Your wedding reception is a unique time for a lifetime celebration. You should ensure that everything remains perfect on this special day and all celebrations prove to be the best for you and your guests.
These simple tips can help you to create the magical day for both of you and all your guests:
Reception Location: Choose and finalize your wedding reception location well in advance. Normally, during wedding season (from May to October), it is difficult to book good locations easily.
Advance booking of up to six months is normal. Again, the day of your wedding is also an important factor. Weekday evenings and nights are usually more free than weekends, especially Saturdays.
Sending Invitations: You should send guest invitations early, preferably a minimum of three weeks in advance. This can help your guests to sort out their itinerary for the day and keep it free to attend your wedding reception. Keeping a safe margin can help you schedule the final guest list for catering and other services.
Guest List: A long guest list could prove a heavy drag on your wallet. However, try not to exclude many friends and relatives. The more of guests at your wedding reception, the livelier and merrier it will be.
Start of the Wedding Reception: Allow an hour’s time beyond the scheduled start of your reception for all guests to arrive and settle at your wedding reception. There could be unexpected delays due to weather, traffic and distance traveled. Having extra time in hand helps all guests to mingle and enjoy your wedding festivities.
Décor and Ambience: These essential factors set the mood at a wedding reception. Decorate your wedding reception location as lavishly as possible. Flowers and other accessories like silk ribbons in colorful colors and in accord with your party theme can make your wedding reception location look and seem out of the world.
Special Activities: It is very common for most guests at your wedding reception to be strangers. Choose simple interactive methods for guests to start mingling and feel like a huge family. Simple fun activities, dances, games and announcements can set the ball rolling for guests to get together and have fun at your reception.
You should soon find guests talking and laughing with each other as if they are old acquaintances.
Dance Time: The bride and groom should have the First Dance before guests start streaming on to the dance floor. This is your big day and you should be all out to set the tone of your wedding reception.
Set aside all your worries and stresses and enjoy everything wholeheartedly. Your guests will sense your feelings as you start dancing. Allow others to be happy at your wedding reception too.
Cocktails: Serve a variety of cocktails, soft drinks, martinis, wine, beer, and other alcoholic beverages at your wedding reception unless that conflicts with your beliefs. Try to help your guests unwind so that they make the wedding reception merrier.
You can serve inexpensive wine and beer or have a cash only bar with free soft drinks and water.
Early booking of wedding services: Ensure early booking of photographers, florists, caterers and bands for your wedding.
Fixing and finalizing deals early can ensure there are no disappointments or last-minute tensions and worries.
A lot of planning and preparation goes into organizing a wedding reception. Plan and go into all nitty-gritty details so that there is no cause for any disturbances or anything to go wrong on your day.
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Hepatitis C - Frequently Asked Questions
Have you or a loved one been recently diagnosed with Hepatitis C? If so, you probably already know that it targets the liver. What you may not know is that more than four million people around the world are victims of Hepatitis C.
Hepatitis C – Frequently Asked Questions
What is hepatitis C?
Hepatitis C is a blood-borne infection of the hepatitis C virus (HCV). It causes serious harm to the liver and has long-lasting health consequences.
What causes hepatitis C infection?
What are the first symptoms of HCV infection?
There are very few first symptoms of HCV infection. Some people could have HCV in their blood for many years without exhibiting any major symptoms. Fatigue, lack of appetite, and overall weakness are among the first symptoms. In some cases, symptoms might not come to the fore but HCV could be harming your liver extensively.
How can people get infected with HCV?
Hepatitis C infection is possible through:
Sharing of needles for intravenous drugs or through use of intranasal drugs
Contracting of infected blood through sharing of sharp instruments like scissors and razors
Through blood transfusion as needed during organ transplantation or other major operations
Through accidental transfer of infected blood on equipment used during dialysis
Having frequent occupational contact with infected blood or people with HCV as in the case of health workers
What are the main symptoms of hepatitis C?
The most common symptom of hepatitis C is extreme and constant tiredness. However, this symptom is common among many ailments. Further signs of hepatitis C include stomach pain, nausea, yellowing of eyes and skin as in jaundice. Later, blood tests can confirm hepatitis C through abnormalities in blood tests.
What medical complications can Hepatitis C cause?
Hepatitis C does not cause the same complications for all patients. It hardly affects some people while it causes serious complications for others. Some cases could require specialized medical treatment while some cases heal to some degree by themselves without any serious medical treatment.
Medical complications that could arise due to hepatitis C infection are liver diseases, liver cirrhosis and liver failure. These complications do not develop immediately; they may take many years, even decades to surface after HCV infection.
Hepatitis C infection does not have any age or gender bar. Normally, the incidence is higher in males between thirty and forty-nine years old.
Is there any vaccination for Hepatitis C?
No, there is no vaccine for hepatitis C infection.
What are the treatment options for hepatitis C?
There is no single and universal treatment option for hepatitis C, that can be proven to be beneficial for all. Antiviral drugs used in specific combination could bring effective results.
However, doctors consider many factors like existing medical conditions, age, gender, extent of infection, and allergy to drugs before prescribing suitable medication.
What are preventive measures for hepatitis C infection?
Can an HCV-infected mother pass on virus at childbirth?
Yes, it is possible for an HCV-infected mother to pass HCV at childbirth, although the cases are very few.
It may be more likely if the mother is also HIV-positive. Even if the mother passes on HCV at childbirth, it is not necessarily certain that the baby will develop the infection. The virus might go away from
baby’s blood after twelve to fifteen months. Therefore, HCV-infected mother can have babies without HCV infection.
