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In a review of the past and current literature on the classification of depression as a psychiatric disorder, it is apparent that diagnosis and treatment go hand-in-hand. The original Kraepelinian concept of dividing depression by etiological factors into endogenous and exogenous has persisted so that modern thinking in psychiatry still espouses aspects of this in various guises.
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Minister for Recreation and Sport Steve Dickson said the world's biggest pop boy band will hit Brisbane on February 11, as part of the "On the Road Again Tour 2015".
Mr Dickson said the concert was expected to inject at least $5 million into the Queensland economy.
"With all 190,000 tickets sold for the 18 shows held in Australia and New Zealand during their 'Take Me Home Tour' last year, I'm sure this will be a sell-out," Mr Dickson said.
"Major sporting and entertainment events have a vital role in contributing to the Queensland Government's tourism target of $30 billion a year in overnight visitor expenditure by 2020.
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COMMERCIAL TWP. — A review of discipline problems by a small segment of students at the Port Norris School has led Superintendent John Saporito to the conclusion that alternative education, as discussed last year, is the best solution.
As envisioned now, it would be an in-house program, with students restricted to a room set aside for the purpose, and with special classes to address the greatest needs
Saporito said in the last couple of weeks he and Port Norris School Principal Robert Domico met with 13 of 22 repeat offenders, who have had punishments up to and including suspensions, and also with their parents.
"It wasn't that the parents didn't care. Some, quite frankly, didn't know what to do," Saporito said.
"We can't classify them (for special education). These kids are crying out for help … They are lacking in skills. They have not learned to conform.
Domico said he takes into consideration when the kids arrive at school in the morning, what they have come from and when they leave after school what they will be going back to.
"We know we have children that are socially inept. I have given 100 percent of everything I have to that school. I have no alternative but an alternative setting. We have a location and we have a good understanding of what we need," he said.
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At the middle school level, they are starting to see where they are, in and out of school, and if they have a sense of hopelessness they will act out.
Domico said it is too late to start the program this year, but it should be ready for next year.
Saporito said the school "is on the ground floor of trying to do things differently."
A three-page report on the situation by Saporito. He said that last year there were 420 referrals to the superintendent.
This year, there already are 387.
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1/2 cup onion, finely chopped
Onion salt, to taste
Unbleached all-purpose flour
• In a large saucepan, simmer all ingredients except the flour for approximately 5 minutes.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Most of the time when a defense sees a quarterback rolling out or bootlegging, he's going with his arm.
Most quarterbacks are right handed.
So the left cornerback is the player in the secondary most concerned with the potential for such a play during the preparation week.
Unless the opponent is the Houston Texans and the quarterback is Matt Schaub.
Titans left cornerback Jason McCourty said he's hardly alone in being on alert in this game, as Schaub is an equal-opportunity roller.
"You turn the film on and Schaub is booting to the left side, he's booting to the right side, he's stopping mid-boot throwing it back across his body," McCourty said. "He runs that offense to a T. He's able to drop back there and hit the deep shots, and when they aren't open he's checking it down.
"Their offense has so much going on it's one of the toughest one's to face."
Virtually all the rollouts and boots come off play-action and are set up by the threat of the run.
"Everything we do is kind of predicated off of each other," running back Arian Foster said. "The passing game off the running game and vice versa. We try to set up the other side as much as we can."
Per ESPN Stats and Info, Schaub is 25-of-35 (71.4%) for 318 yards with two touchdowns and no picks on play-action plays. He's got a 60.5 QBR and a 118.5 passer rating.
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Last week after getting back from the store I unloaded the groceries and was putting them away in the kitchen. All the sudden the kids come running in and state there's a bee in the house. I assumed it was a, as in 1, and that it flew in while I was carrying things in. Well buzzing by the den window I see 3! I am a little freaked out but hey I can handle this. There is no way I can hit 3 of them with a newspaper and not piss them off so I head to the garage looking for bug spray. On my way what do my little ears here, but more buzzing, there were 2 in the downstairs bathroom! WTF was going on? I shut that door to keep them contained and after grabbing bug spray, I went back to the den. The kids were at the top of the stairs watching and I sprayed those 3 suckers at the window. I went to the bathroom to get the other 2 and by the time I came back to the den (less than 6ft away) more had arrived! They were also swarming around the sliding door outside by the window and now were inside too. I sent the kids upstairs, so I could put the dogs away and kill the new ones. I also wanted to try to figure out where they were coming from.
Fast forward, dogs put away/kids upstairs and me spraying the crap out of the new 4 that are in here (killing total to 9 now) and the kids come running down the stairs that one is in Big Boys room! Now I'm a little more than freaked out. I told them to go into her room, barricade the door and don't come out! I have now put in a frantic call to hubby, who was leaving shortly anyway. I needed to talk to someone who understand how randomly weird and horrifying this was, so I call my BFF Amber. Of course she is working, so what do I do, leave her a great message that I find out her and her fiancé listened to multiple times, Your Welcome.
I am now running back and forth from upstairs and downstairs killing multiple bees in both rooms. I circled the house and narrowed it down to an area outside that they must be originating from. I don't see anymore downstairs but more are coming in the bedroom. So I concentrate my efforts there. It didn't take long and I notice them coming through the vent. Hubby suggested I close the vents. I take them all out and now that I know where they are coming in I go outside his window and watch more. (at this point I had googled what to do in this situation and most said to grab a lawn chair, six pack and wait) I don't like beer, so that was out but I did grab a lawn chair and my handy dandy bug spray. I found out they obviously had a nest where our siding meets the brick. I waited for hubby to get home, it felt like forever but was actually only an hour or so.
He sprayed some fancy wasp/hornet spray in the hole and they were finally gone. After 24 hours they were all gone. We plan to patch in the hole and I am happy to say it now only a funny story.
So there it is. What happened to me last week, I lived through and conquered the yellow jacket apocalypse and no one even knew…..
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Along with having longer days (and therefore, more time to take pictures of food!), a favorite part of spring is when the eternal question of "what to eat for breakfast?" ceases. Strawberries have become reliably sweet and red; apricots, peaches and nectarines ripen and smell like summer; blue, black and raspberries lower their exorbitant prices. I bake a batch of granola to keep on the counter. The morning ritual becomes quick, simple, reliable; cool and light, yet nourishing, for warm mornings.
