Mozambique is a big country, with hundreds of islands scattered along its coast.
"How, who and how much should we tip whilst travelling in Mozambique?" We are frequently asked this question by our travellers, since the potentially awkward situations that can arise around the etiquette of tipping are sometimes a concern. As a result we have put together some simple guidelines on tipping based on our own experiences travelling in Mozambique.
Most crucially, tipping is always voluntary and the quality of the service you receive should be a key factor in whether you choose to tip or not. While we encourage our travellers to appreciate good service, it's important to be aware of the impact that tipping can have on the community.
Tips can form a large percentage of the income of those working in the service industry, such as waiters at beach lodges, drivers and guides. Yet there is a fine balance between tipping appropriately and tipping too much: excessive tipping can throw out the local economic balance substantially.
To put this into context, consider the job of a national park ranger – a really important job and one that must be done properly. Senior park rangers require a good education and must be knowledgeable and skilled in their field. They have probably worked for the government in different national parks for many years. This would be a relatively well-paid job in Mozambique, albeit not a top-earning one.
Conversely, a waiter working at a hotel or beach resort, or a room attendant, don't need to be so well educated, or to have as much experience. They are still necessary jobs but don't require the same level of responsibility and thus don't offer the same salary.
Consider, though, the knock-on effect if such a casual helper gets massive tips – adding up to, say US$500 a month. Then the casual helper could end up earning more than the senior park ranger, which would distort the balance of responsibility and remuneration. It would also remove the incentive for a park ranger to work harder and take on more responsibility. In fact it could result in them quitting their job to become general hotel staff with an easier life and higher pay. This would of course be to the detriment of the park and its visitors.
For these reasons, please remember to keep any tips proportional, and to bear in mind when you tip the importance and extent of the work someone is doing for you.
At every lodge or resort, a lot of people work behind the scenes to ensure that your stay is a pleasant one. There are of course the staff you interact with, such as waiters and reception staff. But there are also the chefs, the kitchen team and the housekeeping staff. To include all of these "back-of-house" people, many lodges and hotels have a general staff tip box – the proceeds of which are then divided equally between the staff.
Some of the very exclusive and luxurious properties in Mozambique offer a private butler service for some or all of their rooms. Your butler will not usually get a share of the communal tip box, so if you would like them to receive a tip you may need to tip them directly.
An exciting and successful excursion depends largely on the quality of your guide. With this in mind, many places suggest tipping them separately, and they are not usually included in the communal staff tip box.
It is not common practice to tip the hotel or lodge manager, and we wouldn't normally recommend you doing so. However, if you want to appreciate outstanding or very extraordinary service, then please do.
Another question often asked is "when is the best moment to give a tip?" Some people may feel its appropriate to tip little and often, for example after each activity, or at the end of every day.
However, no one expects you to tip after each meal or activity, not least as they understand that you may have put your money in the safe and may not want to access it a number of times a day.
We feel that best practice is to tip just once, and always at the end of your stay at each safari lodge or camp.
The most usual way to tip is to use the communal tip box, often found in the lodge's central area or reception; if not, you may find helpful information on tipping amongst the literature left in your room, or ask the manager. It is also worth asking at each property about their tipping policy and if the tip box is shared by all or just some of the staff. You may want to tip anyone excluded from the tip box separately.
It is always your decision on who to tip and how much to tip. You may choose to put everything into the box, or to tip some team members separately and more directly.
It's most common to tip in cash, ideally in Mozambican Meticais or US dollars.
If you want to be highly prepared, it can work well to bring a small supply of envelopes, perhaps with a note inside on which a 'thank you' could be written. Towards the end of your stay, you can name the envelopes for the people or groups of people whom you wish to tip, put the appropriate cash tip into each, then either hand them out to individuals or put them into the general tip box.
The amounts suggested below are just guidelines from our own travels in Mozambique. Tipping really does depend on your own experience and individual satisfaction – moderated by some understanding of the issues mentioned above.
To put this in the contect of the local economy, bear in mind that the average income in Mozambique is about US$2 per person per day. In contrast, the equivalent GNI in the UK is about US$118.74 per day; in the United States about US$150.58; in New Zealand about US$109.80; and in Germany about US$125.45.
In conclusion, tipping is a normal part of the service industry in Mozambique and, while it is a sensitive issue, there is no need to feel embarrassed about it. But please always keep in mind that comparatively affluent visitors can have a big impact on the local economy and social balance, and offer your tips wisely.


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Figure skating has been part of the Olympic Games since 1908 and has been included in 26 Olympic Games. There have been 286 medals (96 gold, 95 silver, and 95 bronze) awarded to figure skaters representing 29 representing National Olympic Committees. Six events have been contested but one, men's special figures, was discontinued after a single Olympics.

Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are the only figure skaters to win five Olympic medals (3 gold, 2 silver). Swedish figure skater Gillis Grafström (3 gold, 1 silver) and Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko (2 gold, 2 silver) each have four medals. Seventeen figure skaters have won three medals. The only skaters with three consecutive titles are Grafström in men's singles, Sonja Henie (Norway) in ladies' singles, and Irina Rodnina (Soviet Union) in pairs. Sixteen figure skaters have earned two golds within the same discipline and five skaters have earned gold in two separate Olympic events.

On two occasions, there has been a podium sweep. Russian figure skaters hold the unique record for earning gold medals in all six Olympic figure skating events. Three skaters won Olympic medals in multiple figure skating disciplines.

Medalists

Men's singles

Men's special figures

Men's special figures was only included in one Olympic Games before being discontinued. The sole winner of the event was Russian Nikolai Panin, who gave his country its first ever Olympic gold medal.

Ladies' singles

Pairs

Ice dance

Team event
The team event is the newest Olympic figure skating event, first contested in the 2014 Games. It combines the four Olympic figure skating disciplines (men's singles, ladies' singles, pairs, and ice dance) into a single event; gold is awarded to the team that earns the most placement points.

 Skaters who only competed in the short program/rhythm dance.
 Skaters who only competed in the free skating/dance.

Multi-medalists

Most medals
Gillis Grafström earned the most medals in a single event: four medals, three of which gold, in men's singles. The only other skaters to have earned three golds in a single discipline are Sonja Henie in ladies' singles and Irina Rodnina in pairs.

Counting multiple events, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir hold the record for the most medals, with a total of five medals including two golds in ice dance and one team event gold. Evgeni Plushenko earned four medals, including a gold in men's singles and a team event gold.

Figure skaters who won three or more medal at the Olympics are listed below:

Multiple golds

The only skaters with three consecutive titles are Gillis Grafström in men's singles, Sonja Henie in ladies' singles, and Irina Rodnina in pairs. The most consecutive titles in ice dance is two, which has only been achieved by Oksana Grishuk and Evgeny Platov. In addition, one ladies' singles skater, three men's singles skaters, and five pairs skaters have earned consecutive titles. Two ice dancers and three pair skaters have earned non-consecutive titles.

Five skaters have won Olympic gold medals in multiple events. Evgeni Plushenko won gold in men's singles in 2006 and team event gold in 2014. Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov were the first skaters to win multiple events at a single Olympics, winning both pairs and the team event. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir matched this feat four years later, earning golds in ice dance and the team event.

Multi-medalists by event

Men's singles

Ladies' singles

Pairs

Ice dance

Team event

Multiple events
Only three skaters have won Olympic medals in multiple figure skating disciplines. All other multi-event medalists won medals in their discipline plus the team event (which, while being a separate event, is not considered its own skating discipline).

