You will either need an air mattress repair kit or the equivalent components: an adhesive and a piece of vinyl that’s larger than the hole you’re repairing.  Use any vinyl repair kit instead of an air mattress repair kit.  Choose an adhesive that’s made expressly for sealing seams. Try McNett’s Seam Grip or Coleman’s Seam Sealer. You can also consider using rubber cement. Duct tape can be used in place of the vinyl if no other alternatives are available.  You may also need something with which to apply the adhesive. A small paint brush is ideal.  Use the applicator that came with the adhesive or small paint brush. Make sure you cover the entire surface of the patch. If the leak is small and in an area where a patch cannot make full contact with the mattress fabric, you can try plugging the leak with a small a bit of adhesive. Press firmly and smooth it out. The goal is get the patch to make full contact with the mattress. Consider weighting down the patch with a 10-pound weight to ensure full contact between the patch and the mattress. Exact drying times will depend on which adhesive you’ve used. Refer to the directions on the package.
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One-sentence summary -- Gather your materials. Measure and cut a patch that’s at least ½ inch bigger on all sides than the tear. Apply the adhesive to one side of the patch. Press the patch, adhesive-side down, onto the tear or hole. Let dry for several hours.


They reach sexual maturity at this time and can begin impregnating your doe (female goats). An uncastrated male goat is called a “buck.” Make sure both testes have descended before you band your goat. You can have short-scrotum goats if a testis is pushed into the belly cavity. Banding is painful to the goat, so administering anti-inflammatories can reduce discomfort. To reduce pain further, you can administer lidocaine to numb the area during the banding period.   Set the kid in your helpers lap, so that his belly is up and his front hooves are restrained. Squeeze the elastrator handles to expand the band. Move the handle of the elastrator closer to the base of the scrotum. If you are right handed, put the tool aside for a minute, with your left hand hold the scrotum and feel if both testicles are inside. If not, don't let go, still holding with your left hand, reach with your right hand to the goats belly close to the scrotum, they tend to hold the testicles in sometimes, find them under the skin and push towards the scrotum "catching" them with your left hand. Once you can feel both testicles inside you can put the rubber ring on. Still holding the testicles with your left hand, squeeze the tool's handles, pushing scrotum through the open rubber ring, carefully place it where you want it to be, close slightly so that they don't escape again, and with left hand's fingers help push down the rubber ring from the first two metal ring expanders and then remove it completely. Check for proper placement again. Leave them loose, putting the ring a bit closer to the body. Otherwise it will be very painful for the animal and you will have to redo it. Also, make sure that the nipples are outside of the band. Keep it sterilized to avoid infection.
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One-sentence summary -- Plan to castrate your kid within 8 weeks of birth. Administer a dose of adult aspirin or a shot of Banamine a half hour before you do the procedure. Give a 1 cc shot of tetanus anti-toxin to prevent tetanus. Soak your castration band in alcohol for 5 minutes before placing it in the elastrator. Ask a friend to help you by holding the kid down. Attach the rubber band to the front prongs of the elastrator. Insert the scrotum and testis inside the rubber band. Ensure that both testes are inside the band before you release the elastrator. Release the grip on the elastrator slowly.


Your shift may be ending or someone else could do the job better. For whatever reason for a hand off, getting the job done is more important than individual egos. Your team's client doesn't care who does it, just that it gets done. You know all those emails you've received in the past six months that tinker with how the team works, explain how to use certain tools and outline priorities? The person who just joined your team didn't receive them because they weren't here. Make sure they learn about recent team issues and resolutions. If you know a better way of doing things then share it with others. If someone else knows a better way, learn it. And don't restrict feedback to criticism. Give out some praise for a job well done. We'd all like the feedback to come from the boss, but by sharing feedback yourselves, you offload some work from your boss. Fiefdoms are teams gone bad - where people on a team "protect" their data, use non standard processes, and discourage interactions with other teams. Fiefdoms lead to turf wars - conflicts over which team has what responsibility. They drain productivity from the company. Classic symptoms of fiefdoms are "providing a feed" to another group (instead of access to live corporate data) and being told "not to talk to someone" outside the team.
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Hand off work between team members effectively and efficiently. Cross train members of your team. Encourage productive feedback among team members. Be careful your team doesn't turn into a fiefdom.