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The Spartan Race caters to individuals looking to test their physical limits, from everyday people looking to lead a fitter lifestyle, to elite endurance athletes seeking the ultimate physical test.
When the Spartan Race first came to Saraland, it was an immediate success. According to the Mobile Sports Authority (MSA), the obstacle course event had an economic impact of more than $2 million in 2015 and another $1.8 million in 2016. With more than 4,100 competitors the first year and close to 5,000 the next, it was the largest race MSA had ever sponsored.
Unfortunately, the lack of an adequate site for hosting the massive course forced fans to find other locations the past two years. However, that will all change in 2019.
MSA and the city of Saraland have announced the return of the only Spartan Race to take place in the state of Alabama. In addition, the program will be expanded.
The Alabama Spartan will be holding two events over two days instead of a single day. Spartan officials will be running a Super Spartan on Saturday, March 16, while a Sprint Spartan is set for Sunday, March 17.
"Saraland is very excited to welcome back the Spartan Race to our city," said Saraland Mayor Howard Rubenstein. "We are honored to host this national event and are pleased to be able to provide a quality venue for the many competitors who will be attending."
The inaugural Spartan Race took place in 2010. The event caters to individuals looking to test their physical limits, from everyday people looking to lead a fitter lifestyle, to elite endurance athletes seeking the ultimate physical test.
The previous Saraland events were among the first Spartan Race locations to host a Friday Night Pre-Race Party. Hosted by the Saraland Area Chamber of Commerce, "Taste of Saraland" gives participants and visitors a chance to try local food while enjoying live entertainment and a little Southern hospitality. This year's party will take place Friday, March 15, beginning at 5 p.m. in front of the chamber offices at 939 Saraland Blvd. Admission to the pre-race party will be free to those involved.
"Since 2014 when the idea of bringing a Spartan Race to Mobile County was originally visited, the Saraland community, led by Mayor Howard Rubenstein, Saraland City Council President Joe McDonald and the entire Saraland Chamber organization to our entire dedicated local committee, as well as several of our local Spartan competitors, have been extremely dedicated to help us bring Spartan to our area," said MSA Executive Director Danny Corte. "I also want to thank the Hatters Pond, LLC, group for agreeing to host the Spartan Race on their property."
The Saturday race — "The Alabama Super" — will consist of a 10-plus mile course with more than 24 natural and manmade obstacles. It is expected to test the endurance and determination of more than 4,000 competitors.
On Sunday, the racers can celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a Sprint Race. "The Alabama Sprint" will consist of a three-plus mile course with as many as 20 obstacles to navigate.
Spartan Races offer three primary formats. The previous races in Saraland were the "Super" class. In addition to the Sprint Race, there is also the Beast Race (13-plus miles, 30-plus obstacles).
Competitors are encouraged to complete each of the primary race distances to achieve "Trifecta" status, earning pieces of a medallion for each finish. The three sections interlock to form the medal. Unlike other obstacle-focused events, Spartan Races are always timed.
"For the upcoming race, Spartan competitors can come to Saraland and earn two of the three legs of their annual Spartan Trifecta Medal in one weekend," Corte said. "That's very exciting and we're all looking forward to seeing what happens as Spartan returns to Saraland in 2019."
The weekend will also feature the Spartan Kids Race. The new competition site is positioned off Radcliff Road in Saraland.
There are also opportunities for people to volunteer and/or participate in the Alabama Spartan Race. Those interested in volunteering or assisting with site buildup and/or race day activities may contact Rita-Nicole Wright of the North Mobile YMCA by email at email@example.com.
Registration is now open for the Alabama Spartan Race weekend. Visit Spartan.com for more information, race registration and volunteer opportunities.
Sports briefs
• The Southeastern Conference is returning to the Orange Beach Sportsplex for its women's soccer championship Oct. 28 to Nov. 4. The event has taken place in Baldwin County since 2003, and a recent contract will extend the tournament through 2020.
Tickets will be available at the gate at $5 per game for adults and $2 per day for children (grades K-12). All games will be broadcast live on the SEC Network, including the championship match that Sunday at 2 p.m.
• The Alabama Soccer Association is hosting its 3V3 Soccer Festival Nov. 3-4 in conjunction with the collegiate championship. The cost to register is $30 per player, including admission to the SEC championship match. To register, go to ALSoccerLive.org/Reg.
Visit SECSports.go.com/Clubhouse/Soccer for more on the SEC and ALSoccer.com for more on the state soccer association.
• The sixth annual Generational Resilience Conference will take place at the Via! Center (1717 Dauphin St.) on Friday, Oct. 26, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The keynote speaker is Shirley Cunningham, Ms. Senior Mobile 2005.
Cunningham currently holds the Alabama State Powerlifting Record for the 74-year-old age bracket. Her remarks, "Stronger for Life," are based on her childhood growing up in the Deep South and how she discovered the path to mental and physical wellness. The Mobile native has the distinction of serving as the first African-American assistant to the president of Cornell College. In addition to powerlifting, Cunningham is a motivational speaker and an active volunteer in the community, teaching line and swing dancing at several community centers in Mobile.
The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. For more information, call 251-470-5229 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
• The Alabama Marine Resources Division (AMRD) will conduct a community oyster meeting Wednesday, Nov. 7, 1-3 p.m. at the South Bay Coastal Response Center, 7385 Highway 188 in Coden. This meeting is open to the public.
The focus will be to update the community about present AMRD activities related to the management of Alabama's oyster fisheries and to receive public input. AMRD representatives will discuss 2018 oyster reef survey results and upcoming oyster-related projects.
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REPORT OF 2nd SWARAJ FILM FESTIVAL, FEBURARY 2009
The three day 2nd Swaraj Film Festival started on 19th February 2009. On this occasion, Dr. Swapnil Shrivastava (Chief Archivist, Swaraj Film Archive) said that this film festival is an attempt to create awareness about social and environmental issues and to inspire people to adopt other alternatives. On the first day of the festival, films and documentaries were shown to students and teachers of four colleges-M.V. Convent Inter College, Shri Raj Deo Public School, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication and Department of Maths in Allahabad University.
Paromita Vohra's Morality T.V. Aur Loving Jehad which challenges the police's role in stopping eve-teasing was screened in Prayag Mahila Vidyapeeth Degree College in the main programme on 20th February. 'Char Shahroon Ki Ankahi Kahani' directed by Sunil Umrao, highlighting the plight and struggle of fruit/vegetable vendors , 'SEZ-Arajakta ki Or' depicting the problem of forced land acquisition and farmer's struggle against this and 'Kachra View' were shown to students in M.V.Convent Inter College.
Allahabad University's Maths department and physics department also organised screenings including 'Development At Gun Point' directed by Pramod Gupta based on the Nandigram Movement, 'Truth lies Beneath' directed by Gautam Sen and 'New Improved Delhi' directed by Vani Subramanyam.
A documentary, Continuum, directed by Khushboo Renka regarding the issues of hunger, trade and death was shown in M.V. Convent Inter College. A beautiful ecological documentary, "The Queen of Trees" directed by Mark Deabal and Victoria Stone caught the imagination of young viewers. Vishakha Dutta directed Taza Khabar, a short film based on the life of uneducated women running a newspaper in Bundelkhand. Gharat, based on a small alternative Power plant was also screened in Raj Deo Public School. Hollow Cylinder directed by Kavita Behl and Nandan Saxena depicting the importance of bamboo, and Mahua Memoirs, directed by Vinod Raja emphasizing the tribal's struggle against mining, evoked a good response. Apart from these, Sara Loha Unka, Babu Nandan Ki Keval Dhar, directed by Sunil Umrao was also shown.
The Journalism and Mass Communication department of Allahabad University also held several screenings, including 'A Night of Prophecy' by Amar Kanwar, 'Passing Conflicts' by Pankaj Rishi Kumar, 'A Place to Stay' by Pryas Abhinav, 'The mall on top of my house' by Aditi Chitra and 'Beggar' by Vasudeo and Santana Issar. A film on the struggle of bauxite miners Baphalimali directed by Amar Kanwar was shown in the Department of Maths in Allahabad University. Other films screened were, 'Ye Kaisi Azadi' and 'Black Pamphlets' by Nitin Kumar.
Approximately 1300 hundred people attended the festival.
Sandeep Tiwari
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Take advantage of the Erasmus+ programme and spend part of your studies abroad.
Take advantage of the Erasmus+ programme and spend part of your studies abroad.
