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Everybody knows health is wealth if anyone is feeling bad or ill they took it seriously except their teeth problems. They think it's normal but they do not know that oral health is the key of overall health. Problem in your mouth can also affect the whole body. There are so many teeth problem like gum disease, tooth decay, toothache, tooth, root canals etc. All are the serious problems and affect our health very dangerously.
Cavities and gum diseases contributes to many serious condition like diabetes, heart diseases. Toothache creates pain in teeth so, if anyone having any kind of tooth problem, contact to dentist as soon as possible.
Root canals are the space present inside the tooth from the centre to down to the tooth. Root canal creates the pain on all the areas of the tooth especially while eating it creates most of the problem. During root canal dangerous bacteria hide out in your tooth and they are unreachable with any kind of antibiotics. Root canal creates bacteria morph into very toxic form and that can migrate to other part of your body and then it will cause serious problem includining diseases of bones, kidney and heart. If anyone having problem regarding root canal then it is highly recommended consulting a biological dentist.
To resolve the above problem, Root Canal therapy is opting by Dentist. Endodontic therapy plays the main role for the treatment of Root canal in which privation of infected tooth is very important. Dentist drilled the topmost of the teeth and then they removed the pulp and infected tissue. After that the root canal is filled with essential oil and with filling material. If the tooth is badly infected then dentist recommend removal of the tooth,
If you have teeth disease, go for a dentist as soon as it becomes major. But we know very well that Precaution is better than Cure. Take some precautions and keep yourself away from teeth problems. So how can we minimize the risk of teeth problem for ourselves? To maintain good oral health we should follow these steps listed below:-
1. Teeth cleaning are a best way to avoid. Brush and floss your teeth daily.
2. Change your brush in each 3-4 month end also use soft bristled toothbrush. Brush correctly without using excessive force.
3. Use good quality of toothpaste for teeth cleaning. Clean your teeth at least two times in a day.
4. Eat healthy and nutritious food. Avoid acidic foods and drinks to prevent the teeth erosion.
Avoid so cold and so hot food, take them at natural temperature. Avoid excessive use of sweets.
Everyone knows about the worst and dangerous results of smoking on our physical health but we never know about its bad effect on our dental health. After going through many researches and results, we found that smoking reflects very hazardous effects on our dental oral hygiene.
Thus, if we follow the tips and techniques to maintain oral health then we may prevent ourselves from teeth problems to an extent.
David Hodges is a dentist and loves to share his views and advice, which are in public interest. In the present article, he has given valuable suggestion on teeth cleaning, Root canals and teeth problems.
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Sports Pulse: USA TODAY Sports' Steve Gardner breaks down just how good the Yankees will be with the addition of Giancarlo Stanton. USA TODAY Sports
A document obtained by The Miami Herald indicates that Miami Marlins CEO Derek Jeter, who has slashed payroll since purchasing the team late last year, expects the Marlins' new ownership group to turn a profit in 2018.
The document, which was circulated to potential investors in August, is titled "Project Wolverine" in a nod to Jeter's home state of Michigan.
According to The Herald, the document projects a "cash flow" profit of $68 million this year as the result of cutting payroll, increased ticket revenue and increased corporate sponsorship revenue. That figure is also dependent upon a one-time payment as part of a renegotiated television deal and a payout that all teams will receive upon the sale of an MLB digital-media company, according to the newspaper.
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The document, which was circulated to potential investors the same month that Jeter's group purchased the Marlins, projected a payroll of $90 million for 2018, indicating Jeter's plans to cut payroll upon his purchase of the team.
Since Jeter's arrival, the team has made several moves to unload star players and lower payroll, including trading MVP Giancarlo Stanton to the New York Yankees and starting outfielder Marcell Ozuna to the St. Louis Cardinals.
In addition to the significant profit margin projection for 2018, Jeter also projects profits in excess of $10 million in 2019, 2020 and 2021 in the document, according to The Herald.
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Practicing Developer Communications: Share Knowledge, Not FeaturesAdam DuVander
The last four years I had a job that most developers would envy. I got to check out new APIs, play around with them and then tell everyone what I thought of them. As Executive Editor at ProgrammableWeb, I watched the number of publicly available APIs leap from less than 2,000 to more than 9,000. And it's still growing, more rapidly than ever. Yet, now I work for SendGrid, which represents a small percentage of all APIs in existence. How does that make sense?
My entire career has been built around explaining technology. When I was an active developer, I needed to investigate new tools and decide how to implement them. As early as 2000, I wrote programming how-to articles on Webmonkey. Later I blogged for Wired about development topics, with a blend of news, analysis and instruction. Then I wrote a whole mapping APIs cookbook to help anyone to be able to create geographic-enabled websites.
