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Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I usually end by saying that I am on medication.
“Still?” people ask. “But you seem fine!” To which I invariably reply that I seem fine because I am fine, and that I am fine in part because of medication.
“So how long do you expect to go on taking this stuff?” people ask. When I say that I will be on medication indefinitely, people who have dealt calmly and sympathetically with the news of suicide attempts, catatonia, missed years of work, significant loss of body weight, and so on stare at me with alarm.
“But it’s really bad to be on medicine that way,” they say. “Surely now you are strong enough to be able to phase out some of these drugs!” If you say to them that this is like phasing the carburetor out of your car or the buttresses out of Notre Dame, they laugh.
“So maybe you’ll stay on a really low maintenance dose?” They ask. You explain that the level of medication you take was chosen because it normalizes the systems that can go haywire, and that a low dose of medication would be like removing half of your carburetor. You add that you have experienced almost no side effects from the medication you are taking, and that there is no evidence of negative effects of long-term medication. You say that you really don’t want to get sick again. But wellness is still, in this area, associated not with achieving control of your problem, but with discontinuation of medication.
“Well, I sure hope you get off it sometime soon,” they say.
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Andrew Solomon (The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression)
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As the rates of obesity rise, it is increasingly important to find diets that produce effective weight loss and that can continue to produce weight loss or weight loss maintenance over the long-term. In this study, a vegan diet was associated with a greater weight loss at both 1 and 2 years post-intervention, compared with a more conventional, low-fat diet (NCEP).
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Gabrielle M. Turner-McGrievy
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I am fundamentally optimistic about the possibility that we can change the way we eat and move. We have to change, we are going to change, and I would like to be part of that because the way we live now is not sustainable. Here’s some important news: I am absolutely certain that exercise is as important as food when it comes to weight loss and long-term weight maintenance, as well as being the single most important component for your overall health, energy, and wellness. We do both here, obviously—eat great food and exercise hard. But if you find yourself in a difficult food predicament, keep the exercise going. Regular exercise promotes a desire to fuel your body healthily in addition to keeping you on track with some nutritional leeway, meaning that occasional celebratory indulgences won’t affect your bottom line as much as they would a sedentary person. Exercise really is the flywheel of the good life.
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Chris Crowley (Thinner This Year: A Younger Next Year Book)
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Robert is, of course, at the theater, but it’s true that Jeff isn’t alone. Behind him, Lulu holds up two bottles of tequila, and behind her is Gene, Lulu’s . . . bed-friend, holding a bag of limes and sporting the world’s most enormous mustache.
I take the bag of limes from him. “Are you guessing my weight tonight?”
Jeff laughs in a loud bark before heading into the kitchen, but Gene does a bewildered double take. “What?”
“Do I get to shoot a water gun to knock down the ducks?”
I see the moment he gets it because his giant mustache twitches under his suppressed grin. “I’ll take my limes home if you’re going to be sassy, miss.”
“You look like an old-timey auction barker,” I say. “Or Yosemite Sam. I have this sudden urge to buy a few head of cattle.” Behind me, Calvin snickers.
“You wish you could grow a ’stache like this.”
I burst out laughing. “I’m sorry, I can’t even hear what you’re saying through that thing.”
“I told him it’s awful.” Lulu tugs at it and Gene leans away.
He smoothes it down proudly. “I’m so lazy, and this is much more low maintenance than shaving.”
I don’t need to look that closely to see he’s clearly waxed and styled it with a comb. It’s really not an afterthought mustache; it’s the kind that a person chooses from a book on various mustache styles—the perfect accessory for his very carefully crafted I don’t care enough to even glance in the mirror look (which Lulu tells me takes him a long time in front of the mirror).
