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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the Increased Responsiveness in the Legal System Project (IRLSP) to Development Professionals Inc. (DPI). DPI is a small women-owned business located in the Washington DC area that implements rule of law reforms in developing countries by applying a holistic approach that empowers citizens. The IRLSP is a 30 month project to be implemented from November 2012 to May 2015.
The IRLSP is designed to assist the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL), the Judicial Services Commission and the judiciary to improve the management and the efficacy of the legal system and improve access to justice for Sri Lankan citizens. The project will support the institutional capacity development of the Ministry of Justice, the Judges Training Institute and the Legal Aid Commission. The GSL's commitment to investing and improve the Sri Lankan justice system is the basis for USAID funding though the IRLSP. USAID will support the GSL to implement programs that build the capacity of Sri Lanka partners and enable them to improve their capacity to deliver higher quality services, strengthen the technical knowledge of judges and non-judicial officer, and improve access to justice for communities. These activities will serve to build public confidence in the justice system and improve the administration of justice in Sri Lanka.
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The IRLSP will support the institutional capacity development of the Ministry of Justice, the Judges Training Institute and the Legal Aid Commission with three components designed to:
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- Component 2: Strengthen the technical knowledge of judges and non-judicial officers
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IRLSP will build long-term capacity of partner institutions and increase their ability to deliver new tools and skills that will improve competencies within the Sri Lankan legal system. Ultimately the IRLSP interventions should benefit citizens, litigants, witnesses, victims of crimes and the Sri Lankan society as a whole.

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I'm just full of Jersey Shore references this month! Now you know how big a role those loveable Guidos and Guidettes play in my life…Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing…
Anyhoo. We made burgers.
Burger Night is one of my favorite food nights because it involves a variety of toppings. Which means that no Burger Night is ever the same.
I thought I'd put together a little guide to Burger Night, so that you can enjoy one of your own!
Step 1: Buy some delicious 100% grass-fed (grass finished) ground beef. You could also use pastured turkey, but I secretly like beef burgers 10,000 times better than turkey burgers. That's just me…
Step 2: Form your ground meat into whatever size burgers you desire. We usually do quarter pound burgers for grilling's sake, but we've done half pounders too and let me tell you: they are biiiiiiig. You could add some spices to your burgers at this point if you wanted.
Step 3: Grill 'em up! Make sure not to start a grease fire…we did that once. We had a burger inferno on our hands….since then, I've learned to buy leaner ground beef…and to make M do all of the grilling.
Step 4: While your meats a grillin', prepare your toppings and sides.
Step 4a: My favorite toppings include:
- Bacon
- guacamole (or just avocado)
- Fried eggs
- Portobello mushrooms
- caramelized onions
- Grilled peppers
- Sometimes extra sharp cheddar cheese…
- Other delicious things
Step 5: Top your burger.
Step 6: Eat it. Fork and knife are optional.
We had sautéed dinosaur kale and baked sweet potatoes with our burgers. My favorites! I learned how to saute vegetables in chicken broth without oil at the Whole Foods Store Tour. SO cool. AND delicious: the broth really adds a comforting flavor to the veggies…if that makes sense.
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Researchers Bring Us Closer to Wearable Electronic Clothing
Way back in March of 2010, we told you about Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza and his push to coat cotton fibers with nanoparticles to make essentially electronic fabric. Well, he and his partners have come a step closer in making this a reality.
The team, made up of scientists from different disciplines from University of Bologna and University of Cagliari completed a study, which was published in a September issue of Organic Electronics, according to Cornell University. That study "describes a new technique in which conformal coatings -- which are those that follow cotton's irregular topography -- of gold nanoparticles along with semiconductive and conductive polymers were used to tailor the electronic behavior of natural cotton fibers."In other words, the team was successful in making these nano-particle cotton threads really work. That means we may be one step closer to clothing that could sense body temperatures, track heart rates or blood pressure, and many other possible uses. Companies like Orange who have dreamed up t-shirts that charge batteries based on the sounds experienced by the wearer will be happy too.
"Creating transistors from cotton fibers brings a new perspective to the seamless integration of electronics and textiles, enabling the creation of wearable electronic devices," Hinestroza said in the Cornell article. "Perhaps one day we can even build computers out of cotton fibers in a similar way as khipus -- a recording device based on knots and used by the Inca empire in Peru."
The way that the cotton fibers are coated allow the fabric to stay flexible, and two kinds of active transistors -- organic electrochemical transistors and organic field effect transistors -- were successfully tested.
So who knows -- maybe wearable clothing that can charge batteries via movement, or keep us cooled off when it senses we're too hot is right around the corner. Of course, as we mentioned back in 2010, the safety of wearing nanoparticles is still something we'd like to know more about before we get too excited about charging t-shirts.
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Steer Bar and Grill
Steer Bar and Grill
641 Chapel St, South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia
(03) 9040 1188
My husband's side of the family seemed to love their meat, so since it was hubby's cousin's Chowie's birthday, we took him to Steer Bar and Grill. For all the hype surrounding them taking in food bloggers to do a few weeks of work experience there, I have never been to Steer until now. It was a Wednesday night and at 7pm the place seemed surprisingly empty. 2 or 3 tables sat on the couches facing the windows, with several waiters crowded around the kitchen. No one seemed to notice us at first, we had to wait several minutes to be acknowledged and seated. First impression do count, so this is a little bit disappointing.
We were also seating on the couches, which is comfy enough, however there is a disconcerting amount of tiny flies buzzing around. I began to fret about my choice of dinner venue- this is not good. We persisted though, and was happy to find one of our favourite wines on the wine list- Wild Duck Creek Springflat Shiraz $95.
After ordering our drinks, we were presented with the selection of meat- these huge chunks of raw meat may scare vegetarians but we are very excited but confused- so much to choose from! I was dying to eat the Moondarra Full Blood Tajima Wagyu again, ever since I tasted it last time at the Fringe Food Fest. But alas, it was sold out. Finally Hubby and Chowie settled on the Delmonico cut and Rib Eye from Steer Premium.
But first of all, we needed some appetisers. For some annoying reasons, it seemed that whatever I wanted to order, it ran out. I really wanted the Crispy Crab Roll, but nope, they didn't have it that night. So we settled for the scallop tataki. The scallop tataki is kinda unexpected. I thought tataki is supposed to be lightly seared but this came out raw. Not that it mattered, the scallops were very very fresh and went well with the thinly sliced radishes and freshly grated real wasabi. Of course the micro shiso goes down very well with me also.
Our pièce de résistance came, which is of course, the meat. The Delmonico cut was so so tender, cooked to perfection, fatty but not TOO fatty… just perfect really. The rib eye is a little bit drier, but hubby and Chowie thought that was just right to balance out the fattiness of the other piece. They are both ordered medium rare and whilst the Delmonico cut I thought it was perfect, the rib eye I thought it was a touch overcooked.
We ordered dressed organic leaves and chips as sides, whilst I left the chips for the boys (which said it was nice), I had lots of yummy fresh salad.
We also ordered the baked field and pine mushroom in what looks like a wrapped parchment, which I thought was interesting and it adds a leafy fragrant to it that lifts the earthiness of the mushroom. Just wish that there were more pine mushrooms!
We try to see if Chowie wanted dessert here but he seemed to be uninterested. I suspected that the flies were just becoming too much of an issue for everyone's liking anyway, they attack our food, one even fell into my wine and I had to fish it out. I whacked a few of them dead but there are still a few stuck on the walls. The service was also one of the biggest issues they have. I am not too sure whether they were untrained or what, but not only did we not get acknowledge for a long time in the reception, once we sat the waiter plonk one of those tall jugs of water on our table that is usually reserved for waiters to pour for us (it's just so tall that there is no way guests can pour it sitting down). It was only when Hubby stood up to start pouring us water (after a few raised eyebrows) that someone came and went "let me do that for you". Other incidences include bringing us sides that we didn't order, not looking very patient when we ask for sauce etc.
If I were to come back, it would definitely for the food, but I surely wish very very hard that they get pest control and some better trained staff before my next visit! 6/10


