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Assemble missing twigs to restore beautiful fairy-tale patterns. But now you don't have to do it alone! Choose a character to help you out and upgrade their skills as you go. Featuring the same stunning quality as the original, Fiber Twig 2 is an enchanting puzzle for the entire family! Please note: This is an older title; please download the free one hour trial to ensure the game runs on your computer before purchasing the game.
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A Pipe-Like Building Game
I love pipe builder games & I am not sure where I found the recommendation for this game, though I know it was here on BFG forums. This game uses hollow *Twigs* in place of pipes. Instead of filling just one screen, the screen scrolls upwards as you complete areas. You have a hero to help you & different heroes have different skills. I recommend using the first one on the left (knight?) to start, as he seemed the easiest. Read the help section before starting as well & you will be off to a good start. Also, there are more twig varieties than I've ever seen in a pipe game! I love the twist on pipe building games & would really love to see more like this. The visuals were a bit 'old school', but it felt right for the game. Love that there are 3 characters to play as, as it will give great replay value. I bought it as soon as the trial was over.
Addictive game!
I didn't expect much from this game, and thought it looked a bit naff. Still, I downloaded the demo and soon got so hooked I used a well-spent credit on the full version! If you like Tetris and 'pipe-building' games, then you really should try the demo. It's a simple concept: join the twigs, build upwards, and do it quickly. I'm going to be very tired at work tomorrow, it's late and I can't leave the game alone!
Fun But Difficult
Okay, let me try to figure out how to even BEGIN to tell you about this game. The premise of it is generally how you would play a pipe game. Just as you have different shapes of pipes and need to find ways to connect them appropriately, so you must do with twigs. Graphics are well suited to the game. Twigs looks like golden twigs and there always seem to be spaceships that have to take off so be careful where you put a "stop" twig. I didn't get the whole "magic", "defense", "luck" and percentages aspect. I also didn't get how the 3 characters - "knight", girl (not sure what she was, sorry) and the goblin and how these percentages affected their ability to help you or not. So, for THOSE reasons the game was very difficult for me, although fun. Your twigs connect all the way up the screen and then some. But, in the meantime, you can only place one useless twig on the conveyor belt once every very slow 15 seconds. A LOT can happen on the conveyor belt that is sending you twigs in that same 15 seconds though. Your character has a weapon that can break the twigs coming toward you on the conveyor belt but I don't get how it works because sometimes you can smash a bunch of useless twigs and at other times the weapon can't smash at all. So, all in all a very confusing game - for me. I stress - for me. Because I'm sure everyone else who plays this game will love it and have no problems. If it weren't for all the extras (yes, I know that's what makes up the game) I would have been fine just building my twigs up and up and up with no interference whatsoever. This is more of a strategic and time management game than any other type. This Glam-ma says if it were just the twigs and nothing else I probably would have purchased this game. However, I really think you should give the hour free trial a try because it is a fun little game. Happy Gaming.
I Hope There Will Be aTwig 3!!!
I can't say enough great things about my experiences with this game! Since there I'm only the 3rd person to review it, it's clear that not enough people know about the game. I love the contrast between the peaceful music and the excitement of the game... particularly at each new level. I really love the challenge of this game. I thoroughly enjoy all of the scenes and settings, and the challenging twists I encounter as the game progresseses. When I first saw the game on the site, I nearly overlooked it because "What", I thought, "could be so exciting about twigs!" Well, desiring something new and different, I cast all assumptions about the game aside and gave it a try. WOW, was I ever delightedly amazed! After 6 or so weeks of playing the game, I'm amazed at how I fall more and more in love with it each time I play it. I can't imagine ever growing bored of Twig 2.... And as much as I enjoy my adventure games, I occasionally desire something fun and different. This is a great "wind down" game... Great when I just want to chill out and challenge myself in a relaxing way... It's also been great playing it when I need a little break from my studies and menial housework. Some need their chocolate, others their icecream, but Twig is the treat for me! Last Word: I hope the game gets promoted more so that more people can enjoy it... but also, I want the game's developers to launch a Twig 3!
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Hi all, it's coming up to that time of year again, May 12 th is international ME awareness Day and for the last 3 years we have joined in Invest in MEs walk to help raise money for research. Still not enough is known about this debilitating illness and my daughter Katie is now in her 6th year living with ME/CFS. For those who don't know Katie's story here it is. During the summer of 2012 when Katie was 11 she suffered with an increasing amount of stomach pain, headaches and fatigue, by the time she started year 7 just after her 12th birthday she was struggling to stay in school for a full day and had to stop her many sporting activities including dancing, which she had done competitively since she was 5. After many trips to the doctor she was referred to a pediatrician at James Cooks Hospital and after tests to rule out anything else she was diagnosed with ME/CFS myalgia Encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome on the 21st December 2012. We were told to take her out of school completely and rest for 6 months then slowly introduce her back into education. During this time she spent all her time either in bed or on the sofa under a blanket. She didn't have the energy to do anything at all and only saw 1 friend once a week for 15 minutes which was a struggle for her. Katie could no longer read her books which she previously loved as it gave her bad headaches and she couldn't concentrate because of brain fog. Along with the chronic fatigue she had constant stomach pain, mouth ulcers, sore throats, insomnia, aching limbs, loss of appetite, itchy skin, poor temperature control and sensory overload. She slowly started school again in the summer 2013 just for a couple of hours 3 days a week but was soon out of education again. At one point she had no education what so ever for 8 months. She lost her friends and the isolated life she had to lead and the normal teenage life she missed out on caused her to then be diagnosed with social anxiety and depression. Reluctantly she agreed to getting a wheelchair so she could get out of the house for a short while. She had to drop a lot of GCSES but manage to sit 4 subjects with only 3 hours a week home tuition and a lot of working on her own at home. Katie achieved good grades and then went to college on a reduced timetable, taking an extra year to gain her A levels. College has been a struggle for her and she has had to take lots of days off to get through it but she is now in her final year and has successfully applied to 5 universities. Her exams in may and June will be difficult for her sit through and she is planning to take a gap year to work on her health before starting the next phase of her education. At only 18 Katie has had to live with immense pain which sometimes has left her unable to move or being sick and has missed out on so much of her childhood. She has improved and we're hoping she will continue to improve but it is likely that without more research and a cure that she will have to manage this illness for the rest of her life.
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ing highways (corvées) fell upon the peasantry, who used them the least.
We shall add to this melancholy catalogue some facts' collected from an official report published in 1816, on the comparative state of the Paris Hospitals now and in former times. The Hotel Dicu, the oldest, probably, in Europe, existed as early as the seventh century, and was distinguished by the almost incredible vices of its administration. It appears that formerly the tenants of this horrid abode were often four in a bed, sometimes six, the allowance of room for each being only eight or nine inches; and there have been instances of one or two more being lodged over the tester of the bed! The places of those who died were instantly filled with new victims ;-the clothes of those brought in were thrown together into a com·mon store-room, to be returned to those who survived, loaded with the combined effluvia of the mass of dirt and corruption! The mortality, although vast, seems to have been less than might have been expected, (2 out of 9 yearly); but this is explained by the practice of receiving into the hospital many poor in good health, and who, therefore, did not die. A great fire, which happened about the year 1770, cleansed the Augean stable, and it never was so bad afterwards; but the great improvement did not take place till within fifteen or twenty years. The sick are now placed single in a bed; the space of air allowed for each is equal to 10 or 12 cubic toises of 6 feet, instead of 1} or 2 they had formerly; the average mortality of all the hospitals is now 2 out of 15, including lying-in women, whose mortality is 1 out of 24, instead of 1 out of 14 as it was formerly.
With all this, France had never been in so fair a way to see the defects of its old institutions corrected, and civil liberty introduced with success, as it was just before the Revolution.-A reform of criminal jurisprudence had begun; torture was abolished; the administration of prisons and hospitals was greatly improved; provincial administrations, the most beneficial, perhaps, of any improvement in its consequences, had been tried ; servage of all kinds, and the corvées, were at an end; several of the grievances of the Protestants had been removed, and the exercise of their religion allowed. The scandalous fortunes made by favourite Ministers in former reigns, were unknown under Louis XVI., and the general aspect of the country was that of a progress both towards happiness and freedom: But the restless impatience of reformers could brook no delay. A cure without their specific, and otherwise than by their hands, was no cure to them; and they found associates in a vicious court,
