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It's long ago that i stayed in Mandarin Hotel but I'd like to recommend it to everyone who travel especially for business but also for other reasons that Mandarin is the hotel to be in NY .
All the times I stayed there i was feeling like home , the rooms are spacious and comfortable , all the services of very high quality and the Asiate restaurant is a real gourmet restaurant.
As i say before THE HOTEL, a real experience , how hotels of that level should be.
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What to wear?
Anything that is close fitting and comfortable. Gym clothes are NOT essential. You will get the most from your session if you wear clothing you can move in easily.
In the cooler months it is wise to include a warm layer that is easily removed during your workout. After your session you will be warm but can cool down very quickly.
What to bring?
- A large towel
- Socks
- Cup or bottle for water
Where to go?
We are conveniently located 15 km from the city on thesouth-eastern corridor at
27 Cresthaven Drive
Mansfield Q 4122
We are at the top of the rise on Cresthaven Drive on the corner of Salandra Street. There is ample parking on the street.
What is provided?
- I supply the best quality drinking water for your workout. Good hydration is important
- Supervision and guidance during all your sessions
- Encouragement and support
- Your program – which will be reviewed weekly and updated regularly.
- Hand weights, fit balls, resistance bands, scales and tape measures etc..

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How to get rid of acne scars naturally
Many products on the market that claim to get rid of acne scars contain harsh chemicals and can in the long run not help fade your acne scars but make the case worse. An alternative is using natural products.
What you'll need:
Fresh lemon Juice
Apple cider vinegar
Egg white
Vitamin E
Create a night toner mixing fresh lemon juice, apple cider vinegar and water in the ratio 40:40:20. Pour the mixture into a container and use this nightly. It will brighten up your skin and help fade away any acne scars.
Weekly, apply plain yoghurt to your entire face for 30 minutes. Yoghurt softens the skin while also exfoliating and removing dead skin cells which means you will be left with brighter skin.
Weekly apply egg white to your entire face, this will fade away your acne scars and also tighten your pores leaving you with extremely soft and even skin.
Apply vitamin E as your nightly moisturiser or on top makign sure to massage it into your skin. This will help break up the scar tissue and diminish your acne scarring making it look more even toned.
Always apply sunscreen when going out with an SPF factor higher than 15. This will protect your skin from the darkening of your acne scars and will in the long run make your skin youthful and will also leave you with much less discoloration.


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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Apr 8, 1997
|Filing date
|Jul 20, 1995
|Priority date
|Jul 20, 1995
|Fee status
|Also published as
|Publication number
|John H. Hughes
|Original Assignee
|Siemens Medical Systems, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (12), Non-Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (19), Classifications (10), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a radiation-emitting device, and particularly to a system and a method for regulating the radiation delivered to an object in a radiation treatment device.
2. Description of the Related Art
Radiation-emitting devices are generally known and used, for instance as radiation therapy devices for the treatment of patients. A radiation therapy device generally comprises a gantry which can be swiveled around a horizontal axis of rotation in the course of a therapeutic treatment. A linear accelerator is located in the gantry for generating a high-energy radiation beam for therapy. This high energy radiation beam can be an electron radiation or photon (X-ray) beam. During treatment, this radiation beam is trained on one zone of a patient lying in the isocenter of the gantry rotation.
In order to control the radiation emitted toward an object, a beam-shielding device such as a plate arrangement or collimator is usually provided in the trajectory of the radiation beam between the radiation source and the object. This beam-shielding device defines a field on the object to which a prescribed amount of radiation is to be delivered.
The radiation delivered to an object may be analyzed into primary and scattered components. The primary radiation is made up of the initial or original photons emitted from the radiation source, and the scattered radiation is the result of the photons scattered by the plate arrangement itself. The beam's radiation output in free space increases because of the increased collimator scatter, which is added to the primary beam. In other words, a point in the field is subjected not only to direct radiation, that is the primary component, but also to radiation that is scattered from the plate arrangement. The ratio of the radiation output in air with the scatterer to the radiation output without the scatterer for a reference field (for instance 10�10 cm) is commonly called the "output factor" or the collimator scatter factor. The concept and definition of the output factor are well understood in the art.
Thus, due to these scattered photons, the dose rate applied to the surface of the object changes dependent on the size of the opening in the plate arrangement, that is, on the field size. This means that the radiation emitted to the same spot, for instance in the center of the radiation beam onto the object, changes according to the size of the opening in the plate arrangement. When the plate arrangement shows only a small opening, then the accumulated dose at the same spot is less than the accumulated dose at the same spot when the opening is big.
