Can eating bananas really help you lose weight?
If an expanding waistline is your problem, experts say that eating more fruits and veggies
is one of the best solutions.
But does that include high-carb fruits like bananas?
The short answer is yes!
One medium banana has a mere 105 calories, 27 grams of carbs, 3 grams of satiating fiber
and just 14 grams of naturally occurring sugar—not to mention a host of healthy flat belly nutrients.
But beware: Compared to other fruits, bananas are slightly higher in calories and carbs,
so no monkey business: stick to one five-inch portion a day.
This ensures you'll reap all the fruit's benefits—without expanding your waistline.
why bananas should be a part of your weight loss diet plan, plus the best ways to consume
the sweet yellow fruit for optimal results.
1.
THEY'RE THE PERFECT
FITNESS FUEL.
A smart weight-loss plan includes regular exercise, and many fitness experts agree that
bananas are an ideal source of pre- and post-workout fuel.
The reason: They're rich in glucose.
The easily digestible sugar not only provides optimal energy for your spin or Crossfit class,
it also quickly replenishes energy stores that are depleted during a tough sweat session.
Another reason bananas make for a great recovery snack?
They're rich in potassium, an electrolyte that wards off post-pump muscle cramps and
dizziness, that's often lost through sweat.
Pair the fruit with a source of muscle-building protein like a tablespoon of almond butter
or a hard-boiled egg to ensure your tired body receives the recovery nutrients it needs.
2 and 3.
THEY BOOST METABOLISM . so long as you nosh on a green naners, at
least!
Prior to ripening, bananas are rich in something called resistant starch, which, as the name
suggests, literally resists the digestion process.
This feeds healthy gut bacteria, which suppresses the appetite and leads to more efficient fat
oxidation.
In fact, one study found that replacing just 5 percent of the day's carbohydrates with
a source of resistant starch can boost post-meal fat burn by up to 30 percent!
Since underripe bananas are a bit bitter, we suggest adding them into a smoothie with
other fruits and veggies to mask the taste.
For some blending ideas check out these 10 Smoothie Recipes for Weight Loss.
Green bananas also taste great in a yogurt parfait with cinnamon, raspberries, chopped
nuts and a touch of honey.
4.
THEY'RE NATURAL BLOAT BANISHERS.
Constantly feeling like a blimp?
Reach for a banana.
Researchers say the fruit is a good source prebiotic fiber, which helps to feed good
gut bacteria and improve digestion.
Bananas are also a good source of potassium, which helps diminish water retention.
In fact, one study found that women who ate a small banana twice a day as a pre-meal snack
for two months reduced their belly-bloat by 50 percent!
If you decide to follow suit, just be sure to cut back on sugar and carbs elsewhere in
your diet.
And to sip your way to a flatter belly check out these 14 Detox Waters That Banish Bloat.
Once you've kicked the bloat to the curb, your hard-earned abs are sure to shine through.
5.
THEY'RE LOW IN PESTICIDES.
Thanks to their thick peel, bananas typically carry very few pesticide residues compared
to other fruits and veggies, according to a USDA study , which is good news for your
health and your waistline.
Researchers say that consuming pesticides can cause weight gain, likely because the
toxins—which are stored in fat cells after consumption—interfere with the energy-burning
process.
Swap your daily apple, peach or nectarine (three fruits that almost always test positive
for pesticide residue) for a banana to lower your exposure and start losing weight.
And to drop pounds even more rapidly, incorporate some of these 25 Overlooked Ways to Lose Weight
into your regimen.
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3 Best Life Jackets For Kayak - Duration: 4:40.
Wiki zone best product advisor behind Amazon wiki zone presents top three best
life jackets for kayak let's see which life jackets for kayak is best for you
to buy starting with the list number one jacket name NRS should not mesh back
fishing PFD jacket information and our ration of mesh back fishing PFD has been
designed with kayak client or fisherman in mind with varied and built features
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secure to begin with the NRS chinook mesh back fishing PFD has seven front
pockets which can store different items include tackle boxes and tipper this
storage ability is supported by eight customizable attachment points such as a
coil tool retractor d-ring and attachment loops rod holder loops and a
knife lash tab when it comes to your comfort in the lifejacket
you can take advantage of the mesh lower back and soft fit foam which contours to
your body for a plush and excellent fit highlighted features seven front pockets
for everything from small tackle boxes to Tibbett the mesh lower back is a
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fit for comfort and security soft plush fit foam flotation conforms to your body
as you wear it for unsurpassed comfort list number two jacket name MTI wear
kayak fishing lifejacket jacket and fall air mation the universally fitting cow
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water much safer this lifejacket can be secured using the three buckle closures
at the front of the jacket ensuring that the cow Cuddy does not come off in the
event that you fall in the water for additional comfort the lifejacket is
composed of two side adjustments and padded shoulder straps which ensure
slimmer and larger individuals fit well into the jacket the adventure air
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Maddox on the Move 7.31.17 - The Well Student Health Season Two - Duration: 3:01.
[Maddox on the Move intro music]
[Annie waving]
[Annie walking]
Annie: Virginia Commonwealth University's Wellness Resource Center commonly referred to
as The Well is located at 815 S. Cathedral Place.
Let's go ahead and take a look inside!
[pan of The Well]
Trisha Saunders: Hi, I'm Trisha Saunders. I'm the associate director of The Wellness Resource Center
or The Well.
I'm here to support all of our students in need of assistance.
We have programs and services related to everything from stress, sleep, mindfulness to eating
nutrition, body image, alcohol and drugs. If you find that you're in need of information
or support to help you make the best choices for you while you're here at VCU
The Well is here to help. Come and see us!
Fatima Smith: Hi! My name is Fatima Smith, I'm one of the confidential advocates here
at The Wellness Resource Center, also known as The Well.
My role is to support students and friends of students who've experienced sexual assault, intimate partner
violence, stalking or hate or biased motivated crimes.
And in doing that, we provide crisis intervention, we help them navigate their options for support
on and off campus, and more importantly, we're here to listen, believe and let them know
that there's someone here on this campus that supports them in whatever decision they make,
and what they're experiencing is not their fault.
Victor Bernal: The goal of The Well is for you, as a student here at VCU
to be as healthy as you can, as happy as you can and be able to succeed as a student.
So, the Stall Seat Journal is my favorite part of The Wellness Resource Center because it's where me and
other student workers are able to come together and work on an edition that goes out monthly.
It's our main method of communication on campus, put it in the bathroom and everybody's able to read all the great information that we have to share.
The most important thing for first year students to know about The Well is that
we actually care, we're not here just to give you a programmed answer, we want to see you succeed,
and we want to work for you.
[pan of The Well]
Annie: That's it for this week, see you guys next time!
[Maddox on the Move outro music]
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A Good Parent is Good Enough. - Duration: 2:24.
Hey, I thought I'd...
I'm going to do this message...
It's a very short one.
From my car today.
Because I have been thinking about something, and I have been...
I read this article on the weekend about how you don't need to be a...
Basically you don't need to be a straight A parent.
You just need to be a B-, it's good enough.
