, witty press conferences. When Lennon was asked, "How did you find America?" he replied, "Turned left at Greenland."
7: The Beatles changed mainstream fashion trends
The Beatles sparked changes in the way teenagers walked, talked and dressed. The shaggy haircut, known as a mop-top, suddenly became popular in the early 60s and long hair became more socially acceptable. The band also popularised Cuban-heeled boots, known as "Beatle boots". Later, in their more psychedelic phase, they inspired imitators to grow moustaches and beards, while making less formal clothes seem acceptable in everyday life. "Culturally they were something else," said Little Steven. "Physically they were like someone you had never seen before: the hair was different, the clothes were different, their wit was different. They were funny and they were smart and they were only in their early 20s when they came to America. They were much more sophisticated than the American version of a teenager or late teen. They were years ahead."
8: They put Liverpool on the map and still drive tourism to the city
The Merseyside-born musicians got their start in Liverpool – initially as the interval band to trad jazz singers such as George Melly – and the city remains home to many landmarks in The Beatles' story. From 1961 to 1963, The Beatles performed at Liverpool's Cavern club 292 times, before going on to find international stardom and score 17 UK No.1 hits. The Cavern has been renovated and now attracts tens of thousands of tourists every year, as does the award-winning The Beatles Story museum. The museum, on the historical Albert Dock, is the world's largest permanent exhibition purely devoted to the lives and times of the band. According to a recent report by commissioned by Liverpool City Council from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and the University Of Liverpool, The Beatles bring in more than £81 million to the city's economy every year, supporting more than 2,300 jobs. Tourists also flock to Abbey Road in London and the famous recording studio there.
9: Students would not have their work to study
The University Of Southern California has been teaching a course called The Beatles: Their Music And Their Time for more than two decades, and there are also Beatles programmes at Berklee, Skidmore College in New York, and Indiana University. In 2011, a Canadian singer called Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy became the first person to get a master's degree in The Beatles, from Liverpool Hope University. In 2018, The Beatles became part of Little Steven's influential TeachRock curriculum in America. TeachRock has created six interdisciplinary lesson plans to accompany Ron Howard's Beatles documentary, Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years. TeachRock also partners with Scholastic to host Beatles webcasts that reach up to a million students.
10: They wrote more classic songs than any other artist
The remarkable Paul McCartney song 'Yesterday' is one of the most covered songs of all time, while, as recently as May 2019, their song 'Let It Be' was named in a survey as the second favourite choice of song among Brits when they need relaxing music.
In all, 1.6 billion Beatles singles have been sold in the US and more than 600 million albums sold worldwide. As well as these superb original recordings, a world without The Beatles would have deprived music lovers of cover versions by hundreds of the world's top singers and musicians. Among those who have paid tribute to The Beatles by recording their songs are Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Adele, Nina Simone, Count Basie, Carpenters, Al Green, Earth, Wind And Fire, Tom Petty, Joe Cocker, Elvis Presley, Elvis Costello, Sonic Youth, Harry Nilsson, Stevie Wonder, Al Green and David Bowie.
In short, a world without The Beatles would be very different – and missing part of its musical soul.
Looking for more? Discover The Beatles songs in the Yesterday movie.
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They were on Ed Sullivan Feb 9, 1964 NOT
1963. They then toured the U.S. because I saw them in New Orlears in Sept 1964.
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History of the modern world includes the Beatles. Their mark is so substantial in so many ways. An entire generation understands.
Without The Beatles Steve Jobs would have never invented Apple computer and I-phones.It is no secret Steve Jobs has always talked about how he built his company after The Beatles. Just think about that no I-phones or no social media. The Beatles impact reached far beyond music fashion movies television.
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Q: Is there is any way to add Lazy Loading for video tag with JavaScript? At the moment, I am working on a project that requires me to add three videos to the homepage, but loading them all at once will reduce the load time considerably.
Also i want to use <video/> tag instead of using <iframe/> because i want that autoplay functionality.
What's the best way to do this in React? Using NextJS and Chakra UI.

A: You can use IntersectionObserver and do it as below. For React all you have to do is to add the below code in an useEffect with empty dependency.
const video = document.querySelector("video");

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const observer = new IntersectionObserver(handleIntersection);
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Also I used a video with a relative path to avoid possible CORS issues.