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I have two songs by Aaron Thomas to bless your spirit today. The first song is called A Changed Me. I totally love the vocals on this song and I'm sure you'll like it too. 😀
The next song I want to post is also by Aaron Thomas is called My God Is. I totally love this song. When I contemplate what I've been through for the past year, I just gotta give Him praise! I pray that these songs minister to your spirit today. God Bless You Everybody! 😀


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"International cooperation is important for spread of technology, especially the standard-based technologies that provide a global market and competition," Sinha said at an industry event.
Sinha also hailed the collaboration between the European Union (EU) standards development organisation with the Indian counterpart TSDSI.
"It is good trend that European standards development organisation, ETSI is collaboration with Indian telecom standard development organisation, TSDSI which is developing standards and and premier R&D institution like C-DoT is developing systems on these standards," he said.
ETSI or the European Telecommunications Standards Institute is collaborating with the Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI) with a focus to contribute to the worldwide standards to fuel machine to machine (M2M) services.
Standardisation of machine to machine communication will ensure that there is a participation of many players in realisation of smart city ICT infrastructure and it will be a platform on which new applications like e-health, e-traffic control, e-waste management, e-mandi and e-education and many other applications will evolve," he said.
The global community is inching towards a sustainable and uniform standards to develop common M2M application based on oneM2M.
The industry estimates including from Machina Research, a part of US-based Gartner said that smart cities would waste as much as $341 billion by 2025, if a fragment approach is adopted towards M2M adoption.
"Machine to machine communications or IoT is new generation of services and the number of machines connected to Internet are going to be more than four fold of human population," the minister said.
Present day telecommunications and networking, according to him is expanding its boundaries, and voice-based networks are getting changed to data-oriented networks.
Sinha also stressed that India has a large pool of talented young engineers and capability in both software and hardware design development and in the coming decade more innovation and contribution would come from India.
Government's telecom research and development (R&D) agency C-DoT has developed a Public Data Office (PDO) that will allow small village-level entrepreneurs to retail data bandwidth at affordable price to further fuel Internet penetration and facilitate digital access to those unconnected.
"C-DoT's initiative will also promote Make in India, Digital India and Startup India, the vision of Prime Minister, Sinha concluded.


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Mobile systems disrupting traditional IT setups
Mobile computing is changing the way businesses operate. Gone are the days when workers were tethered to their desks, sending emails, making calls and dealing with inefficient methods for information distribution and collaboration. Instead, workers are increasingly using their personal smartphones or tablets for everything from video chatting to text messaging, email and application use. This is revolutionizing how companies operate.
According to a recent ComputerWeekly report, mobile computing will also be changing the way back-office IT systems are run.
Citing a recent study performed by Forrester Research, the news source explained that mobile computing introduces incredible complexity into the back-end systems that support ongoing operations. The entire IT setup has to be reconfigured to be faster, more flexible and more responsive. At the same time, mobile also presents unique operational challenges that IT has to respond to.
In the study, Forrester analyst John McCarthy explained that the time has come for businesses to begin making the necessary preparations and changes to support mobility, the report said.
"The mobile era ushers in a variety of hidden consequences, including a huge spike in back-end activities and transactions, the need to re-architect how firms handle data and security and the complete reworking of back-end systems and processes," said McCarthy, according to ComputerWeekly.
For businesses considering major changes to their IT configuration in light of the rise of mobile device plans, business process management software could play a major role moving forward. At their core, BPM solutions are not focused on the IT infrastructure that supports mobile devices. However, BPM does provide a key layer of automation that allows workers to take data from mobile, cloud and social media sources and use it as efficiently as possible. This provides a foundation for operational efficiency that businesses can use to evaluate what mobile systems can do for them.
With this knowledge in hand, organizations are then better positioned to make strategic upgrades to the back-office IT systems that support mobile strategies. As such, BPM can serve as an enabler to companies seeking to adjust to the emerging mobile climate in enterprise IT. As a result, BPM offers businesses the opportunity to take full advantage of the benefits of mobility strategies by providing the foundation for operational success and knowledge of how to best use mobile functionality, informing the tactical IT upgrades needed to enable more fully featured mobile plans.


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Designer Package has been tested clear for the genetic disorders HYPP (N/N), Herda (N/N), GBED (N/N), PSSM1 (N/N) and MH (N/N), and is still the only buckskin stallion by the amazing 2 X World Champion, The Package (USA) in the world - and the only stallion by The Package currently standing at stud in Australia. Sire: The Package (USA)The Package (USA) a two time World Champion, sire of multiple World Champions and Reserve World Champions in Quarter Horses, Appaloosas and Paints. The Package is by At Long Last, a four time World Champion, Congress Champion, a sire of 17 World Champions, Congress Champions, AQHA Champions and NSBA money earners, by Mr Conclusion, the #1 All Time Leading Sire of World Champions.The Package is out of the phenomenal mare, Honey Ofa Page (USA), an AmQHA Champion and World Show Top 10 by Page Impressive (USA), who sadly passed away in June 2011 and will be greatly missed. She was one of the rarest of mares a great show mare who went on to out-produce herself. The Packages owner and breeder, Kathy Pettit, believes that the best is yet to come with Designer Package - he hasnt even blossomed yet! ... The Package did not mature and win his first World Champion until he was five years old.
Designer Packages dam, JB Diana (USA) her sire is Silent Demand, bred by Hank Wiescamp by Skip Demand out of Silent Skippa. Skip Demand is by Skippers King, who Hank Wiescamp regarded as the best son by Skipper W. Silent Skippa is by Skippa String. He achieved a solid AAA rating on the tracks, sired AAA race horses, AQHA Champions, Superior Halter horses and performance point earners. He was sired by Rukin String. Silent Skippa, is out of Silent Bar a top producing daughter of Bar Mount and is a full sister to Silent String, another great sire in Hank Wiescamp breeding program. JB Diana is saturated with not just Wiescamp horses but the actual horses who formed the cornerstones of Mr Wiescamps breeding program
JB Diana's dam is Machs Kachina, by Mach I - an AmQHA Supreme Champion, by Junior Reed out of Spanish Joy who is one of the Quarter Horses premier producing broodmares. She was the dam of two AmQHA Supreme Champions, five AQHA Champions and five AAA-rated race horses. Machs Kachina is out of Hippy Bar by Leo Bar.
He has a solid true-to-type history of useful and valuable quarter horses as well as the beauty of the quarter horse halter type. All in ONE package. "Designer Package".
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No Kid Clu(USA) blood - making him a serious potential nick for Australian Kid Clu(USA) mares.Sire The Package(USA) - 2X World Champion.Paternal Grandsire At Long Last(USA) - 4X World Champion, by Mr Conclusion(USA) - sire of 122 World Champions and 116 Reserve World Champions.Paternal Grand-dam Honey of a Page(USA) - Top 10 World Show Place-getter by Page Impressive(USA) - World Champion offspring, Reserve World offspring, NSBA money-earners.Maternal Grandsire Silent Demand(USA) bred by H. Weiscamp - only breeder ever to be inducted into all 3 western breed associations' Hall of Fame. Grandson of Skipper King (USA) by Skipper W(USA) ... leading sire & grandsire of ROM arena off-spring.Maternal Grand-dam Machs Kachina(USA) a line bred Leo(USA) (Hall of Fame inductee) grandaughter by Mach I - AmQHA Supreme Champion (one of only 46 horses EVER awarded the AmQHA's highest honour).