While flipping through David Lebovitz' latest food pornographic book, Ready for Dessert, I came across a black sesame almond tuile recipe. I must have had that image in my mind when I came up with my tuile recipe, but I was intrigued by David's use of toasted sesame oil in his cookies.
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This granola takes a bit longer to dry out and crisp up than others, due to the honey and candied ginger, but it is well worth the wait. (For a crispier version, you can substitute 3/4-1 teaspoon powdered ginger for the candied ginger and 2 ounces of agave for the honey; though I prefer the flavor of the version posted below.)
To make this vegan, substitute coconut oil for the butter and agave for the honey. If you're allergic to gluten, make sure your oats are certified gluten-free. All ounce measurements are by weight.
Makes about 5 cups
2 1/2 cups (1/2 pound) whole oats
1 cup (4 ounces) whole, raw almonds
1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons (2 ounces) coconut sugar (or light brown or unrefined cane sugar)
zest of 1 large naval orange
1/4 cup minced, candied ginger
3 tablespoons black sesame seeds
4 tablespoons (2 ounces/ 1/2 stick) unsalted butter
2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
3 tablespoons (2 ounces) mild-flavored honey
1 teaspoon sea salt (yes, 1 teaspoon)
Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 300º. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Have a second rimmed baking sheet and piece of parchment ready.
In a large bowl, combine the oats, almonds, sugar, orange zest, ginger and black sesame seeds. In a small saucepan set over a low flame, melt together the butter, sesame oil, honey and salt, stirring to dissolve the salt. Pour over the oat mixture, tossing to combine thoroughly.
Dump the mixture onto the lined baking sheet, and spread it into a thin sheet no thicker than an almond. Ideally, the edges will be slightly thicker than the center as they will bake faster. Lay the second piece of parchment over the granola, and place the second sheet pan on top, right-side up, making a little granola sandwich.
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College buddies Michael Gordon and Vaughan Lazar started talking about opening a pizza restaurant in February 2006 and had their first Pizza Fusion open in Deerfield, Florida, five months later. After that they began franchising in February 2007 and now have 60 franchises sold in seven states. Their success makes it hard to believe they had no restaurant background, but for them, "being green" truly has been an asset.
"The cart came before the horse," Lazar says. The friends were looking for a project to change people's lives. "We always had talked about starting a business on the side together," Lazar says. "We both had successful careers—Michael was in real estate and I was in marketing and advertising—so we wanted to do something that would really make a difference."
Gordon was involved in environmental causes. Lazar was interested in organic food and frustrated with the lack of on-the-go options. The fusion of their interests became the cause. They chose pizza to spread their message, thinking it would be a stable and easy market to enter.
They didn't plan for a rapid opening or expansion, but Lazar says the details just fell into place. "It really seemed like things were meant to happen."
After seeing an announcement for the Pizza Expo in Las Vegas just a week before the event began, the pair met pizza industry consultant Big Dave Ostrander at the show. "We told him our idea, and when he got excited about it, we realized we were on to something special," Lazar says. "He worked with us for two weeks and helped us with everything from recipes to negotiating vendor contracts that normally would take years to figure out."
The first Pizza Fusion opened in July 2006 in just 850 square feet with seating on the sidewalk. A larger second store opened in March in Fort Lauderdale. Even larger third and fourth locations opened recently in Palm Beach Gardens and Weston, Florida. The standard footprint will be 2,000 square feet with seating for 40.
Pizza Fusion serves organic beer and wine, which creates an enjoyable upscale atmosphere. A lot of time went into choosing design elements, not just for the right look, but the right materials too.
Everything is environmentally friendly: from the seat cushions made from soybean oil to the recycled detergent bottle countertops.
The eco-friendly business plan reaches far beyond design. The company supports sustainable agriculture by serving a more than 98 percent organic menu. Restaurants offer discounts for returning pizza boxes to be recycled, and use utensils made from potatoes and containers made from cornstarch, both of which biodegrade in 30 days.
The building even meets the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (leed) certification standards created by the U.S. Green Building Council. Pizza Fusion is the first national chain to meet the standards and the Palm Beach Garden store was the first LEED-certified restaurant in Florida. Florida Governor Charlie Crist even showed his support by cutting the grand-opening ribbon.
Customers learn about the eco-friendly elements via informational plaques. The mission might help build the loyal following, but Lazar says without good pizza they won't come back. "We worked with top consultants in the industry to develop our recipes using organic vegetables. This is food in its purest form, and the flavors are magnified that much more, making for a tastier pizza."
Beyond the pizza, the organic menu also includes focaccia sandwiches, wraps, salads, desserts, and health-conscious alternatives, including gluten-free and vegan options, for customers with selective diets and food allergies.
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He resigned from his post immediately after the charges were announced. Cheney said in a statement that he had accepted the resignation with "deep regret."
Libby, 55, was charged with two counts of perjury, two counts of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice. (Read the indictment.)
The charges, announced at 12:45 p.m. ET, allege that Libby lied to FBI agents who interviewed him in 2003, that he committed perjury while testifying under oath in front of the grand jury in March 2004 and engaged in obstruction of justice by impeding the grand jury's investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame's affiliation with the CIA.
"When citizens testify before grand juries they are required to tell the truth," special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Friday in a statement. "The indictment returned today alleges that the effort of the grand jury to investigate … a leak were obstructed when Mr. Libby lied about how and when he learned and subsequently disclosed classified information about (CIA officer) Valerie Wilson."
Fitzgerald held a press conference at 2:15 p.m. during which he accused Libby of lying about his conversations with reporters.
"Mr. Libby's story that he was at the tail end of a chain of phone calls, passing on from one reporter what he heard from another, was not true," Fitzgerald said. "He was at the beginning of the chain of the phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter. And he lied about it afterward, under oath, repeatedly."
In response to the indictments, President Bush said on Friday: "While we're all saddened by today's news, we remain wholly focused on the many issues and opportunities facing this country. I got a job to do and so do the people that work in the White House. We've got a job to protect the American people and that's what we'll continue working hard to do."
