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VIEIRA.....Arsenal BETTER than INVINCIBLES!
How long was that post, Pixie??!?!?
All you've proved is what a desperate, illiterate chimp you really are!
Cos Vieira's really saying that this team is better than the all-conquering Invincibles, right?
This is almost as funny as your Metro/Phibbers/Youtube/Ebay bummings...
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I think again its a positive statement from a former player who has no need to say such positive things other than he values Wenger and what he did for him. If you actually read what he is saying then yes I think we do play better football in general, we dont give it away as much as we did, we play for possesion now much more than we did with the invincibles. The diff being is the invincibles (as Viera says) were more mature and stronger. Mentally they were better but in terms of tactics I think we have an element better than they did. A few better players in 3 positions and we would be well on our way to being a challenger. We have been in that position for ages now so I dont expect miracles but i do expect an improved financial position in a couple of seasons which can spur us on to getting back to where we were.
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I think the biggest difference is the amount of confidence the 'Invincibles' had, throughout the team. The Arsenal sides of recent years have ALWAYS had the potential to win big, but the confidence let them down at times, at others, the sheer weight of injuries to the squad was the decisive factor.


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Their opponent always has the ability to render their technically sound pressure ineffective, just as a pressure fighter always has the ability to render a pure boxer's game ineffective. It doesn't mean their technique was off or that they were doing something wrong, it just means the fighter they were facing was too good at his own method and ultimately nullified theirs. If you want a perfect example, watch Whitaker vs Chavez. Chavez goes about his business as he usually does, but Whitaker's ability to fight off the backfoot behind his offense made it nearly impossible for him to be cornered or closed in on long enough to put in any effective work.
Your general point is sound, you're just not seeing the whole picture. Your effectiveness depends on the tact of your methods along with the tact of the opponent's methods. Often the best fighters have that little extra something that transcends style altogether, something that isn't taught in the textbook and can only be born into you or learned the hard way. Fighters like Duran, Monzon, Whitaker, etc. That level of fighter.
so more than anything else....
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The Human Rights Campaignthe mainstream gay group that occasionally endorses Republicans despite, well, everythingis holding their annual black tie dinner/fundraiser on Saturday September 16. If you go to here you can read about their 2006 Equality Award, which is presented at the dinner. Here's a little info about the award from HRC's website:
The Equality Award is HRC's way of acknowledging a particular person or group that has stood out in her or his efforts to secure equality for the LGBT community in the past year.
Guess who's getting the award this year? Cal Anderson, Washington state's first openly gay member of the state legislature, the man they named the lovely new park on Capitol Hill after. Anderson won't be there to accept this award in person because, uh, Cal Anderson has been dead for eleven years.
I only met Anderson a couple of timesand I liked him. He had something most of the self-appointed gay leaders around here sorely lack: good political judgment. My favorite example of Cal's wisdom: Anderson worked like hell to stop Hands Off Washington from launching their ill-advised and ultimately disastrous pro-gay rights initiative, which he not only knew would fail but also regarded as unethical and immoral. (You don't put the rights of a minority up for a vote.) The way to pass gay and lesbian civil rights protections, Anderson insisted, was through the legislature, not the ballot box. (Sadly Anderson, who was dying of AIDS at the same time HOW was dying of stupidity, could only delay the initiative for a year.)
It's hard not to read HRC giving this award to Anderson as an intentional a snub of State Rep. Ed Murray. The gay and lesbian civil rights bill that passed last year? It was called the Anderson-Murray Civil Rights Bill.
From the Seattle Gay News:
The Anderson-Murray Civil Rights Bill (HB 2661), which had languished in Olympia for nearly three decades was signed by Gov. Christine Gregoire on Tuesday during a special ceremony at the Capitol building… The crowded room included the legislations earliest backers, such as former State Sen. Pete Francis, the bill's original sponsor, and Roger Winters, who testified in favor of the legislation before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1977. Francis told the Seattle Gay News on Tuesday that he had introduced the bill because he felt it was "the right thing to do."
Gregoire thanked House Speaker Frank Chopp (D-Seattle) and Majority Leader Lisa Brown (D-Spokane) for their "unwavering commitment and hard work" to get the legislation to the Governor's desk. She also thanked Reps. Joe McDermott (D-Seattle), Jim Moeller (D-Vancouver) and Dave Upthegrove (D-Des Moines)three of our state's four openly Gay legislators. However, she reserved her deepest gratitude for Rep. Ed Murray (D-Seattle), who has introduced the legislation continuously for the last 11 years.
"Ed. On behalf of the citizens of our great state, thank you for your perseverance, strength and commitment," Gregoire told Murray, who is also Gay.
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Cal Anderson, Washington's first openly gay state congressman, spent each of his eight years in the legislature fighting for a gay rights bill which, at the time, he knew had no chance of passing. When Anderson died of AIDS in 1995, Rep. Ed Murray, Anderson's former campaign manager, took up the cause and spent the next decade as the bill's lead sponsor.
Twenty-nine years after the first gay rights bill was introduced in Washington, the tireless efforts of Anderson, Murray, and thousands of activists culminated in the passage of HB 2661 last week…
The passage of Washington's gay rights bill was historicit was also a bright spot in what was, on the gay rights front, an otherwise dismal year. And Ed Murray made it happen.
Again, I liked Anderson, and I don't want to take anything away from his memory or his legacy. But it seems odd that this award is being presented to Anderson alone. He's an historic figure, and a trailblazer, but can you really argue with a straight face that Anderson "stood out in her or his efforts to secure equality for the LGBT community in the past yearâ? The man who truly stood out in his efforts over the past yearover the past eleven yearswas Ed Murray. A case could be made for giving the award to both men. But solely to Cal Anderson?
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/dev/sr0) but how can I detect from a script whether the drive is empty or whether there is a disk in it?
I know my CD-ROM device (
You can get information about any block device using the command
If I remove the disk, I don't get any output and exit value is 2. (0 means success. A non-zero value will typically mean something abnormal happen or an error occurred)
Try mounting the device.
Then check the return value $?
If the return is 0, "good" then there was disc present. Else, it will return not good "1" or anything but "0"
So to check silently, I would script it as so.
