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Does radio frequency skin tightening really work for everybody? Yes it does but you need to trust first the experts.

Cryotherapy Melbourne is a revolutionary method of cold therapy involving 2 – 3 minutes of exposure to subzero temperatures as low as -150 degrees Celsius.

Forget about the pain during laser pigmentation removal Sydney process they will apply an aloe vera to reduce the pain. You are wanting to offer tattoo removal services, you’ve done (or are doing) online research for the market and technology, and maybe you’ve had a conversation or two with a laser company representative. At some point – either sooner or later – you asked the question, “how much is a tattoo removal laser?”

Because you are looking at quality laser technology that is FDA cleared for use in the U.S. and are wisely only considering devices from reputable laser companies, the laser will have a price tag that many business owners decide to finance (though many still pay cash).

Financing a laser for tattoo removal is much easier than expected and can provide many benefits.

Astanza has years of experience working with customers to secure financing from local, national, and niche financial institutions. The process can take as little as a few hours and the laser experts at Astanza can help facilitate the process for you.

Why Finance a Laser vs. Paying Cash?

It’s all about flexibility.

Paying for equipment in cash up front can take away from on-hand capital as you’re starting out. Having cash on-hand allows you to pay for running inventory, personnel, advertising, and any unexpected costs while running the business.

By stretching the payments of a laser system out over a two to six year span, you allow the machine to essentially pay for itself along the way. Entrepreneurs often need this flexibility as they become established in a new industry.

Often there can be tax benefits in financing a laser and making monthly payments rather than paying one lump sum. Payments can often be deducted from your taxes as operating expenses, ultimately lowering the overall cost of your financing contract.

Besides, not the entire cost of the machine has to be financed – financiers will work with any percentage of the overall laser cost.

Where to Get a Laser Tattoo Removal Machine Loan

Astanza clients have taken loans from a variety of different providers. The team at Astanza works with you to figure out the best business structure and financial plan for your individual needs and budget.

Most often, clients use third-party lenders that specialize in capital leases, but many also use local banks, credit unions, angel investors, government organizations, and other well-known financial institutions to garner an attractive equipment loan. Astanza not only works closely with a handful of third-party business financiers who work specifically with capital equipment loans, but also can provide the resources you need when approaching other lenders.

Typically, to arrange financing approval and rates, you simply need to provide answers to a handful of basic personal and financial questions, a valid invoice or product quote from the laser company, and possibly a brief history of financial statements.

Often, for clients outside of the U.S., the best place to start searching for a business loan is at your everyday banking institution. You have a history with them and they have been known to offer the best rates in certain circumstances. However, local banks occasionally require liens on real estate, etc. which is not ideal and can negatively affect those without many assets.

If you were not approved for financing, that does not necessarily mean that financing a laser is completely off the table. Other individuals can help you secure financing for your laser system. A business partner, a medical director physician, an existing business owner, or a family member can co-sign an equipment lease or loan.

Regardless of what you think is the most attractive option, let Astanza’s financially savvy team help determine which type of financial institution makes the most sense to help you meet your goals. 

Consumer Reports vs. The Professional Painter: What Paint Is REALLY Best And Why?

It is the only paint protection Adelaide on the market that is permanent. It is a hard wearing ceramic clear coat with superior scratch resistance registering 9H and protection from chemical etching due to environmental impacts. One of our favorite customers from Mechanicsburg, PA recently pointed out that Sherwin Williams Paint typically does not rate well in Consumer Reports, but it is all she ever sees us using in her home. She had asked a handy friend about this, and this person told her that contractors prefer Sherwin to the other because “they get better prices on it so they can make more profit when they sell it to their customers”.  Is it possible we would compromise quality of work to save a few bucks on paint? Or could there be a more practical reason for our choices? Let’s take a closer look…

