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Wizard101 is an online, Wizard school adventure with collectible card magic, wizard duels, and far off worlds!
The game allows players to create a student Wizard in an attempt to save Wizard City and explore many different worlds.
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Most Recent Announcement
This is an announcement to notify all the users who voted in October 2010 to refinish and repurpose the site that the desired changes and related improvements have been officially disallowed by Wikia on the site. They did offer a different site at a new url where those things could be done, but as that contradicted the entire point of the changes, which was to continue having a friendly online Wizard101 community where different sites complemented one another and made the information stronger for everyone as a whole, and there was no desire to have the fourth Wizard101 Wikia wiki, we turned them down.
I apologize sincerely, I tried my best to represent the unanimous desires of the site community and failed.
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New Template in Town
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Turn red to blue
This is one of the two primary goals, this means that if, on your journeys through the wiki, you see a red link and know what is supposed to be there please click the link, load the appropriate template and create - this will help with the second primary goal, Wizard City Cleanup. There is still a lot of information missing in the Wizard City pages, some of it will take months (or years) to collate, but if you see something missing and you know or can easily get the answer please fill it in!
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With our growing presence as a source for Wizard 101 info vandalism is also on the rise - a few user's have already been granted rollback rights to help fight the growing amount of gibberish and nonsense that has been inserted into pages over the last week - sometimes at the cost of content. We are all trying to catch these pages quickly but if you see any please report, either via problem report or an email to the admins. If you know wiki editing well enough to fix the problem feel free to give it a shot, please report even if you fix it so admins can follow up.
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On a side note we just wanted to share what is probably our only content restriction policy as admins - which is spoilers. We are trying very hard not to reveal too much in the main pages, hence the discussion tab. Anything which is a spoiler of any type should be placed on the discussion tab - and will quite likely be moved if it is not. Anything which reveals story ie talking about marleybone story in a wizard city quest, solves puzzles or quests and walkthrough type comments all belong on the discussion tab.
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Paintball Near Biddulph, Staffordshire
Paintball Congleton
From £7.50 Min Age 11 commute 9.30 miles
100 Free paintballs You'll be blown away by the action at our massive Congleton site. Enjoy free reign of 60 acres of prime paintball territory, and compete in any of our 9 epic battle environments like Village, Nest, Fort and Maze. Use our high spec kit to eliminate the opposition, complete the mission and have a blast with your mates.
Our smashing venue is located just outside the town of Congleton and we are also close to Macclesfield, which makes us accessible from all over the North West. We have excellent transport links as we are just off the A34 and a stones throw from the M6 Motorway.
Our smashing venue is located just outside the town of Congleton and we are also close to Macclesfield, which makes us accessible from all over the North West. We have excellent transport links as we are just off the A34 and a stones throw from the M6 Motorway.
Paintball Stoke On Trent
From £7.50 Min Age 9 commute 18.99 miles
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From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 23.19 miles
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Paintball Frodsham, Cheshire
From £30.00 Min Age 16 commute 38.58 miles
Located within 200 acres of stunning Cheshire countryside. The ideal location for businesses throughout the North West seeking a venue to host corporate days, team building events and conferences. We are also an extremely popular venue for hen & stag parties, private groups and individuals looking for a fun day out in the country.
Paintball Derby
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 41.84 miles
Undoubtedly one of the premier paintball sites in the Midlands, this epic woodland war zone is just a short drive from central Derby and boasts 8 action-packed game zones to battle your way round.
Paintball Oldham Indoor
From £9.99 Min Age 8 commute 45.69 miles
This thumping indoor paintball arena caters for frantic action and lots of close quarters combat. Sink your teeth into demanding team missions with a variety of objectives and don't forget to pummel the enemy along the way.
Paintball Manchester
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 48.36 miles
This fantastic site, easily accessible from Manchester and the north-west, features several gaming areas across our woodland battleground and several unique features including ditches, streams, swamps, forts, pillboxes and much more!
Paintball Wolverhampton
From £7.50 Min Age 8 commute 52.82 miles
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From £30.00 Min Age commute 53.05 miles
Paintball Chester
From £7.50 Min Age 11 commute 54.67 miles
With 17 tailor-made game zones to battle it out in this awesome purpose-built paintball park is the perfect place to put your combat skills to the ultimate test. So whether you're battling your way round 'The Graveyard' or fighting it out in 'The Trenches' you're in for an unforgettable day of paintball!
Paintball Knowsley
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 59.73 miles
A massive woodland battleground is the stage for your electrifying paintball shoot-outs. 200 splattering soldier can compete here at any one time with wicked environments to blast through. Lead your team to victory, but watch out. Something lurks in the trees. It's the Predator, just like the Hollywood movie.
Paintball Sheffield
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 61.29 miles
Set across 20 acres of woodland this epic arena is the perfect place to experience the thrill of paintball, all within easy access from Sheffield and Barnsley. We have several action-packed game zones for you to battle it out in so book today and really let your inner action hero run wild!
Paintball Ormskirk
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 64.77 miles
100 Free paintballs A 16 acre war zone, set within dense north west forest terrain, full to bursting with purpose-built barricades, forts and abandoned vehicles. Home to all the classic paintball skirmishes like capture the flag. A fast and furious, action packed venue.
Paintball Wakefield, West Yorkshire
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 67.98 miles
100 Free paintballs Our Wakefield location is a woodland venue situated 2 minutes from Junction 38 on the M1. The site is less than half an hour from the centre of Wakefield, Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster. Powerplay - Wakefield, like our Brighouse venue, is one of the most convenient venues in the North of England. Boasting fantastic game zones like: Inferno, Slim Jim, Salad Bowl, Missile Man, and many more... Get booked in today
Paintball Halkyn, Clwyd
From £27.99 Min Age 8 commute 68.01 miles
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Paintball Brighouse, West Yorkshire
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 69.72 miles
100 Free paintballs Welcome to one of the most easiest and enjoyable sites to find and play at. For an action-packed and utterly unique paintball experience, rally your troops at our Brighouse site. With a selection of adrenaline packed game zones to play in including a Western style village It is time to prepare to lose yourself in another world of action and excitement. Live out your own thrilling combat epic, and be the hero of the story.
Paintball Dorrington, Shropshire
From £45.00 Min Age 11 commute 70.20 miles
Paintball Shropshire - Shrewsbury
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 72.55 miles
The Shropshire countryside is the setting for your epic paintball action. This awesome site features 10 acres of woodland terrain and purpose built fortifications.
Paintball Sheffield South
From £7.50 Min Age 16 commute 73.40 miles
100 Free paintballs For the ultimate in paint-powered adventure do not miss the action at our Sheffield South paintball venue with 8 brilliant game zones featuring towers, forts and villages. The action will come thick and fast as you tear through dense woodland and blast the enemy away.
Paintball Nottingham - Mansfield
From £27.50 Min Age 8 commute 74.11 miles
Our Nottingham Mansfield site is 150 acres of Sherwood Forest dedicated to pure, electrifying paintball action. With a series of challenging and awe-inspiring game environments to tackle, such as The Castle, The Wild West and Tank Mania, prepare to lose yourself in a world of action, adventure and paint. Buckets and bucket of paint.
Paintball Preston
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 75.07 miles
A brilliant site with 6 game zones to tackle, like Octopus, Dracula, The Fort and The Hulk Field. Each zone is crammed with barricades and bridges and more. Plenty of room to dive around, make a mess and take no prisoners.
Paintball Leicester - Markfield
From £7.50 Min Age 11 commute 75.74 miles
100 Free paintballs Set in a secluded woodland area, only seconds away from Junction 22 of the M1 and A50 and minutes away from Leicester, Loughborough, Coalville and Hinckley. With both natural and man made game zones our site is custom-built to make your paintball experience as fun and exciting as possible.
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From £27.00 Min Age commute 78.23 miles
Paintball Birmingham South West
From £7.50 Min Age 8 commute 80.63 miles
100 Free paintballs We have 200 acres of woodland for you and your troops to do battle over in games like Hostage Hut, Island Attack and Speedball. Take cover behind tanks, oil drums and tyre columns or come out all guns blazing as you fight to complete the mission, then retire to our covered safety areas, heated changing rooms and real toilet facilities.
