Compassion for Orphans is a Christian non-profit charitable organisation. As a Christian organisation our values are taken from the Bible.
For 'Compassion for Orphans', the key Bible reference is James 1:27:
"Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself uncorrupted from the world"
An important part of the verse above is "to keep oneself uncorrupted from the world".
Corruption causes countries and their societies to enter into moral and economic decay and is one of the major causes that leads countries into poverty, resulting in children abandoned by families. Other reasons why there are orphans and orphanages include:
natural disasters;
ethnic conflicts; and;
extreme poverty.
Under no circumstances will 'Compassion for Orphans' tolerate any bribery or corruption. No payments will be made to any party unless they are expressly authorised, and are completely transparent to governments on both sides (Under no circumstances will payments be made to any government employee for their personal gain). Some people may attempt to justify bribery as 'expediency fees' in the same manner as paying for an express service (with a courier company for example). Any express service will be genuine and will be accompanied by a genuine receipt. Where bribery is considered a way of life in the adopting country and adoptions are not possible without paying bribes, 'Compassion for Orphans' will refuse to work in that country.
Some examples of corrupt practices and abuses (Source: UNICEF-innocenti digest) include:
 - The abduction of children;
 - Identifying vulnerable expectant mothers and inciting them to give up their newborn baby;
 - Falsely informing a mother that her baby was still born or died shortly after birth;
 - Payment for a child either directly to the family, the director or staff of an institution, or sometimes to the institution itself;
 - Offering women financial incentives to conceive a child specifically for adoption overseas;
 - Deliberately providing misleading information to the birth parents on the consequences of adoption, e.g. assuring them they will be able to stay in contact with their child;
 - Falsifying documentation, e.g. birth certificates, consent of birth parents, etc.;
 - Corruption of officials, judges in order to get a favourable decision, e.g. judges may accept false documents purporting to contain the consent of birth parents, and;
 - Seriously ill children e.g. HIV/Aids presented as healthy to prospective adoptive parents who would not have been prepared for the caring requirements.
Situations can also arise where some institutions that receive payments for foreign adoptions have few incentives to look for domestic solutions for the children as they have more to gain from foreign ones. They may also make only half-hearted efforts to find the child's biological family or neglect to ascertain whether the child had been placed in institutional care temporarily because of an emergency situation.
Many abuses and practices in intercountry adoption often happen in war or post war situations. Children in war situations often get separated from their parents and some time (usually at least 2 years) should be allowed to pass to allow for possible reunification with surviving family members. Often a country's judicial system may no longer be operational and therefore proper processes cannot be followed.
'Compassion for Orphans' believe that even though we, or people adopting a child, play only a small part in world events, we should make a stand and try and reverse the trend.
'Compassion for Orphans' will advise prospective adoptive parents that they should resolve before they travel not to be involved in corruption or bribery in any form no matter how desperate or costly to them a situation may appear. Our advice is to walk away in every case. To succumb to bribery or corruption would be feeding one of the very things that causes orphans to end up in orphanages and would run the risk of adoptions being adversely affected. When irregularities are uncovered this often results in countries putting a moratorium on intercountry adoptions (which can result in more children being kept in institutional care).
'Compassion for Orphans' advice to prospective adoptive parents should they encounter corruption or bribery in any form will be to report it to 'Compassion for Orphans' for further action as appropriate or necessary.
It may take a little longer to process a particular adoption but those concerned will have played their part to help prevent the abduction, the sale of, or traffic in children and therefore change the world in which we live.
In the longer term it is highly likely that an adopted child will want to discover his or her birth parents. If it transpires that the child was not properly put up for adoption, there may be serious implications for the relationships between the adoptive parents and the adopted child. Also, in some cases, where illegal procedures have taken place, knowledge about a child's background and medical history are lost forever. Research by the International Social Service has shown that many adopted children need to know as much as possible about their real identity in order to build balanced personalities.
Our experience has been that there are people overseas who have a genuine interest in the welfare of the children. These are the people we want to build relationships with.
Some of the moral issues or anti-intercountry adoption views that people may encounter or be challenged on include:
 - "That you are robbing a country of its children and the children of their culture and language";
 - "That you have bought a baby";
 - "That it is better to leave a child to be brought up in its own race and culture even if it means a lifetime in an institution";
 - "That adopting a child is putting a band-aid on and ignoring the real problem which is helping a country out of poverty", and;
 - "That trans-racial adoption can result in a child with a confused identity and racism can result."
Provided every effort that has been made to find a family for a child in his or her own country has failed, and the child faces a bleak future of life in an institution, common sense would suggest that a child (no matter what race or culture) is better off being brought up in a loving family environment in a country such as New Zealand.
The procedures found in the 1993 Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Intercountry Adoption (e.g. birth parents counselled, possibility of the child being adopted in their own country has been considered), have evolved as a result of the aforementioned issues and, if followed, should allow all concerned to have peace of mind that it is a truly abandoned child that is being adopted.
This explains why 'Compassion for Orphans' will only intermediate intercountry adoptions from countries who have ratified or acceded to the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption and governed by the Adoption (Intercountry) Act 1997.
However, it should be recognised that the fact that a country has agreed to international standards and processes is no guarantee that there will not be people who seek to circumvent the processes. It is important therefore that all involved (e.g. government officials, agencies, adoptive parents, etc) adhere scrupulously to internationally accepted standards.


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Advantages and Disadvantages of Friction in Physics
Advantages and Disadvantages of Friction
Advantages of Friction
- We could not walk without the friction between our shoes and the ground. As we try to step forward, we push your foot backward. Friction holds our shoe to the ground allowing you to walk.
- Writing with a pencil requires friction. We could not hold a pencil in our hand without friction.
- A nail stays in wood due to friction
- Nut and bold cal hold due to friction.
Disadvantages of Friction
- In any type of vehicle such as a car, boat or airplane-excess friction means that extra fuel must be used to power the vehicle. In other words, fuel or energy is being wasted because of the friction.
- The Law of Conservation of Energy states that the amount of energy remains constant. Thus, the energy that is "lost" to friction in trying to move an object is really turned to heat energy. The friction of parts rubbing together creates heat.
- Due to the friction a machine has less frequency 100%.
- Due to friction machine catch fire.
The last factor that can tip the scales towards reading is the problem of multitasking. "If you're trying to learn something by doing two things at the same time, you're less assimilating the information," notes Willingham. Even if you are doing one thing on autopilot, for example, driving a car or washing dishes, some of your attention is occupied, and this makes learning difficult.

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As a sports bettor, you need to be aware that weather is a factor in the NHL playoffs. That seems like a ridiculous statement, but it's true. Bettors who are aware of the potential for weather issues in a game, and who can adjust accordingly, can give themselves a much needed edge as the playoffs progress and the remaining teams get better and better.
How does the weather affect the NHL playoffs? Quite simply, really. Rinks are designed to keep buildings at a suitable temperature so that ice can be consistent. For the most part they are able to maintain ice well, but there are two enemies to their efforts, and both come in the spring as the playoffs progress – heat and humidity. Because the doors open and close so much before a game it can be very hard for a building to control the temperature and humidity in the building. Both factors have the same basic impact on ice – it makes it much slower. When ice gets warmer or more humid then it gets softer, and that makes it harder to skate fast. Hard ice is fast ice, so soft ice slows things down and NHL handicappers need to keep this in mind..
There are further issues that can be caused. If the ice remains soft then it is also going to deteriorate more rapidly and more significantly. If they turn up the refrigeration and the air conditioning in an attempt to control the situation then there is a good chance that the problem can swing in the other direction and the ice can become brittle and also fragile. Either way, it is very hard for icemakers to maintain a good surface during the playoffs. This is even more of the case if they have to remove or cover the ice frequently – like if the building is also being used for the NBA playoffs.
When trying to determine whether the weather is going to be a factor in the playoffs and should be considered when preparing to bet there are four factors to keep in mind:
History of the building – It's far more likely that the ice is going to be a factor if it has been in the past. Some buildings have more problem than others – the southern arenas are often a problem because of their weather, for example. By looking back at what has happened in the past NHL handicappers can get a sense of whether something is likely to happen again.
Team speed – The more a hockey team relies on speed to get their edge, the more significantly it is going to be impacted by problems with the ice. There are some teams that look to move up the ice faster than their opponents can set up on defense, and which try to get back on defense as quickly as they can. A team that is particularly fast is hard for an opponent to play against at the best of times, but that difficulty can be particularly significant later in the NHL playoffs if they have the stamina to maintain their speed because their opponents will be getting tired and more worn down. Soft ice could serve to slow down the team and minimize their edge. The betting public is more likely to focus on the edge their speed gives than the challenges of the conditions, so savvy sports bettors could find value.
Passing aggressiveness – Some teams rely on longer breakaway passes in an attempt to create opportunities and mismatches. Others prefer shorter, puck controlling passes. If the condition of the ice is suspect then those longer passes are higher risk. Teams could fail to complete those passes effectively, or they could be forced to alter their game away form what has got them to where they are. A team that is less aggressive with their passing – or less reliant on aggressive passing for their success – could be a more attractive bet if the weather is likely to be an issue.
Familiarity with ice issues – NHL handicappers need to realize that a team like Edmonton is going to be far less familiar with dealing with softening ice and the issues it brings than one like Tampa Bay. If those two teams were playing each other in the playoffs then they would both have to deal with the same conditions, but Tampa would clearly be better suited to adapting and adjusting than Edmonton would. Teams on the east coast would be better at dealing with humidity and the effects than a team from somewhere like Calgary or Denver where humidity isn't often an issue. Use these facts when handicapping and betting on the NHL playoffs.


