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Anna Alvesis a professional bookkeeper whose 10-year experience ranges from being the director of patient accounts at a plastic surgery center to bookkeeping for a landscaping company.
The Belleville resident wants to continue in her chosen field and is seeking a job as a full-charge bookkeeper.
View this applicant's full resume.
Person I most admire: My mom. I admire her strength, patience, attitude, compassion, sense of humor and friendship. She is a wonderful role model.
If I didn't have to work ...: I would travel all over the world and experience all the different cultures.
Favorite New Jersey spot: High Point. My dad used to take my brother and I there as kids and it brings back great family memories.
Why you should hire me, in 25 words or less: One of my strengths is my ability to work hard toward a goal. Once I make a decision to accomplish something, it gets done well.
2007-08: Bednar Landscape Services. Bookkeeper and office manager in charge of processing all accounts receivable/payable and payroll for employees at this Boonton-based company.
2005-07: Kerwin Communications. Accounts payable manager who verified and posted transactions to accounts payable and receivable and processed weekly check runs for this West Caldwell company.
Exceedingly organized, focused, driven, trustworthy and loyal.
Being promoted to director of patient accounts, which was representative of my strong work ethic and financial astuteness.
Jersey City State College
Jersey City, N.J.
Core classes taken
Pamela Watson, career consultant and resume writer, Beacon Career Management (beaconcareermgmt.com)
Despite the high unemployment rates across our state, I continue to encourage job seekers (and even those who are not looking) to remain on track with well-thought out strategies. Your job search plan should include a clear and documented approach to achieving goals: targeted networking across multiple contacts; pursuing leads to uncover hidden job markets; and taking a break from the search when necessary.
Anna's resume cleanly markets her primary competencies and skills in the field of accounting. Her resume has been written in a chronological format and briefly highlights her work-related strengths. If she includes other key resume features, she should be able to use this document more effectively.
• Anna's job search plan is focused on pursuing accounting opportunities, specifically bookkeeping. She heads her resume with a section titled "Overview" to detail her capabilities in this field. Her use of the phrase "verifiable record of accomplishments" clearly defines the reason why this section is important. Anna's objective statement, however, does not align closely with what she chooses to describe in her "Professional Experience" section. A resume should serve as a record of results and accomplishments achieved and not simply list job responsibilities undertaken.
• Will this job seeker transition successfully into our work environment? This is the typical question that hiring managers have in mind when reviewing a resume. To answer this question via a resume, it's important to explain how results were achieved, in addition to stating what was achieved. Anna's resume speaks clearly about the work she has handled, but she could take her resume to the next level by explaining how her actions led to successful outcomes. How did her accounts receivables activities lead to successful results for her former employers? What favorable outcomes were achieved as a result of her work?
• One way Anna could separate herself from the typical bookkeeper is by highlighting how her interpersonal dynamics and communication skills helped her successfully get work done. If she managed others, how did she keep them ahead of deadlines? How did she work with her team to ensure accuracy? And most importantly, how did she communicate with others in order to translate her accounting and financial analyses?
• Anna has chosen to list the dates of her years at school; additionally, she has included her high school information. In both cases, her resume would be fine without this level of detail. Omitting the dates in which you attended school will help eliminate the possibility of age discrimination.
• A few more items to consider: Under the section titled "Professional Experience," the listing of job responsibilities and accomplishments should be written in the same tense. Secondly, listing job references is a nice touch. However, I would use this much-needed space to list related extracurricular pursuits and honors achieved. Finally, it's not necessary to provide actual salary requirements unless directed to do so.
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EAST BRUNSWICK — A student at a vocational and technical high school in East Brunswick faces charges for a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of the school for more than three hours Tuesday.
School officials said the student was arrested this afternoon and taken to the East Brunswick police department.
Brian Loughlin, superintendent of the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools, credited school and administrators and the students for identifying the pupil who was arrested.
"The students body was extremely responsive," Loughlin said.
About 10 a.m. Tuesday, a vague threat was found scrawled on a classroom wall at the school on 112 Rues Lane. The students and staff were evacuated to the nearby Brunswick Square Mall, and members of the State Police bomb squad searched inside and outside the school.
Nothing was found and students returned the the school about 1:10 p.m. Three students were taken to area hospital for breathing difficulties related to asthma.
Loughlin said the student will face disciplinary action in addition to criminal charges.
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For many Alabamians, today's beginning of the World Cup is a sports equivalent of a tree falling in the forest. Many won't even notice when the best soccer players in the world gather in South Africa.
So here is the World Cup in terms that we can easily relate to.
In Alabama, we celebrate the Iron Bowl, which matches two football teams from the same state, with crowds that approach 100,000 fans for this once-a-year classic.
Those teams play in the Southeastern Conference, a gathering of 12 teams (at present), all of whom are located in the same region.
The best from that conference often plays for the national championship, as Alabama did last year and Florida the year before. The BCS championship game decides the best of the best in a very popular American game that picks its champion from a select group of invitees.
The World Cup invites the 32 national teams that are the most skilled in the world's most popular sport.
About 8 million viewed the Iron Bowl game on CBS last November. The BCS championship game between Alabama and Texas was watched by an estimated 29.2 million viewers. The 2006 World Cup title game between Italy and France was watched by an estimated 715 million viewers worldwide.
American football is a very big deal in these parts. Worldwide, it is barely a blip on the football radar.
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March 7, 1996
Poets Galway Kinnell and Sharon Olds To Read at the Library of Congress
On Thursday evening, March 28, poets Galway Kinnell and Sharon Olds will read from their work in the Montpelier Room on the sixth floor of the James Madison Memorial Building. The reading, presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, will begin at 6:45 p.m.; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Robert Hass will introduce them. Tickets are not required.
Galway Kinnell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award for his Selected Poems (1982), is the author of 12 collections of poetry, most recently Imperfect Thirst (1994). He is on the faculty of New York University, where he is Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing. He splits his time between New York City and Vermont.
Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her poetry has won both the Lamont Poetry Selection and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Writing Program at New York University and in the NYU workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. Her collections of poetry include Satan Says (1980), The Dead and the Living (1984), The Gold Cell (1987), and The Father (1992).
The poetry and literature reading series at the Library of Congress is the oldest in the Washington area, and one of the oldest in the United States. This annual series of public poetry and fiction readings, lectures, symposia, and occasional dramatic performances began in the 1940s and has been almost exclusively supported since 1951 by a gift from the late Gertrude Clarke Whittall, who wanted to bring the enjoyment and appreciation of good literature to a larger audience. The Poetry and Literature Center, which administers the series, is also the home of the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, a position that has existed since 1936, when the late philanthropist Archer M. Huntington endowed the Chair of Poetry at the Library of Congress. Since then, many of the nation's most eminent poets have served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress and, after the passage of Public Law 99-194 in 1985, as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. The Poet Laureate suggests authors to read in the literary series, plans other special literary events during the reading season, and usually introduces the programs.
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"When our son comes home one day and tells us his teacher is mean are you going to storm in there like a hurricane? Or should I approach first?"
I was taken aback by his question. It seemed to come from nowhere, but this question must have been circling around in Eric's mind for quite some time before finally finding its way out.
"Are you worried he's going to be bullied?" I asked.
Replied my husband: "You were a victim of bullying."
