Royal Chitwan National Park:-

Royal Chitwan National Park has long been regarded as Nepal's third biggest attraction after trekking and the Kathmandu Valley. This huge and beautiful nature reserve protects 932 sq km of sal forest, water marshes and rippling grassland. The park is one of the last refuges of the endangered one-horned Indian rhino and there are sizeable populations of tigers, leopards and rare Gangetic dolphins.

Before the Maoist insurgency, Chitwan was visited by an impressive 92% of all visitors to Nepal, but tourist numbers have plummeted since 2001. The upmarket lodges inside the park still attract decent numbers of visitors, but several budget resorts in Sauraha have closed and others have dropped their rates significantly.

On one level, the wildlife has probably benefited from the reduced visitor numbers , it's a lot easier to hunt when you don't have an elephant-load of tourists shouting and scaring off your prey. However, poaching has increased significantly since the Nepali army stopped patrolling the park, and the rhino population has been hit particularly badly.

Problem of travelling;A(H1N1)
WHO is not recommending travel restrictions related to the outbreak of the influenza A(H1N1) virus. Today, global travel is commonplace and large numbers of people move around the world for business and leisure. Limiting travel and imposing travel restrictions would have very little effect on stopping the virus from spreading, but would be highly disruptive to the global community.

Influenza A(H1N1) has already been confirmed in many parts of the world. The global response now focuses on minimizing the impact of the virus through the rapid identification of cases, and providing patients with appropriate medical care, rather than on stopping spread internationally.

Although identifying signs and symptoms of influenza in travellers can help track the path of the outbreak, it will not reduce the spread of influenza, as the virus can be transmitted from person to person before the onset of symptoms.

Sientific research based on mathematical modelling shows that restricting travel would be of limited or no benefit in stopping the spread of disease. Historical records of previous influenza pandemics, as well as experience with SARS, validate this.
Does WHO recommend screenings at country entry and exit points to detect if ill people are no travelling?

We do not believe entry and exit screenings would work to reduce the spread of this disease. However country-level measures to respond to a public health risk are the decision of national authorities, under the International Health Regulations 2005.

Countries that adopt measures that significantly interfere with international traffic (e.g. delaying an airplane passenger for more than 24 hours, or refusing country entry or departure to a traveller) must provide WHO with the public health reasoning and evidence for their actions. WHO will follow up with all of its Member countries on such matters.
Travellers should always be treated with dignity and respect for their human rights.
How can I protect myself from influenza A(H1N1) when I am travelling?
People who are ill should delay travel plans. Returning travellers who become ill should contact their health care provider.

Travellers can protect themselves and others by following simple prevention practices that apply while travelling and in daily life.

United Nations Children Fund - UNICEF:Organisation of Development AssistanceThe United Nations Children's Funds (UNICEF):-unicef is the only UN organisation dedicated exclusively to children. Founded in 1946 to ease the suffering of children in the aftermath of World War II, UNICEF's mandate was broadened in 1950 to work in developing countries on behalf of children whose futures are endangered by poverty, diseases, malnutrition and the lack of education. A 36-member Executive Board that formulates policies, reviews programmes and approves budgets governs UNICEF. With headquarters in New York, UNICEF is active in 158 countries and territories. Some 7,200 staff work for UNICEF, nearly nine out of 10 based in developing countries. There are eight regional offices as well as a research centre in Florence, a supply operation in Copenhagen and offices in Tokyo and Brussels. Global Policies and PrioritiesGuided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), UNICEF advocates and works for the protection of children's rights, to help the young meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. Partnerships with governments, UN organisations, other development partners and civil society, are at the heart of the organisation's mandate as is building the capacity of communities and local government to plan and manage programmes. Increasing the participation of children, families and of civil society are also important means through which UNICEF's objectives will be achieved.

