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Football: Saint Joe of the Shankill
The dream for any football loving kid in Northern Ireland has always been and still remains to sign for one of England or Scotland's big guns.
Stepping out at Old Trafford, Anfield, Stamford Bridge, Highbury, Ibrox or Celtic Park is the ultimate ambition.
Constant practice in the street and school playground keeps the faith.
Jumpers for goalposts and all that.
But then, there comes a time, when you reach a certain age, usually around 10 or 11, that a future talent needs a shop window. A stage to show off and develop natural skills. A stepping stone to greatness.
Every professional footballer throughout the world will have their own story of how they were picked from obscurity to play the greatest sport in the world for a living.
In Northern Ireland - for those growing up during the late eighties, nineties and at the very start of the new millennium - a great deal of those tales will centre around a boys club situated in the heart of west Belfast.
A club that has become synonymous with producing some of the finest and most talented footballers in the Province.
For two decades, St Andrews has dominated boys football and a scout from the top teams in England and Scotland would always be on the sidelines.
A team during the troubles when religion didn't matter. The Hammer on the Lower Shankill followed by Paisley Park on the West Circular Road was home to nothing else but football.
There simply isn't a club, at under-age level, in Northern Ireland which comes close to matching their honours - more than 200 trophies won while over 80 schoolboy internationals have been on their books.
St Andrews, therefore, had every right to feel proud as it celebrated it's 20th Anniversary at the Mountainview Club, off the Shankill Road in Belfast yesterday.
But it was a day tinged with sadness as the man known affectionately as Mr St Andrews, Joe Kincaid, announced, after all these years of transforming young people's lives including current internationals Keith Gillespie, Stuart Elliott, Stephen Craigan, Steve Davis, Chris Brunt and Warren Feeney, that he, in his words, will be "taking a back seat".
The founding father of the club needs a rest and Mrs Kincaid wants her husband back.
Twenty years of talent scounting, coaching, player promotion and teenage guidance has finally taken it's toll on the 48-year-old, who started the club after returning home from the World Cup in Mexico in 1986, wondering where the next Norman Whiteside was going to come from.
Kincaid is held in the highest esteem amongst his former players and it's the measure of the man's immense contribution to their careers that the current Northern Ireland heroes flew in especially yesterday to join in the celebrations with many Irish League stars.
They are only too aware that they were part of a special organisation. A youth club that formed the foundations in their life.
But little do they know that the club's success came about through chance.
Kincaid, after returning from Mexico, was well known in the Glencairn and Shankill area as a football man. He'd never really achieved anything as a player but his love and passion for the game was undiminished.
So he was delighted to be asked by a church worker from Cork at St Andrews to coach an under-13 team.
"I was only too happy to accept Andrew Kingston's (church worker) offer, " explains Kincaid. "I wanted to coach and give boys an opportunity to play in a team.
"But the first match was a bit of nightmare. We didn't even have a kit. The boys were running around in Man United and Liverpool tops. They were thrashed 8-1 by Saintfield and a young Chris Morgan scored FIVE.
"This didn't deter me though from setting up a good club for I knew I'd have the pick of the best players in the area because there wasn't a boys team around.
"I went along to the summer coaching courses with the idea of recruiting potential talent for St Andrews.
"And it was at one of the summer coaching courses, at Orangefield, that I first noticed Keith Gillespie. He ran like Seb Coe and his skills were excellent. I knew straight away that he was going to be a great player. I approached his father Harry, explained a little about St Andrews and asked him if he'd like to bring Keith along to the club.
"Keith joined the club, played in our under-13 team along with some exceptional young players, and in the first year won St Andrews' first trophy.
"Keith came through all the teams at St Andrews and I know at times he had a problem with his school Bangor Grammar allowing him to play football. But I think, in all his time with us, he only missed one or two games because he had to play hockey for the school."
Kincaid was determined to make St Andrews a force within the South Belfast League, at all age levels up to 16.
Once Gillespie's young team had moved to the next age group, Kincaid set about establishing more teams and in 1990, St Andrews had four sides in the South Belfast Leagues.
Kincaid didn't just narrow his search to the greater Belfast area, he scoured the entire country for talent.
"I'd contacts all over the place, so if I heard there was a young player down in Newcastle, who caught the eye I'd go and watch him play.
"There was a time when for some reason we had the reputation for nicking players but I can assure you that wasn't the case."
St Andrews grew rapidly, so Kincaid brought in trusted coaches to take charge of the all the different age group teams.
But he made sure that he was still in charge of the youngest team (under-11s) at St Andrews and vetted every player that joined the club.
Simply, a player couldn't sign up St Andrews unless Kincaid watched him play and agreed he was good enough.
Kincaid, who learnt his coaching skills through videos and courses, was thorough in recruiting young players for St Andrews and a week didn't go by where he hadn't watched at least four or five under-age matches. And it was on his way to watch a game that he came across Cardiff City striker Warren Feeney.
Kincaid decided to head over to Strandtown Primary School in east Belfast to view a match but unbeknown to him, the game had been postponed and so he just happened to spot three boys kicking a ball about near a corner flag.
"This little blond kid stood out. So I went over and asked him what his name was. Even in those days Warren was a cheeky little thing and asked why? I told him because I thought he was a decent footballer. Once he told me his name, I was able to tell him I knew his dad and his dad's mate Dennis Reid.
"I honestly believe the big fella upstairs directed me to most of my players."
Recommendations about new players came in on a weekly basis and they were all followed up by Kincaid. That's how the likes of Stuart Elliott, Steve Davis, Chris Brunt and Stephen Craigan all came to play for St Andrews.
"I always told the boys that if they felt a boy they played with in the street or Boys Brigade was good enough to let me know," admitted Kincaid.
"I wouldn't bring a player to the club though unless I was going to play him. That's what I told their fathers. There was no way I was going to allow a kid to be a sub for a year. That's just unfair. At my club every kid was good enough to get a game."
Every season, Kincaid was planning for the following year. There was only one time when Kincaid wasn't able to field a side in the League and that was when Lisburn Youth, with David Healy, Aaron Hughes, Grant McCann and co, swept all before them.
St Andrews have been members of three different leagues during the last 20 years - South Belfast, Dundonald and Lisburn. Kincaid feels extremely proud that they have dominated all the divisions they have played in and when it came to the Northern Ireland Champion of Champions, they cleaned up.
Kincaid says: "I can't think of any side who came close to us. Lisburn Youth, Portadown Boys, Banbridge and Dungoyne all had good sides but nothing compared to what St Andrews produced on a consistent basis.
"After Keith Gillespie helped us win our first Champion of champions in 1987, we never really looked back and his side were something very special.
"I've been very fortunate to have some great teams. The team that included Ryan McCann, Gary Browne, Mark Magennis, Andrew Dickson, Bo Willis, Craig Gilmore and Stevie Ferguson was a cracking team.
"As was Stephen Craigan's side. He came to me from the Beersbridge Road and his was an incredible team with Paul McKnight, Jim Redpath, Jamie Marks, Derek Johnston, John O'Boyle and Sheldon Coulter, who won a European Cup winners medal with Ulster, involved. It was great to watch all the teams move up through the years and then at the end of it move on to pastures new. "
Kincaid played a pivatol role in securing a number of his players cross channel football. Scouts from the major clubs would ask his advice and he in turn would recommend players.
He would watch with a great sense of pride as his boys made their way in the professional game. Not all made it as you can imagine but that was to be expected.
One of the greatest nights of Kincaid's life came on November 15, 2005. Seven former St Andrews boys represented Lawrie Sanchez's Northern Ireland side against mighty Portugal and Warren Feeney scored in the 1-1 draw.
Only two months before than six of them performed miracles to defeat David Beckham's England at Windsor Park.
Kincaid beams: "I don't think there's a boys club in the world who have produced as many internationals as we have.
"Maybe somewhere like St Kitts or a really small nation but I think it's incredible.
"Keith Gillespie, Stuart Elliott, Stephen Craigan, Warren Feeney, Steve Davis, Chris Brunt and Peter Thompson all played that night and it was brilliant for me."
Manchester United's young star Craig Cathcart is the latest former St Andrews boy to make it big.
Unfortunately though, he may be the last as Kincaid has probably written the west Belfast boys club's final chapter of a remarkable story.
He says: "There are only two teams remaining at St Andrews. When the under-15 team finishes we will have one team for the immediate future. All the coaches have worked tirelessly alongside me and I can't thank them enough.
"Walter Smith (Rangers), Jimmy Bell (Rangers kitman), David Jeffrey (Linfield), Iam McFaul and John Chalmers (Rangers Youth Development Officer). Those people deserve a special thank you from me."
In truth, yesterday was not only celebrating 20 years of St Andrews but Kincaid's unbelievable contribution to the youth game.
There are many people around Northern Ireland who contribute so much to boys football.
But if it's measured on success then Joe Kincaid is head and shoulders above his competition.
Kincaid gave players a shop window to display their talents and thus fulfil their ambitions.
From the street to Old Trafford, Windsor Park and Anfield. It seems dreams really do come true.
And Joe Kincaid was only happy to help...
Simply the best
The talent at St Andrews is endless...
But who, in Joe Kincaid's eyes was the best?
Sheffield United's Keith Gillespie, Aston Villa's Steve Davis and Sheffield Wednesday's Chris Brunt are all taken into consideration.
So it might surprise you when Kincaid says: "The two that stick out for me during the last 20 years are Robert Skillen and Paul McKnight.
"Two cracking players who both went to Rangers but unfortunately had to come home.
"Robert in particular was pure class. An inspirational schoolboy captain, tremendous leadership qualities for someone so young.
"He was a box-to-box player and I remember he played for Rangers against the Scotland international team behind closed doors at Ibrox.
"Celtic's Paul McStay was surprised at Robert's ability and said if he stuck at it he would go far.
"But he got homesick and even though Walter Smith tried to pursade him to stay, he just gave it all up and came home.
"I tried to get him fixed up with the Blues, but it was if he just lost interest and didn't play again.
"Paul in my eyes was like the Brazilian Romario. That's who he reminded me off. He was the star.
"I was delighted when he got his move to Rangers and then made his debut at only 17. However injury has ruined his career.
"A bad tackle meant he needed a hip injury and he has never got over that. He went to see Gazza's specialist but even he couldn't work the magic that was needed.
"Paul's been back playing in the Irish League but injury keeps on hampering him. Such a pity because he had terrific talent."
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By early September, the template for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign had long been set. All domestic problems were to be depicted as the result of House Republicans' obstinacy, even the Democrat-controlled Senate's failure to pass a budget for three years. But on foreign policy, where the president has unilateral authority, Obama was pictured as both highly skilled and tough-minded – an implacable defender of American interests and values, someone who simultaneously presided over U.S. disengagement in Iraq and Afghanistan, vigorously encouraged democracy in North Africa and the Middle East, and forced terrorists into retreat around the world.
Then came the events of Sept. 11-12 in Benghazi, Libya, which severely undermined nearly all of those themes. Four Americans – Ambassador Chris Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, a San Diego native, and security contractors Tyrone Woods of Imperial Beach and Glen Doherty of Encinitas – were killed over a span of about eight hours after heavily armed terrorists attacked a compound that was home to a U.S. consulate and then a U.S. government annex less than a mile away.
So much for the receding threat of terrorism.
So much for competence. It took the U.S. government many long hours to come to the rescue of besieged Americans, even though officials knew they were at great risk of further attacks; two of those slain (Woods and Doherty) were killed more than six hours after the first assault. And it turned out that the State Department had ignored both Stevens' requests for more security and warnings from the former head of the U.S. security team in Libya about growing anarchy in Benghazi.
And so much for the tidy assumption that helping the "Arab spring" to flower was an obvious policy choice, not a risky one, and that creating chaos in Libya by assisting in the 2011 ouster of dictator Moammar Gadhafi was a good thing.
So what did the Obama administration do in response? Instead of owning up to its failings, for two weeks, it pushed a grossly dishonest narrative that held the attacks were a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video shown on YouTube. And it wasn't just U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on the Sept. 17 talk shows. It was the president himself in a Sept. 26 speech to the U.N. General Assembly, in the low point of his time in office.
Against this backdrop, it is insulting and offensive for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to testily declare "What difference at this point does it make?" when asked at a congressional hearing Wednesday why the White House and the administration refused to acknowledge the truth about Benghazi. She could easily have noted her State Department was far more forthcoming than the White House. On Sept. 12, a State Department undersecretary depicted the Benghazi attacks as a sophisticated terrorist operation in a briefing given to dozens of congressional staffers.
Instead, Clinton's testimony Wednesday can be seen as a final act of loyalty to the president.
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For those who didn't go to the polls during last week's opportunity to cast an early ballot in the 10th Congressional District race, today's official runoff election is the final day to make that choice.
Polling places across the district, which runs from Augusta through Athens-Clarke and Oconee counties and into the mountains of Northeast Georgia, will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voters who are in line at 7 p.m. will be allowed to vote - although, sadly, crowding at the polls isn't expected to be a problem, with elections officials predicting a light turnout.
Republicans Paul Broun, a Watkinsville physician, and Jim Whitehead, an Evans businessman, are vying for the 10th District seat. The winner will fill the time remaining in the term of former Congressman Charlie Norwood. Norwood died in February after a lengthy battle with cancer.
Voters who would like to learn about the candidates in advance of casting a ballot today can take advantage of the extensive offerings on this newspaper's Web site, www.onlineathens.com. Just click on the box labeled "10th District runoff" for background on the two men, including links to their campaign Web sites, as well as audio and video clips from some of their campaign appearances in Athens-Clarke County.
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(2012-03-27, 07:16)Sambuccashake Wrote: Yep, Eden final.
Got the zip file from the OP though (github).
Shouldn't be any difference right?
I get "addon enabled" and I can read about it properly in the addon section
Just like all other addons.
I got the same problem as you. But I'v tried with both the repo and from the github.
Can't get it to work. Windows 7 computer.
Seems to get different errors when I install from the repo and from the github.