—Choosing Paint: Sherwin Williams vs. Behr vs. Benjamin Moore vs. Valspar vs. PPG. Most any professional painter who has been in the business for any length of time can tell you that there really isn’t a profit margin in paint. Even with the deepest of discounts, when you factor in the time it takes to figure out what you need and then drive to the store and back it becomes a wash at best.  Additionally, most residential contractors I know pass their discount on to their customers and consider picking up paint to be a courtesy to their customers – making it all the more difficult to consider profit from product in any area other than good old-fashioned customer service.  As I explained to Jan – professional contractors will always try to use the best possible product for any given time within the budget, and the qualities we consider to be important may go beyond what the average DIYer would think about. Of course we consider things like durability and coverage, but there are many other factors that go into our decision making process.  These factors include:

––Is this paint forgiving during the application process? Part of being a professional painter is the ability to get in and out of a customer’s house in a short period of time. This will involve a crew of highly-skilled laborers putting a lot of paint on the walls in a hurry (although never so fast as to compromise final result). Because of this, a paint that flows and level out well on its own is extremely appealing. DIYers don’t usually get enough time with any given paint to see a difference in this area, but folks who paint 40+ hours each week see it almost instantly. Having the ability to paint an area and trust it will look good without having to go back to it is crucial for us to keep a good pace.

—Is this paint capable of producing a uniform, even result with the use of both a brush and a roller? Often times the answer here is no, particularly with paints with higher levels of sheen. A cut line that looks different from  areas covered by a roller can produce walls that look “picture boxed”, making a wall look like it has a frame around the edges. There are tricks to dealing  with this, but they take a lot of time that I would much rather use to insure quality elsewhere on your job.

–Is this paint true to sheen? Most homeowners are unaware that there is a range for each level of paint sheen that is acceptable, so a “satin” from one company might look completely different from a “satin” from another company. In fact sometimes this varies from product line to product line within the same brand. In order to attain the look we are trying to achieve we must consider the light of the room and how much reflection the room will get from wall to wall.

—Does this paint dry slowly or quickly? And how long is the “open” time?  Open time refers to the amount of time we have to work with paint before it starts to tack up and can’t be touched any more. What we are looking for here varies from project to project and can be affected by humidity, heat, wind, and the overall time I have to complete a given job.  Sometimes we HAVE to get 2 coats done in one day, and in some cases we have to let paint cure overnight.                                                                                           –

—Other considerations may  include: What is the age/sheen/and type of paint we are covering?  Is it oil-based? Is there a lot of patching on the walls? Is soot/nicotine/water damage on the walls?

This is just a partial list. And while I did not get into this much detail with my customer, it should be noted that while we prefer more products from Sherwin Williams than other stores, there is an ideal use for paints from almost any manufacturer. A few items we find more efficient for certain applications  include Valspar primers and Valspar Duramax exterior paints (Lowes), PPG/Pittsburgh Breakthrough and Manor Hall interior paints (Snyder’s Paint Store Lemoyne, PA), Behr Marquee interior paint(Home Depot), And Benjamin Moore Aura and Regal Select (Auman’s, Hershey, PA).  The last though I have on paint manufacturer selection that often serves as a tie-breaker is customer service. Sherwin Williams stores tend to have a larger staff and be much quicker at handling multiple orders at the same time.  And they are EVERYWHERE. This is a huge advantage over  Lowe’s and Home Depot when paint is needed in a pinch during a project due to a spec /color change or addition. They are not immune to customer service problems, but overall Sherwin Williams are the easiest of the large chain stores to deal with by far. The smaller, independent stores ( in our area Snyder’s in Lemoyne/Camp Hill and Auman’s in Hershey) usually have extremely knowledgeable staff members  that can help with problem solving and answer even the most technical of questions. And they are not tied to any one manufacturer so they often have a better selection of paints and sundries to choose from. The only DISADVANTAGE  with independent stores is that they usually only have a single location, which is not always as close as we would like it to be…

