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Get Medical Insurance for Medicare Equipment

Bhok Thompson
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Get Medical Insurance for Medicare Equipment

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Insurance is a way of getting support from a policy that you signed for your safety when you need it the most. Imagine that you are jobless or you are doing an underpaid job, and suddenly because of an accident you need money for treatment. This is a terrible time to live in, your salary cannot afford all this, and now you are in danger. With medical insurance, a person can go through such a terrible time with ease and with the support of an insurance company a person can handle matters easily than they usually are.

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There are several reasons a person should get iSelect medical insurance without any second thought. The insurance plan covers the expenses of the DME durable medical equipment such as electric warming blanket, portable oxygen equipment, power scooters, hospital beds, walkers, wheelchairs and many more.

What Is an Electric Warming Blanket?

The warming blanket is the source to pick the air, dirt and dirty air from the surroundings and on the floor. It is highly efficient in picking up the bacteria from the site of the surgery directly. These are the electronic blankets that are used to provide the comfort and the required temperature to the surgical patients. It is the fact that this product has the ups and downs, but these twist and turns can be avoided with extraordinary and wonderful change and care. These are standard setters in terms of medical protection, quality, and rates.

How Do These Blankets Work?

The warming blanket is the source to pick the air, dirt and dirty air from the surroundings and on the floor. It is highly efficient in picking up the bacteria from the site of the surgery directly. These are the electronic blankets that are used to provide the comfort and the required temperature to the surgical patients. It is the fact that this product has the ups and downs, but these twist and turns can be avoided with extraordinary and wonderful change and care. These are standard setters in terms of medical protection, quality and rates.

Infections and The Electric Blanket

The use of the warming blanket can be beneficial in use. It provides the protection from the infections that are caused by the transformation of the bacteria. The majority of the patients have to use the antibiotic as the result of the infections. The patients of the hip surgery and the others have complained that it is the source to transfer the germs and causes the life-threatening infections in the wound of the surgery. The warming blanket is available very easily but produces many problems.

Risks of The Blankets

These electric blankets are used to raise the body temperature of the patients, but they have some risks in using. It is the great cause of the death, hospitalization, burns, revision surgery, hip or knee replacement implant failure, joint infections, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), amputation, surgical site infections. It can create problems for the patient’s life.

The durable medical equipment insurance policy covers the expenses of the specific medical supplies, orthotics, neck braces, backs, arm, semi-rigid leg, prosthetics like eyes, arms, artificial legs and many more.

Roasted Tomato and Spinach Quiche Recipe

Miriam Kresh
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Roasted Tomato and Spinach Quiche Recipe

The summer glut of tomatoes is here. Take advantage and roast some to bake into a summery quiche. This is a deluxe quiche, one that requires time and a mindset that enjoys leisurely cooking.

Roasting the tomatoes and peppers brings out their natural tart/sweetness, while spinach and caramelized onions contribute an earthy note. The quiche makes a lovely summer dinner, and leftovers, if any, make a good breakfast.

Make the crust ahead of time, as it needs to chill at least 15 minutes before blind-baking it. You can always resort to pie crust from the supermarket… but home-made is easy, and so much tastier.

Serve the quiche warm or at room temperature, with a glass of chilled white or rosé wine. Or beer! Enjoy!

Roasted Tomato and Spinach Quiche
Four servings

Ingredients:

1 small red pepper, de-seeded and thinly sliced
4 ripe medium tomatoes, thickly sliced
1 cup small, tender spinach leaves, rinsed, drained and chopped
1 medium onion, thinly sliced

Shortcrust pastry *recipe below*  You can substitute commercial pie crust

2 sprigs of thyme or basil (or both, if liked)
50 gr./2 oz./4 tablespoons goat’s cheese, cut into large dice

1 large egg
180 ml./ 3/4 cup heavy cream
50 ml/3 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon olive oil
Salt and ground black pepper

Preheat the oven to 230° C – 450° F .

Line a baking tray with baking parchment.

Place the tomato and pepper slices on the lined baking tray. Dribble them with about a tablespoon of the olive oil. Salt the tomatoes and peppers lightly.

Roast the tomatoes and peppers 12 minutes, or until wilted with blackened edges.

Suggestion: Roast extra tomatoes and peppers. Fill omelets or top pasta with them, or chuck some into salad. Or just eat them out of hand as soon as you’ve taken them out of the oven.

