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by Nathan Ord - Mon, Aug 02, 2021
Halo Infinite Battle Royale Mode Rumored, Bots Already Frighteningly Good In Tech Preview
Going with the trend of many games these days, Halo Infinite could be getting a battle royale mode if new files datamined from the game are anything to go by. Perhaps this is an extra asset created "just in case," or maybe there is a chance at a Halo Battle Royale mode considering what we now know from the technical... Read more...
by Brittany Goetting - Fri, Jun 11, 2021
Bethesda Puts A Bullet In Fallout 76's Unloved Nuclear Winter Battle Royale Mode
E3 is just around the corner and many developers are gearing up for big announcements and events. Bethesda in particular just provided a few updates about Fallout 76. Some players will unfortunately be disappointed by some of the news. Fallout 76's Nuclear Winter battle royale mode will officially sunset this coming... Read more...
by Nathan Ord - Wed, May 19, 2021
Yippee Ki Yay: Call of Duty Adds 80s Action Hero Icons John McClane And Rambo
For quite some time, popular battle royale game Fortnite has enjoyed crossover events with characters from other IPs and movies. It is about time for Call of Duty to get on that action, and it is happening in an explosive way with '80s action heroes coming to Verdansk. Players will be able to play as John McClane or... Read more...
by Nathan Ord - Wed, Apr 07, 2021
Pac-Man 99 Battle Royale Game Chomps Its Way Onto Nintendo Switch
Battle Royale games are some of the most popular out there right now, with popular titles such as Fortnite and Player Unknown's Battlegrounds. Since these games came out, companies have been trying to twist the genre, and Nintendo is the latest to shake things up. In the new Pac-Man 99, players can show off their... Read more...
by Brandon Hill - Mon, Jun 29, 2020
Here's Hyper Scape, A Hot New Battle Royale Shooter That Will Be Free To Play Soon
The battle royale genre is hot right now with games like Fortnite, PUBG, Apex Legends, and Call of Duty: Warzone ruling the roost. But there's a new entry into the segment that is about to be revealed by Ubisoft, and it's reportedly called Hyper Scape. Hyper Scape will be a free-to-play, first-person shooter (FPS)... Read more...
Fortnite Doomsday Event Confirmed As Countdown Timer Appears In Two Locations, Here's When It Ends
It is the end of the world as we know it, at least in Fortnite, and players feel fine. A doomsday countdown timer recently appeared in the battle royale smash-hit game, and this particular timer likely hints at an end-of-season event for Chapter 2 Season 2. Data miners quickly found files for a countdown timer... Read more...
by Shane McGlaun - Sat, May 02, 2020
Fortnite Hosts Epic DJ Diplo Lazer Concert Set In Party Royale, Here's The Rebroadcast
Fortnite has been busy tweaking the game to make it more social than competitive in some modes. One of the social things that Fortnite has been doing is hosting concerts that fans can come and listen to. These concerts have been a success for Epic Games so far. A surprise DJ Diplo concert happened last night. Last... Read more...
by Shane McGlaun - Thu, Apr 09, 2020
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 3 Launches With New Maps, Playlists And More
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fans should be excited to hear that Season 3 for the game is now available. The new season includes new maps, new playlists, and brings updates for the free-to-play Warzone mode that has proven very popular. The three new maps include Aniyah Incursion, Talsik Backlot, and Hovee Sawmill;... Read more...
by Shane McGlaun - Thu, Mar 26, 2020
Fortnite Season 2: Where To Find Lake Canoe, Camp Cod And Rainbow Rentals To Disco Down
As with many Fortnite weekly challenges, the hardest part for some of them is finding where you're supposed to go. This week, one of the big challenges is for players to find Lake Canoe, Camp Cod, and Rainbow Rentals and do a little dance. The exact locations where players need to get their groove on are unmarked on... Read more...
by Brandon Hill - Fri, Mar 20, 2020
Call of Duty Warzone: 30 Million Players And Counting Two Weeks Post-Release
We think it's fair to say that Activision has a winner on its hands with Call of Duty: Warzone. The standalone battle royale game launched two weeks ago to much fanfare and has been well received by gamers (and the gaming press). With popular, free-to-play mechanics and good worth-of-mouth buzz, Activision-Blizzard is... Read more...
by Brittany Goetting - Sat, Mar 14, 2020
Top Call Of Duty: Warzone Tips To Survive, Thrive And Dominate The Battle Royale
Call of Duty: Warzone is officially here and six million players have already jumped into the fray. The game is similar to other battle royale games, but there are distinct differences that set it apart. Here is the information you need to know to survive, thrive, and dominate in Call of Duty: Warzone. First and... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 09, 2020
Call of Duty: Warzone Lands March 10 As Free-To-Play Battle Royale Juggernaut With Up To 150 Players
Updated March 9th @ 1:27pm Activision has gone official with Call of Duty: Warzone, and confirms that it is a cross-platform battle royale game that is free-to-play and will support up to 150 players. The game will launch tomorrow at 11am EST, and will be available on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. You can read more... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 14, 2020
A Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Warzone Glitch Is Thrusting Players Into Rumored Battle Royale Mode
There is little doubt that developer Infinity Ward is adding a battle royale to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. This has been rumored for several months, and an in-game Season 2 trailer certainly seems to tease its eventual addition. On top of it all, a menu glitch and gameplay footage provide the strongest evidence yet... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 30, 2019
Here's Where To Find Fortnite Snowflakes And Ice Boxes For Winterfest Challenge Fun
Look, anyone who plays Fortnite who says they don't want a Polar Renegade Spray is lying. I mean, just look at it (show above)! Okay, maybe not everyone cares about earning the uncommon spray, which is from the Bear Brigade set. But for those who do, completing a Winterfest challenge is the key (which starts with your... Read more...
by Brittany Goetting - Sun, Dec 22, 2019
Here's How To Find The Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Battle Royale Map
The release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's battle royale mode may be just around the corner. The mode has not officially been confirmed, but its map has reportedly been found. A redditor used a glitch to explore Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's upcoming battle royale map. u/KingBeezoR discovered a glitch during a... Read more...
by Brittany Goetting - Sat, Dec 21, 2019
PlayStation 5 Game Leak Details Potential Free To Play Battle Royale Blockbuster
Image from NetEase We so far know very little about any upcoming PlayStation 5 games, despite the fact that we know quite a bit about the console's hardware. Both PlayStation and video game developers have been tight-lipped about future offerings. However, one description hints that a major battle royale game will be... Read more...
by Shane McGlaun - Thu, Dec 12, 2019
Forza Horizon 4 Gains Epic 72-Player Eliminator Battle Royale Mode
Game devs seemingly can't launch a shooter without a battle royale mode today to appease gamers. Battle royale fever is extending beyond the shooter realm with an announcement that Forza Horizon 4 is getting a new game mode called The Eliminator. Xbox One and PC gamers will get The Eliminator mode at no cost as part... Read more...
by Brandon Hill - Wed, Aug 21, 2019
Tencent Battle Royale Game Synced Lets Gamers Hack A Horde Of Zombies For World Domination
The battle royale genre has exploded in popularity over the last couple of years with titles like Fortnite and PUBG leading the way. Needless to say, many developers are looking to get in on the battle royale free-for-all, and the latest is Tencent Next Studios with the announcement of Synced: Off-Planet. Synced:... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Mon, Jul 29, 2019
Fortnite's First Solo Champ Is 16 Years Old And Now $3 Million Richer
When I was 16 years old, I remember cruising the mall and local stores in search for a job that would inevitably pay minimum wage, as many jobs do at that age. Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf eschewed the traditional route that most teens take, and collected a cool $3 million from Epic Games for dominating at the Fortnite... Read more...
by Brandon Hill - Mon, Jul 01, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Battle Royale Mode Rumored, Dev Says 'No Comment'
There's a new Call of Duty arriving later this year, and it's a reboot of Modern Warfare. The first Modern Warfare launched over a decade ago, and the most recent outing was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. However, thanks to a new leak, we're learning more about the rumored battle royale mode that will be included... Read more...
by Shane McGlaun - Fri, Jun 21, 2019
Apex Legends Round-Up: New Characters, PC Patch Details And The Reality Of A Sequel
Apex Legends fans have a lot going on right now to soak in. This week dragons have turned up in the game that drop loot when shot, but some wondered how you actually kill them and what might happen if you do. A lot more is going in the Apex Legends world right now, including hints at a new Legends for players to... Read more...
by Shane McGlaun - Mon, Jun 10, 2019
Fallout 76 Aims For Redemption With Nuclear Winter Battle Royale Mode And Human NPCs
Bethesda was at E3 2019, and during its showcase, it offered up a pair of trailers that show all the gaming goodness coming to Fallout 76 this year. Gamers have been very critical of Fallout 76 since it launched with many fans of the franchise seeing aspects of the game as nothing more than a money grab by Bethesda... Read more...


