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Love in Action Ethiopia (LIAE) an Ethiopian Resident Charity, non-profit organization seeks to hire qualified professionals' for Population Services International Ethiopia USAID (PSI/E) funded MULU MARPs HIV/AIDS prevention project to be implemented in three regions; Oromia region (Alemgena, Sebeta, Tulubolo and Woliso towns), SNNPR ( Hosanna) and Gambella region (Gambella, Abobo, Goge, Godere, Mangesh and Dima towns.)
1. Position Title: Field Officer (3)
Reports to: MULU MARPs Program Manager
Duty Station: Hawassa, Woliso and Gambella
Major duties and responsibilities:
• Design and support implementation of MULU/MARPs combination prevention project in among the community of the respective areas in collaboration with stakeholders of the towns so as to ensure implementing MARPs — centered evidence- based approach in d-delivering the standard package of combination prevention and clinical services at all levels
• Plan monthly, quarterly and yearly detail programmatic and financial activities and submit for program manager
• Support and coordinate towns level MARPs Task Force planning and implementation role in the project activities
• Collect, organize analysis and compile daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly comprehensive, consistent and timely reports from respective towns for the M and E officer.
• Regularly monitor HIV/AIDS prevention activities in each town and give technical supports for LIAE community mobilizers, PLHIV associations, peer educators, self-help support groups, volunteers and etc.
• Develop and conduct training as well as capacity building activities for community mobilizers, saving groups, PLHIV associations, Peer Educators and to community volunteers at all levels on standards of combination prevention packages
• Responsible to coordinate and organize respective towns level CWEs/outreach HTC service events in collaboration with health facility workers, DICs town level health offices
• Responsible to facilitate distribution and promotion of health products and IEC/BCC materials to all project sites and ensure its delivery to targeted MARPs of all towns
• Undertaking regular supportive supervisions and field visits so as to provide technical assistances for field staffs so as to track project activity progresses in each town.
• Organizing and conducting review meetings with staffs, key program stakeholders & partners to review program performances at all levels.
• Represent LIAE in the respective towns
• Strengthen partnership, networking and linkages in respective towns
• Bachelor Degree in the field of public health or social sciences from a recognized university
• Minimum of 5 years NGO experience in MARPs focused HIV/AIDS Prevention activities
• Demonstrated ability in program planning and implementation as well as coordinating HTC outreach campaigns
• Computer literacy — MS office, Excel, Power point
2. Position Title: Community Mobilizers (11)
Reports to: Field Officer
Duty Station: Alemgena, Sebeta, Tulubolo, Woliso (Oromiya Region), Hossana(SNNPR), and Gambella,Abobo,Goge, Godere, Mengesh,andDima(Gambella Region)
Job Summary
Community Mobilizers closely work with town/district and Zonal health offices and liaisons with other governmental concerned offices. The role of the community mobilizer is to create awareness and behavioral change mechanisms through education, information and communication. S/he empowers, facilitates and encourages active participation of key stakeholders and MARPS to identify health problems related to HIV/AIDS prevention activities. S/he will also ensure the delivery of standard combination prevention services to MARPs and highly vulnerable populations surrounding hotspot area at all levels.
Specific duties and responsibilities
• Responsible for Mapping/identification, selection, capacity building of targeted MARPs in hot spot areas
• Responsible to strengthen community level systems and structure to support combination prevention activities of all stakeholders
• Establish and maintain close working relationship with health offices and other key government stakeholders
• Responsible to coordinate and organize town level outreach HTC service events in collaboration with health facility workers, DICs town level Health offices
• Closely work with gatekeepers and community organizations and influential leaders in working areas in order to ensure that HIV/AIDS prevention related messages are disseminated and understood at all levels
• Closely work with the identified MARPs peer educators and supervisors in town based peer education session at all levels
• Facilitate referral linkages of MARPs to different services to utilize available health services for HTCs, STIs, FP and other service.
• Provide technical supports to established PLHIV association and SSGs on project planning implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities
• Facilitate condom promotion and distribution activities in their respective towns.
• Handel financial transaction at grass root.
• Bachelor Degree in the field of Public Health or Nursing and related social sciences field from a recognized university
• Minimum on 3 years NGO experience in HIV/AIDS prevention and control programs
• Demonstrated ability in program planning and implementation
• Computer literacy — MS office, Excel, Power point
• Knowledge of local languages of project sites will be a plus
3. Position: Accountant
Report to: Field Officer
Duty station: Gambella Coordination office
Job Summary
She/he will be responsible for ensuring the use of efficient financial system as per the standard of operating the organization and donor's financial policy and procedures. She/he is responsible to maintain the accounting records, budget tracking, and expenditure projections and report to head office. Ensure timely processing & recording of all financial activities and follow up reimbursement requests; custodianship of cash, and collect sensitive financial documents of settlements.
Specific duties and responsibilities
- Prepares monthly financial reports
- Preparation of monthly variance analysis for the various expenditure items
- Checking of time sheets for CMs and officers
- Ensure USAID and other donor financial regulations are followed by all staffs
- Reviewing the financial documents of respective towns
- Ensure the integrity of the financial and accounting records at all times
- Facilitate the maintenance of fixed asset register and keep up to date
- Make sure that physical inventory count is made at the end of fiscal period for the respective towns and report for any discrepancies to the head office for decision
Qualification and Experience:
- BA in Accounting, or Finance from recognized university/college
- Minimum 3 years relevant NGO working experience.
- Computer Proficiency in MS Word and MS Excel
4. Position: Driver Mechanic
Report To: Administration and Finance head
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
- Safe and responsible driving of vehicles
- Routine maintenance and care of vehicles
- Keeping the vehicle neat and tidy
- Serves all passengers in a friendly manner
- Reports the need for maintenance and undertakes minor repairs
- Assist in and/or carries out other office activities as assigned
Education and work Experience:
• 3rd grade and above driving license
• Diploma in Auto Mechanics
• A minimum of 5 years work experience as driver and procurement officer, preferably in NGO settings.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Have good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Discipline and punctuality
• Stress tolerance and patience.
• Work well with personnel from all levels.
