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Sunderland 2 - 1 Newcastle (Full time)
Fletcher 4, Borini 84 - Debuchy 57
In derby games only the result matters. When it's the ninth game of the season and you've won none of the previous eight, only the result matters. When it's both, desperation can set in.
For a while it looked like Sunderland were going to marry both style and substance. A fast start to the match, hassling Newcastle into mistakes high up the field, brought an early goal for Steven Fletcher and prompted reshuffles from Newcastle manager Alan Pardew who changed his system midway through the first half and then again at half time.
But nerves and carelessness crept in as the visiting side improved. Mathieu Debuchy snuck in with Adam Johnson asleep to notch a richly deserved equaliser after half time and an away win seemed by far the most likely outcome.
New Mackems boss Gus Poyet showed his hand and Fabio Borini, one of three quick-fire substitutes, drilled in a spectacular winning goal against the run of play with six minutes left for play.
A late moment of terror when John O'Shea tried his best to head a Newcastle equaliser into his own net was survived by the skin of goalkeeper Keiren Westwood's finger tips.
Win secured, Sunderland off the bottom of the table, Newcastle will wonder what more they could have done.
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Full time - Sunderland 2 Newcastle 1
Poyet fist pumps his way around the technical area, the roof lifts off the Stadium of Light, it's a first win of the season in the league at the ninth attempt.
Sunderland climb off the bottom, four points adrift of safety but one point above Crystal Palace. Newcastle stay tenth.
90 + 3 min The seventeenth tame long range shot of the day from Cabaye is the last action of the game.
90 + 2 min Another Sunderland corner. And another one. The little vein on the side of Alan Pardew's head is acting up.
90 + 1 min Sunderland corner, like a gift from the Gods. Fair to say they're not over-committing men forward for this one.
90 min We're going to have another four minutes. Poyet shrugs wearily - an Ian Holloway-style resignation citing exhaustion waiting to happen?
88 min Sunderland probably shouldn't be left unsupervised for too long. A nothing ball into the home team's penalty area is almost turned into a cataclysmic disaster by John O'Shea who lobs his own goalkeeper with an inexplicable back header that Westwood does well to reach, claim and bring to earth an inch the right side of the goal line.
86 min Newcastle, by far the better team in the second half but now behind, send on Sammy Ameobi for Gouffran in a desperate attempt to salvage something from the wreckage. If I was Alan Pardew's cat I'd be making myself scarce tonight.
85 min Potentially quite a day for Gus Poyet if his team can hang on here. Bizarrely Borini has scored just twice since signing for Liverpool last summer, and they have both come against Newcastle. Needless to say, that's his first for Sunderland.
GOAL!!! SUNDERLAND 2 Newcastle 1 (Borini 84 min)
Who said that? Fabulous goal from substitute Borini, collecting a lay off from Altidore and drilling into the far corner past Krul who gets a touch but is beaten by the power and accuracy of the shot.
82 min This is in danger of petering out into a draw that suits everybody and nobody.
78 min Finally the Sunderland of the first quarter hour are back. Pressing Newcastle high up the field the win the ball back in a dangerous area and Altidore intelligently wins/cheats a free kick on the edge of the penalty box to set up a dangerous free kick... Fletcher pummels it straight into the wall.
77 min Shola Ameobi is an inch away from adding to his prodigious scoring record against Sunderland. A low shot from the edge of the area beats Westwood all ends up but isn't quite bar-wide.
75 min Sunderland, with Bardsley now completely lame, are on the rack rather here with Santon cutting infield from left back and drilling wide with his right foot. Finally Ondrej Celutska is introduced with Bardsley heading for the showers.
72 min It seems Cabaye has had a wager on scoring from a long way out today. His latest effort from fully 30 yards away, wide left, is safely gathered by Westwood. Phil Bardsley has cramp - he's played more Blackjack than football this season so far of course.
69 min Enthused, Poyet now sends on Ki Sung-Yeung for Lee Cattermole. Newcastle meanwhile are bringing on Shola Ameobi - seven goals in nine appearances against Sunderland - for Loic Remy who has been totally anonymous today.
68 min The switch nearly has an immediate effect. Altidore heads the ball down, Borini collects wide in the penalty area and his low shot squirms beneath keeper Tim Krul but not, quite, over the goal line.
67 min Here comes that Sunderland change. Adam Johnson, not surprisingly after a day to forget, goes off and Fabio Borini comes on to replace him.
63 min Just as a reminder, the eclectic bunch of foreign legion misfits available to Poyet from the bench this afternoon line up as follows: Ki, Gardner, Celustka, Giaccherini, Roberge, Borini, Mannone.
62 min It's starting to look ominous for the home team now. Ben Arfa skips and tricks his way across the field looking for a shooting chance and when he can't find one he sets up Cabaye instead who curls the ball a foot wide of the post.
60 min Sunderland respond with a corner, sent high and wide to the far side of the area for Colback who tees up Larsson for a first time shot over the bar. Big moment for Sunderland this - their fragile confidence has no doubt been dented by a lost lead and it's the Newcastle fans making all the noise, and the visiting players all the running. Poyet deep in conversation with assistant Mauricio Taricco on the touchline.
58 min Adam Johnson won't enjoy seeing the replay of that one too much. He was fast asleep, allowing Debuchy to run in unchecked behind him and score easily. The winger did exactly the same thing back in the 21st minute and was reprieved by his goalkeeper but no second chance this time.
GOAL! Sunderland 1 Newcastle 1 (Debuchy 57)
Well, it seemed as though Newcastle were playing into Sunderland's hands with a low-tempo start to the second half but out of nothing Debuchy steals in at the back post to slam in his first ever goal for the club from a couple of yards out.
52 min Referee Lee Probert not covering himself in glory there. Altidore is scythed to the ground on the edge of the box by Dummett, the ball runs free to Fletcher so an advantage is played and his shot is deflected behind by Williamson. It's either a Sunderland free kick or a Sunderland corner - goal kick is the decision.
51 min Goalscorer Fletcher, who made an early return from injury for this game, left the field at half time holding his shoulder and seems a little laboured in the early moments of the second period.
49 min Any hope that the half time switch from Newcastle would lead to them making a fast start to the second half, as Sunderland did to the first, has been killed off by a dire four minutes. One where it might not have been a bad idea to be a bit late back to your seat.
46 min Back underway, Newcastle kick off moving from left to right with their supporters at their backs. A first Sunderland clean sheet of the campaign will snap a club record run of four straight home defeats at the start of the season.
14.30 Alan Pardew hasn't finished meddling with his team yet - striker Papiss Cisse replaces Moussa Sissoko at half time. Positive, attacking move to try and haul his team back into the game.
Half Time - Sunderland 1 Newcastle 0
Lightning start from Sunderland who flew out of the traps, scored an early goal through Steven Fletcher and battered Newcastle for the opening quarter of an hour.
A break in play allowed Alan Pardew to shuffle his pack and Newcastle have been the better side ever since, without ever managing to force a save from Westwood in the Sunderland goal.
