Lakshman Prasad

Ayurveda based method of phenotypic classification of extreme constitutional types allows us to uncover genes that may contribute to system level differences in normal individuals which could lead to differential disease predisposition. This is a first attempt towards unraveling the clinical phenotyping principle of a traditional system of medicine in terms of modern biology. An integration of Ayurveda with genomics holds potential and promise for future predictive medicine.

It may linger over the curves of a woman's body, for instance. The woman is usually displayed on two different levels: as an erotic object for the characters within the film as well as the spectators watching the film. The man emerges as the dominant power within the created film fantasy. The woman is passive to the active gaze from the man.

Ayurveda based method of phenotypic classification of extreme constitutional types allows us to uncover genes that may contribute to system level differences in normal individuals which could lead to differential disease predisposition. This is a first attempt towards unraveling the clinical phenotyping principle of a traditional system of medicine in terms of modern biology. An integration of Ayurveda with genomics holds potential and promise for future predictive medicine.

1. Take any four-digit number, using at least two different digits. (Leading zeros are allowed.)
2. Arrange the digits in ascending and then in descending order to get two four-digit numbers, adding leading zeros if necessary.
3. Subtract the smaller number from the bigger number.
4. Go back to step 2.

Business move, not just an egalitarian one

How?

1. Employee turnover: Until 1914 Ford hired 300 men a year for every 100 jobs. There were a massive worker turnover as the tired and bored workers kept shifting jobs. Now, Ford provided an offer that was too good for the workers. The best of the workers were both motivated to stay and work.
2. Absenteeism dropped. Until then, factory workers randomly dropped out of work in the middle. They had little to lose, since they were so poorly paid. This absenteeism severely affected the assembly lines. No amount of force/threats worked. But, now they had golden handcuffs.
   
3. Massive movement of smart labor to Detroit. Soon word got around and there was a gold rush in Detroit. Within 24 hours, 10000 men queued up outside Ford's factories. Ford could now be very picky and hire from the best who would dramatically improve efficiencies in the automobile industry.
   
4. Skyrocketing productivity: The workers got into a rhythm as they were not shifting jobs any more and that meant they were moving up the learning curve. Ford could now introduce advanced processes without worrying too much about training expenses.

In 2003, Portman graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. degree in psychology. "I don't care if [college] ruins my career," she told the New York Post. "I'd rather be smart than a movie star." At Harvard, Portman was Alan Dershowitz's research assistant. While attending Harvard, she was a resident of Lowell House and wrote a letter to the Harvard Crimson in response to an essay critical of Israeli actions toward Palestinians.

Portman took graduate courses at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the spring of 2004. In March 2006, she was a guest lecturer at a Columbia University course in terrorism and counterterrorism, where she spoke about her film V for Vendetta.

Portman has professed an interest in foreign languages since childhood and has studied French, Japanese, German, and Arabic.

As a student, Portman co-authored two research papers that were published in scientific journals. Her 1998 high school paper, "A Simple Method to Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar," co-authored with scientists Ian Hurley and Jonathan Woodward, was entered in the Intel Science Talent Search. In 2002, she contributed to a study on memory called "Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy" during her psychology studies at Harvard. This publication placed Portman among a very small number of professional actors with a defined Erdős–Bacon number.

The apple shape changed slightly from my original design in the early 80's. The design firm Landor & Associates made the changes. They brightened the colors, they made the shapes much more symmetrical, much more geometric. When I designed it I pretty much did it freehand.

<Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
<Cthon98> ********* see!
<AzureDiamond> hunter2
<AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me
<Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> *******
<Cthon98> thats what I see
<AzureDiamond> oh, really?
<Cthon98> Absolutely
<AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
<AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you?
<Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
<Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> awesome!
<AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw?
<Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
<AzureDiamond> oh, ok.

• An airline pilot where you are away from your family several days per week.
• A nurse or doctor working 12 hour night shifts.
• A fireman or policeman who risks her life regularly.
• A lawyer who need to bill as many hours as possible.
• A military officer who is deployed in dangerous war zones for over a year at a time (I grew up in a household like this).
• A banker who works 100 hour weeks, travels all over the world, who may get laid off if his firm has a bad year.
• Unemployed, with the stress, mental health, and substance abuse problems that often result.