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where men of the first rank took a pride in the designation of roués, (meaning, literally, felons on the wheel). Society was infected throughout with this profligacy, disguised under the shallow and crude philosophy of the day. Those generalizations admit, of course, of very many exceptions—but that such were the great outlines appears undoubted :—We need, indeed, no other proof than the peculiar atrocity and extravagance of the revolution that ensued ;--for the people, in all civil commotions, show themselves the more ferocious in proportion as they are less enlightened and more enslaved.
It would have required an abler and firmer hand than that of Louis XVI. to guide the helm in such a tempest. « Il est af• freux de penser, M. Mounier says, qu'avec une ame moins bien
faisante, un autre prince eut peut-être trouvé le moyen de main! tenir son pouvoir !' This is not improbable, and it is a melancholy and humiliating consideration: Yet we think a greater share of sincerity, or at least of consistency and perseverance, without less goodness and virtue, might have extricated him more effectually from his difficulties, and with far greater glory. Profoundly corrupt as the French people were at that period, they were even then, as they are now, and have always been, peculiarly susceptible of a sudden impulse of generosity, and apt to be carried away by any great and magnanimous example: The measure of assembling the States-General in 1789, without arranging previously the mode of voting of the three orders of the State, and bringing inveterate enemies face to face, with arms in their hands, by way of settling their differences, was in the highest degree imprudent and unwise ; yet, even after this mistake and its immediate consequences, if the monarch had boldly and frankly come forward in the National Assembly, big as it was with the elements of mischief, with nearly such a charter in his hand as his brother did five-andtwenty years after-if he had proposed nearly such bases as those of our government, the extreme popularity of the measure would have given him an ascendancy equal to the occasion, not only over the great mass of the people, but over the Nobility themselves, who must have seen the necessity of submitting to an exchange of their frivolous honours and privileges, which were lost at any rate, for any purpose of constitutional influence or legislative power; as they submitted without a murmur, under Bonaparte, to the same sacrifices without any compensation. The monarch, thus armed, as he would have been, with the irresistible will of millions, would have found himself all at once stronger than the strongest of his royal an
cestor's :-stronger even than the conqueror who' afterwards u. surped his throne.
Hume shows that the elements of our constitution existed in France formerly, and were imported thence into England: This piece of history was urged with great force by the Comte de Lauraguais before the opening of the Etats Generaur, and since by M. Lally de Tollendal, and by Mr Montlausier as an argument ad hominem against the charge of innovation. But what are precedents under circumstances wholly dissimilar, and at a distance of seven centuries? The true reason for adopting or reviving such a government was, that with it the King might still reign--without it he could not. But the nobles and clergy, although willing to relinquish pecuniary privileges, made a desperate stand for the right of voting par ordre, or, in other words, of deciding all questions two to one against the people. The committee (brireau) in which Monsieur, now Louis XVIII., presided, had been alone in the Assembly of the Notables for the double representation of the Tiers Etat, making it equal to the two others.
Nothing can show more strongly the advantage of governing with public opinion, legally represented in a legislative assembly, ihan the well known fact, that when Necker declared in 1781, that there was a yearly deficiency of ten millions in the revenue, which his successor soon after stated at eighty, neither of them could find any remedy, but in a surrender at discretion of the old absolute monarchy: and yet the new representative monarchy raised lately on its credit, and at a moment's warning, a capital more than equal to this great deficiency; and this it was enabled to do during an invasion,-just after one great revolution in the government, and with some apprehensions of another, simply because the state of the finances had been laid open to public inspection, and it was known that their administration would in future be the annual object of Parliamentary inquiry. Taxes, far heavier than were formerly deemed insupportable, had been paid without difficulty. Bonaparte has the merit of this discovery: But the capacity of credit rea mained unknown; and nothing ever appeared so inexplicable to him as the resources of our own budget.
The nobles, against whom the Revolution was principally directed, fled without an attempt to defend themselves, ---abandon-. ing at once their station, property, privileges and country, which a timely compromise on moderate terms might have saved. Their greatest enemies were among the middling classes ; for the labouring multitude took no active part in the Revolution, till the divisions between the great and the small proprietors, the no
blesse and the tiers etat, had made an opening for them to in. vade at once property, liberty and life, and lay society prostrate at their feet.Le pouvoir democratique, says the author of the • Considerations, resté seul maître du champ de bataille, s'acharna • adec fureur sur le cadavre des vaincus, et dispersa, si l'on peut • s'exprimer ainsi, jusqu'à leurs cendres !' Their animosity, however, was always directed much more against the privileges of the Nobles than the prerogatives of the King: and they shed the blood of Louis XVI. far more out of hatred to the aristocracy that deserted him, than to the royalty which he adorned.
A period of anarchy followed, under the Directory, during which a double opposition, the one Terrorist, the other Royalist, distracted the country with their alternate successes and defeats. The author before us compares the situation of France at that period to that of Rome under the Triumvirs. But the French Directors were neither Marius nor Sylla, neither Pompey nor Crassus:--The heterogeneous institutions over which they presided had no roots in the soil, and were overthrown with ease by the strong hand of a soldier, then hailed as a deliverer. When Bonaparte came to power he found all ranks of people confounded together ;a promiscuous multitude, frightened, ruined, and bleedingm-weary of the name of liberty, anxious to be rescued from impending anarchy and jacobinism, but still alive to military glory; no man was so well able as himself to give them what they most desired, and preserve them from what they most dreaded : In his hands the army soon became the sole aristocracy in France.
Fifteen years of military glory seemed to have eradicated from the minds of this volatile people all idea of civil liberty. Scarcely an individual of the rising generation had heard the name; factions were unknown under Bonaparte: But the spell of his power was no sooner broken, than the Utopian theories of 1789 were revived, together with the opposite principles of the old monarchy. The Voltigeurs de l'Assemblée Nationale and the Voltigeurs de Louis Quatorze, * came out at the very same time from their respective hiding-places, and met together in the presence-chamber of Louis XVIII.; while the discomfited party of the gloire militaire was ready to side with whoever should hold out the best hopes of preferment in the way of their trade,
* Sharp-shooters of Louis XIV.'s time. A current joke, not particularly liberal nor humane perhaps on the old royalists, who showed themselves at court soon after the Restoration :-alluding to their antiquated dress and infirm figure.
But the old regime received them with coldness and disdain ; the wives of the marshals were slighted at court; the army was reorganized in a manner which left no hopes of advancement to an immense mass of young officers reduced to half-pay; in short, most of the military party, or Bonapartists, inlisted irrevocably under the banners of the Liberals,—whose constitutional opinions furnished them with artillery against the common enemy.
Up to this time, ancient institutions all over Europe were giving way gently and silently; but the sudden restoration of many old governments suggested the possibility of making a successful stand. The friends of these ancient institutions assumed courage, and renewed the combat.- l'Europe,' says Mr de Pradt, « est dans la position où se trouva le monde payen, à l'apparition du christianisme. Avant de déménager, le vieil Olympe defendit ses autels tant qu'il put ... Jupiter tonna avec ce qui lui restait de foudres ; vain fracas; après trois cents ans de combats, il fallut ceder la place, et de tout ce cortége de divinités fantastiques ; il ne reste rien que dans Homere et dans Virgile, que dans les arts et les constellations. De même à l'époque de la réformation, une lutte de cent ans fit disparaître l'ancien régime religieux, de tout l'espace qu'atteignit la réformation. Il en est de même aujourd'hui ; le monde subit une nouvelle réformation; ceux qu'elle atteint se debattent contre elle. On ne cede pas ces places pour rien. D'un bout de l'Europe à l'autre, toutes les anciennes prééminences cherchent à se raffermir, et agissent dans un concert forcé et naturel : Carlsbad appuye Paris, et Paris Carlsbad. Il n'en faut savoir mauvais gré à personne, cela est dans la nature des choses.'
It was a natural, but at the same time a very gross and fatal mistake in the party of the court, not unaptly called Ultra royalistes, to suppose that the restoration of the Royal family, to which, so far from contributing, they had been the greatest obstacle, implied the restoration of themselves. Completely the dupes of their feelings, they looked upon charters and representative governments as mere revolutionary inventions, which might be tolerated for a while, but must evidently be set aside in the end; and they did not doubt but an opportunity would soon occur. They completely spoiled the two restorations. . La restoration de 1814,' says Mr de Pradt, fut une fête Européenne. Tout étoit usé, délustré, on ne sentoit plus que le mal du moment, et il étoit immense. Toutes les esperances avoient été dechues ; toutes se rattachoient au changement. Il portoit avec lui l'idée de la fin de tout cequi blessoit ; les guerres, les violences, les conscriptions, l'interdiction des mers. Malheureusement la contre-revolution n'avoit pas été écartée avec assez de soin. 'And the ci-devant Archbishop


