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2013年2月18日 星期一

'Revenge' Episode 14 Recap: Sacrifice

Sunday night's episode was a powerful, emotional and plot-shifting hour of "Revenge". At least two lives were lost, and one is in limbo by the end of "Sacrifice". Picking up exactly where last week's episode left off, we find Jack and Amanda enjoying their honeymoon at sea on Jack's boat. They are content and in love, sleeping on the bow of the boat deck. Unfortunately, as we know from the previous episode, danger lurks below deck for the newlyweds in the form of Nate Ryan.

Back on shore, Helen Crowley lies dead in the Grayson's home,How would you like to have a personalized bobbleheads of yourself. a casualty they must work to conceal with utmost perfection knowing that the Initiative is watching. Helen's chauffeur begins calling her cellphone when she doesn't return from the Grayson home for an extended period of time, so Victoria disguises herself and gets in the car, driving off as if she herself were Helen. She also instructs Daniel of exactly what to say inside his office at Grayson Global, knowing that the Initiative is watching him meticulously via hidden cameras. It seems nothing gets past Victoria!

Ashley arrives at Emily's beach house to warn her about their "mutual friend" Amanda. She fears Amanda may have gotten in over her head with the Graysons and informs Emily that Amanda blackmailed Conrad into backing out of the Stowaway deal with Nate by showing him damning evidence on a laptop. Hearing that, Emily realizes that Amanda stole her laptop with all the video evidence against the Graysons on it. Moreover, she knows Amanda is likely in trouble and heads over to the Stowaway to find Nolan and try to uncover more information.

Out on the ocean, Nate has made his presence known on "The Amanda" with a drawn gun. Having stowed away underneath the boat deck, he is now isolated on the boat with Amanda and Jack and is out for blood. He asks for the laptop with the information on it and Amanda digs in her backpack to pull out a gun instead- but it's unloaded. Nate has already gotten to it first. Jack and Amanda tangle with Nate for several scenes trying to convince him to drive back to shore. Amanda also tries to "come clean" with him about her hatred for the Graysons and convince him not to trust them. All efforts buy them time, but ultimately Nate is still violent and insane.

Emily and Nolan took out a speedboat as soon as they realized Jack and Amanda were in danger. They speed out into the ocean tracking the sailboat by GPS and get glimpses into the cabin via Declan's computer. Watching Emily and Nolan on a sailboat to the rescue is pretty awesome!

In a press conference, I mean, um, Labor Day party, at Grayson Manor, the family takes the opportunity to stand with Conrad as he announces his candidacy for governor. During the soiree, Conrad and Victoria are approached by a creepy man who identifies himself as a member of the press. This confuses Victoria, as the press was not invited to attend. In a private room they learn that the man is a henchman from the Initiative looking for Helen, who is missing in action. Victoria and Conrad tell him that Helen's disappearance is likely due to Amanda Clarke's resentment about the loss of her father. To strengthen their story, Victoria planted Helen's missing cellphone in Amanda and Jack's apartment,Our parallel Parking assist system helps you park with ease - even in tight spots. which the henchman quickly finds.

As threatening as the Initiative has been (and controlling of her family) Victoria seems to have found a new sense of strength in regards to the group. Perhaps murdering Helen had something to do with it.This solar lamp and phone charger can improve the lives of millons living without electricity. Toward the end of the episode we even see Conrad give her a sly smile, clearly impressed by her strength against the Initiative's henchmen.

Aiden is with Padma in NYC coming clean with her about his sister and situation with the Initiative. Aiden is trying to learn more about her father's disappearance and support her so that the Initiative does not trick her as they did with him. In a pivotal scene, Padma is on the phone with the creepy new henchman from the Initiative. As he demands the program Carrion from her, Padma implores him to assure her whether her father is still alive. "The answer is in the package you just signed for, feel free to check the finger print" he says. The camera shifts to a small package on the table. Aiden takes it from Padma to open it- concerned what might be inside- and his face falls. It is a severed finger.