Because it's a good grade.
And nobody needs to be perfect.
And you know, I realized that as a Parent Coach, I forget sometimes that when I give
tips, regular information on how to deal with certain things with your kids, people sometimes
think that they have to do all of those.
They think that they have to follow them all.
And every time that they hear something and they realize as a parent, "Oh I've done this
wrong.
How much damage have I already done by doing this wrong for all this time?
How much do I still...
How do I change this?
I really need to stop doing what I'm doing.
I'm doing it wrong and it's going to hurt my child forever.
And I don't know how to just kind of help people understand, again, that you really
don't need to do all of these things.
You don't need to... and if you did all of them, you don't need to do them all all the
time.
There is research that came out that said that for healthy attachment, for a child to
have healthy attachment, a parent needs to do the right thing about 50% of the time.
So, when I heard that, I thought, "Oh!
I can do that!
I can do 50%!"
I also, sometimes at home as we are parenting our daughter, I'm thinking, "God, if people
saw this.
You know, if they saw some of the stuff that we do!
If people heard some of the things that I say to her, they'd be like...
You do not preach what you...
umm... you do not live what you preach."
Because I don't do these things all the time.
Nobody needs to do them all the time, anyways.
So, your child is not perfect.
Nobody around you is perfect.
Why should you be perfect?
So just to put that out there.
It's ok, you can learn things from parenting blogs, you can learn things, like when we
talk about raising your brave girl...
If you just do your best and have a good relationship with your child, and you keep informing yourself
and reading, you know all that your are doing, You are doing just fine.
So... hope that helps for today.
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NEW ONLINE COMPANY 'BRANDLESS' SELLS 100'S OF HIGH QUALITY 'NO NAME' PRODUCTS FOR JUST $3 EACH - Duration: 4:25.
NEW ONLINE COMPANY �BRANDLESS� SELLS 100�S OF HIGH QUALITY �NO-NAME� PRODUCTS FOR
JUST $3 EACH
BY ALANNA KETLERJULY
How important are brand name products to you?
What if you could ensure you were getting a high quality product, and you could tell
if it was organic, non-GMO, or gluten free right off the bat?
What if this product were much cheaper because it didn�t waste money on branding or marketing?
Would you try it, or would you stick to the brand names you already know and love?
Created by entrepreneurs Tina Sharkey and Ido Leffler, who hope to take advantage of
online distribution channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, Brandless
seeks to change the way consumers buy everyday essentials.
With their direct-to-consumer business model and $3 price point for every single product
on the website, they hope to make trips to the grocery store to stock up on pantry items
a thing of the past.
Brandless� products include a collection of items from various categories, including
non-perishable food items, cleaning supplies, health and beauty products, personal care
products, and office supplies.
What Does Brandless Offer?
The food category sells everything from canned goods and coffee to snacks and sauces, all
priced at just $3 a piece.
Some of the housewares available include measuring spoons, can openers, knives, and corkscrews,
while cleaning supplies include things like all-purpose cleaner and dish soap.
On the beauty and personal care front, they offer items such as toothpaste, body lotion,
and hand soap.
Brandless sets itself apart not only by offering products that are, as the name suggests, brandless,
but also by carrying a wide range of household essentials and selling them at the same price
point.
They are able to do this by stripping away what�s known as the �brand tax,� or
the costs associated with the traditional consumer packaged goods distribution model,
and the company delivers the goods straight to the consumer instead.
This is why Brandless can offer their products at, on overage, 40% less than comparable brands.
Another way that Brandless has been able to drastically lower the cost of its products
is by reducing how many it offers.
The company has narrowed down its list of items carried to just a couple hundred essential
items, and carry one of each item rather than several different brands of the same thing,
making the shopping experience simpler and more efficient.
They still carry a wide range of products, however, so the selection does not feel small.
Brandless Packaging
The packaging is simple, clean, and straightforward, listing important information on the label
� organic, fair-trade, non-GMO, kosher, gluten-free, sugar-free, etc � so you know
exactly what you are getting.
What Sets Brandless Apart?
One of the biggest differences between Brandless and other major consumer packaged goods (CPG)
companies is their business model � rather than selling through traditional retail stores,
the company will offer all of its goods online.
This will cut distribution, breakage, and sales trade costs, along with many of the
other fees that come with retail distribution.
Having the consumer come straight to them also creates a strong relationship with the
consumer, something the majority of CPG brands lack.
�Most CPG companies don�t have any relationship with consumers,� says Sharkey.
�If you think about how products are distributed today, their customers are the stores, not
the end consumer.�
Brandless has raised over $50 million over three rounds of funding prior to their launch,
meaning it shouldn�t be long before we can begin taking advantage of this exciting new
business.
Learn more about this innovative new startup in the video below.
Much Love
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How To Keep Socks Up All Day & Why Yours Are Sliding Down - Duration: 8:09.
Welcome back to the Gentleman's Gazette!
In today's video, we discuss how to prevent dress socks or socks of any kind from sliding
down your calves.
In another recent video, we discussed how to prevent shirts from coming untucked and
another really popular question we get asked all the time is "How do I stop my socks from
bunching up on my ankles or in my shoes?" and "Why do my socks slide down and how can
I stop that?"
In today's video, we'll give you a definitive answer, and we'll explain to you what you
should look for and what you should avoid, so you always have socks that stay up and
look dapper.
First of all, why do you want socks that don't slide down?
Reason number 1, and I always hated that myself is when socks slide down and they bunch up
in your shoe, it's extremely uncomfortable especially when you walk and that usually
happens when you are at a trade show when you walk a lot and then you constantly have
to stop, pull up your socks, open your shoes, get them back down, so it's a hassle, and
it's just really uncomfortable and your feet hurt at the end of the day.
Reason number 2 is no one wants to see your hairy calves.
It's unprofessional, and traditionally, dapper gentlemen would always have over the calf
socks that would not expose any kind of skin.
Now, even if you shave your legs, you still don't want to expose skin unless it's maybe
a hot summer day and you are wearing a pair of seersucker pants with boat shoes or driving
mocs, but that's a whole different game.
When in a professional setting, an office setting, in a business meeting, or even on
a date, keep it over the calf or keep your ankles not exposed.
How do socks stay up?
Basically, there are three main characteristics to consider.
The most important thing in keeping your socks up is length.
If you compare these two socks, they are both over the calf but one is actually three inches
longer than the other, and they are actually the same size.
Now, obviously, over the calf is not over the calf.
Unfortunately, most men's dress socks are only mid calf or shorter, and those socks
will always slide down no matter what you do with them unless you go to a different
solution like shirt suspenders and we talk about them in a second.
You cannot beat gravity with anything other than a sock that reaches just below your knee
and over your calf because what you want to achieve is that your sock hugs your leg at
the thinnest point, so your calf below it gets wider.
If your socks are below it, it has that kind of shape and it goes down and will help gravity,
and the socks will slide down.
The second most important reason is elastics.
You can get cheap elastics, you can get more high-quality elastics, and the amount differs
as well.
For example, here you have a relatively short amount of elastic.