Paintball Blackpool
From £29.99 Min Age 12 commute 92.55 miles
Being located in Blackpool we are in the unique position of being located in the UK's entertainment capital and you can even see the world famous Blackpool Tower from our Lasertag and Paintball Arenas. Paintball is the ideal activity for Stag & Hen Do's, Birthday Parties, your Corporate Event or just a group of mates. All players on site are wrist banded and a paint list is with you at all times so they know exactly what you are spending at any point during the session.
Paintball Abergele, Conwy
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 92.88 miles
A smashing 69 acre war zone, with 10 unbelievable game zones. You and your mates will tackle a series of paint-blasting, rollercoaster mission scenarios, blowing up forts, capturing bridges, ambushing convoy's and even battling your way through a purpose-built graveyard.
Paintball Lincoln
From £25.50 Min Age 8 commute 96.75 miles
100 Free paintballs Our wonderful Lincoln site is a 40 acre battleground set within dense woodland and divided into 10 amazing game zones like Island Attack and Trench Warfare. Each features varied exciting team mission objectives and each is complimented by impressive sound effects and Hollywood style pyrotechnics.
Paintball Leeds
From £7.50 Min Age 8 commute 97.08 miles
100 Free paintballs With around 20 acres of woodland to blast your way through and a variety of missions scenarios to test yourself against, a breathless day of action is in store when you book an event with us. Don the military overalls, grab your paintball gun and take part in electrifying paintball games like Tank Battle, Alamo, Hostage Rescue and Fort Assault. Will you have what it takes to emerge victorious.
Paintball Warwick
From £7.50 Min Age 11 commute 98.31 miles
A 100 acre multi-activity adventure sports complex with a brilliant paintball arena divided into 6 gripping game zones. We've transformed the natural landscape into an immense battleground, fully loaded with trenches, forts, barricades and villages.
Paintball Leicester- Lutterworth
From £7.50 Min Age 16 commute 100.32 miles
100 Free paintballs Get ready to paint your mates from head to toe as you plan, stalk and conquer through a series of thrilling scenarios played in the perfect woodland setting for a paintball day you will never forget.
Paintball Redditch
From £7.50 Min Age 8 commute 103.96 miles
100 Free paintballs With a selection of tailor-made game zones to blast your way round this huge woodland paintball park is the perfect place to put your combat skills to the ultimate test! There's even a game zone dedicated to The Doctor, so don't forget to keep your eyes peeled for Daleks.
Paintball Scunthorpe - Messingham
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 110.35 miles
A brilliant, fun-packed site for up to 60 players, our Scunthorpe venue offers 12 varied gaming environments such as Fort Knox, The Castle and The Huts From Hell.
Paintball Elsham, Lincolnshire
From £7.50 Min Age 10 commute 126.84 miles
100 Free paintballs This action-packed paintball park has five epic game zone to battle your way round so whether you're blasting your way through the Village of the Dammed, or trying to escape the Pyramid of Doom you're in for an unforgettable experience!
Paintball Hereford
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 132.31 miles
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Paintball Aarfon - Snowdonia
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 132.70 miles
100 Free paintballs Undoubtedly one of Wales' premier paintball sites, the brilliant venue at Snowdonia is home to brilliant paintball fields, and is the venue of choice for loads of professional paintball, league play and tournament shootouts.With Paintball now only 5.00 per 100 on the day you can now tackle the very same site as the pro's for less than ever. Don't miss out.
Paintball Hereford - Ewyas Harold
From £7.50 Min Age 11 commute 138.07 miles
100 Free paintballs For an action packed day out come try and conquer our 10 exciting and unique scenarios. Our site situated in a beautiful open 50 acre battlefield offers you realistic military action as you come face to face with your opponents. We are the perfect choice for any birthday, stag/hen do, or corporate event. Whether you are a novice or a veteran, you are bound to have a great day out. Zones include Train Robbery, Capture the Flag, Attack the Base, Time Attack, Last Man Standing, Run the Guantlet, Kamikaze.
Paintball Northampton
From £7.50 Min Age 9 commute 138.83 miles
100 Free paintballs Northampton Paintball Free Personalised Pizza for every full day player The enemys advancing toward your headquarters, water on both sides and no time to retreat. Your only option is to fight your way out of our 7 themed game zones. Dominate the fuel dump, rescue the POW, and storm the fort to capture the enemys flag amongst many more!, so why not Join the conflict at Northamptons premiere paintball venue where our friendly well trained staff will ensure you have an action packed day to remember in our unique location.
Paintball Bedford
From £7.50 Min Age 11 commute 143.84 miles
100 Free paintballs With over 25 acres of perfectly adapted paintball terrain, highly sophisticated game scenarios and fully trained marshals our epic Bedford site is second to none. Combine this with a fantastic location between Bedford and Northampton this a must visit paintball field and we can't wait to greet you on the front lines for some truly adrenaline pumping action!
Paintball Gloucester
From £9.99 Min Age 12 commute 145.94 miles
This 20 acre paintball arena fuses natural terrain with man-made obstacles and fortifications to create an exciting battleground full of adventure and excitement. Complete varied missions with your team of friends and eliminate the opposition with volleys of paint.
Paintball Buckingham
From £7.50 Min Age 8 commute 147.64 miles
100 Free paintballs With abandoned military bunkers and bomb shelters to battle your way round this one of a kind paintball venue guarantees you one of the most authentic combat experiences around. So get ready to feel like a real-life action hero as you kit up and head into the ultimate battle.
Paintball Scotch Corner
From £27.50 Min Age 8 commute 150.35 miles
100 Free paintballs A superb site with a variety of game zones including The Village, Fort Petite, Netting Maze and Ma Baker's. You'll play a series of scenarios, there really is no better way to spend your birthday do, stag do, hen do, works do or any do for that matter. Get your session booked today.
Paintball Darlington
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 153.67 miles
100 Free paintballs A ten acre, mixed terrain facility on the site of a former WWII air base. This state of the art venue features exciting and detailed game zones like Trench Paintball, Alamo Paintball, Beach Landings and Sup'Air Paintball.
Paintball Yarm
From £27.50 Min Age 8 commute 157.68 miles
100 Free paintballs A brilliant outdoor site featuring a wide selection of excellently designed game zones, which throw up lots of challenges and explosive action. Get stuck into thrilling environments like The Bridge, The Castle, The Train and The Galleon.
Paintball Sedgefield
From £7.50 Min Age 11 commute 168.34 miles
100 Free paintballs A huge woodland paintball arena with 9 terrific game zones to tackle. Get stuck into thrilling games like Rebel Forts, Vietnam Village, Dooley's Fortress and Black Hawk Down.
Paintball Kings Lynn
From £9.99 Min Age 12 commute 172.32 miles
100 Free paintballs A 20 acre woodland paintball arena with a massive variety of complex team games and innumerable opportunities to pelt your mates with paint. Compete in crazy combat scenarios like The Abandoned Village, The Bunker and Ambulance Field.
Paintball Billingham, Teesside
From £9.99 Min Age 12 commute 175.13 miles
100 Free paintballs Submerge yourself in an intense, competitive and authentic military experience as you battle your way through over 17,000 sq feet of custom-built war-zone!
Paintball Oxford
From £7.50 Min Age 14 commute 178.00 miles
A breathtaking paintballing blast em up awaits at our awesome venue situated on the outskirts of Oxford! We have some of the finest paintballing terrain out there and you will need to keep you wits about you to avoid succumbing to a sneak attack from those lurking in our bunkers and trenches! One of the very best out there....be sure not to miss out!
Paintball Blencow, Nr Penrith
From £55.00 Min Age 12 commute 178.79 miles
Blencow Paintbal near Penrith have been providing action packed paintball games in our 400 acre wood at our home in the English Lake District for over 14 years. We predominantly offer group games and can accommodate groups of 12 - 40 players, specialising in stag and hen paintball, activity packages and team building.
Paintball Cribbs Causeway
From £29.99 Min Age 8 commute 179.74 miles
Head straight down to our amazing Paintball venue in Cribbs Causeway for an awesome paintball experience - guaranteed to unleash your inner action hero!
Paintball Bristol
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 180.58 miles
Battle it out in our whopping woodland warzone, complete with 18 varied game zones like Stronghold, Speedball, Ambush and Bunkers. You, your mates, the latest gear and bucketloads of paint.
