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Steps of bhasmikaran
- "The sheets of metals are heated till red hot and are successively dipped into liquids like oil, buttermilk, cow's urine etc. The procedure is repeated seven times".
Literal and symbolic meaning of bhasma
The power of bhasma
Bhasma and tattwa shuddhi
Major Benefits of Abhrak Bhasma
- It finds its application in curing diseases like Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, Asthma and Plague.
- Abhrak Bhasma is also recommended for breathlessness due to chronic Bronchitis, Asthma, and even Chest Congestion. When taken in the initial stage of TB, it can completely cure it.
- It is beneficial to all the seven dhatus (energy elements) in the body.
- It rejuvenates the human mind.
- It improves blood circulation, improves the general tone of tissues and conductivity.
- It cures erectile dysfunction and impotency in men.
- Abhrak is hematinic, which means increases the count of red blood cells. This also increases oxygen carrying ability of the cells.
- It helps in curing jaundice and anemia.
- It restores damaged tissues and maintains their health.
- It is highly effective in cases of bone marrow depletion and hepatic dysfunction.
- It is effective in curing respiratory tract infections.
- It is beneficial for curing Bells Palsy and dysentery.
- It is beneficial in curing anemia, pernicious and azoospermia.
- Also, helps in controlling many types of veneral diseases like EBV, HIV, Lupus bronchitis and pneumonia.
- It cures breast cancer.
- It is also known to cure chronic hyperacidity like stomach-ache and vomiting with blood.
Major Benefits of Swarna Bhasma
- Swarna Bhasma improves resistance power in human body.
- It is responsible for boosting immunity and strengthening the human body.
- It can be used on a regular basis as an alterative and acts as a nerve tonic.
- Swarna Bhasma is excellent in treating Anemia, and chronic fever.
- Due to its gold base, it is helpful in improving complexion.
- Swarna Bhasma eradicates all chronic disorders, when used consistently.
- It is indicated in chronic fever, cough, Asthma, urinary disorders, sleeplessness and weak digestion.
- It strengthens weak muscles, debilities associated with old-age.
- It is excellent for treating Tuberculosis.
- It increases sexual power.
- Swarna Bhasma slows down the process of degeneration of tissues thus helps to prevent premature ageing.
- It helps prevent symptoms of ageing like wrinkles, dullness of skin, dark circles around the eyes, debility, fatigue, etc.
- Swarna Bhasma strengthens tissues and ligaments of the human body.
- It is highly effective in maintaining vigor, vitality and stamina.
- Hirak Bhasma is known the world over to make the human body stronger and the mind sharper.
- It is also recommended for the well-being of the human heart.
- It helps in toning the muscles of the heart.
- Its regular consumption as a tonic or an alterative, under medical prescription or supervision is known for toning the heart muscles.
- Hirak Bhasma also increases stamina, vitality and strength.
- It is highly effective against immunity disorders.
- It is known for curing Crippling Rheumatoid
- It is effective against Bone marrow depression and arthritis.
- Hirak Bhasma is also known to cure one of the most dangerous and lethal diseases known to mankind: cancer. When used in the initial stages, under medical supervision, it can cure cancerous cells.
- Ayurvedic formulary of India, 1978a
- Major Herbs of Ayurveda, Elizabeth M. Williamson. ISBN 0-443-07203-5
- CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Lead Poisoning Associated with Ayurvedic Medications — Five States, 2000–2003


Desirable properties
According to Goscinski [_TAG_##1#] there are certain desirable properties that should be possessed by any load balancing strategy.
 1. Optimal overall system performance, defined as total processing capacity being maximised whilst retaining acceptable delays.
 2. Fairness of service, defined as uniformly acceptable performance provided to jobs regardless of the source of the job.
 3. Failure tolerance, defined as the robustness of performance in the presence of partial failures.
 4. Accommodation ability, defined as the degree to which a strategy accommodates reconfiguration and extension.
 5. Good performance of the system under overload.


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Serra da Arrábida, western Portugal
by Teresa Farino
A well-preserved enclave of Mediterranean forest in western Portugal, with a rich fauna and a superb limestone flora which includes several endemics.
Arrábida Cliffs near Portinho
© Teresa Farino
The forest-clad, elongated hummock of the Serra da Arrábida is a veritable oasis of natural
vegetation amid the suburban sprawl of the Setúbal peninsula, with an incredibly diverse wildlife
to match. Along the shore of the Sado estuary, its sheer flanks drop sharply into a turquoise
sea, the pale limestone cliffs eaten away at the base to form small sandy coves. Although the
50km-long ridge of the Arrábida attains a maximum of only 501m (Alto do Formosinho), the views
from the top are truly spectacular, giving the impression of much greater altitude.
Flora of the Serra da Arrábida
More than 1,000 species of vascular plants have been recorded from the Arrábida natural park
(10,821ha; also a reserva biogenética). Not long after Christmas, hoop-petticoat daffodils
(subspecies obesus) are out in force, accompanied by the curious friar's cowl, Barbary nut and
Western Peony Paeonia broteri
© Teresa Farino
the sand crocus Romulea bulbocodium, to be joined by palmate anemone, rosy garlic, wild tulip
and the delicate green and purple bells of Fritillaria lusitanica when spring begins in earnest.
March brings a flush of orchids into bloom - champagne, conical, naked man, man and giant, plus
the insect-imitating dull, bumble-bee, yellow, mirror and sawfly ophrys - and come April, wild
and field gladioli and Spanish irises appear, together with pink butterfly, bug and tongue
orchids, while a search among the undergrowth should turn up the less conspicuous violet
limodore and two-leaved gennaria.
A half-hour foray into the dense maquis flanking the N-379-1 which winds along the top of
the ridge will reveal an impressive list of typical Mediterranean shrubs: Phoenician juniper,
holly oak, lentisc, Mediterranean buckthorn, strawberry-tree, Osyris lanceolata, myrtle, shrubby
hare's-ear, Phillyrea angustifolia, P. latifolia, wild jasmine and laurustinus. The glossy
evergreen foliage is coloured by narrow-leaved and grey-leaved cistuses, tree heath, shrubby
scorpion-vetch, fringed rue, Phlomis purpurea and rosemary, with the whole mass inextricably
bound together by the twining stems of wild madder, Lonicera implexa and common smilax.
© Teresa Farino
Shady nooks along this road harbour Narcissus calcicola - the most renowned plant of the
Arrábida - found only in Portugal and neighbouring Badajoz in Spain.
On the seaward side of the ridge, the more humid climate and deeper soils of the valleys
which drop down to the coast support stands of Lusitanian oak (subspecies broteroi), bay, carob,
Montpellier maple and wild olive, with a characteristic spring-flowering ground layer of western
peony, Iberian milk-vetch, alexanders and Spanish bluebell. Three integral reserves have been
declared where the climax Lusitanian oak forest is more or less intact: Mata do Solitário, Mata
do Vidal and Mata Coberta, to which access is forbidden.
The sheer south-facing cliffs - accessible only via the trails down to the fishing villages -
boast their own peculiar flora, including the diminutive Portuguese endemic crucifers Arabis
sadina and Iberis procumbens ssp. microcarpa and more commonplace species such as sad stock,
sweet Alison, the Afro-Iberian endemic stonecrop Sedum mucizonia, fringed rue, mallow-leaved
bindweed and cut-leaved lavender, with shady nooks hosting Mediterranean selaginella and southern

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I guess I should spare you from explaining what a mannequin challenge is. Whether you love it or loathe it; whether you have ever been lured into posing for one or not, it might still be a fun thing to try in the classroom. "A mannequin challenge?", I hear you say.
Write "mannequin challenge" on the board and ask your students to generate questions they may think of using these two words (if they can't think of any or a few, you can write the questions yourself. For low level classes, it's ok for the students to give you their questions in their L1 language, then you can simply translate and write on the board).
- What is a mannequin challenge?
- Have you ever taken part in one?
- If not, would you like to?
- What is the title of the song that is usually played with mannequin challenges?
- Do you like mannequin challenges? Why? / Why not?
Play the video below and then ask the students to write down as many different actions as they remember from it by using the present/past continuous (whichever verb tense you would like them to practice).
If you are ok with recording a video of your students, they can pose "performing an action" and then you can record a video and then play for them to tell you what everyone is doing. If you can't or won't record a video you can still tell half your class to pose for a minute or so for the rest of the students to tell each other what everyone is doing and then they can switch roles. You may narrow this down and give them a topic, such as sports and then they have to "perform" playing a sport. Or house chores (ironing, doing the dishes, hoovering, dusting, etc.). Or jobs (a mechanic, a teacher, a bus driver, a hairdresser, etc.). What other suitable topics can you think of? Do you see yourself trying this out in your lessons? Are you up to the challenge?