The Mackems have the worst defensive record in the league - 2.5 goals conceded a game on average - and Loic Remy has five goals in six games for the Magpies so far. He's been ominously quiet to far but this game is far from over.
45 + 1 min We'll have two added minutes at the end of the half, and Debuchy has rather foolishly committed a foul tight to the touchline giving Adam Johnson a chance to send over one last free kick. It's dreadful and cleared easily. That'll about do us I think. Birthday announcements and half time raffle draw numbers to follow...
42 min Excellent goalkeeping from Westwood, springing from his line to claim a Cabaye cross after Probert again awarded a generous free kick to the visiting side in a wide area.
40 min Conditions are worsening. It's what the locals might call 'breezy' and the rest of us would refer to as 'the seventh circle of Dante's Hell'. Wind whips in bringing lashings of rain and bits of disused oil platforms. The game has descended into a niggly, reasonably dull affair.
36 min Fairly generous decision to award Tiote a free kick 30 yards from goal for an alleged foul by Fletcher. Tiote seemed to start his dive long before the Sunderland man arrived - sometime on Thursday afternoon in fact. Ben Arfa bends the ball well off target from the set piece.
35 min Much more Gus Poyet-style football from Sunderland here, calming the game and slowing the tempo right down with a prolonged period of possession that Tony Pulis would almost certainly point out hasn't really got them anywhere.
30 min Newcastle's now familiar 'queue at the post office' set up for corners is causing Sunderland problems. Williamson, up from the back, sends a dangerous header towards goal that the home team scramble away.
27 min No such luck for Yohan Cabaye though - he cracks into Colback and is rightly booked.
26 min Cheick Tiote, sent off after 23 minutes of this game last season, responds to a shirt pull from Larsson by turning round and shoving the Swede to the ground with two hands up around his necl. Lee Probert is in benevelent mood, and no card is issued.
25 min Santon's dangerous cross flies through the Sunderland box untouched but Newcastle have established themselves in the game now and it's a much more even contest.
21 min A cross to the far post invites Sissoko, totally unmarked as he runs past Johnson into the penalty area, to challenge Westwood for a high ball but Sunderland escape. Newcastle, a different team altogether after that switch, immediately attack again and Cabaye drags a shot wide. Sunderland's turn to look a little nervous.
20 min Newcastle play a corner right out to the edge of the box for Debuchy to try his best Paul Scholes impression, but they haven't thought the routine through and when the shot rebounds to safety Sunderland threaten a counter attack that is derailed by an offside decision.
18 min Alan Pardew is frantically calling players to the touchline to effect a change of system, with Loic Remy seemingly moving into a more central attacking role. He's got problems at the back though, where Dummett - 22 years old, die hard Newcastle fan and with just two starts for the club prior to today to his name - looks like the proverbial rabbit in headlights.
15 min Continuing a theme, Cabaye has a go from fully 35 yards, with a free kick this time, and goalkeeper Westwood saves slightly nervously down in the bottom corner. Straight down to the other end Altidore feeds Fletcher who cracks a first time shot that Krul parries, Dummett dwells on and Altidore fails to convert.
14 min Johnson crosses deep from the left flank and Fletcher is able to get his head to the ball again, but he's jumped too early and can only direct the ball wide of the mark.
13 min Not for the first time this season I'm sitting in this chair watching a Newcastle side being out-fought and out-worked by a side apparently a good deal more motivated and committed to the cause. The visitors have hardly had a kick, and are being hassled out of what little possession they are managing by a high-tempo, high-pressing Sunderland set up.
11 min Ben Arfa, from similarly optimistic range, sends a shot sailing into the crowd to the audible delight of the home crowd.
10 min Cabaye, who scored a fabulous long range strike in defeat at Everton recently, lets go of one from distance but clears the cross bar.
6 min Straight from the restart Newcastle's Yohan Cabaye snaps into the back of Fletcher who is furious and booked for his reaction.
GOAL! Sunderland 1 Newcastle 0 (Fletcher 4)
The first corner of the afternoon goes to Sunderland and Newcastle are asleep as the home team work a short routine that allows Adam Johnson to flight a delicious ball up to the back post where Stephen Fletcher is at the head of a long queue of Sunderland players waiting to power home a close range header. Lift off.
3 min Seb Larsson accelerates down the right flank and whips a dangerous cross into the heart of the penalty box from the byline but Newcastle are able to head away.
2 min As you would expect so far: nobody allowed to settle on the ball, tackles snapping in from both sides. It looks like Jose Altidore is going to have the first crack at unsettling young Dummett - the big American has very deliberately pulled onto Newcastle's inexperienced centre half.
13.30 Underway at the Stadium of Light - referee Lee Probert is the man charged with keep hold of this 'desperation derby'. Start the clock on the Lee Cattermole yellow card sweepstake.
13.25 Here come the teams. Niall Quinn in the Sky studio says it's time for the Sunderland players to "man up" and do their bit for the club's hierarchy.
Gus Poyet has made four changes to the side for his first home game in charge with Andrea Dossena making his debut at left back.
After several defensive aberrations so far this season Alan Pardew has gone for an all-English centre half pairing of Mike Williamson and Newcastle-born Paul Dummett.
13.10 Of course there's an unusual subplot to today's biannual tear up between these two bitter rivals....
When trouble flared between the two sets of supporters following the game at St James' Park last season Newcastle fan Barry Rogerson - 45, Bedlington, Northumberland - took it upon himself to punch 'Bud' the police horse in the face. The clip went viral on You Tube and Rogerson was jailed for a year earlier this week.
Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth (sorry) it seems the merchandise sellers of Sunderland have wasted no time in cashing in on one of football's more bizarre, unsavoury incidents...
13.00 Two desperately unhappy camps then, hardly the ideal preparation for a North East derby where the desperation of both sides should make for an even more frantic, frenetic encounter than usual.
Sunderland won 3-0 at St James' Park when last they met - Di Canio ruining a perfectly decent designer suit with a knee-slide celebration down the touchline became one of the iconic images of the 2012/13 season but it was a false dawn for the Italian and the club which is now surely staring relegation in the face.
Defeat for either team today will leave them wondering where on earth they go next, which makes a high scoring draw a fair bet.
12.50 Things aren't a great deal happier at the other end of the Metro line at St James' Park.
While Sunderland couldn't stop signing players in the summer, Newcastle struggled to get anybody through the door. There was a peculiar lethargy about the way the Magpies went about their business in the close season with only long term target Loic Remy, on loan from Queens Park Rangers with a hefty fee paid to the Londoners into the bargain, in through the entrance door.
The club reasoned that having made six signings at considerable expense in January another overhaul wasn't required but performances and results haven't backed that up, and it's the newer arrivals - particularly hapless defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa - who have struggled most.
Again, fingers are being pointed at the situation above the manager's head. Chief scout Graham Carr was lauded for his efforts when Newcastle finished fifth in 2011/12 but Joe Kinnear has been parachuted into a director of football position with a remit nobody, including Kinnear and manager Alan Pardew, seems to quite understand.