Out in the ocean, things are getting more dangerous as Nate continues to battle with Amanda and Jack. Emily and Nolan continue racing toward their boat, but not quickly enough. Jack and Amanda get into an argument, which seems partially staged and partially heartfelt when Jack hears Amanda say she only came to the Hamptons and married Jack to get back at the Graysons. Jack "turns" on Amanda revealing to Nate that the laptop with Conrad Grayson's precious information is actually onboard.My experience of your company has been excellent and I would happily buy mosaic tiles. As Nate digs around and opens the laptop (which is actually Declan's), Jack and Amanda scramble to barricade him in the bottom of the boat, blow up a rescue boat and make a run for it. As they attempt to climb over the side of the boat onto the raft, Nate shoots blindly from the cabin, and a bullet hits Jack right in the chest.Integrated Car park management system which can administrate regular and temporary customers. He slumps over (still coherent at this point) as Amanda puts him on the raft and insists on sending him to safety on his own. She sacrifices herself and stays on the sailboat with crazy Nate.

2013年2月16日 星期六

Brocklind’s costume shop selling its final tux

That would be Brocklind’s, closing Saturday after 106 years,How cheaply can I build a solar power systems? with everything from tuxedos to a gorilla outfit on sale until the doors shut at 6 p.m.

At one point,Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. in the 1990s, there were five Brocklind’s stores in this area. But as business slowed, by 2000 Brocklind’s returned to one main outlet, at 500 E. Pike St.

Back in the mid-1970s, when a group of Seattle revolutionaries calling themselves the George Jackson Brigade were held responsible for 11 bombings and 14 bank robberies, the FBI came by the Brocklind’s in the University District.

“The FBI had found an abandoned car used in one of the robberies, and in the back seat there was a receipt for makeup bought at our store,” says Jim DeAmbrosio,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. who, along with his wife, Diane, will be the last to own Brocklind’s.

“They were showing me pictures and asking me if I could identify the people.”

DeAmbrosio is 62 and started working at the store at age 22, though even when he was 9 he was helping out his dad on Saturdays by polishing tux rental shoes.

By the way, ever wonder why tux rental shoes are so incredibly shiny? It’s because they’re made out of plastic, and sure, they make your feet sweat.

“But they do look good,” said DeAmbrosio. Right now, out the door,We specializes in rapid plastic injection mould and molding of parts for prototypes and production. you can have a pair for 10 bucks.

Jim and his brother, Jerry DeAmbrosio, took over the store from their dad, Ray DeAmbrosio, who began working as a salesman in 1932 at the original downtown location at Eighth Avenue and Olive Way.

The dad worked hard and soon was managing the place, and, with a partner, bought it in 1938. He kept the Brocklind’s name, an amalgamation of the last names of the two women who were the original owners — Brockman and Lindeman.

The 1991 Husky football team that shared the national championship was memorialized in a couple of classic sports posters in which then-coach Don James appeared as a gangster-inspired “Dawgfather,” surrounded by his players.

The second poster, issued for the 1991 homecoming, featured the 12 seniors on the team dressed in tuxedos.

Football players are big.

“Two of them wore size 66,” remembers DeAmbrosio. “We had one in stock and had to special-order the second one.”

The biggest tuxedo the store ever rented? It was a size 76.

“That’s a mountain man. We had to open both doors to let him in,” says DeAmbrosio.

Earlier in the closing sale, which began on Jan. 10, the size 76 went for $50.

Actually, if you can fit into the smaller tuxedo sizes — say a 38 or 40 jacket — there are still some 2,000 remaining for sale. Anything that doesn’t sell by day’s end will be put in storage or possibly wholesaled.

Some go back to the 1920s and are in excellent shape because back then, they were made of much heavier wool fabric. People were smaller then as well.