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The investigation focused on who leaked the name of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame to the press, in an effort to discredit her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who was a Bush administration critic. Wilson had claimed in articles that appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times that flawed intelligence was used to justify the war in Iraq.
His wife's name first appeared in a syndicated newspaper column by Robert Novak on July 14, 2003. Wilson accused administration officials of leaking his wife's identity as a CIA operative to retaliate against him for going public with his criticism.
Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, was named in September 2003 as a special prosecutor to investigate the case.
Both Libby and Rove have denied leaking Plame's name.
As has been widely noted, this has been a grim week for the Bush administration. The Iraq war claimed its 2,000th American fatality over the weekend. On Thursday, President Bush "reluctantly" accepted the withdrawal of Harriet Miers's nomination to the Supreme Court, amid growing controversy over her qualifications and ideological stances.
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The fieldwork for this study began in 2000, when the neighbourhood renewal strategy and its associated PAT reports were already available and when the government was in the midst of its drive to raise standards across the education system as a whole. In this context, we wished to explore the role which schools were playing, and potentially could play, in area regeneration. We selected two areas to work in that were characterised by a range of disadvantages and where wide-ranging regeneration strategies had been set in place. We then selected for detailed study those schools which educated the largest proportions of children living in those areas. The fieldwork was conducted over a two-year period, from September 2000 until November 2002 and fell into four broad stages.
A first round of interviews was carried out with key stakeholders with the aim of gathering perceptions and some factual information about the communities and the schools serving those communities. The aim of the second round of interviews was to take the foci of the research to a more strategic level, hence the interviewees identified were those (e.g. local authority officers) with a strategic overview of education and regeneration policy. A subsequent round of interviews was concerned with exploring the impact of area based initiatives, with the focus centred on the Education Action Zones in each area. Feedback to and validation from participants in the research was a major feature of the methodology through recurrent interviewing with key informants and a formal feedback event at the end of the study's first year. The fourth stage of the research was likewise concerned primarily with feedback and updating through a series of re-interviews, particularly in schools and a conference for all interviewees at which findings and policy implications were discussed.
Interviewees were selected on the basis that they were community stakeholders or were in someway related to the communities, the schools serving those communities or the local authority serving those communities. Some interviewees were identified as key informants at the start of the study and others were identified through 'snowball' sampling. Most interviews were individual and face-to face, though we also undertook some focus group discussions with residents, parents and pupils. All interviews were structured through a topic guide, supplemented by specific questions as appropriate. Over the course of the fieldwork the research team spoke with over 300 individuals, many of whom were interviewed on more than one occasion. Quantitative data were obtained from public sources (notably, the DfES statistics web site) wherever possible. However, more detailed data often had to be sought from direct from the local authorities and the schools. This enabled us to carry out analysis of post code level attainment, a more complex analysis than those normally done on school performance data. Key Findings Although practice in the schools was eclectic - even incoherent - three basic models of schools' contribution emerged. They were: 1.The community resourcing model, in which schools seek to make their facilities, networks and expertise available to otherwise resource-poor communities. 2.The individual transformation model in which schools focus exclusively on improving the life-chances of individual young people by raising their attainment 3.The contextual transformation model, in which schools likewise seek to raise attainments, but feel that they can only do so by involving families and the community and that they must also develop a wider range of attributes in their pupils.
Many factors impacted on the ways in which schools adopted or selected elements from these models. In particular: Where disadvantaged areas were large, schools had a relatively homogeneous community to which they could relate through the community resourcing and contextual transformation models. However, where areas were small, schools drew their pupils from a diverse range of communities and had an incentive to focus more exclusively on what they themselves could do to raise pupils' attainments. Local authorities had different approaches to regeneration and to the role of schools. These policies might incline schools towards one or other of the models. National education policy required schools to focus heavily on 'standards' of pupil attainment. Although there was some policy encouragement for schools to engage with their communities, the standards imperative tended to override this. Head teachers were particularly powerful in determining schools' approaches. Not only did the heads of different schools have different views, but newly-appointed headteachers might reverse the direction in which a school was moving. Using any of these models, the evidence for the effectiveness of schools' work was ambiguous. Schools were engaged in a wide range of community-oriented activities and could have had considerable impact at an individual level or in specific aspects of their work. however, there was no evidence that they were able to have large-scale impacts on the communities they served as a whole, nor that they were able to bring about transformations of the life-chances of large groups of young people. Given the constraints under which they were operating and the intractable nature of the problems they were dealing with, it was unreasonable to expect anything other than this. The current situation seems to be one in which there are many expectations of and opportunities for schools in respect of area regeneration, but little by way of a coherent and supportive policy framework which can make their work effective.
A clear 'vision' of schools' roles is needed. Some principles on which this could be based are:
•The work of schools needs to be set in the context of a wide-ranging strategy to address disadvantage •Schools need to have a clearly-defined, but holistic role
•The 'standards agenda' needs to be rethought in ways which facilitate this role
•Funding, accountability and other policy frameworks need to be supportive of this holistic role •Schools need to work in clusters and other extended structures
•Strategies need to be based on good information about communities' needs and wishes.
There are encouraging signs in the government's commitment to ending child poverty, in its new and more open strategy for primary education and in its interest in defining an 'extended' role for schools. These are indications that a rethinking of the role of schools as part of a wider strategy to address disadvantage is politically possible. However, this rethinking begs some fundamental questions about what we expect schools to achieve and how they should relate to local communities and to wider society. Any real advance demands that we engage with these questions seriously and do so in respect not only of schools serving disadvantaged areas, but of the school system as a whole. The report ends with the argument that what is needed is not more numerous and more powerful targeted strategies, but a real effort to develop the capacity of universal services to meet a range of needs. This in turn may be about more than simply bolstering those services in the most disadvantaged areas. It may also involve thinking more profoundly about what we expect services to achieve and how we expect them to operate. This is not a merely semantic change. It involves thinking more profoundly about a series of questions including:
•What is it that we expect all schools to achieve for their pupils and what is the appropriate balance between academic attainments and the development of other sorts of knowledge, skills and attributes?
