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December 10th, 2004 (5:31 AM).
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Chapter 4
Black Jack and Ash stood in their respective spots of the battlefield. Ash had two available pokemon left while Black Jack had three and his Salamence was standing on the field waiting for his next opponent.
Ash picked out another pokeball of his belt. �Go! Charizard!�
He tossed out his pokeball and Charizard came out, letting out a big roar. Salamence roared back in response. Both dragon-like pokemon kept on roaring to each other louder and louder to intemidate each other.
�Roaring is not going to get us anywhere,� Black Jack said. �Salamence! Reach for the skies!�
Salamence flew high in the skies.
�You too, Charizard!� Ash yelled. Charizard also took flight.
In the skies, Charizard used his flamethrower attack at Salamence. But he dodged the attack and tackled Charizard in the belly. Charizard retaliated by punching Salamence in the face heavily.
Salamence used his flamethrower at Charizard, but it was blocked as he used a flamethrower attack of his own.
This time, Salamence shot out a Fire Blast attack. Charizard realised that his flamethrower wouldn�t be able to stop it, so he used paws to stop the attack. Charizard used his strength to hold the attack away from him.
Suddenly, he finally found the strength to push it right back at Salamence. Salamence became shocked and could do nothing but dodge the attack. The Fire Blast attack was coming down on the audience. They stared in fright, but the attack disappeared before it reached them.
�Scary, wasn�t it?� Black Jack asked as he looked at the disappearing Fire Blast. He then turned his attention to the battle. He knew that neither he nor Ash were able to command the pokemon while they were air-borne as they were too far away to hear them.
Both Salamence and Charizard kept on tackling other and each tackle had given out more pain than the last.
As Charizard charged at Salamence, Salamence shot out his flamethrower to surprise and hurt him. But Charizard saw that coming and dodged the attack. While dodging the attack, Charizard quickly grabbed hold of Salamence flew around the stadium while taking Salamence with him.
�That Charizard has got Salamence!� Black Jack thought as he sweated. �And there�s no way to get out of that hold!�
�We�ve got him now, Charizard!� Ash yelled. �Slam him now!�
Charizard dived down and slammed him on the ground, head first! The blue dragon was knocked unconscious.
�Salamence is no longer able to battle!� the ref announced. �Ash and Black Jack draw once again four-all!�
�Well done, Ketchum,� Black Jack said. �Not only you have avenged your Meganium, you�ve also taken out one of the rarest, but one of my best pokemon as well.�
�I told you that I would play rough, Black Jack!� Ash replied. �Why didn�t you believe me?�
�I guess you can be unpredictable too. Now it�s time to fight fire with fire.�
Black Jack picked another pokeball off his belt and tossed it out. �Blaziken! You got what you wanted! A match against Charizard!�
�I knew you would use Blaziken against Charizard,� Ash said. �This is what he wanted too.�
As Blaziken and Charizard stood face-to-face, their eyes burned with passion, a passion to battle each other.
�Be careful, Charizard,� Ash said. �We have battled a Blaziken before, but this one�s different.�
Charizard growled in reply and Ash understood what that meant.
�Charizard! Flamethrower attack!� Ash cried.
�Blaziken!� Black Jack yelled. �Hi Jump Kick!�
Charizard flew high in the air and shot out a lick of flame out of his mouth at Blaziken, but missed as Blaziken leaped into the air to dodge the attack and performed a Hi Jump Kick attack at Charizard in the head, knocking him down.
Chrizard quickly picked himself up and punched Blaziken in the gut, knocking him down. Charizard held his hurt head, while Blaziken held his hurt gut. Both pokemon delivered heavy damage to each other already.
�Charizard may have received some damage from Salamence from the last round,� Ash thought. �But Blaziken added more. We have to be careful. Otherwise, Pikachu will be my last hope of saving the legendary pokemon.�
�Charizard have received damage from Salamence and Blaziken,� Black Jack thought. �But by looking at Blaziken right now, there may be a chance that Blaziken may be knocked out after Charizard�s next attack cos he is strong� but knowing Blaziken, he would never let anyone down.�
�Blaziken!� he yelled. �Low Kick attack!�
Blaziken ran at Charizard, attempting to perform a sliding kick at Charizard but missed as Charizard flew up into the sky, putting Blaziken at a disadvantage.
�Now, Charizard!� Ash yelled. �Seismic Toss!�
Chariazrd swooped down on Blaziken and grabbed hold of him. As he held him tightly he flew around the stadium multiple times, making Blaziken grow dizzy. He then attempted to drive Blaziken�s back to the floor.
�Blaziken! Counter that now!� Black Jack yelled.
To everyone�s shock, Blaziken countered by flipping Charizard over, slamming Chariazrd on his back. Charizard�s stomach also got damaged when Blaziken landed onto his when he countered the attack, but Blaziken also suffered the same damage.
Everyone�s mouths were wide open.
�I have never seen that counter before!� Gary said.
�Unreal!� Max commented. �Just before Blaziken was about to be slammed to his defeat, he flipped Charizard over!�
�I bet Mane never saw that coming!� John thought to himself.
Elsewhere in the audience balcony, Mane was watching the match with interest. �Shame on you, Ashy boy,� he said. �You never saw that coming did you?�
Both Blaziken and Charizard lay on the floor trying to catch their breath after Blaziken�s counter. They started to get up slowly. As Blaziken turned round, Ash saw the chance to finish him off.
�Charizard!� Ash cried. �Mega Punch attack!�
�Dodge it, Blaziken!� Black Jack yelled.
Charizard ran at Blaziken to punch him in the face, but Blaziken ducked it. �Blaze Kick now!� Black Jack yelled.
Blaziken spun round and gave Charizard a flaming roundhouse kick to the face. The impact was so hard that most of the audience members felt it. Charizard felt dizzy as he fell on his front. He was down� and out!
�Charizard is no longer able to battle!� the ref announced. �Black Jack leads again and Ash has one last pokemon left!�
Blaziken slowly walked over to Charizard and tapped him on the head. Charizard woke up and saw what he would call from that day forward, a new rival. Charizard picked himself up and smiled. Blaziken also smiled as they tapped paws in respect.
Ash and Black Jack smiled at the sportsmanship between the two pokemon that had fought valiantly against each other. Charizard turned round and smiled at Ash, giving a light growl.
�I�m very proud of you,� Ash said as he took out his pokeball. �Charizard, return!�
Ash placed the pokeball on his belt. �Ready, Pikachu?� he asked in an encouraging tone.
�Pika!� Pikachu cried in return as he ran on to the field.
�Pikachu�s is evolved form of Pichu,� Black Jack thought. �But he is also one evolution away from being a Raichu. Out of all the pokemon that Ash has captured, Pikachu�s the most experienced in his group. But I can�t tell whether he�s the strongest or weakest, therefore, I must not underestimate him.�
He looked at his Blaziken with concern as Blaziken was still feeling great pains in his gut. �Blaziken,� Black Jack said. �Do you want to battle Pikachu?�
Blaziken turned his head to Black Jack and nodded.
�Pikachu!� Ash cried. �Thundershock attack!�
Pikachu leapt into the air and gave massive cry as a bolt lightning was shot out of his body, aiming for Blaziken.
�Dodge it, Blaziken!� Black Jack cried.
Blaziken was barely able to dodge the attack. If Blaziken�s gut wasn�t hurting anymore, he would�ve avoided it more easily.
�Blaziken!� Black Jack yelled. �Hi Jump Kick!�
Blaziken leapt into the air to perform the attack. �Pikachu!� Ash cried. �Thunderbolt!�
Blaziken saw the attack and was about to dodge it, but he suddenly felt the pain in his gut again, distracting him from dodging the attack and making the electric struck him.
�Blaziken!� Black Jack yelled in a worried tone.
As Blaziken fell on his front, everyone thought that he was knocked out but he struggled to get to his feet and was still holding his gut, trying to stop the pain.
�That Blaziken�s not giving up!� Ash said. �But we�re not giving up either, right, Pikachu?�
�Pikachu!� Pikachu cried.
�Blaziken!� Black Jack yelled as he took out his pokeball. �Re��
Blaziken raised his hand to stop him. Black Jack understood what Blaziken wanted to do. Blaziken wanted to battle strong opponents but he also wanted to help Black Jack bring back his brother�s family. Respecting Blaziken�s wishes, he decided to let Blaziken to possibly finish the round and the battle.
Ash noticed what was going on. �Black Jack doesn�t like a lot of people,� he thought to himself. �But he loves his pokemon. Even though he doesn�t want Blaziken to get hurt anymore, he never failed to respect his wishes.�
�Pikachu!� he yelled. �Finish him off with a quick attack!�
Pikachu yelled out another cry and dashed towards Blaziken.
�Mega Punch attack!� Black Jack yelled.
Blaziken aimed his punch directly at Pikachu, but barely missed as Pikachu dodged out of the way and hit Blaziken in injured part of his body. Blaziken staggered backwards as he held his mid-section again.
Pikachu leapt again and spun round to give Blaziken an Iron Tail attack to the face, knocking him down. Black Jack gasped in shock.
Blaziken fell on his back. He struggled to pick himself up. �Blazi�� he whispered to himself, which meant �master�. Then, he fell unconscious.
