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FOLEY, Ala. -- As part of the Baldwin County Bicentennial, Foley officials opened a time capsule sealed 33 years ago during America's 200th birthday. The 6-foot plastic cylinder included letters from residents to their children, coins, photos, brochures and many items from the U.S. bicentennial.
The items will go on display at the Foley Museum and Archives building in the old L&N depot building on East Laurel Avenue. Officials have not set a date for the exhibit to open, Bonnie Donaldson, museum archive director, said.
City Councilman Wayne Trawick, who presided over the opening ceremony, said family members who had items in the capsule can request the material, and copies will be placed on exhibit. Other items removed included a Baldwin County commemorative book from the U.S. bicentennial, along with a patch and coin, Trawick said. The capsule also contained the guest book from the 1976 dedication of the Foley Civic Center.
The opening was part of a weekend of Foley activities centered around the Baldwin County bicentennial and Heritage Harbor Days celebration over the weekend.
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While the absence of Kid Rock made headlines, the Cattle Baron's Ball still more than doubled its take-away from 2010, raising $1.4 million for the American Cancer Society at Joe Louis Arena on Saturday. The annual event garnered about $625,000 in 2010.
Oct. 28, MLive.com: I am a man of my word. Due to a breach of contract we will not be performing at the Cattle Baron's ball this Saturday, October 29th.
It seems the last-minute cancellation by Kid Rock didn't hurt -- after all, the ticket were already sold advertising his presence. Crain's Detroit reported that the organizers planned to contact ticketholders to offer them refunds. The tickets went for $350 apiece.
The well-heeled Western-clad attendees were still treated to karaoke, a performance by Jay Mohr, a mechanical bull and rodeo games, according to ClickOn Detroit. The highlight was the live auction, generating more than $300,000 in live bidding. It featured a custom Camaro, the opportunity to guest DJ at a Red Wings home game, and MTV Movie Award tickets, among other gifts.
To date, the event's raised more than $8 million to support cancer research in the Great Lakes region.

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SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman blinked and barely smiled as a jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.
Martin's father, Tracy, reacted on Twitter: "Even though I am broken hearted my faith is unshattered I WILL ALWAYS LOVE MY BABY TRAY."
His mother also said on Twitter that she appreciated the prayers from supporters.
"Lord during my darkest hour I lean on you. You are all that I have," she wrote.
Supporters of Martin's family who had gathered outside the courthouse yelled out "No! No!"
Rosie Barron, 50, and Andrew Perkins, 55, both black residents of Sanford, stood in the parking lot of the courthouse and wept.
"I at least thought he was going to get something, something," Barron said.
Added her brother: "How the hell did they find him not guilty?"
Perkins was so upset he was shaking. "He killed somebody and got away with murder,"
Perkins shouted, looking in the direction of the courthouse. "He ain't getting no probation or nothing."
Several Zimmerman supporters also were outside the courthouse, including a brother and sister quietly rejoicing that Zimmerman was acquitted. Both thought the jury made the right decision in finding Zimmerman not guilty — they felt that Zimmerman killed Martin in self-defense.
Cindy Lenzen, 50, of Casslebury, and her brother, 52-year-old Chris Bay, stood watching the protesters chant slogans such as, "the whole system's guilty."
Lenzen and Bay — who are white — called the entire case "a tragedy," especially for Zimmerman.
"It's a tragedy that he's going to suffer for the rest of his life," Bay said. "No one wins either way. This is going to be a recurring nightmare in his mind every night."
Meanwhile, authorities in Martin's hometown of Miami said the streets were quiet, with no indication of problems. The neighborhood where Martin's father lives in Miami Gardens was equally quiet.
The jury had been given the chance to convict Zimmerman of manslaughter but did not do so, despite asking for a clarification of the charge earlier in the evening.
Zimmerman's wife, Shellie Zimmerman, had tears in her eyes after the six-member, all-woman jury delivered its verdict Saturday night.
After hearing the verdict, Judge Debra Nelson told Zimmerman he was free to go.
Jurors heard two different portraits of Zimmerman and had to decide whether he was a wannabe cop who took the law into his own hands or a well-meaning neighborhood watch volunteer who shot the unarmed teenager in self-defense because he feared for his life.
Mark O'Mara, Zimmerman's attorney, said his client is aware he has to be cautious and protective of his safety.
"There still is a fringe element that wants revenge," O'Mara said. "They won't listen to a verdict of not guilty."
• George Zimmerman acquitted in killing of Trayvon Martin
• Jurors in Zimmerman trial have question about manslaughter
• Rev. Al Sharpton urges peace once jury reaches verdict in George Zimmerman trial


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MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Point University scored points on each of its possessions in overtime, earning a 72-69 upset victory over No. 17 Faulkner University here Saturday afternoon at Tine Davis Gymnasium.
The Eagles (10-2) led by nine points with just under 10 minutes to play, but the Skyhawks put together a 15-1 run to grab a 51-46 advantage with 4:36 left. Faulkner battled back, however, and Jamarious Alderson's 3-pointer in the final seconds sent the game to the extra five-minute period.
From there, Point (11-3) never looked back, hitting 3-pointers on its first three possessions to grab command. Faulkner did it's best to stay close but, after a missed Skyhawk free throw with two seconds left, Alderson's 60-foot heave to tie it fell short of the mark.
"It seemed to me that we were just not making good decisions out there for the most part tonight," said Faulkner head coach Jim Sanderson, whose Eagles committed 25 turnovers. "We looked to hurried, and then when it got to overtime they just hit some big shots. I still feel that we're not playing anywhere near to our potential. We'll keep working to improve."
Alderson finished with a career-high 21 points and was the only Eagle in double figures. Jake Mitchell and Ayo Madamidola had eight points apiece, while Di'Mar Hill added seven. Timothy Mitchell was dominant down low for Point, scoring 19 points and grabbing 15 rebounds. Brandon Hopkins, who hit a pair of 3-pointers in the extra period, had 14 points, with Ryan Watkins and Michael Ingle adding 11 and 10, respectively.
Neither team was able to take charge in the first half, with the largest lead being six points. Madamidola's layup off of a steal just before the buzzer tied the game at 27 at intermission.
Faulkner plays Talladega Tuesday night, with the game set to tip off at 7:30 at Tine Davis Gymnasium.


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MIDLAND, MI — The Midland Diaper Alliance plans to reach out into Saginaw and Bay counties, thanks to a community partnership with the National Diaper Bank Network.
The diaper bank made its first collection of 3,200 diapers in 2010.
Executive Director Debi Keyes said she got to work on the inch-thick National Diaper Bank Network application despite trepidation, turning it in a week early. March 8, she learned the Diaper Alliance was chosen for one of 16 community partnerships, the only one in Michigan.
Less than four months later, Keyes was joined by members of the Diaper Alliance board and the organization's spokesbaby, 20-month-old Arianna Tomkinson, to watch as Galloup Company employees unload multiple pallets stacked high with varying boxes containing 538,778 diapers.
"I'm in awe, even though I've been working toward this shipment since February," Keyes said.
The delivery included 288,000 diapers that were not initially expected by Keyes or The Diaper Alliance. The retail value for the deliveries is about $170,000.
Displaying the bright red logo for the National Diaper Bank Network's founding sponsor, Huggies, the boxes were squared away in the Diaper Alliance headquarters, 4606 James Savage, but not before the building was prepared.
A hole had to be cut into the wall and electrical systems were moved to allow more room for a second diaper delivery through the partnership, Keyes said, after an initial delivery of 250,000 diapers two days ago.
The need for diaper assistance was out there, but there was no single organization focusing on it until the Diaper Alliance started in 2010, Keyes said. The group has distributed about 260,000 diapers to Midland County residents since then, with 8,000 to 14,000 handed out per month.
"Now, with this abundance, we are expecting to give 25,000 a month," Keyes said.
Board President Barbara Arndt Swartz of Midland came out to help organize the boxes on her 56th birthday.
"This is a great birthday present. We are always blessed with what we need," Swartz said.
Working with 18 partner agencies in Midland to distribute the diapers, Keyes plans to get organized as soon as possible to push past the group's boundaries and into Saginaw and Bay City.
"We are going to turn this into a Great Lakes Bay regional project," Keyes said.
There is still a need for monthly donors to provide funds and create a sustainable donation base, she said.
Business Development Coordinator Chelsie Timmons says the organization has five donors donating about $10 a month on average, known as "Alliance Allies." She says it is better to receive monthly donations compared to yearly, in order to expand communication.
The Diaper Alliance is on the lookout for volunteers and partner agencies, Keyes said. With the warehouse packed with Huggies, the organization is hoping to begin distribution soon.
"We can't wait to get these out in the community, making sure we share the wealth and take care of the babies out there," Swartz said.
For information on the Diaper Alliance or how to become a monthly donor, visit the official website or call 989-832-9867. Check the organization's Facebook page for updates on where the more than 500,000 Huggies end up.