•What are the appropriate relationships between schools, families and communities? What levels of engagement do we think are appropriate and what do we expect each to bring to the other? How accountable do we wish schools to be to families and communities, and through what mechanisms? The answers to these, and other questions set out in the report, have profound implications for the way we understand the purposes of education, the role of schools and the relationship between social and educational disadvantage. Our view, however, is that we must be prepared to engage with these questions seriously and to do so in respect of the school system as a whole. Only then will we will begin to create schools which have the capacity to respond affirmatively to all their pupils and all the communities they serve.


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Question: Are your parents still married?
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My parents have been married for 40+ years now. That is such a long time nowadays.
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They were until Daddy passed away in February of this year.
I voted other, they would be, but my mom's been gone for 23 years this coming June. They would have celebrated their 67th anniversary the day after Christmas last year. Hubby's parent will be married 55 years this August and we celebrated our 35th anniversary in April.
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Have you ever seen or met a Junkyard Dog? You don't have to go to an actual junkyard to meet a mean and nasty dog, but you know the type I'm talking about, right? If so, you know they are very determined and not to be messed with.
Likewise, fifty percent of what makes a great entrepreneur is their "junkyard dog" mentality (which doesn't always have to show itself on the exterior).
What is that fifty percent you say? The part that means you would almost have to kill them to make them to stop. There are no external forces strong enough to stop a successful boot strapping entrepreneur from finding success if they stay at it long enough. None.
With the "junkyard dog" concept in mind, I'd like to discuss three types of business deals that I have encountered with one of the following unintended results (each of which could cause someone to give up):
- Deal fell through completely: No financial gain whatsoever and viewed by many as a complete waste of time. I have built several successful relationships out of these "wastes of time" deals.
- Deal came together with no financial gain: Also viewed by many as a failure. Again, I have learned a tremendous amount from these situations. Learning doesn't show up in your bank account as a direct deposit, but it has immense value.
- Deal came together and cost me money: Viewed by everyone, including me, as an expensive mistake.
I can honestly say that each of these experiences – although costly – has actually been worth the price of admission so far. They bring out the Junkyard Dog in me. What I have learned and who I have met as a result of these "bad" financial decisions have ultimately provided me with exceptional value later in life. Why? Because I didn't give up.
Push Forward
By my estimates, I have been a party to about eighty-one different business deals that had a quantifiable result, both good and bad.
There were many more deals that never made it through all the stages to qualify as "quantifiable", so I have excluded those.
Of the eighty-one deals counted, fifty-three of them have resulted in 1 – 3 above. This means that nearly sixty-five percent of all the deals I have been associated with 1) fell through 2) came together with no financial gain or 3) cost me money.
So, what is the point? Push Forward and DON'T GIVE UP!
Believe it or not, the thirty-five percent of my deals that worked out have more than made up for the sixty-five percent that didn't (in terms of financial gain). WAY MORE. The sixty-five percent that didn't work have provided me with a tremendous amount of learning, growth and progress as an entrepreneur. They have almost always led to other great opportunities as well.
Many people would never make it past the first 3 or 4 "failures" that they met. Some would, but what if those 3 or 4 failures happened in a row? Most would stop there. Don't be one of those people.
Abhor Failure While Knowing It Will Happen
If you think being an entrepreneur is your career of choice, then plan to fail some. Don't ever get comfortable with failure, in fact, abhor it. But know that you will experience it.
The key is to continue pressing forward in spite of your failures. This is something that many entrepreneurs talk about but few have the courage to endure. Some entrepreneurs don't truly experience it (rich parents, first business launched made them wealthy, etc.). If you are learning from someone who has not truly experienced failure, keep in mind that their advice is tainted.
Only those who have crawled through the trenches can draw you an accurate map on how to get out.
If you have the personality, passion, skills and support to make a go of entrepreneurship, you are only fifty percent of the way there.
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Latifa or Lateefa is a female Arabic first name which means gentle, pleasant or cute, corresponding to Latif. It may refer to:
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Peruvian police on Saturday found the wreckage of a helicopter missing for four days in the Andes mountains and said there was no sign of survivors, officials told Efe.
A National Police search-and-rescue team found the chopper carrying two crewmen and 12 tourists, including eight Koreans, on the side of a 5,000-meter-tall (16,400-foot-tall) mountain, a spokesperson for the police station in the small southeastern town of Urcos, where the operation was being coordinated, told Efe.
In the first reports from the remote crash site, authorities "have not confirmed any survivors, as apparently everyone regrettably died," the spokesperson added.
Meanwhile, Cesar Guevara, a local government official in Urcos, told RPP radio that police reported the discovery of some bodies but that he could not yet provide a full official report.
The helicopter was carrying eight Koreans, a Dutchman, a Swede, a Czech and three Peruvians, including the pilot and co-pilot.
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Did you ever get so lost in thought that you - well - sort of fell in and forgot what you were doing? I know you have, it happens to all of us, so stop looking at me like that.
When I was a little girl, a long time ago, (back in the 50s) my mother always seemed to know what I was doing, even when her back was turned. When I would ask her how she knew, she would tell me she had eyes in the back of her head. I believed it until I was probably 10 or so, (we were much less sophisticated back then than children are now). When I told her that the other day, she just laughed. She's 78 now and feistier than ever. She had lung cancer two years ago and it took a real toll on her physically. She is frail, where once she was vibrant. I made the mistake of telling her the other day that she was frail, boy did she let me have it with both barrells. "I've never been frail a day in my life!" she said, rather firmly. That was the end of that conversation.
