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  Alf the Traveller
Alf discovered India in 1432, and built this cathedral (in 1444) in the enclave he had conquered, and which he called Goer.
Alf introduced fishing to India, and to this day the same technology is employed in fishing boats in Goa as that he developed in the 1440s.
Alf invented this in India and later brought it to Europe - the ancestor of the modern clarinet, which evolved with subsequent reinterpretations of a sketch Alf made on a beer coaster during a Bavarian festival in 1789.
www.backpocketrecords.com /TheKellaways/Alfweb/Current/Travel1.htm   (1332 words)

  
 Eclipse Technology - ALF Home
ALF is intended to support the development and maintenance of applications, not be a component of such a critical system.
ALF is based on using web-services for communications among tools and the framework.
ALF is a consortium of vendors (each with financial constraints and objectives) and companies that use the vendor’s tools (each expecting increased interoperability and development efficiency from ALF).
www.eclipse.org /alf/alf_faq.html   (1391 words)

  
 ALF FAQ
Instead, ALF as an open consortium under Eclipse oversight is coordinating to produce a "glue infrastructure" that all software development managers need to coordinate the variety of tools their developers use.
Second, the ALF Vocabulary Architecture Board will provide the oversight to coordinate the work done in the various vocabulary subcommittees, looking to avoid redundancy, undue proprietary influence, and to factor out common portions of the models.
ALF Core is a minimalist vocabulary which all tools are expected to support a lowest common denominator.
www.eclipse.org /alf/alffaq.php   (1258 words)

  
 20th WCP: Two (Faulty) Responses to the Challenge of Amoralism
In other words, Alf is well aware that he has moral reasons to be moral, and that morality cannot be justified by appealing to prudence, law, and so on.
When Alf asks "Why should I be moral?" he is rationally deliberating about what to do, and we can meet his request only by giving him something that can enter into his deliberations and influence him, insofar as he is rational, to do one thing rather than another.
To say that Alf has reasons to do M, in the second sense of "reasons," and to assume that such reasons are tied to rational requirements, is to assume (in a roundabout way) the very thing Alf questions: that moral considerations furnish him with rational requirements to behave morally.
www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/TEth/TEthTill.htm   (3132 words)

  
 ALFtv.NET - Interviews - Ask ALF
P.S. ALF is my favorite show that I have ever watched and I wish there would be a fifth season.
A: The reason ALF got caught by the Alien Task Force in the last episode was because we were supposed to do a 5th season for NBC and the premise would have been ALF living on a military base.
A: We are trying to get a ALF movie in the works that would tell of ALF's story on how he got to earth and landed in the Tanners household -- also we might have some interest to produce more ALF TV talk shows....
www.alftv.net /interviews/askalf.html   (606 words)

  
 Residents’ Report, 24 November 1998
Acute liver failure (ALF) is usually defined as altered mental status and coagulopathy in the setting of acute hepatic disease; Fulminant liver failure is generally applied to patients in whom hepatic encephalopathy develops after eight weeks of the onset of illness; subfulminant hepatic failure is that which occurs after a longer illness.
There are approximately 2000 cases of ALF annually in the U.S. with previous mortality approaching 80% but with the introduction of orthotopic liver transplantation survival rates have improved to 60-80%.
Coagulopathy — and hemorrhage are extremely common in ALF secondary to consumption and inadequate synthesis of clotting factors as well as frequent thrombocytopenia.
www.med.unc.edu /medicine/web/alf.htm   (1229 words)