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When you have to drive more than six hours to eat your favorite Latin American dish because local groceries don't carry the ingredients to make it at home, you know you live in "Gringolandia." That is what Nery Diaz, a native of Honduras, discovered days after moving to Maine a year ago.
"Even if my wife wants to cook baleada (a traditional Honduran dish that is similar to a Mexican quesadilla) at home, we haven't been able to find a store locally that carries the flour to prepare it," explained Diaz, who moved from the Washington, D.C-Virginia area - the epicenter of the U.S. Central American population - to South Portland, Maine a year ago to help open a Mexican restaurant with a friend.
"I can count the number of Latinos in this state in one hand, and most work in my restaurant," he said jokingly of the Hispanic population in Maine. But the real cultural shock for Diaz, who lives with his wife and 12-year old daughter, wasn't that he couldn't find an eatery that carried his favorite delicacy when the craving hit. His big culture shock involved soccer, his favorite sport.
"In my old neighborhood I could walk to almost any public park on any day of the week and pick up a game of futbol," he explained. "Since moving here, I've yet to see one player kicking the ball around," Diaz said somberly. And this is coming from a man who managed a soccer league of twenty teams.
"But it's worth the sacrifice," he added. "There are more financial opportunities here for me and my family."
Diaz is part of a growing number of Latino professionals who are moving from traditional Hispanic settlements to states and towns with very little Latino presence. Maine and Vermont, among the whitest states in the nation--both have less than 5 percent of Hispanic residents, combined. Yet these states have seen a six percent increase in the Hispanic population in the last decade, according to the U.S. Census.
"I can count the number of Latinos in this state in one hand, and most work in my restaurant," said jokingly a Honduran who moved from Washington, D.C. to South Portland, Maine to open a business in the area.
Joan Zelaya used to live in West New York, New Jersey, a densely populated urban metropolis that feels more like Bogota and Havana and boasts a 95 percent Latin American population. When she moved to Athens, Ohio her culture shock was intense.
"I went from listening to merengue, salsa, and other Latin music blasting from cars, and stores, to crickets," she said. But the 38-year old South Bronx born educator welcomed the change.
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"The slower pace and quality of life taught me that there were different ways to live besides the loud busyness of an urban center that sometimes threatens to split your head open," said Zelaya, who is part Dominican and Honduran.
Living in a place with few Latino neighbors and colleagues taught Zelaya to build a community with the small number of people of color she did find, she said. Yet even with a strong sense of comunidad that Zelaya was able to build, the feeling of otherness never went away.
"You can't escape that otherness when you are the only Latina or woman of color in the office or in the supermarket," she said. Zelaya recently quit her job as Co Director of Tutoring Services at Ohio University to move to Dallas. She confessed that part of the allure of Dallas was that it was more Latinocentric, even if she moved there without a job.
"It wasn't that I experienced overt racism in Athens," explained Zelaya, a community college teacher, but more subtle "micro aggressive moments."
Some examples, said Zelaya, was when she would be told, 'oh you are so articulate, you speak English so well,' she said. "What they are implying is that only white people are articulate," said Zelaya.
Something that happened a lot in Athens, Ohio was the fascination with Zelaya's ethnic hair.
"A lot of people asked me about my curly hair and even asked to touch it," she said. "I've had an evolution where ten years ago that would have been fighting moments," she explained. "I never thought it was my responsibility to teach white people and others about Latino heritage but now I use those incidents as teachable moments--moments to connect."
Saying that she came to see some of these comments came out of ignorance or curiosity, "I realized too that some white people are genuinely interested in my hair," she said, laughing. "And why not—it's big and gorgeous. Heck, I'm interested in my hair," Zelaya added.
Migdalia Diaz, 38, was born in Puerto Rico, but moved with her family to the culturally homogenous coastal town of Old Saybrook, Connecticut when she was four years old. She now lives in "lily-white" Arlington, Massachusetts, and said she understands what it's like to be the only Latina in her school and town. But a lifetime of encounters toughened her up, she said.
"Oh I've got stories--when I was a cheerleader in high school some of the girls would ask if all Puerto Rican girls were as flexible as I am," she said, laughing at some of the comments.
"You wouldn't believe the ignorance. Once I was walking to get ice cream with my little brother who is seven years younger than me and someone shouted from a car window, "you shouldn't have had kids so young! If I had been a white teen, instead of assuming he was my son, those same ignorant folks would have assumed that he was my little brother," said Diaz.
Rather than being defeated, Diaz said she developed cultural dexterity, a skill she employs working as a project manager for an international construction company.
"Living in an all white town taught me how resilient I am," she said, "and it gave me the perspective of seeing the beauty in all people. There was a point where my friends went beyond the color of my skin and saw me as one of them," said Diaz.
There was another benefit to cultural isolation--it made Diaz a better cook.
"My mom created little Puerto Rico in our home—she constantly played salsa music, and taught us how to cook boricua (another name for Puerto Rico) dishes from scratch," Diaz said. "She also showed us our cultural beauty."
Diaz might have grown up in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, but she is not only bilingual and a good salsa dancer but can cook alcapurrias, arroz con gandules, pernil and pastelillos among other traditional Puerto Rican dishes all made from scratch. She recently discovered a small Latin market forty minutes away and was elated; the closest one was an hour away.
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Beyond the extra $4+ movie theaters charge for the "experience," one of the biggest burdens of viewing a 3D movie are those cumbersome glasses. With several different types of 3D available, many of which require a different pair of glasses - not to mention a ton of movies that don't make all that great use of 3D (usually a post-converted film) - most casual moviegoers simply forgo the experience altogether.
But what if one of the biggest obstacles to that experience (the aforementioned annoying glasses) could be eliminated altogether? It's not exactly happening anytime soon, but a group of South Korean researchers have published a study claiming they have found a way for theaters to project a 3D image without the need for glasses, and it requires no additional projector installation.
The proposal, which was published in Optics Express, presents a technology that isn't too overly complicated to set up, but requires quite a bit of explanation. Here's a handy breakdown courtesy of Wired:
The new method would allow movie theaters to keep their projectors where they've always been, behind the audience, and uses fairly simple optical technology. A special array sits in front of the projector and polarizes its light. A filter covering the screen then obscures different vertical regions of the screen, like the slats of venetian blinds. Each of your eyes, sitting at a slightly different angle, has some of the screen blocked and some of the screen visible. The movie has the right-eye and left-eye images interleaved in vertical columns with one another. The trick then is to have the light visible to your left eye contain the left-eye pixels and vice versa for the right eye.
The installation appears to only require a new device be placed in front of the projector and another screen be situated between the audience and the movie theater screen. It sounds simple enough, but with so many 3D technologies out there it doesn't sound like a cure-all just yet.
Although Real D is far and away the most popular 3D theater technology available, there still exist several other options, like Dolby's Digital 3D, which use a different form of 3D projection. Was this adaptation used on Real D or another type of 3D? Will it work on all forms including those that don't use polarization to project a 3D image?
Devices like Nintendo's 3DS are perfect examples of situations where glasses-less 3D is possible, but the device itself is built with specific instructions. A pre-determined viewing angle must be achieved at all times or else the entire 3D effect is lost. There are definitely ideal places to sit in theaters – sections where this glasses-less 3D would be at its optimal level – but what about the front row or the side sections?
These are all just hypothetical problems that theater owners could run into, but one of the major problems with this new technology is its ability to only project a low-res image. It's something that could be fixed with tinkering, but shows that the tech is still not ready for widespread testing.
Still, the prospect of ditching glasses in favor of a crisper unhindered 3D image will likely have moviegoers intrigued.
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Jun is a university student. She meets high school student Haru. To Jun, Haru looks just like Sachiko who was the girlfriend of her now deceased father. Jun and Haru meet Tokio. Tokio is the grandson of Sachiko and they learn that Sachiko is now deceased. They find an open-reel tape from Sachiko's articles.
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It began on Thursday with dinner with my Beloved fil. We go see him nearly every Thursday and we usually do dinner out. This time we went to the Chinese buffet and had a lovely evening!
Friday we had some shopping to do. Not Grocery but for things like doggie toys and speaker wire and such. We had supper at Outback. Man their shrimps have gotten really shrimpy in size! They were about quarter size. Over all not the best meal we have had there though the waitress was darling.
Saturday evening we met up with a PHer, Pink Carnation, and her hubby at Red Lobster. Now they KNOW coconut Shrimp there! After a leisurely, chat filled dinner we headed to Walmart for some more shopping.
This was such a special evening with friends. Sue Ellen and her hubby are very sweet folks and I enjoyed the joking and fun immensely! I am really in awe that some one drove here all the way from Dallas JUST to spend an evening at supper with me! Though the food was great the company was marvelous. I have not had so much fun at a meal in a long long time! It was awesome meeting a lady who is so much like me! I think we must be twins!
Sunday we planned to remain home, my allergies are killing me today! However youngest called and needed a package that had come for a business trip. So we piled Katy (my new puppy) into the car and headed off to deliver the cable. Realizing Katy had not yet eaten we drove thru and got her a burger patty. We got taquitos and headed home so I could begin the turkey dinner for oldest son who was coming out for the afternoon.
Tomorrow my running continues as it is the last day of the adult literacy council books sale and I want to go see if I can find any more real Nancy Drews or GLH books! I will meet my buddy there and finish any grocery shopping I have left after ward.
Then I think I will stay home and sleep and rest in quiet pleasure devouring GLH, my own or any new ones for a week!
2 weeks ago when I got a puppy her name was Dipper. I really detested that name. When my son came over that Sunday he also did not like that name and said I should change it. He was right. So now my baby girl is named Katy.
My reasoning will sound odd but here it is.
Katy is Dachshund and Wire hair Terrier, or German and Scot. My grandmother, Katherine was a German who married a Scot. I am told I dearly loved my gma but I do not remember, she died when I was 2. So in her honor I name my puppy that I dearly love, Katy. Because you see, I am also German and Scot, just like Katy.
So Friday Katy got a new RED collar with rhinestones and a bag full of toys and chew things. She also got a set of new bowls. While wandering around Petsmart I began noticing "clothes" for dogs. I am ashamed of myself because I actually found myself thinking, aw she would look so cute in that… more than once! I am not one of those people who dress up their dogs! At least until now I never used to be… Her main job with toys it seems is tearing into it until she can remove the squeaker. She is not content for a toy to remain unscathed until she gets the squeaker out. Then it becomes just a toy to be dragged around the house. I have stuffings every where.
That is how my weekend went and I really would not trade a minute of it. The allergy and headachy feeling yes but the time spent with friends and family over good food and the money spent on puppy stuff, not a bit!
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Note: the Wheelie Award was not an officially sanctioned NHRA prize at the 2014 U.S. Nationals.
With that out of the way, scroll through this awesome gallery of burnouts and wheels up from the Indy Nats this year. Super photog Evan Smith shot these for us, and there's a great mix of new Factory Showdown cars, Hemi Challenge racers and a whole bunch of other Stock and Super Stock cars reaching for the sky on the famous Indianapolis starting line. Who did the best wheelie? Who did the best burnout? Who has the best paint job? Tell us in the comments below.


