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And so I got really fed up with this and I thought, you know, I'm a scientist by training,

And if someone can understand fat, I certainly can.

So I thought I'm just gonna research fat, everything there is to know about fat.

We are here with Dr. Sylvia Tara,

So thank you so much for being here with us.

And what first got you interested in learning more about fat?

Yeah, what a great question.

I have struggled with weight my whole life, really, since I was a child, really.

I gain weight faster than most people, and I have more trouble losing it than most people.

And I went on a number of diets.

I tried all kinds of things, worked with coaches.

And sometimes I'd lose weight.

Sometimes I could even gain weight if it was the wrong diet.

And so I got really fed up with this and I thought, you know, I'm a scientist by training.

And if someone can understand fat, I certainly can.

And so I thought I'm just gonna research fat, everything there is to know about fat.

And I spent five years.

And I pulled out a thousand papers out of the scientific literature.

I think I talked to about 50 scientists around the world about their research on fat.

And what I was finding out was just so astounding that I decided to collect it all and put it

in a book and share it with everyone.

But fat is not just fat.

There's much more to it.

Absolutely.

What did you learn through your research that surprised you most?

I think that fat's not just sitting there.

It's not just reserve of excess calories, right?

Fat is actually an organ.

It is releasing hormones that our body depends on.

In fact, one hormone it releases is called leptin,

and leptin has direct control on our appetite and our metabolism.

So when we lose fat, we lose leptin.

Our appetite goes through the roof, and our metabolism plummets.

And in this way, fat is trying to come back, right?

Your body loves fat even though we don't,

and through leptin it controls appetite and metabolism in an effort to get fat back.

If you don't know this, you can end up yo-yo dieting your whole life.

You know, it's hard.

And I think knowledge is power.

So knowing this and knowing what fat really is, it just helped me pick the right diet

and helped me stay on it for the long term, yeah.

Yeah, that's amazing because a lot of people don't realize that our bodies are always trying

to maintain that state of homeostasis.

And many times we mess with that balance and we don't know what we're actually doing.

It can be hurting us.

At IIN, we teach about a concept we call bio-individuality.

So what works for one person won't necessarily work for another.

This seems especially true when considering weight.

Or on a similar diet, what makes one person gain weight and another person lose weight.

Most definitely.

You know, the whole book I have, it's about how we are individual.

And different people have different obstacles to weight loss.

So it's not even just what you eat and how much you exercise.

That's a simple answer to it.

You know, in truth, our genetics play a role in our fat.

And what we inherited has a role.

Bacteria has a role, viruses even.

You can actually catch fat, believe it or not.

So if you have had some of these resident viruses, it just makes it harder to lose.

Not that you can't lose, you can.

And gender and hormones, our age, all of that factors in.

So where you are on the stubborn, on the spectrum, rather, of stubborn fat will differ depending

on what stage of your life you're in.

But not only that, just depending on what you've inherited, what your environment has

been as well.

So fat loss is incredibly individual, and I do document that quite a bit with all the

research behind it.

And so it could be easy for you to lose weight.

Or it could be that you have to be very patient, very persistent and just stay with it.

Be very careful about what you do.

Mm hmm, and that's really important for people on their wellness journey, just to understand

themselves and how their body operates just so they don't stress themselves out in the

process and just knowing that understanding of what works best for them.

Yeah, and I wish I knew what I knew now right then, because I think I figured out the fat

blueprint.

Like, we all have a different fat blueprint, if you will.

And it's, yeah, it's very individual.

And I learned what to do for me, and hopefully my book will help others learn that too.

- Yeah, it's fascinating.

So so many people end up going through cycles of dieting, which often makes weight loss

even harder.

What advice do you have for helping people break that diet cycle?

Yeah, so you really have to understand yourself.

And the other thing is you have to be very persistent.

For some people, weight loss takes a long time.

If you're older, your hormones, your fat-busting hormones like testerot, sorry, can't talk,

testosterone, estrogen, growth hormone, they're lower than they were when you were young.

So you're gaining more weight.

You have lower metabolism.

You have less lean mass.

It's really hard now.

One thing you need to know is that once you've dieted, your body's never really the same.

So, like, after we've, say, lost 10% of our body weight, we now have lower leptin levels.

And when you have lower leptin levels, you actually have a lower metabolism than you

did before you dieted.

And especially if you've yo-yo dieted, you have a lower metabolism than before you ever

started.

