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Farming at Dululu for 100+ years

Depression Risk Higher for Rural, Unmarried Women (3)

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Dr. James Rohrer, Ph.D., discusses the unique nature of having a large sample of rural patients. Because of Mayo Clinic’s location, there are high numbers of rural patients not typically seen in major medical practices.

Origins of Agriculture

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Scholars have developed a number of hypotheses to explain the historical origins of agriculture. The transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies, based on evidence from south west Asia and China, indicates an antecedent period of intensification and increasing sedentism known as the Natufian in south West Asia and the Early Chinese Neolithic in China. Current models indicate that a range of food resources was being used more intensively. Wild stands that had been harvested previously started to be planted. Evidence is also now emerging that the crops grown initially were wild and not domesticated.[4] Crops such as emmer and einkorn wheat do not appear to have become domesticated until well into the Neolithic and ‘ancient cultivated rice’ (Oryza sativa) took 3000 years to become domesticated.

Localised climate change is the favoured explanation for the origins of agriculture in the Levant. The fact that farming was ‘invented’ at least three times elsewhere, suggests that social reasons may have been instrumental. When major climate change took place after the last ice age (c. 11,000 BC), much of the earth became subject to long dry seasons.[5] These conditions favoured annual plants which die off in the long dry season, leaving a dormant seed or tuber. These plants tended to put more energy into producing seeds than into woody growth. An abundance of readily storable wild grains and pulses enabled hunter-gatherers in some areas to form the first settled villages at this time.

Mining’s safety lessons for ag

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When asked if mining or agriculture is more dangerous, ex-coal miner and now cattle producer Matt Bennetto’s answer is ‘agriculture’.

He says agriculture could learn some valuable lessons about Work Health and Safety (WHS) from the resources sector, having experienced first-hand the mining sector’s strict safety regulations in action.

Matt spent seven years working underground in coal mining and hard rock mining in tunnel construction, before returning full-time to his family’s Charters Towers cattle property, Virginia Park, two years ago.

During his time working underground, Matt was a health and safety representative and an underground operations trainer for a number of years.

Comparing the approach to risk management in mining with agriculture, he believes the agriculture sector is still playing catch up when it comes to workplace health and safety.

“When I went underground coal mining after working in underground hard rock mining, I thought that coal mining would be the most dangerous industry to work in,” Matt said.

“And yet, because the industry mitigates most of the dangers I actually think coal mining ends up a safer environment than the everyday operations on a cattle station.

“Some of the on-farm dangers are short-term, immediate ones like falling off a horse or cutting yourself on barbed wire, while others are long-term risks like the impacts of sun exposure.”

Matt believes if agriculture could draw from the mining industry’s approach to greater task awareness, it could save lives and prevent injuries.

New research exploring what’s stopping primary producers from improving their safety practices has found almost half of all deaths on farms could be prevented, simply by implementing solutions we already know about.

Funded by the Primary Industries Health and Safety Partnership and led by Richard Franklin of James Cook University, the study found the major barriers to implementing improved safety practices included perceived cost, time and inconvenience to implement changes.

The Primary Industries Health and Safety Partnership (PIHSP), funded by the Cotton, Grains and Rural Industries Research and Development Corporations, as well as the Australian Meat Processor Corporation and Meat & Livestock Australia, aims to promote best practise WHS practices and improve the health and safety of workers and their families in farming and fishing industries across Australia.

When it comes to engaging producers in farm safety, Matt believes taking an educational and training approach was more appealing to producers than a bureaucratic approach.

“The mining industry has created all sorts of actions and documentation to create task awareness,” Matt said.

“I think lack of task awareness on-farm happens for a variety of reasons, but primarily two reasons. One is lack of experience in the job or task that people are doing, so they’re not aware of the hazards, and secondly, people become so familiar with a task that they become complacent and stop looking out for hazards.”

Besides running their cattle operation, Matt and his wife Sonia, along with his parents, Rob and Sue, also host agricultural traineeship programs run by Northern Skills Alliance (NSA) on Virginia Park, as well as school groups.

The training blocks cover all facets of agriculture including cattle work, horse riding, motorbike skills, mechanical servicing and welding.

Matt believes there are many small steps producers can take that would ultimately make a big difference to risk management.

