Tuesday, March 9, 2021

I remember my Dad saying….

 with NO COMMENTS
things to my sister and me over the years. Things that really didn’t make a lot of sense, until now.
How many of these do you remember your Dad saying? How many do you catch yourself saying??

°Don’ ask me, ask your mother.

°You didn’t beat me, I let you win.

°Don’t worry. It’s only blood.

°Now you listen to ME, Buster!

°A little dirt never hurt anyone-just wipe it off.

°I told you, keep your eye on the ball.

°If you forget, you’ll be grounded till the end of the world.

°You call that a haircut?

°This will hurt me a lot more than it hurts you.

°Turn off those lights. Do you think I am made of money?

°Don’t give me any of your lip, young lady.

°You call that “music”?

°We’re not lost. I’m just not sure where we are.

°Shake it off. it’s only pain.

°When I was your age, I treated MY father with respect.

°As long as you live under my roof, you’ll live by my rules.

°I’ll tell you why. Because I said so. That’s why.

°So you think you’re smart, do you?

°What’s so funny? Wipe that smile off your face.

°I’m not sleeping, I was watching that channel.

°I’m not just talking to hear my own voice!

 

 


Gedanke des Tages!

von Sheer Ramjohn
Sheer Ramjohn
Ein Verständnis:

Inzwischen würde man begreifen, dass wir alle mit einem anderen Blick auf das Leben geboren werden. Dies ermöglicht es uns, verschiedene Ideen auf den Tisch zu bringen und dadurch Schwierigkeiten auf unterschiedliche Weise zu lösen. Um nicht zu kompliziert zu sein, was ist mit unserer eigenen Individualität? Sicher erkennen Sie, dass wir ein bewusster und ein unbewusster Verstand besitzen. Der größte Teil unseres Seins wird von diesen Kräften angetrieben. Das Gefühl der Instabilität und des Unglücks tritt auf, wenn das Bewusstsein und das Unbewusste nicht miteinander synchron sind und auf unterschiedliche Weise handeln, um Kohärenz zu erreichen. Es ist bedauerlich, dass der größte Teil unserer Natur von dem stammt, was wir in unseren prägenden Jahren zwischen geburt und 7 Jahren gelernt haben, was nicht unbedingt bewundernswert sein muss! Der Trick besteht darin, dies zu realisieren, die erforderliche Korrektur vorzunehmen und auf dem Weg zu sein. Es liegt in unserer Verantwortung!

LEBEN😇

LIEBEN👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

LACHEN😃


Speisenreste oder Take Away?!

Speisenreste oder Take Away?!

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Anstatt deine Speisenreste zu bauchen, lässt du sie schlecht werden und kaufst TakeAway!

Für viele ist dies eine vertraute Routine –

und zeigt Gewohnheiten auf, die zu einem globalen Problem der Lebensmittelverschwendung beitragen. Laut einem neuen Bericht der Vereinten Nationen muss dies besser gemessen werden, damit es wirksam angegangen werden kann.

Der U.N.-Bericht schätzt, dass 17% der weltweit jährlich produzierten Lebensmittel verschwendet werden. Das sind 1,03 Milliarden Tonnen Lebensmittel.

Die Verschwendung ist weitaus größer als in früheren Berichten angegeben, obwohl direkte Vergleiche aufgrund unterschiedlicher Methoden und des Mangels an starken Daten aus vielen Ländern schwierig sind.

“Eine verbesserte Messung kann zu einem verbesserten Management führen”, sagte Brian Roe, ein Forscher für Lebensmittelabfälle an der Ohio State University, der nicht an dem Bericht beteiligt war.

Der größte Teil des Abfalls –

oder 61% – fällt in Haushalten an, während 26% auf Lebensmittel und 13% auf Einzelhändler entfallen, so die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Die Vereinigten Staaten drängen darauf, die Lebensmittelverschwendung weltweit zu reduzieren, und die Forscher arbeiten auch an einer Bewertung der Abfälle, die die verlorenen Lebensmittel einschließt, bevor sie die Verbraucher erreichen.

Die Autoren stellen fest,

dass der Bericht eine klarere Momentaufnahme des Ausmaßes eines Problems liefern soll, das schwer zu bewerten war, in der Hoffnung, die Regierungen zu veranlassen, in eine bessere Nachverfolgung zu investieren.

“Viele Länder haben ihre Lebensmittelverschwendung noch nicht quantifiziert, daher verstehen sie das Ausmaß des Problems nicht”, sagte Clementine O’Connor vom Umweltprogramm der Vereinigten Staaten und Mitautorin des Berichts.

