Joinery Essentials Value Pack

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From the lowly butt joint to the vaunted dovetail, joinery makes a woodworking project stronger, attractive, and durable. Learn how to make the most common woodworking joints using hand tools and power tools, with tips to speed and improve your work. You'll benefit from these woodworkers' vast knowledge of tools and years of experience as they teach you the proper techniques to master various joints.

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Joinery Essentials Value Pack

THE WOODWORKING DESIGN COLLECTION - ORDER NOW!

From the lowly butt joint to the vaunted dovetail, joinery makes a woodworking project stronger, attractive, and durable. Learn how to make the most common woodworking joints using hand tools and power tools, with tips to speed and improve your work. You'll benefit from these woodworkers' vast knowledge of tools and years of experience as they teach you the proper techniques to master various joints.

	Art of Mitring & Carpentry and Joinery for Amateurs BOOK  This book is perfect for working carpenters, joiners, cabinetmakers, picture frame makers, and woodworkers who love working with old school techniques. These timeless techniques are beautifully reproduced and explained by more than 40 engravings with full directive text.
	A Winchester Desk: Joinery Inside & Out DVD  Expert furniture craftsmen Jeff Headley and Steve Hamilton walk you through the construction of a classic 18th Century drop-front desk. Rather than a how-to building experience, Headley and Hamilton dissect the piece in reverse, discussing the why's and how's of the joinery used for the case, gallery, and drawers.
	Joinery Tips & Techniques BOOK  This book includes plans for jigs to make your work easier and more precise, advice on building frame-and-panel doors, and step-by-step instructions for lots of dovetails, including sliding dovetails.
	Japanese Hand Tools & Joinery DVD  Japanese woodworking expert Jay van Arsdale leads you through the history of Japanese pull saws, planes, chisels, and more, and shows you the proper setup and techniques for these still-valid pre-industrial woodworking tools.
	Bill Hylton's Power-Tool Joinery DIGITAL DOWNLOAD  Bill Hylton's Power-Tool Joinery includes shop-tested techniques, joinery explanations, and plans for jigs and fixtures that will help you cut individual joints accurately and safely. This in-depth guide will have you cutting joints like a pro in no time!
	The Joinery Challenge VIDEO DOWNLOAD  Ron Herman demonstrates how to use just six pieces of wood to build a frame using nine essential joints including: mitered butt joint, pinned mitered butt joint, corner slip, corner half-lap, half-lap dovetail, mortise-and-tenon, bridle, and the center half-lap joint.
	Woodworking Essentials: Timeless Techniques for Woodworkers BOOK  From shop set-up to techniques for using the most widely used woodworking tools and machines, this book is a treasure trove of timeless woodworking instruction and advice for woodworkers of all skill levels.

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Negative Effects of Cigarette Smoke or Second-Hand Smoke

Overview

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), smoking is the leading preventable cause of death. The CDC reports that, on average, a smoker dies 13 to 14 years earlier than non-smokers; they die from cancer, heart disease, and lung diseases such as emphysema, chronic airway obstruction and bronchitis. Beyond health effects, there are negative effects including financial and social factors. Furthermore, smoking does not just affect the smoker; secondhand smoke negatively affects family, friends and associates.

Smoking damages health, your social life and your finances. Photo Credit Thinkstock/Stockbyte/Getty Images.

Health Effects

Cigarette smoke and secondhand smoke, not surprisingly, have negative effects on one's health. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) reports that 438,000 deaths are attributed to cigarette smoking each year; an additional 38,000 deaths are caused by secondhand smoke. According to MedlinePlus, an online medical encyclopedia associated with the National Institutes of Health, cigarette smoke has the potential to harm nearly every organ in the body. A staggering 87 percent of lung cancers would disappear if every person in the U.S. stopped smoking. The NCI reports that smoking is linked to multiple other types of cancer, including cervix, bladder, kidney, pancreas, mouth and throat. Cigarette smoking also causes severe damage to the heart and the cardiovascular system. The American Heart Association (AHA) reports that smokers are two to three time more likely to die from coronary heart disease compared with nonsmokers. Smoking and secondhand smoke puts the birth of healthy children at risk by causing infertility, preterm delivery, stillbirth, low birth weight and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), according to the CDC. Smoking also has negative cosmetic effects, such as tar-stained teeth and yellow-tinted skin.

Social Effects

Smoking can have negative social effects as well. Non-smokers generally try to avoid inhaling secondhand smoke; thus smoking may serve as a social barrier. Smoking is also banned indoors in many places. An article published by CNNhealth.com by Theresa Tamkins in September 2009 indicates that 32 states have some type of smoking ban that prohibits smoking in public places and/or buildings. Many European countries have similar bans, including England, Scotland, France, Ireland, and Norway, according to the CNNhealth.com article. These types of bans can have pervading negative social effects, isolating the smokers outside and away from the group.

