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Ghosts on the Mesa - 5280 Magazine
Ghosts on the Mesa - 5280 Magazine
On the morning of December 18, 1888, Richard Wetherill awoke at his camp on Mesa Verde and prepared for a morning chasing stray cattle across the desert that surrounded him. White powder draped itself over a patchwork of piñon and juniper trees across the mesa as Wetherill mounted his horse. He moved slowly from one canyon to the next. Red sandstone walls disappeared into dark shadows hundreds of feet below his horse's hooves.
Ute country surrounded him. For the past three years, the tribe had allowed Wetherill, his four brothers, and their father to winter cattle on this land, which was a four-hour horseback ride from the family's ranch in Mancos, near the Four Corners region where the borders of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. The agreement was a rare détente between the natives and the white settlers who'd recently begun to move into southwest Colorado. The Wetherills repaid their debt with food, occasional shelter, and respect. To show reverence for his hosts, Richard Wetherill used a winter camp that was composed of a group of tepee-like, brush-and-tree "wickiups" set on the mesa.
After traveling a few miles, Wetherill stopped his horse on land above what today is known as Cliff Canyon. He dismounted and surveyed the land. As Wetherill scanned the distance, his future brother-in-law—a ranch worker named Charles Mason—pulled up to his side and got off his horse. The surroundings were unfamiliar to both men. They were shoulder to shoulder, standing among a cluster of trees that had burned in a wildfire. Wetherill looked across the canyon. Suddenly, he grabbed Mason's arm.
Roughly 1,000 yards in front of them stood what appeared to be a deserted village that was tucked into a cave below a wave of sandstone. In the sunlight, the buildings, framed by the blackened cliff's lip and dozens of pine trees, looked otherworldly. At least a dozen windows faced the men, like coal-black eyes staring across the canyon. Wetherill could see massive rectangular buildings, two towers, and an archway. Piles of fallen rock hid untold other ruins. "It looks just like a palace," Mason whispered finally.
Wetherill and Mason scrambled their horses to the other side of the canyon and found themselves above the overhang that protected the ruins. Using prehistoric paths and a hastily constructed, improvised ladder, the pair worked themselves down to a ledge that led them to the most surreal scene either had witnessed: a miniature lost city.
The ruins appeared to be at least 400 feet long, 90 feet tall, and 90 feet deep. At the far ends, structures stretched skyward toward the cliff's overhang. Wetherill and Mason climbed over fallen rocks and rubble-covered stairways, and entered several still-standing buildings. In each one, items lay on dirt floors, as if their owners planned to return any moment. Amid half-fallen walls and some fully intact structures, bowls and jugs rested undisturbed atop ledges. Children's toys were scattered among the rooms. A stone ax with leather lacing lay on the ground. One room was painted red. Fireplace altars were burned black. Whole human skeletons rested on the floors.
After several hours walking among the ruins, the men gathered the ax, pottery, bone awls, and a few other items they could carry safely. As they hiked up the cliff, they began to process what they'd seen. Without knowing it, the men had stumbled upon one of the country's greatest archaeological sites. Wetherill would name it Cliff Palace.
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By Cal Media RelationsPosted Dec 14, 2012If by BearInsider Staff or Contributor, this article is Copyright © 2017 BearInsider.com
BERKELEY - Pierre Ingram has agreed to become the running backs coach at Cal, head coach Sonny Dykes announced Friday. Ingram served in the same role for Dykes at Louisiana Tech the last three seasons, including in 2012 when the Bulldogs posted a 9-3 record and led the nation in scoring offense by averaging 51.50 points per game.
Ingram, who was named the 2012 Western Athletic Conference Recruiter of the Year by ESPN.com, coached Freshman All-American and WAC Freshman of the Year Kenneth Dixon this past season. Capital One Academic All-America® first teamer Ray Holley was also under his tutelage in 2012.
"Pierre Ingram is one of the best young coaches in the nation," Dykes said. "He is a talented person with a terrific future ahead of him and will be a tremendous asset to our football program. We're thrilled he's joining our staff at Cal."
"This is a great opportunity for me," Ingram said. "I'm thankful that coach Dykes has hired me on his staff at Cal along with some of the other guys from our successful offense at Louisiana Tech. Cal is a program with great tradition, and the coaching staff he's bringing in is going to add to that as well as bring some spark and energy to move forward in the Pac-12."
In addition to leading the country in scoring offense, Tech was among the 2012 national leaders in total offense (2nd, 577.92 ypg) and rushing offense (18th, 227.17 ypg) with a unit that scored more than 40 points in 11 of 12 games and over 50 points on eight occasions. Tech's high-powered offense also committed only 13 turnovers to tie for the 10th-lowest total in the country, matching a tied for 10th national ranking with a +1.08 turnover margin.