A: i found a way to do it using '@react-hook/intersection-observer'
import useIntersectionObserver from '@react-hook/intersection-observer'
import { useRef } from 'react'

const LazyIframe = () => {
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Institute honored by Arpa International Film Festival
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education received the Arpa Foundation Award of the 2012 Arpa International Film Festival. The Institute was recognized for "its outstanding achievement in Holocaust education and preservation of testimonies of survivors." Executive Director Stephen D. Smith accepted the award on behalf of the Institute at the December 2 gala awards banquet in Los Angeles.
The Arpa Foundation for Film, Music and Art started the Arpa International Film Festival in 1997 "to cultivate understanding and global empathy, creating a dynamic forum for international cinema with a special focus on the work of filmmakers who explore the issues of Diaspora, exile and multi-multiculturalism."
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Lepturus pilgerianus är en gräsart som beskrevs av I.Hansen och Eva Hedwig Ingeborg Potztal. Lepturus pilgerianus ingår i släktet Lepturus och familjen gräs. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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San Andrés Tomatlán es una de las estaciones que forman parte del Metro de Ciudad de México, perteneciente a la Línea 12. Se ubica al oriente de la Ciudad de México, en la alcaldía Iztapalapa.

Información general

El nombre lo recibe al estar situada en el Barrio de San Andrés Tomatlán que forma parte del pueblo de Culhuacán, uno de los 16 pueblos que forman parte del territorio de Iztapalapa.

El logo de la estación representa la Parroquia San Andrés Apóstol ubicada cerca de la estación.

Incidencias
La estación se mantuvo fuera de servicio desde el 12 de marzo de 2014 hasta el 27 de octubre de 2015, debido a trabajos de mantenimiento mayor que se realizaron entre estas fechas.

Nuevamente la estación permanece cerrada desde el 4 de mayo de 2021 por seguridad, debido a un desplome que ocurrió en la interestación Tezonco-Olivos con dirección a Tláhuac y que dejara un saldo de saldo de 26 fallecidos y 80 heridos.

Afluencia
Así se ha visto la afluencia de la estación en sus primero 10 años de existencia:

En 2021, San Andrés Tomatlán se convirtió en la 7° estación menos utilizada de la red, al registrar una afluencia de tan solo 1,722 pasajeros que utilizaron esta estación a diario. Un factor importante del porque se debe su baja afluencia, es debido al cierre (que todavía sigue) de la Línea Dorada, debido al desplome entre la interestación Olivos-Tezonco que ocurrió el 3 de mayo de 2021, cerrando por seguridad toda la línea. Razón por la cual los números de pasajeros en el 2021, solo se contabilizaron hasta 3 de mayo de 2021.

Lugares de interés
Cerca de la estación se encuentra la ESIME unidad Culhuacán del Instituto Politécnico Nacional.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Línea 12 Sitio web del Sistema de Transporte Colectivo
 Proyecto Metro del Distrito Federal

Estaciones de la línea 12 del Metro de la Ciudad de México
Estaciones de Metro de México inauguradas en 2012
Estaciones del metro en Iztapalapa


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A Design for Cheaper Wind Power
Technology Review: A Design for Cheaper Wind Power .
FloDesign Wind Turbine, a spin-off from the aerospace company FloDesign based in Wilbraham, MA, has developed a wind turbine that could generate electricity at half the cost of conventional turbines. The company recently raised $6 million in its first round of venture financing and has announced partnerships with wind-farm developers. The company's design, which draws on technology developed for jet engines, circumvents a fundamental limit to conventional wind turbines. Typically, as wind approaches a turbine, almost half of the air is forced around the blades rather than through them, and the energy in that deflected wind is lost. At best, traditional wind turbines capture only 59.3 percent of the energy in wind, a value called the Betz limit. FloDesign surrounds its wind-turbine blades with a shroud that directs air through the blades and speeds it up, which increases power production. The new design generates as much power as a conventional wind turbine with blades twice as big in diameter. The smaller blade size and other factors allow the new turbines to be packed closer together than conventional turbines, increasing the amount of power that can be generated per acre of land.
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Le Province marittime (in inglese: Maritime provinces, o semplicemente The Maritimes; in francese Provinces maritimes), sono una regione orientale del Canada sulla costa atlantica, composto dalle tre province del Nuovo Brunswick, Nuova Scozia ed Isola del Principe Edoardo. Si affacciano sull'Oceano Atlantico e sono comprese tra il Golfo del Maine e il Golfo di San Lorenzo. La regione si trova a nord-est del New England, a sud-est della Penisola Gaspé in Quebec e a sud-ovest dell'isola di Terranova.

La provincia di Terranova e Labrador è spesso erroneamente identificata come facente parte delle Provincie marittime, dato che si trova sulla costa atlantica. In realtà essa, assieme alle Maritimes, forma la regione del Canada atlantico. Il Golfo di San Lorenzo separa fisicamente questa provincia dalle Maritimes e possiede anche una storia molto diversa, se si pensa che il Dominion di Terranova aderì ottanta anni più tardi alla confederazione del Canada rispetto alle tre province marittime. Le quattro province del Canada Atlantico, in combinazione con le due province del Canada centrale (Ontario e Quebec), sono talvolta denominate Canada orientale.