On this sock here, your elastic goes all the way from the top down to here, and it helps
keep the sock together, so they stay up better.
At the same time, you want a sock that is not constricting.
Cheaper socks usually come with a cheaper, stronger elastic but it's actually so strong
that it pulls down your sock because it's not perfectly sized for your foot.
At Fort Belvedere, we really like natural materials, and we always try to stay away
from nylons or polyesters or anything artificial, however, with socks, you need them to stay
up.
What we did though is that we used a nylon and we covered it in cotton, so your skin
will only be in touch with cotton and never touch the elastic.
That way, you get the feel of natural fibers and the benefit of elastics, so your socks
stay up all day long.
It actually took me quite a while to come up with this solution because a few years
ago, I was fed up with all over the calf socks I wore and they would still slide down and
so it took a little while to really perfect the solution but the socks that we have now,
we have tested for over three years, and they haven't failed me, and I know they won't fail
you either.
The third reason why socks slide down is having the wrong size.
Most socks today come either in small, medium, or large, or sometimes you find dress socks
such as this pair which comes in size 8-12, that's just a range that is way too big and
as such, they need more elastics, more nylon, so it pulls harder.
It will feel less comfortable on your foot, and it also has that tendency to pull your
sock down especially on the foot area where you walk a lot, and that causes it to slide
down.
Just look at the difference of my size 11 foot.
Here we have size 8-12, and here we have a properly sized 11 sock that is exactly made
for my foot, and it won't slide down.So the more sizes you can have, the better because
it really works for your foot.
So whenever you see dress socks that are less than four sizes, skip them and go with something
that has more sizes because otherwise, it won't fit you and you will have problems with
the socks sliding down.
So in conclusion, if you want socks that don't slide down, you have to buy quality over the
calf dress socks with the right amount of elastic in the right size.
Now, if you already have a lot of short socks in your wardrobe and you don't want to replace
all of them or if you are a vintage lover, you should consider sock garters.
They are also sometimes called shirt or socks suspenders, and there are different variations.
Some of them are actually held in place over your knee or sometimes under your knee, and
it's basically a little clip mechanism such as with a clip on pair of braces or suspenders.
Other models actually attach to the bottom of your shirt and connect to your socks however,
I personally find it extremely uncomfortable to wear them also, they show if you have a
thinner fabric for your pants and overall, I'm a very minimalistic person so I try to
get the best stuff I can without having to overload my outfit and what is underneath
of it because comfort is important and the way you look and feel.
Just like with "menswear innovations" oftentimes, they fix a problem that you would not have
if you buy quality items, to begin with.
Remember the video about how to get a shirt that stays tucked in?
Please watch it, and it says the exact same thing.
Sometimes, you'll also find tie dimples in all kinds of shirt stays; you won't need those
if you simply have a proper piece of clothing in the first place.
And that's what we're here to tell you about because we teach you about quality so you
can distinguish crap from good stuff without looking at the label.
So at the end of the day, it's up to you whether you want sock suspenders that definitely work.
However, they feel not so well on your skin, and I find them extremely uncomfortable, or
you go with a quality pair of socks, you skip the suspenders and also just imagine you're
on a date and you go home feeling like James Bond.
You want to prevent the situation where you actually look like an old grandpa with sock
suspenders.
Chances are, she won't be impressed.
if you want to learn more about socks, please head over and check out our in-depth dress
sock guide as well as our colorful, crazy sock guide here.
For a selection of quality over the calf socks in 4 different sizes with elastics that won't
slide down, please have a look at our shop where you can find our Fort Belvedere socks.
They come in different shades which make it very easy to combine them with your pants.
if you want to learn how to pair shoes, pants, and socks, please check out this video, here.
Also, we have an entire guide about that which you can find in our shop which comes free
with a purchase of three pairs of socks simply add it to the cart.
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The Family Plot - July 29, 2017 - Duration: 26:31.
- Hi, thanks for joining us for The Family Plot:
Gardening in the Mid-South, I'm Chris Cooper.
Onions are a great garden vegetable, and they store well.
Today we're talking about growing onions.
Also, do you have an annual you don't want to lose
in the frost?
Just take a cutting and you can enjoy it all winter
and next year, too.
That's just ahead on The Family Plot:
Gardening in the Mid-South.
- (female announcer) Production funding for
The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South is provided by:
the WKNO Production Fund,
the WKNO Endowment Fund,
and by viewers like you, thank you.
[cheerful country music)]
- Welcome to The Family Plot, I'm Chris Cooper.
Joining me today is Walter Battle.
Walter's a UT County Director in Haywood County.
And Dr. Kelly is here!
Dr. Kelly is our horticulture expert.
Thanks for being with us today.
- Glad to be here.
- Yes, happy to be here.
- All right, Walter, I can smell something
on the table here.
- Yes.
- Smells like onions a little bit, you know?
- Oh yes, yes.
And I'll tell you Chris, I must say,
I am an onion freak.
- (Chris laughing) - I absolutely love 'em,
they're just a very versatile vegetable you can use
as far as cooking and all of that,
and since I have to do all of the cooking at the house,
I've just learned to love 'em.
- Okay.
Well we have the right man for the job,
to talk about onions then, right?
- Hopefully, yes. - All right.
Well we have some questions for you about those onions then,
Walter, so, when are onions planted?
- Well, here in the Mid-South area,
and I'm mainly talking about the Memphis area,
I would say, usually February and early March.
It's usually one of our very first vegetables
that we put out there each year.
So you go out there, it kinda gets me fired up
for the growing season, 'cause I'm like hey,
I can finally go out here and throw me up,
as old folks say, throw me up some onion rows.
(everyone laughing) And start plantin', so hey,
I'm ready to go now, and I'm just lookin' forward
for the weather to get warmer at that point,
but I know I have my onions.
- So what about frost though,
do we need to pay attention to frost dates, you know,
if somebody's watching this over in east Tennessee?
- Well basically, since we plant 'em so early,
they usually gone come through most frost dates anyway.
Now I know Dr. Kelly informed me before we came on the air
that what, zone seven is what?
- Is April 10th.
- April 10th. - April 10th, okay.
- Usually kind of the marginal,
after April the 10th in zone seven, we should be frost free.
Based on prior data, but we could always
get somethin' strange happenin.
- Exactly, exactly, yes.
- So does it matter how far apart you set the bulbs?
- Yes, now if you're gonna grow your onions for
what we call bunch onions or spring onions,
you wanna set them about two inches apart from each other.
'Cause obviously we gonna get the little small heads here.
But now if you're gonna wait and grow 'em as,
for dry onions or whatever, then you wanna set them
probably about six to eight inches apart.
Because some of these can get kinda big.
And if I'm gonna have a good hamburger,
I want me a nice, big onion on that hamburger.
But that's basically how you can plant them.
And also, even the onions that we grow for dry onions,
you can pull them early as green onions,
it's just kinda up to you to do that as the gardener,
that's kinda your choice.
So some people plant 'em kinda thick,
and knowing that they're gonna pull some out
and leave some there to grow later for the dry onions,
so it just kinda depends.