January 12, 2017 by Daniel P. Clark
Re: What is the splat operator doing here?
I've received an email from a fellow software developer inquiring about a bit of code where I use Ruby's splat operator in two different ways. In my Ruby gem cards_lib I wrote a "macro" to take a list of strings and generate card instances from them. You don't really hear of macros in the Ruby community but by the definition this is just that.
A macro (short for "macroinstruction", from Greek μακρός 'long') in computer science is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to a replacement output sequence (also often a sequence of characters) according to a defined procedure.
Wikipedia: Macro (computer science)
The macro I designed is this:
Now the splat operator works in two different ways. One is for consuming all parameters in as one array variable, and the other is to consume all entries out of one array as parameters.
Splat in a Method Definition
Let look at the first situation "consuming all parameters in as one array". Whether you use a proc/lamda or a method the behavior will be the same. No matter how many parameters given will be evaluated as on inner variable as an array of each of the parameters.
The splat operator as a parameter definition will consume any input into one array.
Splat in a Method Call
Using splat in a method call is a bit like unwrapping one layer from an array. It's the same as saying you want to take all of the individual entries in the array and pass them off as individual parameters to the method.
So as you can see the splat parameter is a way of wrapping or unwrapping an array as one or many parameters.
Going Through the Macro
The first thing this lambda Proc does is take all parameters in as an Array.
If we had the collection as an array beforehand we'd splat it in and get the same results.
Now that we have any quantity of cards provided as an array we'll map them into Card objects. Let's look at the map part.
This will replace all the string representations of a card and return a Card object for each.
Just so you know; the Card object is defined elsewhere and can take two parameters:
Now the mapping process takes in each entry from c and the splat operator on *opts wraps that entry in an array. So if the first item is a string such as "Ah" it will now be ["Ah"]. Now that we have a guaranteed array we can call the flatten method with absolute confidence that we wont get a missing method error (and flatten is needed if arrays are given since the incoming splat operator will double the array depth). Now since the Card object can take two individual parameters we need to use the splat operator again to "unwrap" the array as parameters to the new method.
Now to make clear the WHY behind doing all this. As you can see from the class Card definition you can define your own ranker object on a card. With the above macro you could pass in the following.
And each Card object would be built successfully with a different internal ranker given as a parameter. This way the mapper in this macro doesn't care if you give it a string for a card, or an array of parameters, it will be flattened and then splatted out just the same to Card.new. So the macro accepts a simple list, or a complex one for Card generation.
Style Notes
When using lambdas or procs I tend to hear a preference towards using.call or.() in providing clarity for when a Proc being called rather than using the [] method which is the same thing but can be confused as a hash. For the sake of teaching in this post I used.call, but for me personally since a macro isn't a common term thrown around the Ruby community I like to use the square brackets for this and think of it as "macro syntax". So making five cards would simply be Cards[ "Ah", "2h", "3h", "4h", "5h" ]. So when you examine the code for CardsLib you may find it helpful to keep that in mind.
The splat operator is super helpful but it can only be used in a method definitions or in method calls. If you try to use the splat operator inside of string interpolation it won't work for unwrapping an array as it did in method calls. So it has a good use case, but a limited one.
If you haven't checked out my gem CardsLib I highly recommend that you do. I boast of it as "The 'smartest' object oriented card game library". It has many efficient and helpful ways of creating and evaluating cards, and collections of cards, and their worth. It may just be helpful enough in making your favorite card games an easy program to make.
God Bless!
-Daniel P. Clark
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Nice explanation with a good example.
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The lives of the last great American outlaws of the 19th century, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, have achieved mythological proportions, and it is difficult to parse fact from fiction. Multiple movies and books have been based around the story of the Wild Bunch, and the fact that the demise met by Butch and Sundance remains a mystery makes their tale even more fascinating. This original A&E special delves into the true story of these daring outlaws, following their outrageous exploits robbing banks and trains and forever eluding the authorities. Butch was known for his charm and big heart, and he and his gang fancied themselves as bandits of the Robin Hood variety, giving their spoils to members of the community who the banks had mistreated. Retiring to Argentina to become sheep herders, Butch and Sundance lived in relative peace until being recognized by a Yankee sheriff passing through. The outlaws were reportedly killed eventually in a shootout with the Bolivian Army, but much evidence supports the claim that Butch returned to the U.S., living out his days under an assumed name in Spokane, Washington. These and many more legends surrounding the Wild Bunch, a great American symbol of daring and excitement, is covered in this riveting program.
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Round-robin scheduling
In round-robin scheduling, a thread selected to run continues executing until it:
As the following diagram shows, Thread A ran until it consumed its timeslice; the next READY thread (Thread B) now runs:
Figure 1. Round-robin scheduling.
A timeslice is the unit of time assigned to every process. Once it consumes its timeslice, a thread is preempted and the next READY thread at the same priority level is given control. A timeslice is 4 × the clock period. (For more information, see the entry for ClockPeriod() in the QNX Neutrino C Library Reference.)
Note: Apart from time slicing, round-robin scheduling is identical to FIFO scheduling.


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If you've ever spoken to any owner of an AR 15, you'll probably have noticed that we have a lot of opinions about our firearms. We can happily debate for hours about the benefits and detriments to a longer or shorter barrel length, the weight versus versatility of different handguard rail systems, and so on. The AR 15 was designed to be easily customizable, which means that every AR owner can create a firearm that meets their personal tastes and specifications. Of course, with so many options for alterations and changes, there are just as many—if not more—opinions about which options are the best. As custom AR parts manufacturers, one of the questions we hear most often is about the gas system that powers the action. Is direct impingement better or worse than a gas piston system for powering the bolt carrier group? Here are a few things to consider:
Why It Matters
First and foremost, in order to really get into this debate, it's important to know why the question of direct impingement versus gas piston even matters. As any AR owner should be able to tell you, both direct impingement and gas piston are systems used to fire a round, eject the spent cartridge, and cycle through to chamber a new round. Both systems use the force of the gas created from firing to force the bolt carrier group back to go through the ejection and reloading action in one smooth step. For more information about the carrier group, see our previous blog post here. Since both systems accomplish the same thing, logic says there shouldn't necessarily be a debate on the topic. And yet, the debate still comes up time and again.
The only big difference between direct impingement and gas piston is where the gas goes after helping expel the bullet through the barrel. In a direct impingement gas system, the gas created from firing gets pushed along the barrel with the bullet until it hits the gas block. At that point, the bullet will continue out the barrel, but the gas is forced up into the gas tube and directed back along the length of the barrel and into the gas key, at which point the gas forces the carrier group back to eject the spent casing and load the next round.
The difference between the two systems seems like a trivial one, but it can have a noticeable impact over time. With the direct impingement, it's the force of the gas from firing that cycles the action. A gas piston cycles the action in the same manner, but with a key difference: the gas never cycles back to the carrier group. Instead, when a shot is fired, the gas forces the bullet down the barrel and reaches the gas block, but instead of traveling along the gas tube and back into the chamber, the gas stops just above the gas block, hits a solid piston, and expels out at that point (away from the user). Because the gas still goes up and out of the barrel with the same amount of force, it still has the power to cycle the bolt carrier group just as effectively.
When it comes to firing, the difference in sensation between direct impingement and gas piston is minimal. Someone of a smaller stature may experience a bit more kickback from the gas piston system, but otherwise the difference when firing direct impingement and gas piston is negligible—particularly when you have an adjustable carrier group to control the level of gas suppression. The primary difference, and the reason so many AR 15 owners rave about switching over to the gas piston system, is the level of cleanliness. In the direct impingement system, it's the dirty gas from firing that gets pushed back into the chamber. If you aren't diligent about cleaning your firearm, that gunk can build up and cause misfire or jamming issues. Because a gas piston system uses the force and expels the gas outward, none of that debris filled gas will hit the chamber. Of course, if you clean your AR regularly, a direct impingement system isn't any more or less effective.
Experience the difference and make your mind up on this debate. Shop custom machined carrier group options and more online from Bootleg, Inc.!