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Three new members join AHDB board
The Agriculture & Horticulture Board (AHDB) has appointed three new board members.
Professor Ian Crute has been appointed as an independent, with science expertise, to help inform the Board's decisions on research and knowledge exchange. Crute who has been AHDB's chief scientist for five years will replace Lorraine Clinton as independent.
Crute said: "After five fulfilling years as AHDB's chief scientist, I am more convinced than ever that the functions the levy board undertakes are an essential contribution to ensuring we have an innovative and competitive food and farming industry in the UK. I am looking forward enormously to continuing my involvement with AHDB in this new role."
Meanwhile, Gwyn Jones, previous National Farmers' Union Dairy Board chairman, and Gary Taylor, founder and current chairman of the Pepper Technology Group (PTG) and chairman of the Lee Valley Growers Association (LVGA) have both been appointed to the board's DairyCo sector board.
AHDB chairman Peter Kendall said: "I'm delighted to welcome these three to the AHDB Board – they are each experts in their field and also share my passion for our farming and food industry.
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Christians: If I engage in Tarot card readings, will that hurt my faith and relationship with God?
I am considering seeing a Tarot card reader because I want to know if my mental situation is going down the tube. What advice can you give me? I know that God says it's wrong in the Bible, but I feel like he isn't telling me what I need to know about my future. What should I do?
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Consult a doctor, not a charlatan.
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don't you know????
what should you do? stick your head up a dead bears anus!
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I say that you shouldn't do it.
Tarot card readings, as well as horoscopes and that type of stuff, are ways to let evil guide your life.
The fact is, we're not supposed to know exactly where our life is going.
It's a great sign that you're feeling unsure about this. Just rely on God!
Hope I've helped.
Tarot card readings are they believable?
I just had a reading and it told me my ex and I were going to figure out our problems and definatly end up in a better place. I was also told I would get a new job very soon.
Are tarot readings believable?
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Depends upon you and the connection you have with the reader.
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They are exactly as reliable as horoscopes.
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They can be depending upon the gift or knowledge of the reader.
Do you believe there is anything in tarot card readings?
Some one gave me a free tarot card reading the other day, it was quite interesting and seemed to account for things that are happening in my life and things that i am trying to make happen in the future. Im quite a skeptical about such things but it did make me raise an eyebrow haha.
Should I believe in this stuff?
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best answers is necisarry … dude i took the time to write the big NO
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Waste of good poker time, but at least you lost less money.
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Just cold reading and the barnum effect.
On the other hand a personal reading you do for yourself, while useless in terms of divination, may give personal insight in to your own psychology. It is a symbolically rich and, as Jung pointed out, examining symbols in the context of our own lives can have great benefits.