- Okay.
How long to harvest?
That's what most folks wanna know, right?
- Yes.
Basically, if you're looking at to harvest 'em
for green onions, you're probably looking at about,
I'm gonna say 60 days are probably what you're lookin' at.
So if you set 'em in March, you let 'em what,
April, May, so you should be gettin' some green onions
by then to chop up and put in your turnip greens
and all those good things.
And also to put in your salads.
I like slicing these green tops here just to put in
my salads as well.
And now of course, if you're gonna wait a little bit later
and have 'em grow for the dry onions,
then obviously, you'll be pullin' those around,
I would say mid-June, is probably when a lot of 'em
come off around our area.
- Okay.
So how can you tell when they're ready, though?
- Okay, as far as the green onions,
when you go out early in the spring and wanna pull some,
you basically just kinda just pull 'em up,
and if you see that they're the size that you want,
hey, start gettin' 'em.
Now if you're gonna wait 'til later in the summer,
I mean you're growin' 'em for the dry onions,
obviously the green parts will fall over and flip over,
and you can just kinda tell 'cause they'll be pushed up
kinda near the soil edge, and again,
just pull a few of 'em out,
it'll be probably around mid-June,
and you can just harvest 'em then and prepare
to dry 'em out for cookin'.
- So how do you prepare dry onions for storage?
- Okay, well once again, you go out there,
and you'll kinda see, they start, obviously,
pushed up near the soil, the green tops have fallen over,
so you pull 'em out.
And what I did, I saved an old patio circular table
that has the wire grid,
and I just put that in the garage and I put them on there
and I just lay 'em on there,
I wanna say I keep 'em there for about three or four weeks
in the garage, seem like I get good air circulation in there
'cause I always have my garage door up a lot of times.
- (Kelly) You don't wash 'em.
- No, don't wash 'em, please do not wash 'em.
And you'll just kinda see them, they'll begin to,
they'll tighten down just like this one has tightened down.
And pretty much they're good to go.
Now at that point you may say hey, how do I store 'em?
I know that's usually a big question,
and I keep mine pretty much out there in the garage.
But those, when I bring 'em in,
I put some up under the kitchen sink, (Chris laughs)
just throw 'em up under there.
But now the old timers, I remember my grandmother,
she used to put 'em in stockings and you would just see
stockings hanging all throughout.
- (Chris) I've seen that before, okay.
- But the main thing is don't put 'em near water
and moisture 'cause you're just gonna get those funguses
on there.
- What about varieties?
Do you have a favorite variety?
- Not really, I'll be honest with you,
I just buy whatever they have at the garden center.
I don't know if it's just where I live,
we just don't get a lot of different varieties
in those stores, I don't know.
I will say this, when it comes to the dry varieties,
I do like the Texas 1015.
I love that variety, it's a sweet onion that grows well
here in our climate.
I mean, this is one right here,
and they're very, very good.
And I also get this question a lot.
I know that that Vidalia onion is known for its sweetness
and all of that, and a lot of people say hey,
I go to the store and I bought some of those onion sets,
but my Vidalias didn't turn out to be sweet
like the ones that I buy.
And I think it has something, and maybe Dr. Kelly,
or Dr. Cooper here can tell me,
I think it has somethin' to do with the soil type
down there in that area.
- That's what I've always heard, yeah.
That's what the true Vidalia onions from Georgia,
they say they're not really the real Vidalias
unless they're grown in the soil of Georgia
in Vidalia, Georgia.
- Okay, well I-- - So.
- Definitely the soil type.
- So it's definitely the soil type.
- Apparently.
That's what they say anyway.
- So you know, I don't know.
(laughing)
- Well, speaking of soil, what type of soil
do onions prefer?
- Well actually, from a pH standpoint, they like a seven,
a neutral soil, but it goes back even down to about 6.6,
6.5 to seven, so slightly acidic to what we call,
I guess, basic soil.
So that's kinda what they like.
And they also like a good,
they like to be reached up,
they don't like to be what we call wet feet or whatever,
just planted where they get a lot of water,
they like to drain off,
and you want a soil with good till,
good organic matter in it, and they'll do fine for ya.
- Any fertilizer we need to put down?
- Usually with the ones I grow at home,
I might go out there and put like a triple 10
or something like that on there,
but I usually have pretty good success with growin' 'em
there at my home garden.
- Must be some good soil down in Haywood County.
Now what about diseases or insects that we need
to be concerned about?
- Well, I would say, as an Extension Agent,
I've never really ran up on any in our area,
but there is an onion maggot that I've read about,
and it's pretty destructive, but seems like I read
more about it up in the East Coast side.
- We don't tend to have that problem with the maggot here.
- Yes, we tend not to have anything here,
so I haven't ran across it.
- (Chris) I have not either.
- I think here in our area, we're fine.
- I think we're good.
- Okay.
Walter, we appreciate that good information about onions.
- Yes, well like I say.
- We can tell you like onions.
- Oh, I love them, absolutely love them, yes.
- Good deal.
- Next time, bring onion dip.
- Okay, you got it. (everyone laughing)
- (Chris) There are a number of
gardening events going on in the next couple of weeks.
Here are just a few that might interest you.
[cheerful music]
Alright, Dr. Kelly, easy techniques to root cuttings
on some of our favorite annuals.
- Easy and cheap.
- And we like easy--
- (Chris And Kelly) And cheap.
- Exactly.
Do it yourself little projects that we can do
and every year we have favorite,
really pretty plants that are annuals that we get
and they do really good and we always are like,
oh, golly, I wish I could keep that over the winter.
But mostly, we don't have places to bring in
these giant, big old plants like hibiscus,
the big old tropical hibiscus.
Or the big, pretty geraniums that have just done beautifully
all summer, or big old impatiens or coleus or some of
these others that just really look nice and we're like,
oh, gee, I wish I could keep that for next summer.
And there's a way to do that.
Most of these plants root really, really easily.
And so I'm gonna show you how to do that.
So think I'm gonna demonstrate, I guess,
first, the coleus.
And of course, you got coleus, they're huge.
- Right, right.
- In your garden, so you just pick a terminal,
and you come in, this little, cheap knife,
I was tellin' y'all, they're really, really cheap.
I usually keep a bunch of these around the garden
or different place where I can find them.
But then you just go in and you just pinch that dude off
or cut it off.
And what you'll wanna do is of course,
remove these lower leaves,
because when you put it in the soil,
those are probably gonna be below the soil level,
and they're gonna rot and fall off and not be a good thing.
So actually I usually just take my fingernails
and pinch those off.
So see now we've got a cutting of our little coleus.
And what I do is I travel some,
and you know in motel or hotel rooms,
in the bathroom, they always give you this shower cap.
And who wears the shower caps anymore,
so I have just collected these,
I've got like a gazillion of 'em at home.
And what I do is I use these to make me
a little mini-greenhouse, and I'm gonna show you that first.
- (Chris) How smart is that, though?
- Yeah, really, so here's my impatiens that I have
already stuck prior, about a week ago,
I did these about a week ago.