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Geflechte aus Wellpappe
Interweaving of Corrugated Cardboard
Many years ago, von Podewils discovered the use of corrugated cardboard for therealization of her sculptures. Corrugated cardboard, commonly recognized from its use in packaging, consists of paperboards with a fluted, thicker, corrugated sheet inserted in between the boards. This gives the cardboard ample stability. Only a few artists in the plastic field work with corrugated cardboard. "What is your approach to the working process?""The sculptures are constructed by me in a complex way from many individual layers and forms in such a way that a solid body is created. The form of the crea-ture or object emerges layer by layer. The rough edges of the cuts are not smoothed out during the process. An open-pored surface remains visible and sometimes even allows one to see through it."The imprints and colors of the packaging are incorporated into the work and inte-grated into the sculpture. In advance, the artist glazes cardboard in several layers with paint. Next, these colored pieces of cardboard are cut out and attached to-gether. It is important for Bronislava von Podewils that she can work freely and independently with the material. She can easily carry, assemble, and rearrange the works herself, unlike stone or wood sculptures.


Ace: It's dangerous to go alone! Take this
Mac the cat examining the Aces
Have you ever felt a spark of excitement when you begin something new? Maybe you felt that way when you began learning tarot, or starting a new relationship or career path. The Ace cards represent a new start, planting a seed, potential. They're similar to the energy of The Fool, there's a journey ahead.
There is so much possibility in the Aces. You can see a hand reaching out, offering the element to you like a gift. It's exciting but also in a way, it leaves you with a lot of responsibility. What do you want to do with this wand, cup, sword, or pentacle that you are being handed? Each element rules a different part of life.
Ace of Wands
The wands suit is all about that fire burning inside you. What gets you going, motivates you. The Ace of Wands asks you to say yes to whatever that passion is. Wands represent the element of fire, so be careful to control that flame and don't let it consume you. Light that wand and let it guide you. If you pull this card, think about what inspires you. Journal or meditate ways in which you can use passion and power to begin a new project, or maybe come back to something you've neglected.
Ace of Cups
The Cups suit rules water. It's all about emotion and intuition. Again, this card represents new starts, but those related to relationships, love, and feelings. Think of it as an opportunity for emotional growth. Maybe you're starting therapy, or confronting a trauma for the first time. Don't be afraid to dive deep, but remember not to wallow. The cup in the imagery is overflowing, and of course those feelings can be positive, but it's equally possible to be drowned in negative emotion. If you pull this card, be receptive to change and open your heart.
Ace of Swords
The suit of Swords rules air and deals with some difficult parts of life. But the Ace is all about piercing through illusion and being perceptive. It's about using your intellect to find new perspectives. Studying, teaching, writing, planning, these are all great ways to use the Ace of Swords. Think of the potential of a sword. You can use one to be a hero and save the world, or you can use it to hurt and oppress others. The element of air is often associated with communication, so think about the ways you use your words. Are they sharp and cruel, or truthful and fair. You have the choice of how you use this power.
Ace of Pentacles
Pentacles is earthy and grounded. It's about nature, work, abundance, and stability. It's much more practical than some of the other elements. Rather than jumping in without thinking, this Ace asks you to think about how you can build your best life. It can seem mundane, but it can represent things like getting a new home or job, being able to provide for yourself. It can be a long and arduous journey, so if you pull this card, be patient and focus on hard work. Think of gardening, where you plant a seed and watch it grow for many months before it bears fruit.
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 1. Thanks a lot for the lessons! It's super nice learning without talk of the supernatural. As a beginner, that there are other people interested in the tarot for introspection/meditation only means a lot.
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2.1 - Opening and Closing | LabJack
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App Notes
Software & Driver
2.1 - Opening and Closing
Open a LabJack device to communicate with it. Close it to allow other processes to open it.
Either LJM_Open or LJM_OpenS must be used to open a LabJack. The LJM_Open and LJM_OpenS functions will detect a LabJack connected to the computer, and create a device handle. The device handle is then passed as an input to other functions.
 - LJM_Open - Open a device based on integer filter parameters.
 - LJM_OpenS - Open a device based on string filter parameters.
Use whichever is more convenient for you.
Use the Identifier parameter to open a specific device
The Identifier parameter of LJM_Open and LJM_OpenS optionally selects which device to open by serial number, IP address, or customizable device name. See Identifier Parameter for information.
USB connections are preferred - If ConnectionType is equal to LJM_ctANY (0), LJM_Open will attempt to open a USB connection before trying to open a TCP connection.
Device connections are claimed - Once a LabJack device is opened on a given connection type, other processes will generally not be able to open that same device using the same connection type until the device connection is closed by using LJM_Close or LJM_CloseAll.
Subsequent calls may return the same handle - Once a device is opened, subsequent calls to LJM_Open/LJM_OpenS will return the handle to that device if the DeviceType, ConnectionType, and Identifier parameters describe that device. In this case, calling LJM_Open or LJM_OpenS is nearly instant because no device communication occurs. For example:
LJM_Open(LJM_dtANY, LJM_ctANY, LJM_idANY,...)
// If this returns a handle to a T7, with serial number 470010729, connected via USB...
LJM_Open(LJM_dtT7, LJM_ctUSB, "470010729",...)
//...then this would return the same handle, without opening a new device connection
//...and these would attempt to open a new device connection and return a different handle:
LJM_Open(LJM_dtANY, LJM_ctANY, "470010999",...) // Different serial number
LJM_Open(LJM_dtANY, LJM_ctETHERNET, "470010729",...) // Different connection type
Devices like the T7 may have multiple device connections at once. The following calls would each return a different device handle:
 - LJM_Open(LJM_dtT7, LJM_ctUSB, "470010729",...)
 - LJM_Open(LJM_dtT7, LJM_ctETHERNET, "470010729",...)
 - LJM_Open(LJM_dtT7, LJM_ctWIFI, "470010729",...)
Reconnection is automatic - If LJM detects a broken connection, it will automatically attempt to reconnect. If the reconnect is unsuccessful, LJM will return the errorcode LJME_RECONNECT_FAILED. When this happens, many applications can simply retry calling the function that returned LJME_RECONNECT_FAILED with the same parameters. For more details, see the reconnection page.
Using an IP Address as the Identifier parameter is efficient - In order to open a TCP device with a specific serial number or name, LJM will communicate with all LabJack devices on the network, asking each for their serial number or name. In contrast, opening a TCP LabJack device by IP address will only send packets to that IP address, which is faster and more efficient. Setting up static IP addresses can be troublesome, so use what is appropriate for you application.
Specific IPs will be checked - Specific IP addresses may be defined, which LJM will try to open during every Ethernetor WiFi-based Open or ListAll call.
Closing a handle will remove the associated device connection from the LJM library. Closing will both free the device to be opened again, and free allocated system resources.
 - LJM_Close - Close a specific device connection, based on the handle number.
 - LJM_CloseAll - Close any/all open device connections.
Devices are closed automatically when LJM is unloaded - When the LJM library (.dll,.dylib, or.so) is unloaded, it will automatically close all devices.
Device Not Found?
If a device isn't properly being found, some important debugging information can be found in our Device Not Found? App Note. If a network connection needs to be debugged, read through our Setup WiFi and Ethernet App Note as well.