Financial Effects

The negative effects of cigarette smoke have a detrimental financial effect, both on the smoker and the family. The high price of cigarettes these days make a significant dent in the family's finances. Additionally, smokers tend to have more health problems that cost money to medically treat. Smoking also costs the general public money: the CDC estimates that cigarette smoking costs the U.S. more than $193 billion, including money in lost productivity (due to illness and death), and money used for health care that the smoker is unable to pay for himself. Secondhand smoke also has negative financial effects: the health costs for secondhand smoke-related illnesses cost an estimated $10, according to the CDC.

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Do Pushups or Sprinting Make Your Heart Beat Faster?

Pushups and sprinting are effective exercises comprised of aerobic and anaerobic elements. Though you may think of pushups as pure strength training, your heart rate increases significantly when performing a pushup routine. Sprinting can help develop your strength while providing an intense cardiovascular workout. While there is no definitive rule for which exercise causes the heart rate to raise more, sprinting is typically a more challenging cardiovascular exercises.

Sprinting is a high-intensity activity that raises your heart rate quickly. Photo Credit IPGGutenbergUKLtd/iStock/Getty Images

Exercise Intensity

The intensity of exercise has a great impact on heart rate. Naturally, more intense exercises raise the heart rate more significantly than less intense exercises. Exercise intensity can be measured as a combination of pace and the weight load that is to be moved. While this is not a scientific formula, nearly every type of physical exercise consists of these two elements, save isometric exercises, which are performed in a static position. Whether you consider an exercise intense depends on your fitness level and how exhausted you feel after performing the exercise.

Pushup Mechanics

The pushup requires you to push your body weight up using your arms, chest and shoulders, as well as your core muscles to help stabilize your body. This maneuver is generally performed at a slow to moderate pace. It is not necessarily the pace of the pushup that raises your heart rate, but rather the amount of stress placed on your muscles. You may notice that your heart rate rises even if the exercise is performed at a slow pace. The pushup is a strength exercise that primarily relies on your anaerobic system and not your cardiovascular system. While your heart rate increases during a pushup, the increase is typically less than during a sprint.

Sprinting Mechanics

Sprinting entails moving your arms and legs backward and forward vigorously. The amount of energy required to propel yourself forward as fast as you can taxes your system quickly. Your heart rate increases nearly immediately after starting a sprint to deliver the oxygen your body requires. In general, sprinting increases the heart rate faster and higher than pushups, depending on the distance you sprint and the level of your maximum heart rate at which you are performing. Sprinting stresses cardiovascular fitness, which tends to make the heart work harder than during pushups.

Target Heart Rate

You should aim to exercise in your target heart rate zone when doing exercises that are primarily aerobic. Your target heart rate is calculated by first figuring your peak heart rate. For women, peak heart rate is calculated by subtracting 88 percent of the age from 206. For men, the age is subtracted from 220. Effective aerobic exercising requires that you work out at 65 to 85 percent of your peak heart rate. Speak with your doctor before engaging in strenuous physical activity to ensure you are healthy enough to exercise in your target heart rate.

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Make a Leaded Glass Door DVD

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By Gillian Thompson

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Add a New Skill to your Tool Kit

Take your woodworking to the next level by adding your own leaded glass to cabinet doors. Follow along as host Gillian Thompson teaches the techniques to create custom glass panels. You’ll learn:

• About the simple, but important tools to make glass work easy
• How to lay out a pattern and work directly on it for greater accuracy
• Tips for cutting glass and caming for a precise fit
• The proper soldering techniques for an attractive and stable joint
• Techniques for adding putty and coloring the lead for a sturdy and beautiful finished piece
• And much more!

Once you start, you’ll be adding glass details to all your projects!

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About the Host:
Gillian Thompson was named one of Cincinnati’s top craftspeople by Cincinnati Magazine in 2015 and called a master of her craft. In the course of over 20 years, Gillian has enjoyed the privilege of working with a diverse variety of projects, from simple embellishments for the home, restoration and reproduction of fine stained glass, to conservation of a series of Tiffany windows for the permanent collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum. She continues to be inspired by the practice of her craft and in turn supports and teaches other artisans to preserve this knowledge base for the future.

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Veneering Start to Finish with Jonathan Benson DVD

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By Jonathan Benson

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Let an expert get you started...

Get the best effect from beautiful woods by learning to work with veneer. Jonathan Benson shows you how to work with veneers to create perfect seams and creative designs.

In this woodworking video you' ll learn:

• The best substrates to use for your project
• What simple tools you need to work veneer
• To select the best glue for the best results
• How to make and use a shooting board
• The steps to create a four-way matched diamond inlay pattern
• Simple tips to fix mistakes
• And much more!

More than two hours of expert instruction to give you excellent veneering results!

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Jonathan Benson has been working with wood for over 30 years, and he is a nationally recognized expert on veneering. He earned a Master's Degree in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, has taught woodworking at the college level for 10 years, and has written several books (including Woodworker's Guide to Veneer & Inlay). He writes and lectures on woodworking and furniture design, and his award-winning designs have been represented in more than 40 galleries nationwide.