So the key to know is that you're not on a diet just for six months to lose weight.

You're on this diet permanently.

'Cause you do have a caloric penalty once you've dieted, meaning that you can't eat

as much.

And what we find is that people, after they've lost, say, 10% of their body weight, they

have to eat about 22% fewer calories-- than before,

Which equates to 250 to 400 calories less or they have to exercise more.

And the effect lasts a long time.

It's been studied for six years.

It might be permanent.

So if you want to break the cycle, find a diet you like.

It works for you biologically, socially, psychologically.

And stay on that diet.

It's just the new normal.

Yeah, consistency is key.

Yeah, and knowledge is power.

I don't see this as depressing.

It's like once you know what's going on, you can do something about it.

And so there's good positive examples of people who did that also that I write about, yeah.

Very empowering and gives people a lot of hope.

Diet obviously plays a major role in the amount of fat an individual stores.

But diet aside, what role does lifestyle play in our weight?

Yeah, I think so much.

I mean, there's always things in lifestyle that you can change that are good and better

for weight loss.

One is sleep, for example, right?

I mean sleep, you just take it for granted.

I'm gonna sleep.

Sometimes I don't sleep enough, whatever.

But people who have chronic inadequate sleep, they actually have higher ghrelin levels.

Ghrelin's a hormone that causes hunger.

They have lower leptin.

Leptin's involved with satiation.

And they're overall a little less healthy.

They tend to be more obese.

And they also, you know, when we sleep we get growth hormone, another hormone that helps

us with weight loss.

And they're also disrupting that.

So you can do simple things in your lifestyle that promote healthy living and promote weight

loss, too.

And so that's one example, but there's a number of 'em, yeah.

So as health coaches, how can we use this new understanding of how fat works to help

our clients reach their weight goals?

Yeah, really good question.

I think you have to understand where your client is on their fat-loss journey.

What kind of fat do they have?

Is it genetic?

Is there a genetic component to it, a family history of it?

Are they young?

Is this gonna go quickly, their hormones are high?

Different things to think about.

You know one, primarily, is what's their dieting history?

Have they yo-yo dieted?

Because that will cause disruptions in leptin that makes it harder to lose weight.

Are they older?

Are their fat-busting hormones like testosterone, growth hormone, estrogen, are they lower?

That's gonna make it harder.

Some kind of genetic component, perhaps, will make it harder.

So take all this into consideration.

And you're either at the easy end of the spectrum to lose weight or the harder one, right?

And I think you have to coach them.

They might be very patient if they're at the harder end, right, the more stubborn fat end.

Or maybe not.

If they're easier, you know, it's less effort, more food latitude, more latitude in how you

lose that weight.

But really, my book is really about stubborn fat.

When you have fat that won't leave you, what are the obstacles?

What are the myriad of things you can do to try to address that?

Yeah, and just to be that partner just to help them work through that, 'cause that can

be a very difficult thing for some people to accept.

Yes, it's very powerful.

Actually having a coach, it's really powerful.

It's holding them accountable and helping them when they get down at the same time.

There's something called dichotomous thinking.

It's where people feel if they go off the diet, they've failed now, right?

And there's no point in staying on and actually is associated more with women than men.

So having someone there saying it's okay, forgive yourself.

Just get back on.

Absolutely.

For a lot of health clinics, it makes all the difference of a successful diet versus

one that's not.

Yeah, and that's so important to hear from a practitioner who sees this on a daily basis.

You speak about willpower in your book in regards to weight maintenance.

So research shows that the more restrictive we are with our diets, often the more preoccupied

we become by them and the less control we tend to have over our food choices.

So how do you balance the idea of being intentional about your diet without being overly restrictive?

Yeah, you know, when dieting you have to give yourself breaks, right?

There's even research that shows us people are constantly exerting themselves.

As time goes on they just, they give up.

Hospital workers, say, who, they're told to wash their hands after everything they do

and towards the end of the day they don't wash their hands anymore.

They get tired of it.

Wow.

But if you give them longer breaks in between, they'll continue to wash their hands.

Dieting is the same.

You have to give yourself a break and don't beat yourself up if you went off.

Just get back on.

So think of something you can do like go buy clothing.

Go do something fun.

Give yourself this mental release.

You know, one interesting piece, too, is an exercise where they have people hold hand

grippers for a long time.

And they take half of 'em, show 'em a happy movie, another half show 'em a sad movie.

