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Topic: Often an Orphan


  
  JERLIN NDUDI
He became an orphan at the age of five and since then was fostered by a guardian.
He was granted free entrance as an orphan.
Her Diana and Acteon is a virtuoso pas de deux often performed as a gala divertissement.
www.ebu.ch /news/press_archive/press_breves_145bis_Ukraine.htm   (492 words)

  
  Orphan Train - Adoption Encyclopedia
Refers to the era of 1854-1929 when an estimated 150,000 homeless children were placed on trains and taken to rural sites concentrated in the Midwest and West in search of homes where the children could live and work.
The Orphan Train era was initiated by social welfare reformer Charles Loring Brace of the Children's Aid Society in New York.
The children were accompanied on the train by adults, often Catholic nuns, who rode with the children to their destinations and destinies.
encyclopedia.adoption.com /entry/Orphan-Train/266/1.html   (1062 words)

  
 4.7. Warnings and sanity-checking
While not an error (the missing fields are initialised with bottoms), it is often an indication of a programmer error.
An instance declartion is an orphan if it appears in a module in which neither the class nor the type being instanced are declared in the same module.
The trouble with orphans is that GHC must pro-actively read the interface files for all orphan modules, just in case their instances or rules play a role, whether or not the module's interface would otherwise be of any use.
www.haskell.org /ghc/docs/6.4/html/users_guide/options-sanity.html   (1025 words)

  
 TIME, MEASUREMENT OF - Online Information article about TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
The observations made in each position of the instrument are separately reduced with an assumed approximate value of the error of collimation, and two equations are thus derived from which the clock error and correction to the assumed collimation error are found.
And an observer's error has often been found to vary very considerably not only from year to year but even within much shorter intervals; the use of a new instrument, though perhaps not differing in construction from the accustomed one, has also been known to affect the personal error.
paper, while an electric contact is made at the precise moment when the star is bisected on each line by the carriage passing a number of adjustable contact makers.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /THE_TOO/TIME_MEASUREMENT_OF.html   (6690 words)

  
 Wiki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An often used example of one such convention is to start a line of text with an asterisk ("*") in order to mark it as an item in a bulleted list.
In those implementations, the markup of a newly-edited HTML version of the page is generated and submitted to the server transparently, and the user is shielded from this technical detail.
Hierarchical navigation pages often exist in larger wikis, often a consequence of the original page creation process, but they do not have to be used.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WikiWiki   (2574 words)

  
 Women in Shariat
An important part of the marriage contract is the fixing of the dowry (mahr or saddq, in Arabic).
It was often agreed in the marriage contract that a part of the dowry was to be paid only in the event of divorce, so as to protect the wife from hasty action by her husband.
Muhammed, himself an orphan, often regarded himself as the advocate of the weak and underprivileged.
www.dhushara.com /book/zulu/islamp/wislam/wislam.htm   (8614 words)

  
 CWS Project Description - Orphan & Vulnerable Children Micro-Enterprise/Scholarship Fund, Rwanda
In addition to those orphans who are living on their own, there are other children living in critical conditions within vulnerable households.
That vulnerability is, in most of cases, due to the fact that their parents have died because of AIDS and often those who are now supposed to take care of these children are older grandmothers/fathers, or widows/widowers of AIDS.
In terms of enhancing capacity of orphans to facilitate access to schooling, YWCA, in collaboration with CHH representatives, is proposing the creation of an education fund.
www.churchworldservice.org /Development/project_description/descriptions/12.html   (843 words)

  
 Intercountry Adoption Egypt
To satisfy the requirements of the Egyptian family law and be awarded legal custody, adoption or permission to foster an orphan at home with an approval to remove the child for immigration is a long and difficult process.
The Department of State encourages U.S. citizens to verify that a particular child is an orphan according to U.S. immigration law and regulations before proceeding with an adoption in the child’s country of origin.
One part of the petition process that USCIS cannot complete in advance is the "orphan investigation." A Report on Overseas Orphan Investigation, Form I-604, is required in all orphan adoption cases, even if an I-600 has already been approved, and serves to verify that the child is an orphan as defined by U.S. immigration law.
www.travel.state.gov /family/adoption_egypt.html   (2742 words)