In the meantime, pour the remaining olive oil into a wok or saute pan and heat it over medium heat. Fry the sliced onion until it turns golden-brown.

Stir the spinach leaves in. Continue to cook and stir until the spinach is wilted.

Remove the tomatoes and peppers from the oven.

Reduce the oven temperature to 160°C/320° F.

Roll the chilled pastry out on a floured surface to make a circle that will generously line a 18 cm./7-inch quiche or tart pan. Line the pan with the pastry. There should be extra pastry hanging over the edge of the pan.

Place baking parchment over the pastry, covering the bottom and the sides. Cover the bottom with dried beans. Bake the crust 40 minutes. Lift the beans and paper off the crust and bake the crust another 10 minutes.

You can store the cooled beans in a jar and use them over and over again.

Drain the onion and spinach. Season them with salt and pepper to taste.

Cover the crust with the onion and spinach. Strip the leaves off 1 thyme or basil sprig and scatter them on top. Place the peppers and tomatoes over the onion and spinach. Scatter the diced cheese over everything.

Blend the egg and the cream. Stir in a little salt and pepper. Pour it over the vegetables in the crust. Strip the leaves off the second thyme or basil sprig and scatter it over all.

Bake the quiche 30 minutes. Check to see if the filling is firm and golden; if not, bake a further 10 minutes.

Cool the quiche for 15 minutes. Break the excess pastry off the edges and serve.

* Plain Quiche Crust

225 gr./2 cups all-purpose flour
100 gr./1/2 cup butter, diced
Pinch of salt
2-3 tablespoons water

Place the flour and butter in the food processor and whizz until you the mix looks like breadcrumbs. Alternately, rub the butter into the flour with your fingers.

Beat  in the salt. Add 2-3 tbsp water, one tablespoon at a time, to obtain a firm dough. Knead it briefly on a floured surface. Wrap and chill while preparing the filling.

Most Innovative Online Educational Tools to Use in 2018

Bhok Thompson
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Most Innovative Online Educational Tools to Use in 2018

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There is a wide spectrum of applications and tools that facilitate various functions in education and the environment. Some are dedicated to assisting students in their studies while others are focused on teaching. From lesson planning software, student-teacher communication apps, to tutoring apps, here are the 7 hottest educational tools to use in 2018.

Flipgrid

This is an online platform where teachers pose questions and wait for students to answer through short videos. The responses can be shared with other students who might be seeking similar answers. It is one of the most innovative tools that allow students to discuss any subject. They can also review novels and films or ask difficult questions they come across in their studies. Flipgrid is a convenient way of bringing real voices and faces into play when face to face communication feels uncomfortable.

Edmodo

Here is another online learning space on which teachers arrange digital classrooms to provide the available resources to their students. Edmodo is a completely safe virtual environment and may be used to assess students’ performances. It can be incorporated with Google and Ms. Office to simplify the process of sharing documents with students. A lot of students rely on this platform to connect with other students from abroad for their problem-based learning in ways that regular classrooms cannot.

Nearpod

The three core values of Nearpod are to create information, engage learners, and assess them through the internet. Through traditional teaching methods, it is not easy to come up with lessons that to capture the attention of the students completely. It gets even harder to promote lessons that encourage interactivity and action. But Nearpod is here to resolve these issues. For starters, the tool gives pre-created interactive lessons which are developed by experts of the subject matters in all academic levels. Tutors can import lessons from whichever file format and add engaging elements like video snippets and web links to those documents. Then, they can sync their planned lessons to the mobile devices of their tutees. This means simultaneous casting of assignments and learning materials to every student and personalized monitoring of their progress throughout the semester. The reasons Nearpot stands out include the avant-garde technology of 3D images, VR tools, plus the interactive lessons. Whether you are homeschooled or want to be a private tutor, this is one app you must try this year.

InsertLearning

Formerly referred to as DocentEDU, InsertLearning allows teachers to turn just any web page into a class lesson. Suppose a tutor finds a wonderful post from HuffPost they would like their students to see. This tool can help them create a lesson, insert videos, insert flashcards, add some commentary, and ask a few questions. It is basically a Chrome browser extension which can change an article on the internet into a real-life lesson in matters of minutes. You can start with any web page, highlight note, and include your own questions whereby students can answer on the same page. You can even insert videos you have recorded from your webcam. After creating the lesson, assign it to the students through Google Classroom or a unique code. The replies from students are sent to the teacher’s dashboard and from there you can grade them accordingly. It is also possible to share lessons with fellow teachers.