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New underground lake is found in Wonder Cave of the Ozarks
Springfield Leader January 27, 1921 page 1 and 10.
"...pool of undetermined size discovered by explorer in Marvel Cave, Stone County
By Harold Nelson
"The natural wonders of Marvel Cave, located in Stone County, 50 miles south of Springfield, have gained further interest through the discovery of another underground lake of considerable extent. The lake connects with Lake Genevieve [note: see page 157 in Caves of Missouri for map], formerly considered the end of the waterway in the great cave.
"The lake was discovered last week by Pete Alexander, owner of a drug store at Branson. A partial exploration of the lake has been made and Alexander is building a special collapsible boat to continue the exploration. A small passageway near the entrance of the cave makes it impossible to take a larger boat into the cave. R. H. Condie, Springfield Boy Scout executive, Dr. G.D. Callaway, director of the Greene county health association, T. Stanley Skinner, dean of the Drury College School of Music, E.S. Shipp and a representative of the The Leader visited the cave yesterday to explore the new found lake, but due to the lack of equipment were unable to get to the shores of the lake.
Joins Lake Genevieve
"The lake is beyond Lake Genevieve, which connects with No Name river, a stream which was discovered many years ago. Seven years ago a group of men from Chicago and a St. Louis newspaperman carried two air tanks through the passages of the cave leading to No Name river and improvised a float on which one of the party floated down the river several hundred feet. He discovered Lake Genevieve, a lake a few hundred feet in width and in length.
"That Lake Genevieve was the end of No Name river was the belief of the men who explored the cave. Last week Alexander on the same float went 750 feet down the river, across Lake Genevieve and in the new lake. [Two or three lines missing.] …entrance to the river or there is danger of becoming lost in the underground waterway.
pSize not determined
"Alexander said after his trip to the lake that he was unable to determine the size of the lake or the height of the ceiling over it. He was equipped with only a small carbide light.
"The Springfield men who visited the cave yesterday in an effort to view the new found lake were unable to reach its shores, although one of the number went down the river for some distance.
"Exploration work difficult.
"It is with great difficulty that the river is reached from the outside. The distance is slightly more than 1,000 feet from the chamber at the entrance of the cave. The first passage encountered on the trip to the river is known as the Rock Crawl. The passage is just large enough for a man to crawl through. The floor of the passage is rough and irregular and is made up of large rocks. It is [300?] feet in length. Water is encountered on the floor of the crawl.
"At the end of Rock Crawl are two chambers probably a hundred feet in height and as much in length, while they vary in width from 25 to 50 feet. These chambers are known as the Epsom Salts chambers on account of the outcroppings of the salts on the walls.
"At the end of the chambers another crawl, the Dry [Dust?] crawl 200 feet in length is encountered. Unlike the first crawl this one is filled with a dry dust and bats, hundreds of them. This crawl ends in a chamber called Pandemonium on account of the irregular shapes of the rocks in it. It is 60 feet high.
"Descend rope to river.
"At one end of this chamber is found a ledge at the foot of which is the river. It is necessary to be lowered over this ledge to the river's edge, 40 feet below. Only a slender person could visit the river as the crevasse in the ledge in which the visitor must be lowered is only a foot wide in places and extremely hard to squeeze through.
For travel on the river a float has been constructed. It is made of two air tanks held together with ropes and boards. The passenger lies down on the float and with a light fastened to his hat, paddles his way with his hands. A sudden turn to the side with the body would mean falling off the float and a bath in the cold water of the river.
"Cave is wonder place.
"Marvel cave, probably the most wonderful cave in the world, was purchased 31 years ago by W. H. Lynch at that time connected with the diplomatic corps of the Canadian government. He visited the place every year until seven years ago, when he and his daughter, Miss Mariam, went there to live. They reside in a quaint old log cabin a quarter of a mile from the entrance to the cave. He owns not only the cave but 800 acres of timber land around it. Although now nearly 80 years of age Mr. Lynch seldom misses a daily visit to the cave.
"Entrance to the cave is gained by descending stairs 150 feet in length. Here the visitor alights on a pile of debris, millions of tons, which has fallen onto the floor of the great chamber. This chamber is between 165 to 185 feet in height [missing lines] The chamber, without removing the debris, could easily accommodated the ten-story Landers building and still there would be room left.
"Monster stalagmite in cave.
"In the chamber, among other features, is a stalagmite, 100 feet in diameter. It is called Liberty bell on account of its bell shape. The size of this stalagmite raises some question as to the largest one in the country. Recently newspaper articles stated that a stalagmite 30 feet in diameter in a cave at Ha Ha Tonka was the largest one in the country. There are two rooms within the Liberty bell in which the stalagmite at Ha Ha Tonka would rest with room to spare.
"Residents of Branson are now making efforts to interest members of the legislature in the cave and surrounding country as a state park. They point out that no official visit has ever been made in the cave by a state official although at several times they have been within a few miles of it."
In a letter from Kevin S. Lotter, Senior Manager, Attractions & Guest Services at Silver Dollar City, "The article makes reference to the area of the cave we now call the Lakes Passage. Originally called No-Name River, the body of water explored in this area of the cave consists of two connected underground lakes. The smaller Lake Genevieve is connected to the larger Lake Miriam."
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Ultraviolet water treatment
Ultraviolet (UV) water purification systems and water treatment is used as a pretreatment or polishing step to sterilise and disinfect water, particularly water supply that is considered biologically unsafe (lake or well water). The ultraviolet water treatment process is a non-chemical method for destroying micro-organisms by altering their genetic material, and rendering them unable to reproduce.
WaterIcon's ultraviolet water purification systems are simple to install and require little supervision, maintenance or space. UV lamps are simply replaced when they burn out.
Advantages of ultraviolet water purification
There are several advantages of using UV water treatment systems rather than a chemical water disinfection solution (such as chlorination):
- No toxic or significant nontoxic byproducts
- No danger of overdosing
- Effectively destroys microorganisms such as bacteria, Protozoan cyst, and viruses.
- Does not require storage of hazardous material
- UV water filtration systems are energy efficient
- UV water treatment systems adds no smell to the final water product
- Requires very little contact time
WaterIcon uses its range of Ultraviolet Water Filtration Systems to polish, sterilise and disinfect water.


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Don't look now, but you're being followed. You have been, in fact, since the day you were born. The good news is that the people following you are doctors, nurses, and other health care providers. And the way they're tracking you is on paper, through your personal medical history.
What Are Medical Records?
Each time you hop up on a doctor's exam table or roll up your sleeve for a blood draw, somebody makes a note of it in your medical records. All that scribbling adds up over time. Even if you're the healthiest person alive, you'll still manage to accumulate crate upon crate of paperwork by your 21st birthday.
Chances are you won't ever pore over all those pages. But there might come a time when you want to get information from your medical records: Maybe you'll need to provide your college or new job with a record of immunizations before you can start. Or perhaps you want a new doctor to know your full medical history.
As you start taking charge of your own medical care, it helps to know what's in your medical records, how you can get them when you need to, who else is allowed to see them, and what laws are in place to keep them private.
What's in My Medical Records?
You might picture your medical records as one big file in a central storage facility somewhere. But actually they're in lots of different places. Each specialist who treats you keeps his or her own file, and each of these is part of your medical records.
Your medical records contain the basics, like your name and your date of birth. They also include the information you give to your family physician, dentist, or other specialist during an examination.
You know how doctors often ask a series of questions — like about how you're feeling that day or your family medical history? Well, all of your answers go into your doctors' records, along with the results of any medical exams, test results, treatments, medications, and any notes doctors make about you and your health.
Medical records aren't just about your physical health. They also include mental health care. So if you went to family therapy back when you were 6 and your parents were divorcing, it will be somewhere in your records.
Can I See My Records?
U.S. law gives patients the right to see, get copies of, and sometimes even change their medical records.
If you're younger than 18, your parent or guardian will probably need to ask for copies of medical records on your behalf. However, more states are allowing minors to take charge of their own health services, so ask your doctor, hospital, or health system about what access you have to your records.
Medical records — particularly test results or imaging studies like X-rays — can be confusing for people who aren't trained in reading them. Something that might look scary on an X-ray or MRI might be nothing to worry about. So if you do look at your records on your own, keep that in mind and ask a doctor if you have questions.
How Do I Get Them?
Start by figuring out who has the information you want. If it's dental information you're after, contact your dentist's office. If it's a general health issue, you'll probably want to talk to your family doctor.
When it comes to requesting medical records, different providers have different ways of doing things. Some might ask you to fill out an authorization form. If so, you'll want to be ready with information like this:
- Dates of treatment or service (such as a hospital stay). If it's been a while and you don't remember exact dates, ask for records from a range of dates, such as 2000-2005.
- Which information you want. Do you need the entire record or just part? Specific test results? X-ray films, blood work results, etc.?
- How you want the information. Do you just want to look at your records to find out what's in them? Or do you need to get your own copy, have a copy sent to another physician, or both?
A health care provider's office might charge a fee to cover the cost of having someone make copies. Some offices put test results and imaging studies on a CD-ROM. You'll probably have to pay for mailing the records to you or another doctor (if you won't be picking them up in person).
How Long Does it Take?
The law gives health care providers up to 30 days to provide copies of medical records, but almost all health care organizations supply records a lot faster than that. Most people get their non-critical care records within 5 to 10 business days. If records are needed faster — like when a patient needs medical treatment — the health care provider holding the records usually releases them immediately.
If you need to get records for non-emergency situations (such as switching to a new doctor), it's safest to give plenty of notice. Let the medical provider who has your records know that you'd like copies a few weeks ahead of any appointments with your new health care provider.
Can They Say No?
They can — but it almost never happens. When it does, it's because a doctor's office is trying to protect a patient's privacy or safety. For example, they may withhold medical information if they're not sure the person requesting the records has a right to see them. Or they may not release records if they think it will lead to the patient being harmed.
If health care providers deny access to records, they must give the reasons why in writing within 30 days. If any request for medical information is denied, a patient has the right to ask for the decision to be reviewed again.
What if I Spot a Mistake in My Medical Records?
If you notice something missing or something you think is wrong in your medical records, you have the right to request a correction. Ask your doctor's office to explain how they handle changes to your records and what you need to do to request a change. The law gives health care providers 60 days to make the changes or deny the request.
Who Else Can See My Records?
Your information can be used and shared with the following people or groups, when needed:
- other health care providers as necessary to support your treatment and care
- insurance companies, Medicaid, and other groups responsible for paying doctors and hospitals for your health care
- public health agencies as needed to protect the public's health, such as by reporting when the flu is in your area
- law enforcement agencies, such as reporting a gunshot wound to the police
- parents or guardians if you are younger than 18
- family, relatives, friends, or others in your life — but only if you (or a parent or guardian, while you're under 18) give permission
What About My Parents?
Parents have access to their kids' medical records until the child is 18. However, many states now allow doctors to decide whether or not they disclose certain information to parents — like about sexual health or substance abuse, for example. The law also states that parents no longer have access to their teens' health records if they agree to let them have a confidential relationship with their doctors.
Most hospitals or doctors make every effort to protect patients' privacy when it comes to sensitive information that's in their medical records. Sometimes a health care provider will feel that it's not in the best interest of the patient to release information to parents, even when a child is younger than 18.
For mental health records (such as the notes a therapist takes during counseling sessions) the age when parents no longer have access to a child's medical records is 15 or 16, depending on the state.
After you reach 18, your parents cannot see your records — by law. For some people, that may not be a problem. It may even seem like a good thing! But what if you have a health problem and need your parents to make decisions about your care if something happens? If you want your parents to have access to your records after 18, you'll need to sign a document authorizing them to do so, just as you would with anyone else.
Should I Keep My Own Medical Records?
It's a great idea. Many health care experts recommend that patients keep their own medical summaries or Personal Medical Records (PMRs). That way, they can bring them along on visits to specialists, new doctors, or even an unexpected trip to the emergency room.
Your PMR should include the following information:
- your name, date of birth, blood type, and emergency contact
- date of last physical exam
- dates and results of past tests and screenings
- major illnesses and surgeries, with dates
- any injuries you've had and/or illness for which you've been treated
- any allergies to foods, medications, household items, etc.
- a list of all your medicines, doses and how long you've been taking them
- chronic diseases, if any
- a history of illnesses in your family
- any accommodations you may need to make medical decisions (such as sign language interpreter, information written in large print, picture symbols, etc.)
Once you compile your PMR, you can keep it up to date by requesting test results and other medical records as they come up in the future. If you keep your PMR electronically, you can store a copy of it on a flash drive so it's always with you (if you do this, it's a good idea to password-protect it).
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The aim of this paper is to obtain new necessary and sufficient conditions for the uniform exponential stability of variational difference equations with applications to robustness problems. We prove characterizations for exponential stability of variational difference equations using translation invariant sequence spaces and
emphasize the importance of each hypothesis. We introduce a new concept of stability radius for a variational system of difference equations with respect to a perturbation structure and deduce a very general estimate for the lower bound of. All the results are obtained without any restriction concerning the coefficients, being applicable for any system of variational difference equations.