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Christina Lauren (Roomies)
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But when you actually break down the amount of time, energy, skill, planning, and maintenance that go into care tasks, they no longer seem simple. For example, the care task of feeding yourself involves more than just putting food into your mouth. You must also make time to figure out the nutritional needs and preferences of everyone you’re feeding, plan and execute a shopping trip, decide how you’re going to prepare that food and set aside the time to do so, and ensure that mealtimes come at correct intervals. You need energy and skill to plan, execute, and follow through on these steps every day, multiple times a day, and to deal with any barriers related to your relationship with food and weight, or a lack of appetite due to medical or emotional factors. You must have the emotional energy to deal with the feeling of being overwhelmed when you don’t know what to cook and the anxiety it can produce to create a kitchen mess. You may also need the skills to multitask while working, dealing with physical pain, or watching over children. Now let’s look at cleaning: an ongoing task made up of hundreds of small skills that must be practiced every day at the right time and manner in order to “keep going on the business of life.” First, you must have the executive functioning to deal with sequentially ordering and prioritizing tasks.1 You must learn which cleaning must be done daily and which can be done on an interval. You must remember those intervals. You must be familiar with cleaning products and remember to purchase them. You must have the physical energy and time to complete these tasks and the mental health to engage in a low-dopamine errand for an extended period of time. You must have the emotional energy and ability to process any sensory discomfort that comes with dealing with any dirty or soiled materials. “Just clean as you go” sounds nice and efficient, but most people don’t appreciate the hundreds of skills it takes to operate that way and the thousands of barriers that can interfere with execution.
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K.C. Davis (How to Keep House While Drowning)
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He left the classroom, left India and gave up. He returned to his Midwest, picked up a practical degree in journalism, married, lived in Nevada and Mexico, did odd jobs, worked as a journalist, a science writer and an industrial-advertising writer. He fathered two children, bought a farm and a riding horse and two cars and was starting to put on middle-aged weight. His pursuit of what has been called the ghost of reason had been given up. That’s extremely important to understand. He had given up. Because he’d given up, the surface of life was comfortable for him. He worked reasonably hard, was easy to get along with and, except for an occasional glimpse of inner emptiness shown in some short stories he wrote at the time, his days passed quite usually.
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Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
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The only veggies allowed when trying to become keto-adapted are: red leaf lettuce, cabbage, celery, zucchini and cucumbers. I know this sounds crazy, but even non-starchy vegetables may hold you back while trying to become keto-adapted. I used to be more passive in my office and tell clients to take “baby steps” but not anymore. People want results. Rip that band-aid off! Whether you are dealing with inflammation showing externally where people can see it (weight gain, acne, eczema, and rosacea) or internally (heart disease, joint pain, nerve damage, high blood sugar), the faster you can get to be keto-adapted the better. Once adapted or near your weight loss and healing goals, you can begin to re-introduce other low starch veggies. When in maintenance, you can find your bodies threshold for carbs by introducing psyllium breads and nut flours and monitoring your weight (typically 30-50 grams of total carbs per day).
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Maria Emmerich (Keto-Adapted)
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A highway, a bridge, a navigable canal, for example, may in most cases be both made and maintained by a small toll upon the carriages which make use of them: a harbour, by moderate port-duty upon the tonnage of the shipping which load or unload in it. The coinage, another institution for facilitating commerce, in many countries, not only defrays its own expense, but affords a small revenue or seignorage to the sovereign. The post-office, another institution for the same purpose, over and above defraying its own expense, affords in almost all countries a very considerable revenue to the sovereign.
When the carriages which pass over a highway or a bridge, and the lighters which sail upon a navigable canal, pay toll in proportion to their weight or their tonnage, they pay for the maintenance of those public works exactly in proportion to the wear and tear which they occasion of them. It seems scarce possible to invent a more equitable way of maintaining such works.
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Adam Smith (An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations)
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Any person who doesn’t clearly understand that national security and national solvency are mutually dependent and that permanent maintenance of a crushing weight of military power would eventually produce dictatorship should not be entrusted with any kind of responsibility in our country.
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Michael R. Beschloss (Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair)
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Regardless of whether the low-carb diet led to somewhat elevated expenditures after weight loss, the results don’t do much to resuscitate the carbohydrate-insulin model. For one thing, weight loss was achieved through straightforward calorie reduction, not through carbohydrate restriction. And second, there’s no indication that the greater daily expenditures initially reported for the low-carb group made weight maintenance any easier.