  
 ACUTE LIVER FAILURE
The etiology of ALF is unknown in 30%-50% of patients and is presumed to be caused by yet unidentified non-A-E viral agent.
Thus patients with ALF need to be nursed in a quiet room, with the head end of the bed elevated, and institution of early mechanical ventilation and muscle paralysis with onset of grade 3 encephalopathy.
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is common in patients with late onset hepatic failure, and occurred in 32% of 82 patients in one study.
www.kfshrc.edu.sa /annals/184/97-347.html   (4723 words)

  
 portland imc - 2006.01.07 - 5/05 ATF Agent Testimony Precursor to Dec. Activist Arrests
ALF became active in the United States in 1979 after claiming responsibility for the release of five animals from the New York University Medical Center.
An ALF member initiated an incendiary device at the Fur Breeders Agricultural Cooperative, in Sandy, Utah, without knowing that the caretaker of the facility was asleep in the next room, but luckily, the device failed to function.
While the number of ELF and ALF incidents has fluctuated from year to year, the magnitude of the incidents appears to be on the rise with a number of high-damage arsons occurring since 1999.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2006/01/331510.shtml   (3284 words)

  
 Dear Alf 19
Alf: Every once in a while, while surfing the web for new tea flavors, I accidentally end up in one of those crazy forums.
Alf: The tusk statues are known as Guardians to the Mudokon inhabitants.
Alf: It seems that someone or something on Oddworld has taken an affinity to protecting the Meep.
www.oddworld.com /alf/ow_dearalf19.shtml   (1601 words)

  
 Liver physicians, Acute liver failure, Treatment of ALF
Acute Liver Failure (ALF) occurs when a lot of the cells in the liver die in a short period of time (usually within few days to weeks), so that most of the liver's function is lost.
ALF should not be confused with other types of liver failure due to Cirrhosis or Chronic Hepatitis, which normally take years to develop.
It is important that patients with ALF be seen at by doctors experienced in treating ALF and in liver transplantation.
www.livertransplantindia.com /acute-liver-failure.asp   (384 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1880
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (May 6, 1880 – June 15, 1938) was a German expressionist painter and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or The Bridge.
Alf Common (died April 3, 1946 in Darlington) was an English footballer, most famous for being the first player to be transferred for £1000.
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880), composer and cellist, was one of the originators of the operetta form, a precursor of the modern musical comedy.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1880   (5985 words)

  
 The Turning Tide
Governor Alf Landon, in whose honor this lecture is given every year, said in 1936, and I quote: "We want more than a material recovery in this country.
This is the message that we have heard from Alf Landon and the newly freed peoples of the old Soviet bloc -- that faith in God is not, as some believe, a threat to democracy.
Governor Alf Landon foresaw this problem in 1936, when, speaking in New York City, he said: "We have been allowing material things to obscure the great religious and spiritual values.
www.patrobertson.com /speeches/alflandon.asp   (3161 words)

  
 ASC Releases Free ALF Parser
ALF is suitable for use with EDA tools at all levels of the development process, and can be compatible with other emerging standards such as OLA.
Recognizing the unique suitability of ALF for the company's low-power synthesis efforts, ASC has worked closely with systems design companies and semiconductor manufacturers to help accelerate the language's adoption by the industry.
ASC is also completing the industry's first IEEE 1603 ALF test suite, which will be administered by industry organization Accellera (www.accellera.org).
www.ascinc.com /news/announcealfatdate.html   (747 words)

  
 ALF Oregon :: Welcome to ALF Oregon
ALF brings a wide range of leaders together to build effective networks of collaboration, service and community in the state of Oregon.
The Oregon chapter is the only state-wide chapter in the national ALF system, an acknowledgement of the need to fully integrate Oregon's many diverse constituencies - including racial, ethnic, geographic and private interest groups - in building networks focused on a shared vision and common goals.
His vision was to establish a national organization dedicated to bringing together leaders from various sectors in communities across the country to develop their leadership skills and capacity and strengthen their commitment to work together on public issues.
www.alfo.org   (310 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Proposal for Common OPEF/ALF/OLA Roadmap The participants of a physical modeling meeting held on February 1st 2000 at LSI Logic recommend the following proposal for approval by the OVI board.
In particular, ALF libraries containing no physical information as well as ALF libraries containing only physical information shall be valid, if they conform to the ALF language.
However, ALF and OLA shall be positioned as related standards in the description of both PARs.
www.vhdl.org /alf/homepage/PhysProposal.txt   (370 words)