So they have actually, I think,
a couple of 'em have roots,
but I'm not gone pull it out,
but I did this about a week ago,
and I've just got regular soil mix in there.
And then I just took some prunings from some of my plants,
and made me some, these are like my,
what do we call that, the frame of my greenhouse.
And of course, when you take a cutting, you want to,
it's got no roots, so you've got to keep the moisture
in the leaves until it can, so it won't dry out,
as we've talked in some of the previous segments
about desiccation, so you take your shower cap,
and you just put it, and the nice thing about it,
some people use plastic bags,
but see I like the shower cap 'cause it's--
- (Walter) Elastic.
- Yeah.
It keeps the moisture in and there's your little greenhouse,
and these things'll usually root in a couple of weeks.
In at least a month, you've got a rooted cutting.
And the way you can tell if it's rooted,
let me just bring over one of these others.
This is, the coleus, let's look at that one.
Now this one I took a week ago as well,
and I believe I pulled this one up just to see
if it had rooted and I believe I saw roots.
Now if you wanna test if one's rooted,
you just tug on it a little bit,
you don't pinch the stem, because if you grab it
at the foliage up here, if you pinch it,
or break it off, it'll probably grow another leaf,
it's not gonna grow another stem if you pinch it.
And then I usually get something that I go in
and sort of prize it up instead of just pullin' it.
- (Chris) Smart.
- Yeah, so that way we're not breakin' off.
Oh, well, no, I broke it off.
- Uh-oh. - I broke off my root.
But if you look at it, you can see tiny little root initials
which are little bumps all along the stems,
so it won't be long.
But it did have a root on it before I got here,
I got a little vicious with it, I guess,
when I pulled it out the first time.
- Let me ask you this, so what's the best way
to water those, though?
- I have not had to water 'em for a week.
Because you get condensation inside this thing,
and another thing, good point, another thing,
you keep 'em outta the sun, obviously,
because you're gonna bake 'em,
you put 'em in a little shady kinda area of the garden,
or I just keep 'em on the back steps of my patio,
which is shaded, and so it'll just no time at all,
this plant will transpire and this'll start
getting moisture all built up in it.
And so I have not had to water it for a week.
Now there may be a time that I will before it roots,
but I mean, obviously you can see the soil and it's wet,
so as long as it's wet I don't worry about it.
But there's another little way, if you don't travel
and collect your shower caps - (everyone laughing),
- but if you drink soda pop, you know.
You can just cut one of these two liter soda,
I don't know if that's the right one,
I think this one went on this one.
But you can get the clear bottles,
you gotta pick your brand so that it's a clear bottle,
usually, I mean you can get a green bottle,
but I like the clear ones,
'cause I wanna be able to see my plants,
see what it's doin'.
So I cut the top off, and that's your little
impromptu funnel you can use, so you might wanna keep that.
And then this is your little greenhouse,
and you just basically stick it down,
and kinda twist it a little bit to make it airtight
as you can, and then there's your little greenhouse.
So it's really easy, it's not a big thing,
and then when they root, oh and here's my hibiscus.
So this was one of the hibiscus that I stuck in there.
And I brought that from a neighbor,
I don't have tropical hibiscus, mine are hardy hibiscus.
So I had to go over to the neighbor and really kinda
snuck over and took some cuttings,
I was actually pruning,
it needed pruning, but anyway, I took some cuttings,
and by the time I got back to the house, it had wilted.
And I'm thinking, 'cause it didn't have water or anything,
and I'm thinking, man I don't know if that'll make it.
But I got it quickly and I did my little greenhouse thing,
and within a day, it had straightened up.
And see these, I had these on here 'til I got here,
so see you can see the moisture that's collected in there,
that keeps it moist until the roots come out.
And then when it has rooted, then you can take it inside
in the little pot, or you can repot it,
or you can do whatever, but the trick is to put it
in the right place in the house to get it through the winter
because it's not gonna just grow like crazy because
it's not gonna get exactly the right conditions probably,
unless you've got a greenhouse you can put it in.
You'd probably wanna put it in a window that can get
some really good early morning light,
or middle afternoon light.
And it'll probably do just really, really well,
through the winter, and then you can take it out
in the spring and by the next this time of year
you can just do the cycle over again.
And perpetuate your favorite plants, you know,
and if you've got, some of these cultivars
of some of these coleus, you find one,
and there was one called Arkansas Sunset,
several years ago, that they quit having now.
And it was absolutely gorgeous.
It was like orange and yellow, looked like a sunset.
And you can't find it anymore,
and I've had several people ask me,
"Where can we find it?"
So that's a way to keep the plants that sometimes
they quit, discontinue, to offer.
Keep 'em going, your heirlooms.
- (Chris) That's a good idea, sure is.
- Yeah.
- We appreciate that, that's good stuff.
If you're like me, yeah, at the end of the season,
like, oh man I hate to take that out of the ground,
'cause I can't bring it in the house.
- And as horticulture people we get asked that sometimes.
"I got this favorite plant, you know, and it's tender
"and I don't have room for it to drag it in,
what can I do to propagate it?"
And some of 'em I'll even root in water,
but I like to put 'em in soil.
- (Chris) Think that's good.
- Yeah, just seems to work better for me.
- All right, thanks for that good information.
- Sure. - Appreciate ya.
[cheerful music]
- It's easy to be attracted to beautiful flowering baskets
for summer color, and mandevilla is a great choice for it,
it's a long season of flower with low maintenance.
Watering is a real challenge for being successful
with these hanging baskets often,
'cause they can dry out very quickly.
Use your finger if you can reach the basket
to test if that soil is starting to dry out,
then water it again and water thoroughly,
let it drain out of the bottom.
If it's too high and you can't reach it,
try lifting it with a broomstick to tell.
When it's light, it's thirsty, when it's heavy,
then it probably doesn't need any more water.
Also, as the season changes and you have more foliage,
and it gets hotter, you may need to add more water to it,
and reverse as the days become shorter and nights
begin to cool as we get toward fall,
you may need to reduce those watering needs.
Also remember that if you're doing that much watering
in this small container, a good little fertilizer boost
mid-summer would be a great thing to do.
[cheerful music]
- All right, here's our Q & A session.
Y'all ready for this?
It's good questions we have here.
Here's our first viewer email.
"We have lots of voles, help!
How can we get rid of voles without using poisons?"
And this is from Debby via Facebook.
So she has lots of voles,
but she doesn't wanna use poison.
All right well I hear you over there sighing.
(sighs)
Oh boy.
- Well, let me ask another question,
that I get asked a lot, people ask me what is a vole.
And it's actually a little mouse-like critter
that doesn't have a tail.
And they tend to, they're really pretty much nocturnal.
Course they stay on the ground,
but I will be honest with you, without poison,
I find it pretty difficult to probably kill 'em out.
If you could get you a good cat or dog
or something like that that could maybe dig up in there
and catch 'em.
- And trapping doesn't work really easily, you know.
And then you've got re-population.
You get a few and then you've got a re-population back.
It's hard to control 'em in a garden setting,
because they do stay in, they tunnel through mulch,
and you need mulch.