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The Weston Board of Selectmen is scheduled to hold its first meeting of 2013 tonight, Thursday, Jan. 3. Coverage of this meeting will be in next week's Jan. 10 edition of The Weston Forum.
On the agenda is further discussion and a possible decision regarding assault weapons in town. At the board's last meeting, it was announced that Selectman Dennis Tracey would be working on researching and crafting a new ordinance pertaining to assault weapons in light of the recent school shooting in Newtown. The selectmen agreed at that time that addressing the issue on the local level is appropriate and something people want to see done.
Also on the agenda for Thursday's meeting is a presentation from two Weston youth regarding a proposal to eliminate plastic bags in town.
The selectmen are also set to discuss a cooperative purchasing contract, and they plan to make several reappointments to town commissions and committees. Also on the agenda is approval of nearly $10,500 in property tax refunds.
Rick Darling, finance director, is scheduled to talk about needed year-end budget transfers.
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Hello there,
I have a little problem with this code :
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Firstly: Your code is wrong.
- It lacks a document type definition (DTD). You should define your document as HTML or XHTML strict.
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nameattribute is deprecated on all elements except form controls (input, select, and textarea). For the form you have to use
- A form requires an
actionattribute with a reference to a file that is processing the form input (server side). And in the course of this it also needs a method how the data is sent ("GET" or "POST").
- Form controls must not be direct children of a form, they have to be inside some other block element such as
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height, and
scrollingattributes are deprecated and/or not allowed. Use CSS to style your page.
Secondly: A submit button typically submits a form. So, the action it performs (or the event that occurs, respectively) when you click it is "submit". Hence, the JS event you should use is
onsubmitto execute the function (and maybe add
return falseto prevent the form from actually submitting).
Then, while we're at improving the code, you should always use unobtrusive JavaScript which means remove any inline JS call and only manipulate the document with external script through DOM manipulation.
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Edit: OK, sorry, I didn't test it myself before I wrote and I just realized that you used a button of type "button", not "submit". But anyway, here is a working version with valid code and unobtrusive JavaScript:
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AN Acton housing development wowed judges at the Evening Standard New Homes Awards.
Acton Gardens, designed to transform the South Acton estate near Bollo Bridge Road, fought off stiff competition to win Best Regeneration Project at the awards ceremony, held in the Dorchester Hotel.
Hosted by comedian Dara O'Briain and British Olympic skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold, the awards recognise clever design and solutions to the challenges of city living.
Andrew Loveday, sales and marketing director of Countryside, which undertook the project alongside L&Q, said: "Our shared vision for this £600m regeneration scheme is to reconnect the estate to the wider neighbourhood, creating a new community of around 2,600 homes which offer a sense of place, security and safety for residents."
The awards, now in their 23rd year, were judged by Evening Standard readers and industry experts. Once complete, the new complex will include homes designed by architect Alison Brooks, a new sports ground and a central plaza with a shop, youth centre and other community areas.


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Deputy Sheriff Richard Herzog was shot and killed with his own service weapon, after responding to a call at about 5:00 pm involving a naked man creating a disturbance in the roadway on Coal Creek Parkway.
When Deputy Herzog, who was wearing a vest, arrived on scene, he attempted to subdue the man with pepper spray. The spray had no affect on the man, who then attacked Deputy Herzog. Deputy Herzog's service weapon, a .40 caliber Glock, was knocked to the ground and the magazine came out of it.
The suspect picked up the weapon and replaced the magazine. As Deputy Herzog attempted to retreat, the suspect shot him once, knocking him to the ground. The suspect then stood over him and shot him ten more times before fleeing to a nearby apartment. The man was apprehended approximately 45 minutes later. The suspect had been released from jail only 11 days earlier after serving several months for assaulting a police officer.
The suspect was convicted of aggravated first-degree murder on August 19th, 2004. On September 23rd, 2004, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Deputy Herzog had served with the King County Sheriff's Office for seven years. He was a US Army veteran and was survived by his wife and two teenage daughters.


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I have recently secured a domain name for a plan to revolutionize social media as we know it. The name is short (7 characters), easy to remember (combination of two words), and extremely marketable.
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I finally committed to buying a new pair of running shoes. It only took me 2 years and 2 months from the purchase of my last pair.
I know that most people who call themselves runners are probably shocked that I could go so long between running shoes and put so many miles on a single pair. To which I say, well, I haven't been injured yet, so I must be doing something right!
I knew that I needed a new pair when the holes got so large that my baby toe was completely sticking out the side of my shoe. I like to keep all 10 toes under wraps.
I tried getting another pair of Adidas Marathon 10 shoes a while back but they were a bit too wide so I returned them.
After far too much time shopping for the perfect pair of sneakers, I eventually settled on these Saucony Kinvara 2 runners that have very little cushioning and stability support (ironically, much like my old runners in their last days). They felt comfy when I walked around the store, but that really tells you dick all about how they're going to feel on a run doesn't it?
I primarily bought them because I was getting sick and tired of shopping around and trying on running shoes. I just wanted to settle down and commit to one pair.
On my first go with them on the treadmill I didn't love them. I wanted them to make me run faster, or feel like I was floating. They did not. As a matter of fact they actually left my feet feeling a bit numb.
For a fleeting moment I considered returning these shoes too, but instead I forced myself to commit to them like a bride in an arranged marriage. And in the way arranged marriages go I suspect that after many miles spent together, a little wearing in, and a few races, my tolerance of the shoes will eventually lead to love. I'll let you know how I feel in another 2 years and 2 months.