�Blaziken is no longer able to battle,� yelled the ref. �Pikachu wins!�
�Way to go, Pikachu!� Ash cried happily.
�Pikachu!� Pikachu cried happily in reply.
�This is my last chance,� Black Jack thought in a low tone as he picked another pokeball.
�Go! Tyranitar!� he yelled as he tossed out the pokeball. Tyranitar came out of the pokeball and gave a loud roar.
That roar did not intimidate Pikachu one bit. �Pika!� he cried in determination.
Black Jack looked at both Tyranitar and Pikachu. �Ketchum,� he said. �Pikachu won the last round because Blaziken was weakened from his battle with your Charizard. But now, from the looks of this situation, it seems that there is a high chance that Tyranitar will knock the stuffing out of Pikachu. Why don�t you just give up?�
Ash clenched his fist. He was nowhere giving up, and he knew that Pikachu was nowhere near it either. �No way, Black Jack,� Ash replied. �We have gone too far to give up now!�
�That�s it! That�s the answer I was looking for!� Black Jack shouted. �I was expecting no less from you, Ketchum! I�d rather take you down when you fight your hardest!�
�Everything is at stake here,� Ash thought as he closed his eyes. �The tournament, Black Jack�s family, the rare and powerful pokemon, no matter how strong Black Jack and no matter how many cheating ways Mane has, I have to win to save to everyone.�
�Pikapi!� Pikachu cried, catching Ash�s attention.
Pikachu also knew what was on the line, and Ash noticed that. �Let�s finish this, Black Jack!� he yelled.
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NEW ORLEANS —A husky, a bear, a cardinal and a leprechaun took to a stage outside the New Orleans Arena on Sunday.
To the delight of a small but appreciative crowd of women's basketball fans and curious tourists, four college mascots danced, cheered and competed in a series of menial tasks to determine their superiority. In the end, Oski, the bear representing the University of California, Berkeley, took home the bragging rights — and a check for $1,000 — with the help of his school's eclectic pep band and his two "keepers."
"It's a big win for us," said the keeper who called himself Funther.
Oski merely nodded.
Perhaps he was saving his energy for the real competition, Sunday night's NCAA Women's Final Four semifinal game between Cal and Louisville. It was to be followed by the semifinal between Notre Dame and the University of Connecticut. Those two games and Tuesday night's championship were the real reason women's basketball fans were in town this week.
But to help visitors get in the party mood, they were invited to visit Tourney Town, a free fan festival spread over 90,000 square feet of parking lot just outside the Arena. There, fans were offered a wide variety of activities to help them root for their favorite team and pass the time until tip-off.
After being welcomed with a pair of Tourney Town Mardi Gras beads, fans could have their photo taken with the championship trophy, shop for official merchandise, have their face painted in team colors, test their softball skills, get an autograph from former WBNA star Lisa Leslie or an assortment of visiting college coaches, or test their basketball skills on one of the many basketball courts surrounding the perimeter.
Fans also were offered live entertainment throughout the day, including concerts from recording artists Taio Cruz and Kay as well as Sunday's AT&T Mascot Challenge. That was followed a short time later by the official game pep rally, at which all four bands performed with their respective cheerleaders and mascots.
"It's been great," said Christa Scannell, one of the event organizers. "The crowds have been great. The weather has been great. It's just perfect."
It was the perfect opportunity for the Lege family, who traveled from Erath to see the sights. Still giddy from meeting Leslie, one of her idols, Alexis Lege, 14, a youth basketball player back in her hometown, delighted in climbing a 6-foot ladder to pretend to cut down a net while her mother, Telisa, took photos.
"Someday I want to do that for real," she said.
Tourney Town will be open again from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday, before the finals. Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys will perform at 5:30 p.m

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Running game carries South Fayette past Hickory and into PIAA title game
SLIPPERY ROCK — Grant Fetchet could've buried his head.
Instead, the South Fayette senior running back bounced back and buried Hickory.
Fetchet shook off a first-half fumble by running for 119 yards and a touchdown over the final 24 minutes, as South Fayette topped Hickory, 23-20, in a PIAA Class AA semifinal Saturday at Slippery Rock University's Mihalik-Thompson Stadium.
"I was frustrated," Fetchet said. "I really didn't get a clean handoff. I was juggling the ball when I was running with it. I fumbled it. Went in at halftime, got my head right and came back out and said, 'I'm going to run the hardest that I've ever run.' "
The determined display started with a 27-yard carry on South Fayette's first offensive play of the second half.
It also included a 37-yard touchdown early in the fourth quarter — one with a nifty spin move — that gave South Fayette (15-0) a 23-14 lead.
Fetchet finished with 161 yards and a pair of scores on 21 carries.
"You can put your head in the ground and bury yourself. He didn't. He kept fighting," South Fayette coach Joe Rossi said. "Got a nice spin move and made a tremendous play when we needed it."
South Fayette, which overcame four turnovers, is back in the PIAA Class AA final for the first time since 2010 and will play District 12 champion Imhotep (13-1) at noon Saturday in Hershey.
"There's no better feeling," lineman Ben Berkovitz said. "We have another chance to win it this time, so I'm excited for next week's practices. I'm excited to win ourselves a state championship."
Much of South Fayette's success running the ball came because Hickory chose to play coverage on quarterback Brett Brumbaugh and his many weapons.
Brumbaugh completed 22 of 37 passes for 175 yards but didn't find the end zone. Justin Watson, needing 144 yards to break the WPIAL's single-season record, finished with five catches for 36 yards. Tight end Logan Sharp had four for 67.
"When we're dropping eight, nine and 10 in coverage, we were rolling the dice with that," Hickory coach Bill Brest said. "That was one of my biggest fears coming into today — them being able to run the football. And they did. We stole their signals. We knew they were running the ball. They did a nice job executing."
Quarterback Matt Voytik led Hickory with three rushing touchdowns. He also passed for 198 yards and led a late touchdown drive that he capped with a 1-yard run. But Conner Beck recovered the onside kick, and South Fayette ran out the clock.
The Hornets (12-2) led 14-9 late in the first half when they capitalized on Fetchet's fumble, and Voytik cut off of an Anthony Canone block for a 57-yard touchdown at 1 minute, 10 seconds of the second quarter.
South Fayette drove 84 yards on 15 plays for a touchdown on its opening possession, as Fetchet powered into the end zone from 4 yards at 6:16.
Voytik ran 57 yards untouched on Hickory's third offensive play to tie it at 7-7 just 1:28 later.
Berkovitz got a strip-sack on Voytik, who recovered his fumble in the end zone with Anthony Davidson touching him down for a safety early in the second period.
"I didn't know it happened at first, then I was pretty excited," Berkovitz said. "He got by me, but I got a hand on the ball."
The teams traded punts in the third before JJ Walker scored his 19th touchdown of the season, and Fetchet followed it on South Fayette's next drive with his 20th.
Not bad numbers for what many consider to be a pass-first offense.
"Everybody underestimates our run game," Fetchet said. "Nobody ever takes it serious. We're always known for having a really strong passing game, but I think we can say that we balanced it out this year. People have to be aware of both."
Jason Mackey is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or via Twitter @Mackey_Trib.


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How Kate Middleton tamed a Prince! – PopEater
Reality star gets mobbed in Miami – Celebuzz
Should celebs sacrifice health for career? – iVillage
Baby survives SUV crib crash! – The Stir
Star heads out sans makeup – TooFab
The remake roster: No movie is safe! – The Frisky
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Volunteer opportunities, provided by Volunteer! United (formerly Volunteer! Baton Rouge), are outlined in this column every Sunday. To learn more about these opportunities, contact the listed agency directly.
BETTER BLOCK BR, Center for Planning Excellence — Leigh LaFargue, (225) 267-6300: Better Block BR, a two-day demonstration project that will transform two blocks of Government Street into a walkable, bikeable, "complete street," is looking for volunteers for its event taking place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and April 14. Help is needed to procure, build, clean and set up exterior and interior elements that are designed to improve the aesthetic of Government Street between Bedford Drive and Beverly Drive.
Volunteers may also promote the event and help visitors with information or directions. Register to volunteer at http://betterblockbr.com/.
HEALTHY KIDS DAY, YMCA of the Capital Area — Kristen Hogan, (225) 923-0653, ext. 1104, or email@example.com: On April 27, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the YMCA of the Capital Area is celebrating YMCA's Healthy Kids Day® with a free community event to get kids moving and learning, and families living healthier.
Included will be fun active play and educational opportunities. Volunteers are needed to help with bounce houses, face painting, a healthy snacks table, obstacle course, registration and more. Contact Hogan for more information.
ROCKETCHIX RACE VOLUNTEERS, Rocketkidz Foundation — Susan Hayden, (225) 603-1667: Volunteers are needed to hand out water, cheer along the race course, hand out medals at the finish line and much more at the Rocketchix Triathlon on April 14.
The race is produced by the Rocketkidz Foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to creating and sustaining active, fit and healthy children, families and communities. For more information about the race, visit http://rocketchix.com/. To volunteer, email Hayden.
HELP A CHILD, Capital Area CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Association — Emily Hebert, (225) 379-8598: Capital Area CASA is looking for volunteers to join the next volunteer training course.