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Published August 29, 2012
In experiments, captive bears showed that they could perform numerical tasks, including distinguishing the number of dots on an image.
Even though bears have the largest relative brain size of any carnivore (still not as big as primates), surprisingly little research has been done on their cognitive abilities, according to the study. (Read "Animal Minds" in National Geographic magazine.)
The new research shows for the first time that "bears and other animals that have been neglected by cognitive scientists... may show abilities similar to species more like humans," study co-author Jennifer Vonk, a comparative psychologist at the University of Oakland in Rochester, Michigan, said by email.
Will Work for Food
For the experiment, three black bears in their enclosure in Alabama's Mobile Zoo were given the opportunity to approach a touch-screen computer on a rolling cart. The large carnivores, which are generally "motivated to work for food," proved willing participants, Vonk said.
When a bear walked up to the computer, the screen flashed two images—for instance, a set of large dots and a set of small dots, which were both randomly colored black or red. Each bear was already trained to touch the computer with its nose or paw, and would do this to choose an image, according to the study, published in June in the journal Animal Behaviour.
If the bear touched the "correct" category—randomly determined by the scientists—the computer beeped melodically and the animal got a food reward. If the bear touched the incorrect category, the computer buzzed and the next pair of images was shown.
To show if the bear had learned what image was correct (say, a high or low number of dots), the scientists showed them a new set of images that were of the same type as the previous ones.
The results showed all the bears were able to choose the correct image that got them food. It set the stage to look closer at their ability to "count."
A further experiment discovered that one bear, named Brutus, could also discriminate numbers.
Brutus was shown two images—one with a set of large dots and another with a set of small dots. This was followed by another two images, in each of which the dots were moving and placed on a background of a different size than the previous images.
The bear still chose the correct image despite these "conflicting cues," suggesting he can "count" the dots to distinguish the one to get him a treat, Vonk said. (Watch video: "Smart Animals.")
Even so, "it's too early to call it counting per se," she noted.
Because the task was voluntary, Vonk struggled with the bears all trying to participate at once—knowing a treat was imminent. "The hardest part was giving only one access to the screen," she said. (See bear pictures.)
Dave Garshelis, who was not involved in the study but serves as bear project leader at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, said that the bears may have found it relatively easy to respond to the color of the dots because they resemble berries, one of the black bear's main food sources.
For instance, black bears are able to discern the preferred ripe blackberries—which are black—from unripe blackberries, which are red.
He also added that the experiment was geared toward visual acuity—the most comfortable sense for humans, but not so much for bears, whose sense of smell is a thousand times greater than a person's.
In the experiment, "you've actually stripped them of their main sense that they make decisions by, which is their sense of smell," he said.
Garshelis suspects the bears would have performed even better on the tests if there'd been smells emanating from the screen.
Bears Evolved Smarts to Find Food?
It makes sense that bears would be smart—as loner omnivores, the animals must problem solve to root out a variety of food sources, the authors noted.
Garshelis agreed that bears' cognitive abilities may result from them having to respond to rapidly changing food sources.
"Imagine if you were on a buffet line and you're moving through and making the choice of what to put on your plate, and the people who set the food up are constantly changing it in front of you and you never know what's coming," he said.
That's what bears face when finding fruit each summer, which can be abundant one year but scarce the next, he said.
Roger Powell, a bear expert at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, agreed, adding via email, "All I can say is that from over 20 years of doing research on bears, I was constantly impressed with their intelligence.
"They are highly adapted to find new foods that become available and to take advantage of foods that are very different and that must be acquired in new ways the bears have never used before," said Powell, who was not involved in the research.
Overall, the finding may open up possibilities for comparing the cognitive abilities of bears and primates, Vonk said. Primates have been performing computerized tasks for decades.
"It is exciting to consider," the study said, "that such divergent species can be tested in the same way to promote a fuller picture" of animal smarts.
NASA's "eyes in the sky" tracked Monday's tornado as it moved through Moore, Oklahoma.
These six scientists were snubbed for awards or robbed of credit for discoveries … because they were women.
Scientists say they've learned why penguin wings, now used for swimming, no longer get the birds off the ground.