So it's just--
- They can run mole tunnels.
- Oh yeah, they can. - They run the mole tunnels.
And the way you know you'll have 'em also,
you'll see a bunch of little old holes,
about the size, I would say, maybe, a silver dollar,
if people even see silver dollars now.
But it's about that size.
I also have a problem with 'em with my apple trees,
that I have, because they like to suck on those roots.
And I can kinda tell sometimes when they get in big numbers,
so I usually use the poison products
to kinda knock 'em back.
- (Chris) Anti-coagulant fuels.
- 'Cause I don't have a cat or a dog.
- And too, if she's worried about poison poisoning a pet,
if you'll put it down in the hole, like you said,
just, and that's the way I'll do,
I'll just put them, again, it's only a stop-gap,
because you'll just kill a few, and then if it rains,
your poison's pretty well diluted.
'Cause you usually use those pellets or something.
- Pellets, and I usually tell folks, yeah,
put on a glove, use a spoon and then put it down--
- Just put it down in there, yes, exactly.
- You wanna do that, and something else, Doc,
we talked about a little earlier.
If folks would quit killin' the snakes
they would actually help us out a little bit.
- Exactly, yes. - Yes, yes, yes.
- Those beneficial snakes. - We're talkin'
'bout good snakes, we're not talkin' about bad snakes.
We're talkin' about rat snakes, king snakes,
garter snakes, those that are non-poisonous,
that they help us, they're a good thing in the garden,
because they help us keep the vermin down.
She could move away to a vole-free area,
which I don't know where that would be.
- I don't know where that would be right now.
(laughing)
- All right, Miss Debby, so there you have it.
Hope we answered your question there.
Here's our next viewer email.
"What kind of weed is this and how do I get rid of this?"
And this is Mr. Lou, Southhaven, Mississippi.
Thank you Mr. Lou.
Okay, so what kind of weed is this,
and we actually talked a little bit about this.
I actually think that's dallisgrass.
Now, most folks are used to seeing the seed stalk,
of course, there's no seed stalk there,
but I'm just looking at the growth,
you know it grows in clumps or bunches, again,
I was looking at the edges, you know, those blades,
I tend to think that is dallisgrass.
- Now it's obviously in her turf, I guess, right?
- Obviously in her turf, right.
- So she's keepin' it mown so we probably can't
really identify it 100% unless we can actually be on site
and see a seed head or something.
- And it would be good if we could that,
the picture was good but--
- The controls are kind of the same for some of
the weedy plants in turf so.
- Right and usually for, of course, dallisgrass,
again, MSMA is what was used to control dallisgrass,
you can't get your hands on MSMA anymore.
So you have to go with quinclorac,
and that's what you will find in most of your products
that will say controls crabgrass, is quinclorac,
so you just read the label on that.
- And that will control the dallisgrass as well?
- It will control the dallisgrass.
It's gonna be multiple applications,
dallisgrass is tough to control.
Again, grows in clumps, produces by rhizomes and seed,
so that's gonna be pretty tough, Mr. Lou.
All right, here's our next viewer email.
"What is this white, fuzzy stuff on my cucumbers?
"The leaves are wilting.
It's almost to the new blossoms."
And this is from Mike in Madison.
So where do you wanna start with that Walter,
what do you think that was?
- Well, when I see the picture, it looked like I'm seeing
a disease called gummy stem blight.
And usually products that contain chlorothalonil
will usually take care of it.
'Cause I'm goin' by those lesions that I'm seeing
right there on the stem.
And I do know that gummy stem blight affect
cucurbit crops bigtime,
so obviously cucumbers is in that cucurbit family,
along with watermelons, as a matter of fact,
I see it a lot in watermelon plantings,
is where I see this disease a lot.
- Yeah, those tan spots on the stems,
is why I thought it was that.
I don't know of anything else that could be.
Did you think of anything else, Doc?
- Well that scalartinia, that stuff,
but I think chlorothalanil will get that as well,
I'm not sure, but probably.
'Cause chlorothalanil is pretty broad spectrum.
- It is, chlorothalanil which is daconil or any
of your copper-based fungicides,
should do the trick as well, sulfur can be used as well,
but just read the label on those.
Will it kill the plant though?
- Severe infestations, yes, yes it will.
- If his leaves are already wilting,
that doesn't sound too good. - Yes.
- And it's not gonna have many fruits,
'cause it's on the blossoms.
- Right so, this might be one you might say hey,
I need to just start over, or just, this is it.
- Go to the farmer's market just buy him some
fresh cukes from the farmer's market.
- All right Mike, so we hope that helps you out.
So Dr. Kelly, Walter, we're out of time, it's been fun.
- Okay. - All right.
- Been good.
- Remember, we love to hear from you.
Send us an email or letter.
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and the mailing address is Family Plot,
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Or you can go online to familyplotgarden.com.
That's all we have time for today.
Remember you can find all sorts of gardening advice
and information online at familyplotgarden.com.
We also have links to Extension publications
for everything we talked about on the show.
Thanks for watching, I'm Chris Cooper,
be sure to join us next week for The Family Plot:
Gardening in the Mid-South, be safe.
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CLNC® Consultant Discusses Difficulties in Defending Sepsis-Related Legal Nurse Consultant Jobs - Duration: 4:04.
This is Connie Chappelle, Certified Legal Nurse Consultant.
Connie, I've asked you to visit with me today on sepsis cases.
I know that this can be a huge issue in litigation and I know that you've been involved both
from a plaintiff and defense perspective.
Is that right?
That is correct.
First of all, how do these cases even come to fruition?
What's the problem, why do sepsis cases end up getting mismanaged?
I think it's because I've reviewed so many sepsis records that I can tell you facilities
are not getting this right 100% of the time.
But why?
Why are they not getting it right?
They could miss an element.
They could miss finding out that the patient has severe sepsis or septic shock.
If the patient has severe sepsis or septic shock they failed to order the appropriate
antibiotics.
They failed to order 30 cc's per kilogram of crystalloid fluid administration.
Those kind of things.
I'm hearing kind of two themes.
One is a misdiagnosis theme.
Another theme is a mismanagement theme.
In other words, they're not treating it properly.
That is correct.
Sepsis is challenging to treat, even if you know what you're doing.
Absolutely.
Sepsis can progress rapidly from sepsis, severe sepsis to septic shock and then to organ failure.
Again, these are serious cases for that very reason as you are suggesting.
Absolutely.
Once they get to organ failure it's hard to pull them back.
From a defense perspective, are there ways that you can help the defense, if you're on
the defense side?
What are you looking for to help them defend the case?
It depends on what the plaintiff has claimed.
In one case that I looked at the plaintiff claimed that nursing should have gotten the
wound culture on the second ED visit, even though the provider didn't order it.
So the defense attorney was consulting with me to find an expert witness to say "You're
not going to give, or get, a specimen when the provider doesn't order it.
You're wasting your time there."
That's from a defense perspective, how we defend this.
Also, these patients that become septic, my memory of them when I worked in the hospital,
is that they're often very complicated patients to begin with.