Two disciplines
In 1908, Madge Syers became the first skater to medal in multiple figure skating disciplines at a single Olympics. The only skater to match this feat was Ernst Baier in 1936. The only other skater to medal in multiple disciplines was Beatrix Loughran who did so at separate Olympics.

No skater has won gold medals in multiple disciplines.

One discipline plus team event
The team event was introduced at the 2014 Winter Olympics. It allowed skaters to medal twice while skating one discipline.

On 9 February 2014, Evgeni Plushenko became the first skater to win multiple figure skating events. On 12 February 2014, Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov became the first skaters to win multiple events at a single Olympics. Four years later, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir matched this feat.

The below table lists all skaters who have medaled in their own discipline and in the team event. (The number of team event medals are listed in parenthesis with a "T".)

Summer and Winter Games
Since figure skating was held during the Summer Olympic Games in 1908 and 1920 before being moved to the Winter Olympic Games, three skaters medaled in figure skating in both the Summer and Winter Games.

Men's singles skater Gillis Grafström's first gold medal was earned at the 1920 Summer Olympics. His other three medals were won at the 1924–1932 Winter Games. Pair skaters Ludowika Jakobsson and Walter Jakobsson also earned gold during the 1920 Summer Olympics. They later medaled at the 1924 Winter Games.

Country records

Winning streak
From 1964 to 2006, Russian figure skaters—representing the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, or Russia—won the gold medal in the pairs event, in what is the longest series of victories for one country in one winter event.

Most Medals
As of 2022, Russia surpassed the United States in ranking the most medals than any other country in figure skating. Having won a total of 60 medals of which are 30 gold, 21 sliver, & 9 bronze. Competing  and representing under the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Unified Team, Russian Federation, Olympic Athletes from Russia, & Russian Olympic Committee. Viktor Petrenko 1988 Bronze Medal & 1992 Gold Medal in Men's singles, who represented the Soviet Union & Unified Team is excluded from this count as Petrenko is Ukrainian  and would later represent Ukraine at the 1994 Winter Olympics. This count only applies to Russian athletes as the majority of Soviet figure skaters are Russian or were born in Russian SSR.

Competing under the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). Russia became the first country to win six medals in a single Olympics at Beijing 2022. Two gold in the Team Event & Ladies Singles, three sliver in Ice dance, Ladies Singles, & Pairs, and one bronze in Pairs.

Events won
Russian figure skaters, counting both Russian Federation (IOC code RUS) and Russian Empire (IOC code RU1), hold the unique record for earning gold medals in all six Olympic figure skating events. Since men's special figures was discontinued, this record can not be matched.

Russia (IOC code RUS) is the only NOC to have earning gold medals in all five current Olympic figure skating events. Canada has earned gold medals in four of the events (all except men's singles). Great Britain, Unified Team, and United States have earned gold medals in three of the events.

Russia and the Unified Team are the only NOCs to have won three events at the same Olympics, at the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics respectively. No NOC has won more than three figure skating events at a single Olympics.

Podium sweeps
There has been two podium sweeps in Olympic figure skating history. This is when athletes from one NOC win all three medals in a single event.

Medal totals by country

Men's singles

Men's special figures

Ladies' singles

Pairs

Ice dance

Team event

Age records

See also
 Figure skating at the Olympic Games
 List of Olympic medalists in figure skating by age
 World Figure Skating Championships
 Major achievements in figure skating by nation

Notes

References
General

 ISU – Olympic Games Figure Skating results:
 1908–2002 Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance
 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

Specific

External links
 List of Olympic medalists in men's figure skating: photos and autographs

Figure skating
Olympic Games
Olympic medalists
Olympic medalists in figure skating
medalists

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Jake Roh wasted no time making an impact on the football field at the collegiate level.
The Boise State tight end was an All-Mountain West honorable mention selection in his redshirt freshman season. This year, he's hoping to expand his role and continue to be a big target for the Broncos.
"I think this year was really big with getting comfortable out there on the field so now it's just I'm more comfortable and I can play more as a true player," Roh said.
Roh has spent a portion of his offseason in the Valley with Boise State quarterback and fellow Arizona-native Ryan Finley. They have been working with former Arizona State quarterback and Coronado quarterbacks coach Rudy Carpenter and former NFL coach Rod Dowhower in hopes to repeat as Fiesta Bowl champions.
The Chaparral product made his mark as a linebacker and tight end for the Firebirds. He says a significant portion of his success is credited to what he learned at the high school level.
"I think there I really learned how to win: be a winner, work hard, and (see) what working hard brings."
Jake can also look to his older brother, Craig, for guidance. Craig was the 2008-09 Gatorade Player of the Year at Chaparral, and played four years at the University of Michigan. He spent time with the Carolina Panthers and is currently with the BC Lions in the Canadian Football League. Jake says this simple advice from his older brother continues to drive his success at the college level.
"Just work hard and do your business the right way and good things will come of it."
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I've been sick lately and I actually had a bone marrow transplant back in October and was in the hospital for quite a long time. And one of the things, poetry died for me for a while. I found that it just wasn't speaking to me. I think I had certain expectations that took me awhile to realize were false expectations. I think we often talk about poetry getting us beyond the world, taking us to the very edge of experience and then getting us into the ineffable. I have to say, when I was faced with the actual ineffable, I didn't want poetry that gave me more of the ineffable. What I wanted was some way of apprehending the world that was right in front of me that was slipping away.
I wanted the world in front of my eyes, and the poems that I found useful were absolutely concrete, sometimes not at all about religious things and not at all about spiritual things, but simply reality and reality rendered in such a way that you could see it again. There's a great quote from the mid-20th-century literary critic R.P. Blackmur. He was talking about John Berryman. He said that his work, you know, "adds to the stock of available reality." It added to the stock of available reality, and that's a good way to think about what a real poem can do. It suddenly makes the amount of reality that you have in your life greater. You're able to apprehend more of it.
...Physics is so fascinating to so many of the contemporary poets. [mabye because] there is some kind of reality that's being revealed that we can only reach through oblique ways. You know, I think it reaches way back. It's why I'm drawn to mystics like Meister Eckhart and more contemporary ones like Simone Weil and language of Apple Faces, where you state something, but the statement sort of unstates itself. So that Meister Eckhart said, you know, "We pray to God to be free of God." We ask God to be free of God. And I don't think he wanted to, you know, give up his religion. The idea wouldn't have occurred to him, but he wanted to give up that idea of God as being this thing outside of our consciousness.
I think one thing poetry can do is take us to those places where reality slips a bit. You know, what we think of as reality slips a bit, like those equations in physics and suddenly we're perceiving something differently than before. And it's not — it's not all airy-fairy mysticism either. It's quite angular and hard-edged and that's what I think the analogy is with physics and with physical science.
...We tend to think of love as closing out the world and we can only see the face of the beloved. Everything else goes quiet or goes numb, but actually what I experienced was that — and I've experienced it again with my children — is that the loved demanded to be something else. It demanded to be expressed beyond the expression of the participants. You know, it kept demanding more. That excess energy, I think, is God and I think it's God in us trying to return to its source. I think it's — I don't know how else to understand it, but if I think of myself as having returned to faith, and I do think of that, although I feel like I'm a desperately confused person and when people look to me for advice or direction on faith, I just feel sometimes like it's hilarious.
But I think we have these experiences and they are people reacting against the word spiritual these days. But, uh, I don't know what other word to use at this point. They are spiritual experiences. And then religion comes after that. Religion is everything that we do with these moments of intense spirituality in our lives, whether it's whatever practice we have, whether it's going to church, it's how we integrate sacred text into our lives. Being religious or taking on some sort of religious elements in your life, you're not necessarily saying I agree with everything that this religion says. What you are saying is that I have had these incredible experiences in my life of suffering or joy or both and they have demanded some action of me and demanded some continuity of me, and the only way that I know to do this is to try to find some form in it and try to share it with other people.
...The way I've defined it to myself is I think of belief as having objects. Faith doesn't have objects. Faith is an orientation of your life or it's an energy of your life or however you want to define it. But I think it is objectless.
That has helped me to at least understand those terms somewhat and to explain to myself why I do need some sort of structures in my life. I do need to go to church. I need specifically religious elements in my life. I find that if I just turn all of my spiritual impulses, if I let them be solitary as I am comfortable in being, I'm comfortable sitting reading books and trying to pray and meditating, inevitably if that energy is not focused outward, it becomes despairing. It turns in on itself and I will look up in a couple of months and I find that I'm in despair. So I think that one of the ways that we know that our spiritual inclinations are valid is that they lead us out of ourselves.