As a student of the Vistula Group of Universities, you can study abroad for a period of 3 to 12 months. This time will count towards your studies in Poland. The mobility is co-financed by the European Union. On this webpage, we will provide all the necessary information on what to do before going abroad, during your stay at a partner university and after returning to Poland, so that the time spent there may bring you the greatest benefits.
Thinking of where to go during your studies at the Vistula Group of Universities, then:
• Choose a partner university from our offers
• Fill out the application form at the International Office
• Confirm your knowledge of the language of study abroad
• Wait for the decision of the selection committee
Prepare required documents
As a student, you are required to prepare the Learning Agreement (LA), i.e. an agreement between your home university and the partner university on a study program, and provide other documents from the partner university. Here are the steps you need to take in order to achieve the goal.
Fill out an LA form (download the LA and see the instructions below)
Obtain the consent of your Academic Coordinator for the realization of the study program at the partner university – submit the LA to the Coordinator to obtain their signature.
Sign the Learning Agreement (LA).
Submit the LA at the International Office in Room 122.
Obtain the Learning Agreement AND the Letter of Acceptance with the dates of beginning and ending the semester from the university you are going to.
Provide also:
• bank account number in Euro;
• copy of health insurance (e.g. the European Health Insurance Card) covering the period of your stay abroad;
• copy of accident insurance (NNW) covering the period of your stay abroad.
After delivering all documents, sign the financial agreement with the university.
• Scholarship payment is made after signing this agreement. Settle the tuition fees at your home university (students are legally obliged to do so and, at the same time, they are exempted from tuition fees at the partner university).
Complete an obligatory language test online: you will receive a link to the test to the email address provided by you.
• Before and after the mobility period, students are required to complete a language proficiency test. Meeting this obligation is a prerequisite for a positive validation of the mobility. Students for whom the language of study at a partner university is their mother tongue are exempt from the test. Online Linguistic Support (OLS) is available at: http://www.erasmusplusols.eu.
As soon as you arrive, make sure that all courses you have chosen will be carried out.
• If not, make changes to the Learning Agreement: fill out the section of the Learning Agreement study program, which refers to the period of study abroad: "During the Mobility";
• Any changes must be approved by your Academic Coordinator and sent to the Institutional Coordinator. After establishing the final study program, you are required to provide the Academic Coordinator with the syllabi of all your courses at the partner university, translated into Polish or English;
• NOTE: you have 30 days from the date of your arrival at the partner university to make changes to the Learning Agreement.
Extension of the mobility
Would you like to stay longer? Apply for the extension of your mobility at the partner university before December 10th, using the email address of the University Coordinator. Wait for a reply: the decision to extend your stay must be accepted by the Erasmus + Academic and Institutional Coordinators as well as by the partner university.
After obtaining approval to extend your stay:
• provide all documents for the winter semester (the Learning Agreement with all sections signed and the Transcript of Records);
• submit a scan of the Learning Agreement for the summer semester, accepted by the Academic Coordinator and the partner university to the e-mail address of the Institutional Coordinator;
• provide the Letter of Acceptance for the summer semester;
• send the insurance confirmation.
After completing your stay at a partner university, provide the following documents to your Erasmus + Program Office:
• The Transcript of Records, issued and signed by the partner university – the original or a scan printout;
• The approved and signed original of the Learning Agreement – all sections of the document must be duly signed. Lack of appropriate signatures on documents will result in their rejection;
• Confirmation of the actual duration of the mobility (if the list of credits does not contain exact dates) – the original or a scan printout.
• fill out the questionnaire of the National Agency; you will receive a link to the questionnaire sent automatically after completing your stay at a partner university;
• complete the second language test online (OLS).
NOTE: you have 30 days from the date of ending your mobility at the partner university to complete the above.
How to receive funding?
Apply for the participation in the program. Students qualified for the Erasmus + program receive co-financing for the mobility according to rates set out by the European Union (see the appendix).
Sign the agreement. Scholarship payment is made after signing the financial agreement between the student and the university (the steps leading to signing the agreement are given it in the "Before the mobility" tab).
Take care of the documentation. Students must pay the tuition fees at the home university and do not pay tuition fees at the partner university. The mobility is validated after the student provides all reports and summaries and takes the language test again.
Erasmus+ FAQ (in Polish)
Scholarship amounts
Application Form Erasmus+ Outgoing Students AFiB Vistula 2020/2021
Application Form Erasmus+ Outgoing Students SGTiH Vistula 2020/2021
List of AFiB Vistula Partner Universities
List of SGTiH Vistula Partner Universities
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This sparkling wall hanging was designed and made by Davina Thomas to brighten up a dull corner of her workroom.
241⁄2in (62cm) square
This quilt uses free cutting techniques to achieve a whirling block and is embellished with beads and sequins.
The border is made by the same method as the squares using orange Makower Metallic Texture fabric in addition to the other colours used.
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You have a choice of 3 unique T-Boz shirts to choose from, as well as a stunning long sleeve TLC '90's Legends' tee!
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Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy
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Doctor of Occupational Therapy, Creighton University, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, May 2018
M.S. in Healthcare Ethics, Creighton University, (Projected Graduation Spring 2019)
B.S./M.S. in Occupational Therapy, The Sage Colleges, May 2004, Russell Sage College alumni
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Certification: Health Care Ethics
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Inpatient/Outpatient Physical Rehabilitation, Sunnyview Rehabilitation
Community OT Practice: Hospice/End-of-Life Care
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- OTH 501 Neuroscience
- OTH 507AL Functional Anatomy Lab
- OTH 608BL Foundations of Rehabilitation: Physical Agents Modalities Lab
- OTH 609L Evaluation and Intervention: Psychosocial Settings Lab
- OTH 620 Occupational Therapy in Community OT Practice
- OTH 636 Clinical and Professional Reasoning Seminar
- Research Author: A Question of Ethics: Productivity standards and their impact on patient quality of care outcomes. (submitted for review Journal name February 2018)
- Author: Ethics and Fieldwork Chapter: OT Management Text (AOTA Press)
- Infant Mental Health Competencies; Oral Presentation at North Carolina Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference-November 2017
- Productivity and Practice; Oral Presentation at American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference-April 2018
- Infant Mental Health Association; Poster Presentation at North Carolina Infant Mental Health Association Annual Conference
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Introduction: Sly Pizza
It is sly because it is hiding lots of fiber and vitamins under all of that gooey melted cheese! Use high quality, fresh ingredients for the best result. This recipe is low in calories but it satisfies and fills the belly.
- 2 pieces of flax lavash bread
- 3 button mushrooms sliced
- A handful of baby spinach
- 1/4 cup of the following cheeses: Feta, parmesan and mozzarella (or any cheese that tickles your fancy)
- 4 tablespoons canned crushed tomatoes
- One spring of parsley minced
- Black pepper, oregano and garlic powder to taste.
Step 1:
Toast the lavash for 2 minutes on a 400 degree oven.
Sprinkle a little bit of each cheese and scatter some spinach on one piece of bread. Cover it with the second piece.
Lavash is so thin that you need to stack them up to fortify it.
Step 2:
-On top of the second piece of bread, spread the tomato sauce very thin.
-Add the spinach and cover it with the 3 cheeses. It is important you put the spinach between the sauce and cheese or it will burn.
-Scatter the mushrooms. Then put little drops of the sauce over the whole thing. This will keep it moist and look good.
-Season with black pepper, garlic powder, the parsley and oregano
Step 3:
Bake it at 375 degrees for about 8-10 minutes.
Makes enough for 2 people (or 2 meals).
Bom apetite!
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It looks so good. I love lavash, but I never thought to use it this way. :D
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I meant to say happy COOKING! how do I delete it?
Naan works really well too. It's a bit thicker, but about the right size for a 1-2 people.
I'll have to try!
I'll have to try this out soon. Thanks for sharing!


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A few images from Burma
Many years ago, I went to Burma for a sessions of meetings and negotiations, and to visit the former coastal steamer Kong Olav.
Here is an image of Victoria Point in Burma.
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hahahahaha.... being on a group tour certainly has its restrictions. Perhaps the reason why I enjoy travelling with less people.
Nothing calms my spirit and myself more than those times I can spend in front of any (significant) Buddha. I often fall into some kind of spiritual transe, during meditation... and I can even seriously loose track of time.