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InBev and Anheuser-Busch seem to be putting their hostilities aside and getting closer to being drinking buddies. The Belgian brewer has reportedly hiked its takeover bid for the brewer of Budweiser beer by $5 a share to $70, valuing its target at $45 billion, and Anheuser has also reportedly agreed to engage in friendly talks. Last June, InBev launched an unsolicited $46.3 billion takeover offer, sparking animosity between the two companies.
Analysts have told Forbes.com over the past few weeks however that InBev was likely to increase the price per share of its offer, as Anheuser shareholders were trying to squeeze out a better deal.
Should the deal take place, it will rank as the largest takeover in the United States for 2008, according to Thompson Financial. A report on the Wall Street Journal's Web site on Friday said that InBev had raised its bid for Anheuser, and cited a person familiar with the matter. Inbev is also said to have launched a $45.0 billion syndicated loan to purchase Anheuser, according to TradeTheNews.
Shares in InBev rose 5.2%, or 2.15 euros ($3.42), to 43.60 euros ($69.16), in Brussels on Friday afternoon, while
InBev refused to comment, and Anheuser-Busch could not immediately be reached.
But possible talks could still break down, according to a report on the New York Times website, citing people briefed on the subject.
The paper added that some of Anheuser's largest shareholders, including billionaire investor Warren Buffett, were leaning toward backing a deal with InBev.
Since InBev made its original $46.3 billion, $65-a-share bid for Anheuser in June, the two sides have not been speaking to each other, at least publicly.
Both companies have approached the courts, with the Belgian brewer looking to oust Anheuser's board and replace it with its own version that includes a member of the Busch family, while the St. Louis-based Anheuser has responded by filing suit in a U.S. federal court on Tuesday, and has also criticized InBev for having operations in Cuba.
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The couturier channeled Studio 54 glamour for the after-dark focused collection
"Couture can be a bit ceremonial and serious but you can have fun. It's a question of attitude," said Alexandre Vauthier, who channeled retro glamour à la Studio 54, with giant disco balls hanging over the runway and hot pink lights accentuating the line's after-dark mood. Transparency and glitter were among the leitmotifs.
Ready to hit the dance floor was a black crystal-and-lace jumpsuit cinched with a baby pink metallic belt, wrap dresses in pastel metallics or glossy black python and a springy black-and-white organza polka-dot mini.
The accessories included metallic footwear, veiled hats and supersized asymmetric crystal chandelier earrings straight out of the Eighties. Vauthier also revisited Le Smoking with a short wide pant with a high split, accessorized with metallic boots. But it was the quieter moments like the ultradelicate organza tops with expertly sculpted ruffles that sang.