The delivery of radiation by such a radiation therapy device is prescribed and approved by an oncologist. Actual operation of the radiation equipment, however, is normally done by a therapist. When the therapist administers the actual delivery of the radiation treatment as prescribed by the oncologist, the device is programmed to deliver that specific treatment. When programming the treatment, the therapist has to take into consideration the output factor and has to adjust the dose delivery based on the plate arrangement opening in order to achieve the prescribed radiation output on the surface of the object. This adjustment can be made according to known calculations, but the therapist normally has to do them manually, which can easily lead to errors. In the context of radiation therapy, a miscalculation can lead to either a dose that is too low and is ineffective, or that is too high and dangerous; a large error, for example, a misplaced decimal point, can be lethal.
What is needed is a system that eliminates this significant source of errors, a system that automatically adjusts the delivery of radiation to the object in order to make sure that the actually delivered radiation output is exactly the same as the desired radiation output, independent of the shape or size of the opening in the plate arrangement in the trajectory of the radiation beam.
According to the invention, radiation output delivered to an object from a radiation source, is regulated by generating a radiation beam using a radiation source having a variable radiation output. An irradiated field of the object is defined. The beam is shielded, preferably by an arrangement of at least one movable plate between the radiation source and the object. An output factor of the radiation is thereby varied according to the degree of shielding, in which the output factor is defined as the ratio between a reference radiation output of the beam when unshielded and an actual radiation output of the beam as shielded. The radiation output is varied such that the output factor is constant regardless of the degree of shielding. The output factor is preferably equal to unity.
In one embodiment of the invention, a reference radiation output value is sensed for a reference plate position. Relative radiation output values are then also sensed for each of a plurality of plate positions covering a predetermined range of motion of each movable plate. A series of correction values is then generated as a predetermined comparison function of the reference radiation output value and each of the relative radiation output values. These correction values are stored in a memory. The radiation output is then varied as a predetermined correction function of nominal dose signals and the correction value for each respective plate position of a prescribed treatment profile.
The system may be pre-set by generating a series of calibration signals and field geometry parameters corresponding to a plurality of field sequences of a predetermined treatment. The signals are then downloaded using a verification and auto-set circuit into the memory the series of calibration signals before an actual treatment.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a radiation treatment device and a treatment unit constructed in accordance with the invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating portions of a processing unit, a control unit and a beam generation system in the radiation treatment device of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 shows the radiation output delivered from a radiation source to various field sizes on an object according to the prior art.
FIG. 4 shows the radiation output delivered from a radiation source to various field sizes on an object according to the invention.
FIG. 5 shows a diagram of output factors versus the sizes of an rectangular field on an object, in which one dimension of the field is held constant.
The invention is described below with primary reference to a system for delivering X-ray radiation to a field of a patient, and for delimiting the field using at least one movable plate in the beam path from a radiation source. This is by way of example only. The invention may be used to regulate the delivery of any type of energy, for example, electrons (instead of X-rays), to any type of object (not just a human patient), provided the amount of energy delivered to the field can be sensed or estimated.
FIG. 1 shows a radiation treatment device 2 of common design, in which plates 4 and a control unit in a housing 9 and a treatment unit 100 constructed in accordance with the principles of the invention are used. The radiation treatment device 2 comprises a gantry 6 which can be swiveled around a horizontal axis of rotation 8 in the course of a therapeutic treatment. Plates 4 are fastened to a projection of gantry 6. To generate the high-powered radiation required for the therapy, a linear accelerator is located in gantry 6. The axis of the radiation bundle emitted from the linear accelerator and gantry 6 is designated by 10. Electron, photon, or any other detectable radiation can be used for the therapy.
During the treatment the radiation beam is trained on a zone 12 of an object 13, for example, a patient who is to be treated, and who lies at the isocenter of the gantry rotation. The rotational axis 8 of gantry 6, the rotational axis 14 of a treatment table 16, and the beam axis 10 all preferably intersect in the isocenter. The construction of such a radiation treatment device is described in general in a brochure "Digital Systems for Radiation Oncology", Siemens Medical Laboratories, Inc. A91004-M2630-B358-01-4A00, September 1991.
The area of the patient that is irradiated is known as the field. As is well known, the plates 4 are substantially impervious to the emitted radiation. They are mounted between the radiation source and the patient in order to delimit the field. Areas of the body, for example, healthy tissue, are therefore subjected to as little radiation as possible, and preferably to none at all. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, at least one of the plates is movable so that the distribution of radiation over the field need not be uniform (one region can be given a higher dose than another); furthermore the gantry can preferably be rotated so as to allow different beam angles and radiation distributions without having to move the patient around. Neither or these features is necessary according to the invention: the invention may also be used with fixed-field devices (no movable plates), with constant radiation delivery rates, and with fixed-angle beams (no rotatable gantry).