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Herman Pontzer (Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy)
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The transition from the fed state to the fasted state occurs in several stages:3 1.Feeding: During meals, insulin levels are raised. This allows glucose uptake by tissues such as the muscle or brain for direct use as energy. Excess glucose is stored as glycogen in the liver. 2.The post-absorptive phase (six to twenty-four hours after fasting starts): Insulin levels begin to fall. The breakdown of glycogen releases glucose for energy. Glycogen stores last for roughly twenty-four hours. 3.Gluconeogenesis (twenty-four hours to two days): The liver manufactures new glucose from amino acids and glycerol. In non-diabetic persons, glucose levels fall but stay within the normal range. 4.Ketosis (one to three days after fasting starts): The storage form of fat, triglycerides, is broken into the glycerol backbone and three fatty acid chains. Glycerol is used for gluconeogenesis. Fatty acids may be used directly for energy by many tissues in the body, but not the brain. Ketone bodies, capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier, are produced from fatty acids for use by the brain. Ketones can supply up to 75 percent of the energy used by the brain.4 The two major types of ketones produced are beta hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate, which can increase more than seventy-fold during fasting.5 5.Protein conservation phase (after five days): High levels of growth hormone maintain muscle mass and lean tissues. The energy for maintenance of basal metabolism is almost entirely met by the use of free fatty acids and ketones. Increased norepinephrine (adrenalin) levels prevent the decrease in metabolic rate.
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Jason Fung (The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight))
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There are controlled ACT studies on work stress, pain, smoking, anxiety, depression, diabetes management, substance use, stigma toward substance users in recovery, adjustment to cancer, epilepsy, coping with psychosis, borderline personality disorder, trichotillomania, obsessive–compulsive disorder, marijuana dependence, skin picking, racial prejudice, prejudice toward people with mental health problems, whiplash-associated disorders, generalized anxiety disorder, chronic pediatric pain, weight maintenance and self-stigma, clinicians’ adoption of evidence-based pharmacotherapy, and training clinicians in psychotherapy methods other than ACT. The only sour notes so far are the use of ACT for more minor problems, where existing technology exceeded ACT outcomes on some measures (e.g., Zettle, 2003).
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Steven C. Hayes (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Process and Practice of Mindful Change)
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Sometimes all it requires is a simple awareness of what I’m eating or not eating, how I’m working out or skipping it too often, or not taking in enough water. My mother used to say new pounds are more mobile. They don’t stick around as long if you get on them right away.
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Renée Jones (What’s Really Eating You?: Overcome the Triggers of Comfort Eating)
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Roofing sheets types – 3sgroups
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Roofing sheets are useful and adaptable materials. They can be applied to walls and roofs to provide external protection. They are also appropriate for both new building and roof renovation. They require less maintenance and are simple to install due to their small weight. These are a few of the most popular kinds of roofing sheets that are utilized when building a home. There are several reasons to install roofing sheets, one of which is the aesthetic appeal they provide to the building. In addition to being rust-resistant, they shield roofs from harsh weather, including snow, strong winds, and intense downpours. When installed properly, these also aid in stopping leaks and greatly lengthen the roof's lifespan. There are various types of roofing sheets, each with benefits and cons of its own, depending on your wants and requirements.
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Researchers found that those who lifted weights had a 46% lower death rate.9 Even after adjusting for other health variables such as body mass index and chronic disease, and lifestyle habits such as smoking and drinking, the weight-lifting group still had a 19% lower mortality rate. Resistance training has even been shown to reduce age-related cognitive decline, slowing down neurodegeneration in people at risk of developing Alzheimer’s.10 Weight training effectively boosts production of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a naturally occurring protein responsible for nerve cell maintenance. Researchers refer to BDNF as “Miracle Grow for the brain.” Despite the dumb weight lifter stereotypes, resistance training is one of the best things you can do for your cognitive function.