  
 The Trinidad Guardian -Online Edition Ver 2.0   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
ALFs are masters at taking any situation in a game involving West Indies and constructing an argument proving that Lara is the problem.
But ALFs are not easily defeated; in fact, they will then turn that evidence against Lara by explaining to you that all of the other factors were influenced by Lara.
Of course, if he had failed as a batsman in that series, the ALF response would have been, a true champion batsman should be able to make runs under any conditions against the best opposition.
www.guardian.co.tt /archives/2005-05-09/SA-6.html   (700 words)

  
 The Official Ridley Pearson Website
Alf could see light now, swirling around his head, colors and sparkles, moving to music, dancing to the sound of.
Alf felt himself yanked away from the trunk, and then the music was gone, and all the other good feelings with it.
Alf watched two men carry the trunk onto the ship, and he felt a sadness come over him, because he knew might not hear the music again.
www.ridleypearson.com /peter_chapter2.html   (1536 words)

  
 Difference with the Animal Liberation Front
As far as their organizations are concerned, AF and ALF have nothing in common, but their basic statements are similar.
Both Animal Freedom and the ALF declare that animals have a right to freedom, while the ALF thinks that some animals should be literally liberated.
The ALF's main concern are laboratory animals and animals kept for their fur; AF's primary concern are factory animals kept in industrialized animal husbandry methods (factory farming).
www.animalfreedom.org /english/background/afalf.html   (382 words)

  
 Residents Leaving Assisted Living: Descriptive and Analytic Results From a National Survey Executive Summary
The results indicate that roughly one-third of the residents who left a study ALF between baseline and follow-up (roughly 8 percent of all residents on a yearly basis) either died in the ALF or elsewhere prior to follow-up contact.
Residents in ALFs without a full-time RN involved in direct care were significantly more likely to leave their ALF to go to a nursing home or some other care setting than were other residents.
This means that the choice to enter an ALF with a full-time RN active in direct care may only be important to more impaired residents or to residents over the course of time as they age in place.
aspe.hhs.gov /daltcp/reports/alresdes.htm   (1218 words)

  
 Prospect Harbor Lighthouse - American Lighthouse Foundation
During the process it was evident to both ALF and professional contractors for the project that the restoration work saved the 38-foot tall Prospect Harbor Lighthouse from imminent collapse.
ALF contracted Spear Millworks in Machias, Maine, to attend to an important component of the tower in spring 2006 through the installation of new windows in the structure, which was generously funded by a grant from the New
Given the structure’s historical significance, combined with the common knowledge that wood does not fare well once moisture and rot have set in, it is crucial that restoration efforts occur at Prospect Harbor as soon as possible.
www.lighthousefoundation.org /alf_lights/prospectharbor/stairdmg.htm   (863 words)

  
 Generate Common Base Events from within a Java application
The Common Base Events from IBM ® is an XML-based event format that lets you capture state information from applications in real time.
By mapping the Common Base Event message schema directly to the DEMS autonomic database and object hierarchy, we inherently provided a layer of adaptability within our message structure, which had previously been missing.
The advantages of creating a Common Base Event using native classes versus using the Generic Log Adapter or XSLT, is, undoubtedly, an enhanced performance and a smaller application process footprint.
www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/autonomic/library/ac-common   (2953 words)

  
 Architecture - Eclipse ALF Automates the Life Cycle
ALF addresses this problem directly by providing a common framework for diverse ALM vendors to communicate through a Web service.
With a common ALF framework established, organizations don't have to rely on a single vendor to provide an ALM integrated solution.
However, without a common framework for communicating and sharing data, the dots remain unconnected and the underlying picture stays hidden from view.
www.ftponline.com /channels/arch/2006_10/tragan   (640 words)

  
 Haunting With Compressed Air
The ALF is the first in a series of lamp control devices suitable for theatrical lighting effects.
A common example would be the heating wires in a toaster.
What ALF does is provide a method of simulating candlelight or gaslight, using a circuit that can be built for about $35.
www.phantasmechanics.com /alf.html   (2759 words)