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BY SHANIQUE PALMER
03 July 2008
The Supreme Court decision was only one month old when I entered
prison, and I do not believe that I even had the vaguest idea of its
importance or historical significance. But later …this controversy
awakened me to my position in America, and I began to form a concept
of what it meant to be black in white America." –Eldridge Cleaver
In 1954, when the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed school segregation,
civil rights leader Eldridge Cleaver began to write a collection of
essays while serving a state prison sentence for marijuana possession.
Soul on Ice, his psychological autobiography, was first published in
1968, and gave an insightful look into the core of an incarcerated
black man's soul. Although the book is now 40 years old, Cleaver's
mindset bears similarities to those of many young African-American males today.
Cleaver was a member of the Black Panther Party, a black organization
that promoted civil rights and self-defense, and that was staunchly
opposed to police brutality against black people. It was most active
during the mid-1960s and '70s.
Seeking to highlight the ties between the civil rights era and
today's struggle for African-American equality, the Old Dillard
Museum presents "Soul on Ice," an exhibit that features the work of
four local contemporary artists: Addonis Parker, Wanda Paulette,
Charles Humes and Winsome Bolt.
The exhibit, scheduled for the same time as the museum's Juneteenth
exhibit, is on display throughout July at the African-American
Research Library and Cultural Center near Fort Lauderdale.
The exhibit's theme, conceptualized by Parker, the featured artist,
"captures the artists' feelings on how the movement that sought
freedom and justice during the '60s affects us today," said Derek T.
Davis, curator at the Old Dillard Museum.
Davis noted, "There was a lot of fury in the time of Cleaver, and the
artists speak about the issues and the things that they see are still
affecting the black communities in their pieces."
The Old Dillard Museum, formerly known as "the Colored School,'' was
the first school in Broward County that gave African-Americans
much-needed educational opportunities during segregation. Today, the
Broward County School Board operates the former school site as a
museum. It provides enriching exhibitions and educational
opportunities to keep black history alive.
Parker, a Miami artist and studio owner who received the 2007 Van
Guard Award from Dade County Parks and Recreation in recognition of
his work, said, "I came up with the theme 'Soul on Ice' to cause
electricity and sparks. I wanted it to be catchy and I felt that it
was a name geared towards our advancement in the African Diaspora."
Parker continued, "The exhibition is about liberation, empowerment
and respect for the riches of our souls and creativity."
The piece that Parker claims is his most controversial is called "The
Cure." It touches on many issues, such as Hurricane Katrina, the
veterans who are not getting proper treatment or a hero's welcome,
and the current high gas prices. It includes images of Malcolm X,
Martin Luther King Jr., and the Statue of Liberty, Parker said.
Paulette specializes in surreal art. One of her pieces at the
exhibition is "Call to Remembrance," a portrait of a baby surrounded
by water who is playing the guitar. The baby is singing a song that
calls her to revisit the past.
"We artists have a way of capturing those views, and my pieces
connect the past with the future,'' Paulette said. "It shows where
we've come from as a people and attempts to find out if the drive for
improvement is there, or if we've'made it.' "
IF YOU GO
What: The Old Dillard Museum presents the art exhibit, "Soul on Ice"
Where: Broward County African-American Research Library and Cultural
Center, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd., near Fort Lauderdale
When: Grand Opening and reception on Saturday, July 5at 3 p.m.;
public exhibit runs throughout July
Contact: Derek T. Davis, _PHONE_


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Study shows yoga is effective at reducing anger, decreasing violence and producing strong, self-confident students.
Bullying and violence are a major problem in schools and among youth. This interview focuses on how yoga-based techniques are proving effective in bully proofing our children and classrooms.
Dee Marie, of Calming Kids Yoga, will share her ground-breaking program that teaches yoga and conflict management skills to youth giving them the skills needed to be calm and compassionate, strong and resilient. We'll also discuss the Harvard study results of the program. Also joining us is Cheryl Crawford (Grounded), with the program Quest for Elevation which is used in schools to teach yoga based techniques to combat bullying.
Find out how yoga can empower your children and stop bullying.
Enjoy this Shanti Generation video of teens talking about how yoga helps counter bullying.
Thanks to all who work to bring yoga based techniques into schools. As Dee mentions the number one anti-bullying skill yoga teaches youth is awareness. As children/teens become more aware of their body, their emotions, their words and their environment, they can make decisions and take action based on the yoga principle of Ahimsa: kindness to self and others.
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Algorithmic Decision Making with Conditional Fairness
Renzhe Xu: Tsinghua University; Peng Cui: Tsinghua University; Kun Kuang: Zhejiang University; Bo Li: Tsinghua University; Linjun Zhou: Tsinghua University; Zheyan Shen: Tsinghua University; Wei Cui: Squirrel AI Learning
Nowadays fairness issues have raised great concerns in decision-making systems. Various fairness notions have been proposed to measure the degree to which an algorithm is unfair. In practice, there frequently exist a certain set of variables we term as fair variables, which are pre-decision covariates such as users' choices. The effects of fair variables are irrelevant in assessing the fairness of the decision support algorithm. We thus define conditional fairness as a more sound fairness metric by conditioning on the fairness variables. Given different prior knowledge of fair variables, we demonstrate that traditional fairness notations, such as demographic parity and equalized odds, are special cases of our conditional fairness notations. Moreover, we propose a Derivable Conditional Fairness Regularizer (DCFR), which can be integrated into any decision-making model, to track the trade-off between precision and fairness of algorithmic decision making. Specifically, an adversarial representation based conditional independence loss is proposed in our DCFR to measure the degree of unfairness. With extensive experiments on three real-world datasets, we demonstrate the advantages of our conditional fairness notation and DCFR.
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School's Out : a comparative study of workplace sexuality through the experiences of gay and lesbian teachers in California and Texas
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This dissertation investigates the workplace experiences of gay and lesbian teachers. In-depth interviews and field observations were conducted with 51 teachers in Texas and in California, two states with different legal approaches to gay rights and worker rights. This comparative study highlights the importance of social, political, and cultural context in individual decision-making about sexual disclosure and performance, explores the consequences of "normalization" of LGBT experiences in the classroom, and addresses the role of identity politics in social change. By taking an intersectional approach to gay/lesbian identity construction, this dissertation considers how race, class, gender, and sexuality inequalities are expressed and reinforced in the experiences of gay and lesbian teachers.


