Tuesday, October 14, 2008

I Personally Experienced Marijuana Drug Impact

I am completely abstained from Marijuana after taking drug tests and been to some rehabilitation. I want to share my teenage drug addiction experience as a teetotaler.

When I smoked marijuana for the first time, its effect begins immediately after the drug enters the brain and last from 1 to 3 hours. If marijuana is consumed with food or drink, the short-term effects begin more slowly, usually in 1/2 to 1 hour, and last longer, for as long as 4 hours. Smoking marijuana deposits several times more THC into the blood than does eating or drinking the drug.

As a marijuana user, I experienced pleasant sensations, colors and sounds may seem more intense, and time appears to pass very slowly. My mouth feels dry, and I suddenly became very hungry and thirsty. My hands become tremble and grow cold. The euphoria passes after awhile, and then I feel sleepy or depressed. Occasionally, marijuana use produces anxiety, fear, distrust, or panic.

Marijuana use is widespread among adolescents and young adults. The percentage of middle-school students is increasing day by day. It has major impact on the brain, as we all know its more important part in any human body. Marijuana directly affects the most important and always functioned organ.

It took me about 9-10 months to get read of that, it was a very bad experience to go through. Marijuana drug test helped me a lot to become more. I wish that even my enemy shouldn’t get addicted to it.

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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Know How My friend Enjoy Gardening


My friend is a software guy working for a software company. He has the passion on doing adventures with gardening. Since I am also very interested in gardening, I thought it might be a fun to share my gardening adventures and experiences with all of you. So he was a software professional working for a software company. With that background out of the way, he is interested in gardening activities and enjoy getting straight into the garden and take a look at the blooms as he woke up in the morning.

In his garden he has different kinds of flowers. He always talks about the plant Dahlia, which is a genus of bushy, tuberous, perennial plants native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. There at least 36 species of Dahlia. Dahlia hybrids are commonly grown as garden plants and that is one of his favorite plants. He says…

“I absolutely love Dahlias for their cheerful color and spirit. Dahlias love a sunny spot and need lots of water. This plant is very sensitive and starts drooping if I miss one watering. They need to be watered at least twice a day and are not very fussy otherwise. The large Dahlia blooms in multiple colors with a very beautiful radial arrangement of petals around a light yellow center. Its leaves are not much to look at but their flowers more than make up for it. I also have a bunch of baby Dahlias that are miniature plants with smaller flowers. These are planted in my flower bed.”

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Friday, August 22, 2008

Here is another way to get some bucks online for fun

You may be wondering, how many ways are there to earn money online. Online surveys, emails, through ads are some well known stuff. Here adds one more way to earn some bucks by posting videos online. Have you heard anything like this before? This might be of some fun also. Shooting some videos or collecting some good pieces of movie clips is some thing enjoyable right.

Check for the online video parlors for such kind of paying services for posting videos online. Unlike the other ways of earning money this involves some fun and personal interest. We see number of video clips posted on several video streaming sites. But almost none of those share their rewards with the participants in the site. Unlike this, the new online video sites are providing some money, which is based on the number of the online videos posted and the popularity of the videos rated based on the viewer ratings.

As it involves various things like shooting and uploading it might not be a choice of you if are looking really for money online. Though it is difficult to do it regularly unless you have some free time to collect some quality videos, I think it may not workout for you.

If you want to have some fun online in your spare time and also want to get paid for that, this might be the right thing to do. Actually this also helps you to improve your skills in promoting your video with a good title and description which involves some thinking.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Contract Management

Contract management or contract administration is the management of contracts made with customers, vendors, partners, or employees. Contract management includes negotiating the terms and conditions in contracts and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions, as well as documenting and agreeing any changes that may arise during its implementation or execution. It can be summarized as the process of systematically and efficiently managing contract creating, execution, and analysis for the purpose of maximizing financial and operational performance and minimizing risk.