Configuring Siebel Business Applications > Configuring the Customer Dashboard > Options to Update the Customer Dashboard >
Configuring a Button to Update the Customer Dashboard
The Customer Dashboard includes application programming interfaces (APIs) to pull information from or push information to the Customer Dashboard through Siebel Visual Basic script or Siebel eScript script. Because the Customer Dashboard resides in a separate frame, it requires a user interface event to update customer dashboard fields. To generate a user event, you must add a button to an applet that uses a script to call the Update Dashboard command.
To configure a button to update the Customer Dashboard
 1. In Siebel Tools, in the Object Explorer, click Applet.
 2. In the Applets list, locate the applet you must modify.
 3. In the Object Explorer, expand the Applet tree, and then click Control.
 4. In the Controls list, add a button as an applet control and set properties using values from the following table.
 Target View Frame
 5. Define the script for the new button.
 Your script must do the following:
 6. Compile and test your changes.
 For more information, see Using Siebel Tools.
Updating the Customer Dashboard With Data from a Virtual Business Component
An update to the Customer Dashboard requires a row ID. However, a virtual business component uses a virtual row ID. Therefore, to display information from a virtual business component in the customer dashboard, you must script the UpdateDashboard function.
Customer Dashboard Allows Only One Update for Each User Interface Event
The Customer Dashboard allows only one user interface update for each user interface event. For example, if you add a button to a view, then one click of that button is one user interface event. For that event, Siebel CRM can execute only one user interface update, such as updating the Customer Dashboard. The code behind a single button cannot include two user interface updates, such as updating the Customer Dashboard, and then displaying a new view in the main frame of the Siebel application.


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Sports for Peace - Example: Sports for Peace Programme in Mindanao, Philippines
The concept of Sports for Peace was introduced to the Island of Mindanao, Philippines as an alternative approach to conflict transformation and peace building by the GTZ supported "Poverty Reduction and Conflict Transformation" (PRCT) Project team. It was tested in four regions in Mindanao.
After selecting the schools, the next step involved training the teachers for them to become effective trainers. The trainers/teachers were introduced to conflict sensitive approaches of dealing with the ongoing conflict. At the same time they were prepared for their assigned tasks in the Sports for Peace event. The whole team including the teachers/trainers involved in the preparation for the event embarked on developing peaceful and open atmosphere so that the students would feel comfortable and could concentrate on the programme. During the Sports for Peace programme, in preparation and for the actual sports event, the following steps were followed:
This step was the last one where the team got actively involved in. Here the students were able to show what they had learned during prior sessions and to act accordingly. The PRCT team had organized all materials required for the games including: different colored t-shirts as well as the awards for the various teams, which pictured the symbol of peace: a flying dove.
Figure 1: A step-by-step approach
Important for the success of the event is that all of the above steps depicted in figure 1 are needed for a successful Sports for Peace event. Each step builds upon each other.
Detailed activities for a Sports for Peace event
The activities which form part of each step were further sub-divided according to the age, mental and physical fitness as well as with a view to the expected outcome that should be reached by the activity. While the stepwise approach proved successful for the events organised by PRCT, they should not be treated as a value-print. The steps need to be adapted and modified according to the individual settings.
Photo 1 & 2: Adapting Sports for Peace for individual settings
Step I: Preparation, Administration and Management
Proper preparation, management and administration are important in ensuring the smooth implementation of the Sports for Peace event. If any rules are needed for managing the event these more often than not depend upon the persons responsible for the event as well as the general "management" or "organizational" culture of the community where the event is taking place.
Photo 3: There is no substitute for a good plan!
Step II: Looking Back to the Past to Find Peace
What also proved important was to present and discuss with the participants the the historical perspective of Mindanao and it various conflicts. This was necessary in order to enable participants to grasp the complexities and nature of the conflicts that have made peace so elusive. At the same time it was also necessary to discuss the different peace building and conflict transformation initiatives that had been undertaken, highlighting the success and lessons-learnt.
Activity 1: Description of the region in Mindanao where the Sports for Peace took place in
Photo 4: Learning about the history of Mindanao from each other
Step III: Peace Concept and Culture of Peace
Step III involved four modules. These were aimed at providing the participants with a broader orientation on peace concepts and pedagogical principles while developing positive values and attitudes necessary for both personal and societal transformation. The modules were developed using structured learning exercises (SLEs) and other participatory and creative activities that can be done either in classrooms or outdoor settings. The age bracket of participants was considered in developing the activities. Hence, the participants were grouped into three age brackets: 6-8, 9-11, and 12-15 years of age.
Module 1: Peace concept and activities
Activity 1: "Peace awareness"
Module 2: Personal peace
Personal Peace refers to the harmonious relationship with oneself, with others, with the natural environment, and with God, Allah or one Supreme Being. The issue of personal peace is very basic: unless a person is peaceful, nothing is peaceful to him or to her.
Module 3: Children's rights
The Convention on the Rights of a Child defines a child as a person under 18 years old, unless under the law applicable to the child the age of majority is attained earlier. While the Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes 18 years as the upper age limit for children, it permits governments a degree of flexibility by adding the clause "age of majority".
At the end of the session or activity, the participants were able to:
Activity 1: "Picture identification"
Photo 5: Learning about their rights
Module 4: Cultural solidarity
Inter-cultural conflict and issues play a vital role in obstructing peace at the regional and national levels. It is important to realize that cultural solidarity is essential and highly desirable for peace. The cultural conflicts that are plaguing Mindanao must be resolved through non-violent strategies. The tasks of the concept were to have the people understand the different cultural values and traditions within Mindanao.
Activity 1: "Picture analysis I"
Step IV: Sports core values
The Sports for Peace programme in Mindanao aimed to inculcate sports three core values among children and youth through the process of playing:
"The marble/stone theory"
Step V: The actual sport events
The four sports chosen for the Sports for Peace programs in Mindanao — basketball, volleyball, baseball and football — were team sports that are based on popularity in the localities this concept was applied in. They are also played by both boys and girls and in mixed teams. However, other sports might be organized as long as they are intended at promoting peace and solidarity, teamwork and socialization while establishing the basic foundation of the core values of sports. The sports should likewise recognize individual talent and skills.
The sports event was the highlight of the Sports for Peace activity wherein the participating students were able to "live" the concepts and culture of peace they had learned. In the sports event, the concept, objectives and guidelines for Sports for Peace as well as the roles of all participants were discussed as these provided the bases of the evaluation and rating after the games have been played.
2. Preparatory discussions and workshops
As preparatory activities before the conduct of the games, discussions and workshops were organized to fully explain to all participants the concept and objectives of Sports for Peace.
3. The different team sports
In this section the sports requirements and rules for each sport were the main focus. Preparations before the Sports for Peace event provided exact information about e.g. the size of the field, the number of participants, the rules of the games and some simple examples on tactics. The descriptions used are those general procedures and rules known all over the world. While these general rules were applied, it was sometimes good to simplify the rules to make the sports more applicable to the students.
4. Roles of major stakeholders
There were different stakeholders involved in the Sports for Peace events and they had different roles. An important role is that of the resource person. The resource person is responsible for the overall programme and therefore needs to fully understand the whole process. The following roles proved important for the success of the Sports for Peace Events in Mindanao:
Photo 6: Involving different stakeholders and learning from the "wise-elders"
Throughout the whole process the sustainability of the different events was monitored by the PRCT team on a daily basis. Regular feedback sessions helped to continually improve the events and include the community and students in the set up of the Sports for Peace occasions. At the end of each event the team evaluated the entire process, and noted changes and improvements to be made for the next Sports for Peace event.
Photo 7: Regular feed-back sessions helped to improve the Sports for Peace events
Whether the concept of Sports for Peace proves to be a sustainable conflict transformation/peace building approach in the context of Mindanao cannot be assessed at this point in time as the number of events carried out (nine in total over two year period of time) is not sufficient as it takes a longer period to achieve a significant change of
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Google is showing Special animated Doodle to celebrate 200th Birthday of Robert Bunsen,the German scientist who developed the Bunsen burner.
Bunsen burner is the laboratory gas burner used by generations of schoolchildren in science lessons.
Google's animated Doodle shows a flame changing colour from blue to purple as a multicoloured chemicals bubble in a series of pots and test tubes while steam flies out of a coffee pot.
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen was born on March 31, 1811 in Gottingen, Germany.
He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and he discovered caesium and rubidium also.
He is a pioneer in PhotoChemistry also.
Bunsen was one of the most universally admired scientists of his generation. He was a master teacher, devoted to his students.
He never got a patent, despite the fact that his new battery and new laboratory burner would surely have brought him great wealth. And, he never married
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LOST DUTCHMAN STATE PARK, AZ (ARIZONA HIGHWAYS TV) - Standing more than 1300-feet high and surrounded by cactus and desert, the Superstition Mountains are both magical and mysterious.
Some of the stories are mind-twisting. Flying saucers. Hollow mountains. Top of mountains opening up at night to make way for extraterrestrials.
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The mountain itself dates back some 18 million years. Inside a collapsed volcano it was forced upward creating something what is called a resurgent dome.
The peaks, at one time covered in ash, are now bronzed and breathtaking. The mountain itself changes all the time and one can never tire of looking at the mountain sunrise to sunset.
Visitors come from all over the world to see Mother Nature's creation - and maybe, just maybe stumble across the most famous missing treasure in the world, the Lost Dutchman Mine.
"I'm absolutely convinced that it does exist, and that it lies hidden today right where he said it was: somewhere deep in the heart of the Superstition Mountain," said historian Clay Wurst.
Wurst has spent more than 60 years searching for the mine. As legend has it, the Lost Dutchman told two men where the mine was before he died. At the time, all he was able to do was describe what the country looked like as he traveled. And in one of the roughest pieces of wilderness terrain on the north American Continent, it simply wasn't good enough. No one has ever found the mine.
Every year, the legend of the Lost Dutchman mine seems to grow. But only a few people hold the secrets passed on by the Dutchman. Wurst is one of the keepers.
"He held his hands up about 18 inches apart, he said it's a vein about that wide, and he said 'Dick, there's enough in sight to make millionaires out of 20 men.'"
For years, treasure hunters combed the mountain, searching for the buried treasure. Many man were shot on the mountain as the battle to find the mine became territorial and dangerous.
Many historical artifacts are on display at the Lost Dutchman Museum, like a telescope used on the first hunt for the mine or an old wooden calendar board with 31 holes.
Several of the treasure maps used back in the day are also on display.
Whether you're a treasure hunter, or an outdoor enthusiast, the Lost Dutchman State Park at the base of the superstition mountains is worth the visit.
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And if you happen to see Wurst, say hello, and ask him about the mine, the mountain and why he he hopes someone finds the treasure before he dies.
These mountains are indeed the keepers of countless memories, fascinating stories, and unbelievable theories. And maybe, just maybe, a treasure that is worth millions and millions of dollars.
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A visible boundary, such as a fence or wall, can make a yard feel small
and claustrophobic. Concealing boundaries with plants will radically
improve the appearance of a yard, transforming it into an attractive
Back Fence Disguise
In many small yards, the most obvious boundary is
the back fence, which, if visible, immediately gives away the length of
the yard. By creating a mixed border directly in front, using a range of
plants that will grow as tall as, or taller than, the fence, you will
succeed in blurring the edges of your lot. Make sure the border is a
reasonable depth: a narrow strip in front of the fence, deep enough for
only one plant, is likely to draw attention to the boundary rather than
One of the most effective ways to disguise a boundary
and also make a yard seem larger is to create a false perspective. For
example, in a yard that appears short, make the borders running down the
sides of the yard taper outward so that they are wider at the far end,
making the yard appear longer. Another visual trick is to draw the eye
away from the boundaries with a central, circular lawn or paved area,
and surround it with dense plantings. Evergreen shrubs will ensure that
the effect lasts all year.
Dividing up the yard with various plant screens so that the
entire yard is never completely visible from any one position will help
make it feel larger and shift the emphasis away from the boundaries.
Even a small lot can be divided up in this way using trellis or woven
willow screens as supports for climbing plants; these also help to
maximize growing space.
Having a small garden does not mean that you should restrict yourself to small plants; in fact, doing so serves to underline a yard's limited size. Positioning a selection of quite large plants in front of fences or walls in generous-sized beds that have been pushed to the edges of the lot will help to maximize space in the center of the yard, creating a courtyard. The plants will also help to hide fences and walls.