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If I was living in Yangon, the thing that would bring me back here time and time again and which interests me greatly would be the long row of statues at the other side of the reclining Buddha. They are intended to illustrate the many attitudes and gestures - asanas and mudras - which have meanings related to events in the life of the Buddha.
You are perhaps lucky that I was with a group on this occasion, as on my own I could easily imagine myself photographing (and subsequently posting!) them all!
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Many people were meditating in front of the Buddha, and there was a calm and peaceful atmosphere. Tourists generally crowd around a platform at the feet of the Buddha from where a view of the whole length of the statue may be seen, resulting in rather similar-looking photos. I tried to take details and different images.
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After visiting Shwedagon pagoda, our group continued to nearby Chauk Htat Gyi to see a 65m long Reclining Buddha which is covered in a shed-like structure amongst trees beside monastic buildings.
You might be able to see some people in the bottom left which I managed to include for scale, whilst not seeming intrusive.
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Despite recent indications of rapid change, so much in Myanmar still seems like a step back in time.
Such were my contrasting impressions of the tourist visitor centre with the very different environment within Shwedagon Pagoda. I felt at home there too, and am so happy to have shared that with you in those images.
It has made me wonder how long ago it might have been since major "tourists sights" in Bangkok, such as Wat Arun and the temple of the Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace, still felt like places being predominantly used by the local people as they had been in the past. When were your earliest visits to those places in Thailand, pakarang?
Incredibly emotional and spiritual images. Looking at these images, I feel so "at home", and not like a stranger that I feel like in Norway. I'm one odd person indeed, I have always felt much more at home and much more at ease in environments like that. Perhaps I had a past life in the Sukothai era, as a servant for some high ranking person?
Great images by the way!
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It might seem from everything I've posted so far that Yangon consists only of the street grid between the Strand and the railway line, but of course you know that is not the case from ombugge's posts.
But I think I mentioned in passing that the group had a tour by bus on the morning of the full day in Yangon. (Yes, it amazes me too that I did so much in only one and a half days in total!)
Driving by green parks and a lake we arrived at Shwedagon Pagoda. Every tourist to Yangon visits here sometime during their trip, and even though we had started out early to avoid crowds it still felt as if they were ALL there simultaneously, right then being disgorged from buses and swarming upwards by steps or lift towards the big new Visitor Centre reception. For the first time I actually felt I was a "tourist", which I hadn't in my explorations the previous afternoon.
But fortunately as on all Noble Caledonia trips everything is included and we bypassed the hubbub of ticket purchasing and guides (official and otherwise) touting for business, and had only to gather around our own guide who handled our tickets, and saw us through the airport style security check and the shoe deposit counter. (He had ensured that we all conformed to the dress code before we left the hotel, so there would be no delay at the astonishingly busy cover-up clothing point - not that anyone in our well travelled and prepared group were not already totally fit to go!)
And so we entered into the pagoda precincts and, it felt to me, as if into a different world.
It is a huge area, the landmark central pagoda itself surrounded by an amazing complex of shrines and stupas and the glitter of gold.
Shwedagon is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar. It is regularly visited not only by Yangon local people but also those from throughout the country. Although I knew that there are other entrances, it astonished me how my initial touristy impression and even the tourists themselves seemed to have all but disappeared in the predominantly local scene. There was a feeling of experiencing a place being used as it has been for centuries.
There follows ten images from my morning in Shwedagon.
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A beautiful looking hotel in an amazing destination no doubt.
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That's it, or rather WAS the "Book Street". The new and organised one will never be the same as the one I remember though. (Chaotic and noisy)
It will probably be like when Singapore tried to revive the old Bugis Street. It became a replacement for Change Alley in stead.
I didn't, but I see you photographed some bookstalls laid out along the pavement and under the shade of the roadside trees in #68/2
There have apparently been some changes, discussed in these articles of January and February 2017:-


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Not sure about you, but my toddler has recently gone through a cling-to-Mommy phase, and he likes to suck his thumb and hold my hand. And about the millionth time I heard him whine, "I want to hold your hand, Mommy" I couldn't help but break out the Beatles tune. And he seemed slightly annoyed, "That not a song!"
Whoa: how am I letting this happen? Some of my happiest memories are of singing along with my parents in the car to their music - and to this day there are certain songs that just (happily) remind me of one parent or another. My mom seemed to only have two tapes in her car - kids songs and the Beach Boys greatest hits. My dad was definitely a classic rocker, and would - annoyingly- rewind songs so that I could be clear on the exact lyrics (and when I was older, give me some of the 'hidden' meaning behind them). But now I really love all kinds of music - thanks to them.
So I broke out the iPad and found a video of the Beatles big break into rock n roll, and then we were on a mission to find more songs that were fun for both of us.
This morning (a few weeks later) when he asked again, "I want to hold your hand," I replied with, "And when I..." He responded, "touch you, I be happy..." This made me happy, and a little teary (I am sure some pregnancy hormones are at play) that I was getting to pass along a little family tradition.
So below is a list of songs that I think both parents and kids can enjoy and find fun. Maybe I will put them all on a CD for the car (to replace "Wheels on the Bus" for the millionth time), or just to have handy to hit up YouTube while we wait in the doctor's office (there are some kid friendly videos to go along with many of these, too!)
I want to hold your hand - the Beatles
Octopus' Garden - the Beatles
Yellow Submarine - the Beatles
At the Zoo - Simon and Garfunkel
Me and Julio - Paul Simon (the Sesame Street performance is cute, too)
ABC - Jackson 5
Rockin Robin - Jackson 5
Wild Thing - The Troggs (because we have a little Max at our house)
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Canibals
Dance, Sister, Dance (Baila Mi Hermana) -Santana (get some Spanish lessons in, too!)
Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul, and Mary
Other suggestions-
Curious George Soundtrack - Jack Johnson
Cheeseburger in Paradise - Jimmy Buffett
Your Personal Penguin - Davy Jones
Mocking Bird - Carly Simon & James Taylor
Happy Face - Destiny's Child
Father and Daugther - Paul Simon
Camp Grenada - ?
Johnny Cash children's songs
Not for Kids Only - Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
Bob Marley
If I had a Million Dollars - Barenaked Ladies
Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da - The Beatles
Take me Home, Country Road -?
Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (the Muppets on this YouTube!)
Somebody to Love - Queen
Penney Lane - The Beatles
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
We will Rock you - Queen
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Don't Worry be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
One way or Another - Blondie
Jump - Van Halen
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
They Might Be Giants (adult and kids's albums - Here Come the ABC's, 123's ,Science or No!)


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iZone International: Hackers hit back in support of WikiLeaks; online buying affected
Hackers have targeted financial sites of Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal in defence of Wikileaks' Julian Assange. The websites worst hit were PayPal and Mastercard, where the damage spilled beyond the company website and also affected the working of their services. However, both have been working on fixes, and while slowed, transactions continue.
WikiLeaks might be in trouble on the Internet following a series of attacks from service providers like Amazon Web Services, PayPal, Visa and Mastercard, all of which took WikiLeaks' accounts off their servers, along with EveryDNS, which provided the DNS access to WikiLeaks (sort of like the door to your house. It might exist on the server, but no one can get in.) We had earlier reported on these stories, here [http://www.exchange4media.com/e4m/izone1/izone_fullstory.asp?section_id=4&news_id=40257&tag=6560] and here [http://www.exchange4media.com/e4m/izone1/izone_fullstory.asp?section_id=4&news_id=40241&tag=6556], but hackers, who believe that WikiLeaks was targeted unfairly, responded by joining in on attacks against these sites in turn. Ironically, Amazon was first hit by hackers for hosting the controversial website, so it seems like there may be no safe stance to take.
Anonymous hackers launched a blog called Operation Payback, which gave instructions to anyone interested on how to hurt websites that had denied access to WikiLeaks.
In a short time Operation Payback was able to affect a number of sites:
After pulling the plug on payments to WikiLeaks, Mastercard's website was taken down and remains out of service. (It's back on some browsers);
Senator Joe Lieberman's website was taken down for 12 minutes (the first .gov site to be attacked);
Sarah Palin's website was taken offline;
The group sent spam faxes to Joe Lieberman's office and to PostFinance. PostFinance was attacked the hardest, leaving customers without the ability to conduct online banking;
They took down the website of the lawyer representing the two women who were allegedly raped/ assaulted by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange;
The group took down Assange's Swedish prosecutor's website.
