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As an entrepreneur, CEO or founder you are prone to incredible stress and when youre stressed, it can show up in your body in all types of crazy ways AND affect your energy and overall well-being.

As a 30+ year serial entrepreneur, I can attest to this personally. In 2012, at 45, I was diagnosed with Stage 3A colorectal cancer.

I endured months of traditional treatments but I also incorporated alternative doctors and treatments like energy work to heal and I truly believe it was an intrical part of saving my life.

The great news is that today I am cancer-free and feel as healthy today as I did when I was in my 30s.

So what if you too could wake up every day feeling your absolute best? Completely invigorated, relaxed, and ready to take on anything the world throws at you with plenty of energy to do what you have to, plus the things you love to do.

No doubt youve heard the proverb, Necessity is The Mother of Invention, When the need for something becomes imperative, you are forced to find ways of getting or achieving it.

My friend, Harry Massey, epitomizes that idea.

Hes a pioneer in creating a technology that provides cheaper, faster, and more effective ways to help people experience abundant energy.

Harry is a Bioenergetic expert and speaker, founder of NES Health, CEO of Energy4Life, and Chairman of XPO Health. Hes published multiple books and directed several documentary films, including the award-winning film The Living Matrix.

When Harry was 21, he had an accident while ice climbing and fractured his spine. He was bedridden with chronic fatigue syndrome for the next seven years. He tried the traditional medical route but the doctors couldnt figure out what was wrong.

After trying all sorts of naturopathic techniques and different diets with no relief or improvement he decided to study where energy comes from, (since he didnt have any.)

He started doing research and came across the term bioenergetics and decided that if he could understand where energy comes from and how to optimize it, maybe he could get his life back.

He dug deeper and came across a visionary scientist named Peter Fraser. After writing to each other for a year and a half, they finally met up in Los Angeles and hit it off immediately.

Harry had this idea to create a wellness system that could detect and correct your energy from the comfort of your own home. (because he couldnt drive to visit different doctors due to his illness and inability to drive)

Peter liked the idea and the two went on to form NES Health.

What is Bioenergetics?

Bioenergetics looks at the dynamics of energy exchange within living systems. If you look at the human body and take it down to the atomic level, most of it (some 99.9%) is empty space.

Physics says that if you could see the minuscule empty spaces, youd see its actually full of whirling waves of energy fields.

If you look at both your body and the cells that are contained in your body, continually, your cells are exchanging energy with the outside environment.

Your body is always exchanging energy.

When you eat, thats a source of energy. When you move, thats an exchange of energy. When you take your shoes off and walk on the ground, you get energy from the earth.

Its the stuff life is made of.

Bioenergetics is the study of energy in living systems and how it can affect your biology. Its something that NES Health has been studying for nearly 20 years.

When it comes to life extension, restoring your energy and increasing your energy levels, Harry has three fascinating ways to make that happen:

Regardless of what business youre in, your health, wellbeing and ENERGY are of utmost importance. It affects every area of your life and if your goal is to be a super successful entrepreneur, then it should be your number one priority.

This summer, Energy4Life is launching a new product and looking for beta testers. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! To join, register at https://www.energy4life.com/. Then make sure to Listen to and Watch my entire interview with Harry.

YouTube Video Link: http://www.mrbz.com/EP98YT

Published March 26th, 2022

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"Systems thinking" should also take into account factors beyond the products themselves. That could include business models.

Over a dozen years ago, DCA put together a fishbone diagram of product-related considerations with environmental and human health impacts to consider during product definition and development. We attempted to take a 360 view of the electronic product development process with the goal of improving the performance of electronic products in the environmental/human health space. The result was presented at various conferences and webinars. While we did not call it systems thinking as applied to electronics for the circular economy, thats essentially what it was.

For a given design, each of these areas must be evaluated and weighted so they can be prioritized. Looking back on this, I see that it is incomplete, focused only on the product itself. And even then, some product-related issues are not included, like repairability (though we did identify serviceability, which can be interpreted as applying to professional and commercial equipment instead of consumer products), disassembly tool requirements, and others.