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When Italian Gianni Rodari invented his poem "The smell craft? ', All occupations for the population of the Soviet Union were equal.Not for nothing is this verse in the Union has become the embodiment of human-worker with no smell of perfume, and carpenter's glue, gasoline, medicines, motor oil or baking.After all, if it promoted the cult of the workers specialties!
to write about Gianni Rodari?
gained popularity as a writer was in the Soviet Union, George. Rodari published many interesting tales and children's stories.And most of them sings the labor of the working man.How could have a pleasant smell of an actress or a movie star?Is Engineer smells?Perhaps the pilot has a pleasant fragrance?According to the ideology of communism, only persons working profession has the right to be meaningful.Of course, the writer sincerely trust these principles.The popular nursery rhyme J.. Rodari "The smell Crafts" in our changed reality somewhat lost its ideological orientation, but the smells of working professi
- glazier smells putty;
- doctor - medicine;
- fisherman smelled a slave;
- carpenter gives the smell of chips;
- businessman has the smell of expensive cologne;
- business woman smell French perfume;
- money, as the truth is known, does not smell.
it possible to choose a profession on its accompanying smell
choosing professional occupation, is to get acquainted with the smells that accompany a particular case.After all, in the poem "The smell Crafts" clearly states that each profession has a smell.It may be that, despite the obvious progress in, a particular scent can cause unpleasant emotions, which in turn can affect mood and performance.So, some of the features of professions related to odors:
- If people like scents of spices, it can become a good cook.
- I like fruity and floral aromas?Such an individual likes to be the center of attention, you can try yourself as a public speaker man (actor, lecturer, teacher).
- professionals working in areas related to human health, must adequately treat flavors of mint and anise.
- If a child likes the smell of fresh newspapers and magazines, it is worth to try yourself in the role of editor.
- smell of coffee will help a realtor in his complicated case.
- Sport coach embodies the courage and excellent physical shape.Its flavor is pronounced citrus bouquet.
Some professions and odor
- who compares what cat food tastes better?Taster food for pets, of course!All the subtleties of differences of taste and aroma of a new food that feels professional.When Dzh.Rodari wrote his poem "The smell craft" a profession did not exist.
- Breeders deer-breeding farms, annually earning hundreds of thousands of dollars by selling hunting enthusiasts urine of their wards.Pheromones contained in the "product", are a great attraction.When it comes to big money, you can forget about the smell.
- Every year an increasing number of roads in the world.Speeds of vehicles also increased.Accordingly, the number of downed animals on roads is also not reduced.Who monitors the cleanliness on the pavement?Not very prestigious, but reasonably well-paid jobs collector of dead animals poem "The smell craft" does not describe.
Pros "smelling" professions
Not every person can connect his life with a lot of pleasant or unpleasant odors when communicating with the smell becomes a daily obligation.The main "instrument" taster - nose -is very delicate instrument.Occupation taster spirits or wine taster requires a special approach to their health.Of course, now it is impossible to do without professions listed in the poem "The smell of craft."The verse was written in the time of an epidemic of socialism, where some concepts were turned according to the requirements of those years.You can change many things in the life of nations and continents.Only the properties of the human body are constant.With the right information, it is easier to choose a deal to their liking.
Communication with smells or poison can enrich a person's life.Each profession belongs to a particular flavor.If you do not like the smell of the profession may be, the corresponding payment compensates for this deficiency?