It was while considering the entire API landscape that I realized the implications of every company providing APIs. That means every company needs to interact with developers. You probably don't need me to tell you that some are better at this than others. I believe the solution is simple: share knowledge, not features. It might run counter to traditional marketing, but then developers aren't traditional people.
Why SendGrid?
Since I've reviewed thousands of APIs, I have seen many great examples and even more bad examples. I developed the Three Cs for developer portals (clarity, cost and community), but I realized to truly understand I needed to see the process from the inside. At a number of events, I was impressed by SendGrid's developer relations team. And I saw an opportunity to scale their efforts with content.
Also, I invented SendGrid. While our founders may debate the semantics of that statement, what I mean is that I understand the problem. Email is the nerve center of my life, as it is for many. Sending email from applications is really hard to do reliably. Back in 2006 or so, I went to several email marketing companies asking to help me send transactional email, such as password resets and welcome messages. They didn't understand the problem. Developers understand the problem. In 2009, Isaac, Tim and Jose decided to solve it.
I don't just understand the problem SendGrid solves, I feel it. And while I've been a fan of SendGrid's developer communications, I also see a lot of opportunities for me to improve our approach.
You'll see more technical content on this blog, as I encourage the super smart SendGridders to share their knowledge. I'll keep myself busy writing, editing and speaking, trying to tell the story of modern developers. I'll be explaining technology, like I always have. And I'll be listening, a key piece of any communication, but even more important to understand what does and doesn't resonate for developers. So, please be vocal, and let me know what matters in your life and how I can help.


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I use FC's as test clients, but not as servers (due to the nature of the changes you indicate). > After a few attempts at enabling xfs in RHEL4's kernel config, I am still > figuring out how to stop 'make oldconfig' from taking my CONFIG_XFS_FS=y and > making it into =n. :/ I'll solve it shortly I'm sure. Others have reported > that xfs works fine in RHEL4. Please let me know if you get there. I might need to go down this route for some customer work later on this year. [...] >>If you read the forums as you pointed out later, you will note that >>there has been a large chorus for quite some time about this. Redhat's >>response to this chorus has been "wait, ext* will get better". Yes, it >>has gotten better, but no, this is not what the customers asked for. > > In your experience, do customers want certainly performance characteristics > (which could conceivably be satisfied by ext3), or do they want e.g. xfs > regardless of actual performance? Most care about supportability, quality of code (e.g. how well tested is it), performance, ease of integration. In most other distros, xfs is fairly easy to setup/use. [...] >>I am astounded... when the customers in the threads you mention, and in >>the preceding threads made it clear over the last few years that it did >>not indeed meet their needs, and can they please have support for >>something that does ... > > Sometimes the customers say they want **xfs**. RH is ignoring that request. Yes they are. > Sometimes the customers say they want some of the features that xfs provides, > e.g. large filesystems, high performance, growing filesystems, etc. RH says, > "Fine, we'll give you that in ext3." I do not know whether RH has succeeded > in meeting customers' feature expectations with ext3 in 2.6.10. Do you? Very hard to answer question. Put another way, yes, eventually ext3 will be a reasonable replacement for xfs after sufficient time and effort to bake in goodness, and bake out badness. When will this be? Who knows. Is it able to do what xfs can do today? No (size/performance issues). So rather than offer customers what they want (which the other distros have done), they offer what they would prefer to offer, and make what they prefer to offer closer to what people want. The question is how long will it take to get there. >>I don't think that is a reasonable argument >>that what they provide is good enough and meets needs, when clearly >>specific large customers are asking for something different. > > If ext3 in RHEL4 fails to meet performance needs of RH customers, then I will > agree with you. To my knowledge, the jury isn't in yet, given changes that > were just merged in 2.6.10. So this is a major functionality upgrade into 2.6.10. Have all the bugs been isolated, or the major ones? One of Arjen's comments (or maybe David's) was that you don't want to mess too much with file systems. They are right. Of course to get to where they need to be, they need to mess with file systems. Xfs has been baking for the better part of 10 years. It is pretty stable/good. >>>and they don't want to invest in talent to >>>support other enterprise filesystems for major support-purchasing >>>customers. >>Again, if small one-man distros can support the system, the argument >>rings hollow. > > Either they're stonewalling, or fully supporting (not just supplying, but > after-sales *supporting*) a new filesystem is a major undertaking that they > deemed unnecessary. I don't know which is the case; Arjan says the latter. Most distros I am aware of kick bugs back to the relevant subsystem owners, unless they have experts (and folks with commit privs) in house. >>>If you believe he's misguided, argue with what he wrote. :) >>Don't need to. This has been debated in various threads for the last 4+ >>years. Ext3 