CASA needs the help of community volunteers in order to continue to provide an advocate for every abused child who needs one.
No special experience is required other than a willingness to get involved and to learn. The first step to getting involved is to attend a brief orientation at the CASA office.
Call Hebert or visit http://www.casabr.org for more information.
STEP BACK IN TIME, Old State Capitol — Susan Vincent, (225) 924-0573 or email@example.com: Make history come alive for visitors at the Old State Capitol by volunteering as a docent.
Docents learn about the colorful people and stories of the Old State Capitol, its architecture and its place in Louisiana's political history and share the knowledge with visitors to the historical building. They also engage visitors and inform them about the exhibits and events held there. Contact Vincent to find out about upcoming training sessions.


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COLUMBIA --- Students who attend computer-based virtual schools across the country are given second-class status when they try to join the military, and U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson said Wednesday that he will work to get the policy changed.
"We are dealing with new technology," the South Carolina Republican said after meeting with an 18-year-old student who wants to join the Air Force but has encountered difficulties in his attempt to enlist. "We just need to keep adapting."
Wilson, who heads the House Armed Services personnel subcommittee, said he thinks "thousands" of students nationwide might be affected by the policy, which places students who graduate from traditional schools ahead of those with home-school or other alternative credentials.
At a time when the nation is at war, the Pentagon should be seeking students who meet the military's high-tech needs, not making it harder on them, Wilson argued.
He spoke after meeting with Jared Dennis of Lexington, who is to graduate in June from Connections Academy, one of South Carolina's five virtual charter schools.
Dennis said he was devastated when he sought out an Air Force recruiter and was told his attendance at a virtual school put him in a "Tier 2" status behind others. He was advised that he could go forward with enlisting only after he had attended about 15 hours of college-level classes.
"It was heartbreaking to say the least," said Dennis, who wants to become a military policeman.
His mother, Alice, said she sought the virtual charter school after her son was barred from returning to his public school because of a weapons violation.
"He accidentally left a pocket knife in his jacket," she said. They looked for an alternative where her son could continue with honors-level classes.
Wilson said he understands the value the military can have in a person's life, given his 31 years in the Army National Guard and the fact that four of his sons have served.
Wilson said he intends to put language in the Pentagon's budget bill next week.
"I want young people like Jared to serve," he said.
South Carolina state Superintendent Mick Zais said Connections Academy is fully accredited by the state and that students must pass all tests required of traditional students.
"I want to attest to the rigor and the quality of the education that is offered by today's online, virtual cyber schools," said Zais, a retired one-star Army general.
He said the policy might have made sense "15 years ago when a lot of fly-by-night companies were offering fake degrees," but not when the virtual schools are being held to toughened standards.
Maj. Rosaire Bushey, a spokesman for the Air Force's Air Education and Training Command in San Antonio, said the Pentagon requires the service to put traditional high school students in a "Tier 1" status, while those who have a GED, home-school certificate or attend a virtual school in "Tier 2."
"Of the 27,965 we will take in, only 1 percent can be in the Tier 2 status," Bushey said.


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It's impossible to have a thriving career as a real estate investment professional without adopting the ability to find the right contractors. Whether you're more apt to need a handyman or a general contractor in your daily operations, finding the right person or team for the job should always be a top business priority.
Even in the most ideal of circumstances, contractors will be one of your most frequent hires. Considering the right contractor can be your ticket to higher satisfaction and higher profits, identifying best prospects consistently is an essential skill.
Always Be Looking
Many real estate investment professionals only look for new service providers and contractors when there is an immediate need in their business. This can lead to a myriad of problems if there are any snags in the selection process. Unnecessary project delays and excessive downtime are only two of the potential outcomes of an inconsistent approach to contractor recruitment.
Because the quality and reliability of your contractors is such a key to your success, you'll always want to maintain a database of back up contractors, even when your current needs are satisfied.
Check References
It's often thought that checking references is a waste of time. "Who would give the name of anyone who would give a bad report?" is the oft-repeated
question that precedes the thought "I can't really learn anything useful from a cherry-picked reference."
But you can learn a lot. And it is worth checking references for each and every potential contractor that you're considering hiring. Even if you're sure the guy was legit and a good egg, some of the most conniving characters are the most charming. If you haven't used any given contractor before, check references before you sign the contract and/or pay the deposit.
It's the step of the process that is most often skipped when you hear of things going wrong with a contractor relationship.
For one thing, you may be surprised at how many contractors will provide names of dissatisfied former clients as references. Whether it's because they're sure you won't double check or because they aren't aware of the issues, or because the former client is more open to overlooking details that you won't – like licensing, worker's compensation, liability insurance and acquiring the proper permits for work.
If you don't check, you won't know. And that could cost you.
Hire on Value, Not Price
There's nothing wrong with keeping a keen eye on expenses to increase your profitability, but it can be hazardous to your financial health to focus on frugality at the expense of other considerations. In other words, beware of being penny wise and pound foolish.
Make sure all bids and estimates are based on the same scope of work before you evaluate the pricing. Estimates that come in way under par can be a red flag for substandard work or heinous overcharges, while an out of the ballpark high estimate may uncover a core obstacle that the others didn't accommodate for.
It's important to realize that you may have to pay a little more to get the quality that makes for good business. You may have to pay a slight premium for reliability and availability. Rock bottom pricing that doesn't move at the speed you need is hardly a bargain if it costs you more in the long run.
Your goal should be to decrease costs, not cut corners. There is a distinct difference and quality contractors will help you discern the difference as you build your real estate investment business.


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Pregnant Fairy 2 by mistweaversrealmWatch
©2008-2017 mistweaversrealm
another view
wow, you are very detailed in your work, I never could grasp the patience and handy work of clay.
thanks, I never thought I could sculpt. It takes lots of patience and practice but can be very rewarding.
I imagine, the end result is amazing. There was always this fidgety-ness of working in a small contained spot that I have been trying to work off for a long time.
This is so beautiful. I can't believe how vivid these figurines seem.
What materials do you use?
What materials do you use?
Wow - she's beautiful!
She's gorgeous! The pleasant look on her face is so beautiful. She's going to be one busy fairy with two babies!


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The Huddersfield Town Club Charter outlines principal commitments and policies, including those for ticketing, to ensure transparency and accountability.
Huddersfield Town is always reviewing key policies and these may change during the course of the season; if they do, this Charter will be updated.
Huddersfield Town is committed to providing excellent quality service and a value for money match day experience. They are an integral part of our ten values.
Mission statement
The Club's strategy is unchanged from the start of the 'New Era'
"….working together to be a successful, sustainable and financially viable Football Club, that we can all take pride in…."
The Club's 10 values will be at the heart of everything it does:
- Honesty - It will be fair, truthful and morally upright
- Integrity - It will be steadfast and adhere to high principles and professional standards
- Trust - It will give people confidence in the good qualities of the Club, especially fairness, honour and ability
- Commitment - It will be devoted and dedicated to the Club, the players, the fans and its Community
- Pride - It will recognise the importance of all the Club efforts and achievement; that have made Yorkshire and our club great
- Respect - It will have high regard, recognition and appreciation for everyone we deal with
- Quality - It will strive to have the highest standards we can in everything undertaken by the club
- Value - It will provide value for money
- Success - It will be driven and focused on achieving individual, collective and Club success
- Character - It will be courageous, straight talking and entrepreneurial together with all its other qualities and values that is what will make Huddersfield Town distinctive
From its mission statement and values, the Club makes a 10 point pledge to its supporters, people and community to be:
- Always Sincere, Never Pretentious
- Always Positive, Never Downhearted
- Always Personal, Never Condescending
- Always Striving, Never Pushy
- Always Straight Talking, Never Lecturing
- Always Leading, Never Dictating
- Always Confident, Never Arrogant
- Always Inspiring, Never Depressing
- Always Honest, Never Deceitful
- Always HTAFC, Never Self Interested
The Club will:
- Improve the match day experience, on and off the pitch
- Improve quality and breadth of communication with supporters groups
- Create an inspiring environment where people want to be associated
- Maintain a high level of commitment to all its supporters, especially families and young supporters
- Be seen as entrepreneurial, courageous, confident and willing to take a risk
- Make a difference in the community
- Attract new people to its following
- Become the place to be seen, be the place to do business, the place to bring your family and the place to enjoy football
- Embrace new business, youth and fresh thinking
- Have an open door policy; it will be accessible - everyone is welcome to enjoy a family, business or social day out that will entertain and cross all divides
We believe these qualities and this approach makes us "The Yorkshire Club".
Huddersfield Town's supporters are defined as:-
Individual supporters, whether:
- Season Card holders
- Blue & White Foundation members
- Patrons
- White Rose Club members
- Casual match attendees
- PPG Canalside members
- Commercial business partners, whether Season Card holders or casual non-match day visitors to the stadium
- Retail customers in the Stadium Superstore, the Packhorse Centre store or online
- Visitors to its offices, Club and PPG Canalside
- Huddersfield Town staff
Huddersfield Town regards excellent service as a top priority for the business.
Any complaints or general enquiries are initially channelled into its general enquiries line 01484 484112, and then routed to the relevant department if the enquiries operative is not able to give a satisfactory answer.