The arrangements for the Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO) 36th AGM Oman 2003 to be hosted by Oman Air at Al Bustan Palace Hotel are progressing steadily.
The AGM will feature a blend of international experts and senior representatives from the global aviation industry coming together to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the Arab Airlines.
The Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO) established in 1965 is a Regional Association of the Arab Airlines who have their home base in countries who are members of the Arab League.
The organization's mission is to promote cooperation amongst Arab Airlines and to serve their common interests through service excellence.


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Sustainable wildlife management a reality at Colorado's Wild Animal Sanctuary
Posted at 12/02/2010 09:32:00 AM Elizah_Leigh, wild animal sanctuary
With visions of lions and tigers and bears in our heads, my family and I recently took a trek out to the sleepy, tumbleweed-laden town of Keenesburg, Colorado, home to Patrick Craig's 30-year-old Wild Animal Sanctuary. You may have seen profiles of his phenomenal 240-acre rescue facility (along with its 225+ assorted furry residents) on various different television networks throughout the years, but experiencing the entire scene first-hand is truly 'larger-than-life.' It is a heart-stopping, mind-altering reminder that with the right combination of passion and drive, we can all make a huge difference in the world.
At the tender age of 19, Craig found his calling when he learned about the appalling fate of "surplus zoo populations," wherein extra animals born within nationwide zoo breeding programs are euthanized because there is purportedly nowhere to keep them. In other highly documented cases too numerous to count, zoos have been guilty of disposing of countless numbers of their residents via the illegal pet trade, scientific experiments, the exotic meat industry and in travelling circuses. Moved by the plight of these animals, Craig transformed a small portion of his family's property into a safe haven and began notifying zoos across the country that they finally had an alternative.
What initially began as a minor rescue operation today stands as a full-fledged 501(c)3 non-profit organization devoted to offering the best quality of life to wild animals that have suffered at the hands of mismanagement and cruelty. What struck me about this facility -- aside from the admiral and steadfast devotion that every employee and volunteer exercises toward its bobcat-wolf-bear-leopard-lion-camel population -- is that they collectively embrace the reduce-reuse-recycle philosophy in every aspect of their daily operations.
Considering all of the mouths that they have to feed and the eyebrow-raising by-product of those meals, one would think that being even minorly green would be challenging at best. However, from construction to composting to energy-harnessing efforts, they've literally covered an impressive amount of eco-friendly ground while repurposing a remarkable volume of landfill-bound materials along the way.
After chatting with one of the Wild Animal Sanctuary's tour guides, I learned that all of their sprawling acreage is enclosed with repurposed power/telephone poles and donated chain link fencing. Each species lives in an enclosed outdoor habit with fellow residents who are compatible in temperament and disposition, but what stands out amid these environments are the urban jungle concrete slabs that many of them perch upon. While not particularly reminiscent of their native surroundings, these semi-eyesores become far more attractive when you realize that they are recycled from myriad construction projects and offer the animals passive solar heating and cooling benefits.
Upon closer inspection, it's hard to miss the massive, partially-buried concrete conduit pipes in their habitats, another what-the-huh? moment. It turns out that each pipe "entrance" leads to well over one hundred underground concrete bunkers -- offering an industrial yet practical take on the old-fashioned den. Craig determined that the temperature in these underground zones remains a constant 60 degrees, regardless of the time of year, providing his exotic residents a comfortable place to duck away from the elements. Even the visitor center and observation platform have been constructed with leftover hydro conduit and concrete slabs from a notoriously lengthy and costly Colorado highway rebuilding project, with donated solar panels further rounding out their energy conservation efforts.
Although the sanctuary's food bill runs a staggering $450,000 each year, they are fortunate enough to augment their residents' diets with meat and produce donations from local grocery stores and farms. While slowly driving by a roomy lion enclosure, I noticed several scattered slabs of ground beef dotting the landscape, but a few of the cats seemed to be far more interested in what I would later learn were huge Bison livers donated from a local processing plant. Those, I was informed, were "special treats."
Bold Keenesburg birds who are privy to the feeding rituals of the Wild Animal Sanctuary provide a further layer of greenification by patiently waiting until eyelids are closed and meat chunks are no longer guarded before tapping into their inner scavenger and obliterating all beak-accessible scraps. Really…you've got to see it to believe it. I had no idea that eensie weensie sparrows were that daring and carnivorous, to boot!
I cannot adequately express how deeply impacted I was by my visit. At every turn, it was hard to dismiss the general contentment that each of Craig's clearly well-cared-for animals displayed. His daily commitment is astounding in breadth and scale. Bellies were definitely sated – nary a rib cage was to be seen – and this simple observation becomes far more substantial and weighty given the fact that many of the cats and bears and wolves trotting that parcel of land were previously malnourished, abused and living in positively deplorable conditions. I heartily applaud Patrick Craig's full-circle approach to animal rescue and truly believe that in addition to offering them the best alternative to their captivity-bred circumstances, he demonstrates on a daily basis that it is absolutely possible to transform a wild dream into a sustainable reality.
Please visit the Wild Animal Sanctuary's website and at the very least, try to explore some of the video clips that shed light on its residents' backgrounds. The footage might just make you want to drop what you're doing and take a road trip out to Colorado – or at the very least, why not consider sending them a modest monetary contribution? While many of us may not possess Craig's grand scope and execution, with each personal lifestyle adjustment that we make, even a small effort to improve one corner of the planet can have a far-reaching impact. Aren't we birds of a feather after all?
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Elizah Leigh | @elizahleigh
Elizah Leigh's master's degree in education combined with her passion for the written word and deep-seated interest in environmental issues has proven to be the ideal trifecta for her present status as a green journalist. Currently commissioned to write a reference book on vegetarianism, Elizah hopes to inspire people through her words. Follow Elizah on Facebook.
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Cross-continental comparisons of butterfly assemblages in tropical rainforests: Implications for biological monitoring
Yves Basset, Rod Eastwood, Legi Sam, David J. Lohman, Vojtech Novotny, Tim Treuer, Scott E. Miller, George D. Weiblen, Naomi E. Pierce, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Watana Sakchoowong, Pitoon Kongnoo, Miguel A. Osorio-Arenas
Plant and Microbial Biology
1.Standardised transect counts of butterflies in old-growth rainforests in different biogeographical regions are lacking. Such data are needed to mitigate the influence of methodological and environmental factors within and between sites and, ultimately, to discriminate between long-term trends and short-term stochastic changes in abundance and community composition. 2.We compared butterfly assemblages using standardised Pollard Walks in the understory of closed-canopy lowland tropical rainforests across three biogeographical regions: Barro Colorado Island (BCI), Panama; Khao Chong (KHC), Thailand; and Wanang (WAN), Papua New Guinea. 3.The length and duration of transects, their spatial autocorrelation, and number of surveys per year represented important methodological factors that strongly influenced estimates of butterfly abundance. Of these, the effect of spatial autocorrelation was most difficult to mitigate across study sites. 4.Butterfly abundance and faunal composition were best explained by air temperature, elevation, rainfall, wind velocity, and human disturbance at BCI and KHC. In the absence of weather data at WAN, duration of transects and number of forest gaps accounted for most of the explained variance, which was rather low in all cases (<33%). 5.Adequate monitoring of the abundance of common butterflies was achieved at the 50ha BCI plot, with three observers walking each of 10 transects of 500m for 30min each, during each of four surveys per year. These data may be standardised further after removing outliers of temperature and rainfall. Practical procedures are suggested to implement global monitoring of rainforest butterflies with Pollard Walks.
Insect Conservation and Diversity
Biological monitoring
Center for Tropical Forest Science
Pollard Walks
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Basset, Y., Eastwood, R., Sam, L., Lohman, D. J., Novotny, V., Treuer, T., Miller, S. E., Weiblen, G. D., Pierce, N. E., Bunyavejchewin, S., Sakchoowong, W., Kongnoo, P., & Osorio-Arenas, M. A. (2013). Cross-continental comparisons of butterfly assemblages in tropical rainforests: Implications for biological monitoring. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 6(3), 223-233. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00205.x
Cross-continental comparisons of butterfly assemblages in tropical rainforests : Implications for biological monitoring. / Basset, Yves; Eastwood, Rod; Sam, Legi; Lohman, David J.; Novotny, Vojtech; Treuer, Tim; Miller, Scott E.; Weiblen, George D.; Pierce, Naomi E.; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Sakchoowong, Watana; Kongnoo, Pitoon; Osorio-Arenas, Miguel A.
In: Insect Conservation and Diversity, Vol. 6, No. 3, 01.05.2013, p. 223-233.
Basset, Y, Eastwood, R, Sam, L, Lohman, DJ, Novotny, V, Treuer, T, Miller, SE, Weiblen, GD, Pierce, NE, Bunyavejchewin, S, Sakchoowong, W, Kongnoo, P & Osorio-Arenas, MA 2013, 'Cross-continental comparisons of butterfly assemblages in tropical rainforests: Implications for biological monitoring', Insect Conservation and Diversity, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 223-233. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00205.x
Basset Y, Eastwood R, Sam L, Lohman DJ, Novotny V, Treuer T et al. Cross-continental comparisons of butterfly assemblages in tropical rainforests: Implications for biological monitoring. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 2013 May 1;6(3):223-233. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00205.x
Basset, Yves ; Eastwood, Rod ; Sam, Legi ; Lohman, David J. ; Novotny, Vojtech ; Treuer, Tim ; Miller, Scott E. ; Weiblen, George D. ; Pierce, Naomi E. ; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh ; Sakchoowong, Watana ; Kongnoo, Pitoon ; Osorio-Arenas, Miguel A. / Cross-continental comparisons of butterfly assemblages in tropical rainforests : Implications for biological monitoring. In: Insect Conservation and Diversity. 2013 ; Vol. 6, No. 3. pp. 223-233.
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Das Indische Palmenhörnchen (Funambulus palmarum) ist eine Hörnchenart aus der Gattung der Gestreiften Palmenhörnchen (Funambulus). Es ist in einem großen Gebiet von Zentral- und Süd-Indien sowie auf Sri Lanka verbreitet.

