Downtown Raleigh Restaurant Week | Triangle Arts and Entertainment

Week-long dining extravaganza sizzles with special offerings to drive patrons to downtown Raleigh

RALEIGH, NC? ? Foodies rejoice with the return of Downtown Raleigh Restaurant Week, a Downtown Raleigh Alliance (DRA) merchant program, scheduled for Monday, August 19-Sunday, August 25, 2013. To celebrate the event?s fifth year, the DRA launched a brand new website, DineDowntownRaleigh.com, to better showcase the popular event.? Each year, Restaurant Week invites patrons to renew their inner foodie and take advantage of the special offerings at participating downtown Raleigh restaurants during their normal dinner hours.

Participating dining establishments will offer tantalizing, three-course prix fixe dinners for either $20 or $30 per person, depending on the venue (tax, tip, and beverages not included). Select venues will offer a three-course beer or wine pairings for an additional $10 per person. Several venues will offer a $15 appetizer sampler featuring three appetizers with a selection of at least four options.? Although no tickets are required, reservations are strongly recommended (when applicable).

In addition to showcasing downtown Raleigh?s great dining options, Downtown Raleigh Restaurant Week will spur both locals and out of town diners to revisit old favorites and, best of all, try new places. Downtown Raleigh restaurateurs praise the program as a great opportunity to increase customer loyalty through creative menu offerings and to stimulate growth during a season lull.
?Downtown Raleigh Restaurant Week gives us the opportunity to reach new patrons and celebrate the brilliant chefs and restaurants in our community,? said Niall Hanley, Bia Restaurant owner. ?It?s always a busy week for us, and we look forward to it every year.?

To increase awareness, the DRA launched the new Downtown Raleigh Restaurant Week website, DineDowntownRaleigh.com, with a sleek look and added functionality. Designed with the diner in mind, user-friendly features include: ease of navigation for visitors to find pertinent information in a quick and simple process; social media engagement to deliver real-time updates to the community via Twitter as well as instant access to Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook; menus posted as they are received; online reservation links powered by OpenTable.com (when applicable); and an interactive map to plan your restaurant route, parking, and means of transportation.

Special thanks to Downtown Raleigh Restaurant Week Sponsors? Gold Sponsors:? Pepsi, US Foods; Silver Sponsors: Curtis Media Group, Triangle Downtowner Magazine; Supporting Sponsors: FreshPoint, The Independent Weekly, Live Work Play, News 14 Carolina, News & Observer, OpenTable.com, Triangle Blvd, triangle.com, United Restaurant Equipment Company, and Triangle Arts and Entertainment.org.

About Downtown Raleigh Restaurant Week:
Downtown Raleigh Restaurant Week is a week-long merchant program produced by the DRA with a primary goal to create a critical mass of diners in downtown and drive business to the restaurants during a time of year that is otherwise slow. The week-long culinary extravaganza gives patrons the opportunity to take advantage of dining deals offered at a wide-variety of reputable restaurants and allows participating downtown establishments to showcase culinary talent by highlighting the diverse offerings.

About Downtown Raleigh Alliance (DRA)
DRA is an award-winning nonprofit organization whose mission is to continue the revitalization of Raleigh?s downtown. The Alliance enhances the quality of life and positively impacts the economic success of downtown through five services:? 1. Safety, Hospitality & Clean Ambassadors; 2. Strategic Branding & Community Communications; 3. Special Events Production & City Plaza Programming; 4. Retail Attraction & Merchant Promotions; and 5. Strategic Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement. For more information about DRA, please visit www.youRhere.com.

Source: http://triangleartsandentertainment.org/2013/07/downtown-raleigh-alliances-launches-new-website-for-the-return-of-downtown-raleigh-restaurant-week/

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How to Know If You Really Need a Loan - Finance

There are many times we all get caught in financial situations well over what we can manage. We may work overtime, take from our savings account, or we will make deals with our creditors. However, our best may not be good enough. We may be led to taking other measures, such as taking out a loan. Although we know it may lead us into another debt situation, sometimes it?s our only way out of a bad situation. The following reasons are how you would know if you really need a loan.

You Are Avoiding Creditors Phone Calls

Once you?ve gotten behind just a month or two in your bills, the company?s internal credit department will start calling you. This is just normally to see what they can do to help you out and set up a payment arrangement. After a few dodged calls and a few months of unresponsiveness, they will send your account to a collection agency. Once you have established a routine of avoiding any of your creditors phone calls and letters, you should realize you need a loan to help pay down some of your debt.

?You Don?t Have Money in Your Savings Account

Your savings accounts may be set up for extra or emergency spending. If you don?t budget properly, you may go through those accounts very fast. If that happens, you will not have money left for an emergency situation. If this is the case, you should take out a loan, only if you need a loan. If you can work additional hours or borrow from a friend, this would be better.