This is a very simplistic example, but you could do something similar...
The issue with this shell-scripting approach is that none of the shell commands, mount, lsblk, blkid, can wait/block/pause and determine whether a cdrom is reporting "no medium found" because the tray has just closed and it is initializing itself to read the cd, or because there is no cd in the device, and "no medium found" will be reported forever. So you can choose a reasonable number of tries to pester the cdrom device at a certain sleep interval before giving up, as in the shell script below, or you can write a piece of c code with a few ioctl calls, and get some information from the cdrom, directly through the kernel.


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Hello everyone at Xbox-Scene!
I would like to know how to configure my xbox to connect to the internet to get RSS News feeds, direct skin downloads, weather in XBMC, etc in XBMC, unleashX & Avalaunch using the DHCP method.
Is there a good tutorial on how to do this? or can someone tell me?
Side Note(I wish to use 2 NIC's
Xbox Dhcp Help!
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FTP link in my sig, I think there is a part that goes over that.
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'Biblical Exodus' From Africa Feeds Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric
As boats carrying hundreds of Africans set sail for a better life in Europe, they were met on Italy's Lampedusa island with two words by a 5-foot, 8-inch blonde: go away.
"They cannot be allowed on the shore," Marine Le Pen, the 42-year-old leader of France's anti-immigration National Front, said in a March 15 interview in Rome after a three-hour visit the previous day to Lampedusa. "Send boats out to feed them. But they must not set foot on land."
The island, a speck in the Mediterranean Sea closer to Tunisia than Sicily, is experiencing first-hand an immigration surge poised to spread to the rest of Europe and drive a deeper wedge in a north-south divide already tested by the sovereign-debt crisis.
"It's evident that Italy has been abandoned by Europe," Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said in Brussels on March 10 after a meeting with his European Union counterparts. "We can't be the policeman of Europe."
The month-long civil war in Libya between Muammar Qaddafi's regime and rebel forces in the oil-rich east has left 6,000 people dead, driven crude prices to a 2 1/2-year high and unleashed what Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, the country's most popular politician, called a "biblical exodus."
North of Rome, a backlash has already begun as Italy warns its neighbors that 70 percent of Africans washing up on its shores are headed to France and Germany to seek work.
Back on Boats
One solution proposed by Chantal Brunel, a lawyer of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement, was to "put them back on their boats." While she apologized for her March 8 remarks, her stance reflects the will of governments outside the Mediterranean rim to keep refugees at bay.
"We are ready to help in economic terms, but I don't see the future in having us expand legal immigration," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Brussels on March 15.
For Italy, the financial toll comes after the Europe's fourth-biggest economy promised 11.6 billion euros ($16 billion) in spending cuts to trim its deficit with EU limits. Italy's EU partners have ignored a request for 100 million euros to help Silvio Berlusconi's government with the crisis.
Since Jan. 15, more than 9,000 people -- twice the number in 2010 -- have crossed 110 kilometers (70 miles) in boats from Tunisia to Lampedusa, inhabited by less than 6,000 people, the Italian Interior Ministry said.
Italy and Malta face the prospect of an influx of Libyans after severing ties with the former colony.
'Become Black'
Last December, Qaddafi warned EU leaders that their region may "become black because millions want to come to Europe."
As part of a reparation deal with Italy worth $5 billion, Qaddafi agreed in 2008 to tighten border controls. That led to the number of Libyan migrants to Italy falling to fewer than 3,000 in 2010 from a record 37,000 two years earlier. In Malta, the influx dropped from a 2008 high of 84 boats bringing 2,775 people to 2 boats carrying 47 in 2010.
Since mid-February, almost 225,000 people have fled Libya, with about 115,000 going to Tunisia and 102,000 to Egypt, the Geneva-based United Nations High Commission for Refugees said on March 10. About 2,000 went to Niger and 5,500 to Algeria.
The distance between Valletta and Tripoli, 220 miles, is the same as that of Paris and London. That makes Malta, which joined the euro region in 2008, an entry point for those escaping the unrest in Libya.
While arrivals to Lampedusa are shipped to the Italian mainland, immigrants arriving in Malta are held in detention centers for as long as 18 months. More than half of Malta's 2.5 million-euro military budget goes to food and shelter for the refugees.
Since the turmoil in Libya began on Feb. 15, Malta has received about 26,000 people evacuated by ship from the North African country by their governments and repatriated to their countries of origins.
More than 3,000 kilometers away, on the 22nd floor of a Warsaw skyscraper is Frontex, the EU agency charged with border security. It has no ships or helicopters of its own, nor any autonomous decision-making power. Contributions are entirely voluntary, meaning those most affected by immigration flows bear the brunt of the costs.
On Feb. 20, Frontex launched operation Hermes, named after the winged Greek god, to assist the authorities in Lampedusa. Italy is providing the most equipment: two patrol boats and a plane.
"Frontex does not replace the border-control activities of members states as these are performed by, and remain the primary responsibility of the latter," said Frontex spokesman Michal Parzyszek.
No Problem in Finland
Founded in 2005 with a staff of 300, Frontex is run by a Finn, Ilkka Laitinen. The agency's ability to act quickly in emergencies is hobbled by having to negotiate with 27 governments that grow increasingly impervious to immigration concerns the further north they are located.
"Italy and Malta have taken a hit recently, but we haven't seen massive flows yet," Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb said on March 10.
Interior ministers from six EU countries near the Mediterranean Sea called on member states last month to back the creation of a special fund that will help them cope with an "uncontrolled" influx of immigration from Libya. Their appeal has gone nowhere.
Holiday Island
In the summer, Lampedusa is brimming with tourists while simultaneously coping with a wave of immigration that occurs in the hottest months, when it's safer to travel. Many of the island's inhabitants move to Sicily in the winter, leaving Lampedusa virtually deserted.
January's first wave of immigrants to Lampedusa was put up in local hotels before the island's own detention center was forced to re-open after two years. The facility, which is meant to house a maximum of 100 people, often detained four times as many immigrants and was shut due to health and hygiene concerns.