They come back and say, okay, hold the hand gripper.

People watch the happy movie can hold it for longer.

Wow.

People watch the sad ones, they just give up.

Put happiness in your life somewhere that you want and forgive yourself when you go off.

It's almost good to go off once in a while 'cause you need that break.

And that's also important to reflect on, again, as a health coach, to be able to be that guidance

if somebody does need a break but to also help them get back on track and to keep that

positivity in their life, 'cause it is easy to fall into that negative way of thinking

when things feel like they're not going right.

Yeah, and the new things like help them engineer in the happiness.

What can they do that's fun at least once a week, really fun?

Go take a trip.

Go buy clothes, whatever it is that they like.

Go do this thing once a week.

And that even can affect us hormonally as well--

Probably.

Which can have a direct effect on our fat stores.

So we're exposed to so many images each day that favor tall, thin models, which is a body

type that many of us don't have.

Many of these images have been Photoshopped and project unrealistic expectations that

suggest we should look a particular way.

So how do you think the media contributes to our experience of body fat and how can

we make peace with our bodies?

Yeah, what a great question.

So the media absolutely contributes.

They're always trying to show you something you're supposed to be that's impossible to

attain.

And think about it,

if they didn't do that, they couldn't sell, right?

If it was attainable, there's nothing more to sell.

So they have to show you something off the spectrum that's really hard that very few

people, their genetic makeup can actually match.

The key is to be healthy and to be happy with yourself.

Do you really need six-pack abs?

Do you really have to be a bikini model, look like a bikini model?

The key is to be healthy.

Is your fat stored where it needs to be stored?

Is it in the subcutaneous layer right underneath your skin and away from your belly?

We're all at different stages of life, and there has to be some self-acceptance in the

end, that I accept myself for what I am.

This is the healthy level I want to go to.

If I don't attain the impossible, I'm gonna be okay anyway.

And I think the more people can do that and do it faster, having a rational approach to

dieting, a kind of meaningful goal, I think they're gonna be better off.

When I interview some coaches, what I hear a lot is when people have a goal that is meaningful

to them, like I want to stay alive.

I've got diabetes and I have to stay alive.

Or there's a trigger that's happened to them, like they've either seen themselves in a picture

and they look obese or they've gotten a diagnosis.

Meaningful goals are when they'll actually go and change something about themselves.

If it's more frivolous like, hey, that model's cool, I want to look like that, they don't

stay on those diets.

So you can have that goal all you want.

It's not gonna, unless it's meaningful, truly has meaning to your life, you're not really

going to stay on it.

So find something meaningful.

Have a rational approach to it and accept what comes out at the end.

Yeah, and really understanding your why behind it.

Yes.

Because so many people, like you said, chase after these goals that after a while they

have to stop and think why am I doing this and what is this really bringing me in life,

you know?

Yeah, and how many years do you want to stay at it and not get it

Right, absolutely.

Before you're willing to be rational?

Yeah, most certainly.

So when it comes to fat, what do we still not know?

Oh, there's so much to know about fat.

I think one thing that we don't have down yet is how do we change people's set points

quickly, effectively, and permanently in a way that is livable for them?

So set points are where our body wants to stay at a certain weight.

So even when we lose fat, our body wants to bring it back to where we were, through different

hormones it has, through leptin, through a coordinated effort that it has.

And how do we really do that expediently, permanently for people?

How do we change that set point?

Right now it's brute forced, right?

We just have to work at it.

We have to be persistent.

And we have to have a lot of willpower we throw at it.

How do we make that easier?

So I think that's one.

I think another question is is what else is fat doing?

We're just now learning so much about what fat is.

Who knew it was an organ?

Who knew it was releasing all these hormones into our blood?

Who knew it was part of the endocrine system?

What else is going on in there, right?

It's implicated with the immune system, implicated with a lot of things, with wound healing,

with brain size, right?

Oh, absolutely.

There's so many things that your body needs your fat for.

And so I think we have yet to find out so much more about how fat is functioning and

what it's doing in our body.

Yeah, and even in the different stages of our lives, you know.

That's absolutely right.

I mean, when you're newborns, we love our fat.

Brown fat, we have lots of it to keep us warm.

Fat is implicated in puberty.

You can't even go through puberty without sufficient fat.

It is implicated in reproduction.

You can't have babies if you don't have sufficient fat, and that's because fat is a source of

estrogen.

And it's also a source of leptin.