For those seeking a challenging, fun and rewarding Pilates routine, you have found the perfect studio for dynamic Pilates manly. Pilates is one of the fastest growing exercise programs in the country and with good reason. With its focus on stability, core strength and dynamic flexibility, Pilates benefits many different populations with a variety of needs and issues. Joseph Pilates used his earliest exercise equipment to rehabilitate injured World War 1 veterans who had been confined to bed and had lost strength and mobility as a result. He used the hospital bed, traction and bed springs to rehab these injured soldiers so they could get out of bed and back to their lives. He focused on precise and controlled movement so there was no waste of energy. When he moved to America he opened up his studio down the street from a dance company. Soon dancers with career ending back or hip injuries were coming to him to heal their bodies and save their careers. Pilates focuses on deep postural muscles to support each movement of the body. At every joint in the body you have a variety of muscles that create, enable and stabilize movement.

The deepest muscles around each joint are slow twitch muscles better known to a Pilates instructor as local stabilizers. These are the smallest muscles around a joint with a lot of endurance that control range of motion when they are working properly. But in an injured body these muscles will turn off and then the body must rely on the bigger global muscles to do all the work. No one is really sure why this happens. The muscles that we need desperately to control range of motion and prevent injury are the first to turn off when we become injured. At first our injury might seem like just a nagging pain or nuisance and we try to just shake it off. Sometimes we don’t really know there is a problem until it progresses to a point it can no longer be ignored. After our injury has been diagnosed by a physician and we have been treated and released from a physician’s care then we are ready to start our rehab program. We must take special care in our rehab program to get these muscles firing properly or we will be prone to injury once again. Done properly, it takes 500,000 repetitions to retrain a muscle to fire correctly. That is a lot of visualization and repetition. Haphazard work will not get us the results we need to return to our life pre-injury. You must use caution when learning and practicing Pilates. Even though some of the exercises may seem too easy or simple to be effective, go slowly.

So, how do we train these stabilizer muscles? We work with low loads and slow, focused repetitions. When we work with heavy weight loads the bigger, stronger global muscles kick in to get the job done because that is what they are supposed to do. Stabilizer muscles weren’t made for heavy loads, so if we want to get them firing properly we must keep the work load low until they fire automatically without conscious thought. In the beginning you will have to really think in order to connect with the muscles you are trying to train to fire at will and then teach them to fire effortlessly. Remember it takes 500,000 repetitions to get a muscle to fire properly, so as bad as we want to get in there, train hard and whip our body back into shape, slow, focused training with a low load is what we need to concentrate on in the beginning. When the movement becomes automatic without conscious thought then we can progress to more challenging exercises with heavier loads to strengthen our muscles and get them to fire in proper order.

But what if you don’t have an injury but an orthopedic issue to deal with? Using Pilates as a rehab therapy doesn’t mean we will always be able to heal our bodies. Often times we use Pilates to slow down a disease process or to manage pain and improve functional fitness. Focusing on form and proper muscle firing patterns is often key when there is a neurological process going on such as multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s disease. Working to keep range of motion in all of the joints especially the trunk, pelvis and shoulder girdle is a primary goal for these populations. A well trained Pilates instructor can adapt the pilates repertoire to fit an individual’s special needs. There is no cookie cutter program where one size fits all. By working with the client and what is occurring in their body on any given day they will reap maximum physical benefits as well as the emotional benefits of exercising and doing what they can to control their symptoms.

Perhaps what Pilates is best known for is its ability to relieve and sometimes heal back pain. By teaching clients to find the stabilizer muscles for the torso, the transverse abdominis and the multifidus, back pain that hasn’t progressed to an actual fracture or herniated disc can be healed. Learning to stabilize the torso is vital to daily life activities as well as sports and recreation. The recreational dancer won’t be dancing for long if her core is not strong, the elite marathoner must have a strong core to endure all those miles and keep a healthy back, and even your average Joe needs a strong core. Sitting at a desk all day is not good for our postural muscles (upper back included). We need a focused program to keep our postural muscles strong and our backs healthy.