Padlet

This is a virtual wall and a favorite for many students. Here, students create digital portfolios with links and files, curate materials for PBL, and discuss topics with other students across the board. You can also post homework, a school website, share academic writing tips from Essayvikings.com. or ask any question in this platform. The latest features of Padlet include the ability to grade, like, up-vote posts and transfer any link directly to another Padlet wall.

Kahoot!

This is a game-based app from one of the fastest growing brands in the world which boasts over 40 million active users from 180 nations. Here, you can share exciting experiences, discover more games, and play in any language you like regardless of your age or device. Its mission is t make learning awesome. Indeed, it engages the heart, the body, and the mind, bringing a wild and powerful experience right at your fingertips. Its straightforward features appeal to both students and educators because they reach beyond a typical classroom setting.

In Kahoot, you’ll find various sporting events, corporate powerhouses and all types of social and educational context. Teachers get to create fun games based on multiple choice questions. Then, students can register in the game rooms using any devices and special codes and compete with peers. The application of a game on real classroom questions is a way of encouraging students to perceive exams with a positive attitude. This also promotes group discussion creating what is called ‘campfire moments’. As such, students get to pursue their educational goals proactively by creating Kahoots. In essence, Kahoot is a wonderful tool for any teacher or student whether used as re-energizing technique or attention grabber.

Book Creator

This is an amazing and flexible tool that can be used to create, share, and publish books online. It doesn’t matter what age you are or your skill level; creating books can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. If you like following a specific structure, you can create a comic layout and include Google images from the Book Creator App. If you need more flexibility, you may start with a blank page and add your artwork. Then you can modify the shapes of your stickers, the font, video files, audio files, and hyperlink any online resource. When you are ready to publish, your pages will turn into a real book.

Final word

A lot of companies are developing new educational products but it is not easy to keep up with all of them. So, it is important to know how to choose the best and that is why we have picked the best in the market to help you save your time. We understand you have loads of responsibilities whether you are a student or an educator. For that matter, we’ve talked to educational experts from across the globe for advice on the best EdTech tools of 2018. The above tools have been tested so we recommend you o choose one of them. See how it goes and thank us later.

Meet the real Catwoman and her mission to protect California’s strays

Faisal O'Keefe
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Meet the real Catwoman and her mission to protect California’s strays

Lynea Lattanzio

A California woman riffed off that old saw of “turning a sow’s ear into a silk purse” when she chose to rebound from a difficult divorce by uprooting to a quiet new home near a tranquil river. She settled on a 6 acre parcel in 1983, where she often mused, “What am I thinking, single woman with no children living in a big house on 6 acres?” The universe soon provided her with the answer. More accurately, with hundreds of furry answers.

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Israeli and Palestinian fashion entrepreneurs unite as a single brand

Green Prophet Guest
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Israeli and Palestinian fashion entrepreneurs unite as a single brand

Aren’t you sick of negative news? Does information that pushes us back into our respective corners on any topic serve any positive purpose? Bear with me on this. It explains why I like stories as promised in this headline. I’d like to learn if you feel the same.

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Making car insurance more affordable

Bhok Thompson
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Making car insurance more affordable
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If you are not living a car-free existence, and own your own electric car or Uber car, you will need insurance.

As most drivers know, running a vehicle is not cheap and there are many expenses that you have to consider when it comes to motoring. When purchasing a car, a lot of people only take into consideration the actual cost of the vehicle and they forget that they will have to continue paying out money to run the vehicle after it has been purchased.

There are many different costs that you need to think about when it comes to running your vehicle such as the cost of fuel, the cost of repairs and maintenance, and insurance premiums so you can legally take your vehicle out on the road. When it comes to the latter, the costs can really add up which is why you need to do all you can to try and keep your insurance costs to a minimum without compromising on the level of coverage you need.

What can you do to keep costs down?