“In those days, the biggest waist size was 39,” says DeAmbrosio — a measurement many Americans now can only dream about.

For Jim and Diane DeAmbrosio, now seemed a good time to close up.

They have sold the building housing the store to Hunters Capital, a Seattle firm which specializes in preserving historical properties. Among plans it has for the store’s site is a restaurant.

DeAmbrosio says the store was making a profit, but a much smaller one than in previous years. The economics of the business had shifted.

A huge competitor in the tux-rental business is the Men’s Wearhouse, which has 1,239 stores nationwide.

The store’s costume-rental business has also suffered. A few decades ago, Brocklind’s employed six seamstresses who worked on costumes, but in recent years the store has had to compete with cheap Halloween outfits sold online.

So what if that bunny costume from an Internet supplier is flimsy? It’s cheap.

DeAmbrosio held up an Elizabethan jacket that was hand-stitched at his store. With its satin and velvet and heavy stitching, the thing must weigh 5 or 6 pounds.Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business.

“You could wear it in a stage production. It’s real clothes,” he says.

Over the years, says DeAmbrosio, he’s gotten three or four calls from the Medical Examiner’s Office stating that a body was found with clothing bearing the Brocklind’s logo.

“Well, you know, one of the things in coming from a wedding, and having too much to drink, are the inevitable consequences,” he says.

And, finally, this from when Margaret “Peg” Parks ran the costume-making part of the store.

In a 1958 story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Parks said she “frequently gets calls from men for fig leafs.”

DeAmbrosio says no such costume was rented or sold in the years he was with the shop. Still, Parks must have been an interesting person to work with.

2013年2月5日 星期二

Khan Academy’s Salman Khan on startups

Salman Khan is known for his educational videos, and his Khan Academy is a non-profit venture, but he has all the hallmarks of an entrepreneur. He made the leap from his full-time job, took a big risk, and built a new organization. He’s tackling a giant challenge, and trying to change the world.

Khan is appearing in Seattle on Wednesday night as part of a tour for his new book, The One World Schoolhouse — about his personal story and the future of education,The cost of cleaning just 2 infected lenses is already higher than the cost of a dry cabinet. including the concept of “the flipped classroom.”

In advance of his visit, I spoke with Khan this morning about the evolution of Khan Academy, his entrepreneurial journey, his connection to Bill Gates, the technology he uses, and his current thoughts on technology in the classroom. Continue reading for excerpts, and hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.

Part of my joy is that I still spend at least 30 percent of my time still making videos,Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. but that’s me personally. Khan Academy as an organization, the videos are an important part, but just a part. Most of our resources are actually around building the, for lack of a better word, the product — which is the interactive software, the dashboard, the analytics, the tools for teachers, which the videos to some degree only complement. If a student gets stuck on an exercise, the videos are there,Source crystal mosaic Products at Mosaics. and they might be helpful for them. If a teacher sees on the dashboard that a student is struggling, maybe the videos could be a line of intervention. So we have that piece.

We’re almost a 40-person organization. Two-thirds are essentially software engineers working on that type of thing. The other third — I still produce the majority of the videos, but we actually have a few other folks who are producing videos, as well. We have members of our team that go and interface with schools. Khan Academy started as a project for supplemental free tutoring on the web, and we kind of inadvertently started to be used in schools, so we have a team that interfaces with teachers, with schools, trying to understand what’s working and what’s not — communicating that to other schools and teachers. We have experimented with things like summer camps, summer programs, to understand what you can do with the physical environment.

It’s hard to say how much of your own experience is generalizable. I would say the big, big thing is perseverance. The only reason we’re having this conversation, the only reason Khan Academy exist,s is that there was four years where it was just something that I kept doing. I would meet people who would say, “Why are you doing this? You’re not going to make money off of this. What do you think you’re doing?” I was like, that’s fine, but I really enjoy it,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! so I’m going to keep doing it. You could tell it almost frustrates them that you continue to do it. “I’m telling you all these reasons that you shouldn’t do it, and this idiot is saying that he enjoys it.” You can’t understate how important that it is.