 UNICEF has five global priorities for 2002-2005. The first is to ensure that every young child gets every chance at survival and receives the essential care for the best start to life. The second is to ensure that all children are fully immunized and protected from disease and disability. The third is that every boy and girl completes a quality primary education. The fourth is that all young people are given reliable information on HIV/AIDS prevention and that orphans and others affected by the disease receive support and care. And the last is that every child is protected from harm, abuse and violence both in times of peace and in times of conflict and emergency. Global Level of AssistanceVoluntary contributions, from governments, non-governmental organisations and the private sector, form the bulk of UNICEF income. 'Regular resources' are allocated by UNICEF headquarters for country programmes, and 'other resources' are contributions to support specific projects in specific countries. The United States, the United Kingdom and Norway are the largest government donors. Norway, Sweden and Luxembourg are the largest donors per person. NGOs and the private sector provide almost one third of UNICEF's income, which includes major contributions from 37 National Committees for UNICEF, the organisation's voice and fund-raising arm in industrialised countries.

In 2003, the global UNICEF expenditure was $1,480 million. Of this, 93% was spent on its programmes around the world, 6% went to management and administration and 1% to write-offs and other charges. Type of Assistance and ProgrammingAfter conducting a national analysis of the situation on children and women, UNICEF develops a country strategy to address the key priority issues based on the organization's mandate. Subsequently, the programme of cooperation is jointly drafted and signed with the Host Government with indicative resource allocations which are submitted for approval to the UNICEF Executive Board. Based on these plans, sectoral programmes and projects are developed for the whole cycle (usually five years), and are further dis-aggregated into Annual Work Plans. Programmes and projects are developed within the framework of the national development plans, such as the Tenth Plan, and implemented in close collaboration with the Host Government. From the next cycle, which starts in January 2006 in Nepal, the UNICEF programme of cooperation will be prepared jointly with other UN agencies within the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), based on a Common Country Assessment (CCA). Programme Priorities in NepalUNICEF initiated co-operation with Nepal in 1964. Today, UNICEF/Nepal's country programme is one of the 18 largest UNICEF programmes in the world. The programme seeks to advance the respect, protection and fulfilment of the human rights of children and women in Nepal. In line with HMG/N's policy on decentralisation, the country programme's primary strategy is to build family and community capacities to assess, analyse and plan their own actions to address the principle problems faced by children and women. The Decentralized Action for Children and Women (DACAW) programme provides the basic framework for the implementation of programmes addressing nutrition and childcare, health, environment, education, child protection and HIV/AIDS in focus districts. In addition, UNICEF supports the implementation of programmes such as immunization and micronutrients (Vitamin A supplementation, control of iodine deficiency diseases and iron deficiency anaemia) in all 75 districts. The country programme tackles not only the immediate causes influencing child survival, growth and development, but also addresses the underlying causes. Particular efforts are implemented to promote changes in gender disparities. Other priorities are to reach out to the most disadvantaged groups and children in Nepal, especially communities in very remote areas, groups discriminated due to caste and ethnicity, and children in need of special protection. To respond to the ongoing conflict situation, the Decentralised Action for Children and Women (DACAW) Programme is also being expanded in the conflict affected areas to address the rights of children affected by armed conflict, through the Quick Impact Programme (QIP) in collaboration with the World Food Programme.