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"ETERNITY" is an immaculate example of the ever-popular Sunseeker Predator 52, the smallest Sunseeker Predator available with the versatile and desirable patio doors. This example spends 6 months a year inside a pristine storage unit where the vessels engineer meticulously looks after her, every issue found on this boat is sorted prior to the Swedish summers. With under 400 hours and various upgrades including new teak side decks, updated Raymarine equipment with AIS, aft facing camera and exterior upholstery, ETERNITY is guaranteed to be a fantastic buy. Viewing available 7 days a week by prior appointment. Please contact us for more images and videos of all areas of this stunning Predator 52.
6 berths in 3 cabin + 1 crew. The main deck compromises of a large U shaped seating area to starboard with an AV/ Drink cabinet with pop up TV to port. Helm forward to starboard with second seating area to port with access to galley. The galley is the first room upon entry to the lower deck, forward there is a large double VIP room with ensuite, the ensuite has a jack and jill to allow this to convert to day the day head. Toward the aft on the starboard side you will find the second cabin with two single bunk beads. The master is located aft to get the most comfortable position on the vessel and has large windows either side allowing for more natural light, there is also a spacious en suite located to port.
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PROSPECTIVE young entrepreneurs in Oxfordshire could be given a helping hand into self-employment.
The Prince's Trust charity is looking to expand its enterprise programme in the county and give young people a lift on to the career ladder.
The free scheme helps fund unemployed people aged between 18 and 30 interested in starting their own businesses.
The charity's enterprise executive for the South, Richard Ryan, said: "With more than 4,300 16- to 24-year-olds in Oxford unemployed, the enterprise programme is a fantastic opportunity for young people.
"They can not only regenerate the city's economy by running their own business, but also regenerate their hopes for the future.
"The free course will help them work out if self-employment is right for them, before giving them the skills and confidence they need to make their dream business a reality."
The Prince's Trust has already helped Cowley twins Darnella and Charmaine Daley.
Cycle Tours Oxford, their company that provides tours of the city by bicycle, was set up with the charity's help last year. The sisters spotted a gap in the market after taking bike tours abroad.
Darnella took part in the enterprise programme in 2011, after graduating from University College London.
She said: "I knew I was going to be rejected by the banks for a start-up loan because of my age and university debt.
"I had nothing to show my business was going to be successful. It would have been a huge risk for a bank. Prince's Trust seemed like the best option."
The programme has several stages, made up of an initial information session, a four-day training course, a mentoring scheme, and then long-term investment.
It teaches the basics of keeping books, marketing, financial knowledge, and practical skills needed for running a business.
Darnella, 27, added: "It was a very comprehensive course about setting up a business, and there were other people who came to talk about the realities of running a business.
"I got a mentor, Edward Dowler, who is the director of Electro Components Pension Trustees Ltd and he helped me for three years.
"He was an invaluable person to have to talk to. It was really great to know you could refer back to somebody who had that understanding."
The scheme provides more than just advice. It was able to give the company a £1,500 investment.
Darnella said: "I would 100 per cent recommend the course. Just having the name Prince's Trust and to be associated with them is great."
Programme manager Nick Giles said: "There are people who have had the door slammed in their faces. The programme gives them the opportunity of seeing if self-employment is an option for them.
"They can seriously explore their business idea. That can be very vague – for example, 'I want to bake cakes', or a specific business plan.
"If they don't choose to pursue self-employment, we still provide ongoing support for six months to make sure they have a positive outcome, like traditional employment or an education plan.
"We want to support young people back into work and making sure they make the right decisions."
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Clearwater Health Services to partner with Sanford Health
The Clearwater County Board announced Wednesday it signed a six-month management agreement with Sanford Health of Northern Minnesota for Clearwater Health Services.
Once approved by Sanford the contract will be effective April 1. CHS includes the county's Memorial Hospital in Bagley, with the attached CHS clinic, the Clearwater Ambulance Service and the CHS clinic in Clearbrook.
As part of the agreement Sanford Health will provide CHS with leadership from Sanford Health of Northern Minnesota, based out of Bemidji. During the agreement CHS will remain under local community ownership and will be governed by the local board of directors. Further assessment will determine the future of the relationship between Sanford and CHS.
Sanford will provide management and consulting services in several areas during the six-month agreement. Benefits of the partnership could include continued availability of local care, access to additional services and doctors, efficiencies that come with being part of a larger health system such as management/consulting services and readily available expertise to help address today's increasingly complex health care environment.
For several months the board of Clearwater Health Services had been involved in a controversial deal regarding the contract for deed struck two years ago between the county commissioners to sell the county's Clearwater Health Services to Cocoon Holdings, owned and run by brother physicians, Drs. Tom and Mark Peterson, who founded the Aurora Medical Park in Grand Forks, as well as Monarch Management that runs CHS.
In early February the board of Clearwater Health Services sent an official notice of default to Cocoon Holdings and Monarch Management after the Grand Forks firms failed to meet a deadline to pay off a contract for deed amounting to about $3.8 million.
Bagley, population 1,235, is located 28 miles west of Bemidji and 110 miles northeast of Fargo-Moorhead. The Memorial Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital owned by Clearwater County and established in 1949. Clearwater Health Services employs approximately 80 people, serving residents of Clearwater County with a combined county population of approximately 8,250.
"This six-month partnership with Sanford will supply us with the expertise needed to provide a stable environment for our patients and staff. This time will allow us to evaluate the healthcare needs of our communities, and develop requests for proposals for the future sale of CHS," Daniel Stenseng, Clearwater County Board Chair said in a press release.
Sanford Health of Northern Minnesota, inclusive of Sanford Bemidji, has more than 1,450 employees, 75 doctors and 118 acute care beds and is part of the Sanford Health system based in Fargo, ND and Sioux Falls, SD. Sanford is the largest, rural, not-for-profit healthcare system in the nation with a presence in 111 communities in eight states.