Paintball Cambridge
From £7.50 Min Age 9 commute 185.52 miles
This epic woodland venue features plenty of obstacles, bunkers, barricades and paint. Lots of paint. Compete in any of our thrilling action-packed games, like Trench, Jungle, Headquarters and Toxic. With our excellent facilities, helpful staff and exciting game zones there's something for any wannabe soldier here.
Paintball Portishead, Somerset
From £9.99 Min Age 8 commute 188.81 miles
100 Free paintballs Don't miss out on our superb Portishead venue near Bristol where you'll be treated to a whole range of awesome game zones. There's even replica tanks and helicopters to add to the realism of your paintballing adventure!
Paintball High Wycombe
From £9.99 Min Age 10 commute 190.26 miles
100 Free paintballs A smashing 16 acre war zone, with 10 unbelievable game zones. You and your mates will tackle a series of paint-blasting, rollercoaster mission scenarios, including attacking the fort, capturing the flag and the heart-racing shooting alley of the Tyres.
Paintball Reading, Berkshire
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 194.72 miles
Hidden amongst acres of wild woodland, this immersive and exciting paintball arena is home to a variety of tailor-made missions and game zones, which makes it the perfect place to unleash your inner action hero.
Paintball Bath Avon
From £7.50 Min Age 10 commute 196.85 miles
This unbelievable site can hold up to 200 players at a time and its unique zone layout means separate paintball games can take place simultaneously without affecting one another. Our games are diverse, expertly designed, clean and above all safe. Complete missions like Assassination, Downed Plane and Ambush during your thrilling combat experience.
Paintball Hexham
From £7.50 Min Age 11 commute 197.63 miles
A 20 acre battleground with 6 brilliant zones, mixing the natural woodland terrain with man made barricades and throwing in an abundance of action and fun. Venture into the zones with an army of your mates and complete a series of missions but watch out because the enemy are in there too and they're out to eliminate you.
Paintball St. Albans
From £25.50 Min Age 8 commute 198.69 miles
100 Free paintballs The largest and busiest paintball site in the South East of England, our spectacular Bricket Wood venue is conveniently located where the M1 meets the M25. This site has highly-developed game zones and guarantees an action-packed and adrenalin-fuelled day. This is a must-visit site so get down here.
Paintball Newbury
From £7.50 Min Age 8 commute 199.60 miles
100 Free paintballs Adrenaline-filled action is guaranteed as you take part in the paint-splattering mayhem of paintball at our treacherous warlike battlefield in Newbury!
Paintball Cowbridge
From £7.50 Min Age 16 commute 204.10 miles
Set across 30 acres of woodland this epic arena is the perfect place to experience the thrill of paintball, all within easy access from Cardiff and Bridgend. And with 12 different game zones and scenarios to play in including The Fort, Ammunitions Dump and Mission Impossible you're guaranteed an awesome day of paintballing action.
Paintball Gateshead, Newcastle
From £27.50 Min Age 11 commute 206.29 miles
This epic indoor Reball arena comes complete with its own tailor-made town to battle it out in, and with houses, filling stations and shops to storm your combat skills will be put to the ultimate test!
Paintball Hertford
From £27.50 Min Age 12 commute 207.13 miles
One of the UK Scenario Paintball scene's most influential paintball sites, is situated in Hatfield near London. A mere 5 miles from the M25 Junction 24, WWP is easily accessible from London, and the otuskirts, Cheshunt, St. Albans, Harlow, Welwyn Garden City, and Watford. We specialise in providing corporate entertainment and team building days, as well as stag/hen parties and birthdays. We have 65 acres of woodland with 14 fields of play including Hamburger Hill, Fort Ranger, The Village, Snake Field, Tournament Training Field and Bridge Attack. Even if there are only one or two of you, we can fit you in with others for a full day's adventure.
Paintball Broxbourne
From £27.50 Min Age 8 commute 209.84 miles
At last, an extremely fun and safe version of Laser paintball for 8 to 15 year olds. That's right, our centre covering paintballing in Hertfordshire and London now has the most exciting addition to it's combat armoury. Low impact paintball is an experience that uses low velocity paintball guns, firing extremely fragile paintballs. It's a new event that's set to become a phenomenon for birthday parties and kids parties. We are the only centre for paintballing London and Hertfordshire to offer this form of low impact paintball. Kids paintballing has never been more safe and exciting.
Paintball Newcastle
From £27.50 Min Age 8 commute 219.56 miles
100 Free paintballs Even Arnie couldn't handle the madcap action at our Newcastle site. It's a 200 acre paint-fest, full of bunkers, barricades and blistering missions like Grab The Bunker, Speedball and Free For All.
Paintball Thetford
From £9.99 Min Age 8 commute 220.89 miles
100 Free paintballs With a sweeping forest setting and a series of thumping game zones, rally your troops at our brilliant Thetford venue. Get stuck into cracking team battles on battlefields awash with smoke bombs, barricades and, of course, paint-wielding enemies. These games include Holy Grail, Tanktastic and Mission Impossible.
Paintball Woking
From £25.50 Min Age 8 commute 222.94 miles
100 Free paintballs A 46 acre site with a mixture of woodland and urban game zones. There are 4 main gaming areas, including the Fortress and Killing House.
Paintball Docklands, Greater London
From £25.99 Min Age 8 commute 234.81 miles
A state of the art indoor paintball facility on the site of a decommissioned cold war nuclear shelter. This sci-fi themed war zone features hundreds of feet of playing area and all of it is stunningly realised to transport you from reality into a world of futuristic combat with the fate of the planet at stake.
Paintball Norwich East
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 242.09 miles
100 Free paintballs With 9 action-packed game zones to battle your way round this epic woodland war zone is the perfect place to kit up and head into battle!
Paintball Southampton- Salisbury
From £7.50 Min Age 11 commute 243.27 miles
100 Free paintballs Our Southampton site takes in 50 acres of wilderness and transforms it into a massive war zone full to bursting with purpose built barricades and fortifications. Each of our 7 game zones presents its own unique challenges and combat scenarios for you and your band of paintball brothers.
Paintball Sidcup
From £27.50 Min Age 12 commute 246.00 miles
100 Free paintballs A 10 acre site with 5 brilliant game zones to do battle over, including our exceptional attack and defend field. A woodland warzone with plenty of purpose built fortifications to navigate around while completing tactical team missions.
Paintball Wickford
From £7.50 Min Age 8 commute 250.65 miles
100 Free paintballs An authentic military experience awaits you as you battle your way through an array of military-themed game modes on our treacherous warlike battlefield!
Paintball Dorking, Surrey
From £27.50 Min Age 8 commute 250.76 miles
100 Free paintballs For an all out action paintballing extravaganza you need look no further than our awesome Dorking venue which will provide this and much more besides! We have some fantastic Game Zones and unbelievably exhilarating paintballing scenario's that will completely blow you away with their high octane action....definitely one not to be missed!
Paintball Bournemouth - North
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 251.62 miles
Unique and varied, this site offers its players both traditional woodland and tournament style paintball; purpose built game zones including a fort and fields with assorted military vehicles including a tank and replica FOB with HQ, Med Bay, Depot and defences; and a rigid raider like craft for amphibious landings*. The varied game scenarios are brought to you by a friendly team of marshals who include currently serving or ex-serving military personnel who have pooled their knowledge and expertise to provide you with a fun, adrenaline packed day. *dependent upon availability on the day. 12 to 15 YEAR OLDS CAN BE BOOKED IN ON THE 3rd SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH!
Paintball Portsmouth - Fareham
From £25.50 Min Age 8 commute 253.37 miles
100 Free paintballs A massive woodland war zone for up to 120 players. Blast your way through more than 100 acres of stunning forest terrain and battle it out with your mates in great game zones like Bunker Complex, Bale Strip and Bridge of Hell.
Paintball Gravesend
From £27.50 Min Age 8 commute 257.07 miles
100 Free paintballs At our brilliant Gravesend site the action unfolds in a spectacular 30 acres of paintball battleground. You'll go head to head with your mates in exciting team games like Bunker Hill, Prisoner of War, Tank and the The General Game.
Paintball Horsham
From £9.99 Min Age 10 commute 260.70 miles
For an unforgettable adventure, leave reality behind and head to Horsham, with 12 amazing game zones to choose from, each expertly designed and stunningly brought to life. Lose yourself in action packed battles through a variety of Hollywood-style settings.