So, what steps can you take to keep your insurance costs to a minimum? Well, one thing to think about is the rising role of technology in insurance. You can now benefits from a range of products that not only provide you with a higher degree of safety and greater peace of mind but also help to reduce the cost of your insurance coverage. For instance, if you have a tracker fitted to your vehicle, there is less of a chance of it being stolen and not recovered. If you have a dash cam, it can help to determine who was at fault in the event of an accident. Having a car alarm fitted is a vital aspect of security for vehicles. All of these things can help to bring the cost of your insurance down while also enhancing security for your vehicle.

Another thing you need to do in order to keep the cost of your insurance down is to make sure you choose the most suitable level of coverage. There are various options available when it comes to coverage options and some are cheap and basic while others are more comprehensive and expensive. You should take into consideration the value of your vehicle before you choose which plan to opt for. If your vehicle is only worth a few hundred dollars, there is no point paying a fortune for comprehensive coverage that costs more than the value of your car. On the other hand, if you have a high value vehicle you should not take the risk of having just the most basic cover because it could cost you far more in the long run.

It is also very important that you compare the cost of coverage from one provider to another. You will be amazed at what the price difference can be between providers for exactly the same level of coverage. By taking the time to compare, you can save yourself a fortune when it comes to your car insurance. This is therefore an essential part of the process.

Rebel, rebel: see Iranian women dance in public

Faisal O'Keefe
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Rebel, rebel: see Iranian women dance in public

Need a respite from awful news?  You can opt to plunk down money for a superhero movie – or better yet – tune in to a few homespun videos viraling online that show the real, and stoppable, quest of Good trumping Evil.  Pardon the use of that once-powerful verb. Thankfully, this is not a story about America’s Embarrassment-in-Chief.

Over recent weeks, Middle Eastern women have posted a series of clips on social media, some garnering millions of views, showing Muslima bravely fighting to free themselves from cultural oppression – in this case, compulsory wearing of the hijab. Specifically, these are Iranian women, people in a nation that the US war machine is currently antagonizing via Twitter.

The videos show women dancing, in public, in their homes, some with their backs to the camera. The bolder dancers look straight at the camera. The trend is notionally linked to the legal case of Maeade Mahi, who was recently arrested simply because she uploaded her dancing videos on her Instagram account. Green Prophet frequently reports on the power of dance.

Women in Iran who publicly dance or sing or show their hair are considered criminals. As example, Mahi, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. See her post-arrest video, below, and note that current news reports that her sentence has been postponed:

Modern propaganda, using social media, can incite rebellion in a fresh and fun way. Documenting a cause digitally allows instant sharing, more likely when the message is presented in an appealing way.  See the offending Mahi video, below.

One Twitter user wrote: “I’m dancing so that they [the authorities] see and know that they cannot take away our happiness and hope by arresting teenagers and (girls like) Maedeh.”

This is not the first time dancers in Iran have been arrested for dancing. Earlier this year, an official in the city of Mashhad was arrested after footage emerged showing a crowd of men and women dancing at a mall in the city, while six people were arrested for Zumba dancing in August.

In 2014, six young Iranians who posted a video of themselves dancing to Pharrell Williams’ hit song Happy on the streets and rooftops of Tehran were given suspended sentences of up to one year in prison and 91 lashes. A year earlier, a group of Israeli soldiers danced their way to prison for their posted video of their “Harlem Shake”.

I’ll close with a quote from Persian poet Rumi, “Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”

Or, as Lady Gaga simply says, “Just dance.”

Microsoft spin-off offers USD$4 million to women entrepreneurs

Faisal O'Keefe
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Microsoft spin-off offers USD$4 million to women entrepreneurs

Calling all women in the Start-up Nation! M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture fund, announces a new competition for female-led technology startups where two teams have the chance to each win USD$2 million in funding. The Female Founders Competition was announced via a company blog post on Thursday.

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Israeli study show worms can perform math

Faisal O'Keefe
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Israeli study show worms can perform math

New research by Hebrew University of Jerusalem details the complex mathematical calculations that animals perform to locate their next meal. Turns out that even the simple earthworm constantly computes new scent data to see if they are on right track to food. Can humans learn from these tubular hermaphrodites?