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T In The Park
T in the Park 2016 marred by tragedy: Boss says 'I'm absolutely broken by the death of two teenagers'
THE man brought in to troubleshoot the festival after last year's disaster says the T in the Park medical team fought to save them.
John Dingwall
MELVIN Benn, T in the Park's executive producer, has spoken of being "broken" on hearing of the deaths of two teenagers at T in the Park.
Benn, brought in this year to troubleshoot the festival after last year's traffic and site chaos, received an early morning call as the medical team as T in the Park battled in vain to save the life of one of the teenagers, who had been presented to them by friends.
The other teenager is understood to have already been dead when found.
"It really is devastation. These young people have come to the festival for a great weekend and have died during it. I am absolutely broken by it to be honest.
Melvin Benn, Executive Producer of T in the Park.
"The medical teams responded. One of them was presented to the medics and one of them was found."
One of the teenagers was taken to the hospital by friends and a medical team was called out when the other was found.
Man and woman found dead at T in the Park
Benn said: "The medics responded incredibly quickly. The medical teams we have on site are at least as quantifiable and as good as any of the major cities in the UK.
"The attention to support these young people was incredible and I'm absolutely certain there was nothing more we could have done to save these people or prevent it."
Both teenagers have yet to be named.
One died just after midnight and the other a little after 5am on Friday morning.
Benn said: "It was impossible to save them unfortunately.
"One was brought in by their friends and one was called in by their friends.
"One had been brought into the hospital and one was called in so that the medical teams went out to see them.
"I was notified about one of them effectively prior to the death because the medics were working on one of the patients for quite a long time and the second one I was notified after the death pretty much immediately."
He added: "What is very clear is that there was no disorder and no attack on these young people.
The music has taken second place so far this year.
"There is no allegation of mass drug-taking or dealing within the site. The festival with the exception of this has gone incredibly well and unfortunately these two young people have died.
"There is no suggestion from the authorities that the festival could have done anything more to prevent it or that the festival is negligent in any way.
T in the Park teenager in serious condition after friends say his drink was spiked
"People are suggesting that it is drugs. That can't be confirmed. People are suggesting there are a lot of drugs on the site. That genuinely isn't the case.
"It's been a devastating 18 hours really because until then everything was going very much as we had hoped for.
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"Then these two tragedies have happened, seemingly separate from each other. We are all genuinely broken by it."
Cash machine STOLEN from T in the Park with 'significant amount of cash' gone
Superintendent Suzie Mertes
Superintendent Suzie Mertes, for Police Scotland, said: "We can confirm the tragic circumstances that two teenagers died. It did happen overnight.
"We are keeping an open mind at the moment but one of the lines of enquiry is that the deaths may be drugs related so we take the opportunity to reiterate that there is no safe way to take drugs.
"You don't know what you're taking and we advise people coming to T in the Park to be sensible and be safe."
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Nicola SturgeonNicola Sturgeon to give covid update today as restrictions set to be lifted in ScotlandThe First Minister will address MSPs in the Scottish Parliament about what restrictions can be lifted in the coming weeks as the country moves to living with the virus.
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CoronavirusDuring a 20-minute statement Nicola Sturgeon will announce the latest daily figures which have been improving in the last week.
Boris Johnson 'waved aside' objections and allowed No10 party to go ahead says Dominic Cummings
Boris JohnsonThe former top aide says he and others would swear on oath that officials warned the event was against the rules.