will continue to improve, and it is probably good enough >>for some section of users. For others, who need what xfs provides, ext3 >>is not sufficient. > > What does xfs provide that ext3 in 2.6.10 doesn't? I ask sincerely. I > suppose at this point you could only answer guided by feature lists (which I > don't know as well as you do). > > To answer performance questions, we'd have to test, no? Or does history > condemn ext3 to never challenge xfs in those domains where xfs has > historically beaten ext3? :) No, always always test. Lets start with say a nice 64 TB file system. Create a few 16 TB files on it. md5sum them. Sure, that might not be reasonable in the time you have, or in the space you have, but when you have customers building 100++ TB file systems, is it reasonable to tell them that tough, you are stuck at 16 TB? Or worse, for the folks with huge output file requirements, or huge data set requirements, who have been asking for this for years, is it reasonable to tell them "tough, work on 2TB files or less"? . Then on the performance side, when doing large block I/O (not the "standard" delete, mkdir, and other tests that are not representative of how most folks do their work on big fast disks), is it reasonable to say turn off journaling for better performance? No, I don't believe so. So, yes, please test. With real applications, as they are the only benchmarks that matter in the end. > >>>How can you say, "Obviously support has nothing to do with it"? I don't >>>get that. They have major customers buying expensive support for RHEL. >>>They offer no paid support for FC. If they choose, they can ignore bug >>>reports on FC xfs. >>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=150427 >>http://marc.free.net.ph/message/20050310.085034.9d849d03.en.html >> >>Redhat pushes them off to the fs maintainers, as they should. Bugs >>ignored make for bad practice. > > This behavior is consistent with declining to develop in-house xfs expertise, > no? Absolutely. They do not need to develop this expertise in house. >>If it were a support issue for RH, it should be a support issue for >>SuSE, for Mandrake, for Debian, for .... >> >>But it isn't. > > Leave Debian out of it -- the Debian maintainers don't offer support > contracts. Others do for them. Ubuntu (or the folks behind them) and a number of others do. > > So let's see how SuSE and Mandrake respond to bug reports in major components > like filesystems. Do they never say, "Sorry, we can't help you with that, > please go upstream" with an implicit "because we don't have in-house > expertise"? They don't push the customer upstream, they push the bugs upstream (at least on the SuSE side, this is my understanding). > > Unfortunately, I don't see a quick way to find out an answer to this question. > Quick look-arounds on the SuSE and Mandrake sites haven't revealed to me > anythink like bugzilla.redhat.com. Are there near-equivalents, where we can > see community bug reports, and read corporate engineers' responses? > > > > Again, my main point is that testing is needed to see whether ext3's > developers have made major strides in 2.6.10, or have once again failed to > live up to promises. Anything else is speculation (which we're doing a > pretty good job of in this subthread :). Not really... For a long time xfs and jfs have been very good at doing what they are supposed to do. For a long time, ext3 has not been great in the same workload mix. I am sure it has gotten better. But xfs and jfs have not stagnated during this time either. From a historical point of view, xfs and jfs have been around longer than ext3, and have been delivering on the high performance promise with large file systems. ext3 is just getting features now that had been designed in to the xfs bits from the beginning (in 1995). There is little reason to expect ext3 to be better/faster on the things that xfs has dominated on (e.g. I am quite skeptical). Moreover, Redhat has had every opportunity to do what the rest of distro-dom have done, though they have declined to go there, despite being asked to years ago by high profile customers. I remain skeptical that ext3 is performance equivalent to xfs until I test it on my workloads and see repeatable evidence that for non-trivial, and realistic workloads, it performs the same/better. I don't have the time to test it now. You have the time to test it on your workloads. Go ahead. Let us know how it goes. > > David > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615


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The Staff Council is constituted by the President under the discretion and authority invested in the President by the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System, with the goal of continually improving University operations and the well-being of all UT Dallas employees.
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Daisy is used to host its own documentation website: browse around and learn about its features. If you are interested to know more about Daisy's administrative and editing screens, we've put up a number of screenshots. Also, you can easily install and run Daisy to give it a try and see if it works out for your project.
Daisy's default browsing and editing application can easily be adapted to your web look-and-feel: its XSLT-based templating system provides ultimate freedom and flexibility.
Daisy is an open source project: your contributions are warmly welcomed.
Before its initial release on October 12th 2004, Daisy has been under active development for almost 10 months. Its initial development has been funded primarily by Schaubroeck - its implementation has been done by Outerthought. Almost three years later now, Daisy counts 10+ releases, and is the center of a thriving ecosphere, with consistent and structural support by several companies and a healthy user community.