Paintball Ipswich - Ufford
From £7.50 Min Age 12 commute 261.10 miles
100 Free paintballs With 7 action-packed game zones to battle your way round this epic woodland war zone is the perfect place to kit up and head into battle!
Paintball Copthorne
From £7.50 Min Age 8 commute 261.28 miles
100 Free paintballs Release your inner war heroes as you fight your way through a series of adrenaline-filled and action-packed military-themed scenarios on our epic battlefield!
Paintball Bournemouth - Bere Regis, Dorset
From £7.50 Min Age 8 commute 263.57 miles
100 Free paintballs Hide in trenches, blow bunkers, climb towers and storm bridges which are built into the natural woodland. With 20 Game zone located in open fields to dense woodland with streams. Spend the day painting your friends from head to toe, although head shots do not normally count.
Paintball East Grinstead - Lingfield
From £7.50 Min Age 16 commute 264.80 miles
With 30 acres of mixed woodland war zone and 9 top class game zones, the action never stops at our Dormansland site. Tackle the Zombie Crypt, Wild West Town and even re-enact the D-day Landings for your chance to be the hero of your own battle story!
Paintball Maidstone - Sittingbourne
From £7.50 Min Age 10 commute 276.55 miles
The battleground at Sittinbourne is a devastating combination of a 200 acre woodland and a series of purpose built additions, such as trenches, barricades, and even a village. Prepare for the thrilling battle of a lifetime.
Paintball Littlehampton
From £9.99 Min Age 8 commute 278.90 miles
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Faced with new criticism about how to pay for California's $68 billion High Speed Rail project, the rail board's chair offered a novel explanation.
Dan Richard, appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to shepherd the project through a jungle of hurdles, said it's not unusual to be unsure of funding sources for projects like this.
"We didn't know where all the money was coming from," Richard said of projects that were approved by BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, during his time on that board.
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Richard was pushing back at the non-partisan Legislative Analyst's Office, which released a report this week highlighting the risks of pursuing a project with unanswered questions about where to find billions of dollars.
Richard told the Assembly Transportation Committee that there is also risk in not pursuing the project, including the loss of $3.3 billion in already-promised federal funding and the lack of planning for future transportation needs.
The rail board chairman also insisted that the project has the ability to collect funding from the state's cap-and-trade program, which is meant to offset greenhouse gases.
That has been disputed by the LAO. "We've been given by the governor...a legally dedicated revenue source," Richard said. That brought a sharp rejoinder from the committee chair.
"The legislature is the one that makes the appropriations," said Assemblyman Rich Gordon, D-Menlo Park.
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Missouri wins SEC East, saddles Texas A&M with 4th loss
- No. 6 Missouri beat No. 21 Texas A%26M%2C 28-21
- A 57-yard touchdown run by Henry Jose put the Tigers ahead for good with 3%3A34 to play
- The Tigers won the SEC East with the win -- they will face Auburn for the conference title
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The Missouri defense had the necessary response to Texas A&M and quarterback Johnny Manziel on Saturday.
Manziel guided his team 98 yards for a score-tying fourth-quarter drive. The Missouri defense responded by allowing Manziel and the A&M offense 1 yard their final three drives of the game.
So when Missouri running back Henry Josey scored with 3 minutes, 34 seconds to play, it was the winning touchdown in Missouri's 28-21 victory Saturday.
"Our defense did a great job," Missouri defensive end Kony Ealy said. "Our defensive line did a great job pressuring them. Our secondary did a great job matching their receivers. We did a great job wrapping up and taking shots at them. We came out with three and outs, and our offense got the ball back."
Saturday's win made clinched the SEC East division for Missouri and sends it to the SEC championship next Saturday against West champion Auburn in Atlanta.
"We know they had a great player in Manziel, and our key was to keep him contained, which we did," Missouri linebacker Kentrell Brothers said. "He made a couple big plays, but we also made a couple big plays on him. That's all we had to do to win the game."
Manziel finished the game with 216 yards of total offense, a career-low for a complete game. He went 24-for-35 passing for 195 passing yards and one touchdown. He was 12-for-19 passing for 71 yards the second half.
"He's had better performances. He's had worse performances," said Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin. "There's a lot of pressure on him to perform at a high level all the time. … Quarterbacks are like the head coach, you get too much credit when you win, you get most of the blame when you lose."
Manziel played with a thumb injury that ESPN reported during its pregame made it difficult for him to brush his teeth and button his shirt leading up to the game. He also seemed to get hurt near the end of the first half.
Texas A&M did not make Manziel available to the media after the game, possibly his final regular season appearance in an Aggies uniform.
Sumlin said that if Manziel was not healthy then "he wouldn't have played the rest of the game."
Missouri quarterback James Franklin showed he has no lingering health problems. Saturday was his second game after missing four games with a shoulder injury. Franklin had 322 yards of total offense including 233 passing yards against A&M.
"This is pretty sweet," Franklin said. "Texas A&M made us execute, and we hurt ourselves a few times. But our defense did a great job getting the ball back for us, and then holding them off at the end."
Both offenses struggled after A&M tied it at 21 with 10:43 to play.
That was until Franklin and Josey went 66 yards in 1:20. The drive started at their own 34-yard line where the punt by A&M's Drew Kaser went out of bounds.
Josey ran 4 yards then Franklin ran 5 yards. Missouri faced third-and-1 on its own 43-yard line with 4:16 remaining in the game. Missouri coach Gary Pinkel called a run play for Josey.
"We just hit the crease," Pinkel said. "Sometimes you come up there and you hit all the gaps. You don't have a free safety in the back, because you brought everybody to the line of scrimmage. If you just get in that second level, there is nobody there. That's what happened. There was nobody there. What a great play."
Josey busted through the line and found open space to run for 50 yards.
"It's hard to catch him," Brothers said. "I knew it was pretty much wrapped after that when he got the touchdown."
Texas A&M's final possession consisted of three plays for minus-3 yards.
Missouri took over at its own 39 yard line with 2:01 to play. Franklin threw for a first down, and sophomore Russell Hansbrough ran for another to clinch the win. Franklin kneeled the final minute.
"We had confidence to do it," Franklin said of keeping the offense on the field the last 2:01. "Last week, we ran like eight minutes off the clock, so we felt pretty confident we could get two."
Missouri's offense spent significant time on the field the third quarter, too. Missouri trailed 14-7 at halftime, but Missouri scored its first two drives of the second half to lead 21-14 entering the fourth quarter. A 2-yard touchdown run by Missouri junior Marcus Murphy completed the opening drive of the second half, and it tied the game at 14.
The second touchdown took a review before the Missouri fans celebrated the 5-yard catch L'Damian Washington made on his back. Missouri went up 21-14.
In the first half, Manziel guided the Aggies' offense to two touchdowns and a 14-7 halftime lead. He completed a 32-yard pass to Derel Walker that put the Aggies up 14-7 with 4:06 left in the first half. The other A&M first-half touchdown came on a 29-yard run by Tra Carson in the first quarter.
Missouri temporarily tied the game on a 38-yard pass from Franklin to Dorial Green-Beckham with 5:16 left in the first half.
Washington finished with 97 receiving yards, and Green-Beckham had 93 yards on seven catches. Josey had 96 yards on 13 carries.
Missouri's defense and offense will now be on display for one more SEC game next week against Auburn.
"You work so hard to do this and get to this point that you have a chance to win a championship in a tough league," Pinkel said. "Especially after the year we came off of, we got a lot of respect back, and respect is real important."


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Would You Read a Magazine for Animals, by Animals? Through the use of a pet psychic, animals could have their own magazine or newsletter
February 28, 2011 in Animal Communication, Random Notes | Tags: animal, audition, author, birds, books, cat, clothing, column, communication, content, dog, food, health, idea, interview, journal, magazine, movies, product, publication, review, tips, toys, travel, treats, viewpoints, writing, written | 2 comments
Recently I was chatting with some dogs and they gave me a great idea. They were discussing a topic and the fact that they had little to no input regarding the matter came up. It was then that the idea of providing a voice for the animals in their own magazine came up.
It would work something like this:
First I would have to interview dogs (and or other animals) and hold auditions to see who has the aptitude for it and the desire to contribute to the publication. The interviews would be set up through their people and those animals that were interested in the project and who had the best communication abilities would be considered for the job.
I would have several positions that I would be interviewing animals for. We would want to have a column all about dogs, one dedicated to cats and perhaps one for rabbits, hamsters and horses, of course reptiles and birds would want to get in on it at some point.