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Sugar Nova "Send Me Higher"
(Artist Bio) | November 1, 2022
Sugar Nova is a dreamy Indie-Electronic Dance Pop collaboration between producer/multi-instrumentalist Luke Miller (from Lotus) and singer/songwriter Rachel Eisenstat (from Raven Jane). The Denver-based duo offers soulful vocals and pop-oriented beats, with arrangements that nod to Indie-Dance, Electro-Pop, Dance/Electronica, Dream Pop, and Chillwave. Sugar Nova doesn't shy away from mining deep lyrical themes while keeping your body moving to the beat.
Halogen is Sugar Nova's debut album, due out in winter, 2023. The collection includes "Send Me Higher" a sexy disco-tinged dancer, "Gospel Hour" a tropical percussion-heavy track, "Tiny Helicopters" a euphoric anthem and "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream, Pt.II" a smokey downtempo-electronic cover of My Morning Jacket.
The sound of the album combines soulful vocals on catchy pop melodies with tasteful electronic production and touches of funky bass, vintage keyboards and live guitar. Hints of Dua Lipa, Kaytranada, Rufus du Sol, and Little Dragon course through the tracks.


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1. Tax bill crunch time: Republican efforts to make drastic changes to the U.S. tax code are center stage in Washington.
It's a full court press: President Trump is expected to meet with congressional leaders, and the House will start debate on its bill.
If successful, the tax overhaul would be the Republicans' first substantial legislative victory under Trump.
The major question for investors is whether the House and Senate Republicans will be able to reconcile their competing versions of the plan without losing votes.
One sign of trouble: Sen. Ron Johnson became the first Republican to formally come out against his party's plan on Wednesday.
2. Markets rebound: Global markets are swinging higher after several days of rough trading.
U.S. stock futures were up and European and Asian markets were higher. Oil prices rebounded to gain 0.3%.
The Dow Jones industrial averageand the S&P 500 closed 0.6% lower on Wednesday. The Nasdaq shed 0.5%.
3. Volkswagen goes electric: Shares in Volkswagen(VLKPY) opened 2% higher in Frankfurt after the automaker announced plans to spend, together with a local partner, $ 12 billion on electric cars in China.
China is Volkswagen's biggest single market. The company delivered 303,800 vehicles in the country in October, an annual increase of 9.2%.
4. Stock market movers:Cisco Systems(CSCO, Tech30) shares were higher in extended trading after the company said it expects revenue to jump after two years of declines.
5. Earnings and economics:Best Buy(BBY), J.M. Smucker(SJM), Viacom(VIAB) and Wal-Mart(WMT) will release their earnings before the open, while Gap(GPS), Haynes Intl(HAYN) and Williams-Sonoma(WSM) will follow after the close.
The Bank of England is holding a forum in Liverpool. Officials will discus the state of the U.K. economy and how the central bank's policies affect Britons.


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APPLICATION

using namespace Permute;

// Reads a part-of-speech alphabet and constructs all simple (POS, POS,
// distance) features.  If the --backoff option is set, includes *ANY* as a POS
// matching any symbol.  The --threshold option determines the maximum distance
// for which a separate feature is included.  Writes the resulting parameter XML
// file to the --output option.
class BuildParameters : public Fsa::Application {
private:
  static Core::ParameterString paramPosAlphabet;
  static Core::ParameterInt paramThreshold;
  static Core::ParameterBool paramBackoff;
  static Core::ParameterString paramOutput;
public:
  BuildParameters () {
    setTitle ("build-parameters");
    setDefaultLoadConfigurationFile (false);
  }

  void distance (ParameterVector & pv, Feature & phi) {
    for (int d = 1; d <= paramThreshold (config); ++ d) {
      phi.setDistance (d);
      phi.setComparison (CompEquals);
      pv.push_back (phi, 0.0);
    }
    phi.setComparison (CompGreaterThan);
    pv.push_back (phi, 0.0);
  }

  void secondPOS (Fsa::ConstAlphabetRef pos, ParameterVector & pv, Feature & phi) {
    for (Fsa::Alphabet::const_iterator p2 = pos -> begin (); p2 != pos -> end (); ++ p2) {
      phi.setSecondPOS (p2);
      distance (pv, phi);
    }
    if (paramBackoff (config)) {
      phi.setSecondPOS (Fsa::Any);
      distance (pv, phi);
    }
  }

  int main (const std::vector <std::string> & args) {
    Fsa::ConstAlphabetRef pos = Fsa::readAlphabet (paramPosAlphabet (config));
    ParameterVector pv;
    pv.setPOS (pos);

    Feature phi;
    for (Fsa::Alphabet::const_iterator p1 = pos -> begin (); p1 != pos -> end (); ++ p1) {
      phi.setFirstPOS (p1);
      secondPOS (pos, pv, phi);
    }
    if (paramBackoff (config)) {
      phi.setFirstPOS (Fsa::Any);
      secondPOS (pos, pv, phi);
    }

    Core::CompressedOutputStream co (paramOutput (config));
    writeXml (pv, co);
    co.close ();

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
  }
} app;

Core::ParameterString BuildParameters::paramPosAlphabet ("pos", "the POS alphabet");
Core::ParameterInt BuildParameters::paramThreshold ("threshold", "the distance threshold", 5, 0);
Core::ParameterBool BuildParameters::paramBackoff ("backoff", "include parameters with *ANY*", false);
Core::ParameterString BuildParameters::paramOutput ("output", "the parameter output file");

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Please view this demo on a desktop.
The pinks could be said to resemble freeborn squirrels.
A surgeon is the glue of a purchase.
Authors often misinterpret the korean as a heavies gemini.
Some servo tips are thought of simply as russias.
To be more specific, the angora is a quilt.


School library media specialist, mother of twin eight year old boys who loves books, the ocean and music.
Loki: age 10, fussy, hard-working perfectionist who keeps his family safe and his twin boys in line.
Lucy: age 6, sassy girl with attitude, fun-loving and plenty of time for snuggles.
Welcome Atlanta, Loki and Lucy!


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Home » Minnesota » Fishing » For some hunters, duck season's end 'fantastic'
For some hunters, duck season's end 'fantastic'
// December 11, 2014
Bemidji, Minn. — On Nov. 10, a cold front whipped through Minnesota, and for most duck hunters, just like that, the season crashed to an early end, nearly a month before its official end. But that didn't deter folks like John Schroers, a board member with the Minnesota Waterfowl Association and avid metro river duck hunter.
"It was a fantastic end to the season," said Schroers, of Shakopee. "The last three weeks were dynamite."
Count Schroers among those who would encourage the DNR to leave well enough alone when it comes to duck hunting and season splits. Other hunters – those without nearby rivers and who saw their hunting opportunities freeze up in November – might say otherwise.
Steve Cordts, DNR waterfowl specialist, said he hopes surveys the department soon will distribute to duck hunters might better bring into focus how they feel about the splits, which ave been around for four years now; in 2011 there were two zones, and the past three years, there have been three. What changed this year, Cordts said, was that in the South Zone, the "closed" portion of the split was extended, to nine days, and effectively creating a "second opener" Oct. 11 in the south.
The rationale, according to Cordts, was that following opening weekend, there's often a "lull" during which early migrants migrate, and other ducks filter into Minnesota. The southern zone also includes southeastern Minnesota, where many river hunters wish to go as late into the season as possible.
But in other parts of the south, and even the Central and North zones, to varying degrees, there was a sense of loss among waterfowlers this year when freeze-up arrived early. Cordts has heard from a few of the disgruntled hunters.
"It's hard to say if it's a lot (of complaints)," he said. "They started back in early in the season (and all came from) southern Minnesota."
An early ice-over occurred last year, too, but the past two falls have come on the heels of years during which cold weather wasn't as much of an issue. But, Cordts said, "This November was one of the coldest we've had."
All that doesn't mean the DNR couldn't choose a new path. However, Cordts said, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rules mean the zones must remain in place for five years, "but that doesn't mean we have to use them," he said, adding that some regulations could be uniform for two or more of the zones.
Cordts also said that while some hunters regret the loss of hunting opportunity later in the season, they likely didn't miss out on the period of greatest harvest. He expects the survey results (it's the first survey since 2011) will go a long way toward determining Minnesota duck hunters' thoughts on the season-split matter.
"If there was angst over the timing of the hunt this year, we should see it in our survey," he said.
Brad Nylin, executive director of the Minnesota Waterfowl Association, said it may not have been a banner waterfowl season, but it was pretty good.
Nylin said his season opener was decent, but that better hunting came his way later, from mid-October until the first week in November, when ringneck and redhead numbers were strong in parts of west-central Minnesota.
From MWA membership, Nylin's heard the gamut of happy to mad regarding the waterfowl season splits. "I'm not sure what the answer is, but the zone itself isn't the issue."
Of note, Nylin said it appears from reports that there may have been fewer Canada geese available for waterfowlers in Minnesota this year.
"I didn't shoot a goose this season, which is unusual," he said, adding that members, too, said opportunities to harvest geese were down.
Some DNR conservation officers in the southeast said duck hunters were taking full advantage of the season, hunting until the South Zone closed Dec. 6. Predictably, those are hunters who want to keep the season split as-is.
"Most people in Winona that I talk to love the split," said CO Tom Hemker.
Over the course of the season, Hemker said, duck hunting was pretty good, if not great.