I am working on getting my dad his purple heart. He is a WWII veteran and at the age of 83, it is high time he got his just desserts. He took a bullet for Uncle Sam and deserves to be compensated for it. The only problem is, all his military records were lost in the St. Louis fire of 1972, and the only way to prove he ever was wounded in combat is if there is some kind of hospital records that still exist of when he was treated in France. I am hoping Congressman John Peterson's office can help. I finally convinced dad to fill out the required paperwork today and it is on its way. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
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Professor Plaw specializes in political theory and international relations, with a particular focus on strategic studies. Before arriving at UMass Dartmouth he received a two-year fellowship from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) to pursue research at New York University. He published a book in 2008 entitled Targeting Terrorists: A License to Kill? in Ashgate's Ethics and Global Politics series, and he's currently co-editing a collected volume entitled the Metamorphosis of War (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press). He has also edited a collected volume concerned with managing the challenges of philosophical and cultural pluralism entitled Frontiers of Diversity: Explorations in Contemporary Pluralism (2005). Prof. Plaw has published numerous peer reviewed articles and chapters, and in 2008 he won the American Political Science Association's Wilson Carey McWilliams prize. His book Targeting Terrorists was short-listed (with two other books) for Best Book of the Year in International Relations by the Canadian Political Science Association. He was selected for a 2009 Chancellor Award for Research and he has received a Joseph P. Healey Grant, in collaboration with Professor Brian Williams of the History Department, from the University of Massachusetts. Click here for Prof. Plaw's CV.
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|Give yourself good pep talk and create goals that work
When my father died 35 years ago, Mary announced to me, "If you die early, I'll kill you. You better lose this weight."
I was about 40 pounds heavier than I should have been, so I agreed. On Monday I began running and swimming and lost about three pounds by Friday. Over the weekend, I gained it all back, and did that for 25 years. There were a number of reasons.
I would give myself two pep talks. The first one was "You are 220 pounds, and you've got to lose 40 pounds."
Psychology now knows that when I declared I was 220 pounds, my brain not only agreed (for it agrees with everything I say about myself), it made sure I stayed at 240 pounds. That's its job. It does not let me be unlike myself. In fact, the foundation of cognitive psychology is that everything we are is based on what we say to ourselves about ourselves today.
The second pep talk I gave myself sounded something like, "You will lose 40 pounds." Here's how my brain responded to that pronouncement. "Well, hope you do. Sounds great. Think I'll go take a nap."
Can you see what I was doing? My goal was somewhere in the future. And my brain declared, "Look, how am I supposed to predict or control the future. I'm too busy just dealing with the present."
I even bought a "Vision Board" and wrote "You will weigh 180 pounds." None of them worked. Let's look at the reasons.
Our brains will not let
us be unlike ourselves
For reasons I won't take the time to talk about, for 42 years I thought I was stupid in math. Guess what? I was. And then some events happened, and I began saying, "Wait a minute. Maybe I'm smart with numbers. In fact, I think I am. And guess what? I was…and am. In fact, I ended up teaching university math and writing two college text books that involved a lot of…you guessed it…math.
In fact, one of my students (we'll call her Susie) declared she was a C student in math, and when she received an A on her first mid-term, she announced that it was a mistake. When she was convinced that she really had gotten an A, she declared, "Do you know what this means. If I flunk the next test, I can still get my C in the course." I said, "Susie, just get an A on every test." "Oh I can't, Mr. Campbell. I'm a C student in math." (And that's exactly what happened. She flunked the next test and got a C in the course.
We place goals in future
where brains can't touch
Most of our goals sound something like, "I will lose this weight" or "I will pay off this loan" or "I will take that trip to Alaska." And as I said before, our brain simply yawns and says "Good luck, Hope you do."
No, in order for goals to work, they must be expressed in the present tense and cause a problem with your mind. "I have lost that weight already." or "I have paid off my loan already." Then your brain sits up and says, "Wait a minute. Look at the scale. Look in the mirror. Look at your credit card statement. You have not lost that weight, and you have not paid off that loan. We have a gap here, and I (this is your brain talking) hate gaps." (The basis of a psychology called "Gestalt Psychology" is that our brains hate gaps, and do everything they can to close them.)
Your brain then gives you two choices. One is to accept your weight as always being there or never paying off your loan, which is the easier way or initially what your brain wants you to do.
Or, the other way is to lock onto your new weight or being debt free. When you lock onto what you really want, your brain then finds a way to lose that weight or pay off that loan. In fact, it becomes your greatest mentor.
Placing our goals on Vision Boards instead of doing the process of meeting them
Without sweating (or at least without action steps), visioning has only a minimal advantage over wishing. Even Joyce Schwarz, the founder of the Vision Board Institute, believes that achieving your goals requires more than a typical vision board, it also requires action. In fact, the power of the vision board comes from you. From your brain and your thoughts. The board is not magical beyond the magic with which you empower it. Thus, whether it is actually on a board or you have figured out another way to wrap your brain around focusing on your goals, it can still work.
Steven Campbell is the author of "Making Your Mind Magnificent" and conducts "The Winners Circle" every two months at Sonoma Mountain Village in RP. He can be contacted at 480-5007 or firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information, go to www.anintelligentheart.com.


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The numbers are awfully low this year -- one of the obvious reasons why they are so low is that
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dramatic change in the way languages are offered in AWL due to the cut
in budget. Now there's only one teacher per foreign language department
and students are offered much less FL classes a week.
But I am trying my best to keep the numbers and raise the Russian
language enrollment :-)
No Russian offered Fall 2008, but program is not terminated: depends on meeting enrollment # goals
Program Terminated at end of AY 2006-07. Connie had taught Russian there for 30 years......
This is a one day a week pull out program for students identified as gifted and talented. My students come from nearly all of our elementary schools to our location one day a week. My students are in the Russian classroom for 20 minutes, however the skills they learn in the russian room are reinforced throughout the day by the homeroom horizons teachers. The students are in 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. Some are in the program from 3rd all the way through 6th grade, others enter and exit throughout the levels.
Program Terminated
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lev3-5: nachalo 2
We offer IB Russian and Ab Initio Russian.
We have 8 students involved in that program.
Program is growing slowly. We had a very successful trip to Russia last spring (2005). Interest is growing. I like the new textbook and the multimedia approach to the exercises which requires a lot of student interaction both orally and with the written practice. I can tell Jerry Ervin has had his hand in this series which is excellent from a pedagogical perspective. He was GREAT for us teachers in Ohio in the "old" days from the Slavic Center at OSU.