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Swann Communications NightHawk 3
Andrew Kliem
No recording capabilities, poor colour reproduction
The NightHawk 3 is a solid security investment. While we feel the lack of recording capabilities is a let down, the good quality images combined with an incredibly easy setup make it good value for money.
Would you buy this?
$ 399.00 (AUD)
The NightHawk 3 is another security camera system from Swann. This package comes with three wireless cameras, a receiver and remote control. We were a little disappointed that it came with no option to record video footage, but purely as a surveillance device it operated admirably, and should satisfy home or shop owners who are looking for a little extra piece of mind.
The NightHawk package is extremely simple to set up. Each camera has the option to run from either a nine volt battery or AC power. Battery life is rather limited though, and should only be used for emergencies (assuming one can have emergency surveillance situations). This is where setup ends; there aren't any switches to flick or software to install. As soon as the cameras are powered on they connect to the receiver and the whole process is automated, taking a lot of the headache out of what should be a fairly simple task.
Offering four different connection frequencies, the receiver is well specified to fit in, even in a modern household that already contains multiple wireless signals. It transmits over a now standard 2.4Ghz connection, and the signal was strong throughout testing.
When the unit was in direct line of site of the cameras, the image was perfect, with no skipping or stuttering. The further away we moved, and the more objects or walls between, resulted in some deterioration in quality. Despite this issue, with the cameras in another room about 20 metres away, the picture was still clear, and was more than adequate for basic security purposes. It wasn't until we moved the cameras about thirty or forty metres away that the picture began to degrade to a point almost unusable. For a regular sized house or shop the range of the NightHawk will be fine. As long as the receiver is centralised, users should be able to cover a few different rooms at once.
The receiver is connected to a display using standard a standard RCA connection. The image was, for most part, quite high quality. It outputs at a resolution of 628 x 582 and offers clear, sharp edges with good detail. The colour balance was a little inaccurate, but as this is a security device rather than an entertainment product, clarity is more important than colour. On a moderate size CRT television we had no problems identify passers-by or objects.
Also included in the package is night vision capabilities, hence the name NightHawk. These activate automatically when the scene becomes too dark. The picture wasn't quite as impressive here as in full light, with a distinct lack of clarity and a noticeable darkness that obscured many details. The NightHawk has a listed range of about five metres in this mode, and this was consistent with our testing. Any more than this and users will struggle to identify the image.
The included remote control is quite nifty. It allows users to switch between the cameras easily, as well as offering loop and lock functions. Loop will automatically cycle through each of the connected cameras, displaying each for a small amount of time before moving on, whereas lock will keep it on one channel. That's really all there is too the NightHawk 3's functionality, which was a little disappointing. For a more thorough security tool, we really think recording functionality needs to be built in, or at least PC connectivity needs to be offered with software to support it. Still, at this price point it is hard to complain too much.
The system itself is fairly plain looking. The receiver is a combination of grey and silver plastic, with a rotating antenna, and it looks like a standard wireless router. The cameras have a hefty, metal body, so they are tough enough to survive outdoor mounting. Do note though that they aren't waterproof. The cameras are clearly designed to be mounted, rather than placed. Although you can swivel them to face different angles, they don't balance very well, so we'd advise that they be mounted.
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The goal of this training is to educate employees to minimize their exposure to bloodborne pathogens.
Bloodborne pathogens are viruses carried in human blood and other body fluids that cause disease in people. There are many different bloodborne pathogens, including malaria and syphilis, but the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B (HBV), and hepatitis C (HCV) viruses, which can each lead to liver cancer, pose the most serious threat of workplace exposure.
Perhaps no other profession is more at risk of the hazards posed by bloodborne pathogens than the medical profession, but that's not to say that awareness and prevention measures shouldn't be prevalent in all workplaces, because the price of ignorance can be very costly and simple understanding of some bloodborne pathogen basics, really can save lives.
In the workplace, transmission is usually through injuries from contaminated sharp objects that penetrate the skin, such as needles, knives, broken glass, or from splashes into the mucous membranes of your eyes, nose, or mouth, or through exposed openings or abrasions in the skin from scratches, cuts, bites, or wounds.
Rule number one: treat all blood and body fluids as if they were infected. Always wear disposable gloves whenever there is a potential for exposure to blood, body fluids, or other potentially infectious materials. Additional personal protective equipment (PPE) may be required, depending upon the circumstances.
OSHA Fact Sheet 02/01/1993. Most frequently asked questions concerning the bloodborne pathogen standard.
UNAIDS. AIDS Epidemic Update, December, 2003.
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A male sage grouse, left, struts with two other males during mating season in April 2000 in northern Nevada.
By Karoun Demirjian
Monday, Aug. 5, 2013 | 2 a.m.
Washington —
Sage Grouse
Nevada's ability to deal with its worsening wildfires has been stuck for years in an iron triangle of federal problems: Thanks to stalled budgets, there's no money to fight them; thanks to scientific disputes over climate change, there are no environmental policies to prevent them; and thanks to public-land regulations, there's no way to circumvent the federal government in addressing them.
But the case of one strange bird is forcing Nevada to forge a solution on a strict deadline: If the state doesn't stop the burning, in two years, a sweeping endangered species listing for the sage grouse could threaten the state's entire economy.
"The sage grouse is as big a threat to Nevada as Yucca Mountain is," Nevada Sen. Dean Heller said. "If it's listed, we shut down."
"It has a face only a mother could love, but it's the precipitating factor," Nevada Rep. Mark Amodei said. "An endangered listing translates to: 'Nevada is closed for business.' Closed to tourism, ag, energy, you name it ... and that's not a win for anybody."
Since 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has had its eye on the sage grouse, a species native to almost a dozen Western states, though its preferred habitat exists chiefly in Nevada and Wyoming.
Sage grouse like to live where there is sagebrush, but sagebrush is susceptible to fire – especially when it is being squeezed out by cheatgrass, an invasive, largely inedible and highly flammable species that papers over former sagebrush territory in the wake of wildfires. That cheatgrass invasion speeds up the burning: historically, Nevada's rangeland burns every 70 to 100 years; when covered with cheatgrass, it's every three to seven years.
Citing a "lack of regulatory mechanisms to prevent greater loss," Fish and Wildlife recommended the government start the process of listing the sage grouse as an endangered species. Next month, the agency will designate the sage grouse population of Nevada and California as "threatened." If nothing changes, the bird will earn a final endangered listing in September 2015.