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Good morning to you all on this lovely Christmas morning! I'm here at work flicking through the system and thinking about named approaches on the DL network. By this I mean those like the River and Expressway Visuals at DCA and LGA, which involve some spectacular low turns and changes of heading.
There is, too, that amazing video of the DL 737 turning a spectacularly low final in LGA to give you a sense of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac9OOPmUS80 I'm specifically going to non-rev into LGA next year just to try that one out!
My question is an open one - from your perspective, what's your personal favourite 'named' approach to an airport? And for whatever reason - whether the amazing scenery or the procedure itself, or both, in that case
Merry Christmas to you all,


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This report is designed to be a tool for analysis of health care issues, and includes a wide range of data for applications by many user groups. Consumers, employers, and payers, policy-makers, and providers may begin to use this type of data to make health care decisions. Health care reform policies rely heavily on the use of objective, comparable information to drive decision-making by all parties. Utilization The tables display indicators of patient characteristics, services, resource utilization, patient case mix, source and type of admission and discharge, patient charges, payer mix, patient origins by local health district and comparative norms. It presents many of the factors within a hospital which drive the costs of patient care. The major issues addressed by these documents include: 1. volume and intensity of inpatient health care, 2. differences in inpatient services, 3. differences in patient demographics and complexity among hospitals. Consumers, employers, payers, policy-makers, and providers can utilize these documents to plan for resource allocation, identify geographic areas of public concern, weigh purchasing decisions, and make peer comparisons. Purchasers may use the information to select providers and payers, or to tailor benefit offerings. Users of this report must remember that several factors such as volume of patients discharged, coding inconsistencies, and severity of patient illness can influence inter-hospital comparisons. In interpreting the information shown in this report, the reader is advised to keep in mind the following: Volume If a hospital discharged only a few of a certain type of cases, comparing data with other hospitals would not be especially meaningful because a small number of cases is not sufficient to establish a pattern of treatment. The reader must exercise caution when interpreting measures shown in this report that were based on less than five discharges. Coding From its beginning, the committee worked to assure the best data quality possible. To do so, they implemented the following: 1. The Health Data Plan provides data element definitions and standards to ensure all hospitals will report similar data. 2. Systematic edits were put in place to identify missing or invalid data fields and hospitals are required to correct these. 3. All discharge records are subjected to a second round of editing which checks for potential problems in a record related to highly improbable clinical situations. (A detailed description of systematic edits and clinical coding edits are included in the DATA PROCESSING AND QUALITY section below.) 4. Each hospital is provided with two 35 day review periods to validate the committee's data against their hospital records. Despite the detailed edit and validation process, data quality is still an issue but is expected to improve over time as hospitals become accustomed to reporting data for public dissemination. The committee is working with individual hospitals to improve data quality by comparing their coding error rates with state norms. Any comparative analysis, or decision-making, based on these data, should take into account issues of data quality. Severity of Illness Patients entering hospitals for the same treatment and conditions often vary in the severity of their illnesses. Factors such as age, gender, and secondary illnesses account for differences in severity. Treating severely-ill patients is the most resource intensive and expensive. For instance, patients who are the sickest may need to be admitted to intensive care units, may need high-technology equipment, or may need to stay longer in hospitals than those less ill patients. Some hospitals, especially regional referral centers such as Primary Children's Hospital and LDS Hospital, treat more acutely ill patients because of the specialized care available at their facility. The University of Utah hospital, which serves as a regional referral center as well as a major teaching hospital, treats more patients with complex medical conditions than other hospitals. Charges for patients cared for at these hospitals may be higher than at other hospitals due to the type of services offered and the type of patients served. Rural hospitals often admit a mix of patients that may be chronically ill, uninsured, or elderly. The elderly are often more severely ill because of chronic and multiple health problems.
DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP (DRG)The DRGs were developed for the Health Care Financing Administration as a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats (i.e., its case mix) to the costs incurred by the hospital. While all patients are unique, groups of patients have common demographic, diagnostic and therapeutic attributes that determine their resource needs. All patient classification schemes capitalize on these commonalities and utilize the same principle of grouping patients by common characteristics. The use of DRGs as the basic unit of payment for Medicare patients represents a recognition of the fundamental role a hospital's "sicker" patients play in determining resource usage and costs, at least on average. "The DRGs, as they are now defined, form a manageable, clinically coherent set of patient classes that relate a hospital's case mix to the resource demands and associated costs experienced by the hospital." (Diagnosis Related Groups, Seventh Rev., Definitions Manual, page 15.) Each discharge in the UHDDB was assigned into a DRG based on the principal diagnosis, secondary diagnoses, surgical procedures, age, sex, and discharge status of the patient. In the 1992 UHDDB, each patient is assigned into one of 492 DRGs.
ALL-PATIENT REFINED (APR) DRGThe APR-DRGs are a patient classification scheme developed by 3M Health Information Systems (HIS) that follows the basic DRG methodology of classifying patients into disease categories, but further subdivides each disease category into severity of illness classifications. With a few exceptions, a patient in each disease category (called consolidated DRG) is assigned into one of four levels of severity: no/minor complication or comorbidity (CC), moderate CC, major CC and extreme CC. Some of the exceptions to the four-level classification are newborns and neonates which are assigned to APRDRGs formed with the severity of condition already built-in (e.g., APRDRG 606: Neonate, birthweight 1000-1499g with significant O.R. procedure, discharged alive). APRDRG categories do not appear in this report, but were used to define charge and length of stay outliers and calculate the Case Mix Index (See CASE MIX INDEX). The Health Data Committee has published a separate report at the APR-DRG level, showing average charges and length of stay adjusted for severity level. The report, entitled "SP-1 Patient Severity, Total Charges and Length of Stay" was done for 1992 discharges.
DATA PROCESSING AND QUALITYData Submission The UHDC receives discharge data quarterly from hospitals in various formats and media. Most of the unaffiliated small rural hospitals submit hard copies of UB-82 forms. Discharges from affiliated hospitals are submitted in electronic format by the corporate office (IHC; Health Trust, Inc.; and Holy Cross). Discharge data are converted into a standardized format by the Office of Health Data Analysis as specified in the Health Data Plan. System Edits Data are validated through a process of automated editing and report verification. Each record is subjected to a series of edits that check for accuracy, consistency, completeness, and conformity with the definitions specified in the Technical Manual. Records failing the edit check are returned to the data supplier for correction or comment. Clinical Claims Edit All discharge records are subjected to a second round of editing using 3M HIS Clinical Claims Edit (CCE) software. The CCE flags records when any of 25 edit conditions are detected. Table 1 summarizes the conditions which may result in the record failing the edit process and requiring a correction or explanation from the hospital. Table 1 Conditions Flagged as Possible Errors by CCE ____________________________________ 1. Procedure unlikely with diagnosis 2. O.R. procedures coded are not usually performed for principal diagnosis 3. Principal diagnosis suggests surgery but no O.R. surgery performed 4. Symptom code as principal diagnosis 5. Clinically unreasonable length-of-stay (high or low) 6. Questionable admission 7. Age conflict 8. Sex conflict 9. E-Code as principal diagnosis 10. Manifestation code as principal diagnosis 11. Non-specific principal diagnosis 12. Open biopsy check 13. Unacceptable principal diagnosis 14. Non-specific O.R. procedure 15. Duplicate of principal diagnosis 16. Bilateral procedure 17. Invalid diagnosis or procedure code 18. Invalid 4th or 5th digit 19. Duplicate code 20. Evaluate as principal diagnosis 21. Requires secondary diagnosis 22. Diagnosis conflict 23. Procedure conflict 24. Maternal/Newborn code conflict 25. Invalid or unknown age _____________________________________ Appendix A contains a description of each of the error flags listed below.
OUTLIER CASESSome patients have exceptionally low or high lengths of stay (LOS) or total charges. A hospital's charges can be affected by just a few unusually long (or short) or expensive (or inexpensive) cases. These high or low values could be a result of coding or data submittal errors, particularly in length of stay, total charges, or data elements that affect DRG assignments. Other reasons for an exceptionally low LOS or charges could be due to death or transfer to another facility. Exceptionally high LOS or charges could be due to a catastrophic condition. Whatever the reason, these values, referred to as "outliers", distort the averages and were excluded from calculations. LOS or charge high outliers are defined in this and succeeding reports as values above 2.5 standard deviations from the mean. Means and standard deviations are APR-DRG specific and calculated on a statewide basis. The low outliers were defined as a non-newborn or non normal delivery discharge with less than $300 charge. However, the calculations in this report do not exclude low outliers. A preliminary analysis showed that of the 449 discharges that met this definition, a high proportion are in the DRG "Other factors influencing health status", for which it was difficult to determine whether they were true outliers.