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The role of deacons is critical to the ministry of the local church. However, for some time it has suffered from a poor image. In reformed circles the office is rightly seen as one of service and helps. But with the growth of church buildings and property, deacons are often viewed more as caretakers of property and less as caretakers of people.
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The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed quarterbacks Levi Brown and Matt Johnson on Tuesday.
Brown, a 24-year-old Troy product, was a seventh-round pick of the Buffalo Bills in the 2010 NFL Draft. He spent parts of the 2010 and 2011 season with the Bills before being released from their practice squad in September.
Johnson signed as a free agent with the B.C. Lions in 2011 before they let him go that June.
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COCOA, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - A spokesperson with the Florida Highway Patrol says troopers have located a vehicle believed to have been involved in a fatal hit-and-run incident on Monday morning. The 1998 Jeep Cherokee was found after authorities received an anonymous tip. Investigators noted damage to the Jeep that is consistent with damage to a car that struck and killed jogger Jason Rodeghier.
"The vehicle has left-front damage consistent with this crash. The vehicle has been secured by FHP and will be processed to confirm through physical evidence that this is in fact the vehicle involved," said Sgt. Kim Montes. "At this time, due to an ongoing investigation, we are not releasing the location of where the vehicle was found."
Rodeghier's body was discovered by a neighbor who was driving along Satellite Blvd. near Dean Road. "I noticed the body, backed up and yelled and dialed 911," explained the neighbor. "I just saw him laying there; someone hit him and knocked him in the ditch."
Troopers say the 39-year-old man was jogging when a driver hit him. They say family members went looking for him when he didn't return home. "We know this is a hit-and-run, based on parts of the vehicle we've located at the scene," said Montes.
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The three participating classes are from Lewis and Clark, Cold Springs, and Russell School.
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There is a photo of a map that sprouted up online showcasing the most popular, best selling music artists from each state. In other words, artists BORN in particular states that have achieved stardom.
However, when you take a close look at the map, you'll notice that our neck of the woods have been completely neglected!
Shh. Quiet. Let me just bask in the serene moment of when our state is remembered for something other than sheep and patchy cell phone service.
According to Dave Bry at The Awl, this is a list of the states that offer the most music that puts our nation on the map. While its unclear how exactly this list was derived, it is safe to not argue about why Minnesota earns the top spot. I mean, after all, Prince lives there. Prince. Seriously. No contest.
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Underworld has already showed European club kids that electric guitars and live vocals can peacefully co-exist with techno. Now the British trio is using the same music to teach us Yanks a different lesson--that techno can too rock.
With the recent U.S. release of Second Toughest in the Infants, Underworld--Karl Hyde and Rick Smith (the duo once led a God-awful Europop band called Freur) and hotshot rave deejay Darren Emerson--continues to graft the rock aesthetic onto the techno form.
Lyrics have traditionally been taboo in techno, unless they were disembodied strings of sounds ripped from the mouths of divas, or looped phrases taken from another artist's recording. But starting last year with its first album, the England-only release Dubnobasswithmyheadman, Underworld cracked that mold by melding Emerson's seamless mixing and sampling skills with Hyde's live guitar and vocals and Smith's keyboards (Smith also programs samples for the band).
Like techno's crossover champion Moby--whom Hyde dismisses as "kind of a cartoon character"--Underworld was instantly reviled by rave purists for incorporating outside elements and taking the art of techno beyond the studio to the live stage.
Half rock concert, half rave, Underworld shows are frequently four hours long and see Fender amps stacked next to a 32-track mixing board that takes center stage. The band's even been known to destroy a piece of equipment or two, Pete Townshend-style.
Guitar-smashing performances aside, Underworld's new Second Toughest in the Infants is about as straightahead as a krautrock recording, the band's techno-colored dreams more about beats and textures than narrative thread.
"Our roots are in dance, and rhythm comes first," Hyde says from his label's New York office, "although vocals and guitar were heavily integrated and not just laid over the top. What we do is try and take from the best of traditional instrument-oriented groups and deejays, the way that, say, a great jazz improviser takes motifs and walks with them. Being in a band that really plays doesn't make us any less groovy or less of a dance act than someone playing to a backing tape.
"The thing about most traditional rock bands is that they will rehearse and be in some ways more programmed than most techno bands, and certainly more so than deejays."
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On pulsating, trippy songs like "Pearl's Girl," the vocals are blended in as just another rhythm-enhancing instrument, evoking a mood or sense of place rather than a story. Hyde doesn't even term himself a vocalist, but a "producer of sounds out of my mouth."
"My words are very specific to place and time," Hyde says. "I write everywhere I go, things I associate with where I am. Every song we've done is from a place. I could pinpoint it on a map. I get off on urban environments because they're so information-intense, so, consequently, my books just fill up with lists of events that happen along a train journey or a night in a bar, some alleyway in some city. Add water and reconstitute the place again." While "Stagger" conjures up London's Soho neighborhood, "Pearl's Girl" invokes the notorious red-light district of Hamburg, Germany.
Keeping Hyde's obvious fascination with seedy underbellies in mind, the producers of the film Trainspotting, an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's black-hearted novel of Scottish ravers and drug addicts, were adamant about incorporating Underworld's music into the soundtrack. "Dark Train" is used to chilling effect during an overdose scene, while "Nux/Born Slippy" closes the film. Hyde says that the single had become something of an anthem for beer boys, which made him realize how easily any lyrics, whether hazy or concrete, are open to gross misinterpretation.
"That really upset me," Hyde says, "because we meant to say the opposite thing about that kind of life. People can become just pieces of meat when they get off their face, and it was the film that actually put the song back into context. When this one character is revealed as just a nasty piece of work, the music kicks in. That moment was more powerful than a book of lyrics.


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I stood on the Tee Sat. afternoon and all the hints you talked about kept on popping up in by head ( pull, push, slice and hook )
I had the best round of the year and had the best run of pars ever - 7 in a row on the back nine. Only 1 drop on 17 and ending with a birdie at the last hole.
It was also the best in driving I had this year in 12 out of 14 Fairways. (5/7 first nine and 7/7 back nine) The setup helped and made sense. I used the Iron setup with the driver before . The first 2 Fairways were missed with a bit of a hook but once I made the corrections mentally it went better. This was my lowest score for the last 2 years. 38 front nine and 36 back nine ( needless to say I won the competition on a net 66 from a 8 handicap).
Thanks for the tips and instruction.
Now it is up to me to try and keep it together and try to make my goal I set to myself to make the scratch league team for next year.
Rudi Pieters - South Africa -
Hi Bobby, My 12 year old son recently got a starter set of golf clubs, and since he was picking up the game, I decided to get a set of clubs.
I played my first round of 18 holes on Monday and knew I needed some instruction.
I purchased your DVD this morning, watched it and practiced the five steps at the driving range today at lunch time.
WOW! What a difference!
I'm hitting straight shots consistantly.
I can't wait to continue to practice at the range. I look forward to playing my next round of golf with confidence.
Thanks for putting together an INFORMATIVE DVD for the working parent!
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I honestly believe that it will help your game beyond anything you could imagine.
Bonjour Bobby!
I have already ordered the DVD you're talking about in your orginal message! I also bought the two others and I want to thank you sincerely for what you do for golfers!
Last Sunday, on father's day, for the first time in my life, I broke the 90 barrier (89 to be exact - I'm normally playing around 97-98), just applying your short game concept and being sure that I'm doing my pre-shot routine properly on each shot!
I still have to practice to be more consistent at this aspect of the game, but so far, the results are great!
Besides, I'm anxious to apply the full swing and the consistency off the tee. I just need time to go to the practice range and also to listen to your DVDs again and again to put all this stuff into my brain!
In any case, I'm a true believer of your methods and I hope to improve some more in the future!
So, thanks again, I look more like a true golfer now. because of you guys!
Finally, sorry for my English. As a French-Canadian, I'm not fluently bilingual, but I'm trying my best!
Au revoir, from Quebec City, Canada - June 20, 2006
Bobby - Well, as I said in my letter, I got this system at the end of the golf year. I ended my year with a local course handicap of 16. I spent the winter and spring studying the DVDs, going to a driving range with heated stalls and practicing every chance I got. I didn't want to get back to you without having more data. Here is the update:
Right from the start of this year, I could tell things were going to be different. Though I have had my "blow-up" rounds, they have been in the low to mid 90's. However, my scores were much more consistantly in the low to mid 80's. It didn't take long before I broke 80 for the first time in many years. Since then, I have had several in the high 70's. I had also set my goal for the entire year of going from my season-ending 16 to a single-digit handicap on my home course. Right now, I am VERY close. My GHIN is 8.4 and I am a 10 locally. I am hitting an average of 10.7 out of 14 fairways, and am up to an average of 9.2 greens up from 3.6 last year. I also have gone from having three to four 3-putts per round to going three to four rounds between 3-putts.
As I said before, I still have my blow-up rounds where I don't feel like I have had a club in my hands before and/or feel like I am putting with a hockey stick, but they are fewer and further between. So far this year, I have played over 30 rounds and have a high score of 93 and a low of 76. My goal of 75 or less was missed on that round by a fat shot from 178 going for the par-5 18th in 2 and ending up in a ditch that fronts the green.
I want to thank you for this series of DVDs and look forward to future ones. After (not if) I hit my 75 goal, I am not sure what my next will be. I will be 47 of the 19th of June (less than two days at this writing) - is the Senior Tour too much to dream for? Just Kidding ... or am I?!?!
Jim Hager, Kansas City, MO - June 17, 2006
I purchased your short game DVD 40 yards and closer and was very happy to get such great results in such a short time. It has cut a least 6-8 strokes a round off my game.
I'm 66 years old and have been struggling to to get off my 18 handicap and have found the short game is getting the job done. I just broke 80 couple weeks ago and shooting in low 80's consistently now. I feel that it has given so much more confidence getting the ball close to the pin and putting has improved along with it.
Your DVD is much better than anything out there and I want you to know how good it really is. Thank you an keep up the good work.
Yours Truly,
Marvin Manning - Mesa, Az. - May 31, 2006
Bobby - I'm writting you just to tell how my golf game improved after buying your Golf Swing System.
I am an amateur golfer (almost 3 years practicing).
I'm try to play twice a week. (9 hole rounds), my average before I learned from your System was 54 strokes in 9 holes, now after learned from your system I have an average of 46 strokes. I have been using your system in my last 3 nine holes games.
I will keep you informed about my progress, but so far it is great.
Regards and have a nice day.
Martin Orduno
Torrontegui Plant Manager
Baja California Nambe - June 08, 2006
Hi again, Bobby,
I have written two testimonials, and delivered one audio testimonial to your phone service, but I just had to write again to tell you of another happy realization I had during my last round.
NO MORE BURRS IN MY SOCKS! I realaized, as my playing partner was picking burrs from his socks after looking in deep rough for his errant shot, that I have not had to thrash around in the heavy Texas rough for my ball since adopting your swing fundamentals. That is, unless I go in there to help a fellow player look for his ball. My feeling now is, why should I? I would rather give them a lesson in what I have learned, than to go through that anymore.
I just wanted to share this nice little perk that came with learning some of your swing system. Maybe this feeling will wear off at some point, but now, in some ways, I feel like a sort of golf missionary zealot about your system, because of the immediate and excellent results I have experienced. Thanks again.
Mike Day- Texas - May 31, 2006
This is the greatest information that I have connected with about a golf swing. I have order other DVD & tapes, taken lessons, but your information is so easy to understand and WORKS so well. I have lowered my score by 10 strokes after watching your DVD three times and range practice twice. I was always shooting in the low 100 and the fist time out I shot 90 and missed a couple of putts that lipped out, but the greatest thing was that I beat my regular buddies for the first time. The second time out, was in a best ball scramble and we used 90% of my shots and had a closes to the pin and longest drive. I can't thank you enough for this information. If I can make it to Arizona for a couple of days I intend to sign up for your school.
T.A. Green
Hi Bobby...hows it going,
I stumbled across your simple swing website and was very skeptical at first thought, ...well i went on to watch the simple swing setup so i grabbed a PW and setup like that here in my computer room, the thing about the spine as an axis makes sense (i work full time as a paid firefighter/EMT so medically speaking it makes sense as well) my backyard is a school softball field, so next day i went out and was hitting balls...lets say right now my hybrids are goin on ebay, i dont need 'em cuz i can hit my 4 iron great!!!! im 25 and have only really been playing for about 3 yrs now and i shot in the low 90's in the past...this year since making my swing setup more ''simple'' i've been in the 80's...
Keep Hittin' 'em Straight,
~Billy Lomnychuk - May 19, 2006