We solicit contributions, either through code or through funding, from other parties interested in this development model. Outerthought has considerable experience in doing open source framework development as a foundation for commercial products. This way, users cannot only implement Daisy for their specific projects, but they can also support and steer direction of future Daisy development. We are also available for project-specific Daisy add-ons, making sure Daisy does exactly what you need for your particular requirements.


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Food and Water Safety for Persons Infected With Human Immunodeficiency Virus
June 9, 2003
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Immunocompromised persons are more susceptible to serious food-borne and water-borne illnesses than are persons with stronger immune systems. These secondary infections contribute significantly to the morbidity and mortality of HIV-infected persons. Food plays an active role in disease transmission by supporting the growth of the etiologic agent or toxin production, or a passive role where the food does not support growth but serves as a means of transmission.Adapted from:
Food- and water-borne diseases cause nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea with or without additional symptoms of fever, chills, headache and fatigue. Chronic diseases that may result from food-borne diseases include arthropathies, chronic gastroenteritis, organ compromise, and nutritional and other malabsorptive disorders, possibly resulting in death. Cryptosporidium, Microsporidium, Salmonella and cytomegalovirus are the main pathogens resulting in AIDS-related diarrhea. Diarrhea in immunocompromised patients is a challenge for the treatment and prevention of wasting. Fifty percent to 90 percent of persons with AIDS have serious episodes of diarrhea that can be life-threatening.
To prevent or minimize food- and water-borne diseases, the following precautions are recommended in the fifth edition of "Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans," published by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.
"Knowledge of safe food- and water-handling techniques is essential for persons living with HIV and AIDS, their caretakers, and for health care providers to prevent the potentially life-threatening nature of such infections," the authors concluded. "To decrease the risk of infection from enteric pathogens, emphasis should be placed on proper storage of perishable foods, adequate cooking of animal foods, avoiding cross-contamination of raw and cooked foods, ensuring appropriate sanitation in the kitchen, ensuring personal hygiene, and using water from safe sources."
Clinical Infectious Diseases
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Questions and Answers on Hepatitis A Outbreaks Associated With Eating Raw or Undercooked Green Onions (Scallions)
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From invented languages to medieval throwbacks to magical beings, in honor of the return of the popular television series, let's delve into the language of Game of Thrones, based on the George R.R. Martin A Song of Ice and Fire books.
A good place to begin in the complex narrative of Game of Thrones is with the Iron Throne. It is literally an iron throne molded from hundreds of swords surrendered in battles won by Aegon the Conqueror.
Figuratively, the Iron Throne refers to the Seven Kingdoms of the land of Westeros or the "Realm." It is also used to describe this monarchy and the power it holds above its people.
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|HIV+ Pharmacy Tech student externing at hospital
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I'm a pharmacy tech student completing my externship at a hospital and diagnosed hiv+ in 2003. I'm on Atripla and currently undetectable. I was offered a position on Friday and on the new hire paperwork I had to list my medications and whether I was under doctor care and for what. Will being HIV+ affect my being hired at the hospital as I have to deal with needles? But anytime anyone pokes themselves with a needle they must toss the needle and anything it touched and start over. Please help I need this job.
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Being HIV+ means that you have a disability that qualifies under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Although there may be a few exceptions in parts of the country, overwhelmingly, courts are ruling that an HIV+ pharmacist poses no threat to the general population, providing he uses standard universal precautions.
Your local/state pharmacy licensing organization or state board should have any restrictions on your ability to practice which you should be able to check on line.
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Can a pattern for knit be made in a woven if cut on the bias? Yes! The first thing you need to do is change the grainline. To prevent ripples on bias seams, add 1" to the cutting line on vertical and diagonal seams. If you want the bias garment to fit a bit looser, cut an extra 1" for fit insurance at the side seams. Baste the side seams at 2L": L" for the existing seam allowance, 1" for bias and 1" for fit insurance. Let out or take in to suit, sewing the seams with a narrow zigzag (1.0 mm wide, 2.0 mm long). This will allow the seams to relax as the fabric relaxes. Cut the seam allowance width down to 1". Press open the seams, slightly stretching the seam allowances vertically as you press. Forget letting the garment hang 24 hours before hemming. Then give the whole garment an overall press, stretching the fabric slightly vertically with the iron. This will relax the fabric so you can use a hem marker to get an even hem.
