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How To: Request One-Time Payment
Who does this? Stanford Payroll Administrators
When? Additional required or discretionary pay is due to an employee.
How? By entering a Supplemental Pay Webform (recommended) or by submitting a One-Time Payment form to add the pay to the employee's next regular paycheck
Request One-Time Payment (5 steps)
Gather employee information for the payment:
- Employee name
- Employee ID Number
- Employee Pay Group from PeopleSoft
- Employee Record # from PeopleSoft
Note: This information is available on the Gross Pay Report. Reference How To: Verify Employee Pay.
Gather payment information:
- Amount to be paid
- PTA to charge for the payment
- Earn code for the payment
- BON – Bonus
- SIG – Signing bonus
- HNR – Honorarium
- SUP – Supplemental Pay (for faculty only)
- TAR – Temporary Acting Role
- RTS – Missed payment of salary
- RTH – Missed payment of hours
- RTO – Missed payment of overtime
- For descriptions of appropriate usage of earn codes for one time payments, see the Earnings Code Usage document.
Note 2: The employee's withholding allowances on file are used for other types of payments.
Select from one of the following form options:
- To submit a Supplemental Pay Webform (recommended), see Step 4.
- To submit a One-Time Payment Form (when you do not have access to the Supplemental Pay Webform), see Step 5.
Prepare a Supplemental Pay Webform:
- Follow step-by-step instructions on Supplemental Pay Webform Job Aid to complete the form.
Note 1: Webforms must be fully approved and loaded by an Expert User by the PeopleSoft entry deadline for the pay period.
Note 2: For specific entry deadlines for each pay period, see Resources: Payroll Schedules & Deadlines.
Submit a One-Time Payment Form to Payroll:
- Download and print the One-Time Payment Form.
- Using the information collected in Steps 1 and 2, complete all relevant fields on the One-Time Payment Form.
- The signed original copy of the form should be submitted to Payroll.
What Happens Next?
- The One-Time Payment is added to the employee's next regular direct deposit or paycheck. Bonus payments receive a separate direct deposit or paycheck from the employee's regular pay.


Five Takeaways from the Inaugural Foundations for Employment and Housing Meeting in Houston, TX
In March, Funders Together's Foundations for Employment and Housing community members came together in Houston to learn about how the city integrated its homeless services system with the public workforce system to ensure all people receiving homeless services can access both employment and housing. In addition to learning from our hosts, community members spent time getting to know one another and sharing their current work – including opportunities and challenges.
At the end of the three days, the group started a process that will ultimately help members identify collective action they will take in Year 2 of the community. The first step in this process was defining the current state and problem. The following statement was what attendees agreed would serve as the problem statement, ultimately helping to determine the group's collective action.
Later this year, community members will meet in-person again to identify possible solutions that could address this problem and serve as an action item for the community.
In addition to the collective problem statement the group createdcommunity members named five items as their biggest takeaways from the visit.
1. It is possible.
While it may be difficult, and sometimes seem impossible, it is possible for the public workforce system to work with the homeless services system to serve individuals experiencing homelessness.
Public workforce systems are already serving individuals experiencing homelessness, albeit not always well. We, the homeless services system, can work with the workforce system to help them better serve individuals experiencing homelessness that are already entering their system. Stronger relationships and partnership will also allow us to connect individuals in the homeless services system to support and opportunities through the public workforce system.
Houston's homeless services system has an income assessment and triage tool to ensure all people receiving homeless services can access both employment and housing.
They have also led the charge to ensure that homeless services and workforce development stakeholders understand how employment can help prevent and end homelessness and that they are well-equipped to connect homeless jobseekers to work.
2. Working with your CoC AND Workforce Boards is imperative.
To be successful, the Continuum oCare (CoC) and workforce boards must have the right makeup and be willing to listen and learn. These boards will have the ultimate power to make or break this work. Boards that are educated and understand both how employment can help prevent and end homelessness and how stable housing can improve employment outcomes will be able to better support effective partnerships.
In Houston, Mike Temple, Director of Workforce Matters is also the Chair of the CoC Board. Mike joined the CoC Governance Committee and saw the need for more targeted support for individuals experiencing homelessness. He was also in a position to help facilitate partnerships and make changes to both systems.
Our hosts in Houston pointed out that it must be the right board to ask someone like Mike to join. The board must already be strong and coordinated. They must also have the right members. People who are ready to do the work and have the power to make it happen.
3. Just Try It! You have to start somewhere.
While it is important for the systems to be ready, you have to start somewhere. This can mean different things for different communities, but success will depend on relationships between systems and the data and information to make the case.
In Houston, they started by creating an effective homeless response system and identified employment and income as key components. Once they could show the importance of work and employment, they brought in the right people from the public workforce system to help make changes and be successful.
While they still have work to do, they started by trying. Along the way they continue to make changes based on what they learn. Their message: stop talking and planning and start!
Data is essential to any work. The right data can help make the case for partnership or investment and help identify effective models and programs. The intersection between the homeless services system and workforce system is an area where there is room for improvement in every community.
To really understand how your system works, you need to know how many people are entering the homeless services system and asking for employment and how many people are entering the workforce system that are not stability housed. Then, you need to know how many people are referred and if they actually follow-up on that referral. By collecting and evaluating data, we can design more effective systems and better serve job seekers experiencing homelessness.
In Houston, they are collecting new data, and starting evaluation. While they still have work to do, they now know how many people are referred to the workforce system from the homeless services system and how many of those people find employment. As they continue to collect and evaluate data they hope to have a better understanding of what services people are receiving and outcomes based on those services.
5. Funders can play an important role in both preparing and connecting systems.
We know that in addition to funding, philanthropy can help with education and advocacy, support coordination and collaboration, and serve as conveners. All of these things can help workforce and homeless services systems work together and better serve individuals experiencing homelessness.
In Houston, private funders were leaders and influencers that helped move this work forward and change the mindset of other funders, both public and private. Big funders being part of the leadership group gave the work credibility and brought other funders and partners to the table. Private funders also aligned their funding with public dollars which helped eliminate duplication and support the creation of one, more effective system.
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Program Fact Sheet
Bureau of Youth Services & Delinquency Prevention
Division of Community Health & Prevention
Illinois Department of Human Services
The Youth Build program enrolls youth and young adults aged 16 to 24 who have dropped out of school, are unemployed and/or have limited job skills.
The purpose of the Youth Build program is to empower struggling teens and young adults. Youth Build focuses on academic goals while also helping youth to develop job skills by building homes for low-income families.
Youth Build is a year-long, highly demanding program that prepares youth and young adults for the challenges they will face in today's world. The program offers young people a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build their futures and their communities
through education, leadership development, job training, and the rehabilitation and production of affordable housing.
The Youth Build program is administered by local communities. There is not one single model that can be applied to every Youth Build program. Although each Youth Build program is unique in its approach to addressing the needs of the community, all
embrace the same basic principles; Youth benefit from the opportunity to join and function in a community; education comes not only from the classroom but from life skills learned from having to function as a team, maintain a job, manage money and speak
effectively with one another; adults in the program mentor students as they mature; and each site's unique approach addresses the complexities within their community.
Youth Build Program Data
|Grant Amount (Numbers in 000's)
|Number of Grantees