General enquiries response times may vary due to the high volume of calls, particularly when match tickets go on sale.
It is the Club's policy to respond to supporters within a maximum of seven working days and this will be done either by telephone, email or letter. If it is not possible to provide a full response at that time, an acknowledgement will be sent and a detailed reply will follow within 21 working days of receipt of the original communication.
If a supporter is not satisfied with the immediate response, or if the issue is more complex, put the complaint or enquiry in writing either by email to email@example.com or by letter to Huddersfield Town, John Smith's Stadium, Stadium Way, Huddersfield, HD1 6PX.
The Stadium office hours are Monday to Friday 9am and 5pm and on match days from 9am until kick-off. Out of hours, Ann would welcome correspondence via email.
Alternatively, you can contact our Supporter Liaison Officer Nathan Hosker on firstname.lastname@example.com, via twitter at @htafcslo and on 07947 564690 on home and away match days.
Contact numbers:
- General help line: 01484 484 112
- Fax: 01484 484101
- Website: www.htafc.com
Department Heads
Hospitality - Tracy Nelson - firstname.lastname@example.com
Partnerships - John Williams – email@example.com
Advertising & Events - Marc Mitchell - email@example.com
Retail – Luke Cowan – firstname.lastname@example.com
Tickets - Sue Beaumont - firstname.lastname@example.com
Supporter Partnerships – Robyn Deegan – firstname.lastname@example.com
Communications & Marketing - David Threlfall-Sykes - firstname.lastname@example.com
PPG Canalside - Lesley Turner - email@example.com
Promotions - Karen Haigh - email@example.com
Huddersfield Town Foundation – Julie Sheffield – email@example.com
Foundation Head of Sport - Rob Day - firstname.lastname@example.com
Supporter Liaison Officer - Nathan Hosker - firstname.lastname@example.com
If you are unsatisfied by the Club's response, or failure to respond, you can contact:
The Independent Football Ombudsman
Suite 49
57 Great George Street
Huddersfield Town staff will conduct themselves in a courteous manner at all times when dealing with supporters and will strictly adhere to the Premier League's anti-discrimination policy.
Anti-Discrimination Policy
The Club seeks to ensure that the talents of all employees are used to the full and that opportunities afforded to employees and prospective employees will be solely on the grounds of capability. In order that this may be achieved, no employee or job applicant will receive less favourable treatment by the Club on any of the following grounds: gender, marital status, race or ethnic origin, religious belief, age, sexual orientation, disability or any other unjustifiable reason. This policy applies to all current and prospective employees.
The Club is a staunch supporter of 'Kick It Out' and the 'Football v Homophobia' campaign amongst others.
The Stadium has won praise and awards for its design in relation to disabled facilities and regular consultation with the disability bodies within the district has helped it achieve this.
Details of any changes to the ticketing policy at the Stadium are publicised through the Club's official website, twitter feed, match day programme and advertisements placed in the local paper and other media.
Huddersfield Town will use all reasonable endeavours to give the earliest possible notice of any changes to its ticketing policy and the reasons for such changes.
All ticket sales are subject to terms and conditions and the stadium regulations. For full details on the ticketing policy please visit the tickets section on the website HERE.
HTAFC is committed to making attending matches as simple as possible.
We are committed to offering supporters the option of pay at the turnstile whenever possible.
In 2010/11 it implemented a new system of automated access control and downloadable e-tickets (TicketFast) and it will continue to innovate into the current season.
Match tickets can be purchased in the following ways, subject to ticket allocation and on-sale dates. Please refer to the Club's communication channels for full ticket details of the relevant fixture. When the Club announces on-sale date and times, the same on-sale date and time applies to the online ticket service (booking fees apply).
Before booking home match tickets, please note that its online booking service is the fastest and most effective way of securing your tickets for matches.
In order to ease ticket purchasing, Huddersfield Town has an online ticket purchase system to satisfy demand and increase speed of purchase. Tickets may be purchased 24 hours a day, seven days a week:
- Log on to our home page, htafc.com
- click on 'Tickets'
- click on the sub heading of 'Buy Online'.
If you have not purchased match tickets online before and you are already a Season Card holder, you will need to activate your account. If you are not a Season Card holder you will need to register your details and create an account before being able to purchase tickets online.
The Club will continue to implement 'TicketFast', for every Huddersfield Town home fixture throughout the 2016/17 season. This system allows supporters to print their purchased tickets at home (rather than collect from the box office or have them posted out).
Please note that all online sales will be subject to pre-advertised booking fees, although 'print at home' tickets incur no booking fee.
By telephone
Ticket line: 01484 484123
Phonline Opening Hours:
Monday to Friday 9am-5pm
Saturday (match days) 9am until kick-off
Saturday (non-match days) 9am- noon.
You will require your postcode and house number, together with a valid credit/debit card.
In person
Ticket Office Opening Hours:
Monday to Friday 9am-5pm
Saturday (non-match day) 9am- noon
Saturday (match day) from 9am until kick-off.
Payment Options
All major credit/debit cards are accepted with the exception of American Express and Diners Club Cards.
All card transactions are subject to booking fees and transaction charges as outlined.
In addition, Huddersfield Town offers supporters the chance to pay for their Season Card by instalment plan.
Away Supporters
The Club abides by the Premier League's regulations governing the allocation of tickets to away supporters.
The Club does not charge admission prices to supporters of a visiting club that is higher than those charged to our own supporters for comparable seating. The away supporters' seats are in the Chadwick Lawrence Stand (South Stand) and the comparable home area is the Fantastic Media Family Stand Upper Tier (North Stand). In particular any concessionary rates offered to senior citizens and junior supporters will apply to supporters of a visiting club.
Disabled Access
The Stadium currently has a minimum of 72 wheelchair spaces situated in the Revell Ward Lower Tier, 16 wheelchair spaces in the LV=Britannia Rescue Stand and 16 wheelchair spaces in the Chadwick Lawrence Stand and all have provision for the carer to sit with the supporter.
Details of all ticketing arrangements and its disabled support services can be obtained from its Disability Liaison Officer by contacting 01484 484102; by fax 01484 484101; by email email@example.com or by post to Sue Farrell, Disability Liaison Officer, Huddersfield Town, Stadium Way, Huddersfield, HD1 6PX.
The Club provides support for disabled spectators and their carers and was commended in a NADS (National Association for Disabled Supporters) audit report for its overall facilities and helpful staff. Sue Farrell can be contacted for details of its disabled facilities and ticket allocation (01484 484102).
Huddersfield Town will continue to promote greater accessibility of tickets for matches, with a range of prices and facilities that encourage the widest possible support.
The Club recognises the need to encourage the attendance at matches of families and children to help ensure continuity of support in future years. Huddersfield Town has a dedicated family area, the Fantastic Media Stand Upper Tier. This is an exclusive area for home supporters in family groups. Adults without accompanying children will not be admitted except in exceptional circumstances at the discretion of the Club.
The Club has also introduced a 'Family Value Ticket' which offers savings for family groups in the Fantastic Media Stand Upper Tier.
Its focus is on choice and value for money - the ticket prices offered are competitive and give wide range for the quality of seating provided.
The Club uses a categorised system for match day pricing of league games categories A-C and PROMO. The categories reflect supporter demand and match day costs. Categories will be published at least 14 days in advance of the match for league games. Prices will increase on match day.
Cup Competitions
Tickets for Cup competitions are priced as home League games or, dependent on the stage of the competition and agreement with the opposition, may be reduced.
The Club offers concessionary rates on match tickets for Under-18s and Over-60s.
Disabled tickets are available with free access for the PA or carer (this applies to both match tickets and Season Cards).
League match day pricing offers
During the course of the season the Club may provide special offer prices (in the past these have included 'Friend for a Fiver' and 'Quid a Kid').
Those special offers are aimed at specific target audiences.
The Club will continue to participate actively in Premier League promotions.
The Club will use complementary tickets to introduce new supporters and reward supporters as it feels is appropriate.
Away Matches
Ticket priority for away matches is as follows:
Category 1 - Terriers on Tour Members AND Blue & White Foundation Members/Patrons who are also Season Card Holders
Category 2 - Season Card Holders
Category 3 - Blue & White Foundation Members and Patrons
Category 4 - General Sale
Should this change at any point during the season it will be advertised on the website.
The complex combination of TV and the EFL, added to Cup fixtures for both the League Cup and the FA Cup, means certain matches may be subject to change of match date and kick-off time. It is the responsibility of the ticket holder to ascertain the rescheduled match date and kick-off time, which is communicated through the Club's communication channels.
Season Card Holder Benefits in the 2016/17 season
HTAFC is committed to giving added benefits to Season Card holders wherever possible. Please find a list below of the intended benefits for the 2016/17 season. This list will be amended and updated throughout the season
Ticket Benefits
- Discount on cup games where agreed by the opposition
- Allocated seat for every home league game (subject to change)
- Superior ticket priority for away games compared with non-Season Card holders (walk up)
- Discounted games for friends and family may be offered during the season
- Free Season Card wallet
Retail Benefits
- Season Card holders late night Christmas shopping event and early access sale event
- Season Card holders discount on replica shirts post-Christmas
Commercial/Hospitality Benefits
- Opportunity to 'try before you buy' in White Rose Club at beginning of season (subject to availability)
Other Benefits
- Discount on entry to Academy games at Stadium
- Discounted admission to club events throughout the season (e.g. £2 off Comedy Night at PPG Canalside)
Season Card holders who wish to bring a friend or relative to a game will be able to transfer with their friend paying match day price. Where possible exchanges should be carried out prior to match day.