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Book Review: Reinventing Gravity by John Moffat
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Reinventing Gravity is a wonderful book. The author, respected Physicist John Moffat, doesn't assume that the reader has any form of expert knowledge. Instead, he starts by walking us step-by-step through the various theories of gravity, from Aristotle to the present day...
Some books that deserved to be read multiple times. This is one of three books I first read a few months ago, and I just revisited them all to find that they are still as good as I remembered them. See also my reviews of Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell and In Search of Time.
Gravity is one of those things that we typically take for granted. Most of us consider ourselves to be at least passingly familiar with the work of Newton and Einstein, but I for one was surprised to discover just how little I know. This book is jam-packed with enough tidbits of trivia to keep even me amused (and that's saying something).
Reinventing Gravity is a wonderful book. The author, respected Physicist John Moffat, doesnt assume that the reader has any form of expert knowledge. Instead, he starts by walking us step-by-step through the various theories of gravity, from Aristotle to the present day.
Along the way we grow into an appreciation of a different way of looking at things. For example, most of us are aware that in his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, Sir Isaac Newton described his theory of Universal Gravitation.
At first this theory seemed to completely describe the motions of the planets and the stars and led to the idea of a "clockwork universe". One very interesting aspect to all of this occurred when astronomers began to realize that there was a problem with regard to the "anomalous precession of the perihelion of the planet Mercury" (which is the clever way of saying that Mercury wasn't orbiting the Sun as expected).
The folks of the time absolutely believed in the theory of Newtonian gravity, so they looked for an explanation in this context. The idea they came up with was that there was an as yet undiscovered planet (which they called Vulcan) in orbit between the Sun and Mercury. Based on this proposal, many folks devoted huge amounts of effort and ingenuity trying to find a planet that we now know does not exist.
Then Albert Einstein came along with his theory of General Relativity. Amongst other things, this accurately predicted the orbit of Mercury without the need to introduce a "fudge factor" in the form of a non-existent planet.
For close to 100 years, General Relativity has been accepted by the majority of folks as fully describing gravity. But once again there's a problem. Astronomers have discovered that the stars at the edges of rotating galaxies are travelling much faster than they should be... so fast that they should fly off into space... but they don't.
In order to address this, folks have come up with the concept of Dark Matter. The idea in a nutshell is that Dark Matter is something we can't "see" or "taste" or anything like that... except through its gravitational interactions (the posh way to say this is that "Dark Matter is hypothetical 'stuff' that does not interact with the electromagnetic force, but whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter").
Doesnt this seem a little strange to you. It certainly does to me. The idea is that we are so accepting that General Relativity fully defines gravity that when we make observations that dont fit we simply invent some invisible matter to make everything work. And dont even get me started about other galaxies like NGC 4736 which seem to lack Dark Matter.
And so we come to the author's MOG (Modified Gravity) theory, which addresses this conundrum. Even more exciting, MOG also eliminates the need for the singularities at the centre of black holes (which solves lots of problems) along with the singularity at the beginning of creation (no more "big bang" per se).
Of course this is still just a theory, but the author also describes some observations and measurements we [the human race] could make that should resolve the issue as to which gravitational theory is correct. The really cool thing is that we should have the technological capability to make these measurements in the not-so-distant future (perhaps in the next few years).
I, for one, cant wait!


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How to remove selected messages left on the POP3 server.
Posted 10-13-2008 at 05:46 PM by dr_agon
applies to: KMail, Evolution, Perl, POP3, mail client
Unfortunatelly my favourite mail client (Kmail) cannot leave messages on the POP3 server while retrieving them and delete them later, eg. when they are moved to 'Trash" folder (like Thunderbird). The same applies to Evolution. Of course I know there are IMAP servers, but that's not the solution I like most. I also did not want to periodically erase all messages left on POP3 server. I did not find any reasonable solution, so I made it myself. It is available as DeleteFromPOP3 project at Sourceforge.net(tm).
The idea is simple:
- mark messages for deleting in the mail client - It is not so difficult to do it manually. I just delete mails from my inbox or mark them as spam. Then, from time to time I mark all files in the trash and spam folder for removal from POP3 server. When you create a mail filter and add it to the toolbar, it just requires one click to mark messages for removal.
- pass the list of messages marked for deletion to the external program - This is done together with marking for removal. No additional action required.
- run external program to delete messages from the server - You can run it automatically if you wish.
How it works
- A filter is invoked which executes a helper script passing the message as input.
- A message from mail client is parsed and information needed for
identification of message on the server is collected.
The script produces a pair of <host name> and <Message-Id> for
every message.
The pairs of <host name> and <Message-Id> are stored in
separate file, each in separate line
- The second script, which actually deletes messages from POP3
server, is executed whenever you like.
This script requires a list of messages created by previous
It also requires POP3 account details to connect to server(s).
After connecting to the POP3 server it looks through all
messages and checks if a message is on the list and should be
After deleting messages it truncates the message list file.
This may not be the best solution, but it works for me, and there is a good chance it will work for others, too. Any comments are welcomed.
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The LA Business Networking Group Summer Mixer (LABNG)
Michael R. Coso & Ilana Eberson
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
LA Summer Business Networking Mixer
Please join LABNG members for our "Get out of Hibernation" summer event at Spaghettini Italian Grill and Jazz Club.
Each of our networking events is a unique opportunity to meet new people, create new relationships, and get new business.
During the event, there will be informal networking to allow you to mix and mingle with other attendees. Swap business cards, refer business to other and get to know members in a relaxed, fun environment.
Beer - $5 - $8
Select Red or White Wine - $9
Specialty Drinks - Pear Nectar or Guava Nectar Martini (Both $13.50 each); Skinny Margarita or Pomegranate Margarita (Both $12 each)
Well Drinks - $8.50
Food Menu Available
WHEN: Wednesday, August 22 2012
WHERE: Spaghettini Italian Grill and Jazz Club, 3005 Old Ranch Parkway, Seal Beach, CA 90740. Valet ($3) or free self parking. Self parking is available along the perimeter of the parking lot or across the street.
COST: $10.00 per person prepaid on the event site/$20 per person cash only at the door
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/TheLABusinessNetworkingGroup/
Spaghettini Italian Grill and Jazz Club, Leading Southern California restaurateurs Laurie Sisneros and Cary Hardwick have created a meeting place for LA and Orange counties in their award winning restaurant – Spaghettini Italian Grill and Jazz Club. Located just off the 405 Freeway at Seal Beach Blvd., Spaghettini features exceptional Northern Italian cuisine and top name entertainment. http://www.spaghettini.com/
When & Where
Spaghettini Italian Grill and Jazz Club
3005 Old Ranch Parkway
Seal Beach,
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PDT)
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Today The Daily Beast launched its publishing line, Beast Books–an experimental step from the blogosphere into the world of publishing.
The series opened with John Avlon's political book, "Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America." According to founder Tina Brown, the imprint will feature a new kind of content: "Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks."
Here's an excerpt from Avlon's book, a study of political pundit Glenn Beck's bestseller streak: "In the books, as on air, it's always a wrestling match between the Good Beck–humorous, self-effacing and calling on a higher power for a sense of purpose–and the Bad Beck, peddling political apocalypse, the opinion equivalent of a horror film: 'We are a country that is headed towards socialism, totalitarianism, beyond your wildest imagination.' 'There is a coup going on. There is a stealing of America … done through the guise of an election.'"