12.40 New Sunderland manager Gus Poyet could certainly be forgiven for wondering what on earth he's let himself in for.
Any hopes that the Black Cats were merely losing games because the players weren't playing for his predecessor Paolo Di Canio in some sort of protest at his extreme, totalitarian managerial style were blown out of the water with a 4-0 thrashing at Swansea in Poyet's first game in charge last time out.
That leaves the Mackems nursing a record of one draw and seven defeats from their first eight games of the season. Questions over the performance of director of football Roberto De Fanti, who oversaw a bizarre summer of 14 new arrivals and the sale of key men Stephane Sessegnon and Simon Mignolet, abound but won't help Sunderland in the short term.
Points are needed quickly, and the team has shown little capability of doing that so far. Poyet's first move was to take the whole squad out for dinner during the week to try and ease tensions and build camaraderie. To be a fly on the wall of that restaurant…
12.30 Here are the teams for this afternoon's North East derby...
Sunderland: Westwood; Bardsley, Dossena, O'Shea (c), Cuellar; Cattermole, Colback, Larsson, Johnson; Altidore, Fletcher.
Subs: Ki, Gardner, Celustka, Giaccherini, Roberge, Borini, Mannone.
Newcastle: Krul; Debuchy, Williamson, Dummett, Santon; Sissoko, Tiote (c), Cabaye; Gouffran, Ben Arfa, Remy.
Subs: Elliot, Haïdara, Anita, Obertan, Sammy Ameobi, Shola Ameobi, Cissé.
Sunday, October 27 2013
Sunderland v Newcastle United
Stadium of Light
Kick-off: 13.30 GMT
TV: Live Sky Sp 1, Highlights BBC One Match of the Day 2
Sunderland (Possible, 4-4-1-1): Westwood; Bardsley, O'Shea, Brown, Colback; Johnson, Ki, Cattermole, Giaccherini; Altidore; Fletcher.
Test: Brown (calf/shin).
Newcastle (Possible, 4-3-3): Krul; Debuchy, S Taylor, Williamson, Santon; Tiote, Sissoko, Cabaye; Ben Arfa, Sh Ameobi; Remy.
Out: Coloccini (groin/pelvis), Haidara (knee), R Taylor (knee), Yanga-Mbiwa (suspended), Gutierrez (personal leave).
Tests: S Taylor (hamstring), Coloccini (groin).
Referee: Lee Probert (Matches 5 R1 Y2)
Betting: Home 13-8, Away 8-5, Draw 12-5.
Team News
Sunderland defender Wes Brown could make a first competitive appearance for the club in almost 21 months against Newcastle on Sunday.
The 34-year-old former Manchester United star, whose last senior game came against Middlesbrough in the FA Cup in January last year, is available after ridding himself off a calf injury sustained in pre-season.
Midfielder Ki Sung-yueng, who was ineligible to play against parent club Swansea last weekend, also returns to the squad as the Black Cats attempt to secure a first Barclays Premier League victory of the season.
Newcastle boss Alan Pardew will make late decisions on central defenders Fabricio Coloccini and Steven Taylor ahead of Sunday's derby trip to Sunderland.
Coloccini is battling his way back from a groin problem, while Taylor is nursing a hamstring injury, and while Pardew is yet to rule either out, both must be considered doubts.
Defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa is suspended following his red card in the 2-2 draw with Liverpool last Saturday, while midfielder Jonas Gutierrez remains in Argentina after being given leave to deal with a personal issue.
Match Notes
It is stupid to think no other game matters because, even if you won both derby matches in a season, you might go on to lose a cup final or be relegated. But try telling that to the supporters of Newcastle and Sunderland this weekend. The intensity, significance and propensity for crowd trouble in this battle for North East pride have risen in recent years as both clubs have stagnated. It is a wonderful occasion with an ugly side and it is one Gus Poyet and Sunderland desperately need to take something positive from. Neither manager, though, dare lose it.
Stat of the game: 5 There have been five red cards given in the last six Premier League derbies between these two sides.
Luke Edwards's prediction: 2-2.


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Fred and I haven't talked about the kiss since last night. However, I can't help but give him a tacky smile every time we make eye contact. Every time, I can feel myself blush after I look away. As of this current moment, we're at lunch and our knees are touching under the table. My hand is resting on my leg, and twice- take that back, three times his rough knuckles have grazed the back of my hand. Every time that happens, I blush again. As I steal glances, he's grinning into his sandwich like a child getting their first toy broom. If it wouldn't be too strikingly obvious, I'd be smacking the back of his head to wipe the smirk off his face. But I haven't told Sophie yet, and I doubt he's told Al, so that may give it away.
Stupid Albus Potter.
"Are you guys holding hands!?" Al asked suddenly, causing us both to jump and put both of our hands on the table, apart.
"No!" We both said simultaneously. Al started to laugh again, and wrapped his arm around Sophie. She looked up and smiled to him, in love as ever. He adjusted so he could kiss her and I simply rolled my eyes at them.
"I would have sat with Roxy if I knew I would have had to watch this," Fred leaned over and chuckled, "Come on Hannah, let's go. Magically I'm no longer hungry." He then mumbled, pushing his plate away in mock disgust. I laughed, and followed him away from the hall. We walked in silence back to the Gryffindor common room, both obviously unsure of where to begin the awkward conversation that we were about to have.
"Err; well I can't think of any way to make this more blunt and awkward so I'll just say it. Let's go upstairs, it'll be quieter." Fred grinned at his failure of a joke. I chuckled nervously and nodded, before following him up to the seventh year boy's dormitories.
With each stone step I took I tried to formulate a sentence in my head to begin this discussion, but all I managed to pull out of my brain was how much of a mess my life is right now and I shouldn't have kissed back. By the time he reached for the handle of the door I was hitting myself in the forehead for thinking of telling him I didn't like it. Because the truth was, I did. My heart races every time I think about that smile he gave me right before it happened. My stomach flutters every time I think about his hand on my cheek, and his eyes smiling to mine. The whole conversation with Scorpius weather or not I liked Fred was mocking me as the realization of 'more than friends' was coming truer by the second.
"Err, hold on," Fred said suddenly, slamming the door shut in my face. I could hear him scrambling around as he muttered cleaning spells to clear the odor out of the air. I started to laugh as the door opened again and he gestured for me to come in.
Here goes nothing.
"Fred," I began, taking a deep breath before I unloaded. "I want to tell you this in the right way so you understand that I'm a mess and you don't want to get mixed in all the things that are wrong with me your my best friend and that kiss was magical but my life is such a jumble of-"
He was kissing me. I started to laugh against his lips when he grabbed my wrists to keep me from hitting him; he knows me too well. I could feel him grin against mine as I gave in and begun to kiss back. My eyes fluttered shut as I relaxed my shoulders, giving him the notion that I wasn't going to hit him. He let go of my hands and wrapped his arms around my waist. After a few seconds he pulled back, just enough that his lips were almost touching mine.
