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When the Syrian Crisis began in 2011, Azzam Sheik Alsouq quickly began to volunteer at the Syrian Red Crescent, serving as a nurse treating war injuries. Supporting the crisis situation gave him a first-hand look at the overcrowded shelters and the major gaps facing displaced persons. In 2015, Sheik Alsouq worked with UNHCR to coordinate the first outreach volunteer group in his home city of Homs. 100 community representatives from different groups joined the outreach team who focused on gaining and spreading skills including mobilization, community-based initiatives, interview and communication skills, facilitating awareness sessions and organizing recreational events. Sheik Alsouq has provided emergency health response in five camps for refugees and internally displaced persons individuals all across Syria. Since then, he has founded the Health Working Group for Refugees in Syria, which coordinates the health response from national and international agencies. Driven by his belief that we live our life when we live for others, Sheik Alsouq has never let his own status as an internally displaced person get in the way of serving others in need.
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Yes, this. I do like that the game kind of avoided overusing religious detailing, but as a Christian I can't help but think of that part of it all when playing through a game with such intricate characterization. I'm not sure if Colm believed in anything, maybe he did and he hated "it" for giving him a bad hand at life. I don't know. But I do know that the look in his eyes is that of a man who has had to suddenly face the fact that one day he will die, and today is that day. He is left to wonder, if only for a moment, what he could have done with his life. What he could have done to prevent this. And what will happen, now? To him? To his people, even- I am not sure if he had the capacity to care what happened to them but perhaps, if only selfishly. He hasn't a clue whether or not God will even be there, yet alone if he will welcome him with open arms, and I definitely think that part of him is fully aware that he probably will not do so. Another part of him knows that his body will rot in a grave, and after everything he has done, this is it. This was all it was ever going to be.Publication: The code was publicly released to mod.sources on June 23, 1986 (cited / original usenet post)
I also found a book about CVS prior to the Priority Date (using):
- Open Source Development with CVS
- ISBN: 1576104907, year 2000
Another good ressource to look for Prior Art are Universities:
- University Munich WS 02/03 “Programmierpraktikum”, CVS is part of the lecture
- University Oldenburg, WS 01/02 “Modul Softwareprojekt incl. Proseminar”:
- www-is.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~sauer/lehre/swp_01_02/swp_01_02.html
- This lecture contains a 174 pages description to CVS 1.10.7 and has a copyright from 1992/1993:
- University Karlsruhe, WS 01/02 “Softwareengineering“, contains slides on CVS und RCS
- University Bonn, SS 99 “Softwaretechnologie”, contains in homework 3 extra homework on CVS, especially for the commands checkout, update und commit
So I see it as defenitely proofed, that CVS was published prior the Priority Date of the Invention.
- And if you find sth. like Der „MetaCodeGenerator“ arbeitet mit allen markt-üblic