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I don't know if this was posted already or if some of you have already read this, but for those who haven't, check this out:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/w ... ed.jordan/
Thanks for the J Jordan article! - it was great fun to read.. I urge all of you in Clipperdom to check it out. Maybe, just maybe, this time the unexpected will be a really good thing. The next John Stockton, huh? I'm ready.
Yeah it is a great article. And welcome BronxClipper!!! Hope you enjoy your time here.
Thanks for the article. Hopefully we have found our PG of the future!!! Go Clippers!!!
Great article, but with the triple double he sounds more like Oscar Robertson. I'm of course from Indy


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When it comes to order specificity, a pizza menu beats all: endless combinations of toppings, pie sizes and – don't forget – coupon deals. How this was ever managed in the pre-computer days … we don't even want to know. Now, however, it happens automatically and online through the ONOSYS system.
Our system mirrors each restaurant's menu and operational processes and fully integrates with most POS systems. Additionally, our intuitive up-sell feature prompts customers to consider add-ons as if they were talking to an order-taker – only without being rushed or being put on hold.
Speed is paramount in a pizzeria, and with online ordering, employees spend more time making pies than picking up phones. Accurate transactions head right to the store's system and payment is handled by credit card. And with our advance ordering feature, customers can order 24-7 and specify future pickup or delivery times.
Customers are creatures of habit, nearly always ordering the same toppings combos. That makes our Repeat Order a boon for said creatures, who don't like change. They can review past orders and simply click "Repeat Order," saving them the merciless toil of clicking "mushroom, pepperoni and soft drink" all over again.


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FELCH - Gina Rotter and Bradley Gustafson Jr. have been the named the recipients of North Dickinson County School's premier athletic honor.
Rotter and Gustafson earned the Earl Dixon Memorial at the school's recent awards program. Rotter also accepted awards in girls basketball (coaches) and volleyball (offensive player). Gustafson was cited in football as the most valuable lineman.
In another major honor, Justin Clark received the Doug Lehto Award.
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Gina Rotter and Bradley Gustafson Jr. received the Earl Dixon Memorial Awards at North Dickinson County School's athletic honors program.
Varsity Awards follow:
VOLLEYBALL - Chelsey Stroud, MVP and most valuable server; Miranda Jacobson, coaches; Lexi Steele, defensive; Gina Rotter, offensive; Kimberly Cary, most improved.
BOYS BASKETBALL - Logan O'Neil, MVP; Noah Berg, defensive; Justin Clark, coaches.
GIRLS TRACK - Deborah Starnes. MVP.
BOYS TRACK - Tim Hruska, most valuable runner.
GIRLS BASKETBALL - Lexi Steele, MVP; Gina Rotter, coaches; Chelsey Stroud, top rebounder.
FOOTBALL - Matthew Schultz, MVP; Brad Gustafson, most valuable lineman; Logan O'Neil, most valuable-offense; Jordan Bosma, most valuable defense.


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I heard all the third parties needed to be unlocked.
Somebody needz to close this thread x-x
I heard all the third parties needed to be unlocked.
What: Nintendo Wii
When: Christmas Morning, 2007
Games I have: Wii sports, Mario and Sonic Olympics, and Shrek the Third, Guitar Hero III.
Games I want: Rayman Raving Rabbits, SSBB, Bleach: Shattered Blade.
Accessories I have: Nunchuck (2), Wiimote (2)
Accessories I want: Zapper (2)
-=Join the Waluigi Fan Club=-
I believe all veterans on the website now are starters, and some newcomers like pit, zero suit and wario will be starters too
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People i respect on this forum: Atomic,Santa Claws,Frogger,Cyan,Levesque, Balrogs.pain, Shoko, MushroomedMario, sremick
I make my avatars/signatures!
Spoiler Alert!For some reason, i only have WiiSports, But whats weird is my friend lets me borrow his games so i dont have to waste money.
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That is an assumption and has not been confirmed.Originally Posted by shrek4wii
Not to fit a mold,Not to join a trend,Not to follow a crowd


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By PATRICK JOHNSON
SPRINGFIELD - Steady snowfall, slick roads and sub-freezing temperatures combined for tricky if not treacherous traveling Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Area police reported scores of accidents and spinouts on city streets and area highways.
Route 57 in Agawam was shut down several times between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. to remove vehicles that slid off the road, said state trooper Stephen J. Gregorczyk of the Springfield Barracks.
"We had about eight or so accidents. A lot of the cars slid into the median. One car took us two hours to extricate. But each time we brought a tow truck in, we would close the road for a short time," he said.
Between 3 and 6 p.m., the state police in Springfield responded to 17 separate accidents.
Most were minor fender benders or cars sliding off the road, police said. The number of accidents occurring within such a relatively short period forced state police to pull troopers with the community action team off patrols of Springfield streets and assign them to traffic control, police said.
The most serious accident took place just after 3 p.m. on Interstate 291 near exit 4 in Holyoke. Two men in a car slammed into the rear of a state police cruiser that was stopped to investigate another unrelated accident at the same spot.
The two men, a 19-year-old driver and an 18-year-old passenger, were taken to Baystate Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries, said state police Lt. David W. Wilson.
Their names were not released.
The trooper was not injured, Wilson said.
The driver of the car was issued a citation but Wilson said he did not yet know the specific charge.
The accident remains under investigation.
Wilson said the trooper was parked on the side of the road investigating a property damage car accident at the same spot roughly 20 minutes earlier.
During the same time frame, Holyoke police responded to at least 11 accidents all over the city.
None of the motorists was seriously injured, said Police Sgt. Isaias I. Cruz. "The weather has caused many, many accidents," he said. " The black ice formed so quickly." The city Department of Public Works started salting all major roadways after accidents started and that did help, Cruz said.
Most of the traffic havoc was in the Springfield area. Police up north in Hampshire and Franklin counties reported few problems.
The National Weather Service in Taunton issued a hazardous weather advisory for Connecticut, Rhode Island, and most of Massachusetts.
The heaviest snow accumulation was in the eastern part of the state, where as much as 5 inches was expected in parts of Plymouth County.
The forecast calls for the snowfall to end by Wednesday morning but to be followed by frigid temperatures for the next two days.
abc40 meteorologist Eric Fisher said colder air will follow the storm Wednesday with temperatures in the 20s.
Thursday will be the coldest day of the week with highs in the lower 20s, Fisher said.
"By this weekend we will be back in the 40s," Fisher said.
Reporters Jeanette DeForge and Stan Freeman contributed to this story.


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MANSON - Bragging rights will no doubt be on the line here this evening.
Long-time rivals St. Edmond and Manson Northwest Webster will battle in a Class 2A, Region 2 girls basketball quarterfinal.
Action begins at 7 p.m.
Since falling to five-time North Central Conference champion and No. 15 (3A) Algona back on Jan. 28, the 13th-ranked Gaels (18-3 overall) have reeled off four consecutive victories, including a 62-24 rout of Pocahontas Area/Pomeroy-Palmer in their regional opener on Saturday.
"We're kind of expecting (the Cougars) to press us a little bit (defensively) and use a 1-2-2 zone," said SEHS head coach Scott Messerly. "They're awfully good up and down their lineup, so we're going to have play very well over (in Manson) in front of a big crowd and tough environment."
Juniors Lydia Harvey (13.3 points per game), Theresa Doyle (12.3) and Aubreigh Yetmar (9.2) are the focal points in the balanced Gael charge, which averages 57.7 points per game. Doyle, a 5-foot-6 point guard, also delivers a team-high 6.8 assists and 5.1 steals per game.
"Going through our conference schedule, I feel like we've been improving every time out," Messerly said. "We want to play against good teams and will treat (tonight) as just another game.
"We've went into some tough places and won before, and I think we're pretty focused right now. We can go eight or nine deep and have quality athletes with a lot of varsity experience."
No. 12 and defending 2A state runner-up Manson Northwest Webster (20-2) is spearheaded offensively by junior Amanda Bush (13.5), freshman Ellie Herzberg (11.6) and senior Ashley Markert (7.9). Bush, a 5-foot-11 forward, collects a team-best 6.5 rebounds per contest as well, while the 5-foot-7 point guard Herzberg notches 4.1 assists and 4.1 steals a night. The seven-time reigning Twin Lakes Conference champion Cougars advanced with a 68-61 comeback triumph against Clarion-Goldfield.
"We have to keep (the Gaels) off the boards and from driving and kicking out (to their shooters)," MNW head coach Wade Wubben said. "Harvey, Doyle and (Yetmar) combined for 50 points (Saturday), so we need to find a way to contain them."
Wubben and the Cougars are looking to use the familiar surroundings to their advantage.
"It's definitely better than playing on the road," Wubben said. "St. Edmond always seems to shoot much better at home, too."
Seeking their fifth consecutive state tournament appearance, the perennial power Cougars are currently riding a five-game victory streak and limit opponents to only 35.0 points per game. Manson Northwest Webster's lone setbacks this season came at unbeaten and top-ranked (2A) OA-BCIG (61-31) and No. 3 (2A) Carroll Kuemper (63-44).
"We've been a little erratic at times, but I feel we passed a really good test against Clarion," said Wubben. "I was pleased with our effort in the second half and hope that paid dividends."
This evening's winner moves on to face either Estherville-LC (18-4) or Forest City (11-9) in a 2A regional semifinal on Friday at 7 p.m. in Algona.
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Columbiana Mayor Allan Lowe appeared to be headed for a runoff with real estate broker Gregg Rushton as election officials examined votes tonight.
Lowe received 469 votes, or 48 percent, to Rushton's 430 votes, or 44 percent, of the 975 votes cast. Danny Kelley, a three-term councilman in District 2, received 76 votes, or 8 percent.
It was uncertain whether there would be a runoff because of 28 provisional ballots cast, City Clerk Gina Antolini said. Election officials are uncertain whether some of those 28 voters live in the city limits.
If all 28 provisional votes are counted and go to Lowe, there will not be a runoff, Antolini said. The Shelby County Board of Registrars on Tuesday should notify Antolini which provisional ballots can be counted, she said.