Lebensmittelabfälle

sind aufgrund der Umweltbelastung durch die Produktion, einschließlich des für die Aufzucht von Pflanzen und Tieren erforderlichen Bodens und der dabei entstehenden Treibhausgasemissionen, zu einem wachsenden Problem geworden. Experten sagen, dass eine verbesserte Abfallverfolgung der Schlüssel ist, um Wege zu finden, um das Problem zu lösen, wie z. B. Programme zur Umleitung ungenießbarer Abfälle zur Verwendung als Tierfutter oder Dünger.

In dem Bericht wurde festgestellt, dass Lebensmittelverschwendung in Privathaushalten nicht auf Länder mit höherem Einkommen wie die USA , England und der Schweiz beschränkt ist.

Essen gehört auf den Teller statt in den Abfall.

 

Trotzdem gehen Lebensmittel entlang der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette verloren. Damit das nicht passiert, setzt sich die Migros seit vielen Jahren gegen die Food Waste ein. 99% aller Lebensmittel werden verkauft, an Mitarbeitende abgegeben oder an gemeinnützige Organisationen gespendet. Informieren Sie sich hier unten über die verschiedenen Massnahmen der Migros, Coop und über praktische Tipps und Tricks gegen Food Waste.

Nachhaltigkeit mit Speisen

Schweizer Bundesamt für Umwelt

Food Waste in der SCHWEIZ

Taten statt Worte mit COOP

Roe aus dem Bundesstaat Ohio stellte fest,

dass Lebensmittel in armen Ländern manchmal ohne zuverlässige Kühlung zu Hause verschwendet werden. In reicheren Ländern essen die Menschen möglicherweise mehr auswärts, was bedeutet, dass Lebensmittelabfälle einfach von zu Hause in Restaurants verlagert werden.

Roe sagte, dass kulturelle Normen und Richtlinien auch zu Abfall zu Hause beitragen könnten – wie massive Verpackungen, „Kaufen Sie eine, erhalten Sie eine kostenlose“ Angebote oder fehlende Kompostierungsprogramme. Aus diesem Grund sind umfassendere Systemänderungen der Schlüssel zur Abfallreduzierung in Haushalten, sagte Chris Barrett, Agrarökonom an der Cornell University.

Zum Beispiel, sagte Barrett, könnten Menschen Lebensmittel aufgrund eines Datums auf dem Produkt wegwerfen – obwohl solche Daten nicht immer sagen, wann ein Lebensmittel nicht sicher zu essen ist. “Lebensmittelverschwendung ist eine Folge vernünftiger Entscheidungen von Menschen, die nach den besten verfügbaren Informationen handeln”, sagte er.

Um die Bedeutung von Kennzeichnungsdaten zu klären, haben die US-Aufsichtsbehörden die Lebensmittelhersteller aufgefordert, diese konsequenter zu verwenden. Sie stellen fest, dass Etiketten wie „Sell By“, „Best By“ und „Enjoy By“ dazu führen können, dass Menschen Lebensmittel vorzeitig wegwerfen, obwohl einige Etiketten nur darauf hinweisen sollen, wann die Qualität möglicherweise abnimmt.

Das US-Landwirtschaftsministerium

schätzt, dass eine vierköpfige Familie jedes Jahr etwa CHF 1.500  an Lebensmitteln verschwendet. Die genaue Messung von Lebensmittelabfällen ist jedoch aus einer Vielzahl von Gründen schwierig, einschließlich der Verfügbarkeit von Daten, sagte der USDA-Lebensmittelforscher Jean Buzby und fügte hinzu, dass verbesserte Messungen Teil eines Regierungsplans zur Abfallreduzierung sind.

Richard Swannell, Mitautor des U.N.-Berichts, sagte, dass Lebensmittel selbst in reicheren Ländern noch vor wenigen Generationen allgemein mehr geschätzt wurden, da die Menschen es sich oft nicht leisten konnten, sie zu verschwenden. Jetzt, sagte er, könnte das Bewusstsein für das Ausmaß der Lebensmittelverschwendung weltweit dazu beitragen, die Einstellungen in diese Zeit zurück zu verschieben.

“Essen ist zu wichtig, um es zu verschwenden”

 


DID YOU KNOW…..?!


°It is impossible to lick your elbow

°A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out

°A shrimp’s heart is in their head

 

°People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second

°In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand or attempted to do so

°It is physically Impossible for pigs to look up into the sky

°A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

°On average, a human being spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime

°More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call

°Rats and horses can’t vomit

°The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language

°Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants

°Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times

°A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why

°In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders!

