Include in your floor plan the location and size of doors, windows, closets, fireplaces, etc. Make scale drawings of furniture on a separate piece of paper. Measure the length and width of any large pieces of furniture (e. g. bed, dresser, couch). Cut these out and rearrange them in your drawing to see how much space you have to work with. Carry this plan and furniture cut-outs with you if go shopping or “dumpster diving”, so you know if you have enough space for something before bringing it home....

Make sure the room is not very humid or moist. By ventilating the room, you’ll help the mattress dry after you use cleaners on it and will allow bad smells and chemical smells to dissipate. [1] X Research source Carefully fold your sheets up as you remove them so more dust or dirt does not fall on to the mattress. Remove any mattress protectors you may have covered it with. Take off any pieces of fabric that can be detached....

Aim for at least level 65 just to be safe. You can use one of your extra party slots (you will have 1-3, depending on whether you use a Water/Ice dual Pokémon and include the Bug/Ghost Pokémon) to take a lower-leveled Pokémon up and give it the Exp Share. It will be easier if you have a full team consisting of all of the above plus a strong defender (a Dratini evolved into Dragonite works best since their only weaknesses are Ice and Dragon-type moves, while they resist Fire, Water, Electric, and Grass)....

Your main objective is to get to a gate and get out of the situation, so if walking toward the ram means walking away from a gate, you may need to take a different approach. Don’t run toward the ram as it may see this as a charge. Simply walk at an even pace toward the animal. If the ram backs up and you keeping walking toward it for long enough, it will most likely charge at some point, so be ready to perform another defensive technique....

If you’re not already signed in, click your saved google email address and enter your password and click Next to sign in. If you do not see your email address listed on the screen, click Use another account and sign in the email address and password associated with your account. If your Google/Gmail account is provided to you by your work or school (Gsuite), you’ll need to contact your administrator to delete your account....

For instance, jumping jacks, squats, push ups, and planks are all fair game for your workout. If you haven’t worked out in a while, focus on exercises that will improve your flexibility, as well as less strenuous exercises like walking, riding a bike, or using a treadmill. [4] X Expert Source Francisco GomezFitness Coach Expert Interview. 24 October 2019. HIIT acts as a trade-off—while you don’t have to exercise as long, your workout will be much more strenuous than a normal, 30-60 minute workout....

“It’s not every day you get to see a critically endangered species up close in the wild,” a tweet from the Utah Department of Resources read. “That’s exactly what happened for Shane Wayment when he hiked Angel’s Landing in @ZionNPS recently and spotted this California condor. This is California condor #1111, born just last spring.” Jonathan Shafer, an official with the National Park Service, told Newsweek that two young condors took their first flight at the park recently, including #1111....

And this isn’t the Lincoln Bedroom; it’s the Lincoln Sitting Room. Big difference. The Lincoln Bedroom is for famous friends-of-Bill-and-Hill like Barbra Streisand (not you, Dave), and it looks just like it did in the last few administrations. The Lincoln Sitting Room is next to the bedroom and it’s one of several historically significant rooms, including the Oval Office, redone by Little Rock decorator Kaki Hockersmith with the advice and consent of the Clintons....

Hertling made the remarks in a Twitter thread Monday explaining how the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is particularly well-suited for Ukraine’s fight against Russia. Since the U.S. agreed to share the missile system, Ukrainian forces say they’ve used it to great effect against the larger and better-equipped Russian military. A former commander of the U.S. Army Europe and the Seventh Army, Hertling was responding to Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, who touted the precision of the missile system....

The delivery of HIMARS to Ukraine from the United States has been described by military analysts as a “game-changer” for the country as it defends itself against Moscow’s unprovoked aggression. The siege of Mariupol, which resulted in countless civilian deaths and alleged war crimes by Russian forces, lasted from the start of the war on February 24 until May 20, when the remaining Ukrainian forces in the city surrendered. Meanwhile, the first shipment of HIMARS did not arrive until late June....

Hinkle is entering the 21st century. MORE: Photos of Hinkle’s renovation | Butler renews Crossroads Classic series Opened in 1928, Hinkle Fieldhouse is one of the oldest homecourts of any Division I team and is considered a National Historic Landmark. By contrast, Cameron Indoor Stadium opened in 1940 and Kansas’ Allen Fieldhouse in 1955. By the time construction is finished on the $34.9 million renovation of Butler’s historic homecourt – the plan is for it to be ready in advance of the Bulldogs’ exhibition opener – it will look far more like a modern basketball arena and more like the home of a program that’s made two NCAA championship games this decade....