The easiest approach would be to model the magazine after an existing magazine in the field, with subtle changes here and there so that it is still it's own format and of course the vast majority of the content would be generated by animal contributors.
I think that having a column that addresses senior pets and their special needs would be nice, as would be a fashion column by a fashion savvy dog. Other columns that would be fun would be one dedicated to the traveling pet, a health corner and of course reviews of current movies and TV shows that involve animals as well as product reviews, including snacks, treats and toys.
It could start out as an online magazine or simply launch alongside an established magazine that is already in the field.
The key is to have all of the articles produced by animals. Using either myself or some other previously vetted animal communicators, we would bring forward the content and be responsible for taking the information from the animals and translating it into english. This is an area where a good copy editor (human) would be helpful.
The magazine could include contests, photo galleries and much more … there could be one general magazine, or based upon it's success, additional titles could be brought forth, such as for the birds by the birds.
The magazine would be a very straight forward communication from the animal world with as little spin being put on it by humans as possible. The target audience would be anyone who cares about animals and most importantly it should be viewed as a publication for the animals, by the animals. One that you can sit down with your dog and read to them, with the knowledge that the material in the articles was put forth by one of your animals peers.
There could be a question and answer column, similar to Dear Abbey or something of that nature.
I have heard of music CD's where the music chosen for the CD was selected by dogs, for dogs. This is taking that concept to the next level.
I would be very interested in hearing back from others who wish to be involved in such a project, or who have thoughts and ideas regarding such a publication. Your comments are most welcome.


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May 2014 by Sarah Kirk, DVM
Audience: Veterinary Team
Video Length: 64 minutes
Babesia gibsoni is an intracellular parasite of red blood cells. This presentation, given by Dr. Sarah Kirk at the University of Florida's 7th Annual Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Conference, provides a case study in the diagnosis and management of B. gibsoni in pit bulls rescued from large-scale fighting rings. As a shelter veterinarian, you may encounter Babesia in your canine population; how should you respond?
Learning objectives:
- Identify which dogs should be suspected of harboring, and therefore be tested for, B. gibsoni.
- Learn about the treatment protocol used in the ASPCA emergency shelters, its "success rate" and side effects.
- Learn how infected dogs should be handled with regard to co-housing, play groups and adoption into a household with resident dogs.
- Learn about treatment "failures" and possible next steps for these patients.
After viewing the presentation, click here to take the quiz and receive a Certificate of Attendance!
Dr. Sarah Kirk
Dr. Kirk received her DVM from Michigan State University in 1977 and completed her Certificate in Shelter Medicine from UF in 2013. Her career has been spent in private practice, research, and her passion, shelter medicine. After "retiring" to Florida in 2008, she became involved as a volunteer with the Shelter Medicine Department at UF, participating in Operation Catnip, shelter consultations and disaster response. Following her work as a consultant with the ASPCA on the Caboodle Ranch case, she was hired by the ASPCA in November of 2012. As the Field Investigations and Response (FIR) Team Medical Director, she is responsible for the protocols used to provide consistency of response for emergency sheltering.


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Thomas S Huang
Thomas S Huang
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- Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963
Research Statement
My research lies in two related areas: Multimodal (esp. audio and visual) human computer interaction; and Multimedia (images, video, audio, text) annotation and search. Research projects in the first area include: Visual hand tracing and gesture recognition; audio-visual recognition of gender, age group, and emotion. Projects in the second area include: Web-based face annotation and recognition; multimedia profiling of broadcast news anchors.
Research Interests
- Image Processing, Image Compression, Computer Vision, Human Computer Interaction, Image and Video Databases, Machine Learning
- Honorary Chair, ACM Conference on Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval (2008)
- Honorary Chair, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2008)
- Honorary Professor at: Shandong University; Chinese Ocean Uniersity; Qin Tao University of Technology, PRC; and national Taiwan University, Taiwan
- IBM Faculty Award (2006)
- Picture Coding Symposium: Pioneering Research in Picture Coding Award (2006)
- IS&T and SPIE Imaging Scientist of the Year Award (2006)
- Okawa Prize for Information and Telecommunations Technology, 2005.
- Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, 2005.
- Center for Advanced Study Professor, UIUC, 2003-
- IBM Faculty Award, 2002 and 2003
- Honored by three former students who edited a Festschrift: A. C. Bovik, C. W. Chen, and D. Goldgof (eds.), "Advances in Image Processing and Understanding: A Festschrift for Thomas S. Huang," World Scientific, 2002.
- Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award, Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation, 2002
- King-Sun Fu Prize, International Association of Pattern Recognition, 2002
- Information Science Award, Association of Intelligent Machinery, 2002
- Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2002
- Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2001
- Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2001
- IEEE Jack Kilby Medal, 2001
- Honda Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Motion Analysis, 2000
- IEEE Third Millenium Medal, 2000
- Speech, and Signal Processing, 1998.
- Signal Processing at the IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics,
- IEEE Signal Processing Society, honored as a Pioneer in
- IEEE Signal Processing Society "Oral History" interviewee, 1997
- Peter Bartel Visiting Professor, U. Washington, 1997
- William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor, Dept. of ECE, UIUC, 1996-
- University Scholar, UIUC, 1990
- Associate in Center for Advanced Study, UIUC, 1990-91
- IEEE Signal Processing Society, Society Award, 1991
- IEEE ASSP Society Technical Achievement Award, 1988
- Pattern Recognition (An International Journal), Best Paper Awards: 1989, 1992, and 1995
- Co-author of IEEE ASSP Society Best Paper, 1986
- Fellow, Japan Society for the promotion of science, 1986
- SPIE, Fellow
- International Association of Pattern Recognition, Fellow
- Optical Society of America, Fellow, 1986
- IEEE, Fellow, 1979
- A. V. Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Award, 1976-77
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1971-72
Research Honors
- Co-authors of Best DoCoMo Inovation Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing, San Antonio, TX, 2007
- Keynote Speaker, International conference on Biometrics, Seoul, Korea, 2007
- Keynote Speaker, IEEE Motion Workshop, Austin, TX, 2007
- Co-author of Best Student Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval, 2006
- Co-author of Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2006
- Keynote Speaker, International Forum on Digital Media, Shanghai, China, November 2006
- Keynote Speaker, German Conference on Pattern Recognition, Berlin, Germany, September 2006
- Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition, Toronto, Canda, July 2006
- Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing, Buchrest, Romania, July 2005
- Keynote Speaker, IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 2004
- Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Siena, Italy, Sept. 2004
- Keynote Speaker, IEEE Symposium on Communication, Control, and Signal Processing, Tunis, Tunisia, March 2004.
- Keynote Speaker, Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications, Sydney, Australia, December 2003,
- Keynote Speaker, International Picture Coding Symposium, St. Malo, France, August 2003,
- Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2002,
- Keynote Speaker, Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Quebec, Canada, 2002
- Keynote Speaker, Int. Conf. on Augmented and Virtual Reality and 3D (ICAV3D), Mykonos, Greece, 2001
- Keynote Speaker, Int. computer Symposium, Chungli, Taiwan, ROC, Dec. 2000
- Keynote Speaker, Int. conf. on Images and Graphics, Tianjian, PRC, 2000
- Keynote Speaker, Int. Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding, Kobe, Japan, Oct. 1999
- Keynote Speaker, Int. Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Slovenia, Sept. 1999
- Keynote Speaker, NATO Conf. on Computer Vision and Graphics, Slovenia, Aug. 1999
- Keynote Speaker, IEEE Int. Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, Madison, WI, Aug. 1999
- Keynote Speaker, Int. Conf. on Audio- and Video-Based Person Authentication, March 1999, DC
- Keynote Speaker, Workshop on Gestures, March 1999, Paris, France
- Keynote Speaker, Int. Conference on Computer Science, Dec. 1998, Taiwan..
- Keynote Speaker, Joint Conferences on Information Sciences, Oct. 1998, Research Triangle Park, NC.