In addition to being named a 2012 Freshman All-American and winning WAC Freshman of the Year honors, Dixon broke Marshall Faulk's NCAA freshman records for rushing touchdowns (27), total touchdowns (28) and points (168) under Ingram's tutelage. Dixon led the country in scoring with an average of 14.00 points per game while totaling 1,194 rushing yards on 200 carries. He was also second in the WAC in rushing with an average of 106.42 yards per game. Holley, a graduate student pursing a degree in counseling with a 3.50 GPA, added 740 yards and seven touchdowns on the ground over 142 rushes.
In his second season guiding the Louisiana Tech running backs in 2011, Ingram witnessed an unlikely story unfold as walk-on Hunter Lee, who did not receive a single FBS scholarship offer, stepped up amid injuries and ran for 650 yards on 135 attempts as a true freshman. The ground game churned out 1,901 yards for an offense that averaged 394.62 yards per game as the team and won seven straight contests on its way to a WAC championship.
In his first season at Tech in 2010, Ingram guided Lennon Creer's 1,181-yard rushing campaign that included a 252-yard effort against San Jose State - the seventh most rushing yards in a single game in Tech history - among five 100-yard rushing performances over his last seven games. Among those was a 149-yard rushing effort at No. 2 Boise State, more yards than 12 of Boise's 13 opponents recorded against the Broncos as a team during 2010.
Ingram joined the Bulldogs after winning the 2009 FCS national championship at Villanova, where he coached the tight ends as an offensive assistant.
Prior to joining the Villanova staff in May of 2009, Ingram served as the wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator at Texas A&M-Commerce during the spring of 2009. Before his short stint at Texas A&M Commerce, he was the assistant wide receivers coach at Cortland State for two seasons, where he helped the team to a combined 20-5 mark. The 2007 squad captured the ECAC Division III Northeast Bowl, while the 2008 team reached the NCAA Division III quarterfinal round for the first time in school history. Zacc Guaragno posted 1,053 yards under Ingram in 2008 to become the second wide receiver in school history to record a 1,000-yard receiving season.
Ingram is a 2006 graduate of Middle Tennessee, where he was a four-year letterwinner in football as a wide receiver and garnered the team's Most Dependable Receiver Award in his final season in 2006. He is currently pursuing a master's of science degree in sport management from Cortland State.
Ingram is married to the former Dani Maye. The couple's daughter, Berkley, was born the night Louisiana Tech defeated San Jose State on Oct. 29, 2011. Ingram paced the sidelines during the game, coaching the backs to 260 yards of rushing offense, and then joined Dani in time for the birth of their daughter.
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The developers of The Banks will announce this afternoon that they have secured all $74 million needed to finance the first phase of construction, clearing the way for an April 2 groundbreaking on the project.
"This is great news. It means The Banks project will definitely advance," said Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory. "I'm excited that Carter/Dawson (the developers) will be doing the project and I'm looking forward to a great development.''
The financing comes on the last day of a month-long extension of a deadline for the developers, Carter & Associates Commercial Services LLC and the Harold A. Dawson Co., and could signal the end of a decade-long wait for activity at the barren riverfront site between Great American Ball Park and Paul Brown Stadium.
It also means Carter and Dawson made good on their promise to weather a tough economy marked by difficult borrowing requirements for developers, to complete the deal. The developers agreement with the city and Hamilton County called for them to have commitments for all the money needed to build phase 1A of the project, to include 300 apartments and 70,000 square feet of retail atop a garage at the corner of Second and Main streets, by the end of January.
That deadline passed with Carter and Dawson still between $12 million and $14 million short. The city and county agreed to give them an extension. Todays announcement should also include details on the sources of funding, which have not yet been disclosed.
If the April construction date holds, the vacant land at that spot will begin a long transformation into a mini-neighborhood along the Ohio River, featuring apartments, parking, retail and office space.


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HOUSTON - The latest update of the U.S. Drought Monitor shows that Houston and surrounding areas are continuing to slide into an extreme drought.
This update of the drought monitor is based on rainfall through Monday, April 1. It does not include the soaking we got late Tuesday night, April 2, when most locations got hit with one to two inches of rain.
You might think that a good soaking like this would help us immensely, maybe even pull us out of the drought entirely. While it is true that a couple of inches of rain is helpful during a severe drought, it doesn't erase the problem.
Considering the big picture that 1- to 2-inches is a drop in the bucket next to the hole we're in. We've been abnormally dry in Houston since September. In the past seven months we've gotten about 50 percent of our normal rainfall. At George Bush Intercontinental Airport, the official climate reporting station for the city of Houston, we're 16 inches of rain below normal since September and seven inches below normal so far in 2013.