"The Fish and Wildlife Service doesn't want to have to list this species," Noreen Walsh, Mountain Prairie Regional Director for USFWS, told the Sun. "But we have to prevent cheatgrass from invading other areas so we don't continue to perpetuate the fire cycle over the great basin. Because if that happens, it won't just be the sage grouse that loses."
But neither the federal government nor Nevada has been able to muster coming up with a plan to satisfy Fish and Wildlife.
"This effort, as far as federal, state, tribal and private people working together, is just unheard of," said Raul Morales, deputy director for Bureau of Land Management resources, lands and planning in Nevada. "But it needs to be. If we continue doing business the same way we have been, that bird is going to get listed."
On Wednesday, Amodei, Heller and Nevada Sen. Harry Reid met with representatives from various bureaus of the BLM and USFWS that will be weighing in and, eventually, judging Nevada's efforts to save the sage grouse habitat.
"We need plans, but we need assurances the plans are going to be implemented," said Ren Lohoefener, the Pacific Southwest Regional Director for USFWS. "And we need to monitor them to make sure it's effective."
"It's a tall order," Ted Cook, USFWS state supervisor for Nevada, acknowledged.
But not, apparently, an order the participants haven't seen before.
Ask a congressman, such as Amodei, or a bureaucrat, such as a BLM official, what has to go into mitigating the wildfires that are 85 percent of the sage grouse habitat problem, and they'll give you the same answers:
• More hazardous-fuel mitigation and green-stripping of the affected land, as well as more sagebrush re-seeding.
• Pilot programs to disperse cheatgrass-eating bacteria across affected areas.
• Better maps — ones that take not only the sagebrush-vs-cheatgrass cover, but also plans for aberrant wind farms or power lines into account — wouldn't hurt.
The only problem is coming up with ways to authorize and pay for it.
"That is the 800-pound gorilla in the room: Not only do we have to find the right words and the right measures to put on paper, but we also have to prove that there is the right funding," Morales said. "They're going to want to see that the funding is in hand and not that it's coming."
"The sage grouse is going to be listed unless the federal government gives these agencies some money to do their job," Reid said after Wednesday's meeting.
Federal appropriations to fight and prevent wildfires have been steadily slimmed over the past few years, and in recent months they've been further exacerbated by sequestration cuts.
Nationwide, the U.S. Forest Service's budget for fighting fires on federal lands has fallen from $3.4 billion in fiscal 2010 to $2.5 billion in fiscal 2012.
In Nevada, the state forestry division fire mitigation funds dropped this year to $6.9 million from $18.8 million.
With the Nevada legislative session over and the fiscal 2014 federal budget hurtling toward a continuing resolution, there is little room to argue for new streams of funding — however modest they may be.
Over the past 10 years, the federal government spent about $130 million on sage grouse habitat preservation, according to BLM's Morales. From his conversations with officials, Amodei estimates that about $200 million over 10 years would be a reasonable sum to put toward meaningful wildfire control.
"It's a pretty small ask, but pretty significant for this issue," Amodei said. "But the problem is, how do you get the attention of the appropriators?"
Recent wildfires have been catching attention, with headlines about the blaze on Mount Charleston and the tragic deaths of 19 firefighters in Arizona this summer.
Those high-profile wildfires have sparked a renewed conversation about the effects of climate change and how the federal government should be stepping up its response.
But Nevada doesn't have time to resolve the scientifically and ideologically driven standoff over climate change, which could take years. What it needs is about $20 million a year to mitigate the fires that are starting on sage grouse habitat — now.
"Whether you think there is warming or not, it is drier in the West, it is warmer in the West, and it is having phenomenal economic impacts," Amodei said, his frustration growing. "So I need to know, how can we get $20 million goddamn dollars a year for the next 10 years. That's the whole thing! Seriously, you guys blow your nose with $20 million a year. And I've got to run an Olympic trial time 100-meter dash to get $20 million in there for the whole goddamn West?"
If the money doesn't come soon, the state is going to have to get inventive.
Nevada's focus for the past year has been on getting all participants, including private ranchers, farmers, miners and energy developers to the table alongside state representatives and the federal agencies to discuss sustainable mixed-land-use policy for sage grouse habitats.
That isn't just a goodwill gesture. With the economic climate being what it is, state representatives are seriously considering pushing for public-private partnerships to unearth new streams of revenue that would pay for the necessary fire-prevention activities.
"Private contributions are going to have to be part of the equation if we're going to be successful," Morales said. "I'm not sure if we can realistically get enough money from the feds or the state to do this."
Nevada's delegation doesn't want to lean on stakeholders to pay for land preservation efforts that mostly concern federal lands. But getting alternative ideas through Congress is potentially fraught with as much difficulty as simply getting cash-strapped appropriators to budget more funds.
For example: Amodei has lightly ribbed Heller and Reid, asking them to wave a magic Senate wand and come up with another Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act-style law, to parcel off public land and divert the money to wildfire prevention efforts on sage grouse habitat.
"I don't think you'll ever do another SNPLMA, because it's a little difficult to duplicate the rampant growth that is Las Vegas," Amodei said. "But we've got a small parcels bill that allows the sale of 160 acres or less."
"Federal lands sales could help raise some necessary funds," Heller agreed.
But selling federal lands first requires congressional authorization — and those have not been forthcoming in recent years.
Amodei proposed a second idea: Split the accounts that go to pay for fire prevention and firefighting to avoid competition for dollars between firefighting and fire prevention.
"If you're really against fires, you really have to think about your value judgments. It's really time to think about shit that happens before the fire, kids," Amodei said.
But siphoning off certain dollars for sage-grouse motivated fire mitigation may be a harder sell to other states around the West. Not every state suffering from wildfires hosts a significant sage grouse habitat, and not every state with a sage grouse population worries about wildfires.
Those subtleties of Nevada's particular sage grouse habitat have officials turning back to the stakeholders on the range for a locally driven solution.
"This bit where somebody says, 'Well, I just want my cows, or I just want my horses, or I just want my chickens' — you know, those days are over," Amodei said. "The lightning comes around whether people are driving quads or bulldozers ... and if this thing turns to junk, it turns to junk for everyone."
And if poor quality land isn't enough to keep stakeholders engaged, officials would have them consider this: If they fail to deliver a sustainable habitat plan and sage grouse is listed as an endangered species, ranchers, farmers and miners can add the risk of steep federal penalties to the cost of doing business, not just in Nevada but across the West.
"If the feds come down and say 'this is how we're going to do it,' we're probably not going to get buy-in," Morales said. "Success is going to depend on people staying engaged after the plan — we can't just say: 'Phew, we're done with the plan. The bird didn't get listed. Let's get back to life as normal.' This is the new normal."


