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Useful Tips on Hydroponic Gardening Systems
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Before you proceed with hydroponic gardening, you must learn about various hydroponic gardening systems. You must understand all these things if you are really serious in using this modern farming method. You should be clear about both active and passive concepts in hydroponics.
* Active hydroponics approach
1. The Nutrient Film Method is made up of the following processes:
•It uses a reservoir equipped with submersible pump that efficiently siphons all the nutrients to the grow tube material from where the roots hang up. www.aquaculture-hydroponics.
•The reservoir is placed at a descending angle to enable nutrient mix to flow down to the roots 24 hours a day, and then back to the container. Aquarium bubblers or air stones are used for facilitating oxygen flow in the tube.
2. Ebb and Flow- It is an active recovery mechanism with and comes with the following features:
•It uses submersible. Pump that is placed in the tank, and operates on “flood and drain” principle.
•There is a flood cycle where pump functions for few minutes to achieve a prescribed water level. Any overflowing allows substances to be directly pumped out of the reservoir. Upward movement of solution forces out the poor air from the root system.
•Nutrient solution is directly pumped from the reservoir to the upper tray and is dispenses directly to the plant roots.
•This is highly effective system with maintenance cost.
3. The Continuous Drip Technique consists of following techniques:
•It uses a pump with supply lines to each plant. The solution flow is controlled using drop emitter.
•You can use all types of growing mediums with this system.
•The drip tray placed below the queue of growing plants transfers all the solution back to the reservoir.
Passive Hydroponics system
The Wick hydroponic system is the passive hydroponics system that fully depends on the growing medium.
* Procedures in the Wick system are:
•The growing solution is soaked using a wick and is directly delivered to the plant roots. Being watery, these systems cannot supply sufficient oxygen to the plants.
•Nutrients are collected in storage area and flow back into the root system. It is a basic and cheap system and is not the best way to do hydroponic gardening. Therefore, to know more about the latest and most effective hydroponics systems, click here now.
5 Most Inspiring Female Entrepreneurs
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With the recent announcement of one of the youngest female billionaire in the world, Lynsi Torres, many people want to learn more about female entrepreneurs and their impact on the world. Since Lynsi inherited her empire, she has not had the opportunity to make her mark on the world, but she will have big shoes to fill to be as inspirational as some of the other female entrepreneurs that have done great things with their fortunes. Here are some of the most inspiring:
1. Gina Rinehart
Gina Rinehart has a net worth of $10.3 billion and is one of the most inspirational female entrepreneurs in the world. Rinehart became the benefactor to Hancock Prospecting, which is a mining empire. She learned the ropes of her father’s business from the bottom up and also dedicates her time to numerous environmental political circles.
2. Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey earns $165 million annually and has a net worth of $2.5 billion. At one point in time, Oprah was the only black billionaire. She is a talk show host, a philanthropist, an actress, and a producer. She came from humble beginnings and started her career as radio host. She is arguably one of the most influential women in the world and was an instrumental person in Barack Obama’s election.
3. Diana Williams
Diana Williams is a self-made Aussie fitness mogul of a company called Fernwood Fitness. She began the fitness gym in 1980s and has been growing the business since this time. To begin the business, she used her own savings. Though the industry was dominated by males when she started the company, she continued to invest her time and money to grow the business to 74 fitness centers across Australia. She delineates her club from others by offering free breakfast and a 12-week challenge program to help people meet their New Year’s resolutions.
4. Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay Inc. was started in 1963 with $5,000 and nine independent beauty consultants. The business now yields more than $1 billion in sales annually. Though she passed away in 2001, she is considered to be a pioneer for women in business. The company has independent consultants in 19 different countries. The unique part about this business is that the company values God and family before work and rewards associates with pink Cadillacs and other incentives.
5. Janine Allis
Boost Juice mogul got her idea for a smoothie chain after visiting the health bars in America. She started Boost Juice franchises in Australia and went global shortly after its success. She received help from Nestle in the United Kingdom and has won numerous awards. Boost Juice earns $54 million AUD annually from 88 stores around the world.