Radiation treatment device 2 also includes a central treatment processing or control unit 100, which is usually located apart from radiation treatment device 2. The radiation treatment device 2 is normally located in a different room to protect the therapist from radiation. Treatment unit 100 includes output devices, such as at least one visual display unit or monitor 70, and an input device such as a keyboard 19, although data can be input also through data carriers, such as data storage devices, or an verification and recording or automatic set-up system 102, which is described below. The treatment processing unit 100 is typically operated by the therapist who administers actual delivery of a radiation treatment as prescribed by an oncologist. By utilizing the keyboard 19, or other input device, the therapist enters into a control unit 76 of the treatment unit 100 the data that defines the radiation to be delivered to the patient, for example, according to the prescription of the oncologist. The program can also be input via another input device like a data storage device, through data transmission, or using the automatic set-up system 102. On the screen of a monitor 70 various data can be displayed before and during the treatment.
FIG. 2 shows portions of an illustrative radiation treatment device 2 and portions of treatment unit 100 in more detail. An electron beam 1 is generated in an electron accelerator 20. Accelerator 20 comprises an electron gun 21, a wave guide 22 and an evacuated envelope or guide magnet 23. A trigger system 3 generates injector trigger signals and supplies them to injector 5. Based on these injector trigger signals, injector 5 generates injector pulses which are fed to electron gun 21 in accelerator 20 for generating electron beam 1. Electron beam 1 is accelerated and guided by wave guide 22. For this purpose, a high frequency (HF) source (not shown) is provided which supplies radio frequency (RF) signals for the generation of an electromagnetic field supplied to wave guide 22. The electrons injected by injector 5 and emitted by electron gun 21 are accelerated by this electromagnetic field in wave guide 22 and exit at the end opposite to electron gun 21 as electron beam 1. Electron beam 1 then enters a guide magnet 23, and from there is guided through a window 7 along axis 10. After passing through a first scattering foil 15, the beam goes through a passageway 51 of a shield block 50 and encounters a second scattering foil 17. Next, it is sent through a measuring chamber 60, in which the dose is ascertained. If the scattering foils are replaced by a target, the radiation beam is an X-ray beam. Finally, aperture plate arrangement 4 is provided in the path of radiation beam 1, by which the irradiated field of the subject of investigation is determined. Aperture plate arrangement 4 includes a pair of plates 41 and 42. As is described above, this is just one example of a beam-shielding arrangement that can be used in the invention. The invention will work with others also as long as there is an aperture plate arrangement that defines an irradiated field.
Plate arrangement 4 comprises a pair of aperture plates 41 and 42 and an additional pair of aperture plates (not shown) arranged perpendicular to plates 41 and 42. In order to change the size of the irradiated field the aperture plate can be moved with respect to axis 10 by a drive unit 43 which is indicated in FIG. 2 only with respect to plate 41. Drive unit 43 comprises an electric motor which is coupled to plates 41 and 42 and which is controlled by a motor controller 40. Position sensors 44 and 45 are also coupled to plates 41 and 42, respectively, for sensing their positions. This is just one example of such a system. The invention will work with other systems also, as long as there is a beam-shielding arrangement that defines an irradiated field and as long as sensors are provided to indicate the field size.
Motor controller 40 is coupled to a dose control unit 61 which includes a dosimetry controller and which is coupled to a central processing unit 18 for providing set values for the radiation beam for achieving given isodose curves. The output of the radiation beam is measured by a measuring chamber 60. In response to the deviation between the set values and the actual values, dose control unit 61 supplies signals to trigger system 3, which changes in a known manner the pulse repetition frequency so that the deviation between the set values and the actual values of the radiation beam output is minimized.
In such a radiation treatment device the output of the radiation beam impinging on the surface of an object is dependent on the size of the opening in plate arrangement 4 and thus, on the size of the irradiated field on object 13.
In the following, for the sake of clarity and simplicity only, the invention is described in connection with the additional pair of plates (not shown) being stationary. The invention may be used, however, in systems with additional movable plates, as long as suitable motor controllers and position sensors are provided. When plates 41 and 42 move apart from each other and thus widen the gap in-between, the actually delivered radiation output at any given spot on object 13, for example in the axis 10 of the radiation beam, increases due to the increased scatter, which is added to the primary beam.
In order to make sure that during treatment the radiation output at the same spot on the surface of object 13 always equals the desired radiation output, independent of the size of the opening, the output of the radiation beam must be adjusted according to the opening size.
Central processing unit 18 is connected, on the one hand, with the input device, such as the keyboard 19, for inputting the prescribed delivery of the radiation treatment and, on the other hand, with a dose control unit 61 that generates the desired values of radiation for the controlling trigger system 3. Trigger system 3 then adapts the pulse repetition frequency or other parameters in a corresponding, conventional manner. The ability to change the radiation output is generally known and it is particularly advantageous to use a digital dosimetry system because then it can easily be controlled by the digital output of central processing unit 18.
FIG. 3 shows how the radiation output factor R depends on the size of the opening between plates 41 and 42 and thus, on the field sizes F1 to Fn on object 13 according to the prior art. Plates 41 and 42 are movable by drive unit 43 for widening or narrowing the opening, whereas, in this example, the other pair of plates is assumed to be stationary. As is described above, if the radiation output emitted by radiation source 17 is constant, the output factor R will increase as the field size increases from F1 to Fn.
