What is Hajj and Eid Al Adhah

The Hajj is the annual pilgrimage to Mecca (in Saudi Arabia) for all Muslim in the world who can physically and wealthily walling to travel and complete the pilgrimage which will take few days.  It is currently the largest pilgrimage in the world and by looking to the statistic Pilgrims are increasing year after year.  Hajj is compulsory for every single mature Muslim once in life time and it is a fifth pillar of Islam. The Hajj is a demonstration of the shared aims of the Muslim people, and their submission to God (Allah in Arabic language). 

Muslim has two major celebrations which granted by All Mighty God (Allah in Arabic Language). First Eid is after completing Fasting the month of Ramadan and called Eid Al Fitter. The second celebration is after climbing mountian Arafat (Pilgrim of Hajj) or completing the Pilgrimage and it called Eid Al Adhah.

Today is the second day of Eid Al Adhah and I had great time with my family. Usually, we visit family members and relatives, and women and children celebrate separate. Also, men celebrate by gathering and share food. In this blessing day, neighbour share food and hearts get closer and it help to open a new pages to who were separated. 

The beauties of Eid are strengthening the relationship between people and draw happens in their hearts, which will last until the following Eid. Eid Al Adhah is classified as major Eid, because God (Allah) has granted the people whom completed the Pilgrimage of Hajj, the completed forgiveness for their sins and return to their families like the day they born. Nevertheless, for those couldn’t make to the pilgrimage, can fast the 10 day before the Eid so, they can compete with those who did it in the good deeds.    

Distraction and Disappointment

During the Easter holiday two players from Porto returned to visit their friends and family. The new captain and remaind in Oxford and the rest of the players have left to visit their family members. Easter holiday was 3 weeks and the first week I injured my heel in Kick Boxing class which meant I wan't able to play the game. After contacting the team leader, he informed me that there weren't enough players which meant the game was cancelled. I asked the team leader to bring players in just to cover the missing players, but the following game we couldn't manage to gather enough players either.

We missed two games in total and I thought that we would play when there were enough players. The day before the third match, I called the captain to check if there were enough players to play. He told me that " It's just me and other two players, but I am still looking for another player to make 5 players".


Nevertheless, I drove my car to Student Accommodation where they live that evening, but the shocking news was about to explode. At the door of the block, I called the captain to open the door and Shockley said " Ooh, are you here, Sam open the door for Ishe"


The captain, Sam and Afe sat in front of me in casual wear. I was dressed for the match and ready to win a game. I said with a curious face " What are you doing?" and at that moment I understood unpleasant things had happened. The captain (Naz) said in a low voice, " Ishe no more Malcolmvex (team name), I am sorry." They told me that missing two games of the league resulted in a £100 fine. So, they decided that no one can afford it to pay and that was the main reason.

I wished the team the best, but only can't do anything. Worse of all, we can't play next year league we have been banded.

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Holidays always short

During the Easter holiday, I visited friends and family. It was a great opportunity to drive around UK and visit different places. Sometimes going away from home improves you physically and psychologically.

However, my grandma who lives in Bristol with her daughter has visited us for four days. Elder people are very funny and I adore chatting with them because they have a lot of experience through their life. Every night I used to chat with my granny until the middle night, I love it.

When the fourth day has finished, I took her to Bristol and I had a good time there also with anti family. My anti has two children who called Ebraheim and Zobare. They are very lovely and very active; I wished if I could stay with them more time but the work was waiting for me the next day. Days after, my family has visit a Zoo which located in Oxfordshire, but i couldn't go with them because i was working that day what a shame

The following Friday, I drove to Bradford to visit some mates and pick other stuff also. After that we drove to Birmingham to have some lunch and meet others friends who I had never met them in UK before. The holiday was magnificent also I am looking forward to visit Sheffield, Cardiff and Birmingham again

My team is suffering

Last Tuesday, we won superbly and we have been positioned at the middle of the table, which is great for my team. Most of the team members aren't fit enough to play all the game, but all of them want to be promoted to the upper league.

However, my team has lost the best player and the captain because of a problem with other people so he wouldn't play with us any more. All my sympathy is with him, I wish truly for him he to return but the chances are few. I feel my team is suffering from missing him, but we have to reach our goals with him or without him.

On the other hand, today we had a new manger and he was doing well organizing the team. At the beginning of the match Diego (striker) scored a great goal, but the other team scored also. My team was controlling the game, but in the last 10 minutes I felt that we lost the game spirit when they scored the killing goal. So, the other team has returned to defence positions, which made us lose the game 7-8.

