A discussion on fertilizer for home gardening plants seems like a dated topic. Yet the importance is utmost as per the interest of growers and gardeners. For all the gardeners, the knowledge of using fertilizers and ways to apply them is crucial. For attaining the vigorous plant growth, you must know about the hardiness of plant zones. In order to grow the plants, we are continuing the brief discussion on why, how and what multivitamins should be applied on the plants.

All ideal fertilizer for garden plants carry three chief elements named as Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium.

Nitren is important for promoting the leaf development and growth. It helps iogn the development of chlorophyll. Basically, it helps in converting sunlight into food.
Phosphorous is very important for the growth of stems, roots, blossoms and fruits.
Potassium is another important element helping your plants in digestion and making of food.

Why do they need Fertilizers?

Often, we may wonder that, all the important nutrients are available in soil and air, so fertilizers are important? Fertilizers act as a mediator as some plants cannot get complete access of soil nutrients. So, the choice of nutrients also depends on the type of soil, the plant is growing into. Some modern farming techniques, traffic and construction can disturb the soil’s nutrient chemistry leading towards limited nutrient base. For such reasons, the gardeners must use fertilizers to help plants reach to their full nutrient capacity.

Some Homemade Options:

1. Seawood:

This fertilizer type has the long-held lineage of 1000+ years. It is considered as all-embracing organic option. However, it carries mannitol which can increase the plant’s ability to absorb more nutrients. You can use fresh or dried seawood in this regard.

2. Fish Emulsion:

Fish emulsion works like a homemade option which is obtained from fish-waste. The results with this have been truly great. However, it works very gradually. Also, the smell can bother you a little more.

3. Aquarium Water:

The aquarium water while cleaning the tank also works as a great source of fish waste for plants. It is easy and anytime available option.

4. Coffee Grounds:

Used coffee grounds are a good source of two percent of nitrogen. It can also provide some phosphorous and potash. Let them dry and scatter lightly over your plants.

5. Egg Shells:

Egg shells can be the most ideal and practical fertilizer option. They carry calcium which makes an important element in cell growth. You can simply crush in grinder and sprinkle over the soil.

With the right strategy, a marketer can easily enjoy the amazing benefits of content marketing. Some of these benefits are more traffic, a better reputation, and continuous growth in both traffic and reputation in the long run with only a little increase in the budget. With entrepreneurship, costing and keeping the marketing budget within the limit is really important.

Though content-marketing is very popular due to its cost-efficiency, it is not free nor cheap. Investing heavily in an internal employee or respectable external firms is necessary to produce excellent work and execute a high-quality strategy. And always keep in mind that in marketing, an effective brand design is necessary too so keep your audience hooked.

Fortunately, a marketer can still cut costs without having to sacrifice the campaign quality with the help of some money-saving tricks. Below are the strategies found to be incredibly useful by many marketers.

1. Reusing old content.
For some, this is not a good idea. But honestly, it will only be bad if the old content is reused in the wrong way. If for example, a marketer has a successful ‘evergreen topic’ blog post which he posted two years ago. Since the content of this blog stays fresh and can attract lots of traffic, it wouldn’t hurt if he will revisit and re-post such article.

Evidently, reposting the same article say every month will not give him new results. His possible option is waiting for a year or two before reposting, he could even get away with a full republication.

If in case he decides to repost a blog of his with an evergreen content but without waiting for it to turn one-year-old, he can do so by changing the headline, reorganizing the internal sections, or editing the body content to give the article a new “look.” He just needs to ensure that the URL where it was initially published is the same or else, he might lose the SEO equity that the article has already built up.

2. Re-envisioning content in new mediums
A marketer can convert his successful article to different mediums such as infographics or video highlights. He can also use certain snippets of his article and share it on social media as a tweet or a Facebook post. Reimagining new ways to republish an old but effective blog will definitely help in cutting content-marketing costs.

3. Don’t stop at content publication, move forward with content promotion.
Content marketing starts with idea brainstorming and content creation, editing, and publication. But successful marketers do not stop and think that their job is done after publishing their articles, they go beyond that and promote their content.