The UniverSoul Circus is the only black-owned-and-operated traveling circus in America, and the only place you can watch double-Dutch jump-roping under a 70-foot-high big top or a Chinese bungee-jumping troupe sailing through the air to the hip-hop grooves of OutKast. Though black-run circuses have existed in America since the turn of the last century, they were mainly regional outfits. UniverSoul, which kicked off its new season this month and will hit 55 cities before November, has spent the past decade pitching its tent in underserved urban areas, offering a show that combines traditional circus fun with contemporary black culture....

Mateo Kovacic’s 85th-minute goal salvaged a 3-3 draw for the European champion at Legia Warsaw on Wednesday after Madrid had thrown away an early 2-0 lead. Zidane paired Benzema and Alvaro Morata in attack as part of a bold 4-2-4 formation that critics believe left Madrid exposed. However, the French coach will not repeat the system when Leganes heads from the Madrid suburbs to the Santiago Bernabeu. Zidane told a news conference: “Karim will not play tomorrow....

For starters, Toews left the game. He's day-to-day with a shoulder injury obvious to anyone with a pair of eyes (and access to the .GIF of him grabbing his arm and screaming the F-word on his way to the dressing room.) Then, whether through coincidence or not, the Toews-less Chicago Blackhawks kicked their game into overdrive and drastically controlled play against Orpik's Pittsburgh Penguins for the remaining two periods or so; Pittsburgh wound up winning 4-1, despite taking just 25 unblocked even-strength shot attempts to Chicago's 47....

In addition to these tests, others will be performed to ensure that your body is functioning normally and there are no signs of illness or drug toxicity. Central to this is a panel of tests called the complete blood count (CBC). The CBC measures the composition of cells in a sample of blood to flag for changes that fall outside of the “normal” range of values. This can help alert doctors if a drug like Retrovir (zidovudine) is causing anemia or there are early signs of an opportunistic infection....

Burns, who won Jack Adams Awards while coaching three different teams and the 2003 Stanley Cup, leads the 2014 class of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Burns died in 2010 and had continually, inexplicably missed out even after that. Also inducted: Mike Modano, the leading American scorer of all time; Dominik Hasek, the dominant goaltender of his generation; Rob Blake, a Norris-winning defenseman; Peter Forsberg, a scoring champ, MVP and two-way monster; and Bill McCreary, an official for nearly two decades....

Now, she enters the Hockey Hall of Fame as someone who has revolutionized the game and advanced women’s hockey along the way. Growing up, the Shaunavon, Sask. native played mainly on boys’ teams until she was 13. At just 15 years old, she joined Canada’s National Women’s Team and won her first international title in 1994 at the World Championship. Wickenheiser also won gold at the World Championship in 1997 and 1999; she was placed on both tournaments’ All-Star teams and named the 1999 IIHF World Championship MVP....

I'm unabashedly one of those folks who thinks the specialized goon is a complete anachronism that should be extinguished from the game. Way back in 2008 I wrote one of the first smarmy blogger missives arguing against the goon paradigm called "Ditch the Enforcer." MORE: Love fights? Find a new argument My opposition was couched in pragmatism, not principle: whenever I investigated the conventional rationalizations for tough guys, I always found them wanting....

The thing is, no one knows. CJD ordinarily strikes people middle-aged or older, literally eating holes into their brains–like the brains of cows who die from BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), a.k.a. “mad-cow disease.” BSE, unknown in America, began striking English cattle in the 1980s; biologists think it came from feeding them the ground-up carcasses of infected sheep, a practice since banned. The new outbreak of CJD comprised only 10 cases–but, ominously, the average age of the victims was only 27....

Words and Music Glenn Gould plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations ‘55 and ‘81($19.98); Miles Davis at the ‘73 to ‘91 Montreux Jazz Festivals on 20 discs ($249.98); Charlie Christian invents the solo jazz electric guitar ($49.98), and poets–from Tennyson on–read their work in a book/CD combo, “Poetry Speaks” ($49.95). New York New York A book so nice they named it twice. Richard Berenholtz’s gorgeous photographs, some of them foldouts 12 feet wide, are love letters to Gotham; $275....