• Willingness for extra hours assignment
5. Post Title: Program Director
Report to: Executive Director
Supervise: All the units in the organization
Duty Station: Addis Ababa
I. Job Summary
The program director, under the supervision of the Executive Director, will manage all aspects of the organization's day-to-day activities. He will communicate with the management and Executive Director on a regular basis. He will manage line and support personnel of the organization and oversee all aspects of the organization's activities. This person will also aggressively look for contact opportunities for partnership in Ethiopia & abroad and will be responsible for managing these projects from start to successfully completion. He /she is responsible for fundraising, communication, networking and linkage related activities of the organization.
II. Main duties and responsibilities:
• Represent the organization under guidance received from Executive Director.
• Effectively manage the overall human and financial resources of the organization.
• Oversee the proper implementation of all projects of LIAE
• Prepares annual reports & plans (Program & Financial) and monitors their proper implementation
• Develop proposals for donors regularly
• In collaboration with the Administration and Finance Head control the expenditures in accordance with the budget approved.
• Prepare budget for the organization and programs or projects.
• Responsible for overall administrative & technical matters of the organization
• Prepare and provide strategic and innovative policy guidance and strategies to the organization
• Performs other related responsibilities as it is ordered by the Executive Director.
Ill. Required competencies
1. Education
• PHD/MA or BA Degree in Social Science fields
2. Experiences
Minimum 6 years, 8 years or 10 years of NGO work experience respectively for 3, 2nd and 1st degree
3. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
• Excellent knowledge of NGO environment
• Knowledge of related Ethiopian laws & regulations
• Project Management skills
• Good interpersonal leadership
- Knowledge of English and at least one language from constituency of the organization.
• Good communication skills and experience with donors/partners
Salary for all vacant posts: According to the organization scale
Terms of employment: Contract with possible extension for all position is based on performance of the employee and availability of the fund.
Interested applicants who fulfill the above requirements can submit their application letter and CV with credentials relevant documents to Love in Action Ethiopia via P.O. Box 1292 Addis Ababa, And those who want to apply for the project site of Gambella region MULU/ MARPs Target towns candidates can apply LIAE coordination office at Gambella town located in Arate Kilo health office compound in person or via Email: yeroonmeetiyahoo.com or meersimon09gmail.com Tel 0911531736 or 0913503057 Gambella, within 10 days of working hours started from 16-10-2013.
NB: Applicants are be required to clearly state application Post and duty station which are applying for.
Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.


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A companion to an introductory book about archaeology for students, with links to web resources, archives and documents.
Presents summary reports of excavations funded by English Heritage, through the Archaeology Commissions programme, from 1997 to 2002.
Supports research, learning and teaching by preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoting and disseminating a range of data in archaeology.
Provides a database of archaeological sites searchable by location; also includes historical timelines.
A guide to getting involved in archaeology in the UK, with news stories, details of BBC programmes, and background on techniques.
Offers information through published sources, and free access to records.
Contains descriptions and a guide to prehistoric monuments. Provides links to listings of archaeological sights in England, as well as in Scotland and Wales.
Contains listings of career offerings, trainings, and courses. Also shows news articles.
Provides an online meeting place for anyone involved with community archaeology. Includes a listing of projects, news, events, and publications.
Publisher of 'Discovery and Excavation in Scotland' presents advice and information about the organization, projects, and education as well as the Young Archaeologists' Club.
Contains links to articles, and images of archaeological finds connecting to various ancient cultures.
Features news, articles, links, and book reviews about archaeology. Also contains listings of archaeological organizations, projects, and finds.
Article highlights the history of Britain during the control of the Romans, the Saxons, and their physical contributions to the land.
Presents reports, essays, and stories of archaeologist Paul Everill. Also contains publications and picture gallery.
Provides document with details of a model for the management of archaeological projects. Includes references and appendices.
Serves as resource for news, information, images, and links on ancient sites throughout UK and Ireland.
Contains details of the project that exists in order to study the state of England's archaeological resources.
Community for those with an interest in archaeology.
Freely accessible database containing nearly 400,000 records of archaeological sites and buildings in England and its territorial waters.
Offering information about flint knapping workshops and courses.
Article on ancient sources of information on buildings, events, people, and places engraved on stones.
Provides maps of known Roman road networks and information about settlements, forts, camps, and quarries in the British Isles.
Organization records and interprets data on heritage structures. Provides updates of publications.
Presents a constantly updated document that represents the current state of knowledge concerning Scotland's archaeological past.
For people interested in the coastal archaeology of Scotland; includes information about the project, local groups, resources, reports, and contacts.
Introduces the institution's services dealing with ancient artifact recoveries and restorations. Contains images of its attractions.
Offers publications for those interested in courses and training in archaeology.
A database of pottery used and/or made in Worcestershire from prehistory to c 1900AD; searchable by fabric, manufacture, form, distribution, date, and source. Includes photo galleries and a guide to identifying pottery.

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Jo Ann Beard on Day Jobs
[My day jobs were] Secretary and glorified secretary. For a while in my early forties I had a job stapling. It was actually fun but then it started bothering my back.
I worked once for a woman who was younger than me; she had me doing things like bringing her bagels and guarding her car when it was illegally parked. I liked her quite a lot and liked the job too, mainly because I could smoke while I guarded the car. Then she ran across a piece I had published in The New Yorker and almost had a coronary. She couldn't adjust her idea of who this person she saw every day was. It's like a box of paperclips had started talking to her. She just kept staring at me all day, and her friends kept coming by and laughing at her. To them this was high hilarity, that their colleague had underestimated her box of paperclips. At the end of the day she called me into her office and said: "You don't know it, but The New Yorker is a big deal."
I might be making it sound bad, but it was actually pretty great, all of it. The cigarettes, sitting on a fire hydrant in the sunshine, this woman's genuine desire to let me in on my good fortune.
The interview with Jennifer Egan that was circulating today led me this great interview on the same site with my old writing teacher, whose most recent book, In Zanesville, is kind of YA and kind of not (not that I even believe in differentiating them) and is very great. I've always regretted not sucking up to Jo Ann more when I took her class; I mean, of course I sort of idolized her and sucked up a little but not as much as she probably deserved.
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NetherLands said...
Let's just say opinions differ on the new 1-60 content.
The old content gave you more choices on how to develop your character, now Quests are far too linear and inter-linked (ie way too many pre-requisite Quests to unlock Quests), greatly reducing the replay value.