text: Why it's done By Mayo Clinic Staff Print A nonstress test is used to evaluate a baby's health before birth. The goal of a nonstress test is to provide useful information about your baby's oxygen supply by checking his or her heart rate and how it responds to your baby's movement. The test might indicate the need for further monitoring, testing, treatment or delivery to prevent fetal death. Normally, a baby's heart beats faster when he or she is active later in pregnancy. However, conditions such as fetal hypoxia — when the baby doesn't get enough oxygen — can disrupt this pathway. Your health care provider might recommend a nonstress test if you have: A multiple pregnancy with certain complications An underlying medical condition, such as type 1 diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure during pregnancy A pregnancy that has extended two weeks past your due date (postterm pregnancy) A history of complications in a previous pregnancy A baby who has decreased fetal movements or possible fetal growth problems Rh (rhesus) sensitization — a potentially serious condition that can occur, typically during a second or subsequent pregnancy, when your red cell antigen blood group is Rh negative and your baby's blood group is Rh positive. Low amniotic fluid (oligohydramnios) Your health care provider might recommend having nonstress tests once or twice a week — and occasionally daily — depending on your and your baby's health. For example, you might need to have regular nonstress tests if your health care provider suspects that your baby is at risk of not getting enough oxygen. You might also need another nonstress test if you or your baby has any concerning changes in health. Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic OverviewRisks Feb. 23, 2016 Print Share on: FacebookTwitter References Gabbe SG, et al. Antepartum fetal evaluation. In: Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders Elsevier; 2012. http://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed Jan. 15, 2016. DeCherney AH, et al. Assessment of at-risk pregnancy. In: Current Diagnosis & Treatment Obstetrics & Gynecology. 11th ed. New York, N.Y.: The McGraw-Hill Companies; 2013. http://www.accessmedicine.com. Accessed Jan. 15, 2016. Young BK. Nonstress test and contraction stress test. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed Jan. 15, 2016. Frequently asked questions. Pregnancy FAQ098. Special tests for monitoring fetal health. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. http://www.acog.org/Patients/FAQs/Special-Tests-for-Monitoring-Fetal-Health. Accessed Jan. 15, 2016. Cunningham FG, et al. Fetal assessment. In: Williams Obstetrics. 24th ed. New York, N.Y.: The McGraw-Hill Companies; 2014. http://www.accessmedicine.com. Accessed Jan. 15, 2016. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee on Practice Bulletins — Obstetrics. ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 145: Antepartum fetal surveillance. Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2014;124:182. RelatedHigh-risk pregnancyFetal macrosomia Nonstress testOverviewProcedure detailsWhy it's doneRisksHow you prepareWhat you can expectResultsMore aboutIn-Depth Advertisement Mayo Clinic does not endorse companies or products. Advertising revenue supports our not-for-profit mission. Advertising & Sponsorship Policy Opportunities Ad Choices Mayo Clinic Store Check out these best-sellers and special offers on books and newsletters from Mayo Clinic. 4 Simple Steps to a Joy-Filled LifeNEW! Mayo Clinic Guide to Integrative MedicineStop Osteoporosis in its TracksMayo Clinic on Healthy AgingThe Mayo Clinic Diet Online Procedure detailsRequest an Appointment PRC-20155117 Patient Care & Health Information Tests & Procedures Nonstress test


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Audio Design Associates Introduces Suite 8200 Multi-Room Receiver
[The following is a release From Audio Design Associates]
December 20, 2007
Audio Design Associates (ADA), the recognized brand of excellence in high-end custom installed electronics and a founding member of the CEDIA organization, announces that it will premiere the Suite 8200, the company's most powerful and flexible multi-room receiver to date. The first showing of Suite 8200 will be at ICES 2008, Las Vegas, NV, at the Sands Expo and Convention Center/The Venetian, in High Performance Audio Room #30-121. Suite 8200 improves upon ADA's popular-selling Suite 8100 multi-room receiver. Suite 8200 is an 8-source, 8-zone (16 channel) single chassis pre-amp / amplifier that incorporates a new, powerful and rich sounding class A/B amplifier that outputs 25 watts per channel and is stable down to 4 ohms, where Suite 8100 utilized a class D amplifier. Suite 8200 ships with dual premium tuners built-in, where Suite 8100 had one. The installer designates to the factory which two tuners will be integrated into each Suite 8200 ordered. Tuner options include XM Satellite, Sirius Satellite Radio or HD Digital AM/FM/WX Radio. (Either two of the same or mix and match.) Advancing upon Suite 8100's connectivity capabilities, Suite 8200 incorporates pre-amplified (variable) line-level audio outputs for each zone, with zones 1 and 2 incorporating variable line-level subwoofer outputs. The improved sound and connectivity to additional amplifiers and subwoofers were made without increasing the original 2U rack height. "Suite 8200, simply put, is a custom integrator's dream. It packs all the richness of sound, power, connectivity and feature sets of more expensive and space consuming multi-component audio systems. And it is backed by ADA30, our revolutionary new 30-year reasonable warranty," says Richard Stoerger, ADA's VP and COO. "The flexibility of Suite 8200 enables it to function as a 'his and hers' multi-room system; simply add in two ADA iBase's (with eXtender Kits), and now you have a system with 'his and hers' radio tuners and iPods," adds Stoerger. For advanced whole house remote control, Suite 8200 is compatible with the company's entire family of keypads, touch screens and IR remotes. It also can be controlled by AMX, Crestron, Lifeware, Colorado Vnet, Savant, Vantage etc. and IR remotes like Universal, RTI and Pronto. Increasing upon the functionality of Suite 8100, Suite 8200 has a paging input that can be easily integrated with a door bell or for a more advanced option, interfaced with ADA's Phone Suite for room-to-room paging using a one, two or multi-line phone system. Two Suite 8200's can also be linked together. Suite 8200 has an MSRP of $4,999. Units are shipping now.