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Trell '89 on AEG Live Case
Posted on Thursday, October 03, 2013
Shawn Trell '89 was recently quoted in an article in the Los Angeles Times about the verdict in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial. Trell is senior vice president and general counsel for AEG Live LLC.
The article notes Trell was asked "if the concert promoter and producer would negotiate a deal with a doctor again if an entertainer made such a request." He is quoted, "I think that answer is self-evident."
Trell graduated from Hobart with a B.A. in economics. An exceptional student-athlete, he excelled as the goalie on three national championship teams, while earning Academic All-American honors from the College Sports Information Directors of America and the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association.
The full article follows.
Los Angeles Times
Disbelief - and explanations - after AEG wins Michael Jackson case
Michael Jackson fans don't understand the verdict, but AEG says the case never should have gone to trial. And jurors didn't always speak with one voice.
Victoria Kim, Ruben Vives and Jeff Gottlieb • October 2, 2013
For the dedicated Michael Jackson fans who came to the trial day after day, the singer still could do little wrong. They wore T-shirts expressing their love for the singer and their support for his aged mother. One fan even brought a bouquet of red roses to give Katherine Jackson and her attorneys.
So when the judge announced Wednesday that jurors had decided AEG Live was not responsible for Jackson's death, they weren't just stunned, they were angry. They didn't understand how a five-month trial that seemed to expose the concert promoter as caring little about the singer's well-being could end this way.
"My heart is broken," said Barbara de L'Orme, 42. "This was the greatest artist that we ever had, and they treated him like this. The evidence was right there."
When Marvin Putnam, AEG Live's lead attorney, stood in front of the scrum of TV cameras, microphones and notebooks, fans could be heard shouting, "Michael Jackson! Michael Jackson!"
Putnam told reporters AEG never considered settling the case, which could have cost it hundreds of millions - if not billions - of dollars in damages if a jury had voted the other way. "They wouldn't allow themselves to be shaken down," he said.
The attorney said that he didn't think the case should have gone to trial and that the judge should have dismissed it early on. He admitted the verdict was an emotional one for him, and some people in the courtroom said they saw a tear slide down his cheek.
Shawn Trell, AEG Live's general counsel, was asked if the concert promoter and producer would negotiate a deal with a doctor again if an entertainer made such a request. "I think that answer is self-evident," he said.
Several jurors explained how they answered "no" to the question on the verdict form that asked whether Conrad Murray, the doctor who gave Jackson the fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol, was "unfit or incompetent to perform the work for which he was hired."
Once they came to that conclusion, there was no need to answer the remaining 14 questions. Their work was done.
Gregg Barden, the jury foreman, said the verdict was not a vindication of Murray, who will soon be released from jail, where he is serving a sentence for involuntary manslaughter.
"Conrad Murray had a license; he graduated from an accredited college," Barden said.
Then he added, "It doesn't mean we thought he was ethical."
Juror Kevin Smith, 61, said he loved Jackson's music and his dancing. Still, he voted against the pop star's mother and three children.
"Murray," he said, "was fit and competent for the job he was hired for ... Michael Jackson thought he was competent enough."
He said AEG executives had tried to persuade Jackson not to bring Murray, who was supposed to be paid $150,000 a month, on tour with him. "Michael Jackson was very used to getting his own way.... If anybody said no, he would find somebody else," Smith said.
Barden said that when jurors were handed the case after closing arguments last Thursday afternoon, the first time they could talk about the case after spending five months listening to testimony, they spent several hours "letting off steam and talking about things."
They took three or four votes to answer the first question, "Did AEG Live hire Dr. Conrad Murray?" before agreeing unanimously that it had.
"Minds were changed," Barden said.
Some people felt that Murray was hired by both Jackson and AEG, he said.
On the second question, about whether Murray was incompetent, there was confusion when the court clerk polled jurors on their votes. However, after a couple of tries, they appeared to have taken a unanimous stand.
But outside the courthouse, Barden told a different story. He said jurors had started out 12-0 but finally came up with a 10-2 tally. Jurors in a civil case only need to vote 9-3, as opposed to the unanimous count needed in a criminal case.