As I describe in my memoir, Dwarf, when I was in high school, a teacher singled me out and humiliated me in front of my classmates when I wanted to participate in the Sports Medicine team. Subsequently, yet not surprisingly, the administration failed to take any action to stand up for me.
Up until this point I'd never considered what I would do if my son were to be bullied, whether by a teacher or by a student. I never considered the possibility that Titan could be bullied, period. I've been so consumed by his adorable toothless grin and smiling eyes to think much beyond tomorrow. Do other first time parents worry about their child being bullied one day? If so, what are they doing about it?
"You talk about as if you were stuck in Folsom Prison," Eric continued.
I couldn't help but press the release button on my switchblade tongue. I cocked back my head, slipped on my sunglasses, and impersonated Johnny Cash. "My fellow inmates were wonderful. I just don't like some of the wardens."
But Eric was serious and growing impatient with my humor. "When Titan comes home and tells us his teacher is mean what should we do?" he repeated. A hardcore marine, Eric wanted to draw up a battle plan.
I spent the remainder of October researching anti-bullying groups and taking note of organizations geared towards stopping bullying and hate crimes. I learned that October was National Bullying Prevention Month. I read article upon article about student-on-student bullying. But I found very little regarding cases that involved a teacher. Why is this so? Why does it seem no one is talking about this? Perhaps, because too often those who are bullied by a teacher are asked not to talk about it?
This is exactly what was asked of me by the school administration.
Armed with my own experience and with the knowledge of how administrations may react (or fail to react), my husband and I have drawn up our own attack plan, because the possibility for Titan to be bullied is very real and very scary. It's not that I feel Titan has reason to be a target, but I am acknowledging that as a little person there may be a time he's harshly teased about it. Why? I don't know why. Why does anyone do or say anything?
Disturbingly, according to statistics reported by ABC News, nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying and sadly 160,000 kids are too afraid to go to school and they push to stay home instead (bullyingstatistics.org). With this blowing around in my mind, I envisioned the worst—Titan waking up early on a school day, the bright twinkle faded from his happy eyes as he begs me to keep him home, because he is too afraid.
I can't take it.
The first step, my husband and I agreed, needs to begin with Titan. He needs to know what abusive behavior is, because to be forewarned is to be forearmed. And he needs to know he doesn't deserve it. He needs to know he shouldn't be silent about it even if the abuse isn't happening to him directly. We'll need to teach him to speak up about bullying, no matter the form. Kids and teenagers are killing themselves over bullying. According to the CDC, suicide among young people is the third leading cause of death. And bully victims are between 2 and 9 times more likely to consider suicide (bullyingstatistics.org). This is a rampant epidemic that goes far beyond my experiences and I want to pay it forward and do something to help.
The second step is for my husband and me to be strong advocates against discrimination in a positive, inspirational and educational way. This begins inside our own home. And it includes the simplest of aspects, like our use of language. Also, as a physically disabled mom, I may have an upper hand teaching Titan tolerance and acceptance. Not everyone accomplishes tasks in the same way, and that's what makes the world we live in unique and exciting. Movies, games, books—there are so many informative ways to show how differences make us beautiful. Hell, I'm a writer! I'll think I'll create my own story for him.
Our third prong of attack is to reach out to others and get involved. As a family we need to join anti-bullying organizations targeted towards stopping bullying and hate crimes in our community. www.niot.org is a great area to begin. There is power in numbers. We need to organize events and inspire others to take a stand. We need to talk about it. If the lines of communication are kept open students can share their experiences with bullying and discuss ways to prevent it with those in their school and in their community. Specifically, I think parents need to be unafraid to make a few demands from their child's school, too. Like www.stopbullying.gov suggests, parents should ask the school faculty to keep them abreast with what's happening and treat them like a partner in the growth and development of their child. Whether it's beginning a school safety committee or appointing a coordinator to foster more parent and youth activities, parents need to be actively involved with what's going on . Without a doubt I'll be joining the parent teacher association and volunteering with any school event I can find. If I'm informed as a parent about what's going on I won't be left in the dark about the issues facing my son.


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In the sneakerhead world, the closest thing to Dr. Frankenstein's legendary monster would have to be Nike's various 'What the . . . ' colorways that combine elements from various notable colorways into one neckbreaking melange. This year saw a marked rise in such styles as both Nike Basketball and serious customizers utilized this approach on the LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant signatures. A bit closer to Mary Shelley on the basketball timeline is the Nike Dunk High (whose lowtop brother brought the world its first 'What the'), and this new Frankenstein Dunk by Diversitile sticks to the legend by offering a piecemeal look complete with what looks like a (salvaged) human brain peeking through the heel. These were lovingly crafted with tons of details you'll need to zoom in to fully appreciate, so have a closer look below and let us know where this slightly frightening custom Dunk ranks against Diversitile's other notable works.
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OHHH LORD! These are the BEST Halloween/Horror theme custome EVER. Personally these crap on any Krueger custom
they should actual release these joints and pay the guy who made em
Crazy detail on these!
Best custom I've seen this year hands down. Finally a custom that doesn't borrow it's color way from another shoe
One of the best customs ive seen. Very good work !
These are too dope who ever made this is an artist great job!
These are too dope!
These are Beast (pun intended)
Sickest custom I've seen period!
some serious talent and detail work!!!
The details are sick.
They usually make some nice kicks but sometimes there prices r a little insane n not in a good way either
These are sick. Nice theme! Creative, and well executed!
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Does seem to be a pretty thorough explanation of why it doesn't pay to be a small bank ... all the costs are proportionately higher.
Boo-hoo....made the wrong call and got left in the dust....Now they're taking their ball and going home.
10-K lays out a roadmap as to why they are selling out.


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The Jackson County Sheriff's Office states that narcotics agents executed a search warrant at a residence on Alabama 71 in Pisgah. Agents seized approximately 21 grams of methamphetamine, hydrocodone and Clonazepam. Agents also found $1,839 in cash plus four guns and drug paraphernalia.
The sheriff's office states that one of newest members of the K-9 unit, Luke, aided the investigation.
Timothy Wade Summerford, 51, of Dawson was charged with possession of a controlled substance for hydrocodone and obstruction of justice by use of a false identity. He also has outstanding warrants from Dekalb County.
Lanette Sherie Pitts, 27, of Scottsboro, Tracie Treen Quarles, 35, of Bridgeport, Nathan Campbell, 35, of Bridgeport, and Gerald Gunter, 68, of Pisgah were each charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance for meth and for possession of drug paraphernalia. Pitts had an additional possession of a controlled substance charge for Clonazepam.
Gunter was also charged with certain person forbidden to possess a pistol while Campbell was charged with carrying a pistol on another's premises. Campbell also has outstanding warrants from Pell City and Cullman.
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Direct Student Loan Program:
Management Actions Could Enhance Customer Service
GAO-04-107: Published: Nov 20, 2003. Publicly Released: Nov 20, 2003.
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In 1993, Congress authorized the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program as an alternative to the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP). While the Direct Loan Program was originally mandated to replace FFELP, Congress revised the law allowing both loan programs to continue. Since that time, competition between the programs has been credited with improving borrower benefits and service for schools. The Department of Education's (Education) Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) and its contractors administer the Direct Loan Program, and one of its goals is to improve customer service. In light of the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), which authorizes the loan programs, this report examines the extent to which schools participate in the Direct Loan Program, factors that influenced schools' decision to begin--and for some schools end--participation, and steps that FSA has taken to increase the userfriendliness of the program.
