The Officio-Personal trip to Hosur

It has been ages since I really went for any vacation other than attending marriages of Friends and Relatives. What supposed to be a business trip to exotic farms of Hosur has turned to be successful business trip as well as personal vacation.

Gerbera Pink taken in a bouquet shop in Hosur

The industrial city welcomed as with its  awesome climate and a warm hearted friend who is well known among us for hospitality. Unlike the mornings in Chennai, the day has started very slow and calm. Buses were packed, School kids were rushing, can see lot of people in uniform started to their office, etc. We had our breakfast in a Udipi Hotel and which was good to taste and then we visited Adhiyaman Engineering College and the Vegetable Market nearby. It is truly a great place to study, just for the infrastructure and the climate. I would bet that Hosur is better than Bengaluru in terms of Climate.

After completing our research in town we took a bus for my friend's home. We were already told that the bus will go only half the distance of his home, Eddapalli. So we took an auto and the experience of a true village began here. It was just a 10-20 feet road and only an auto can go. Most of the Farmers in this place are cultivating cabbage, Cauliflower, Capsicum and Forticulture. Most of the houses in the village were built before 50 years back and I learned that this place recently annexed with Tamil Nadu.

 Yellow Bunch rose taken in my friend's farm

People of this place speaks Kannada in Majority, then Telugu and then Tamil. I clearly felt they have no difference with people on the basis of Language and for them it is just for communication. We were welcomed by friend's parents, then we tasted authenticate hot milk with biscuits and started our excavation of the farms around there. 

All together it was a great trip that i can remember forever.

Complementary vs. Alternative Medicine Choices for Mesothelioma Patients

It seems like cancer medicine can be broken down into two camps: the traditional treatments – surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy and pharmaceuticals – and the unconventional therapies – homeopathy, naturopathy, acupuncture and massage.

Often, these two camps are at war. People tend to either put all of their hope in Western medicine or reject it entirely.

What could happen in a world where the two medicinal styles combine?

Complementary Medicine

Cancer patients – especially those with an aggressive cancer such as mesothelioma – may require aggressive surgeries to prolong their life. Studies do show that traditional treatments can add months or years to a patient’s life expectancy. Other studies have shown that supplementing these treatments with alternative therapies can make them even more effective against the disease.

Complementary medicines are essentially alternative medicines used in conjunction with surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. These treatments are specially chosen by an oncologist to either help increase the potency of a treatment or to relieve the treatment’s side effects more gently than a pharmaceutical.

Treatments that may be used to complement traditional mesothelioma therapies include:

•          Massage therapy (to work alongside pain relievers)
•          Acupuncture (to help make breathing easier)
•          Yoga (to stimulate appetite, relieve muscle tension and relax the mind)
•          Nutrition therapy (to optimize the body’s ability to fight cancer)

Although these treatments do tend to be mild and associated with very few side effects, when used as a complementary treatment, an oncologist’s approval is necessary. Certain supplements can interfere with the body’s absorption of chemotherapy drugs, and other procedures – such as massage – can irritate sensitive areas that have been radiated. To avoid any of these negative interactions, be sure to get an oncologist’s approval before including them in your mesothelioma treatment plan.

Of course, each of these treatments may be used independently of traditional therapies.

Alternative Medicine

Used outside of a traditional treatment plan, these therapies are simply considered alternative medicine.

Alternative medicine can be a gentler treatment approach for elderly mesothelioma patients who might not be able to withstand more aggressive therapies. It may also be the preferred approach for patients who are worried about the number of side effects conventional therapies can have on the body.

Because massage, meditation, chiropractic care, aromatherapy and other alternative mesothelioma treatments are so mild, patients can typically work with a holistic medicine practitioner to create a safe, simple therapy plan entirely free from Western medicine.

Author bio: Faith Franz is a writer for the Mesothelioma Center. She combines her interests in whole-body health and medical research to educate the mesothelioma community about the newest developments in cancer care.

What is a synchronizer token pattern in Struts or how will you protect your Web against multiple submissions?

Web designers often face the situation where a form submission must be protected against duplicate or multiple submissions. This situation typically occurs when the user clicks on submit button more than once before the response is sent back or client access a page by returning to the previously book marked page. - The simplest solution that some sites use is that displaying a warning message “Wait for a response after submitting and do not submit twice. - In the client only strategy, a flag is set on the first submission and from then onwards the submit button is disabled based on this flag. Useful in some situations but this strategy is coupled to the browser type and version etc. - For a server-based solution the J2EE pattern synchroniser token pattern can be applied. The basic idea is to: 1. Set a token in a session variable on the server side before sending the transactional page back to the client. 2. The token is set on the page as a hidden field. On submission of the page first check for the presence of a valid token by comparing the request parameter in the hidden field to the token stored in the session. If the token is valid continue processing otherwise take other alternative action. After testing the token must be reset to null. The synchroniser token pattern is implemented in Struts. How do we implement the alternate course of action when the second clicks on submit button will cancel the response from the first click. The thread for the first click still runs but has no means of sending the response back to the browser. This means the transaction might have gone through without notifying the user. The user might get the impression that transaction has not gone through. Struts support for synchronisation comes in the form of: ActionServlet.saveToken(HttpRequest) and ActionServlet.isTokenValid(HttpRequest) etc