Growing Vegetables in Containers

Are you short on space? Many kinds of vegetables can be easily grown in containers. Just follow these basic guidelines: Select containers. You can use buckets, empty milk jugs, dishpans, or window boxes. Each container should be clean and have at least one drainage hole in the bottom. Use a potting mix or mix your own with garden soil, compost, peat, and vermiculite. If you are starting plants from seed, check seed packets for planting and space recommendations. Not all of the seeds will germinate, so plant more seed than you need and thin later. If you are using transplants, fill each container until it is about half to three-quarters full. Then set your plants on the mix. Keep all plants at least one inch away from the side edge of the container so they don’t get too hot. Add potting mix around plants to within an inch of the top of the container and press lightly. Put your container where it will get at least 6 hours of sun each day. Water thoroughly. Plants in containers dry out more quickly than plants that are in the ground: you may have to water them daily. To keep plants growing and flowering, water with a balanced (20-20-20), water-soluble fertilizer, mixed as directed, every other week in summer. Pull any weeds out of your container. Pick your vegetables when they are ripe so the plant will continue to set more fruit. Then wash them and make something good to eat!https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/extension_garden_yard/1003/thumbnail.jp

Effectiveness of a Gardening Newsletter

Newsletters are a time-honored Extension method of disseminating research-based information to help clients live fuller, more productive lives. But are they as effective as we think they are? To find out, we surveyed home gardeners receiving a monthly garden newsletter from their county Extension office. The survey demonstrated that this newsletter, in its present format, (paper, and online in HTML and PDF) is meeting the needs of the target audience and has effectively fostered more sustainable gardening practices. The survey also demonstrated an interest among this audience in receiving electronic versions of newsletters in the future

Selling Beef in Maine #1048

Are you a beef producer interested in learning more about the different markets available to you to sell your beef? This bulletin discusses the risks, benefits, and requirements for selling beef in Maine. 2 pages. © 2015 by University of Maine Cooperative Extension.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/extension_ag/1001/thumbnail.jp

Bulletin 2220: Best Management Practices for Small Scale Poultry Producers in Maine

Written for small-scale poultry producers. University specialists, Extension educators, and agriculture service providers from New England and New York developed this list of Best Management Practices to assist small-scale poultry growers to provide the best of care for their birds, minimize losses due to disease and predation, as well as minimizing the impact on the environment while assuring a high quality, wholesome product for their family and customers.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/extension_ag/1004/thumbnail.jp

Core data set on safety, efficacy, and durability of hemophilia gene therapy for a global registry: Communication from the SSC of the ISTH

BackgroundGene therapy for people with hemophilia (PWH) will soon become available outside current clinical trials. The World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH), in collaboration with International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis Scientific and Standardization Committee (ISTH SSC), the European Haemophilia Consortium (EHC), the US National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF), the American Thrombosis and Hemostasis Network (ATHN), industry gene therapy development partners and Regulatory liaisons have developed the Gene Therapy Registry (GTR), designed to collect long- term data on all PWH who receive hemophilia gene therapy.ObjectiveThe objectives of the GTR are to record the long- term safety and efficacy data post gene therapy infusion and to assess the changes in quality of life and burden of disease post- gene- therapy infusion.MethodsThe GTR is a prospective, observational, and longitudinal registry developed under the guidance of a multi- stakeholder GTR Steering Committee (GTR SC), composed of health care professionals, patient advocates, industry representatives, and regulatory agency liaisons. All PWH who receive gene therapy by clinical trial or commercial product will be invited to enrol in the registry through their hemophilia treatment centers (HTCs). The registry aims to recruit 100% of eligible post gene therapy PWH globally. Through an iterative process, and following the guidance of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the GTR SC has developed a core set of data to be collected on all patients post gene therapy.ResultsThe core data set includes demographic information, vector infusion details, safety, efficacy, quality of life and burden of disease.ConclusionsThe GTR is a global effort to ensure that long term safety and efficacy outcomes are recorded and analysed and rare adverse events, in a small patient population, are identified. Many unknowns on the long- term safety and efficacy of gene therapy for hemophilia may also be addressed.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/163440/2/jth15023.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/163440/1/jth15023_am.pd

DETECT schools study protocol: A prospective observational cohort surveillance study investigating the impact of COVID-19 in Western Australian schools

Introduction: Amidst the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, understanding the transmission dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is key to providing peace of mind for the community and informing policy-making decisions. While available data suggest that school-aged children are not significant spreaders of SARS-CoV-2, the possibility of transmission in schools remains an ongoing concern, especially among an aging teaching workforce. Even in low-prevalence settings, communities must balance the potential risk of transmission with the need for students\u27 ongoing education. Through the roll out of high-throughput school-based SARS-CoV-2 testing, enhanced follow-up for individuals exposed to COVID-19 and wellbeing surveys, this study investigates the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and the current psychosocial wellbeing impacts of the pandemic in school communities. Methods: The DETECT Schools Study is a prospective observational cohort surveillance study in 79 schools across Western Australia (WA), Australia. To investigate the incidence, transmission and impact of SARS-CoV-2 in schools, the study comprises three “modules”: Module 1) Spot-testing in schools to screen for asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2; Module 2) Enhanced surveillance of close contacts following the identification of any COVID-19 case to determine the secondary attack rate of SARS-CoV-2 in a school setting; and Module 3) Survey monitoring of school staff, students and their parents to assess psycho-social wellbeing following the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in WA. Clinical Trial Registration: Trial registration number: ACTRN1262000092297

Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Grammar, Text and Discursive Context

The term \u2018hybridity\u2019 has been around for a long time and, for most of its history of use, has been pressed into the most disparate \u2013 and often dubious \u2013 services. In recent times it has become a sort of transdisciplinary \u2018buzz word\u2019 and it was about time that Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) also raised its voice on the subject. This volume addresses the increasingly typical hybrid nature of text and discourse. In an SFL perspective, this also means that cultural and situational contexts must be seen as being always potentially hybrid or, as Hasan has fittingly put it, \u2018permeable\u2019, such permeability being based on the powerful activation/construal dialectic between discursive situation and language, system and instance. The authors of the papers in this collection variously focus on hybridity within sociocultural contexts in which discourse occurs, investigate hybridity of discourse types (in a wide range of genres, registers, text-types, etc.), but also examine hybridity within the stratum of lexicogrammar itself. Moreover, the implications of hybridity for education and the professions are explored. The volume makes plain the multifaceted complexity of the phenomenon, as well as its rich potential as a theoretical construct in SFL