You know, and then as we age, fat is actually somewhat protective.

There are some studies that show it prevents mortality from various diseases, some of the

diseases it's accused of creating, like diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

There's something called the obesity paradox where for some reason some studies at least

are showing that it's a little bit protective in old age.

So it's a fascinating organ, if you will.

It's doing a lot more than we think it is.

It is, and I think it deserves more credit than it gets.

Yes.

Where do you see the research heading in the next few years?

Yeah, I think one thing is I think there needs to be a lot more education about preventing

fat gain, you know, excessive fat gain.

Where I live in my research is that once we have fat, our bodies want to keep it on.

In fact, our fat has ways of growing back, you know, despite our eating and exercise

and all of our effort.

And so once it's on there, it does not want to come off.

I think a lot more with children and just nutrition counseling, exercise counseling.

Don't gain that weight.

You know, it's very hard after that.

I think there's other things, looking at the effective leptins.

When you lose weight, lose fat, you lose leptin.

Is there a way to get that leptin back?

It's shown that when people are injected with leptin after, say, losing 10% of their weight,

they actually are able to maintain their weight-- a little bit better.

Wow.

So I think a lot around weight maintenance.

After you've lost it, how do you help people maintain that loss for a long time?

And there's interesting things like people talk about injecting brown fat into people

'cause brown fat burns calories.

It doesn't hoard calories, not primarily.

Lot of things, cold exposure.

I know people are jumping into cold pools now-- to get their brown.

Cryotherapy, yeah.

I will not ever do that.

But to get their brown fat active again.

So I think there's a lot of ways to go.

And personalization, I think that's the key.

We're all so different.

And I know research groups are looking at that, looking at the microbiome, the genetics.

How do we personalize diets for people?

So that'll be another way to go.

'Cause it's all interconnected.

Yeah, and it's very complicated.

No two people have the same experience trying to lose weight.

I'd say if anyone's having a really hard time, be really patient.

Give a diet about, you know, three, four weeks.

If you're not losing weight, it's probably not the right diet for you.

You might have to ratchet it up.

If we've had issues like we were older, hormones are impacted, or if we've had that yo-yo dieting

in our past, you might have to eat a lot less than people.

And that's what coaches won't tell you, a lot of people won't tell you, right?

But you might have to really ratchet it up if you want to lose weight.

So be informed about your weight.

Be smart about it.

Knowledge is power.

I try to document everything I've learned about fat in the book.

You set as a guide and make your own fat blueprint.

Absolutely.

Well, I can't thank you enough for all the insight and the knowledge that you've imparted

onto us.

So thank you so much for being here to share that with us, and I can't wait to see where

this research takes us further.

Right, thank you so much.

Thanks so much.

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If you fail to plan you plan to fail. Sounds cliche? But if you follow these five steps

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I started my first digital marketing agency in 2010 and have since built multiple six and seven-figure agencies

and I will show you how I did it all by building a virtual team and in this video

I'm going to share with you the five steps

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The landscape of marketing has become more about capturing the hearts and minds of people through powerful and compelling storytelling

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STEP 2

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We share the plan with everyone in the team so that they are in line with our company's objectives and message

also

make sure that all your social media channels websites emails are all consistent and

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message and focus your time on content ideas and creatives but leave to your team to execute the plan if you have local staff

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If you are serving clients in a particular industry, it will be beneficial to get your team to search on your clients industry

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Today we're going to discuss how to get green cards

for parents of United States citizen children.

Essentially there's three issues that we're going to be discussing.

One is what are the requirements for the U.S. Citizen child trying to immigrate their parent?

Two, where is the parent living?

And, three, if the parent is living in the United States, how did they enter the United States?

Let's begin.

The first issue is what are the requirements for the child to immigrate a parent?

Well, there's essentially only two.

One, the child must be a United States citizen.

Two, the child must be 21 years or older.

What that means is that a permanent resident child

cannot immigrate their immigrant parent for permanent resident benefits.

However, there's an easy solution.

That child could become a naturalized citizen.

They could apply to become a citizen and when they become a citizen,

then they can apply for their parents to obtain a green card.

The second issue needs to be combined with the third issue

because they really go hand in hand

and that's where is the parent living and

if they're living in the United States, how they entered.

So we're going to explore three situations.

The parent is living in the United States with inspection,

living in the United States without inspection,

and living outside the United States.

First, the parent living in the United States with inspection

means that the parent must have entered with some type of temporary legal visa.