• Toughening up
  I am of the opinion that kids in US high schools live a sheltered existence. They're in their own little shell of how the world is like. When I went to school there, I'm ashamed to say that I was too. They simply don't care about the rest of the world. It's quite amazing, really. Everything from their sports and their system of units to their culture or  geography, they are unimaginably oblivious to the rest of the world. As a 5th grader ready to move to India, I myself realized that I had never even imagined a lifestyle besides the one I had been in all this while. I thought India was an abode of lots of brown people, cows, and snake charmers. This is what growing up in the US does to you.
  
• Identity
  What's great about America is pretty much everything - their infrastructure, their lifestyle, and also the fact that people from so many different racial backgrounds can co-exist. However, this often leads to an identity crisis. If you're anything like what I was, the term identity crisis sounds like jargon to you. But it is a big deal. Knowing about who you are is a big deal. Indian children in America grow up with no identity. Are they American? Are they Indian? If they are American, why are they not white? Why can they not do all these American things? How come all their family friends are Indian? If they are Indian, what makes them so? Do they know anything about life in India? No. Should they? Probably. This makes them partake in a bunch of random pseudo-Indian activities (which is great), but makes them really fake. Without any great passion or association to Indian classical music, maybe one of their parents forced them to learn the tabla. I can go on. Point is, growing up in India is what makes you India. Not a citizenship card, not a NRI or PIO stamp, not anything else. You have to experience gully cricket, Goa, know Hindi, get an Indian accent, go through Indian schooling, watch Indian movies - it's a cultural thing. It's something that sticks with you for life - knowing where you're really from - your roots.

• America presents more opportunities than India does
  You didn't mention this explicitly but it's an argument many have for not going back to India. For one, yes, it's probably true. India is a harder place to be successful in. However, as pointed out in other answers, you can always go back to the US for higher education and eventually settle there.
• "What about the filth, narrow-mindedness, overpopulation, child sex abuse, VIP culture, lack of civic sense, caste-based reservations, no value for human life?"
  India is not homogeneous, buddy. Yes, it can be filthy, gross, sweaty and overpopulated, but you know what? You take away something from it. Because I lived life in those conditions, I appreciate everything about a developed country so much more. The filth won't kill you, the sweat won't kill you, and the people won't asphyxiate you. Growing up in a perfect house with a perfect car where nothing is dirty and people are few and far between might kill your satisfaction later in life though.
  Caste-based reservations, you say? Yeah, they suck. You think the US doesn't have racial reservation? They're just silent about it. Do you want to explain to me why the standards for Asians getting into college in America is far far higher than Blacks?
  No value for human life? Indians aren't inhuman by culture. Growing up in a place where there's fewer resources than there are people makes poverty more prone. We see that day in and day out. We're bound to adapt to it. It doesn't mean we don't value life. We don't panic when a bomb goes off and start blaming everybody like they do in the US because we have bigger problems at hand.
  Narrow-mindedness? The way you think should not be a characteristic of where you live.
  It's easy to point out your countries problems and cite them as a reason for not going back, but it's taking the easy way out. Your childhood shouldn't be a breeze - it should be hard, and fun. That way, you can spend the rest of your life trying to make it better, and appreciating the fruits of your labor. Your kids show grow up in India to know what it's problems are, so maybe someday when he's successful and a dad, he can go back and help out.

• scans your drivers' license and takes as much information off that as it can
• searches for you in its history (you'd be surprised at the number of systems out there that don't, or don't do it well, or don't do it reliably) and takes as much of your information off your previous stay as it can, and reapplies it, and
• is configured that most of the information that it asks for is on a single screen. If, for example, you're two screens into the process, and you only then inform the clerk that you have AAA, the clerk doesn't have to go back two screens and make the change, then re-enter some of the information that he's already put in.