Add to this the completely unnecessary removal of Class Quests (the 'only 10% of our player base would see this content' doesn't fly, just look at e.g. the dev time spent on Rated BG's), over-abundance of Vehicle and 'NPC's to save the day' mechanics that make playing a specific character irrelevant, and the general lack of any challenge - also caused by WAY too fast levelling even without Heirlooms etc and the removal of most Orange Quests - and hence risk of failure, and the end result is utterly boring Questing with basically no real replay value at all.
The old Dungeon Quests made sense: in a civilized part of the world, someone seeks help, to deal with a problem in some dangerous place people don't normally visit. Now, they wait in that dangerous place till by some stroke of luck some strangers pop up to help them, though 'to provide visiting tourists with a nice tour' is a more apt description in case of e.g. BRD and Gnomeregan.
On a meta-level, the old Dungeon Quests provided reasons to re-visit Dungeons, and rewarded those that explored the World; now, the new Quests are here merely to provide piss-easy rewards for the 'end-cap ASAP, gogogo!' -crowd that make the game's community such a joy.
Before The Shattering, players had a choice in regards which kind of Quest content they liked: the Vanilla-style Quests that often had challenging Elites and often involved quintessential classic quest attributes like The Journey and Discovery; the Northrend poop-scoop phasing extravaganza with horridly bugged Vehicle Quests like the Frost Giant in Zul'Drak and generally little challenge yet gold etc. rewards out of the ying-yang, or the Outland ones as a sort of compromise (little travelling, but still some challenge). Post-Shattering, this choice has been severely reduced, and borked by even faster XP.
Sorry, but the only good thing The Shattering brought to Questing imo was that they adapted LotrO et al. line on the 'Blue Bear, Red Bear, Green Bear' Quest-type: if an area contains Blue Red Green Bears, Vanilla (and later) WoW Quests would have you kill 10 Blue Bears kill 10 Red Bears kill Green Bears, instead of taking the (logical) line other games used :just kill 30 fricking Bears.


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Android Jelly Bean in use on more than half of all Android devices
Sometimes new versions of the Android operating system can be slow to roll out to users. How quickly Android updates come really depends on how quickly carriers complete the testing and rollout their own customized versions of the operating systems for users. Android 4.3 made its first official appearance in the Android usage numbers offered by Google in October.


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Susan Bridges, Host of NewsWatch
Susan Bridges, the host and face of NewsWatch for the last decade, is a Washington, DC resident. With over 20 years of experience in journalism, Susan began anchoring for NewsWatch in 2001.
Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Susan attended undergraduate at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO. She received her Masters in Languages at Middlebury College in Vermont.
"I'm incredibly honored to be part of an exciting, smart, and interactive newsroom where teamwork is the gold standard. Every day is a learning experience as we find and develop information and resources that are beneficial to our viewers. I'm proud of every story we break and the hard work that goes into each show, bringing you the most recent news and trends from every corner of the world. It's a joy to work for you, I couldn't ask for more!"
Susan Bridges
Andrew Tropeano, Co-Host, Host of AppWatch
Andrew Tropeano, host of AppWatch, is a Washington, DC resident. With over 10 years experience in Journalism, Andrew joined the NewsWatch team in 2008.
Born and raised in Fairfax, Virginia, Andrew attended undergraduate at American University, in Washington, DC, receiving a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism. He received his Masters of Science in Integrated Marketing from The New York University.
"Yes, NewsWatch is a source of news and reviews for me too, but it's also an avenue for me to share the stories, gadgets, and apps I hear about. I get to spend every day searching the web for ways to make your life more enjoyable and fun…not too bad. Plus, I get to hang with a ton of people that are not only colleagues but friends who have the same desire to bring you the best products around. NewsWatch may be a job, but it's also my life. And as Ron Burgundy once said, "In no way is that depressing….Cannonball!""
Andrew Tropeano
NewsWatch is your trusted source for breaking consumer, technology, travel, health, and entertainment news.
We air on the History Channel, Fyi Channel and ION Network.
The show is hosted by Susan Bridges and features special reports by Andrew Tropeano on technology and entertainment news.


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Eurail Czech Republic-Germany Pass
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This Eurail Pass provides travel time ranging from 5-10 days (used however you'd like within a two-month period—in a row, or scattered throughout). With the Eurail Czech Republic-Germany Pass, you'll travel on the ultra-quiet, high-speed ICE (Inter-City Express) trains that whisk you to your destination in little time while watching charming German landscape pass by.
Next stop? Why not Eastern Europe? Use this one pass to travel from a German city to a Czech city. And, once in the Czech Republic, the entire railway network is yours to enjoy. So visit popular Prague. Or hoist a Pilsner In Pilzen.
Here's what you get:
- Unlimited train travel on the national rail networks in the Czech Republic and Germany.
- Choice of 5, 6, 8 or 10 days of unlimited train travel within a 2-month period.
- Travel days may be used consecutively or non-consecutively.
Conditions of Use
- Residents of Europe, the Russian Federation or Turkey are not eligible to purchase or use this rail pass.
- Rail passes must be activated within 6 months of purchase date at the train station by a railway official.
- The railway official will write the passport number on your rail pass.
- When a saver pass is purchased all travelers in the party must be present when validating the rail pass.
- Rail passes must be validated prior to boarding the first train or before using a passholder bonus.
- The date of travel must be entered into the corresponding box on the rail pass by the traveler before boarding the first train of the day or when utilizing a passholder bonus.
- Travelers must either carry a passport or U.S. Military I.D. in order to travel with this rail pass.
- Rail passes are 85% refundable up to 1 year after the purchase date if the rail pass has not been validated or used.
- Rail passes are non refundable if lost or stolen except as covered by Rail Protection Plan™.
- Reservations and supplements are not included in the rail pass and are at an additional cost.
- Prices are subject to change.


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The E-Class is the staple Mercedes-Benz product, the most versatile model in the range. Looking at the current sleek and elegant W211 E Class, one hesitates to use the word "workhorse," but the E Class plays a huge variety of roles, from 220CDI taxi cab to E55 AMG autobahn stormer. No matter what lengths the factory goes to in its efforts to market a top model, there will always be tuners, and indeed customers, who will want more.