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Arab woman sells her ex-boyfriend online

Faisal O'Keefe
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Arab woman sells her ex-boyfriend online

Google “love gone wrong” and you’ll be faced with 46,100,000 results offering music videos, poems, books, potions, and advice on how to deal with an ex-lover who played you wrong. A young Egyptian woman went old-school (albeit using new social media) and devised her own way to deal with her post-breakup blues. She offered her boyfriend up for sale on an online marketplace.

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Benefits that come along with using CBD oil

Bhok Thompson
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Benefits that come along with using CBD oil

Here at Green Prophet we support the use of cannabis as an alternative medicine. Cannabidiol, one of the molecules of cannabis, tends to be a natural remedy that is used and effective for some common ailments. It is regarded as a chemical compound that is present in the cannabis/marijuana plant. When it comes to tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, this is a psychoactive cannabinoid that can be found in cannabis. It gives the feeling of being “high.” CBD is not psychoactive.

Therefore, it is a good option when it comes to pain relief along with other symptoms and that without the mind-changing impacts present in marijuana and other pharmaceutical drugs. Continue reading to learn about some health benefits connected to CBD oil.

Can Help Relieve Pain

It is marijuana that has been used to handle chronic pain for many years. Recently some scientists have found that some components present of marijuana, including specifically CBD, help with its pain-relieving impacts. When it comes to the human body, this has a specialized system known as the endocannabinoid system or ECS.

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This regulates some functions such as sleep, immune system response, appetite, as well as pain. Our body produces endocannabinoids. These are neurotransmitters which bind to cannabinoid receptors particularly in the nervous system.

Research has stated that CBD may actually aid in limiting chronic pain. This is by affecting endocannabinoid receptor activity, limiting inflammation. It interacts with neurotransmitters.

Therefore CBD, mainly in conjunction with THC, may actually be effective when it comes to limiting pain connected with diseases such as multiple sclerosis along with rheumatoid arthritis.

Help with Reducing Anxiety and Depression

Those people who suffer from anxiety and depression are keen to find ways to handle this. Anxiety along with depression tend to be common mental health disorders which can produce harmful effects on one’s health and also well-being.

Anxiety and depression often get treated with some pharmaceutical drugs. These can develop some side effects such as drowsiness, headache, agitation, sexual dysfunction as well as insomnia.

On top of this medication such as benzodiazepines can actually be addictive and may develop substance abuse. When it comes to CBD oils, this has been shown to treat depression and anxiety, resulting in some who have these disorders becoming interested in CBD.

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CBD oil has been employed to safely treat insomnia along with anxiety present in children who have post-traumatic stress disorder. In some animal studies, CBD has shown similar antidepressant effects.

These qualities are connected to CBD’s potential to behave on one’s brain receptors for serotonin. This is a neurotransmitter which regulates mood as well as social behavior.

There are also other health benefits of CBD such as its ability to alleviate cancer-related symptoms, helping in reducing acne, it may have neuroprotective properties; may benefit heart health and more.

Therefore, people are becoming interested in CBD as a way of fighting some common illnesses. You need to know that CBD tends to be generally well tolerated moreover considered safe, it may lead to adverse reactions in certain people. You, therefore, need to be careful if you decide to pursue this treatment.

Egypt invests in a million public fruit trees!

Faisal O'Keefe
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Egypt invests in a million public fruit trees!

lemon tree EgyptPucker up, Cairenes (and, soon, visitors across Egypt’s capital). The nation has begun an epic tree-planting initiative that will introduce fruit-bearing trees across Cairo. Soon citrus fruit will be freely available to anyone willing to pluck it. 

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Cannellini Bean Soup

Miriam Kresh
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Cannellini Bean Soup

cannellini soup recipe

Hot weather seems to call for cold dinners like our chilled, herbed tomato soup. But don’t wait for cooler weather to fix this savory cannellini (white kidney)  bean soup. It’s packed with energizing vegetables and protein; filling, but light enough to need rounding out with salad and good bread for a satisfying dinner.

If you use canned beans, it will take about 45 minutes from start to serving. If you prefer to cook with dried beans, you’ll need to soak them for at least five hours ahead of time.

I prefer to use dried beans, because after all, it’s no big deal to put beans in a bowl, cover them with water, and set them aside until next day. And yes, dried beans take longer to cook – between 1 to 1-1/2 hours. I figure on using the time to get other things done around the house, then set the table, slice bread, and get the salad ready so I can put dinner on the table as soon as the soup is done.