  
 The Skoll Foundation | 2004 Silicon Valley Award Recipients | 2004 Silicon Valley Award Recipients
ALF has built the capacity of more than 300 Fellows to discuss and develop solutions to the area's most pressing problems and learn more about the nature of community leadership and the rewards of collaboration.
After a six-day mountain retreat, each cohort of ALF Fellows is convened through monthly meetings, that explore collaboration, consensus, understanding differences and ethics.
Common Good.” and the name “Social Edge” are trademarks of the Skoll Foundation.
www.skollfoundation.org /grantees/siliconvalley/2004.asp   (1142 words)

  
 City of Apple Valley - ALF Ambulance
The Cities of Apple Valley, Lakeville and Farmington jointly own and operate ALF Ambulance Service.
ALF personnel are nationally registered paramedics utilizing state of the art ambulances, medical and telecommunications equipment.
Along with delivery of professional pre-hospital care, the paramedics are committed to prevention of medical emergencies through proactive community education programs and demonstrations.
www.ci.apple-valley.mn.us /Departments/ALF_Ambulance/main.html   (63 words)

  
 Frog Farm
Denis McCarthy, who runs the Kells-based Frog Farm, which is Europe’s sole exporter of common frogs for medical research, had originally told the group he would retire at the end of this month, in order to forestall further attacks.
Bernie Wright of the Alliance for Animal Rights (AAR), which was not involved in the attack but has been active in pressurizing McCarthy to get out of business, said that an intermediary who was liaising between the ALF and McCarthy had informed her of his decision to shut down.
Robin Webb, a UK-based spokesperson for the ALF, said: "The frogs that are exported are used for medical research and vivisection.
www.animalliberationfront.com /ALFront/Actions-Ireland/frogfarm.htm   (453 words)

  
 AccuRev SCM News
Eclipse is an open source, vendor-independent integration platform that allows developers to use their preferred heterogeneous tools within a common development environment.
In support of the ALF project, AccuRev is developing a set of well-defined software configuration management (SCM)-related use cases to expand the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) requirements beyond basic SCM functionality.
Its purpose is to create a technology framework that will enable a diverse set of vendor tools, irrespective of architecture or platform, to exchange user data, manage business processes and collaborate in support the chosen ALM infrastructure technologies in use by development communities.
www.accurev.com /press-releases/eclipse-alf.html   (548 words)

  
 Introduction
The TV series ALF focuses on an alien life form (ALF) named Gordon Shumway whose spaceship crashed into the garage of the Tanner family in Los Angeles.
The Tanner family decided to hide ALF from the alien task force and so he was allowed to stay.
Most of the time he spend in the Tanner house, and although it was common to eat cats on Melmac, he never ate Lucky, the cat of the Tanner family, but he constantly tried to.
kylemd.tripod.com /alfsspaceship/id1.html   (484 words)

  
 Alfred M. Landon
Landon was a key figure in the U.S. Republican party in the 1930s and ran unsuccessfully for president in 1936.
"Alf" Landon first entered the national political arena in 1912, campaigning for Theodore Roosevelt, who was that year the Progressive party candidate for president.
Landon continued to be associated with progressive politics within the Republican party.
www.nps.gov /elro/glossary/landon-alfred.htm   (505 words)

  
 Stephan's ALF-Page: Facts and background info about ALF
In addition, two animated ALF series were produced, one called "ALF tales" and one named "ALF animated" (or just simply "ALF") about ALF's adventures back then when he lived on Melmac.
Also ALF viewers from France or spanish-speaking countries report that ALF in their language has its own charme, so it seems like ALF always got an excellent dubbing and is just a great show to enjoy in every language.
There are many more things related to ALF in Germany which I haven't translated, but you can read it in the Fakten in the german part of Stephan's ALF-Page.
www.tvshows.de /alf/e-facts.htm   (1725 words)

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