valkyrie’s journey

As we enter in this world after birth, our parents had their plans for us, but as we go along and become mature enough, we make our own plans for our bright future. However, the question is "How can we fulfill our plans, ambitions, goals and dreams in our lives?" Weel, we can do all things if we decide ourselves to become stronger, to face all the trials and circumstances that come in our lives, to finish our studies, to have self confidence and faith in God. The choice lies in our hands as to what we make out of our lives. However, making choices involve risk. But one must know that to open the gate of change and growth we need to take the risk.

It’s been said that youth are the hope of our motherland, but it’s also true that some of the youth today become the problems of our society. If we talk about drugs, youth are involved. In terms of gangsterism, still, youth are counted. If we talk about rape, troublemakers, and many more, there is always the presence of youth! What is happening to the youth today?

In our society, our government has less focus on the problems about the youth. We pretend tat everything is all right when in fact the situation is getting worst, and now it needs to be stopped. Since they are not busy studying they tend to join groups that would render them belongingness. Actually joining gans is not bad at all, it’s a way of socializing, what makes it bad is when the group will be involved in troubles. This became one of the problems of the youth since based on statistics, many teen-agers die everyday because of bad adctivites brought by certain groups.

In connection with this, Commerrcialzied Education heat up the conversation. Most of the participants pointed out the Tuition Fee increase’s of the different scools. It was commented by a certain student that due to the continuous increase of tuition, many students if not to transfer from private school to public will be foreced to stop schooling because they already can’t afford to pay such fees. Then what will happen to these students? Come to think of it, some future is wasted just because f the selfishness of the few.

One set of operating-system services provides functions that are helpful to the user:
User interface - Almost all operating systems have a user interface (UI)
Varies between Command-Line (CLI), Graphics User Interface (GUI), Batch
Program execution - The system must be able to load a program into memory and to run that program, end execution, either normally or abnormally (indicating error)
I/O operations -  A running program may require I/O, which may involve a file or an I/O device.
File-system manipulation -  The file system is of particular interest. Obviously, programs need to read and write files and directories, create and delete them, search them, list file Information, permission management.

One set of operating-system services provides functions that are helpful to the user (Cont):
Communications – Processes may exchange information, on the same computer or between computers over a network
Communications may be via shared memory or through message passing (packets moved by the OS)
Error detection – OS needs to be constantly aware of possible errors
May occur in the CPU and memory hardware, in I/O devices, in user program
For each type of error, OS should take the appropriate action to ensure correct and consistent computing
Debugging facilities can greatly enhance the user’s and programmer’s abilities to efficiently use the system

Another set of OS functions exists for ensuring the efficient operation of the system itself via resource sharing
Resource allocation - When  multiple users or multiple jobs running concurrently, resources must be allocated to each of them
Many types of resources -  Some (such as CPU cycles,mainmemory, and file storage) may have special allocation code, others (such as I/O devices) may have general request and release code.
Accounting - To keep track of which users use how much and what kinds of computer resources
Protection and security - The owners of information stored in a multiuser or networked computer system may want to control use of that information, concurrent processes should not interfere with each other
Protection involves ensuring that all access to system resources is controlled
Security of the system from outsiders requires user authentication, extends to defending external I/O devices from invalid access attempts
If a system is to be protected and secure, precautions must be instituted throughout it. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

The strpos() function is used to search for a string or character within a string.
If a match is found in the string, this function will return the position of the first match. If no match is found, it will return FALSE.
Let’s see if we can find the string "world" in our string:
<?php
echo strpos("Hello world!","world");
?>
The output of the code above will be:
6
As you see the position of the string "world" in our string is position 6. The reason that it is 6, and not 7, is that the first position in the string is 0, and not 1.

The strlen() function is used to find the length of a string.
Let’s find the length of our string "Hello world!":
<?php
echo strlen("Hello world!");
?>
The output of the code above will be:
12
The length of a string is often used in loops or other functions, when it is important to know when the string ends. (i.e. in a loop, we would want to stop the loop after the last character in the string)

Diligence - a virtue that pays off

Interest - the sustaining base

Scheduling - the time saver

Concentration - the focusing factor

Involvement - the relationship element

Planning and Preparation - looking ahead

Listening - a rewarding skill

Integrity - the lost value

Note-taking - the essential habit

Enjoyment - the difference

Those are the 10 Keys to College Success but in the issue let me give you first two keys "DILIGENCE AND INTEREST"

"Diligence" as a constant, steady effort to accomplish a task. Diligence embraces responsibilities, quality work and perseverance.

A diligent person recognizes that opportunities must be treasured and taken. He takes not that not everybody has equal share of opportunities. Not everybody can go to school, even if they want to. Therefore, he is responsible in attending classes, submitting requirements, reads more than required etc. Secondly, a diligent person doesn’t trade quality for quantity. "Instants" for him are of poor-taste and quality. He works assigned tasks ahead of time.

"Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life …. You give them a piece of you. They don’t ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like maybe we should just be friends or how very perceptive turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination; not just in the mind, it’s a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."