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Comparing and Merging two XML files
Comparing and Merging two XML files
The problem :
I have a xml file conversion program. It converts first.xml to target.xml. I have also written a program to convert target.xml to first.xml.
The problem is to preserve the changes made to target.xml. The user is allowed to edit the target.xml manually. For example he can add an element, modify attributes etc..
The file conversion from first.xml to target.xml is not a one-one conversion. There are scenarios like one element in first.xml is equivalent to 25 elements in the target. Further the first.xml does not capture all attributes and data needed to generate target.xml. So there are lot of values which are defaulted during initial conversion. Hence we need a round trip solution. The system should be able to import target.xml and export target.xml while preserving all changes made in target.xml
The current system
xslt is used to generate target.xml from a given first.xml. Conversion of target.xml to first.xml is again handled by xslt. Does not support round trip. ie current system looses most of the changes made manually. Other technologies used XMLBeans, JSF
The approach
Following are the list of feature needed
a) Export first.xml to target.xml
b) Import target.xml to first.xml
At a concept level the import solution can be modeled as follows
Retain the current convertion logic ( ie, extract as much as data needed for first.xml)
Generate a delta of changes.
Use the delta and merge it with the target.xml generated in export process
Activities planned
1) Identify appropriate Java based solutions
2) Evaluate each solution
3) Design the final solution
4) Implement the solution
Solutions evaluated
2) XMLBeans
4) XMLUnit
5) The "3DM" XML 3-way Merging and Differencing Tool
6) DOM
7) X-Diff
8) XML Diff and Merge Tool(Alpha works)
The initial though process is to generate the target.xml. Compare it with the one used during import. (instead of storing the delta store the whole document). Copy/overwrite/ignore the delta to the newly generated target.xml. Hence I started evaluating various options available to deeply compare the xml tree. Features needed are
a) Compare the whole document
b) Compare the elements selectively
c) Comprision has to be smart enough to ignore -- spaces, return characters, alteration of sequences, changes in positions of attributes etc..
1) XSLT --- very complex. There are couple of code fragments available out there. But I felt it was too complex to understand and maintain. Also xsl tends to be too lengthy.
2) XMLBeans -- There are two methods defined in XMLObject compareTo( Object) and compareValue(XMLObject).
public int compareTo(Object obj)
Impelements the Comparable interface by comparing two simple xml values based on their standard XML schema ordering. Throws a ClassCastException if no standard ordering applies, or if the two values are incomparable within a partial order.
public int compareValue(XmlObject obj)
This comparison method is similar to compareTo, but rather than throwing a ClassCastException when two values are incomparable, it returns the number 2. The result codes are -1 if this object is less than obj, 1 if this object is greater than obj, zero if the objects are equal, and 2 if the objects are incomparable.
There is also an implementation availble in XMLObjectBase.java. This method does not work. I downloaded the source code and trid to fix it. I was not going any where. One of the response from bea says that these methods can handle ony simple type( what ever it is) and need developers to code for handling schema based comparision.
The story with jaxb is almost the same as xml beans. The interfaces have compareTo(Object ). But there is no implementation.
4) XMLUnit
Comparing xml files is very easy in XMLUnit
Diff myDiff = new Diff(controlDocument, testDocument); XML Unit can identify similar, identical and also print all differences found with element name and attribute names. The limitation is the API is built around DOM ie, it works with org.w3c.dom.Document which represents the whole xml document. XML Unit does not support our B requrement
This project is still in alpha
6) DOM
DOM 3 has defined the behaviour for isEqualNode(). I tried the default parser in JDK 1.5 and also Xerces-J-bin.2.8.1. In either case it throws an exception saying DOM 3 implementation needed. Even Oracle parser has DOM 3 but i wonder if they have implemented isEqualNode(). The conclution is DOM 3 isEqualNode() is not yet there
7) X-Diff
No files released
8) XML Diff and Merge Tool(Alpha works)
This seems to be targeted to GUI applications. Not suitable for our requirements.
It seems comparing XML is still an under developed technology. This raises few more questions.
What happened to the do any thing and do in anywhere promise of XML. Or is this impression I got coz my exploration is limited to java world.
How does mature technologies like RDBMS handle this kind of requirements.
After-all RDBMS does handle these problems. The solution in RDBMS world are much simpler. It does not have deeply nested hierarchies. So these type of requirements are handled by manual coding. Probably we will not need sophisticated tools as in XML world.
After this exercise I had changed my approach. The new approach is use manual coding. I used XMLBeans as binding framework. Manipulate each element as java objects appropriately to handle the export and import functions.
Monday, October 30, 2006
Hello World
Hello world!
I have just started blogging, but there have been many attempts previously. Hope i will hold on to this longer :)


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 Recognize a picture and make a command
 Hi there professional guys,
 Im sitting here and Im facinated by C++ and Im eager to learn more about this wonderful program.
 So, I have a couple of friends that also want to learn about this and we have been given eachother different taskt so we learn about different things to teach eachother.
 My task is to make a small program that recognize different parts on the screen and depending on the picture of screen to make a click on a specified place on the screen or make a command that does the same thing (im not sure how that works)
 Why this task:
 A friend of a friend of me created a small game, and this task is going to be a kind of bot to play the game by itself.
 So is there any possibility to make such a bot with C++?
 If not, can you give me a suggestion to a program that allow me to make it?
 Thanks in advance!
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 Re: Recognize a picture and make a command
 So is there any possibility to make such a bot with C++?
 Sure... you can make anything you want with C++
 My task is to make a small program that recognize different parts on the screen
 This is not always a easy task. Google for image recognition techniques, and you will see that there are a lot of possibilities. It's more important to understand the problem than building it.
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 Quote Originally Posted by Skizmo View Post
 Google for image recognition techniques, and you will see that there are a lot of possibilities. It's more important to understand the problem than building it.
 Well, thanks for two uplifting answers, but as you might understand, I am a newbie in C++, and I have only tried it a little stuff.
 Is there anyway we can talk, on skype, msn etc or if you could help me through teamviewer because Im totally in for this project but I dont have the skills to do it by myself, hehe
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 You're putting the cart before the horse. Work through a tutorial and get the basics down first. Image recognition isn't a task for beginners.
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 Im watching some of tutorials now, and i dont expect to get a pro the first day, but I have plenty of time to work this task out but Im doing what I can to get the best start.
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 Re: Recognize a picture and make a command
 Quote Originally Posted by Flashbolt View Post
 Im watching some of tutorials now, and i dont expect to get a pro the first day, but I have plenty of time to work this task out but Im doing what I can to get the best start.
 I can't really help with the problem, but I'm a bit curious... what are you trying to recognize ?
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 Its a small cardgame (player vs player) so that a card (as a normal playing card) should come up for each, and you can choose to keep the card, take a new one or bet you have a higher card than the opponent.
 The scores will be saved and I want the bot to recognize each card and decide by itself to keep it, take a new one or bet.
 So my goal is to make one. Dont blame me for beeing a noob that is trying to learn something difficult, but Im in for this, even if it will take a long time to make.
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 Quote Originally Posted by Flashbolt View Post
 So my goal is to make one. Dont blame me for beeing a noob that is trying to learn something difficult, but Im in for this, even if it will take a long time to make.
 To add what GCDEF states:
 To write such a thing that you're trying to write requires many goals to be accomplished, and writing many programs that may have absolutely nothing to do with card games and face recognition. Learning C++ programming doesn't work that way, where you focus on one application and everything is geared to this one "ultimate goal".
 A person who could write the program that you described would be able to write any C++ program. As long as that person knows the field of study he or she is in, C++ is just a tool to get something accomplished.
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 As I see it, there are three steps here:
 1) Acquire a screengrab from a program other than the one running. Probably possible, but I don't know the details on how you'd do it.
 2) Search the screengrab for a particular image. Depending on how precisely you know the scale and contents of this sub-image, there are several possible approaches. If you know it precisely, an MSE search over an image pyramid would probably do it. This would be a fairly straightforward task....for someone who knows the theory of image pyramids and is familiar with C++. For a newbie, it's likely to be a major hurtle.
 3) If the image is detected, send some kind of message to the window where it was found. Again, probably doable but not my area of expertise.
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Post mortem organ donation is a sensitive, personal decision and not something that everyone may be comfortable with. Decisions made about donations are often best made by each person for themselves and when the time is not imminent.
Stanford University's Center for Narcolepsy (CFN), a world leader in narcolepsy research, has published over 100 articles on narcolepsy. The Stanford group was the first to report that narcolepsy-cataplexy is caused by hypocretin abnormalities in both animal models and humans. The CFN established a brain donation program in 1999 with a goal to understand the process by which hypocretin producing cells are destroyed and to find a way to prevent and reverse it.
Stanford's Center for Narcolepsy offers a program to patients with narcolepsy (and unaffected family members or spouses) where they can donate his/her brain to research upon death. Through the brain donor program, our research group will examine brain tissue in light of the current research/knowledge on narcolepsy. From our recent studies, we have determined that >90% of narcolepsy with cataplexy is caused by a lack of a brain chemical called hypocretin. This chemical is involved in the alerting process of the sleep/wake cycle. We are still in the process of determining the cause of narcolepsy without cataplexy and most familial cases of narcolepsy. The only way to learn unequivocally the causes of all cases of narcolepsy is through examination of brain tissue. Thus, examination of the brain tissue allows our center to perform studies aimed toward furthering our understanding of narcolepsy. This enables both researchers and family members to gain a more thorough understanding of the cause of narcolepsy.
The brain donation itself takes very little time, does not interfere with the family's funeral plans and will not add to the cost of funeral arrangements. If brain donation is something that you may consider, please visit the CFN web site _URL_ for more information or to request a donation packet.


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You are here: REHACARE Portal. Up-to-date. Archive. Wheelchair.
Communicate and Steer a Wheelchair by Sniffing
The nasal cannula is used to carry
nasal pressure to the sensor;
© Weizmann Institute
A device based on sniffing – inhaling and exhaling through the nose – might enable numerous disabled people to navigate wheelchairs or communicate with their loved ones.
Sniffing is a precise motor skill that is controlled, in part, by the soft palate – the flexible divider that moves to direct air in or out through the mouth or nose. The soft palate is controlled by several nerves that connect to it directly through the braincase. This close link led Sobel and his scientific team to theorise that the ability to sniff – that is, to control soft palate movement – might be preserved even in the most acute cases of paralysis.
To test their theory, the researchers created a device with a sensor that fits on the nostril's opening and measures changes in air pressure. For patients on respirators, they developed a passive version of the device, which diverts airflow to the patient's nostrils. About 75% of the subjects on respirators were able to control their soft palate movement to operate the device.
'The most stirring tests were those we did with locked-in syndrome patients. With the new system, they were able to communicate with family members, and even initiate communication with the outside," said Noam Sobel who developed this system.
One patient who had been locked in for seven months following a stroke learned to use the device over a period of several days, writing her first message to her family. Another, who had been locked in since a traffic accident 18 years earlier wrote that the new device was much easier to use than one based on blinking. Another ten patients, all quadriplegics, succeeded in operating a computer and writing messages through sniffing.
In addition to communication, the device can function as a sort of steering mechanism for wheelchairs: Two successive sniffs in tell it to go forward, two out mean reverse, out and then in turn it left, and in and out turn it right. After fifteen minutes of practice, a subject who is paralysed from the neck down managed to navigate a wheelchair through a complex route – sharp turns and all – as well as a non-disabled volunteer.
Sniffs can be in or out, strong or shallow, long or short; and this gives the device's developers the opportunity to create a complex 'language' with multiple signals. The new system is relatively inexpensive to produce, and simple and quick to learn to operate in comparison with other brain-machine interfaces. Sobel believes that this invention may not only bring new hope to severely disabled people, but it could be useful in other areas, for instance as a control for a 'third arm' for surgeons and pilots.
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The width property is a standard HTML attribute. The value of this attribute is usually an integer.
It is very common to see HTML tags like images, iframes or object elements have width (and height) attributes.
This property is an integer value. Although an HTML author can specify the width as a percentage, this property always specifies the width in pixels in C++. In Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 it is possible to set the width property, but doing so has no effect on the rendering of the frame.
This article contains content originally from external sources.
Portions of this content come from the Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]