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Affordable independent stores to shop at this Christmas
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_They say Osradin was a land of wonders, a shining point of light in a dark, uncivilized world. They say that world, that light, is gone forever, taken from us by the dragons who first forged it with fire, fang and spell. Over two decades after that amazing land was lost, those few who lived through Osradin's collapse, and those of us born after the fall, were more concerned with surviving in a hostile world than restoring our fallen nation. But there were those of us who refused to live in darkness. When a monstrous empire rose in the south, promising civilization in exchange for freedom and the lives of our brothers, heroes, men I had known since childhood, rose up to oppose it. I know not if they shall prove victorious. Their foes are powerful and united in terrible purpose, while their allies are feuding and few. I commit the portion of their tale I know to this tome, in the hope that even should these heroes fail, the Stone Crows shall never forget their sacrifice.
It had been 22 years since the dragons' began their rampage, and 12 since they had thankfully departed our lands for lands unknown. Since that time, my people, the misfits and outcasts known as the Stone Crows, had grown into a strong, if small, nomadic tribe. We were shepherds, scavengers, warriors and thieves. Spring was nearly at an end and we were preparing to move to cooler climes, lest our fat, black flocks wither in the unrelenting heat that was surely on its way.
As we packed up our sparse possessions, our leader, that one-eyed old Goliath known as Kavak the Quick, announced that one of our brothers never returned with his herd. Saumel, a kind old soul, had been a day late in returning to the tribe. Surely, he had only been delayed by a lost lamb or a mangy wolf, but would no one help our aged brother home? Many of us volunteered, but the group that found old Sam was to about to begin a journey that would change their lives, and the fate of our tribe, forever.
My brothers searched for the old shepherd for hours, when they heard a faint horn, blaring on the winds. One long blast, followed by two short ones. It was a cry for help that our people had used for nearly a decade. My brothers raced towards the sound, and hopefully, Samuel.
They soon found old Sam in a dire state. He was frantically defending what was left from his flock from snarling, reptilian beasts. These drakes had taken several of his flock already, and a particularly large, red brute was determined to make Sam his next meal.
My brothers fell on these beasts like an oncoming storm. Jett, with fierce spell, Winnish, with stinging sword, The Monk, with terrible fists, Rangrim, with psychic force, and Bilon, with the wrath of his goddess, Avandra. The drakes nearly gutted my brothers there and then, but with their powers combined, they were able to save a grateful old Sam and most of his charges.
Shaken, Sam told his rescuers how he came to be in such a state. While gathering his flock, he encountered the wreckage of a wagon, complete with fallen steeds. Having not seen even a single horse since before the fall of Osradin, he felt he had to investigate despite the danger. His flock didn't share his enthusiasm, however, and fled as he approached the strange conveyance.
Suspecting a threat to our people, my brothers helped Sam on his way then made to investigate the site where the shepherd had seen the wagon. They soon found it, only to be ambushed by a pack of ghouls from Tiam-Krey. Long the enemies of the Crows, it was odd to see these cannibals so far from the ruins of that once great city. These horrors were soon vanquished by my kin, who then proceeded to look at the ruins of the wagon. It was of recent manufacture, driven by a dragonborn woman with a strange, silver spike thrust into her throat. Apparently, she had been slain by the ghouls, but where had she come from? She had strange tattoos, perhaps indicating she came from a far-off tribe, but if she came from a people who still had easy access to mounts and craftsmen, they were certainly better off than our own. Some of her possessions bore a dragon-skull symbol, the meaning of which we would all learn much too soon.
Upon their return to the tribe, Sam's rescuers came upon a group of heavily armed strangers, dangerous looking humans and hobgoblins. I approached my brothers, and warned them as best I could, asking them to speak to our leader about our unwelcome guests. Kavak had been negotiating with this strange new tribe, called the Prepotency. They flew the banner of the dragon-skull, and claimed to be from an empire with many great cities and thousands of soldiers. Their leader, who claimed to be a Centurion in one of his Emperor's many legions, said he could summon many far off warriors in moments through the power of his advisor, a strange shardmind he called an Opti.
These soldiers claimed to want peace between our people. They even had an ally from the Rivermen tribe, a people who had once been closely linked to our own. However, they demanded that we surrender any dragonborn in our tribe to them, claiming they were responsible for the last war and could not be trusted in their new Empire.
After Kavak discussed this with his closest advisers, he rejected this proposal, refusing to surrender any of our tribe. The Prepotency soldiers agreed to go on their way, promising us trade rights in the future. We were all suspicious of this so-called Empire, though, and Kavak asked Sam's rescuers to scout ahead to our summer campsite, a few days in advance of the rest of us.
The heroes began their journey soon after, defeating some strange, slime-covered monstrosities on their way to our summer grounds. When they arrived, they found that not only had the Prepotency claimed the site as their own, they and their Rivermen auxiliaries had constructed a fortress. Hopelessly outmatched, they dispatched some Rivermen scouts and their Prepotency leader, then rushed to bring this news to the rest of the tribe.
Pursued by horrid barghests, shape-shifting scouts of the Empire, my brothers made their way home and warned Kavak of these new events. He gave a rousing speech to my people, but called together his advisers once more to discuss this new threat. Some of us threatened caution, others a reckless assault, but in the end Kavak decided to do what he had done so well in the past. He decided to hide. He knew of an old hunting lodge deep in the mountains to the West and thought the Crows could make a temporary home there
At this time Bilon, noble cleric of Avandra, volunteered to seek out allies. He would take a small group East, to treat with the Five Fangs and warn them of the Prepotency.
After wishing Bilon a good journey, the rest of the tribe moved as swiftly as we could, hoping to find safety in Kavak's new hiding place. Our scouts spotted a small troop of our enemies, and again our heroes risked life and limb on behalf of our people, this time with Adara, a wandering cleric in the service of the Raven Queen by their side. As they advanced on the Legionnaires, they were bombarded by a strange, explosive device. Back with the main group, we were were assaulted by mad, howling barghests charging through our ranks. As my brothers tried to flank the enemy, the Prepotency's odd siege engine began to rain fire down upon the tribe. Eventually, those of us back with the main group were able to fight off the barghests, and our advance party destroyed the siege engine in a massive explosion, but there were losses. Several of our people had been torn to shreds, either by the barghests' fangs or the arcane fires of the Prepotency's massive cannon.
We buried our dead, scavenged from our enemies, and made our way to Kavak's redoubt. When we reached it, we knew that we were in greater danger than we had realized. There was no way the area could support all the Crows. There was little to graze. Our livestock would soon be dead. Once they were gone, we could be soon to follow. A new home had to be found, and quickly. The indomitable Rangrim offered to search for a lost dwarf-hold deeper into the mountains, hoping that would be a better place for the Crows to roost. What he and his allies would find would change our tribe forever._
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In June, Gov. Mike Pence sent a letter to President Obama, informing him Indiana would oppose the then proposed Clean Power Plan.
"Gov. Pence had previously written to [Environmental Protection Agency] administrator Gina McCarthy on Dec. 1, 2014 describing the proposed rules as 'ill-conceived and poorly constructed,'" according to a Monday press release from the governor's office. "In both letters, Gov. Pence called for the withdrawal of the rules."
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Pence is not alone in this fight. Indiana is one of several states to take such an adversarial position.
Pence is wasting taxpayer dollars sending Zoeller to fight this perceived overreach by federal government. We apparently have no institutional memory of what it was like before the EPA was created by Republican President Richard Nixon in 1970.
Gov. Pence, you must come up with an alternate plan instead of just saying no. Given the amount of previous and ongoing environmental disasters, we here in Kokomo should be familiar with what happens when business is allowed to ride roughshod over the environment. Heck, our groundwater is contaminated, and we're not even sure what's causing it yet.
What's the use of jobs, governor, if we're all too ill to work?