FIG. 4 shows the same configurations of plates 41 and 42, however, according to the invention, in which the radiation output is regulated in such a way that the output factor remains constant despite a changing field size, that is, despite changes in the size of the openings in the plate arrangement 4. To this end, the output signals of position sensors 44 and 45, or any other signals indicative to the size and/or shape of the opening, are applied to central processing unit 18 for providing adjusted dose signals which take into account the size and/or shape of the openings and thus provide a constant output factor R. The radiation output is preferably regulated so that the output factor is kept at R=1 over the full range of motion of the plates during treatment. This implies that the radiation actually delivered is exactly equal to the radiation prescribed, despite a changing field size.
Note that, although the radiation output factor is held constant as the field size increases, this does not mean that the accumulated dose must be constant over the field. In fact, the reason for changing the field size at all during a treatment is normally to create a non-uniform pattern of radiation delivery over the field; for example, a wedge-shaped accumulated dose profile may be prescribed to deliver more radiation to an area of a tumor while avoiding adjacent healthy tissue. In FIG. 4, for example, the accumulated dose in field F1 will be greater than the accumulated dose in the region between field F2 and F3. What the invention provides is a way to make sure that radiation output is precisely regulated to eliminate the uncertainty introduced by scattering, that is, because of the output factor. Even more complicated profiles can be achieved by rotating the gantry as well as changing the field size.
Central processing unit 18 includes control unit 76 which controls the execution of the program and which supplies position signals P for controlling the opening of plate arrangement 4 and nominal dose signals D (corresponding to the plate position that would be demanded using prior art methods, that is, without regard to output factor compensation) for adjusting the radiation output at the output of radiation source 17. A memory 77 is also provided in or is connected to the central processing unit 18 for supplying correction signals C, which the processing unit uses to adjust the radiation output dependent on the position signals P supplied from position sensors 44 and 45 in order to achieve the predetermined constant output factor.
The preferred arrangement of the memory unit is that, for each plate position (field size), it has stored a corresponding dose correction signal C. The memory thus stores a table of correction factors. If more than one set of movable plates is included in the system, then the table will be correspondingly multi-dimensional, and arranged using any known data structure, so that a correction factor is available for any combination of plate positions.
Control unit 76 and memory 77 apply the dose and correction signals D and C, respectively, to a combination circuit 78, which combines the values to generate set signals S. The set signals S are in turn applied to the dose control unit 61, which sets the radiation output.
The combination circuit 78 will depend on the form in which the correction signals are generated and stored. Assume that the correction signals C are stored as additive offset. In this case, the combination circuit will be an adder which adds the correction signals C to dose signals D. This is the preferred embodiment, since it is simplest. If, however, the correction factors are multipliers (for example, an increase in radiation output by a factor of 102/100 would require a multiplicative correction signal of 100/102. Instead of storing actual values of the correction signals C, it is also possible to store the parameters of a correction function for the various each field sizes. The processing unit would then evaluate the function for each current field size using the parameters stored in the memory, and would then generate the correction signals (additive or multiplicative) itself.
The correction signals are determined before actual treatment of a patient in one or more calibration runs. To determine relative correction values, a reference surface (or line) is irradiated with a known reference plate position, and the radiation output over the surface is sensed by a conventional sensing device 104 (see FIG. 2), which generates radiation output signals that are applied to the processing unit 18. The reference surface need not lie in the patient plane, although if it does the calibration will typically be easier and more accurate. Note that the radiation output may be sensed and stored for several different points of the surface, since the output may not be constant.
The plates are then moved to a new opening position, the radiation output is sensed and stored, and so on, until radiation output values are stored for the reference surface over the entire range of motion of the plates. If more than one set of movable plates is included, then calibration output values will be sensed and stored for each combination of plate positions; the number of combinations will depend on the desired or required resolution.
Once a complete set of calibration output values is stored, each value is compared with the value for the reference plate position (the reference output value). If additive offsets are chosen for the correction factors, then the difference between the sensed output values and the reference output value is stored. If multiplicative correction factors are chosen, then ratios are stored. Alternatively, any known function approximation method may be used to generate the parameters of an approximating function of the additive or multiplicative correction factors required.
Note that the correction factors obtained in the calibration steps just described will lead to a constant output factor, but not necessarily an output factor R=1. This is because the reference plate position itself may cause scattering, so that the reference radiation output value will not be equal to a known absolute radiation output value. In order to correct for this, one should preferably choose as the sensing device 104 a device that is able to measure actual absolute radiation output, or one should use another conventional device to obtain an absolute output value for at least one plate position, which then is used as the reference plate position. In order to ensure accuracy over time, recalibration runs may be carried out, and new correction factors calculated and stored, according to a predetermined calibration schedule.