Global Level of AssistanceVoluntary contributions

From governments, non-governmental organisations and the private sector, form the bulk of UNICEF income. 'Regular resources' are allocated by UNICEF headquarters for country programmes, and 'other resources' are contributions to support specific projects in specific countries. The United States, the United Kingdom and Norway are the largest government donors. Norway, Sweden and Luxembourg are the largest donors per person. NGOs and the private sector provide almost one third of UNICEF's income, which includes major contributions from 37 National Committees for UNICEF, the organisation's voice and fund-raising arm in industrialised countries. In 2003, the global UNICEF expenditure was $1,480 million. Of this, 93% was spent on its programmes around the world, 6% went to management and administration and 1% to write-offs and other charges. Type of Assistance and ProgrammingAfter conducting a national analysis of the situation on children and women, UNICEF develops a country strategy to address the key priority issues based on the organization's mandate. Subsequently, the programme of cooperation is jointly drafted and signed with the Host Government with indicative resource allocations which are submitted for approval to the UNICEF Executive Board. Based on these plans, sectoral programmes and projects are developed for the whole cycle (usually five years), and are further dis-aggregated into Annual Work Plans. Programmes and projects are developed within the framework of the national development plans, such as the Tenth Plan, and implemented in close collaboration with the Host Government. From the next cycle, which starts in January 2006 in Nepal, the UNICEF programme of cooperation will be prepared jointly with other UN agencies within the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), based on a Common Country Assessment (CCA). Programme Priorities in NepalUNICEF initiated co-operation with Nepal in 1964. Today, UNICEF/Nepal's country programme is one of the 18 largest UNICEF programmes in the world. The programme seeks to advance the respect, protection and fulfilment of the human rights of children and women in Nepal. In line with HMG/N's policy on decentralisation, the country programme's primary strategy is to build family and community capacities to assess, analyse and plan their own actions to address the principle problems faced by children and women. The Decentralized Action for Children and Women (DACAW) programme provides the basic framework for the implementation of programmes addressing nutrition and childcare, health, environment, education, child protection and HIV/AIDS in focus districts. In addition, UNICEF supports the implementation of programmes such as immunization and micronutrients (Vitamin A supplementation, control of iodine deficiency diseases and iron deficiency anaemia) in all 75 districts. The country programme tackles not only the immediate causes influencing child survival, growth and development, but also addresses the underlying causes. Particular efforts are implemented to promote changes in gender disparities. Other priorities are to reach out to the most disadvantaged groups and children in Nepal, especially communities in very remote areas, groups discriminated due to caste and ethnicity, and children in need of special protection. To respond to the ongoing conflict situation, the Decentralised Action for Children and Women (DACAW) Programme is also being expanded in the conflict affected areas to address the rights of children affected by armed conflict, through the Quick Impact Programme (QIP) in collaboration with the World Food Programme. UNICEF disbursements in Nepal in 2003 amounted to a total of US $ 14.44 million; US $ 3.76 million in 'regular resources' and US $ 10.68 million in 'other resources'. The health and education programmes accounted for half of this amount. About 30 percent of the disbursement in 2002-2003 was in 15 focus districts. Future DirectionsUNICEF will continue its programmes for the child's survival, development, protection and care. Community participation and social mobilisation for change will be further enhanced in all programmes. Decentralisation and community involvement will be the guiding principles for programme planning and implementation. UNICEF will also be increasing joint programmes with other UN agencies, in line with the overall UN harmonization policy.

Organisation of Development AssistanceThe United Nations ChildrNICEF): en's Funds (Uis the only UN organisation dedicated exclusively to children. Founded in 1946 to ease the suffering of children in the aftermath of World War II, UNICEF's mandate was broadened in 1950 to work in developing countries on behalf of children whose futures are endangered by poverty, diseases, malnutrition and the lack of education. A 36-member Executive Board that formulates policies, reviews programmes and approves budgets governs UNICEF. With headquarters in New York, UNICEF is active in 158 countries and territories. Some 7,200 staff work for UNICEF, nearly nine out of 10 based in developing countries. There are eight regional offices as well as a research centre in Florence, a supply operation in Copenhagen and offices in Tokyo and Brussels. Global Policies and PrioritiesGuided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), UNICEF advocates and works for the protection of children's rights, to help the young meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. Partnerships with governments, UN organisations, other development partners and civil society, are at the heart of the organisation's mandate as is building the capacity of communities and local government to plan and manage programmes. Increasing the participation of children, families and of civil society are also important means through which UNICEF's objectives will be achieved.