On their blog, Paypal has admitted that payments have slowed. Transactions have continued (and I personally used PayPal earlier today), but Mastercard has been hit harder. Hackers brought down Mastercard's website, but it initially said it hadn't affected customers. As the day continued, the effect began to spread and thousands of online transactions were stopped. The problem is that MasterCard uses an additional security tier, Securecode, where you enter a password along with all the information on the card. This was brought down, and while Mastercard is working to bring back the service fully, there have been some effects there.
At the same time, user data has not been affected. While processing times have uniformly gone up, and transactions are sometimes being cancelled, you can still use your card for offline transactions, or IVR based transactions. Online buying is the only area affected, and even that has not been stopped.
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After the pity party he gets into his reviews of Justice League, the newest addition to the DC Extended Universe, and Lady Bird, film #10 in his 52 Films Directed by Women project.
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What's looking springy 'round your neck of the woods?
This week, I've seen some tulips trying to make their way through to visit us. I'm so excited! We planted Princess Irene bulbs last fall, so hopefully soon I'll be seeing some of these beauties popping up around the yard.
I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high, as I know the bastard squirrels were digging up bulbs but there might be a couple out there!
More and more birds are returning to our neighborhoods and singing sweet spring songs to us.
Also, I went on my first outdoor run of the year, even though it was grey and cold. And, in celebration of the return of running season, I ordered some new running capris and tank tops.
How about you? Is it springy at your place? What are you doing to celebrate spring's return?
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Exponential Investor has discussed the forthcoming revolution in transport on many occasions. However, most of this analysis has been focused on the industry itself, and not on the knock-on effects on the wider economy.
We're going to look at some of the industries which will be affected most strongly by pending changes to transportation. Once you start analysing the full impact of this disruption, you'll see there are some real surprises.
Firstly, we'll will look at the winners:
Primary industries
Agricultural and extractive industries are going to experience a boom from autonomous vehicles. Much of the work done in mining, farming and forestry is highly automatable. This is going to be reflected in the prices that these industries pay for their inputs. If you don't have so many people driving trucks, or cutting down trees, then you can sell your outputs much more cheaply. For secondary industries keen to make use of such products, the resulting price drops can make a world of difference to their economics.
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As such, a revolution in automation may lead to a significant expansion of customer industries (ie, manufacturing). With input costs falling and demand rising (due to reduced prices), mining and logging operators will see a boom. That's great news for the industry – but not such good news for sustainability. Expect increased pressure on forests, and an acceleration of profligate use of non-renewable minerals. Meanwhile, land prices in these sectors will likely rise.
One of the most unusual things about autonomous and electric vehicles is that consumers will be relatively unlikely to own them. The idea that we all need a car parked outside our houses is going to seem as alien as having a horse tied up there does. As cars become autonomous, the price of taxi rides falls below private motoring – because capital is more efficiently used by occasional rental, than by full-time ownership. Accordingly, it's going to be boom time for taxi and minicab firms – although that's currently an industry concentrating in the hands of major players, such as Uber.
Just like mining and farming, the whole logistics supply chain is going to become enormously cheaper. If you don't have to pay people to drive lorries, you can drive stuff further, and still keep your economics the same. Even with today's technology, we already see bizarre logistics operations – like sending British sprouts to Poland for trimming, before they're sold in UK supermarkets. This modern world of snaking supply chains is only going to get snakier. What's more, this revolution in logistics is not going to be limited to roads. In the same way as you can automate a tractor, you can also automate much of the internal transport, within warehouses. Industry leaders, like Amazon, are already handing over much of their internal operations to robots – and this trend won't peter out anytime soon. The economics of logistics are about to be completely shaken up. We'll all have to get used to a world where there will be many more lorries, and more (or bigger) warehouses.
E-commerce is so inextricably linked to logistics that the two sectors almost act as one. The economics of selling online will be revolutionised by autonomous vehicles – as distribution and delivery operations will get enormously cheaper. These new efficiencies will put ongoing pressure on bricks-and-mortar retailers, as the e-commerce sector expands. This disruption won't all be about conventional transport, however. There will be a lightweight revolution – because you don't need a human in a three-tonne van to deliver a burger. Accordingly, we've also got to consider both flying and pavements drones as big winners from the on-demand economy.
The construction industry is going to receive a huge boost from the knock-on effects of automation and electric transport. While internal costs will change on a permanent basis, we'll see a huge temporary building boom, as the country is reconfigured around autonomous electric transport. We've built our urban environment around private car ownership for half a century. That's going to get ripped up in coming decades – and an awful lot of construction is going to be needed.
There will be new patterns of development: in cities, we'll build over almost all the parking spaces; while new suburbs and towns will spring up, well beyond the conventional commuter belt. No more manual driving means people will be happy to commute further, and will be far less fussy about living far from amenities. While town centres will become even more compact, and even more accessible, peripheral suburbs and unfashionable towns will see a resurgence. People will be happy to browse their phones, sleep or eat on long commutes – travelling many miles to reach inexpensive, pleasant houses. These changes will mean a large increase in demand for both road space and for new suburban and commuter-belt homes. Also, as we've seen above, there will be a lot more logistics capacity required – so it'll be a busy time for people building warehouses, and the roads to reach them.
Let's face it, the drink-driving laws haven't exactly been kind to pubs. I'm lucky enough to be able to pop out for a pint without my car – but many people live inconveniently far from their local boozer. Accordingly, many of us are now drinking at home. In future, living in the suburbs will no longer mean you're cut off from the fun – and ultra-cheap autonomous taxis mean you will be able to enjoy drinking and driving once more.
Property by main roads
If you'd prefer to keep tight control of your investment cash, then buying property near a main road will be a good long-term bet. You'll have to put up with a decade or two of noise, grime, danger and pollution. But once it's all over, your house will see a nice pop in value. You'll be able to enjoy a quieter, safer, cleaner house – and know that you've been paid handsomely to do so.
Who do you think will win, from the autonomous, electric vehicle revolution? Please let us know in the comments below.
Now that we've looked at the winners from the forthcoming transport revolution – the switch to autonomous, electric vehicles, we see that a wide range of sectors stands to benefit – and there are some real surprises.
But it's not all good news – and a wide range of industries will take an absolute battering.
Let's talk about the losers:
Petrol stations
This is actually a very mixed story, but we'll start with the bad. Many small towns have a tiny petrol station, often selling little more than Diet Coke and diesel. These fuel-heavy retailers are going to get wiped out. But overall, petrol stations will be disrupted, not destroyed. This is counter-intuitive – as robots driving electric cars have no need to buy petrol. But those cars will still need charging – be that with electricity, hydrogen or whatever.
If electric cars with lithium-ion batteries become the technology of choice, then longer and more frequent stops will become the norm – and that's fantastic news for gas-less petrol stations. Furthermore, with motoring that's cheaper and more accessible, we'll see more people driving further. On top of this, lots of the reasons why society tries to persuade us all to drive less will fade with electric cars: pollution, safety, and global warming.
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These are all strong arguments against expanded road transport, and all are weakened by a transition to autonomous electric cars. Accordingly, we'll likely see much more road transport, not much less. All these new travellers will still need to buy coffee, sandwiches and use the restroom. As such, petrol stations will look more and more like mini motorway services, and much less like the "two pumps and a cashier" businesses that are doomed to die.
Vehicle repair
Let's be honest, electric cars are an absolute catastrophe for the vehicle repair industry. Other than swapping a battery once a decade, they almost never go wrong. All garages will be left to do is changing the odd tyre and wiper blade. Even brakes will hardly need servicing, as electric motors can do most of the stopping. So, if you've got shares in Kwik Fit, FastFit Station and the like – then it's a great time to get out. Very soon it will be obvious that the writing is on the wall for this industry, and there will be no buyers left for your stock.
Road safety
The road safety industry is vast, and sprawling. It encompasses everything from motorway lighting, to speed cameras and fire engines. Even a substantial fraction of the criminal justice system is tied up with bad driving. Autonomous cars will deal a deadly blow to this sector – as they'll remove the need for everything from back-street body shops, to police stingers and driver re-education courses. That's because autonomous cars will hardly ever crash: they don't drive drunk, nod off at the wheel, get distracted by children, or flee from police. Dying in a car crash will soon seem as alien as dying from smallpox.
