 a label and any letter would do providing we state what we mean when we use it.
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Another way of writing this is: This means a three with eight zeros behind it, i. Again this is just a label, or shorthand, in order to allow us to work quickly with the equation. Wavelengths are usually measured in metres.. Let's say we have a radio with a dial that is only marked in MHz.
Så funkar parasport Öppnas i nytt fönster.
This website is about the project "VägVisaren". The project is trying to make it possible for people who are visually imparied or blind to practice the sport Orienteering.
"ORIENTEERING - a sport, an important part of the subject Physical Education in school and a leisure activity - also for people with visual impairment"
With this project, we want to give children, young people and adults with visual impairments the opportunity to practice the sport orienteering, to create conditions for these students in school to achieve a passing grade in the subject of Physical Education by passing the orienteering part and finally to show how to find and discover their local area / school area and, all this with the help of tactile maps. People with visual impairment have never experienced the sport orienteering. The same people today also have worse opportunities than sighted students to pass a passing grade in the subject of Physical Education. These are two things we want to change. However, there are currently no conditions and aids for these people to understand and be able to use tactile maps.
At present, as far as we know, no development of tactile maps is carried out for the purpose of conducting the sport orienteering as a leisure activity or in the subject of Physical Education in schools. There is also a lack of aids for people with visual impairments to understand and be able to use tactile maps to be able to find their way in unknown environments. During the years 1978-1997, Arne Yngström worked to make the sport orienteering accessible to the disabled people and disability groups, such as people with reduced mobility, the mentally handicapped and the visually impaired. This is the heritage we want to explore and develop.
* To give children, young people and adults with visual impairments the opportunity to practice the sport orienteering, such as a sport and leisure activity.
* To create conditions for students in the school to receive a passing grade in the orientation part in the Physical Education.
* To give the opportunity to people with visual impairment to find their way/ "see" in their immediate area / school area with the help of tactile maps.
People with visual impairment.
* To make orienteering available as a sport for people with visual impairments.
* To spread the knowledge about tactile maps as a tool for teachers in the school.
* To make people with visual impairment be able to "see" their surroundings and find the right to unknown places.
* To create a completely new sport, Orienteering for people with visual impairment. Orienteering as a sport provides opportunities for lifelong sports and we want to create conditions for people with visual impairment to take part in this.
* Create conditions for students with visual impairment to be able to participate in the orientation part in the subject Physical Education in school on the same terms as sight and thus be given the opportunity to pass a grade in the subject.
* With the help of the map, to give people with visual impairment the opportunity to expand their immediate area and discover more in already known environments, to make the tactile map their "personal companion".
Creating a network and spreading knowledge about the possibilities with tactile maps in the country within both school and society is an important part of making the project survive.
The Swedish Orienteering Association (SOFT) will have a central role in the work of spreading the sport Orienteering for people with visual impairment to other orienteering districts. The methodology and the material developed in the project can be implemented by SOFT in existing regulations and training. SOFT can take responsibility for an Orienteering Weekend in collaboration with local Parasports Associations being arranged annually and traveling from district to district over time. In this way, knowledge is brought out into the country and enables the project to survive.
Within the project's third year, methodology and materials will be handed over to SOFT and thereafter become part of SOFT's organization. Suitable with a non-profit working group, similar to those that exist today and works well for Ski-O, MTB-O and Trail-O.
- That the Swedish Orienteering Association arranges the first Swedish Orienteering Championship for people with visual impairment.
- That our "new" sport is spread in other countries.
- That international championships are arranged.
- That our "new" sport will be included in the Paralympics.
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"Not many people know that my father had designed the Old Woman's Shoe. But that's just how he was, understated and self-effacing," said Zavera Banaji, daughter of late prof Soli Arceivala, who passed away at 91 on November 12 in Mumbai, as repairs on the iconic structure at Kamala Nehru Park at Malabar Hill continue. Inspired by a Mother Goose nursery rhyme, the Shoe is sheathed in a green covering, as labourers work on fixing the damage it sustained after a lightning strike. 
The entire park is being revamped, but it is the Shoe that still attracts kids, who can be seen hanging over railings, asking labourers when the Shoe, or boot as they call it, will re-open. Zavera said her father, occasionally, did visit the park to see kids playing inside the shoe. "He did not talk about it much; in fact, hardly ever, but I know he was very happy when he returned from one of those visits."
She laughed as she said she had little memory of her father speaking about his creation. "I know he was very proud of it, but I don't really remember our conversation over it. He talked to me and my sister (who is now in Turkey) about the Shoe at least 30 or 40 years ago."
Arceivala began his career as an environmental engineer. He first worked with the BMC. "We lived in a house in Santacruz then," said his daughter.
Zavera carved out the trajectory of her father's brilliant career, saying, "My father worked in the environment department of the BMC for water and air pollution. In the mid 1950s, he did his Masters in Environmental Engineering and was vice-principal of the VJTI college for 15 to 17 years."
Arceivala then worked as director of National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur and then with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Ankara and Istanbul (Turkey) for five years each, and later in New Delhi for another five years. "He wound down his work in the late 1980s," said Zavera, adding, "He was a wonderful father, and truly loved children."
For Zavera, "My dad, though born in 1926, was totally clued in with the times, always in sync with contemporary trends in environmental issues." Arceivala has a host of books on environment to his credit, and, Zavera added, "If the Kamala Nehru Park is going to become greener post the revamp, it will be a tribute to my father."
Asked if the civic authorities could think of installing a plaque next to the Shoe with the name of its designer, the delighted daughter simply said, "Yes!"
Visty Banaji, prof Arceivala's son-in-law, said, "The Old Woman's Shoe must be maintained well. I saw it some years ago and thought it was not in the best condition. I hope this facelift means it will be preserved."
"My father-in-law had a concern for the environment long before it became a fashion," he added. Today, the 'go green' gab is spouted while picking on finger food at parties, so prof Arceivala was a man ahead of his time.
"He was a very well-organised man. In fact, he had drafted his own obituary a couple of years ago," said Visty, adding, "He also had a very fun side to him. After all, only a quirky, playful mind could think of a Shoe in which children could climb in and go to the top. He was also fond of Western Classical music, with 'Ode to Joy' in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony being a favourite of his."
Mumbai's intrepid traveller Meher Moos recalled friend Arceivala as "sharp and funny, an amazing conversationalist, and a raconteur".
Family friend Nergish Dordi, a former teacher who lives in Mumbai, said, "Prof Arceivala had once shown me a room in his home at Cuffe Parade, where he had several sketches of his creation, the Old Woman's Shoe."
"Soli Arceivala was kind and gentle, with a very dry wit. I remember he would finish off a conversation with a humorous remark, subtle and side-splitting in its own way," remembered another friend, Mumbai entrepreneur Viraf Chiniwala.
Visty said, "Today, I don't even know if kids still read Mother Goose nursery rhymes."
Yet, the Shoe must be