I have finished the Everyday Shopper for February and it was a much easier go than the Cosmo. The directions still baffled me a little and I ended up putting a pocket on either side of the exterior pieces when I should have one on the inside. I guess I would have if the pocket pieces were both contrasting. Turns out only the outside one contrasts. The inside one should though if it is truly reversible.
Anyways. .. It's done and I've even started working on March's bags. There are 6 in the set and I've completed one. The second has been held up due to a lack of zippers. I hate that I have to make a 45 minute journey to town to get zippers. I'll wait until someone else is going for other supplies and tag along.
In the meantime I made these little guys from One Yard Wonders.
I especially like the Zzz fabric. It is actually called Goodnight Monday by Erin Michael for moda fabrics. I embroidered the eyes and nose so they would be baby safe. I love how kooky they look.


Archive of Indian Music (AIM) is a collection or more appropriate "repository" of the gramophone recordings of India, launched on May 10th 2013. AIM is the brain-child of Vikram Sampath, the Founder, author of 3 books, Splendours of Royal Mysore,' 'My name is Gauhar Jaan' and 'Voice of the Veena: S Balachander', which I am yet to read, Chief Patron: T. V. Mohandas Pai and the co-founders: Sampath Srinivasan and H.N. Nagamani.
The website has a friendly interface with a huge search tool based on artist or songs. You can have a look at the list of artists arranged alphabetically.
I searched for Sri "Chowdaiah" the renowned Violinist maestro in Carnatic music from Karnataka.
The search results are displayed with the name of the artist with the photograph, biography and the set of songs, that are embedded using soundcloud.
Search result displaying Md Rafi.
I am happy to see this initiative which has an excellent collections of the untold musicians of all the genres in India, which cannot be found in the music stores always. AIM is a bliss to the music lovers who like to listen to old songs or Carnatic or Hindustani recordings, at a single click.
You can also help the organisation by donating old gramophone records or contribute monetarily.


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Terry Teachout
Visit the author's website at www.terryteachout.com.
Terry Teachout is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal, the culture critic of Commentary, and the author of "Sightings," a biweekly column for the Saturday Wall Street Journal about the arts in America. He also writes about the arts on his popular web site, "About Last Night". He is a member of the National Council on the Arts and the author of the libretto of "The Letter," an opera by Paul Moravec that premiered at the Santa Fe Opera in July of 2009. He was previously an editor of Harper's Magazine, an editorial writer for the New York Daily News and the News' classical music and dance critic. His play "Satchmo at the Waldorf" opened in New York on March 4, 2014 at the Westside Theatre and met with great acclaim, closing June 29 after 18 previews and 136 performances. He won a 2014 Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation for distinguished contributions to American institutions.
ALL IN THE DANCES: A Brief Life of George Balanchine (Harcourt, 2004)
BEYOND THE BOOM: New Voices on American Life, Culture, and Politics (Poseidon Press, 1990)
CITY LIMITS: Memories of a Small-Town Boy (Poseidon Press, 1991)
DUKE: A Life of Duke Ellington (Gotham Books, 2013)
GHOSTS ON THE ROOF: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers (Regnery, 1989)
POPS: A Life of Louis Armstrong (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009)
A SECOND MENCKEN CHRESTOMATHY: A New Selection from the Writings of America's Legendary Editor, Critic, and Wit (Knopf, 1995)
THE SKEPTIC: A Life of H. L. Mencken (HarperCollins, 2002)
A TERRY TEACHOUT READER (Yale University Press, 2004)


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A car slowed down to look at me while I was taking these pics this morning ... my first awkward picture-taking moment! In case you didn't know, I take all my own photos using a tripod and the camera's self-timer, so it looks even more strange than if there were someone else with me being the photographer. Anyways, I really love this outfit. The skirt is not too high-waisted, and is only elasticized in the back (I find a full elastic waist can be unflattering and/or too restricting). It has a short lining, and pockets! And who doesn't love stripes? I mean, come on!
Great skirt! I agree on the elasticity part. & Pockets are always a win!