It'll take more frequent soakings to turn the tide on our recent slide into what many fear will be a repeat of 2011's devastating drought.
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Proposals for a development of 220 homes west of St Andrews Road in Warminster have met opposition from nearby residents concerned about the impact it would have on the area.
The plans, which have not yet been submitted by developer Redrow Homes, were presented to locals on January 23 during a public consultation at Warminster Rugby Club.
Since the consultation, Warminster Town Council has received an increasing number of enquiries from residents opposing the proposed development.
Sandra George, who lives in St Andrews Road near where one of the proposed access points would be, believes the plans would cause traffic chaos and has delivered letters to about 200 houses encouraging people to send their objections to Wiltshire Council.
Mrs George said: "Although they have not submitted the planning application yet, many of us are concerned about what will happen if we have an additional 160-plus cars driving along the road.
"St Andrews is proposed as one of two access roads for the new development and it is already quite narrow as it is, so I don't see how we will cope with all that extra traffic going through our quiet cul-de-sac.
"I am also very concerned for the young children who play in our cul-de-sac, as with the increase of vehicles it will become very dangerous.
"We need to get as much support as possible to oppose the development, even though it is likely to go ahead as it's part of the Core Strategy.
"If it does go ahead, we certainly don't want the access to be through our road."
Redrow Homes said the proposed development will be for about 220 homes, comprising "both market and affordable accommodation in accordance with the needs of the local market area".
A statement from the house builder said: "No planning application has been submitted yet.
"However, a well-attended public consultation event took place on January 23.
"Redrow also intends to undertake thorough consultation with Wiltshire County Council prior to submission.
"Redrow has been promoting the site through the Core Strategy process through which the council has identified the site for future housing development."


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The Mets signed six players, some of whom have been previously reported, to minor league contracts today. They are: infielder Russ Adams, third baseman Mike Cervenak, righthanded pitcher R.A. Dickey, outfielder Jesus Feliciano, infielder Andy Green and infielder Mike Hessman.
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The New York Mets today announced that they signed infielder Russ Adams, third baseman Mike Cervenak, righthanded pitcher R.A. Dickey, outfielder Jesus Feliciano, infielder Andy Green and infielder Mike Hessman to minor league contracts and invited all six to major league Spring Training camp in Port St. Lucie, Fla. next month.
Adams, 29, started last season in Toronto's system with Las Vegas (AAA) of the Pacific Coast League before an eight-game stint with the Blue Jays in July. He finished the season with San Diego's organization at Portland (AAA) of the PCL, hitting .267 in 36 games. Adams played parts of five major league seasons with the Blue Jays after making his debut in 2004.
Cervenak made his second straight International League All-Star Game last season while playing for Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia's Triple-A affiliate. The 33-year-old saw his only major league action in 2008 with the Phillies, picking up his first major league hit and RBI on August 6. He spent a portion of the 2006 season playing professionally in Korea.
Dickey spilt last season between Minnesota and Rochester (AAA) of the International League. The 35-year-old righthander made the Twins' Opening Day roster and appeared in 35 games before being optioned to the Red Wings on August 7. A veteran of parts of seven major league seasons with Texas, Seattle and the Twins, Dickey has a career record of 22-28.
Feliciano led the International League in hits with 154 while playing for Buffalo (AAA) last season. The 30-year-old outfielder also finished with a career-high 30 doubles and a .311 average to win the Sterling Award for the Bisons, emblematic of the team's Most Valuable Player. Originally drafted by the Dodgers in 1997, Feliciano appeared in six games for Team Puerto Rico in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
Green appeared in four games with the Mets last season, picking up one hit in four at-bats. Besides a nine-game rehabilitation stint with the GCL Mets (R) of the Gulf Coast League and Brooklyn (A) of the New York-Penn League, the 32-year-old utility man spent the remainder of the season with Buffalo where he hit .259 (45-174).
Hessman, 32, spent last season in Detroit's system at Toledo (AAA) of the International League, finishing fifth in the league with 23 home runs. The 6-1, 180-pounder last appeared in the major leagues with the Tigers in 2008 when he hit five home runs in 12 games. Hessman has 311 career minor league home runs and won a bronze medal with Team USA at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
The team also announced the signings of infielder Alejandro Machado and catcher Luke Montz to contracts. Both will be invited to minor league Spring Training next month.


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Implementing a green purchasing program is a straight forward and quantifiable strategy for companies looking to reduce their environmental impact.
By Kim Matsoukas, LEED AP
Implementing a green purchasing program is a straight forward and quantifiable strategy for companies looking to reduce their environmental impact.