For a half-dozen new arrivals, there was a silver lining to getting to a holiday island out of season, according to Bernardino de Rubeis, Lampedusa's mayor. He said six Tunisians last month broke into the villa of Italian pop star Claudio Baglioni, where they crashed for the night, drank wine and ate foie gras before leaving at dawn.


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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Nov 2, 2010
|Filing date
|May 16, 2007
|Priority date
|May 16, 2007
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Michael D. Hutton
|Original Assignee
|Altera Corporation
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (24), Non-Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (2), Classifications (15), Legal Events (2)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Programmable logic devices (PLDs) may generally be integrated circuit devices with configurable logic networks linked together by programmable interconnection resources. The configurable logic networks may include device elements such as logic cells (e.g., look-up tables (LUTs) or product term logic), memory cells, and input-output cells. Registers (e.g., D-type flip-flops) may be associated with one or more of the device elements. The registers may hold and transfer data signals (i.e., variables) between the device elements during device operation.
The device elements of a conventional PLD can be often architecturally organized into blocks of programmable logic (e.g., gate array or logic array blocks ("LABs")), blocks of input-output cells, and blocks of memory (e.g., random access memory ("RAM")), etc., for example. Groups of these blocks may make up larger blocks (i.e., "super-regions") that are arranged, for example, in an X-Y array. The programmable interconnection resources of the PLD may be organized as rows and columns of conductors for selectively routing signals to, from, and between the logic, input-output, and memory blocks. See, for example, Cliff et al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,550,782, Cliff et al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,689,195, and Jefferson et al. U.S. Pat. No. 6,215,326, all of which show PLD architectures developed by Altera Corporation of San Jose, Calif.; but other examples of architectures with which the present invention can be used include those developed by other PLD manufacturers such as Xilinx, Inc., also of San Jose, Calif.
Complex logic functions (circuits), as desired, may be implemented in present-day PLDs. The logic functions can be implemented by interconnecting a select configuration of device elements according to a suitable circuit design. Conventional circuit design techniques for synthesis of logic functions may be used to generate a suitable circuit design. The circuit design may be characterized by a corresponding configuration file (i.e., a netlist) that specifies the placement and interconnection of selected device elements. PLDs usually have a large number of device elements that have identical functionality (e.g., AND gates) and that may be used interchangeably. Therefore, several possible circuit designs (i.e., configurations of device elements) may yield the same desired logic function.
The circuit design that is implemented may be optimized for circuit performance. A measure of circuit performance may be data signal propagation delay. This delay may depend, inter alia, on the length of interconnection and on the number of registers between device elements traversed by data signals. A figure of merit of circuit delay performance is the length (e.g., in units of time) of the longest register-to-register delay path ("the critical path") in the circuit. This critical path can also determine the minimum cycle time for a logic step in the PLD device. The reference or master clock signal timing various device elements in the PLD can be set to have a period or cycle that is greater than the minimum cycle time.
The PLD critical path length may be minimized using "re-timing" techniques for optimizing circuit designs. These techniques can address the problem of optimal placement and interconnection of device elements by repositioning registers along the path of data signals. Registers associated with logic cells can be repositioned from the cells' output to input or vice versa, so that the critical path may be as short as possible. Some circuit designs use device elements in different regions. For these designs, repositioning of registers along the data path between the device elements in different regions may not reduce critical path length below the length of a long interconnection that must be used. For example, a PLD cross-chip critical path of about 25 ns may include a long interconnection along which the delay is about 8 ns. Then, the length of the longest interconnection (i.e., 8 ns) sets the smallest time unit or granularity for retiming operations.
Co-owned Hutton U.S. Pat. No. 6,429,681 shows, for example, a way of circumventing the lower bound on time delay due to the longest interconnection length in the data path. The disclosure therein describes the optional insertion of re-timing registers in the interconnections. An inserted re-timing register can effectively fragment the end-to-end interconnection time delay into two smaller time delay units.
Irrespective of the circuit design optimization techniques available or used, most of the chip area in commercially available PLDs and other electronic systems is devoted to programmable interconnection resources. These interconnection resources are responsible for most of the circuit delay. Consideration is now being given to ways of enhancing electronic system architectures to minimize the area devoted to interconnection resources or to reduce the interconnection conductor line count.
In accordance with the present invention, an electronic device may include a plurality of functional circuitries and signal paths for linking the plurality of functional circuitries, wherein at least one of the signal paths may include serializing circuitry and deserializing circuitry for providing latency to the at least one signal path. For example, a bus wire can provide a programmable signal path from several outputs of a programmable logic block or region to several inputs of another programmable logic block or region. The output signals may be transmitted serially one after another on the bus wire. Multiplexer circuitry may be used to serialize the output signals for transmission over the bus wire. It will be understood that data signals which are transmitted serially may be referred to as "time-multiplexed" data signals herein.
A single bus wire may carry multiple time-multiplexed data signals between the several input/output pairs. A single bus wire may provide the functionality of several interconnection conductors, each of which traditionally connects only a single fixed input/output pair.
"Bus" registers can be associated exclusively with the bus wires. The bus registers placed at the ends of bus wires may be used to register or buffer data signals to and from functional circuitry of the electronic system, such as programmable logic blocks or regions of a PLD. The bus registers may not be associated with any individual device element, such as a logic cell, memory cell, or an input-output cell, and may be in addition to registers that are conventionally associated with individual device elements, for example.
The bus registers may have a configuration similar to that of re-timing registers, such as those disclosed in Hutton U.S. Pat. No. 6,429,681. The bus registers may be placed in parallel to bus wire segmentation buffers. Programmable links associated with the bus registers may enable signal data paths between disconnected bus wires or bus wire segments. The signal data paths may be enabled through the bus registers by bypassing the segmentation buffers using the programmable links.
Other registers may be provided at programmable logic blocks or regions for serializing output data signals from the logic blocks or regions, and for deserializing input data signals received over the bus wires. Serialization and deserialization circuitry may be provided to create latency along certain data paths of the electronic device.
A programmable divider circuit may be provided to generate a register clock signal having a frequency that is a multiple of the PLD chip reference clock signal frequency. Using the register clock signal, the bus, serializing, and deserializing registers may be clocked at a rate faster than the PLD system or reference clock (e.g., "PLD minimum execution cycle"). The registers may be clocked at a suitable rate to schedule the use of a bus wire for transmission of time-multiplexed data signals over the bus wire within a reference clock cycle.