As noted in previous columns, a companys business model is critical to success and, while it may seem obvious, it deserves another rib in the fishbone diagram. A companys business model impacts a number of areas in the diagram and vice-versa butthe first stepis to assess and measure the current state. Determine the state of your company, your products, and your product lifecycle management process today in each of these areas. Consider what your companys goals are at both the corporate level and the product level in these areas and move forward.

As individual manufacturers wrestle with these issues one common conclusion they come to is their inability to individually drive the supply chain in the most environmentally beneficial direction. I have experienced this challenge in just about every engineering endeavor during my career that has to do with supply chains, not just those related to environmental performance and circularity. Therefore, the inevitable question becomes what should the industrys goal be? And furthermore, who is going to drive it with the leverage necessary to actually make a difference?

Well, electronics isnt justone industryby any stretch of the imagination. The classic herd of cats would be the best analogy, but there are pockets that band together because, again, individually their common dependencies outweigh their individual ability to drive these dependencies including the supply base, markets, and government regulators in a direction that is advantageous to them. Numerous industry associations do have an environment function, includingIPC,ITI,CTA,Zvei, andDigitalEurope, but they are primarily focused on advocacy and preventing or limiting regulation. Leadership is rarely feasible even when it is the desired course of action due to the need to placate laggard members.

As notedlast year,the Circular Electronics Partnership(CEP) formed in order to drive the industry down the circularity path but it has been quiet (or uninformative) since and, while many of them are appropriate for such an endeavor, the manufacturing members primarily represent the consumer electronics market. Commercial and business markets are only represented by a single pure-play manufacturer:Cisco. Perhaps they joined to learn from the several consumer electronics manufacturers involved. Indeed, manufacturers of commercial and industrial equipment can learn a lot from their consumer product-producing brethren, but the learning opportunities cut both ways.

Commercial and industrial equipment is often supported via service contracts for the life of the product. Maximizing service contract profitability requires a product that on top of being reliable is of modular design, easily serviced, very configurable and customizable, and readily upgradeable. This cannot be said of most consumer electronics, yet its a requirement for circularity, particularly reuse and use life extension.FrameworkandFairphoneseem to have gotten the message. Others, includingApple, are changing their ways and moving toward more repairable and perhaps upgradeable and longer-lived products.

The rest of the CEP members represent various aspects of the upstream, downstream, and reverse supply chains. Certain aspects, particularly the chemical supply base, appear to need more forward-thinking and progressive representation.

Medical, aerospace/military, automotive, and other perhaps tangential industries are not represented at all, despite the fact that they ultimately will be impacted by the direction CEP goes, if successful. I do not see their direct involvement as necessary, but their attention is.

The electronics supply chain is what all the OEMs, including these, have in common. Perhaps 90% of the supply chain can be traced back to a handful of polymer resin compounders, a handful of silicon wafer producers, and a handful of metal, ceramic, and glass producers and/or types. So, any changes induced upstream due to downstream demands for sustainability and/or circularity can have a much broader impact in any case.

CEP has bitten off a lot; well see what comes of it. But today they represent what I believe to be the best potential for systems thinking about circularity for a significant fraction of the electronics industry at a level necessary to enable the entire industry to be successful in this area. Recalling the 1995 filmApollo 13, failure is not an option.

This article was originally published onEE Times.

Michael Kirschner is president of Design Chain Associates LLC.

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RED CLOUD While a ranchers life in the rolling hills of central Webster County isnt for everyone, for Lindsay Waechter-Mead it comes as naturally as the greening of pastures and arrival of newborn calves in the springtime.

This dear countryside is home to her and her family and thats one reason she is so pleased to be the new Nebraska Extension beef systems educator for an eight-county region that includes most of Tribland.

Being in agriculture is always what I was going to do, said Waechter-Mead, who grew up on her familys diversified crop and livestock farm southeast of Bladen, then went off to college and veterinary school to prepare for that future. I really did see veterinary medicine as a way to stay in rural Webster County.

Today, she and her husband, Clay Mead, live on the family farm her great-grandfather established in 1901. They are raising their three children, ages 12, 10 and 6, as the fifth generation of her family to live on that land.