Eric Siu, an Entrepreneur contributor and Single Grain CEO, mentioned that a marketer should spend 20% of his time in creating content and 80% on promoting content. One can start by showcasing his work across his social media channels and move along by sending paid ads to it, conducting influencer marketing, submitting it to StumbleUpon or Reddit, and building internal links to it

In the past 60 years, manufacturing has shifted tremendously; from positions driven solely by men to the liberation movement that brought wives and mothers out of their home to share in the labor force.

Today, Stainless Foundry & Engineering, Inc. proudly supports 21 women manufacturers in professions ranging from Investment Assembly and Metallurgical Project Specialist to Human Resource Manager and Accounting Personnel. These roles vary with experience and qualifications but are not separated by office and foundry.

SF&E interviewed some of these women to share in their experiences, as women in manufacturing, in celebration of International Women’s Day 2018; Lois Ranieri (Foundry Engineer), Victoria Brockhaus (Customer Service Manager), Francine Veguilla (Purchasing Agent), Lori McCulloch (Contract Specialist), Jenny Hall (Metallurgical Project Specialist), Donna Kittler (Investment Assembly Setup) and Jeanne Wagner (Technical Director).

SF&E’s women manufacturers are not shy of stepping out of the office and getting their hands dirty. Brockhaus will be seen working with the machinist at SF&E’s machine shop or tracking an order for a customer in the foundry. McCulloch, following in Hall’s footsteps (sisters and coworkers for over 20 years), both started as Metal Lab Technicians, both given the opportunity for growth, now improving SF&E’s Quality Departments capabilities by pulling test bars, updating the QMP’s and Quality Policy Manuals under the supervision of Mike Porfilio.

The women interviewed came into manufacturing either straight out of high school (Kittler with 30 years of manufacturing experience) or right out of college (Wagner with 23 years of manufacturing and metallurgical experience). Veguilla, one of the newest members with 8 months of manufacturing experience, joined SF&E to follow in her father’s manufacturing footsteps. Veguilla is a full time purchasing agent for office and maintenance supplies all the while obtaining her masters degree at Cardinal Stritch University. These women all hold critical roles at SF&E to contribute to its greatness.

Based on Kittler’s expertise, she was first to assemble SF&E’s largest and most complex investment casting which was assembled from 7 wax pieces. Over the years Kittler’s versatility has allowed her to perform all jobs in the wax room from injection press operator to lead person.

By working with our customer’s engineering team, Ranieri delivered a unique and efficient solution to one of SF&E’s highest volume customers for their new line of all-terrain vehicles. Ranieri is an example of how hard work and perseverance pay off. Initially hired as an engineering technician, she put for the extra effort to earn her position as foundry engineer.

Hall has contributed positive cost savings, by using an innovative technique to save the company, and its customer’s, time and money by using extra material for new heats.

In addition to being our technical expert, Wagner has used her role and ability to positively impact her coworker’s confidence, strength and knowledge. Her passion to see other’s succeed is evident in her daily interaction with employees.

With all the guidance and support these women have offered they still face difficulties in their roles. “We’re always on the outside”, mentioned a key contributor to the casting process. “Earning respect with male coworkers can be tough”, said a female who works above and alongside other foundry personnel. Another insight was the “foundry male mentality” that makes it sometimes hard to develop as a women in manufacturing.

Stainless Foundry & Engineering, Inc. would not be where they are today if these valuable women didn’t give manufacturing a shot. Manufacturers need more women who are smart and strong to bridge the gap to open more opportunities. This environment gives you the chance to watch something incredible unfold and it’s not just a man’s world, especially if you find something you enjoy doing and do it well.

At times people indulge in tickling their taste buds to get the best out of the cooks and explore their culinary skills. But food in spite of being exceptionally tasty has to be healthy and nutritious at its best. Only health and nutritious meal or snack can provide you with habit of a right palate.

Besides, providing sumptuous and tasty food they should be able to create the children’s palate for the right food. There is where they have to create a latent value if you are in the business of food service catering for schools.

That is developing the taste for the right food instead creating food to suit taste. It is difficult. But over the time if you have developed you culinary skills you can understand how to develop the taste for the right food, both nutritious and that can contribute to the health of the budding souls.

Food service in schools, a major part of the federal school lunch program has many responsibilities for food service providers besides playing with culinary skill they have to serve the most sensitive palate of school going and also provide food that is nutritious and supports their growth in the early stage of life.