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The References window shows the results of the last Find References
operation. The Find References facility is closely related to the
Source Navigator in that it indexes your project and searches for
references within the active source code regions.
To activate the References window:
If you have hidden the References window and want to see it again:
- Choose Navigate > References or press Ctrl+Alt+R.
To find all references in a project:
- Open a source file that is part of the active project, or one of its
- In the editor, move the insertion point within the name of the
function, variable, method, or macro to find.
- Choose Search > Find References or press Alt+R.
- CrossStudio shows the References window, without moving focus,
and searches your project in the background.
You can also find references directly from the text editor's context menu:
right-click the item to find and choose Find References. As a convenience,
CrossStudio is configured to also run Find References when you
Alt+Right-click in the text editor—see Mouse-click accelerators.
To search within the results:
- Type the text to search for in the Reference window's search box.
As you type, the search results are narrowed.
- Click the close button to clear the search text and show all
To replace within the results:
- Type the replacement text in the Reference window's replace box.
- Use the buttons to navigate and replace the text.
- The documents that have had replaced text will appear unsaved in the text editor.

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Meet the People Behind Autizma
Autizma Trainer and Family Services Director
LYNDSEY TODD O.A DIP (AUTISM AWARENESS)
Lyndsey is an experienced parent, carer and Autizma trainer which comes from her passion of being a mum of a son whom has autism and severe allergies. Lyndsey herself has specific learning difficulties and dyslexia and has differences with communication, social interaction and sensory dysfunction.
During her journey she has acquired extensive knowledge, understanding and confidence in her work, which enables great competency in providing high quality services to those affected by Autism and their families. Involving real life experiences and strategies in her teaching helping families to develop valuable skills.
Lyndsey's mission is to further help, support and enable progress for individuals affected by autism/associated conditions and to enable a better quality of life, which they and their families deserve.
Lyndsey has a Diploma in Autism, holds an Train and Trainer Certification from The National Autistic Society and has attended extensive training in the areas of Safeguarding with children with disabilities, Domestic Violence and Abuse, Identifying and Responding to Sexual Behaviours, Sexual Exploitation, Loss, Grief and Bereavement and associated ASD spectrum conditions including ADHD and PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance).
Jodie is an experienced Independent Supporter, mother to four
children who have autism, sensory issues and allergies. Jodie herself
is Nero diverse and has dyslexia.
Jodie has qualifications in Health and Social care, Nursery Nursing,
Teacher Assistant, Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism, Independent support in
Jodie also works voluntary for parent/carers in Greater
Manchester, a member of her children's schools Parent Teacher
Association and Parent in Action group
Jodie has taken part in helping the 'Our Manchester Approach' will
see services working together providing personalised support that
helps people manage their health conditions better, stay
independent, and get their health services closer to home .
Jodie has attending training in multiple areas ranging from
Reasonable Adjustments, Ehcp, Safeguarding and Emotional

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Fuzzy-logic-based control (FLC) systems have emerged as one of the most promising areas for research in Applied Computational Intelligence. These systems operate with knowledge represented in a linguistic form (IF-THEN rules) that describes relations which are not precisely known, but those effects are intuitively understood by humans. This fundamental feature makes FLC a powerful tool for industrial applications, since complex systems can be controlled by easily comprehensive rules. The growth in number of fuzzy logic applications led to the need of finding efficient and economic ways to implement them. The Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) devices, with their reconfigurable logic, practicality, portability, low consumption of energy, high operation speedy and large data-storage capacity, are a great choice for FLC embedded systems project development and prototyping. In this paper, the design and implementation of a Mamdani-type Fuzzy controller is demonstrated using VHDL programming language.


51.5.2:C03 A user with administrator rights can now upload PTZ drivers for those cameras supporting this feature. Note that a factory default will be required to remove the old permissions sets from the firmware. 5.51.5.2:C04 Corrected an issue that caused an overload of the CPU after enabling IP adress filtering. 5.51.5.2:C05 Corrected common vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel to increase overall minimum cyber security level. CVE-2010-2960, CVE-2010-4175. 5.51.5.2:C06 Patched security vulernability CVE-2018-14526 in WPA supplicant to increase overall minimum cyber security level. Corrections in 5.51.5.1 since 5.51.5 ==================================== 5.51.5.1:C01 Corrected an issue that caused the action engine to respawn on scheduled triggered action events. 5.51.5.1:C02 Corrected an issue that caused SD cards to become full and write protected on rare occasions. Corrections in 5.51.5 since 5.50.9.5 ==================================== 5.51.5:C01 Updated R2 GlobalSign Root Certificate to version 20170717. 5.51.5:C02 Corrected an issue that let the camera become unresponsive in rare occasions when connected to an AVHS system. 5.51.5:C03 Corrected critical vulnerability ACV-128401. Known Bugs/Limitations ====================== 5.51.6.1:L01 Event trigger data is sent even if user data is disabled. 5.51.6.1:L02 Date & Time settings are reset when performing a Factory Restore. 5.51.6.1:L03 It is not possible to select starting point when playing back a recording while using multicast and h264. 5.51.6.1:L04 Constant bit rate might fluctuate more than 10%. Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions ========================================== Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 1280x720 800x600 800x450 640x480 640x360 480x360 480x270 320x240 320x180 1024x768 1) 1024x640 1) 800x500 1) 768x576 1) 720x576 1) 704x576 1) 704x480 1) 704x288 1) 704x240 1) 640x400 1) 480x300 1) 384x288 1) 352x288 1) 352x240 1) 320x200 1) 240x180 1) 240x135 1) 192x144 1) 176x144 1) 176x120 1) 160x120 1) 160x100 1) 160x90 1) 80x50 1) 1) Not visible in web user interface


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If you are into saving money and making the most of natural resources – and who isn't? – then you may be overlooking some readily available and renewable options. In fact, you may be flushing one of them down the toilet or throwing the other one away when you clean your brushes and combs.
Yes, human urine and human hair can be surpassingly effective in your garden as deterrents to pests and as fertilizers.
Human Urine in the Garden
Contrary to what you might think, fresh human urine is clean and bacteria-free. It is only when urine is stored for more than 24 hours that it gets that familiar, unpleasant odor. Healthy human urine is about 95 percent water, 2.5 percent urea and 2.5 percent a mixture of hormones, minerals, enzymes and salts.
In his 1975 study "Urinalysis in Clinical Laboratory Practice," Dr. A. H. Free detailed some of the nutrients found in human urine, including creatinine nitrogen, urea nitrogen, uric acid nitrogen, amino nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen, chloride, sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium, inorganic phosphate and inorganic sulphate. Plants require all of these macronutrients.
The only real problem with the use of human urine as a fertilizer is the potential for excess nitrogen and inorganic salts. Soil conditions as well as rainfall and watering – in addition to the needs of your particular plants – should come into consideration when using human urine as a fertilizer, but diluting the urine usually takes care of the problem.
A ratio of one part urine with 10 parts water helps mitigate the excess nitrogen and reduces the chance of offensive odor as well.
Speaking of that odor, dilution will make the urine undetectable to the human nose, but garden pests will still be able to smell it. And that's a good thing. Rabbits, deer, groundhogs and skunks dislike the smell of human urine and tend to stay away from it.
Try spraying your urine solution around the perimeter of your garden to discourage these unwelcome guests. Another option is to place cotton balls soaked in the solution around the edges of your garden, perhaps in disposable containers if you're really squeamish. Human urine and hair (below) are particularly helpful if you have a garden that you can't monitor on a daily basis. In fact, many gardeners say urine and hair are the only deterrents that work.
A few words of advice:
- Use only healthy, fresh human urine
- Use a spray bottle or bucket that is clearly labeled and dedicated for this purpose
- Reapply after rainfall or irrigation
- Some gardeners believe that male urine works better than female urine as a deterrent for pests.
Human Hair in the Garden
Another renewable resource for your garden is on the top of your head. Human hair can deter animals and work as a fertilizer for your garden. Working as a natural mulch, human hair adds nutrients to the soil as it decomposes. You can sprinkle it throughout your garden.
Mississippi State University researchers found that human hair has significantly more nitrogen than manure, and therefore can serve as a natural replacement for some traditional fertilizers. In the study, researchers compared the use of human hair with commercial fertilizers on the health and productivity of lettuce, yellow poppy, wormwood and feverfew.
Plant yields were higher for the hair-fertilized plants when compared with the untreated control plants, overall, but were lower than for the lettuce and wormwood plants treated with commercial fertilizers. However, the yellow poppy saw higher yields with the hair treatment. Results did not differ with the feverfew.
The researchers concluded that since lettuce and wormwood are fast-growing plants, the time it takes hair to degrade and to release nutrients was a factor in the study results. Human hair, as a fertilizer, breaks down very slowly.
A report published in the journal Hort Technology found that human hair contains all the organic nutrients plants need to grow, but it takes a month or more for those nutrients to decompose into an inorganic form plants can use. The report suggested that hair is a good fertilizer for slow-growing plants such as basil, sage and certain ornamental shrubs. For quicker-growing plants, try mixing hair with other fertilizers for the first few weeks.
Another potential problem of using human hair in your garden is the effect of any styling chemicals on your plants. Be sure to use unwashed hair that is free from sprays, coloring or other additives.
Just as with human urine, human hair can serve as a deterrent to animals, especially snails, rodents, rabbits and deer. In addition to sprinkling hair in your garden, you can tie cheesecloth or nylon bags filled with unwashed hair onto posts or branches near your garden to deter animals.
Upon request, barbers and hair salon will save some of the snipped hair they sweep off their floors for you. Since it is unlikely this hair is chemical-free, it's best to use this hair as a deterrent instead of a fertilizer, however.
A few tips:
- Human hair will lose its scent within a week or two (less in rainy conditions) and will need to be replaced frequently.
- Save clippings from shaving to add to your hair collection.
- You can also mix dog and cat hair with human hair in your garden.
If you're struggling to keep pests out of your garden this year – or you're looking for a cheap fertilizer — then give these overlooked solutions a try.
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Instagram For Health Care Professionals
Figure 1 is a complex version of Instagram for health care professionals. It's a place for medical students and professionals to both upload and access a growing database of images related to medical conditions. It contains patient photos, brain scans, X-Rays and even cellular images, with text to accompany each image.
Figure 1: Photo sharing for health careFigure 1: Photo sharing for health care
Open the app and you are presented with a feed of images, just like Instagram, so it's a better experience when your colleagues are posting photos. I signed up as a journalist and was presented with a recommended feed of photos with descriptions, some that included requests for second opinions.
The result was a fascinating feed of medical pornography: broken bones, explanted tumors, alzheimers brain scans, and even images of dental destruction from methamphetamine drug use.
Each photo is tagged, e.g Vascular Surgery, making it easier to browse by topic, and I was pleasantly surprised by how accessible and easy it was to use.
The app includes a patient consent to comply with federal privacy laws, just like those faced by GoDerma, another photo based app but for patients to diagnose their skin disorders.
It also includes instructions and tools to black out faces, text (e.g names on X-Rays), or identifiable marks (e.g tattoos) to maintain patient confidentiality.
Photos and files can be shared amongst specific groups of people, or more broadly amongst the medical community.
It seems like an incredibly useful app, that gives doctors and students access to a much larger database of images and case studies that would otherwise be available to them, as well as making the process of helping each other much easier.
What surprised me was that Figure 1 is also interesting to those of us just fascinated by the human body and it's disorders. And it's free!
Download Figure 1 now but beware! Some images are frightening!