Can the defense use that to complicate the case and muddy up the waters and try and show
that this was an inevitable process that was going to happen?
They can.
However, one of the things I look at for defense cases is "Did they do what they were supposed
to do when the patient arrived at the hospital?"
And so basically, if they didn't do that, then they really can't use that claim of "Well,
the patient was just so sick when they got here..."
Great.
But you needed to do what you were supposed to do.
They'll definitely try to use that.
They will try.
Any other tips that you want to share with your CLNC® colleagues about sepsis cases?
Don't be afraid when the attorney contacts you, either plaintiff or defense, and says
"Hey, I've got a sepsis case for you" because these cases are no different from what you
do in your other cases.
You're going to review the records.
You're going to identify the standards of care.
Were they met or were they not met?
Did the patient get what they were supposed to get in the time they were supposed to get
it in?
Remember, with your sepsis cases it's all about time, time, time.
Timing!
You got it.
Thank you so much Connie.
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Five things you mustn't do in Britain! - Duration: 4:43.
Hey, guys!
Welcome back to another video for the British Council's LearnEnglish Teens website and
their YouTube channel.
In today's video I wanted to talk to you about the five things I personally think you
mustn't do when you're visiting the UK.
Now, I know there's a lot of information on the internet about things you must do or
things you must see, but I think it's equally important to be aware of things that you shouldn't
do whilst you're here, because these can help to keep you safe and help you to have
a great time.
My first tip is not to look left before you cross the road, and that is because in Britain
we actually drive on the left-hand side of the road and not on the right-hand side, like
practically everyone else in the world does.
So, that means that traffic comes from your right-hand side.
So, before you cross the road, remember you need to look right, left and then right again.
Repeat it to me … You got it, perfect!
The second thing you mustn't do is believe the weather forecast in Britain because the
weather is so variable and it changes all the time.
Now, my advice to you would be to bring clothes that you can layer, so, you know, have a vest,
have a long-sleeved top, short-sleeved tops, jumpers, a raincoat, because, honestly, you
can experience all the seasons in Britain within a week of staying here.
One day can be very hot and sunny and the next can be the complete opposite, especially
if you're visiting London.
Take my word on it – I've lived here for twenty years!
So layers are definitely key.
When it's hot you can take a few layers off.
And also don't forget an umbrella because you really don't know when it's going
to rain here.
You really don't.
Tip number three is don't stop in the middle of a very busy pavement to take photos.
Now, I know that when you're surrounded by really cool architecture or famous monuments,
you wanna be snapping, snapping, snapping and taking loads of pictures.
But please don't stop in the middle of a very busy street, because people will get
annoyed at you and some people are mean.
It's the truth.
Some people are mean – they'll push you out of the way or they'll 'tut' at you
or tell you to move out of the way.
So, to avoid all of that, just try and take a picture from the side of the street or from
an angle or a road that looks less busy, especially if you're visiting London.
In the centre of London there are a lot of people who work around there, a lot of people
who walk at a very fast pace and are always off to business meetings and all that kind
of stuff, so just try to avoid blocking the street.
Tip number four is not to confuse England with the whole of the UK.
When I was living in Italy last year, quite a lot of people referred to the UK or Britain
as just 'England', and it's not the case because the UK is made up of four countries:
Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland.
So Edinburgh and Cardiff are not English cities.
In fact, Edinburgh is in Scotland and Cardiff is in Wales.
And, on top of that, just bear in mind that not everyone you're going to meet is going
to be English or even Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish.
Britain is a very multicultural country and there are people from all over the world who
call this their home, so you need to just be aware that people are very proud of their
roots and their heritage and not everyone would consider themselves English, like myself.
I would consider myself to be British.
So, British is a safe bet if you're not sure where someone's from.
And tip number five is probably one of the most important things you need to know before
you visit Britain, and that is never ignore a queue.
Queuing is one of the most important social values in British culture.
People really don't like it when you jump a queue or you ignore one.
The only exception to this, I would say, is that if you're in London and you're queuing
for a bus during rush hours then you can skip the queue, but otherwise, if you're at the
airport, you're at the cinema, you're at the restaurant, you're queueing outside
a museum … you need to make sure that you remain in that queue because people get very
touchy about it and we are very systematic in Britain.
We like neat queues to be formed.
So, just remember that and you will have no problem.
So, these are just my five tips of things I think you should avoid when visiting Britain.
Let me know in the comments below if you are visiting Britain and if these tips have been
helpful.
And also, comment below and let me know the five things you mustn't do when visiting
your country.
I hope you've enjoyed and have a lovely day.
I will see you in the next video.
Cheerio!
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Azure Serverless Compute - Duration: 11:15.
Coming up
we take a look at how Azure serverless offerings
allow you to build and deploy elastic scale cost-efficient apps on Azure.
We'll show you how adopting a serverless compute approach
removes the need to worry about hardware resources
and the operational complexity of running applications.
The event-driven model for triggering compute power
it allows you to just pay for what you use.
And we'll walk through a serverless app for social analytics
Microsoft Mechanics
I'm joined by Jeff Hollan from the Azure Serverless Compute team, welcome.
Thrilled to be here!
So severless computing seems to have picked up a lot of momentum over the last year.
but what is it and why is it come about?
Yeah so it's a response to a number of things.
but mainly it's around removing traditional barriers
and building and deploying software to solve business needs.
Traditional apps are designed to conform to the infrastructure they run on.
Serverless apps offer an app first model by abstracting away the infrastructure
to relieve the developer from the operational complexity of running applications.
The infrastructure only fires up when it needs to.
It's serverless because you no longer have to worry about servers, virtual machines,
patching and scaling.
All those pieces that traditionally you have to manage
and take time away from creating solutions.
With serverless you simply define your code
or the steps that need to happen.
Publish it to Azure
and the rest is automatically taken care of for you.
This means you can build and deploy cloud scale applications in a fraction of the time.
Now what you just described sounds a lot like PaaS.
But how does this differ from platform as a Service?
Yeah so with PaaS you still have to choose your operating system and the VM size
which means you need to be able to forecast your demand and then pay for that capacity
even if it's not fully utilized.
How does this actually work in Azure?
With Serverless, Azure has compute resources ready to be allocated to you.
Their usage is triggered by an event.
You give us your code and when an event happens.
This could be an Azure alert or when a message is received.
Whatever you specify, we spin up the necessary compute resources
and its activity based billing.
So you only pay for when you're using the resources.
So can you give us an example and explain the serverless tech architecture behind this?
Sure, if I have a website and people want to upload pictures
let's say I need to resize those pictures.
So whenever someone uploads a picture I want to automatically resize it.
Well the upload is the event and that's where Azure functions come in.
It contains and runs your code to resize the picture.
and it has a series of bindings that attach to the event you want to listen to
So in this case it listens for an upload and automatically resizes the image.
So I'm a developer and I've got my chunk of code and I give it to Azure functions and it executes?
Yeah that's exactly right.
But what if I need my code to perform multiple tasks?
So if we stick with our photo example.
Resize, compress, create a thumbnail and then upload it to a store.