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Two arrested over Buvuma pastor's murder
New Saccos will be a waste of money
Thursday August 15 2019
President Museveni promised funding to Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations (Saccos) that are talent/sector-specific under the poverty eradication scheme
The issue: New Saccos
Our view: Government should be looking at funding key national programmes instead of wasting money on quasi poverty schemes.
The President has promised funding to Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations (Saccos) that are talent/sector-specific under the poverty eradication scheme.
He said these may be better than the previous and existing ones that were numerous and not covering specific geographical areas.
The new Saccos will comprise carpenters, boda-boda riders, welders, market vendors, youth leaders, produce dealers, mechanics, tailors, fishermen and artistes, and artists, etc.
But before asking people to form new Saccos to fight poverty, the President should first find out why the previous or current ones have failed to reduce poverty despite huge sums of money that have been sunk into them.
The new Saccos will only serve to escalate wastage of taxpayers' money. Previous and existing anti-poverty programmes have failed for the same reason. For instance the mechanics, carpenters, welders, etc, who are to be funded under the new Saccos have no registered associations.
They operate as individuals. So they will only come together and form loose groups for purposes of getting the money. Once they receive it, they will share it and dissolve the groups.
Besides, there is no money in the Budget to provide for the Saccos and the Ministry of Finance has no clue about the programme but merely said they will wait for "guidance" on the matter.
State House said the money will be found for the Saccos. This means the Saccos are not planned for by government and suggests Finance ministry will have to cut budgets of other sectors to raise the money. There is no established eligibility criteria for the Sacco membership or a framework to ensure accountability.
It is the reason hundreds of billions of money have been sunk into numerous previous and current anti-poverty schemes without much positive outcomes on poverty reduction to justify the huge funding.
The Youth Livelihood Fund programme was announced in similar manner and funded haphazardly and the results have been disastrous. Youth formed groups to get money and as soon as money reached their accounts, they shared it and closed shop. They can't be traced to date.
The government has failed to get money to fund the retroviral treatment for thousands of people living with HIV/Aids and donors who have been the financiers have announced intention to withdraw their support by next year.
The National HIV/Aids Trust Fund, which was created to provide the funding after donor withdrawal, has not been operationalised due to lack of money. Upgrading of Mulago Hospital has stalled due to lack of money and the health sector is appalling.
Government should be looking at funding such key national programmes instead of wasting money on quasi poverty schemes that never reduce poverty.
Noer Nabende, a pastor at Jesus of Grace church in Kitamiro village Buvuma District, reportedly
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The World's Youngest Yoga Teacher?
At age six, most kids are taught by some kind of teacher. But in an unusual role reversal, an Indian six-year old IS a teacher. A yoga teacher, that is. The Daily Mail calls Shruti Pandey the world's youngest yoga teacher:...
January 3, 2011 YJ Editors
At age six, most kids are taught by some kind of teacher. But in an unusual role reversal, an Indian six-year old IS a teacher. A yoga teacher, that is. The Daily Mail calls Shruti Pandey the world's youngest yoga teacher: she's been teaching since the tender age of four. Today, groups of 30 adults–businesspeople, teachers, and housewives–flock to her 5:30 am classes at the Swami Brahmachand Saraswati Kaivalya Dham Ashram in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh in India, to soak in some of her youthful wisdom.
"It feels good when people follow my instructions," she told the paper. "I got interested in yoga after seeing my brother doing it. I tried picking it up myself, but it was too hard. So I asked my parents to send me to yoga classes."
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I'm assuming that the Kitten post that was requested was a request to know more about the two little Kittens that we have here with us, rather than a general post about Kittens, but who knows!
Since the Kittens arrived, things have moved along fast. I think the disappointment over the death of Strawberry, Panda and Moses Junior was exacerbated by it being our first time of having a pregnant Queen and not really knowing what we were doing or what we were expecting Peach to do. Having spoken with people online, in Cat forums and the like, we did exactly what we were supposed to do and the three Kittens dying wasn't anything that we could have prevented but was more than likely due to Peach being quite small and giving birth to five kittens in her first litter meaning that the three Kittens that died were smaller than they could have been and of course weaker.
If we were to have Kittens again, we would be much more prepared and hopefully so would Peach.
Mario Junior and Harry are still tiny jellybeans of doom sorry fluff. Peach will occasionally come and drop one of them off with me or will meow a fair bit before she disappears off into the garden. I think that she is expecting me to be her babysitter... not that I'm complaining!
The Kittens are being great, they are growing each day, but then again if I spent most of my day sleeping or suckling I think I would be growing at the same rate too!
Each night when we check their weight we find that they are putting on a few grams each day and both now are over 300g. It's becoming a little bit of a joke between Daddy, the children and I as one day Mario will be the bigger Kitten an the next day Harry will be the bigger Kitten and we keep trying to guess which Kitten will be the bigger.
The Kittens are starting to find their feet. It's very cute watching them start to learn how to push themselves along, instead of the kind of clawing drag that we got used to in the first couple of weeks of their lives.
The Kittens already like to play with each other, they chase each other round the bed they tend to spend most of their life in and bat each others paws away. They are quite cute together but I have no worries about them being happy if they go to separate homes when they are old enough to move out.
The Kittens spend a huge amount of time cleaning each other, they've learnt from their Mummy and they're trying very hard to copy her, practising on each other and I'm sure the biting that appears to be going on is actually just them trying to clean each other... at least I hope it is and that they aren't just trying to eat each other!
So, that's how the Kittens are doing! I'll update more in the next few weeks before they go their forever homes I promise!


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Help? Why does my body fat keep going up?
Can I ignore hunger signals on a cut?
Effect of too great calorie deficit?
Bulking/bellyfat question. come in here *video* .reps.
What do you do to make cardio fun?
Has Anyone Here had lost over 15% of Body Fat?
Fat Loss, read a lot of theory about it.. still not sure.
New guy here want some pros to give me some advice please.
Getting bigger while eating the same!
quick help with routine and supplementing.
Am i Eating not enough ?
Still Skinny Fat... Losing energy & will power!
ON Natural Whey on Keto?
How to burn chest fat?
How To Go From Skinny Fat To Skinny Ripped?
One moob bigger than the other?
Which way to go (Pic) Cut or Gain ?
Cycling Carbs, Good way to Cut?
Having trouble cutting more body fat!
Will walking build endurance for jogging?
Lifting weights to lose weight a lie?
Can I Lose 90 pounds by May 1st?
Food intake and strength in the gym?
why cant i do it?
Why human body gives up when it cannot handle the stress ?
Resistance Bands, Machines or Free Weights???
CLA has anyone Tried it???
What do I do when I feel like eating a 1/2 gallon of ice cream?
Cut diet with E/C stack....Hows it look?
1700cals / day with the AllPro routine...thoughts?
can you tell me my body fat % ?
Am I taking in too many calories?
Can anyone correct my cutting diet?
Advice/Opinions on my plan (skinny fat guy) ?
Need a DB training routine.. Help!
Would I be fine bulking up now?
So is it WEIGHTS then CARDIO or vice-versa?
creatine water weight? and workout schedule?
cardio on an empty stomach, and after weights is optimal for fat buring = broscience?
Fat loss gym routine and diet help?
Losing Fat, Maltodextrine, Cardio ?
Not sure if I'm lifting enough.
what is a good online body fat calculator?
Decreasing Body Fat % From 15 to 8~10?
Final Word on Latenight Eating?
HELP! My cheatday got way out of control!
Getting in shape by spring break.
is Ham bad on a cut?
What does ( P90X ) mean ??
Going shopping today, what do I buy?
MY personal challenge for myself!
People who go for work, what you carry for your lunch or you have for lunch ?
Who needs whey protein ?
does drinking alot of water cause fat loss?
HELP! On my ideal weight but still kinda fat.
Skip a day because of my cheat day?
Why is getting back on track so hard?
Waste of time to start lifting while cutting?
Can I still drink beer?
Separate Workout and Cardio days?
how much could i potentially lose doing the following?
Was starting to loose weight, then it went up.
Going on a cut - HELP WITH WEIGHTS PLEASE!
good way to lose pounds for prom?
Starting cut tomorrow till june/july. Please drop in as many tips which worked for u.
STRONG CUT (NO CARDIO) -1 month bulk/cut. BF% estimate would be nice.
How does smoking affect fat loss?
Help me lose weight! Im about to give up!
Do you weigh/measure your food while on a cut?
Weekend damage seems more severe than it should be.
Who has had success w/a reduced volume + same intensity routine in a cut?
ending my bulking diet and starting to cut. what should i do?
if you're around 18%BF, how much cardio after weights?
Loosing belly fat, while gaining muscle, and what supplements to take??
Will this diet work for me?
Questions about cutting soon. 4k reps and whatnot.
Is the weight on your scale remaining the same or going up?
Rate of loss, and maintaining my losses/gains?
Advice needed for measly reps please.
My body is rejecting a healthy diet.