Food service school in NJ involves more guidance and bounds us with budget constraints. There is also an expectation from the school nutritionist and school children and management. Mostly as a service provider you have to scrape menus of two sides with rival expectations. On one side the expectation is of nutrition and the other side the expectation is of tickling taste.

Any imbalance can lead to rejection and wastage. Therefore as a school provider what is important is you bring the best of the both to provide a menu that can be acceptable to all and that only you can confirm when you see no wastage or coming back. Only when that happens can a food service provider claim he has met the standards and expectations and brought about customer delight.

Children who submit school lunch application on personal grounds are provided with meager funds to provide for their food. This should not escape either the school lunch program administration or the school food service provider.

Both the school and the service provider have to package the meal or snack within a shoe-string budget. That provides an additional constraint to the lunch provider to give equal nutrition and taste with the available resources. Therefore a food service provider for schools in New Jersey should take care of all these things to enable him to carry on the service successfully.

A food service provider like Karson Foods http://www.karsonfoods.com/school-food-services.html may treat them as an advantage instead of problem, limitation or constraint and explore their culinary skills at best explored in a controlled situation more. Just like you ask students to write an essay on any topic of their choice and they will have to scratch for topics. At the same time give them a list of topic to choose and they are relieved.

Karson Foods, with our loyal employees, form one of the largest and most professional on-site catering food service in the New Jersey area, and have been doing so since 1982. Our family-owned and operated business has expanded our menu selections and contract food services placing us at the front when it comes to a quality product with a good value. Our services are comparable to all standard federal school lunch programs. Our school lunch program is a fresh food program.. Meals are cooked, portioned, sealed and delivered from our kitchen to yours on a daily basis or as needed.

In the present scenario, quality is the biggest driver for any business to succeed. Quality remains at the heart of any business. Healthcare is one such industry where quality of care cannot be compromised at any cost. The healthcare landscape in India is very dynamic and operates in an environment having rapid social, economical and technological changes. It is quite often that we hear about poor patient care, negligence, readmission cases, nosocomial infection, inefficient facilities, inadequate resources, unhygienic environment. Such being the case, quality in healthcare services becomes a mandate and accreditation is the only solution to this!!

Accreditation is the evaluation process used by the Healthcare organisation to access and improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness. Technecon Healthcare, as hospital consultants, help the healthcare organization in bridging this gap through an internal assessment of the facilities and processes of the hospital to assess its accreditation readiness and also help in preparation of documentation in conformation with the accreditation norms as well as hand hold through the accreditation process. The ultimate goal of the hospital is to provide high quality care, safe healthcare services and reduce the length of stay.

Who can apply?

Any healthcare organization which is currently operational
Willing to assume responsibility for improving quality care
Preferably registered or licensed with concerned authorities
Process of Accreditation:
Screening of the application as per the laid down standards
Pre-assessment survey
Assessment survey
Review of the recommendations of the assessing body by the Accreditation committee
Approval of Accreditation by the NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare providers.)
Re-assessment survey
Examine the current processes and quality standards of the hospital
Find out the quality standards and parameters required for accreditation
Compare the standards for accreditation and the processes currently followed by the hospital
Analyse and document the gaps
Identify areas for improvement

Apart from the aforementioned points, the top managers should take initiative in creating willingness among the employees, provide proper training to all the staff and ensure commitment by them and encourage and catalyse change management.

Benefits of hospital accreditation:

Improves quality of care, patient safety and thereby enhancing patient experience
Reduces the risk of adverse event
Improves work environment for staff thereby resulting in high productivity
Increases opportunity of empanelment with insurance and third parties.
Ensures trust and confidence among patients by providing them access to good quality of care, infrastructure, etc.
Increases the number of patient footfalls leading to enhancement of revenue
Competitive edge over non- accredited hospitals

Accredited hospitals need to continuously improve the quality of care and ensure compliance to the quality standards. If during the accreditation process, the accreditation organization receives inputs that the organization is substantially out of compliance with the current standards then a re-survey or withdrawal of accredited decision may be resorted to. Whilst the road towards accreditation is not easy to navigate, all it needs is continuous efforts to achieve long term benefits.