°Most lipstick contains fish scales

°A cat’s urine glows under a black-light

°Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different

°Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow

and so they say!!! Now you know!😁

your blogging friend Ulrich Koepf
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Friday, February 26, 2021

Swiss Military Bunker Revival

Where ammunition was once stored in the army bunkers in Erstfeld and Stansstad,

Alex Lussi, today, grows Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms sustainably. The Bunkers are ideal for this.
Thousands of disused military installations pierce the country of Switzerland. These days they are experiencing a civil revival!
Mushrooms from the Bunkers

“My father started growing oyster mushrooms 24 years ago,” says Alex Lussi. “At that time the company was called LUPI, Lussi-Pilze. The cultivation of oyster mushrooms was a sideline to the farm, a traditional dairy farm with an agricultural area of ​​18 hectares. ”
The 35-year-old business owner Alex Lussi grew up growing mushrooms. As a 10-year-old, he was already helping with his parents’ business. After an apprenticeship as a tool mechanic, he moved to Holland in 2007. He learned the language in order to deepen his knowledge of various Dutch companies. Annual study trips to mushroom farms in China, Japan, Korea, the USA, France, Italy, Poland, and Spain followed.
Alex Lussi and his company Gotthard Bio Pilze AG have been producing shiitake mushrooms in a disusedArmy Bunker in Erstfeld since 2013. In 2014 Alex Lussi took over his parents’ business and expanded it. In 2016, a tunnel was added as a second production site on the Steinag Rotzloch AG site in Stansstad. The substrate production takes place on the farm in Oberdorf.

Production sites steeped in history.

Today grow, in around 100 meters long and 40-meter high cavern,  organic noble mushrooms. “The production conditions in the mountain are ideal,” explains Lussi. The average temperature is 12 to 14 degrees Celsius, the humidity is around 90 percent perfect. ” There is no need for expensive air conditioning as in a production hall. This enables Gotthard Bio Pilze AG to save costs and produce competitively.

Oyster mushrooms, shiitake, and king oyster mushrooms

“We produce four different noble mushrooms,” says Alex Lussi. “The oyster mushroom, yellow and gray with its juicy, aromatic, and firm meat is extremely popular. Its taste is somewhere between the mushroom and the chanterelle. Shiitake means mushroom (take) in Japanese that grows on the Pasania tree (shii). It comes from the forests of China and Japan and is very popular there as a medicinal mushroom. The king oyster mushroom has a wonderfully fine-spicy aroma similar to the boletus. ”

Every mushroom has its own requirements

for raw materials, process times, and climate. The oyster mushroom grows on wheat straw, enriched with lucerne and gypsum. These ingredients are mixed, pasteurized, and cooled after six days. The cooled mass is then mixed with the fungal spores that have settled on rye grains as a carrier material. After the block pressing into cubes around 50 cm in size, the mushroom needs around two weeks to bond with the straw and branch out. In the culture room, the fungus can counter-grow against the light through the holes made in the plastic. The oyster mushrooms can be harvested around four weeks later. Much longer, the growth time of shiitake mushrooms takes 20 weeks.

Close cooperation with Wauwiler Champignons AG

Wauwiler Champignons AG, with a weekly production of around 50 tons, the largest mushroom producer in Switzerland, owns 40 percent of the share capital in Gotthard Bio Pilze AG from Nidwalden. Around 85 percent of production goes to Wauwil. “We are deepening our partnership in the production of organic noble mushrooms and working even more closely together,” says Lussi. “Oyster mushrooms, king oyster mushrooms, and shiitake are picked and delivered there for customers.” Gotthard Bio Pilz AG produces 120 tons of fine mushrooms per year. Gotthard Bio Pilze AG can save costs by using synergies.

Consumers prefer Swiss mushrooms

Mushrooms are trendy, the mushroom market in Switzerland is growing. The market share of Swiss mushrooms is 80 percent. Nevertheless, the competition from Holland and Poland is causing problems for Swiss producers. Since the mushrooms are picked by hand in Switzerland too, the wage costs are particularly significant, the production costs are 40 to 50 percent higher than in the EU. «The market is open. There is no border protection and no subsidies in mushroom production, ”says Lussi. He therefore regularly obtains information from colleagues in Holland so that he can react to changes in the market in good time.