You can justifiably ask who would spend 298,000 Euro (plus tax) on an E-Class when you can start with an S Class, a larger car with higher perceived social status. In this case, the question itself hints at the answer.There are some wealthy people who wish to travel in relative anonymity, and then there are those who simply do not want a larger car. For them, the E Class in either saloon or estate form is the ideal car, large enough to carry four people and their luggage in comfort over distance, with the option in some markets of 4-Matic awd.
However, there has always been the attraction of having the ultimate Q-car. A four-door saloon, preferably dark colored, with the potential to blow the doors off most other cars with sporty pretensions and embarrass a supercar or two along the way has a certain attraction. With its wide range of engine options, the E Class is imminently suited to this role. After all, who would expect a car badged as an E200 or E220 CDI to be packing 600 bhp? Tales of the unexpected can be a lot of fun.
The Brabus E V12 is a massively powerful car that can pass through the population almost unnoticed. In town, we came into contact with dozens of people going about their daily business without anyone giving us so much as a second glance. In fact, most didn't even register the passage of yet another black E Class, probably the most common color for this car after silver. Hidden in plain sight, it was like having our very own Romulan cloaking device. However, point your right foot and the quiet demeanor of the E V12 changes as quickly and as radically as Clark Kent becoming Superman. Thankfully it doesn't show its underwear on the outside. Too much throttle and the back tires instantly lose their struggle to hold onto the tarmac. In an instant, the ESP light in the instrument cluster flashes at you and you feel the electronics reigning in the power. On dry tarmac, the struggle for traction still results in plenty of forward motion, and you're pinned back in your seat by the sheer physics of the moment as the big V12 roars in front of you and tortured rubber shrieks from behind.
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The power and torque on tap would likely snap the driveshafts of a normal E Class and pulverize the gearbox innards, but Brabus has compensated by using either Maybach-sourced or suitably beefed-up components where needed. We joked that the first thing to wear out on this car would be the ESP warning light. Handling this much power goes beyond just springs, dampers, anti-roll bars and the electronic safety net of ESP.
"We use a limited-slip differential to provide variable lock up," Brabus R&D chief Uli Gauffres acknowledged. "This diff locks up 40% under acceleration and 70% under deceleration to keep the back end stable, but it can go as far as 100% in an extreme traction situation.
"The engine bay has more than enough room to take the bare motor," he continued. "We had to modify the subframe slightly, but the biggest issue was clearance for the oil sump. However, I would say fitting the engine was a relatively straightforward task compared to the challenges from the electronics, aerodynamics and suspension.
"In the old days, cars had just one ECU and it was relatively easy to recalibrate it or replace it. However, since Mercedes introduced the CAN-BUS system in 1991 with the E500 and started adding more and more on-board systems like ESP, Brake Assist, electronic gearboxes and so on, the number of ECUs has also multiplied. These ECUs are calibrated for four, six or eight cylinder versions of the car and network on a handshake system. When you start the car, they wake up say 'hello' to one another. However, when the V12 motor's ECU introduces itself, they figuratively look at one another and say 'Who are you?' and refuse to communicate further or throw up fault codes. Re-calibrating all the ECUs to make them work with the V12 engine took a serious amount of time."
The company's high-speed aerodynamic work also threw up suspension issues. Gauffres explained: "Like the ABC suspension in the SL, the AirMatic DC system tries to level the car all the time. Its reaction times are not fast enough over 300 km/h, and with the front air splitter the system tries to compensate for the downforce and changes the attitude and ride height too much. In the end we decided to revert to a conventional steel-based suspension with more linear characteristics." Apart from feeling more connected to the road, the steel suspension also saves 300 pounds in complex hardware.


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So I filled you all in last week about Pancho throwing around those three words that really shouldn't be "thrown around," so to speak. I didn't really know how to react to any of this at first since I'm not used to guys being so forward so early. In fact, I'm not used to guys being forward at all. Usually, there is a series of ridiculous mind games that come into play before commitment is even considered an option. For example, instead of saying, "I'd like to see you, let's go out together," we just casually text, "What are you up to tonight?" That way we convince ourselves that we don't sound too eager or desperate. But down here, we're in a whole new playing field.
How do you draw the line between love and lust? Photo: Stuart Miles
Pancho continued to say "I love you" and I continued to come up with new alternatives to reply to this such as "Aw, I had a great time with you" or "Thank you" followed by an intimate kiss. I wondered, did we somehow press the forward button on the relationship remote control to skip out on getting to know each other and just having a good time?
The weird part is, I feel like my lack of reciprocation isn't even turning Pancho off. I think he takes it as a challenge and seems to be intrigued by it. It's like he's wondering how many "I love yous" does it take for Soltera to say it back? It makes me wonder, would he start to lose interest once he's won me over?
Maybe this is all in my head but I think we've all met those people. Hell, I can be one of those people. The ones that want what they can't have and think, "Wow, this person must be amazing if they are not showing interest in me and are so unattainable. I'm going to try even harder and then they'll want me, too." Wrong! Where do we get this psychotic train of thought from? That type of feeling is what seems to get us into trouble in the end, myself included at times. And that's how I feel about Pancho at the moment.
So I ask Pancho out for a pisco sour or two because I decided a specific conversation needed to happen and clearly he wasn't about to bring it up. I told him I was kind of uncomfortable with his level of intensity and that I didn't think love was part of the equation yet. Not in those exact words, of course. I highly recommend sugar-coating things if you don't want a drink thrown in your face.
Well, I'll be honest, I could tell Pancho was a little hurt and offended. He started to play with his hair and look obscenely uncomfortable. I decided that this may have been the first time Pancho had a girl that wasn't throwing herself at him after he told her he loved her. I even mentioned that lust is what we often feel in the beginning and often confuse with love.
"It's not lust," he said. "I would know if it was lust."
That's the thing about dating. Do you really know the difference between lust and love when you don't have an objective view of the situation? Things tend to get a little cloudy. Well, what ended up happening is that I told him that I wasn't there yet and that I didn't know when I would be. Pancho told me he understood and that he'd still like to continue to date. That's what he said at least.
It's been a couple days and I haven't heard from him. I think I might have bruised his ego a bit because Pancho's usual routine is calling me on a daily basis, telling me he misses me far too often, and ending the convo with those three controversial words that began this dilemma.