Merkmale
Das Indische Palmenhörnchen erreicht eine Kopf-Rumpf-Länge von etwa 14,6 bis 15,0 Zentimetern bei einem Gewicht von etwa 100 bis 120 Gramm. Der Schwanz wird 14,7 bis 15,8 Zentimeter lang und ist damit etwa gleich lang wie der restliche Körper. Die Tiere sind oberseits braun mit drei hell-sandfarbenen Rückenstreifen, die Bauchseite ist ebenfalls hell sandfarben. Auf dem Schwanz verläuft eine rote Mittellinie.

Verbreitung
Das Indische Palmenhörnchen kommt in Zentral- und Süd-Indien sowie auf Sri Lanka vor. Die Höhenverbreitung reicht vom Flachland bis in Höhen von etwa 2000 Metern.

Lebensweise

Die Verbreitungsgebiete des Indischen Palmenhörnchens überlappen sich in großen Teilen mit denen des Nördlichen Palmenhörnchens (Funambulus pennantii). Dabei bevorzugt das Indische Palmenhörnchen eher die höheren Lagen mit sommergrünen Wäldern und besiedelt von dort aus auch menschliche Siedlungen. Auch in den Westghats kommt die Art in den höheren Lagen vor, verdrängt das Nördliche Palmenhörnchen jedoch etwa im Dekkan-Plateau. In den immergrünen Regenwäldern des Gebiets ist die Art jedoch nicht anzutreffen.

Es ist tagaktiv und lebt vor allem in Bäumen, kommt selten jedoch auch auf den Boden. Die Tiere ernähren sich von Früchten, Nüssen, Knospen, Sprossen, Rinden, Nektar und Insekten. Im Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu nutzen die Tiere mehr als 50 verschiedene Pflanzen und ernähren sich unter anderem auch vom Nektar des Kapokbaums (Ceiba pentandra), womit sie eventuell die Bestäubung der Bäume unterstützen. Bei der Nahrungssuche untersuchen sie die Rinden von Bäumen, wahrscheinlich auf der Suche nach Insekten.

Die Nester werden auf Ästen gebaut, sie sind rund und ähneln Vogelnestern. Die Kommunikation erfolgt über hohe Pfeiftöne, die Vogelgesang ähneln und etwas dunkler als die des Nördlichen Palmenhörnchens sind. Zu den Hauptfressfeinden gehört der Bengalenuhu (Bubo bengalensis).

Systematik
Das Indische Palmenhörnchen wird als eigenständige Art innerhalb der Gattung der Gestreiften Palmenhörnchen (Funambulus) eingeordnet, die aus fünf Arten besteht. Die wissenschaftliche Erstbeschreibung stammt von Carl von Linné aus dem Jahr 1766, der die Art in der 12. Auflage seiner Systema Naturæ beschrieb und als Verbreitungsgebiet Amerika, Asien, Afrika angab. Die Terra typica wurde später auf die Ostküste von Madras, Indien, eingeschränkt.

Innerhalb der Art werden einschließlich der Nominatform drei Unterarten unterschieden:
 Funambulus palmarum palmarum: Nominatform, im westlichen und südlichen Indien bis etwa 16 Grad nördlicher Breite. Die Rückenseite ist grau bis braun, wobei die nördlichen Formen eher grau und die südlichen etwas dunkler sind.
 Funambulus palmarum brodiei auf Sri Lanka. Dies ist die hellste Form mit fast orangefarbenen Seitenstreifen. Die Tiere des Hochlands sind etwas dunkler.
 Funambulus palmarum robertsoni im östlichen Indien zwischen dem 20. und 24. Grad nördlicher Breite. Dies ist die kleinste Unterart und die Grundfärbung ist grau ohne braunen Einschlag.

Status, Bedrohung und Schutz

Das Indische Palmenhörnchen ist das am häufigsten vorkommende Hörnchen seiner Gattung. Es wird von der International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) als nicht gefährdet (Least concern) eingeordnet. Begründet wird dies durch das große und sich weiter ausdehnende Verbreitungsgebiet, das angenommene häufige Vorkommen der Art und die große Anpassungsfähigkeit an Lebensraumveränderungen. Potenziell bestandsgefährdende Bedrohungen sind nicht bekannt.

Belege

Literatur
 Richard W. Thorington Jr., John L. Koprowski, Michael A. Steele: Squirrels of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2012; S. 162–163. ISBN 978-1-4214-0469-1