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Melinda Gate's keynote career took on a more prominent role in 2006 when she retired from the board... Need Inspiration?
The Melinda Gates Keynote Evaluates Opinions on Contraception
By: Sarah Moore - Apr 20, 2012
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The controversial stigma surrounding birth control and family planning is addressed in this thought-provoking Melinda Gates Keynote.
As the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she promotes equality of life and focuses on finding ways to help society become more productive and live healthier lives.
She discusses the reproach associated with contraceptive use and the idea that the use of birth control is widely accepted in private while being highly opposed in the public eye. Due to the often uncomfortable nature of discussing sexual health issues outside of the confines of the home, the speaker argues that there are not enough honest and open conversations being had regarding the positive elements involved with family planning.
Her speech resonates with the thought that the choice of if and when to have a family should be exactly that -- a choice.


Sucker Bets
Ok. Don't yell at me if some of these are groaners. Blame Skinny:
 1. This one's so simple it's easy to miss: Skinny simply bends the match into a "V" shape.
 2. Skinny folds the paper in half, bisecting the circle. Next, he pulls the two folded corners up and toward each other. This elongates the hole, allowing the quarter to slip through.
 3. The first die is easy. But the second one seems to always pop out. Instead of tossing the second quarter in, Skinny drops the cup down and under it. By beginning with a downward motion, the first die isn't thrown out.
 4. Dissolving salt into water increases its density. Skinny saturates the water with salt until the egg floats.
 5. Don't take this betits much harder than it sounds. After spinning around ten times quickly, your sense of balance will be so off you'll have trouble even standing, let alone walking. Incidentally, this is caused by the motion of fluids in the inner ear.
 6. If Skinny has just a dozen quarters, chances are one of them will land "heads" the next four times its flipped. Skinny takes a roll out of his pocket, opens it and throws all the quarters in the air. Then he gathers all the heads, and tosses them. He repeats this two more times and collects his money.
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Understanding the Emerald Tablet
Emerald Tablet coverThe Emerald Tablet, or Tabula Smaragdina,1 is a pivotal and important piece of Hermetica whose influence is still felt today. Many modern esotericists and occultists still look to the Emerald Tablet for inspiration and meaning. This can be frustrating, for though the tablet is brief, it is confusing and cryptic.
Where Did It Come From?
The Emerald Tablet is pretty old. It dates back to at least the 8th century C.E., when it was attested in the writings of Balinus. The tablet was first translated into Latin by the 12th century, so it was probably the earliest Hermetic text available to the Western world.2 Interestingly, though we can't say for sure that the entire Emerald Tablet existed before the 8th century, there seems to be a passage quoting it in the Gospel of Philip from the Nag Hammadi library.3
[The Lord] said, "I came to make the things below like the things above, and the things outside like those inside. I came to unite them in one place."4
Hermes_Woodcut_onlyThe tablet claims to be a message from Hermes Trismegistus. It even claims to be a summation of all of his wisdom, containing "the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world."
What Does it Say?
Below is Isaac Newton's translation of the Emerald Tablet from around 1680.
 1. Tis true without error, certain & most true.
 10. & thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
 12. So was the world created.
What Does It Mean?
Well, that's the big question, isn't it? The Emerald Tablet's message is cryptic, and has inspired analysis and commentary from dozens of intelligent thinkers over the centuries. Many of these writers have names which might be familiar to you: Roger Bacon, Aleister Crowley, and Isaac Newton are just a few of them. It is believed that the tablet holds secrets about the creation of the Philosopher's Stone, and because of this has become one of the core texts in Western alchemy.
Perhaps the most important line in the Emerald Tablet is the one which contains the Hermetic Axiom. In Newton's words, "That which is below is like that which is above & that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing." This is typically shortened to "As above, so below." This brief statement describes the correspondence between the microcosm and the macrocosm, an idea that has resonated throughout Western esoteric traditions for a very long time.5
Learning More
As a mystical text, the best way to really learn more about the Emerald Tablet is to read different translations and contemplate them. What do the differences in translation say about the original meaning? Figure out if one translation speaks to you better than the others. Write your own commentary by dissecting each line of the text and figuring out what the richly symbolic language seems to be saying.
Finally, share your interpretation with others. The Emerald Tablet's true meaning continues to elude scholars, mystics, and alchemists everywhere. It could be that the meaning it conveys to each person is important in a deeply personal and spiritual way.
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 1. Does anybody else feel like "smaragdina" is a really unpleasant-looking word for a very beautiful substance?
 2. Ebeling, Florian. The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism From Ancient to Modern Times. Cornell University Press, 2007. 49-51. Balinus was also later known as pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana.
 3. Churton, Tobias. The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians, and the First Freemasons. Boston, MA: Weiser Books, 2005. 20, 71-2.
 4. Gospel of Philip, 67:30-35. (Robinson, James M., ed. The Nag Hammadi Library in English. San Francisco: Harper, 1990.) I've cleaned up the text so it's easier to read.
 5. Churton. 20-1.
The best recent commentary on the Emerald Tablet is that of Martin Faulks: The Emerald Tablet – A Commentary on the Path of the True Adept. I was so impressed by it that I sent copies to several friends and teachers.
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Describe a New Species of Piranha Project
Ivan Mikolji's motto is "You cannot preserve something that you don't know exists". There is a new piranha species that has been discovered in Colombia and is already anthropogenically endangered but cannot be protected because it has not even be described as a new species yet so it is not even listed in the IUCN database. We are proposing a project to describe the species so it can be assessed and protected. This project will take approximately 1.5 years and involve local scientists from Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Guyana. We will have to do DNA testing of this species and compare it to DNA of other piranhas. Scientists involve include Carlos Lasso in Colombia, Oscar Lasso in Venezuela, Alfredo Perez in Brazil, Antonio Machado-Allison (currently in CT), and Carlos Donascimento (also in Colombia). We calculate this project will require the extensive time, air travel and lodging.