The above and other features of the present invention, its nature, and various advantages will become more apparent upon consideration of the following detailed description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters refer to like parts throughout, and in which:
With respect to
The Jefferson et al. reference discloses a PLD architecture which partitions the PLD into a hierarchy of regions. Each region may include programmable circuit blocks (e.g., LAB, input-output cells, memory, etc.). Each of these blocks may have a plurality of inputs and outputs. The inputs and outputs of a circuit block may be connected or wired to the inputs and outputs of other circuit blocks by programmable interconnection conductors. The programmable interconnection resources of the PLD can be organized as rows and columns of conductors for selectively routing signals to, from, and between the logic, input-output, and memory blocks.
The programmable interconnection resources may include conductors of various lengths. Short length conductors may, for example, be used to connect blocks within a region or within neighboring regions. Long length conductors may be used, for example, to provide data signal paths between regions or super-regions across the PLD chip.
In particular, in the Jefferson et al. reference, imaginary vertical and horizontal lines partition the PLD into four quadrants. Long cross-chip horizontal and vertical conductors may be provided for interconnection from one quadrant to another. These long cross-chip conductors can be segmented at the partition boundaries by programmable segmentation buffers. The segmentation buffers may be programmed to allow independent use of either of the half lengths or the full length of a long cross-chip conductor as necessary. The segmentation buffers may be implemented using any suitable switching circuitry. The segmentation buffers may, for example, be implemented using tri-state buffers (see, e.g.,
As partially described in Hutton et al. U.S. Pat. No. 6,977,520, which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety, and in accordance with the present invention, bus wires can be provided to carry time-multiplexed data signals between the inputs and outputs of programmable blocks or regions. The bus wires may include vertical bus wires, horizontal bus wires, or a combination of both. Bus registers for registering signals driven on the bus wires can be provided at the ends of the bus wires. The bus registers may be exclusively associated with the bus wires. A bus wire may have one or more associated bus registers for optional use. Additional data serializing/deserializing circuitry may be provided at programmable logic blocks or regions for loading and unloading time-multiplexed data signals from the bus wires. Programmable divider circuitry may be provided to generate a register clock signal having a frequency that is a multiple of the PLD chip reference clock signal frequency to drive the time-multiplexed data signals without incurring new latency.
As shown in
Bus register 140 may be located at an end of bus wire 100. Bus register 140 may be connected to bus wire 100, and to other vertical or horizontal bus wires (e.g., horizontal bus wire 150), through suitable programmable interconnection circuitry 170 (see, e.g.,
LAB 110 b may receive serial time-multiplexed signals transmitted over bus wire 150 through programmable bus connecting circuitry 130 b. Bus connecting circuitry 130 b may deserialize the time-multiplexed data signals and may provide parallel inputs to logic cell elements or gates 180 of LAB 110 b. With reference to
Data signals stored in shift register 132 b may be used to drive parallel inputs to one or more gates 180 of LAB 110 b. Shift register 132 b may be connected to gates 180 of LAB 110 b, through, for example, tristate logic gates 134 b. Input data signals stored in shift register 132 b may be transferred to gates 180 by activating tristate logic gates 134 b by a transfer command signal transmitted over transfer command line 136 b.
Bus register 140 and shift registers 132 may operate at a clock rate faster than the PLD chip system or reference clock rate. Conventional divider circuitry 195 may be used to divide the chip system clock signal CLK, which may have clock-period clk, by an integer J, and may be used to so generate a faster register clock signal CLK/J. The divider circuitry may be programmable to divide the applied clock signal CLK by any of several selectable values of J, for example, from 1 to 20.
Bus register 140 and shift registers 132 may, for example, be clocked by a register clock signal with a clock-period clk/4, which is one fourth of the system clock-period clk. Clocking the registers at this rate may allow up to four time-multiplexed data signals to be transmitted on a single bus wire connection between LAB 110 a and 110 b within a single PLD system clock-period clk.
Bus register 140 may have an input lead 201 and an output lead 202. Programmable links 210 may selectively connect bus register 140 to the bus wires in parallel with segmentation buffers 320. Links 210 may, for example, be programmable FCE-controlled cross point switches 220 with switch wires 221 leading to the bus wires.
Programmable interconnection circuitry 170 may be optionally programmed by activating segmentation buffer 320 to use bus wires 100 and 150 as a traditional interconnection conductor carrying a single data signal between two PLD blocks. Alternatively, by activating programmable links 210 to connect bus register 140, the bus wires may be used to register and transmit time-multiplexed data signals between the two PLD blocks. The data path may be directed through register 140 with an appropriate input-output orientation using, for example, cross point switches 220. The input-output orientation may be programmed according to whether bus wire 100 is driving bus wire 150 or vice versa. For example, if bus wire 100 is driving bus wire 150, bus wire 100 may be connected to drive register input lead 201 and register output lead 202 may be connected to drive bus wire 150. With these connections, a signal on the driving bus wire 100 can travel over input lead 201 to register 140. Register 140 can register the signal and then pass it over output lead 202 to the driven bus wire 150.
In PLD designs with a large chip area, long interconnection conductors are usually provided with segmentation buffers. For example, in PLDs using Jefferson et al. PLD architectures, cross-chip interconnection segmentation buffers are provided at hierarchical partition boundaries. Bus wires 100 and 150, for example, may conveniently use the segmentation buffers that are present in pre-existing PLD designs. Other segmentation buffers may be provided as suitable in some PLD circuits. In some PLD circuits long or short bus wires 100 and 150 may be provided without the associated programmable segmentation buffers such as described above, for example. Omitting programmable segmentation buffers associated with bus wires may reduce the costs incurred in providing them.
Serializing register circuitry 430 a may serialize bus 400 a data signals and may drive a serial output signal 415 over path 410. Serializing circuitry 400 a may be similar to circuitry 130 a of
Serializing/deserializing circuitry 430 may be clocked, for example, by register clock signal CLK*4 with a clock-period clk/4. By clocking serialization/deserialization circuitry 430 in this manner, four data signals may be time-multiplexed and moved on a 1-bit bus across the PLD chip within a clock period clk (of device reference clock signal CLK), using only one fourth of the traditional interconnection wiring resources required without incurring new latency.