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Sorry for small pics and blurry pics. My camera is broken so I've been using disposable cameras.
Pepper says she too old for the park
Autumn by a huge newfie
Autumn on the big park trail
Autumn's new friend Lulu, a heeler/basset
Lulu playing with two others
An Anatolian shepherd watching Autumn scratch
A cute 12-year-old golden and her Shih tzu friend
Later it rained and we went for a walk
Autumn showing off her raincoat (very crappy pic, like my thumb?)
My favorite pic (can you see Autumn doing her Elvis impression?)


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I have used this hair dye previously, with no problems. so i bought it again, put it on and left for 35 mins. it started burning as soon as i put it on, but i ignored it. about an hour after washing it out, as my hair was starting to dry, i felt MASSIVE blisters all over my scalp, which hurt a lot. I am wondering if it is the dye that has changed or if it is me that has changed as like i said i used it before no worries! I will definitely do the patch testing in future even if it is a brand i have used before. On the plus side it's a gorgeous colour!


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Linden Rhoads is fired up. The high-tech entrepreneur-turned-university official has been circulating around town since she started on August 14 to lay the groundwork for a new era in technology transfer at the University of Washington. First on her calendar are meetings with all of the Northwest's venture capital firms. When that's done, she plans to make the rounds at the usual Monday portfolio meetings with VCs in the San Francisco Bay Area. She's spreading the word that the UW's doors are open.
"I want the reputation of the University of Washington to be that we're excited about doing business with the investment community," she said last week, in her first interview since starting the job. "If the UW can commercialize the research we do here, there's a tremendous opportunity to bring tremendous revenue to the university, produce many, many jobs, and bring innovations into the world that can help people."
It's certainly no small task. The story of technology transfer hasn't changed much in recent years. The UW conducted more than $1 billion worth of research in 2007, paid for mostly by Uncle Sam, charitable foundations, and corporations. It ranks second in federal research funding nationally behind Johns Hopkins University. Yet every year, it seems, the local business community complains that it's a royal pain to spin out university inventions into new startups, or licenses that companies can develop into moneymaking, job-producing products. A recent report commissioned by the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association said the university has a culture that frowns on entrepreneurial activity.
So what is UW doing about it? That's what I asked in an interview at 301 Gerberding Hall with Rhoads and the woman who hired her, the No. 2 official on campus, provost Phyllis Wise.
Wise made it clear she sees room for improvement in how the university spins out research into the marketplace: "We want to get our ideas out through patents, licenses, startups, or papers and grants. We realize the important role technology transfer can play. We want to make sure we're taking advantage of every opportunity."
So far, Rhoads, 41, said she's been seeking input from lots of people off campus. She's tapping her rolodex of VC contacts from her past career as an entrepreneur with ChiliSoft, Singingfish.com, AdRelevance, and others. She's no biologist, so she's spent some time getting to know key leaders in local life sciences, including Leroy Hood of the Institute for Systems Biology. She's studying the massive breadth of what the UW has to offer in its research cupboard. She's working on organizing evening symposia to help VCs mingle efficiently with UW researchers who might have projects with commercial potential. She's working to get some of her staff of 50 to focus more on mentoring, motivating, and even "inspiring" faculty members to build companies around their ideas, Rhoads says.
"Some of our faculty don't know they're sitting on information that can be dispersed in more effective ways," Wise added.
Rhoads resisted getting pinned down on too many specifics about her goals, however. She stressed that there are many ways to move academic ideas into the business world. She did warn against being too "patent-centric," noting that non-exclusive licenses often work well with software innovations.
Still, you've got to measure progress somehow. The traditional measurements from the Association of University Technology Managers annual survey can often be a thorn in the university's side. It ranks an array of statistics for technology transfer output, like number of startup companies formed, annual revenue from licenses to the university, number of inventions disclosed by researchers, and number of patents awarded. When I asked what the measurements are that will define success in five years, Rhoads declined to be specific: "We're still thinking about that," she says.
Inside of the university, Rhoads says, she's working to build relationships with key faculty, like dean of engineering Matt O'Donnell, Hank Levy, the chairman of computer science and engineering, and John Slattery, vice dean for research at the medical school. One of her key contacts on the outside is Ulrich Mueller, the vice president of technology transfer at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Since technology transfer is a part of the university that practically invites scandals—ever seen a headline about public employees using taxpayer resources to line their own pockets?—I wanted to know if Wise and UW President Mark Emmert have Rhoads's back if and when days turn dark. Four years ago, before the new administration of Emmert and Wise was established, I quoted a former university official in The Seattle Times who said, "The attitude here is, 'Don't stick your neck out, because if you make a mistake, you'll get hammered.'"
Here's what Wise had to say now: "We try very hard to do what's right. We're certainly willing to be criticized if we feel we've done work to promote work of researchers, faculty, and students that can be of benefit to the state economy."
Getting the culture right is clearly looming on Rhoads's mind. She wants to make sure that people in the office aren't afraid to fail. "Nothing is as helpful in getting people to be entrepreneurial as success stories. It inspires people. But in entrepreneurship, there is risk. You know what? Failure is a big part of entrepreneurship. There has to be a culture that not only gets excited about things that take off, but also things that were worthy enough that they attracted talented management and venture dollars, but didn't work out. If they were worthy enough to attract that, it's an achievement. You can't start companies with a fear of failing."
Ultimately, what does Rhoads really want to keep from happening? She had to think about that for a minute. "I don't want people to invent something that never ends up seeing the light of day," she says. "We don't want to leave opportunities on the table."
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The Future of Halo: 343i Already has Plans for Halo 5, Halo 6
It's almost like Star Wars, except we won't have to deal with subpar acting of any kind. With the recent Xbox Spring Showcase earlier this month, we saw many great new details. Among them was the drool-worthy Halo 4, giving us peeks at Master Chief's redesign and his triumphant return.
As if that wasn't enough to satisfy the biggest Halo fans in this galaxy, 343 Industries said that they've got plans for future Halo installments.
"We have a definite story arc in mind," said 343i's Creative Director Josh Holmes in an interview with CVG. "We have a very, very clear vision and understanding of the story for Halo 4 obviously and as you go further out from that point into the saga it obviously becomes a little looser."
While Holmes also confirmed that Halo 4 will be a continuation from Halo 3, he stopped short of revealing too much. Such a party pooper.
"Everything that we've created has been designed with constancy and tie-ins to the existing cannon," said Holmes. "So all the historical cannon that comes before this game has been taken into account and connects in meaningful ways.
"And there's been a lot of work that we've put in to building the franchise. Specifically, Frank O'Connor and the franchise team have been developing the fiction that surrounds the franchise and they've put a lot of effort into creating those tie-ins to the things that we're building for Halo 4.
"That's something that we've partnered together on for the last several years."
Halo 4 is set to launch sometime in 2012 on Xbox 360. When that is, remains officially unknown. However, we've heard whispers that it might be November 20th, or thereabouts.
Via CVG.


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Joe Mangan will join the Hachette Book Group (HBG) as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer on February 3.
Mangan comes to HBG from Perseus Books where he has spent the last decade at Chief Operating Officer.
"…he has built a remarkable record of success, focused on growth, IT opportunities, digital transformation, distribution, and efficiency," stated Michael Pietsch, CEO of HBG. "Joe's reputation is one of the best in our industry, and his skills, trade publishing experience, and leadership style are a perfect match for HBG. With his deep expertise in IT and vision for our digital future, his wealth of experience building distribution businesses, and his insight into strategic business development, Joe will be a tremendous asset for us."
Prior to joining Perseus Mangan served as a managing director at Razorfish, as well as a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, according to his LinkedIn page. "I am excited about the new challenges and opportunities that joining Hachette brings, and feel strongly that this is a unique opportunity for me to bring my skills and experience to a top-flight management team in a symbiotic way," stated Mangan.