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Saturday started like our other days with a wonderful buffet breakfast and on the bus at 8:30 am.
We were scheduled to visit Fatima today, but if you've been watching the news you know today is the 100 year anniversary of the apparition and millions of people are there. We changed our schedule and visited on Monday - without all the crowds.
The area along the coast is known as the "playground of kings". (And, from the looks of the photos below, it is the playground of our travelers too!) It is a resort area with charming towns. The first town we visited was Sintra. We walked to the top of the town on the cobblestone roads to see the beautiful views and the fairy-tale palaces from above. On the way down there were many quaint shops filled with their local goodies to purchase.
Linda negotiates a good deal with Bob and Kathleen Pfeifer looking on.
Laura, Marion and Karen taking in the view.
Last stop - Odidos, a charming walled city. Some walked the wall and others stayed in town for some great shopping for cork items and port wine.
Doug and Moe on the castle wall.
On the ride home you could see the excitement in the town of Lisbon since the National Football game was being held in Lisbon that evening. Lisbon and Porto were the teams and Lisbon won ! We heard the celebrations going on into the wee hours this morning.
Moe, Doug and Roger in Lisbon enjoying the aftermath of a big soccer game.


A Samoa MP is calling for the restoration of the headquarters of the Mau movement, which was instrumental in establishing Samoa's political independence from New Zealand.
The MP for Faleata East, Aveau Niko Palamo, whose village Vaimoso housed the headquarters, says it should be restored with funds from the Tourism Authority or the National Museum.
Talamua Online says not only will it be a tourist attraction, but also have significant historical and educational value.
The Mau movement was based at Vaimoso village and paramount chief, Tupua Tamasese Lealofi the 3rd, was one of a number of Samoans shot dead by New Zealand troops during a peaceful demonstration in 1929.
Next year is the country's 50th anniversary of independence and the restoration of the Mau headquarters is being suggested as one of the significant events that could mark the year.


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War Games: At the End of the Day is a 2011 independent thriller film directed by Cosimo Alemà, who co-wrote it with Daniele Persica and Romana Meggiolaro. Luca Legnani is credited as executive producer. The film is distributed by Universal Pictures. It stars Stephanie Chapman Baker, Neil Linpow, Michael Lutz, Sam Cohan, Valene Kane, Andrew Harwood Mills, Tom Stanley, Monika Mirga, Daniel Vivian and Michael Schermi.

The film is claimed to be inspired by real events that took place on June 5, 1992.

Plot

The film follows an adventure seeking group of friends who visit a National Park to spend the day playing Airsoft. However, after discovering a building filled with dark secrets they are hunted down one by one, by the building's vicious occupants: three ex soldiers intent on keeping them from telling anyone. Their war game is turned into a reality, where they will be forced to fight for their survival.

Cast

Production

War Games: At the End of the Day began filming in August, 2009, and in Bracciano, Italy.

Reception
The film attracted strong reviews during its theatrical release and has screened at festivals including Cannes Film Festival, Berlin film festival, Fantafest. Courmayeur Noir in festival, Fantasy FilmFest, Sitges Film Festival and Raindance.

References

 (1) ^http://horrorcultfilms.co.uk/2011/10/war-games-at-the-end-of-the-day-2010/
 (2) ^http://www.blogomatic3000.com/2011/10/01/top-10-gore-galore-horror-films/
 (3) ^http://www.raindance.org/site/index.php?id=545,7937,0,0,1,0
 (4) Tom Stanley can more recently be heard narrating The Hunting of the Snark

External links

 CinemaVault

Films directed by Cosimo Alemà
2010 films
2010 horror films
Films shot in Rome
2010s thriller films
Italian independent films
2010s English-language films


Students use creative tools in the Seesaw app or website to complete classroom activities like "Regular Verb Tense Sort"
1. Sort the verbs into the correct verb tense columns. 2. Match each verb with the correct past, present and future tense. 3. Press the green check two times to submit.


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Q: Options To Employ MDI in WPF I'm attempting to write an application which uses MDI, in the sense that I've got one big winsdow and a canvas area with a number of small children windows.  These small windows can be resized, dragged and moved around within the canvas.
I've accomplished the above by using this library: http://wpfmdi.codeplex.com/
However, the library is full of bugs and is extremely restrictive (besides the fact that it is an abandoned project).
Thus, I was wondering what other options I have of employing MDI in WPF. I think it would be too much of a hassle to code a library similar to the one linked above - it basically handles the dragging and resizing of the small windows as well as makes sure that they cannot be dragged outside the edges of the canvas.  I don't think this would be very easy to code myself.
Any ideas?

A: I think you should use this, it is way cooler:
http://avalondock.codeplex.com/
It has tabs, resizable dockable panes, etc.  Very similar to Visual Studio.

A: I've had another look at this MDI-library. I think I fixed the problem. You want the MdiChild to be Maximized as it does when you click it.
The problem is that if you set the WindowState of the MdiChild to Maximized in the constructor of the Main Window, you won't get the expected resizing. Therefore, you need to make sure that the Main Window is Loaded and then make sure the MdiChild is Loaded. If this is the case, you can programmatically set the WindowState of the MdiChild and get the expected behavior.
See the following sample code (check the full source code below) for the Loaded-events:
void Main_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    var mdiChild = new MdiChild
    {
        Title = "Window Using Code",
        Content = new ExampleControl(),
        Width = 500,
        Height = 450,
        Position = new Point(200, 30)
    };
    Container.Children.Add(mdiChild);
    mdiChild.Loaded +=new RoutedEventHandler(mdiChild_Loaded);
}

void mdiChild_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if (sender is MdiChild)
    {
        var mdiChild = (sender as MdiChild);
        mdiChild.WindowState = WindowState.Maximized;
    }
}

Here's the source code to make it work. Let me know if this helps.

A: New MDI option for WPF:
http://dragablz.net/2015/01/26/mdi-in-wpf-via-dragablz/
GitHub project: https://github.com/ButchersBoy/Dragablz