Maybe he decided he really was "in lust" or maybe he just hasn't come to terms with the fact that not every girl he meets is going to say "I love you" just because he did. Either way, I had a great time with him and I do hope to hear from him again. But that still doesn't constitute love. Not in my book anyway.


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With nearly 32 years in the news radio business, Mark Miller was reluctant to leave his post at WBAL Radio. He wasn't sure if he could enjoy another career as much as he did radio.
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@SamLowry- How do you get a statement like "Shit, we're even past discussing it and simply think of anyone who believe books to be true, because it just so happen to say so on their covers, as flaming idiots" and get "he's suggesting they actually learned from past mistakes and improved themselves"? I need your epic reading glasses. Regardless, that's not what I take issue with: I didn't like his use of term "civilized" in that context because it was judgemental and arrogant. There are *plenty* of imbeciles everywhere. Ours just happen to get more press and scrutiny.


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Ricky Gervais Says NBC Wants Him To Host The Golden Globes, Could The Oscars Be On The Cards?
Could Ricky Gervais be returning to host the Golden Globes?
The British actor and comedian – who shocked the star-studded audience earlier this year with jokes about Charlie Sheen, Robert Downey Jr., and Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp's "The Tourist" — suggested again that NBC wants him to come back for the award show when the Globes return in 2012.
"NBC have offered it — they think they can persuade the Hollywood Foreign Press Association," he said at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International TV Festival on Friday, per The Hollywood Reporter.
"But I don't think they will go for it. I love NBC and I love the fact that they have stuck with me through it all," he added.
"The Office" co-creator said he is, however, considering it – sort of.
"I am, but I shouldn't do it. It's a second encore. Don't do a second encore. I don't think I should do it. What am I going back as?" he said, according to Britain's The Guardian newspaper.
Gervais also said he'd been approached about the Oscars hosting job.
"They said to my agent would he like to be on our list," he recounted, per The Guardian. "I couldn't do the Oscars. It's a thankless task for a comedian. They don't want to hear jokes, they want to hear if they have won the most important award of their career," he said.
A rep for NBC was not immediately available for comment when contacted by Access Hollywood.
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Top Ten: Cocktail Shakers
A margarita inspired this list - we had an amazingly good one at Adobo Grill on the weekend. Served in a martini-style glass, it was shaken and poured at our table.
In no particular order, some nice looking shakers from around the web:
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Tequila, fresh squeezed limejuice, Triple Sec (or Cointreau) – Find your own balance but a good start is 6-3-2. Shake well with ice, strain and serve up or on the rocks.
adobo. To die for.
Adobo margaritas yum.
As long as we are talking cocktails at noon, has anyone tried the Spicy Dirty Martini at The Intercontinental Hotel bar? I would love to know the recipe! I know that Absolut Peppar is involved.
I would, of course, love the one that costs over $300.
As someone who has bar-tended before I can only recommend the following:
1. A Boston style shaker
2. The most simple stainless capped shaker you can find.
All the rest will simply waste your time and your booze.
Margarita: 2 parts tequila, 1 part Grand Marnier, 1 part lime juice. Shake with ice, serve on the rocks.
I'm with Max on this one - a Boston shaker is the practical way to go for making drinks.
Out of these 10, the only one I really like is the Bauhaus shaker. I would take a vintage silver plated one in a classic style over any of these.
I like double wall stainless steel construction shaker to avoid the condensation problem. If you often entertain groups of 10 friends or more, get two shakers to fully enjoy your party.


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— $53 million matched, positioning Foundation for continued impact; opportunity and need persist in challenged research funding environment —
NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) announced that with the help of the Parkinson's community, it has completed and surpassed the $50-million Brin Wojcicki Challenge. Longtime Foundation supporters Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki have matched more than $53 million in capacity-building gifts received by MJFF from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2012.
Mr. Brin and Ms. Wojcicki, the Foundation's largest donors for several years running, spearheaded the Challenge to spur donors at every level to give, renew or increase giving to MJFF. Because of the enthusiasm and generosity of the Foundation's community of donors, Challenge-eligible giving exceeded the original goal by about $3 million — additional dollars that Mr. Brin and Ms. Wojcicki have agreed to match.
"Anne and Sergey's friendship to our Foundation and to Parkinson's patients worldwide is awe-inspiring," said Michael J. Fox. "As if a $50-million match weren't tremendous in its own right, they've gone above and beyond their initial commitment to match the $3 million extra ponied up by our incredible supporters. There's no doubt the Challenge has made our community stronger and more vibrant in its passionate pursuit of a cure."
Over the course of two years, the Challenge brought thousands of new contributors to MJFF. It also helped the Foundation reactivate relationships with thousands of supporters who had given prior to 2010, and motivated over 4,000 to stretch their giving in order to double the impact of their generosity.
Mr. Brin is co-founder of Google. Ms. Wojcicki is co-founder of 23andMe, a personal genetics company. With the completion of the Challenge, their personal giving to MJFF totals more than $157.5 million since 2004.
An opportune moment and an urgent need
Mr. Brin and Ms. Wojcicki chose an opportune moment in Parkinson's drug development to launch the Challenge. MJFF and most of its research partners believe that the pipeline of new Parkinson's treatments is as robust as it has been in decades, if not ever. Understanding of the factors underlying disease onset and progression is increasing, and insights from genetics are opening new avenues for therapeutic development. In the midst of this promising activity, government and commercial sources of research funding continue to dry up. Especially as more research approaches the clinic, where costs rise steeply, there has never been a more important time or a greater need for the Parkinson's community to work together to ensure funding sufficient to keep the most promising projects moving forward.
At the outset of 2013, MJFF remains focused on:
- The search for a disease-modifying treatment. This spring, results are expected from Ceregene, Inc.'s most recent MJFF-supported Phase 2 clinical trial of neurturin, a trophic factor that could help restore dopamine neurons in the Parkinson's brain. As Parkinson's genetics continues to revolutionize the field, MJFF is growing its initiatives focused on alpha-synuclein and LRRK2, the two most important genetic targets in PD. And in coming months the Foundation's landmark biomarker study, Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (ppmi-info.org), will complete collection of baseline data (all of which has been made available to the research community at large in real time) and launch a new arm to study people at increased risk for the disease.