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Scott H Hogan (Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body)
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the Primal Blueprint is really about improving body composition, instead of just losing weight. This means a reduction in body fat percentage and an increase or maintenance of muscle or lean body mass.
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Mark Sisson (The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy (Primal Blueprint Series))
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Another bonus with many plant proteins like beans, lentils, and soybeans is that, because of their high-fiber profile, it’s not easy to overeat them—which is why they are frequently linked with healthy weight maintenance in research studies. Most people who choose no-fiber steak for dinner usually double up (if not triple up) on the 3-ounce portion size from the earlier example, thus downing 532 calories and 14 grams of saturated fat—70 percent of the suggested upper limit for saturated fat. This is true for many animal food choices, whether it’s
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Sharon Palmer (The Plant-Powered Diet: The Lifelong Eating Plan for Achieving Optimal Health, Beginning Today)
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The Total Life Energy Plan is the only diet and health program that truly enables you to control your weight, heal your illnesses, and maintain your health for the long run. Once you are able to apply The Total Life Energy Plan to your daily activities, you will achieve a higher degree of self-care than you ever thought possible.
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Julia H. Sun
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studying many obese people in great detail and following them over a long period of time, I have come to the conclusion that…overeating, though it is observed with great regularity, is not the cause of obesity; it is a symptom of an underlying disturbance…. Food, of course, is essential for obesity—but so is it for the maintenance of life in general. The need for overeating and the changes in weight regulation and fat storage are the essential disturbances.
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Gary Taubes (Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease)
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Insulin, in short, is the one hormone that serves to coordinate and regulate everything having to do with the storage and use of nutrients and thus the maintenance of homeostasis and, in a word, life.
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Gary Taubes (Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease)
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The idea that obesity in humans is caused, as it is in animals, by a defect in the homeostatic maintenance of energy distribution and fat metabolism—that we overeat because we’re getting fat, and not vice versa—barely survived into the second half of the twentieth century, although the evidence has always supported it.
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Gary Taubes (Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease)
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I’m just not an exercise person.” Very few people are. Remember you don’t need to be motivated or love exercise to do it. I know some people that absolutely despise it, but do it simply for weight maintenance.
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Cynthia Alexander (The Emotional First Aid Kit: A Practical Guide to Life After Bariatric Surgery)
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A common misconception, especially amongst women, is that lifting weights - regular resistance training - will cause your muscles to bulk up, creating a larger appearance and a higher number on the scales. The requirements for creating such a physique are actually quite difficult. Bodybuilders and athletes need to be eating in a calorie surplus to see muscle growth, meaning they're eating well above the number of calories they're burning. For those of us eating at maintenance or in a calorie deficit, muscle growth in this way is far more challenging. In addition, the difference in hormone concentrations between men and women means it's even harder for women to look 'bulky'. Instead, lifting weights as a woman in a calorie deficit will help to create a toned appearance.
Growing a bit of muscle can actually help with overall fat loss. As muscle uses more calories than fat tissue, people with more muscle have a higher metabolic rate.
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Nothing about metabolism, however, is simple, and one last and important complication regarding efforts to walk off weight is a still poorly understood phenomenon known as metabolic compensation. Once again, studies of the Hadza play a role in how we understand this phenomenon. When Herman Pontzer and his colleagues measured daily energy expenditures in the Hadza, they were surprised to find that the highly active Hadza spend about the same total number of calories per day as sedentary industrialized people with the same lean body weight.44 In addition, when Pontzer and colleagues collected energetic data from adults in many countries including the United States, Ghana, Jamaica, and South Africa, they observed that more active people spent only slightly more calories per day than more sedentary people who weighed the same. In addition, individuals who were more physically active didn’t have total energy budgets as high as their exertions would predict.45 How could someone who spent five hundred extra calories a day exercising not have a total energy budget that is five hundred calories higher? The proposed explanation is that people’s total energy budgets are constrained: if I use five hundred extra calories walking, I’ll spend less energy on my resting metabolism to help pay for my exertions.46 This controversial idea (termed the constrained energy expenditure hypothesis) is still being tested, as is its relevance to weight loss. If correct, then contrary to many people’s expectations, exercisers might spend almost the same number of total calories per day as similar-sized but more sedentary individuals despite devoting more energy to being active. To appreciate the implications of this phenomenon, consider that the Hadza spend about 15 percent more of their total energy budget on activities like walking, digging, and carrying.47 In addition, as we will see later, exercise can stimulate repair and maintenance mechanisms that elevate people’s resting metabolic rates—an “afterburn”—for a few hours to as much as two days afterward.48 Yet if very active Hadza hunter-gatherers and exercising industrial people have total energy budgets that are about the same as similar-sized but physically inactive industrials, then they must spend less energy on other things like maintenance or reproduction. This may seem implausible, but we have already seen this phenomenon in people who lose a lot of weight, like the extreme dieters in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment whose resting metabolic rates plummeted.