- Keynote Speaker, International Symposium on Multimedia Signal Processing, Dec. 1997, Taipei, Taiwan
- Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Patter Recognition, Aug. 1996, Vienna, Austria
- Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Stereoscopy and 3D Imaging, Santorini, Greece, Sept. 6, 1995
- Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Computer Vision, Hong Kong, Dec. 11, 1995
- Distinguished Lecturer, City University of New York, University Central Florida, U Massachusetts Amherst, 2006
- Distinguished Lecturer, University of Rochester, Center for Electronic Imaging, April 11, 1995
- Distinguished Lecturer, Texas A & M, Dept. EE, April 28, 1995
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer, 1993-94
- International Association Pattern Recognition, Fellow, 1994
- Invited to write the leading article in the 100th Commorative issue of the Japanese Society of Image Electronics Engineers
- Distinguished Lecturer, University of Southern California, Feb. 26, 1993
- Distinguished Lecturer, Virginia Polytech, April 14, 1992
- Keynote Speaker, Int. Conf. on Intelligent Information Systems, Oct. 23-25, 1992, Beijing, China (PRC)
- Keynote Speaker, SPIE Conf. on Visual Communication and Image Processing, Nov. 1992, Boston, MA
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1993-94
- The paper "Image Processing" by T. S. Huang, W. F. Schreiber, and O. J. Tretiak, in Proc. IEEE, Nov. 1971, was designated by citation index as a citation classic.
- Listed in "Who's Who in America"
- Listed as one of the top 15 experts in machine vision in the world in a report on machine vision prepared by E-F. Hutton, 1986.
- Member - Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu.
Courses Taught
- CSE 543 - Topics in Image Processing
- ECE 547 - Topics in Image Processing


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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: The YouTube Election: Same Old?
Mark Lucovsky / Google AJAX Search API Blog:
Picture this: Image Search for the AJAX Search API — Since its release last year, the Google AJAX Search API has given developers a simple way to add Google Web, Local, Video, Blog, and News search to their websites and web applications. In February 2007, we extended the system to include Book Search.
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle: GOOGLE SEARCH, IPHONE VERSION
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: Google AJAX Search for the iPhone
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: Google Launches AJAX Search for the iPhone
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google Search API Adds Image Results
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: iPhone Search: in progress from Google
MG Siegler / ParisLemon: Google Search Specifically Built for iPhone
Scott Gilbertson / Compiler: Google AJAX Search Optimized For IPhone
Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku:
Making Things Better: 1.90 PS3 Firmware Update Hits Japan — 1.90 PS3 Firmware Update Hits Japan — The 1.90 Firmware update just hit Japanese PS3s. Let's dive in and see what the update entails: — • Ability to rearrange games on the XMB — • Option menu now includes "eject disk"
Discussion: PlayStation.Blog, DailyTech, Three Speech, Gizmodo, Game | Life, Ars Technica, Joystiq, CNET News.com, Whiz Byte, Gadgetell and Engadget HD
Eric Lempel / PlayStation.Blog: Firmware 1.90 Coming Soon
Brandon Hill / DailyTech: Sony PS3 1.90 Firmware Update Detailed
Susan Arendt / Game | Life: PS3 Firmware Update Offers Emoticons, Upscaling
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica: New PS3 firmware update coming this week
Christopher Grant / Joystiq: PS3 firmware 1.90 hits Japan, Europe tomorrow, NA "coming soon"
David Carnoy / CNET News.com: New PS3 1.90 firmware update is now available in Japan
Buelldm / Whiz Byte: PS3 firmware 1.9 released
Indraneel Purohit / Gadgetell: Sony announces intricacies of PS3 Firmware 1.9
Richard Lawler / Engadget HD: PS3 firmware v1.90 adds (forced) 1080p24, expands AVCHD support
PR Newswire:
AT&T Video Share Arrives in Nearly 160 Markets Nationwide — First-Ever Service in U.S. Enables Live Video Sharing for Users While on Wireless Voice Call — SAN ANTONIO, July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Ever wish you could let friends and family back home see the sights of your vacation while you're enjoying them?
Discussion: The Next Net and Mashable!
Erick Schonfeld / The Next Net: AT&T Launches Mobile Video Sharing Service For its (Non-iPhone) 3G Network
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: AT&T Video Share Marries Live Streaming with Voice Calls
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
New York senator aims to ban texting while driving — A New York State Senator has recently proposed a bill that would make it illegal to send a text message while driving in the state. The proposal from Senator Carl Marcellino was made in response to a fatal car accident involving four New York state teens.
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The answer is in the article: "Today, beer in plastic bottles is common in some countries, but novel in others. The fact that PET bottles quickly grow their market share shows that this type of packaging has several advantages".


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Masada, the Judean Desert fortress wrested from Jewish rebels by a Roman army in the first century CE, left so deep an impression on author Alice Hoffman that she wrote a novel about that historic siege, one of the most significant events in Jewish history.
Hoffman, an American who lives in Boston, visited the site for the first time five years ago, and she was smitten.
"I was so inspired by the sense of the past, by the ruins themselves, and by the pure spiritual nature of the place," she explained in an interview.
Her novel, The Dovekeepers, (Simon & Schuster), covers a period of four years around 70 CE as the Romans sack Jerusalem and wage war against 900 Jewish rebels and their families in Masada.
According to the historian Josephus, only two women and five children survived the onslaught. The remainder of the Jews committed suicide rather than submit to capture and slavery.
In The Dovekeepers, Hoffman deftly remasters and retells this iconic story from the viewpoint of four women, Yael, Revka, Aziza and Shirah, all of whom harbour secrets.
These characters are figments of her imagination, said Hoffman, who has written 28 works of fiction, including Here on Earth, an Oprah's Book Club selection.
"It was extremely difficult to find information about women in the ancient world, especially details about their domestic lives," she said.
Hoffman was greatly influenced by Yigal Yadin, the Israeli general, archeologist and politician who worked at Masada in the 1950s and 1960s.
"I always deferred to his findings about the siege, though there are many interpretations of it."
Hoffman, too, was immensely influenced by the weathered artifacts associated with the siege she saw in Masada's Yigal Yadin Museum.
She included them – a tartan fabric belonging to a Roman legionnaire, the skeletons of a young warrior and a boy, and the sandals and hair of a young man whose remains were found next to a fountain – in the novel.
Currently a visiting scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, and the grandchild of Russian Jewish socialists, Hoffman is pleased to have written a book on such a perennially interesting topic.
"It was an honour to give a voice to the women who were at Masada and who have remained silent for so long."


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Short, Slender Grooms:
Take a look at single-breasted jackets with long lines, a low button stance (to elongate your body), with wide peak lapels. Other stylish options include wearing a double-breasted tuxedo jacket or subtly patterned vest and tie. Selecting the right pant style is key, too. Reverse double-pleated pant leg should always break slightly on top of the shoe and angle a bit downward in the back.
Short, Stocky Grooms:
Are you athletic with a muscular body type? Then you will look best in tuxedo jackets with slim shawl collars. The top button should fall at the small of the waist to give your torso a leaner look. Also, choose a jacket with a natural shoulder line and try to avoid the more broad European styles. When it comes to pants, reverse double-pleated trousers with pleats extending toward the pockets tend to offer the best comfort and style. Pants should extend as low as possible on the foot, angled slightly in the back to elongate the leg. Be sure to avoid too much of a break on the foot, otherwise the pant leg will look sloppy.
Tall, Husky Grooms:
If you have broad shoulders with a muscular frame, you will look best in shawl collar tuxedos. The jacket length is especially important too. To determine a good fit, place your arms at your sides and relax your hands and fingers. Your fingertips should touch the bottom of the jacket and the shirt cuffs should extend at least half an inch beyond the jacket sleeve. The construction of the jacket may need to be a bit loose to provide ease of movement. Also, the thicker your neck and wider your face, you should try to avoid ties that are too narrow and wing tip collars that look constrictive. Instead, opt for lay-down collars and fuller bow ties. And the pant leg should have a slightly wider silhouette to accommodate muscular thighs.
Tall, Slim Grooms:
You will look great in just about every tuxedo style. An especially good choice is a double-breasted tuxedo with slightly broad shoulders and a suppressed waist. Jackets that button closed up high on the waistline look especially good, and a high shoulder line is better than a natural one. Garments should be full, while still following the lines of the body, and trousers should also have a higher-rise with more of a break in the pant. This figure type can easily wear vests and ties in colors and patterns.
Wedding Tuxedo Tips:
Tuxedo Formal Wear Glossary of Terms
Tuxedo: A single or double breasted jacket with matching trousers for formal or semi-formal evening events.