Weblinks

Schönhörnchen

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Bible > Commentaries > Judges 5:6
◄ Judges 5:6 ►
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
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(6) In the days of Shamgar.—In this and the two next verses is described the misery and dejection of Israel; and the names of Shamgar and Jael are mentioned to enhance the glory of Deborah, by showing that even the presence among the Israelites of two such heroic souls as Shamgar and Jael was unavailing to deliver them until Deborah arose. That Shamgar is thus (apparently) alluded to as a contemporary of Jael has an important bearing on the chronology; for it at least shows that simultaneous struggles may have been going on against the Philistines in the south and the Canaanites in the north.
In the days of Jael.—It has been thought so strange that Deborah should mention the name of the Bedouin chieftainess as marking the epoch, that some have supposed "Jael" to be the name of some unknown judge; and some have even proposed to read Jair. Others render it "the helper," and suppose that Ehud, or Shamgar, is referred to. But (1) Jael is essentially a woman's name (see Judges 4:17; Proverbs 5:19); (2) she is mentioned prominently in this very song as having put the finishing stroke to the victory of Israel; and (3) she may have been—and various incidents in the history lead us to suppose that she was—a woman of great importance and influence, even independently of her murder of Sisera.
The highways were unoccupied.—Literally, kept holiday. This had been foretold in Leviticus 26:22. The grass grew on them; there was no one to occupy them. "The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth" (Isaiah 33:8). "The land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned" (Zechariah 7:14). (Comp. 2Chronicles 15:5; Lamentations 1:4; Lamentations 4:18.)
Travellers.—Literally, as in the margin, walkers of paths. Those of the unhappy conquered race whose necessities obliged them to journey from one place to another could only slink along, unobserved, by twisted—i.e., tortuous, devious—bye-lanes. A traveller in America was reminded of this verse when he saw the neutral ground in 1780, with "houses plundered and dismantled, enclosures broken down, cattle carried away, fields lying waste, the roads grass-grown, the country mournful, solitary, silent."—(Washington Irving's "Life of Washington," ch. 137)
Jdg 5:6. In the days of Shamgar, &c. — In this and the two following verses Deborah, to give the Israelites a just sense of their deliverance, and excite them to greater thankfulness, represents the miseries to which the Canaanites had reduced them by twenty years' oppression; their public roads or high-ways were deserted for fear of robbers or violence; their villages depopulated; their cities blocked up, and their country overrun with the enemy's soldiers; while themselves were disarmed, dispirited, and helpless; till it pleased God to look down upon them with compassion, and raise up deliverance for them. In the days of Jael, &c. — Jael, though an illustrious woman, effected nothing for the deliverance of God's people. The travellers walked through by-ways — Because of the Philistines and Canaanites, who, besides the public burdens which they laid upon the Israelites, waited for all opportunities to do them mischief secretly; watching for travellers in common roads, as is usual with enemies in times of war; and because of the wicked even of their own people, who, having cast off the fear of God, and there being no king in Israel to punish them, broke forth into acts of injustice and violence, even against their own brethren. The Jael mentioned in this verse is generally taken to be the wife of Heber, who slew Sisera. But "the phrase, in the days of Jael, implies times past, and supposes that Jael was dead as well as Shamgar. Besides, what honour could redound to the prophetess from such a comparison? Is it worthy of a boast, that she, who was judge in Israel, had done more in delivering them from the enemy than Heber's wife, who was only a sojourner in Israel, and whose husband was at peace with the enemy? The Jael, therefore, here mentioned, seems to have been a prophetess raised up before Deborah to judge Israel, but who died without delivering them. It is true indeed the name of this prophetess is not mentioned before; but neither are any of the transactions of the time in which she is supposed to have lived recorded; nor is Shamgar's name mentioned more than once, Jdg 3:31, and then principally on account of that single exploit, of slaying six hundred Philistines with an ox-goad." — Dodd.
5:6-11. Deborah describes the distressed state of Israel under the tyranny of Jabin, that their salvation might appear more gracious. She shows what brought this misery upon them. It was their idolatry. They chose new gods, with new names. But under all these images, Satan was worshipped. Deborah was a mother to Israel, by diligently promoting the salvation of their souls. She calls on those who shared the advantages of this great salvation, to offer up thanks to God for it. Let such as are restored, not only to their liberty as other Israelites, but to their rank, speak God's praises. This is the Lord's doing. In these acts of his, justice was executed on his enemies. In times of persecution, God's ordinances, the walls of salvation, whence the waters of life are drawn, are resorted to at the hazard of the lives of those who attend them. At all times Satan will endeavour to hinder the believer from drawing near to the throne of grace. Notice God's kindness to his trembling people. It is the glory of God to protect those who are most exposed, and to help the weakest. Let us notice the benefit we have from the public peace, the inhabitants of villages especially, and give God the praise.
Words dcscriptive of a state of weakness and fear, so that Israel could not frequent the highways. It is a graphic description of a country occupied by an enemy.
6-8. The song proceeds in these verses to describe the sad condition of the country, the oppression of the people, and the origin of all the national distress in the people's apostasy from God. Idolatry was the cause of foreign invasion and internal inability to resist it.
In the days of Shamgar; whilst Shamgar lived, who was, if not a judge, yet an eminent person for strength and valour, Judges 3:31.
In the days of Jael: Jael, though an illustrious woman, and of great authority and influence upon the people, did effect nothing for the deliverance of God's people till God raised me up, &c.
Through by-ways; partly because of the Canaanites, who, besides the public burdens and tributes which they laid upon them, waited for all opportunities of doing them mischief secretly; their soldiers watching for travellers in common roads, as is usual with such in times of war; and partly because of the robbers even of their own people, who having cast off the fear and worship of God, and there being no king or ruler in Israel to restrain or punish them, and being also many of them reduced to great want, through the oppression of the Canaanites, it is not strange, if, in those times of public disorder and ataxy, divers of the Israelites themselves did break forth into acts of injustice and violence, even against their own brethren, whom they could meet with in convenient places, which made travellers seek for by-paths.
In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath,.... Of whom see Judges 3:31; who succeeded Ehud as a judge, but lived not long, and did not much; at least wrought not a perfect deliverance of the children of Israel; but during his time till now, quite through the twenty years of Jabin's oppression, things were as they are after described:
in the days of Jael; the wife of Heber the Kenite, spoken of in the preceding chapter, Judges 4:17, who appears to be a woman of masculine spirit, and endeavoured to do what good she could to Israel, though not a judge among them, as Jarchi suggests; and who before this affair of Sisera had signalized herself by some deeds of hers in favour of Israel, and against their enemies; yet far from putting a stop to the outrages committed; for in the times of both these persons:
the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways; the public roads were so infested with thieves and robbers, who stopped all they met with, and robbed them of what they had, that travellers and merchants with their carriages were obliged either to quit their employments, and not travel at all; or, if they did, were obliged to go in private roads, and roundabout ways, to keep clear of those rapparees the highways and public roads abounded with.
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were {b} unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
(b) For fear of the enemies.
6. Shamgar the son of Anath] See on Jdg 3:31. It is extraordinary that the period of the oppression (in the days of as Jdg 15:20) should be dated by Shamgar, if he was the deliverer referred to in Jdg 3:31, and by Jael who slew the leader of the Canaanite army. We have seen reason to question the account of Shamgar in Jdg 3:31; the context of the present passage clearly implies that he was not a deliverer but a foreign oppressor, perhaps the predecessor of Sisera. Jael must be the same person as the heroine of Jdg 5:24 ff.; but she belongs to the time, not of the oppression, but of its termination. When once Shamgar had been treated by late interpreters as an Israelite champion (Jdg 3:31), the words in the days of Jael were probably inserted to mark the period more exactly.
the high ways were unoccupied] lit. 'the ways ceased' (Jdg 5:7), i.e. were disused, a doubtful meaning; render, with a slight change in the Hebr. pronunciation, the caravans ceased marg. The oppression had put a stop to all intercourse and trade, cf. Jdg 9:25; travellers were driven to use circuitous routes. The next line runs, in parallelism with 'caravans,' and walkers by paths walked by crooked ways; the word ways is repeated incorrectly from the previous line; it is sufficiently implied by the plur. adj. crooked, as in Psalm 125:5.
6–8. The recent oppression.
Verse 6. - From what misery God had saved the people! In the days of her predecessor Shamgar, when the Philistines overran the country, when Heber the Kenite still dwelt in the south of Judah, all traffic ceased in the land. The caravans were stopped, and travellers slunk into the by-ways. Judges 5:6
6 In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath,
In the days of Jael, the paths kept holiday,
And the wanderers of the paths went crooked ways.
7 The towns in Israel kept holiday, they kept holiday,
Until that I, Deborah, arose,
That I arose a mother in Israel
8 They chose new gods;
Then was war at the gates:
Was there a shield seen and a spear
Among forty thousand in Israel?
The deep degradation and disgrace into which Israel had sunk before the appearance of Deborah, through its falling away from the Lord into idolatry, forms the dark reverse of that glorification at Sinai. Although, after Ehud, Shamgar had also brought help to the people against their enemies by a victory over the Philistines (Judges 3:31), and although Jael, who proved herself a heroine by slaying the fugitive Sisera, was then alive, things had got to such a pitch with Israel, that no one would venture upon the public high roads. There are no good grounds for the conjecture that Jael was a different person from the Jael mentioned in Judges 4:17., whether a judge who is not further known, as Ewald supposes, or a female judge who stood at the head of the nation in these unhappy times (Bertheau). ארחות חדלוּ, lit., "the paths ceased," sc., to be paths, or to be trodden by men. נתיבות הלכי, "those who went upon paths," or beaten ways, i.e., those who were obliged to undertake journeys for the purpose of friendly intercourse or trade, notwithstanding the burden of foreign rule which pressed upon the land; such persons went by "twisted paths," i.e., by roads and circuitous routes which turned away from the high roads. And the פּרזון, i.e., the cultivated land, with its open towns and villages, and with their inhabitants, was as forsaken and desolate as the public highways. The word perazon has been rendered judge or guidance by modern expositors, after the example of Teller and Gesenius; and in Judges 5:11 decision or guidance. But this meaning, which has been adopted into all the more recent lexicons, has nothing really to support it, and does not even suit our verse, into which it would introduce the strange contradiction, that at the time when Shamgar and Jael were judges, there were no judges in Israel. In addition to the Septuagint version, which renders the word δυνατοὶ in this verse (i.e., according to the Cod. Vat., for the Col. Al. has φράζων), and then in the most unmeaning way adopts the rendering αὔξησον in Judges 5:11, from which we may clearly see that the translators did not know the meaning of the word, it is common to adduce an Arabic word which signifies segregavit, discrevit rem ab aliis, though it is impossible to prove that the Arabic word ever had the meaning to judge or to lead. All the old translators, as well as the Rabbins, have based their rendering of the word upon פּרזי, inhabitant of the flat country (Deuteronomy 3:5, and 1 Samuel 6:18), and פּרזות, the open flat country, as distinguished from the towns surrounded by walls (Ezekiel 38:11; Zechariah 2:8), according to which פּרזון, as the place of meeting, would denote both the cultivated land with its unenclosed towns and villages, and also the population that was settled in the open country in unfortified places-a meaning which also lies at the foundation of the word in Habakkuk 3:14. Accordingly, Luther has rendered the word Bauern (peasants). שׁקּמתּי עד for קמתּי אשׁר עד. The contraction of אשׁר into שׁ, with Dagesh following, and generally pointed with Seghol, but here with Patach on account of the ק, which is closely related to the gutturals, belongs to the popular character of the song, and is therefore also found in the Song of Solomon (Judges 1:12; Judges 2:7, Judges 2:17; Judges 4:6). It is also met with here and there in simple prose (Judges 6:17; Judges 7:12; Judges 8:26); but it was only in the literature of the time of the captivity and a still later date, that it found its way more and more from the language of ordinary conversation into that of the Scriptures. Deborah describes herself as "a mother in Israel," on account of her having watched over her people with maternal care, just as Job calls himself a father to the poor who had been supported by him (Job 29:16; cf. Isaiah 22:21).
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Q: DirectShowPlayerService::doRender: Unresolved error code 0x80040266 () Helllo
I was trying to play music on qt where I'm going to click on a button "jouer" to play the music and  that was my code :
#include "jouer.h"
#include "ui_jouer.h"
Jouer::Jouer(QWidget *parent) :
QDialog(parent),
ui(new Ui::Jouer)
{
ui->setupUi(this);
ui->tabmusic->setModel(tmpmusique.afficher()); //show data base
player = new QMediaPlayer(this);
connect(player, &QMediaPlayer::positionChanged, this, &Jouer::on_positionChanged);
connect(player, &QMediaPlayer::durationChanged, this, &Jouer::on_durationChanged);
}
Jouer::~Jouer()
{
delete ui;
}