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I am going to shape my first surfboard at the end of the school year and I have been watching videos and stuff like that, but I don't know all the materials I need. I know I have all the tools. If you guys could show me how glass a board from start to finish or if there are directions online. I don't know if I am in the right forum. I joined like 2 minutes ago.
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May 17, 2012, 02:42 AM #1Senior Member
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May 17, 2012, 03:14 AM #2
check out swaylocks.com they have all the information you need..
May 17, 2012, 11:01 AM #3
PM me... I teach a board building class at Brookdale Community College. The next class runs in August. I know you don't want to wait that long, but I have a materials list I give the students that I can send you.
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My board came out fine, and so will yours if you follow his instuctions precisely. This all assumes you are already somewhat capable of doing ding repair and know your way around cloth/resin/catylist etc. If you dont know how to do that stuff, then glassing an entire board isnt the place to start.
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Thanks guys and lbcrew. I will most likely be attending your August class at the college. Is there an age limit? I am 13.
May 18, 2012, 10:51 AM #6
No age limit, but you'll be working with power tools, so your parents should be made aware of that.
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13!!! Hell yeah man. Way to get an early start. Good for you and good luck dude. Thats sick
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Yeah my dad said I can shape the boards in the garage. I'm just slightly confused on the glassing process and how fully smooth out the board after shaping.
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Shaping boards in the garage
HAHA, Dad's gonna flip the first time you glass a board and he's sees all the hardened resin on the floor. I remember how PO'd my Dada would get when I used to chang the oil in my Gen 1 Rx7 in the garage and didn't throw down some kitty litter. Ventilation is highly overrated too, you won't need those brain cells, they grow back. I just cleaned out my Father-In-Law's board shed. He's got it split into two rooms, one for shaping and sanding, one for glassing. I'd cleaned it out right before Christmas too. I filled up an entire trash can with foam dust and scrap (F.I.L's a dirty ol' bird ). I don't even try to get the hardened resin up any more in the glass room, that's character. You might want to put an old shower curtain down before you start and a fan in the garage door blowing out. I guarantee you, both those measures will turn out to be inadequate, but they're better than nothing. Not that I'm advocating eitehr of those things. I better put in a disclaimer, don't try this at home. You might want to go beg a local shaper to let you watch in return for cleaning and what not. I believe back in the day this was called an apprenticeship. Different than a schooner. I personally took the easier route, I married a shaper's daughter, but I still end up cleaning the shop. I myself am not a surf board shaper. I am a hobbyist.
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DIY: American Cheese
I love Gruyere, Brie and all of those fancy cheeses just as much as the next person, but there will always be a special little place in my taste buds for American cheese. As most kids do around these parts, I grew up on grilled cheese sandwiches that were made with smooth, creamy, and super-melty American cheese. By and large, any lunchmeat-and-cheese sandwich I ate included American cheese. To this day, I adore a bologna and American cheese sandwich with mayonnaise and sliced tomato on fresh Italian bread. Some flavors just can't be replaced, and American cheese is one of them for me.
American cheese is a "processed cheese", which means that it's a cheese that started as another already-made cheese and is then further modified to make it creamier and more melt-y (for lack of a better word). What I didn't realize, however, is that this is how American cheese was traditionally made, usually starting with Colby or Cheddar; however, now it typically doesn't even start with real cheese. What?! The ingredient list is compiled of things like milk, whey, milkfat, milk protein concentrate, whey protein concentrate and salt. A little less appetizing, right? I can't tell you how thrilled I was when I saw American Cheese in the list of recipes in the new DIY Cookbook from America's Test Kitchen (the same book that produced the homemade torrone) – I immediately bookmarked it and planned to make it after the holidays. Thus, here we are!
I was seriously stunned when I realized how incredibly easy it was to create my own American cheese, right there in my kitchen, in less than 15 minutes! The process begins with Colby cheese, then some dry milk powder, whole milk and gelatin are added to the mix (be sure to see the note below on dry milk powder). The combination gives the cheese that super creamy texture, as well as the properties it needs to melt exceptionally well.
The ability to melt supremely well is very important when it comes to such things as grilled cheese sandwiches. Very important. This cheese passed the test with flying colors. I'll definitely be keeping a block of it in the refrigerator at all times!
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Homemade American Cheese
Yield: 1 pound American cheese
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 3 hours 30 minutes
An easy recipe for making your own American Cheese at home!
1½ teaspoons unflavored gelatin
1 tablespoon water
12 ounces Colby cheese, shredded fine (about 3 cups)
1 tablespoon whole dry milk powder
1 teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon cream of tartar
½ cup + 2 tablespoons whole milk
1. Line a 5x4-inch disposable aluminum loaf pan with plastic wrap, using enough so that excess hangs over the sides.
2. Sprinkle the gelatin over the water in a small cup and let sit until the gelatin softens, about 5 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, pulse together the shredded cheese, dry milk powder, salt and cream of tartar in a food processor until combined, about 3 pulses.
4. Bring the milk to a boil in a small saucepan. Remove from heat and immediately whisk in the softened gelatin until it is completely dissolved and the mixture is smooth.
5. Turn the food processor on so it is running, then slowly add the hot milk mixture to the cheese mixture until smooth, about 1 minute, scraping down the bowl as needed.
6. Immediately transfer the cheese to the prepared pan. Working quickly, pack the cheese firmly into the loaf pan to eliminate most air pockets, then smooth the top. Fold the overhanging plastic tightly against the surface of the cheese and refrigerate for at least 3 hours. The cheese can be stored in the refrigerator, wrapped tightly in plastic wrap, for up to 1 month.
Note: Be sure to use whole dry milk powder, not nonfat dry milk powder, as it will make a difference. I purchased my whole dry milk powder from King Arthur Flour.
(Recipe from The America's Test Kitchen DIY Cookbook)
124 Responses to "DIY: American Cheese"
Amazing! I never would have thought of making my own American cheese. Thanks for the recipe! 🙂
Very cool! I just tried my hand at making some goat cheese last week… think I will need to add this to the list!
OMG! You are so right! I just started making cheese – if you are a beginner start with mozzarella it's very easy – but then I had started to wonder about American cheese. I know it's not "sophisticated" and definitely not 'artisinal' – don't care. I love it. Cannot wait to try this recipe – tomorrow for sure.
I love to eat a grilled cheese sandwich once in a while, but where i live i can only find white processed cheese and it just isn't the same thing. I never would have thought it could be done at home. I can't wait to try this recipe. Is there a substitute for the cream of tartar because i could never find it, or could i just leave it out?
Thank you for all the DIY recipes! I love them!
You should be able to find cream of tartar in the spice aisle or the baking aisle of most grocery stores. You'll need it to give the cheese stability
I'm an American living in Holland. While we have access to some of the world's most amazing cheese here, I missed Velveeta for some recipes like mac &cheese. I stumbled across this recipe too a while back & can vouch for how delicious it is. I ususlly make a double batch & freeze it in portioned blocks. Works great! Now I just need to figure out how to make cheese curd. We had some in Wisconsin on vacations last year. That was so good!
Caroline, I attended a class at The Mozarella Company in Dallas, TX a few years ago, and we made cheese curd as a precursor to making Mozarella. I think it was whole milk and lemon juice simmered and strained through cheesecloth; however, it has been quite a while and I don't have the recipe. You might contact Paula Lambert at the Mozarella Company for the recipe. She teaches classes, but you're a bit far away for that to be convenient. Good luck!
Thx Leah! That's a good tip. I'll look onto it!
Caroline, I am an American living in Germany and want to try this recipe. But it calls for Colby cheese which is not available here. Which cheese did you use? Also, is there a reason to use a disposable pan? I don't know if I can find them here.
Try a mild or young cheddar. Sharp cheddar will work too, but it won't have the same flavor. Mild cheddar and colby are very similar.
Kenji Lopez from Serious Eats used to work at America's Test Kitchen, he wrote a really cool article on how to make any cheese melt like American.
I think even the biggest cheese snob should be able to appreciate a Kraft Single, but this might prove some middle ground.
Your comment about Kraft singles coudn't be more wrong. I wouldn't eat Kraft PROCESSED American cheese (they used to more accurately lable represent it as "cheesefood". Don't you realize that's the processed junk that we are trying to avoid that caused us to look for a recipe to make our own American cheese?
To the poster that posted the recipe I say Thank you.
There is nothing quite as perfectly melty as American cheese, however I've been avoiding it lately because it seems like it's always very processed and artificial – I can't be sure what's in it. I had NO idea it could be made from scratch! I'll definitely try this out soon (pinning it now).
"The ingredient list is compiled of things like milk, whey, milkfat, milk protein concentrate, whey protein concentrate and salt. A little less appetizing, right?"
No less appetizing than cream of tartar and gelatin… I'd probably take the former over the later, to be honest… At least everything you listed from the commercial product is derived from, you know, *milk.*
Oh man, this made me laugh. Well written and I totally agree.
I would much rather eat those ingredients than what is REALLY in fake cheese. If you eat meat or fish you have already eaten worse since a lot of fancy cuts contain something called "meat glue."
Cream of tartar is a byproduct of the winemaking process as the powder forms inside wine barrels during fermentation. It comes from tartaric acid, a naturally occurring substance in grapes and some other tart fruits that in the principle acid in winemaking.
Gelatin (or gelatine, from Latin: gelatus = stiff, frozen) is a translucent, colorless, brittle (when dry), flavorless solid substance, derived from collagen obtained from various animal by-products. It is commonly used as a gelling agent in food, pharmaceuticals, photography, and cosmetic manufacturing. Substances containing gelatin or functioning in a similar way are called gelatinous. Gelatin is an irreversibly hydrolysed form of collagen, and is classified as a foodstuff. It is found in most gummy candies as well as other products such as marshmallows, gelatin dessert, and some ice cream, dip and yogurt.
Today's American cheese is generally no longer made from blended cheeses, but instead is manufactured from a set of ingredients[1] such as milk, whey, milkfat, milk protein concentrate, whey protein concentrate, and salt. In the United States,[2] it may not be legally sold as "cheese", and must be labeled as "processed cheese", "cheese product", or similar—e.g., "cheese food". At times even the word "cheese" is missing in the name on the label, e.g. "American slices" or "American singles". Processed cheese, process cheese, cheese slice, prepared cheese, cheese singles or cheese food is a food product made from normal cheese and sometimes other unfermented dairy ingredients, plus emulsifiers, extra salt, food colorings, or whey.
Today's American cheese is generally no longer made from blended cheeses, but instead is manufactured from a set of ingredients[1] such as milk, whey, milkfat, milk protein concentrate, whey protein concentrate, and salt. In the United States,[2] it may not be legally sold as "cheese", and must be labeled as "processed cheese", "cheese product", or similar—e.g., "cheese food". At times even the word "cheese" is missing in the name on the label, e.g. "American slices" or "American singles". Processed cheese, process cheese, cheese slice, prepared cheese, cheese singles or cheese food is a food product made from normal cheese and sometimes other unfermented dairy ingredients, plus emulsifiers, extra salt, food colorings, or whey.
What the what?? You can make American Cheese? Whoa. Have to try this to go with my copycat Campbell's Tomato Soup. Thanks for sharing!
Oooh, I would LOVE your copycat Campbell's Tomato Soup recipe!!! If you wouldn't mind sharing??? You can email me, or send it to my rughooking blog URL. There is NOTHING like Campbell's tomato soup with grilled cheese when I'm sick!
I made this too a month or so back for a soup that called for the brick o' stuff. I made it with cheddar and it turned out perfect for the soup. Didn't even seem to be too strong straight up to me, as he mentioned in the article. I used whole goat milk powder because you can sometimes find it in regular stores and almost always at places like Whole Foods. Worked great.
I'm so glad my friend showed me this.
My biggest pet peeve is to see food prices rise, especially cheese prices.
And most all prepared foods have food fillers like whey protein.
It's so irritating you can't buy pure foods now unless you make it from scratch.
Thanks for this great recipe. and for the cheese hurd idea. I plan to make cheese as soon as possible. Happy cheese making.
I meant cheese kurd. I could not edit it.
Facinating and kinda gross because of the gelatin. I wish there was an easy to find non-animal derived subsitution for gelatin.
I think agar-agar might fit the bill. My "Mom's Organic Market" and other local organic market carry these, made by Eden, in with the seaweeds section, like Nori and Dulse. Here's a link: http://dairyfreecooking.about.com/od/dairyfreeglossary/g/AgarAgar.htm
Your recipe is featured on ATK!
Great job! 🙂
Will this solid-er version melt as well as Velveeta? I want to make a mac and cheese with some of this. And of course the rest for grilled cheeses!!! Now we need recipes for the ubiquitous Campbell's Tomato and Cream of Mushroom soups that go into so many of our recipes! Love, love, LOVE your site and plan on making every single recipe here!! Thank you so much for making easy recipes for those of us who don't have the energy or stamina needed for more complicated recipes.
This is just a circus! Dried milk powder and gelatin are as processed as it gets. Instead why not try your next grilled cheese with an unadulterated Muenster or Gruyere and be done with it? This stuff above is no better than commercial junk… it's really just homemade frankenfood!
This word "processed" – I do not think it means what you think it means. ANY food that is modified from its whole form is "processed." Chicken nuggets are "processed,' but so are whole organic chicken breasts separated from the bird, for example. American cheese is "processed," but guess what? So are "unadulterated" Muenster or Gruyere, as they are just processed forms of milk, and so are many of the milk products available, as they are pasteurized, homogenized, reduced-fat, lactose-reduced, and what have you. 99% of the foods we consume are "processed," and processed foods are not evil. SOME (many?) processed foods are less healthy than their whole counterparts, but it's more helpful to make a distinction between healthy and unhealthy processed foods, rather than labeling all "processed" foods as "circus" fodder out of ignorance.
Thank you for that, chef. I love how so many people get preachy about processed food and how bad it is for you. Meanwhile, they are putting fat laden cheese between two slices of bread slathered with butter.
I keep on making this recipe and it turns out great! 2 things I've noticed: In Step 3 you left out to add the salt to the cheese in the food processor 🙂 Also, 12 oz is about 1 1/2 cups, not 3 cups. Although I will say I've been making this with 3 cups and it turns out great, so I wonder if you meant 24 oz cheese, 3 cups? Hmm, I might just continue making it with 3 cups, 24 oz colby cheese. I get the big bulk bags of colby cheese at Sam's Club; I probably make cheese every month or so…I make 2 batches at a time. My son is currently drinking whole milk so I've tried batches with whole milk and skim milk. The skim milk makes a very nice cheese, it just doesn't melt as well as using whole milk FYI.
When is the salt supposed to be added? It's in the ingredients but not the instructions so I added it with the milk powder & cream of tartar. Now I'm a little worried though because after I was all done and licked the spatula (I'm sure I'm not the only one who does that! lol) it seemed too salty to me.
Hi – I've been planning to try this for some time and am finally ready all the ingredients and my first proper food processor. Since we don't have Colby over here readily available (I live in the UK now, but grew up in Ohio) I'm going to use my favourite medium cheddar. But what I REALLY want to do, once I've gotten the hang of doing the recipe is start adding other ingredients, as they suggested on ATK. You know do a "pepper jack" type. I also had an amazing Cheddar with Garlic in Germany once that I have never found since (though I a local store does offer a rather good Garlic and Jalapeno Cheddar in slices – but it's SO expensive – and I think to do something like that with this recipe would make rather divine grilled cheese sandwiches) Anyone have any tips for adding Garlic and or Chilli flakes? Should I use dried or fresh, etc…? Any suggestions, help would be wonderful. Thanks – really enjoyed reading the comments here today!