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A high-performance cluster is a group of computers (real or virtual) sharing application load to get things done fast. A high availability cluster is designed primarily to secure the highest possible availability of services.
Whenever communication fails between one or more nodes and the rest of the cluster, a cluster partition occurs. The nodes of a cluster partition are still active and able to communicate with each other, but they are unaware of the nodes with which they cannot communicate. As the loss of the other partition cannot be confirmed, a split brain scenario develops (see also split brain).
consensus cluster membership (CCM)
The CCM determines which nodes make up the cluster and shares this information across the cluster. Any new addition and any loss of nodes or quorum is delivered by the CCM. A CCM module runs on each node of the cluster.
cluster information base (CIB)
A representation of the whole cluster configuration and status (node membership, resources, constraints, etc.) written in XML and residing in memory. A master CIB is kept and maintained on the DC and replicated to the other nodes.
cluster resource manager (CRM)
The main management entity responsible for coordinating all nonlocal interactions. Each node of the cluster has its own CRM, but the one running on the DC is the one elected to relay decisions to the other nonlocal CRMs and process their input. A CRM interacts with a number of components: local resource managers both on its own node and on the other nodes, nonlocal CRMs, administrative commands, the fencing functionality, and the membership layer.
designated coordinator (DC)
master node. This node is where the master copy of
the CIB is kept. All other nodes get their configuration and
resource allocation information from the current DC. The DC is elected
from all nodes in the cluster after a membership change.
Distributed replicated block device (drbd)
DRBD is a block device designed for building high availability clusters. The whole block device is mirrored via a dedicated network and is seen as a network RAID-1.
Occurs when a resource or node fails on one machine and the affected resources are started on another node.
Describes the concept of preventing access to a shared
resource by non-cluster members. It can be archived by
killing (shutting down) a
misbehaving node to prevent
it from causing trouble, locking resources away from a node whose
status is uncertain, or in several other ways.
Furthermore fencing is distinguished between node and resource fencing.
Heartbeat resource agent
Heartbeat resource agents were widely used with Heartbeat version 1. Their use is deprecated, but still supported in version 2. A Heartbeat resource agent can perform start, stop, and status operations and resides under /etc/ha.d/resource.d or /etc/init.d. For more information about Heartbeat resource agents, refer to _URL_
local resource manager (LRM)
The local resource manager (LRM) is responsible for performing
operations on resources. It uses the resource agent scripts to
carry out the work. The LRM is
dumb in that it does not
know of any policy by itself. It needs the DC to tell it what to do.
LSB resource agent
LSB resource agents are standard LSB init scripts. LSB init scripts are not limited to use in a high availability context. Any LSB-compliant Linux system uses LSB init scripts to control services. Any LSB resource agent supports a start, stop, restart, status and force-reload option and may optionally provide try-restart and reload as well. LSB resource agents are located in /etc/init.d. Find more information about LSB resource agents and the actual specification at _URL_ and _URL_
Any computer (real or virtual) that is a member of a cluster and invisible for the user.
The ping daemon. It continuously contacts one or more servers outside the cluster with ICMP pings.
policy engine (PE)
The policy engine computes the actions that need to be taken to implement policy changes in the CIB. This information is then passed on to the transaction engine, which in turn implements the policy changes in the cluster setup. The PE always runs on the DC.
OCF resource agent
OCF resource agents are similar to LSB resource agents (init scripts). Any OCF resource agent must support start, stop, and status (sometimes called monitor) options. Additionally, they support a metadata option that returns the description of the resource agent type in XML. Additional options may be supported, but are not mandatory. OCF resource agents reside in /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/provider. Find more information about OCF resource agents and a draft of the specification at _URL_ and _URL_
In a cluster, a cluster partition is defined to have quorum (is
quorate) if it has the majority of nodes (or votes).
Quorum distinguishes exactly one partition. It is part of the algorithm
to prevent several disconnected partitions or nodes from proceeding and
causing data and service corruption (split brain). Quorum is a
prerequisite for fencing, which then ensures that quorum is indeed
Any type of service or application that is known to Heartbeat. Examples include an IP address, a file system, or a database.
resource agent (RA)
A resource agent (RA) is a script acting as a proxy to manage a resource. There are three different kinds of resource agents: OCF (Open Cluster Framework) resource agents, LSB resource agents (Standard LSB init scripts), and Heartbeat resource agents (Heartbeat v1 resources).
Single Point of Failure (SPOF)
A single point of failure (SPOF) is any component of a cluster that, should it fail, triggers the failure of the entire cluster.
A scenario in which the cluster nodes are divided into two or more
groups that do not know of each other (either through a software or
hardware failure). To prevent a split brain situation from badly
affecting the entire cluster, STONITH must come to the rescue. Also
known as a
partitioned cluster scenario.
The acronym for
Shoot the other node in the head which
is basically bringing down a misbehaving node to prevent it from
causing trouble in the cluster.
transition engine (TE)
The transition engine (TE) takes the policy directives from the PE and carries them out. The TE always runs on the DC. From there, it instructs the local resource managers on the others nodes which actions to take.


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Communication and Perception
There is considerable evidence that gobies use visual, tactile, chemical, auditory, or olfactory cues in reproduction and territorial behavior (see Reproduction and Behavior). It is quite likely that investigators will find more evidence of different types of communication as research progresses.
Communication Channels: visual ; tactile ; chemical
Other Communication Modes: pheromones
Perception Channels: visual
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The bean duel with two players uses the same rules as the variant for three players with the following changes:
- Remove the Garden Beans and the Cocoa Beans from the game.
- A player may only sell beans from his bean fields on his turn.
- The game ends when the draw deck is exhausted for the first time.
- On a player's turn, he does the following in the order indicated:
1. Plant or discard offered bean cards
The player may plant or discard the bean cards his opponent left as an offer in step 3 of his turn. This is omitted by the starting player on his first turn.
2. Plant bean cards & discard
After planting one or two cards in his bean fields (as in the normal game), the player may discard one card from anywhere in his hand face up on the discard pile.
3. Draw, plant, and offer beans
The active player draws the three topmost cards from the draw deck and puts them face up on the table so both players can see them. If the topmost card on the discard pile matches any of the cards just drawn, the player adds it to them.
He does the same with the new topmost card from the discard pile until the topmost card on the discard pile does not match any of the drawn cards.
Now the player may plant any of these drawn (from the draw deck or discard pile) cards he wants, selling such beans as he can and wants in the process. He leaves any drawn cards he does not want as an offer to his opponent.
He need not plant any of the drawn cards. The players can earn more gold coins through this extended draw.
4. Draw new bean cards
The active player draws two cards from the draw deck. He draws them one at a time, placing each in turn at the back of his hand.


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The VALE program is available to commercial service airports located in compromised air quality areas of the country as designated by the Environmental Protection Agency. Airports can obtain VALE funding for cleaner technology that the FAA deems cost effective. VALE projects also receive emission reduction credits from State governments, which the airports can use to meet future environmental obligations under the Clean Air Act.
VALE allows airport sponsors to take proactive steps to improve air quality at their facilities. Projects can range from the purchase of low-emission vehicles to major infrastructure improvements. Examples of eligible projects include: preconditioned air units, chargers for electric ground support equipment like bag tugs and belt loaders; natural gas refueling stations for airport buses and shuttles; and electric gates at the terminal.
Through VALE, airports are reducing ozone emissions by approximately 466 tons per year, which is equivalent to removing 26,000 cars and trucks off the road annually.
In fiscal year 2013, FAA issued VALE grants for eight projects at eight airports for $17 million. Since 2005, the FAA has funded 66 VALE projects at 34 airports, which represents a total investment of $167 million in clean airport technology. That amount includes $133 million in federal grants and $34 million in local airport matching funds.
AIP provides $3.35 billion in annual funding for projects that are vital to maintaining the safety, capacity, and environmental stewardship of our nation's airports. More than 3,300 airports are eligible for AIP grants benefiting commercial passengers, cargo operations, and general aviation activities throughout the nation.
For information about the program including a list of eligible airports and projects, go to the VALE web site: _URL_