Of schools that provided federal loans in every year since 1994-95, approximately 1,200 postsecondary schools--or 29 percent--have provided loans through the Direct Loan Program, and most continued to participate in school year 2001-02. The Direct Loan Program's share of total new loan volume has steadily decreased from its peak of 34 percent in 1998-99 to 28 percent in 2001-02, and the number of schools that have joined the program is much smaller than the number of school that have stopped participating. Four factors--(1) streamlined loan delivery, (2) greater control over loan processes, (3) timely delivery of money to students, and (4) ease of tracking loans over time--were extremely or very important in influencing schools' decision to participate in the Direct Loan Program. Schools that joined and subsequently left the Direct Loan Program reported a number of factors that influenced their decision, including difficulties fulfilling certain program requirements and reduced or no loan origination fees offered by FFELP lenders. Education has reduced origination fees for Direct Loan borrowers, but its regulatory authority to do so has been challenged. FSA does not systematically collect information from schools about the reasons why they stop participating in the Direct Loan Program, although this information could be used to identify needed program improvements. FSA has taken a number of steps to increase the user-friendliness of the program, such as using Web sites to disseminate and collect information and forms. Many Direct Loan schools reported that FSA's Web sites are effective in helping them administer the program and have simplified the process for Direct Loan borrowers, but it is challenging to navigate among multiple Web sites. FSA officials are aware of schools' concerns and are developing a plan to redesign its Web sites. FSA has also implemented a new information system that originates and disburses Direct Loans to students faster, and 72 percent of Direct Loan schools were generally or very satisfied with this system.
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Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: The Deficit Reduction Act made statutory changes to the origination fees paid by borrowers under the Direct Loan Program that made it more clear what borrower origination fees should be. Under the Act, Direct Loan origination fees would gradually decrease from 4 to 1 percent between now and July 1, 2010.
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Auburn doesn't get a pass.
The Tigers can't point a finger across the state without looking at themselves in the mirror and looking just as bad.
Just as Alabama had no business playing Georgia State last weekend, Auburn has no excuse to be lining up against Western Carolina this Saturday.
Auburn hasn't won the last two BCS championships and three of the last four, and Western Carolina isn't a start-up program, but this may be just as big a mismatch.
Western Carolina isn't East Carolina. Or Western Kentucky. Far from it.
Western Carolina isn't a Football Bowl Subdivision program, and it's not just another Football Championship Subdivision team. The Catamounts are the worst team in the Southern Conference, and they may be the worst team in the FCS.
They're 1-5 overall, with non-conference beatdowns against Middle Tennessee (45-24) and Virginia Tech (45-3). They're 0-3 in the SoCon, with ugly losses to Samford (62-23) and Chattanooga (42-21).
If Pat Sullivan's offense hung 62 on them, imagine the numbers Gus Malzahn's hurry-up no-huddle might run up.
This would be the place to argue that, if Auburn wants to play a SoCon team, it should call Sullivan, but the Tigers played Samford in 2011. They played Alabama A&M last season. At least when they buy victories, they do some of their shopping in the state.
It'll be small consolation this weekend. The Catamounts aren't competitive with the better teams in their own league, which means they have no shot to make even a rebuilding SEC program like Auburn sweat.
This would be the place for you to argue that schedules are made years in advance, making it impossible to know how good an opponent might be from year to year. In this case, don't. Western Carolina has been just plain bad for years.
The Catamounts haven't had a winning season since 2005. How long ago was that? Brandon Cox was a first-year starter at quarterback for Auburn.
They haven't won more than three games overall or more than one conference game in a season since.
They've gone 0-7 against SEC teams since 2002. They've played Alabama three times and Auburn, Florida, Georgia and Vanderbilt once each. The average score of those games: 52-3. Five of the games ended in shutouts, including the 2004 and 2012 games against Alabama and the 2002 game against Auburn.
Nick Saban's first game at Alabama was a 52-6 feel-good debut against Western Carolina, and now Malzahn gets the Catamounts in his first year. They're like a house-warming present for new coaches in this state.
Auburn's non-conference home schedule this season is particularly pillow soft. Washington State is improved in Mike Leach's second year there, but it's not Washington. Arkansas State doesn't look the same since Malzahn left there for Auburn.
Western Carolina may be the worst team in the entire FCS, and Florida Atlantic is one of the worst teams in Conference USA. FAU isn't the absolute worst team in the league thanks to UAB and Southern Miss.
The only saving grace for Auburn fans is their 2013 season tickets will let them witness history. This is the first time Georgia and Alabama will visit Jordan-Hare Stadium in the same season, and unlike last year, when they lost Amen Corner 87-0, the Tigers should score in both games.
Otherwise, Auburn should pay its fans to sit through such games as Western Carolina. The players deserve better competition, even in a game designated as a breather, and the fans deserve better entertainment.
At least the fans have a voice. They can vote against this kind of abuse by staying home. After all, it's much cheaper to watch your cat bat around a wounded mouse than it is to see your Tigers toy with the defenseless Catamounts.


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August 11, 2009
Puppy Mill Rescue in Texas
More than 500 dogs and approximately 15 cats rescued from deplorable conditions
Rescue workers and volunteers care for animals at an emergency shelter set up after more than 500 dogs and approximately 15 cats were rescued from deplorable conditions at a puppy mill in Kaufman County, Texas.
"This day marks a new beginning for these animals, who are suffering from a variety of serious health conditions and have been kept in constant confinement their entire lives producing puppies for the profit of the mill owner," said Scotlund Haisley, senior director of Emergency Services at The HSUS.
After arriving at the shelter, the dogs and cats were checked by a team of veterinarians and given immediate medical care. The Kaufman County Sheriff's Department provided 24-hour security at the emergency shelter to ensure the safety of the rescued animals.
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Waku Waku 7
Another offering from SNK, Waku Waku 7 differs from most fighting games in one very simple aspect: the color palette. Gone are some of the darker shades of colors and atmospheres, and they're replaced with a bright selection of colors and a generally cheery atmosphere. The game is simply fun to look at and watch, making it fun to play. In one of the moves that I'm more excited to see in a fighting game, Waku Waku 7 actually lists characters moves on the character select screen, giving newcomers some guidance as to what each characters special moves are. It makes the game feel a lot more accessible to newcomers, but that doesn't mean that the game still isn't amazing. With a diverse roster of characters that feature a robot maid, a robot tank, and a boy with a giant forest animal fighting as a team, the game certainly doesn't lack for style.
Rival Schools: Project Justice
This game and I go way back. In fact, this game never would have been acknowledged by me if it wasn't for former Destructoid editor Topher Cantler's well deserved obsession with this game. Developed by Capcom, and originally for the arcade, Project Justice is a team based 2.5D fighting game that was eventually ported over to the Dreamcast like many other arcade fighting games of the time. It features a surprisingly interesting story mode where you can choose a pre-built team that has a branching story, or make your own team out of three random characters from the game. Characters and teams range from the stereotypical gang of would-be badasses, the captain of the swimming club (complete with flippers), the school nurse, the school photographer, and a ton more. Each character is quirky and fun enough so that even if you're losing horribly, you can appreciate just how much fun this game is. Find a copy for your Dreamcast, grab a friend to play with, and be prepared to lose complete track of your time.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Ben Hanowski scored 5 goals to lead
first-seeded Little Falls to a 6-2 victory over Virginia/Mountain
Iron-Buhl on Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the Class 1A boys
state hockey tournament.