It will also be appreciated by those skilled in the art that commonly used register control signals (e.g., clear, reset, clock, and enable) that are generated by surrounding logic in conventional PLD operation may be appropriately routed and made available for operation by the bus registers and the serializing/deserializing circuitry of the present invention.
The registering of data signals at the ends of bus wires may add a time delay equal to the register clock-period (e.g., clk/J) to the transit time of each subsequent data signal. Adding time delay to signal data paths may seem counter intuitive and contrary to general design goals of minimizing PLD critical path lengths. However, in typical PLD circuit designs the vast majority of data paths are not critical even when the data paths include long interconnection conductors or bus wires. There are many register-to-register paths which are sub-critical and which, even with the addition of a few clk/J delay periods, remain sub-critical paths. The bus registering scheme of the present invention may be most advantageously used for such sub-critical paths to reduce the PLD interconnection line count and the chip area devoted to interconnection resources, as well as pipelining registers used for providing latency (as described below in more detail (see, e.g.,
The disclosed bus-like structures may be made visible at the top levels of the Computer Aided Design (CAD) hierarchy used to design PLDs. The present invention may be then advantageously implemented in large "systems-on-a-chip" type PLDs. Visibility of the busses at the top levels of the design hierarchy may allow designers to optimally floor plan global interconnect schemes, utilize the bus wires, and register the bus wires at one or both ends.
Additionally or alternatively, the detailed PLD bus wiring scheme or architecture may be made transparent to PLD users through suitable software. For example, the detailed PLD bus wiring scheme or architecture may be provided with a suitable electronic design interface for interfacing with an architecture-independent library of logic functions or modules (i.e., library parameterized modules (LPMs)). Further, the CAD software may be configured to use suitable bus wire LPMs to automatically incorporate time-multiplexed bus wires and synchronized bus registers in a PLD circuit design. Design entry tasks may be simplified by making the bus wiring architecture user-transparent in this manner. For example, on user specification of a few design parameters, such as the desired bus width and throughput, the CAD software may be configured to automatically generate a circuit netlist implementing data signal serialization/deserialization and time-multiplexed scheduling of data signals on bus wires.
In the examples described above and as shown in
The bus and serializing/deserializing registers that are provided in accordance with this invention may generally be dedicated for use in registering and serializing/deserializing bus signals, respectively. The bus and serializing/deserializing registers may therefore be provided in addition to and substantially separate from the other resources, which may include other registers, conventionally provided on a programmable logic device.
System 502 can be used in a wide variety of applications, such as computer networking, data networking, instrumentation, video processing, digital signal processing, or any other application where the advantage of using programmable or reprogrammable logic may be desirable. Programmable logic device 50 can be used to perform a variety of different logic functions. For example, programmable logic device 50 can be configured as a processor or controller that may work in cooperation with processor 504. Programmable logic device 50 may also be used as an arbiter for arbitrating access to a shared resource in system 502. In yet another example, programmable logic device 50 can be configured as an interface between processor 504 and one of the other components in system 502. It should be noted that system 502 is only exemplary, and that the true scope and spirit of the invention should be indicated by the following claims.
Various technologies can be used to implement the programmable logic devices of this invention, as well as the various components of those devices (e.g., the above-described registers and programmable links). For example, the programmable links can be a relatively simple programmable connector, such as a FCE-controlled switch or a plurality of switches, for connecting any one of several inputs to any one of several outputs, as mentioned above. Alternatively, each programmable link can be a somewhat more complex element that may be capable of performing logic (e.g., by logically combining several of its inputs) as well as making a connection. In the latter case, for example, each programmable link can be product term logic, implementing functions such as AND, NAND, OR, or NOR. Examples of components suitable for implementing programmable links may be, for example, EPROMs, EEPROMs, pass transistors, transmission gates, antifuses, laser fuses, and metal optional links.
As has been mentioned, the components of the programmable links can be controlled by various, programmable, function control elements ("FCEs"). It is to be noted that, with certain programmable link implementations (e.g., fuses and metal optional links), separate FCE devices may not be required. FCEs can also be implemented in any of several different ways. For example, FCEs can be SRAMs, DRAMs, first-in first-out ("FIFO") memories, EPROMs, EEPROMs, function control registers (e.g., as in Wahlstrom U.S. Pat. No. 3,473,160), ferro-electric memories, fuses, antifuses, or the like. From the various examples mentioned above, it will be seen that this invention is applicable to both one-time-only programmable and reprogrammable devices.
Although the present invention has been described above in the context of programmable logic device architecture, one or more bus wires can be provided to carry time-multiplexed data signals between the inputs and outputs of various types of circuitry in any electronic system, such as an Application Specific Standard Product (ASSP), for example, in accordance with the principles of the present invention.
While time-multiplexed routing of signals may be used as described above for reducing the amount of conductor lines needed to transmit those signals, signals may be time-multiplexed for reducing the amount of various other resources needed to execute a particular function. For example, digital signal processing (DSP) circuitry (e.g., a finite-impulse response (FIR) filter) may have time-driven multiplexing inherent in its design for reducing the number of multiplier circuits needed to execute its function. In the computation of a function for an FIR filter, the result of a large number of multiplications may need to be added together to form the end computational result of the filter. If the number of multiplications needed to be executed is larger than the number of multipliers available on the device, at least some of the signals to be multiplied during a particular execution of the filter's function may be time-multiplexed into one or more of the multipliers, thereby re-using one or more of the multipliers.
However, despite effectively reducing the number of multipliers needed, the amount of time (e.g., clock cycles) required for the DSP circuitry block to execute its function may be increased by time-multiplexing some of the signals. Therefore, other portions of a design data path dependant on the output of that DSP circuitry block may too need to incur additional latency to wait for the result of the DSP circuitry block. Conventionally these other portions of a design data path may be provided with simple pipelining registers to create the necessary additional latency or pipeline delay. Yet, according to the principles of the present invention, portions of a design data path requiring additional latency may themselves be provided with time-multiplexing circuitry, not only for providing the necessary latency but also for reducing the amount of conductor lines and registers needed by that design data path.
