text: Bill Plotkin continues to be, in my mind, one of the most important people on the planet – his work is that innovative, that necessary, and that potentially transformational. I feel moved to give him yet another mention in this blog. Bill has written three books and, while each can stand alone as a brilliant [...]
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  I just finished a novel where one of the main characters survived the loss of a breast to cancer. One day her granddaughter happened upon her in the bath, seeing the “still angry and red puckered flesh” where her breast had been. “You notice that something’s different about me,” my grandmother said. I nodded. I [...]
  …make assisting the Great Turning my priority over everything else. Over the past few weeks I’ve been making a list of what I imagine are essential tasks humanity must take on to heal, evolve, and to restore our planet. This is my way of even beginning to discern how to move through the uncertainty and [...]
  The following is an invitation I sent out to my EcoVillage community. I wanted to share it so that if you are in the Ithaca area, you might join us. If you are from afar, you may wish to gather to contemplate these questions with a community of your own: December 21st, 2012 marks the [...]
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  To embrace this time of the Great Turning is to truly be immersed in messiness. To be sure, I feel my life and Being Change shapeshifting almost daily. To be honest, I have been feeling some anxiety about not posting to this blog in a while. But I have just emerged from my most recent [...]
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  Two months later – it’s time to recommit to posting every week. But I haven’t been idle. I realize that I don’t want to dream small. I realize I want to give my best shot to making a Being Change Center a reality. So, I’ve been spending my time of late crafting an in-depth proposal, [...]
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  A thermometer is a must-have device in every home. No one escapes a “fever” once in a while and recording the body temperature is the first step in managing any kind of fever at homes. The use of thermometers becomes more evident when there are kids in your houses. So, which thermometer should you buy?
  Long gone are the days of glass thermometers. The chances of breaking it and spilling mercury are just some of the downsides of glass thermometers. Digital easy to use thermometers have been introduced for a while now and in this article, we will do the review of one of the best digital thermometer available in the market. The Braun forehead thermometer is our pick of the day and we shall see why we recommend it.
  Unlike other probe devices, there is no need to keep the thermometer in the mouth or armpit of your child. One of the best part of this device is that, you just need to swipe it gently across the forehead of the child to get the temperature reading. This feature is especially handy while monitoring the fever of small children. Restraining a crying and restless child while recording the temperature are not required.
  You don’t need to memorise the normal body temperature range. This awesome digital thermometer has a built in “fever guidance system” which will display the temperature recorded in various colours making it easier for you to detect whether the child has fever or not! Green readings denotes absence of fever. Yellow and red coloured readings denotes slight and high grade fever respectively.
  The device is easy to use and the large backlit display screen makes sure that taking reading in dim light is hassle free.
  Accurate readings are displayed in the screen within seconds. This is unlike other probed digital thermometers where you need to wait for a whole minute to get any kind of reading.
  This digital thermometer measures the temperature from one of the most superficial (close to the skin) arteries in our body. Temporal arteries are one of the main blood supplier to the head and are located over the temples.
  In order to use the device, you will need to first power on the thermometer and then place it just above your eyebrow. After pressing the green measurement button (only other button), gently swipe it diagonally across the forehead to the temple and back till you hear a “beep” sound. It works just like our palm when we touch our child’s forehead to check whether the temperature is elevated or not, isn’t it?
  The greatest advantage of this sleek device is that you don’t need to worry about “where” you used it the last time! If you have just one digital thermometer in your house, it becomes an absolute necessity to clean the probe after each use. With this thermometer, you can be sure that nobody in the house has used it to record oral or rectal temperature. Peace of mind, gauranteed!
  Colour coded display screen to help identify high temperature within seconds. Helpful for those who are bad with numbers!
  Safe and hygienic because no probe covers required as in oral/rectal/ear thermometers. It can be easily cleaned with a soft cloth and alcohol.
  Affordable compared to the other brands. Priced at just $24, you are getting a great deal from Amazon.
  No readings in the Celsius scale. Only Fahrenheit readings are displayed. So, if you are the Celsius guy, this isn’t the right choice for you.
  You need to wait at least a minute before taking repeated temperatures of the same person. You need to practise taking the reading before using it seamlessly.
  The “beep” sound produced after recording the temperature might wake up your little ones and there is no option to turn it off.
  Braun forehead thermometer is an easy to use device and it does provide accurate readings if you use it properly. It is by par one of the most hygienic thermometers for home and hospital use. The fever guidance system is very much helpful because you don’t need to memorise the normal and abnormal temperature ranges or even “google” the readings to find out whether the child is having a fever or not. We would definitely recommend it as your digital thermometer for home use that you can keep in the first aid kit. Another similar product is the popular Exergen Temporal Artery Thermometer 2000C which does pretty much the same job as this one.
  If hygiene and ease of use is what you are looking for and hospital grade accuracy is not your thing, Braun forehead digital thermometer is the best gadget you can buy. Below is the link to this product on Amazon. The offer price is now $24, so grab it before the offer expires!
  Which digital thermometer do you own? Share your thoughts in the comments section below and do share this post with your friends.
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