Different ventures start in different ways. Sometimes it is, you join Y Combinator, you get funding, and you’re off the ground in three months or six months.A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon. In my case it wasn’t that. It was four, five years, and I wasn’t suffering those four, five years. I had a job. This was a hobby. I felt like I was seeing progress, I felt good about it. There were people on YouTube who were sending me thank you letters. I felt like, hey, this is doing something. So let me keep going.

But it did require an entrepreneurial leap around 2009, when I wanted to do this full time. I’ll be frank, that was scarier. You see a lot of people who quit their jobs and are not thinking about the repercussions. I thought a lot about the repercussions of quitting my job and doing this. Some people quit their jobs when it’s just a business plan. I would argue that’s almost not advised, at least if you have my mindset. By the time I quit, the site had several hundred thousand people using it every month. We’d gotten some kind of minor external validation at that point. We had some pretty good press at that point, but at the same time it was scary because it was so non-traditional.

I guess that’s the counterpoint — it maybe is less scary to write the business plan and go for venture funding, because that’s such a done thing. Versus starting a non-profit around YouTube videos and this free virtual school. There’s no pattern that you can look at (as a precedent). It’s more like, this is a strange new pattern that I’m trying to prove out.

I think that’s right. As entrepreneurial and creative and revolutionary as we all like to think we are, we all take comfort if we’re fitting a mold, fitting a pattern. I think you’re right, it’s a huge opportunity. But it’s a high-variance situation, is the most rational way to think about it. If you look at the great entrepreneurial stories — and Khan Academy has a lot of work to do before it can fall into that category — but if you think of the Microsofts of the world, there was no such thing as a software company when they started. It was like, “That’s crazy, you’re going to make money off of selling people bits and bytes?” That was strange in the late 70s. But they did it.

I’ll say it’s good, and surreal, from my point of view. He’s incredibly smart and thoughtful and nice. You hear these stories about him being very hard on people or whatever, but I have never seen that. He asks tough questions, and you can’t bullshit him, but if you’re intellectually honest, and you say what you know, and you say what you don’t know, and you’re just honest in that way, he likes that. When I first met him, 90 percent of my brain was saying, “You’re meeting Bill Gates, you’re meeting Bill Gates.” Surreal. Now I would say 20 percent of my brain does that.

There’s kind of a side story, at least for me personally, with this whole experience. I’ve had the opportunity to interface with a lot of less-than-normal (but in a good way) people — people of note, I guess. The big takeaway I’ve had is how down-to-Earth all of them are. But at the same time how smart. It really isn’t an accident that they got to where they are.

You know, I started on a Windows PC. The funny thing is, a lot of people in our organization use Macs. We’re trying to build a culture in our organization where if you have to communicate something, make a video. That way people can get it on demand. It’s funny, because Macs are normally associated with creative work, and artists. But I’ve actually had trouble getting the same experience on a Mac that I’ve gotten on a Windows PC. I talk about the same experience. For me, when I’m writing, it’s very important that it’s unbelievably responsive. Even a micro-second lag throws it off a bit. I’ve actually had trouble using it on a Mac, period. And on top of that, it’s what I’m used to. I’ll be frank — I think a lot of the long-held reservations about Windows got solved with Windows 7, at least in my mind.

2013年1月29日 星期二

Mint Announces Signing of Agreement with Arab Link Money Transfer

Arab Link provides a comprehensive range of currency exchange and money transfer services for individuals and businesses. A formal Remittance Product Agreement ("RPA") will be developed and executed over the next 30 days. Mint and Arab Link will then begin to offer Money Transfer services to Mint's payroll cardholder base in UAE for sending money home.

Mint payroll cardholders will be able to access money remittance services through Mint ATMs, Mint POS machines, mobile remittance and directly through Arab Link. Beneficiaries of funds will be able to receive funds as cash over-the-counter, credit to their bank account and door-to-door delivery where available.