In some embodiments, electronic system 600 may be a PLD, ASIC, platform PLD, or platform ASIC, for example, and each of functional circuitries 602, 612, 622, and 642 may be one or more logic device elements. In other embodiments, electronic system 600 may be an ASSP or a DSP processor, for example, while each of functional circuitries 602, 612, 622, and 642 may be a memory block or a DSP block or any hard function block, for example.
Data path 650 may require that each of interim data signals f(α), g(β), and h(γ) be provided to functional circuitry 642 in a synchronized relationship such that output data signal i(f(α), g(β), h(γ)) can be a function of properly related values of input data signals α, β, and γ (i.e., such that the input signals occur at the same place in time). Therefore, the amount of time (e.g., clock cycles) that it takes input data signal a to be computed by functional circuitry 602 and then provided on interim output signal path 609 to functional circuitry 642 as interim data signal f(α) should be equal to both the amount of time that it takes input data signal β to be computed by functional circuitry 612 and provided on interim output signal path 619 to functional circuitry 642 as interim data signal g(β) as well as equal to the amount of time that it takes input data signal γ to be computed by functional circuitry 622 and provided on interim output signal path 629 to functional circuitry 642 as interim data signal h(γ).
As described above, certain types of circuitry, such as digital signal processing (DSP) circuitry, may be designed to include time-driven multiplexing for reducing the number of specific circuit elements (e.g., multipliers) needed to execute the circuitry's function while at the same time adding latency thereto. Accordingly, if functional circuitry 602, for example, is such a circuitry provided with time-driven multiplexing that creates latency therein, each of functional circuitries 612 and 622 may need to be provided with additional latency or pipeline delay such that interim data signals f(α), g(β), and h(γ) can be synchronized by the time they are provided to functional circuitry 642.
As an example, and as shown in
One or more shift or pipelining registers 614 may be provided along interim signal path 613/619 for providing one or more stages of latency to interim data signal g(β). For example, if one register 614 provides a latency of one system clock period clk, a number of registers 614 equal in number to the difference between X and Y may be provided along interim signal path 613/619 for providing X minus Y stages of latency to interim data signal g(β). While pipelining registers 614 may ensure that interim data signals f(α) and g(β) are synchronized at functional circuitry 642, not only are M single bit bus wires used, but a number of registers equal to the product of M and the difference between X and Y (i.e., M*(X−Y)) are also required to provide the necessary latency.
As another example, as also shown in
In this embodiment, serializing/deserializing circuitry 630 for time-multiplexing data signals, as described above with respect to
As described above, functional circuitry 622 may perform a function h on an input data signal γ provided by input signal path 621 and then drive interim data signal h(γ) onto interim input signal path 623 1-N, wherein signal path 623 may be an N-bit bus wire and N may be any integer greater than or equal to one. Similarly, serializing register circuitry 630 a may serialize interim data signal h(γ) on interim input signal path 623 1-N and may drive a serialized interim data signal h(γ)′ over interim time-multiplexed signal path 627 1-N′, wherein signal path 627 may be an N′-bit bus wire and N′ may be any integer greater than or equal to one. For example, if N is equal to 8 and N′ is equal to 2, serializing register circuitry 630 a may include two sets of 4 to 1 serialization circuitries each able to serialize signals from 4 distinct bus wires of the 8 bus wires of path 623 onto 1 distinct bus wire of the 2 bus wires of path 627, while deserializing register circuitry 630 b may include two sets of 1 to 4 deserialization circuitries each able to deserialize signals from 1 distinct bus wire of the 2 bus wires of path 627 onto 4 distinct bus wires of the 8 bus wires of path 629.
While interim data signal h(γ) may be clocked onto interim signal path 623 and into functional circuitry 642 by electronic system or clock signal CLK with a clock period clk, serializing/deserializing circuitry 630 may be clocked, for example, by register clock signal CLK*N with a clock period clk/N. By clocking serializing/deserializing circuitry 630 in this manner, N-number of data signals may be time-multiplexed and moved across electrical system 600 in data path 650 within a clock period clk using only one-Nth of the traditional interconnection wiring resources required. This may also reduce the latency created by serializing/deserializing circuitry 630. By designing the specific type of circuitry used for serializing/deserializing circuitry 630 and choosing the particular period or periods of the clock signal or signals used to clock the various circuitry elements of circuitry 630, the amount of latency created by circuitry 630 along a signal path can be specifically selected to replace pipelining registers with serializing/deserializing circuitry.
The amount of latency provided to interim data signal h(γ) by the shift registers and/or counters of serialization/deserialization circuitry 630 along interim signal path 623/627/629 may be sufficient to allow each of interim data signals f(α) and h(γ) to be provided to functional circuitry 642 in X system clock periods when X is greater than Z, thereby synchronizing those data signals. However, if the amount of latency provided by serialization/deserialization circuitry 630 is not great enough to synchronize interim data signals f(α) and h(γ), additional shift or pipelining registers 644 may be provided along interim signal path 623 (e.g., one or more shift registers 644 a) and/or along interim signal path 627 (e.g., one or more shift registers 644 b) and/or along interim signal path 629 (e.g., one or more shift registers 644 c). With or without the need for providing additional latency using registers 644, serialization circuitry 630 a and deserialization circuitry 630 b may reduce the number of pipelining registers used for providing latency (e.g., as compared to the number of pipelining registers 614 used with respect to interim data signal g(β)). Moreover, serialization circuitry 630 a and deserialization circuitry 630 b may reduce the length and number of interconnection lines and the area devoted to interconnection resources between functional circuitries 622 and 642 in data design path 650 of an electrical system 600.
Therefore, the necessary addition of time delay to signal data paths has been provided using serialization and deserialization circuitry. The bus registering scheme of the present invention may be most advantageously used for a sub-critical data path to reduce the interconnection line count and the area devoted to interconnection resources, as well as to reduce the number of pipelining registers required for providing the needed latency for that data path.