"I've wanted to do that since I was fourteen. You talk too much." He whispered, grinning like he had just gotten smacked in the face with a bludger. That time, I really did hit him. He laughed, trying to pretend like it didn't hurt and continued. "Hannah, I don't care how much of a mess you think you are. To me, you're perfect; you've always been perfect. "
Perfect? I looked up from the freckles on his cheekbones I had fixed my eyes on, into his eyes. The most mesmerizing brown, they always looked like they were smiling. This time, I moved forward quickly and kissed him. His eyebrows rose in surprise at first, but after realizing he said the right thing, he wrapped his arms tighter around my waist. As I ran my fingers through his gingery hair and pressed harder into the kiss, I felt my eyes fall shut. I couldn't help but slip out an accidental whimper as I felt his hand tickle up the small of my back. The noise proved to be a simple tease for him, causing him to take a step towards me; in his attempt to rid the little space between us, he pushed me to back into the four-poster behind me and I fell over.
"Oops," Fred mumbled, slightly out of breath as he laughed and sat down next to me. I sat up, and we smiled to eachother. For a half a second I thought this was going to be the new start of 'the talk', before we simply continued where we left off. After all, who needs to talk when you can snog your best friend who's liked you for five years? I felt him slowly drag his hand towards my back again; in retaliation I pushed him away and pressed my forehead to his.
"Mean," I whispered, locking eyes with him.
"Don't pretend you didn't like it," he quickly retorted. I replied by pulling him into another kiss and biting his lip a little, causing him to pull back. He was giving me a look of utter shock at the playfulness in my snogging, so I bit my lip in fear that I had gone too far.
"Don't ever bite your lip in front of me again," He chuckled as his surprise quickly turned to a grin. He brought his hand up to my cheek and pulled me back to him. As I moved my fingers to the back of my neck, he began to deepen the kiss-
"You bloody hypocrite. Pushing away your lunch, and then I have to walk in on this; and on my bed!?"
I pulled away from Fred quicker than a Firebolt, standing up and moving away when I heard Al's voice. By the time I looked back over, Sophie was clutching her stomach from laughing, and Al was trying to look upset, but his laughter was overpowering his ability to keep a straight face. "I mean good Godric I'm glad it finally happened, seriously Hannah," He continued, turning to me. "It's about bloody time he plucked up the courage." He then turned back to Fred, and said, "It's about damn time and all, but did it have to be on my bed?"
"Sorry mate. Five years of pent up attraction will do that to a guy," Fred shrugged as he grinned towards Al, a slight pink color dusting his cheeks. I bit my lip, and glanced awkwardly over to him. He smiled and winked back to me, causing me to blush and Al to make a gagging noise. These boys are seriously mean to eachother when it comes to girls.
"I need to pack, do you guys mind finding a more… private place to snog?" Al asked.
"Sure," Fred shrugged, and he grabbed my hand. He dragged me the three steps across the dorm, and pushed down on my shoulders so I was sitting on his bed. I started to laugh at Al's disappointment as Fred joined me on his bed. It was fairly clear to everyone in the room that Al and Sophie were up here to do the same thing, and Fred and I weren't going to give up so easily.
Fred and I… I started to smile. If anything I suppose I had to give Scorpius credit. I would have never known to look for the signs from Fred if Scorpius would have shut up about them.
I looked down to our hands; inches away, it would only be a small movement for me to grab his hand as he sat and argued with Al. It was so easy yesterday to grab ahold at the dance; yet now I had to force myself to inch my fingers forward. Just as I was about to make my move he started to flail his arms in the air in a winded explanation about how he and Al share the dorm, and he was perfectly free to finally snog his best friend whenever he wanted. I brought my hand up to my mouth and covered a laugh to make my movements look intended, seeing as how reaching through the air randomly looked a little insane on my part. Ignoring Al's retaliation, Fred turned back to me.
"What's so funny?"
I gave him a crooked smirk as I repeated, "Perfectly free to finally snog my best friend whenever I wanted?"
"Err, well, if you want to," He stuttered.
I simply laughed and grabbed the collar of his shirt. Before he could get another word in I yanked his lips to mine. A loud sigh of annoyance quickly came from the other side of the room interrupting us. I pulled away just enough so I could rest my forehead on his like I had seen Al and Sophie do the previous night.
"What would twelve year old you say if he could see this?" I chuckled softly. He started to laugh and shook his head, not even wanting to bring up the topic.
"He'd probably kick me in the bludgers for not doing it sooner," He muttered with a soft chuckle. I placed a few more small kisses on his lips before we heard Al groan.
"I'm going to kick you in the bludgers if you don't leave," Al muttered as he waved his wand around the room, collecting his dirty clothes. I started to chuckle before I stood up and told Fred I needed to go pack anyway, and he should too.
"Don't give me that look," I said as I took a step backwards. He only stuck his lower lip out further, and opened his eyes wider. "You know I have absolutely no problem resisting your puppy dog eyes," I added, heading for the door. I started to smile as I heard his bed creak from him standing up, closely followed by a pair of footsteps following mine. I laughed when he wrapped his arms around my waist and kissed the back of my neck. As he let a small sigh go in the same place, I felt a chill run involuntarily up my spine; I took a few steps forward so we were outside the dorm room. The door instantly slammed behind us; Al must have charmed it shut. I started to laugh while Fred continued to kiss my shoulder, and smiled when he spun me around.
"Can you still resist it?" He grinned, before giving me the same look.
I brought my hands up to my eyes, covered them, and said, "Of course."
He started to laugh and kissed the back of my hand. I peeked through my fingers to see him smiling down to me.
"You'll visit over Christmas, right?" He asked.
"Don't I always? Plus, we're going as a date to Victorie's wedding." I chuckled, putting a suggestive emphasis on the word date. He nodded, dropping his arms off my waist. I sighed before saying, "Go pack. I'll race you."
With a last kiss goodbye, he turned around and grabbed the door handle. After shaking it for a second he said, "I think Al locked me out." He was correct, and even with an unlocking charm the door wouldn't open.
I started to smirk as I took a step towards the stairs and said, "I guess I'm going to win."
"Hannah, wait!" He laughed, but it was too late. I already booked it down the stairs and headed towards the girl's dorms. I stopped for a second to peek behind me, and sure enough he was rushing after me, grinning. I started to laugh as I headed back up the girl's stairs, stopping on the third step up. Just out of his reach, he could only sit and beg at the base of the stairs without setting off the slide charm for keeping boys out of the girls dorms.
"I dunno," I grinned, placing a foot on the fourth step. He tried to reach for my hand on the railing, but I quickly moved it so he almost fell forward.
"Bloody hell you flirting with me is hot." He muttered to himself, taking a step away from the stairs and placing a hand on his forehead.
To that I ran down to the bottom step and put my hands on my hips. "I wasn't flirting with you."
He let out a snort, and rolled his eyes.