Since Pilates is a non impact exercise program it adapts well with many different conditions and injuries. The exercises were designed to be rehabilitative. They are great for the healthy, but they were designed for the injured. After a Pilates workout you feel calm and relaxed rather than exhausted. There are no quick or jerky movements -all motion is slow and controlled. And that is as it should be since Joseph Pilates called his exercise program “Contrology” or the study of control.

Rene Craig, owner of The Pilates Edge, is the only STOTT PILATES studio in Oklahoma City. She has been in the fitness industry for 10 years teaching group fitness, personal training as well as pilates.

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During surf contest it is inevitable that sometimes there are sharks circling in the waves as well. I love to surf. I love to travel. The great thing about these 2 loves is that they go han d in hand. I’ve gone a little bit further than most people though, and made these passions my life. I moved to Australia’s Gold Coast and set up a surfboard rental company that endeavours to bring together, all the services the travelling surfer needs.

The business is based around a long term surfboard rental concept which includes services such as delivery and pickup. This part is great. I make sure I deliver as many boards as I can as it affords me the luxury of chatting to my clients about the passions we share. Usually these conversations are packed with useful tips about the services they’d like to see next year. So I try to listen, improve my business and provide them with those services when they return.

“I wish I was a little bit fitter for this holiday”, so many of my clients tell me when returning their surfboards. This is the number 1 desire of the travelling surfers who use my services. The want a higher level of surfing fitness for their holidays. It makes sense really. When you go on a surfing trip, you end up surfing 2 – 3 times a day, which will probably equates to 4 – 6 hours a day in the water. This you do consistently over a period of 5 – 10 days. It is a lot of surfing. No matter how much you surf at home, you will be surfing more when on holiday.

So how can we condition ourselves for a surfing holiday. (Ie. When on holiday, you will spend much more time in the water paddling than you will at home, your fitness needs to be much higher) In this article we will look at a 3 point plan. The first 2 points should be part of your commitment to general fitness, the last will be to give your fitness a quick boost before your holiday.

The first thing you need to take care of is your general level of endurance. You need to be fit enough to go hard for 10 – 15 minutes minimum, as often this is the minimum paddling requirement for getting through the breakers and out the back.

This requirement needs to be specific to the water though. You need to be water fit. Endurance in the water is so different to endurance on land. Moving through the water is almost a feeling, an art. The worse your feel for the water is, the more energy you’ll burn up when you take to it.

So you really need to get into the water for some form of exercise at least twice a week. This could mean swimming with a swim squad at your local pool, surfing your local break, or do what I did and join the local surf lifesavers. Their training sessions have me in the water all the time. You need to view this as a life commitment (training in the water that is). Get into the water twice a week for the rest of your life, thats the only way you’ll build and maintain water specific endurance.

The second key is flexibility and core strength. These two facets can not be developed quickly, they must be developed over the long term. And by long term, I mean years. So don’t put this off. Start working on your flexibility and core strength today. I know, the exercises can be boring, but it all pays off on the waves.

There is one thing I do to take care of my core strength and flexibility. Yoga. Yoga is so good in this regard for surfers, its almost as if yoga was invented for surfing. My suggestion, get yourself a yoga for surfing dvd and do the program twice a week. Its a little bit cheaper than going to the yoga clinic twice a week anyway.

Also, even the simple act of paddling requires you to over-arch your back, creating a distortion in the development of your back muscles. Yoga sorts all these types of issues out, as well as conditioning your body. My advice, get yourself a surf specific yoga DVD and do it 2 or 3 times a week.

If you take care of the two items above (Ie water fitness and flexibility/core strength) you can give your surfing fitness a real booster by doing a functional training program specific to surfing. The point of functional training is it focuses in on the specific muscle and fitness requirements of a sport (in this case surfing) and trains those muscles in accordance with the needs of the sport.

To embellish, you’re reasonably fit and flexible because of the healthy outdoors lifestyle you lead. However, in recognising the additional load the surfing holiday is going to put on your body, you give it a short and sharp boost right where it needs it, so you can cope better and recover quicker from any session in the water. Which is exactly what you want on holiday as your next session is only hours away.