DIY Darts
If bust darts are always too high for you, try this easy solution: Across the front bodice, draw a horizontal line across the pattern 1" down from the bottom of the armhole. Cut apart the pattern and lengthen the bodice the amount you want to lower the front dart. Draw a horizontal line on the same front, somewhere under the dart and above the waist. Shorten the pattern on the second line the same amount you lengthened above the dart. Now the length of the side seams match.
This is Only a Test
Before preshrinking any fabric with a metallic finish in the washing machine and dryer, cut a 4" square and toss it in with your next load of laundry. The metallic finish might wash off. You'll be glad you didn't throw the whole piece in. Dry-clean the completed garment to maintain the fabric's luster.
Handle With Care
Can silk doupioni or silk shantung be washed? Yes, but only by hand using my favorite detergent for silk, a tablespoon of shampoo. Rinse in cool water and air dry. That being said, washing silk makes the fabric become softer and lose body. If you want the fabric to maintain its crispness, dry cleaning is recommended. In this case, no preshrinking is needed.
Hem Allowance
Not all hem allowances are created equal. Not only does the garment style determine the width of the hem allowance, the fabric comes into the decision as well. Typically a hem allowance on a knit top or full knit skirt is H", but on a straight or A-line knit dress, a 1H" width is preferred to give the hem weight. A jacket hem can be 1G" to 1H" while a coat hem is 2H" wide to give it weight. A blouse hem often uses a double turn of G". A full skirt has a narrow H" hem to eliminate bulk while a straight skirt needs a 2" to 2H" hem to give weight. Trouser hems are typically 1G", while a fuller pant needs a H" hem to eliminate bulk. For jeans, a double turn of H" is standard. Don't always use the hem width called for on the pattern. Make the decision to get the look you want.
Wash & Wear
A pair of white wool gabardine pants or a straight skirt can be a great investment but not if it needs to be dry-cleaned each time you wear it. You can launder the garments at home if you preshrink the gabardine in the bathtub in lukewarm water. Fabric can then be air dried over the shower pole. Launder soiled garments in the same way. Gently rub out spots without too much agitation, using a mild laundry detergent.
Stay in Shape
Lycra blend fabrics, while comfortable to wear, often don't retain their shape in areas of stress, such as in pants. After pants are worn once, the shape reflects your body, which may not be what you want. Another consideration is that Lycra blends don't press well. Plan on topstitching to flatten seams and details.
Color Coordinated
Why organize your fabric stash? Silly question, when the obvious answer is that you can't find anything. If you organize your fabric stash by color, you'll often find tow or three pieces that coordinate by accident. Now you have an outfit.
Tool Time
When trimming fabric close to the stitching line, nothing beats Gingher's 6" appliqu� scissors. These are sometimes referred to as pelican scissors because one blade looks like a pelican beak.
Facing Free
To eliminate a facing, staystitch the garment using a 5/8" seam allowance. Trim away 3/8" of the seam allowance. Cut a 2" -wide bias strip the length of the garment seamline. Press the strip in half lengthwise. Open the fold and stitch the ends using a 1/2" seam. Press and trim away the seam allowance at the joint. With right sides together and the side of the garment with staystitching facing you, stitch both raw long edges of the bias strip to the garment, stretching the bias strip to fit the garment. Serge-finish the seam allowance. Press the seam allowance toward the garment. Secure the bias strip seam allowance to the underside by topstitching close to the seam.
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Do you think their would be any difference between LinuxMCE and Pluto in the future? Can anyone give me their opion on Pluto and how the setup went?
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Pluto is a modified Debian (the base is Debian) with software made by Pluto developers for controlling media and other devices.Would that mean Pluto would run more efficient as it was build just for media and not as a desktop (I only want it as MCE)
You say that that the project is going too far. Well, the people wants this kind of software for controlling everything.I never said its going too far, I said its going to go far! LOL


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Chicago Rama
Blending three diverse dance styles in one performance may seem a jumble, but the South Asian artists of Chicago have pulled it off. Ninety-five Chicago dancers and musicians from three international communities--Thai, Indonesian and Indian--joined in an unprecedented celebration of their common heritage: the story of Lord Rama, told and retold in each country's unique style even centuries after Hindu influence waned. The synergy is spectacular, especially enhanced by the unique costumes of each tradition. This year's performance was scheduled for April 3, 1999 at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Yoga Goes to the Temple
Yogi Balakrishnan has a complaint, but he also has a solution. "Yoga was lost from our temple practice 2,500 years ago." He says it's essential for temples to cultivate all four steps to perfection, known as charya, kriya, yoga and jnana--service, worship, self-inquiry and transcendental knowledge, and he has convinced four of Singapore's major temples to incorporate his programs. Balakrishnan, 50, attracted wide attention in 1996 when he had a car drive over his stomach while he lay on a bed of nails. "It hurt," he privately admitted to Hinduism Today, but he was uninjured. He asks, "Do I have to set up a separate ashram to teach yoga when there are 17,000 temples in Malaysia and Singapore? What are the temples for? Many of us think yoga is only for a saint or that it is just exercise--neither are true. In the 20th century, yoga is compulsory in an environment where people live in unhealthy offices while eating unhealthy food and living an unhealthy lifestyle." Balakrishnan has thousands of students, including hundreds in Singapore. They include children, housewives, executives and athletes. A determined man with limited resources, Balakrishnan is an example of how one man can make a difference. He teaches: "A yoga practitioner does not cringe and crawl through life. Yoga makes one lean on one's own spine and self. His lustrous form enjoys the vitality of youth."