After 12 years practicing veterinary medicine in Alda and Hastings and then two years on the faculty of the Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center in Clay County, she began work Feb. 1 as a beef systems educator serving Webster, Franklin, Kearney, Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Thayer and Nuckolls counties. Her office is in the Webster County Courthouse.

She is one of 15 beef systems educators posted around the state, interacting directly with ranchers and cattle feeders seeking to sustain and improve their operations.

Besides raising children, Waechter-Mead and her husband have a registered Red Angus beef herd of their own.

When shes not on the job for Nebraska Extension, shes at home tending those cattle or shuttling the children to their growing list of activities.

She said her new job will allow her to assist fellow beef producers and her home community, but without the night and weekend on-call duties of private veterinary practice that crowd out family obligations.

I just thought this is really where I should be, she said. Its home. Thats a big, big reason.

Waechter-Mead grew up the farm near Bladen or 14 miles straight north of Red Cloud with her parents, Keith and Linda (Crom) Waechter, and her three sisters.

She graduated from Blue Hill High School in 1998, then went on to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she studied veterinary science and animal science and met her future husband. Following graduation, she attended the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University.

With her doctorate of veterinary medicine newly in hand, she worked from 2008-10 at a small, mixed practice in Alda caring for both large and small animals. Then, she moved to the Animal Clinic at Hastings, a busy mixed practice with several doctors on staff and patients ranging from horses to house cats.

After nearly a decade at the Animal Clinic, Waechter-Mead was one of three veterinarians added to the faculty at the Great Plains Veterinary Education Center, a UNL center housed on the Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center west of Clay Center, in January 2020.

At GPVEC, five veterinarians and a revolving cast of veterinary students help care for the livestock on the sprawling research center operated by the U.S. Department of Agricultures Ag Research Service in collaboration with UNL.

USMARC addresses national priority issues in beef, pork and sheep production from breeding through slaughter, as well as food safety. The research center has its own beef feedlot and abbatoir, or slaughterhouse, as well as many square miles of pasture and cropland for feed.

The veterinary education center brings in students from across the United States for clinical rotations.

As a lecturer and clinical practice veterinarian at GPVEC, Waechter-Mead focused on cow-calf issues and shared her knowledge with the students in the classroom and the field.

Meanwhile, she had a 50% extension appointment from UNL, meaning half of her job was to transmit useful knowledge from the university to beef producers across the state.

Thats basically the hub for veterinary extension specialists right now, she said of GPVEC and its importance to UNL, which partners with Iowa State University for veterinary education but has livestock-producing constituents to support from Harrison to Humboldt and from Stratton to South Sioux City.

While she enjoyed private practice, working with a variety of clients and species to solve problems in a clinical environment, she was looking for a work schedule that would allow her to both practice medicine and make time to be an active and engaged parent.

Waechter-Mead looked at the possibility of focusing on small-animal practice, but also wanted a way to remain living and working in a rural community.

She said she didnt grow up showing cattle, but that her husband always has been passionate about the beef industry, and as a young couple without much money they had begun to build their Red Angus herd by purchasing four bred cows 20 years ago.

I felt myself really appreciating the farm life, she said. I started looking for ways I could really start focusing on the beef-systems side of things.

The Nebraska Extension beef systems position based in Webster County was held for many years by Dewey Lienemann of Blue Hill.

After Lienemann retired in 2017, the position was filled in 2018-19 by Brad Schick and from July 2019 to January 2021 by Sydney ODaniel, then stood vacant for a full year.

While Waechter-Mead enjoyed the relationships she built with students at GPVEC, shes looking forward to more personal contact with producers in her new role.

She said after having statewide outreach responsibilities in her extension role with GPVEC, she sees the eight-county area she now serves as modest in size.

She wants to address the specific challenges producers are facing in her coverage region. In addition, she and her beef systems colleagues meet twice per month to confer about state concerns related to production and economics.

The things were watching as a beef team are definitely drought management and input costs, she said.

Shes continuing her active involvement in her profession, serving as vice president of the Nebraska Veterinary Medical Associations Executive Board. Shell be the board president in 2023.

Shes also continuing the research she started at GPVEC, working with Dr. Brian Vander Ley, a veterinary epidemiologist, to study how environmental factors affect neonatal calf health.