Hanowski is the state's all-time leading scorer. Riley Hirsch
scored the other goal for the Flyers (29-0), who are playing in
their fifth straight state tournament but have never won the
Little Falls will play the winner of the Breck/Rochester Lourdes
quarterfinal game in the semifinals on Friday.
Garrett Hendrickson and Chris Westin scored the two goals for
Virginia/Mountain Iron-Buhl, both in the third period. The
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The Blue Devils also lost to Rochester Lourdes 5-1 in the consolation round on Thursday. Vriginia-MIB finishes the year at (23-7).
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- Botrytis leaf blight, caused by the fungus Botrytis squamosa, is a disease that can occur in Arizona and California desert onion plantings.
- Almost all herbicides used on lettuce, cole crops, and melons have restrictions on how soon wheat can be planted in rotation after use.
- In vegetable production, whiteflies damage and kill crops by sucking sap, spreading viruses, and excreting a sticky substance called honeydew.
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Botrytis leaf blight on onions
By Mike Matheron, UA Extension Plant Pathologist
Botrytis leaf blight, caused by the fungus Botrytis squamosa, is a disease that can occur in Arizona and California desert onion plantings.
Initial symptoms on leaves are the appearance of small white sunken spots about 1/8th inch in diameter surrounded by a light green halo from 1/16 to 1/8 inch wide. The presence of this halo is diagnostic for leaf blight and can help distinguish between leaf blight lesions and necrotic spots caused by herbicides, mechanical damage, or insect feeding sites.
With age, the halo may disappear and the lesions may expand in size to a width of about ¼ inch and a length of about 5/16 inch. Development of these spots requires a wet leaf surface (due to rainfall, dew, or sprinkler irrigation) for at least 20 hours.
Under prolonged moist conditions at temperatures ranging from 54 to 76 degrees F., the fungus can develop rapidly and cause blighting and eventual leaf death. Botrytis leaf blight can cause quality loss on green onions where foliage condition is a primary market factor. On a dry bulb crop, premature leaf death can result in yield loss due to smaller bulb sizes.
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What was it?
Hey! Guess what? Your heart might be right. Let her talk a little longer. Disengage your brain and let your heart, your soul, the part of you who's still allowed to dream, imagine and wonder, speak to you. She's there for a reason, that little voice who's urging you to go try something new, something out of your comfort zone, something exciting that will open you to new possibilities, new friendships, new inspiration, new everything.
Learn to shut down the negativity that tells you You couldn't make it. You can't get there. You shouldn't do such a thing. (That one you may want to give a share of your earspace if there are legal or moral implications involved in what your heart wants to do). You'd never be able to pull that off ... They'd laugh at you... You wouldn't fit in... What if they don't like me ...
Learn, by this new experience you're going to say Yes to, that trying and succeeding will delight you, fill you with an amazing sense of accomplishment and pride, and give you more confidence to try the next thing. Or that trying and failing will make you stronger, not weaker. (But really? There's no such thing as failure. There's only new experience that teaches, if you're willing to learn and not give up.)
Grow yourself through stretching and trying and busting through all of your fear and doubt and negativity. Grow yourself by proving your internal nay-sayers wrong. Grow yourself by learning that YOU are bigger, tougher, braver, smarter, stronger, than you've ever believed. Grow by exposing yourself to other people who will believe in you, too. Grow yourself because you ARE capable and worthy.
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Go say YES.
This one time. I promise you will never regret it. And you will say YES again because of it. There'll be a whole happy YES chain reaction.
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20th Century Fox has released a new trailer for Machete and you can check it out after the jump. The reason the trailer is hitting the net today is it's attached to prints of Predators (which I really enjoyed). If you remember, for Cinco de Mayo, a special Illegal trailer for Machete hit the net. While the new trailer is decent, I thought the first one was much better as it sold what the movie is really about. Either way, I'm super excited for the movie and can't wait to check it out in early September. Judge the trailer for yourself after the jump:
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Saturday, Nov. 11, was a day to cherish. I had the pleasure of being involved in a community project in the city of Carnation. The project was the Tolt Town Commons ‹ a unique partnership involving participation from business, citizens and city government. On that day we all came together in a volunteer effort to construct the park. We had a total of 27 volunteers.
It was amazing and heartwarming to witness. Everyone worked together like a well-oiled machine. We moved dirt and gravel in wheelbarrows while Sharon Sampson and Stephen Schneider of Landscape Design transformed to our amazement a vacant lot into a beautiful city park. With their design, hard work and guidance, it all came together. A day to remember with joy.
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A 24-year-old man was shot Wednesday afternoon (Aug. 6) in Central City, police said.
The shooting took place around 3 p.m. in the 1800 block of Second Street, according to an NOPD release. The wounded man was transported in stable condition to a nearby hospital.
Police are not releasing any additional details.
NOPD used yellow tape to block off Dryades Street from Third Street to past Second. A group of women milled about in front of Second Mount Carmel Baptist Church at Dryades and Third, talking to each other about how they surprisingly hadn't heard any gunfire.
At the corner of Dryades and Second, an investigator took pictures of a compact silver Honda parked with the driver's side door open. Three green evidence markers littered the ground near the open door.
A few houses down from Dryades Street on Second Street, Carl Allen stood on a ladder and carefully applied caulk at various points along the side of a house. He said he had walked out of the convenience store at that intersection a few minutes before hearing three gunshots and seeing a man in his early 20s exit the car and run into the same store.
"One of the bullets could've got me," he said while still perched on his ladder. "Bullets don't know a name."


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Exactly what is his definition of mental toughness?
"I think mental toughness is a perseverance that you have when you can make yourself do something that you really don't feel like doing," he said in a news conference that followed Wednesday's practice.
"In other words, you don't really feel like getting up, but you get up. You don't feel like practicing today, but you practice. You don't feel like focusing today, but you focus. And, even in difficult circumstances and difficult surroundings, you can stay focused on what you need to stay focused on.
"So, it really is a mental discipline to be able to stick with in whatever circumstance you are in and continue to persevere at a high level and not let some other circumstance affect how you perform."
Saban acknowledged that he talks about external factors all the time.
"But it's how you affect being a good competitor," he said. "You can't be a good competitor if you can't overcome adversity. You can't overcome adversity if you don't have mental toughness. So, it's the same as physical toughness except it's how you think, not how you physically do something."
What about Kent State?
Kent State is more than a five-touchdown underdog for Saturday's season opener at Bryant-Denny Stadium, so it's understandable why Saban hasn't been asked much about the 2011 Golden Flashes.
He finally was asked Wednesday.
"I think Kent State will play well," Saban said of his alma mater. "They've got a lot of starters back, just about everybody on offense and seven or eight guys on defense. I think they have a lot better football players than you all think they do.