Indian Caste
The Indian caste system, specifically its tradition of marrying within one's social strata, has been around so long, genetic analysis can identify its impact. An international team of researchers led by Michael J. Bamshad of the University of Utah recorded the genetic patterns of 300 Hindus of different castes living in South India. By careful tracking, the study showed that women are "upwardly mobile" in the caste system. That is, they sometimes marry into castes just above theirs--a pattern approved in the ancient shastras (Hindu law texts). But men traditionally do not marry above their caste, and their genetic makeup shows they have remained within their respective castes for centuries. The researchers also stated that the upper castes were genetically closer to European caucasian gene patterns than those of the lower castes.
Youth Power
The Hindu Students Council, US, didn't spend winter break hanging out on the streets of Fort Lauderdale with their party-minded fellow students. No. They devoted part of the vacation to their "most successful coordination council meeting yet," according the HSC's Chandan Bandopadhyay. The late December meeting dealt with acceptance of non-Indian Hindus, a new women's forum, law scholarships for students pledged to combat discrimination against Hindus and much more. A related conference, "Feel the Shakti, 1999," covered the "Top 10 Misconceptions of Hinduism," marriage and being a Hindu in America.
Meat Rules?
Vegetarianism, long practiced in Asia, is now under threat as never before, with traditional staples like lentils and rice rapidly being replaced by fatty fast food. The result is a sight on the streets of Thailand not even imagined a generation ago: overweight youngsters stuffing themselves with hamburgers and chicken legs from American fast-food franchises. Even in veggie superpower, India, "Young Indians are taking their cue from Western media--not real Western people. So they've come to think that to smoke, drink and eat non-veg is modern and fashionable," said Jashu Shah of The Vegetarian Society in Bombay during the recent congress of the 110-year-old International Vegetarian Union. While Indian gurus once went West to convert carnivores, Shah and others say committed vegetarians should now come East to set examples. Other places in Asia are having the same problem. In China, where bean curd was first produced some 2,000 years ago, McDonald's outlets now outnumber vegetarian restaurants in Beijing. In Japan, meat generally went untouched a century ago. Now, meat is steadily being chosen over the traditional diet of vegetables, rice and fish, according to the Japanese Vegetarian Society.
Kepler Did Horoscopes
One of the greatest astronomers who ever lived, Johannes Kepler, was also an astrologer--to the chagrin of modern scientists who count Kepler among the first of the great rationalists. But Kepler, a practical man, wrote, "God provides for every animal his means of sustenance--for an astronomer, he has provided astrology." Kepler, with his laws of planetary motion, laid the foundation for modern astronomy. In ancient times, astrology and astronomy were a one science. They had yet to part company in Kepler's time, as shown by his chart prepared in 1586 for an Austrian nobleman. The six-by-eight-inch framed paper was found in the archives of the University of California at Santa Cruz by Anthony Misch, an astronomer at Lick Observatory.
Vedic Astrology in Paradise
It wasn't your normal opening speech, but then again, this wasn't your normal conference either. In the main ballroom of the Kauai Coconut Beach Resort the hundred attendees sat in meditative silence as six Hindu monks led by Acharya Ceyonswami opened the Third Annual Vedic Astrology conference with a planetary puja and Sanskrit chanting. The early March conference took place on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, just a few miles from Hinduism Today's offices. Those attending ranged from curious amateurs in the ancient art of Hindu astrology to full-time professionals. They listened to lectures from experts including Nalini Kantha Das, Dennis Harness, David Frawley, Edith Hathaway and Christina Collins Hill. Hinduism Today publisher Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami spoke on "Mitigating Wrongs Through Vedic Rights," showing the value of jyotisha in dealing with karma. Indian aficionados of astrology would be delighted with the knowledge and dedication of their Western kin. Wait for a good nakshatra to visit them on the Web at www.vedicastrology.org.