Looney, who assumed the role in 2011 from the founder Elizabeth Loescher.
Elizabeth Loescher founded the center in 1987 in Denver, Co. After 15 years of managing the organization, she decided to relocate to Athens to continue aiding in bringing peace to the city. The Georgia Conflict Center has various programs for all ages including the Peacemakers group. This group meets for eight weeks at a time to discuss nonviolent communication skills. The center also offers this group to the Athens Diversion Center, a work release center that houses nonviolent and minimum-security inmates.
The center mainly focuses on restorative justice, which is a theory of justice that emphasizes repairing the harm caused or revealed by immoral behavior. It focuses on the needs of the victim as well as the offender as an approach to justice.
 "We are looking to induce an empathetic understanding between the person who has caused harm and the person who they have harmed," said Lash. "We want to work with people, since they are the experts in their own conflicts. Usually people are trying to fix others or to punish them somehow. "
Lash counsels many people who battle issues with communication. Annice Ritter was a participant in the recent Peacemakers group and Lash was able to help Ritter overcome a personal issue in her life by seeing the importance of nonviolent communication.
"In the times we are living in, we need more non-violent communication," said Ritter.
Nonviolent communication is a conflict-resolution process that has benefits for both parties in a conversation. Self-empathy, empathy for others, and honest self-expression are the three aspects of communication that create harmony among people. The Georgia Conflict Center has volunteer opportunities and encourages university students to get involved to help its members.
"Conflict exists in every aspect of a community - in schools, at work, at home," said Leslie Jones, University of Georgia student and volunteer. "The Georgia Conflict Center has brought something to Athens that not many communities focus on, but all of them experience it on a daily basis. It provides members of our community with a safe space to explore conflict and discover new strategies of addressing it."
Lash believes that the Georgia Conflict Center has the ability to make Athens a better place.
 "We empower people to take responsibility for themselves and their conflicts by connecting with their own power of choice and responsibility for their well-being," said Lash. We also offer support to those in conflict that isn't aimed at 'fixing' anyone, but instead seeks to bolster their inherent ability to express and understand meaning in the least intrusive way."
Looking back on his life, Lash is reminded that prison and restorative justice had a great impact on him and the course of his life.
"I look at my life and it's pretty miraculous," said Lash.
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Do gut bacteria control your mind? | KurzweilAI
Do gut bacteria control your mind? | KurzweilAI | Radical Compassion | Scoop.it
Bacteria within you — which outnumber your own cells about 100 times — may be affecting both your cravings and moods to get you to eat what they want, and may be driving you toward obesity.
That's the conclusion of an article published this week in the journal BioEssays by researchers from UC San Francisco,Arizona State University and University of New Mexico from a review of the recent scientific literature.
How your gut microbiome may control you
The diverse community of microbes, collectively known as the gut microbiome, influence human eating behavior and dietary choices to favor consumption of the particular nutrients they grow best on, rather than simply passively living off whatever nutrients we choose to send their way.Some bacterial species prefer fat, and others sugar, for instance. They vie with each other for food and to retain a niche within their ecosystem — your digestive tract — and they also often have different aims than you do when it comes to your own actions.Bacteria may influence your decisions by releasing signaling molecules into your gut. Because the gut is linked to the immune system, the endocrine system, and the nervous system, those signals could influence your physiologic and behavioral responses — and health.Bacteria may be acting through the vagus nerve, which connects 100 million nerve cells from the digestive tract to the base of the brain, changing taste receptors, producing toxins to make you feel bad, and releasing chemical rewards to make you feel good.Certain strains of bacteria increase anxious behavior (in mice).Some strains of bacteria cause stomach cancer and perhaps other cancers.
What you can do (with medical guidance)
Make changes in what you eat. There are measurable changes in the microbiome within 24 hours of diet change, evolving on the time scale of minutes.Take appropriate probiotics. One study showed a drink containing Lactobacillus casei improved mood in those who were feeling the lowest.Kill targeted species with specific antibiotics.Acquire specialized bacteria that digest your favorite foods. (Bacteria that digest seaweed are found in humans in Japan, where seaweed is popular in the diet.)See previous KurzweilAI posts on gut bacteria
The co-authors' study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, the Bonnie D. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.
Jim Manske's insight:
On our trip to Korea two years ago, I started eating Kimchi regularly. (There are hundreds of varieties of Kimchi consumed there other than the cabbage Kimchi commonly found in some US grocery stores.)
I noticed an almost immediate positive effect on my digestive process as I increased the probiotic supply. Now, I wonder what other effects the members of my "biome" may be influencing. And I am grateful that we have learned to make our own kimchi, and our refrigerator has an abundance in the moment!
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» Three Tips to Teach Your Child Emotional Intelligence - Jonice Webb, PhD
» Three Tips to Teach Your Child Emotional Intelligence - Jonice Webb, PhD | Radical Compassion | Scoop.it
Emotional Intelligence is a larger factor in adult life success than general intelligence. Here are three clear guidelines for raising a child with high EI.
Three Parenting Tips to Maximize Your Child's Emotional Intelligence:
Pay attention. Work hard to see your child's true nature. What does your child like, dislike, get angry about, feel afraid of, or struggle with? Feed these observations back to your child in a non-judgmental way so that your child can see herself through your eyes, and so that she can feel how well you know her.
Life Advantage: Your child will see herself reflected in your eyes, and she will know who she is. This will give her confidence in her life choices and will make her resilient to life's challenges.
Feel an emotional connection to your child. Strive to feel what your child is feeling (empathy), whether you agree with it or not. When you feel your child's emotion, he will feel an instant bond with you.
Life Advantage: Your child will learn empathy and will have healthier relationships throughout his life.
Respond competently to your child's emotional need. Do not judge your child's feeling as right or wrong. Look beyond the feeling, to the source. Help your child name her emotion. Help her manage the emotion.
Life Advantage: Your child will have a healthy relationship with his own emotions. He will naturally know that his feelings are important and how to put them into words and manage them.
No parent can follow these tips perfectly, of course. This is not about perfection; it's about making the effort. Effort in itself shows love and care. When your child sees you trying to understand his feelings or feel his feelings, whether you succeed or not, he receives a powerful message:
Your feelings matter to me.
And what your child will hear:
You matter.
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Play Doesn't End With Childhood: Why Adults Need Recess Too
Play Doesn't End With Childhood: Why Adults Need Recess Too | Radical Compassion | Scoop.it
Play among children is vital for their social development. So what's in it for adults?
Jim Manske's insight:
Marshall once said something like, "Don't do it if it isn't play." And as Wes Taylor says, "Play on!"
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The Happiness Equation: It Can Predict How Good You Will Feel Moment-by-Moment — PsyBlog
The Happiness Equation: It Can Predict How Good You Will Feel Moment-by-Moment — PsyBlog | Radical Compassion | Scoop.it
The vital role expectations play in our happiness is revealed by data collected from 18,420 people worldwide.
Jim Manske's insight:
This confirms my direct experience...my expectations matter! Furthermore, my happiness can be enhance when I am willing to reveal my expectations in a vulnerable way AND empathize with the unexpressed expectations of others!
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Jews and Arabs Refuse to Be Enemies: A Compassionate Response to War - ELISHA GOLDSTEIN, PH.D.
Jews and Arabs Refuse to Be Enemies: A Compassionate Response to War - ELISHA GOLDSTEIN, PH.D. | Radical Compassion | Scoop.it
Henry David Thoreau said, "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
At some point in our development we learn to see others through


text: Chinese 李: from a character meaning 'minister'. This was part of the title of Gao Yao, a great-grandson of the legendary emperor Zhuan Xu, who became famous as a minister under the model emperors Yao and Shun in the 23rd century BC; he was the first to introduce laws for the repression of crime. His descendants adopted this part of his title as their surname. The use of this name continued for over a millennium to the twelfth century BC, down to the rule of the last king of the Shang dynasty, the despotic Zhou Xin. Li Zhi, the head of the Li clan at that time, displeased Zhou Xin and was executed, leaving the rest of the clan facing imminent disaster. They fled, and nearly starved to death, surviving only by eating a fruit called mu zi. When the characters for mu and zi are combined, they form the character for plum, pronounced Li. In token of this salvation, the clan changed their name to the current character for li 'plum'. Li is now the most common surname in China. Among the many famous bearers are Lee Kwan Yew, prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990; Lee Teng-hui, president of Taiwan from 1988; Li Peng, prime minister of China from 1988; and Bruce Lee (1941–73), movie actor.


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Enhances "Sharpshot" effect
- Does not extend duration of ability, so the item appears to increase ranged accuracy bonus given by Sharpshot.
Used in Recipes
Obtained from Desynthesis
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A braccae is the Latin term for trousers, and in this context is today used to refer to a style of pants, made from wool. Braccae were typically made with a drawstring, and tended to reach from just above the knee at the shortest, to the ankles at the longest, with length generally adapted to the climate. Historically it is said that the Romans encountered this style of clothing among the Gauls. When the Romans first encountered the braccae, they thought them to be effeminate (Roman men typically wore tunics, which were one-piece outfits terminating at or above the knee). However, braccae eventually became popular among Roman legionaries stationed in cooler climates to the north of southern Italy.


Understanding group attribute values to roles mapping
As part of managing their users, partners typically assign them role-based values (also known as group attribute values), such as Sales Managers, Service Managers, etc. However, we do not have visibility into their user directories and one partner may name the value "Sales Managers" while another partner may name it "SalesTeamManagers". To organize these group attribute values, we have created a group construct in the federated directory service. As the systems administrator in the host tenant, you can create host groups (for example "Mgrs-Sales" group) in which to map the group attribute values (for example the "Sales Managers" and "SalesTeamManagers" values). This host group can then be added to roles in your tenant. The diagram below demonstrates this flow.


Effects of work of breathing (WOB) on blood flow during exercise
Effects of work of breathing on blood flow during exercise
Published in Experimental Physiology this research sought to simultaneously assess leg and respiratory muscle blood flow during intense exercise while manipulating the work of breathing (WOB).
Researchers from Canada & Brazil hypothesised:
 1. Increasing the work of breathing would increase respiratory muscle blood flow and decrease leg blood flow.
 2. Decreasing the work of breathing would decrease respiratory muscle blood flow and increase leg blood flow.
The work of breathing (WOB)
Changes in work of breathing are significantly and positively related to changes in respiratory muscle blood flow. By which it shows that increasing the work of breathing increases blood flow.
On the other hand, changes in work of breathing are inversely related to changes in locomotor blood flow. So decreasing the work of breathing increases locomotor blood flow.
Study findings
Therefore findings from the study support the concept that respiratory muscle work significantly influences the distribution of blood flow to both respiratory and locomotor muscles.
The study
Effects of respiratory muscle work on respiratory and locomotor blood flow during exercise >
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ROTATORY SYSTEMS IN CRYOGENICS
During the commissioning of the first instrument of the QuiJoTe telescope project carried out by IDOM, the need became apparent to investigate viable alternatives to introduce mobile components in cryogenic environments, to cover the needs demanded by current scientific research, in particular, in the field of astronomical instrumentation.
Led by IDOM, the project was carried out in collaboration with the Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute (IAC) and funded by the Centre for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI).
The crysotat permits analysis of heat extraction through rotating elements under cryogenic conditions.
In order to carry out the experiment, IDOM has designed and manufactured a laboratory cryostat to analyse the heat extraction through rotating elements by means of conduction or radiation. The thermal and mechanical behaviour of special materials in cryogenic conditions (20K) were analyzed, as well as different coatings that minimize heat loss by radiation, etc.


text: Network forensics and Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) have ultimately become so important to corporations that in many cases they have been relied upon to identify the actions of offenders and to provide sufficient details to prosecute them. Unfortunately, as data links on corporate networks have increased to saturation, more information is being missed and even though corporations have spent heavily acquiring loud, power hungry devices to monitor their networks. A more power efficient solution, which consumes less electricity, yet provides the same or better packet inspection is an obvious solution.. This paper discusses a possible solution using a cluster of Raspberry Pis, a credit card sized computer valued at AUD$40 each. These tiny devices (whilst individually are limited in power and bandwidth) can be clustered together with economic benefits. This multi-GPU environment can inspect more data and therefore log more information for investigators. Overall it offers easier maintenance and therefore can be kept up to date easier. Finally clustering many of these devices may provide corporations with a better understanding as to what is occurring on their networks at a cheaper on-going cost.