UNICEF has five global priorities for 2002-2005. The first is to ensure that every young child gets every chance at survival and receives the essential care for the best start to life. The second is to ensure that all children are fully immunized and protected from disease and disability. The third is that every boy and girl completes a quality primary education. The fourth is that all young people are given reliable information on HIV/AIDS prevention and that orphans and others affected by the disease receive support and care. And the last is that every child is protected from harm, abuse and violence both in times of peace and in times of conflict and emergency. Global Level of AssistanceVoluntary contributions, from governments, non-governmental organisations and the private sector, form the bulk of UNICEF income. 'Regular resources' are allocated by UNICEF headquarters for country programmes, and 'other resources' are contributions to support specific projects in specific countries. The United States, the United Kingdom and Norway are the largest government donors. Norway, Sweden and Luxembourg are the largest donors per person. NGOs and the private sector provide almost one third of UNICEF's income, which includes major contributions from 37 National Committees for UNICEF, the organisation's voice and fund-raising arm in industrialised countries. In 2003, the global UNICEF expenditure was $1,480 million. Of this, 93% was spent on its programmes around the world, 6% went to management and administration and 1% to write-offs and other charges. Type of Assistance and ProgrammingAfter conducting a national analysis of the situation on children and women, UNICEF develops a country strategy to address the key priority issues based on the organization's mandate. Subsequently, the programme of cooperation is jointly drafted and signed with the Host Government with indicative resource allocations which are submitted for approval to the UNICEF Executive Board. Based on these plans, sectoral programmes and projects are developed for the whole cycle (usually five years), and are further dis-aggregated into Annual Work Plans. Programmes and projects are developed within the framework of the national development plans, such as the Tenth Plan, and implemented in close collaboration with the Host Government. From the next cycle, which starts in January 2006 in Nepal, the UNICEF programme of cooperation will be prepared jointly with other UN agencies within the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), based on a Common Country Assessment (CCA). Programme Priorities in NepalUNICEF initiated co-operation with Nepal in 1964. Today, UNICEF/Nepal's country programme is one of the 18 largest UNICEF programmes in the world. The programme seeks to advance the respect, protection and fulfilment of the human rights of children and women in Nepal. In line with HMG/N's policy on decentralisation, the country programme's primary strategy is to build family and community capacities to assess, analyse and plan their own actions to address the principle problems faced by children and women. The Decentralized Action for Children and Women (DACAW) programme provides the basic framework for the implementation of programmes addressing nutrition and childcare, health, environment, education, child protection and HIV/AIDS in focus districts. In addition, UNICEF supports the implementation of programmes such as immunization and micronutrients (Vitamin A supplementation, control of iodine deficiency diseases and iron deficiency anaemia) in all 75 districts. The country programme tackles not only the immediate causes influencing child survival, growth and development, but also addresses the underlying causes. Particular efforts are implemented to promote changes in gender disparities. Other priorities are to reach out to the most disadvantaged groups and children in Nepal, especially communities in very remote areas, groups discriminated due to caste and ethnicity, and children in need of special protection. To respond to the ongoing conflict situation, the Decentralised Action for Children and Women (DACAW) Programme is also being expanded in the conflict affected areas to address the rights of children affected by armed conflict, through the Quick Impact Programme (QIP) in collaboration with the World Food Programme.

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For other uses, see Sport (disambiguation).
For a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of sports.
Sport in childhood. Association football, shown above, is a team sport which also provides social interaction.

Show Jumping, an equestrian sport.
Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome (winning or losing), but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports (a common name for some card games and board games with little to no element of chance) and motor sports where mental acuity or equipment quality are major factors. Sport is commonly defined as an organized, competitive and skillful physical activity requiring commitment and fair play. Some view sports as differing from games based on the fact that there are usually higher levels of organization and profit (not always monetary) involved in sports. Accurate records are kept and updated for most sports at the highest levels, while failures and accomplishments are widely announced in sport news.

The term sports is sometimes extended to encompass all competitive activities in which offense and defense are played, regardless of the level of physical activity. Both games of skill and motor sport exhibit many of the characteristics of physical sports, such as skill, sportsmanship, and at the highest levels, even professional sponsorship associated with physical sports.

Sports that are subjectively judged are distinct from other judged activities such as beauty pageants and bodybuilding shows, because in the former the activity performed is the primary focus of evaluation, rather than the physical attributes of the contestant as in the latter (although "presentation" or "presence" may also be judged in both activities

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Another approach involves a dense spinning cylinder usually referred to as a Tipler cylinder, a GR solution discovered by Willem Jacob van Stockum in 1936 and Kornel Lanczos in 1924, but not recognized as allowing closed timelike curves until an analysis by Frank Tipler in 1974. If a cylinder is infinitely long and spins fast enough about its long axis, then a spaceship flying around the cylinder on a spiral path could travel back in time (or forward, depending on the direction of its spiral). However, the density and speed required is so great that ordinary matter is not strong enough to construct it. A similar device might be built from a cosmic string, but none are known to exist, and it does not seem to be possible to create a new cosmic string.