The output sensing device does not have to directly measure the absolute output. Rather, it may measure dose rates for different plate positions, which will yield output values using known integration and offset techniques.
FIG. 5 shows a diagram indicating in a solid line a constant output factor R=1 which is achieved according to the invention, and in dashed lines, an output factor according to the prior art. The horizontal axis shows one parameter of the field size F defined by plate arrangement 4 and the vertical axis shows the output factors R. The differences between the lines indicate the values of the correction signals C1 to Cn for different field sizes F1 to Fn.
The invention makes it possible to adjust the output factor R, preferably to R=1, which means that if an oncologist advises a therapist to deliver a certain radiation output, the therapist does not have to take into account the respective output factor R. Then, the radiation treatment device automatically adjusts the radiation output according to the dimensions of the field. This reduces or wholly eliminates the errors induced when the therapist must calculated and compensate for variations in the output factor.
The invention can also be carried out in a radiation therapy device in which at least one aperture plate of plate arrangement 4 is movable during treatment. Such a device is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,148,032. As described in this U.S. Patent, in such a radiation treatment device, various isodose curves can be easily achieved without a physical wedge being present in the trajectory of the beam. In this case also the correction values are added to the radiation output values to achieve a given output factor. Similar corrections may be used in devices that use a physical wedge. In either case, corresponding correction values C can be applied to the dose signals D in order to achieve a correct delivery of radiation to the object.
A "course" of radiation treatment may, and often does, have more than one field, and may run over several different sessions. In some cases, hundreds of different (and, in some cases, fixed) sequential fields are used during a course, for example, to provide proper irradiation of a field that has a complicated geometry or prescribed dose profile, to lessen discomfort to the patient, or to adjust the field as a tumor shrinks during treatment. The invention therefore also comprises an optional verification and recording or "auto set-up" system 102 (see FIG. 2), which stores and downloads to the radiation system (via the CPU 18 or directly into the memory) the parameters, for example, of the geometry, of the various fields of the course of treatment, and/or the tables of correction factors that were derived during earlier calibration runs for the various fields.
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Jeronimo to miss return duel
The "hostile" reception planned for Jeronimo Neumann will have to wait for another day.
A stomach bug has forced the controversial Adelaide United star striker to withdraw from today's A League encounter against the Wellington Phoenix in the capital.
Phoenix captain Andrew Durante had predicted a "hostile" reception from the Yellow Fever for Neumann in his first visit to Westpac Stadium.
But the crowd will not be able to focus their attentions on the Argentine striker.
Durante slammed Jeronimo as a "diver" and a "cheat" back in October when his theatrics conned the referee and led to Ben Sigmund being sent off.
The second visit to Hindmarsh Stadium in December was also controversial as Paul Ifill was racially abused by a spectator.
But while Neumann's withdrawal will reduce some tensions, Durante predicted a niggly encounter driven by both teams' desperation for points.
The Phoenix are last on the ladder while fourth-placed Adelaide are excellent at home but winless in their last six away games.
"I think there will be niggle because of the closeness of the end of the season and because everyone desperate for points," Durante said.
With just five wins from 21 games the Phoenix don't deserve to feature in finals calculations.
But the generous top-six playoffs format means they will be in the mix if they can collect a healthy points haul from their three upcoming home games. After today the Phoenix host Newcastle Jets on Wednesday and Melbourne Heart in Dunedin next Sunday.
"Yeah it's kind of funny isn't it, that we've still got a chance to be in the playoffs, considering how poor we've been at times this season," Durante conceded.
"But that's the way the league's set up, six-team finals in a 10-team comp and the finals system is even better this year. It gives the lower-ranked teams probably more of a chance to take out the trophy.
"So I guess that's what we hang onto, that there's always a chance and that's the beauty of the league. I think all the players realise, as a group, that it's almost do-or-die stage."
Inaugural Phoenix captain Ross Aloisi believes Wellington's chances today hinged on the performance of Adelaide goalkeeper Eugene Galekovic.
"If Galekovic is on top of his game I think the Phoenix will find it hard to beat Adelaide," said the retired Aloisi, now coach of West Adelaide.
"Adelaide have got strong strikepower, they've got good wingers, good strikers, good midfielders. Adelaide won both previous match-ups 3-1 this season.
The Phoenix's leading goalscorer, Jeremy Brockie, will return from suspension.
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All parents would agree that the hardest or the most taxing job they will ever have in their life is the job of parenthood. From teaching right from wrong, teaching manners or instilling a sense of responsibility in our children, the job of being a good parent is extremely difficult. Although most will agree, being a bad parent is a lot easier but not nearly as rewarding. Children of bad parents usually have kids who end up on drugs, in prison, homeless or choose rebellion with sexual debauchery.
The job of parenthood gets even more difficult when your child has to face the challenges created by the public school system. These challenges can take the form of liberalism, the LGBT community, the media, peer pressure and this is only naming a few.