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Powell, OH – A third kiwi hatched on the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium on Jul. 17, 2011 marking the first time an institution in North America has successfully hatched three kiwi in one year. The Columbus Zoo's first hatching of the North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) occurred less than four months ago on Mar. 23, 2011 and the second hatched on Jun. 25, 2011.
"The Columbus Zoo's animal care programs have many Centers of Excellence representing diverse species from around the world" said Columbus Zoo and Aquarium President and CEO Dale Schmidt. "Due to the hard work and dedication of our expert staff, we are proud to add kiwi to that list."
Only seven kiwis, including the three chicks at the Columbus Zoo, have hatched in the past five years in North America. The Columbus Zoo is only the third zoo in North America to successfully hatch a kiwi chick since the first one hatched at Smithsonian's National Zoo in 1975.
The newest chick, a female, is currently being cared for behind-the-scenes. The first two chicks are both males and have been given names reflecting their native New Zealand; "Ariki" (ah-ree-kee), meaning first-born or chief and "Toa" (to-ah) meaning warrior. The oldest of the chicks, Ariki, can be seen in the Zoo's Roadhouse nocturnal habitat for a few hours each day beginning at 11 a.m.
Including the chicks there are now six kiwis at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and a total of 22 kiwis in three United States zoos.
Kiwis are flightless birds about the size of a domestic chicken and the egg, weighing as much as 20% of the female's body weight, is the largest egg in relation to body size of any bird. The female kiwi lays one egg at a time in the burrow occupied by the male kiwi. In the wild the male completes the average 86-day incubation process on his own.
At the Zoo eggs are checked to see if they are fertile 30-45 days after they are laid. To maximize the potential of a successful hatching a fertile egg is placed in an incubator where it is monitored for temperature and humidity and turned slightly each day. Once the chick pips the egg it takes about four days for it to completely emerge and it survives on its yolk sac for 6-12 days.
Kiwi chicks are miniature versions of the adult kiwi and are about 1/8 of the size of an adult when they hatch. They are precocial, meaning they are completely on their own after hatching, and must find food and avoid predators without assistance. Most birds locate their food through sight and have a relatively poor sense of smell. Being nocturnal, the kiwi's senses are just the opposite and they use their long beak to forage through leaf litter sniffing out earthworms and other invertebrates, fruits and berries.
Kiwis have a high mortality rate in the wild mostly due to predation by invasive species; 50% of kiwi eggs fail to hatch, 90% of chicks do not survive to six months of age and only 5% reach adulthood. Kiwi males are sexually mature at two years of age and females are reproductive at about three years old.
The five distinct species of kiwi are only found in New Zealand and zoos outside of New Zealand only manage the North Island brown kiwi. The kiwi is the unofficial mascot of New Zealand and despite having legal protection since 1896 their numbers are declining mostly due to predation by non-native species including dogs and cats.
The Columbus Zoo's conservation program has supported projects to protect the kiwi including supplying funds to construct predator proof fencing around reserves and fitting kiwis with transmitters to enable regular monitoring.
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is open 363 days a year 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. after Labor Day. General admission is $14.00 for adults, $9.00 for children ages 2 to 9 and $10.00 for seniors 60+. Children under 2 and Columbus Zoo members are free. The Zoo was named the #1 Zoo in America by USA Travel Guide and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has earned Charity Navigator's prestigious 4-star rating. For more information and to purchase advance Zoo admission tickets, visit _URL_.


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Impact of COVID-19 on mortality rates and ramifications for group benefits plans
We've all witnessed the devastating effects of COVID-19 on our everyday life and on our loved ones. The virus has unfortunately taken the lives of too many people. What impact will this have on the mortality of Canadians and how will this uptick in deaths affect group benefits plans offered to workers and retirees?
The following graph presents the weekly number of deaths in Canada in recent years, compiled by Statistics Canada.
Backed by data from StatsCan and the Institut de la statistique du Québec, it's believed that COVID-19 generated 5% additional deaths in Canada last year. As expected, COVID-19 had a greater impact on mortality in Quebec, with nearly 8% additional deaths.
According to data published by the Government of Canada, individuals ages 70 and over account for 88% of COVID-19 deaths, with 69% of those deaths occurring in individuals ages 80 and older. The percentage of COVID-19 deaths among these age groups is even higher in Quebec (92% of deaths among those ages 70 and older, with 73% occurring among those 80 and older), according to the Institut national de la santé publique du Québec (INSPQ).
As these age groups comprise mostly retirees, we will analyze the cost of group benefits (pension plans and group insurance plans) offered to those individuals.
At first glance, we can expect more deaths occurring in 2020 than previously expected. For example, a group benefits plan covering 1,000 retirees with a median age of 70 could expect anywhere from 10 to 20 deaths in a given year. In 2020, the impact of COVID-19 resulted in an average of one or two additional deaths.
As mentioned, individuals ages 80 and older have been most affected by COVID-19. In general, the pension plan liabilities for this subgroup of retirees are small compared to other subgroups. Therefore, the experience variation as a result of increased mortality due to COVID-19 for 2020 should be rather limited, with some exceptions. We can expect little to no variation in pension plan funding costs as a result of the impact of COVID-19 on mortality in 2020.
COVID-19 may take a toll on premiums payable to the insurer. For plans offering life insurance coverage at retirement, the impact of the coronavirus will depend on group size and the renewal methodology.
Companies offering life, health and dental insurance coverage to retirees must acknowledge the costs of these plans in their financial statements. Just like pension plans, the liabilities for retirees over the age of 80 are small compared to other insured people. We can therefore expect little to no variation in costs as a result of the impact of COVID-19 on mortality in 2020.
It is too early to assess the long-term impact of COVID-19 on mortality rates, given the many factors that could influence future developments, such as:
- Additional waves of the pandemic
- Survivorship bias, or the belief that those who survived the pandemic may have physical attributes related to greater longevity
- Long-term effects on the health of COVID-19 survivors
- The impact of the cancellation or postponement of healthcare treatment and surgeries. Over time, the current situation may have a serious impact on the recovery of those awaiting treatment and, in the long term, on the life expectancy of Canadians.
- Mental health impact of social isolation and job losses
- Behavioural changes, such as frequent handwashing, may have beneficial long-term effects. This good habit could curb the transmission of other yearly viruses, such as influenza, which would reduce the yearly number of deaths.
With this in mind, it would be best to maintain the mortality assumptions currently used for estimating future costs of pension plans and group insurance plans. As a result, costs are expected to remain stable in the short term.
Your Normandin Beaudry consultants are monitoring the situation as it evolves and will keep you informed.
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text: Existing conceptual design methods mainly focus on component modeling and representation, which makes them insufficient to help in the conceptual design stage. Port ontology, as an approach to formally expressing product design, has been effectively applied to concept description of a product. An incidence matrix support for product conceptual design based on port ontology is given in this paper. It formally represents and organizes product information in both functional ontology and physical domain in a hierarchy. Port compatibilities are used to map and link the two components. This makes it possible to build incidence matrix and decompose it into an independence matrix, and allow designers from different backgrounds with various interests to access the design ontology. A multilevel matrix is constructed to generate principle schemes of products at different levels of abstraction, which facilitates design decision-making through the whole conceptual design stage. A case study is also given to demonstrate the proposed approach.


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Provided by: libacl1-dev_2.2.49-2_i386
acl_from_text - create an ACL from text
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
acl_from_text(const char *buf_p);
The acl_from_text() function converts the text form of the ACL referred
to by buf_p into the internal form of an ACL and returns a pointer to the
working storage that contains the ACL. The acl_from_text() function
accepts as input the long text form and short text form of an ACL as
described in acl(5).
This function may cause memory to be allocated. The caller should free
any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by calling
acl_free(3) with the (void*)acl_t returned by acl_from_text() as an
On success, this function returns a pointer to the working storage. On
error, a value of (acl_t)NULL is returned, and errno is set
If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_from_text() function
returns a value of (acl_t)NULL and sets errno to the corresponding value:
[EINVAL] The argument buf_p cannot be translated into an ACL.
[ENOMEM] The acl_t to be returned requires more memory than is
allowed by the hardware or system-imposed memory
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 ("POSIX.1e", abandoned)
acl_free(3), acl_get_entry(3), acl(5)
Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by Robert N M Watson
〈_EMAIL_〉, and adapted for Linux by Andreas Gruenbacher


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There are many reasons behind a laptop could get frozen, it may be caused either by a software problem or hardware malfunction. If is a software problem, you can use troubleshooting software to solve it, but if it is hardware related, then maybe you have to buy few parts or replacement part for your laptop.
Step 1- Disable Unnecessary Services:
The services that are running in the background sometime make a laptop or computer run slowly. Mostly, laptop freezes because unwanted services are running in the background. So, stop these services, particularly those which are not in use.
- Click Start, type Services.msc and press "Enter".
- Right click a service and choose "Stop" option.
- Do same thing for all unwanted services
Step 2- Run Windows Experience Index
This tool checks the system configurations and recommends you to upgrade some hardware's, which can solve the laptop freezing problem
- Click Start.
- Now type windows experience index and press "Enter"
- Now Click on the button Rate my computer
- Wait for sometime
- Upgrade the hardware accordingly after finishing the process.
Step 3 – Scan Laptop Registry
Your laptop could be freeze if your Windows registry is corrupted. Therefore, scan it for possible errors and fix these issues quickly.
- Firstly, download a Registry Cleaning tool.
- After downloading, start a full registry scan.
- Now, perform registry repair operation.
- Reboot the laptop.
Defragment the Registry
We know that Windows Registry contains system and application settings as it is the database. Sometime, the laptop gets to freeze a lot due to registry fragmentation. So, defragment it like this.
- First, get Registry Defrag software (A part of a Registry Cleaner and PC Optimizer tool).
- Now analyze the registry state.
- Begin the registry defragmentation process.
Step 4- Stop or Block Active Startups
Many programs start running at the Windows startup, when you turn on your laptop / computer. This puts lots of burden on the processor of your system, and causes your laptop to freeze.
- Click Start, Run.
- Now type "MsConfig" and press "Enter".
- Click Startup tab.
- Now disable or inactivate the start-ups except antivirus program, then click Services tab.
- Now, disable the "Non-Microsoft services" except antivirus software services, if any.
- Apply the new changes and then restart your system.
Step 5- Uninstalled useless programs
Most of the laptop freezes because numbers of unnecessary programs installed within the system as they are wasting a big part of your disk space, so uninstall them quickly or reduce them.
- Click Start, and then click on Control Panel.
- Now Click Programs Uninstall a Program (Unnecessary).
- Select a program and click Uninstall button.
- Now follow the setup.