My story with this team hasn’t ended yet, I will make my team rise again head high.

I LOVE MY TEAM

Voki is great, check it out, but you must have a mic

Last Wednesday we had great fun with the Voki, which is an object or character you design. Also you can add background and other things such as face, or styles.

I have a done lots of these vokis, and you can listen to them. They are not that funny, because my teacher was expecting me to do well at these vokis, but in the near future I will create more. I also have created a welcome voki, check it out.

I wish you enjoy these vokis, and my friend Abingdoze or Rui he really loves it.

Football match, Hot and warm

Last night, we played a serious match with one of the teams that had beaten us in a friendly game. When we arrived at the football ground at 8-45 pm, shockingly the referee informed us that we were too late, and the other team also arrived late, we should have started at 8-40pm. One of my mates had checked the time and he found out that the game time was 9.20pm, and the referee apologised and told us that we were going to have our match at 10pm which was seriously late.

However, we were ready to put our Boots on the football ground, and ready to score. The captain told me that the other team had a great keeper, but he is not good with low shots so keep your shots low. Nevertheless, the other team was very organised and very determined we kept man to man. During the game we were all-over the place. After the first goal, the other team started shouting at each other which is evidence of weakness. I think that helped our confidence to grow, but in the last 7 minutes they scored to level with us.


Quick change of plan, two front players were substituted to enter the last 3 minutes of the game. In the last minute they scored the winning goal which killed the determination of the other team. I love the feeling of winning, we beat them 4-3. We are looking forward to more serious match.

Conservation Report - Endcliffe Park – Sheffield

Introduction:-

More than 30 different species of animals and plants per each square meter living there, and the area is rich in amphibian, insects, birds and other animals, there are some places in Sheffield can be compare with Endcliffe National Park. It has become one of the most important places in South Yorkshire for the amount of the species which live in the Park and the amount of the space is covered. Endcliffe National Park has enormous moor land and wood land which create a beautiful landscape and full of species which can provide great environment to different habitats.

Endcliffe National Park is trying to reflect that Humans can leave with harming the environment. There are many places are surrounding the park which growing crops and destroy other living creatures can harm or feed on the crops which can result to extinction of these creatures. Endcliffe's Park is successfully present great result by balancing the environment and the human need in the park. Endcliffe National Park authorisations are currently working continuously to enhance the area's natural beauty.

Conservation is trying to protect species and gives care to the Earth's natural resources and support the future of all species. Some of these problems created by lack of conservation are decreasing the amount of the some animals. Actions which can be taken to support the life on Earth are nature reserves, saving habitats (rainforests and coral reefs) and ensure that certain animals are kept under watch and ensure these animals are well protected.

What causing damage to the environment:-

The demands on food production is increasing every year and that through developments in agricultural technology and practices which reflect on the amount of the production (crops) every year. However, these modern technologies and increasing of the amount of the crops over the landscape have had a serious impact on the environment. The main effect comes from continually using fertilizers and pesticides.
The amount of the cars in the road is increasing, which required more car parks every public places. This can be result of increasing the amount of the fresh air around the parks or city. Endcliffe Park has lost a large space of land for needing more car parks. There are thousands of species and animals use to live in that land, so they have died or move to some where else. More cars around the park (Roads or car parks) can cause animal to breath gases which is from cars, so that can effect on animals after certain generations. The solution to these problems is to provide a public transport to increase the amount of the car attending to Park. The park can acknowledge the people which live around the park or attending the park about the serious problems are the park facing and provide regular presentation which explain these problems.

There are more than 30,000 visitors every single year. These people are causing a serious problem to the park for dumping rubbish or feeding the animals which can find easy and nice taste with these visitors, such as squirrels, birds, fishes and rabbits etc. These wastes can be developed as toxic or harmful materials to the environment, and that will harm the environment. The effect of these materials would appear now, but they will appear by the coming generations. However, these materials would harm environment which can end these effect on the human. These animals can feed on what have been left behind such as plastic, cardboard, babies waste and clothes. Eating these unnatural food can create a lost of problems to animal and park authorizations. The authorization would spend times and money to wash and clean these waste which can take days or months. Main problem that the park can face is ill or death animals, which can cause diseases to human or animal.