"They may not have as much depth as some of the other teams that we play, but they have a lot of experience coming back, and they have good specialists, and I think they will play very well in this game. That's my expectation. I think we will have to play very well to do what we'd like to do in the game in terms of what our performance needs to be so we can get what we want to get as a team."
Eddie Lacy holding tight
Saban was asked about second-team running back Eddie Lacy, who lost two fumbles early last season. How has the redshirt sophomore been doing in regards to ball security in preseason practices.
"Well, he's doing fine," Saban said. "He hasn't had any issues or problems. He's had a really good fall camp, and I think his energy and enthusiasm goes up with his confidence and his knowledge of the offense, and I think he feels a lot more comfortable and confident now, and he's had a really good fall camp.
"We're pleased with progress he's made and recovery from his (pectoral) injury. I don't think that should hamper him in any way in his play."
Richardson is the Heisman running
Alabama junior running back Trent Richardson is tied for fifth in HeismanPundit.com's preseason Heisman Trophy poll. Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck is first, followed by Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones, Oregon running back LaMichael James and Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore. Richardson is tied with South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore and Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Blackmon.
"Nick Saban Radio Show" resumes Thursday night
The weekly one-hour "Nick Saban Radio Show" starts at 7 p.m. today, following 30 minutes of "Hey, Coach," on Alabama radio network affiliates. Questions may be submitted through al.com or by calling 877-202-2262. (ep)
Open house
A ribbon cutting and open house will be held at noon today for a new home in Tuscaloosa, Habitat for Humanity of Tuscaloosa and Nick's Kids Fund announced Wednesday. The house was built for Bob and Dana Bowling and their two children, who lost everything when an April 27 tornado destroyed their house near Brookwood.


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Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris will visit the Franklin Township Public Library on Wednesday, March 7, at 7 p.m. Harris will discuss her latest book, High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America (Bloomsbury USA). A book signing will immediately follow the discussion, and titles will be available for purchase onsite (cash only).
Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. High on the Hog is the culmination of years of her work, and the result is a most engaging history of African American cuisine. Harris takes the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic to America, chronicling the trials that the people and the food have undergone along the way. From chitlins and ham hocks to fried chicken and vegan soul food, Harris celebrates the delicious and restorative foods of the African American experience and details how each came to become integral to African American culture, history, and identity. Although the story of African cuisine in America begins with slavery, High on the Hog ultimately chronicles a thrilling history of triumph and survival. The work of a storyteller and scholar, Jessica B. Harris's High on the Hog fills an important gap in our culinary history.
Jessica B. Harris is the author of 11 cookbooks documenting the foods and foodways of the African Diaspora. She has written extensively about the culture of Africa in the Americas, lectured widely, and made numerous television appearances. She is a professor at Queens College, CUNY, and consults at Dillard University in New Orleans, where she founded the Institute for the Study of Culinary Cultures. She was recently inducted into the James Beard Foundation's prestigious Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America. She lives in New York City, New Orleans, and on Martha's Vineyard.
This is a free program sponsored by the Franklin Township Public Library, but registration is required. Please visit the Library's website at www.franklintwp.org, call 732-873-8700 ext. 111, or visit the Library located at 485 DeMott Lane in Somerset, for more information.


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These aren't too bad.
Like BearJim, I always use cbssports.
I utilize Draft Countdown.com. If you click on the link on the bar about 20+ sites will pop up.
http://www.draftcountdown.com click on links on the blue bar at top - many potential drafts from about 20 different sites.
Thanks.......that's a great resource!!!!
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Every now and then, an artist emerges and bursts fully mature on the scene. Ernie Southern is one of those few. A pleasant surprise, his style is authentic, evoking both the "soul" and "spirit" of the masters.
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No stranger to music, he began his career in his early teens as a New York "street corner" singer, recording and performing with the well-known doo-wop acapella group "Nick and the Knacks". Opening for such acts as the "Four Seasons", "Anthony and the Imperials" and "The Earls", he quickly developed his strong, charismatic stage presence while appearing at clubs like the BLACK CAT and the GOLDEN SLIPPER. The group soon became a favorite on Lou Dean's Bayshore Rock and Roll Shows. In the 60's a spot on New York's "Zacharly" TV show earned them an audition with Chess Records, which offered the band a recording contract.
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MOBILE, Alabama – Minutes after raping a woman during a recent home invasion, the assailant forced the victim to help him load a television into a stolen car outside, according to testimony on Monday.
During a probation hearing in Circuit Court, Mobile police Detective Mike Ellzey described a harrowing scene in Prichard, during which he said Jawaun Tremane Jones preyed on two couples he found sleeping in the home.
According to Ellzey, after breaking into a nearby home and taking nothing of value, Jones entered a house on Oak Drive near St. Stephens Road. After waking the four occupants and tying some up in the living room, he then accompanied one of the female victims to the bathroom where he raped and sodomized her at gunpoint, the detective said.
Jones, wearing a t-shirt tied to hide his face, then took the home's television off the wall with a butter knife and attempted to put it in one of the occupants' vehicles outside. Finding it too big to move, Jones first enlisted one of the men to help him, and then the rape victim, Ellzey said.
While trying to heft the television to the car, the t-shirt fell to reveal Jones' face to his victims, the detective said, and it turned out they knew him. The rape victim had once lived across the street from her assailant and was a friend of one of the victims' children, he said.
According to Ellzey, later that morning she picked Jones out of a photo lineup, saying, "That's that mother****** right there."
The victim identified him even after Jones told everyone at the house, "If you call the police, I'll come back and kill you," the detective said. A sexual assault kit to identify any possible DNA was taken from the victim of the assault, he said.
Later, the victim from several houses down came forward for the first time. She said, less than an hour before the invasion which included the rape, Jones had threatened her the same way after breaking in while she slept with her 18-month-old grandchild, Ellzey said.
The woman told officers that, after praying to God to "help this kid in need," Jones lowered his gun and allowed the woman to walk him out without incident, he said.
After hearing all the details on Monday, Judge John Lockett found enough evidence to revoke Jones' probation on a previous conviction, which could be related to a youthful offender case, considering no court records are available.
Jones' attorney, Eucellis Sullivan, asked Lockett to withhold his judgment until after the DNA evidence came back, citing "the unbiased report that would either solidify everything or exonerate my client."
However, Lockett's mind was made up.
Later that morning, downstairs in District Court, a preliminary hearing was held for Jones in regards to the 11 felony charges he faces stemming from the July home invasion. During that hearing Sullivan waived the hearing and asked Judge Bob Sherling to send the charges to the grand jury for possible indictment.
Jones currently stands charged with rape, sodomy, robbery, burglary, obstruction of justice, theft of property, and possession of marijuana and paraphernalia.
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Gov. Bobby Jindal has made some pointed comments to national media this week on the failed Republican presidential campaign.
On Monday, he told reporters with the Politico website that the GOP needs to "stop being the stupid party and make a concerted effort to reach a broader swath of voters with an inclusive economic message that pre-empts efforts to caricature the GOP as the party of the rich."
In an interview Tuesday with the Huffington Post, he said that Mitt Romney's campaign "was too much about biography. It wasn't enough about a vision of where they wanted to take our country, and how they would do it."
Jindal, 41, is often mentioned as a likely contender for the Republican nomination in 2016. He will complete his second term as governor in 2015, and is barred by law from seeking a third consecutive term.