High Puja
From the foothills of the Himalayas to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains comes Acharya Kailash Chandra Upadhyay Ji, priest of the new Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of the Rockies. A converted Christian church, the temple was consecrated in October, 1998, to serve the greater Denver community.
Hindu Temple, PO Box 621202,
Littleton, Colorado 80162 USA
Kumari Puja
Once a year in Khaka, a virgin girl is worshiped in a sacred Kumari Puja. Kumari, which means "virgin," is one name for the Goddess. Six-year-old Barsha Chakraborty was selected for the honor this time. She, like other recent kumaris, is a brahmin, though ancient scripture says a girl from any caste may be chosen, explains Hinduism Today correspondent Bashudeb Dhar. The Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, organizes the worship in conjunction with the annual Durga Puja, one of the country's most popular festivals. Thousands gathered for the puja as the maiden was worshiped with deep reverence, devotion and beautiful offerings normally reserved for the Goddess. During the puja, the girl is Kumari, the Divine Mother. In this way, people renew their respect and reverence for women. Similar puja on a grander scale is performed by the RK Mission in Calcutta, India.
It's been over two years since D.V. Beeharry, pujari of the small Kaliamen Kovil in Albion Mauritius, woke to find more than a dozen of his temple's Deities smashed and scattered around the open courtyard. The Kalimaye Shrine in Phoenix was similarly desecrated. Neither crime has been solved by the police. The Deities in these family temples are often nothing more than a few crude images, handcrafted by ancestors and worshiped devoutly for generations. Shortly after the September 9, 1997, destruction, Mr. Christian Bertrand came forward to the police and named fellow Christian Jean-Claude Raimbert, a Pentecostal, as the perpetrator. Since then a running debate between the men has aired in the local French newspaper, 5-Plus. Raimbert said, "I deny everything. My friend didn't do it, either. I forgive my accusers. The devil is behind all of this. I only remove statues when someone asks me to." The last public admission is significant. Christian ministers are known in Mauritius for converting one or two members of a household, then assisting them in destroying all the Deities in the home. Dismayed relatives have watched their shrines burn in the street.
Beyond the senses is the mind, beyond the mind, pure intellect, beyond the intellect, the great Atman, beyond the great, the Unmanifest.
Krishna Yajur Veda, katha upanishad 6.7
Now the teaching concerning the Atman: the Atman is below, it is above, it is behind, it is before, it is in the South, it is in the North. The Atman indeed is all that is. He who sees, reflects and knows this--he has joy in the Atman.
Sama Veda, chandogya Upanishad 7.25.2
Verily, he is pure, steadfast and unswerving, stainless, unagitated, desireless, fixed like a spectator, and self-abiding. As an enjoyer of righteousness, he covers himself (atmanam) with a veil made of qualities; but he remains fixed--yea, he remains fixed!
Krishna Yajur Veda, maitri upanishad 2.7
The Inspired Self is not born, nor does He die; He springs from nothing and becomes nothing. Unborn, permanent, unchanging, primordial, He is not destroyed when the body is destroyed.
Krishna Yajur Veda, katha upanishad 2.18
The Vedas are the divinely revealed and most revered scriptures, sruti, of Hinduism, likened to the Torah (1,200 bce), Bible New Testament (100 ce), Koran (630 ce) or Zend Avesta (600 bce). Four in number, Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva, the Vedas include over 100,000 verses. Oldest portions may date back as far as 6,000 bce.
"Acceptance of the Vedas with reverence; recognition of the fact that the means or ways to salvation are diverse; and the realization of the truth that the number of gods to be worshiped is large, that indeed is the distinguishing feature of the Hindu religion." B.G. Tilak's definition of what makes one a basic Hindu, as quoted by India's Supreme Court. On July 2, 1995, the Court referred to it as an "adequate and satisfactory formula."


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Chapter 5
Adam and Eve bring forth children—Adam offers sacrifice and serves God—Cain and Abel are born—Cain rebels, loves Satan more than God, and becomes Perdition—Murder and wickedness spread—The gospel is preached from the beginning.