- Looking beyond the dopamine system. Today researchers understand that Parkinson's involves a constellation of symptoms that go well beyond dopamine signaling. MJFF-enabled partnerships with Bristol Myers Squibb, Sanofi, Addex and other major pharmaceutical firms are pushing new classes of symptomatic therapies, as well as treatments for cognition and dyskinesia, closer than ever to the clinic.
- Increasing the flow of willing volunteers for clinical research through Fox Trial Finder. Fox Trial Finder (foxtrialfinder.org) has registered more than 14,000 patient and control volunteers who want to be matched to the best trials for them. In 2013 the site comes online in five more European countries and aims to attain 30,000 registered volunteers by year-end.
"Our Foundation's promise to Parkinson's patients is to work urgently to identify and fund the projects closest or most critical to practical therapeutic relevance," said Todd Sherer, Ph.D., CEO of MJFF. "We're grateful to our Challenge participants and our entire community of supporters for helping us continue to fulfill that promise."
About The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
As the world's largest private funder of Parkinson's research, The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to accelerating a cure for Parkinson's disease and improved therapies for those living with the condition today. The Foundation pursues its goals through an aggressively funded, highly targeted research program coupled with active global engagement of scientists, Parkinson's patients, business leaders, clinical trial participants, donors and volunteers. In addition to funding more than $300 million in research to date, the Foundation has fundamentally altered the trajectory of progress toward a cure. Operating at the hub of worldwide Parkinson's research, the Foundation forges groundbreaking collaborations with industry leaders, academic scientists and government research funders; increases the flow of participants into Parkinson's disease clinical trials with its online tool, Fox Trial Finder; promotes Parkinson's awareness through high-profile advocacy, events and outreach; and coordinates the grassroots involvement of thousands of Team Fox members around the world.
For more information, visit us at:
Web site: michaeljfox.org
Facebook: facebook.com/michaeljfoxfoundation
LinkedIn: bit.ly/mjffPDOR
Twitter: @MichaelJFoxOrg
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URL: http://www.entrepreneur.com/answer/221405Great question, and the answer is a big yes!
It's definitely important at times to turn away business. And, to put it bluntly, business is about profit, not revenue. That said, in the middle of lower economic times, it's not always the right time to turn away dollars.
There are several things to ask yourself before you make your decision. For instance, how much profit do you get from the tents and trailers? How much profit from the cabins? You may find the tents are lower in revenue, but still good profit.
Next, look at the quality of the customer. Maybe the cabin customers pay on time and come back more often. Maybe the tent customers are trouble makers. Remember, it's your business and you get to choose who you want to do business with.
Overall, be careful and make sure the economy is not the reason they're in tents rather than just wanting to be in the tents.
Good luck!
Brad Sugars
Brad Sugars is the founder and chairman of ActionCOACH. As an entrepreneur, author and business coach, he has owned and operated more than two dozen companies including his main company, ActionCOACH, which has more than 1,000 offices in 34 countries.


text: Table 8_3_3-1 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities ReportsThe National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness. Table 8_3_3.1People ages 5–56 with persistent asthma who were prescribed medications acceptable as primary therapy for long-term control of asthma, United States, 2005 and 2007Population group20072005Number of health plansPercentSENumber of health plansPercentSETotal39091.18.738889.210.0RegionNortheast8891.79.79089.612.4South10992.07.410189.516.6Midwest10191.110.610789.517.4West8391.216.98189.622.3Key: SE: standard error.Source: National Committee for Quality Assurance, Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set. Current as of September 2009 Internet Citation: Table 8_3_3-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_3_3-1.html


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Luta clothing brand launched- 19 May 2011 00:00:00
LUTA clothing, a new collection of fightwear and streetwear clothing, has been launched at the King's Road Sporting Club in London by Fight For Peace CEO Luke Dowdney.
The clothing line is the next step for UK native Dowdney, who founded Fight For Peace in 2000 while in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
50% of the profits from the clothing range will go towards helping children fulfill their potential.
The non-profit organisation uses boxing and martial arts combined with education and personal development to realise the potential of young people in communities that suffer from crime and violence.
It has helped thousands of young people become champions both inside and outside the ring.
After making true impact in Rio, Fight for Peace now also works in East London to help young people avoid the dangers of gang violence and live positive, successful lives.
Commenting on the launch of the clothing range at the Fight for Peace Academy in North Woolwich, Dowdney said that a key reason for founding LUTA was 'to pay homage to the positive energy in the favelas and the real strength I'd witnessed training young champions there [in Rio de Janeiro] since 2000'.
'I also wanted to support those young champions and others like them around the world that suffer from crime and violence, by providing Fight for Peace with a profit share in the company. Over-polished stories of sports celebrity are everywhere; LUTA is about a real story of real strength'.
The word LUTA in Portuguese means to fight, to struggle, to never give up, and is the inspiration behind its genuine social mission; to share its profits equally between its shareholders and Fight for Peace International.
Also at the launch was brand ambassador and actor Idris Elba, who announced that he would return to the ring in eight months time, to raise money to build a hospital in Sierra Leone.


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January 13, 2003 – January 10, 2011
|Brad Henry
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Shawnee, Oklahoma
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Kimberly Ann "Kim" Henry is an American teacher who is the wife of the 26th Governor of Oklahoma, Brad Henry. She was the First Lady of Oklahoma from January 13, 2003, to January 10, 2011.
Henry began her career as a teacher by joining the staff of her alma mater, Shawnee High School in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in 1993. While there, she taught Oklahoma History, Economics, Government and American History. When her husband Brad Henry was elected Governor of Oklahoma in 2003, Henry became the First Lady of Oklahoma.
First Lady Henry is currently serving on board of directors for the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and the Jasmine Moran Children's Museum. She is previously served on the board of directors for Science Museum Oklahoma, Leadership Oklahoma, and the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence. Also, Henry is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Sarkeys Foundation, a private, charitable foundation dedicated to providing support through gifts and grants to Oklahoma's non-profit organizations.
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Henry is married to her husband Brad Henry. Together, they have three daughters. Henry was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 2009.
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DEAR ABBY: I have enjoyed a good life. I have served my community. I have a wonderful wife, great children and good friends. However, it now appears that the disease that has been kept at bay has progressed, and soon my days will end. I have accepted my impending death as best one can, and let few people know of it.
I would like to thank all the wonderful people who have been an important part of my life over the years, and I'm wondering how that might be accomplished. I do not want to make them sad or receive condolences. I simply want them to know they were an important part of my life for which I am truly grateful.