void Jouer::on_pushButton_3_clicked()
{
close();
}

void Jouer::on_pushButton_2_clicked()
{
jouertemps = new Musiqueavectemps(this); //go to another window
jouertemps->show();
}
void Jouer::on_pushButton_clicked() //that's the playing button where there is the error
{
player->setMedia(QUrl::fromLocalFile("C:\\Users\\Louay\\Desktop\\Music\\1.mp3"));
player->setVolume(50);
player->play();
}

it compiles correctly but when I click on the button "jouer"(jouer means play in French) it shows an error which is DirectShowPlayerService::doRender: Unresolved error code 0x80040266 ()
well I made some search in the internet on that type of errors of Unresolved error code 0x... ()
well it says that my error 0x80040266() is because :
Pins cannot connect because they don't support the same transport.
For example, the upstream filter might require the IAsyncReader interface, while the downstream filter requires IMemInputPin.
there is a lot of errors of  DirectShowPlayerService and I just explained the cause of my type its not the same as the other answered questions ..and I don't know how to solve this .. please do not close this post
can anyone help me please
thanks

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1The name
2System components
2.1Bike dock and locking system
2.2Pay station
2.3The bike
2.4Subscriptions
3Development
3.1Stationnement de Montréal
3.2Other developers
4Station network
5Difficulties
6In popular culture
BIXI Montréal
Bixi
City of Montreal
Transit type
Bicycle sharing system
Number of stations
794 (March 2022)
Annual ridership
3.2M (2014)
https://montreal.bixi.com
Began operation
9,665 (March 2022)
BIXI Montréal is a public bicycle sharing system serving Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Launched in May 2009 by Public Bike System Company (PBSC), it is North America's first large-scale bike sharing system and the original BIXI brand of systems. PBSC filed for bankruptcy at the beginning of 2014 as the company started experiencing financial difficulties in late 2013.[1][2] The city of Montreal then bought PBSC's assets for $11.9 million in February 2014 and created BIXI Montréal, a non-profit entity to run the bike sharing operations.[3] Following the purchase of the company's international division by Bruno Rodi in April 2014, it was renamed PBSC Urban Solutions. After buying a large number of Rodi's shares, Luc Sabbatini became PBSC's majority stockholder and current CEO.[4]
The name[edit]
BIXI is a hybrid between "Bicycle" and "Taxi" to underline the concept of being able to use a bicycle just like a taxi. The name was coined by Michel Gourdeau who won a public competition to find the best name for the service when it was first introduced in Montreal. The prize for the winner was a BIXI pass for life.
System components[edit]
See also: PBSC Urban Solutions § Equipment
A complete station is made up of a pay station, bikes, and bike docks (where the bikes are kept), which are fitted into modular platforms that are powered by solar panels. These platforms are the base and electronic ports for pay stations and bike docks. Bike stations can be created, expanded, configured and removed in about half an hour, monitored by a real-time management system. Excavation or preparatory work is not required, allowing the installation of a bike station as an addition to on-street parking.
Bike dock and locking system[edit]
Station at Boulevard René-Lévesque
Bike docks are used to store and lock bikes. These modular docking stations are formed by a combination of groups of four docks. The bike dock's modularity allows a pay station to be used in the place of a single dock. Maintenance and repair of the system is simple because of a removable module present in every docking station which contains the locking system and all necessary parts that allow the system to function. In case of repairs, this module can be replaced with an identical one immediately, reducing the down-time of the system. The locking system is based on an energy efficient motor used in the medical sector. The principal inventor of these systems is Charles Khairallah,[5] president of Robotics Design,[6][7][8][9] with co-inventor Michel Dallaire, president of Michel Dallaire Industrial Design.[10]
A BIXI pay station.
Pay station[edit]
Users can rent a bike using a subscriber key (a "BIXI key") obtained through a long-term online subscription (30 days or annual) or an access code provided by the pay station (24-hour or 72-hour access). Pay stations are touchscreen-operated and only accept credit cards. A button is used to notify BIXI mechanics of bicycles requiring servicing.
The bike[edit]
The bicycles are utility bicycles with a unisex step-through frame and three gears.
The one-piece aluminum frame and handlebars hide cables in an effort to protect them from tampering and harsh weather conditions. The heavy-duty tires are designed to be puncture-resistant and are filled with nitrogen gas to maintain proper pressure for longer.[11] Twin LED rear lights are found inside the frame, and the sturdy frame weighs approximately 18 kg (40 lb). White LED lights are found in the front of the bike. The bikes are built in Saguenay, Quebec, by Cycles Devinci.
Subscriptions[edit]
In order to use the system, users need to take out a subscription, which allows the subscriber an unlimited number of rentals under 30 minutes for 1 day and 3 days subscriptions, and 45 minutes for 1 month and 1 year subscriptions. A trip that lasts longer than this no-charge time period gets additional charges, on an increasing price scale. The increasing price scale is meant to keep the bikes in circulation.
Development[edit]
Stationnement de Montréal[edit]
The project was included in the transportation plan for the City of Montreal, which aimed at encouraging active means of transportation such as bicycle. The program is run by the city's parking authority, Stationnement de Montréal.[12]
Other developers[edit]
8D Technologies developed the entire technological platform behind the BIXI system, including the wireless bike station terminals, the RFID bike dock technology and all software systems.[13][14][15][16] The system runs on solar energy to reduce environmental impact and maximize the system's overall energy efficiency. 8D also created the Spotcycle bike-share smartphone app that locates and shows the status of bike stations close to the users.[17]
Michel Dallaire created the design of the physical components.[18][19]
Robotics Design created the modular bike dock and the intelligent locking system.[20]
Cycles Devinci manufactures BIXI bikes in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec.[21]
Rio Tinto Alcan is the title sponsor of the BIXI program, as well as providing aluminium for the bikes.[22]
Morrow Communications.[23]
Michel Gourdeau: suggested the name BIXI, a portmanteau of bicycle and taxi, which was selected 8 896 suggestions by a majority of the people who participated in a contest organized by the city of Montreal in the autumn of 2008.[24]
Station network[edit]
The location of a BIXI bike station is determined by several parameters, including population density, points of interest and activities (universities), bike paths, other transportation networks, and data on travel patterns of the general public. In 2009, 5,000 bikes were deployed in Montreal through a network of pay stations located mainly in the boroughs of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, the Plateau-Mont-Royal and Ville-Marie, spilling over into parts of Outremont and the South West. As of 2011[update], the system has spread to Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension, Ahuntsic, Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Westmount, Saint-Leonard and Verdun.
Difficulties[edit]