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The EDPA and UAH will use the funds to work with communities to help them diversify their economic bases to mitigate the effects of potential future disasters such as the 2010 oil spill or the 2011 tornado outbreak.
The EDPA sought the Disaster Relief Opportunity funding to build on work done with a 2010 EDA Oil Spill grant. That work was conducted in eight southwest Alabama counties, and the EDPA plans to expand it to the state's 59 other counties with the new grant.
The work includes cataloging Alabama's economic development assets, such as sites and buildings, studying transportation patterns and examining industry trends to determine to determine the greatest potential for job creation.
Related: Alabama lands more than 20,000 jobs, $5.4 billion in investment during 2012


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When we think of Dorothy and friends from 'The Wizard of Oz' we think of the 1939 film, but Judy Garland and co were far from the first cast to go down the yellow brick road.
In fact the first adaptations swung into action as the books by Frank L Baum were still being published. Most of them caused the studios to go bust, all of them featured very freaky looking Scarecrows.
Check out the previous incarnations after the jump!
'The Fairylogue and Radioplays' was a multi-media presentation put together by the book's author Frank L Baum. He would appear on stage himself along with live-actors, colourful slides and film. It cost so much that it folded after two months and forced Baum to sell the rights to his earlier novels.
'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' was a silent film which may have starred Bebe Daniels as Dorothy (they're not quite sure).
'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' was based on another Oz book by Frank L Baum and was made by his own production company 'The Oz Film Manufacturing Company'. It was a flop and contributed to that company folding.
'His Majesty The Scarecrow of Oz' was another adaptation by Baum himself. Violet McMillan played Dorothy in the Scarecrow's origin story. It didn't do well on first release but was re-released as 'The New Wizard of Oz' in 1915 and did slightly better.
'The Magic Cloak of Oz' is another Baum production and adapted from his Oz book 'Queen Zixi of Ix'. It had distribution problems because of the failure of earlier films.
'The Wizard of Oz' was produced by Frank L's eldest song Frank Joselyn Baum and features a young Oliver Hardy (of 'Laurel & Hardy' fame) as the tin-man. Dorothy is played by Dorothy Dwan. The film caused Chadwick Pictures to go bust, leading to distribution problems.
There's no surviving pictures or footage of this sequel, though we know it featured the 'Meglin Kiddies' dance troupe – of which Judy Garland was once a member.
'The Wizard of Oz' was a short cartoon version produced by Ted Esbaugh and involving Frank Joslyn Baum. It was the first adaptation to show Kansas in black and white and Oz in colour. For some reason Dorothy keeps flashing her knickers.
Which leads us to the 1939 version
The film was MGM's most expensive production at the time but despite being a hit with critics it was actually a flop on the first release. It only became popular with the public after being re-run on TV being from the mid 1950's onwards.
Many adaptations followed including feature length cartoon sequels, the successful 2013 prequel 'Oz The Great and Powerful' and 'The Wiz', a 1978 version starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.
BTW Check out why 'Return To Oz' is one of the freakiest films ever made HERE


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Clair Wilkins has watched and benefited from the amazing advances in technology, which have occurred in the years since she was a child growing up on a rural sustenance farm.
Today, however, despite the availability of instant on-line knowledge, she questions whether it has really led to an improvement in education.
"I was raised with books," said Clair, who is a member of a book club and continues to be a ferocious reader. "We read all the time. Education was of primary importance. It doesn't seem to be that way anymore."
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Clair Wilkins
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Clair was raised by hard-working grandparents who owned a 300-acre farm in Childwold. Their home was filled with books, so much so that her husband later referred to it as the "public library."
Reading was a way of life. Her grandfather attended "blab school" (still there at Sevey's Corners) where studies were read aloud. As a result, her grandparents, who read daily, continued to do so out loud; to themselves, to each other and to the children. She also heard stories from her Uncle Ham Fisher, a well-known North Country storyteller. These family traditions stimulated Clair's love of books and knowledge.
Though her grandparents had attended school only through the 5th grade, they nevertheless determined that their own children and grandchildren should become well educated.
"They would have given up anything in the world to make sure that happened," Clair said.
Clair's family roots reach deep into the land of farming, rural life and education. In 1906, her grandfather, James Ferry, accompanied by his wife Olive McCuen and his daughter Lena, bought a 20-year-old farmhouse in the hamlet of Childwold.
Lena (Clair's mother) was born in 1895. She grew up to become a teacher, boarding and working in distant Colton. The winter walk to this school followed a snowy path that was packed down by a horse dragging a large, iron kettle (used for boiling pigs). To return home for holidays, she had to drive a horse and cutter at night, by herself, on the 20-mile solitary road to Childwold. She, like all the women in this family, was strong and fearless.
In 1916, Lena married Tom Liady, from New York City, who had moved north to become a lumberjack (after seeing his own father die from "the bends" while digging New York's underground tunnels). However, WWI interfered with plans. Tom went into the service and Lena, now with a baby, moved back to live with the grandparents.
In 1918, her husband returned from the service and they moved to a house in Tupper Lake. Tragically, their first baby died. Then, in 1920, three days after Clair was born, her mother, suffering from flu and a throat infection, also died. Once more, the grandparents took in family, this time it was Clair who they raised along with another child they had adopted. Growing up in her grandparents' home was like living two generations back. There was neither electricity nor running water.
Her grandfather was a lumberman and caretaker at the Hollywood Club. Her grandmother ran the farm, usually with the help of a hired man. Along with pigs, chickens, sheep and a large garden, she took care of 15 dairy cows, milking them twice daily. When not working or reading, she took the children for woods walks, teaching them how to know and use wild plants for food and healing.
Each summer, her grandfather, a lay preacher, packed up his family and, with grandmother driving (he never learned how), made the long trip to church-camp meetings in Wilmington, where they stayed several days in a cabin. Many people attended and all brought farm produce to be cooked and served in a central dining area. For Clair, it was the most exciting event of the year. Not only was it very social but this was her chance to meet boys.
Another of Clair's favorite recollections was of snuggling under blankets on piles of hay in the back of a truck which her grandmother drove, taking the children on annual Christmas shopping trips to the big "city" of Tupper Lake. This gave the kids a welcome break from their chores which included churning butter, washing clothes with a washboard, caring for the animals, making butter and cottage cheese, curing meat and canning garden vegetables.
Clair was educated in a one-room schoolhouse (where the Leather Shop is now) before attending high school. She continued on to SUNY Potsdam, graduating in 1940. Just twenty years old, she took a job teaching 16 five-to-15-year-old students, (one of them "mentally disabled") in a one-room school for kindergarten through eighth grades in Yaleville outside Norwood. She boarded with a nearby family, sharing a bed with the daughter - a standard custom in those days. That fall she met Bernard Wilkins, an employee in the Massena Alcoa plant. They fell in love, married in 1941, and moved to Syracuse where Bernard worked for the Maytag Company before entering the military service.
In 1945, after her grandmother had died and Bernard had returned from WWII, Clair and the family moved back to the farmhouse to live with her grandfather. She had a well dug and indoor plumbing installed but it was still a rustic life. Lacking refrigeration she would cool the baby bottles by hanging them inside the well.
During those postwar years, Bernard was ill and often bedridden with bronchiectasis, thought at the time to be TB for which he received six months treatment at Sunmount.
It was left to Clair to support the family, which had grown to include three children: Bill, Cindy and Tommy. She courageously went back to teaching; one year in Childwold, fifteen years at a two-room school in Conifer and finally nine years in Tupper Lake. Evenings spent caring for the family and the house were as busy as her days. It was a tough life but optimism and good humor carried her through. She and Bernard lived on the family farm until his unfortunate death in 1977. She remained there until moving to Will Rogers in 2008.
It has been lonely at times, over the many years since Bernard's death, but Clair is self-reliant and used to looking after herself. She has done her share of tearing up and replacing floors, residing the house, splitting firewood and a multitude of other tasks. Once retired, however, she treated herself by traveling extensively in the U.S. and Canada, as well as to Russia, Europe, Greece, and Africa. Having left most of her possessions to her children, she now leads a peaceful life at Will Rogers. "I never saw a U-Haul following a hearse," she declares, "who needs all those things to be happy?"
Clair certainly does not, for she still finds true joy in reading and continuing to learn.
Based on an interview with Clair Wilkins. Caperton Tissot can be reached at email@example.com.


