As the governing body of association football, FIFA is responsible for maintaining and implementing the rules that determine whether an association football player is eligible to represent a particular country in officially recognised international competitions and friendly matches. In the 20th century, FIFA allowed a player to represent any national team, as long as the player held citizenship of that country. In 2004, in reaction to the growing trend towards naturalisation of foreign players in some countries, FIFA implemented a significant new ruling that requires a player to demonstrate a "clear connection" to any country they wish to represent. FIFA has used its authority to overturn results of competitive international matches that feature ineligible players.

FIFA's eligibility rules also demand that in men's competitions, only men are eligible to play, and that in women's competitions, only women are eligible to play.

Historically, it was possible for players to play for different national teams. For example, Alfredo di Stefano played for Argentina (1947) and Spain (195761).

Di Stefano's Real Madrid teammate Ferenc Puskas also played for Spain after amassing 85 caps for Hungary earlier in his career. A third high-profile instance of a player switching international football nationalities is Jose Altafini, who played for Brazil in the 1958 FIFA World Cup and for Italy in the subsequent 1962 FIFA World Cup. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is FIFA
2. of what?
3. What do Americans call this sport?
4. What is one thing they do?
5. for what?
6. How did they decide if a person could play for a national team before?
7. When did this change?
8. Why?
9. How do they decide now?
10. What do they do if a match has someone that should not be playing?
11. Has anyone ever played for more than one national team?
12. Who was one such person?
13. Who did he play for?
14. What else does FIFA say about men's competitions?
15. What professional team does Puskas play for?
16. And he has played for what countries?
17. Did Altafine play in more than one World Cup?
18. when?
19. What countries?
20. How often is the World CUp?
Answer: 1. governing body
2. association football
3. soccer
4. maintaining and implementing the rules
5. eligibility
6. citizenship
7. In 2004
8. in reaction to the growing trend
9. clear connection
10. overturn results
11. yes
12. Alfredo di Stefano
13. Argentina and Spain
14. only men are eligible
15. Real Madrid
16. Spain and Hungary
17. yes
18. 1958 and 1962
19. Brazil and Italy
20. unknown

MaxiCode is a public domain, machine-readable symbol system originally created and used by United Parcel Service. Suitable for tracking and managing the shipment of packages, it resembles a barcode, but uses dots arranged in a hexagonal grid instead of bars. MaxiCode has been standardised under ISO/IEC 16023.

A MaxiCode symbol (internally called "Bird's Eye", "Target", "dense code", or "UPS code") appears as a 1inch square, with a bullseye in the middle, surrounded by a pattern of hexagonal dots. It can store about 93 characters of information, and up to 8 MaxiCode symbols can be chained together to convey more data. The centered symmetrical bullseye is useful in automatic symbol location regardless of orientation, and it allows MaxiCode symbols to be scanned even on a package traveling rapidly.

MaxiCode symbology was released by UPS in 1992.

MaxiCode symbols using modes 2 and 3 include a "Structured Carrier Message" containing key information about a package. This information is protected with a strong Reed-Solomon error correction code, allowing it to be read even if a portion of the symbol is damaged. These fields include:

The structured portion of the message is stored in the inner area of the symbol, near the bull's-eye pattern. (In modes that do not include a structured portion, the inner area simply stores the beginning of the message.) What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What does MaxiCode look similar to?
2. What does it use in a grid instead of bars?
3. Who created this system?
4. What is it primarily good for?
5. Can you name an alternative name for a MaxiCode symbol?
6. How large is this kind of symbol?
7. What's in the very center of it?
8. Can several of these symbols be hooked together?
9. For what?
10. How much can it store?
11. And how many can be hooked together?
12. Where is the message stored on the symbol?
13. How about a structured portion of a message?
14. What modes include these structured messages?
15. Is that information protected?
16. With what?
17. Can it be read if it's damaged?
18. What kind of info is in these structured messages?
19. When did this system come out?
20. Is it public domain?
Answer: 1. a barcode
2. dots
3. UPS
4. tracking the shipment of packages
5. Bird's Eye
6. 1" square
7. a bullseyes
8. Yes
9. to convey more data
10. 93 characters of information
11. Eight
12. In the inner area of the symbol
13. also in the inner area of the symbol, near the bull's eye pattern
14. both modes 2 and 3
15. Yes
16. Reed-Solomon ECC
17. Yes
18. key information about a package
19. 1992
20. Yes

CHAPTER TWO

Babalatchi ceased speaking. Lingard shifted his feet a little, uncrossed his arms, and shook his head slowly. The narrative of the events in Sambir, related from the point of view of the astute statesman, the sense of which had been caught here and there by his inattentive ears, had been yet like a thread to guide him out of the sombre labyrinth of his thoughts; and now he had come to the end of it, out of the tangled past into the pressing necessities of the present. With the palms of his hands on his knees, his elbows squared out, he looked down on Babalatchi who sat in a stiff attitude, inexpressive and mute as a talking doll the mechanism of which had at length run down.

"You people did all this," said Lingard at last, "and you will be sorry for it before the dry wind begins to blow again. Abdulla's voice will bring the Dutch rule here."

Babalatchi waved his hand towards the dark doorway.

"There are forests there. Lakamba rules the land now. Tell me, Tuan, do you think the big trees know the name of the ruler? No. They are born, they grow, they live and they die--yet know not, feel not. It is their land."

"Even a big tree may be killed by a small axe," said Lingard, drily. "And, remember, my one-eyed friend, that axes are made by white hands. You will soon find that out, since you have hoisted the flag of the Dutch." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What can a small axe do?
2. According to whom?
3. How many eyes did he have?
4. What did the one-eyed person need to recall?
5. What kind of flag was raised?
6. Who quit talking?
7. Who will cause the Dutch to come?
8. Will he regret his actions?
9. When?
10. Who is the current ruler?
11. Who was moving his feet?
12. Where did this occur?
13. Did Babalatchi have a relaxed posture?
14. What did he gesture towards?
15. Was it lit up?
16. Are trees aware of the name of their leader?
17. Who's land is it?
18. Do they have feelings?
19. What was the color of the hands?
20. Is a big axe needed?
Answer:
1. kill a big tree
2. Lingard
3. unknown
4. axes are made by white hands
5. the flag of the Dutch
6. Babalatchi
7. Abdulla's voice
8. yes
9. before the dry wind begins to blow again
10. Lakamba
11. Lingard
12. Sambir
13. no
14. the doorway
15. no
16. No.
17. the trees
18. no
19. white .
20. no