"I wasn't!" I repeated, before smiling. I watched him laugh for a second before I leaned in closer and placed my finger on his chest. I heard the breath catch in the back of his throat as our noses were almost touching. I simply held the smallest smirks I could manage, and whispered, "If I was flirting with you, you'd know."
With that I turned around and booked it up the stairs. I had to use every ounce of willpower I had to ignore his calling as I shut the door to my dorm room. I smiled as I leaned up against the wooden door, finally letting the last eighteen hours of my life catch up with me. Closing my eyes and sliding down the door, I leaned my head up against it and laughed to myself.
"Miss Wood?"
I nearly jumped out of my shoes as a high pitch voice suddenly filled the room. I stood up rather ungraciously to find Minky sitting on my bed.
"Minky! Hi. What's up?" I said quickly, trying to regain some of my grace I had lost. She smiled politely, before walking over to me.
"Minky has another note for Mi-"
"Hannah." I interrupted, smiling down to her.
"Hannah should know that Minky defended her against the angry Malfoy boy." She said with a downcast glance as she handed me the piece of parchment.
"What do you mean, upset Malfoy boy?" I asked her slowly.
She looked worried, like she had said too much.
"Minky, please tell me what happened," I pressed.
"It's just," She paused again. "Minky saw the way Hannah looked at Mr. Weasley in the kitchens. So when she heard the Malfoy boy say those things about Mr. Weasley as he was asking Minky to deliver the note, she told him that Hannah and Mr. Weasley were good for eachother." Her eyes suddenly got watery, so I cursed to myself before rushing over and sitting next to her. "Minky shouldn't have intervened!" She wailed, burying her face in her hands.
"Minky, no. Thank you for saying those things." I tried to gently reassure her. I cursed Scorpius in my mind for making something as kindhearted as this elf cry. She simply sobbed harder as I tried to pat her on the back. I'd have to go for a different approach.
"Do you really think Fred and I are good for eachother?"
She looked up at my question, finally calming down from her sobbing. "Well, yes. Minky only assumed Hannah was seeing the Malfoy boy because Mr. Weasley hadn't asked her out yet." She shrugged. "Minky doesn't really like the Malfoy boy, but it's a Hogwarts' house elf's job to deliver letters whenever the owls need a hand."
Apparently I was the only one in Hogwarts who didn't 'realize Fred's feelings' and was just waiting for him to 'pluck up the courage' as Al so bluntly put it.
"We kissed," I whispered, "Fred and I." I don't know why, but I felt suddenly compelled to tell Minky all about the previous night at the dance. She may be of a different species, but clearly she's got the Fred and Hannah situation figured out a little bit better than I do. "I- I like him. I suppose I've always repressed a little bit of a crush on my best friend. It's Fred, how could I not? And I do still- at least, I think I still- I like Scorpius. Even if I've been the one helping him cheat on Rose, I'd never do that to Fred. I don't know what to do."
"If Hannah doesn't mind, Minky has an idea that may help," She said quietly. I simply gestured for her to go on. With a small sigh, she began. "Minky thinks… That Hannah should give Mr. Weasley a chance to be with her. She wants Hannah to be happy, and that's all Mr. Weasley ever wanted. Mr. Malfoy is being-"
"Selfish?" I suggested lightly.
"Minky doesn't want to talk badly abou-"
"Minky, you're right. Thank you." I cut her off before she started her 'respect for wizards' spiel.
With that we exchanged goodbyes before she dissaparated back to the kitchens. I looked down to my hands, and ran my fingers over the letters of my name spelled out in his handwriting. I could only assume this was a suggestion for another secret meeting. I could only imagine what he'd have to say about how close Fred and I were at the dance; thankfully we were alone for the kiss or I'd never hear the end. Then he'd beg me to stay away from him. After feeding me some more empty promises about when he'd cut things off with Rose, he'd simply break them a week later and snog her in front of me.
I sighed, and set the letter down on my table. There was a lot of guesswork floating through my brain about Scorpius Malfoy. However, there was one thing I knew for a fact. I knew that the way I was feeling right now about Fred Weasley meant something.
It was my turn to be happy. It was my turn to be someone's only one. I took a deep breath as I pulled out my wand and pointed it at the letter.
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Renting office space has had many unexpected benefits. Instead of getting out of bed and heading straight for my computer — and then sitting there half the day in my pjs (or worse, sweats) — I now get up, take a shower, get dressed up and go to work. I love it.
And, it is quiet — no barking dogs (I have two) and no neighbor mowing the lawn. In short, I have nothing to distract me from my work, which, if I read comments on blog posts correctly, is nirvana for writer types like me.
It's taken me all this time to figure out that I really need distraction to foster my creativity. No, not the ADD type of distraction that comes with social media. I'm talking about distraction in the form of breaks from work.
Working at my office means I sit for hours and go from one project task to the next — with little in the way of breaks. By 2:00 PM, I'm usually fried.
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After 20 catecheses devoted to St. Paul, Pope Benedict XVI returned to his teachings on the great Christian writers of both East and West, reflecting on St. John Climacus. The Holy Father held up St. John Climacus, whose name means "ladder," and whose greatest work is titled "Ladder of Paradise," as a reminder of the need for "continual conversion and purification with the help of the Holy Spirit."
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Every "newborn in Christ," Pope Benedict continued, "learns from these things, which allow the soul to enter in communion with God." "Blessed be those who mortify their will till the end," John Climacus said, for they "shall be placed on the right of Christ."
The rung of St. John's ladder is the "spiritual struggle against passions." John Climacus saw passions not as "bad in and of themselves," but taught that they "become so when they are put to bad use by man's freedom." In fact, the Pope said summarizing the saint's teaching, "If the passions are purified they open onto the path that leads to God."
"The struggle against passions becomes positive thanks to the image of the fire of the Holy Spirit, whose strength ensures victory over passions, transforming them by the Creator's positive nature," John Climacus adds. "The fire of the Holy Spirit is the fire of love and truth."
The third step on the ascent to Paradise that John Climacus describes, deals with "Christian perfection," the higher levels of which "can be experienced by those who have reached peace of mind and inner peace."
John Climacus emphasizes the importance of discernment: Christians must examine every aspect of their behavior in order to ascertain their deepest motivations and reawaken a "sense of the heart." This leads to tranquility of soul, "esichía," which prepares Christians to probe the depths of the divine mysteries, the Pontiff explained.
The final part of the saint's "ladder" is dedicated to faith, hope and charity. John Climacus speaks of charity as Eros, "the figure of the soul's matrimonial love for God." An intense experience of this Eros, the Holy Father related, makes the soul progress more than any hard-fought struggle with its passions. This positive character counts more than the struggle itself.
St. John Climacus writes, "Hope is charity's strength." In its absence charity is obliterated. Hope surrounds one with "God's mercy."
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MEDELLIN, Colombia (ICIS)--Mexico's ICA Fluor has landed a contract with state-run energy giant Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to build a gas compression system at the marine terminal at the port of Dos Bocas on the Gulf of Mexico, the industrial engineering company said on Friday.