Having your child do well in school is very important to most parents, although there are some parents who could care less. Our kids future is often determined by the quality of education received, and the grades the kids bring home can be an overwhelming pressure on parents.
Most parents don't like to be told there are things that need to be done differently or that educating their child is a challenge so educators and parents are usually not on the same page when it comes to a difficult child.
Things change dramatically when an educator or doctor suggests the child might have a very serious problem known as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. The parents feel absolved of all responsibility or feelings that they might be the cause of their child's bad performance. The child is almost always medicated which leads to the stifling of creativity, decrease in intelligence and the child's imagination is reduced. The public school system gets a child that conforms or fits into the socialist idea of the perfect class. Drug company's and insurance agencies make a profit off the large quantity of medicine prescribed.
Everyone is a winner except the child.


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Sherlock receives a spectacular 13 Primetime Emmy Award nominations
20 Jul 2012
We are delighted to announce that the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has today announced a phenomenal 13 nominations for Hartswood Films' Sherlock in the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Sherlock has received nominations for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Martin Freeman (Dr. John Watson), Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special for Steven Moffat, and Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special for Paul McGuigan.
Sherlock also received eight nominations for Outstanding Casting, Cinematography, Art Direction, Single-Camera Picture Editing, Costumes, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Music Composition.
Co-creator Steven Moffat said: "13 just got lucky. That's an amazing number of nominations for Sherlock and we are beyond thrilled. This has been a passion project for everyone involved and its success has overwhelmed all of us. I think we're even more overwhelmed this morning."
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A few weeks ago I mentioned that for the first time ever we had a guy
come around to prune the apple trees in the garden, for I cannot cope
with it now. Hitherto, and no matter where we have lived, I have always
done that job myself, and even though I am no gardener, I always went
gently on the trees. But when I saw what this bloke did I nearly passed
out he had devastated them. Cut them right back to the bare bones
of the thickest branches. WOW ! I will not be sitting on the grass
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while under a vast mass of pink and white apple blossom and with the
daffs still out, is one of my favourite things. But he did say that they
would be better than ever before long and that it will do them good. I
see there are new bits of growth coming put now. NEW GROWTH !
As I sat there today in the sun with the dog however I had to smile for
it reminded me of total and utter Annihilation at the end of the
journeyhome across the Styx which I made when I was young, and as to
how that finished up back in the beginning in the eternal paradisiacal
Ground of Being from whence we all come. HOME. But never, in all these
years, have I ever thought of the analogy with that of pruning a blossom
tree. But I have now. And my word, how we are pruned back that day !
Right back to square one when everything else has gone. But for the
next fifty years (back here) I watched the NEW GROWTH as it came and
progressed;Homo Ensophicus unfolding and evolving. Yee gads it is
profound beyond measure. There is a time for sowing, and a time for
reaping, and a time for PRUNING and a time for NEW GROWTH. Tis killing
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«Edwin J. Elton* Martin J. Gruber* Jeffrey A. Busse* October 2002 Abstract Financial theory is often based on the belief that the actions of rational ...»
Since both 12b-1 fees and loads are primarily payments to support marketing and distribution, an investor might examine them separately from other expenses in deciding which fund to buy.
III. Cash Flows and Fund Characteristics In this section we discuss a set of variables, including performance characteristics, that might be associated with future fund cash flows and then examine their impact. As the prior section shows, the important performance characteristics of index funds are easily understood, and for most of these characteristics we can easily predict future
We measure each of these variables at the start of the period in which we measure cash flow. Thus, all of them are known to the investor before they decide on their investment. Several researchers have suggested that, in addition to performance characteristics, a number of other variables might affect cash flow.11 We can categorize these variables into two groups: marketing and spillover. Marketing includes two types of influences. The first is any action management takes to increase investor awareness of the fund. This includes advertising, promotional brochures, website development, etc. The second involves compensating brokers and investment advisors for selling the fund (rather than competing funds). Although we do not have direct measures for either of these influences, there are some good proxies. Funds primarily use a large portion of 12bfees and the majority of loads to reward salespersons for selling the fund, with the remainder paying for general marketing effort. Consequently, the size of 12b-1 fees and loads should be related to marketing effort. In addition, the management fee is the part of the expense ratio that is less likely to be used for marketing effort.12 Thus we use the difference between the expense ratio and management fee as another measure of marketing effort. Investor awareness of a fund can also be a function of its frequency of inclusion in financial publications as well as direct marketing effort. To proxy for general investor awareness we use both the size of the fund and the age of the fund.
Spillover is the name given to the idea that being a member of a fund family increases inflows because investors prefer to concentrate their investments within one family.13 For example, an investor attracted to a fund family because of a desirable small stock fund might invest in the fund's index fund for diversification purposes and a desire to hold all mutual fund investments in one family. We use the following variables to capture spillover effects: 1) the natural log of the total net assets of the fund family (to measure family size), 2) the number of different Morningstar categories held by the See Sirri and Tufano (1998) for a discussion of marketing variables.