Every effort is made to facilitate the return and redistribution of unwanted tickets. Following the introduction of legislation to combat ticket touts (section 166 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994), any member of the public would be committing an offence if they should offer for sale any ticket that they have purchased.
Unwanted tickets should be returned to the Club before the date of the fixture where, providing the card holder has a genuine reason for returning the ticket(s) a full refund will be given.
If any fixture should be postponed before kick-off, ticket holders will be entitled to admission to the re-arranged match. If the match should be abandoned after kick off, ticket holders will be entitled to half price admission to the re-arranged game. Should the match be abandoned after the second half has kicked off, then no refund will be given.
Membership Schemes
The Club runs the following membership schemes:
- Season Card holders
- Blue & White Foundation
- Patrons Club
"Huddersfield Town is Fantastic for Families"
Huddersfield Town is committed to working with young people in "it's Heartland" and we adopt a policy of encouraging family groups in all areas of the ground. "It's Heartland" encompasses Huddersfield and the Heavy Woollen district extending into Wakefield, Brighouse and towards the Pennines, Halifax, Leeds and the Holme Valley.
HTAFC is one of just six clubs to have achieved the Football League Family Excellence Award for eight consecutive seasons; this is something the Club is very proud of.
Retail Merchandise
Time limit for returned goods is 28 days after date of purchase.
All goods must be returned in an unworn/unused condition with original packaging (goods will be examined and a form will be completed).
Proof of purchase is required for cash refunds, otherwise credit note/voucher or replacement goods will be offered.
Refunds will be returned according to original payment method.
If there is no receipt and the price has been subsequently reduced, then only the sale price is given as credit note/voucher or replacement goods. Any goods found to be faulty may be given a cash refund. They must be accompanied by proof of purchase on return.
The Club is unable to exchange or refund a custom printed shirt if the size is incorrect (unless it is faulty) or accept responsibility if a player leaves the Club or changes his squad number.
The Club promises that to its knowledge, its products are:
- Of satisfactory quality and safe to use
- Fit for the purpose for which they are sold
- As described (packaging and signage)
Home shirts have a lifespan of one season. Away shirts will be introduced every season and may be used the following campaign as a third kit shirt. If the kit clashes, the Club may use another change of kit. Training kits are changed annually.
N.B. The kit cycle is dependent on kit and main sponsors. From time to time the Club may introduce one-off limited edition shirts (such as the 'Help for Heroes' shirt).
Retail 'Click & Collect' Terms & Conditions
If you are unable to collect the parcel one week after your confirmation email has been sent, the Club will contact you to arrange an alternative delivery. This may include a change of delivery method which could have an effect on the post and packing charges on your order.
In the event that you are not able to collect the parcel before the date specified and we are unable to complete the order, you may be charged a £5 administrative charge.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Huddersfield Town is totally committed to achieving best practice and being a good corporate citizen. This involves corporate leadership by creating innovative programmes in our immediate and wider community beyond the industry norm.
The 'Keep It Up' (KIU) campaign and Yorkshire Air Ambulance
In 2016/17 the players' training range will once again carry the Yorkshire Air Ambulance logo. The KIU campaign is a unique charitable partnership where the Club will raise the profile of Yorkshire Air Ambulance as a charity and raise money for it as well as the HTAFC Academy. 50p of every £1 raised goes to the Charity and 50p to the Huddersfield Town Football Club Academy. Over £1million has been raised since the scheme's inception in 2009.
As part of the fundraising we are also promoting clothes and shoe recycling through a 'Bag It Up' campaign to collect unneeded items.
The Town Foundation
The Huddersfield Town Foundation Ltd is a registered charity which aims to make a significant difference to the lives of children and young people within the community. By investing in the next generation through simple but effective projects and initiatives, the charity actively engages with young people, creating trust, building bonds and forming communities.
In addition, Huddersfield Town also supports many other local charities through this official requests process.
Official Charity Requests
As an organisation, the Club is inundated with requests for support from a huge number of really worthwhile causes.
It is impossible for us to help every one of them and choosing between them has proved incredibly difficult for our staff, as such individual requests cannot be supported.
Charities asking for prizes can put their name down to attend a Charity Day at the Stadium, get a discount on merchandise in the Club's retail outlets and have the opportunity to get their merchandise signed by the players. Huddersfield Town regrets that other requests for charitable support outside these arrangements will be declined.
For further details, please email email@example.com with your contact details and the name of the registered charity you are fundraising for.
Award-winning Community Activities
Huddersfield Town will continue to support the development of community-based projects.
The Club's highly successful and award winning Football in the Community (FITC) programme is managed by The Huddersfield Community Trust and continues to grow and provides many different activities for the community (that include a schools programme, birthday treats and holiday soccer schools which are open to boys and girls of all abilities). It continues to operate from The Zone, a standalone indoor facility adjacent to the Stadium.
FITC seeks to actively encourage more people, especially children, to play and watch football and also educate them in issues including teamwork, racial discrimination, fair play and also how to lead a healthy lifestyle. The Trust and FITC also assists within the community by way of providing help and transport for senior citizens to Day Centres and the disabled, through schemes such as the 'Good Mood League'. It also runs 'Walking Football' for over 40s.
Huddersfield Town's FITC department works with over 40 schools per half term and Youth Clubs in projects for social inclusion and cohesion, designed to encourage anti-drug messages and diverting children from anti-social behaviour. For more information on Huddersfield Town FITC ring 01484 484189 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Club has also formed innovative partnerships with:
- Kirklees College, the local further education college based in Huddersfield and Dewsbury. We are forging strong links with young people in education to promote and inspire personal development and sporting excellence.
- Kirklees Active Leisure, a local provider of leisure services in "Our Heartland" which operates 11 public leisure centres. This aims to promote health and fitness through sport.
The Club is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and to protect them from harm. All our policies and procedures that are listed below are reviewed regularly to ensure they are in line with current guidance and good practice. The safeguarding policy will be evaluated and reviewed annually and will be subject to Board approval to ensure it remains in line with statutory guidance and relevant to the work of the organisation.
- Recruitment and selection
- Inclusion and probationary reviews
- Supervision and appraisals
- Training and development
- Health and safety
- Disciplinary policy and grievance procedures
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Code of professional conduct
- Equal opportunities
- Email, internet and telephone policy
- Whistle blowing policy
- Data protection
The Huddersfield Town 'Success Centre'
Huddersfield Town's Success Centre is situated at the Stadium and has been operating since April 1999. The 'Success Centre' is aimed at young people who have been identified by their school as those who may benefit from intensive work in numeracy and literacy through IT.
The Club actively hosts and supports the centre by providing football related rewards and access to players as incentives for children.
The centre also works with local community groups through family learning initiatives and U3A.
Huddersfield Town recognises that it must communicate proactively and widely with all its supporters and stakeholders. The Club is particularly proud of our relationship with supporters clubs and will continue to positively respond to branch requests for Club officials to attend meetings.
The Club will communicate with stakeholders, supporters and the general public on regular intervals through forums, questionnaires and focus groups and by the publication of current policies on major issues in a clear and precise manner.
All major news and announcements are publicised through the official website, the Club's social media feeds and through the local media. Information is also being passed on through frequent supporters' meetings attended by Club officials.
We will use all available media in particular:
- htafc.com
- htafccommercial.com
- Twitter: @htafcdotcom, @htafctickets, @htafcbusiness, @htafccanalside, @htafcmegastore, @townfoundation
- Facebook (www.facebook.com/htafcdotcom)
- Instagram: @htafcdotcom
- Snapchat: @htafcsnap
- BBC Radio Leeds
- Independent radio networks
- Local papers (including, but not exclusive to, the Huddersfield Examiner)
- Customer Relationship Management - direct email communication to our 130,000 contacts
- Bluetooth messaging
The Club will endeavour to publicise changes to membership schemes, as they are known, via standard channels of communication including the Stadium reception, Stadium Superstore, official website, match day programme and direct mailings.
The Club welcomes and actively encourages communication, interaction and engagement with supporters, including via Q&As, fan meetings and social media.
However, foul, abusive, insulting, indecent or threatening words or behaviour towards the Club, its staff or players and fellow supporters is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
In addition, where the misconduct contains reference to any one or more of a person's ethnic origin, colour, race, nationality, faith, gender, sexual orientation or disability, or are of a sexual nature including pertaining to LGBT or BAME then this will be deemed as aggravating matters and the Club shall consider the imposition of an increased sanction.
The Club reserves its right to take reasonable action in response, as it sees fit - including but not limited to, withdrawing Season Cards, memberships, refusing access to games, banning from the Stadium and other Club facilities and blocking on social media.
Where appropriate relevant football, supporter and judicial authorities may also be informed.