Fluor's share of the contract is valued at $54m (€40m), which the company will book in third quarter of this year,
"This project provides ICA Fluor with the opportunity of supporting Pemex in advancing the key goals set forth in their strategic plan, which includes modernisation of their gas transportation system to service increasing demand," said
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TALLAHASSEE -- State lawmakers Tuesday passed a $53.5 billion no-new-taxes budget that gives school districts money to start reducing class sizes and raises college tuition rates.
The Senate voted 27-13 for the budget and the House voted 78-38 for the spending plan, which will take effect July 1. Gov. Jeb Bush has 15 days to act on the proposal.
Most of the no votes were cast by Democrats who are outnumbered 2-to-1 in the Legislature. But many Senate Republicans said they thought the budget didn't meet the state's needs and voted for it only because the state requires a spending plan.
The Senate and House could not agree on a budget during the regular two-month session that ended May 2. The fundamental dispute was over how much to spend.
The Senate wanted to boost spending by nearly $1 billion but House Speaker Johnnie Byrd, R-Plant City, opposed finding more money, through either tax hikes or expanded gambling, was mostly unwavering.
At one point during the regular session, Byrd and Senate President Jim King, R-Jacksonville, agreed to increase spending by almost half a million dollars but the deal fell apart as the two leaders struggled to settle some two dozen lesser issues.
The Senate then gave up its push for more money with King pointing to the approach of the new fiscal year.
The budget increases funding on public schools by almost $840 million but more than half of that is earmarked for class-size reduction and another major slice -- at least $120 million -- will be dedicated to the state's recognition program for schools that earn a grade of A or improve their grades. That leaves little money for teacher pay raises.
The plan also increases tuition for undergraduate students at the state's 11 public universities by 8.5 percent and for students at the 28 community colleges by 7.5 percent.
The budget does continue the Medically Needy program for some 27,000 people with serious health conditions ranging from cancer to organ transplants. That program had faced restrictions last month that lawmakers reversed at the last minute earlier this month.
Lawmakers also found money for the Florida KidCare program, which provides low-cost children's insurance, but caps enrollment. More money is provided for Florida's troubled child welfare program but less than half of what the Department of Children & Families had said was needed.
While Republicans in the House praised the budget for not raising taxes, Republicans in the Senate bragged that the budget had no local projects, sometimes called "turkeys" in the Capitol.
But Senate Republicans said they weren't happy the spending plan was balanced by some $1.3 billion in one-time sources of cash and some $800 million from trust funds, accounts dedicated for specific purposes rather than general spending.
"The day of reckoning is coming," said Sen. Tom Lee, R-Brandon, who is widely expected to become Senate president after King in 2005.
"I'm going to vote for this budget but I will say this: I have voted for my last budget -- I have voted for my last budget in the state of Florida that's put together with band-aids and paperclips," Lee said.
Several Republicans later endorsed Lee's comments.
But in the House, the GOP lawmakers said the budget was a great plan.
Rep. Dennis Baxley, an Ocala funeral director, gave the most rousing defense of the budget.
"I go to a lot of funerals and I have never heard so much gloom and doom and depression thinking," the Ocala Republican told Democrats, who had blasted the budget as inadequate.
Baxley pointed to the overall increase in spending from the current budget.
"We're going to spend more than we have ever spent," he said. "It's a great day in the state of Florida."
The budget also skips a sales tax holiday for shoppers for a second year in a row. But it expands a tax credit program for businesses that donate money for scholarships for poor children to attend private schools and keeps in place some $200 million in tax breaks on stocks and bonds and companies buying equipment.
Lawmakers cut funding for the arts and historical programs by half and slashed funding for a smoking prevention program aimed at teens from $37 million to $1 million.
The budget includes a little more money for state attorneys and public defenders but funding will stop completely for one of the three state offices that represents death row inmates. Private attorneys will be paid to take over the cases handled by the Tallahassee office of the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, which generally handles appeals for death row inmates in the northern region of the state.
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We are. They are too.
NYT's Alessandra Stanley had a great piece this weekend "What Are You Doing? Media Twitterers Can't Stop Typing," in which she says the narcissistic Twitter "tic" is "most noticeable and pernicious in television personalities, especially cable news stars who are already on the screen and the Web around the clock. The camera forces vanity on even the most modest correspondents, and vanity, once fueled, is almost impossible to extinguish."
Over at the Daily Beast, Mark McKinnon says it's time to Twitter the f%$k up. "But this week in Washington D.C., Twitter jumped the shark when, to great fanfare, members of the mainstream-media elite announced they had been baptized and would from now on be holding forth from Twitterdom, and then members of Congress Twittered President Obama's speech… Now, I'm totally down with Ana Marie Cox, the original Wonkette, being the reigning journalism media queen of Twitter. She's young and hip and all-things-new-media. But, Joe Barton is, well, not. If Joe Barton is Twittering, I'm thinking maybe Ana Marie may be on the next idea. And if members of Congress are Twittering, we can be fairly certain it won't be hip much longer."
And one more piece on Twitter… from Variety's Ted Johnson "Twitter taking over D.C."
So we ask you… DC journo Twitterers, for the people or self-serving?
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The airheads on Fox & Friends are over attacks on Christianity. They're over selfies and pretzel buns and they want to know what you're over.
Well, #OverIt2014 backfired.
Thousands of tweets went out naming Fox & Friends and Fox News as what people are completely over. As for me, I'm thankful this new year that I have Dish Network, which currently is having a dispute with Fox over fees and has removed Fox News and Fox Business Channel from its line up.
Here's a sample of what was sent to the right-wing talk channel with the hashtag #OverIt2014:


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DENVER (AP) U.S. Rep. Scott Tiptons office violated House rules when it used taxpayer resources to promote a campaign event in his newly drawn district in Avon.
The Denver Post reported Friday the Cortez Republican held a January town hall meeting in the western part of Eagle County, which will be part of his new district. The event was promoted on his congressional website, and a media advisory written by House-paid staffers was released in advance.
House rules bar the use of taxpayer money for campaigns. The use of staff resources and official funds to conduct official gatherings outside a representatives district also is prohibited.
In redistricting years running for Congress as an incumbent is a bigger job, the Denver Post wrote. A member has to both serve one district and also begin familiarizing himself or herself to voters in another district.
According to the Denver Post story, the House rules are clear: It is illegal to use taxpayer dollars for campaign purposes.
This means staffers on public payroll are not allowed to work for campaigns full time, and the work they do should not be on House office equipment, should not be done during regular House office time and should not be done using House e-mails or House resources.
Members may not use official funds, including the use of staff resources, to conduct town hall meetings or other official gatherings outside their districts, according to the Members Congressional Handbook.
Tipton spokesman Josh Green says no House funds were used, adding that it was a staff mistake and the meeting was inadvertently included on the website.


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The Ralls baseball team had to scratch and claw just to make it into the postseason, winning a mini three-team tournament for the third and final playoff spot from District 3-1A on the final day of the regular season.