Jindal is in Las Vegas on Wednesday, where he will take over the Republican Governors Association this week at the group's annual post-election conference.


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My mum is soooooo ignorant! I tell her to preorder, she says it won't be that hard to get. I called all my local Wii preorder places, ALL OUT OF WII
'S!!! I am not gonna get it for X-mas, i just know it..........
*hugs* awww, i might be getting mine late if i do i will actually cry :P
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Kids Raisin Pizza
Delicious and fun pizzas for a kids in the kitchen activity along with a home made pizza crust (Home Baking Association) option!
- Homemade pizza dough - click Basic Pizza Crust link in PROCEDURE section
- 4 pre-made 8 inch pizza crusts
1. If making Home Baking Association's Basic Pizza Crust, follow directions for home made Basic Pizza Crust.
2. Spread 1/3 cup sauce over crust. Be creative with your kids and choose one of the following themes to create fun, healthy pizzas. Select 2-3 tablespoons toppings for desired themes such as Creepy Raisin Spider Pizza, California Beach Pizza and Smiley Face Pizza. Use approximately 1/4 cup shredded cheese per pizza. Repeat with remaining pizzas. Place on a baking sheet.
3. Bake at 400ºF for 20 to 25 minutes or until crust is golden brown and cheese is melted.
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It may well be that many governments will shrink from testing the effects of such attacks. An Afghan-based terrorist in a mountain hideaway, however, may be a very different proposition—and he, rather than a rational Western-type government, may be typical of future enemies. In many cases the only "center of gravity" may be the enemy ruler himself; that was certainly the case with Saddam Hussein. His calculation of advantage and disadvantage may well not match ours even vaguely. In the past, we calculated, in effect, that no ruler willingly would risk the destruction of his people. That was the basis of nuclear deterrence against the Soviets. A few skeptics pointed out that Soviet rulers often seemed rather indifferent to the fate of their people. Maybe deterrence worked during the Cold War mainly because the Soviets were not all that interested in risking any sort of war. Maybe the bombs frightened them not because they would kill many Russians, but because they might tear up Soviet society so badly that political control would be lost.
Nuclear deterrence was a way, admittedly very crude, to threaten the "center of gravity" of the Soviet Union, one that we never quite managed to identify. Although their thinking was certainly alien, the Soviets were part of the traditional Western world; they were, it seemed, more or less comprehensible. If it was so difficult to be sure of just what would deter the Soviets, how can we identify the "center of gravity" of a profoundly non-Western man like bin Laden? More to the point, he clearly wants to fight, so deterrence (or defeat) really matters. The terrorist problem does not invalidate Joint Vision 2010, but it emphasizes that the issue is much more one of comprehension and intelligence than of precision targeting. We can fire a Tomahawk to hit a small area hundreds of miles away. That is a technological triumph, but it is one already in hand. There is no evidence that we have accepted the more profound challenge. There is no outpouring of scholarly work on the Third World comparable to the Soviet studies the U.S. government funded during the Cold War. Yet the details of Third World thinking are probably more important for our future than were the details of Kremlin thinking.
There seems, moreover, to have been little question but that Mr. bin Laden did indeed order the bombings in Africa. The question must remain whether cruise missile attacks were the best way to deal with him, which returns us to the question of the efficacy of raids like the ones undertaken in August. In the past, the key to defeating guerrilla or terrorist organizations has been a combination of intelligence and personal attacks. For example, Mr. bin Laden is effective both because of his personal prominence as a warrior, and because he controls a large fortune. Particularly in the Third World, that fortune buys illegal entry into key places and, probably, access to explosives and other substances. One would imagine, then, that the most effective assault on Mr. bin Laden would have been a financial one, perhaps by hacking into financial computer systems. As far as the military end of the attack is concerned, probably the only effective blow would have been a surprise commando raid on the training camp, to capture Mr. bin Laden (or his chief assistants) and, above all, to seize evidence of his future plans. It is possible that, to the administration, the attacks were signals rather than substantive blows at the bin Laden organization. They certainly proved that the United States has a very long arm, reaching all the way into the remote Afghan mountains. The attack on Sudan may, moreover, have been intended to convince the Sudanese government (which is fundamentalist) to abandon any ties to bin Laden. It is possible, for example, that the African attacks were mounted from Sudanese soil.
Signals were a very popular concept in nuclear targeting during the Cold War. They are dangerous, however, because they may not be read as intended. That seems, for example, to have been Saddam Hussein's conclusion after the Gulf War. We defeated his army, but we did not take the natural next step of destroying his regime. Probably the only reason that Saddam could see was indecisiveness on Washington's part. Saddam may feel that he was right. He has now stopped all U.N. weapons inspections without suffering the devastating attacks both the United States and Britain threatened in January.
The Sudanese case is more complex. The U.S. explanation of the attack on the chemical plant is that it was making precursors for VX gas under contract to the Iraqis. In Khartoum, a prominent opponent of the fundamentalist regime pointed out that the United States had made enemies by its ham-handed action. The Sudanese government actually had moved toward the United States in recent years, for example expelling Mr. bin Laden two years ago. But, instead of being rewarded in any way, it was struck.
Most likely, our hope in the Sudanese case was to discourage further assistance, probably unofficial, to terrorists like Mr. bin Laden. Readers may remember that the Sudanese Mission to the United Nations supplied key documentation to terrorists planning to destroy key tunnels and bridges in New York a few years ago. The administration's unwillingness to go beyond the claim that the factory was making chemicals related to nerve gas may indicate some back-channel diplomatic effort, which would be squelched if it became public; the Sudanese pointed out that the U.S. government made little or no diplomatic attempt to close down the plant it later destroyed.
Moreover, the dramatic U.S. response to the embassy attacks may have made Mr. bin Laden a hero to many Moslems. That may well actually gain him the sort of assistance he needs to extend and continue his terrorist activities.
Had the United States found some way to insert commandos into the bin Laden camp (perhaps under cover of the confusion bred by a missile strike), they might have achieved a good deal. They also would have been at considerable risk, and some of them probably would have died. If the administration considers world terrorism enough of a threat to be worth killing foreigners (as it certainly did in Afghanistan), then presumably it ought to consider the threat worth American lives, too.
The bin Laden affair also affects the administration in another way. After Pakistan exploded a series of nuclear devices, the government ordered a variety of economic sanctions. But Pakistan has been under a U.S. cloud for years because of its nuclear program. Thus, for example, F-16 fighters that it ordered have not been delivered; P-3s were only delivered a short time before the Pakistani missile and nuclear tests. Pakistanis rightly can point out that they were being punished while India clearly was pursuing a far more vigorous nuclear and missile program without being denounced (let alone punished).
Now the Pakistanis have something with which to push back. Pakistan is the main support of the current fundamentalist (Taliban) regime that rules most of Afghanistan and that acts as host for Mr. bin Laden, who in turn has acted as banker and supporter for Taliban. As an Arab, he might have expected to be expelled by that violently nationalistic group; but instead he has been welcomed. The Afghan regime, moreover, has felt compelled to support bin Laden in response to what it sees as a U.S. violation of its sovereignty. Clearly the U.S. government is unable to deal effectively with Taliban. The Clinton administration already is finding itself forced to decide between its antiproliferation policies and its need to deal with the immediate threat of terrorism.