A recent study found that 42% of enterprises indicated that the top driver for improvements in the management of contracts is the pressure to better assess and mitigate risks. In addition, nearly 65% of enterprises report that contract lifecycle management (CLM) has improved exposure to financial and legal risk. Common commercial contracts include employment letters, sales invoices, purchase orders, and utility contracts. Complex contracts are often necessary for construction projects, goods or services that are highly regulated, goods or services with detailed technical specifications, intellectual property (IP) agreements, and international trade. The sheer complexity and volume of corporate contracts have increased dramatically in recent years due to rising globalization, outsourcing, and regulatory requirements.

Areas of Contract Management
The business-standard contract management model, as employed by many organizations in the United States, typically exercises purview over the following business disciplines:
  • Authoring and negotiation
  • Document management
  • Baseline management
  • Commitment management
  • Contract visibility and awareness
  • Issue and change management
  • Transaction compliance
  • Service level agreement compliance

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Parasitism

Parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship between organisms of different species in which one, the parasite, benefits from a prolonged, close association with the other, the host, which is harmed. In general, parasites are much smaller than their hosts, show a high degree of specialization for their mode of life and reproduce more quickly and in greater numbers than their hosts. Classic examples of parasitism include the interactions between vertebrate hosts and such diverse animals as the tapeworms, flukes, Plasmodium species and fleas.

The harm and benefit in parasitic interactions concern the biological fitness of the organisms involved. Parasites reduce host fitness in many ways, ranging from general or specialized pathology, impairment of secondary sex characteristics, to the modification of host behavior. Parasites increase their fitness by exploiting hosts for food, habitat and dispersal.

Although the concept of parasitism applies unambiguously to many cases in nature, it is best considered part of a continuum of types of interactions between species, rather than an exclusive category. Particular interactions between species may satisfy some but not all parts of the definition. In many cases, it is difficult to demonstrate the host is harmed. In others, there may be no apparent specialization on the part of the parasite, or the interaction between the organisms may be short-lived. For example, because of the episodic nature of its feeding habits, the mosquito is not considered parasitic. In medicine, only eukaryotic organisms are considered parasites, to the exclusion of bacteria and viruses. Some branches of biology, however, do regard members of these groups to be parasitic

Monday, May 19, 2008

Friendly Artificial Intelligence

A Friendly Artificial Intelligence or FAI is an artificial intelligence (AI) which has a positive rather than negative effect on humanity. Friendly AI also refers to the field of knowledge required to build such an AI. This term particularly applies to AIs which have the potential to significantly impact humanity, such as those with intelligence comparable to or exceeding that of humans. This specific term was coined by researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence as a term of art distinct from the everyday meaning of the word "friendly"; however, the concern is much older

Requirements for FAI and Effective FAI
The requirements for FAI to be effective, both internally, to protect humanity against unintended consequence of the AI in question and externally to protect against other non-FAIs arising from whatever source are:
  • Friendliness that an AI feels sympathetic towards humanity and all life, and seeks for their best interests
  • Conservation of Friendliness that an AI must desire to pass on its value system to its entire offspring and inculcate its values into others of its kind.
  • Intelligence that an AI be smart enough to see how it might engage in altruistic behavior to the greatest degree of equality, so that it is not kind to some but more cruel to others as a consequence, and to balance interests effectively
  • Self-improvement that an AI feel a sense of longing and striving for improvement both of itself and of all life as part of the consideration of wealth, while respecting and sympathizing with the informed choices of lesser intellects not to improve themselves
  • First mover advantage.

Friday, May 2, 2008

Planet Math

PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia. The emphasis is on peer review, rigor, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and community. Intended to be comprehensive, the project is located at the Digital Library Research Lab at Virginia Tech.

PlanetMath was started when the popular free online mathematics encyclopedia Math World was taken offline for 12 months by a court injunction as a result of the CRC Press lawsuit against the Wolfram Research Company and its employee Eric Weisstein.

PlanetMath content is licensed under the ‘copyleft’ GNU Free Documentation License. An author who starts a new article becomes the copyright holder of that article; he or she may then choose to grant editing rights to other individuals or groups. All content is written in Latex, a typesetting system popular among mathematicians because of its support of the technical needs of mathematical typesetting and its high-quality output. The user can explicitly create links to other articles, and the system also automatically turns certain words into links to the defining articles. The topic area of every article is classified by the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Users may attach addenda, errata and discussions to articles. A system for private messaging among users is also in place.

