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Conventionally, we can easily say a particular person’s occupation by the way he or she dresses or the kind of uniform he or she is using on. Everyone knows that hard hats are for engineers and architects while collars and suits are for office men or bankers. Colors also have been a determinant of what a man’s occupation is. Flaunt a camouflage suit and everyone knows you are a soldier, and when you flair a pair of whites then you must be a doctor, a nurse, or a healthcare worker.

Normally and historically, nurses wore white tops and skirts. For whatever reasons whoever can give to that is no longer important. It just so happen that this color is universally accepted as the color of medical uniforms. But often, there are differing views of the practicality of the said color particularly on the nature of the work nurses of healthcare workers have. And as time pass by, other diversities in terms of the accepted garment used by the medical people has been changed. Today, nurses can have their own choice what garment they want to use whether it be a conventional white uniform or a plain and rugged nursing scrub.

On the side of professional ethics or norm, white uniforms are still the prerogative of majority of the people on this field. Considerably, whites as what they call those, is the type “A” uniform or the business dress code. Just like a soldier who can wear a multiple pocket battle dress uniforms during war or on the field and flair a stiff type “A” uniforms for official purposes. But the militaries purposes are way too different that the nurses’. It goes to say that white uniforms could have in a way not the most suited color for nurses’ uniforms.

Today, the use of different colored and printed nursing scrubs paved way for a new smart and effectiveness and a little diversion in the medical world. Scrubs are the battle dress uniforms of nurses and healthcare workers. But why is it that the rugged apparels are more preferred by nurses? There are few reasons why:

The term scrubs is now becoming synonymous with aprons the difference is that scrubs cover all the body. A nurse is exposed to different kinds of task during a shift and as well as different human and natural fluids. Normally, these tasks and fluids can contact with the scrub and to mind you they are not colorless or odorless. To have a white uniform for a nurse would mean that each shift, she or he would be displeased by the mess the fluids brought to the apparel. Though white uniforms tend to foster professionalism and superiority, same qualities would somehow affect patient to nurse relationship and nurse to nurse relationship. However, ironically many patients would love to see nurses on whites than on other colors. White cloths have see-through effect except otherwise you choose thicker and more uncomfortable cloths. This is in some way not too good in the medical arena as it might in one way or the other affect nurses’ jobs.

The issue about the colors of the nurses’ uniforms can be resolved by personal choice and of course the hospitals rule on uniforms. In the end, the more comfortable a nurse in his or her scrub, the better the care he or she can give.

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This fall many beer loving Americans will have hopped on a plane to attend the biggest beer festival in the world – the Oktoberfest in Munich. Some may have chosen to stay closer to home and opted for the world’s second largest Oktoberfest at Kitchener-Waterloo in Canada. But many others, who savor American beers, will have traveled to Denver for the Great American Beer Festival.

Unlike the Oktoberfests that last up to 16 days, the Great American Beer Festival is held over a mere three days, starting on Thursday, finishing on Saturday and featuring only home-brewed, domestic beers. Held for the 26th time during mid-October 2007 the beer festival drew over 40,000 beer lovers to Denver in the heart of the Rockies.

At this year’s festival more than 100 professional judges were required to work their way through 2,793 different beers submitted for judging by 473 different breweries; quite a staggering task! After the judging process they awarded 222 medals across 75 categories. Tough work, getting through so many beers in so little time but they managed it and all in good time! It’s very difficult to win one of the coveted Great American Brewing festival medals with only 8% of the total number of entrants eventually leaving the festival with one, meaning that it is a great selling point for the winning beers, being able to display a representation of a winning medal on their label.

There are many different categories judged at the festival with the fastest growing being the Fruit and Vegetable Beers which saw the number of entries leap from 46 in 2006 to a staggering 94 this year. Wood-barrel-aged beer saw a 24% increase in the number of entrants and even Gluten-free beer was judged this year recording a respectable eight entries, although festival organisers expect that number to increase substantially at next year’s event.

Each visitor to the festival gets to sample as many of the 2,793 beers as they can manage, drinking one ounce samples from the festival’s breweries. Arranged throughout the exhibition hall by regions, the breweries at the festival offer visitors a walking beer tour of the USA.

This year’s festival was the biggest yet, and next year organisers are planning on making it even bigger. So, be prepared if you are thinking of visiting the Rockies in mid-October 2008 as finding a hotel in Denver that isn’t full of beer lovers will be a real challenge!

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