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Publisher: Dial Books
Published: September 9, 2009
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 461
Form: Hardback
Series: Graceling Realm Companion
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It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. The young King Nash clings to his throne while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. The mountains and forests are filled with spies and thieves and lawless men.
This is where Fire lives. With a wild, irresistible appearance and hair the color of flame, Fire is the last remaining human monster. Equally hated and adored, she has the unique ability to control minds, but she guards her power, unwilling to steal the secrets of innocent people. Especially when she has so many of her own.
Then Prince Brigan comes to bring her to King City. The royal family needs her help to uncover a plot against the king. Far away from home, Fire begins to realize there's more to her power than she ever dreamed. Her power could save the kingdom.
If only she weren't afraid of becoming the monster her father was.
My Thoughts
CLACKERS! I was a bit disappointed in this book as it's received such high praise from around the web. Graceling was one of my favorite's last year, and many touted this book as being even better. I don't know what book they were reading but Fire doesn't even come close to the awesomeness of Graceling. While it is a perfectly decent story, it just didn't live up to the hype or my expectations of it.
Fire can control minds but will only use her gift to protect herself from being harmed. She's terrified of becoming like her monster father who used and abused his power. But when the distant Kingdom she comes from finds themselves on the brink of war, Fire must decide on whether or not to use her power to help prevent it.
Considering that this story was supposed to be fantasy, it came off as a bit dull for me. While I was curious about Fire and her abilities, nothing ever really seemed to be happening in the book. Besides the occasional familial or relationship reveal, there was nothing of significance to keep me really interested in the story. Even Fire's ability was not fully explored (in my opinion) and kind of confusing. Heck even Fire seemed confused about it most of the time. Sometimes she could use it, but it seemed most people knew how to guard themselves against her ability, which made me wonder what use was it really? The only time it really came in handy was towards the end when she was easing the pain of injured soldiers.
There are 461 pages in this story, and there is no real action or anything of significance going on until about 360 pages in. That's a lot to read when only the last 100 pages contains any excitement. But while the plot didn't really do anything for me I did enjoy some of the characters. Fire was sensitive and caring while her best friend and former lover Archer was charismatic and protective. Prince Brigan was honorable and noble beyond measure, and I became fond of Brigan's family.
Overall this book was very meh-ish. A decent story but nothing to really get excited and shout from the rooftops about. It was just okay for me.
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Filed in: Fantasy, Reviews, Young Adult Tags: Fantasy, Kristin Cashore, Review, Young Adult
10 Responses to "Review: Fire by Kristin Cashore"
I'm going to start Fire soon but now I'm not sure if it is worth the time. It seems that people who enjoyed Graceling took issue with Fire and those who didn't enjoy Graceling loved Fire. I was a bit hesitant anyway.
So how does Fire work? How does it fit with Graceling exactly?
Too bad you didn't like this one – I did like the entire series – the first 2 better than the last one.
I tried reading this book after reading and really liking Graceling, but I didn't even finish it. I've wondered if I should go back and give it another try, but I think I'll just leave it as DNF. Thanks for your honesty!
You know I thought about reading this series solely based on the cover of Bitterblue. As usual I judge books by their covers. Good to know and good review.
I've yet to read these books. I've considered buying Graceling before, and likely will at some point, because I love YA fantasy. I thought it was a traditional series, and didn't realize the other books were companion novels. Hmm. And I tend to dislike books where nothing happens, so it's too bad about Fire!