Nabil Bader, Mint CEO, said today, "Mint recently announced a change of course in respect to our money remittance delivery strategy. This is a very fast moving business with new technologies and service providers entering the space all the time. Mint is a very large customer for any of these providers. Our partnership with Arab Link is a low risk, lower reward strategy than the previously announced acquisition but one we are now more comfortable with following completion of the Arab Link negotiations. Mint and Arab Link have agreed a revenue share arrangement on a per transaction basis."

Chris Hogg, Mint Executive Chairman, said today, "Changing course is part of building a dynamic business model in a very fast growing market. We have to be ready to respond. We are delighted with the potential of this new relationship with Arab Link which enables us to now complete our value added services offering in addition to our existing mobile top up and micro finance business units."

"The UAE remittance market continues to grow and our partnership with Mint is aimed at capturing a sizable share of this market, whilst simplifying the money transfer process, making it more convenient, quicker and less costly for customers," said Rob Groombridge, CEO of Arab Link.

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Yesterday,we sell dry cabinet and different kind of laboratory equipment in us. Travis reported on Baltimore Ravens safety Bernard Pollard’s prediction that in 30 years, the National Football League will die because making necessary changes to improve the safety of the game will produce a sport that no one wants to watch. I think both that scenario and the one that Travis himself lays out are not unrealistic. But it’s also worth remembering that the NFL’s life or death won’t happen in a closed surgical theater. There are people other than the players and owners,Info Store about make your own bobblehead and Bobbleheads in general. and in college, the athletics programs and fundraising departments, with a vested interest in keeping football alive and immensely popular.

Significant among those interests? Broadcast television and ESPN. In the week leading up to the Super Bowl, the League is touting the performance of football on television. 55 percent of the television broadcasts since September 1, 2010, that averaged at least 20 million viewers were of NFL football games, or 135 out of 247 broadcasts. The next-closest program? American Idol, with 39 broadcasts, followed by the London Olympics, with 18. The first scripted program on the list is NCIS, with 11 broadcasts that hit 20 million. There’s no wonder broadcast nets pay big for the games they air: Sunday Night Football is part of what’s helped NBC rebound from fourth place to first in the ratings.Custom laser marker systems for a wide variety of applications built by Control Micro Systems.

Some of that’s an indication of the increasing weakness of broadcast television, which has had a tremendously difficult time launching scripted programming that finds an audience anywhere near that large, and which has seen the numbers on big reality programs, like Idol and Dancing With The Stars decline. But that weakness means the value of football is two-fold. Football broadcasts prop up television’s advertising revenue model. And they provide a potential launching platform for new programming. That’s one of the reasons the Super Bowl rotates from network to network every year: it’s such a critically important platform for showcasing existing programming to one of the largest audiences that assembles in front of the television anymore.

And that’s just on broadcast: football’s even more important to both cable networks and the cable business model. People who oppose cable bundling frequently complain about the price of sports channels, but access to lots and lots of football is one of the reasons sports make cable seem like a good deal for the more than 100 million American households who subscribe to it. The death of football through formal dismantlement or a rising disinterest and distaste would make bundled cable television seem less valuable.

Television, in other words, badly needs the NFL to stay healthy. What that means the industry can,British designers and Manufacturers of laser cutting and laser engraving machine. and will, do remains an open question. But football and television’s futures are deeply intertwined, and at a time when the content television is creating for itself is having trouble finding an audience, those ties are tighter than ever.

2011年11月3日 星期四

Economic challenges push Japan's press makers abroad

Pushed by the record-high yen and economic problems at home, Japan’s large plastic machinery manufacturing industry is accelerating its investment in lower-cost countries, expanding both in China and elsewhere in Asia.

Japan Steel Works Ltd., for example, opened a factory in Ningbo, China, late last year, joining other Japanese press makers already there.