It will be understood that the foregoing is only illustrative of the principles of the invention, and that various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. For example, the number of device element blocks at each of the various levels in the hierarchy of device element blocks, and the type of the hierarchy itself, can differ from the specific examples mentioned herein. Similarly, the numbers of the various types of interconnection conductors and other elements can deviate from the specific examples mentioned herein. Different types and sizes of logic and memory units and registers can be used if desired.
It will also be understood that various directional and orientational terms, such as "row" and "column," "horizontal" and "vertical," "left" and "right," "top" and "bottom," and the like, are used herein only for convenience, and that no fixed or absolute directional or orientational limitations are intended by the use of these words. For example, the systems and devices of this invention can have any desired orientation. If reoriented, different directional or orientational terms may need to be used in their description, but that will not alter their fundamental nature as within the scope and spirit of this invention. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the invention can be practiced by other than the described embodiments, which are presented for purposes of illustration rather than of limitation, and the invention is limited only by the claims which follow.
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The noun "muckrake" (literally, a rake for "muck," i.e., manure) rose out of the dung heap and into the realm of literary metaphor in 1684. That's when John Bunyan used it in Pilgrim's Progress to represent man's preoccupation with earthly things. "The Man with the Muckrake," he wrote, "could look no way but downward." In a 1906 speech, Teddy Roosevelt recalled Bunyan's words while railing against journalists he thought focused too much on exposing corruption in business and government. Roosevelt called them "the men with the muck-rakes" and implied that they needed to learn "when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward." Investigative reporters weren't insulted; they adopted the term "muckraker" as a badge of honor. And soon English speakers were using the verb "muckrake" for the practice of exposing misconduct.
Origin and Etymology of muckrake
obsolete muckrake, noun, rake for dung
First Known Use: 1879
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Beginning of VIP session; still setting up
Brewer Lineup
Special Tom Dalldorf bottles by Rogue
The Rogue Crew
Freshly brewed Pliny the Younger
The crowd grows
Alaskan Smoked Porter; rarely seen on East Coast
Alaskan setup
Tom and band get ready to kick things up with a stroll and bead toss through the crowd
Plungers up!
Tom Dalldorf
The Brewing Network crew
Full House without feeling like a Full House
TBN live show
TBN crew
TBN crew with Bret Nickels on the Sunday Session
Doc & JP of TBN
Beer t-shirts of course
Shaun O'Sullivan of the 21st Amendment
Pete Slosberg on TBN's Sunday Session
Deschutes The Abyss, oh YEAH!
Shaun O'Sullivan & Jay Brooks
TBN's JP & Justin Crossley
Shaun O'Sullivan & special friend?
TBN crew with Shaun O'Sullivan & Jay Brooks
Jay Brooks of brookstonbeerbulletin.com
Jay Brooks & JP
La Folie from New Belgium, oh YEAH!
Served with Style!
Killer Zydeco band, complete with washboard
More zydeco
Sing La Chouffe!
Russian River Supplication, oh YEAH!
Matt Brynildson of Firestone Walker
Vinnie Cilurzo & Justin Crossley
Matt Brynildson, Lauren Salazar (New Belgium), & Vinnie Cilurzo
Vinnie & Matt
Mike McDole (Boston Beer Co's LongShot winner) & Vinnie Cilurzo
Kate & Sully
Tom Dalldorf on TBN's Sunday Session
Alaskan crew tapping just one more
Devil's Canyon, a new one to me
It was a Mardi Gras theme, after all
That's a wrap for The Sunday Session
Dave McLean of Magnolia signing autographs
Hardest working man in Beer Media? Justin Crossley uploading The Session.
The post party begins in the hotels lobby bar...before heading to the new Trappist
A view from our hotel room in downtown San Francisco
Heading over on the ferry to Sausalito (Marin Co.) for lunch


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City The Fabulous Baker Bus
Turns out dogs aren't the only ones chowing down on pot. Today also brings a delightful I, Anonymous confession from someone who calls him- or herself the Bong Smokin' Metro Driver:
Hi there. I'm your friendly Metro bus driver. I also smoke a ton of pot. Not on the job, of course, and not really a ton. More like a pound or so a year. Some of you have a drink after work, I smoke bong hits. For over a decade now I've been driving you around King County without incident and have managed to achieve a nearly flawless safety record. The morning, the evening and the middle of the night. From the Rainier Valley to Magnolia to Issaquah to the Aurora Village Transit Center and all points in between. Microsoft commuters and little old ladies and downtown worker bees and crackheads and all sorts of other spun-out motherfuckers. I've smiled at all of you and given all of you a ride. And I didn't give you a hard time that day you were short a few cents (or dollars) for the fare or you forgot your bus pass. And I waited for you that time you were running to catch the bus. And I've made your trips on the bus soooooo smoooth and pleasant that a lot of you have taken the time to call or email Metro to tell them what a wonderful driver I am. And I can assure you that I am only one of hundreds of us drivers who smoke just about every day. You can tell who we are; we're the mellow and friendly ones. Don't worry. You are in good hands. We'll get you there!
While I was writing this post, I received an email/press release from the office of King County Executive Ron Sims:
Seniors and people with disabilities living in King County will have better transportation options thanks to a fleet of new passenger vans going into service today. King County Metro Transit obtained the 21 new passenger vans with a $906,000 state grant and is donating them to eight local agency partners involved in Metro's Community Access program.
Hurrah! Stoners driving buses is cool, but stoners driving vans is how God meant it to be…


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Of Thee I Sing
Of Thee I Sing
A Letter to My Daughters
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, 9780375835278, 40pp.
Publication Date: November 16, 2010
Breathtaking, evocative illustrations by award-winning artist Loren Long at once capture the personalities and achievements of these great Americans and the innocence and promise of childhood.
This beautiful book celebrates the characteristics that unite all Americans, from our nation's founders to generations to come. It is about the potential within each of us to pursue our dreams and forge our own paths. It is a treasure to cherish with your family forever.