Montreal's BIXI system experienced some initial difficulties less than two months after its introduction in 2009, with damage and vandalism to some of the bikes. The La Presse newspaper reported on July 5, 2009, that one in five bikes had been damaged and 15% of bike racks had become defective. Stationnement de Montréal communications director Michel Philibert stated that the organization planned to reinforce racks and was testing prototype designs.[25] Designer Michel Dallaire said it never occurred to him that people would try to break the stations to steal bikes.[19] Since then, there has been no significant damage or vandalism issues reported in any of the BIXI installations.
The program experienced several serious setbacks and obstacles during its lifetime, including program mismanagement, breach of contract litigation, and the surmounting of debt,[26][27][28][29] most notably when the city of Montreal was forced to sell the lucrative international division, eliminating from the equation the only part that turned a profit.[30] Eventually, this contributed to the company filing for bankruptcy in January 2014.[31][32][33][34] The international division was renamed PBSC Urban Solutions and continued to extend its activities in several countries including United States,[35][36] Canada[37] and Mexico.[35][38]
In popular culture[edit]
The Montreal rap group Da Gryptions had a viral hit song and video in the summer of 2010 titled "The Bixi Anthem"[39] which was a tribute to the bike system.
PBSC Urban Solutions
Bicycle-sharing system
List of bicycle sharing systems
Utility cycling - Short-term hire schemes
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^ "Once bankrupt, Montreal's Bixi can't keep up with global demand". www.cbc.ca. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
^ "Bixi needs Montrealers to 'show their love': Denis Coderre". CBC News. 2014-03-24. Retrieved 2016-08-23.
^ "Bixi: PBSC Urban Solutions brings bike-sharing to the world (Part 3)". Montreal Gazette. 2015-10-23. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
^ WIPO. "(WO/2009/129623) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURING A MOVABLE ITEM TO A STRUCTURE". Wipo.int. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
^ Marc Tison. "Le Volksvélo" (PDF). La Presse. Retrieved 2008-09-28. [dead link]
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List of bicycle-sharing systems
Anywheel (Singapore)
CityBike (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Ddareungi (Seoul, South Korea)
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Hoba Bike (Hong Kong)
Ketch' Up Bike (Hong Kong)
Hangzhou Public Bicycle (Hangzhou, China)
LinkBike (George Town, Penang, Malaysia)
LocoBike (Hong Kong)
Mobike (China and Singapore)
Moov Technology (Singapore)
ofo (China)
SG Bike (Singapore)
YouBike (Taiwan)
JoBike (Bangladesh)
Ola Pedal (India)
Tiruchirappalli Bicycle Share (India)
Antbis (Antalya)
Bdood (Tehran, Shiraz)
Bisim (İzmir)
Cyacle Bikeshare (Abu Dhabi)
Esbis (Eskişehir)
İsbike (Istanbul)
Kaybis (Kayseri)
Kobis (Kocaeli)
nextbike (Konya)
Sambis (Samsun)
Tel-O-Fun (Tel Aviv)
Astana Bike (Astana, Kazakhstan)
Aarhus City Bikes
Belfast Bikes
BicikeLJ (Ljubljana)
BiciMAD (Madrid)
Bicimia (Brescia)
Bicing (Barcelona)
BikeMi (Milan)
BuBi (Budapest)
Bycyklen (Copenhagen)
Call a Bike (Germany)
Dublinbikes
Helsinki City Bikes
nextbike (many countries)
Oslo Bysykkel
OV-fiets (Netherlands)
OYBike (Reading and Farnborough)
Rekola (Czechia)
Santander Cycles (London)
Santander Cycles Leicester
Sevici (Seville)
Stockholm City Bikes
Styr & Ställ (Gothenburg)
ToBike (Turin)
Valenbisi (Valencia)
Vélib' Métropole (Paris region)
Vélivert (Saint-Étienne)
Vélo'v (Lyon)
Velobike (Moscow)
Vélopop' (Avignon)
Veturilo (Warsaw)
Villo! (Brussels)
Bike Share Toronto
VeloGo (Ottawa)
Mobi (Vancouver)
Hamilton Bike Share
EcoBici (Mexico City)
Mi Bici (Guadalajara)
ArborBike (Ann Arbor)
Arcata Bike Library (Arcata)
Austin B-Cycle
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Bay Wheels (San Francisco Bay Area)
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The goals at primary school level for this section of Geometry are a sound knowledge of direction and how direction can be specified, the construction and use of simple maps, and a feeling for paths both how to recognise them and how to specify them.
Direction starts at Level 1 with simple turning with body movements. It develops in Level 2 with the introduction of the notions of clockwise, anti-clockwise, left and right and the notion of a right angle. By Level 3, children should be working with a wider array of angles and using them to help specify position. But position cannot be specified solely in turns of angle so angles should be used with distances to give an indication of position. Coordinates come in at Level 4 to give a more precise specification of position.
Simple maps can be introduced at Level 2. This work can be made more complicated at Levels 3 and 4 with the introduction of coordinates and compass bearings.
Paths also begin at Level 2 with simple drawings illustrating routes that would interest children. At Level 3 the work on paths becomes more complicated until they are able to tell which paths involve the longest or shortest routes. At level 4 the compass can be brought in to assist in following paths. Here too children will be able to investigate the paths of objects that move in ways that are relatively easy to describe.
Levels One and Two: As in many other areas, in Position it is a good idea to start from the children and their world. The classroom and the school are places that the child spends much time and so these can provide the raw material for exploring and learning about position.
put a teddy bear in the centre of a circle of children. Who will the teddy bear face if it turns through a quarter/half turn?
relate quarter and half turns to numbers on a clock.
make and discuss maps of the playground. How do you get from one point to another?


Even small tasks like making a phone call or going into a bar and interact with someone, can become huge mountains to climb when we are empty of energies. And very often we give up even before trying reaching the first step.
Our view is that it is always worth trying to improve ourselves, we can become alchemists of our personal growth, alchemist for organizations or clients, and deeply inside, researchers.
Researchers do not just look for data. Researchers look for knowledge, meanings, truth, getting rid of fake perceptions. The result of a good research into the truth is "Noesis", the generation of new patterns of thought, new light, new knowledge that replaces fake or unreal assumptions and truths.
Been rooted in ancient European philosophical texts, we will often pay a tribute to Latin Wisdom, phrases that explain, much deeper that modern "fast and easy" manuals, deep meanings for leadership.
The art and science of accessing and opening the vast amount of hidden human energies has just begun.
Fortunately, a new Science of Human Factor is rising, a science of what Humans can do, achieve, and generate, when functioning at their best.
Having "Power without Knowledge" is like giving a gun to a 1 or 2-years old baby, that will use it as a toy, very likely killing someone by mistake, generating severe damages. Knowledge, instead, can become the instrument for developing and improving the world we live in.
For functioning at our best, we need to take into account the fact that we are made of physical matter (bones, muscles, tissue…) but also have dreams and feelings.
Our intangible states, emotions, our levels of consciousness, our values, desires, memories, assets and skills determine the performance we can achieve, the life we can have, the mountains we can climb, the oceans where we can swim, the landscapes that we will be able to see.
The HPM Exa-leadership Method derives its name from the primary objective of Modeling, giving "shape" to Human Energies, generating power and "crafting" intangible possibilities into real life and real action, as much as an artist gives shape to its distinctive and unique form of art starting from a vague idea.