But what also emerged in interviews at the recent International Plastic Fair in Tokyo is a marked trend toward more investment in Southeast Asia and India, in part as a hedge against relying too much on China. Some executives suggested that for Japanese machinery firms, those countries could be favored over China for future investment.

Injection press makers Toshiba Machine Co. Ltd., Sodick Plustech Co. Ltd. and Nissei Plastic Industrial Co. Ltd. -- which all already have Chinese production -- are now broadening to other Asian economies.

“The production in Japan will move to other countries,” said Hozumi Yoda, chairman of the Tokyo-based Association of Japan Plastics Machinery, and president of Nissei. “Maybe Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, or India.”

China remains a critical market, though, because its growth after the 2008 financial crisis has been the single biggest driver of Japanese machinery industry sales.

Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd., for example, said 40 percent of its Japanese-made machines are sold to China, including to Japanese-owned factories there.

Tokyo-based JSW started production in Ningbo in October 2010, making 20 to 30 machines a month there in its smaller range of presses, up to 180 tons, said Kazuo Kitamura, executive officer of the machinery business division. Production could grow to 60 machines a month in the short-term.

The reason for Ningbo is clear -- lower production costs, particularly to compete with Taiwanese firms and Japanese rival Toshiba, which has a large factory in China, he said.

The Japanese yen, which now trades in the range of 75 yen to the dollar and is at its highest levels since 1945, is making JSW’s factories in Japan too expensive, he said.

“Our existing customers, they have plants in China and Southeast Asia, and now they are changing suppliers from JSW to Taiwanese or [made in China] Toshiba models,” Kitamura said.

He said he singled out Toshiba because they export more from their China factory than other Japanese firms.

It’s been a challenging year for Japanese firms, which export about two-thirds of the machines they make in Japan.

The March 11 earthquake and nuclear crisis stopped most auto production in the country for two months, and their U.S., European and domestic markets remain sluggish.

As well, Japanese firms said they worry about what they see as hard-to-predict government policies in China and the recent economic slowdown there, as Beijing has raised interest rates to try to contain inflation. That has sharply limiting credit to smaller manufacturers who buy from the Japanese.

“Many Japanese customers, they are very concerned about China’s economic situation, so now they are investing in Southeast Asia, in Thailand,If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, Indonesia and Vietnam,” Kitamura said. “So we have a lot of orders from this area.”

At IPF, held from Oct. 25-29 in Tokyo, Toshiba and Sodick both said they are establishing factories in Thailand.

Sodick, which focuses on the high-end of Japan’s market, last year set up its first injection press factory outside Japan, in Xiamen, China.

It quickly followed that up earlier this year when it started making molding machines at a factory just outside Bangkok, where its parent company Sodick Group makes EDM machines, said Shigeru Fujimaki, executive managing director of Sodick Plustech.

The high yen has made exporting from Japan very difficult, including to the higher-tech Korean industry, Fujimaki said.

“Last year or two years ago, we sold a lot of machines to the Korean market, especially the vertical presses for the LED market,” he said. “Now they are afraid of buying our products because of the price.”

“The yen level is too high,” he said. “They would like to buy but they have to get yen. It is quite expensive.”

The company will make 40 to 50 machines a month in Thailand, and it believes it can make a cost effective version of its standard models for 25 percent less than in Japan, Fujimaki said.

Toshiba,Do not use cleaners with porcelain tiles , steel wool or thinners. as well, is opening an injection press factory in Thailand this year to make up to 50 machines a month.Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet, It planned to open it in October but the property was hit by Bangkok’s flooding,If so, you may have a cube puzzle . delaying the start-up.There is good integration with PayPal and most TMJ providers,

Thailand right now is more expensive than China but the company expects China’s costs to keep rising swiftly, and its capacity in its Shanghai plant is almost full, said Koji Egashira, group manager for Toshiba’s Injection Molding Machine Sales Department.