It might seem surprising that the part of expenses labeled management fee is not simply used to compensate managers. Conversations with fund managers indicate they can and do sometimes pay brokers part of the management fee.
This becomes less important with the advent of systems that allow an investor to transfer funds among many families, such as the systems marketed by Fidelity and Schwab.
family (to measure the investor's chance to diversify within the family), 3) fund flows into a family excluding the flows into the index fund (to measure the popularity of the family), and 4) the presence of a fund within the family that received a Morningstar fivestar rating. We include this last variable because Khorana and Servaes (1999) show that a major determinant of flows into a family is the presence of a highly rated fund.
There is another variable that might impact cash flow: the impression investors and financial professionals have of the service provided by the fund family. Dalbar, Inc.
constructs the leading measure of service rankings. Dalbar surveys more than 2,600 investors and professionals and records impressions of fund family service quality.
Dalbar was generous in providing us with data over our sample period for the families it follows. However, Dalbar gathers data for less than half of the families represented in our sample (25 out of 52 in the year with the greatest coverage). Consequently, we examine the service variable separately rather than including it directly in our regression.
Like others, we use a percentage flow variable to measure the flow into a fund.14 However, our measure is slightly different than ones used in previous research. The index funds in our sample are of dramatically different size. When a fund gets extremely large it becomes more and more difficult to attract the same percentage of new capital. Thus, we first compute expected flow based on a regression of cash flow on size. We then define percentage surprise by taking the difference between the actual flow (the net growth rate in fund assets beyond that due to capital gains and reinvested dividends) and expected flow and dividing the difference by the fund's total net assets.
Table 6 shows the results of our analysis.15 The odd-numbered columns show the coefficients of the regression including one variation of the variables we discuss above.
See, for example, Sirri and Tufano (1998) and Warther (1995).
We also run each of the regressions on panel data incorporating an intercept for each fund in the sample.
An F test indicates we cannot reject the hypothesis that the firm intercepts are jointly equal to zero. In addition, we also use the criterion proposed by Akaike to test for the inclusion of additional variables. This test indicates that the firm intercepts should not be included. Hence, we report the simpler results in Table 6.
The even numbered columns show the coefficients of the regressions that include only those variables that have a significant relationship to the surprise in cash flow. Columns also differ in the performance variable used; 1 and 2 use differential return, 3 and 4 use alpha, and 5 and 6 use the expense ratio. The results are very similar regardless of the predictive measure of performance.
Although columns 1, 3, and 5 use one iteration of the full range of variables that have been suggested in the literature, we examine variations of similar variables separately. Thus, we use log of total net assets and age, which are highly correlated, in separate regressions. Table 6 reports only the most relevant alternative. However, in the text we discuss variations of variables not shown in the table.
We first examine the regressions shown in columns 2, 4, and 6. First, note that the overall explanatory power is at least as high as it is in other studies of this type based on actively managed funds.16 This is understandable given the ease with which we can predict characteristics for index funds. Of the variables measuring fund characteristics, overall performance and one risk variable are significant. Whether we measure overall performance by differential return, alpha, or expense ratio, fund flow shows a highly significant coefficient on the performance measure. The coefficient is also economically significant. Taking the difference between the 75th and 25th percentile of any performance measure leads to a difference in flows of about 30 percent of total net assets.
Although the regression coefficient on R2 – 1 is very large and statistically significant, the differences in R2 – 1 across funds are very small, so that the net impact is small. The average difference in cash inflow associated with the 25th percentile of R2 – 1 rather than 75th percentile is about 0.2 percent. The other risk measure, the absolute value See Sirri and Tufano (1993 and 1998) and Chevalier and Ellison (1997), for example. In fact, we find higher explanatory power since before running this regression we remove the impact of size on cash flow.
The R 2 between cash flow and size is 0.21. See Bergstresser and Poterba (2001) for a study of cash flows and taxes. See DelGuercio and Tkac (2001) for a study of cash flows and Moningstar ratings. See Jain and Wu (2000) for a study of advertising and fund flows.
of beta minus one, is insignificant. This is expected given the small variation in the variable.17 Somewhat more surprising is the lack of significance for the tax efficiency variables. Although there is little variation in dividends, there is substantial variation in capital gains, and capital gains efficiency is predictable. Investors are either unconcerned with capital gains, or they are unaware of its predictability.
Load is the only marketing variable that is significant, and it enters with a positive sign.18 Load has two impacts. First, load is a major cost to investors and reduces substantially the return they receive. Second, load is a reward for brokers and financial planners for including the fund in their clients' portfolios. On net, the incentive for brokers and financial planners to push the fund is more important for new flows than the effect of reduced flows associated with investors avoiding high cost and poorly performing funds. None of the other marketing variables—12b-1 fees, fund size, age (results not shown), or expenses less management fee (results not shown)—are significant.