But I do keep several kinds of canned beans in the pantry for those times when I need to produce a hot meal quickly,and they make good soup too. You can also substitute a can of chopped tomatoes for fresh ones, but then you’ll need to taste the soup while it’s cooking and possibly add a little brown sugar or other sweetener if they’re very tart.

Cannellinni Bean Soup

Serves 4 – may be doubled

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 medium carrot, sliced

1 medium onion, chopped

1 large stalk celery, chopped

2 cloves garlic, chopped

2 medium-large fresh tomatoes, chopped; or 1 15-oz can chopped tomatoes

3/4 cup dried cannellini  beans, rinsed and soaked 5-8 hours; or 1 15-oz can drained and rinsed beans

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper or to taste

3 cups water

1 bay leaf

1 cup fresh spinach or sliced Swiss chard leaves, packed in tightly. Substitute a large, sliced zucchini if you want.

Heat the olive oil in the soup pot over medium heat.
Add the sliced carrot, onion and celery to the warm olive oil. Cook the vegetables, stirring a few times, until they wilt – about 5 minutes.
Add the tomatoes and garlic to the pot. Continue cooking until the tomatoes are soft.
Add the beans, salt and pepper, water and bay leaf.
If you’re using dried, soaked beans, cook the soup until the beans are very soft – from 1 to 1-1/2 hours.

Start checking after an hour. The way to tell if beans are cooked through: spoon a few beans up, with their liquid, and blow on them. If their skins split apart, the beans are cooked; or at least, worth tasting to judge if they need to cook a little longer.

If you’re using canned beans, cook for 30 minutes.

Either way, cover the pot, bring the soup to a boil, then lower the heat to medium-low.
When the soup is ready stir in the spinach, Swiss chard or zucchini. Cover the pot again and cook another five minutes. Taste to adjust seasoning if needed.

Serve with our easy, oven-baked Parmesan buttercup squash, and bread, and a chilled white wine. Figs are in season now, so top off the meal with our wonderful figs with arak and cream.

The Current And Future Challenges Associated With Air Quality And Pollution

Bhok Thompson
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The Current And Future Challenges Associated With Air Quality And Pollution

With the recent shift in modern times, we can see that air pollution levels are rising alarmingly. Even though air cleaning processes are on since last few decades, there is no change in the air quality. In fact, it is deteriorating and getting worst day by day. While you switch in your smart TV, the only news you get to hear these days is the alarming rise in the “smog” and the air level.

This is creating several health issues in Canada. People are falling ill and are getting prey to chronic respiratory problems and other health issues. Poor air quality is affecting not only everybody’s health but also the environment. The government needs to take stern action and steps to improve the quality of air to save the environment as well as people.

Air pollution challenges being faced are:

  • The drastic change in climatic conditions.
  • Glaciers are melting, and this is an alarming situation.
  • Due to air pollution, the environment is being affected to a greater
  • Chronic health and respiratory issues those are not treatable.
  • Toxic pollutants present in the air are damaging the environment and health.
  • Depletion of UV rays.

Even though the cleaning process is still on, there is no significant change in the climatic conditions. Besides, outdoor pollution, indoor pollution is also creating problems. All these aspects are covered under the governing body, “The Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999.” (CEPA, 1999) Indoor pollution is one of them, and it arises from chimney smoke, lantern smoke, smoking and other causes.

Though the Canadian government has made much progress in cleaning and purifying the air quality, yet a lot is left to be done. This is not a onetime process, but the cleaning has to be carried on regularly as the air pollution tends to rise at an alarming rate rather than decreasing. Under the CEPA was established in 1999 to clean and check the quality of air in the country. And since then, there has been no looking back.

Air pollution can be harmful and so are its side effects. Studies and researches have shown that even if the air pollution level is low, it can still harm human’s health. And to stop this, regular refreshment of air needs to done by the CEPA authority. This association is devoted towards reducing and controlling the toxic substances in the environment.

Common Problems!