Yeah so each one of those individual tasks would be an azure function.
And to orchestrate these different tasks I would use Azure logic apps to build a workflow.
So in our example, the different tasks from
resizing, compressing, creating a thumbnail and displaying it in the store.
Those would be executed on an uploaded picture.
And once all these tests are done I could make the next step
to store the picture in OneDrive or my chosen cloud storage.
And what's great is that most of the time I don't even need to write the code.
for the orchestration or to integrate with apps like OneDrive
because Azure logic apps has pre-built connectors.
So developers can just focus on their blocks of code
and they can utilize these connectors to integrate with their existing systems?
Exactly, so I'm showing here
there's over a 150 connectors provided by logic apps today
and this allows me to easily bind my serverless app
to listen to events from sources like dynamics or Salesforce.
And I can also very easily create or push data into any of these sources.
Now a lot of these connectors and what they connect to will be familiar to IT.
So it's important that an IT and developers work closely
to integrate these in a way that is right for the business.
Right, in fact a lot of the value that IT finds in systems like Logic apps
is that it allows them to very easily integrate
those apps that their devs are building with the systems that they manage.
So it sounds powerful, but can we see it in action?
Sure so I'll walk you through now the tools needed to build a serverless app.
And actually in just a few minutes we'll actually have something pretty powerful up and running.
So in our case we're going to listen to a data source,
which is Twitter.
We're going to be listening for different tweets.
So maybe there's a conference or a launch that you are interested in understanding more about.
So as tweets come in
we'll analyze them and publish them into a Power BI dashboard all in real time.
So I'm here in the Azure portal
and this is the start of our app
and we're going to use that serverless workflow
logic apps to start building our serverless app.
You'll notice here I've already added the event which is when a tweet is posted.
And in this case I'm actually listening to tweets about Microsoft.
Now I can start to add in actions and resources to spin up when this event happens.
So I'll go ahead here and add a step.
And you'll notice those connectors we referenced earlier.
And here I'm actually going to choose the text analytics connector
which uses machine learning as part of the cognitive services
to actually do advanced things like detect the sentiment or pull out key phrases.
So within just a few clicks
I could pass in the tweet text.
And now just that easily I've added machine learning into my service workflow.
So at this point I have the tweet
and now I've been able to automatically detect if it's positive or negative.
So this is a great place for us to now add in an Azure function
because maybe I want to set a category like red, yellow, or green based on the sentiment.
So I can go ahead here and add another step.
And here I can choose any of my Azure functions to execute on demand.
So I'm going to go ahead here and choose an Azure function which I wrote ahead of time
That will categorize the tweet based on the sentiment score.
So the sentiment service will give it a number between 0 & 1.
0 being very negative and 1 being very positive.
So I'll actually show you what this Azure function looks like.
So this is an Azure function in the portal.
And you can see it's very simple I've just simply had to define my trigger event here
which will be triggered from a logic app.
And then I just wrote the simple code.
So if the scores below .3, it's red.
If it's below .6, it's yellow.
And everything else is green.
And just that easily I've defined the code and now it will run whenever it needs to.
So what's happening here behind the scenes from a resource allocation and utilization perspective?
Yeah so resources will be deployed on demand as needed.
So I'll actually switch here.
There's a function that's been running all day today.
And I'll show you how it's running and it's running pretty heavily.
So it's automatically spanned a number of different servers
to handle that execution.
What's great is that I only define the code
and these servers have been provisioned and scaled out to meet demands automatically
and I'm only paying for what I use.
And it'll auto scale as necessary and you don't to worry about anything infrastructure related?
Exactly.
And this is what we saw before c-sharp code, but are there other languages supported?
Yes so if I create a new function
I can actually choose from a number of different supported languages
like C sharp, PowerShell, and Java Script
This enables me as a developer to use the language that's best suited for the job.
And I can build, deploy, and debug these serverless apps all within Visual Studio.
But now can you go ahead and visualize the data?
Yeah exactly, so here I'm going to come back to our serverless app.
I do want to visualize the the data that I've generated
So I'm going to add in one more action.
And in this case I'm going to use our Power BI connector
to publish this data to a dashboard in real-time.
Now while I fill out this step for the Power BI connector,
I do want to call out here that I am connected to my Power BI account.
And we take security very seriously, so we use Azure key vault behind the scenes
to securely encrypt and store the credentials needed
to authenticate with this service.
So whenever OAuth is provided
we always use OAuth.
And if OAuth is not available, we'll use whatever means is most secure.
Because we're connecting to data that is critical to running your business,
it's great to see that secure connectivity is
just built into the serverless platform.
Yeah that's right, and as you're connecting to multiple disparate data sources
we want to make that as secure as possible.
So what happens next?
Yeah so I'll go ahead here and finish pushing this data to the Power BI connector.
Things like that category that we generated from the Azure function.
The location of where the person is tweeting from.
And when this tweet was created at.
And what's powerful here is now I've created this
and I can simply click Save to publish it
and it will start triggering on those events from Twitter.
So go ahead now and switch to this Power BI dashboard.
And in just a few seconds you'll start to watch this dashboard light up
as people are tweeting about Microsoft.
Those tweets are being processed automatically by our serverless app
and scaling up the resources needed
to process those requests.
Now if this was during a high time of traffic like Microsoft build,
I have confidence in knowing that my app could automatically scale to meet those demands.
Can we see into the app?
Yeah so I'll actually show you I've taken an app very similar to this
It starts the same way but I've added a few more steps.
So after I published to Power BI,
I've actually added in some logic here.
So that if somebody tweets a very negative sentiment tweet
I can automatically do something like alert a team using Microsoft teams
or create a case within Dynamics 365
So that my company can be monitoring the customer sentiment
and following up with customers on Twitter.
So now the app is deployed how do we ensure that it's
tested and ensure it's running efficiently on an ongoing basis?
Yeah so this isn't like traditional infrastructure
where you can look at processor utilization or other metric
So it all comes to life with a trigger
and as you're building the app, you're running tests to simulate the event,
triggers to make sure the app that work in the way that you want.
And with that serverless apps do come with a lot of tracing out of the box.
So I can easily see here from right within Azure
all of these apps as they are running and understand the data that's being processed.
And I get integration with powerful tools like Azure monitor
so I can view metrics or diagnostics,
set things like alerts for if something goes wrong.
You saw me show this earlier,
but I can use tools like Azure app insights
to understand the health of my app.
And even integrate with solutions like OMS
so that I can do query analytics and understand exactly how my systems are performing
against my solution.
So with Azure serverless offerings
you're getting a fully managed service that scales on demand
and run your apps in a fraction of the time.
But, how do people get started with Azure serverless?
Yeah so we have a few quick starts on the Azure functions and Azure logic apps documentation pages.
And what's great about serverless
is you can spend just an hour or two and have some really powerful apps ready to go.
So I'd encourage you to check it and out reach out to us on Twitter if you have any questions.
And see what serverless computing and Azure can do for you.
Awesome stuff, thanks for joining us Jeff.
And don't forget to keep watching Microsoft Mechanics for the latest in tech updates.
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