The number of types of funds in the fund family is the only spillover variable that is important. An index fund that is part of a family that offers a variety of other types of funds attracts more cash flow. This is logical because many investors wish to stay with one fund family to facilitate inter-fund transfers and record keeping. Neither family size, flow of funds into family (results not shown), nor the presence of a star fund explains cash flows.
We separately run the analysis for institutional funds and funds for individuals.
The results are essentially the same, with the following caveats. First, we anticipated that capital gains would be important in the individual sample. Most institutions are taxexempt, but individuals are not. Furthermore, there is substantial variation in capital gains The extremely small variation in beta indicates that S&P index funds have developed a cash management policy (possibly involving futures) that allows minimization of the impact of cash flows on their performance.
Excluding load decreases the explanatory power to 19 percent.
payouts across funds. The relationship is not significant, which indicates that individuals do not pay attention to taxes or are unaware of the differences across funds and their predictability. Second, we had anticipated that performance would be more important in affecting cash flows for institutional funds. This does not occur. The principal reasons for this are likely to be the small size of the institutional sample and the lack of a substantial variation in the performance of funds primarily sold to institutions.
As a final step in this part of the analysis, we examine the relationship between unexplained cash flow (the residuals from each of the regressions described above) and service rankings. Dalbar ranks fund families from best to worst according to perceived service quality. To examine the relationship, we compute the Spearman rank correlation between the perceived service quality of quartiles formed according to unexplained cash flow. The rank correlation is insignificant each year and overall. In fact, it is very close to zero and often has the wrong sign. Dalbar exceedingly and carefully constructs its survey of perceived service. The results indicate that, at least for index funds, either the variables we incorporate in the regression already capture the important aspects of service or the quality of service that the fund family offers does not matter to index fund investors.19 IV. How Well Do Investors Do?
In this section we examine the performance of investors who purchase S&P 500 index funds. At any point in time the dollar flows into index funds purchase a portfolio of holdings for which we can easily measure future returns. We compare the actual returns earned by investors to returns of naive portfolios and returns earned by investors making informed choices.
We first describe our methodology in more detail and then present our results.
Each month we form a portfolio where the weight on each fund is the net cash flow into There is a third explanation. Given the small number of funds for which we have service measurements, the sample may be inadequate to detect a relationship.
that index fund divided by the aggregate cash flow into all index funds. This converts the dollar cash flow into each fund into the fraction of the total cash flow invested in all S&P index funds that went into each fund. We then measure the return on this portfolio over one- and three-year holding periods. More specifically,
where RA,t,t+j is the actual annualized return earned on the portfolio of index funds bought by investors at time t assuming they hold the portfolio until time t+j, j is 12 or 36 months, N is the number of funds in our sample, CFi,t is the net cash inflow to fund i at time t,20 and Ri,t,t+j is the actual annualized return of fund i between time t and t+j.21 Equation (2) measures the actual return earned by new purchases of index funds assuming either a one-year or a three-year holding period. We construct a new portfolio each month from January 1996 to January 2001 for the one-year holding period and from January 1996 to January 1999 for the three-year holding period.
For both the one- and three-year holding periods, we construct reference portfolios each month to determine how well investors do. The first two reference portfolios examine the return earned when we use naive rules to form portfolios. The first is an equally weighted portfolio. Each month we allocate all net new cash inflow equally to each fund in the sample. The second is a market-weighted reference portfolio. We allocate each month all net new cash inflow across index funds in proportion to the total net assets of each index fund at that point in time.
We also compare actual performance with the performance that an investor could earn by selecting index funds using past data. If an investor recognizes that index funds We exclude funds with net outflows in the month this occurs. Our intent is to see how new cash invested in mutual funds performs.
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Question: small right testicle.left masturbation 30 dys no cure
|problemguy - Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:25 am
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Hello Doc!...im 17...ive been masturbating since i was 12 and im still doing it every day...at first i used to do i 3-4 times a day or even more but ive controlled it to once a day.My problem is that my right testicle is very small,testicle hernia.i never had it before but i feel it hapened due to excess of masturbation.but it doesnt pain in my testcles n i masturbate regularly.my question is that is there a cure to it only surgically or can it be naturally.n is masturbation the cause of it?.Also i ejaculate in less than a minute n wen i leave masturbayion say 20 days,still i cum very quickly.could u suggest me any safe medicine or nythng to get bettter nd have harder erections.please Help me doc n please reply me soon.Thanks
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Hi problemguy,
I do not understand what you mean by testicle hernia.
Masturbation should not usually produce a reduction in size of the testicle. One has to seek other explanations.
As far as erections and ejaculations are concerned,lay off and get some well deserved rest for sometime.Concentrate on other activities.
This will give time for your genitourinary system to cope and get back to normalcy.Good luck!
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