The governing Tories are fretting: Minimum wage rates aren't rising fast enough to help the working poor.
No, we're not talking about Ontario's Progressive Conservative government. Wrong Tories, wrong country.
There won't be any good news on the minimum wage in Thursday's Ontario budget. Not after Premier Doug Ford imposed a 2-1/2-year freeze on the $14 wage rate right after taking power.
By contrast, change is brewing in the United Kingdom, where a right-leaning Conservative government has just hired a left-leaning American academic to recommend how to improve wage fairness. With unemployment at record lows, influential Tories are rethinking old orthodoxies about what works (and what doesn't) for low-wage workers.
According to the Financial Times of London, that bastion of British business, U.K. Chancellor Philip Hammond is pressing ahead with an expanded "national living wage." Aiming for the highest minimums in the industrialized world — possibly as high as $16.50 next year — the Tories have hired U.S. labour economist Arindrajit Dube to advise the U.K.'s Low Pay Commission, the FT reports.
Here in Ontario, our own premier would almost certainly disparage Dube as one of those "elite economists" he mocked in a speech to the Economic Club in January, after the province's scheduled $15 minimum wage was cancelled. But as Dube will tell anyone who listens, New York City and San Francisco have set a legal minimum of $15 (U.S.) ($20 in Canadian currency), while Seattle leads the way at $16 (U.S.) ($21.30 Cdn).
And their economies are still surging.
It's not just big cities, but big corporations that are adapting to economic realities. Amazon recently hiked its minimum pay to $15 (U.S.) an hour, and Target stores will hit that same target by 2020 (after a June 2019 increase to $13 an hour in June — $17.30 in Canadian funds).
Scary stuff, as scaremongering tends to be. But when Ontario raised the legal minimum from $11.60 to $14 in 2018, what happened?
Total employment went up — not down — by 77,500 jobs, pushing the closely-watched unemployment rate to 5.4 per cent, according to Statistics Canada. Never mind.
In election campaigns, bumper stickers beat statistics.
What Ford didn't say is that many of those working poor were already tax-exempt, leaving them out of pocket for a wage increase, and no further ahead on his proposed Low-income Individuals and Families Tax (LIFT) credit. So how did that turn out?
Out of 2.9 million Ontarians eligible for a LIFT credit (earning less than $38,500 a year), only 1 million will get any benefit. Of those, a mere 19,000 Ontarians will get the maximum $850 credit that Ford dangled.
Another 1.9 million minimum wage workers will get nothing — no $15 minimum wage increase, and no tax credit. That's because "very few eligible LIFT recipients pay enough Ontario personal income tax to qualify" for the promised credit, according to the legislature's non-partisan Financial Accountability Office.
In fact, the average benefit will be $409 this year, compared to the $810 in extra take-home pay — roughly double — that workers would have earned, on average, with a $15 minimum wage. Turns out only about one-in-three minimum wage earners (38 per cent) will get any LIFT credit at all.
"Most minimum wage earners won't benefit from LIFT," Ontario's independent watchdog concludes.
Reality versus ideology. That's why bumper stickers are so sticky in today's politics.
"Promise made, promise kept," Ford keeps saying — except for those minimum wage workers he hoodwinked.
"Help is on the way," our premier pledged on the campaign trail — until the help took a detour, via Ford's bait-and-switch tax scam, a sham that takes money out of the pockets of the poorest Ontarians.
"Ontario is open for business," Ford boasts — borrowing a slogan from Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, and a half-dozen American states.
Open for business, but closed-minded about business realities beyond the province.


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Trials Fusion Announced for Current and Next Gen Consoles in 2014
Trials Frontier to launch alongside for mobile.
Posted By Ravi Sinha | On 10th, Jun. 2013
Ubisoft took the chance to announce not one but two Trials games at their E3 press conference, with Trials Fusion and Trials Frontier arriving sometime in 2014. A new gameplay trailer for the same was revealed, which can be viewed above.
While Trials Fusion will release on Xbox 360 and PC along with next gen consoles, Trials Frontier will act as a mobile version of the game for smartphones and tablets. Interestingly enough, both games will be able to work together in some way. It's an interesting concept, and if Ubisoft finds a way to make the Cloud functionality of both the Xbox One and PS4 work well, it could be rather innovative.
Plus, the Trials games in general have been both critically and commercially acclaimed, with Trials Evolution doing fairly good numbers. Look at the announcement of Trials Fusion and Frontier as the sole bright spots in Ubisoft's rather boring E3 conference then.
Tagged With: e3 2013, mobile, pc, ps4, Trials Frontier, Trials Fusion, Ubisoft, xbox 360, Xbox One
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Platforms:PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC
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The Growing Support for Gender Identity
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Caitlin Jenner is on the cover of Vanity Fair. The day-to-day life of Jazz Jennings, a transgender teen, is being documented on reality television.
Although the topic of gender identity has become more mainstream today than it ever has been, the intense struggle, unfortunately, continues to exist for those who grapple with gender identity.
In basic terms, gender identity can be defined as how a person perceives themselves and what gender they call themselves. A person's gender identity can be the same or different than the sex assigned at birth. It is a very personal issue.
Those who believe they have been given the incorrect gender assignment at birth frequently experience inner turmoil, anxiety and even depression. It's a difficult situation to admit and to disclose.
People in this position are often considered "transgender." The term transgender refers to people whose gender identity or expression of gender characteristics differs from those typically associated with the sex assigned to them at birth.
However, not all people who consider themselves transgender can (or should) undergo a gender transition.
Gender transition requires an extreme commitment physically, mentally, financially and spiritually. Transitioning is the process some transgender people go through to begin living as the sex with which they identify, rather than the gender assigned to them at birth. This may, or may not, include hormone therapy, sex reassignment surgery and other medical procedures.
Regardless of the individual's preference or desire, gender identity issues can benefit from professional therapy by trained experts. In most cases, gender transition and reassignment absolutely requires extensive analysis and professional sessions to evaluate the person's decision before any medical steps are allowed.
Prior to any surgery or medical treatments and procedures that alter an individual's sexual characteristics, a variety health professionals will be part of a team that includes psychologists or psychiatrists, in overseeing this transitioning process.
Experts believe that because of the permanent nature of the surgery, candidates for sex-change surgery must evaluate extensively in advance. These individuals are often required to spend a period of time integrating themselves into the cross-gender role before any procedure begins.
Counseling and peer support are also invaluable to transsexual individuals.
Frequently, parents and family members may be surprised, even shocked or embarrassed by the disclosure that someone they thought they knew well has gender identity issues. A professional counselor can be a neutral party.
The Role of Therapy
A trained therapist can view the gender identity issues objectively and provide impartial guidance to benefit not only the person entering a new transition, but for those friends and family who are also affected by the decision.
For these specialists, the objective is not to change how the person feels about their gender. Rather, they focus on a goal of dealing with the anxiety, suffering and even pain that may accompany those feelings.
The primary goal for people with gender identity disorders include:
long-term personal comfort with their gender identity decision
the ability to experience psychological and physical well-being and self-fulfillment
the skills to live out their daily lives with a minimum of physical and emotional distress
inner confidence and strength to avoid succumbing to the difficulties of the stigma that is often attached to transgender individuals
There is no doubt that psychological therapy can deal with the numerous gender identity disorder problems and can be valuable in helping the person adjust. The awkward and persistent feelings of identifying with the opposite gender do not have to be a burden. A life complete with joy and pleasure is certainly obtainable with the proper support.
And as this controversial topic increases awareness and is discussed more openly, a growing number of medical professionals are being trained to provide transgender transition services. These specialists recognize the difficult path that the majority of people with gender identity will face and the problems that arise in daily life. With proper support and guidance, those encountering gender identity concerns have a strong opportunity to live successful, productive lives virtually indistinguishable from anyone else.
Hopefully, in the very near future it will not require a superstar athlete or a reality television show to shed light on gender identity and gender transition.
Audrey Beim holds two advanced degrees from major universities, including a Master's Degree in Psychology. She has over 20 years of experience in the health, wellness, nutritional and fitness categories and has used her expertise to write articles for media outlets such as Linfield Media and Examiner.com.