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English definition of "light"
noun uk /laɪt/ us
light noun (BRIGHTNESS)
light noun (FLAME)
a light something that will produce a flame and cause burning, such as a match or a cigarette lighter: Have you got a light, please? set light to sth UK to cause something to start burning: The lamp caught fire and set light to the curtains.
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A2 not heavy: Here, take this bag - it's quite light. He's a few pounds lighter than he used to be. How do you get your cakes so wonderfully light, Felicity? He has a very light (= gentle) touch, which is what is required in massage. She's very light on her feet (= she moves gracefully). A2 describes clothes that are made of thin material that allows you to be cool: a light summer dress
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entertaining and easily understood, but not serious and not intended to make you think: I want some light reading for the summer holidays - a romance or something. A lively argument between the two main speakers provided a bit of light relief (= something enjoyable or amusing) in an otherwise dull conference. make light of sth C2 to behave as if a situation, especially a problem, is not serious or important: It is easy to make light of other people's problems.
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B1 not great in strength or amount: A light wind was blowing. The traffic was quite light so we got through London quickly. It's only light rain - you don't need an umbrella. light eater/drinker/smoker someone who eats/drinks/smokes only a little light sleeper someone who is easily woken up by noise, etc.
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- the interval of light between two successive nights;
the time between sunrise and sunset: Since there was no artificial illumination, all activities hadto be carried on during the day.
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daylight: The owl sleeps by day and feeds by night.
- Also called mean solar day. a division of time equal to 24 hours and representing the average length of the period during which the earth makes one rotation on its axis.
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2 units of AWISFA did that.
f) Brow lift
Well, it doesn't. Not really.
AWISFA relaxes muscles relaxes muscles relaxes muscles.
It happens in neurology that if two or more muscles act together to produce a certain action, and one such muscle is damaged or diseased, the other muscle(s) will act stronger to compensate. This is called "recruitment".
For example, three muscles act together to flex your elbow: biceps, brachialis and brachioradialis. If brachialis is cut, biceps and brachioradialis will get thicker and stronger to compensate.
Now, in order to get the brows to rise, we need to trick the lateral (side) parts of frontalis to pull harder. We do this by applying some AWISFA to the *central* section of frontalis. This prompts the lateral parts of frontalis to pull harder to try to compensate for this perceived weakness, and this pulls up the brows in the process.
Neat? Yes.
The other thing we do to prompt a brow lift is to place a little AWISFA into the orbicularis oculi muscle just under the brow. Orbicularis oculi at this position would ordinarily pull down the brow a bit as it contributes to closing the eyelid – by diminishing this activity there is less total pull-down on the brow, so the pull-up of frontalis can occur against less opposition.
The net effect of these two manouvres is to produce a modest but welcome browlift in most patients.
g) Gummy smile
Some people find that when they smile their top lip rises so high that a sizable acreage of bright pink gum comes on display, and they don't like it.
Careful placements of a few units of AWISFA into the levator labii muscles will reduce this excessive muscle pull, leaving less gum exposure in smiling.
h) Deep nasolabial lines
Nasolabial lines run from the edge of the nostril down to the corner of the mouth, and *everyone* has these lines when they smile: even my kids display nasolabial lines on smiling. But as we age they commonly get deeper and persist even when we are not smiling – in this case a dermal filler is the lost useful initial strategy. However, some patients manifest very deep nasolabial lines due to overactivity of levator labii superioris alaque nasi. A little AWISFA, again, will reduce this problem.
i) Smoker's lines
This is something of a misnomer. Cigarettes per se do not cause these lines, and many non-smokers still have them.
Interestingly they almost never occur in men. Due to the presence of full moustache follicles, it's hard for a man to purse his upper lip the way a woman can.
And mumblers, with poor diction, don't tend to get them (unless they smoke); only those with expressive mouths and accurate diction tend to get these lines as they wrap their expressive lips around every syllable they utter.
j) Sad mouth
This girl is pulling down the corners of her mouth with a bilateral muscle called depressor anguli oris.
If you do this all the time, then a) it looks sad, and b) you'll get these:
These are also called "marionette" lines or melomental lines. And whilst the commonest and first treatment for these is often a filler, filling is not always the right first thing to do. If there is overactivity of the depressor anguli oris muscle then a little AWISFA will help. It will also help raise the corner of the mouth and give you a little Mona Lisa smile. Nice.
k) Chin crease
Again, a little AWISFA into the mentalis muscle, usually 2 units each side, will diminish mentalis activity enough to improve this line.
l) Cheek mesotreatment
Small doses of AWISFA can be applied throughout the cheeks, indeed over most of the animated areas of the face, in order to subtly diminish the hyperactivity that leads to disproportionate lining in some patients. So, if you can't help yourself over-animating your face, and you are developing lines you don't want as a consequence of this, a little AWISFA may diminish the movement enough to you improvement without interfering with you need to express and do what you need to.
m) Nefertiti lift
Nefertiti was an Egyptian princess with a very sharp jawline according to the images we have of her, and the Nefertiti lift is an AWISFA technique designed to sharpen the jawline by reducing the pull-down effect of platysma specifically along the jawline. Dose varies according to need and according to whatever other AWISFA treatments are being performed but generally 10 units each side brings about the effect we want
n) Masseter hypertrophy/square jaw/masculine jawline.
The jawline on the left has a powerful, even macho look, due to thick and strong masseter (jawline) musculature. Now, this is a look some people may like, as it exudes force and strength and even aggression. Others may prefer the softer look on the right, following AWISFA into the masseters. The latter is less macho, more oval rather than square.
o) Neck pain
For whatever reason, some people develop focal neck pain inadequately relieved by analgesics physiotherapy and time.
If you have neck pain and can point with one finger to the focal point of your pain, as if to say "the pain is RIGHT HERE", then there is a good chance a few units of AWISFA to that point will help relieve your pain for up to a few months.
Whether this effect occurs because AWISFA relaxes tight muscles that are contributing to your pain complex, or whether there is some direct action, is not yet known, but, hey, if it works it works.
often when nothing else will.
p) Migraine
As with neck pain, the key here is to be able to say there is a specific trigger point or focal point to the pain. If you have a migraine pain that you feel all over your head, AWISFA is unlikely to help. But if you can point with one finger to the place from which the pain comes, then a jab of AWISFA to that point is definitely worth a try.
q) Horizontal neck lines
Usually 20 units of AWISFA, spread out over 40 injections of 1/2 unit each over the area of platysma causing the lines, will reduce movement enough to see significant reduction in those lines.
r) Platysmal bands
Injecting 10 units of AWISFA along the line of the platysmal band will relax that band, resulting in a smoother neck.
s) Torticollis
Torticollis is a condition involving long-term painful contraction of the sternomastoid muscle. Such patients thus have a head that is chronically tilted and turned in one direction.
AWISFA injected into the sternomastoid will relax the muscle, reduce pain and allow a more symmetric posture of the head and neck to be attained.
t) Tight trapezius
The trapezius is the major muscle running from the back of the neck to the top of the shoulder. Chronic tension in this muscle can cause pain, and, once more, injections of AWISFA can relieve the tension and reduce the pain. Patients who respond to this treatment are extremely grateful.
u) Axillary (armpit) sweating/hyperhidrosis
Some people unfortunately suffer a degree of underarm sweating that is embarrassing and unsightly. Deodorants and antiperspirants may not help or may not help enough, and historically such persons had no alternative but to consider surgery to reduce their sweating.
Today, such unwanted sweating can be hugely reduced or eliminated by injections of AWISFA.
The major factor inhibiting the wider use of AWISFA for this indication is cost. Textbooks and published articles on the use of AWISFA for underarm sweating have recommended doses of 50-100 units per side, which would render the possible cost of treatment to be over $2000 per three months.
At Peach our experience over the years has been that a very satisfactory reduction in sweating can be achieved with much lower doses, and so we routinely inject 20 units each side. This reduces the cost to $590: not cheap, but manageable. We have found it to be rare that patients need a higher dose than this, and, even if this is the case, we can say that we have at least tried the lower dose to deliver a cost-effective result.
v) Palmar (hand) sweating
Hand sweating can be similarly reduced with injections of AWISFA. but the trick here is of course managing the discomfort of having so many injections into sensitive fingers and palms. Dr Mahony therefore performs nerve blocks to the median and ulnar nerves in order to completely numb the hands for AWISFA injections.
Obviously this is a treatment that is not entered into lightly, and patients have to be seriously troubled by their hand sweating to contemplate it.
w) Plantar (foot/sole) sweating
Foot sweating can be reduced by injections with AWISFA as well. Once again, nerve blocks are used to achieve anaesthesia and then the AWISFA is injected in multiple injections covering the sole of the foot. Again, this treatment is really only for the very committed.
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Summary: In her book, Unequal Childhoods, Annette Lareau describes two child-rearing strategies. Concerted cultivation (where parents actively foster and assess the child's talents, opinions, and skills) is more commonly practiced by middle-class families and the accomplishment of natural growth (where parents care for their children and allow them to grow naturally) is more typical of working class and poor families (the differences are illustrated in our previous post). While concerted cultivation is the child-rearing strategy that is more likely to instil skills and dispositions in children that enable them to succeed in the professional workplace, Lareau argues that both strategies have their advantages and disadvantages. This news clip illustrates the style of concerted cultivation, emphasizes its drawbacks, and describes a movement reacting against it. Concerted cultivation is demonstrated by children in the video who discuss strenuous daily schedules, which is motivated by parents who want their children to compete for their place in the world and excel at everything. It emphasizes the disadvantages of this child-rearing strategy with the children experiencing high levels of stress and anxiety, noting that this form of "parenting becomes a cross between a competitive sport and product development." The majority of the clip discusses Slow Parenting (also called free range parenting), a movement of parenting that reacts against these pressures. It features commentary from Carl Honoré, whose books Under Pressure and In Praise of Slow, encourage parents to slow down. He describes the strategy and its merits this way: "Slow parenting is about bringing the balance back; it's about giving children the time and space to explore the world on their own terms, at their own pace, to make mistakes and learn from them--to get bored even so that they can learn how to create... and work out who they are rather than who we want them to be." The clip goes on to interview parents who have practiced an extreme form of this (e.g. allowing their 8-year old to travel alone on the subway) and have been criticized by people for being irresponsible. A second function of the clip is to show a cultural practice that could lessen inequality between middle-class and working-class parents. If slow parenting (which more closely resembles the accomplishment of natural growth strategy) were encouraged among middle-class families, it might help to diminish the privileges conferred upon middle-class children while improving their quality of life.
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Dryopteris clintoniana (Dryopteris cristata var. clintoniana)
Clinton's woodfern originated as a hybrid of Goldie's fern and crested woodfern, and its characteristics are mostly intermediate between the two parents. The fertile fronds of Clinton's woodfern are taller, narrower, and more upright than its sterile fronds, but the difference is less pronounced than it is in crested woodfern. Like crested woodfern, Clinton's woodfern's lowest leaflets are broadly triangular. The fronds are wider than crested woodfern fronds, but narrower than Goldie's fern fronds.
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5 Signs You're Watering Too Much
A high water bill may be your first clue that something is terribly amiss. But there are a few other signs that signal you may be overwatering your landscape.
Sometimes the biggest water waste happens in perfectly manicured lawns, watering on the correct time and day, with no signs of broken sprinklers or anything wrong. In such a case, a high water bill may be the customer's first clue that something's terrible amiss in the water department. But here are a few signs to watch for — usually in summer, but any time of year if you're overwatering:
 1. Cockroaches:If you see cockroaches wandering around shrubs, pots, grasses and the yard in general, you've got a perfect habitat for cockroaches — and that means your yard is as wet as the inside of a sewer pipe. Sound gross?
Cockroaches thrive on decomposing plant material. So remember, all that extra water is probably building up as thatch and rotting your grass from below. Other insects that benefit from too much water: pillbugs, millipedes and especially fire ants.
2. Dollarweed: Dollarweed is one of those plants so tenacious it's created an industry of big-box weed killers for homeowners trying to get rid of it. Hint: dollarweed requires even more water to look good than grass — so if your grass is drowning in dollarweed, put down the weedkiller and pick up the sprinkler instruction.
3. Fungus:
Has it been raining? Then look for mushrooms. But if there are still mushrooms in dry, warm winter weather, your lawn is probably staying wet and poorly drained; not a good idea, since in addition to mushrooms, some of the most common fungal turf diseases include take-all patch and brown patch.
4. Wet walls, fences, and cans: It's not just the amount of water you use, it's where you put it. By some estimates, about one-fifth of summer irrigation water is spent watering side yards, AC condensers, toolsheds and garbage cans — and that's way too much. Heads in the side yard can be capped or turned off to reduce watering items that do not need the extra water.
5. Runoff: Pools of water are a sure sign the run times are too long on your sprinkler system. If the yard is too steep to hold much water, cycle and soak (watering shorter length of time, but multiple times in a row) may be a better method. Remember, your bedding plants typically need less water than grass.
So remember, use common sense when it comes to your outdoor use. If things feel or look too wet, reduce the time by 2 minutes to see how it helps the problems. Wait at least a week before making more changes.
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Do I Have a Water Leak?
During the hottest parts of the year the phone calls increase with concerns from people asking if they have a water leak, or maybe their neighbor is using their water to fill up their pool. There's just no way they had used that much water this past month. Or the meter reader must have read the meter wrong! Or the meter is just wrong, or the water lines are crossed because the neighbor waters every day and I don't and my bill is higher… I think I've heard it all! Rarely do we find anything more than leaks or an irrigation system that is using more water than the homeowner realizes. Nothing too exciting in the grand scheme of things.
If you think you may have a water leak, then there are simple steps you can take to figure out if you have one, before calling a plumber. The first thing to do is to locate your water meter. It is outside, typically near the front property line on one of the sides of your house, near the sidewalk. The box is rectangular and either has a metal lid or black plastic lid. If you can, open it up. Inside the meter box are typically two water meters. I keep saying usually, because thereWater meter register 200px are always exceptions! Anyway, your meter is closer to your house, and the other meter is your neighbor's.
Looking at the face of the meter, there is a hand that sweeps around the face, much like the hands of a clock. When that hand moves one time around the face that means 10 gallons have been used, or have gone through the meter. If the hand is moving when you open up the meter, then that means water is currently going through the meter and is being used at your property. When no water to your knowledge is on at your house, that hand should be perfectly still.
There's also a small staror triangle-shaped feature on the face that we commonly call the "leak detector." It moves when we often can't see the hand moving, because it's a little more sensitive to lower flow water. If this is perfectly still too, then good, no leak. If it's moving, then again, something is using water.
There is also numbers on the face of the meter, like an odometer in a vehicle. This is the number that gets read every month to calculate how many gallons have gone through the meter. At the end of the day, before going to bed, you can write down these numbers. In the morning, before water is used at the house, go read the numbers again. If they are the same, great, no leak. If they have changed, then water has been used on the property. To find out how much water was used, subtract the morning number from the night number. The answer you get is the gallons that were used. (i.e. the meter read 58673 in the morning and 55492 at night. So 58673 – 55492 = 3181 gallons were used overnight!) Oh yes, that's right, my irrigation system went off; that's how much water it used.
Watch our video to see how to perform this meter check yourself. Good luck!