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Daniel E. Lieberman (Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding)
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WaterLess Urinal Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) accelerate sanitation coverage in rural and urban areas. Stakeholders and people from all sections of society have welcomed it as a major step to achieve a healthy and hygienic environment for the citizens of India. This is retrofit waterless urinal technology that gets fitted at base of urinal bowl. It consists of an inlet and outlet cartridge through which urine passes and seals the outlet once the urine is drained out. The technology converts conventional urinal into waterless urinal. No need to remove the old urinal bowl.
Advantages:-
Waterless urinals do not require a constant source of water
Can be built and repaired with locally available materials
Low capital and operating costs
Waterless urinals produce fewer odours than urinals with water flush and also have no problems with urinal cakes (odour and urinal cakes occur when urine is mixed with water)
Waterless urinals contribute to water saving at the greatest possible degree
Waterless urinals allow the pure and undiluted collection of urine for reuse, e.g. as fertilizer in urban farming (after appropriate treatment, e.g. storage) and can contribute to closed loop economy, or for effective anaerobic treatment by e.g. an anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anamox) reactor
Surface water and aquifers are protected from nutrients and pharmaceuticals if the urine is collected separately
Special Feature :-
One time fitment
Hygienic - Dry restroom prevents bacteria cultivation
No Flushing
Allocation of transport resources, including the management and regulation of existing transportation activities.
No Consumables
Waterless and Odorless
No Recurring Costs
Longer Shelf Life
Low & Easy Maintenance Just wipe and clean
Structural Feature :-
Thin-walled lighted weight
Low porosity
Ease of transportation
Modular Design
Flexible in design
Minimal surface cracking
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Gambia Airport charges landing fees to airlines based on factors like aircraft weight and type, which help cover the maintenance and upkeep of runways.
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Understanding the 1159SCAV524-3 Battery Pack: Design, Features, and Applications
The 1159SCAV524-3 battery pack is a cutting-edge power solution tailored to meet aviation's stringent demands. Designed for emergency use, it offers reliability, efficiency, and durability in critical scenarios. Here's a concise overview of its design, features, and applications:
Key Features
High-Efficiency Power Storage: Ensures reliable energy delivery with minimal loss.
Lightweight and Compact: Reduces aircraft weight without compromising performance.
Extended Service Life: Minimizes replacement and maintenance costs.
Rapid Charging: Ready for use in minimal time.
Environmental Tolerance: Performs reliably in extreme conditions.
Applications in Aviation
Emergency Backup Power: Supports avionics, navigation, and communication systems.
Emergency Lighting: Ensures safety during power outages.
Auxiliary Power: Enhances operational flexibility during ground operations.
Data Preservation: Maintains critical flight data storage during interruptions.
Why It Matters
The 1159SCAV524-3 enhances aviation safety by providing dependable power in emergencies, meeting industry standards, and supporting sustainable practices. Its innovative design ensures optimal performance under diverse operating conditions.
For more details, visit Universal Aero.