Get Inspired by These Female Entrepreneurs!
Read these stories and get inspired to start your own business. These women have amazing stories, and many of them began from nothing. Draw from their ideas and business strategies and develop a set of best practices for starting and running your own business.
Written by Beth Gadd
Beth runs a small business in IT related field. She operates at home while also had her Servcorp virtual offices set up recently.
12 Weeks 2 Days
While, I’ve survived the first 12 weeks 2 days of this pregnancy but I’ll be honest…it has not been easy. I am still battling the nausea and exhaustion along with some serious mood swings. I am hoping that things will start to look up over the next few weeks.
Well there isn’t much baby related stuff I can do to prepare right now, we have been trying to get other projects done around the house. Yesterday, Alex put up the new backsplash in the kitchen and we are hoping to get the kitchen completed within the next week or two. There isn’t much left to do and I am looking forward to checking it off the list. Since we will be doing a basement remodel in spring, we also will be working hard next weekend to clean out the rest of the basement and finish organizing so the remodel won’t be so crazy.
As far as baby Peanut goes, all seems to be going pretty well. I have an appointment with the Dr next Monday and hopefully just a few more weeks until we find out if Peanut is a boy or a girl. I am hoping for another girl because Ellie would have a great playmate and I can finally design a totally girly bedroom!
Until next week!
5 Tips to Build the Dream Home for the Active Family
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If your family hardly ever sits still, and fitness and fun are the daily norm, then you’ll want to make sure that your dream home accommodates your family’s active lifestyle. An environment that’s conducive to your family’s passions is essential, so here are some easy tips to follow when building the fit and active family home.
Choose a Fitness-Friendly Location
When choosing where to build your dream home, consider the surrounding facilities. It’s great to be able to have plenty of locations available and accessible to encourage the family to keep active, whether it’s a public pool, cricket nets, soccer ovals or even just walking or cycling tracks. The closer the better as it’s less of an ordeal to transport the family there, and if close enough, walking or riding to these locations can be encouraged.
Some housing estates are especially mindful of this, and actually provide their own facilities for residents to use. A prime example is Maddison Estate ), which provides an array of state-of-the-art facilities all over their estate, including a fitness centre, an aquatic centre, tennis courts, ovals, parks, cycling and walking tracks and even a skate park and BBQ facilities, meaning residents are always encouraged to get the family outside and active. 
Plenty of Outdoor Space
A yard with plenty of space for activities is essential to the happiness and comfort of the active family. There’s so much benefit to having a few sporting or fitness facilities available right there on your own property, rather than having to travel to them. For example, a basketball hoop with a cement area or a soccer net on a nice big patch of lawn means a spare half-hour can be used for sport rather than having to put aside a whole afternoon, or wait for a training session each week.
Plenty of Storage
The active family often experience clutter, with all sorts of sporting equipment taking up room in the house. Clever storage is a great way to be able to accumulate all the required equipment without having to deal with constant mess and mayhem. For example, hooks in the garage for bikes will mean less inaccessible floor-space as bikes are removed from ground and stored out of the way. A big cupboard in the garage means dirt-encrusted hockey sticks can be stored out of sight without being dragged through the house, and a shoe-rack at the front door means you’ll always know where the footy boots are, and no grass ends up mashed into the carpet at the front door.
Home Fitness Center
It’s great to be able to have some gym equipment in the home. If you can designate a room just for fitness equipment, you’ll have created a separate space where the family can burn away some energy at night or on weekends without having to leave the comfort of the home. Some simple weights, a treadmill, a rowing machine – anything that your family will all find enjoyable. Don’t choose any equipment that’s only going to gather dust.
Keep the TV Separate
To keep the active family active, it’s important to design your house in a way that discourages bad habits. For example, having the TV in the same area as the dining table or the kitchen can tend to integrate TV too heavily into daily life. Have a separate media room, so that watching TV, a movie or playing video games remains an activity that has a designated time and place.
Simple yet effective, these easy steps will ensure your active family has what they need and are never left bored or stifled, and can rest soundly at the end of the day with no more energy left to burn.
Written by Natalie King