Physicist Robert Forward noted that a naïve application of general relativity to quantum mechanics suggests another way to build a time machine. A heavy atomic nucleus in a strong magnetic field would elongate into a cylinder, whose density and "spin" are enough to build a time machine. Gamma rays projected at it might allow information (not matter) to be sent back in time; however, he pointed out that until we have a single theory combining relativity and quantum mechanics, we will have no idea whether such speculations are nonsense.

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Another approach involves a dense spinning cylinder usually referred to as a Tipler cylinder, a GR solution discovered by Willem Jacob van Stockum in 1936 and Kornel Lanczos in 1924, but not recognized as allowing closed timelike curves until an analysis by Frank Tipler in 1974. If a cylinder is infinitely long and spins fast enough about its long axis, then a spaceship flying around the cylinder on a spiral path could travel back in time (or forward, depending on the direction of its spiral). However, the density and speed required is so great that ordinary matter is not strong enough to construct it. A similar device might be built from a cosmic string, but none are known to exist, and it does not seem to be possible to create a new cosmic string.

Physicist Robert Forward noted that a naïve application of general relativity to quantum mechanics suggests another way to build a time machine. A heavy atomic nucleus in a strong magnetic field would elongate into a cylinder, whose density and "spin" are enough to build a time machine. Gamma rays projected at it might allow information (not matter) to be sent back in time; however, he pointed out that until we have a single theory combining relativity and quantum mechanics, we will have no idea whether such speculations are nonsens.

However, the ideas of the chronology protection conjecture are completely serious. Many attempts to generate scenarios for closed timelike curves have been suggested, and the theory of general relativity does allow them in certain circumstances (for example, it would allow for a time machine constructed from a wormhole - see Wormholes and time travel). But attempts to incorporate quantum effects into general relativity using semiclassical gravity seem to make it plausible that vacuum fluctuations would drive the energy density on the boundary of the time machine (the Cauchy horizon of the region where closed timelike curves become possible) to infinity, destroying the time machine at the instant it was created or at least preventing anyone outside it from entering it. The question then arises: is this apparent censorship of closed timelike curves a global constraint of physics, in the same way as a conservation law, or is it a series of accidental coincidences?

A definite theoretical decision on the status of the chronology protection conjecture would require a full theory of quantum gravity as opposed to the semiclassical arguments that have been mainly used to support it (there are also some arguments from string theory which seem to support chronology protection, but string theory is not yet a complete theory of quantum gravity). Experimental observation of closed timelike curves would of course demonstrate this conjecture to be false, but short of that, if physicists had a theory of quantum gravity whose predictions had been well-confirmed in other areas, this would give them a significant degree of confidence in the theory's predictions about the possibility or impossibility of time travel.
Other proposals which allow for backwards time travel but prevent time paradoxes, such as the Novikov self-consistency principle which would ensure the timeline stays consistent, or the idea that a time traveler is taken to a parallel universe while his original timeline remains intact, do not qualify as "chronology protection

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There is no widespread agreement as to which written work should be recognized as the earliest example of a time travel story, since a number of early works feature elements ambiguously suggestive of time travel. For example, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733) by Samuel Madden is mainly a series of letters from English ambassadors in various countries to the British "Lord High Treasurer", along with a few replies from the British Foreign Office, all purportedly written in 1997 and 1998 and describing the conditions of that era.

However, the framing story is that these letters were actual documents given to the narrator by his guardian angel one night in 1728; for this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that "the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728" although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained these documents. Alkon later qualifies this by writing "It would be stretching our generosity to praise Madden for being the first to show a traveler arriving from the future", but also says that Madden "deserves recognition as the first to toy with the rich idea of time-travel in the form of an artifact sent backwards from the future to be discovered in the present.