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Married officers with a family often bought a place, often near their first service base or near some other location they imagined was going to be central to their lives, like West Point. They bought the place and usually left it empty while they lived overseas. The point was to have an anchor, somewhere identifiable they knew they would come back to when it was all over. Or somewhere their families could live if the overseas posting was unsuitable, or if their children’s education demanded consistency. Reacher’s parents had not taken that route. They had never bought a place. Reacher had never lived in a house. Grim service bungalows and army bunkhouses were where he had lived, and since then, cheap motels. And he was pretty sure he never wanted anything different. He was pretty sure he didn’t want to live in a house. The desire just passed him by. The necessary involvement intimidated him. It was a physical weight, exactly like the suitcase in his hand. The bills, the property taxes, the insurance, the warranties, the repairs, the maintenance, the decisions, new roof or new stove, carpeting or rugs, the budgets. The yard work. He stepped over and looked out of the window at the lawn. Yard work summed up the whole futile procedure. First you spend a lot of time and money making the grass grow, just so you can spend a lot of time and money cutting it down again a little while later. You curse about it getting too long, and then you worry about it staying too short and you sprinkle expensive water on it all summer, and expensive chemicals all fall.
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Lee Child (Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3))
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Hunger and Satiety, you may enjoy BSCI’s Maintenance Mentality Book, by Janean Hall).
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Colleen M. Cook (The Success Habits of Weight Loss Surgery Patients)
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You can read every book, watch every TikTok, and follow every fitness guru, but the method remains the same. Energy intake and energy output need to balance. ”
Excerpt From: Sarah Voldeng. “The Art of an Enlightened Woman.” Apple Books.
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Sarah Voldeng (The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto)
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Any person who doesn’t clearly understand that national security and national solvency are mutually dependent, and that permanent maintenance of a crushing weight of military power would eventually produce dictatorship, should not be entrusted with any kind of responsibility in our country.
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Peter Apps (Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance)
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To lose weight and keep it off, you first have to lose the habits and attitudes that are keeping you overweight and then gain new ones that allow you to succeed with weight loss and maintenance.
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Michael Matthews (Stronger Than Yesterday: 169 Insights for Transforming Your Body, Mind, and Motivation (The Bigger Leaner Stronger Series Book 6))
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The Nilambur Promise: Why a Teak Wood Sofa Set is the Ultimate Sustainable Investment
In a world increasingly concerned with fast furniture and disposable goods, the choices we make for our homes carry more weight than ever. We're not just looking for comfort and style; we're seeking longevity, value, and a reduced ecological footprint.
Enter the teak wood sofa set, and specifically, the legacy of Nilambur Teak. More than just a piece of furniture, a Nilambur teak wood sofa is an investment that keeps a powerful promise: the promise of ultimate sustainability.
Nilambur: The Heartland of Teak Quality
The story of your sofa begins in Nilambur, a region in Kerala, India, often called the "Teak Heartland." What makes this teak variety so superior?
A Storied Legacy: Nilambur holds the distinction of having the world's first organized teak plantation, established by the British in 1842. This history underpins a tradition of carefully managed forestry.
The GI Tag: Nilambur Teak is one of the few forest products to be granted a Geographical Indication (GI) tag, legally recognizing its unique quality, which is attributed to the region's rich alluvial soil, tropical climate, and heavy rainfall.
Unrivaled Density and Oils: This environment fosters trees that produce dense, high-quality wood, rich in natural oils and silica. This unique composition is the secret to teak's legendary resilience.
Choosing a sofa made from responsibly sourced Nilambur teak isn't just buying luxury; it's buying into a heritage of quality and sustainable forestry.
The Four Pillars of Teak Sustainability
A teak wood sofa set stands out from all other materials—even other hardwoods—due to four fundamental characteristics that make it a truly sustainable choice:
1. Unmatched Longevity (The Generational Investment)
Forget the 5 to 10-year lifespan of most furniture. High-quality teak wood furniture is known to last for 30 to 50 years, often becoming a family heirloom passed down through generations.