1 And it came to pass that after I, the Lord God, had driven them out, that Adam began to till the earth, and to have
2 And
3 And from that time forth, the sons and
4 And Adam and Eve, his wife,
5 And he gave unto them commandments, that they should
6 And after many days an
7 And then the angel spake, saying: This thing is a
8 Wherefore, thou shalt do all that thou doest in the
9 And in that day the
10 And in that day Adam blessed God and was
11 And Eve, his wife, heard all these things and was glad, saying: Were it not for our transgression we never should have had
12 And Adam and
13 And
14 And the Lord God called upon men by the
15 And as many as
16 And Adam and Eve, his wife, ceased not to call upon God. And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare
17 And she again conceived and bare his brother Abel. And Abel
18 And Cain
19 And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the
20 And Abel, he also brought of the
21 But unto Cain, and to his
22 And the Lord said unto Cain: Why art thou wroth? Why is thy countenance fallen?
23 If thou doest well, thou shalt be
24 For from this time forth thou shalt be the father of his
25 And it shall be said in time to come—That these abominations were had from
26 And Cain was wroth, and listened not any more to the voice of the Lord, neither to Abel, his brother, who walked in holiness before the Lord.
27 And Adam and his wife
28 And it came to pass that Cain took one of his brothers' daughters to
29 And Satan said unto Cain:
30 And Satan sware unto Cain that he would do according to his
31 And Cain said: Truly I am Mahan, the master of this great
32 And Cain went into the field, and Cain talked with Abel, his brother. And it came to pass that while they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and slew him.
33 And Cain
34 And the Lord said unto Cain: Where is Abel, thy brother? And he said: I know not. Am I my brother's
35 And the Lord said: What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's
36 And now thou shalt be
37 When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her
38 And Cain said unto the Lord: Satan
39 Behold thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the Lord, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that he that findeth me will slay me, because of mine iniquities, for these things are not hid from the Lord.
40 And I the Lord said unto him: Whosoever slayeth thee, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And I the Lord set a
41 And Cain was
42 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Enoch, and he also begat many sons and daughters. And he builded a city, and he called the name of the
43 And unto Enoch was born Irad, and other sons and daughters. And Irad begat Mahujael, and other sons and daughters. And Mahujael begat Methusael, and other sons and daughters. And Methusael begat Lamech.
44 And Lamech took unto himself two wives; the name of one being Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
45 And Adah bare Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in
46 And Zillah, she also bare Tubal Cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron. And the sister of Tubal Cain was called Naamah.
47 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech; for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
48 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech shall be
49 For
50 Wherefore Lamech, being angry, slew him, not like unto Cain, his brother Abel, for the sake of getting gain, but he slew him for the
51 For, from the days of Cain, there was a secret
52 Wherefore the Lord
53 And among the daughters of men these things were not spoken, because that Lamech had spoken the secret unto his wives, and they rebelled against him, and declared these things abroad, and had not compassion;
54 Wherefore Lamech was despised, and cast out, and came not among the sons of men, lest he should die.
55 And thus the works of
56 And God
57 For they would not
58 And thus the
59 And thus all things were confirmed unto


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Linux Powers Giant Database: 400TB of Climate Data and Counting
Linux and Climate Change
Climate change is perhaps the biggest issue facing humanity today – but one vital part of the puzzle is to calculate what exactly the future possibilities are. The Millennium Simulations project – now almost a year old – aims to tackle that issue, generating data which will in due course be used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the international scientific body which is generally regarded as the authoritative voice on the effects and risks of climate change. The Millenium Simulations creates models of the earth's climate, looking at the influence of human activity (including carbon generation and changes in land use), together with natural activity such as volcanoes, to project future climatic changes. It's the first model which uses an interactive carbon cycle, and it also has various sub-models available, looking at land, ocean, and atmosphere.
As you might guess, this project generates a lot of data (over 50TB to date) with repeated runs under various conditions. There are numerous other climate modelling projects out there, as well, all generating large quantities of data which is useful to climate scientists internationally. Dealing with storage of and access to this data is the World Data Center for Climate (WDCC), part of the World Data System. It's an international archive and data distribution center for climate research data (based at based at Model and Data, in Hamburg, with the co-operation of the German Climate Computing Centre). Its aim, as with all the WDS datacenters, is to give the international scientific community the best possible access to as much data as is possible.
The WDCC's main focus is on climate modelling and data products, rather than on raw data. Several research projects, including the IPCC's Data Distribution Centre, use the WDCC to help distribute data between project partners, and to users globally, both during and after the projects. This makes it an incredibly important resource for scientists working on climate modelling and trying to predict potential future climate changes and their effects. And it's all based on UNIX/Linux.
Underlying the WDCC's data archive is the CERA-2 (Climate and Environmental Retrieving and Archiving) database system, one of the world's largest databases. As of late 2008, it has around 400 TB of data, and nearly a thousand named users. Running on NEC and Solaris machines, it's a federated ORACLE database connected to a set of StorageTek tape libraries hosted at DKRZ (the tape libraries themselves have a 60 PB capacity, but they store data other than that belonging to the WDCC). The database itself is a distributed system across multiple NEC machines running Linux.
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