So when the Jackrabbits rallied from three runs down in the sixth inning to earn a 4-3 victory against Smyer in the opener of a best-of-three bi-district series at Shallowater on Friday night, Ralls coach Jeremy Griffith wasn't exactly shocked.
"We've fought all year," Griffith said, "and I told the guys before the game that we are playing with house money. We got lucky to get here, and we shouldn't have any pressure. We should come out here and play relaxed, and I thought we did that."
The Jackrabbits can move into the area round with a win in one of two games against Smyer today. The first will begin at noon, and an if-necessary third game would start 30 minutes after the conclusion of Game 2.
Ralls struggled offensively before the big sixth inning, as Smyer freshman Brennan Fowler didn't allow a hit through the first five innings. The big right-hander couldn't find his control in the game's final stages, though. He walked three of the first four batters he faced in the frame, and Fidel Rodriguez and Grant James delivered a pair of RBI singles — Ralls' only hits of the game — to cut the lead to one. Ralls then tied the game when Rodriguez scored from third on a wild pitch.
The winning run didn't come without controversy.
With Ralls' Dakota Watson on third and two outs, Joshua Velasquez drew a walk from Fowler. As Velasquez reached first, Griffith noticed that the Smyer infield was out of position and signaled Velasquez to head to second base. As Smyer threw to second base, Velasquez was originally called out by the second-base umpire, and Smyer jogged off the field believing it had recorded the third out to keep the game tied.
But after the umpires conferred, the first-base umpire ruled that Velasquez had slid safely under the tag. The umpires also ruled that the run scored by Watson — who strolled home when the ball was thrown to second — counted, giving Ralls a one-run lead and its ultimate winning margin.
Smyer coach Donnie Scott expressed frustration with the call, noting that his team wouldn't try to make a play at the plate once the third out had been called.
"(The umpires) said just because they called the third out on the field, that doesn't mean the play is over with," Scott said. "You explain that to me. Isn't that what normally what happens? When you get the third out, the play ends. ... We think it's the third out, so we come off the field. The guy scoots home and that's it."
Though displeased with the call, Scott said it wasn't what cost his team the game. The Bobcats had a number of chances to add to their lead throughout the game, but struggled to come up with hits when runners were in scoring position.
"We didn't hit the ball like we have been hitting," Scott said, "and we had that one bad inning."
Scott also credited Ralls pitcher Matthew Casias, a freshman making just his second start of the season.
Griffith was blown away by the young right-hander's complete-game performance, during which he allowed just four hits.
"Are you kidding me?" he said. "Any time you can get seven innings from a Game 1 guy and get the win, and from a freshman, he was a beast today."
Casias admitted he was fighting through butterflies in the early going, but once he found a groove, he said the relaxed approach his team is taking during its postseason run took over.
"It was just about getting the job done," Casias said. "We didn't even know we were going to make the playoffs. Now we have one more game, hopefully, to finish off Smyer and move on."
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I'm a linguist. More specifically, I'm a psycholinguist. Even more specifically, I'm a laboratory phonologist (as my domain name suggests) and a phonetician.
I'm interested in the patterns and acoustics of speech sounds and how implicit knowledge of those patterns and the auditory system determine perception (and production) of speech. This tells us something about the contents of the faculty of language and how it interacts with the auditory system and other modules of the mind.
The other pages on this site discuss (in more detail) my research interests in laboratory phonology, speech perception, phonetics, and phonological theory.


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OTTAWA - The government is considering its next steps following a Federal Court decision Tuesday that grants Metis and off-reservation Indians the same status as other First Nations in a 13-year-long court case aboriginal people call a victory.
This means 600,000 Metis and non-status Indians in Canada are "Indians" under the federal Constitution Act and are entitled to legal access to education, health care benefits and negotiation rights in land claims.
Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan did not acknowledge the near-certainty that the government will appeal and push the case to the Supreme Court, although spokesman Jan O'Driscoll said the government was reviewing the decision.


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#1 I'll go home and measure several flats out of the box to make sure but the 2 flats I sampled were out of spec to the point that, as stated, they would have to deformed/crushed to fit normal primer pockets in order to be even flush. Took them back to the store, they measured them and agreed. Even flush would be good enough in some guns, but not in the 45-70 tubular fed lever that I also was going to use them for.
I'm sure Mr Lee will appreciate the advice. You will probably help him stay in business another 45 years.
When I have something that doesn't work out like I think it should, I usually find that it is me that doesn't have things quite right, not the equipment.
Your sarcasm has gone a long way in educating me. As I have said, others have had the same problem per multiple other posts on multiple boards. They have suggested you put the trimmer in a drill and stone it down until it fits.
#3 Took the bullets back the day I found the error. The man at store measured projectiles from 4 different boxes from same supplier and they were all 0.450 in a box marked 0.452. He was suprised, too. Went back a week later and he had them all sealed back up and on the shelf. Poor business, sell the problem to someone else.
Thanks for the constructive advise. And before anyone else says it again, I will. "I have never trimmed brass in straight case pistol ammo in the *** years I've been reloading. You don't need to."
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Unity College President Stephen Mulkey to Offer Climate Change Presentation at Thornton Academy on April 29
Unity, Maine – The window to salvage a livable planet is fast closing. Global climate change is severe, undeniable, and one of the greatest threats facing mankind.
One of the most ardent voices sounding the alarm about the severity of global climate change, internationally recognized scientist and Unity College President Stephen Mulkey, will offer a presentation entitled "Sustainability: a 21st Century Educational Mission" at Thornton Academy.
The 7 p.m. presentation in The Atrium on the campus of Thornton Academy, 438 Main Street, Saco, Maine, is free and open to the general public.
Mulkey's visit is part of Thornton Academy's Lloyd Hunt Lecture Series. Upon the retirement of Hunt in 2010, the faculty and staff established a lecture series, funded by friends and colleagues, to honor his legacy and passion for teaching. This biennial event brings notable individuals to Thornton Academy to share their expertise with the student body and the community at large.
An advocate for sustainability in higher education and divestment from fossil fuels as a tool to advance broad recognition of the dangers posed by global climate change, Mulkey led Unity College to become the first college in the United States to divest from investments in fossil fuels.
He has framed such divestment initiatives in higher education as an ethical imperative. Through his leadership, Unity College also adopted sustainability science, the leading-edge of 21st century global issues such as the mitigation of climate change, energy production, and declining agricultural production, as a central focus touching all aspects of the College.
"There can be no more important or relevant mission for education than to focus on the sustainability challenges of this century," said Mulkey. "Sustainability science is defined by the problems that it addresses. Recent scientific understanding shows that we have transgressed the boundaries of the safe operating space for humanity with respect to the natural environment."
"Climate change amplifies the effects of freshwater depletion, nitrogen pollution, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, and changes in land use," he stated. "These realities impose an ethical imperative on education to prepare students to confront and adapt to unfolding ecological crises. Sustainability science collaboration across disciplines is the problem-solving process. This approach empowers students to be knowledge brokers as they focus on the dynamics of coupled human-natural systems."