How to limited or stop harming the environment in Endcliffe Park:-

Endcliffe National Park is conserved in several ways. It involves stopping damage, and keeping the beauty of environment in the park with supported. There are a number of ways which the Park consist to keep the Park beauty:-

• Regularly monitoring to maintain the safety of these animals.
• Looking after the landscapes features.
• Improving the park features such as building to
• level it up with the environment.
• Cooperation with local authorisations to deliver how to save the environment and beauty of natural beauty
• Provide more bins around the park which where visitors can disposal safely

I think, after all these improvements would help the park life where human can live with other creature. Harming of destroying the environment can result of many problems which can reach and effect on human life, but support the environment that can help people which are surrounding the environment. Endcliffe is trying to deliver this message around the country and world.

The day we head high

One 9th of February was the day my team should head high or failed. Our captain had a great hope of wining this game because it will position us on the top of league table. The team is now full recovered and ready to fire away.

At the beginning of this season, we have joined late and we missing one game which meant we had lost the game, three points down. Although, we have made great transactions and gathered enough players, we have lost the first game. I felt that something had stood on top of my chest as pain, which disappointed me/us.

The second game we have recruited one more player which change our game style, and we had defeated the other team with proud 6- 8. Nevertheless we still need more substitutions so we can keep up fitness through the game.

Now, captain found two front players and keeper which especially will improve our team fitness. The day before the third game, the captain (Yas) couldn’t stop talking about the game, because he was thinking that many teams were not good enough to challenge us. Firstly the Captain had a lot of trophies during his pervious leagues. Secondly, I used to play as friend but he use to be beaten by my team. However, the team have players which are superior foot skills in our team now.

After the game,

The other team has a friend of mine, which made me want to beat him. There was unpleasant news before the game, which was the time of the game has moved from 9.20pm to 8pm. Although we had just enough players, the game was very difficult to win. More Sad news arriving, which held our hand tier, the two front players we expected had a lecture until 8pm. The keeper had brought a Japanese player which was just fine player, but I don’t think he will play with us next game.

The game was on fire, the other team was well organised and we were running like headless chickens. We’re held back at 2-4 in the first half, but in the last 10 minutes we realised that we had come to win the game, so we had to level with them. Unfortunately, the game ended up with a draw of 4-4.

Times up, Pens are ready to write

In few weeks time, we are expecting to have a reading exam. Personally, I am facing asmall difficulty with reading and finding specific information in a large text. But by the will of the lord (creator-Allah) I will pass my exam if I work hard. I know that saying is far easier than doing the action.

Nevertheless, I can feel the tension from my class mates, and I wish the best for them. I always love to support others, because that also encourages me to do more work individually. I believe the most important part of learning the English Language is to do the homework, so you can revise what you have learnt which will be permanently stay in your mind. Although, we know the importance of that, we still ignore it.

On other other hand, the teachers can see some of us are husbands, employees or having responsibilities. They fear the consequences of asking the students to do further work, or maybe pressurise the students to do their homework.

Murder Case 2008, Sheffield College

Our team have received a call from the police to cover a crime scene. The police have given us the scenario about the crime scene, and they sealed off the area. The police found a house that had been broken into via the kitchen, which leads into a study, and there is a threatening message and a Lilly flower that has been left on the floor, and there are some powders on the worktop, and there are cup and a bottle in the sink. The police found two suspects, one of these suspects carried out the crime, and the other suspect didn’t. The police have taken the following evidence from the suspects:
· Trainers with soil
· Trousers with pollen
· Their fingerprints
· Pens from them
· Statements


Statements:

Statement from Luke De Ville:

Luke said” I was in the area as my girlfriend lives close by. She goes to the same school, and they are in the same class. I don’t like him as he is too smooth. It was a bit much after going to the trouble and expense of buying her flowers to give to her birthday that day. I felt a real idiot carrying them through town before picking her up. I walked into town and caught the bus home. I didn’t go to the house I had no reason”

Statement from Witness (Lester Dew):

Lester Dew said” I was taking my dog for a walk at about 10.30 pm on the day in question and I saw someone wearing a light coloured T shirt and jeans climb over the wall near the college. As I returned home that evening I saw what I thought was the same person walking further down the road near to the roundabout. This was about 11.30 pm”

Statement from Angela Dogood:

Angela said” I walked home from football practice past the house on the night in question I always go that way. I know the people who are going to move in as, Nelson. We often meet on the pitch in inter-school games. He is a hard player and we are competing against each other for the player of the season prize. I don’t like him as he is rather a dirty player at the time but I would not threaten him. I don’t have reason to do it. I didn’t enter the garden of the house and did not write the note that you found.