  
 Federal Register: Orphan Works
A situation often described is one where a creator seeks to incorporate an older work into a new work (e.g., old photos, footage or recordings) and is willing to seek permission, but is not able to identify or locate the copyright owner(s) in order to seek permission.
This uncertainty created by copyright in orphan works has the potential to harm an important public policy behind copyright: To promote the dissemination of works by creating incentives for their creation and dissemination to the public.
An example of a system that enables the use, in certain circumstances, of orphan works can be found in Canada's copyright law.
www.copyright.gov /fedreg/2005/70fr3739.html   (4131 words)

  
 WELCOME
Visit often to find the latest updates on what's happening in the world of OFA kids and the programs that support them.
FYI, the photos of young adults on these pages are not of models, but real students from OFA's extended family, who have been gracious enough to share their lives and stories with the public.
Written in a conversational manner and with input from hundreds of foster youth nationwide, Life in the Hood is a 96-page roadmap for older teens and young adults as they face up to challenges of living on their own.
www.orphan.org   (418 words)

  
 Save Orphan Works   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Orphan works are — broadly speaking — any copyrighted works where the rights holder is hard to find.
Sorry about the intrusion, but an important opportunity has come up for you to have a positive impact on the direction of copyright law and I wanted to let you know about it directly.
These letters are often sold/donated to libraries and archives as part of the papers of a particular individual.
www.eldred.cc   (1351 words)

  
 Orphan anvils
Orphan anvils are so called because they are solitary anvils from thunderstorms that have dissipated.
Orphan anvils often show the upper parts of the storm's former downdraft well, as virga (a snow fallstreak that doesn't reach ground).
The technical name for orphan anvils would be cirrus spissatus, although these orphan anvils are usually much deeper than just at the cirrus level.
www.weatherscapes.com /album.php?cat=clouds&subcat=orphan_anvil   (124 words)

  
 System Utilities Software Downloads - Windows File of the Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
DU Meter is a powerful and user-friendly tool that provides an accurate account of the data which is flowing through your computer's network connection at any given moment.
Whether you are an avid computer user or not, you might encounter the problem of system shutdown, computer crash, etc. With regular usage, any computer user might face various memory-related problems with his system resulting in delayed response time and poor performance.
The classification is not perfect, however, in the sense that the groups often overlap and the difference is not always obvious, giving rise to frequent flame wars.
windows.fileoftheday.com /archives/cat_system_utilities.html   (13493 words)

  
 Orphan MP3 Downloads - Orphan Music Downloads - Orphan Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Orphan was the creation of songwriter/singer Eric Lilljequist (born January 1, 1948) who grew up in Massachusetts' Brockton/Avon area, the ensemble emerging in the mid-'60s, a time when few bands in the region performed their own material.
The group spent an autumn recording nine singles for Epic Records; the CBS building in New York providing a great atmosphere and learning environment for the young artists.
During this time, they were performing on record and sometimes live with Jonathan Edwards, and he often with Orphan, the two acts actually living in a big house in the Boston area for awhile.
www.mp3.com /artist/orphan/summary   (1366 words)

  
 Commercial Work at Orphan Studio
Orphan Studio has been servicing ad agencies with quality radio spot and voice-over production, and sound design for over 9 years.
Orphan has two talent isolation booths, capable of holding up to 6 talent.
In addition to our commercial production work, Orphan Studio has been hired by several talent agencies to produce their talent CD compilations.
www.orphanstudio.com /commercial.html   (327 words)