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Posted by The Situationist Staff on February 8, 2009
In the International Herald Tribune, Pam Belluck has a nice summary of recent research indicating that colors matter in ways we probably don't imagine. Her article, titled "Accurate red, creative blue: Color counts, study says," is excerpted below.
Trying to improve your performance at work or kick-start that novel you want to write? Maybe it's time to consider the color of your walls, or your screen saver.
If a new study is any guide, the color red can make people's work more accurate, but blue can make them more creative.
In the study, published Thursday in the online edition of Science magazine, researchers at the University of British Columbia conducted tests with 600 participants to see how cognitive performance varies when people see red or blue. Participants performed tasks in which words or images were displayed against red, blue or neutral backgrounds on computer screens.
Red groups did better on tests of recall and attention to detail, like remembering words or checking spelling and punctuation. Blue groups did better on tests requiring invention and imagination: coming up with creative uses for a brick or creating toys from collections of shapes.
"If you're talking about wanting enhanced memory for something like proofreading skills, then a red color should be used," concluded Juliet Zhu, an assistant professor of marketing at the university's business school, who conducted the studies with Ravi Mehta, a doctoral student. For "a brainstorming session for a new product or coming up with a new solution to fight child obesity or teenage smoking, then you should get people into a blue room."
Whether color can color performance or emotions has long fascinated scientists – not to mention advertisers, sports teams and restaurateurs.
Consider the Olympic uniform study, in which anthropologists at Durham University in England found that athletes in the 2004 Olympics who wore red instead of blue in boxing, tae kwon do, Greco-Roman wrestling, and freestyle wrestling won 60 percent of the time. The researchers suggested that red, for athletes, as for animals, subconsciously symbolizes dominance.
Perhaps a similarly primal effect was afoot in a 2008 study led by Andrew Elliot at the University of Rochester, in which men considered photographs of women on red backgrounds or wearing red shirts more attractive, although not necessarily more likeable or intelligent.
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In cognitive realms, experts say colors may affect performance because of the mood they transmit.
"When things go wrong or when you feel that the situation you are in is problematic, you are more likely to pay attention to detail, which helps you with processing tasks but interferes with creative types of things," said Norbert Schwarz, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan. By contrast, "people in a happy mood are more creative and less analytic."
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[I]n results that appear to align with the Science study's theory that red makes people more cautious and detail-oriented, Elliot found that people shown red on a test cover before an IQ test did worse than those shown green or a neutral color, and also chose easier questions to answer. IQ tests require more problem-solving, similar to the creative questions that Zhu asked.
Zhu's subjects, asked what red or blue made them think of, mostly said red represented caution, danger and mistakes, while blue symbolized peace and openness. Also, subjects unscrambled anagrams of "avoidance-related" words, like "danger," faster with red backgrounds and unscrambled anagrams of positive "approach-related" words, like "adventure," faster with blue backgrounds.
Besides testing cognitive performance, she also tested responses to advertising, finding that ads stressing "avoidance" qualities, like cavity prevention, or product details, appealed more on red backgrounds, while ads stressing optimistic qualities, like "tooth whitening," or using creative designs, appealed more on blue.
Interestingly, when different participants were asked if they thought they would do better with red or blue, more people said blue for both detail-oriented and creative tasks. Maybe, Zhu said, that is because more people prefer blue to red.
The study, she cautioned, did not involve different cultures, like China, where red symbolize prosperity and luck. And it said nothing about mixing red and blue to make purple.
Also, Schwarz said, color effects can be outweighed by clear instructions – to be accurate or creative in a task – so color means more when a project can be approached either way.
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Water Tongue Forms
Water Tongue is found written in four basic forms (see below right). The regular form is found in the greatest abundance and was used in all aspects of daily life. Water Tongue in formal form was used for special occasions like weddings and for decoration. The informal form was used in hurried informal writings. Oldest of all the forms is the orginal form but use of the form appears to have waned. Its style resembles a waterfall and seems to have carried some religious or spiritual value.
|Water Tongue has three form structures, also called pyes, that all words are based off of. Two are referred to as the Hope and Fear pyes but there appearded to be some controversy surrounding the third: Love, Truth or Joy.|


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Locate a target by shift from a known point
TASK: Locate a target by shift from a known point.
TEST CONDITIONS: During daylight hours, given a lensatic compass, protractor, binoculars, a 3- by 5-inch card indicating the distance and direction to the known point, and a target.
1. Determine the observer-target direction within +100 mils of the actual direction (expressed to the nearest 10 mils of the actual direction).
2. Announce the lateral shift from the known point to the target (expressed to the nearest 10 meters). The announced lateral shift must be within 6 degrees x 18 mils x range of the actual lateral shift. (R = the distance to the known point divided by 1,000.)
3. Announce the range change from the known point to the target (expressed to the nearest 100 meters). The announced range change must be to within 20 percent of the actual distance to the target. Example: At a range of 2000 meters, 20 percent would be 400 meters.
4. Complete steps 1 through 3 within 30 seconds.
SOLDIER'S MANUAL CROSSWALK: This task is based on STP 7-11, BCHM14-SM-TG task number _PHONE_, and on FM 6-30. For this manual only, the Infantry School has modified this task to require the candidate to use a lensatic compass.
EQUIPMENT REQUIRED FOR POINT: Binoculars, lensatic compass, a 3- by 5-inch card indicating the distance and direction to the known point, target, field table, pencil, stopwatch, clipboard, and FB Form 20-11.1-R.
SITE SETUP: Provide an unobstructed view of the target and known point at the site. Indicate the direction and distance to the known point. Place binoculars, compass, and a 3- by 5-inch card on a field table.
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: Say to the candidates--
"Let me have your attention. At this point you must locate a target by shift from a known point.
"You will determine the direction, range, and deviation corrections to shift fire from the known point to the target and announce those corrections to me within 30 seconds."
Point to the known point and the target.
"Do you understand what you must do?"
If anyone has questions, repeat the instructions but do not elaborate on what you have read.
Pause for five seconds and then say--
Allow the candidate to proceed for 30 seconds and then say--


Dice Rolling
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Upon arriving in Layonara for the first time, each Player Character will have in their inventory a PC Dicebag. With it, players can roll a d4, a d6, a d8, a d10, a d12, and a d20, where "d" stands for die and the numeral stands for the number of sides. I.E. a d6 is a six-sided die. Also, it allows players to roll multiples of each die type. Players can also use it to roll saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks, and it will automatically use the PC's modifiers. It does not, however, handle attack rolls.
There are three settings on the dicebag:
 - Private: Only the user and GM's can see the result.
 - Local: Anyone within range to hear normal speech will see the result.
 - Global: Everyone on the server will see the result. This setting is never to be used unless directed by a GM.
The dicebag is for RP purposes only and hence has its primary use during GM quests and events. Of course, it is certainly not limited to such use, and can be effectively used to handle numerous character initiated role-play instances. The use of the dicebag is highly encouraged and PC's should find it a handy tool.
There are other methods of rolling dice should you not desire to use the dicebag. Dice can be rolled by bracketing the check you want by asterisks. Typing "*fortitude save*" in whisper, talk or party chat will trigger a fortitude check. However, rolls can also be done through the self tell command. Typing =c will produce the desired result. I.E. =c will save will produce the same effect as if you had toggled the PC dicebag to roll a will save. For quicker typing, ability checks and saves are abbreviated as follows:
Using the self-tell, =c also allows you to roll dice bigger than a d20, such as d100's by entering =c roll d100. You can even roll skill checks this way, just as you would an ability check.
To toggle dice rolls to silent, use the command =c toggle check_silent;. If your dice rolls are already on silent mode, this same command can be used to reverse it so other players can see the results of your rolls once more.