Samsung and Babylon Introduce 'Ask an Expert, powered by Babylon' to Offer Live Video Doctor Appointments and Symptom Checker – Samsung Newsroom U.K.
London, UK – 31 May 2018 – Samsung has partnered with digital healthcare provider Babylon to launch 'Ask an Expert, powered by Babylon', a pioneering system that allows users to check symptoms and book live video doctor appointments. The Babylon service will be made available within the Samsung Health app on compatible Samsung Galaxy mobile devices.
Living a busy life can be time-consuming and checking up on health and well-being can often be at the bottom of the priority list. For those with hectic schedules who don't have time to visit the local doctor, 'Ask an Expert, powered by Babylon' offers the perfect solution.
By incorporating Babylon's artificial intelligence (AI) service within the Samsung Health app, users can book video appointments with certified doctors 24/7 to obtain medical advice, manage and order prescriptions online. The service will make checking up on health seamlessly integrated into everyday life, whether at work, home or even on holiday.
Users can also check their symptoms and receive high-quality triage information about physical health, common ailments and symptoms straight to their device.
The system draws on 500 million streams of knowledge to provide near-instant health information, meaning 'Ask an Expert, powered by Babylon' offers a readily-available source of advice at your fingertips.
'Ask an Expert, powered by Babylon' will be available within the Samsung Health app for users in the UK from 31st May 2018.
Full membership with access to unlimited appointments with Babylon doctors will cost just £50/€50 per year, on an annual subscription basis, or £25/€25 for a one-off appointment.
Babylon's mission is to put an accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person on earth. Babylon uses a combination of cutting-edge technology and the best available medical expertise to deliver 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week access to digital health tools (including health assessment, triage and medical information tools), to people across Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, as well as video doctor consultations.


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Due to the difference of up to 45° between the slope and the dam profile circular wells with depths up to 55 m were planned for the slope stabilisation.
The wells are located at intervals of 10 m at the core of the landslides and up to 20 m at the edge region.
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This is a city of sleepwalkers.
Those are the sounds that pull you out of bed.
These are the hands that rock the world to sleep.
There's nothing to be afraid of in a dream.
There's so much to be afraid of in my dreams.
This is not the city.
I love what your doing here!
I don't even understand. You should be famous.
the dreams are never what i fear.
Why be afraid of what we cannot control? Just roll with the punches and dream on. It's all we can do.
The same city that holds their vile mind, hold your brilliant one. Wake up my muse, and live.
Beeteedubs, you really should be famous.
It says in a book I'm reading about the brain : "The emotion of fear occurs more commonly in dreams than in the waking state."