Cutaway or Stroller: For formal or daytime weddings, the groom wears the cutaway / morning coat, which tapers from the front waist button to a long, wide back tail. The cutaway jacket is either black or grey and is worn with matching striped trousers.
Dinner Jacket: A white or ivory jacket with black formal trousers is an ideal option in Spring and Summer months or year-round in warmer climates.
White Tie: This is a classic choice for an ultra formal evening event. The tailcoat jacket is short in front with two long black tails. A white pique wing collar shirt, vest and tie are also worn.
Tuxedo jackets come with three basic lapel styles. Some are more flattering to certain body types. Choosing the lapel that is right for you is a matter of taste.
Notch: A triangle indention is cut where the lapel joins the collar. This is the least formal lapel style.
Peak: A broad V-shaped lapel that points up and out just below the collar line.
Shawl: A smooth, rounded lapel with no notch.
White pique shirt: This standard style dress shirt is made from white pique fabric, which has some texture. Wear it with a white tie and vest.
Sleeves: As for sleeve cuffs, you have a few options: standard dress-shirt cuffs held together with cuff links; French cuffs, which are folded over and closed with cuff links; and cuffs that close with a button. The choice is yours, but, in general, formal shirts call for cuff links.
The main difference between shirt styles is in the collar.
Band or Mandarin Collar: A collar that stands up around the neck and above the buttons. This is the most contemporary style tuxedo shirt. If ties put you in mind of a hangman's noose, try this shirt: You can wear it without a tie.
Wing Collar: Similar to the band collar but the two turned down points in front give the appearance of a spread collar. This is the most formal choice and the collar style most often worn with tuxedo jackets.
Spread Collar: Similar to a man's standard button front shirt, it folds over and around the neck with a wide division between points in front. The wider collar makes it a good choice with a Euro tie or a standard necktie tied Windsor style.
Ascot: A wide necktie that is looped over and held in place beneath the chin with a tie tack or stick pin. Usually reserved for ultra-formal daytime weddings and worn with a cutaway coat and striped gray trousers.
Bolo tie: You go, cowboy! If you're having a Western-themed wedding, live in Santa Fe, or are a working broncobuster, this stringy tie is for you. But if your bride has other visions in her head, think again before breaking out your turquoise-studded bolo tie for the wedding, and go instead for something more classic.
Bow Tie: A short tie shaped like a bow that can be worn with a wing or spread collar. A bow tie adjusts to fit any neck size and are probably the thing to wear with a classic tux. They come in several colors besides basic black, white is usually reserved for super-formal events, and colored bow ties are suitable for any occasion. You can match the wedding colors, but basic black is far classier, so think twice before ordering that fuchsia tie.
Cuff Links: These little babies can make or break an outfit. If you want style, tryilluminated cufflinks or have an inset color other than black. If simple elegance is your style, stick with black cuff links outlined in gold or silver. Who knows? Maybe your bride will give you a set as a groom gift on the big day.
Cummerbunds: A silk or satin sash as an alternative to a vest, to be worn at the waist and covering the waistband. A cummerbund should be worn with the pleats facing upward. Usually basic black, but you can choose from colored cummerbunds to match the bridesmaid dresses or the wedding colors.
Euro Tie: This is a hybrid between an ascot tie and a regular, run-of-the-mill necktie. A long knotted square bottom neck tie worn with a wing or spread collar shirt. This type offers a more formal look that«s not as all-out as an ascot.
Necktie: If you have an office job, you probably own a slew of these. They're also called four-in-hands and are perfect for more casual -- yet still elegant -- wedding looks. Important tip: Breaking out your tie-die necktie to lighten up your wedding tux is definitely not funny. Go for silk in silver or blue.
Pocket Square: A small pocket handkerchief tucked into the left breast pocket worn by groomsmen instead of a boutonniere. It is generally made of silk, linen, or another fine fabric and comes in solid colors or prints to coordinate with the tie or cummerbund.
Studs: Jewelry similar to cuff links that are used to close the front of a tuxedo shirt.
Suspenders: Also referred to as braces, these can be worn with a cummerbund in a coordinating color or pattern.
Vest: For an ultra-formal evening wedding, clad yourself in a white tie and waistcoat. Or choose a colored waistcoat instead of a cummerbund, popular in Britain. Vests let men in the wedding party lend a bit of personality to their looks and they come in a full back, half back and open back.
Tails or tailcoat: Yep, these tails are talking to you. The eponymous tails actually have tails, with a two- to six-button front. Generally worn at ultra-formal evening weddings.
Tuxedo: A tuxedo jacket can be single-breasted (with a one- to four-button front) or double-breasted (with a two- to six-button front) and is worn at formal or semiformal evening events. The basic tux comes in a variety of flavors. Pick single- or double-breasted with one of three lapels: peaked, notched, or shawl. Wear it with black, satin-striped trousers.
Mandarin: This jacket features a stand-up collar with no lapel and is worn with a Mandarin-collared shirt. Hint: This combo provides a sneaky way to avoid wearing a tie.
Cutaway: For formal daytime weddings, the groom wears the cutaway coat -- short in the front, long in the back, and tapering from the front waist button to a wide back tail. Cutaway jackets are either black or gray and are worn with matching striped trousers.
Stroller coat: This semiformal jacket is a semi-formal suit jacket cut like a tuxedo. Usually charcoal gray or black and typically worn in the daytime.
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ROCKVILLE, Md. – Capital Bikeshare is on the verge of launching in Montgomery County, as transportation officials tell WTOP they are planning the kick-off event in September.
Sandra Brecher, chief of commuter services at the Montgomery County Department of Transportation, jokes the county is on the 5-yard line.
"I'm not sure that's a great bike analogy, it's a good Redskins analogy. But yes, we are very close to the finish line," she says.
Brecher has said that Capital Bikeshare would be available before the end of the summer. Although she would not update the timeline with a specific date, signs are pointing toward the first two weeks of September.
The Montgomery County Department of Transportation is in the initial planning phases for the event, which will include a number of local officials. Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett tops the list.
"I cannot promise it will be in the first three weeks. The first week [of September] is probably out of play with Labor Day. They do need time to be able to put the finishing touches on the stations to be able to roll them out. It will be in September," she says.
But Leggett is scheduled to go on an official 10-day trip to China from Sept. 15 to 24. Because county transportation officials say Leggett will play a key role in the event, those dates are out.
Despite the uncertain start date, county residents can sign up for membership now. Earlier this spring, transportation officials urged residents to hold off on signing up because Alta Bikeshare, which runs Capital Bikeshare, would not share the membership revenue with the county.
At the time, Brecher told residents the county would inform them when to sign up, which would happen roughly 30 days before launch. That notice came on Aug. 8.
While it's possible the event could be held at the end of September, after Leggett returns from China, Brecher continues to hold firm to the "before the end of summer" timeline.
"All the station equipment, the bikes, are all being manufactured and being shipped. So everything is on target on our timeline," she says.
Not all 51 stations will be up and running the day of the official launch. Although most stations will be ready, there could be a small number that will need several more weeks before they open.
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I can honestly say this is probably one of our Bakeries favorite cakes ever! I always wanted to do the whole married on a cruise ship, bridesmaids wearing sailor hats, and an embroidered Anchor on the train of my dress when I was younger. So you can imagine my excitment making this cake! Navy Anchor and Pink Hearts for a Bridal Shower Cake, I couldn't get any closer to the perfect cake for my dream Wedding growing up 🙂 The rope was added to accent the anchor but made with white fondant so it wouldn't take away from the Navy and Pink detailing of the Anchor and Hearts. I really am pleased with this cake and cannot wait to make another one!


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Inclusion and Diversity
Unlimited is our philosophy, our commitment and our call to action on Inclusion & Diversity.
Unlimited is what we call our inclusion and diversity initiatives. Because without including everyone, and everything they can do, we won't ever see the true potential of the talent that's our lifeblood.
It begins with our commitment to inclusion and belonging in our own workplace.
We want our people to do their roles without limits because we know it will drive better individual and business results for our clients, our candidates, our colleagues and our communities. It means valuing each and every individual for who they are and what they can do, whilst supporting them to do it.
Challenging bias
Creating a culture of inclusion requires openness, support, and sometimes, a little bravery too.
So, we ask our employees to consider their own behaviours, to identify and challenge their own biases and assumptions, to think about the language they use and to consider their impact on others.