Comparison: Compared to common outdoor woods like cedar (3-5 years) or acacia (10-15 years), teak is in a league of its own. Its decades-long lifespan drastically reduces the need for frequent replacements, saving resources, energy, and minimizing landfill waste. This single factor makes teak inherently eco-friendly.
2. Natural Resistance (No Chemicals Needed)
Teak's natural oils and tight grain structure act as a built-in protective barrier. This means your furniture has a natural defense against:
Water and Decay: The oils repel moisture, preventing the wood from warping, rotting, or cracking, even when exposed to humidity and spills.
Pests and Termites: Teak contains natural substances that are toxic or unappealing to wood-boring insects, effectively eliminating the need for chemical-based treatments or preservatives common with other woods.
This low-maintenance, chemical-free existence reduces environmental impact both during production and throughout the product's life.
3. Low Maintenance, Zero Stress
The true cost of furniture includes the effort and expense of maintenance. With teak, the effort is minimal:
Simple Care: A quick wipe-down with mild soap and water is often all that is required.
A Gracious Aging Process: Teak requires no special finish to maintain its durability. If left untreated, it naturally weathers to a sophisticated, silvery-grey patina over a few years. This desired change is purely aesthetic and does not affect the wood's structural integrity.
4. Responsible Sourcing (FSC and Plantation Teak)
While illegal logging has historically been an issue, the modern teak industry, particularly for high-end furniture, is increasingly focused on certified plantation teak.
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The Nilambur Promise: Why a Teak Wood Sofa Set is the Ultimate Sustainable Investment
In a world increasingly concerned with fast furniture and disposable goods, the choices we make for our homes carry more weight than ever. We're not just looking for comfort and style; we're seeking longevity, value, and a reduced ecological footprint.
Enter the teak wood sofa set, and specifically, the legacy of Nilambur Teak. More than just a piece of furniture, a Nilambur teak wood sofa is an investment that keeps a powerful promise: the promise of ultimate sustainability.
Visit us – shop.nilamburfurniture
Nilambur: The Heartland of Teak Quality
The story of your sofa begins in Nilambur, a region in Kerala, India, often called the “Teak Heartland.” What makes this teak variety so superior?
A Storied Legacy: Nilambur holds the distinction of having the world's first organized teak plantation, established by the British in 1842. This history underpins a tradition of carefully managed forestry.
The GI Tag: Nilambur Teak is one of the few forest products to be granted a Geographical Indication (GI) tag, legally recognizing its unique quality, which is attributed to the region's rich alluvial soil, tropical climate, and heavy rainfall.
Unrivaled Density and Oils: This environment fosters trees that produce dense, high-quality wood, rich in natural oils and silica. This unique composition is the secret to teak's legendary resilience.
Choosing a sofa made from responsibly sourced Nilambur teak isn't just buying luxury; it's buying into a heritage of quality and sustainable forestry.
The Four Pillars of Teak Sustainability
A teak wood sofa set stands out from all other materials—even other hardwoods—due to four fundamental characteristics that make it a truly sustainable choice:
Unmatched Longevity (The Generational Investment)
Forget the 5 to 10-year lifespan of most furniture. High-quality teak wood furniture is known to last for 30 to 50 years, often becoming a family heirloom passed down through generations.
Comparison: Compared to common outdoor woods like cedar (3-5 years) or acacia (10-15 years), teak is in a league of its own. Its decades-long lifespan drastically reduces the need for frequent replacements, saving resources, energy, and minimizing landfill waste. This single factor makes teak inherently eco-friendly.
Natural Resistance (No Chemicals Needed)
Teak's natural oils and tight grain structure act as a built-in protective barrier. This means your furniture has a natural defense against:
Water and Decay: The oils repel moisture, preventing the wood from warping, rotting, or cracking, even when exposed to humidity and spills.
Pests and Termites: Teak contains natural substances that are toxic or unappealing to wood-boring insects, effectively eliminating the need for chemical-based treatments or preservatives common with other woods.
This low-maintenance, chemical-free existence reduces environmental impact both during production and throughout the product's life.
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