I hope this helps you prepare for your next surfing trip where ever it may be. We all know training can sometimes be a bit of a drag, just remember how much more fun those surfing days are when the waves, your skill and your body all come together at the same time, so you can catch that elusive perfect wave.

Damian Papworth is the owner of Gold Coast Surfboards, a company that finds services for travelling surfers’ requirements. From board hire to surfing fitness, they’ll sort it out for you.

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Choose from a wide selection of meats, fresh salads, tasty sides, sweets, condiments and spreads for your bbq catering Sydney menu. When a client comes to you for a catering job, the possibilities seem endless. Will they want fluted salads, ornate appetizer platters or a simple plated meal? Will you be serving food at a wedding, corporate retreat or anniversary party? How much food you’ll provide depends, of course, on several factors, including the type of event and how many people are attending.

Start With the People

Always start with a count of the number of people attending the event. To get the most accurate headcount possible, give a deadline to your client so you know the number of people will not change. Let the client know that having an accurate headcount will help to eliminate extra expenses and food waste. A deadline also ensures you have enough time to purchase and prepare the food.

Gather all the Details

You’ll also need to consider if the event is formal, like a wedding, or casual, like a retirement party. This may affect the type of food being served as well as the quantities and price. At formal events, guests typically eat one serving, but guests may graze or go back for seconds at a casual event.

You will also need to take into account how the food will be served, such as plated or buffet style. It is often a little more expensive to serve plated food because servers will need to attend to the tables and guests. The same is true if servers will be passing around hors d’oeuvres versus having them set at a table. Again, people are likely to help themselves to more food at a buffet than if it’s plated and served.

Specify a Budget Limit

Some clients want to keep costs very low while throwing a lavish party. For others, cost is not an issue. Knowing what money you have at your disposal will help you determine how to better plan the menu and figure out how much food to serve.

Create the Menu

Once you have all of this information in hand, start planning the menu by asking your client if there are any specific food requests or any restrictions. Get a feel for what type of food he wants and how he wants it served. If he wants some higher-priced items like seafood served along with a simple salad, you’ll be able to let him know in advance how that will affect the budget. You and your client may have to hold several conversations as you finalize the menu.

Determine the Amount of Food

Now comes the fun part: purchasing the food. Think in terms of 1 ½ pounds of food per person as a starting place. In most situations this is more than enough food, so don’t worry if you end up actually making a little less. Divide this amount among the various dishes you will be making, and assess which menu items people are likely to eat in the largest quantities. People generally take more of the main dishes and less of the side dishes.

Figure at least two units per person for finger food items served as discrete units (such as stuffed grape leaves or canapes). Prepare more of a particular dish if there will be a limited number of appetizers and less if there will be a substantial variety.

For proteins, one chicken breast, three to four lamb cutlets or two lamb chops or about ½ pound of beef per person should be adequate. If you’re serving 50 people, for example, you’ll need something along the lines of 25 pounds of chicken breast, 20 pounds of pork or 15 pounds of fish. For 100 people, those numbers would double.

When serving large groups, it’s often easier to purchase by weight instead of individually. That way you err on the side of having extra just in case you need it. That includes condiments such as butter that you’ll need as well.

Catering to Special Dietary Restrictions

The reality in the catering world today is that a good number of your clients will ask for meals that incorporate special dietary restrictions. This will skew your numbers on a wide variety of food categories.

With vegetarian meals, of course, you’ll save money by eliminating meat, poultry and seafood courses, but that could be offset by an increased number of vegetable dishes. In addition, you’ll need to pay special attention to providing dishes that include vegetable protein such as beans, tofu and nuts.

The increasing number of people with diabetes can create a customer base looking for low-carb menus. In addition, the Keto low-carb lifestyle is one of the most popular weight-loss programs in the country. Catering to a low-carb crowd will mean additional meat servings as well as a larger variety of vegetable and dairy dishes while restricting or eliminating pasta, bread, potatoes, fruit and other catering staple items.