  • When the air pollution level increases in any part of Canada, it does not fall under the national air quality standards. This is hazardous to life for all – humans, animals, and our environment as well.
  • The air pollution level can be controlled but cannot be altered. Thus it is of utmost importance that various measures should be taken to control the poor standards of air.
  • This is extremely hazardous to life because what we are inhaling is affecting our health. Both indoor and outdoor air pollution is the main causes.
  • The level of the air pollution in many Canadian provinces and cities does not match the air quality given by the CEPA. This is unhealthy in numerous ways.
  • Extensive research and a number of evidences show that both long-term and short-term exposures to fine particle pollution, also known as fine particulate matter, can cause premature death and harmful effects on the cardiovascular system.
  • Damage to the ozone increases health issues like breathing issues and respiratory problems. Asthma attacks are the most common cause of death due to harmful levels of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide increasing in the air.

Pollutants can cause multiple health issues. Thus, the government should be prompt enough to take decisions for improving the air quality.

Homebiogas appliance processes compost and home food waste into bio-gas

Maurice Picow
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Homebiogas appliance processes compost and home food waste into bio-gas

bio gas from methane at home deviceMaking bio-gas at home from food scraps is now becoming an easily affordable reality. After
seeing a model of the Homebiogas device on display at the June 26-27 Cleantech Israel 2018 conference and exposition in Tel Aviv, I paid a July 10 visit to the company’s headquarters in Beit Yanai Israel, to inspect a working model of the appliance that makes usable methane based bio-gas in one’s own backyard using a combination of manure, food scraps and other organic material.

Roy Barzam, Homebiogas’ US sales manager (photo), took me on a tour of their facilities, at which several bio-gas appliances were in various stages of bio waste processing and operation. “The process of converting organic wastes into bio-gas is known as anaerobic digestion  
in which bacteria and other micro-organisms breakdown the organic material without being exposed to air. This is different from composting, in which the organic material
is exposed to air” he said. This anaerobic breakdown process is what produces the mostly methane bio-gas that is then stored in the appliance for later home use.

The Homebiogas appliance, made almost entirely of PVC and polyprophane plastic materials, weighs only 23 KG “in the box” when delivered with a set of assembly and operation instructions. When completely ‘charged up’ with horse or cow manure (the best fertilizer for producing suitable bacteria for the breakdown process), water and food scraps, the appliance weighs as much as 1.5 tons. The entire bio-gas production process takes several weeks, Roy added, pointing to an appliance still in the  bio-gas production process (photo).

Once the Homebiogas appliance is delivered to a customer, the set-up and preperation process is as follows:

After unpacking assembling on a dry, flat surface, around 100 KG of horse or cow manure is fed into the appliance’s intake inlet to create the needed bacteria. After a 3-4 week time period, organic waste such as vegetable and fruit, meat and dairy scraps (including bones) are fed into it. Up to 12 liters of “kitchen wastes” per day can be added via the intake “feeding tube”. Water is also added along with food wastes (up to 1200 liters).This is done until the water volume and food waste volumes are more or less equal.

“The manure does it all to create the bacteria for breaking down the food wastes”, Roy says. He also pointed out a capped outlet pipe from which filtered liquid fertilizer, a byproduct of
the biogas production process, is removed. What remains from this process is a sludge that accumulates at the bottom of the appliance and is eventually removed.

Roy also showed a “bio-toilet” in operation ( above photo)in which human wastes are fed directly into a Homebiogas unit. The resulting fertilizer would not be suitable for fertilizing food crops, but can be used for fertilizing trees flowers, grass, etc. “Bio-toilets, which are like those used in boats and campers save water, due to their unique pumping systems” Roy adds.

Since Homebiogas was founded in 2012, some 3000 biogas appliances have been sold to customers in more than 90 countries. “We advise using our appliance in warmer climates where temperatures are at least 20 degrees Celsius during the daytime. Otherwise, a heating device must be used to keep the processing bacteria alive and functioning properly” , Roy said.

Due to the much lower gas pressure for the created bio-gas in its 700 liter storage compartment, the Homebiogas appliance is much safer to use than conventional LP gas; and has been certified safe to use by Israeli governmental authorities. The amount of daily bio-gas produced is enough to power a one burner gas unit for up to two hours. One of these gas burners is included with each  appliance.

As to the future: “We are developing larger models for use in schools and other facilities. They will be much larger than the standard home model – as much as 5 times larger”, Roy said.

More about biogas from biomass and food scraps:

Make bio-gas in your back yard from food and poop

Israel’s 4MW Biogas Plant to Clean up After 14,000 Cows

5 Brilliant Projects That Turn Poop into Power

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