Supporter Consultation
The Club engages in a two-way relationship with supporters in anything from ad-hoc meetings involving one supporter group member, to organised meetings which involve Club department heads and a representative from each supporter group.
In the 2013/14 season, the Club also introduced the 'All Together Town' fan engagement programme which involves Directors and Club staff meeting with a panel of supporters 4-6 times per season to feedback on important issues. Further to this, the Club sends surveys out to the wider fanbase at intervals during the season. This is something the Club will be continuing with in the 2016/17 season. Minutes are published on htafc.com.
In August 2014, Nathan Hosker was appointed as the Club's voluntary Supporter Liaison Officer and he can be contacted on firstname.lastname@example.com, via twitter at @htafcslo and on 07947 564690 on home and away match days.
Huddersfield Town is also a full participant in the EFL National Fans Survey which researches the behaviour attitude and experience of fans from all Clubs in the EFL.
The Club continues to develop ways in which to consult supporters and supporter groups. The Club holds corporate events throughout the season where directors, management and playing staff are accessible to our sponsors in an informal atmosphere.
The Club also organises variations on the 'open-day' theme, when fans can meet the players and management.
If you are visiting the Club to watch a game, check out its 'Fan Guide' on the website.
Of the 24,500 capacity there are approximately 17,000 Season Card holders. A maximum of 4,052 tickets are available to the visiting Club, all in covered areas, and the balance is available to non-Season Card holders.
The Club introduced a full no smoking policy at the Stadium from the start of season 2007/08, which includes all areas (seating, concourses, corporate hospitality lounges, toilets etc). There is no re-admittance if supporters want to leave the Stadium to smoke. This includes e-cigarettes and vapours.
Huddersfield Town practices a zero tolerance policy towards racism and anti-Semitism. National anti-racism campaigns have been fully endorsed by the Club such as 'Football vs. Homophobia', 'Kick It Out' and 'Show Racism the Red Card'. Huddersfield Town are committed to meeting the Racial Equality Standard for professional football Clubs.
Racial, homophobic, transphobic or other discriminatory abuse, chanting or harassment is strictly forbidden and will result in arrest and/or ejection from the Ground. The Club may impose a ban for one or more matches.
The Club makes its supporters' safety a top priority and works closely with all parties. The Club meets with all its site partners at least every two weeks and in advance of all matches and events at the Stadium for events planning and safety team meetings.
These include Police and all emergency services, the Stadium Safety Officer, Stadium Safety Certificate holder, its Stadium teams and representatives from all other users of the Club's site.
There are two official car parks at the ground on a Huddersfield Town match day; the St Andrew's Road car park, capacity 456, and the Town Avenue car park, capacity 336.
Season Card holders have first refusal on these spaces and any remaining spaces go on sale on a match by match basis.
Notice: Entry to the Ground is expressly subject to acceptance by the visitor of these Ground Regulations and the rules and regulations of FIFA, UEFA, The Football Association, the Premier League and the English Football League (EFL) in respect of the relevant competition. The Ground Regulations incorporate the Club's Customer Charter (if any). Entry to the Ground shall constitute acceptance of the Ground Regulations.
"Ground" means this football stadium and all locations owned, occupied or utilised by the Club.
"Club" means this football club.
"Match" means any association football match (or any part or aspect of such a match) taking place at the Ground.
"Material" means any audio, visual or audio-visual material or any information or data.
"Football Authority" means each of the English Football League (EFL), the Premier League, The Football Association, the Football Association of Wales, FIFA, UEFA and any other relevant governing body of association football
1 Notwithstanding possession of any ticket the Club, any police officer or authorised steward may refuse entry to (or eject from) the Ground any person:
1.1 that fails (or in the Club's reasonable opinion is likely to fail) to comply with these Ground Regulations or any reasonable instruction issued by a police officer or authorised steward; and/or
1.2 whose presence within the Ground is, or could (in the Club's reasonable opinion), constitute a source of danger, nuisance or annoyance to any other person.
2 On no account will admission be granted to a person who is the subject of a current Banning Order under the Football Spectators Act 1989 (as amended) or has been convicted of ticket touting offences under the Criminal Justice and Public Order 1994 (as amended).
3 The Club excludes to the maximum extent permitted by law any liability for loss, injury or damage to persons/property in or around the Ground.
4 No guarantees can be given by the Club that a Match will take place at a particular time or on a particular date and the Club reserves the right to reschedule the Match without notice and without any liability whatsoever.
5 In the event of the postponement or abandonment of the Match, refunds (if any) will be made in accordance with the Club's Customer Charter. The Club will have no further liability whatsoever, including (but not limited to) any indirect or consequential loss or damage, such as (but not limited to) loss of enjoyment or travel costs.
6 All persons seeking entrance to the Ground acknowledge the Club's right to search any person entering the Ground and to refuse entry to or eject from the Ground any person refusing to submit to such a search.
7 The following articles must not be brought within the Ground - knives, fireworks, smoke canisters, air-horns, flares, weapons, dangerous or hazardous items, laser devices, bottles, glass vessels, cans, poles and any article that might be used as a weapon and/or compromise public safety. Any person in possession of such items will be refused entry to the Ground.
8 Further, you may not bring into the Ground any sponsorship, promotional or marketing materials save in respect of official club merchandise and/or other football related clothing worn in good faith nor may you offer (either free or for sale by any person) any goods (including literature) of any nature without the express written approval of the Club's management.
9 The use of threatening behaviour, foul or abusive language is strictly forbidden and will result in arrest and/or ejection from the Ground. The Club may impose a ban for one or more Matches.
10 Racial, homophobic or discriminatory abuse, chanting or harassment is strictly forbidden and will result in arrest and/or ejection from the Ground. The Club may impose a ban for one or more Matches.
11 The following acts are offences under the Football (Offences) Act 1991 (as amended):
11.1 The throwing of any object within the Ground without lawful authority or excuse.
11.2 The chanting of anything of an indecent or racialist nature.
11.3 The entry onto the playing area or any adjacent area to which spectators are not generally admitted without lawful authority or excuse. Conviction may result in a Banning Order being made.
12 All persons entering the Ground may only occupy the seat allocated to them by their ticket and must not move from any one part of the Ground to another without the express permission or instruction of any steward, officer of the Club and/or any police officer.
13 Nobody may stand in any seating area whilst play is in progress. Persistent standing in seated areas whilst play is in progress is strictly forbidden and may result in ejection from the Ground.
14 The obstruction of gangways, access ways, exits and entrances, stairways and like places is strictly forbidden. Nobody entering the Ground shall be permitted to climb any structures within the Ground.
15 EFL stadia are smoke-free and smoking is not permitted inside the Ground.
16 Mobile telephones and other mobile devices are permitted within the Ground PROVIDED THAT (i) they are used for personal and private use only (which, for the avoidance of doubt and by way of example only, shall not include the capturing, logging, recording, transmitting, playing, issuing, showing, or any other communication of any Material for any commercial purposes); and (ii) no Material that is captured by a mobile telephone or other mobile device may be published or otherwise made available to any third parties including, without limitation, via social networking sites.
17 Under the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc) Act 1985 (as amended), the following are offences for which a person can be arrested by a police officer and conviction could result in a Banning Order being made:
17.1 Attempting to enter the Ground or being inside the Ground whilst drunk;
17.2 Being in possession of any intoxicating liquor, or bottle, can or other portable container and which could cause damage or personal injury, when entering the Ground or in a public area of the Ground from which the event can be directly viewed.
18 Any individual who has entered any part of the Ground designated for the use of any group of supporters to which he does not belong may be ejected from the Ground either for the purposes of his own safety or for any other reason.
19 Save as set out in paragraph 16 above, no person (other than a person who holds an appropriate licence) may capture, log, record, transmit, play, issue, show or otherwise communicate (by digital or other means) any Material in relation to the Match, any players or other persons present in the Ground and/or the Ground, nor may they bring into the Ground or use within the Ground (or provide to, facilitate or otherwise assist another person to use within the Ground) any equipment or technology which is capable of capturing, logging, recording, transmitting, playing, issuing, showing or otherwise communicating (by digital or other means) any such Material. Copyright, database rights and any other intellectual property rights in any unauthorised recording or transmission is assigned (by way of present assignment of future rights) to the Club and the EFL. You further agree (if and whenever required to do so by the Club and/or the EFL) to promptly execute all instruments and do all things necessary to vest the right, title and interest in such rights to the Club and the EFL absolutely and with full title guarantee.
20 No goods (including literature) of any nature may be offered either free or for sale by any person within the Ground without the express written permission of the Club.
21 Tickets are not transferable and may not be offered for sale without the prior written permission of the Club - or otherwise in accordance with the relevant ticket terms and conditions. Any tickets that are transferred are transferred subject to these Ground Regulations. Any tickets offered for sale may be confiscated by any steward, officer of the Club or any police officer. The Club reserves the right to refuse admission to or eject from the Ground and/or "blacklist", any person who has offered for sale or transferred his/her ticket in contravention of the relevant ticket terms and conditions (and/or the holder of any ticket that has been transferred in contravention of the relevant ticket terms and conditions). Tickets remain the property of the Club at all times.