Utilizing Bush Mechanics

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Automotive Electrical Fault Finding

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http://www.olct.co/news/electrical-fault-finding

ELECTRICAL FAULT FINDING

During a recent training event with Dan Sullivan we opened a discussion regarding the peculiar nature of electrical fault finding, It was pointed out that if you ask 100 mechanics how to change rear brake shoes, you will receive 100 answers, all of them pretty much identical. If you ask 100 mechanics how to diagnose a no start fault, you would probably only get 60 answers, and most of which would be a completely different. If you went a step further and compared different manufactures “diagnostic flow chats” you would again see different approaches for effectively, the same components. This is for us, in the shop and in the field, a confusing and intimidating state of affairs.

While the skill of electrical fault finding can not be systematised, the application of your knowledge and experience can be. Below are steps to empower your electrical fault finding processes.

The most important thing to acknowledge when fault finding is that the diagnostic time on electrical faults IS longer, and the repair time IS smaller, you would not say to a guy, 10 minutes into a clutch, why is that taking so long?

(1) APPROACH THE FAULT WITH AN OPEN MIND
Avoid arriving at a job with an “idea” of what could be wrong and trying to prove that fault, this more often than not, will only lead you astray.

(2) VERIFY THE FAULT
Listen to the customers complaint / reported fault. Are they the same- sometimes you need to read between the lines with the customers description of the fault, the reported fault and the vehicles history
-Can you demonstrate the fault
-Is it permanent or intermittent

(3) UNDERSTAND THE CIRCUIT
The wiring is on the vehicle, the diagnosis is in your understanding of the circuit
-You don’t diagnose wiring, your diagnose a circuit.
-You FIX wires, You TEST circuits

Sure you can run over and start testing, but answer me this, what is a better use of your time (and the customers money)
-Spending online to download a wiring schematic and 30 minutes learning how the circuit functions and 10 minutes of testing and make a “rock solid diagnosis”
or
-Spending 2 hours making tests, trying to figure it out yourself, to make a “pretty sure diagnosis”

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
You can easily find wiring diagrams online for 90% of vehicles, Just remember to check international variants
“Holden Rodeo” limits your search to Australia
“Chevrolet D-Max” Will expand your search to American variants
“Isuzu D-Max” Will expand your search to Asian variants

(4) DETERMINE THE RELATED SYMPTOMS
Look at all symptoms holistically, are the faults related, are they independent of each other, think, how could they be related?

(5) FIND RIGHTS NOT WRONGS
Electrical fault finding is a process of elimination, It’s not about finding what is wrong with a circuit, Its about finding whats right.

(6) KISS ASS and be lazy
Keep It Simple Stupid (because it’s) Always Something Simple. BE LAZY, Once you understand the circuit, figure out where you can eliminate the most sections, with the least amount of testing, in the easiest to access place.
-What can you get to?
-What will a test there eliminate?

(7) LEARN TO TRUST YOUR METER
Your meter can’t lie & a circuit can’t break the (ohms) law.
Do the math on your readings, there are plenty of smart phone apps for calculating Ohms law so you can learn what means what. Learn by repetition.
-Voltage and Resistance are the ONLY things in a circuit that can change.
-Blowing a fuse?
-You have too much current flow, Ohms law tells us we have either to much voltage or to little resistance?

(8) SAY IT OUT LOUD
-Open
-Short
-High Resistance
These are the only faults you can have in a wire, A circuit is a called a circuit for a reason, because it needs to be a complete circle.
-A PLC not energising “Solenoid A” is an OPEN.
-The Symptom is the “Solenoid A” circuit is OPEN
-The fault is PLC input “Position Sensor D” is showing 0 Volts
-Say “Position Sensor D” circuit is SHORTED

(9) REPAIR THE FAULT
Repair and retest. DONE

There is nothing more satisfying the systematically working your way though a circuit to correctly identify a fault, conversely there is nothing more frustrating than being confused by a circuit and misdiagnosing a fault. Think about your own successes and failures in the past, how good did it feel to get it right.

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When Seconds Count – Emergency First Aid Training

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Emergency First Aid Training DVD
This DVD presented by John Klatt, reviews how to provide first aid on victims suffering from slips, falls, motor vehicle incidents, cuts, bruises, head trauma, cardiac arrest, blocked airways, and more.
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Australian Bushcraft Tracking ..Tracks,Bones and Scat

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This photo slideshow is meant a learning resource for anyone interested in learning about tracking in Australia.I have included photo’s both feral and native Australian animals.

Big thanks to all the members of the bushcraft community for volunteering they photographs.Each photo has a photo credit with a title of the animal .

Note that photo at 1.27 “cat tracks” by Hairyman has been changed to dog by the photographer.