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Gang Violence Is Why Most Children Flee El Salvador, Survey Finds
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Forensic workers lift the body of an alleged gang member into the bed of a truck in San Salvador, El Salvador, on March 7, 2014. (Esteban Felix/AP)
Part 2 of a series on gang violence in El Salvador and those fleeing it to Massachusetts
In an eerily quiet neighborhood of Mejicanos in the late afternoon, while a nearby open-air market buzzes, a couple of truckloads of civilian police post the street with assault rifles as their inspector, Jorge Alberto Vasquez, gives me a tour of past murder scenes in what has been a running battle between the gangs MS-13 and 18th Street for control of the area.
El Salvador National Police Inspector Jorge Alberto Vasquez with WBUR's David Boeri in Mejicanos. He instructed Boeri to wear the bulletproof vest. (Courtesy of Norman Palomo)
He set only one condition for showing me the territory he and his men and women are trying to pacify: He wouldn't take me unless I wore a bulletproof vest.
"They come to kill; it is a war," Vasquez says.
If you are a woman, an adolescent or a child, you are more likely to die a violent death here in El Salvador than anywhere else in the world. If you're a man, only next-door Honduras is more dangerous.
But because this "war" of gangs — against each other and the country itself — is not seen as a conventional "armed conflict," those who are leaving are generally not considered "refugees," at least not by the United States.
But make no mistake, says Fulbright Scholar Elizabeth Kennedy: They are fleeing.
"You have adolescents making very calculated risk analyses that their risks of staying in El Salvador are much higher than the risk on the journey," Kennedy explains. She conducted interviews with 600 children who tried to get to the United States this summer, but were stopped short of the U.S.-Mexico border and sent back to El Salvador by Mexican police.
There are a number of reasons the children give for leaving, Kennedy says, including reunification with parents in America, getting schooling and finding work. But the predominant reason (given by 58 percent of her interview subjects) is escaping gang violence.
"They know they face kidnapping ... rape, maiming, forced labor, disappearance, murder on the migrant routes," she says. "But they feel that's a certainty if they stay in El Salvador."
Noah Bullock, the executive director of Foundation Cristosal, an Episcopal human rights organization in El Salvador, says the violence forces 130,000 Salvadorans to relocate to somewhere else in the country every year. And as many as a third of them have to move a second time within the year, Bullock says, to find a location far enough away from their old home so that no one might recognize them and report back to the gangs.
"Rape is a tool for fear, extortion, murder, forced disappearances … this is systematic human rights violations," Bullock says. "If we were to recognize that situation, the U.S. and the international community has the obligation to recognize the rights of victims of this conflict to international protections."
Most Salvadorans can't get away from the fear and news accounts and the crime itself. In daily conversation you hear constant talk of "pandillas," or gangs, and "pandilleros," or gang members. Salvadorans know the gangs by name: Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, Barrio 18, or 18th Street, Maquina, Mau-Mau, Surenos and Revolucionarios, for instance. The two biggest are called "MS" ("emmay essay") and "18" ("dieciocho") for short. Their graffiti is everywhere.
Widespread Extortion
Even when gang warfare does not affect Salvadorans directly, extortion does. It's as if gangs are holding the whole country up by its ankles until the change falls out of its pockets. By one estimate, 80 percent of small businesses are shaken down. Every Salvadoran seems to have a story.
Take Marcello, the driver we hired in San Salvador, a well-experienced navigator in the troubled areas off the tourist routes. He says the company he's associated with got a recent call from the 18th Street gang after one of its taxis went missing.
"'You know what?' " said the caller, according to Marcello. "'If you don't give me this amount of money, we're going to burn the car down.' "
The owner of the company paid what the gang wanted. But the next day, 18 stole another cab. This time the owner was feeling pressed. "He said, 'I can't pay you for the cab right now because I don't have the money,' " Marcello recounts.
The gang showed no sympathy. Indeed, it demanded $1,000 a month in "rent" and, to make its point, "they kidnapped two of the drivers," Marcello says.
"And one of the pandilleros told them, 'You better tell your boss that this is the last warning we're going to give. I don't have any problems killing you both right now to show him we're not joking. So he better start paying or otherwise we will start killing everyone.' "
As punctuation to Marcello's story, a newspaper story the next day reported a similar case, involving a gang attack on a minibus. Assailants had forced the passengers off the bus before shooting it up, which was a display of restraint compared to an earlier attack, when the gang shot a bus up with the passengers still inside, killing two of them.
Gangs even use the phonebook to extort people by cold calls. More chilling than that, the gangs are going after the critically important remittances Salvadorans send back home to their families from the United States. According to World Bank data, remittances account for some 17 percent of El Salvador's gross national product.
"The gangs are able to get their hands on lists from transfer companies, like Western Union," says Fulbright Scholar Kennedy. "They put a gun to the head of the small store owner and say, 'Give me the list or I'll shoot you.' That means they got the address of everyone based in the U.S. and the address of everyone based in El Salvador: where they live and how often they get money and how much money they get."
Alleged Police Abuse
In response to the gangs, the police have launched one crime-fighting offensive after another, invoking the language of scorched earth warfare — the sort inflicted with so much brutality during the nation's civil war, which lasted until the 1990s. First came operation "Iron fist," followed by "mano dura" — "hard hand" — and after that one failed "super mano dura."
The No. 2 man in the National Civil Police of El Salvador rejects them all.
"No, it doesn't work for us. No, no, no, no," says Howard Cotto, the civil police sub-director. "I'm sure that's not a good solution to solve the problems."
The young and energetic Cotto says part of the solution must involve "community policing," a familiar approach in Boston and other American big cities, where cops walk neighborhood beats and are encouraged to treat the community as a partner in solving crime.
But Cotto and police reform in El Salvador run up against a long history of police repression, corruption and public distrust. News accounts, as well as people we interviewed, allege that cops have given gangs the identity of witnesses to crimes and the identity of victims who have come forward to police. And though Cotto claims that maybe 30 percent of the crimes are "solved," in the sense that police know who committed them, by one estimate no more than 2 percent of murders ever lead to anyone ever being convicted and sentenced.
"The biggest problem in this community next to poverty is police abuse," says Maria Luz Panameno, a seamstress and labor organizer in her community of La Selva in Ilopango. (Shannon Dooling/WBUR)
The police are no better than the gangs, some people complain.
"The biggest problem in this community next to poverty is police abuse," says Maria Luz Panameno, a seamstress, labor organizer and leader in her local community of La Selva in Ilopango. "[The police] are abusing their authority. And we have seen atrocities. We've seen them put guns into kids' mouths and put guns against their heads just like in times of war."
She shows me her son's U.S. college diplomas. Some are on the wall along with an image of Jesus next to a photo of Che Guevara. Her son is studying in California for his master's degree in English. The boy next door is about to become a lawyer, she says, and she is working on a dress that a neighborhood girl will wear in the local beauty pageant.
"There aren't just criminals who live in this community," she says with emphasis.
Yet children here in El Salvador are increasingly both targets and actors in the violence.
Celia Cedrano, of Foundation Cristosal, has a long history advocating for human rights in El Salvador. At the age of 23, she became head of the non-government Human Rights Commission after all its other leaders were murdered in one night during the brutal civil war.
"You see structural violence. You also see social violence," she says. "It is very hard to differentiate between these gang members as victims or victimizers."
Which makes simple crime-fighting strategies unlikely to succeed and requires more complicated solutions that go well beyond the police. In the meantime, the urge to escape pushes more people northward.
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105:07 Shot by Cal Poly Grote, George, Save (by goalie) Patenaude, Greg.
105:30 Substitution!UC Irvine substitution: Leon, Luis for Gutierrez, Christian.
109:58 Goal!GOAL by UC Irvine Canales, Ivan, Assist by Hamilton, Darren, goal number 10 for season. *Header from 5 to 10.


If you look at just one aspect of sharing information on the web, there are two approaches: islands and continents. Islands are bunch of individuals, each with their own corner of the web, where they publish whatever they want. Continents are where a bunch of individuals all sign up for user accounts and interact through that site's back end. This post got me thinking about this, and this response got me thinking more about it.
Islands are anything that the user runs in their own web space: such as this blog or a self-hosted photo gallery. Continents are big destination sites like Facebook or flickr.
Continents do have their appeal: for one, they're easier for the user to get started with.
More importantly, there are more ways to make money off them: advertising, membership fees, selling user data. With islands, the methods for monetization aren't the same: you can sell the software, and maybe you can sell a support package to go along with it. The notorious difficulty of getting people to pay for anything on the web may explain why the software underlying islands tends to be open source, though there are exceptions. Beyond just the immediate revenue model, a popular website is exactly the sort of thing that its creators can hope to sell to one of the big boys for big, big money (like Instagram selling out to Facebook for [pinky to lip] one billion dollars). Software projects…not so much.
Continents have one huge disadvantage: most of the big ones are supported through advertising and the sale of user data, and as has been said many times, if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer, you're the product. It is in Facebook's interest to make their site appealing to the extent that it keeps us around long enough to show us more ads, but not necessarily in their interest to really do right by their users.
The advantages of islands may only appeal to nerds: you controls your data, how it looks, how it's used. Nobody is selling advertising around your data.
In theory, there's nothing preventing me from hosting my photos in my own web space, even though I don't. Back in the old days, web space was doled out in such small parcels that it would have been unrealistic for me to throw everything up there. These days, that's not such a big deal. But flickr, for all its faults and neglect at the hands of a company that doesn't know what to do with it, still has features that I haven't seen in self-hosted photo galleries. One of these is that your photos can be viewed in the context of photos by other people: other people can follow your photos can comment on them. You can post them to groups that are organized around a topic or theme. You can organize galleries of photos by other people. You can see other photos that have all been tagged Tokyo or whatever.
In short, because you're on a continent, you don't need any bridges to get around. This social connection is huge, and it's the weak spot of islands. All the island software out there works on one island in isolation. It doesn't include bridges to your neighbors.
Diaspora is a social network based on the island + bridges model. Perhaps I should say based on a "big island" model, since most pods (as they're called) have a lot of users, but there are many pods and they all intercommunicate. This is a promising idea, but Diaspora gets discouragingly little use. I've got 37 contacts on Diaspora. Two of them use it. Part of this is a chicken-and-egg problem, but Facebook also has useful features (events and invitations, groups, etc) that Diaspora lacks.
The only things that Diaspora has going for it is that you actually are the customer (they run on donations), and you own your own data—stuff that a lot of people just don't think that hard about. But it's a big deal. Now that Facebook has gone public, it needs to justify itself to shareholders, and there will be even more tension between doing what's right for its customers vs its users.
I want it both ways. I want to have control over my data, and not to be someone else's product. And I also want to connect with my friends and with people I don't even know yet.
The Diaspora guys have the right idea, and so does Brent Simmons: we don't just need islands. We need bridges to connect them.