Car manufacturers
Despite us seeing a boom in total miles travelled, car manufacturers are going to have a hard time. Firstly, we will we see a move away from private car ownership, towards ultra-high mileage 24hr taxi fleets. As our cars stand idle around 95% of the time, we can expect the new car market to contract by a comparable amount – less adjustments for overlapping times of use, and an increase in overall mileage travelled. Additionally, a near-total absence of accidents will take away a major driver of new vehicle sales. Not only will sales drop, but margins will also be cut.
The business model for the industry is often to cover costs with volume vehicles, and cream off profits with high-end variants. That's why we see utility brands (like Skoda) in the same groups as premium brands (like Audi); they're basically the same cars, with different trim. But, when almost all vehicles sold are generic taxis, it's hard to see how the luxury sector can hold up. The failing high-end sector will take down many manufacturers, and remove much of the profit for those that remain. Of course, some people will still own their own vehicles, for various reasons (such as needing to carry tools) but the majority of us will carry on our daily lives using robot taxis. If you think this is an odd idea, try and remember when you last used your house phone…
Brick-and-mortar retail
As if traditional retailers didn't have enough to contend with already, the revolutionary impact on haulage and warehouse costs from automation will be the death knell for many of them. When delivery costs are near-zero, there's really no reason for anybody to come to your shop – unless it's fun. Therefore, the future for physical retail is extending the trends we've seen to date – and that's mostly been downwards. Utility retail will increasingly fade away, and experience retail will take up a larger proportion of the remainder of the sector. We'll see more service-driven shops like Starbucks and Build-A-Bear, and far fewer dull stores, such as Wilko.
Parking garages
Parking garages are going to take as much of a battering as are vehicle repair garages. Without a need to own a car, you've no need to park a car. Furthermore, the last place a taxi owner wants their vehicle to be is sat in a parking garage. Surface parking will also be affected, and we'll see tiny taxi ranks replacing huge car parks. This will unlock a lot of land for redevelopment.
Who do you think will win, from the autonomous, electric vehicle revolution? Please let us know your views in the comments below.
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|A generic fragmentation grenade. Contains a small amount of high explosives, the container itself forming most of the damaging fragments. Explodes on contact.
Frag Grenades are explosive thrown weapons that appear in all Fallout games.
Fragmentation grenades are pretty rare in Fallout and Fallout 2, and aren't very useful late game, when most enemies have a very high explode damage resistance. If you can find a few early on, though, they'll pack quite a wallop against weaker Raiders and critters. Large groups are a perfect target, especially against Manti and Gold Geckoes.
The Frag Grenade is the first type of grenade found in the game, and is a standard grenade creating an explosive blast and dealing significant damage, with a high chance to cripple limbs. It seems to have the same blast radius as its more powerful variant, the Plasma Grenade. They are commonly used by melee equipped Raiders and Super Mutants when they are out of melee range.
Thrown grenades are affected by physics; they may bounce or roll unexpectedly if not thrown carefully. However, in game physics can also be used to your advantage; such as throwing grenades through doorways or bouncing them around corners to attack enemies who cannot see you.
Grenades are targetable in V.A.T.S. Thus they can be shot out of the air, and shooting them whilst they are still held by the enemy can detonate them. Grenades can be thrown point-blank in V.A.T.S due to the sharply reduced damage taken.
Frag Grenades can be effective in V.A.T.S. even if they aren't considered a hit (instant detonation upon contact of target) as most grenades will still land at least relatively close to the target, this may not be the case on extreme slopes.
It is best to use a grenade on groups of enemies at chokepoints such as doorways or stairwells. A grenade that has been thrown toward you will show up on your HUD as a red arrow denoting its direction relative to you. Move in the opposite direction as quickly as possible to escape the blast radius.
Holding the fire button down for a longer period of time will increase the strength of the throw. Grenades can be thrown for longer distances than normal through successful V.A.T.S. hits. Grenades cannot be cooked to detonate earlier.
It is also possible to plant a live grenade on an NPC by passing one from your inventory to the NPC's inventory via reverse pickpocketing. This will kill the NPC, regardless of how much health he has, making the Frag Grenade far more deadly. If you get caught putting a grenade in an NPC's inventory, they act as if you were normally stealing something from them, and return the grenade to your inventory (not as a live grenade).
It is common to find several grenades hanging on a string from the ceiling. These are called a grenade bouquet and will be activated with a nearby tripwire, dropping the grenades and making them explode on a timer. The bundle of grenades can be disarmed with a high enough explosives skill or can be shot down (this will cause them to explode). If you do accidentally activate the tripwire, it is possible to disarm the grenades as they fall, and pocket the grenades, but it is safer to try to run out the area, as the grenades are on a timer. Note that these grenades will not give the red arrow HUD warning. (Confirmed PC, PS3 and 360). There also are rigged computer terminals, with grenades planted in the back. By activating the terminal, it triggers the grenades in the back panel. Its easy to tell that the computer is rigged if it has an antenna on the top. Aiming the target reticle at the back panel sticking out gives you the option to loot the grenade(s) in the back and re-arm the computer.
|The following is based on Fallout Tactics and some details might contradict canon.
It is primary weapon for grenadier character throughout most of game. Decent damage, and abundance allow it to be used often and indiscriminately. However, it's recommended to have a sniper character ready to provide cover and long range support, since the AP cost of throws is quite high.
|The following is based on Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
|This military-issue weapon damages nearby enemies with a barrage of shrapnel.
A powerful weapon which, with good aim, can kill almost any enemy.
|Fragmentation Grenade
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M9 High-Explosive Dual-Purpose Grenade
cR. 30
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Very High
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1 grenade
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4 Grenades in Halo: CE and Halo 2, 2 in Halo 3, and 3 in Halo 3: ODST
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Fragmentation shrapnel
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Depends On Throw
Depends On Throw (Halo CE very far, Halo 2 not far, Halo 3 medium)
The M9 High-Explosive Dual-Purpose Grenade (abbreviated M9 HE-DP Grenade), also known as the Fragmentation Grenade, Frag Grenade, or simply Frag, is a UNSC-issued grenade that functions in a manner very similar to contemporary hand grenades.
HE-DP stands for High-Explosive Dual-Purpose. This designation means that it is designed to be effective against infantry and lightly armored vehicles.
The grenade has a hard metal casing that is smooth in Halo: Combat Evolved, but gridded in Halo 2 and Halo 3. This surface creates consistent, reliable fragmentation patterns for the grenade, rather than randomly rupturing along metallurgical faults. The grid-shaped casing houses a charge of high-explosive fitted with a mechanical primer. When the charge detonates, it shatters the grenade's casing, sending shrapnel flying away at high velocity.
AP FRAG can be viewed on the Halo: Combat Evolved M9's olive casing. AP designates "anti-personnel", indicating the weapon's intended use.
In all Halo games, the grenade must first hit the ground before exploding. In Halo CE, the grenade would not detonate mid-air. In Halo 2 and Halo 3, it would bounce and explode mid-air a moment after bouncing. But in Halo 3, if the grenade was thrown up, and hit a surface going up, it would not explode until it hit the ground. This presumed to be a safety feature, ensuring the grenade would only explode after striking a surface after being thrown, and not in the user's hand.
This may explain the lack of a "spoon", or handle, on the Halo 2 and 3 M9 HE-DP grenades. The spoon is a device that is gripped while the grenade is being primed. It ensures the grenade will not explode until after the spoon is released, as it starts the fuse of a grenade as it flies through the air after it is thrown. In Halo: Combat Evolved, the spoon would have negated the need for this Halo 2 safety feature. In Halo 3 if viewed in theater mode you can see the grenade is actually launched from the shoulder.
It is unknown how the M9 is primed, but references to pulling a pin on the grenade is mentioned in the Halo novels several times, even though no pin is visible in game play. However, pulling a pin would require two hands, but each version of the grenade has a button on its body. This would most likely be pushed to prime the M9 before tossing it. The pin reference is most likely an inaccuracy on the author's part in the novels, or perhaps just a turn of phrase that has lingered from more primitive grenade types.
In Halo: Combat Evolved the fragmentation grenade left a white smoke trail behind it when thrown and would create sparks when it landed after being hurled, indicating that the grenades fuse could be a gas-release system. The grenade would be primed with pressing a button, release gas when in mid-air and then detonate when landing in a static position. This would make the grenade's detonation system depend on placement rather than timed detonation.
In Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2, four of these grenades may be carried at a time. This was reduced to two in Halo 3 due to the presence of four grenade types, but increased to three in Halo 3: ODST .
|Halo: Combat Evolved era grenade with "spoon", Halo 2 era grenade with electronic spoon, and a Halo 3 era grenade.