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Firth of Tay and Eden Estuary Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar)
Firth of Tay and Eden Estuary, United Kingdom
MARINE PROTECTED AREA
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The Firth of Tay[pronunciation?] (Scottish Gaelic: Linne Tatha) is a firth in Scotland between the council areas of Fife, Perth and Kinross, the City of Dundee and Angus, into which Scotland's largest river in terms of flow, the River Tay empties. The firth has a maximum width of 3 mi (4.8 km) at Invergowrie.
Two bridges span the firth, the Tay Road Bridge and the Tay Rail Bridge.
The firth has one major island, the marshy Mugdrum Island.
The Firth of Tay in Antarctica was discovered in 1892-93 by Captain Thomas Robertson of the Dundee whaling expedition and named by him after the one in Scotland. He also named nearby Dundee Island in honour of the main city on the firth.
The Firth of Tay and Eden Estuary were designated a Ramsar sites on 28 July 2000, as a Special Protection Area on 02 February 2000 and as a Special Area of Conservation on 17 March 2005. Several parts are within a site of special scientific interest - Inner Tay Estuary, Monifieth Bay, Tayport-Tentsmuir Coast. The Invergowrie Bay section is a local nature reserve.
The Firth of Tay is outstanding for its extensive sand and mudflats, its population of common seals and for its wintering birds such as oystercatcher, bar-tailed godwit, shelduck and velvet scoter. There is good access to much of the shoreline and many good wildlife watching opportunities.
At some 15km in length, the reedbed on the north shore of the inner estuary is thought to be the most extensive in Britain.
Coordinates: 56°26′N 3°00′W / 56.433°N 3°W / 56.433; -3
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The (RTRS) is a multi-stakeholder initiative which aims to facilitate a global dialogue on soy production that is economically viable, socially equitable and environmentally sound. It provides stakeholders and interested parties – producers, social organizations, business, and industry - with the opportunity to jointly develop global solutions leading to responsible soy production.
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Listening to Stories: "Here Comes the Garbage Barge"
1. 👂Listen to the story "Here Comes the Garbage Barge" by clicking on the link. 2. 🗣 What can you do to make less than 4 pounds of garbage each day. 3. 💡 Think about the garbage in your community. Where does it go after it is thrown in the trash? Do you think your local landfill smells as terrible as the Garbage Barge? 4. What do you think would happen to your community if everyone was careless about their garbage? Draw a picture to represent what it would look like. 5. What would you tell a friend if you saw him/her throw garbage on the ground?
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Fiber-fed spectrographs can now have throughputs equivalent to slit spectrographs. However, the sky subtraction accuracy that can be reached on such instruments has often been pinpointed as one of their major issues, in relation to difficulties in scattered light and flat-field corrections or throughput losses associated with fibers. Using technical time observations with FLAMES-GIRAFFE, two observing techniques, namely dual staring and cross beam switching modes, were tested and the resulting sky subtraction accuracy reached in both cases was quantified. Results indicate that an accuracy of 0.6% on the sky subtraction can be reached, provided that the cross beam switching mode is used. This is very encouraging regarding the detection of very faint sources with future fiber-fed spectrographs such as VLT/MOONS or ELT/MOSAIC.
Click to download the full article in PDF : Sky background subtraction with fiber-fed spectrograph
On-sky tests of cross-beam switching operations with FLAMES/GIRAFFE at the VLT. Left panel: raw frame with individual spectra showed as individual columns and wavelength along the vertical axis; the sky lines can be seen as horizontal bright regions. Right panel: results after direct subtraction of the raw and sky frames after switching to science and sky fibers: no significant residuals can been seen. The bottom-right panel shows the accuracy of the method, which can reach a 0.6% accuracy. Optimized systems with advanced algorithms are expected to reach to ~ 0.1 % accuracy level.
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Cloudburst is a milestone in Canadian literature. For over a half-century, beginning with the Spanish Civil War and continuing through the coups d'état and military repression in South and Central America in the 1970s and 80s, Spanish-speaking writers have been arriving in Canada as exiles and immigrants and have been creating new works in their native language. Cloudburst is the first anthology of short stories by Hispanic Canadian writers from across Latin America and Spain to appear in English. Edited by Luis Molina Lora and Julio Torres-Recinos and first published in Spanish as Retrato de una nube: primera antología del cuento hispano canadiense in 2008, Cloudburst is a prodigious collective work, containing forty-two stories by twenty-two authors from nine different countries—Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Spain—and rendered into English by seven translators.
The stories in Cloudburst reflect the enormous variety of Hispanic writing in Canada today. Each of the authors' native countries has its own artistic and literary tradition, yet all are bound together by the Spanish linguistic and cultural sphere. Moreover, the women and men in the anthology have settled in cities and towns across Canada, some of them entering into contact with the English-speaking literary world, others with the French. A number of them began writing before they left their homelands, while many of the younger contributors started their careers in Canada. Some of them prefer a traditional literary style, others a more surrealist, experimental, or colloquial approach. All of them are passionate about their writing, and all have gone through the common experience of leaving or being uprooted from the land of their birth and settling in Canada, where they face the challenges and difficulties involved in reestablishing their lives in a largely unknown environment. In Cloudburst, through the prism of translation, they share their latest fiction with English-speaking readers.


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At a time when savings are important, how do we engage consumers in the act of saving and reinstitute a culture of thrift in America? One promising way is to ensure that the act of saving is fun. Prize-linked savings (PLS) models are structured to do exactly that - reward savings behavior to help motivate individuals to save by making it fun. PLS models have been implemented internationally and now applications of PLS are being tested in the United States – by financial institutions, businesses, entrepreneurs, and non-profits – to make saving fun and help more people save.


