Salute Friend

Father’s Day is just around the corner. Here are some gift ideas sure to put a smile on dad’s face.

1. Forget the Tie

Vintage cufflinks, studs, watches and tiepins can be found for a fraction of the price of what you would pay for buying new. They can add finesse to dad’s wardrobe.

2. Vroom Vroom Vroom

Die-cast metal vintage-style cars make great desk toys. A Porsche, a Jaguar or an Aston Martin is sure to make dad’s day memorable. Prices starting at $40.

3. Reader’s Corner

If dad is a collector, whatever his passion - antique toys, paperweights or furniture of any period - there is a book to teach him all he needs to know. Look for compact pocket guides or more complete reference books to kick back by the fire. Prices start at $9.95.

4. Desk Accessories

Give dad’s desk a makeover with the gift of an exquisite writing set. Direct from Italy is the Francesco Rubinato collection of old world writing instruments. This distinctive collection of fine writing instruments and accessories includes desk sets, quill-tipped pens, glass pens, wax seals - all attractively boxed for gift giving.

5. Music Lovers

A gift of a vintage radio or gramophone will delight a fan from the pre-CD era. LP and 78 records can be found at garage sales starting at 25 cents. They can make for charming entertainment at the cottage.

Martin Swinton owns Take-A-Boo Emporium, an antique shop located in Toronto, Canada. He does furniture restoration, caning and rushing repairs, custom reproductions, upholstery, teaches courses on antiques and does appraisals for estates and community events. He can be reached at 416-785-4555 or by visiting http://www.takeaboo.com

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It is amazing to see the different types of dance routines that have been incorporated into cheerleading. Street dancing, performed in a cheerleading uniform cheerleading uniform by a group of individuals, looks entirely different than when performed singularly on a street corner. In cheerleading competitions the cheerleading uniforms cheerleading uniform are sometimes made to reflect the dress style of the street dancers, but it’s something about the rhinestones, letters, and cut of the uniform that adds an extra something to the performance. As stunts are incorporated into the dance, a style evolves that is sometimes taken back to the street. Dancers and cheerleaders wearing the same cheerleading uniforms cheerleading uniform create a whole new depth to the art of both dance and cheerleading. As they move simultaneously through a piece bringing grace and fluidity to a very technical program, cheerleaders become the visual reminders of what we hope to see within others. Enthusiasm and passion for a sport that allows them to excel and master the difficult while making it seem so easy. Cheerleading teaches many skills, but I believe that grace under pressure is one of the most invaluable lessons that cheerleaders learn no matter what level they are at. I also believe that the lessons learned by cheerleaders are something that they carry for a lifetime.

One of the most standard causes for wearing spectacles is shortsightedness

For a bunch of reasons, a person might become short sighted. The offical term for this is shortsightedness. When somebody is nearsighted, they can not focus well into the distance, but they can see rather sharply, when looking up close at things.

To be nearsighted or short sighted, the light ray that comes into your eye focuses too quickly as either the cornea or lens are too short or your eyes are too long..

Unlike many other aspects in life, myopia tends to improve with time. Nobody is definitely sure as to why this is, alternatively it may be the lens becomes stiffer with age and so can’t focus the rays of light so acutely. What then follows is the focal point of the light, becomes closer and closer to the retina.

About 1 in 4 Americans are nearsighted.

Using a variety of techniques, trained eye care practitioners can assess whether or not a child is able to focus clearly. They use play, retinoscopy and refraction to help them do this carefully.

The type and extent of shortsightedness is determined by additional testing. These tests include an evaluation of the child’s binocular vision, his eye movements, his ability to converge and focus on objects close-up, and his ocular health. Dilation of the eye allows the doctor to check for complications of ROP, diabetes, or degenerative myopia.

There are many children who will be falsely assessed to be myopic, due to the fact that of their natural tendency to over focus. To counter this, a trained eye pratitioner will often elect to dilate the pupils with some eye drops to prevent the child’s lenses from over correcting.

shortsightedness is most commonly treated with spectacles or glasses. shortsightedness in preschool children does not need to be corrected with spectacles, unless either anisometropia, a condition in which there is a difference of more than 1.00 diopters between the two eyes, or amblyopia, a condition in which a child cannot be corrected to 20/20 with spectacles, is present.

For learning to take place at school, it is vital that they can focus on far away targets. So, if your child has shortsightedness, make sure that they have their eyes formally assessed every 6 months or so to ensure that they have the correction spectacles that they require.

Spectacles will commonly need to be worn all the time. There are a few children who have a rare problem with converging their eyes and they may need to actually remove their eyeglasses for when they need to do close up work.

What would we do without shoes? Whenwere shoes first invented, and bywho? I betthat the shoes were invented back, long ago, in the time of the cave man. I bet that Fred Flintstones got credit for saving the soles of billions of people to follow. The title of the inventor of shoes probably went to some French dude. Back when the Earth was still thawing out and the humans came, the were having a hard time walking very far. It’s not that they were lazy, of out of shape. It was because their feet hurt. So he decided that they needed to have something to prevent their feet from the elements and the harsh ground. I wonder what the first shoes were mad of. Leaves or skins. I bet that they actually first used mud. Because they knew that when it rained outside, the ground would get all muddy and nasty. When they went out in the rain, they would track mud all over the cave, so it must stick to their feet. They noticed that when they had all that sticky mud stuck to their feet, their feet wouldn’t hurt when they waked. So I think that think layers of mud made the first shoes.

The problem with mud, was that if didn’t last very long, and the hunt for food would sometimes last for days and days. They needed something that would last for a while, or at least a few days. There was a lot of skin on the animals that they didn’t like to eat, so they made clothes with it to keep warm. One think that they never thought about was to cover their feet with the skins. Then one day, after a successful hunting party, they and lots of skin left over. They make the fist leather shoes with that. It was the best their, big, hairy, feet had ever been protected. This was the making of the first shoes.