Sleep is a basic need. It is as vital as food and water. It means good sleep quality and quantity. The number of hours differs from age. There are no magic numbers it all depends on how you feel the following day. If you slept for six hours and you feel very refreshed, alert, then that is the amount of sleep you require.

However, some people may have difficulty getting enough quality sleep. Good thing there are sleep disorder center with sleep doctors to help them. Sleep doctors will assess the symptoms and possibly recommend them to enrol in a sleep study where sleeping patterns are measured overnight and analyzed.

Well, if you are asking how it works, it goes like this. Like Florida sleep study, patients are connected to a number of electrodes that determine snoring, heart rate, movement and many more. These results help the doctor arrive at a diagnosis of your sleep problem and recommend treatment including lifestyle modifications, referral to specialist and even surgery.

So, if you have sleep disorder think no more consult a sleep doctor because inadequate sleep can cause several health problems such as obesity, diabetes, and also increase the risk of hypertension. Don’t wait for sleep to cause disaster in your life.

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Even you have time for these quickie rendezvous:

• Plan on having breakfast or a wake-up coffee together once a week at the same local diner, whether it’s a charming cafe or a trunk stop, the fact that you make it your own date place will make it feel special.
• Make a phone date to talk for 15 minutes This is different from hitting the speed dial to remind him that you’ll be late tonight or to pick up spaghetti sauce on the way home. Ink it into your calendar and make sure you are in a space where there are no other distractions so you can give each other your full attention. You can keep your conversation innocent or not.
• Enjoy a mini date Think half an hour for a pizza lunch for two or one quick cocktail or coffee together after work. The important thing is the time together. Spending that hour together is better than not having any time alone with each other.

Most orienteering courses are of the point-to-point variety, with a start, a series of controls to be visited in a designated order, and a finish. Usually the orienteer does not see the map and the course until after starting. However, at small local events the map may be familiar, and orienteers may copy their courses from a master map before starting. There are usually several courses available at a meet, ranging from white (a short beginners’ course) through yellow, orange, green, brown, and red to blue (a long experts’ course)

This is an example of a beginners’ course. It has four controls, which must be visited in the order in which they are connected and numbered – though the orienteer is not constrained to following the lines (it’s easier to go out of your way a bit to use a trail). With the course comes a clue sheet, describing the exact location of the control flag within the circle on the map.

The clue sheet for this course is:

WHITE 3.5 km 75 m climb
Start: Corner of the field

• BL trail junction
• JC stream junction
• PG SW corner of the evergreens
• MP SW end of the knoll
• BL upper part of the reentrant
• Finish: NE corner of the building (350 m)

The clues define:

• The number of the controls (as shown on the map)
• The control code (usually two letters) that will be attached to the flag that is at the correct location
• A description of the control feature, including (where appropriate) the part of the feature where the flag is hung.

Because verbal descriptions can be somewhat variable as well as specific to the language of the event organizer, advanced orienteers use a system of symbols to define the clues. Clue symbols are related to but not identical to map symbols, and the international clue symbol system is well worth learning once an orienteer progresses beyond the advanced beginner stage.

Results from orienteering meets are usually divided according to the courses available that day, and then according to the age categories running each course. Each individual’s time is recorded in minutes:seconds. For meets with multiple “heats” an individual’s total score is the sum of his or her times. The winner in a particular category is the person with the shortest total time.

At the average orienteering meet, there will be three or more courses, with Course 1 being the easiest. Higher numbered courses are longer and technically more difficult. A “B” class meet will normally have three or four courses, while an “A” meet will have at least five or six. National championships or world class events will have at least the eight courses required under International Orienteering Federation rules.

Courses are usually listed with their lengths in kilometres and the uphill climb in metres. Note that these are “ideal” distances, measured over straight lines between controls, avoiding only barriers that cannot be crossed on foot (such as lakes.) As most orienteerers learn early in their careers, the actual distance you’ll travel will be longer than this. New Canadian Orienteering Federation rules and guidelines specify that courses should be set based on expected winning times and not ideal distances. One would hope that we’ll see these ideal times posted more often.

Individuals running a particular course are divided by age category and gender. The “official” age categories are:

-12, 13-14, 15-16, 17-20, 21-, 35-, 40-, 45-, 50-, 55-, 60-,

In the larger “A” meets, each course will have a “minimum age” for individuals to qualify for competitive ranking. For example, a 15 year old female would have to run a course rated F15-16 or higher to participate in a competitive category. (Editor’s note: At the time this was written, the Canadian Orienteering Federation had agreed to change the structure of age classes. Depending on where you are in the world or in Canada, you might see different age categories.)

In addition, most courses have “Novice” “Open” and “Wayfarer” categories. “Novices” are beginners to the sport. Anyone may participate in the non-competitive “open” category. Groups of people (for example, families) may do a course together as a “wayfaring” group. (Most meet organizers won’t accept Novices or Wayfarers on upper level courses, since these are supposed to be significantly more difficult than a short walk in the woods.)

In team events, each member of the team must normally run a course at their age level or higher. As well, each team member will often be required to run a different course. A common way of scoring is by adding each team member’s time and dividing by the sum of the ideal lengths of each team member’s course.

For various reasons, orienteerers will be unable to complete their course within the time limit. There are various codes used in meet results to explain the different reasons. Some of these are:

DNF – Did Not Finish
DNS – Did Not Start (after registering)
DSQ – Disqualified. Most often happens for finding and recording a control from a different course.
OVT – Overtime: completed the course, but did not get back before the time limit. Doing this deliberately or accidentally is generally pretty bad manners, when the time limit expires, most organizers will be reaching for the phone to call the police and/or Search and Rescue.
SPR – Sporting Withdrawal: used under special circumstances. For example, all orienteerers are required by the rules if not by common decency to stop and provide assistance to anyone who is injured or otherwise in danger of being hurt, even if this means withdrawing from the race part way through. This especially applies to adult orienteerers who come across young children lost in the woods.