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IT'S A CONTROVERSAL ISSUE. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE IN OKLAHOMA. TONIGHT A LEADER FROM THE CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO NATION IS DEFENDING A GAY COUPLE WHO'S GETTING MARRIED ON HALLOWEEN. KOCOS MICHAEL SEIDEN IS LIVE.. MICHAEL, NOT EVERYONE IS SUPPORTING THIS COUPLE? MORGAN, THE TRIBE'S CHIEF OF STAFF ISN'T PULLING ANY PUNCHES TODAY DURING A PUBLIC MEETING, SHE SPOKE OUT AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE. SPECIFICALLY TARGETING THE OKLAHOMA COUPLE WHO'S GAINED WORLDWIDE ATTENTION. "We did not find any loopholes in the law. They simply allow same-sex marriage. THESE DAYS, JASON PICKEL COULDN'T BE ANY HAPPIER. JASON AND HIS LONGTIME PARTNER, DARREN BLACK BEAR WILL CELEBRATE THEIR MARRIAGE ON HALLOWEEN BUT SOME TRIBAL MEMBERS LIKE CHIEF OF STAFF IDA HOFFMAN HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM WITH SAME SEX COUPLES TIEING THE KNOT "as a member of the cheyenne and arapaho tribes, we have a right to have our say on this issue and it should be taken to a vote of the people" ON FRIDAY, IDA HOFFMAN CALLED A PUBLIC MEETING WHERE SHE READ A PREPARED STATEMENT DENOUNCING JASON AND DARREN'S MARRIAGE "I will address the legislative branch propose a bill to be sponsored that will prohibit same sex marriage within the cheyenne arapaho tribes. "I was just really shocked that she came out in the way that she did and in such a negative way. THIS AFTERNOON THE CHEYEENE AND ARAPAHO TRIBES LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR SHOWED SUPPORT FOR THE COUPLE AMBER BIGHORSE WRITES IN PART WE ARE "...DOING SOMETHING VERY FORWARD- THINKING BY TREATING OUR GAY BROTHERS AND SISTERS AS TRUE EQUALS IN THIS WORLD." MEANWHILE, JASON SAYS HE UNDERSTANDS WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE OFFENDED BY HIS MARRIAGE STILL IN HIS EYES... IT'S ALL ABOUT EQUALITY "people are who they are! Let them be. JASON SAYS HIS WEDDING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. IN FACT THEY'VE ALREADY EXTENDED INVITATIONS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA AND ELLEN. ALL OF THE INFORMATION IS ON OUR WEBSITE JASON AND DARREN WILL BE ABLE TO APPLY FOR FEDERAL BENEFITS JUST LIKE ANY OTHER MARRIED COUPLE
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WNA MEETING REMINDER Pacific West Bank at Willamette Marketplace Wednesday, April 8,2009 7 PM Agenda 1. Introductions 2. Minutes from March 09 3. Treasurer's Report Guest Speakers Richard Seals, Finance Director: City Budget Dennis Wright, Engineering Manager: Presentation of TSP; opening 8th avenue at Dollar. Work Session 1. Take Care of Oregon 5/15/09: Willamette to be involved in two separate projects; 1. Planter Clean Up; City P&R will oversee project and volunteers 2. Planting on Centennial Path; James Manning will oversee project and volunteers. WNA needs to develop sub committee to purchase plantings for the projects. 2. Nominations for Officers for 2009-10 WNA, organizational overview. 3. Develop plan to implement WNA goals outlined in Vision Statement and Action Plan (how should WNA organize to implement its goals): Willamette Falls sidewalk completion from 10th Street to Fields Bridge Park. Strengthen Historic District: National Historic Registry designation, historic advisor in planning department, re-examine historic district building codes. Develop an indoor community center and pool for West Linn: Vicki Handy was beginning to organize a committee to address this goal. Complete the trail from Willamette Park to Willamette Falls: Suggested in March meeting; write a letter to the paper company. Community Communications: quarterly WNA outreach for upcoming issues and events: Kirsten Wyatt to present City website Support local businesses; Main Street Program, Farmers Market. Announcements: Next WNA Meeting: May 13, 2009, starting at 7pm at Pacific West Bank in Willamette Marketplace.


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LAFAYETTE – Louisiana State Police – Troop I is currently investigating a two vehicle fatal crash on I-10, west of Egan, within Acadia Parish.
Forty-year-old Nina Farquhar, of Houston, TX, was operating a 2004 Chevrolet SUV. Farquhar attempted to pass a 2005 Chevrolet Impala, driven by twenty-nine year old Tammy Francis of Lafayette, La, who was traveling westbound on I-10 in the right travel lane. Farquhar sideswiped the Francis vehicle and lost control of her SUV. The SUV traveled off the right side of the roadway through a fence and turned over in a small canal. The Acadia Parish Coroners Office pronounced Farquhar dead at the scene. Two other passengers in the Farquhar vehicle were transported to local hospitals with moderate injuries. Farquhar was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash, and investigators do not suspect alcohol/drugs. Francis was not injured in the crash and the investigation continues.


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New Jersey is nearly dead last in the nation when it comes to hospital readmissions of its Medicare patients. It usually involves a frail, elderly man or woman who may be overwhelmed by multiple conditions and living alone or in a nursing home. The result: yet another trip to the ER, which is rife with opportunities for infection and can speed decline if the patient has dementia.
Now, hospitals have an added incentive for making sure readmissions drop: Starting in October, a carrot and stick — courtesy of health care reform — will swing into action. Hospitals with the highest rates of patient readmission within 30 days of a discharge will forfeit 1 percent of the amount they bill Medicare. The percentage increases every year, until the readmission rate trends downward.
Although the focus is on elderly Medicare patients, it applies to younger patients with chronic illnesses, including diabetes and heart disease, too, said Andrew Miller, the medical director of Healthcare Quality Strategies.
Miller, who is leading the charge to bring efficiencies to the state's Medicare program, says it's about empowering patients to be part of the caregiving team, teaching them what it takes to stay healthy and helping them to take ownership of it.
People who despise "Obamacare" will call it rationing. It's not. And it's not just about penalizing hospitals, but providing better care at home and in the community. Hospitals now will be part of a team coordinating care to keep the elderly patient at home, or making sure treatment is done at the nursing home when possible.
Part of the complication with elderly patients is that death is looming. Nursing organizations are trying to find ways to have conversations about end-of-life care.