22 CCTV cameras are in use around and in the Ground. Body worn video cameras recording video and/or audio may also be used as appropriate, for example to record prohibited behaviours as referenced in paragraphs 9 and 10. The Club may itself use or pass to the police or any Football Authority or other clubs, any recordings for use in any proceedings.
23 At all times whilst present in the Ground, persons must comply with any and all instructions of any steward or officer of the Club and/or any police officer. Failure to comply with any instruction may lead to immediate ejection from the Ground.
24 By entering the Ground, all persons are acknowledging that photographic images and/or video recordings (and/or stills taken from video recordings) may be taken of them and may also be used, by way of example and without limitation, in televised coverage of the game or by or on behalf of the Club or any Football Authority (or their commercial partners) for marketing, training or promotional purposes. Entry into the Ground is confirmation that all persons have consented to such use of their image. If these images should feature an individual prominently the Club will make reasonable efforts to gain the consent of that person before publishing such images, however, if this is not possible, then entry into the Ground shall be deemed consent unless the Club is notified in writing to the contrary.
25 Further to paragraph 24, if such person is under 18 years of age, the parent, guardian, or responsible adult who is accompanying them into the Ground shall be deemed to have provided consent on their behalf.
26 Refused entry to (or ejection from) the Ground may lead to further action by the Club including, but not limited to, the withdrawal of any season ticket (without reimbursement), Club Membership and other benefits.
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They say it's all about Ohio – but it's now all about the campaign workers in Ohio.
The presidential and vice-presidential candidates crisscrossed the U.S. swing states this weekend, and none more than Ohio, in which the race for the state's 18 Electoral College votes is too close to call.
Mitt Romney's campaign plane flew into the airport of this rusting northern city on Sunday as Vice-President Joe Biden's Air Force Two plane was taking off. Meanwhile, in a full-court Romney campaign push, vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan stopped off in central Ohio to speak at a rally, while House Speaker John Boehner (the most powerful elected Republican in the country) made a whistle stop tour by bus of several communities in suburban and rural northeast Ohio.
Mitt Romney kicked off the mad-dash weekend Friday night with a rally of 20,000 outside Cincinnati, the scene of a large rally Sunday night by President Barack Obama. Mr. Obama is scheduled to wrap up his campaign Monday afternoon with the mother of all rallies in Columbus's hockey arena headlined by Bruce Springsteen.
The Romney campaign believes that support for Mr. Obama, even in the northeastern Democratic heartland, is weakening, and Democrats are doing everything they can to shore up that vote.
Both sides emphasize that the race is coming down to their grassroots organization and speakers try to pump up their workers for the task that's still ahead.
"America is watching us," said Ed Fitzgerald, the Democratic chief executive of Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland. "We can make history here."
The push seems to be working: Across the state, lineups to cast ballots at early voting polling stations were enormous.
Voting in Cleveland's poorer east-side took on a "tail-gate party" atmosphere as the lineup for the sole polling station snaked around several blocks. While vans drove up and down the streets playing dance music and speeches by and for Mr. Obama, people set up large grills and cooked hamburgers and hot dogs.
This was an almost entirely black turnout and one that appeared exclusively to be supporting Mr. Obama.
Pastors in the mostly African American downtown churches implored their congregations to walk or drive to the polling station and cast their ballots, in what has been called the Souls For Polls operation. "It started with the Obama campaign in 2008," explained Thione Niang, an Obama organizer from Cleveland, now based in Washington. "And this year it's gotten even bigger."
While ostensibly the push to vote is politically neutral, the black community, especially in these hard-hit cities of the rust belt, are mostly Obama supporters. And outside many of the churches, Obama organizers dispensed a brochure entitled "We've got your back" a story of how and why the black community supported the President.
"It takes this kind of effort to get our community to vote," said Darryck Collins, a black community organizer of a program called Pathways to Employment.
In sharp contrast, he noted with regret, few blacks showed up at the rousing rally with Mr. Biden in Lakewood, a suburb west of Cleveland. "I don't know why more didn't come."
Black voters, particularly young black voters, have a poor turnout record, he said. With a very large segment of Mr. Obama's support coming from the black community, the President's success at winning re-election depends on getting those supporters out to vote.
Republican supporters are historically more reliable at turning out.
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Across the street, Janet Brandt, 57, a volunteer for Mr. Romney's campaign, says she got involved to "save freedom in America."
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Welcome To Clarksville Steam And Gas Engine Association
Clarksville Steam and Gas Engine Association is an organization based in Clarksville, Michigan. Our intent is to preserve the agricultural history of farming and farm machinery, through a yearly show.
Membership to our club is $15.00 for the entire family for the first year and $10.00 each year thereafter. Current membership is 100+ families.
Meetings are held the Third Monday of each month
We are located in Clarksville, MI about half way between Grand Rapids and Lansing south off I-96 at exit 59, then south to Robbins road and west to show grounds.
Looking forward to the 2016 show, Clarksville Steam and Gas Engine Association would like to thank everyone who came out last year, and we are looking forward to seeing you again!
August 25, 26, & 27, 2016
Gas Tractors
Steam Engines
Bus Parking
Handicapped Parking
Friday August 26th All Day
Senior Citizen Day - $3.00 for persons 65 and over all other adults $4.00
Tractor Parade Friday & Saturday
About 4:00pm
Gates Open/Attended 8AM - 8PM Daily
Adults …………..$4.00
Children 12 and under - Free with an Adult
No refunds due to rain
All proceeds from the show go into putting the Clarksville Steam and Gas Engine Association Show on each year.
All entertainment is family friendly so bring the whole family and enjoy a day of Old Time Farming Demonstration, Shopping for the Men And Ladies!
Craft and Flea Market Space rent is $20.00 per space for the weekend.
Primitive camping is $20.00 for the weekend plus $6.00 per person for weekend gate fee. No over night camping in the parking lot.
South of the Village of Clarksville on Nash Hwy to Robbins Road, which is the road just south of Big L Lumber then west to show grounds. Watch for signs
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Yeah, I've been using Haskell. Wanna fight about it? Clojure isn't everything, you know? Just most of everything. Something you may not know is that Haskell was actually my first language, but until recently I had not used it for around 4 years! Haskell was the first language that ever made sense to me, but I hopped to Clojure pretty quickly after that and there were a lot of awesome things I missed. In particular, I never really got applicative functors, monads, etc. I recently got back into Haskell for a delightful change of pace as well as to learn these things I missed.
Haskell has more or less been a joy to work with. Two areas I found extremely hard to get into are JSON parsing and HTTP clients. I'll be writing a blog post about the latter soon, but this post is going to focus on JSON parsing.
In Clojure, we can just parse a JSON object into a Clojure map. Hash maps in Clojure are heterogenous in nature and the keys and values can be any type. We don't have this looseness in Haskell, and the way its type system works means we have to do things differently.
Usually, you're going to want to define some data types that you will populate with your parsed JSON. Usually, JSON maps to types very easily. First of all, lets get some JSON to parse. Let's use some JSON returned by refheap's API:
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This is a simple one-level JSON object.
Aeson uses Text instead of regular strings for everything, so to make things a lot easier on us, we should use a language extension that overloads strings so that we can just write literal strings and they will work for where Text is expected:
Let's go ahead and throw some imports in to start:
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Now here is the interesting part: we need a type to contain our parsed json info. Take a look at our JSON. It is… a paste! A paste is a thing. It is a thing that always has certain properties. It maps perfectly to a data type:
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We defined the
Paste type with record syntax to make it easy to get pieces of
it out and to remember what each field is. All of this should be self
explanatory. Note that the
user is wrapped in Maybe because anonymous users
can create pastes and in those cases there wouldn't be a user at all, so it'd be
Now here comes the complicated part: we need to define an instance of the
FromJSON typeclass for our new
Paste type. If we do this, we will be able to
decode our json directly to our
Paste type. Aeson also has a ToJSON typeclass
for if we wanted to write code to convert our
Paste type back to JSON, but
we're not interested in that. Let's write our instance:
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Unfortunately, to really understand this example you need to have knowledge of applicative functors. Explaining those and the above use of them is waaaaaay beyond the scope of this post. I'll try to make some sense of it though.
Let's break things down. The first question you'll probably ask is "What in
tarnations does
.: do!?!?!". In this case, it looks inside our object for a
JSON key called
"lines" and plucks the value out. You'll notice that we also
.:?. The difference between it and
.: is that
.:? allows for the key
to not exist or be null. It returns a
Maybe. Remember that that is precisely
what we need for our possibly non-existing
user key.
As far as the applicative functor stuff, you can more or less see what is
happening. Picture it like this: each argument to
Paste is in a box. The
operator magic is taking each argument out of its box and applying
Paste to
it. The end result is a new
Paste. If any of the extractions with
.: or
.:? fails, the result will be Nothing and we wont get a paste back. Let's try
this out. First define our JSON string. This needs to be a bytestring:
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Next, we'll decode into our Paste type:
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Awesome! As you can see, our result is wrapped in
Just. If our JSON didn't
contain necessary data or was somehow not well formed, we'd get back
instead. Let's extract the date from the JSON.
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Fantastic. You've just parsed your first JSON in Haskell. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Let's do something a little more complicated now. What if we don't want our date to just be a string? What if we want some sort of date type? What if we want UTCTime? Let's do that. First, we need to import a few more things. Add these imports:
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Now, let's write a simple little function for parsing dates in the format that refheap uses. This example is taken from haskheap and you do not need to understand how it works if you don't already know or care, the important part is how we use it later.