I considered a party, but wondered if that might seem morbid. Letters seem too distant, and phone calls would be hard on me.
While my death sentence is firm, and it will be soon, the exact date is impossible to know. Few of these people are aware that I am seriously ill, although I have been hospitalized many times.
Can you give me some suggestions to show my appreciation?
- On the way out in New Jersey
DEAR ON THE WAY OUT: While goodbyes can be sad, your farewell party need not be morbid - particularly if you and your wife make it a celebration of life and let your guests know it in advance. If you're afraid that saying what's in your heart to each person individually will be emotionally draining, then deliver a speech or videotape one to be played at the event.
While reading your letter, I am reminded of a friend, Judith, whom I lost several years ago. Judith had battled cancer for 12 years. After she had completed yet another round of chemo, some of her women friends gathered for a potluck luncheon at her place. The wine was poured and we all glanced at each other, worried that toasting "health" might seem inappropriate. Sensing the hesitation, Judy raised her glass and announced, "To LIFE!" And that, my friend, is exactly what your party should be all about.
DEAR ABBY: I'm a sixth-grade girl with a group of friends I like. The problem is some of them constantly put themselves down. It's annoying to hear, "My hair is so messed up," "I failed that quiz" (they got a B), "My paper is so bad" or "I'm so ugly." None of these things are true.
I know people put themselves down so that others will reassure them that they're fine. But I'm getting tired of hearing these complaints. I have told them to stop acting this way, but it doesn't work. How can I get my friends to stop complaining about themselves so much?
- Tired of hearing it in Boulder, Colo.
DEAR TIRED OF HEARING IT: You can't, so be patient with them because you appear to be more emotionally mature and self-confident than they are. At 12, which I assume most of your friends are, it is not unusual for girls to become sensitive about their changing bodies, and some of their insecurity may be hormonal. That's why they're looking to others for reassurance, so please don't be stingy.
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Tony Farrell
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Accessibility Information
For UK minimum access standards for new and existing stadia and for good practice guidance please click here.
Getting There & Parking
There is a club car park with 34 accessible spaces for both home and away supporter's available on a season permit or week by week basis. 2/3 spaces are held back until 24 hours before a match for away supporters requiring accessible parking. After that they are allocated to home supporters. Drop of facilities are available with a drop-off pass. This allows the disabled supporter to be dropped off at the entrance to the stadium near where their seat will be. The driver then leaves the stadium area and parks away from the ground. After the game the disabled supporter can again be collected from the relevant exit once the post-game football traffic has dispersed.
Parking Update from the Charlton Ahletic Website:
Parking around The Valley is minimal and currently fully allocated. In the event of parking becoming available on the day of the disability liaison officer will be in a position to re-allocate these spaces to supporters wishing to park.
The same procedure will apply for re-allocating parking spaces as they become available, as applies to tickets above.
In the event that there is no on-site parking, disabled supporters (ambulant or wheelchair) are entitled to receive a disabled access/drop-off pass. This allows the disabled supporter to be dropped off at the entrance to the stadium near where their seat will be. The driver then leaves the stadium area and parks away from the ground. After the game the disabled supporter can again be collected from the relevant exit once the post-game football traffic has dispersed.
National Rail have published links to the nearest stations to sporting venues including Charlton Athletic see here for more information.
Level Playing Field have not verified the information given and we suggest that you contact the station direct if you have any access requirements.
Getting a Ticket
For further information on purchasing a ticket please visit the Chalton Athletic website.
Tickets for disabled supporters can be purchased by contacting by 0871 226 1905, faxing 020-8333 4011 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Information on tickets appear in the matchday programme, the daily e-mail Bulletin, the club website and the local press.
Away tickets
Ambulant disabled supporters
Away tickets will be sold to disabled fans under the same conditions as all Charlton Athletic supporters as explained in the club charter. The commercial center will process your ticket application and you can contact them during opening hours. When you book your ticket you will need to state your requirements, for example if you would like a headset, a lift pass or a parking space.
You can contact the commercial centre by calling 0871 226 1905, if this is not convenient, you can send the club a fax on 020-8333 4011 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
There may be occasion when the ticket office staff will need to refer you to the disability liaison officer, who will contact you directly to ensure your request can be satisfied.
The deadline for purchasing tickets will be the same as for general sales. Information on tickets appears in the match day programme, the daily e-mail Bulletin , the club website and the local press.
Prices for away tickets vary. Notification will be given of ticket costs through the usual outlets.
Supporters using wheelchairs
There are many stadiums which provide few spaces for wheelchair users, therefore limiting the allocation to our supporters.
The number of wheelchair spaces will be advertised wherever possible with all away ticket information and supporters should refer to the match programme, club website and the daily e-mail Bulletin.
Prices for away tickets vary from club to club. Notification of ticket costs will be given wherever possible.
In order to ensure that the supporters receiving the tickets are those whom regularly attend, the standard priority procedure will be used as above and in the club charter.
Where the number of applicants for tickets is greater than the number of tickets available, allocation of the tickets will be by first-come first-served basis.
Away travel
As the club has taken over running away coach travel from the supporters' club, the coach for disabled supporters may be booked via the commercial centre on 0871 226 1905, or by emailing email@example.com.
Spectator Viewing areas
Home supporters have 88 spaces for wheelchair users available to them, and these can be found at pitchside and on a raised platform. 8 spaces for wheelchair users can be found on a raised platform in the away section for away supporters.
NB: Under existing minimum standards for accessible stadia, the club should have 171 wheelchair spaces (145 home and up to 26 away). 75% of these should be elevated positions and the remaining 25% pitchside.
LPF's view is that many disabled supporters should be able to access general seating areas and only those with specific needs eg those who require extra legroom, or access via aisle seats or who need step free access etc should be allocated seats in the dedicated areas.
Based on the above, the club therefore only meets 56% of the guidance and has a shortfall of 75 wheelchair spaces. They should be working on a plan to rectify this deficit within a reasonable timeframe under the auspices of a full independent Access Audit.
Accessible amenities
Both home and away fans can use the 10 accessible toilets inside the stadium. The club shop is accessible for all fans but does not a low level serving counter. Catering kiosks in the home and away sections do not have low level serving counters and so are not fully accessible, but there is a trolley service that delivers hot drinks to supporters in accessible areas of the ground.
