In addition to conducting alternative service programs for COs, AFSC collected relief in the form of food, clothing, and other supplies for displaced persons in France.

Beginning in 1966, AFSC developed programs to help children and provided medical supplies and artificial limbs to civilians in both North Vietnam and South Vietnam.

Today AFSC programs address a wide range of issues, countries, and communities.

AFSC employs more than two hundred staff working in dozens of programs throughout the United States and works in thirteen other nations.

AFSC has divided the organization's programs between 14 geographic regions, each of which runs programs related to peace, immigrant rights, restorative justice, economic justice, and other causes.

AFSC carries out many programs around the world.

AFSC was founded in 1917 as a combined effort by American members of the Religious Society of Friends to assist civilian victims of World War I.

Eventually AFSC was chartered by President Herbert Hoover to provide the United States sponsored relief to Germans.

By September 1974 the function of the AFSWC had become largely obsolete, and in 1976 the center was officially disestablished by the AFSC.

In 2004, he was voted 61st in the Top 100 Great South Africans, as well as being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a U. S. Quaker humanitarian group, the American Friends Service Committee ( AFSC ).

The Air Force Specialty Code ( AFSC ) is an alphanumeric code used by the United States Air Force to identify an Air Force Specialty ( AFS ).

The AFSC is similar to the Military Occupational Specialty ( MOS ) used by the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps or enlisted ratings and USN officer designators and USCG officer specialities used by the United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard.

FGC, founded in 1900 and centered primarily in the East, along the West coast, and in Canada, tended to be oriented toward the liberal end of the political spectrum, was mostly unprogrammed, and closely aligned with AFSC ; by the last part of the century it had taken a strong position in favor of same-sex marriage, was supportive of gay rights, and usually favored a woman's right to choose an abortion.

In 1973, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee ( AFSC ).

AFSC was founded by Friends and still has a substantially Friends Board of Trustees, however, only the Director of AFSC is required to be a Friend and the vast majority of AFSC staff, including senior staff, are not Friends and are not familiar with Friends worship or testimonies leading to some Friends ' Meetings distancing themselves from AFSC and its activities.

In 1947 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Friends for 300 years of work for peace and received on behalf of Friends by AFSC and its London counterpart, the Friends Service Committee, now known as Quaker Peace and Social Witness.

The promotion cutoff scores for enlisted ranks of the United States Air Force are determined by how many enlisted members can be promoted each cycle based on end strength and fiscal constraints, then the Air Force Personnel Center applies that quota equally to each Air Force Specialty Code ( AFSC ) based on the total number of eligible airmen.

AFSC also supported draft counseling for young American men throughout the conflict.

A USAF TACP, is usually a team of two or more United States Air Force TACP journeyman or craftsman ( AFSC 1C4X1 ) aligned with a conventional or special operational United States Army combat maneuver unit to advise ground commanders on the best use of air power, establish and maintain command and control communications, and provide precision terminal attack guidance of U. S. and coalition fixed-and rotary-wing close air support aircraft, artillery, and naval gunfire.

The American Friends Service Committee ( AFSC ) is a Religious Society of Friends ( Quaker ) affiliated organization which works for peace and social justice in the United States and around the world.

In 1947 AFSC received the Nobel Peace Prize along with the British Friends Service Council ( now called Quaker Peace and Social Witness ) on behalf of all Quakers worldwide.

In areas where the pacifist churches were more well known ( such as Pennsylvania ), a number of draft boards were willing to assign COs to AFSC for alternative service.

Quakers were asked to collect old and make new clothing ; to grow fruits and vegetables, can them, and send them to AFSC headquarters in Philadelphia.

AFSC then shipped the materials to France for distribution.

During the 1930s and through World War II, AFSC helped refugees escape from Nazi Germany, provided relief for children on both sides of the Spanish Civil War, and provided relief to refugees in Vichy France.

At the same time AFSC provided support in the US for Japanese-Americans during their internment, and operated several Civilian Public Service camps for a new generation of COs. After the war ended, they did relief and reconstruction work in Europe, Japan, India, and China.