Again, opponents of reform shriek "death panels." But most people want to die at home, not in a hospital intensive care unit, and families need guidance about how to make that happen.
It's shocking to know that these kinds of communication haven't been routine, but that's why health care reform was necessary. The old way of doing things wasn't working.
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March 27, 2003
Health services hired more workers (270,000) than any other industry in 2002, as its employment grew 2.6 percent.
Aging baby-boomers, population growth, and technological advances generated increased demand for healthcare services. Hospitals accounted for the largest share of the job growth, with 113,000 hires, while offices and clinics of medical doctors added 63,000 workers to their payrolls.
Employment in hospitals grew 2.7 percent in 2002, compared with average annual growth of 1.6 percent from 1996 to 2001. This accelerated growth is likely linked to a loosening of labor markets in 2001 and 2002. Acute shortages of workers—in both specialized and nonspecialized occupations—have plagued the industry in recent years, but the recent overall weakening of the labor market has allowed them to reduce some shortages.
These data are from the Current Employment Statistics program. The above figures refer to fourth-quarter averages and are seasonally adjusted. Find out more about employment in 2002 in "U.S. labor market in 2002: continued weakness," by Terence M. McMenamin, Rachel Krantz, and Thomas J. Krolik, Monthly Labor Review, February 2003.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Health services had biggest employment gain in 2002 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2003/mar/wk4/art04.htm (visited October 01, 2016).
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The threatened deportation of 37 Indonesian immigrants brought a delegation of New Hampshire clergy and lay activists to the Manchester offices of Senator Jeanne Shaheen and the federal immigration enforcement agency January 24 to call for the deportations to be cancelled.
As Hans Risakotta explained to five members of the Senator's staff, thousands of Indonesian Christians fled from violent persecution in 1999. "Most of our people are afraid to go back to Indonesia," he said. However, more than a hundred Indonesians, who have made their home in the Dover area for years, have had their applications for asylum rejected and now face deportation to an unsafe homeland.
Thirty-seven of them are currently scheduled to be deported in February.
"It is hard to see my friends have to leave this country when it is so dangerous for them at home," said the Rev. Sandra Pontoh of Maranatha Indonesian United Church of Christ in Madbury.
Rev. Pontoh was joined by nine other pastors at the meeting with the Senator's staff. Fourteen others, including members of three churches and staff from the American Friends Service Committee and the NH Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees, joined them for a spirited discussion.
Eva Castillo, a longtime advocate for immigrants' rights, told the Senator's staff that halting the deportations would be consistent with President Obama's stated policy, which is to focus on deporting only people with a criminal history.
Arnie Alpert of the AFSC asked for the Senator's support for legislation that would create a new opportunity for Indonesians who fear persecution to have an extended time period for asylum applications. H.R. 3590, the Indonesian Family Refugee Protection Act, has recently been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Following the meeting at the Senator's office, 11 members of the group delivered letters on behalf of each of the 37 Indonesians to staff of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement office in Manchester. "The situation for Indonesian Christians is especially dangerous," the petition stated. "Reports of violence and negative treatment are well-documented and the dangers remain a very real threat. These individuals are likely to be severely at risk if they were to return to Indonesia."
"It is due to these very real dangers that we appeal this decision, and for humanitarian reasons request that these individuals be granted a Stay of Deportation," the petitioners stated.
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Click here to read a February 1, 2012 story about the Indonesian Community from the NH Union Leader.
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Royal Arch: The Perfect Loop
Pack two days' worth of water and dive into the heart of Harvey Butchart country on this 4- or 5-day, 34-mile trip.
Hike It
The author's route went straight to Royal Arch and back, but this loop packs in more canyons and cliffs, plus a 20-foot technical rock climb on day three. Starting at the South Bass trailhead (1, see below), descend 1.2 miles north to a three-way junction to begin a counterclockwise loop. Go straight on South Bass Trail (2) and drop into Bass Canyon, descending more than 2,000 feet in 2.5 miles between two towering sandstone buttes that pinch the gorge tight. Bear left onto the Tonto Trail (3) and go 1.5 miles to a plateau campsite (4) under the 4,800-foot red walls of Tyndall Dome.
Start day two by 8 a.m. to avoid the midday scorch–it's 11.5 miles to a primo campsite on the Colorado River, the trip's first dependable water source. Follow the Tonto Trail west to the bottom of Copper Canyon (5), where you might find water in potholes after a rain. The route veers around 4,700-foot Fiske Butte and traces sheer sandstone cliffs above Walthenberg Rapids, which roar through Granite Gorge. After 10 miles, the Tonto Trail ends in Garnet Canyon (6). Head west on an unmaintained trail dotted with cairns. End at the sandy banks of Toltec Beach (7), your second camp at mile 17.5. On day three, leave your pack at camp for a 2.1-mile out-and-back to Elves Chasm (8), a secluded, waterfall-rich grotto at the mouth of Royal Arch Creek. Backtrack to camp and lay over or finish the day's remaining six miles with a stiff ascent to a roughly 20-foot rock wall and the technical crux of the trip (9).
Pack a harness, 40-foot dynamic rope, locking carabiner, and 20 feet of webbing for belays and for hauling up packs. From the top of the cliff, the route climbs gradually for 1.7 miles before dropping into Royal Arch Creek (10). Then, descend the rocky creekbed to Royal Arch (11), the Grand Canyon's largest natural rock bridge (there's a reliable spring upstream of it). Hike back upstream 3.2 miles to a set of smooth potholes carved into the creekbed, and your last campsite (12). The final day ascends past Montezuma, Toltec, and Chemehuevi Points. After 7.3 miles, reconnect with the South Bass Trail and climb 1,200 feet to your starting point.
The Way
To reach the South Bass trailhead, go west from Tusayan six miles on FR 328 (off of AZ 64). Veer northwest onto FR 328A for another 17.6 miles to Pasture Wash Road. Turn right and continue to the parking lot.
When to Go
Spring, when water is plentiful, or fall. Summer brings heat and flash floods.