  
 News: To Combat Often Fatal Orphan Diseases, a Small Pharmaceutical Company Leads New Drug Investigation. Genetic ...
Among these orphan diseases are carcinoid cancer, acute leukemia and multiple myeloma.
The drug candidate Atiprimod is in development to treat advanced carcinoid cancer, for patients who have failed all prior approved therapies, as well as relapsed multiple myeloma, a blood cancer.
According to the National Institutes of Health's Office of Rare Diseases, "an orphan or rare disease is generally considered to have a prevalence of fewer than 200,000 affected individuals in the
www.genengnews.com /news/bnitem.aspx?name=5529306&chid=4&taxid=35   (404 words)

  
 roleplaying tips for roleplayers and gamemaster roleplaying advice for all roleplaying systems and rpgs
You may be the child of an outcast, of a person who married outside the House and willingly gave up House status, a house orphan, or the product of a casual relationship with a dragonmarked person.
You might want to consider a Siberys mark, which is very powerful but can show up later in life, or an Aberrant mark, which are abominations in the eyes of the 13 Houses and include harmful effects.
In the past, Aberrant Marks were most often seen in the children of marked people from two different Houses.
www.roleplayingtips.com /issue301.asp   (1273 words)

  
 Xymid LLC Customized Technical Fabrics and Print Sleeves
That means, for example, that an elastic edge can be integrated into Xymid fabric for the side panels of mattress pads, giving them better holding power on mattresses.
An added feature is their “tailorable stretch,” resulting in garments that fit well and are comfortable.
Because they can’t tolerate development cycles that are longer than business cycles, they often “orphan” technologies which the Xymid team can “adopt” and bring to market.
www.xymidllc.com /SouthernTextiles.htm   (1750 words)

  
 The Last Orphan Trains
Farm families, in particular, who often adopted orphan train children to work on their farms, had a hard enough time taking care of their own.
States like Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska have "Orphan Train" sites filled with information about the towns the trains visited, the names of the children aboard, newspaper articles written at the time, and first-hand accounts from the orphans themselves.
In addition, orphan train reunions are held in many areas.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/history_for_children/18539   (673 words)

  
 The RAW Flaw | OpenRAW
You shot your transparency or negative film, had them processed (or processed them yourself), made your prints, and then filed the negatives safely away in acid free storage boxes, so that the next time you or your clients needed a print the negatives were be safely available.
And often, because over the intervening time our darkroom skills had advanced, or maybe because we had a new enlarger or we were using an improved paper or chemistry, our new prints turned out to be superior to what we had been able to produce before.
This group is an amalgam of photographers and other interested people founded to create awareness of these issues, suggest a solution, and provide coordination for these efforts.
www.openraw.org /actnow   (2871 words)

  
 2005 May - Travel Photography and Stock Images by Manchester Photographer Darby Sawchuk - dsphotographic.com
It advocates the development of an open standard for the RAW file format so that photographers don’t have to worry about being unable to access their own photos in the future.
It’s an unfortunate fact that I am trying to change, but for now, it’s a fact.
Approaching Kawaguchi-ko, however, haze had enveloped the mountain and its form was an indistinct blur in the sky.
dsphotographic.com /index.php/2005/05   (3849 words)

  
 The Raw Flaw
The bottom line is that if only the manufacturers' software can fully edit RAW images, photographers and consumers of their images are captives of the manufacturers' software strategies as they change with time.
You should also consider that as RAW processing software improves (and it is improving every year), photographers with orphaned proprietary RAW files will be left behind.
This is an invitation to all web site authors and publishers, as well as camera clubs and those in the print industry, to freely copy and republish the contents of this page.
www.luminous-landscape.com /essays/raw-flaw.shtml   (3135 words)

  
 Awful Orphan (1949)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Once again, the pushy pooch Charlie Dog tries to get an unwilling Porky Pig to be his master, first by sneaking into the house in a bird cage...
This was much funnier than I'm making it sound - a solid animated short.
Discuss this title with other users on IMDb message board for Awful Orphan (1949)
us.imdb.com /title/tt0041142   (423 words)

  
 International.adoption.com Site Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
I had made many attempts at finding her with no success.
A poem about life from an adoptee's point of view and all the unknowns....
Senator Thomas R. Carper Representative Michael N. Castle As Adoption Supervisor at Children and Families First, a social service agency, Merrij...
international.adoption.com /foreign/finding-using-adoption-photolistin...   (631 words)

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