Experts estimate 1 in 5 Americans suffer from sleep apnea. However, despite being more prevalent than diabetes and having serious ramifications on quality of life, more than 80% of sleep apnea patients go undiagnosed. Rested was founded to help this substantial set of people achieve healthier sleep through a completely new approach to screening, diagnosing & treating sleep issues like sleep apnea.
During my internship at Rested, I worked on a variety of mobile and web projects. One impactful project I had the opportunity to work on, was redesigning the homescreen of Rested's iOS app.
A core business problem that Rested was facing was that the cost to get users with a high risk for serious sleep issues to want to receive help from us was expensive and unsustainable. It was apparent there was a motivation gap for users to take action and stay committed towards improving their sleep issues. This was a problem for the business since those that did not take action were costing us money, and we needed to recoup those costs.
To get a deeper understanding of the problems with the current user experience, I analyzed the current flow users take from initial onboarding to receiving treatment. From this analysis, it became evident that the path for users to receive treatment was not the most optimal. While the current task flow seems logical, the journey for users to request treatment is long since users had to sleep one night with the app before requesting treatment.
In addition to this lengthy user task flow, from our user research a significant proportion of our users stop using the app from this home screen. I hypothesized that it was because there was little information on what value the user can expect from setting the alarm and recording their sleep.
The biggest issue with the current signup process was the initial account creation screen. This screen is where the signup flow experienced the largest drop off. One hypothesis was that it was due to the confusing language and layout of this screen.
After getting a good understanding of the problems and potential opportunities of the current design, I researched how other successful behavior change applications in the health industry motivate users to take action within their app.
Many of them incorporate a daily task list for users to come back and work on every day.
Existing apps also often provide a summary of results from the user's previous days to motivate them to stay consistent with taking action.
Researching how successful health apps was helpful in providing insight into how users can pursue self-improvement through exercises. However, many sleep issues like sleep apnea cannot be cured with exercises alone but often times may require the use of medical equipment. It was therefore important to design a system that would provide users the opportunity to improve their sleep without giving them the false belief that their sleep issues could be cured. Therefore, I put researched how people intuitively expect to be treated for issues that can only be treated with professional help.
My next step was attempting to incorporate all the learnings I had made into a user interface that would make sense to the user and fulfill the goals of the project. I put together many iterations some of which are shown below.
I then translated some of the better initial ideas I had into more defined wireframes.
After gathering feedback on the above wireframes, I noted down the ideas that resonated the most with others on the design team and designed the high-fidelity prototype displayed below.
This design had a large proportion of the screen real-estate taken up by user's sleep data which provides no action items for the user to move towards treatment.
The sleep data section also drew the user's focus away from trying the sleep activities and scheduling a call with a sleep coach.
Finally, this list of activities did not provide enough detail to provide users the motivation to try each of the activities.
From the insights brought up in our design review of the high-fidelity prototype, I iterated on the design to make the most important more apparent on the homescreen. For example, this meant giving higher priority the description of each activity and lower priority the details in your sleep data.
After finalizing the homescreen, I defined a final flow for how the new homescreen would interact with the rest of the app. In addition, possible edge cases like what happens after a user completes an activity were defined.
Our cost per opportunity had declined by 4x, from a 4x increase in the number of users wanting to talk to a sleep coach and receive help with their sleep issues.
Additionally, we hit a record of achieving the lowest cost per scheduled MD appointment ever at the company. Demonstrating users were much convinced to take action on their sleep issues.


Am I Required to Fill Out a W-9 as a Sole Proprietor?
As the tax filing deadline looms each year, taxpayers begin to compile the relevant information to file income taxes. In addition to filing personal income taxes, business owners and employers must make sure to file their business tax returns and provide paperwork to employees, contractors and other individuals as required by the IRS. A sole proprietorship and its owner are treated as a single entity under tax law, and often must fill out a Form W-9.
A sole proprietor is the owner of a sole proprietorship, which is a business entity formed with little formality. Sole proprietors are not considered independent of their sole proprietorship for tax purposes; this means that the sole proprietor will include business expenses and income on his personal income taxes. The IRS essentially treats sole proprietors as self-employed individuals for tax purposes.
When a business hires and pays a sole proprietor, such as a computer repairman, the business must report the payment to the IRS to help ensure that the sole proprietor pays taxes on the funds. In order to report this information and determine whether to withhold taxes from payments, the hiring business asks the sole proprietor to complete IRS Form W-9. This form asks for the mailing address and taxpayer identification number of the hired party. The hiring party is required by law to provide the IRS and the hired party with a Form 1099 if the payment for the services exceeds a certain threshold.
The purpose of a Form W-9 is to provide the IRS with a checks and balances system; thereby, allowing the IRS to verify whether individuals or business entities are reporting the correct sources of income. Forms W-9 are used to certify the accuracy of the taxpayer identification number. Also, the W-9 allows the hiring party to determine whether the individual or entity being hired is subject to backup withholding, which is the mandatory withholding of taxes from certain payments.
Since a sole proprietor and his sole proprietorship are considered a single entity for tax purposes, the sole proprietor must fill out Forms W-9 for business transactions. The hiring party is required to request the information and the sole proprietor must fill out the Form W-9 accurately, under penalties of perjury. The sole proprietor will designate that it is a sole proprietor and accordingly, any income paid from that business relationship will be reported to the IRS provided it exceeds certain thresholds.
One of the major advantages of a limited liability company is that an LLC has pass-through taxation. Unlike a corporation, whose profits are taxed both as an entity and on the tax returns of corporation owners, an LLC is disregarded as an entity for the purposes of federal taxation. The profits of an LLC are only taxed once: on the tax returns of LLC members. In assessing the tax owed by LLC members, the LLC will likely need to file IRS Form 1099. Any independent contractors utilized by the LLC must fill out IRS Form W-9. The information provided on the W-9 is then used by an LLC to fill out Form 1099.
Nonprofit associations, like businesses, generate revenue and expenses. It is essential for nonprofits to maintain a bank account to properly account for these activities. Fortunately, it is not too difficult for a nonprofit to open a bank account. Only a few documents and a trip to the bank chosen by the organization are required.


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'You Get Me?' exhibition
Closes: 8th June. Location: Oldham
Artist Mahtab Hussain's exhibition 'You Get Me?' features a series of portraits which focus on the changing identity of young, working-class Asian men and boys in contemporary Britain. Since 2017 this exhibition has toured around the UK to much critical acclaim.
Over a nine-year period Mahtab Hussain photographed in Birmingham, where he grew up, stopping young men in the street and chatting to them as he took their portrait. He later expanded the project to London and Nottingham. The men depicted in his portraits identify as Muslim, and expressed they felt ridiculed by the constant flow of negative media representation of their lives. The title of the exhibition is a phrase that Hussain repeatedly heard in his conversations with the young men. 'You get me?' is an urban street expression that can sometimes be used in an aggressive way, but also expresses vulnerability and uncertainty: Do you understand me? Do you know where I'm coming from?
When he began making these portraits of young working-class British Asian men and boys Hussain asked himself "What does it mean to be a British Muslim male today?" He says "I didn't want to make portraits that made you feel sorry for these young men. I wanted to show that despite pressures, they have still found a way to hold themselves up as proud and dignified, although with complex and often conflicting identities." Mahtab Hussain presents the portraits with quotes in the voices of the young men themselves, telling a unique story of British Asian boyhood and manhood.
'You Get Me?' is curated by Mark Sealy at Autograph supported using public funding from Arts Council England. Mark Sealy says "This exhibition explores race and representation, respect and cultural difference. Mahtab Hussain's work is a timely investigation into the current debates on migration and identity."
Gallery Oldham
Oldham Cultural Quarter,
Greaves Street,
OL1 1AL
Website: https://www.galleryoldham.org.uk/exhibitions/
Picture copyright: Mahtab Hussain
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