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This function takes the string date from refheap's json and returns
UTCTime. It is wrapped in
Maybe because it could fail if the date isn't
well-formed. Now, let's change our
Paste type to expect
UTCTime instead of a
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Excellent. Now all we need to do is change our
FromJSON instance.
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Easy enough, right? The
Parser type that
.: returns is a monad,
so we just lift our
parseRHTime function into it. Now let's parse our JSON
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Yay! UTCTime! Wee!!!
So yeah, it's actually pretty simple. Usage of Aeson isn't exactly the most well documented thing in the world, and if you don't at least understand applicative functors, the examples can be really intimidating. If none of this makes sense, go dig into LYAH for a while. In particular, the typeclasses through to the applicative functors chapters will help immensely.
Okay, so the above decode-straight-to-a-type sort of thing is the most common
way of working with JSON. But you don't always need or want to define a new type
just to grab a bit of information from some JSON. What if our code only cared
about the number of lines in a paste? We could write a
Lines data type and
then an instance, but is it really worth it? We can just extract that piece
out. Let's rejigger our imports again:
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Now, let's write a function to extract the number of lines from the json.
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This isn't nearly as complicated as it looks. It's mostly just a lot of
destructuring. The meat of the example is that we are decoding the json to
Maybe Value instead of our own type. Our JSON is a big JSON object, and aeson
represents this as a hashmap. We can just look the lines key up in it! Note that
Number type here is a wrapper around the
Number type from attoparsec. It
is just a fancy type for representing different numbers with decent
precision. In this case, it represents an Integer (
I), so we're destructuring
on that constructor.
Well, that's about all there is to it. There is also a funky trick for automatically defining instances, but I'm not a big fan of that and it is outside the scope of this post.
Here is the completed code:
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Not half bad for 44 lines, eh? It isn't nowhere near as intuitive as doing the same things in Clojure is, but that's because Clojure doesn't have Haskell's type system. JSON parsing in Haskell is necessarily complicated, but Aeson does an excellent job of making it not-that-hard. What Aeson really needs is some serious beginner-oriented documentation.
This is the first Haskell blog post I've ever written and is based on the first Haskell code I've written in about 4 years. Please be gentle. If anything is wrong or can be improved, please let me know via email or a comment! I'll be writing a blog post about http-conduit soon because I also found it a huge pain in the ass to work with. Stay tuned.


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Praying Across the Mysteries: A Fresh Look at the Newest Saint's Most Beloved Supplication
As of this weekend, we will now have not one, but two new canonized Pope/Saints in the Church who each fulfilled their Papacies, beginning to end, within my lifetime. Yes I am that old! Laying that thought of my ever-increasing ancientness aside, both contributed to the Church in ways so numerous and far-reaching that it was fitting they be canonized together, and as a duo they "bookended" the 2nd Vatican Council, one by starting the process, and the other by interpreting it in practical and definitive ways so that we could live it out.
One of those ways was in (soon to be) Pope St. John Paul the Great's gift to the Church of the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary. In writing this I am somewhat taking for granted that you, the reader, know what these are. I hope you do. But if not, do just a bit of research on your favorite Catholic search engine and you soon will. They prayerfully illustrate the life of Christ as an adult and throughout His earthly ministry, and add a crucial element to the other three sets of mysteries which were already part of this most marvelous suite of prayers. Like the 72 "books" of the Bible itself, they are both one huge overarching prayer and well over 50 individual ones. They are a powerful and needed gift to us all, and as I alluded to in the title of this piece, were part of what Pope St John Paul the Great called his "favorite prayer." And mine too, I must say. And many of yours.
But, if you are like me, there are times when it all just gets jumbled up while praying. For instance, and I am pretty sure I am not the only one who has done this, have you ever been halfway through the Glorious Mysteries only to realize that it was actually the day for the Sorrowful ones? I did that just last week. Of course that is no sin, perhaps God's way of teaching us something we needed to know that particular day. Nevertheless it can be frustrating. Here\'s one possible solution to that dilemma, a suggestion that will perhaps make that day's Rosary even more meaningful. I call it "praying across the mysteries." It works like this:
Say, for instance, that you are praying the Joyful Mysteries, meditating on the Annunciation. Lovely thoughts cross your mind as your fingers pluck the Hail Mary beads like a guitar, thinking of the blessed Archangel St. Gabriel announcing to our Blessed Mother that one day soon she would be tabernacling the Messiah within her sacred womb. Then it hits you. You were supposed to be thinking about Jesus agonizing in the Garden! Quite a contrast—or is it? At that point you have three choices—to start all over, meditating on the proper mystery of the day, to move forward with the mysteries you were praying, albeit mistakenly, or to step across from one to the other. This, the third choice, is what I most often do when I make such heavenly blunders.
While it may not seem that the Annunciation and the Agony in the Garden are particularly connected, make an attempt to think of how they might be after all. For one thing, in both cases, Mary and Jesus are saying the most difficult "fiats" of their lives. They both say "yes" to the ultimate sacrifice of their lives, reputations, and any chance for what the rest of us might call a mercifully average life. Each are ministered to by angels too, in the case of Mary, St. Gabriel, and in the case of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, unnamed but very real heavenly creatures come to strengthen Him for the task ahead. They both had the capacity to say no as well. Neither would have done so, thanks be to God, but both had free will and could have found an easier way out. Neither chose to walk away, even for a moment, from their heavenly calling. In short, the two outwardly disparate mysteries have far more in common than at first glance.
If you really wish to take this a step further, try sometime praying all five decades in this manner, and give yourself some extra time as this may take a while, but it will be time well-spent. The other two first mysteries are the Resurrection and the Baptism of Our Lord. Again, who is specifically mentioned in all four of these first mysteries? Angels, angels, angels, and angels. How much time do we spend thinking of these heavenly beings and their many interventions in our lives, at conception, birth (and re-birth through baptism), impending death, and our ultimate victory and entrance into the Kingdom through shedding this physical body? Angels are present and active during all four of these personally historic moments in each of our lives. One could likewise take note of the sets of choices to be made during each. Strumming across, rather than simply plucking through each of those mysteries and appreciating their interconnectedness to one other brings a whole other dimension to the salvation story not readily seen alone.
And this is only a teaser, as there are limitless possible combinations of such "cross" (pun definitely intended) pollination of the seeds of Life within the Mysteries of the Holy Rosary. None are right or wrong. But all will enrich your experience with those holy beads of power held within your hands. Add this dimension to the already rich gift of a strong profession of the Catholic/Christian Faith in the Apostle's Creed while holding tightly to our Lord hanging on the Cross for us, repeating six times the bold declaration which the Sacred Liturgy quite literally dares us to speak to our Heavenly Father in the Lord's Prayer or Our Father, another six fresh breaths of worship to the Triune Godhead via the Glory Be to the Father, and finally the heart of the prayer, the Hail Mary, which is built upon Sacred Scripture itself and which \"hinges,\" (again John Paul's word) on the mention of the name of Jesus in each and every one. A more Christo-centric prayer format does not exist aside from the Liturgy and Sacred Scripture itself.
Finally each Rosary, prayed well, includes the intentions or prayer requests of ourselves, our friends and neighbors, the Church, and the world. The sweet Fatima prayer, "Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, and lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of Thy Mercy" which is another addition to the Rosary added after those amazing apparitions of our Blessed Mother to three Portuguese peasant children nearly 100 years ago, gives us the final essential outward-looking vision beyond our sometimes small Church worldview which Pope Francis has so often exhorted us about, a view indispensable to carrying out our parts in the New Evangelization. In that short prayer we ask for forgiveness, pray for mercy for all, and obey Christ's command to love our enemies by praying for them daily.
No wonder it was this holy Pope of the Divine Mercy's "favorite" prayer.
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The finding - a body chemical which appears to protect brain cells from damage - could one day lead to drug treatments for pregnant alcohol abusers.
Foetal alcohol syndrome encompasses a number of problems that can aflict children born to women who drink heavily during pregnancy.
Consequences can include mental retardation and growth problems - FAS is the most common preventable cause of mental retardation in children.
It is caused by the toxic effects of alcohol on the brain cells of the foetus.
However, scientists at Harvard Medical School are unravelling a complex chemical process which may hold the key to preventing at least some of this damage.
They have examined how a protein called NAP - known to protect brain cells from a wide variety of toxins - works in the body.
Mutant mice
Various strains of mice with subtle genetic variations were bred to try to examine exactly how NAP carries out the job.
One strain in particular appeared to lose its ability to protect against everything but alcohol - allowing scientists to look more closely at the anti-alcohol effect.
The result was a clue as to how ethanol in alcoholic drinks wreaks havoc in the developing nervous system of the foetus by preventing a key process from taking place.
Now scientists believe that if they can block this "inhibitory" effect of alcohol, they could prevent much of this developmental damage.
Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they said: "These findings...raise the possibility of identifying safe 'ethanol antagonists'."
Experts say that any drug in the future could help protect the unborn children of alcoholic women who simply cannot control their addiction, even though they are pregnant.