Waechter-Mead believes her qualifications as a veterinarian will give her a unique perspective as a beef systems educator, and she hopes to work closely with her fellow doctors in practice throughout the eight counties.

Through her work with 4-H and FFA, she also hopes to encourage children and teens to consider a possible future career in veterinary medicine especially given the demand for more practitioners to support agriculture in rural America.

Its really the rural practices that are seeing an issue, she said of the unmet need for doctors willing to live in small towns and treat patients on the farm and ranch as well as in the office.

In Webster County shell be involved with community programming including 4-H and the county fair, which her family already knows well. Her husband serves on the fair board.

The connections are personal and heartfelt.

Prior to her death in 2002 at age 106, Waechter-Meads great-grandmother, Margaret Crom, was recognized by the National 4-H Council as perhaps the oldest living 4-H volunteer in the United States. And Waechter-Mead recently found a treasure tucked away in her office: a yellowed handbill from a 1970 extension program that involved her late grandfather, Dale Crom.

She wants the same thing for her constituents as she wants for herself: A chance to keep doing what they love while staying close to their roots.

My ultimate goal is that everyone continue to have this rural lifestyle, be profitable and be able to raise cattle, she said.

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DENISE ATTAWAYSpecial to The T&D

The Palmetto State is home to some of the best peaches in the Southeastern United States.

But pleasing the palate is not the only role peaches play in South Carolina. The peach industry also is a major contributor to the states economy. To help keep the industry growing, the Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service Peach Team is researching how to keep pests at bay, as well as how using new technologies can help protect peaches.

During the annual Ridge Peach Producers Meeting in Edgefield, Peach Team members briefed growers on how to attack these pests. One discussion was what growers can do now that the insecticide chlorpyrifos has been banned for use on food crops.

Brett Blaauw, professor and extension specialist with the Clemson Cooperative Extension Service and the University of Georgia Extension Service, said changes in management practices can help growers compensate for the loss of this tool.

Chlorpyrifos was commonly recommended for use as a tank mix with horticultural oil to apply in late winter for delayed dormant timing to manage San Jose scale and lesser peach tree borer, Blaauw said. During post-harvest, usually late summer, chlorpyrifos was commonly used as a trunk spray to provide more insect pest management. With the ban on chlorpyrifos, growers will need to replace those sprays with different chemicals or management tactics, such as mating disruption for borers.

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Chlorpyrifos is an inexpensive, but effective insecticide widely used in agriculture for more than 56 years. It is a broad-spectrum insecticide first registered for use in 1965 and kills insects by affecting the nervous system. The Environmental Protection Agency banned the use of chlorpyrifos on food and feed crops in August 2021.

Alternative management tactics currently available are more expensive and potentially more difficult to implement than chlorpyrifos. Alternative insecticides cost more per acre, but the application methods should be the same as with chlorpyrifos. In addition, using cultural controls such as mating disruption and entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs, which are beneficial nematodes) are both more expensive and potentially more difficult to implement in the field. Implementing controls such as mating disruption requires labor to hang pheromone dispensers in peach trees at a rate of 150 dispensers per acre.

On the plus side, the pheromone dispensers last all season long and help manage both peachtree borers and lesser peachtree borers, Blaauw said. EPNs can be applied with the same equipment as used for trunk sprays, but because the EPNs are living creatures, they need moisture to survive, so applying the EPNs to irrigated trees is ideal.

Unlike chlorpyrifos, EPNs can be applied preventatively, as well as curatively to already damaged trees.

While the loss of chlorpyrifos is frustrating, Blaauw told growers it is still encouraging there are alternative, effective methods for control of San Jose scale and the borers. See the Southeastern Peach, Nectarine and Plum Pest Management and Cultural Guide for more information.

In the meantime, you can be assured tree fruit entomologists like myself are going to continue to research new management tactics for these pests so that we can guarantee the best management practices for you and other growers, Blaauw said.

Managing with nematodes

For growers using nematodes as a management tactic, Clemson nematologist Churamani Khanal said there are beneficial nematodes that are good for the soil and there are bad nematodes including plant-parasitic nematodes such as ring nematodes, dagger nematodes and root-knot nematodes.