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How long would it take to drink the oceans?
How long would it take the human race to drink all the water in the earth's oceans?
If each human on earth were to drink the recommended amount of water per day (1.9 liters), it would take them 259,931,901.5 years to drink 1.2348E21 liters (the amount of water in the oceans). This is assuming, of course, that each human, including babies, would have to drink 1.9 liters a day, all the water in the ocean was drinkable, and all water that was drank by someone would not find its way back in to the ocean.
Amount of water in the ocean (science.howstuffworks.com)
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About 2.5% of Earth's water is freshwater including freshwater lakes, swamps, atmospheric, groundwater, glaciers, ground ice and permafrost. All freshwater originally evaporated off the oceans and saltwater lakes, and the freshwater collected into the streams and rivers into freshwater lakes. A lot of this freshwater flows right back out to the ocean. Some freezes on the tops of mountains forming snow, snow-caps, ice, and glaciers. In order for humans to drink all the water in the oceans, it would first have to collect into glaciers. Otherwise, you couldn't store it. Then your billions of ice age people could drink the meltwater collected by their dams. Over the course of hundreds of millions of years, their frozen waste water would collect back into the ocean. The whole project would involve fine control of Earth's climate to insure all the Earth's ocean water evaporated, then collected as glacier water. An engineering project which might optimistically take a billion or so years. If you brute force the process, and pump the water to the north and south poles, you can do it much faster. What with nanotechnology and such, and a phenomenal, exponential population explosion, the human could drink the ocean in a tiny fraction of that time.
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text: We present an iterative inner-outer scheme for the efficient solution of large-scale electromagnetics problems involving perfectly-conducting objects formulated with surface integral equations. Problems are solved by employing the multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) on parallel computer systems. In order to construct a robust preconditioner, we develop an approximate MLFMA (AMLFMA) by systematically increasing the efficiency of the ordinary MLFMA. Using a flexible outer solver, iterative MLFMA solutions are accelerated via an inner iterative solver, employing AMLFMA and serving as a preconditioner to the outer solver. The resulting implementatin is tested on various electromagnetics problems involving both open and closed conductors. We show that the processing time decreases significantly using the proposed method, compared to the solutions obtained with conventional preconditioners in the literature.


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They're slowly taking over our world, but the one skillset that robots and computers haven't mastered yet is sportscasting. Keeping track of every single player on a basketball court is a real challenge for an artificial intelligence, but researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland may have developed a system that could finally let the machines excel at even play by play commentary.
Previous attempts at such a system use GPS or RFID tags on the players which are against the rules in professional leagues. So the system developed by the EPFL's Computer Vision Laboratory relies solely on multiple feeds from video cameras that are analyzed by a set of three unique algorithms. The first breaks the basketball court, or soccer field, into a grid, estimating the probability of each cell being occupied by a player. The second handles tracking, estimating the trajectories of each player based on the results of the first algorithm. But since those trajectories can get mixed up when players are close together or cross paths, a third algorithm tracks their appearance, keeping tabs on players based on the color of their jersey, or the number they wear.
In addition to stat tracking, enhanced instant replays and the possibility of replacing a dry human sportscaster with an even dryer simulation of one, the technology will let coaches better analyze a team's performance, or develop a deeper understanding of the tactics used by an opponent. However, it will not provide a constant stream of useless facts and anecdotes, ensuring that the Joe Bucks of the world still have a few more years of job security. [EPFL CVLAB via Gizmag]