Go Guided
Join the Grand Canyon Field Institute on an eight-day trip to Royal Arch in April 2010. Food and shuttle included. $665; grandcanyonassociation.org/gcfi
Guidebooks and Map
Official Guide to Hiking Grand Canyon, by Scott Thybony ($12, grandcanyonassociation.org); Grand Canyon Treks, by Harvey Butchart ($17, spotteddogpress
.com); National Geographic Grand Canyon National Park map ($12, natgeomaps.com)
Required backcountry permits are $10, plus $5 per person per day. Apply up to four months before desired departure date. Download application at nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/backcountry-permit.htm; then fax to (928) 638-2125. Entrance: $25 per vehicle.
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Plains, Midwest see 2nd round of heavy snow, wind
LUBBOCK, Texas -- The nation's middle again dealt with blizzard conditions Monday, the storm bringing hurricane-force winds to the Texas Panhandle, closing highways and knocking out power to thousands in Texas and Oklahoma.
Kansas, already under a deep snowpack from last week's snowstorm, was on high alert as the system headed north and east Monday evening and overnight. The storm is blamed in the death of a 21-year-old man whose SUV hit an icy patch on Interstate 70 in northwestern Kansas and overturned Monday.
Blizzard warnings were in effect for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, as well as southern Kansas through early this morning, while Arkansas and Louisiana saw watches and warnings for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. The storm is forecast to track north and east, prompting winter-storm warnings for southern and eastern Kansas and the upper half of Missouri.
A strong low-pressure system is feeding the wintry beast, Greg Carbin, a meteorologist at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said.
"The more intense the low, the stronger the storm as far as pulling air in," he said, noting that intense winter storms are common in the Plains during late February and March.
Up to 10 inches of snow fell in parts of New Mexico, and the foothills west of Denver saw up to 2 feet of snow. The moisture allowed the U.S. Forest Service to burn brush in northern Colorado to try to prevent future wildfires.
While the wintry precipitation is beneficial, the National Drought Mitigation Center said Monday, the drought is not over.
"Is it a drought-buster? Absolutely not," National Weather Service meteorologist Victor Murphy said. "Will it bring short-term improvement? Yes."
Earlier Monday in the Texas Panhandle, wind gusts up to 75 mph and heavy snow had made all roads impassable and created whiteout conditions, said Paul Braun, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Transportation. A hurricane-force gust of 75 mph was recorded at the Amarillo, Texas, airport.
Amarillo saw the biggest snowfall total in Texas with 17 inches, with Fritch seeing an inch less. Motorists were stranded throughout the Texas Panhandle, with the weather service in Lubbock reporting as many as 100 vehicles at a standstill on Interstate 27.


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The District 3-4A fall tennis season belonged to Canyon, so it's no surprise that a lot of the 3-4A tournament concluded at Austin Tennis Center on Tuesday belonged to Canyon as well.
Canyon, which went undefeated during team play in the district in the fall, won three of the five titles at the district tournament to earn automatic spots in the Region I-4A tournament in Abilene. And on paper, that's probably what should have happened.
"I think the expectations for the kids and myself were to come out of this with some district championships," Canyon coach John Gonzales said.
"The kids have been great working toward this since the fall."
Canyon was guaranteed of winning at least one district title coming out of Monday's semifinals. That's because freshmen Abi Dillehay and Brailey McMinn reached the girls singles finals.
Dillehay came out with the win, 6-2, 6-2, which was not a big surprise since she was the No. 1 seed and had lost only five games in her previous two matches. But she had mixed emotions about beating McMinn.
"It was hard and I didn't like it," Dillehay said. "I want my teammates to win and I don't like going against them. I don't like to see (McMinn) lose because she's my friend, but I wanted to win it."
McMinn did qualify for the second spot in regionals in girls singles, beating Amarillo High's Alli Manchee 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the playback.
Canyon's other two wins, in boys doubles and mixed doubles, weren't so conflicted.
In boys doubles, Sammy Hogan and Dylan Strickland beat Dalton Dodson and Ben Gutierrez of Dumas, 7-6, 6-4. In mixed doubles, Brighton McMinn and Jaden Odell defeated Randall's Cliff Halcom and Rachel Stephens 6-2, 6-1.
Girls singles wasn't the only event where teammates squared off to determine district champions. In boys singles, Amarillo High's Davis Stewart beat fellow Sandie Rishi Khandheria 6-1, 4-6, 6-0 to claim the crown. Khandheria did qualify for the regionals by beating Canyon's Matt Snell 6-2, 6-2 in the playback.
Randall's Leigha Ritchey and Mackenzie Dye won the girls doubles, beating Naomi Gonzales and Dalila Rosales of Dumas 2-6, 6-2, 6-3.
District 3-4A tournament
Girls singles: Finals—Abi Dillehay, Canyon def. Brailey McMinn, Canyon 6-2, 6-2. Third place—Alli Manchee, Amarillo High def. Rebecca Rogers, Randall 7-6, 6-3. Playback—McMinn def. Manchee 2-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Boys singles: Finals—Davis Stewart, Amarillo High def. Rishi Khandheria, Amarillo High 6-1, 4-6, 6-0. Third place—Matt Snell, Canyon def. Trent Vibbard, Randall 6-2, 6-2. Playback—Khandheria def. Snell 6-2, 6-2.
Girls doubles: Finals—Leigha Ritchey-Mackenzie Dye, Randall def. Naomi Gonzales-Dalila Rosales, Dumas 2-6, 6-2, 6-3. Third place—Audrey Spradlin-Ceciley Mason, Randall def. Megan Gilliland-izzy Wheeler, Canyon 6-4, 6-2.
Boys doubles: Finals—Sammy Hogan-Dylan Strickland, Canyon def. Dalton Dodson-Ben Gutierrez, Dumas 7-6, 6-4. Third place—Maverick Blank-Caleb Felton, Randall def. Dylan Wood-Josh Williams, Randall 2-6, 6-3, 6-1. Playback—Dodson-Gutierrez def. Blank-Felton 3-6, 6-2, 6-1.
Mixed doubles: Finals—Brighton McMinn-Jaden Odell, Canyon def. Cliff Halcom-Rachel Stephens, Randall 6-2, 6-1. Third place—Joanna Corrales-Nathan Villarreal, Dumas def. Ben Laney-Kyra Mobley, Amarillo High 7-5, 4-6, 7-5.