In most cases, it's going to be a tourist visa.

They come here to visit their child and while they're visiting the child,

sometimes the parents have a change of heart

and they say, well, you know, maybe I'd like to live here.

Do you think you can immigrate me?

Let's go talk to a lawyer. Let's see what's possible.

In that situation, the entry was totally legal. The intent of the parent was to visit.

It's transformed and that's the adjustment. They want to become a permanent resident.

However, you have to contrast that with a different situation

where some parents come into the United States

and they talked things over with their child already

and they are coming in with the purpose of becoming a permanent resident,

of filing for permanent residency, of filing an I-130 alien relative petition.

That runs into a question of fraudulent intent at the time of entry.

That could lead to serious problems and permanently bar the parent from ever

becoming a legal resident of the United States.

So sometimes you'll have parents come in and they say,

I want to become a citizen.

I want to become a permanent resident, but I also want to go back home.

That's going to be the situation number three where they're living abroad.

We'll get to that in a second.

So what happens with those parents who have come into the United States

without permission and they want to be immigrated by a child

that was born here in the United States or that naturalized and became a citizen?

Well, the problem there is if the parent has lived here over 180 days,

they're going to run into the immigration bars, the three and ten year bars.

They're going to have to go home through the process that we call consular processing

and attend their interview in their home country.

In most cases, they're going to need to file for a waiver.

An inadmissibility waiver. often called an i-601 waiver.

That waiver is based on a concept of extreme hardship.

Extreme hardship to whom?

Extreme hardship to a qualifying relative.

Well, who counts as a qualifying relative?

A United States citizen or permanent resident spouse or parent of the immigrant seeking permanent residency benefits.

That means the child who has filed the petition to immigrate their parents

does not count as a qualifying relative for purposes of the waiver.

That can raise some serious problems for a simple reason.

If a parent of an immigrant or a spouse of an immigrant had filed,

is filing to be considered a qualifying relative of that person,

then why didn't they file the I-130 for that person on their own?

The odds of someone being a qualifying relative that hasn't previously filed

an I-130 petition for that person is slim.

Therefore it's going, the issue of qualifying relatives may preclude

a lot of families from seeking to immigrate their parents through the consular processing method.

Now, there is a possibility in some cases

that the parent or the spouse of the immigrant seeking green card benefits

will meet the qualification of a qualifying relative.

In some cases, perhaps the parent of the immigrant may have passed away.

Or the spouse of the immigrant may have divorced the immigrant.

They had filed an original petition.

But they never finished the green card process.

And so that immigrant has been left high and dry until their U.S. citizen child

now seeks to immigrate them.

In that case, the earlier petition could possibly help

the immigrant seeking permanent residency benefits

under a concept that lawyers call grandfathering.

There are certain dates involved and

then there's other requirements that will be involved in order

for that immigrant to stay here in the United States

and adjust their status to green card holder.

In those situations, I would almost always recommend

that you discuss your situation with a local immigration attorney

to make sure that everything is okay

and that you won't go to the interview and run into problems.

Now the reason for that is this is an area that's ripe

for fraud by scammers.

I had an individual recently who came to my office,

who had went to his green card interview here in the United States,

who had entered way back when legally with a tourist visa.

But then went home and then came back later,

subsequently, years later, without a tourist visa.

Came in without permission.

They went somewhere for immigration assistance,

the wife and the immigrant spouse,

and they were told that they could adjust status here in the United States

based on the original entry, which was legal.

Well, that's not true.

The person had left the United States on time and not overstayed and, yes, that was legitimate.

However, when he came back, he came back without permission.

So they went to the interview, and at the interview the officer told him, straight out,

you do not qualify to adjust status. We're going to deny this application.

We're going to refer you to immigration court because

you're living in the United States as an undocumented immigrant

without permission to reside here.

In other words, the person who had assisted them had led them down the wrong path,

and either did not know the law or committed outright immigration fraud. 0.

I tend to think it wasn't the former because these individuals were charged the outrageous sum of $14,00

Thus, I think they were duped and the person who led them down the wrong path knew what they were doing.

And this is a problem for a lot of individuals who don't understand

the differences between what qualifies someone to go to an interview here

and what doesn't qualify them. It's an issue that you have to be very careful about.

Well, let's talk about the third situation.

The third situation is the immigrant's living abroad.

For instance, the parent who came in, visited their child and said, I want to become a permanent resident.