The Thai investment is also driven by continued strong demand in Southeast Asia, while China has slowed somewhat in recent months, he said.

JSW’s Kitamura said his firm also was looking at Thailand, and Nissei executives said they continue to move ahead with plans for a press manufacturing plant in “West Asia,” to serve India and surrounding countries, where they see manufacturing growing.

AJPM estimates that production of Japanese injection molding machines will double in China this year, to 2,400.

At the moment, that’s still only about 20 percent of the 12,000 presses made in Japan, but production outside the country is almost certain to grow to counter higher costs at home and a more competitive global market.

Japan’s English language business press these days is filled with worried references to the “hollowing out” of the country’s manufacturing industries.

To help combat that, AJPM’s Yoda said it’s important that Japan join more trade talks, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership discussions underway between the United States and eight smaller economies.

Without such trade deals, the plastics machinery industry risks losing access to growing Asian markets, he said.

2011年9月22日 星期四

Knocknagoshel

Hurricane Katia put the skids under the Knocknagoshel swallows last week and by Sunday there were only a few stragglers left. Katia was followed by torrential rain causing much flooding especially in low lying areas. Land has become very heavy and it looks like it will make an early winter. A last ditch effort has been launched by many to salvage enough turf out of the bogs to tide them over the upcoming cold season .

A number of coarse meadows remain uncut and will make neither hay or bedding. Youth Day - For solance and concelation at Our Lady Queen Of Peace , Achill , come on Saturday October 1st next.Traditional China Porcelain tile claim to clean all the air in a room. For Bus details contact John o87 9430118 or Seamus o87 6796788. Up For The Match - A number of locals were to be seen in Up For The Match on RTE on Saturday night last . A wonderfull night was had by all lucky enough to be there.

Knocknagoshel Deserted - Knocknagoshel was deserted on Sunday last as everyone seemed to be around O'Connell Street on Sunday morning. While the great bulk of Kerry supporters went up on Sunday morning the word was out it was not easy to secure a bed on Saturday night in the capital. For more information on our trip to Croker watch this column next week . Ploughing Championships - The usual followers of the National Ploughing Championships were heading up to Athy from early Tuesday and many intended to take in all three days in the short grass county .

Hopefully some honours will come to the county. Hurling - All roads lead to Austin Stack Park on Sunday next for the two county senior hurling championship semi-finals. The topic of conversation seems to be will Paul Galvin lineout for Lixnaw time will tell. Death - News has reached the district of the death in London of Maureen Hyde nee Keane , late of Ballinattin , Knocknagoshel. Sincere sympathy is extended to all her relatives and friends. Weddings - The marriage took place recently of Mary Bridget Mc Carty daughter of Eileen and the late Tiimmy Mc Carty , Ballylahive , Abbeydorney, and Bernard O'Connor son of Eileen and the late Patrick O'Connor, Carrigeen , Brosna .This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their oil painting supplies .Save on kidney stone and fittings, The ceremony in St Bernard's Church ,Abbeydorney was conducted by Fr Dan Lane ,Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar RUBBER MATS systems, assisted by Fr Denis O'Mahony and Fr Joseph Nolan.

Best man was Kieran O'Connor and groomsmen were Padraig O'Connor and Maurice Carroll. Bridesmaids were Eveleen Mc Carty , Rose Marie Sheehy and Hannah Mc Carty . Flowergirls were Ellen Keenihan and Mary Alice O'Connor . Pageboy was Karl Brosnan . The reception was held in the Dunloe Castle Hotel, Beaufort. Wrenboys - True to tradition there was a great turnout at the All Ireland wrenboy competition in the square in Listowel on Friday night last . Keen competition was the order of the day. SPIKE PLAYERS: The Annual General Meeting of the Spike Players, Knocknagoshel will take place on Wednesday 28th September at 7.30 pm. in the Community Centre, Knocknagoshel.

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