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Ancestor Figure (Iene)
To honor deceased family members, villagers kept carved wooden figures to contain the souls of their ancestors in the family house. This seated figure (iene) from Leti has elongated limbs drawn close to the body and rests on a pedestal. The extension from the forehead may indicate the rank of the deceased.
- Medium: Wood, pigment
- Place Made: Molucca Islands, Leti Archipelago, Maluku Province, Indonesia
- Dates: early 20th century
- Dimensions: 22 7/8 x 4 7/8 x 5 in. (58.1 x 12.4 x 12.7 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Arts of the Pacific Islands
- Museum Location: This item is not on view
- Accession Number: 42.338
- Credit Line: Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Ancestor Figure (Iene), early 20th century. Wood, pigment, 22 7/8 x 4 7/8 x 5 in. (58.1 x 12.4 x 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund, 42.338. Creative Commons-BY
- Catalogue Description: Ancestor figure of brown wood showing a seated human figure with knees drawn up and arms crossed on the knees. The whole figure, especially the legs, is elongated. Ear ornaments are represented as well as a little crest on the head. The eyes and mouth are painted grey. The base of the figure is in tiers with a typical Indonesian scroll on several parts of the tiers. Condition: chipped in several places.
- Record Completeness: Best (82%)


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(American Chemical Society) As any wine enthusiast knows, the 'legs' that run down a glass after a gentle swirl of vino can yield clues about alcohol content. Interestingly, the physical phenomenon that helps create these legs can be harnessed to propel tiny motors to carry out tasks on the surface of water. Scientists demonstrate the motors in a report in ACS' journal Langmuir.
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Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) is an umbrella term for situations where the blood supplied to the heart muscle is suddenly blocked. Treatment for acute coronary syndrome includes medicines and a procedure known as angioplasty, during which doctors inflat...


I'm having problems with the last two lines in Listing 1. As they stand, they work fine. But when I preface fil.DateCreated and fil.DateLastModified with text in the code
WScript.Echo("File created on " _
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WScript.Echo("File last" & _
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I receive the error message C:\Scripts\files.vbs(11, 1) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Type mismatch: '\[string: "File created on "\]'. I can't figure out why. Can you help?
The error you're seeing is the result of using the wrong operator to concatenate different VBScript subtypes. VBScript's string concatenation operator is the ampersand (&), not the addition (+) operator.
What's interesting about your example is that the addition operator works in the first two WScript.Echo statements but not the second two statements. Here's why. The fil.Path and fil.Name variables and the text that prefaces fil.Path and fil.Name are all String subtypes. In these two statements, VBScript can concatenate the strings because all the pieces are of the String subtype.
However, when you preface the fil.DateCreated and fil.DateLastModified variables with text, you're trying to concatenate String subtypes with Date subtypes. When the VBScript interpreter sees the addition operator, it converts the Date subtype to an Integer subtype then attempts to add the integer to the string. The result is a type mismatch because you can't add a number to a string. Replacing the addition operator with the concatenation operator causes VBScript to convert the Date subtype to a String subtype. VBScript can then glue the substrings together. So if you change the addition operators to concatenation operators, you can successfully add text to the last two statements in your script. (For more information about VBScript operators, see Dino Esposito, "Understanding VBScript: Operators," August 1999.)
I'm designing a Windows NT 4.0 rollout for a company that wants to deploy a standard image to 130 desktops. This deployment must be hands-off. The company currently has IBM's LANClient Control Manager (LCCM) and Wake-on-LAN managed PCs that I can use to multicast the NT 4.0 image to the desktop. However, how do I automate changing the computer name and joining the workstation to the domain after the new image boots?
You can use Windows Script Host (WSH) 2.0 and Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) 2.5 to automate changing the computer name and joining the domain. WSH and ADSI must be part of your standard NT 4.0 image. Here's how you accomplish these two tasks:
1. Changing the computer name. Automating the process of changing the computer name is simple. You just need to use the WSH Shell object's RegWrite method to change a few Registry values and reboot. Specifically, you need to modify the NetBIOS and TCP/IP Hostname Registry values with code similar to that in Listing 2. (This script doesn't include error-checking code.) As Listing 2 shows, you begin by declaring the variables. You then specify the paths to the Registry values you want to change. Finally, you specify the new computer name and use the RegWrite method to make the Registry changes. After you run this script, you must reboot the workstation to commit the changes. (For more information about how to use the RegWrite method, go to You can also download the executable Windows Script Host Reference at Install the documentation by running wshdoc.exe after the download is complete.)
To use this script, you need to change w-bobwells to your new computer name. Therein lies the only challenge you might face with this automation task: obtaining the new computer name. Solutions I've seen include setting the computer name to the machine's primary media access control (MAC) address or retrieving the new computer name from a local or remote configuration file.
2. Joining the domain. You can use ADSI 2.5 to create the new computer account and set the initial computer account password. The example script in Listing 3 demonstrates the process for a workstation named Hercules in the domain Olympus.
You begin this script by creating a reference to ADSI's WinNT: provider, which is the mechanism that ADSI uses to access and manage NT 4.0 and 3.51. Next, you call the OpenDSObject method to authenticate and bind to the container that will hold the new computer account object. OpenDSObject takes four parameters:
 - The ADsPath to the target ADSI object. In this example, you're binding to the Olympus domain.
 - The account credentials to authenticate the bind request.
 - The password for the account credentials.
 - The type of authentication to perform the bind operation. The value 1 is the authentication flag that enforces secure authentication.
After you successfully bind to the target domain container, you use the IADsContainer::Create method to create the computer account object. This method takes two parameters: the type of object to create and the object's name. In this case, you're creating a Computer object named Hercules. On completion, the Create method returns a reference to the new object. Although you might think that the computer account exists at this point, it doesn't exist until you use the SetInfo method. SetInfo writes the object to the underlying directory. The last two lines set the computer account's initial password.
To use this script, you need to change several values to match your environment:
 - Change "Olympus" to the name of the domain that will contain the new computer account.
 - Change "Administrator" to the name of a user account that has sufficient domain privileges to create computer accounts.
 - Change "Password" to the previous user account's password.
 - Change "Hercules" to the name of the new computer account.


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L3 := 'assuming'([invlaplace(laplace(pt3, t, s)/s^alpha, s, t)], [positive])
x*t^alpha*(1/GAMMA(1+alpha)+2*t^2/GAMMA(3+alpha))
lap3 := L1 = L3-L2
u(x, t) = x*t^alpha*(1/GAMMA(1+alpha)+2*t^2/GAMMA(3+alpha))-invlaplace(laplace(u(x, t)*(diff(u(x, t), x)), t, s)/s^alpha, s, t)
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Your proposed solution (9) contains the unknown function R(xi), so I'm not sure what you expect here. You can use
simplify(eval(SO, f))
to see the resulting ode in R(xi). I'm not sure if this is the question you are asking.
Since you are using floating point numbers, an alternative is
Optimization:-Minimize(G(x,y), x = 0..1, y = 0..1)
In principle it might find a local rather than global minimum, but a plot shows it is fine in this case.
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Works with the vision of providing a better quality of life for individuals living in rural areas by improving access to healthcare, education and voc Read moreational training. It works by hosting fundraising events to fund various causes, including sponsoring cataract surgeries of those individuals who are not able to afford them, supporting orphanages & its charitable hospital and providing for medical care & education of children. ABLE Youth is its educational initiative which operates through eight informal education centers which provide basic education to children to ease their transition into a formal schooling system. Through its healthcare initiative, ABLE Charitable Hospital, it aims to improve access of rural communities to healthcare services and provides free medical treatment through medical camps. It also provides accommodation, healthcare, food and education to girls through its initiative Prem Ghar.
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Students' success is the ultimate goal of any institution around the world. Early detection of at-risk students can facilitate the instructor or tutor to provide timely support to those at risk of failing the course. In a traditional face-to-face classroom, students can monitor learning patterns in routine interactions. However, teachers in the online classroom have limited information, compared with the face-to-face classroom, to detect students in trouble due to the lack of instance interactions between teachers and students. Particularly, such a problem has become worse than ever since 2020, as online teaching and learning are ubiquitous in the Post-COVID19 Era. In this work, we aim to predict if the student obtains a low course grade based on their behavioral patterns in continuous assessments, which are easy-to-retrieve attributes and available in most e-learning systems. We leverage the ratio of assessment grade to the time spent on the assessment as a useful feature in the machine-learning prediction framework. Experiments on real-world datasets indicate that such a ratio can improve the accuracy of detecting at-risk students.
|Title of host publication||Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, BESC 2022|
|Publisher||Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.|
|Publication status||Published - 28 Dec 2022|
|Event||9th IEEE International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, BESC 2022 - Matsuyama, Japan|
Duration: 29 Oct 2022 → 31 Oct 2022
|Name||Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, BESC 2022|
|Conference||9th IEEE International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, BESC 2022|
|Period||29/10/22 → 31/10/22|
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The research has been supported by Lam Woo Research Fund (LWP20019) and the Faculty Research Grants (DB22B4) of Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
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- education data mining
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1. Background and Purpose
In Japan, the population is aging at the fastest pace in the world. In order to establish a sustainable social security system, it is indispensable to construct a policy infrastructure by accumulating evidence based on high-quality micro-data on the diverse aspects of the lives of elderly people. As an important part of this process, Japanese Economic Review (JER) is very pleased to announce a special issue on the economics of aging. We invite the submission of original research contributions covering all aspects, broadly defined, of the economics of aging using the Japanese Study on Aging and Retirement (JSTAR) and/or other family surveys such as:
- Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
- English Longitudinal Survey on Ageing (ELSA)
- Survey on Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
- Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA)
- Chinese Health and Retirement Survey (CHARLS)
- Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI)
Priority will be given to studies using JSTAR data.
3. How to submit your papers
By the end of October 15, 2014 (GMT)