Can you help me? And then they return home within the six months period of the visitor visa.

They're clear, or the parent who has never even come into the United States.

That's the classic clean, clear consular processing situation.

In that case, the child will file the I-130 alien relative petition for their parents

and they will process everything through the embassy or the consulate abroad.

Now, two points before I close here. One is the situation if the parent that the child is trying to immigrate

is a step parent or an adoptive parent. There are some additional requirements and

those need to be carefully considered in terms of when the relationship began,

how close was the relationship, and related matters.

The second thing is, and it goes back to the situation of the parent

that's living here without permission.

That is the situation that immigration opponents love to call anchor babies.

But as the brief description that I gave a few minutes ago shows,

there are very few situations where someone is going to come into the United States

just to give birth, wait twenty-one years, then go abroad, go through the consular processing system,

which could take five years, 10 years.

It takes 30 years for them to become a green card holder.

The whole anchor baby argument, and this is an aside,

is falsely made just to scare people away from becoming permanent residents.

Now I do say this, though, be careful if you're in that situation

because as the one individual who paid $14,000,

they end up hoping for a green card and instead they find themselves

on the verge of facing deportation proceedings in immigration court.

With that, I wish you the best of luck.

I wish you and your family all the good luck in the world.

And I hope one day that you not only become a permanent resident -

or that your parents become a permanent resident and

that they go forward to become a full-fledged citizen.

Take care and good luck.

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Best Tips for Home Woodworking - Duration: 2:46.

What Are the Best Tips for Home Woodworking?

Setting up a woodworking shop at home can be a fun process, but it must be done correctly

to ensure home woodworking can be done safely and effectively.

A garage, basement, or attic space can make a great workshop, but the woodworker must

take into account available light, ventilation possibilities, and access points for safety

and convenience.

Unlike woodworking done in a professional wood shop, home woodworking is usually done

in a much smaller space, which means machines must be chosen carefully not only for functionality

but also for space savings.

The home woodworking shop should only contain tools that will be necessary to complete the

projects the woodworker is likely to do on a regular basis.

A crowded shop will not be exceptionally functional, and it will be necessary to ensure each machine

has plenty of space for proper operation and safety.

Combination machines are great for home woodworking applications; these compact machines combine

the functions of several larger machines while requiring far less space.

The downside to such machines is the time it takes to convert the machine from one function

to another.

Most home woodworking applications will not be significantly affected by this time requirement,

but if the home woodworker is using his shop for commercial purposes, a combination machine

may adversely affect the timeliness of a project's completion.

Safety should be the primary concern of all home woodworking projects.

The woodworker should take all necessary safety precautions, including wearing safety goggles,

ear protection, and in some cases, gloves and aprons.

Fire extinguishers should be available and placed in an obvious place, as should first

aid kits.

The shop should be well lit to prevent accidents, and ventilation will be exceptionally important.

A build-up of sawdust in the air can be hazardous to the woodworker's health, so dust collection

systems and/or air exchangers should be used to prevent excess dust build up.

The type of wood used during the woodworking process should also be a primary concern of

the woodworker, and the storage of that wood may require some alteration of the wood shop.

The wood should generally be stored in a cool, dry location to prevent warping or other types

of damage, and it should be readily available to accommodate woodworking projects.

Storage will also be a vital concern for tools and other materials commonly used in the woodworking

process.

A workbench with drawers or shelves will be a good first step, but more storage will usually

be necessary.

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Inside open-air greenhouse where marijuana is grown for doctors not dealers - Duration: 8:58.

In a vast open-air greenhouse thousands of sweet-smelling marijuana plants are being grown for doctors rather than dealers

This immense plantation in the lush green mountains above the Colombian city of Medellin is the heart of the world's foremost fully-licensed medicinal cannabis farm

Here at PharmaCielo, leading scientists and horticulturists are working together to convert the plants' sticky flowers into an oil which can help people with a wide range of serious health problems

As a British company this week announced plans for the UK's first legal cannabis firm in Wiltshire, the Mirror was given an exclusive tour of PharmaCielo's premises

Leading the global cannabis revolution since its creation in Canada in 2014, PharmaCielo is creating products it says will provide vital pain relief for patients like British schoolboy Alfie Dingley, an epilepsy sufferer

Read More Gogglebox stars Steph and Dom's secret heartbreak over 18-year-old son It was stories like Alfie's which led to Home Secretary Sajid Javid legalising cannabis oil-based medicines for doctors to prescribe for specific medical conditions last year