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Markit's final reading on US manufacturing activity in November showed that activity held steady.
The final reading for November came in at 54.8, better than the 54.7 flash reading but below expectations for a 55.0.
The flash reading, however, marked a 10-month low for US manufacturing activity.
According to Markit's release, "Business conditions continued to improve across the US manufacturing sector in November, but the pace of recovery eased to its weakest since the start of 2014."
This was the third month that manufacturing output slowed, with the November survey showing the weakest pace of manufacturing expansion since January.
In November, new export orders also slowed by the most since June 2013.
Commenting on the report, Markit's Chris Williamson said that, "[W]ith inflows of new orders slowing sharply, there's a good chance that production growth will deteriorate further in December. The principal cause of the order book slowdown is a renewed downturn in export orders, which fell for the first time since January."
Williamson added that, "Demand from many emerging markets remains well down on pre-crisis levels, and a deteriorating situation in the Eurozone has hit trade flows to Europe. Unless order book growth picks up, factories will inevitably soon turn to cutting jobs in order to bring capacity down in line with weaker demand."
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Tall Paul
"Tall Paul" is a song recorded by Annette Funicello and written by the Sherman Brothers. It marked the first time that a female singer reached a top ten slot for a rock and roll single. It also spotlighted Annette from amongst the other Mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club and paved the way for the movie career which followed. Walt Disney personally took notice of the string of chart toppers which the Sherman Brothers were writing for Annette and subsequently asked the songwriters to work for him exclusively. The Sherman Brothers went on to win two Oscars for Mary Poppins several years later.
"Tall Paul" was credited to Annette and the Afterbeats and reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1959.[1] It was the highest-charting song by Annette Funicello and also one of the shortest, clocking in at 1 minute and 38 seconds.[2] The version included on Annette: A Musical reunion With America's Girl Next Door lists the song at 1 minute 52 seconds.[3]
Annette Funicello made a cameo appearance as herself in the 1989 film Troop Beverly Hills, while jogging she's singing the first line of "Tall Paul": "Chalk on the sidewalk/Writing on the wall/Everybody knows it/I love Paul", and being pursued by Frankie Avalon, also playing himself.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (Eighth ed.). Record Research. p. 30.
- ^ Song list and timing on album back cover of Vista BV-4037, released 1972
- ^ Annette: A Musical Reunion With America's Girl Next Door, CD 1, Walt Disney Records, Burbank, CA, 1993,
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Published on June 17, 2014
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (June 17, 2014) – Premier, Inc. has recognized Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center of Sioux Falls, Avera Sacred Heart Hospital of Yankton and Avera St. Luke's Hospital of Aberdeen with QUEST® Awards for High-value Healthcare, recognizing delivery of high-quality, cost-effective health care.
Avera McKennan and Avera Sacred Heart were named as Finalists, reaching top performance in five out of six areas measured in Premier's QUEST collaborative, which include reducing preventable harm, lower-than-expected rates of mortality and readmissions, reduced average cost of care, positive patient experience and evidence-based care. Avera St. Luke's received a Citation of Merit for achieving top performance in four of the six areas.
"Participation in this collaborative reinforces our commitment to reliably deliver the best care experience to the communities we serve," said Deanna Larson, Senior Vice President of Quality for Avera Health. "We're proud of the quality standards we have achieved in our hospitals, which ultimately benefit our patients through improved outcomes."
The six QUEST quality measures include:
QUEST is a performance improvement collaborative of approximately 350 hospitals working to make healthcare safer, more efficient and consistently effective. Approximately 330 QUEST hospitals were eligible for the QUEST Award for High-value Healthcare.
Susan DeVore, Premier President and CEO said, "QUEST hospitals have a really fresh perspective on the state of health care today, which they're using to rethink the way care is provided and design innovative changes that impact our future. It's no easy task for health systems to do this on their own, so they work together to capitalize on the power of information. Our vision is to outperform this industry together, on our own terms, which is exactly what these Avera hospitals are doing. Premier congratulates them for the fantastic achievements they've made."
The nation's leading hospitals created QUEST to set new standards in healthcare that ensure the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective care. In five and a half years, they have saved more than 136,000 lives and $11.6 billion.
Top performance thresholds were established at the top quartile of performance from a baseline period in all measures except cost of care, which was based on the median of the total inpatient cost per case mix adjusted discharge. Top performance methodology for each dimension varied depending on the unique measure calculation and methodology.
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Premier, Inc. is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of approximately 3,000 U.S. hospitals and 110,000 other providers to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, and advisory and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost. Premier, a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient, plays a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, collaborating with members to co-develop long-term innovations that reinvent and improve the way care is delivered to patients nationwide. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier is passionate about transforming American healthcare. Please visit Premier's news and investor sites on www.premierinc.com; as well as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Foursquare and Premier's blog for more information about the company.
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WESTON, Mass. - Senior Chris Harrow (North Reading, Mass.) picked up his 99th and 100th career wins on Saturday afternoon as the Regis (Mass.) men's tennis team picked up a 6-3 win over Johnson & Wales in Great Northeast Athletic Conference action at the Regis Tennis Center.
With the win, the Pride improves to 12-5 on the season, finishing out its first regular season in the GNAC at 3-0. Johnson & Wales falls to 2-5 overall and 1-1 in the GNAC.
Before the match, head coach John Ciarleglio was honored for his 100th coaching win, which he accomplished last month in the Pride's win over Penn State-Berks in Florida. Harrow was also honored as the Pride's lone senior on Senior Day.
Harrow and teammate Luke Horton (Bass Harbor, Maine) helped the hosts to an early 3-0 lead, clinching an 8-4 victory at first doubles over JWU's Ryan Schiele (Lusby, Md.) and Gianni Rodrigues (Milton, Mass.). The win was preceded by an 8-1 win by freshmen Tim Miller (North Attleboro, Mass.) and Mitchell Weiner (Plano, Texas) at third doubles and an 8-2 win at second doubles by Nolan Bebarta (Danville, Calif.) and Johnny Pallotta (Bay Shore, N.Y.).
The Wildcats refused to go down quietly, however, picking up three singles wins. Senior Jack Hopkins (Hamilton, Mass.) opened singles play by picking up the first point of the day for the Wildcats, defeating Pride freshman Matt DaRosso (Yonkers, N.Y.) 6-1, 6-1. Harrow's 100th individual win pushed the Wildcats to the brink at first singles. Alexander Rohana (Providence, R.I.) got one back for Johnson & Wales at third singles, but Horton clinched the victory for the Pride from the second position, defeating Rodrigues 6-4, 6-2.
Next up for the Pride, they'll close out the regular season on Monday by hosting Clark University in non-conference action at the Regis Tennis Center. JWU wraps up its GNAC regular season tomorrow with a home match against Norwich at Rhode Island College at 1:00 p.m.


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TEHRAN, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Iran expects to deploy a domestically manufactured oil tanker, capable of carrying 35,000 tons of oil, by March, a shipping director said.
Hamid Rezaeian, managing director of the Iran Shipbuilding and Offshore Industries Complex Co., said the ocean tanker was expected to launch around the beginning of the Persian year, March 21.
The vessel can carry 35,000 tons of oil products and is valued at around $29 million, state-funded broadcaster Press TV reports.
Iran's consumer base for oil products has been restricted by sanctions imposed by Western governments concerned about the country's nuclear ambitions.
Iran ranks third among the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in terms of proven reserves. Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Mohsen Khojasteh-Mehr said this week that 14 billion barrels of crude oil during were discovered during the first three quarters of the Persian year.
OPEC stated in its monthly report for January that Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia were among member states that saw crude oil production decline, however.