Police finding:-

After the police has collected evidence from the suspect, and taken the statement. I went to the crime scene to collect evidence, and our investigation team found a lot of evidence at the crime scene. This can help to find the person who is guilty of committing this crime (criminal). The following evidence was found at the crime scene:
· foot print
· Lilly flower on the floor
· note on the floor
· cup, and bottle in the sink
· powder on the worktop
· broken window
· blood on the window

Our team of investigators are qualified in carrying out the testing of the evidence found from the crime scene, and the suspects, and analysing the results. After finding the result we are linking all the results from the evidence gathered, to find out the suspect guilty of committing this crime (criminal) from the result. Forensic investigators work with the police to find the criminal and give a clear picture of what happens at the crime scene, and then convict the criminal in court.

I have carried out many tests to analyse the result form the evidence I have been given, and taken from the crime scene.
These tests were carried out on the evidence from the crime scene:

· Analysing the finger print from the cup found at the crime scene, and compare it with the suspect prints.
· footprint analysing form the soil, then compare it to the suspect shoes (Biology test)
· Soil analysing form the shoes, and linked to the soil form the crime scene (chemical test)
· Chemical testing, (cations test , anions test ) for the powder was found at the crime scene at the worktop
· Chromatography test to analyse from the ink from the note, and analyse the ink form the suspect pens (Chemical test )
· Analysing the fibre form the suspect cloths (Biology test )
· Analyse the pollen from the suspects cloths (Biology test )

Finding:

Foot print:

Our investigating group went to the crime scene, when we entered the crime scene we found footprint out doors, and we analysed the print form the soil by using hair spray, and plastic tray. We have taken the fingerprint to the laboratory to test the print form the soil. We use the Dental plaster to analyse the footprint form the soil, and we work carefully to get a good print at the dental plaster. We were given by the police suspects shoe to compare it to the foot print at the crime scene. After a few weeks the footprint was ready to compare with the suspect’s shoes. The shapes of the footprint was found at the crime scene, it was from the suspect Luke De Ville, and we analysed the soil, and we found the soil on Luke shoes the same as from the crime scene. This test is against Luke De Ville, because we have found his shoes print, at the crime scene.

Soil analysing:

We have found soil at the suspect shoes. This soil at these shoes can helped us find the criminal from this crime scene. Our investigating team have taken the soil, to different stages, or tests to find which of these soils at the suspect’s shoes is the crime scene soil. Our tests for the soils will be two different tests a microscope test and a sedimentation test. We started testing the soil under the microscope, to see which soil is from the crime scene. We have taken soil from the crime scene to compare it to the soils from the suspects. At the first test under the microscope, we have looked to the soils under the microscope, at this test we have found the soil from the suspect Luke De Ville was the right soil from the crime scene. At the second test (sedimentation test) we mixed the water with the soils, and then we left the mixtures for a few weeks to settle the soils. After, few weeks we found the soil form the suspect Luke De Ville was the same result as the soil from the crime scene. I found this test is against Luke De Ville 100%.

Fingerprint:

We went to the crime scene trying to find more evidence of the crime, then I found a cup and bottle of beer at the worktop, and that mean is some one uses this cup to drink the beer. We have taken the cup to the laboratory to find any finger print at the cup, and we found left thumb print. After analysing the finger print by using powder, and the brush. We use to have the suspects finger prints form the police, then we compared the fingerprints. We found these fingerprints didn’t belong to the suspect Angela Dogood because the fingerprints was completely different, however, we found this thumbprint was Luke De Ville, because the shapes, and the size of the thumbprint was the same. I have found this test is against Luke 100%

Pollen stain:

At the crime scene we have found Lilly flower on the floor, and the police have given as some T-shirts, and trousers from the suspects, and on the trousers was some pollen stain. Our team are going to find out what kind of stain is it? We looked under the microscope how the Lilly pollen looks like. When we finished looking at the Lilly pollen, we have taken the stain pollen from the trousers, by using sellotape. We used the microscope to find out what kind of pollen stain we have. I have found from looking to the pollen stains, Luke have the Lilly pollen stain at him trouser, and that mean Luke left the Lilly flower, or touched it. The stain we found on Angela trousers was different. This test is against the suspect Luke De Ville, because we have found the same stain from the Lilly flower was found it at the crime scene.