Mulkey's comprehensive presentation will draw from his decades of experiences as a researcher, scientist, and educator for such high-profile organizations as the International Center for Tropical Ecology at the University of Missouri, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Florida and University of Idaho.
In recent years Unity College has gained national attention for a variety of achievements including its focus on sustainability science; its ground-breaking "green" innovations such as the award-winning TerraHaus, the first student residence on a college or university campus built to the Passive House standard, the most energy efficient building standard in the world; and for being the first college in the United States to divest from investments in fossil fuels, igniting a growing national movement in higher education.
Founded in 1811 and located in Saco, Maine, Thornton Academy is one of the nation's oldest independent schools and one of the oldest public-private partnerships in the country. Thornton Academy offers a rigorous and broad-based program of academic, arts, and athletic opportunities that challenges middle and high school students to reach their potential in readiness for lifelong learning and productive participation in our dynamic world. For more information, visit www.thorntonacademy.org or call 207-282-3361.
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What do you do when it's 3 o'clock on a cloudy Sunday afternoon and your kids are in the grip of cabin fever? Here are some options:
Take advantage of local happenings. Memberships to your local zoo, science museum, or children's museum will pay for themselves. Keep notes about special local events in a handy place like the kitchen bulletin board. "Hey, if we leave right now we'll catch the penguin-feeding at the zoo!" can get even the grumpiest kid moving. Need ideas? Consider these options for great day trips.
Do an art project. Choose a corner of the kids' playroom, the kitchen table, or a section of the basement, and lay down a drop cloth or old sheet to protect the floors. Line up a variety of crayons, markers, paints, clay, glue, beads, buttons, and paper, and let the kids loose. Or suggest a specific project, like decorating a "treasure" box with photos cut out of magazines or making play food out of Sculpey or Fimo clay, which you can then bake in the oven until it hardens.
Have fun for all ages. For families with children of different ages, develop projects that include age-specific tasks for everyone, like a family scrapbook: A preschooler can sort pictures, while an older sibling can glue them on the pages, and you can write the captions. Or break out the video camera and make a family movie or your own music video — younger children can star in the film, while older ones can direct or operate the camera.
Schedule downtime
Having at least one weekend morning free of any scheduled activities is important for both relaxation and nurturing a young child's imagination. In this age of over-scheduling, kids get less and less time to just let their minds wander, explore their surroundings, kick a ball, or create their own arts and crafts projects free of adult supervision.
Of course, downtime is just as important for the grown-ups as it is for the kids. So, even if your children are happily coloring away in the playroom, avoid the temptation to try to squeeze in one more chore while they're occupied.
Some of the most relaxing and enjoyable family moments are those in which family members are together, but engaged in their own activities — Mom and Dad reading the newspaper next to a child contentedly drawing a picture. But downtime doesn't just happen on its own; you have to make room for it on your schedule.
Your child will come to expect weekends that are great — not just because Mom and Dad are more available to them, but because they get unfettered time to make their own fun.


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Hebrew National Hot Dogs are pretty darned tasty, in my opinion. Since my wife introduced me to the brand several years ago, I can't go back to regular hot dogs. The texture is different, the taste is different, the quality is different -- everything about the company's hot dogs is different, and that's most definitely a good thing. Although I hesitate to sing their praises too loudly for fear of folks thinking I've been paid to drone on and on about how good they are, I can't help but think they're among the best hot dogs I've ever consumed. Honestly.
My love for the product has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that these hot dogs are supposed to be kosher, meaning that they have been prepared in accordance with Jewish food laws. However, those of you who purchase Hebrew National for that very reason will probably be alarmed to know that a small group of consumers have filed a lawsuit against ConAgra Foods, Inc., claiming that their hot dogs have been mislabeled as kosher when, in fact, certain aspects of the slaughtering process do not meet requirements.
The "Triangle K" label on the packaging indicates that the hot dogs were prepared with 100 percent kosher beef. However, according to the lawsuit, the slaughtering service employed by ConAgra, AER Services Inc., does not adhere to the necessary standards that warrant the label. As such, the company is allowed to charge higher prices for faux kosher beef.
"This is an invisible fraud," Hart Robinovitch, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, told Reuters. "How does a consumer who thinks he is buying kosher meat really know he is buying kosher meat? It's a very, very difficult thing for a consumer to detect, unless someone investigates."
The lawsuit goes on to state that employees who complained about AER's preparation of the beef were either transferred, threatened, or fired from their positions. Not surprisingly, Shlomo Ben-David, the company's president, claims that all of these allegations directed at the slaughtering process are completely false. ConAgra, which also owns Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice, Peter Pan and Reddi-wip, is standing behind their product, as well.
"While we can't comment on pending litigation, we stand behind the quality of Hebrew National and its kosher status," the company said in a statement.


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The authors present a strategic analysis of a trust model that has recently been proposed for promoting cooperative behaviour in user-centric networks. The mechanism for cooperation is based on a combination of reputation and virtual currency schemes in which service providers reward paying customers and punish non-paying ones by adjusting their reputation, and hence the price they pay for services. They model and analyze this system using PRISM-games, a tool that performs automated verification and strategy synthesis for stochastic multi-player games using the Probabilistic Alternating-time Temporal Logic with rewards (rPATL). They construct optimal strategies for both service users and providers, which expose potential risks of the cooperation mechanism and which they use to devise improvements that counteract these risks.


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re-released LucasArts classics and high-minded, hand-drawn indie darlings. But let us not forget about the role played by Zombie Cow's Ben There, Dan That and its successor, Time Gentlemen, Please -- both of which reminded us that adventure games, above all else, should be irreverent and, when that fails, should be just plain incoherent.
If you skipped out on the latter game due to that completely prohibitive £2.99 (about $5) price tag, you've got a chance to redeem yourself. Speaking to Eurogamer, a Zombie Cow representative confirmed that the price of Time Gentlemen, Please has been cut down to £1.49 (call it $2.50) in an effort to make the wait for Modern Warfare 2 a bit more bearable. "So it's a humanitarian thing, really," the spokesperson explained. Just visit Zombie Cow's site, enter in the code: MW2AAAAGES, and watch the price tumble.


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After spending four years as Country Managing Partner of PwC Latvia, Ahmed Sharkh is resigning as Country Managing Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers SIA and handing over to Partner Zlata Elksnina-Zascirinska, who will become Chair of the Board from 1 August 2013.
Zlata Elksnina-Zascirinska has been with PwC Latvia since 1994, leading Tax and Legal Services department in recent years. In addition to her in-depth knowledge of the local market she has gained extensive international experience by taking part in various tax consulting engagements, including tax risk assessments, tax structuring advice on mergers and acquisitions.
Zlata is a member of the Latvian Association of Certified Auditors, the Latvian Association of Tax Consultants and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), as well as a Member of the Board of the Foreign Investors Council in Latvia. As Country Managing Partner, Zlata will be responsible for the management of PwC Latvia focusing on the needs of the clients and the business community.
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