Between 1937 and 1943, the AFSC built the Penn-Craft community for unemployed coal miners in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

As the Cold War escalated, AFSC was involved in relief and service efforts, often supporting civilians on both sides of conflicts around the world including the Korean War, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Algerian War, and the Nigerian-Biafran War.

In the United States, AFSC supported the American Civil Rights Movement, and the rights of African-Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans.

Since the 1970s AFSC has also worked extensively as part of the peace movement, especially work to stop the production and deployment of nuclear weapons.

AFSC also provides administrative support to the Quaker United Nations Office ( QUNO ) in New York City.

Recently AFSC opened a traveling art exhibit called Windows & Mirrors, examining the impact on the war in Afghanistan on civilians.

For its anti-war, pro-immigration, and anti-capital punishment stances, the AFSC receives criticism from many socially conservative groups.

The client / server characteristic describes the relationship of cooperating programs in an application.

This collection of bits describes both the contained database data and its related metadata ( i. e., data that describes the contained data and allows computer programs to manipulate the database data correctly ).

This collection of bits describes both the contained database data and its related metadata ( i. e., data that describes the contained data and allows computer programs to manipulate the database data correctly ).

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Gentoo describes itself as a meta-distribution, " because of its near-unlimited adaptability ", in that the majority of users have configurations and sets of installed programs which are unique to themselves.

Gliessman describes that the innovative work of Prof. Efraim Hernandez X., who developed research based on indigenous systems of knowledge in Mexico, led to education programs in agroecology.

He mentioned that Raglan is one of the few towns in New Zealand with recycling bins in the main street, and describes how people he knew became involved in recycling because of Xtreme Waste's programs.

* Effect system, formal system which describes the computational effects of computer programs

Knowledge Discovery Metamodel ( KDM ) is the furthest along of these efforts, and describes information systems in terms of various assets ( programs, specifications, data, test files, database schemas, etc.

The caucus describes its goals as " positively influencing the course of events pertinent to African-Americans and others of similar experience and situation ", and " achieving greater equity for persons of African descent in the design and content of domestic and international programs and services.

This concept, also called " stock for services " and sometimes " equity compensation " or " sweat equity " can also be seen when startup companies use their shares of stock to entice service providers to provide necessary corporate services in exchange for a discount or for deferring service fees until a later date, see e. g. " Idea Makers and Idea Brokers in High Technology Entrepreneurship " by Todd L. Juneau et al., Greenwood Press, 2003, which describes equity for service programs involving patent lawyers and securities lawyers who specialize in start-up companies as clients.

The " broad path " that Parrington describes formed a scholastic course of study for Henry Nash Smith, who received a Ph. D. from Harvard's interdisciplinary program in " History and American Civilization " in 1940, setting an academic precedent for present-day American Studies programs.

Elmira College describes its orientation for new students as " a unique series of programs " to acclimate these students and their families to the campus.

In computing, an effect system is a formal system which describes the computational effects of computer programs, such as side effects.

Beach Profile Nourishment describes programs that nourish the full beach profile.

Wilson describes his proposed program as having a “ hidden agenda ” for policy makers “ to improve the life chances of truly disadvantaged groups such as the ghetto underclass by emphasizing programs to which the more advantaged groups of all races and class backgrounds can positively relate .” Universal programs are more easily accepted within America ’ s political climate than targeted programs, yet the underclass would likely experience the most benefit from universal programs.

A division of the American Studies Center, the network describes its mission as " to produce and syndicate quality radio programs reflecting a commitment to traditional American values, limited government and the free market.

In 1986 the Steans Family Foundation was founded ; it describes itself as " a small family foundation " that " concentrates its grantmaking and programs in North Lawndale " and " by dedicating time, money, and skills ... works in partnership with local residents and institutions to build and enhance the North Lawndale community ".

Custom programs can be developed by programming in various languages ( typically C or C ++) or by using more intuitive, albeit somewhat less flexible, development tools where existing functionalities ( often called tool or blocks ) can be connected in a list ( a sequence or a bidimensional flowchart ) that describes the desired flow of operations without any need to write program code.