Si è parlato di un'unione delle tre province marittime per avere un peso maggiore. Comunque le prime discussioni su questo argomento, nel 1864 alla conferenza di Charlottetown, portarono al processo di creazione della Confederazione canadese.

Etimologia

La parola marittima è un aggettivo che significa "del mare", pertanto qualsiasi terra associata al mare può essere considerata uno stato marittimo o una provincia marittima. Il termine "Maritimes" è storicamente associato alle province del Nuovo Brunswick, Nova Scozia e Isola del Principe Edoardo, tutte confinanti con l'oceano Atlantico. In altre province ad eccezione di Terranova e Labrador nell'oceano Atlantico e della Columbia Britannica nell'oceano Pacifico, gli insediamenti umani sono sparsi lungo il mare. La baia di Hudson trovandosi a nord e avendo un clima particolarmente rigido, la maggior parte delle popolazioni dell'Ontario, Quebec e del Manitoba risiedono nell'entroterra.

Storia
In epoca preistorica, le Province marittime si formarono dopo che i ghiacciai settentrionali si ritirarono, alla fine della glaciazione Wisconsin risalente a oltre 10.000 anni fa; gli insediamenti umani delle Prime Nazioni si svilupparono nelle Province marittime grazie ai Paleoamericani, durante il Primo periodo, il quale terminò circa 6000 anni fa.

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Collegamenti esterni

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Tokyo was my second city stop.
Its a city that's always dynamic and worth visting.
If you plan on visiting in February tough, make sure you take lots of warm clothes - its still very cold!
All footage is shot with the Canon 5D Mk2 - altogether I shot about 14,000 frames of timelapse that month, and the video is an edited selection of this.
Music: "90s Break" by BrunoXe licenced under creative commons.
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When it comes to fortifying your oral health, there are some sure methods you should take. One of them is to visit your dentist in Lawrenceville every six months for preventive care, but what should you expect to happen while you're there? Read on to find out, and also discover why these visits are so vital to your oral health!
It's a mild spring day, and you have plans to get out and about to enjoy the lovely weather. Suddenly, a roadblock to your plans appears: a severe toothache[. Your first priority is to find relief for your pain, but how should you go about it? Your emergency dentist in Lawrenceville explains how to respond to this and other common forms of dental trauma.
A Family Dentist in Lawrenceville Is Great For Both Parents and Kids!
Are you juggling the many demands of raising a family? If so, you know how difficult it can be to accommodate everyone's schedule. School activities, birthday parties, and dental appointments are just some of the things you have to organize. But one thing you can do to make life a little easier is to schedule everyone with a family dentist in Lawrenceville. Learn more below about the benefits of getting the comprehensive dental care you and your family need – all in one place!
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Having your teeth replaced with dental implants in Lawrenceville is a joyous time. It means you can lead a normal life again and experience a renewed sense of confidence. For the placement to ultimately be successful, though, requires some simple yet important steps be followed after the procedure has been completed. Read on to learn about 5 essential ways to maintain your new implants!
Your Dentist in Lawrenceville Gives 5 Tips for Better Oral Health This Year!
It's the start of the new year, and you feel hopeful about the possibilities. Thus, you're eager to make some improvements in different aspects of your life. One area that could use a restart is your oral health, but where should you begin? Your dentist in Lawrenceville provides 5 helpful tips that will help in your quest for a healthy and beautiful smile this year!
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Finding time to exercise can be difficult, especially when you're working long hours at your desk or attending meetings all day. The good news is that you can fit in a short workout without ever leaving your desk or office. How? Through our Jump Start Daily Dozen program.
Doing these exercises once a day can help strengthen your core and keep you limber while reducing stress and everyday aches. You can find videos and illustrated walkthroughs of the exercises at hap.org/dailydozen.
Another way to positively impact your health and burn more calories while working is to stand up instead of sitting at your desk. A 150-lb. person who stands for three hours during an eight-hour workday will burn about 100 extra calories. This adds up to about seven pounds a year.
Work at a desk that allows you to stand.
When you're on the phone, stand up and walk around your office.
Walk over to a co-worker to discuss business matters instead of emailing or texting.
Move your stapler, cell phone, pens, highlighters, reference books and other items that you grab all day to a different table so you have to walk to retrieve them.
If you have any health conditions that may restrict your ability to do these exercises, be sure to ask your doctor if they're right for you.