Shared values
Our Global Unlimited Council has 70 colleagues from across the world. Together, they drive a range of inclusion and diversity initiatives within Odgers Berndtson. Their job is to robustly challenge and fundamentally improve our internal and professional practices. Often, that means partnering with many external initiatives and organisations that are making positive change, removing discrimination and creating trust.
At Odgers Berndtson, Unlimited is fundamental to everything we do for:
- Our clients – we access the most diverse talent pool and recruit the best people
- Our candidates – we challenge our clients to consider the parameters of each role, and actively engage with the broadest range of candidates
- Our colleagues – we act with integrity and champion the behaviours and values we believe in
- Our communities – we reach out to and work with organisations of influence
To find out more about Unlimited, or if Odgers Berndtson feels like the kind of place you'd like to work, get in touch.


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Hollywood makes a lot of love stories in which the couple end up happily ever after, but the ones that endure tend to be those where the opposite is true. Casablanca, Gone With the Wind, Annie Hall—love doesn't conquer all in any of these movies, and they stay with us because they play into our shared recognition that finding romance and making it last is one of life's hardest pursuits. Even if we do end up with that one right person, it can take a lot of years (and a lot of failures) to get to that place, and so we're drawn again and again to these movies as a reminder of just how easily our own happy ending could have crashed on the rocks.
The terrific indie Keep the Lights On, which opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, is a romantic drama about a couple whose happy ending seems imperiled from the start. "Don't get your hopes up," Paul (Zachary Booth) tells Erik (Thure Lindhardt) when they first meet, and it's as much a warning to his potential boyfriend as it is to us in the audience. The film was directed and co-written by Ira Sachs, who based it on his failed long-term relationship with literary agent Bill Clegg, but it feels less like a score-settling than it does a genuine attempt to come to terms with the emotional fallout. Sachs (who previously made Forty Shades of Blue and Married Life) is now married to painter Boris Torres, and so it's no surprise that Keep the Lights On is both warm and a bit inscrutable. It feels like the work of a man who's in a better place but still sifting through past heartaches.
The movie spans about 10 years, starting in the late '90s, and takes place in New York, where Erik (the Sachs surrogate) is trying to put together a documentary and Paul is a closeted lawyer with a girlfriend. Soon Erik and Paul are a couple, although Keep the Lights On doesn't worry about filling in every little detail of their courtship. Instead, the movie skips chronologically ahead, jumping years at a time, showing where the relationship is each particular moment.
The effect is intimate and seemingly incomplete. We flash right past the happy early years of the relationship; 9/11 goes by without a mention. Yet the emotional through-line of the piece is strong and steady: Like Annie Hall before it, this is a film about trying to make sense of how love can fade. But as opposed to that film, Keep the Lights On doesn't work through the events in flashback. Though the film is set in the past, everything seems to be happening in the unfiltered present, the pain and the fleeting happiness equally intense and unguarded.
When the film premiered at Sundance, some complained that Keep the Lights On focuses too much on Erik at the expense of getting to know Paul. As played by Lindhardt, Erik is a sensitive, insecure young man who seems somewhat awed by Paul, who unlike him has a career path and behaves in an assertive, grown-up manner. Erik never really stops being intimidated by Paul as the years go on, which makes it all the harder for him to confront Paul about his developing drug problem and frequent disappearances.
Sachs keeps Paul vague and idealized—as played by Booth (who's Glenn Close's son on Damages), he's a mysterious figure. But this isn't a failing of the film. Rather, it makes it easier for Paul to represent all the people we've loved and lost, those folks whose hearts we swore we understood until, one day, they walked out the door and we realized we didn't know them at all. Booth seems to know he's playing a glorified, unknowable abstraction—the one that got away—and he's terrific at being withholding and alluring at the same time.
In failed romances like Annie Hall or (500) Days of Summer, the main character isn't just trying to get the other person to love him—he's also trying to figure out himself in the process. That's what happens to Erik in Keep the Lights On too. If Paul's problems are more pronounced, Erik's are debilitating in their own ways. As much as he loves Paul, he has commitment issues, which extend to the rest of his life. (Like a lot of people we all know, Erik is one of those guys who keeps talking about the film he wants to make, and we're not sure if he's ever going to actually finish the damn thing.)
And the more aloof that Paul seems, the more desperately needy Erik becomes, which he sometimes expresses in scary ways. Still, Lindhardt's sweet portrayal makes you relate to the guy—Erik comes across as that version of ourselves who tried too hard to win over that one person we thought was too good for us. He's a deeply human character, and he's surrounded by other flawed individuals, each with their own needs.
Over the film's span of years, a close friend of Erik's enters into a relationship and just as quickly leaves it, all the while wondering if she should instead be having a child with Erik. As tumultuous as Erik and Paul's love affair becomes for them, Keep the Lights On never loses this sense that life is dispassionately marching forward around them, the sort of objective perspective that it's much easier to have long after a relationship ends than in the heat of it.
In real life, lots of people get their happy ending. Yet love's failures stay with us, even while we're sustained and enriched by current happiness. Keep the Lights On ripples with that dichotomy: It's a film made by a man who survived his own heartbreak, but who doesn't pretend to have all the answers.
In keeping with its time gaps, Keep the Lights On feels like bits and pieces of memories, fictionalized and revised but retaining their emotional resonance, leaving you room to fill in some of the blanks yourself. Some will probably go into this movie looking for clues into the Sachs-Clegg relationship. They'll walk away from it learning more about themselves.


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Desktop If everything is in the cloud, desktop and apps, then what does support do for a living and what are the new set of challenges this presents?
On the face of it, cloud computing solves a lot of problems. Centralised computing, ease of management and update, a managed service approach that reduces the need for in-house expertise … the list of advantages goes on and on.
But is it all pro and no con? Does the cloud do everything that you need with no disadvantages? Of course not.
For a cloud approach, you need connectivity. Some companies make the mistake of adopting cloud-based applications without appreciating that the application instantly becomes unusable were their internet connection - now a single point of failure - to break. For cloud applications, this may in some cases simply be an inconvenience; for cloud-based mobile desktop services, the users' entire desktops evaporate in a puff of non-flowing electrons.
So if you want to rely on this kind of service, be prepared to spend money on resilient network connectivity, preferably with a service provider that has a diverse Internet access infrastructure.
Desktops - mobilise!
The growth of desktop mobility is among the biggest of trends in desktop management, and one that looks set to accelerate. However, it brings its own challenges. When your organisation's users start roving, alongside the more traditional desktop world, you'll find your technology needs change with the potential for higher costs.
If your salesmen and managers can't work on a Boeing 777 over the Atlantic, you're likely to hear some whining. So you'll need either to provide acceptably fast mobile connectivity (which can be expensive if you're not careful), or perhaps work with a cloud provider able to provide services such as desktop cacheing. This will give users mobility: they take the desktop out on the road then sync up with the cloud the next time they're near a LAN, WAN or Internet/VPN service.
The next concern with the cloud-based mobile desktop is its integration with your own IT universe. This problem isn't unique to desktop provision in the cloud, of course – any outsourced application needs somehow to connect with your infrastructure if you are to provide users with a global service that looks and feels like a single, unified system.
Those with in-house virtualised applications should think about think how you deal with issues such as how a user manages to print on a printer close to him or her, and then remind yourself that achieving this is made harder by handing over control of some of the aspects of the virtualised infrastructure.
Happy SLApping
Always worthy of consideration are the legal aspects of cloud computing. A cloud system in its most abstract sense is a completely opaque concept, in that you theoretically don't have to care what processing is happening where – you just define your service level agreement and rely on the provider to ensure that the application response time and availability is in line with that SLA. In reality, though, you do have to care – the most prominent and common reason being US Export Control laws.
If your company and its directors are subject to financial penalties and possibly imprisonment in the event that data flows from the US to a location that it shouldn't, you really do need to care about precisely where the data on these virtual desktops is living, where users can access it, and what nationality those users are. Of course, this isn't a problem unique to Cloud computing, but the inherent opaqueness is something you absolutely must be very wary of.
A word of reassurance, though: none of these problems is insurmountable. Companies around the world work perfectly happily with mobile virtualised desktop installations, content in the knowledge that they are sufficiently resilient and working within the law. But do give proper consideration to the total cost and hassle of ownership – start half-prepared and you stand every chance of shooting yourself in the foot. ®