This grenade can be effectively hurled and bounced around corners and travels farther than the Plasma Grenade; this can be used to quickly and aptly damage an attacker before he can move away from it, giving you an instant advantage in the close combat situation. It is also harder to see and has a shorter fuse, therefore making it harder to avoid and more useful for killing enemies on foot. In Halo: Combat Evolved, it also seems to have a larger blast radius than a Plasma Grenade. It has a larger casualty radius than the other grenade types in Halo 3. Also, since it is harder to see, having an enemy run over one by accident can happen more easily than with a bright blue plasma grenade. Also, they are extremely common, as all health packs in Halo: Combat Evolved have fragmentation grenades beside them and all Marines carry them.
The M9 HE-DP Grenade is best used when enemies gather together in tight groups. A well thrown grenade placed in the middle of a squad of Elites and Grunts will kill most of the Grunts and damage the Elite's Shields; however, a single grenade cannot kill even a Minor Elite, but just damage its shields The only Elites that can be killed with one is a Stealth Elite. Grunts may also panic and flee making them easy targets for follow up attacks. Frag grenades may be used against Jackals, as their Shields will not protect them from the blast. The M9 HE-DP Grenade is also commonly used to disable most land vehicles with the exception of tanks.
There is a useful tactic that can be used to take down a group of Grunts and Elites. It requires a frag grenade and a plasma pistol. Throw the frag grenade into a middle of the clump, and then build up an overcharged blast with your plasma pistol. Hit the lead Elite with the overcharged blast. The overcharge will knock out the Elite's shield just before the grenade detonates, which should kill the Elite as well as most of the Grunts. Any grenade can work for this tactic, but a Frag is optimal.
One of the best tactics to use is to first throw a Frag, and then simply cut the shieldless opponent down with a weapon of your choice, preferably human, like a Battle Rifle, due to its effectiveness in taking out flesh (rather than shields).
A multipurpose weapon, the fragmentation grenade can be used in corridors, to flush out occupants. The blast will severely damage player's Energy Shields allowing for easy follow up attacks. If lobbed under a vehicle, the explosion will either kill or severely injure the occupants, and damage or destroy the vehicle. If timed correctly, grenades can be planted in the path of an oncoming vehicle. Most drivers will not be able to react quickly enough, and will most likely be caught in the blast. If you place the grenade under an enemy it will kill them. Note: This is very hard to do and it only works in Halo 2. Another good Multiplayer tactic is to throw one at your feet while back-pedaling when an enemy is charging at you. When the grenade detonates, the other person should be in the blast radius of the grenade and be killed; if not, use a headshot on them, as their shields should be down. It can be done with other grenades, but as the frag grenade is the hardest to see, it is unlikely that the other person will dodge it. It also has a bigger blast radius. This is easiest done in Halo: Combat Evolved. In some maps like Snowbound and Sandtrap, if a frag is thrown it will stay where it lands given the soft ground on both maps. This is useful to fight oncoming vehicles, preferably lighter vehicles like Ghosts and Mongooses or even heavier vehicles like Warthogs. One frag grenade is considered as either aid in combat for quick damage before the fight starts, or as a tool to finish off an unshielded opponent. A grenade can be bounced off of a wall to ambush an enemy or kill your ambushers. Two frags is where this grenade becomes a killer all on its own. Frags are also very handy to kill opponents when used in conjunction with explosive objects. Destroying Fusion Coils or Plasma Batteries with a grenade means the grenade's damage plus the explosive's damage would hurt or kill the target more effectively than a single frag grenade. On Narrows, one useful tactic is at the beginning of the battle, go off the man cannon and throw a grenade onto the middle of the bridge. Usually, people have already advanced on the bridge and have their shields severely disabled or taken out completely. The grenade will then kill them. This is great for getting an easy kill at the beginning of a match. When outside on Snowbound, the grenades don't bounce in the snow; they embed into it. This is semi-useless, but it's something that most people wouldn't know. A tactic done by most players is to clear areas by throwing frags and bouncing them off walls. This is effective in games like King of the Hill where you can throw grenades into the hill, to force the enemy out or to weaken them for a quick kill. It's best to know the map for bouncing the grenade off walls and objects. One can even use the frag grenade to force an enemy into an area or a corner and finish them off easily.


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A range of sponsorship and hospitality packages for the 2019/20 season are now on sale including our lowest priced sponsorship of matchball sponsor, player sponsor, and match sponsor. To request more details or to book email email@example.com
Match ball sponsor
Our lowest priced sponsorship, the match ball sponsor is perfect for anyone looking to support the women's team on a smaller budget.
The matchball sponsor will see their brand on the reverse of the matchday programme as well as receving a signed card from the team. The package includes entry to the ground for up to four people.
Price: £80+VAT
Player Sponsor
The player sponsor package is the perfect way to support your favourite player as well as spreading your business across multiple of the club's channels.
- Name/logo inclusion on the club's website
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- The option of the playing shirt of the player you sponsored at the end of the season
Price £250 + VAT
Match Sponsorship
Feel the buzz of a matchday by experiencing the ultimate Matchday experience.
You and your guests will be met by club representatives where you will be given access to the boardroom throughout the game.
Enjoy light refereshments, alcoholic and soft drinks throughout the match whilst you learn the history of the women's team and how the sport is evolving.
Your company will receive a story on the club's website advertising that you will be sponsoring the match as well as a programme advert and exposure via social media when you select the player of the match.
Each matchday can be tailored to your company with additional items including the chance for any younger fans to be mascots for the day.
Packages are available from £250 + VAT at The Oakwood and £800+VAT for women's matches played at The Valley which includes your own private box.
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Every Charlton Athletic Women's match is filmed with highlights and clips being shared across the clubs websites and social media, enhancing the reach of your business to tens of thousands of people online.
Price: £500+VAT with discounts on multiple perimeter board purchases.
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Receive coverage at every home match with the Player of the Match award package. The player of match will be announced during the game to everyone inside the ground with your brand attached.
After every home game a photo of the player of the match will be published with a branded bottle of champaign (or non-alcohol alternative) with your logo on. Your company details will be copied into any social media posts with the awards. The package also includes an advert inside our digital programme which will be distributed to 15-20,000 fans free of charge every match
- In-stadia coverage as the branded Player of the Match
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From January 30th, 2017 client presentation.
Wages HAVE BEEN increasing on an inflation adjusted basis for some time. A tight labor market should put even more pressure on employers to increase wages faster. When there is no one to hire, if you need an employee, you have to hire one away from someone else. You will have to pay them more. If their current employer wants to keep them, they will have to provide an incentive for them to stay.
Increasing wages can only end in 2 places. It's possible that wages go up (which means employer costs are going up), but prices do not rise. This means lower corporate earnings. It is also possible that wages go up and companies raise prices to protect earnings. This may cause inflation to heat up.
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I had an exciting trip to the mailbox today!!
I got an invitation for this little guy's 1st birthday!!
I got my summer school pay-check!!
And this arrived in the mail today!!
I can't wait to start editing my photos like The Pioneer Woman.
I can't wait to learn how to digital scrapbook like my sister in law.
**My sister in law made this page for us when we got engaged.
Good thing summer school is over TOMORROW because I've got a party to go to, money to spend, photos to be edited, and digital scrapbook pages to be made.


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I am using the I2S with DMA, however I am using mono audio, I was wondering whether there is a way to use the DMA in mono, as I don't want to just copy the same data to the other channel as I don't need it.
Thank in advance for your help.
I am using the I2S with DMA, however I am using mono audio, I was wondering whether there is a way to use the DMA in mono, as I don't want to just copy the same data to the other channel as I don't need it.
Thank in advance for your help.
Hi Jacinto,
Could you tell us which MCU are you using?
Thanks in advance!
Best Regards,
Carlos Mendoza
Technical Support Engineer
Hi Carlos,
I am using LPC54605J512.
The problem I am facing is that I want to use I2S DMA in a mono mode, so I don't have to duplicate data because I am short of RAM memory.
I have configure the DMA and I2S as follows, using the Linked transfers (linked list) mode. However the last block of the buffer always produces a glitch, I am not sure what is going on...
* Channel transfer configuration.