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A study of conventional agroforestry practices and opportunities in the highlands of Oromia, Central Ethiopia

African Journal of Wood Science and Forestry ISSN 2375-0979 Vol. 4 (1), pp. 219-230, January, 2016. © International Scholars Journals

Mulugeta Dawud and Afwerki Birtukan

EIAR, Holetta Research Centre, P.O.Box, 2003, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. E-mail: mulugeta_dawud@gmail.com

Accepted 25 September, 2015

Abstract

Informal and formal surveys were conducted at Jeldu and Guder district in two peasant associations (PA) of western Shewa zones of Oromia region in 2006/2007. The study were conducted with the objectives to describe and understand indigenous agroforestry practices and identify constraints for natural resources management and propose research agenda in the context of farming system. Informal surveys were implemented through discussion, key informant interview, and physical observation. And formal survey was conducted using structured questionnaires from one hundred households (50 per district). The common agroforestry practices recorded at both study sites were scattered trees on farmlands, trees on gullies, rivers, home gardens, live fence, grazing lands, farm boundaries and around fences. Hagenea abyssinica, Dombeya torrida, Maytenus ugalinesses, Eucalyptus globulus and Buddleja polystacha are abundant at Jeldu where as Acacia abyssinica, Cordia africana, Croton macrostachys, Olea africana, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Cupressus lusitanica, Podocarpus glaciliar, Entada abyssinica, Ficus vasta, Sesbania sesban, Albizia scimperiana, Vernonia amygdalina, Acacia decurrense, Celtis africana, Croton macrostachys and Myrica salicifolia are familiar at Guder.Free livestock movement, land shortage, poor access of tree seedlings and termite hazard are the major bottlenecks recorded outside homesteads. Soil erosion, feed shortage, wood shortage and depletion of soil fertility are the critical problems in the study areas. Investigation of feed value and soil improving characteristics are some of the potential indigenous trees and shrubs need a priority research attention. Hence this paper discussed the causes of the aforementioned problems and forwarded relevant recommendation research intervention to be conducted.

Keywords: Traditional farm forestry, farming system, and multipurpose trees.

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Journal of the Indian Academy of Wood Science

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Editor-in-Chief: S. K. Sharma

ISSN: 0972-172X (print version)
ISSN: 0976-8432 (electronic version)

Journal no. 13196

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FAQ & Policy

This Journal is the official publication of the Indian Academy of Wood Science. It publishes on all aspects related to wood, cellulose and their products such as logging, saw milling, wood working, plywood, fibre boards, particle boards, improved and composite woods, cellulose and cellulose-based sciences and industries and allied fields generally classified as "Wood Science". 

The journal aims to unite scientists, technologists, engineers and other personnel engaged in research, education, industry, trade and other professions connected with Wood Science and to bring close technical, social and economic cooperation among its members. It aims to collect, codify and provide technical facts, data, standards and process specifications, fundamental to Wood Science and allied industries.

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Holz als Roh- und Werkstoff

Editor-in-Chief: K. Richter; J.-W. Van de Kuilen

ISSN: 0018-3768 (print version)
ISSN: 1436-736X (electronic version)

Journal no. 107

European Journal of Wood and Wood Products

• Presents research into wood and wood products
• Examines biological, chemical, physical, mechanical and technological properties, and wood processing and uses
• Coverage ranges from roundwood to wood based products, composite materials and timber construction
• 100% of authors who answered a survey reported that they would definitely publish or probably publish in the journal again

European Journal of Wood and Wood Products reports on original research and new developments in the field of wood and wood products and their biological, chemical, physical as well as mechanical and technological properties, processes and uses. Subjects range from roundwood to wood based products, composite materials and structural applications, with related jointing techniques. Moreover, it deals with wood as a chemical raw material, source of energy as well as with inter-disciplinary aspects of environmental assessment and international markets. 

European Journal of Wood and Wood Products aims at promoting international scientific communication and transfer of new technologies from research into practice.

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Influence of prolonged exposure of wood to water on wood structure and biochar properties

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First online: 05 May 2016

Wood Science and Technology

• Svetlana Tsyganova 
• , Elena Mazurova
• , Galina Bondarenko
• , Nikolay Chesnokov

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Abstract

The structural changes of birch and pinewood under the influence of prolonged exposure to water were studied. It has been shown that prolonged aqueous treatment of birch increases the degree of crystallinity of cellulose. On the contrary, similar treatment of pinewood leads to its decrease. The specific role of hydroxyl groups of cellulose in the interaction of wood with water has been revealed. It has been noted that the O/H ratio for wood correlates to the hydrophilicity and crystallinity of cellulose. The possibility of producing porous products from different species of wood after prolonged soaking in water has been shown. The carbonization of the samples up to 800 °C leads to significant growth of the specific surface area of carbon product from 10–20 to 200–400 m2/g. It is assumed that a soft change of wood structure under the influence of water leads to the formation of weakly bound low molecular weight fragments, which are converted into volatile products for carbonization, and the formation of porous carbon product.

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