Analysing the ink (chromatography test):

We have found at the crime scene note left for Nelson, and the police have given as pens from the two suspects to find more details of information about how write this note. We use chromatography test to analyse the ink from the note, and find out who this ink belongs. After, we finish the test we have found the ink from Angela was completely different from ink found at the crime scene. We found Luke had the same ink from the crime scene, and we discovered he wrote the note.

Closed - circuit Television (CCTV)

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) is the use of video cameras to broadcast a signal to a specific place, on a limited number of monitors.
It difficult from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point to point wireless links. CCTV is often used for watchman or CCTV monitor in areas that may need monitoring such as banks, casinos, airports, military installations, and convenience stores. A more advanced form of CCTV, utilizing Digital Video Recorders (DVRs), provides recording for possibly many years, with a variety of quality and performance options and extra features (such as motion-detection and email alerts).

People from the public nowadays using CCTV is particularly common in the UK, where there are reportedly more cameras per person than in any other country in the world. Usually, companies used these Cameras to secure their premises, and keep under watch. These companies could have valid equipment which will cost these companies a thousand of pound and losing time, so they take further to prevent theft crime.

Uses of CCTV:-

CCTV used for crime prevention and provide evidence to authorities, which can catch the criminal and decrease the amount of the crime happening. CCTV takes an important part of UK social to prevent crime and support people to live in save place.
Outside of the government special facilities, CCTV was developed seriously at different places such as:-

Banks: - During 70s and 80s the banks have a serious bank theft and they was increasing, so the bank took further step to tackle this type of crime

Town: - there are thousand of shops were located in shopping centre. when the night lift in UK became more active the crime increase, so the police and councils have took a serious step to prevent these crime by locating cameras in different location in the town centre.

Private companies: - Many companies provide a security offer to monitor the area every few hours to check the premises, but the security gay can't watch every single thing moving. Many companies placed a CCTV on their premises which can support to provide evidence and threaten the criminal to reach or come around these reigns.

Traffic monitor: - It can send an image to the police where any crime committee on the road or will be committee. This can provide quick helpline to injured person/people from the Ambulance. These cameras can provide evidence or location of criminal which police looking for.

Industrial process: - The natural of the large amount of the production which it been produce to large scale of the community, by placing and thing could effect the human. That could course to serious death in large scale of the community, and that can lead to many problems. CCTV is been located at different places in the industry, so the y can tackle and misbehavior or adding something to the original ingredient.

There is large number of employees which working with large machines. By locating these cameras in different location around these machines could prevent and support employees prevent accident or provide quick support if necessary.

Types of CCTV cameras:

Black and white cameras: These cameras are the cheapest, and they send black and white image through small monitor. This type camera does have surveillance to watch it all the time. Usually these cameras used to send signal and provide evidence, if naccessary and prevent crime.

Frame per second cameras (Digital): This camera has a poor quality of video, because it records a single image every second.

Pan Tilt Zoom (PTZ) Cameras: - These types of CCTV cameras allow a person controlling the surveillance of an area to move the camera remotely, usually with an RF or wired controller.

This camera has feature to monitor up, down, right and left.

Cameras with Special Accessories: - Certain CCTV cameras have special functions which are made for specialty uses. For example, there are very small surveillance cameras that are used for spying (Nanny Cams), there are cameras that are made for night viewing, cameras that are vandal resistant and cameras that are specifically made for indoor or outdoor uses

Type of recorders:

There are two major ways to record video images that your CCTV cameras capture; they are analog tape (VCR) and digital (DVR) video recorders:-

VCR Tape Recorder:-
A tape recorder such as a security-time lapse VCR can record CCTV camera images in either black and white or colour for either 2,4, 6, 8, etc all the way up to 960 hours which is 40 complete days. It records 30 frames per second and that will provide better quality of video. VCR's are very practical, very reliable and extremely affordable. Expect to pay only a few hundred pounds for a security VCR.

Digital Video Recorders:-
There are two types of DVR's (Digital Video Recorders). They are either stand alone devices or hard drives that are connected to a computer system. DVR's work similar to VCR's except the images they capture is one every second. The resolution that the DVR saves the video is MPEG4. So that mean the DVR give less resolution and shorter time. The amount the saving the DVR provide is 20 to 50 GB on hard drive in about 80 hours and that short time compare to VCR.