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Schoolchildren, pensioners and motorists were today all victims of a council cash crisis.
Troubled North Tyneside Council last night narrowly pushed through budget plans which will see £7.5 million cut from services, while taxes go up.
Its Labour bosses were today accused of turning their back on thousands of needy folk in a bid to pay off debts of about £3 million.
Tory budget spokesman Coun Chris Morgan said: "I'm disgusted. Labour has cut thousands of pounds out of the schools budget and thousands out of street cleaning, which are supposed to be priority areas. Children are going to suffer as there'll be a reduction in the amount for schools to spend."
The budget includes a £1 million reduction in the amount spent on social care by withdrawing money from outreach services and blocking discharges from hospital to residential and nursing care facilities.
The Chronicle reported on Monday how a council freeze had been put on finding care places for pensioners leaving hospital, leaving health chiefs battling to find beds for elderly patients.
There will be savings from schools services of £286,000 kept in the bank by not giving schools a rise in income in line with inflation. There will also be a £20,000 cut in the amount spent on civic cars, while £100,000 will be cut from roads maintenance.
The council's Labour group last night narrowly squeezed through its council tax plans after a previous attempt to set the annual budget ended in farce.
A heated discussion between rival factions saw the Liberal Democrats and Tories put forward their own suggestions for the budget, before Labour's 6.9 per cent council tax increase was eventually agreed.
After members voted 25 to 23 in favour of the Labour group's plans, opposition leaders claimed thousands of old folk and children would suffer from the council's cost-cutting policies.
The 6.9 per cent increase in council tax will see people who own a house in Band A paying £720, Band B £840, Band C £959, Band D £1,079 a year, Band E £1,319, Band F £1559, Band G £1,799, and Band H £2,159.
Coun Michael Huscroft, the Lib Dems' leader, said: "The Labour budget once again shows a lack of understanding of the finances of local government".
But council leader Rita Stringfellow said: "This is a council budget based on the most rigorous financial management, which balances the needs of the people and the need to keep down the council tax.
"We've been able to set one of the lowest council tax rises in the region and far lower than many parts of the country."


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Alayna has always received great feedback from teachers and every year we're told that she's the helper listed for the sub if her teacher is ever gone.
Since this is my blog and the information in here will be included in my blog books I wanted to include this letter we received today. She received this last year too and we're so proud of her leadership and example in her classes. We love you Alayna-loo....with or without this letter we love you and we're proud of you!!


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There was an old-fashioned feel about the House of
Commons as MPs prepared to vote on sending
British Troops to war.
The mood was both serious, sombre and feverish.
Everyone at Westminster knew that military action against
Iraq was imminent, and it showed.
Leading opponents, including Newcastle MPs Doug
Henderson and Jim Cousins, were trying to secure a big
enough vote against the Government's backing for an
invasion of Iraq.
Ministers were everywhere around the House of Commons
trying to rally support for action.
Veteran Blaydon MP John McWilliam, a former senior whip,
was almost misty-eyed about the buzz around the place.
He said: "We haven't seen anything like this for a while. It's
just like the old days.
"This just shows all this talk about Parliament being
emasculated is nonsense.
"This is Parliament working at its best."
MPs are having to think very carefully about how they vote
and it will make a difference. It just shows it is rubbish to say
politics doesn't matter.
FOR Durham North MP Kevan Jones the excited
atmosphere was something new.
Only in the Commons since the last General Election in
2001, he'd never experienced this excitement and intrigue
for which Westminster is historically famous.
He said: "I've never seen anything like the last two days since
I got here. There is a real atmosphere about the place.
"It was electrifying in the parliamentary Labour Party when
Tony Blair spoke.
"The nearest thing I've come across is when I was chief whip
of Newcastle City Council and there was some controversial
issue up before the members, and there was plotting
ROBIN Cook's resignation
as Leader of the
Commons on Monday
sparked the frenzy with him
getting a standing ovation from
colleagues for his personal
statement of his opposition to
The parliamentary Labour Party
meeting yesterday was so packed
that several ministers were left
outside unable to get in.
Deputy Prime Minister John
Prescott led a huge number of
Government figures prowling the
Commons corridors to try and
persuade doubters to fall behind the Government line.
Mr McWilliam said: "I can scarcely remember when I kept
tripping over so many ministers, former ministers and
recently resigned ministers in the place."
Mr Blair joined the throng of senior figures in trying to
persuade people, including taking an unusual number of
interventions in his big speech.
He was clearly intent on trying to show Parliament was not
neutered and to show his concern for it.
Perhaps it is a pity this comes almost six years into his Prime
Ministership and if he'd taken more care of back-bench MPs
in the past he might not have faced quite such a problem last
MR McWilliam yesterday chaired two debates in the
Commons second Westminster Hall Chamber,
one on Serbia and one on oil supplies.
He was not surprised when both rapidly turned into a
discussion of the legality of military action against Iraq.
Mr Henderson went to the annual Newcastle Sports Dinner
on Monday night before plunging into trying to stop a new
Gulf War.
He was delighted to see Magpie star Alan Shearer get the
main award and even more pleased to see two of his young
constituents get prizes.
He said the event at the Newcastle Civic Centre made a
pleasant change from worrying about military action in Iraq.
He was partly pleased to able to see the progress of young
athletes but denied his ambition was to win the title of
pensioner marathon runner of the year at some point in the
not too distance future.
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It's going to be a slow blogging week — I have two short trips coming up later this week/early next week, so not only won't I be around much, but my end-of-July post will be several days late, most likely. (Not that anyone cares that much! 🙂
I also had a guest this past weekend, and since we have mutual college friends that live here, not only did me and my friend go out to eat twice, but we also bought food so we could have our friends over for dinner. And even though all this pushed me over budget for the month, and I'm having some mental trouble with that, I think I need to relax.
The two meals out were about as inexpensive as possible: we had pupusas on Friday night for less than $10 for both of us (I paid) and breakfast at a diner on Saturday morning for somewhere between $10 and $15 (she paid…and omg, as I write this, I'm realizing that I was still sleep-deprived enough that I forgot to leave a tip on the table, as I'd promised to do when she went up to pay the bill. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeez. Sorry, waitresses.) So, even though if I'd been on my own I would have eaten both meals for 'free' at home, eh, I can't get too worked up.
The shopping trip for dinner is the one that broke the budget. Between the farmer's market and the grocery store I spent $100 (!!!! — nb, not everything was just for the one dinner, some of it was pantry stuff and household stuff I needed for the future. But it was kind of an unfortunate amount anyway.)
I'm not really sure how I'm going to handle this in the future. Right now I'm handling cooking for others on a budget by doing it less, instead of by finding less expensive ways to do it; it just seems wrong to have people over and not feed them something interesting and made with high-quality fresh produce 🙂 Plus, when you're cooking for more than one, quantity issues come into play. The title of my post started off as having decided that I did put a priority on not being overly "cheap" — as obsessed with money as I am lately, I don't want to get so obsessed that I stop having people over, you know? But as I type, I'm feeling like I ought to spend more time thinking about how to really cut those expenses down. Like, could I make a pasta dish with vegetables and cheese instead of the four kinds of middle eastern salads I made on Saturday night! I don't know. Deserves more thought, I guess.


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The Prince will spend the night at the hospital with his wife and their newborn son
The statement was short and sweet and left no doubt about how he felt.
Following the birth of his son on Monday, Prince William said, "We could not be happier."
An aide says William, 31, will spend his first night as a father at St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, with his wife, Kate, 31, and their newborn son.
Just after the official birth announcement was made, William's father, Prince Charles, said he was "overjoyed" about being a grandfather, adding, "Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time."
• Reporting by SIMON PERRY
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