#define I2S_XFERCFG_INVALID (0 \
| !DMA_XFERCFG_CFGVALID /* Not valid until s/w writes SETVALID reg */ \
| DMA_XFERCFG_RELOAD /* Follow next pointer to next descriptor */ \
| DMA_XFERCFG_SWTRIG /* Assert s/w triggering immediately */ \
| !DMA_XFERCFG_CLRTRIG /* Don't clear trigger at end of txfer */ \
| DMA_XFERCFG_SETINTA /* Set interrupt A on end of txfer */ \
| !DMA_XFERCFG_SETINTB /* Don't set interrupt B on end of txfer */ \
| DMA_XFERCFG_WIDTH_16 /* I2S FIFO requires 32-bit accesses */ \
| DMA_XFERCFG_SRCINC_1 /* Source (memory) increment of 1 access width */ \
| DMA_XFERCFG_DSTINC_0 /* Destination (FIFO) does not increment */ \
| DMA_XFERCFG_XFERCOUNT(I2S_BLOCK_SIZE)) /* Transfer size is fixed at block size */
static const I2S_AUDIO_FORMAT_T sAudioFmtTx =
I2S_TX, /*!< Data direction: tx or rx */
NORMAL_MASTER, /*!< Master / Slave configuration */
I2S_CLASSIC, /*!< I2S mode */
false, /*!< right channel data in low portion of FIFO */
false, /*!< left justify data in FIFO */
false, /*!< data source is the D-Mic subsystem */
false, /*!< SCK polarity */
false, /*!< WS polarity */
2, /*!< Flexcomm function clock divider; use MCLK/2 */
1, /*!< Channel Number - 1 is mono, 2 is stereo */
16, /*!< Word Width */
32, /*!< Frame Width */
0, /*!< Data position in the frame */
0, /*!< FIFO interrupt trigger depth: 0 trigger on empty */


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A small two lane road leads northeast from the 417 just outside of Ottawa. It joins the highway to the village of Carp and along the way it passes an old farmhouse where I spent three vivid years as a child. My family moved into the old farmhouse on Carp Road when I was six years old. We'd been living on an army base outside of Pembroke for four years, the years from which my first memories come, and the open freeness of Carp Road and it's mixture of farmhouses and suburban family homes, chaotically spaced, smelled of novelty to my inquisitive, excitable self.
Our farmhouse was not attached to any farmland. It had been the house of an old family man whose son had built a '50s-style tract house next door. The old man had passed a few years earlier and the son, Al, had been renting his father's house out to supplement his income from the Beer Store job he had in Ottawa. The house was set off from Carp Road by a hedgerow and not much else. The road wasn't busy, as highways go, but it was busier than anything a kid from an army base had ever seen. Being more rural than not, it was often populated by carcasses, dead animals who hadn't understood that people need to be someplace so quickly that they'd build machines capable of smashing small bodies in an instant in order to arrive hours or days earlier than they would have in the past, skipping the journey altogether because the destination is all that matters.
Going anywhere at all required navigating the road, and with houses spaced as unpredictably as they were, the kids from Carp Road were often riding along the shoulder, passing the O.P.P. station in order to get RC Colas from the vending machine at the small garage.
I became friends with my neighbour, Tim, Al's son who was a year older and he introduced me around to the other kids. One of the kids, Scott, lived just down the Road from us, on the other side, and one day Tim journeyed to Scott's to hang out on his smooth asphalt driveway. It felt cool to just ride a bike on something so freshly poured when all around was cracking concrete and old gravel roads. I set out to join Tim at Scott's shortly after Tim arrived there. I mounted my brand new chrome BMX Constrictor, a gift for my sixth birthday earlier that week. The Road was interesting to me; I could hardly remember seeing road markings from up close before. I pedalled along the asphalt, eventually weaving in and out of the hashmarks in the center of the road in anticipation of crossing entirely to pull into Scott's driveway. Predictably, if you live a narrative, I soon heard a honking coming from behind me. I turned to look over my shoulder and I saw a nightmarish black van catching up to me.
Later, I would swear I made it all the way across the road, onto the gravel shoulder before the van hit me. I still remember it exactly that way. The only reconstruction that makes sense is that the driver of the van, a 16-year-old kid who had just earned his license, had been trying to move around me, into the oncoming lane, and I behaved completely unpredictably by doing the same thing myself. Scott's house was on the other side. His driveway beckoned. My new friends beckoned. The road was empty when I began my short ride.
The van plowed into my back tire, my shiny new wheel, at a perfect angle and launched me from my saddle into the ditch. Had I been hit at any other angle I would have been run down, crushed beneath the wheels of the black van. I suffered nothing but a couple of scrapes on my knees from the handlebars as I flew by, and split scalp that required only six stitches to close.
Tim saw the accident from his vantage in Scott's driveway. Can you imagine? Can you imagine a seven year old boy running down the Road from which his new friend had been struck? Can you imagine him running into the old farmhouse to tell his friend's father what had happened?
Can you imagine a young father sitting in his kitchen in the early morning faced with this immense disaster? Can you imagine his thoughts as he wondered again about this new place to which he'd moved his family?
And can you imagine his trepidation in walking upstairs to tell his wife, to tell the boy's mother, that their son had been hit by a van and was hurled into a ditch on the side of the road?
My imagination is good enough to put myself in their shoes, the small messenger and the large. I can be the parent who is suddenly terrified for his child.
But I'm not sure I can imagine being so confident in my child's ability to learn from mistakes that I'd ever let him on his bike, out on the Road, ever again. How could they believe I wouldn't get hit again? How could they believe I was smart enough or wise enough to navigate the Road on my own now, when their only evidence, the only anecdote they had, was of my failure?
I aspire to have that kind of confidence in my children. The world will not help me, will encourage me to doubt them, to doubt their future, to doubt their competence, their safety, their ability to learn from mistakes. I don't know how to fight the world. But the Road is out there, and it will beckon them too.
—Shawn Burns, backpackingdad.com.


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Do you suffer from back pain?
Or does your tummy still protrude more than you'd like when you stand up straight?
If so keep reading…you may to relate to this story.
I wanted to share this great result from one of my clients, in the hope to also help you if you have the same struggles.
Qian has suffered with back pain for a long time, and recently her pain got so bad, she booked to see a specialist back doctor (orthopaedic surgeon) to find out what was wrong.
We had our first Pilates session the night before her specialist appointment.
I made some adjustments to her standing posture and taught her some basic things to remember in her every day life, to help her reduce the pain.
She was in shock and super happy!
A lot of her pain had gone from this one session.
Plus she was also was able to flatten her tummy, just from standing correctly and being aware to use muscles she hadn't previously been using.
'My back was very sore and tight before my Pilates session. I felt better once Emma made adjustments to my posture. The correct posture released the tension in my back. Looking forward to more classes with Emma!' – Qian Wen
Pilates is not just about exercises and toning up.
Pilates is about your lifestyle, how you move, hold your posture, awareness of your body, knowing it's strengths and weaknesses and what your body needs.
Often pain is caused by imbalances in our body which effects our posture and vice versa.
Improving these areas can help you relieve pain.
I'd love you to get the same results as Qian and many of my other clients and you can. It's easy to improve posture, relieve pain and flatten your tummy the same way.
I've put all the exact information I teach my clients into a video tutorial on Posture Analysis. It is available in the Core Fit Club membership which is FREE for 7 Days. So you can access this now to do from home.
However this FREE 7 Day Trial offer finishes tonight.
Join here today ==> https://epilatesonline.com/corefitclub/
When you join the Core Fit Club you also get access to a library of classes, including back pain relief and tummy toning classes!
Let me know if you can relate to any of these topics, I'd be glad to answer any questions you may have.
I hope to see you inside soon on the Mat!