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TOPS Ensuring Indian Athletes Get the Best Facilities to Perform at Big Events
TOPS give athletes the freedom to pick and choose their training destinations, competitions, and coaches.
Published: 13 Aug 2022, 4:43 PM IST
When it was launched in September 2014 by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, little did one know that the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) would change the face of Indian sports and give wings to the aspirations of hundreds of athletes like never before.
Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra clinching the 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold, shuttler PV Sindhu winning successive Olympic medals in 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo, are just a couple of the success stories spawned by the scheme that has given athletes the freedom to pick and choose their training destinations, competitions, coaches and mental trainers who can best serve their ambitions.
TOPS, the flagship programme of the sports ministry, might have had a low-key beginning in 2014 but following its revamp in 2018, which led to the establishment of a technical support team for managing the elite athletes and providing them with holistic support, it has grown from strength to strength and sportspersons now call it the gateway to success.
With a core group of more than 100 athletes across 13 disciplines and the men's and women's hockey teams besides around 300 'development group' athletes across 12 disciplines, the scheme has encompassed not just the most talented athletes vying for medals in events such as the Commonwealth Games, 2023 Asian Games and 2024 Paris Olympics but also those who are potential for the future.
One of India's most well-known and respected names in shooting, Mansher Singh, says the TOPS scheme mirrors the intention of the government to support the athletes in every way possible so they can win laurels for the country.
"When I was involved with the team, it was called NSDF (National Sports Development Fund) and they (sportspersons) had a cap on how much funding they could get in a year. I think TOPS now has upped that," said Mansher, the Commonwealth Games gold medallist and multiple medal winner at the Asian Games.
"It's gone to another level in the sense that there is no such limit. It (funding) now depends upon the athlete's requirement and obviously his profile in terms of winnability at the Olympics, his past performance etc."
Ultimate Goal Is Paris Olympics, Says Indian Shuttler PV Sindhu
TOPS has some of the most unique features, which make it an end-to-end 'one-stop shop' for an athlete committed to his goal of winning medals in major international competitions.
These include a professional set-up which is athlete-centric and involves potential-based selection, data analysis and research, athlete planning and athlete relationship management, international training sessions and visa facilitation support for sportspersons.
Each reasonable request made by an athlete is met with a positive and quick response and a top-of-line research support is on hand to track opponent performances.
TOPS also provides a dedicated athlete relationship manager as a bridge between SAI and the athlete. So far, the scheme has facilitated around 400 foreign exposures in Olympic disciplines in the last four years.
Little wonder every athlete who represents the country wants to be a part of the scheme, knowing that all his worries will be taken care of once he is part of the programme.
From Panipat to Olympic Podium: Neeraj Chopra's Journey to Gold
"They arrange everything for us. We don't have to spend a rupee from our pocket and as per the laid down norms, we get lodging, boarding and out-of-pocket allowance as per the government norms. This is over and above the requirement of an athlete competing at the highest-level including training abroad, exposure trips, equipment, personal coaches and supports staff among others," says rifle shooter Sanjeev Rajput.
Rajput, at 41, is aiming to secure an Olympic quota for the 2024 Paris Games after a disappointing show in 2020 Tokyo.
Following his below-par showing in Tokyo, he was dropped from the TOPS scheme and wants to quickly return to the fold with some good performances, which would guarantee him all the facilities required to work towards his goal of an Olympic medal.
How India Won Bronze: Highlights Of Every Indian Match Of Tokyo Olympics 2020
Mansher Singh says the scheme has cut red tape to a bare minimum and with the TOPS analysts working "out of the domain of anyone's influence", it ensures that only the most deserving athletes are included in the scheme.
"It's a very professional process now. Projections are made, scores analysed and historical patterns observed to see how athletes are performing. Reputed analysts and professionals are constantly on the job of analysing athletes' parameters," says Mansher.
"The good thing about it (scheme) is that they do not function under anyone. They (TOPS analysts) are working out of the domain of anyone's influence. That is the greatest attribute of having an analysis team or a data-collection team or a team of specialists because they don't get influenced by anybody. They pick the best. They've done their research so they have the numbers."
India at CWG 2022: Wrestlers, Lifters, Athletes Impress; Sharath Top Performer
He says that TOPS has now become a prestige thing where an athlete flaunts it like a "feather in his cap".
"You are finding more and more athletes who deserve and want to get into TOPS. It's now a prestige thing to get into TOPS because it's the ultimate thing for an athlete. For two-three years you get the best funding and best coaching," Mansher added.
"There used to be huge limitations on the amount of money that you could spend during my competition days. I think a lot of red tape from my NSDF days has gone, and now it's primarily based upon what is required for that athlete to win."
All in all a win-win situation for athletes provided they are willing to put in their best effort.
PM Narendra Modi Hosts India's CWG Contingent at His Residence in New Delhi
Topics: Sports Ministry Target Olympic Podium Scheme Indian Athletes