One way out of this particular dilemma would be to abandon the non-proliferation policy (which clearly is not working well) and to opt for some form of U.S. national missile defense. Many in Congress already are pressing for a revived missile defense policy. It is not yet clear that the technology is entirely mature enough, at least for a non-nuclear defense. It may be that the administration also will have to swallow its prejudice against nuclear weapons; a defense using nuclear-armed missiles is almost certainly practicable. Then there is the diplomatic issue. As their economy sags, the Russians are being forced to admit that for at least the next decade they will have to depend on nuclear deterrence for their defense. They may see a massive U.S. missile defense system as a means of neutralizing that vestige of their superpower status. Certainly there is some intermediate level at which the United States is reasonably safe against minor nuclear powers (including China) but not against a full-scale Russian attack. Or, perhaps, there is room for a shared U.S.-Russian antimissile technology.
This is a vital point, because if we need friends in the Third World, many of them also will feel that their own nuclear/missile programs are their only viable means of self-defense. Our attempts to enforce non-proliferation are unlikely to deter them, but they will stand in the way of relations friendly enough to induce them to help us deal with terrorists, who are probably much more immediate threats. Pakistan is only a case in point; there will soon be many others. As it is, our current attempts to limit missile proliferation lead us into paradoxes like trying to limit South Korean missile development (while North Korea develops missiles and exports them) because we fear that a South Korean threat to Japan would ignite a Far East arms race. Are we really wise enough to make judgments that subtle?


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Is Direct Cinema like having Netflix or is it the same thing as PPV? I'm trying to figure out how it is "free." All the posts I read make it sound just like PPV. I will switching to Direct TV tomorrow from Dish. I'm trying to get a feel for what to expect. Thanks.
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Started by flygirl799 , Jan 23 2013 02:34 PM
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Posted 23 January 2013 - 02:39 PM
DIRECTV Cinema is their PPV service, either via real time viewing by satellite or via the DIRECTV on Demand PPV channel if your boxes are network connected. The DIRECTV Cinema Connection Kit is what can be used to connect the DIRECTV receiver or Whole Home DVR network to your internet connection so you have access to all their on demand content.
See post My Setup for configuration info.
Posted 23 January 2013 - 02:47 PM
Some of the regular satellite channels, like AMC and TLC, provide "free" OnDemand downloads because those channels are part of your basic channel package. If you subscribe to HBO or other premium channels, then their OnDemand downloads are also "free" because you already subscribe to those channels. So the term "free" is relative to whatever channels you're already paying for with your DirecTV subscription.
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Posted 23 January 2013 - 02:48 PM
Direct Cinema currently offers the following...What's On Now...What's New...In Theaters...Before Netflix...Oscar Nominated...Award Winners...Best of Thriller...Family Favorites...and By Genre. Some features are PPV while others are not. Good luck with your install tommorow.
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Baton Rouge - LSU Coach Les Miles said Wednesday he's satisfied with the disciplinary process involving three players suspended from Saturday's 45-10 victory against Auburn.
Speaking on the SEC coaches teleconference Wednesday, Miles continued to be evasive about the matter. On Tuesday he declined to acknowledge a suspension, saying the players were "withheld from play." The players were leading rusher Spencer Ware, and cornerbacks Tyrann Mathieu and Tharold Simon.
When asked if the suspension was his call or part of the university policy, he responded, "We have an internal discipline view. It's not one we necessarily share with the public. These guys have undergone our view and review. We're pretty comfortable with the fact they've returned practicing and working to re (input) themselves into our game, gameplan and team. I don't really want to share much more than that."
Miles said Tuesday the players would return for the Tigers next game at Alabama Nov. 5.
Miles also talked about the Tigers off-week approach. Alabama is also off this week.
"We do recruiting, look at our team insist they get some rehab and rest to regain freshness," Miles said. "We spend a little more time in individual (work) so we can get better. We self-scout to recognize things we've done and might need to change. We also turn ourselves to our opponent.
We play against LSU more in this open week than we'll play against


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Coupeville trio earns 1st-team honors
Three Coupeville High School spring athletes received first-team, all-Cascade Conference honors this season.
Ben Etzell topped the list. The senior baseball player was named the Cascade Conference's Most Valuable Player, the first MVP award for the Wolves from any sport since joining the league. In an additional honor, Etzell was chosen for the all-state series played in Yakima this weekend. He will be among the four 18-player teams in the games.
Junior golfer Christine Fields picked up her second-straight first-team honor after being named to the second team as a freshman.
Senior infielder Madeline Roberts was first-team softball honoree after three years of making the honorable mention list.
Wolves picking up second-team honors were sophomore Makana Stone (track, 400), senior Jake Tumblin (baseball, catcher), senior Kurtis Smith (baseball, outfield), junior Josh Bayne (baseball, infield), junior Aaron Trumbull (baseball, infield), senior Brett Arnold (soccer, defender), senior Sean Donley (soccer, midfielder), sophomore Abraham Leyva Elenes (soccer, forward), senior Bree Messner (softball, catcher) and junior Hailey Hammer (softball, infield).
Coupeville honorable mention selections were C.J. Smith (baseball) and McKayla Bailey (softball).
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Stapleton teenager was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for his role in a vicious slashing last year in his community, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
In June, a jury found Timothy Palmer, 19, guilty of first-degree assault and attempted first-degree robbery stemming from the July 26, 2011, attack. He was acquitted of a second count of first-degree assault.
A co-defendant, John Pena, 20, who also lived in Stapleton, was convicted of two counts of first-degree assault and one count of attempted first-degree robbery.
Pena, a reputed member of the "Gorilla Stone Mafia" gang, was sentenced last month to 22 years in prison.
Pena's lawyer has said he'll appeal the conviction and sentence.
Both Pena and Palmer are predicate felons, said prosecutors.
Authorities said the defendants assaulted the victim about 4:20 a.m. on Canal Street, after he asked them for a cigarette.
When the man resisted, Pena pinned him down and savagely attacked him with a box-cutter, slashing him several times in the face, said prosecutors.
The blade caused "deep lacerations" to the victim's face and neck that required 35 medical staples to close, court papers said.
The assault occurred just over a month after Pena, who had served a three-year sentence for attempted robbery, was released from prison.
Besides prison time, Palmer is subject to five years' post-release supervision.
His lawyer, Eugene Lamb, could not immediately be reached for comment.
Assistant District Attorneys Wanda DeOliveira and Kirstin Krueger prosecuted the case.


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Flights were canceled, bars shut down, schools, hospitals, roads and governments closed. Bridges, the very infrastructure that allows the state a semblance of unity, were rendered useless, even dangerous. And don't get anyone started on how ill-equipped New Orleans' antique homes are to hold in heat.
In the end, the only thing in south Louisiana truly equipped for our unseasonably harsh confrontation with winter was the cuisine. The past week's alien ice invasion put our food in the unusual position of proving itself hearty enough to meet the demands for warmth. It's rarely called upon for this particularly duty.
If you think back to last Friday, when citizens first clenched in fear at the prospect of our tropical waterscape turning to ice, you'll recall being drawn at least once to a local dish – shrimp etouffee, beef daube, grillades and grits, gumbo of course – as you would be to a hearth.