There are a lot of nematodes in the soil, Khanal said. About 10% of these are dangerous.

Common symptoms of nematode attacks include peach tree short life and dieback. Of special interest is the peach root-knot nematode. This pest was found in one upstate orchard in 2018. Clemson researchers are conducting surveys to determine how much of this nematode exists in South Carolina orchards.

Bacterial spot

Bacterial spot is another disease Clemson peach researchers are studying. This disease is caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni (Xap). It begins as twig cankers in the spring and spreads to leaves and fruit as the season progresses. Symptoms on green fruit include water-soaked lesions, while symptoms on maturing fruit vary from light speckles to deep crater lesions. Leaves also are affected and show yellowing starting at the tip. Severe leaf infections can cause early defoliation resulting in reduced fruit size, sunburn and cracking.

Hehe Wang, a Clemson plant bacteriologist, said this bacterial pathogen is difficult to control because most commercial peaches are susceptible and the limited number of disease-tolerant/resistant cultivars could develop symptoms during high-infection periods. In addition, there are no cultural controls available and chemical control options are limited.

Wang is conducting research towards development of novel and more effective control options for integrated management of bacterial spot. New control options, including a spray program, are being studied.

Armillaria Root Rot

Armillaria Root Rot is another pest threatening South Carolina orchards. The only way to control it is to start over in a new area where the soil is not infected.

Armillaria root rot is costing growers a lot of money, said Ksenija Gasic, peach breeder and geneticist. Growers with infected orchards face persistent problem, as both the host and the disease are long-lived. Producers cannot rotate to other sites due to the lack of uninfected land for new plantings. They cannot fumigate the soil and once an entire orchard is replanted, they are left with the prospects of having to replant again not long after having invested in the high orchard establishment costs. So, what can we do?

Planting peach trees in shallow engineered berms with the top parts of roots exposed above ground to extend the productive life of trees is one practice growers can use. Developing disease-resistant rootstock varieties is another option which Gasic and the Peach Team are working on. But they need growers help.

We want to engage growers in our research, she said This helps us better understand what South Carolina growers want and how we can help them get what they need to grow more productive crops.

Protecting peaches with nanocrystal baby blankets

In addition to protecting their crops against pests, growers also learned about a new agricultural innovation from Washington State University that researchers believe may help protect crop plants from freeze damage at bud break.

The Washington State method uses cellulose nanocrystals to insulate buds against frost damage. Juan Carlos Melgar, a Clemson associate professor of pomology, said a study using this technology is being conducted at Clemsons Musser Fruit Research Center. Melgars study focuses on the fruitlets, or small fruits, that appear after pollination. The nanocrystals are applied during early spring when cold snaps can occur and damage fruitlets.

Fruitlets are coated with these nanocrystals, Melgar said. The nanocrystals act as tiny baby blankets, protective layers, that shield fruitlets from frost.

Melgar also said researchers are getting closer to understanding what causes bronzing, a peach skin disorder that can lower the value of a crop. It is cosmetic and damages the skin, not the flesh. Still, peaches with this disorder often are difficult to sell.

We believe bronzing could be caused by nutrient imbalances he said. Nutrient analyses showed areas with bronzing contain higher amounts of magnesium and an imbalanced magnesium/potassium ratio. Our recommendations include checking your soils and especially your leaf tissues to determine the nutrient status and keep nutrients balanced.

Soil tests can be conducted at the Clemson Ag Service Lab. For information, go to https://bit.ly/CU_SoilTestLab.

Peach economics

The peach was named the official State Fruit by South Carolina Legislature Act Number 360 of 1984. South Carolina grows more than 30 varieties of peaches and ranks second in fresh peach production in the United States behind California. Peaches have been commercially grown in South Carolina since the 1860s.

With a combined production value of more than $140 million, peaches are a major contributor to agriculture in South Carolina and Georgia.

Peaches are grown on farms across South Carolina. A list of farms can be found on the South Carolina Peach Councils website: https://scpeach.org/growers/. They are sold from U-Pick Farms, roadside stands and farmers markets.

For more information about peaches, visit Clemson Extensions About Peaches website.

Denise Attaway reports for Public Service and Agriculture in the Clemson University College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences.

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