"We had the first production licence to convert cannabis flower into oil here in Colombia," says PharmaCielo's Chief Corporate Officer David Gordon during a tour of the site which can have nearly 28 hectares of cannabis under cultivation

"We also have an export licence. Our focus is solely medicinal not recreational though; we produce oils, not dried flowers

You are not going to get high on any of this stuff. You cannot go to the doctors and get a joint to smoke! "We chose Colombia because it is the second largest exporter of cut flowers after Holland

"This region specialises in chrysanthemum production so there was already an infrastructure and a well-established labour force in place going back generations; after all a cannabis flower is just another type of flower

"Right here we get 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness throughout the year, and that is perfect for growing cannabis plants

"This is the only country you can do this in. Cultivation in north America would need halogen lamps, air conditioning and fans – there would be all sorts of sorts of costs, where as here none of these issues need to be managed

"In Canada or northern Europe you can grow only one crop a year, where as here we can grow up to five

We can grow the plants more densely here too which provides much higher yields. The equator is where it grows the best

" Read More Britain's first legal cannabis farm to open in secret location in Wiltshire From the moment we arrive at PharmaCielo the pungent aroma of cannabis pervades

But unlike the stereotypes of illegal cannabis growers with makeshift halogen lamp operations in lofts in Britain, this high-security facility is clinically efficient and meticulous

The most impressive part of the operation is the lab in which the cannabis flower buds are transformed into oil through a complex filtration machine imported from Canada

This first emerges as a sludgy brown paste which then undergoes further purification to become a copper-coloured liquid, the oil which is used as medicine

Every drop of oil has exactly the same content of the active ingredient CBD, also known as cannabidoil

Meanwhile the THC – which is what gets pot smokers stoned – has been removed during the refining process

At the lab we are shown ointments and creams made with cannabis oil. These might be used for people with muscular complaints like rheumatism or tennis elbow

"Now we are well advanced on our second phase of converting the dried flowers into oil," explains David

"We are working on delivering through capsules, lotions and oils. If you are dealing with a chemotherapy patient there are different ways for delivering that

With epilepsy it is the raw consumption of oil which works best." Cannabis face creams are also under development

Read More Sex lubricant infused with CANNABIS promises to 'optimise intimate pleasure' At a desk in the lab a scientist in a white lab coat is analysing tiny samples of plants from the greenhouses under a microscope to determine the optimum time for picking

The potential benefits of cannabis oil received widespread attention when epileptic boy Billy Caldwell's mother had seven bottles confiscated at Heathrow Airport customs last year after she brought them back from Toronto

Billy's case sparked a row over the status of the oil, prompting the Home Office to step in and grant his mother Charlotte an emergency licence for the product that was calming his seizures

On the back of the cases of Billy, 12, and Alfie, six, Mr Javid announced in July that some products containing the drug would be available on prescription in the UK

Sativa Investments will set up the 7.5-acre greenhouse at a secret location in rural Wiltshire after being granted planning permission

With nations around the world including Germany and Italy adopting a similar stance to Britain, Pharma Cielo has refined 158 strains of marijuana best suited to help different medical conditions

David tells me the tiny shoots, which are used for cultivation instead of seeds, each have a particular profile with unique medicinal properties

These patented strains from "mother plants" are preserved in test tubes in a secure underground vault so they can be kept forever, in the event of something horrific like a natural disaster

Scientists are continually working on new strains and growing conditions, David informs me

Around 200 workers are employed by PharmaCielo. They cultivate the plants in a process that takes around only ten weeks here because of the perfect equatorial growing conditions

Read More Everything you need to know about legal cannabis as over-the-counter sales soar In one of the greenhouses are hundreds of baby plants in pots which will be lovingly tended to until ready

The plants are grown underneath translucent plastic sheeting which protect the plants from storm rains lets in the light

It is hot enough here for the greenhouses to be open at the sides. Francia Casamachia Pari is cutting mother plants to be kept in a cold storage room until they are ready

"I used to work in the field with my family," she says. "We would grow coffee, corn and potatoes

"We also grew cannabis, but it was for the illegal market. We never wanted to be involved

The only way to make money in Cauca, where I lived was to grow cannabis or coca for cocaine

No one would buy the other crops we grew. "I was very pleased to get a job here

I'm very proud. This is very different; we take real care of the plants." Around 10% of the cannabis strains being cultivated have been grown from specimens passed down for hundreds of years through generations in South American rainforest communities