• keep your requirements simple. If you must have a fifth floor non-smoking king with a view of the pool, it might take a while to juggle things around to find you one.
  
• stick with the same hotel on each stay. It won't always work, but in many cases, you'll be in the system's guest history.
• join the hotel brand's loyalty program. Much of the information will already be kept on file: all the clerk has to do is enter the loyalty program number. The reason loyalty programs exist is to collect, store, properly route, and analyze guest information.
  
• make your reservation in advance. They'll already have much of the information in place when you show up.

"Physics Works, and I'm still alive!"

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

1. Read compelling prose. Talented chefs eat at each other's bars after their restaurants close for the night, accomplished musicians constantly listen to and play with others of a high order, and good writers read other good writers. Garbage in, garbage out. Great stuff in, great stuff out -- as long as you also:
2. Accept that all good writing is rewriting. The notion that anything worthwhile comes out fully formed is foolishness and fancy. Early drafts are a gore-fest, inevitably, for us all. Accept this, cough yours up like hairballs, and get to polishing. Here's a manuscript page from Jim Harrison, whose novella Legends of the Fall is to my mind as fine a thing as ever written by an American:
   
3. Be aware that writing is overly romanticized, that you can die from doing it and many people do, and live your life accordingly. By which I mean balance yourself. Turn off your head and live a robustly physical life when you're not at your desk: be fit and limber and strong day in and day out, fling yourself into waves and out of airplanes, cook and eat and fuck and friend like it's life and death (because it is), eat sunshine, gulp music and smack your lips on it, apprentice yourself to a wise dog, meditate with the sincere intention of enlightening yourself as soon as you possibly can. All this will save your life, radically elevate your enjoyment in every moment, and show up in your work.
   
4. Subscribe to and read the New Yorker from cover to cover each week. I'm re-ringing the bell I rang in #1 above with this very specific proviso for two important reasons: it's as good as a university education in and of itself (every writer should have some form of one of those, though not necessarily the traditional one), and it's hands-down the best written magazine in the world. The New Yorker features short, medium, and long form prose by a great variety of writers on a dazzling array of subjects. In the 29 April 2013 issue, you'll find a particularly helpful piece by the legendary John McPhee on the writing life, entitled "Draft No. 4: Replacing The Words in Boxes". Describing a technique he uses in rewriting, McPhee says, "You draw a box not only around any word that does not seem quite right but also around words that fulfill their assignment but seem to present an opportunity. While the word inside the box may be perfectly O.K., there is likely to be an even better word for this situation, a word right smack on the button, and why don't you try to find such a word?" He goes on from there, quite a bit, about how to use the technique and how much it brings in rewards and pleasure, but I'm not telling you more here because then you might not go read the whole piece, which you should. Steal from your mother's purse if you must, begin your subscription today, and you'll also have access to the digital version. The next issue you get won't have McPhee in it, and it likely won't have anything on writing in it, but it will have fifty things in it that will somehow make you a better writer if you simply read them and allow them to settle and simmer in you.
5. Don't write for money. If you make money from writing, bully for you. What I mean is don't try to turn this dance-with-daimons into a cash cow -- begging assignments and mangling your form and spirit for editors who can't themselves write, aching for approval five or fifteen years before you deserve any, forcing your children to shoplift during the lean years, who knows. Have an honest job or knock over illegal card games, either will do, but write for pure reasons. If the world hands you cash, retire your shovel or pistol, buy lunch for another poor sod who shares your demented ambition, and thank your lucky stars.
   
6. Be yourself. No writer is compelling to everyone, and the writer who tries to be someone he or she isn't to emulate a literary role model or gain readers is wasting what might be his or her one and only life. If there's any point in writing at all, it's to say what you have to say, just as you would say it. Let it rip, and let the chips fall where they may.

• By not comparing you with anyone else, but yourself:

• By picking your own niche to be an expert at:

• By developing the models intelligent people use, using them and refining them to form your own.

I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.

Friends, Romans and countrymen... I have the same dagger for myself,
when it shall please my country to need my death.