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Cantera is an open-source suite of tools for problems involving chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport processes.
Cantera automates the chemical kinetic, thermodynamic, and transport calculations so that the users can efficiently incorporate detailed chemical thermo-kinetics and transport models into their calculations.
Cantera utilizes object-oriented concepts for robust yet flexible phase models, and algorithms are generalized so that users can explore different phase models with minimal changes to their overall code.
Multiple Interfaces
Cantera can be used from Python and Matlab, or in applications written in C/C++ and Fortran 90.
Broad Applications
Cantera is currently used for applications including combustion, detonations, electrochemical energy conversion and storage, fuel cells, batteries, aqueous electrolyte solutions, plasmas, and thin film deposition.
The tutorials linked below will get you started using Cantera on your own machine.
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We have a number of examples demonstrating the use of Cantera in some of our interfaces.
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Documentation for the classes and functions that make up Cantera.
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The Binder service allows you to try out Cantera in the cloud without installing it on your computer. You'll see some of our examples and be able to run them yourself!
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The Cantera Users' Group on Google Groups is the forum where most Cantera users have their questions asked and answered. If you need help using Cantera and cannot find an answer in the tutorials or documentation at Cantera's website, consider joining and asking a question there. Find more information in our Community section.
Cantera is developed by a team of volunteers, and we're always looking for new team members. If there is a feature you want added, a bug that needs to be fixed, or even just a typo in the documentation, changes from the community are always welcome. For more, see the section about contributing code on our Community page.
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As parents of young adults, we have a balancing act between caring and nurturing, and allowing our kids to live their own lives as adults. Part of being an adult is taking responsibility for our actions and decisions. It can be challenging as a loving parent to let our children suffer the consequences of a decision, and so very tempting to rescue them!
One method that may be helpful as we reframe our relationship as the parent of an adult is to see ourselves as a coach, mentor, or adviser. When you find yourself in a situation where you want to tell them what to do, nag, or second guess their choices, ask them if they'd like your input. An easy way to do this is to ask your child if they'd like some advice. If they decline your offer, respect their wishes. Once they realize that you aren't trying to tell them what to do, they may be more open to hearing your advice. They may not take your advice, but that's their decision to make!
It's really important to have empathy for your child when they make mistakes, or they don't take our advice. Treat them as you would a good friend who made a mistake. Don't rescue them or fix it for them, just have empathy. "What a bummer, I'm so sorry that happened!" Hold the "I told you so's", even if you did tell them so! Empathy will keep the relationship open, and they be more likely to come to you for advice in the future.
Fall in love with your family!
November is Thanksgiving month and the beginning of the holiday season, so we joined the 29 days of giving. In this time of bad economic news, it's easy to clench our fists and feel scarcity. We choose to live in abundance. We give to our community through It Takes A Village conference for parent and educators, and teaching classes through Family Journeys. This month, we'll give to individuals as well.
We are parent educators and family coaches. With three young adult children, we have lived through a lot of what we preach. Like you, we make mistakes, we yell at our kids, they yell at us, our cat meows, the dog barks, and we pick up and start all over again. We adore our kids, love being parents, being married, and playing in that exciting, scary, and rewarding playground we call family. We'd love to hear from you!


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For 'Game of Thrones' superfans and devoted conspiracy theorists: Similar psychology, different outcomes.
The psychology of groups and the internet's propensity to amplify outlandish content has created the kind of feedback loops in which bizarre theories flourish.
Robin Muccari / NBC News
April 14, 2019, 9:23 AM UTC
By Ben Kesslen
On Reddit, some "Game of Thrones" fans subscribe to a tortuous theory that a group of old, scholarly men — the maesters — are part of a sprawling and hidden conspiracy to exert control over the show's mythical kingdom. They write thousands of words to each other proving that every obscure clue adds up to a big picture that only they can see.
Just a few clicks away, other Reddit users are sure that a secretive group — the Illuminati — is part of a sprawling and hidden conspiracy to control the real world. They do exactly the same thing.
There are some clear parallels between fan conspiracy theories and political conspiracy theories. They were once confined to the far corners of American culture, but in recent years have flourished thanks in part to internet message boards and social media, which offer anyone the opportunity to publish, debunk, rebunk and remix their own imaginary concepts and share them with like-minded theorists.
The theories, however, share more than just message boards. The psychology of groups and the internet's propensity to amplify outlandish content and reward the people who create it has created the kind of feedback loops in which bizarre theories — from both fantasy fans and the politically paranoid — flourish.
Russell Zimmerman, 41, a writer, game developer and military historian, loves to theorize about "Game of Thrones," particularly the books on which it is based, George R.R. Martin's series, "A Song of Ice and Fire." But some theories are even too much for him, such as one that argues one character (Varys, the spymaster) is secretly a sea creature.
Zimmerman compared the fan theory to a real-life conspiracy theory.
"To me, that's about the level of 'out there' crazy-talk as assuming there's a kiddie porn ring in the basement of a pizza shop without a basement," he said, referring to the "pizzagate" conspiracy theory that remains popular on the fringes of the far right.
'Game of Thrones' fans gear up for the hit show's end
"Thrones" is not the only show with a strong internet following and crackpot theories.
The popular Adult Swim show "Rick and Morty" has various fan guesses at the show's secrets. BBC's "Doctor Who," which follows a time-traveling human-looking alien exploring the universe, has its own theories. And in the early days of the consumer internet, "The X-Files," a show that often touched on real-life conspiracy theories, gave birth to some of the first online fan theories.
Meanwhile, any number of real-world conspiracy theories have taken hold among various political and social groups on the internet.
Joseph Uscinski, associate professor of political science at the University of Miami and author of "Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them," said diehard fans and conspiracy theorists share a love of extrapolating from the facts in their possession.
"Conspiracy theories are similar to fan fiction in that they both allow people to make up whatever they want," he said.
Uscinski said that whether it's "Game of Thrones," "Star Wars" or the JFK assassination, people can take a plot or an event and "go to wherever they want with it."
As an example, Uscinski cited Qanon, a remarkably popular genre of conspiracy theories that generally center on a mysterious figure who claims that President Donald Trump is working to uncover a powerful group of pedophiles.
"You have this anonymous poster, Q, who puts out nonsensical clues and people try to make sense of it and try to figure out what happens next," he said. "They are enjoying this. They like piecing these things together. It's a fan thing for them."
Brendon Boutin, 32, who runs a popular "Game of Thrones" recap channel, "Man of Recaps," said the excitement generated by both kinds of theories drove their popularity.
"I think the biggest similarity is the feeling you get, the rush of hunting for the truth and discovering secret knowledge," Boutin said by email. "I watched some 9/11 'Truth' videos back in the day, and those brought about the same thrill as discovering Jon Snow's parentage."
"Game of Thrones" is far from the only show to have a fervent fanbase that has created its own theories, but few have created a community as rich and active, both online and off. Laurel Steinberg, a New York-based relationship therapist, said the behavior shown by conspiracy theorists and superfans is "absolutely analogous."
The only conspiracy theories I entertain are from Game of Thrones
— Brandon (@JealousCloud) April 5, 2019
"People like to feel part of a group, part of a movement, part of a team," Steinberg said. "It feels good to have something that gives them a identity. It feels good to have something to be excited about, and watch develop in real time."
But "Thrones" fandom is also susceptible to the same internet dynamics that have spurred ever-more outlandish conspiracy theories, rewarding people who can draw the most attention.
"You're able to create community, and then become an expert. You've ridden the tailcoats of the star and then you become a breakout star in that community," Steinberg said."You become an influencer."
Chloe Ketchum, 27, who co-hosts a podcast about the series, "Girls Gone Canon," said that while she enjoys the feeling of community around "Game of Thrones," she's also seen the lengths some fans will go to attract a following.
"There are creators that push shock value to get views," Ketchum said. "People will do anything for attention."
While there are similarities in the psychology behind intense fandoms and political conspiracists, Uscinski stressed that they result in divergent behaviors. He said fans will generally abandon theories that don't hold up, whereas conspiracy theorists ignore evidence that proves them wrong.
There's also the real-world consequences. Conspiracy theories around politics and current events have inspired some people to commit acts of violence, which has led to efforts by politicians and activist groups to force internet platforms to reign in the spread of the disinformation that can fuel the theories.
"When the show comes out, people will disregard their theories that didn't turn out to be true," he said. "But with flat earthers, when they do an experiment and it doesn't show them what they want, they still hold that belief anyway. They're much more invested"
Ben Kesslen
Ben Kesslen writes for NBC News.