These strains are being legally registered, like all of those created at the farm, so they cannot be copied by competitors

PharmaCielo believes that cannabis will soon be one of Colombia's top-five agricultural exports alongside coffee and bananas

The nation which has been troubled by cocaine barons like Pablo Escobar for decades will be the world's leading supplier of completely legal weed

It has already invested more than £30m in the country, and expects to earn as much as £60m this year alone

So it is no surprise that security is so tight visitors have to take off their shoes as they leave just in case they have smuggled out a sample

A high fence surrounds the farm, and sniffer dogs are being brought in. This joint is not burning out any time soon

Read More Top news stories from Mirror Online

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PCA 2nd graders visit Rob Fowler at News2 for Weather 101 - Duration: 0:55.

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Plans for two new Montgomery County parks move forward - Duration: 0:55.

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Marie Kondo Shares Life-Changing Tips For Tidying Up! | Access - Duration: 13:10.

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Hits out at husband for having a girlfriend while caring for his sick wife - Duration: 11:46.

Hits out at husband for having a girlfriend while caring for his sick wife

Fans of former lifestyle guru B. Smith are having a hard time understanding how her husband cares for his sick wife while having a girlfriend. Smith was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2013 after more than four years of suffering from dementia symptoms.

Since her diagnosis, her husband Dan Gasby has continued to care for her in their home in East Hampton, New York.

But along the way, Gasby found it difficult to care for Smith, and in the summer of 2017, he met his girlfriend Alex Lerner, according to The Washington Post.

Lerner and Gasby have been together ever since, but now their relationship is being criticized by Smith's fans.

You don't bring your mistress in the house where your WIFE lives. She's not dead,' one user wrote on the B. Smith and Dan Gasby Facebook page. A YouTube vlogger said that Lerner is 'having her lifestyle funded by a black woman'.

'This white woman didn't have to build a thing with you [Gasby],' the vlogger added. One Twitter user quoted a line from the Post's article.

was lucid, she and Dan sometimes clashed over his flirtations." B has no family and her husband moves in a woman who has everything to gain should B suffer an "accident". We'll see this on Investigation Discovery Channel,' the user tweeted.

Another Twitter user called it 'situation ethics at its best'. But Dana Gasby, Smith's step-daughter, said she gave her father her blessing when he finally told her about his relationship with Lerner.

Dana told the Post: 'When he told me, I was like, "Thank God. She told the newspaper that despite how the public feels, her father hasn't abandoned Smith at all.

'She's in this house. She's here every day,' she said. Lerner also said that it makes her feel good that she can help Smith on a daily basis.

'If I can be compassionate to her, if I can do anything for her, it makes me feel good,' Lerner told the newspaper.

'If it is giving her something to drink, or making her something to eat - she loves to eat - I feel good,' Lerner added. There were several fans who supported Dan Gasby's decision to date again.

'I wonder how many of those that are downing you Dan have ever been a caregiver of someone with Alzheimer's? I have been there but not 24 hours a day every day.

I am not judging you because this is your life and B's life,' one user wrote on Facebook.

'Make it what you want it to be and don't ever forget to take care of yourself. Prayers for you and B!' the user added.

I have not walked a mile in your shoes so how could I judge! I wish you and all the people that you love an incredible amount of peace and happiness!' another user wrote under an image of Gasby, Smith and Lerner.

Smith's diagnosis came to light in 2014 when she was found in Manhattan after she went missing in Long Island. The trailblazing model began her fashion career by becoming the first African-American woman to grace the cover of Mademoiselle magazine in 1976.

A decade later, Smith, a native of Pennsylvania, opened the first of her three restaurants located in New York, Washington, DC, and the village of Sag Harbor on Long Island.

In 2001, the renowned New York restaurateur launched her first home decor collection for Bed Bath and Beyond, offering bedding, bath ensembles, rugs and paper products. For several years Smith was the spokesperson for national retailers. She also authored three cookbooks.

In 2011, she appeared in the Off-Broadway play Love, Loss and What I Wore, co-written by Nora Ephron. Her half-hour talk show B. Smith With Style aired on BET and Bounce TV networks. She also hosted a show on SiriusXM radio.

Smith married Dan Gasby in 1992. He was the executive producer of the Essence Awards and the senior vice president of marketing at Camelot Entertainment Sales Inc.