Can hepatitis C spread through sexual contact?
Yes, hepatitis C can spread through sexual contact but it is rare. Having multiple heterosexual partners is an HCV risk. Further, if you are exposed to open wounds or other cuts during sexual relations with an infected partner, it is possible to develop HCV infection.
Can an HCV-infected person donate blood?
No, an HCV-infected person should not donate blood. Doctors conduct blood tests before collecting blood from donors. Most often, a person gets to know of the HCV infection through such routine blood test.
Different levels of enzymes and red blood cells in blood indicate infection which, on further detailed culture, could yield the exact cause and type of blood infection.
Hepatitis C – Frequently Asked Questions
What is hepatitis C?
Hepatitis C is a blood-borne infection of the hepatitis C virus (HCV). It causes serious harm to the liver and has long-lasting health consequences.
What causes hepatitis C infection?
Hepatitis C virus causes hepatitis C infection. This virus is present in the blood of affected persons. This virus attacks your liver first and thereafter causes serious harm to all body functions.
What are the first symptoms of HCV infection?
There are very few first symptoms of HCV infection. Some people could have HCV in their blood for many years without exhibiting any major symptoms. Fatigue, lack of appetite, and overall weakness are among the first symptoms. In some cases, symptoms might not come to the fore but HCV could be harming your liver extensively.
How can people get infected with HCV?
Hepatitis C infection is possible through:
Sharing of needles for intravenous drugs or through use of intranasal drugs
Contracting of infected blood through sharing of sharp instruments like scissors and razors
Through blood transfusion as needed during organ transplantation or other major operations
Through accidental transfer of infected blood on equipment used during dialysis
Having frequent occupational contact with infected blood or people with HCV as in the case of health workers
What are the main symptoms of hepatitis C?
The most common symptom of hepatitis C is extreme and constant tiredness. However, this symptom is common among many ailments. Further signs of hepatitis C include stomach pain, nausea, yellowing of eyes and skin as in jaundice. Later, blood tests can confirm hepatitis C through abnormalities in blood tests.
What medical complications can Hepatitis C cause?
Hepatitis C does not cause the same complications for all patients. It hardly affects some people while it causes serious complications for others. Some cases could require specialized medical treatment while some cases heal to some degree by themselves without any serious medical treatment.
Medical complications that could arise due to hepatitis C infection are liver diseases, liver cirrhosis and liver failure. These complications do not develop immediately; they may take many years, even decades to surface after HCV infection.
Who can get hepatitis C infection?
Hepatitis C infection does not have any age or gender bar. Normally, the incidence is higher in males between thirty and forty-nine years old.
Is there any vaccination for Hepatitis C?
No, there is no vaccine for hepatitis C infection.
What are the treatment options for hepatitis C?
There is no single and universal treatment option for hepatitis C, that can be proven to be beneficial for all. Antiviral drugs used in specific combination could bring effective results.
However, doctors consider many factors like existing medical conditions, age, gender, extent of infection, and allergy to drugs before prescribing suitable medication.
What are preventive measures for hepatitis C infection?
Simple preventive techniques for hepatitis C infection include:
Abstinence from alcohol consumption
Refraining from sharing of needles for drugs
Do not use same needles on different people for tattooing, piercing, or acupuncture
Be careful to avoid any contact with infected blood through sharing of personal care equipment like razors, scissors etc.
Practice safe sex through use of different contraceptive techniques
Eat nutritious food
Abstinence from alcohol consumption
Refraining from sharing of needles for drugs
Do not use same needles on different people for tattooing, piercing, or acupuncture
Be careful to avoid any contact with infected blood through sharing of personal care equipment like razors, scissors etc.
Practice safe sex through use of different contraceptive techniques
Eat nutritious food
Can an HCV-infected mother pass on virus at childbirth?
Yes, it is possible for an HCV-infected mother to pass HCV at childbirth, although the cases are very few.
It may be more likely if the mother is also HIV-positive. Even if the mother passes on HCV at childbirth, it is not necessarily certain that the baby will develop the infection. The virus might go away from
baby’s blood after twelve to fifteen months. Therefore, HCV-infected mother can have babies without HCV infection.
Can hepatitis C spread through sexual contact?
Yes, hepatitis C can spread through sexual contact but it is rare. Having multiple heterosexual partners is an HCV risk. Further, if you are exposed to open wounds or other cuts during sexual relations with an infected partner, it is possible to develop HCV infection.
Can an HCV-infected person donate blood?
No, an HCV-infected person should not donate blood. Doctors conduct blood tests before collecting blood from donors. Most often, a person gets to know of the HCV infection through such routine blood test.
Different levels of enzymes and red blood cells in blood indicate infection which, on further detailed culture, could yield the exact cause and type of blood infection.
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Saturday, 8 August 2009
False Favourites
Would you like the answers to these questions and so many more like them?
Why do some favourites romp home while others don't even place?
Why do some races produce a higher percentage of losing favourites than others?
Why do some favourites perform badly at certain courses?
Why do one fifth of all the winning horses in the UK come form the top 12 trainers
http://www.lay.false-favourites.co.uk/?hop=lobby2008
Why do some favourites romp home while others don't even place?
Why do some races produce a higher percentage of losing favourites than others?
Why do some favourites perform badly at certain courses?
Why do one fifth of all the winning horses in the UK come form the top 12 trainers
http://www.lay.false-favourites.co.uk/?hop=lobby2008
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