"The first dish that occurs to me in cold weather is file gumbo," said Frank Brigtsen, whose food is as deserving of the "comfort" modifier as any I've ever had. While the chef's rabbit-andouille gumbo is a mainstay on the menu at his restaurant, Brigtsen's, there are dishes he tends to cook only when it is cold. "What you'll find here (in winter) is more the slow-cooked meats, like braised lamb shank, cochon de lait," Brigtsen said. "We're working on a brisket dish for the coming week. These are not things that would sell a lot in July."
On Tuesday, Mandina's was among the impressively large army of restaurants that remained open in the face of everything else being shuttered. I've always been tempted by the Italian section of the menu, even if I usually end up ordering the trout amandine, but on this day red gravy seemed essential. I could just imagine the pot it was ladled out of, a crucial generator of heat, and the sausage links flanking the spaghetti left me better fortified to brave the jog back to the car.
Such survival narratives attach themselves to meals for much of the year up north. Where I'm from, a half day's drive from the Canadian border, the winter freeze is often more brutal than New Orleans' August heat. I recall a day so cold a successfully delivered pizza led the evening newscast.
The upside of weather as deathly cold as we've recently experienced is that it has a way of obliterating even the faint traces of caution and guilt that impede our ability to lose ourselves fully in the pleasures of the table. It's not just that you're hungrier at mealtime. It's that you've been emboldened by the sleet and ice that stood between you and dinner to eat as if you may not get another opportunity any time soon.
I felt this liberating force at Irene's Cuisine on Tuesday night. Beating a path along the empty sidewalks made my arrival in the capacity dining rooms feel like an accomplishment. I was there for the cioppino, a seafood stew I crave whenever the temperature dips below tolerable, partly to warm my hands in the steam rising off of it.
The heat-imparting benefits of soups and stews generally come to mind on the sporadic winter-like days that dot our typically spring-like winters. Since late November, I've sought the succor of Ba Mien's flank steak pho, Salt N Pepper's chicken tikka masala, Casa Borrega's posole, and soups of various stripes at Pho Ga Quang Minh (duck and egg noodle), Mariza (pepperoni) and Koz's in Lakeview (vegetable).
It can seem inconvenient that local oysters and citrus, both of which lend themselves to cold consumption, reach their peak at a time when the weather is most frigid. Thankfully, at least in the case of oysters, deep-frying reconciles this climatological quirk. It is doubtful Casamento's would sell many of its gargantuan whole fried oyster loaves if it were open in July. I had no problem polishing off mine last week.
There was talk among the counter stool-sitters at Betsy's Pancake House on Sunday about how the cold occasioned a need for the soft landing of its grits, ideally accompanied by eggs and pork chops. A month before the weather pushed me toward a more idiosyncratic desire for smooth texture and blunt richness: a sour cream-slathered baked potato and a cheese-encrusted crock of French onion soup at Mr. John's Steakhouse, where the aroma of sizzling meat was so strong you could practically see it.
This admittedly unconventional potato-soup pairing would be greeted with nods of approval in the French and Swiss Alps, whose cooks have made common bedfellows of spuds and cheese. The French bistro menu Martinique Bistro is running from now until Valentine's Day offers sundry refined examples of a similarly wintry aesthetic. The cassoulet could have melted the heart of the most suspicious Francophile. Every bite brought a different source for warmth: duck confit, plump sausage, creamy white beans, ribbons of smoked bacon. Eating it had the effect of rendering the heat lamps irrelevant.
Yes, heat lamps. It was cold, but not so cold that Martinique had stopped seating customers on its covered patio. Which is the thing about winter in New Orleans: You're allowed to enjoy it, because unlike in the north, it never sticks around long enough to wear out its welcome.
There are signs of spring everywhere, even among Brigtsen's palliative cold weather creations. It's there, on the dessert menu: fresh Louisiana strawberries.
Ba Mien, 13235 Chef Menteur Highway, Suite C, 504.255.0500
Betsy's Pancake House, 2542 Canal St., 504.822.0214
Brigtsen's, 723 Dante St., 504.861.7610
Casa Borrega, 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504.598.5700
Casamento's, 4330 Magazine St., 504.895.9761
Irene's Cuisine, 539 St. Philip St., 504.529.8811
Koz's, 515 Harrison Ave., 504.484.0841
Mandina's, 3800 Canal St., 504.482.9179
Mariza, 2900 Chartres St., 504.598.5700
Martinique Bistro, 5908 Magazine St., 504.891.8495
Mr. John's Steakhouse, 2111 St. Charles Ave., 504.679.7697
Pho Ga Quang Minh, 2651 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, 504.347.3553
Salt N Pepper, 201 N Peters St., 504.561.6070


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(Originally published in print edition of The Oregonian Dec. 8, 2012 SW Weekly)
An "Artists Creating a Better World -- Christmas Holiday Show" is set for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9 at the Lakewood Center for the Arts, located at 368 South State Street in Lake Oswego.
Featuring over 25 vendors, the Christmas bazaar is a benefit for the Happy Trails Riding Center, HAPPY TRAILS RIDING CENTER a therapeutic riding program that serves children
and adults with special needs. There will also be a silent auction featuring items from vendors, which will also help the riding center.
"I and a lot of people are not in a position to get out the checkbook and write a check to charity, so I thought, let's put our skills to work and sell our items and donate that way," said West Linn's Michaela Houston,
the event's organizer, who explained that each vendor decides how much to donate. "Nicole Budden, the visionary behind the Happy Trails Riding Center, is my neighbor and friend, who does a lot of good work for autistic and Down syndrome kids, and they are basically operating at cost. She sacrifices her entire family life for this."
Items being sold by the local vendors for the day long Christmas bazaar include jewelry, vases, artwork, dolls, homemade German Christmas cookies, and Christmas ornaments, noted Houston, a photographer who also teaches German immersion preschool.
Cookies and milk will be available to purchase to enjoy at the event -- not for Santa but for customers. The event is free, and additional information can be found at email@example.com.
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The Massachusetts Law Reform Institute has produced a fact sheet with important information about foster children's rights to free meals. This fact sheet has information about the federal law and what you can do to ensure foster children receive their free meals at school or daycare.
Download the fact sheet here: Fact Sheet: Key Information for Massachusetts Lawyers and Other Child Advocates About Free Meals for Foster Children


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At the Symphony Hall in Boston, "the audience stood in rapture as the orchestra launched into the theme from Final Fantasy VII".
On stage were The Video Game Orchestra, the brainchild of the Japanese-born Shota Nakama.
The 31-year-old's orchestra, comprising musicians from more than 20 countries, is on a roll, reports the Asahi Shimbun, having toured the collection of tunes from well known video games in China and the US.
"For my generation," he tells the Japanese daily, "there's nothing more nostalgic than video-game music."
And the hours players spend glued to the games means the soundtracks become very familiar.
"Not even your favorite songs could withstand that repetition," Nakama says. "It becomes ingrained deep within you."
Explains reporter Hiroki Manabe: "When members of the digital generation hear the music of a videogame, it makes them recall how it felt to reach the game's climactic stage. And when performed by a full concert orchestra, the emotional response is amplified."
Some of the comments beneath clips on YouTube bear testimony to that, he adds.
Such as: "When I heard the first guitar chord, I turned into a blubbering wreck."