What are the Akashic Records? Your Energetic Signature | Intuitive Journal
What are the Akashic Records?
Akasha is a sanskrit word that means "sky", "space" or "aether". Imagine a library spanning as far as the eye can see in all directions. It continues expanding and building as your gaze spans across the room and multiplies exponentially from floor to ceiling.
Envision stacks of books and records lined up row after row containing the knowledge of the universe. They are a record of each person's journey of the soul through time and space. They are available to all and have no religious affiliations.
Access to each of life's journeys is housed in the Akashic Records. All manners of a persons thoughts, spoken words, and actions taken and what was learned from each incarnation can also be found here.
What are the Akashic Records?
The Akashic records are an energetic book, or database if you will, of all of the thoughts, feelings, actions, and deeds for a particular soul for this and all other past and future lifetimes. Each person on this earth has a specific energetic signature and because of this no two Akashic records are the same.
These records reside between the 4th and 5th energetic dimensions. They are typically accessed by someone who has had an attunement to be able to receive the information from the records. Those with false motivations are not granted access to the records. It is a privilege to access the records on behalf of others and is done with the utmost discernment.
Can someone have access to their entire Akashic record? That would be unlikely. In a reading, such as those I perform, access is given only to the level of uncovering any energetic misalignments currently affecting you and manifesting your current intentions. So, no one has complete access to everything recorded. The point of access I use is to help you understand your soul's history and what is holding you back and keeping you stuck in present life.
Those parts that are relevant to you right now are what will show up. They could be from past lives or have happened in your current lifetime. There is no need to go scavenging back into your record for information that may not have any bearing on what issues you are struggling with today.
Do you have recurring dreams that have been the same for years? Do they take place in a distant land or a different era? You may have been seeing a past life through part of what has been recorded in the Akashic records. By uncovering portions of past lives you can understand the choices you made and the situation surrounding the choice. By knowing and clearing energies no longer useful, you can make new choices aligned with who you are at soul level. This allows you to step further into your purposeful work.
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The Entrance
Free Module 2: Shapes & Form Feng Shui
Chapter 17: The Entrance
The House:-
Avoid the following bad influences on a house:-
1. A 'T' or 'Y' shaped road in front of the house.
2. A house at the dead-end of a road.
3. An inverted 'U' shaped which acts like a knife' slicing the house.
4. A river in front of the house.
5. House must not face or next to a:-
- cemetery.
- funeral parlor.
- any religious prayer sites.
- brothel.
- police station.
- buildings in the shape of a fire element e.g. sharp pointed roofs.
5. A big tree or a single lamb post facing the house.
6. Look out for the corner of a neighbour's roof pointing to the front of the house.
7. A canal or river at the back of the house.
8. House must not face a bridge or an overpass.
9. An expressway 'cutting/slicing' into the house.
10. Avoid a house built on a former cemetery site or an area where massacre happened.
For those living next to a cemetery or places with concentration of YIN, one remedy is to brightly lit that side of the house or paint that side of the wall red or pink to activate the 'YANG' element.
11. Avoid having an opening (open air courtyard) or windows in the centre ceiling of the house.
12. Avoid having the toilet in the center of the house.
13. The house should be higher than the road.
14. Avoid a 'U' shaped house.
15. A house should not be 'sandwiched' between two tall buildings.
16. Do not place the water tank on the roof in the centre of the house.
17. Public sewerage pipes must not pass under the house.
18. Do not have the fire place in the centre of the house.
19. Avoid having a pond in the centre of the house.
1. Avoid having fencing with varying heights.
2. The fence or brick wall should not be too close to the house.
3. Fence or brick wall should not be higher than the house else it acts like a 'prison' environment.
4. For the garage, do not have the master bedroom above the garage.
5. The driveway should not directly face the main house's door.
6. Do not install barbed wires over the top of the main gate. (For goodness sake your house is not an army camp or a gangster's hideout!)
For exterior of the Main Door:-
1. It should not face a tree or a lamp post.
2. It should not face any corner, chimney, or water storage tank.
3. It should not face a neighbour's gate, main door or driveway.
For interior of the Main Door:-
1. It should not face the staircase or a 'sharp' corner pointing towards the door.
2. It should not be immediately blocked by a wall.
3. It should not face the back door.
4. It should not face a wash basin, sink or water pipe.
5. It should not face any bedroom, toilet or kitchen or fireplace.
6. The backdoor must be smaller than the main door.
7. The size of the main door should be proportional to the size of the house.
8. If the main door is made of two panels, both panels must be of equal size.
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The 1994 Oslo Protocol on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions
The 1994 Oslo Protocol on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions entered into force on 5 August 1998. An effects-based approach, the critical load concept, best available technology, energy savings, the application of economic instruments and other considerations was applied in the preparation of the Protocol. This has led to a differentiation of emission reduction obligations of Parties to the Protocol. The effects-based approach, which aims at gradually attaining critical loads, sets long-term targets for reductions in sulphur emissions, although it has been recognized that critical loads will not be reached in one single step.
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Covering the keyboard while learning to keyboard is a popular strategy for teaching touch typing. Interestingly, there hasn't been much research on the effects of using keyboard covers when students are learning to keyboard. Overall, the research says that students who can't see their keyboards while they use keyboarding software to learn to keyboard will learn significantly faster than those who did not use covers.
Can Learning to Touch Type be Facilitated by Covering the Keys on a Computer?
by Leigh E. Zeitz, Ph.D.
University of Northern Iowa
May 25, 2008
Learning to key without looking at the keyboard is a difficult thing to do. This is especially difficult if your learners have taught themselves to type and developed "bad habits." On of the most prominent "bad habits" that novice keyboarders learn is looking at the keyboard while typing. In response to this need, vendors have developed keyboard covers (or skins) which hide the letters on the keys from students. But does this work?
The $64 question is "Will it help my students learn to touch type faster if we install keyboard covers?"
Let's see what the research says:
Steven Reagan (2000) studied multiple factors when middle school students used software programs to learn touch typing skills. He compared two typing programs: one that was drill and practice (KeyWords Elementary) and a gaming drill and practice program (Type to Learn 3). Half of the students in each of these groups used covers on their keyboards and half of them did not. The results showed that the middle school students who used KeyWords Elementary and had covers on their keyboards did not experience a significant different in improvement over those who could see the letters on their keys.
Conversely, students who had covered keyboards while using Type to Learn achieved a significant increase in their keyboarding skills. Interestingly enough, the Type to Learn users without the covers achieved an average speed that was lower than either of the KeyWords Elementary users. The researcher observed that the game players were highly motivated to do well on the game so those without covers would look at the keyboard instead of using the more efficient touch-typing methods.
Lois Nichols (2004) did some research with 3rd and 4th graders (n=84). The students were randomly assigned to use either covered or uncovered keyboards. They received instruction 30 minutes/day for 4 weeks (10 hours) using Sunburst's Type To Learn 3. The software is developed to enable the students to progress independently through the program. Type to Learn 3 provides an on-screen keyboard with superimposed hands showing the students which keys to press.
It turned out that the students who had the covers on their keyboards finished the 4 weeks typing significantly faster than students who were able to watch the keys. There was no significant difference in their levels of accuracy.
Leonard West (1967) explored the effects of depriving visual feedback when typists typed on a typewriter. Unlike the other two studies which reviewed the effects of using covers on students' abilities to learn to keyboard faster, West did not study typing speed improvement. He asked people who could already type (9 – 118 wpm) and then measured the difference between their speed and accuracy rates with and without being able to view the keyboard. Not surprisingly, the less experienced typists experienced a high increase in errors and decrease in speed while the accomplished typists had a small increase in errors and slight decrease in speed. While this research is interesting, it doesn't hold much relevancy for optimizing keyboarding instruction programs.
These studies that researched the effects of using covers when teaching keyboarding found that those students who couldn't see their keyboards while they use keyboarding software learned to keyboard significantly faster than those who did not use covers. This indicates that covers can be helpful when learning to keyboard. It would be useful to engage in additional research at elementary, middle and secondary levels. The effects of using a gaming context could be further studied by using the Reagan study design with other software packages.
Nichols, L. (2004) Learning to keyboard: Does the use of keyboard covers make a difference? Information Technology in Childhood Annual. 175-185.
Reagan, S. (2000) Increasing touch-keyboarding skills in the middle school student: "Keywords" vs. "type to learn." hand covers vs. no hand covers. Masters thesis.
West., L. (1967) Vision and kinesthesis in the acquisition of typewriting skills. Journal of Applied Psychology, 51(2). 161-166.
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1. counter - noun
· table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted
2. counter - noun
· game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games
3. counter - noun
· a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens
Hypernym(s): calculator, calculating_machine
4. counter - noun
· a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
Synonym(s): buffet, sideboard
Hypernym(s): furniture, piece_of_furniture, article_of_furniture
5. counter - noun
· a person who counts things
Hypernym(s): person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
6. counter - noun
· a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one); "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher"
Synonym(s): rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, replication, comeback
Hypernym(s): reply, response
7. counter - noun
· (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)
8. counter - noun
· a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot; "a counter may be used to stiffen the material around the heel and to give support to the foot"
9. counter - noun
· a return punch (especially by a boxer)
Synonym(s): counterpunch, parry
Hypernym(s): punch, clout, poke, lick, biff, slug
10. counter - verb
· speak in response; "He countered with some very persuasive arguments"
Hypernym(s): answer, reply, respond
11. counter - verb
· act in advance of; deal with ahead of time
Synonym(s): anticipate, foresee, forestall
Hypernym(s): act, move
12. counter - adjective
· indicating opposition or resistance
13. counter - adverb
· in the opposite direction; "run counter"
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The Dinner Party Project is a dynamic family-focused food education program involving children (5th-8th graders) in the entire process of producing a dinner party for their families at a school or community center.
Through a fiveto eight-week project, fifth though eighth grade students are taught about nutrition, food safety, meal planning, table setting, etiquette, and cooking. This powerful experience of planning a dinner party also deepens their understanding of the value of community, family, teamwork, and sharing, while building self-esteem and having fun.
The curriculum handbook provides a "Dinner Party Planner" with all the information s/he needs to conduct the program, coordinate with school staff, enlist parental and culinary help, and create local press. Homework assignments are structured to involve parents and families.
The Dinner Party Project began in Spring 2001 in the New York City metro area, and has spread across the nation to 27 U.S. cities serving 6,470 students. There have been more than 50 Dinner Parties conducted in elementary schools, middle schools, a charter school, a community girls club, The Harlem Boys and Girls Choir Academy, and a county extension center.


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UVA's High Arctic picturesNational Maritime Museum
The landscape is supposedly set 100 years in the future looking back at the glaciers that have been lost. The poem provides the continual narrative starting 1,500 years ago through early discovery and towards the melting of the ice caps at the end.
The crucial element of the exhibition is the fact that visitors use ultraviolet torches to navigate their way through the darkened space. These torches activate projections in what would be the torch's beam. As they weave their way through the ice islands, there are five open "pool" areas for visitors to explore with their torches.
Thanks to a network of 10 ceiling mounted cameras which track the UV lights and 10 projectors, the torches activate different projected animations in each of the "pools". These are stylised in the same way that the glaciers are and progressively become more polluted as visitors journey through the five different arctic stages. The more torches are in a certain area, the wider the beam of the projection appears in that particular pool. Some 70 people can explore the exhibition space simultaneously.
The projections are supported by a generative sonic landscape designed by Max Eastley and Henrik Ekeus which allows for the movement of gestures throughout the room, for example the sound of a gust of wind can blow down through the room "to give a cohesiveness over and above the individual interactions with the space", according to Clark.
The entire production, including the stage lighting, the projections, the camera tracking and the soundscape is controlled by UVA's proprietary D3 software, describes as "an integrated production tool for sculptural media installations".
Software director and co-founder Ash Nehru said that this marks a "depart from traditional exhibition". He explains: "It is more of a sensory, emotional space -- something that is more of a playful, musical, visual experience rather than just being a lecture. We want to make you feel something and stimulate your desire to learn stuff. If you are kid we want to make you want to find out more and be an explorer."
High Arctic will be on display at the National Maritime Museum this summer.
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