?You Have Multiple Loans

If you have multiple loans out to cover prior bills, this is also a good indication you need a loan. This is a situation where it may work to your advantage. Having multiple loans means you have multiple interest rates, payment amounts, and must keep up with each loan schedule. If you consolidate your loans into one payment, you will only have one payment due. You may be able to find a cheaper interest rate and pay your loans off sooner than you thought.

?You Find Yourself in a Crisis

Finally, there are many crises? we can face that would require a loan. If your automobile breaks down and you have no other means to work, this would be a perfect example for needing a loan. Also, in the tragic event that you are evicted from your home, you may need a loan to cover the hotel and security deposit for another home.

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Australia crime puzzle solved: Culprit was 19-foot python

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Police and employees captured a snake at a charity store, in Queensland, Australia, Wednesday.

CAIRNS, Australia ? Police were mystified by a chaotic crime scene including a hole in the ceiling and a smelly pool of vomit-like liquid ? until they found the culprit was a 19-foot python.

The massive snake, weighing in at 37 pounds, was captured a day after a suspected break-in was reported at a charity store in Queensland in northeastern Australia.

"Its head was the size of a small dog," Police Sgt. Don Auld said Wednesday.

Before they found the python, investigators' working theory was that a human burglar with an appetite for destruction ? and a serious illness ? had gone on a rampage inside the St. Vincent de Paul store in the small town of Ingham.

"We thought a person had fallen through the ceiling because the roof panel was cut in half," Auld said. "When they've hit the floor, they've vomited and then staggered and fallen over. That's what we thought anyway."

Police now suspect the python entered the store through the roof, which was damaged in a cyclone two years ago.

The animal then plummeted through the ceiling, knocking over dishes, clothes and other items, before relieving itself on the floor. It somehow managed to hide from officials until staff spotted it lying alongside a wall the next day.

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Spacewalkers leave space station for outside chores

By Irene Klotz

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida | Tue Jul 9, 2013 1:13pm EDT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Two astronauts left the International Space Station on Tuesday for a day of maintenance tasks, including installing a power cable needed for a new Russian laboratory due to arrive later this year.

Veteran NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy and rookie partner Luca Parmitano, the first Italian to make a spacewalk, left the station's Quest airlock shortly after 8 a.m. EDT as the orbital outpost sailed about 260 miles over the Arabian Sea.

"Have fun out there," crewmate Karen Nyberg radioed from inside the station, a $100 billion research complex owned by the United States, Russia, Japan and 11 European nations, including Italy.

Cassidy's first task was to replace a failed backup component of the station's Ku-band communications system, restoring redundancy.

Parmitano, meanwhile, maneuvered himself to the right side of the station's solar power truss to pick up a pair of science experiments that will be returned to Earth aboard a future Space Exploration Technologies' cargo ship.

The privately owned California-based company, also known as SpaceX, is one of two U.S. firms hired by NASA to fly cargo to the station following the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011.

SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsules, which also are being developed to fly astronauts, are the only ones that return to Earth. Other cargo ships, including those flown by Russia, Europe and Japan, incinerate in the atmosphere after they leave the station.

The spacewalkers' to-do list also included repositioning some equipment delivered aboard a Dragon capsule in March. The gear - two grapple bars - may be needed by future spacewalkers tasked to remove station radiator panels.

Cassidy, who was making his fifth spacewalk, installed a power and data cable from the station's Unity connecting node to the Russian part of the International Space Station, completing one of the main goals of the outing.

The cable is part of a system that will be needed for a new Russian multi-purpose laboratory called Nauka that is due to launch later this year.

The new module will replace Russia's Pirs airlock, as well as serve as a research laboratory and berthing port. Russian cosmonauts will install the rest of the cable during a future spacewalk.

Cassidy and Parmitano have a follow-up spacewalk themselves next week to re-route cables that control the station's electrical system.

(Editing by Kevin Gray and Doina Chiacu)

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Microsoft Launches Critical Windows, Internet Explorer Updates

Microsoft rolled out a total of seven different updates on Patch Tuesday, six of which are rated as critical, while one is considered to be important.

Internet Explorer, the Kernel-Mode Driver, Media Format Runtime, GDI, and Silverlight have all received critical fixes, but Microsoft recommends users to prioritize the deployment of the first two.

?This security update resolves two publicly disclosed and six privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted document or visits a malicious webpage that embeds TrueType font files. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system,? Microsoft said in the description of bulletin MS13-053 aimed at Kernel-Mode drivers.

As usual, all patches are being delivered through the integrated Windows Update tool, so make sure you connect your computer to the Internet to deploy all fixes as soon as possible.

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Tiny Love Magical Night Baby Mobile - Review and Giveaway

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