The software running PlanetMath is written in Perl and runs on Linux and the web server Apache. It is known as Noosphere and has been released under the free BSD License.

Monday, April 14, 2008

The Future of Medical Transcription

Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession, which deals in the process of transcription, or converting voice-recorded reports as dictated by physicians and/or other healthcare professionals into text format.

The medical transcription industry will continue to undergo metamorphosis based on many contributing factors like advancement in technology, practice workflow, regulations etc. The evolution toward the electronic patient record demonstrates that, over time, documentation habits will change either through standards and regulations or through personal preferences. Until recently, there were few standards and regulations that MT’s and their employers had to meet.

First, we had the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It wasn't long ago "experts" stated that HIPAA would not have any effect on the medical transcription industry. Either in a state of denial or ignorance of the law, many transcriptionists and companies had continued on their existing course of providing medical transcription. Many providers are concerned that the majority of the transcription industry will not be able to meet several specific requirements: namely, access controls, policies and procedures, and audits of access to the patient information. Without the knowledge or resources to comply, many in the industry are claiming to comply and signing their Business

Associates Agreements without taking the security measures required. Many are uninformed, and some are choosing to remain so, believing that the world of transcription cannot possibly be expected to make these adaptations. The fact is that the employers will demand HIPAA compliance and will change employees and contractors when they don't get it. There will also be demands to enhance patient safety, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. It is mandatory for service providers and healthcare practices to migrate to a HIPAA compliant environment.

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Friday, April 4, 2008

Safety Measures before going to Boating

Most of the people feel themselves enthusiastic when they are planning to go for a boating. And many of them don’t follow any kinds of safety measures at the time of boating. Here are some of the tips that would help you in safeguarding yourself at the time of boating.

1. Be sure to have a fire extinguisher on board.
2. Check that the US Coast Guard approves it. Also, keep the equipment charged and that it can be readily accessed.
3. Test the boat lights before leaving the dock.
4. If battery operated lights are being used, always have extra batteries on hand.
5. Even if you plan to get back before it gets dark, it is always wise to prepare for equipment malfunction.
6. Study the right anchoring procedures. Improper anchoring is reportedly one of the causes of many fatal accidents.
7. Do not permit the passengers to ride beyond of the protective fences of the boat. If the boat suddenly stops or turn, the passengers may fall overboard.
8. Be mindful of the weather condition.
9. If you observe lightning flashes and the water is getting choppy, prepare for a possible emergency situation. Bring with you a radio to keep up to date with the latest weather reports.
10. Carry emergency supplies like first aid kits, lights, and maps.
11. Keep them inside a floating bag. Inform someone where you will be going and when to expect your return. Exercise etiquette in boat launching.
12. Remove the straps and covers before launching. Practice how to properly load and unload when it is not too hectic at the ramp.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Web content management systems capabilities

A web content management system is a software system used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A CMS facilitates document control, auditing, editing, and timeline management. A Web CMS provides the following key features:

Automated templates
Create standard output templates (usually HTML and XML) that can be automatically applied to new and existing content, creating one central place to change that look across a group of content on a site.
Easily editable content
Once your content is separate from the visual presentation of your site, it usually becomes much easier and quicker to edit and manipulate. Most CMS software include WYSIWYG editing tools allowing non-technical individuals to create and edit content.
Scalable feature sets
Most CMS have plug-ins or modules that can be easily installed to extend an existing site's functionality.
Web standards upgrades
Active CMS solutions usually receive regular updates that include new feature sets and keep the system up to current web standards.
Workflow management
Workflow is the process of creating cycles of sequential and parallel tasks that must be accomplished in the CMS. For example, a content creator submits a story but it's not published on the website until the copy editor cleans it up, and the editor-in-chief approves it.
Document management
CMS solutions may provide a means of managing the life cycle of a document from initial creation time, through revisions, publication, archive, and document destruction.
Content virtualization
CMS systems may provide a means of allowing each user to work within a virtual copy of the entire website, document set, and/or code base. This enables changes to multiple interdependent resources to be viewed and/or executed in-context prior to submission.

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