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John B. Asbury, Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, will present a seminar entitled, "Quantum Confinement, Materials and Molecules: Pathways to High Efficiency Solution Processable Solar Cells".
Everyone is welcome!
Many emerging electronic materials targeting high throughput low temperature processing are molecular in nature. Examples include solution processable organic and colloidal quantum dot materials for photovoltaic and flexible display technologies. The Asbury group has pioneered the development of ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy techniques to examine electronic processes in materials with particular focus on the influence that underlying molecular structures have on those properties.
This seminar will focus on understanding the influence that ligands have on the efficiency of colloidal quantum dot (CQD) photovoltaic materials. CQDs are rapidly emerging as a third generation photovoltaic technology that promises a solution processable equivalent to silicon solar cells. They combine bandgap tunability to capture all of the solar spectrum with large area solution processability for low cost hight speed manufacture. Like traditional inorganic semiconductors, for which understanding the mechanisms of charge transport was critical to such advances as modern computing and solar cell technologies, progress in CQD photovoltaic efficiency has occurred through development of methods to control charge transport. The mechanism of charge transport in colloidal quantum dot solids has, until now, been controversial. Using ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy in partnership with leaders in the CQD photovoltaic field, we have identified the nature of electrical transport states that are principally responsible for charge transport in CQD solids and elucidated the role that ligands have in determining the properties of these states. Insights from the findings provide new understanding of current limitations and give direction to ongoing efforts to realize yet higher efficiency CQD solar cells.
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Oct. 19, 2009 A new computerised approach to airport operations is being developed that will reduce delays, speed up baggage handling and decrease pollution.
The project is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and led by researchers at The University of Nottingham.
The research work aims to computerise and co-ordinate four key areas of airport operations: scheduling of aeroplanes taking-off and landing, gate assignment and baggage handling. The end result will be a prototype search engine capable of analysing the many billions of possible scheduling combinations so as to provide the best advice to the controllers, who decide where in the airport to send planes.
Currently these four aspects of airport operations are, in most cases, organised manually by highly skilled staff making decisions based on observations, reports and their experience. Furthermore, each activity is run in isolation from the others, which allows the potential for any difficulties in operations in one area to affect another. This can lead to delays snowballing.
As well as enhancing the experience for passengers, crucially, the improvements in scheduling will reduce pollution by minimising the time planes are on the ground with engines running. This could save thousands of litres of aviation fuel every year, a vital improvement given the growth in air travel predicted in the coming years.
A consortium of researchers from four universities are involved in the project, assisted by Manchester and Zurich Airports which will provide crucial advice and expertise from the user's point of view.
The project will see development of computational models for each of the four airport operations which, ultimately, will be run on regular PCs. Key to the research will be examining how to run them all together to streamline overall operations.
Principal investigator on the project and Dean of the Faculty of Science at The University of Nottingham, Professor Edmund Burke, says the limitations of the current systems are widely acknowledged: "Many people in the industry recognise that automating just one of these aspects could improve the efficient running of airport operations, so integrating all four would be a huge step forward."
"We'll be developing a computer system that will work its way through the many billions of permutations created daily in each of these operations, to provide a much higher level of computer-aided decision support than is currently available," says Burke. This will provide the best possible advice to runway controllers and other airport staff to inform their decisions regarding where planes and baggage are moved to.
Among the crucial issues being tackled is the matter of how long an aeroplane needs for preparation on the ground before take off. This has to include enough time for the passenger safety briefing, which is a legal requirement, and for the engines to warm up. If sent to the runway without incorporating enough time for these activities, it will mean a delay at the runway before take off. This can lead to unnecessary congestion on the runway, aircraft unnecessarily using up fuel while waiting for take off, and, potentially, delays to other flights.
Burke adds that the involvement of the two airports will also provide invaluable assistance to the multi-disciplinary team of scientists and engineers: "Working closely with Manchester and Zurich airports will ensure access to real world expertise that should help us achieve the best possible result."
The academic team in the consortium consists of representatives from: The University of Nottingham, University of Salford, Loughborough University and University of Liverpool.
The four-year research project "Integrating and Automating Airport Operations" will begin on 1 December 2009 and is scheduled to end on 30 November 2013. It has received EPSRC funding of £681,924.
Research by the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006 found that a 1% increase in air transport leads to a 5% increase in delays. With a 26% rise in air transport expected by 2013, compared to 2006, (according to the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation) this project could help airports change the way they operate.
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Do individuals that use noradrenaline inhibitors retain hair color?
Zhang et al. found that stress stimulates the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) to release a rush of noradrenaline. The spike in noradrenaline causes a steep decline in the number of melanocyte stem cells, and this leads to the loss of hair colour.
In the same study, Zhang and colleagues found that a drug called guanethidine was able to prevent stress-induced hair greying in mice. Zhang suggests that the mice treated with guanethidine were able to maintain the melanocyte stem cell population and that's why they didn't lose their hair colour.
So what is guanethidine?
Guanethidine is a drug that blocks the release of noradrenaline from the nerve endings. It is an anti-hypertensive drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure as it can reduce the heart rate and can dilate the blood vessels.
Interestingly, noradrenaline inhibitors can be prescribed to individuals with anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Perhaps a study could be conducted to determine whether other noradrenaline inhibitors like atomoxetine, reboxetine, tandamine, etc. have the ability to retain hair colour. If so, this would be highly beneficial because most of these drugs are already licensed and would just need to be repurposed as a hair pigment therapy.
So do individuals that use noradrenaline inhibitors retain their hair colour?
[1]Zhang, Bing, et al. "Hyperactivation of sympathetic nerves drives depletion of melanocyte stem cells." Nature _PHONE_ (2020): 676-681.
[2]Woosley, Raymond L., and Alan S. Nies. "Guanethidine." New England Journal of Medicine 295.19 (1976): _PHONE_.
[3]Dell'Osso, Bernardo, et al. "The noradrenergic action in antidepressant treatments: pharmacological and clinical aspects." CNS neuroscience & therapeutics 17.6 (2011): 723-732.
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Due to the high volume of events, projects and requests, many departments at the Catholic University of America opt to purchase a consumer-grade camera in order to meet the workflow of those events. Here are some recommendations regarding purchasing and operating a consumer camera:
The further the subject is from the microphone the worse the sound quality will be. In physics, this is known as the inverse square law.
HD does not always mean high quality but it does mean large file sizes and higher processing time. Even if you have a high definition camera, consider shooting in SD. Many computers will have issues handling high definition video in post processing.
A tripod is a cheap addition to making your video look professional and keeping the subject in frame. The shaky-documentary effect seen in reality television shows is created with what is essentially a very expensive tripod.
The camera should have an image stabilizer included in order to keep the image smooth and avoid a "Jell-O effect" even when the camera secured to a tripod.
A high optical zoom is preferred to a digital zoom. Digital zoom should be avoided due to degradation of image quality.
Tape cameras digitize in real time so purchasing a hard drive camera (or a camera that records to SD cards) is preferred.
The camera should record directly to MOV, MP4 or M4V file types. Not to a brand specific file type.


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This is used when players move from one coaching team to another. In order to keep the player pathway model going with a club, communication of player skill development between coaches is of paramount importance. Therefore, the following model is a tool necessary to have in your club:
Traffic light system of player development
|RED: Player is in the beginner phase of skill (0-5 on profile scale)|
Beginner Phase-Player is just beginning learning about a skill and is very much in the high mistakes period of learning. The coach needs to be focused on spotting and fixing and showing a high level of encouragement and support to the player.
|ORANGE: Player is in the learning phase of skill (6-10 on profile scale)|
Learning Phase – player has got the basics of how to perform the skill, can do it without pressure and is starting to see improvements in their ability to carry it out. The coach is very important within this phase in encouraging practice of the skill and challenging the player to go beyond their comfort zone.
|YELLOW: Player is in the learned phase of skill (11-15 on profile scale)|
Learned Phase – Player is able to carry out the skill under pressure and at a good intensity. They are becoming confident in their ability. The coach must put the player into situations that are highly challenging and test the players limits with skill.
|GREEN: Player is in the automatic phase of skill (16-20 on profile scale)|
Automatic Phase – Player carries out the skills without having to take time to think in extremely high-pressure situations. They're not fazed by high level intensity from opposition and are calm under this pressure. The coaches' job here is to keep challenging the player through questioning about different situations that occur in the game and how to use skill to create openings in through use of skill.
It is important to understand that players can move through these phases quickly with certain skills but may take an extended period of time with others. After injury or time away from the game a player may move back a stage. With certain skills ie. solo, a player can be automatic on one side such as right foot, but learning phase on other side left foot.


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The ICCSS promotes the chemical safety and security culture by bringing the issue to national level, by being more efficient in chemical safety and security capacity building and best practices exchanges, and by improving national and international coordination of chemical safety and security actors. Based on these core considerations the ICCSS has introduced five leading principles: Sustainability; Continuity; Public-private partnership; Multi-stakeholder participation; and Modern management.
The International Centre for Chemical Safety and Security (ICCSS) serves as a centre of excellence in chemical safety and security and supports the development of national and international networks of chemical safety and security officers from relevant national agencies, international organizations, industries, and civil society.
The ICCSS provides continuity to the international efforts in chemical safety and security and focuses on building the potential and expanding capabilities for research, development, storage, production, and safe use of chemicals for peaceful purposes.
The ICCSS serves as a multi-stakeholder chemical safety and security forum for exploring sustainable ways and means of sharing knowledge and best practices, promoting public-private enterprises and modern management in all areas of chemical activities:
- transportation of chemicals;
- academic activities and studies;
- scientific research; and
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The ICCSS combines and multiplies efforts, technical resources and expertise from industry associations, international organizations, national agencies, and NGOs, to achieve chemical safety and security in all aspects/areas of chemical activities.


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Depending on the attributes of the finished product, Die Cutting can be an excellent method of converting substrates.
We'll discuss what your're working with, the performance needed, and the environment. From there we'll discuss the details:
Shearing, also known as die cutting, is a process which cuts stock without the formation of chips or the use of burning or melting. Strictly speaking, if the cutting blades are straight the process is called shearing; if the cutting blades are curved then they are shearing-type operations.
A punch (or moving blade) is used to push the workpiece against the die (or fixed blade), which is fixed. Usually the clearance between the two is 5 to 10% of the thickness of the material, but dependent on the material. Clearance is defined as the separation between the blades, measured at the point where the cutting action takes place and perpendicular to the direction of blade movement. It affects the finish of the cut.
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