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Michelle Moore, a former Jersey girl who took home a cool million bucks as a contestant on "Wheel of Fortune," definitely recommends Egg McMuffins as the meal of champions.
Moore, 24, who grew up in Edison before moving to California earlier this year to get married, took the top dollar prize during the show that aired on Tuesday.
Her winning "Wheel of Fortune" segment was taped Aug. 8, but the show's producers swore her to secrecy.
But on Tuesday, as Moore watched the show at her parents' Edison home, the news was out.
"Very excited," Moore's mother, Evelyn Loewenstein, said during a brief telephone interview tonight in describing the family's reaction.
Moore, a floral designer now living in Santa Monica, Calif., hit the jackpot to win the "One Million Dollar Bonus Round," according to a press release from the game show. That jackpot is new this season.
As the first-ever $1 million winner on "Wheel of Fortune," Moore also became the biggest money winner in the show's 26-year history, the release added.
To win her prize, Moore solved the bonus round puzzle by answering "Leaky Faucet."
"I have been a fan of the show since I was a kid and now watch every night with my husband," Moore said in the release. She has not decided how she will spend her new fortune.
In a blog posted Monday on the game show's website, the day before Moore's appearance aired, she demurely does not disclose her million-dollar secret, but takes note of her lucky meal.
"On Friday (Aug. 8), I woke up extra early to get ready and make sure that I wouldn't be late," Moore wrote. "I didn't want to take any chances of getting lost and not making it on time. My husband and I stopped at McDonald's on the way, where I ate 2 egg Mcmuffins. Breakfast of champions I must say!!"
But in her blog entry Tuesday, Moore's excitement bursts forth.
"As I type this blog, I am getting chills reflecting on when Pat (Sajak) opened up the envelope revealing the matching one million dollar sign," Moore wrote.
"Words cannot explain the excitement, emotion, and joy that Wheel of Fortune has brought to my family ... When the streamers were falling from the ceiling, I realized that I had made Wheel of Fortune history."
In that blog on Tuesday, Moore also described just how difficult it was to keep her secret from everyone -- except her husband, Donald, who was with her for the taping -- for two months.
"All I can say is wow!!" she wrote. "I won A MILLION DOLLARS on Wheel of Fortune!! Who wouldn't want that? It was terrible not being able to share the great news with family and friends. I can't tell you how many times it almost slipped, but I kept my mouth shut."


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RSVP 2013 Competition Appendix A Part 1 Funding Opportunities
Executive Summary
During the third year of this grant, an expected 161 RSVP volunteers will participate in the various work plans of RSVP of Mahoning and Trumbull Counties, Ohio. In addition to the primary focus area of Healthy Futures, volunteers will serve populations in areas of Education- tutoring (economically disadvantaged children or those with special or exceptional needs), Economic Opportunity- tax preparation (economically disadvantaged individuals), Veterans and Military Families (veterans), Capacity Building (nonprofit organizations), and Community Priorities (individuals served outside the focus area objectives cited above).
An estimated 52 unduplicated RSVP volunteers will serve within the primary focus area of Healthy Futures. At over 32% of the total volunteers, this exceeds the required minimum by 7%. Volunteers will serve populations in two objectives: Aging in Place- Companionship (homebound or older adults or individuals with disabilities) and Reducing Childhood Obesity and Increasing Access to Nutritious Food- Long-term hunger (individuals or households experiencing low or very low food security).
Service activities of volunteers will include reassurance calls or visits, all the necessary duties to sustain the daily operations of pantry food programs, and counseling as to benefits application with referrals to financial literacy and nutrition information resources.
Locations of service activities include the HOVN office and food pantries throughout the service area and involve three or more stations.
Outcomes expected from the service of RSVP volunteers: 75 of 100 will report increased social ties while 50 will report maintaining the ability to live independently; 100 of 1000 individuals will return surveys indicating increased food security of their household.
40% of unduplicated volunteers will be assigned to activities with Outcomes within the focus areas of Healthy Futures (30%) and Education (10%).
The CNCS federal investment of $51,543 will be supplemented by $23,457 in non-federal resources.