«We have to use our advantages consistently: Our mushrooms are fresh and quick in the store. Our historical production facilities are of interest, ”says Lussi. “We still have space in our production rooms, we can increase production and expand the variety of mushrooms on offer. It is important that we produce inexpensively, maintain the quality and improve our level of awareness. ”

 

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Village of Zumdorf Population: 3 people


 History of Zumdorf, the smallest Village in Switzerland with a population of 3 people, Father and 2 Sons!

Village of Zumdorf
 In 1851 Zumdorf had 50 inhabitants but then was buried by a huge avalanche. Zumdorf is currently (2017) inhabited all year round by a single-family consisting of three people and has been officially declared the “smallest village in Switzerland”. The father with his two sons are now running the restaurant, which is visited very frequently by hikers and bikers.
 
Nostalgic and mysterious

Between Hospental and Realp, in the Central Switzerland Canton of URI, politically part of the municipality of Hospental, was once and still is the “smallest village in Switzerland”. Zumdorf is a designated Walser foundation and used to be an independent curate-chaplain with a chapel and school. Badly affected by avalanches, Zumdorf united with Hospental. In March 1851 the hamlet was completely buried by an avalanche, however it was still able to survive. In 1869 the hamlet still had 13 souls living there. Today there are two temporarily inhabited houses in Zumdorf and the much-visited Restaurant Zum Dörfli, whose host family lives in Zumdorf all year round. But the gem of Zumdorf is the one dedicated to St. Niklaus Baroque Chapel,

St Peters and Paul in Andermatt

which was built in 1720 by the Ursen architect Bartholomäus Schmid and restored in 1971 in a professional and stylish manner. This chapel harbors a very special gem: the rosary altar, created by Jodok Ritz in 1728, which is surrounded by 10 round reverse glass pictures that refer to the legend of St. Nicholas and several views of Zumdorf.

Architect Bartholomäus Schmid
Bartholomäus Schmid
Bartholomäus Schmid

belonged to the Schmid family, which can be traced back to Hospental in the 17th century. Bartholomäus was born on August 25, 1660, and was adopted as Talmann von Ursern in 1693. In Bartholomäus Schmid, the country of Urigrew up as its most important Baroque architect. Bartholomäus’ grandfather was already a well-known master builder and built the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Andermatt, which his grandson later enlarged. It took 200 years until the fifth generation of Schmid, namely Bartholomäus with his father and son, was accepted into the citizenship of the Ursine. Son Johann Sebastian served the valley as a long-time village notary and headed it from 1747-49 as Thalmann. A characteristic feature of Bartholomäus Schmid’s architectural style is the attachment of arched panels, the effect of which is enhanced by pilasters placed in front of them. This blind arch can also be found in the chapel in Zumdorf. Various other buildings by Bartholomäus Schmid, some in the Ursenertal, such as the church and chapel of St. Karl in Hospental, should also be mentioned. Bartholomäus Schmid died in 1738, but his wonderful works are still of great importance.

Monday, February 15, 2021

The Air, our wellbeing!

The air is clean!? 

Not just, but especially due to the Covid Pandemic, many people deal with the indoor climate, but what does that actually mean if you take the phrase about clean air literally !? Fresh air is free of disturbing particles and substances?  The air that we breathe outside is constantly in motion and very quickly mixes, however,  less so in closed rooms where the pollutants and viruses can concentrate and stay more easily. In fresh air, they are quickly distributed into the atmosphere. Also, exhaled Carbon dioxide can be problematic. Up to 1000 parts per millions in the room-air is okay.  If two people in a small room sleep with tightly closed, sealed windows, it could reach up to 2000 parts per million after one night, consequences the day after are headaches, fatigue, and reduced ability to concentrate.

People often do not even notice or know when to ventilate

The best way is to exchange the air three times throughout the day by ventilating, especially in view of the coronavirus, air filters in the room are not a substitute for airing the rooms. If a healthy indoor climate is the objective, you cannot pay attention only to the concentration of carbon dioxide and vapors, but also to the humidity and temperature. Air that is too dry can dry out the mucous membranes and so the body has a harder time to reject and remove the dust particles you inhale.

As a result, it is easier for pathogens to penetrate the body and you may catch a cold more quickly. A bowl of water near your heating unit or on top of the radiator, or room-plants should help to ensure good air in the room.

If you have problems with air too dry, you should consider buying a good room air humidifier. The humidity should not be too high. If moist room air condenses on cold walls, mold may easily develop. 

Especially for allergy sufferers, asthmatics, or people with other lung diseases, mold spores in the air can be a real problem

Regards Ulrich Koepf


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