Is Alfalfa Hay Good For Guinea Pigs? [Should We Feed It?]
If you have discovered Alfalfa Hay then you may be wondering if it is safe, healthy and even a preferable food source for your Guinea Pig. Its packed full of vitamins and minerals, and Hay of course should make up the majority of a Guinea Pigs diet. But should we feed it? I decided to conduct some research into the topic and here is what I have been able to find.
So, is Alfalfa Hay good for Guinea Pigs? It is generally safe and healthy to feed a Guinea Pig Alfalfa Hay. It is a great way to support and improve their nutrition. It provides a lot of calcium, vitamins, minerals, protein and fibers that support their digestion and support their dental health. However, it is advised to feed Alfalfa infrequently and/or in smaller quantities and it should not make up the majority of a Guinea Pigs diet. This is because overfeeding it will supply too much nutrition and can cause obesity and weight management problems.
Alfalfa Hay is therefore most suitable and beneficial to a young growing Guinea Pig or during particular phases whereby extra nutrition is required – like to a female during pregnancy.
Let us now take a closer look at Alfalfa Hay. Specifically, what it is and its nutritional content.
We will then take a look at the health benefits and any risks of feeding this as a major component of your Guinea Pigs diet.
What Is Alfalfa Hay?
Alfalfa Hay is a specific type of grass. It is actually part of the legume and pea family and is native to warmer temperate climates. Sometimes you may see it called "Lucerne" , particularly if you live in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, or New Zealand.
Alfalfa is recognized as a premium food source because it provides the most nutrients when compared alongside other hay sources.
It is particularly high in energy and as such is used for a variety of animals including horses, dairy cows, beef cattle and sheep.
With its high energy and nutritional quality, Alfalfa Hay is predominately used for growing animals, breeding animals, and those that are underweight and struggling to consume enough nutrition. A prime example of this is following illness, injury or infection.
Alfalfa in particular is high in energy whilst also being more palatable than grass hays. As such, you can soon see why it can be problematic when given to your Guinea Pigs in excess.
Alfalfa Hay Nutrition
Alfalfa Hay consists of around 63% water, 30% carbohydrates (as fiber), 4% protein, and around 1% fat.
It is abundant in plant proteins, chlorophyll, carotene, calcium, and other trace minerals. It is also provides a lot of the B Vitamins, along with Vitamin C, D, E, and K. It also contains Phosphorous and Zinc.
As you will likely know already, Guinea Pigs require a lot of hay and experts recommend that they should consume as much as 80% of their diet from this food source.
While Alfalfa Hay seems like an appropriate solution to fill this requirement, consider that it can actually be too calorie dense and contain too much fiber for them.
Alfalfa hay should therefore be limited and used within specific contexts.
Instead, the most popular, recommended and safe hay for regular feeding is Timothy Hay (I actually get my supply in bulk for a great price on Amazon).
This is better suited to a Guinea Pigs needs and will allow them to eat ab libitum (as much as they want and require) without posing any risks to their health.
As it is generally less palatable, your Guinea Pig will also not overeat.
Your Guinea Pigs diet is paramount to their health and preventing illness; how you feed them will ultimately be reflected in their happiness and well-being.
Health Benefits of Alfalfa Hay (Fed To Guinea Pigs In Moderation)
Traditionally, Alfalfa Hay is used to feed working Horses. This is because of their huge requirement for energy and vitamins/minerals like Calcium which ensure they remain strong and powerful.
For a normal, healthy Guinea Pig, if you over supply Alfalfa Hay they can run into a range of negative side effects and symptoms.
This can include but is not limited to weight gain, intestinal issues like colon obstruction and bloat. (source)
With that being said, Alfalfa Hay can be a great addition to your Guinea Pigs diet. You just need to ensure that you provide it in measured and limited quantities.
There are also some other cases whereby you can increase the amount fed or it is even preferably to regular Timothy Hay.
It is particularly effective if your Guinea Pig has lost a substantial amount of weight (like following illness), or if it is being fussy and refusing to eat.
Other great contexts include a young baby Guinea Pig that is growing or for a female during pregnancy (when they require more energy and access to nutrients).
Alfalfa does contain benefits when fed appropriately to your Guinea Pig. Due to its high fiber quantity, when an appropriate amount is provided it can support their digestive system and help them to extract nutrients from the rest of their diet.
Additionally, Alfalfa is great at regulating and preventing a Guinea Pigs teeth from growing out too long and large.
Chewing it gently grinds away at their teeth and ensures they are reduced. As a Guinea Pigs teeth continuously grow throughout their life, if this is left unchecked it can become painful and dangerous for them when they eat.
Another way you can use Alfalfa is as bedding. Its naturally very soft and Guinea Pigs are known to enjoy it in this context.
However, again do not use this type of hay exclusively for bedding. You do not want to your Guinea Pig to have the opportunity to, or too much access to eating it.
The best way to feed Alfalfa hay is to add small amounts to their feed. Start once per week and then work your way up over time. It is always preferable to start with very small amounts and see how your Guinea Pig responds.
Viking Farmer is the Alfalfa Hay brand (available on Amazon) that I was recommended by my vet for my Guinea Pigs. If you are looking to get some, this is the one I recommend.
Risks Of Too Much Alfalfa Hay
As this article has stated, Alfalfa Hay is nutrient and energy abundant.
The clear risk therefore with overfeeding Alfalfa Hay to your Guinea Pig is over-nutrition which will lead to obesity and weight management issues. For a Guinea Pig this weight can be hard to reduce, and it also adds stress to their small and delicate frame.
Another aspect to be concerned with is the high calcium content. Guinea Pigs have a low Calcium requirement and they are prone to bladder stones which can form with Calcium excess.
They struggle to excrete calcium and if it persists for too long and remains unopposed, issues with their digestive system.
With these risks in mind, it is important that you limit Alfalfa Hay consumption. More is not better for them and in fact the opposite is true. A little goes a long way.
In Summary
Alfalfa Hay can be a great, wholesome addition to your Guinea Pigs diet. It should never replace Timothy Hay nor should it ever be overfed.
In unique circumstances, it can prove to be particularly effective and an ideal feed. Ill, Baby and Pregnant Guinea Pigs are perhaps the most appropriate.
Even then, you should monitor how much and when it is provided, and be sure to reduce consumption when the Guinea Pig returns to a more stable state.
Ultimately, with Guinea Pigs, food is fundamentally important. It is imperative that you look after the health of your Guinea Pig by feeding them correctly and appropriately.
Good quality Timothy hay is an absolute must.
This is why I shop for my hay from Amazon, a trustworthy suppler where I purchase in bulk at a discount.


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The National Naval Medical Center, which is located in Bethesda, Maryland, is also called the Bethesda Naval Hospital. And that's just what it is – a massive Navy hospital and medical research center. It is widely considered the flagship of the Navy's medical division, and is where almost all of the Navy's medical and dental research takes place. The National Naval Medical Center plays a very important role in the US. Not only does it contribute greatly to the research done by the Military, it also provides health care for world leaders, including the president and the presidential family.
As of January, 2006, there are 1,500+ enlisted, 1,000+ officers, and almost 2,000 civilians occupying the National Naval Medical Center. A more recent figure could not be found. In early 2011, the National Naval Medical Center will actually be merged with the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, to form the combined Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the largest military medical complex ever. The base will be huge, with some estimates saying it will be twice as large as the current National Navy Medical Center, which is already massive.


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A good proposed feature!
1. It would be great, if we could collect some pictures. 2. I proposed that the tag is allowed also for highway=steps
This proposal is still classified as draft, but it seems matured enough to be worth commenting.
Unfortunately, it heads into a wrong direction. There are already plenty of keys (surface=*, trail_visibility=*, smoothness=*, obstacle=*, sac_scale=*, mtb_scale=*, uiaa_scale=*, width=*, incline=*, disused=*, abandoned=*, wheelchair=* etc.) describing various aspects of paths. Additionally, route relations may indicate the importance and usability of a path. There's no need to add one more key whose sole pupose is to give an overall score. This kind of scoring should be left over to the applications. The reason why the Mapnik layer doesn't differenciate paths is just that the autocrats empowered to configure it are not willing (or too incompetent) to do so. Inventing more keys won't change that situation.
The only part of the suggested pathtype definitions which cannot currently be expressed by other tags is the usage frequency. This may be worth a new key. It would be applicable to other highway=* too, up to motorways. --Fkv (talk) 22:25, 8 November 2013 (UTC)