According to a recent study, 6.5% of all children in the United States experience some degree of disability or long-term reduction in ability to participate in social role activities (Newacheck & Halfon, 1998). Simeonsson et.al (2003) describes the functionality of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (WHO, 2001) model in describing the varied nature of childhood disability. However, they also identify potential problems of the ICF with assessing concepts of function within a developmental context. The new ICF represents an important step forward in understanding the relationship between disability, function, and health for children but it is not a complete model.
There is a need for standards that measure outcomes of occupational therapy intervention. Occupation-based and client-centered types of studies are important for creating an evidence-base for our clinical practice (Foto, 1996). "The outcome of therapy, then, transcends the attainment of a certain level of independence in personal and household activities of daily living. Outcome is measured by the quality of life that a patient is able to live as a result of having achieved a certain level of independence" (Foto, 1996).
The Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment (CAPE) and the Preferences for Activities of Children (PAC) are assessment tools designed to document the everyday participation and preferences of children for activities outside of school performance (King, et.al, 2004). Since the publication of the ICF there is increased interest among researchers in describing the functional condition of people who have disabilities. Where previous systems published by World Health Organization were designed to document diseases and conditions, the ICF is designed to document function. The CAPE and PAC were developed in context of this renewed interest in function, and they specifically document the functional performance of children in daily activities outside of school.
Play, social, and recreational participation are major domains of concern within occupational therapy. The concept of purposeful engagement within these domains is at the absolute core of occupational therapy practice and is reflected in the earliest writings about the profession's philosophy (Meyer, 1922). Florey (1996, p. 425) states that "occupational therapy must value what it does." "Do(ing) the ordinary things with conviction of their value" (p. 425) should be carried out in celebration of our rich heritage that was provided by Meyer and the early founders of the occupational therapy profession. In doing so, occupational therapy may achieve its magnificent purpose as described by Reilly (1985, p. 104).
Reilly believed that studying playful interactions was critical for human development, and that play had to have its own "explanatory framework" and "theoretical identity" (Reilly, p. 115, 1974). Brazelton and Greenspan argue that children require developmentally appropriate everyday experiences in order to sustain development over time (p. 115, 2000). Wilcock proposed that humans have an occupational nature, and that through occupation the species is able to promote its own health and survival (1998, pp. 36-37). All of these authors build on concepts expressed by the original occupational therapy theorists. They provide a compelling argument that consideration of normal everyday experiences merits serious study and should serve as a focus of assessment and intervention.
The relationship between childhood disabilities and impaired patterns of participation has been extensively studied and described in the occupational therapy literature. Segal (2000) describes divergent methods of temporal adaptation that are employed by mothers of children who have attention deficit disorder. The contextual reality of having a child with a disability sometimes dictated the temporal strategy used by the parent. Mothers enfolded and unfolded occupations dependent on the available socioeconomic capital available to them at any given time. Similarly, Mosey (2004) describes subtle but important differences in mothering patterns between children who have cystic fibrosis and children who have attention deficit disorder. The mothers of children who have attention deficit disorder spent an inordinate amount of time having to mediate the daily activities of their children and they had a difficult time making this mediation 'routine' because of the unpredictable nature of attention deficit disorder.
Poulsen and Ziviani (2004) state that children who have developmental coordination disorders are less physically active and have significantly different patterns of social and physical play than their well-coordinated peers. Okimoto, Bundy, and Hanzlik (2003) described how children with cerebral palsy and developmental delays were found to score significantly lower on a test of playfulness than typically developing peers.
Other researchers found that when children who have disabilities are paired with children who have typical play skills, the play skills of the child who has disabilities tends to improve (Tanta, Deitz, White, & Billingsley, 2005).
Missiuna and Pollock (1996) describe the powerful influence of contextual factors on the limitation of development of play skills. Caregiver values and habits, child factors, physical barriers, and social barriers may all have a negative impact on a child's ability to develop exploratory and competency-driven play behavior. Therapist appreciation of these factors may lead to assessment and intervention strategies that can mediate the negative effects of these contextual factors. Reed, Dunbar, and Bundy (2000) described the contextual factors that could influence the development of playfulness in children who have autism and their typically developing peers in different preschool settings. Desha, Ziviani, & Rodger (2003) reported that the inclusion of preferred play objects in a clinical environment increased intrinsic motivation to play for children who have autistic spectrum disorders, and thereby could enhance assessment and intervention.
Killegrew (2000) identifies that a child's skills or abilities may not necessarily dictate the development of everyday routines within a family. Rather, broader ecocultural and contextual factors including perceived time availability, child-rearing strategies, and socioeconomic capital were more likely to dictate routines.
Many informal or observation-based assessments are used by occupational therapists to assess the participation skills of children. The Play History (Takata, 1974) was designed as a method to obtain information about a child's historical and current play participation. The Play Scale and the Preschool Play Scale (Knox, 1974; Knox, 1997) provides a perspective on a child's play skill development. The Transdisciplinary Play-based Assessment (Lindner, 1993) is an informal scale that allows for observation of cognition, social-emotional, communication and language, and sensorimotor skills. Bundy's Test of Playfulness (1997) is another informal and observational framework for assessing elements of playful participation of children.
Haley, et.al (1994) developed the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI), which is a functional assessment that is typically used in pediatric rehabilitation. The PEDI measures both capability and performance of self-care, mobility, and social functioning. The WeeFIM (Msall, et.al, 1994) is a similar assessment that measures the amount of assistance a child needs to perform daily tasks.
Coster (1997) reiterates the importance of a 'top-down' methodology for assessment and intervention but identifies that there are too few standardized assessments that incorporate this model. The School Function Assessment is offered as an assessment tool that measures contextually-relevant occupational performance of elementary school aged children. She suggests that the traditional assessment tools used by pediatric occupational therapists are focused on individual performance components and therefore do not measure contextually relevant and meaningful skills; rather, the application of these skills to actual occupation must be inferred.
The CAPE and PAC are new instruments that have not been studied extensively. The CAPE provides data on overall participation in activities. The CAPE also provides a specific breakdown of participation in formal and informal activities and participation in recreational, physical, social, skill-based, and self-improvement activities. CAPE scores provide information about the diversity and intensity of participation, who else participated in the activity, where the activities take place, as well as children's reported level of enjoyment of the activities. The PAC provides data on children's relative preference for participating in various activities.
After a comprehensive literature review only one study was located that focused specifically on the use of this assessment. Law, et.al (2004) administered the CAPE to 427 children who had some degree of physical disability. They found that diagnosis was not an influential factor, but that gender, age, and level of functioning were explanatory factors for levels of participation as measured by the CAPE. This study underscores the importance of measuring participation and functional capability, and also underscores the limited utility of diagnostic information in understanding children's participation in non-school activities.
Occupational therapists have studied and documented the relationships between disability and function in children. There is a general concensus in the profession that functional participation in everyday activities is within the domain of concern of occupational therapy. Despite this concensus, the profession's assessment tools have been based on medical and disability models. Newer models like the ICF that focus on function and participation have influenced development of occupational therapy assessment tools. The CAPE/PAC represents a new model in occupational therapy assessment. Occupational therapists should continue to refine and develop participation-based assessments that will more completely describe patient function.
Brazelton, T.B. & Greenspan, S.I. (2000). The irreducible needs of children: What every child must have to grow, learn, and flourish. Cambridge: Perseus Publishing.
Bundy, A.C. (1997). Play and playfulness: What to look for. In L.D. Parham & L.S. Fazio (Eds.), Play in Occupational Therapy for Children (pp. 52-66). St. Louis: Mosby.
Coster, W. (1997). Occupation-Centered Assessment of Children. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 52, 337-344.
Cronin, A.F. (2004) Mothering a child with hidden impairments. American Journal of Occupational Therapy. 58 (1): 83-92.
Florey, L. (1996). Valuing the Ordinary in Zemke, R. & Clark, F. (Eds.). Occupational Science: The Evolving Discipline. (pp 425-429), Philadelphia: F.A. Davis.
Foto, M. (1996). Outcome Studies: The What, Why, How, and When. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 50, 87-88.
Haley, S., Coster, W. J., Ludlow, I. H., Haltiwanger, J. T., & Andrellas, P. (1992). Pediatric evaluation of disability inventory. Boston: PEDI Research Group, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, New England Medical Center Hospital.
King, G., Law, M., King, S., Rosenbaum, P., Kertoy, M., & Young, N. (2003). A conceptual model of the factors affecting the recreation and leisure participation of children with disabilities. Physical & Occupational therapy in Pediatrics, 23(1), 63-90.
Knox, S. (1974). A play scale. In Reilly, M. (Ed). Play as Exploratory Learning (pp. 247-266). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
Knox, S. (1997). Development and current use of the Knox Preschool Play Scale. In L. D. Parham & L. S. Fazio (Eds.). Play in occupational therapy for children (pp. 35-51). St. Louis: C.V. Mosby.
Law, M., Finkelman, S., Hurley, P., Rosenbaum, P., King, S., King, G., & Hanna, S. (2004). Participation of children with physical disabilities: Relationships with diagnosis, physical function, and demographic variables. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 11(4), 156-162.
Missiuna, C. & Pollock, N. (1996). Play deprivation in children with physical disabilities: The role of the occupational therapist in preventing secondary disability. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 45, 882-888.
Msall, M.E., DiGaudio, K., Rogers, B.T., LaForest, S, Catanzaro, N.L., Cambell, J., Wilczenski, F., and Duffy, L.C. (1994). Functional Independence Measure for Children (Wee-FIM). Conceptual basis and pilot use in children with developmental disabilities. Clinical Pediatrics, 33, 421–430.
Newacheck, P. & Halfon, N. (1998). Prevalence and impact of disabling chronic conditions in childhood. American Journal of Public Health, 88(4), 610-7.
Okimoto, A., Bundy, A. & Hanzlik, J. (2003). Playfulness in children with and without disability. In C. Royeen (Ed.), A compendium of leading scholarship: Pediatric issues in occupational therapy (pp. 254-267). Bethesda , MD : AOTA Press.
Poulsen, A. A. and Ziviani, J. M. (2004). Can I play too? Physical activity engagement patterns of children with developmental coordination disorders. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 71(2), 100-107.
Reed, C.N., Dunbar, S.B., & Bundy, A.C. (2000). The effects of an inclusive preschool experience on the playfulness of children with and without autism. Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 19, 73-89.
Reilly, M. (1974). Play as exploratory learning: Studies of curiosity behavior. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
Tanta, K., Deitz, J., White, O., & Billingsley, F. (2005). The effect of peer-play level on initiations and responses of preschool children with delayed play skills. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59, 437-45.
Wilcock, A.A. (1998). An occupational perspective of health. Thorofare: Slack, Inc.
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I would be interested in the "whole story," if possible. It always helps me make sense of everything with an application. Interesting.
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I was interested to read that you have used the CAPE in practice.
I am a 3rd year student beginning to put together a research proposal.
I am hoping to use the CAPE as a data colection tool but I have very little information on it and have been unsucessful in locating articles about it's use.
I would be grateful for any information or advice you could share with me.
I found some interesting articles by Karen Stagnitti of Deakin University (Australia) with some follow-up articles published in Austrialian OT journal and OT journal of Japan. Google Scholar led me there...and here. Thank you for the article.
If anyone is aware that it has been published in some other form please let us know!