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Students can pay
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The average U.S. college student walks off campus with about $26,500 in student loan debt, much of it in government-subsidized low-interest loans....
I thought so.
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The real problem is, not all pay thier way, so we the working class have to pick up the tab as always.
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Where did the list come from I googled and check one list and only 6 of Dave's country showed up. The I looked at was alternet dot org.
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Most of the countries you mention are in some form of turmoil. There may be one that I might consider living in. I doubt that the middle class of all those countries are all higher than the USA. As far as a middle class in the US I will concede that it is under massive pressure from the polices of the recent administrations. The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence and it is definitely not greener in those countries.
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1972 1200cc Brown hatchback getreal. 0-60 in 1/2 hour.
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Dave, you are the one who continues to post about 'free' education. Now its minutiae. No sir, it is not. You're merely trying to minimize and deflect your own idiotic statements. There is no 'free' education anywhere because SOMEBODY ELSE ALWAYS pays for it. Even in those countries you mentioned. Progressives are unable to figure that out. I guess it's time to break out the progressive dictionary again...lets see.."Free (anything): 'what everybody else pays for that benefits me'. That about covers it.
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OMG Mr Bob I grew up with a yellow Pinto... what collor was yours?
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Pards, there is a middle class in the US???? really???? There is no middle class. There are the poor, the working poor, a big gap and the bottom rung on the affluent ladder.
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Countries with free post secondary education- Algeria, Argentina, Bhutan, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, India, Malta, Mauritius, Morocco, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Barbados, Kenya, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay.
Let's take Norway, for example. They're middle class is ranked #14 in the world. The US is #27. Besides free public education, they have universal health care.
What do they know that we don't?
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I'm curious which countries have a more robust economy and larger middle class than the US? The other question I have is which country have included college as part of their public education system and what qualifications does a student have to meet in order to qualify?
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MrBob and Scarecrow - I wrote "Perhaps it's time we looked at how we fund and educate our youngest generations". Why do you dwell on the word "free"? Is that all you've got, to dwell on minutiae? You're so busy dissecting a person's post that you miss the whole point.
Is public education free? To the student, yes. Yes it is.
My point was that countries with more robust economies than ours, countries with solid middle classes, have included college as part of their public education system. College graduates, free from debt, begin to contribute to the economy immediately upon graduation.
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swizzee, I never said it was OK for anybody use street drugs. But the fact is they do, and it is much more common than you realize. There are no drug tests that are associated with competency tests for mechanics or any "licensing" system. It is employers who do the drug testing.
Pharmaceutical companies gave me a card that explains what I am taking and that I am a participant in an ongoing study.
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Hill, it is always about the money. Harvard could be totally free for the next 50 years and that is on the interest alone.
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It is funny how way back when, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and JP Morgan were in kind of a competition to see who could make the most money. When they all had amassed billions they started to give it away and the competition continued. Their foundations are still giving money away. Yet the bastions of education who teach that when there is such an accumulation of $$ you have to fund worthwhile enterprises. Too bad they fail to practice what they preach.
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Shirley Ann Jackson, RPI president and former chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has an annual salary of $1.77 million annually. RPI Endowment- $621 Million, student tuition and fee- $45.1 K annually. Student activity fee - $619 per student, 5322 students enrolled, total student activity fee paid to RPI - $3.29 million.
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All high schools are guilty of perpetuating the myth that if you don't go to college you are a loser. The cost of college is greatly inflated; colleges with endowments in the billions still charge hefty tuitions. Harvard has a $30 billion endowment and still charges $60K in tuition and fees. Higher education has become a big business and spawned many related businesses such as text books, test prep such as Kaplan, housing, entertainment, dining services, athletics, team clothing and gear, all charging the student highly inflated prices. There is no investigation of these inflated prices because it all comes down to politics, lobbying, and campaign contributions. Congress is more than happy to protect money making interests of higher education because they lobby with money. Put half of what colleges charge for student association fees to lobby for student interests and the landscape would be totally different. Real World 101, Money Talks, B-ull S-hit W-alks.
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Sorry Dave, Nothing in life is free, someone always pays. At least with our current system some will take the time to at least analyze which degrees will provide the cost benefit. Imagine if college was free how many political scientist we would have.
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Many countries do have free college education. They sort students to courses of study that a student may be successful earlier in middle school. Just because Johnny may want to go to college doesn't mean he will. If they don't meet the standards they don't go.
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but Dave, they don't teach today in high school what they did in the '50s and '60s. Many of today's first year college courses I had more of that subject in my junior year of HS. And most colleges today have remedial reading, English (classes that were mandatory when I was in Jr high- now they call that stage middle school) and math classes. Today's kids need a 2 year degree just to be exposed to the same level of education that was taught back when you didn't need more than good grades and a regents diploma.
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Hey disco, from first grade to high school I wore a uniform with tie. Went to College, shed the tie, bought a Pinto. Should of kept the tie.
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DaveG, I hate to be the one to break the news to you but nothing is free, in every instance somebody (else) pays the freight. In those countries you refer to not one teacher, instructor or professor works for free. That convoluted thinking is what put us in the predicament America is currently in....free money, free phones, free medical care, free food, free-free-free NOW!!! Yes, hard work has a future payoff but in America laziness pays off now.
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Many countries continue free public education right through college. Upon graduation, these students have zero debt. They can immediately start businesses and become consumers.
Our public education system was geared for the day when most of the population worked and lived on farms and a high school education guaranteed you a good job. That is no longer the case. Perhaps it's time we looked at how we fund and educate our youngest generations.
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oops -slate top table- (1" slate-3 piece) and there was a photo of it in an issue of Popular Mechanics magazine.
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laker, we agree on something, you gave us 2 examples of what can be accomplished IF you aren't afraid to get your hands dirty. A rare quality in most of today's youth. My son (40 now) talked me out of letting him go to vo-tech because most of the ones who went there were disruptive. So he stayed at the HS and built a 4X8 slat top pool table in wood shop that earned him a spot on the honor roll. While in HS was working as a mechanic anyway(after school & weekends). 10 yrs ago he opened his own garage and is quite successful.
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My brother is a History teacher. A student who failed his class miserably(along with 2 other classes),and who got one of the lowest grades ever on the regents, is now one of the best plumbing and heating men in the area. Just one of many examples of students who might struggle with academics, yet who have a real talent for a trade. Re Scarecrow's comment on counselors, I agree... Schools/counselors need to zero in on some of the students who may struggle academically, but who might have some mechanical ability. My nephew wasted a semester in college...dropped out. He's now a diesel mechanic making a great living.
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But the County Seaters still could've used a few more guys crossing home plate this baseball season. "Our hitting has been pretty consistent," said second-year BHS Head Coach Kenny Lutz last week. "We do have several kids who have outstanding averages and have been performing really well. But the season still hasn't been quite as good as we wanted.
"The only thing we've been lacking in is run production," he added. "We've had a lot of key situations, like with guys at second and third, and just couldn't get them in often enough."
However, with two games remaining on the schedule at the time, the Seaters had a 9-13 record. That represented three more triumphs than Belvidere totaled last year (6-19) as well as in 2006.
And Big Red is banging the ball around a lot more, too. After 22 games BHS's team batting average was .317, a drastic improvement from the mid-.270s mark the Seaters posted last spring.
The pitching has usually been quite adequate also, with seniors Paul Wiedemann and Corey Quigley and sophomores Frank Holmberg and John Paragallo all delivering decent showings in starting roles this season.
"Our pitching and defense have both been very good," said Lutz. "We have five solid arms and have seen some good things from some younger kids who've given us a real good effort every time out. Early in the season the pitching was keeping us in some games, and the first two games was really the only time the defense kicked the ball around a bit.
"Offensively, where we've also struggled compared to years past is we don't have the kids who can take it out of the park. So we've had to try to use a different brand of ball to score some runs this year."
The Seaters' most prominent victory was their 4-2 verdict over always-tough North Warren in Blairstown April 29, when Holmberg had a sharp outing on the mound and also belted a three-run homer to help BHS rally for four runs in the sixth inning.
"That was a big win for us," said Lutz. "They have a solid team and we went up there knowing we had to win to stay in the running for a state playoff spot. We played an excellent all-around game. Frank pitched a beautiful game, the defense was solid, we got behind and then came back.
"That was the first time in a long time we'd beaten them, and they have been dominant -- let's be honest. They're well-coached and have good kids. So that was a big one for us."
One of the Seaters' steadiest standouts has been centerfielder-pitcher Wiedemann, who was a strong defensive outfielder last year but hit very little. This spring he's batting .370, usually in the No. 5 slot in the order.
"He really made a turn and become quite a player," said Lutz. "He's a good kid, too."
Belvidere's best overall performer has been Holmberg, who's leading the Seaters in average (.424), hits (28), triples (three), runs batted in (21) and stolen bases (11).
Holmberg has also been BHS's most effective pitcher, posting a 3.33 earned run average with a 2-4 record in 42 innings on the mound. Quigley has the next-lowest ERA at 4.81 along with a 3-2 ledger in 32 innings and he's also been among the top hitters with a .323 average with team-highs in runs (19) and walks (13).
Plus, Holmberg has been a reliable defensive shortstop and, when he's pitching, Quigley usually plays there. Quigley has also filled in at third base and right field, too.
"Both guys are very solid fielders," said Lutz, "and Quigley is a guy who can play just about anywhere. He's done a real nice job filling in all over the place."
Soph Evan Reed is batting .305 with a team-leading seven doubles and his 18 RBI trails only Holmberg. Senior Ron Buckenmyer is at .306 with 14 RBI and Paragallo (.311) and Jordan McElroy (.302) are the other regulars over .300.
Holmberg was again at center stage May 22 when Belvidere knocked off visiting North Plainfield 7-3 in Skyland Conference action for its ninth success of the year.
His double and two triples drove in three runs against the Canucks (4-14) and Buckenmyer also had three RBI with a pair of hits. Derek Tardive doubled and Quigley drove in a run for BHS, which led 5-0 after two innings.
Wiedemann (2-4) was the winning pitcher, allowing five hits and a walk while striking out eight batters.
BHS 7, Mount Olive 5 -- Brandon Berger's two-run single highlighted the Seaters' four-run rally in the sixth as they came back from a 5-3 deficit to topple visiting Mount Olive (3-17) in a May 19 non-league contest.
Buckenmyer had a double and an RBI for the Seaters and Mike Callas and Eric Tomkins also drove in runs to support the pitching of Holmberg, who yielded two walks and five hits while striking out eight in a route-going effort.
The Seaters were eliminated from the state tournament May 22 with a 3-1 setback at second-seeded Saddle Brook in the North Jersey Section 1 Group 1 quarterfinal round.
Tenth-seeded BHS (13-9), which lost for the ninth time in its latest 12 outings, scored the game's first run in the third inning as Courtney Stephanic swiped home on a double steal but Saddle Brook (27-3) came right back to do all of its scoring in the home half of the stanza.
BHS pitcher Megan Roncoroni allowed five hits and the Seaters also committed four errors while winning hurler Kim Prevedel tossed a three-hitter.
BHS 7, Becton 6 -- Belvidere slipped past No. 7 Becton Regional (13-8) in its state tourney opener May 21 in East Rutherford, Bergen County.
Belvidere built a 7-0 lead after three innings before Becton rallied for three runs in each of the final two stanzas to make things close. Kate Ruby, Melissa Garris and Codie Schaffer tripled for the Seaters and Roncoroni gave up 10 hits.
North Warren 2, BHS 1 -- Carly Bigos' two-run single in the seventh inning gave visiting North Warren (10-10) a regular-season victory May 19. Dana Drake walked with the bases filled to force in the BHS run in the third frame. Roncoroni allowed five hits and three walks and struck out four batters.