Accessible services & information
The ticket office does have a hearing loop installed. Match commentaries are available via 12 headsets available from the main reception. Headsets should be returned to reception after the match. 7 headsets can be pre booked and the other 5 are available on a first come basis. Facilities for assistance dogs are not available. The concourses do not have rest areas included.
Updated October 2013.
DSA Additional Information
For information on lift passes, changes to the stadium, half-time catering, and tickets including refunds, read the August 2014 CADSA Newsletter here.
5 wheelchair users spaces are available to book from 24 July for the away game at Brentford on 9th August. Call Dhiran on 03330 14 44 44.
A new Facebook group has sprung up which will detail the various travel options available for the coming season's away games, as an alternative to the Valley Away coach service, and each relevant post will be shown on our own Facebook page at http://on.fb.me/1i2fSHR and on the website.
Read about the CADSA Quiz Night which took place in February 2014 http://bit.ly/cadsaquiz
There are a fair few Q&A evenings going on at the moment, with most being wheelchair accessible, and the details can be found on our website at http://bit.ly/cadsa
The CADSA website has recently had a text-to-speech system installed, for the benefit of their partially sighted/ blind readers, and the DSA are just getting over some teething problems on the site but all should be well in a couple of days.
They have also re-vamped their Facebook page so all are welcome to join us at http://bit.ly/cadsafacebook.
The Player Of The Year dinner has been confirmed for Sunday 4th May with tickets due to go on sale on Monday 17th March. The voting for your Player Of The Year will begin in a few weeks and the DSA be going around the disability areas of the ground, with their little bits of paper, collecting your votes as usual but, for the first time, you will also be able to vote online via the DSA website.
CADSA have been having regular problems with car parking spaces being booked and not being used on a matchday so, when you do book a space, you will be asked for the registration number of your vehicle so that attendance can be checked. Supporters who regularly book spaces and don't use them, leaving other supporters without a parking space and bays being left empty, may lose the chance to book spaces in the future. Please contact David Webb as early as possible if you won't be able to make use of your parking bay. The CADSA website can provide more detailed information.
CADSA Committee minutes can be found here.
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Stephen Kelly
Match: Home season ticket holder
Published: 11/9/2014
We are a club whose facilities are improving and we manage to look after as many visiting supporters as possible - wheelchair user or ambulant. If disabled supporters need help, we have a disability co-ordinator, alot of stewards plus the disabled Charlton supporters and our carers who will try and help as much as we can.
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Stephen Kelly
Match: Home season ticket holder
Published: 28/11/2013
I am a home season ticket holder, and have been for a lot of years; we do have parking but it has to be booked through our disabled liaison officer. Usually, there are 2 or 3 accessible car parking spaces for away fans and as we only have 7 spaces for away fans who use wheelchairs. This might appear adequate.
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Colin Draper
Match: Hull City visting Supporter
Published: 8/7/2013
As far as I'm aware, Charlton Athletic don't have any parking. Not sure what it is like for parking round the ground as I went on train with my nephews so they were able to help me. This is another ground where the view is very bad when fans stand up.
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Match: Wolves
Published: 21/4/2013
Attended match with a group of ambulant disabled supporters with learning disability and one with limited mobility and their helpers. On arrival we were greeted by a steward who asked if we were registered disabled, strange question! We were led through a gated entrance to the rear of the lower tier of the stand to a row of four seats adjacent to the Wheelchair Stalls. We were told that we could sit there but if helpers would have to move elsewhere. We had no chance of seeing the pitch due to standing supporters in front of us and this fact along with the point that the helpers needed to be seated with their disabled friends was brought to the attention of the stewards. Much debate followed and eventually once the match had started, it was suggested that we may like to move to the front row of the upper tier. A long walk up a ramp and down several steps achieved a reasonable view but was difficult for a person with limited mobility. Not a great experience, facilities poor and stewards appear to lack basic disability awareness as continually referred to disabled people as only being those who used wheelchairs!
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J and J
Match: 14/02/12 - Visited as Away Fans
Published: 12/2/2012
Stewards - All were knowledgable, friendly & well organised. They came and specifically checked we were ok at half time, which was a nice touch.
Wheelchair provision - allowed our club's mini-bus to unload/load us fans in wheelchairs right outside the entrance. Convenient, accessible clean toilet. Away wheelchair provision is in individual "stalls" each with a fold down carer seat. These stalls extend the full length of the away end at the back of the away fans seating. Lots available and stewards were happy for us to choose which stall we took regardless of what was printed on our tickets. This was useful as I would endorse previous comments that if the fans (even if they are no of rows away)in front of you stand up, you can't see (definite design fault). As there were only 3 of us we choose to sit at the end where our fans were not standing so it was not an issue for us. This was the only (potential) negative we identified.
As my husband is partially sighted, he requested (as he always does) a headset commentary, this was waiting for him, it worked and was a good commentary. This was our first visit to Charlton. We thoroughly enjoyed our Valentines Day visit to the Valley and would not hesitate to go again. A particular thank you for the free "doggy bag" suppers offered to us at the end of the game!
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Match: Charlton Athletic Home games 13/10/2011
Published: 13/10/2011
Have attended the Valley a lot as I have been a season ticket holder for many years. Home ends are all right, you can see. In defence of the away supporters - when the away supporters stand up, it is difficult to see. The only thing the away supporters can do is to encourage the stewards to get them to sit down. Apart from that it is a good day out and we look after visiting supporters, especially in wheelchairs.
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Ross Hovey
Match: Various
Published: 2/3/2011
Have been to "The Valley" several times and sat in many locations. Views very good and if in the main stand the facilities are way you are looked after is market leading. Where else does a catering staff take a half time order and deliver it to you avoiding bustling ques etc...?
The area around the stadium is quite hilly, so tricky for parking and those in manual wheelchairs or with mobility problems
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Gary Deards
Match: 2007/08 season
Published: 22/10/2008
when away supporters in front of wheelchair platform stand - was that a goal?
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Gary Deards
Match: 2007/08 season
Published: 22/10/2008
view when away supporters in front of wheelchair platform remain seated
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Gary Deards
Match: 2006/07 season
Published: 22/10/2006
Wheelchair positions for away supporters


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