Loren Long illustrated President Barack Obama s "Of Thee I Sing"; the newest version of "The Little Engine that Could"; Madonna s second picture book, "Mr. Peabody s Apples"; "Nightsong" by Ari Berk; and" "the Barnstormers series. He also illustrated Frank McCourt s "Angela and the Baby Jesus" and is part of the Design Garage for Jon Scieszka s Trucktown series. Loren s work has appeared in "Time", "Sports Illustrated", "Forbes", "The Wall Street Journal, " and "The Atlantic". He lives with his wife and two sons in Westchester, Ohio. Visit him at LorenLong.com.
"If Barack Obama wants to quit his day job (and maybe he might), he can probably make it as a children's book author. Certainly, this is a beautiful package: thoughtfully conceived, handsomely illustrated and designed, and with a tight yet evocative text that brings children into the world of 13 famous Americans. Framed as a letter to his daughters ("Have I told you lately how wonderful you are?" the book begins), each double-page spread then asks a question that is exemplified by a person of note. "Have I told you that you are creative?" introduces Georgia O'Keeffe, who "helped us see big beauty in what is small: / the hardness of stone and the softness of feather." Most of the people briefly profiled are expected names—George Washington, Jackie Robinson, Helen Keller, César Chávez—but there are a few outliers here as well, including Billie Holiday and Sitting Bull. As the spreads turn, other children join (the unnamed) Malia and Sasha on the question page, each embodying their own special gifts and talents. Long's exceptional artwork has a timeless, Rockwellian quality that serves the text well, and the congregation of the children at the book's conclusion will have readers looking and looking again. An addendum features a bit more about each person highlighted. Parents will be happy to talk to their own children about how creative or kind or strong they are and reiterate, as the president does, their place in the American family. — Ilene Cooper"—Booklist, starred review


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Mainstream Murder over personal responsibility. Truly a throw away society
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This was going on whilst the bulk of the British male population was fighting overseas... I do love watching them try to play baseball with a cricket bat though
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English Female Sophisticates Enjoy Cilvilised Afternoon Drinks.
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Original Video did not include audio, dont know what year. Thought this music was rather apt ;) Song: Karp, Bacon Industry. Some crazy tank slappers tho!
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Queens for a day, bitch slappers for life.
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Checked out Zwyssighof (see my previous review) and checked into this hotel which is just across the road for the next two nights. What a relief. The room was a proper room, good, clean and the bathroom was a regular bathroom and clean. Definitely the room was worth the rate compared to the previous hotel.The buffet breakfast was basic.
Just worth it for the decent rooms.
The hotel entrance is like getting into a block of apartments.
Rest nothing. Chinese restaurant below.
Okay I guess for the price.
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Motivating and Inducting Volunteers
The volunteer's first experience within the club is a vital time in their retention and even the smallest club should have an induction process which provides all volunteers with information:
- About the club structure
- Club contacts
- Who will help them over the first few sessions
- Their responsibilities (a role outline)
- Club policies (child protection, code of practice, etc)
- Details of how to claim expenses, etc.
This is often called a 'Welcome Pack'. It will also help with the integration of the new volunteer if they have a main point of contact; this is when the recruitment of a volunteer coordinator is really useful.
Do not assume that people who have been players at the club know about how it runs or the range of volunteer roles – ensure that they also have a supportive induction into the team.
It is vital to communicate clearly with all of your volunteers. Nothing frustrates a volunteer more than not being kept up to date or 'in the loop' – it is important to ensure that your volunteer workforce is included in the overall club communications and that the Club Volunteer Coordinator has regular contact with all the volunteers.
Top Tips for communication include the following:
- Ensure all volunteers know the phone number/contact details of either a volunteer representative or the Club Volunteer Coordinator (communication should flow two ways and they need to be encouraged to keep in touch with the club, as well as the club keeping in touch with them).
- Hold volunteer briefing meetings (these can be useful once or twice a year, but don't hold them too often).
- Send messages by text and email (particularly popular with younger volunteers). Or put key messages on your club website if you have one
- Include a volunteer page in the club newsletter
Keeping the team motivated
All volunteers, however dedicated to your club, will need help with their motivation. Motivation will be gained in a number of ways and you need to consider why people are volunteering in order to cater for their needs.
Remember - satisfaction comes from doing something you feel is worthwhile and often challenging.
Motivating your team of volunteers will depend on:
- their enjoyment of the roles
- the variety and challenge offered
- the recognition and reward programmes you have in place
- good communication
- meeting their needs, as well as those of the club
- ensuring they feel wanted and valued
- the provision of training for them
Skills and training
Skills and training can be a key retention tool. However, it can be a problematic subject when managing volunteers. Some people are keen to develop their knowledge and skills and see volunteering as an ideal way of doing this. Others, however, just want to turn up, do their task and go away again.
Skills and training should always be 'sold' as a positive reward for volunteers, although not all will welcome it! Well-trained people will increase the retention of your volunteers, through helping them to focus and feel confidence in their ongoing contribution.
Skills and training events can be motivational for volunteers and they can be a great time to communicate with the team. Most people also feel much more secure in their role if they have received some form of training and support on the technical area in which they are involved, even if it is basic information about what to wear, how to manage people at an event, etc.
You can organise skills and training events in a variety of ways:
- delivered by your own team/staff
- delivered by an external organisation (e.g. British Red Cross, runningsports, sports coach UK)
- delivered by the external organisations mentioned above and, in addition, national governing bodies, a local college, a private training provider, etc.
- If you are a big club, you may have enough people to bring external organisations in to deliver training at your own site. Alternatively, if you are a smaller club, you could get together with some other local clubs to make bringing someone in more affordable, or send your volunteers to an external workshop or event in the local area.
Your County Sports Partnership coordinates coach education courses within the county and has local knowledge about delivery agencies and on what might work best for you in your Club.
Therefore before arranging a provider to come in for a fee, it would be wise to contact your CSP initially for advice.


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MARION, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Women's Hall of Fame will induct two pioneers on March 4 at Judson College in Marion.
The Hall of Fame announced Monday that one of the inductees will be Margaret Charles Smith of Eutaw.
She was a midwife who delivered more than 3,500 babies in west Alabama.
She was 75 years old when she delivered her last baby.
The other inductee will be Mary Ivy Burks of Birmingham.
She worked to establish the Sipsey Wilderness Area in the Bankhead National Forest when many believed the Wilderness Act should apply only to the western part of the country.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)