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- Gathering strength. #
- Amazing talk about storytelling by Chimamanda Adichie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg #
- Song of the Beast – Carol Berg: The parable of the prodigy–brilliant, destroyed, reborn with purpose rather than talent. With dragons. #
- Transformation – Carol Berg: Let the betrayals begin. I've come to expect to trust nobody in her books, but in a good way. #
- Made chimchurri beef sirloin and zucchini cake last night. Today: chimchurri-bedecked bruschetta #
- I think I'm working on the wrong project today. #
- Smoke and Mirrors – Neil Gaiman: Propose new word, not pathetic, but pathotic, a kind of psychosis of sadness. #
- Wow. Heuberger's won't do VWs anymore. #
- I don't normally sign up for contests, but for a Vitamix I'll do it. #
- Jack Horkheimer has left the galaxy; I will miss him. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/23/AR2010082304771.html #
- Gleefully putting all kinds of stuff on the Nook. Scribd? What's that? Oooohhh. #
- I am now at a bookstore, drinking a mocha, and not leaving until I have a completed draft of a short story. See you in a month. #
- I'm not sure how, but I have an errant editor-knight on my hands. She swore to return to publish her sec'ys chick-lit, however. #
- Reading Anathem during breaks, on the Nook. I have a hardcover; the N. is lighter. I look forward to 1000-page ebooks, a new niche. #
- The new story makes me snigger. But no title. Gah! #
- The Whispering Tree done: "It's all just a game of Satan says to me." #
- I got tired of waiting for rejections, so I sent another one to Clarkesworld; they'll reject me right away. #
- If you won't grab me in the first line, when will you grab me? #easyreader #
- Despite several titillating panegyrics to the contrary, I am now SICK of reading Bradbury short stories. #
- Another lesson learned: write new fiction every day, or you'll get depressed. Guh. #
- Real ranch dressing: mayo, buttermilk, salt, green onions, Italian parsley. Over summer tomatoes with smoked bleu cheese. #
- Getting ready to write Ray's next book. The easily dismissable outline awaits! #
- Wuthering Bites. Uh huh huh huh huh. #
- And thank you Dance dance dance… #
- Okay, enough people don't know Steven Brust that I shall add him to my list of automatic recommends. #
- What else bugs me is SF people who stopped reading at Asimov/Clark/Heinlein. Wot? #
- Great. Now I have a Peaches song stuck in my head. You know, the one with the bicycles. #
- Offdropsy the car for brake work! #
- On the fact that food should be tasty and good: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ruhlman/message-to-food-editors-w_b_555003.html #
- C1-4 of the next book for Ray's series, Xanadu House, is done. #
- C4 Xanadu: "She was used to boys being mean to her; it wasn't like she was a kindergartener any more." #
- Wondering if I should ping the people who are looking at Ray's book 1 when book 2 is done. #
- A good formula is liberating. Book 2 is going well. #
- OUCH! RT@jasummerell …if you don't have [coffee] yet you do things like type the words, "starts the beginning" in your FB status. #
- Juicer or cider press? #
- Anathem – Neal Stephenson: In the nicest possible way, that shit is @#$%^& up. I will reread ASAP, possibly in a few years. #
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Hiking in Spain All content (other than maps) copyright © 2010-2015 Frank Revelo, maps copyright © OpenStreetMap and Frank Revelo, United States copyright office registration number TX-7931345 Be sure the check the main Hiking in Europe page for additional information and links. Of the countries in Europe where I have hiked significantly (Britain, France, Greece, Bulgaria and Spain), I consider Spain the best for hiking, at least in spring, which is my preferred season for hiking in Europe.
Black Marble: NASA Releases Incredibly Detailed Photos of Earth at Night You've probably heard of The Blue Marble , an iconic photo of Earth captured in 1972 from 28,000 miles away by astronauts on the Apollo 17 spacecraft. Well, NASA has just released a number of photographs titled "Black Marble." They offer the same perspective as the iconic photo, except these new images show what our planet looks like at night ! The photograph above shows North and South America (original resolution here ). It's a composite photograph created using images snapped by a satellite over the period of around three weeks in April and October of this year.
Pyrenees - GR10 or GR11 - Travel - OutdoorsMagic ha.. yes, I had gathered that "refugios" are often cow sheds or former cowsheds, no longer even good enough for cows. I have vague memories from about 10 yrs ago of walking down into a damp green glade where a French Monastery emerged through the glooming and the monks cooked me poulet au riz et herbes... somewhere near the med end of the GR11. I realize that I need to adjust my expectations a little.
Weather in Thailand For more detailed climate and weather information for Thailand, incuding regional rainfall and temperature charts along with information on the Thai monsoons, please click here. More information? Here's some recent weather-related threads off the Travelfish forum Weather in July and August in SE Asia? Thailand's weather in June?
Maps home page Down to: 6th to 15th Centuries | 16th and 19th Centuries | 1901 to World War Two | 1946 to 21st Century The Ancient World ... index of places The Pyrenees High Level Route The HRP broadly follows the Franco-Spanish border which is shown as the blue line on the map. The only major deviation is in the Central Pyrenees where the border kinks northwards to make room for an historical extension to Catalogne. The HRP ignores this and follows the more natural lie of the land to pass through the Encantados mountains just north of the Parc National d'Aiguestortes. It then passes through the North of Andorra and then, in the Eastern Pyrenees, wanders off into France to pick off the summits of Carlit and Canigou. If you want more information about the character of a particular area, then have a look at the respective section of my diaries and photographs.
Pyrenean Haute Route 2011: February 2011 I've now acquired the 10 maps required for the HRP, published by Rando Editions at 1:50,000: 1. Pays Basque Ouest, Carte No.1 Hendaye - Arizkun 2. Pays Basque Est, Carte No.2 Aldudes - Refuge de Belagua 3. Haute Route Pyrenee: Day 6: Sources de la Nive to Chalet Pedro Had a lovely breakfast overlooking the River Nive, and was able to order sandwiches to carry away with us for lunch. How convenient! Our hiking style this morning was not pretty. Although it wasn't raining, the recent rains had created mudslides all along the trail. Backpacking the Pyrenean Haute Route The Pyrenean Haute Route (or HRP, for Haute Randonnée Pyrénéenne) traverses the highest walkable route across the Pyrenees Mountains, taking hikers from Hendaye, France on the Atlantic coast to Banyuls-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean. It spans 500 miles, regularly crosses the French-Spanish border, and includes an impressive 138,000 feet of elevation change. The typical itinerary, set out in Ton Joosten's Pyrenean Haute Route, has thru-hikers complete the trail in 45 days. Others hike fast and light, going coast to coast in just 23 days. The lovely ibones de Anayet with cows at rest. The peak to the far right is the French pic du Midi d'Ossau (9,462 feet).
Writes of Way What comes down must go up: An attempt at the Pyrenean Haute Route Traverse At the end of June 2006, I set out to walk the length of the Pyrenees from Hendaye on the Atlantic coast of France to Banyuls-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean, by means of the HRP (Haute Randonnée Pyrénéenne) – the Pyrenean Haute Route. The HRP is more than 800 kilometres long and walking it involves over 40,000 metres of ascent and descent, on frequently difficult terrain, often in poor weather conditions and more than likely weighed down with a 20-odd kilo rucksack – if one elects to carry camping kit and food rather than eating and sleeping in refuges.
The Haute Route Pyrenees (HRP) Firstly, I had no plan to do the HRP; I had half an idea to have a backpacking trip to the Pyrenees in 2014 but no real plan of what or where. Out of the blue I spotted a posting on the Outdoors Magic forum "Anyone interested in joining me/ us for all or part of the Pyrenees coast-to-coast…HRP…GR10…GR11", well after some quick research it seemed too good an opportunity to miss so I dived in. It turned out I would be travelling with a couple of companions Mike & Isobel both experienced backpackers.


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When was the last time you took a course of antibiotics? Were you very unwell, or did you take them 'just in case'?
This week's topic may not seem particularly exciting. But antibiotic resistance is already a serious health issue that will have more and more impacts if we don't change the way we use them. End of story.
Does it surprise you to hear, as quoted by National Prescribing Service (NPS) Medicinewise that 'The reality is that antibiotics are already losing their power' – I don't know about you, but that is a terrifying thought?! What if you were the one with a superbug and it couldn't be treated because the bacteria was resistant?
NPS Medicinewise also points out that 'The more antibiotics are used, the more chances bacteria have to become resistant to them. You can help preserve the miracle of antibiotics by being part of the solution – there are simple actions individuals can do to help stop the spread of antibiotic resistant infections.'
So, I can hear some people saying, well, I can't do anything about that, well, actually, you can. Here's some simple steps you can take to get involved:
- The next time you might require antibiotics – have a discussion with your doctor about the risks vs benefits and ascertain if antibiotics are really required esp. in time limiting conditions. (Good healthcare professionals want to know their consumers are informed and making the best health decisions they can with the information at hand)
- If you do need antibiotics, and of course there will be times you do – take them exactly as directed – this stops bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics in the future.
You can find more of the facts at http://www.nps.org.au/about-us/what-we-do/campaigns-events/antibiotic-awareness-week
This week, which is actually Antibiotic Awareness Week, the conversation needs to be about ….preserving the miracle of antibiotics….
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