The sustainability movement has evolved from promoting basic practices like recycling and carpooling into something much larger. Fortunately, many companies are now thinking about the bigger picture, which means taking a holistic approach to addressing their environmental footprint by greening their supply chains. After all, every product or raw material we purchase has an associated environmental impact. This is especially true for building materials. According to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), 13 percent to 18 percent of a building's carbon footprint comes from the embodied carbon in the materials.
Greening your company's supply chain has benefits beyond just lowering the environmental footprint of your own purchases. Voting with our dollars and considering sustainability in purchasing
decisions, along with price, aesthetic, quality and service, sends a message to the market that sustainability is valuable. This increases demand for sustainable businesses and products. Increased demand for green products is what influences companies to change their business practices and develop greener products.
Green products are highly beneficial to the environment and the market; but a green purchasing program also has many direct benefits to the companies that implement them. First and foremost, green purchasing policies can help companies save money. While it's true that some green products may cost more initially, that's not always the case. Sometimes spending a little more upfront can save money in the long run. For example, Bentley Prince Street found that switching its cleaning products to greener options costs more per package than the traditional products it had been using; however, the cleaning staff had to use less of the new green cleaning product because it was more concentrated, which saved on the number of shipments that were needed each year.
In addition, BPS consolidated the number of products used from more than a dozen to three, which also saved money. In total, the company found that switching to a greener option saved more than $5,000 per year.
Cost savings aside, a green purchasing program can benefit associates. Improving indoor air quality by purchasing low-emitting products has been shown to increase productivity and lower illness rates for workers. When part of a comprehensive sustainability program, a green purchasing program can bolster the engagement and innovation of associates. (This increased level of engagement can extend to the marketing of your product and company.)
Once your company has decided to create a green purchasing program, it is important to think carefully about the design of the program (this will help you enormously during the implementation phase). The most important part of the design process is engaging stakeholders within your company and forming a green team or committee. The committee should include both those who are involved in purchasing decisions, as well as those who are interested in sustainability. Maintenance, housekeeping, IT and any other departments that may be affected should also be part of the committee.
The first step of the green purchasing team should be to define what constitutes a "green" or environmentally preferable product. This will vary greatly depending on the type of products or services your company provides. For example, for general office supplies, equipment and some building products, the EPA's Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG) or LEED for Operations and Maintenance guidelines are a good place to start. (See p. 66 to learn about WHR Architects' Product Sustainability Rating System.)
Whether your team decides to adopt existing green purchasing guidelines or to create your own, it's important that everyone on the committee understands the different aspects of sustainability and how they affect a product's life-cycle environmental impact. The volume of information on this subject can be overwhelming, so it may be a good idea to form sub-committees that can be organized around sustainability criteria like recycled content and environmental certifications. Another option is to focus the guidelines around different product categories like durable goods and office supplies. Having experts on different subjects, or product categories, will assist the committee in crafting a program that is holistic and meaningful.
Once the committee defines a green product, the next step is to measure the company's baseline. The baseline calculation should cover a long enough time period to give the committee an accurate idea of the company's green purchasing performance. This time frame will vary depending on the company, but six months to a year should provide enough information to create an accurate baseline. The baseline will tell you what green products you are already purchasing and which areas need improvement. For example, your company may already be purchasing recycled paper and office products but may not be purchasing low VOC paints.
Beyond just giving a picture of current performance, the baseline calculation can be used to create the goals of the green purchasing program. Goals should be difficult, but attainable. If the goals of the program are too difficult, you may encounter push back from associates and it will be hard to build momentum. On the other hand, if they are too easy, some low hanging fruit may be left on the table.
Finally, the green committee should implement a tracking system to help track the success of the green purchasing program. Key questions to ask are: Who will track the progress? And, how will the information be collected? The answers to these questions will depend on the company, but generally it is best to assign a single point of contact to collect the information on the program. If the company already has a robust purchasing system, progress can probably be tracked using monthly reports. In any case, the tracking system should be flexible and easy enough that it doesn't add a lot of extra work to purchasing staff. This tracking system should be used to communicate the progress of the program back to the green committee and the company at large. The green committee should continue to meet on a regular basis in order to address any issues that may arise, and to monitor progress and set new goals.
The process of greening a company's supply chain may seem overwhelming and arduous. But, with a dedicated and enthusiastic group, the benefits realized by creating a robust green purchasing program will far outweigh the costs.
Kim Matsoukas, LEED AP, is sustainability manager at Bentley Prince
Street where she oversees the company's innovative and extensive green initiatives, including Cool Carpet, ReEntry 2.0 and Mission Zero. She can be reached at


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An Ilkley-based photographer and food writer took third place in a prestigious international competition with her snap of a gaggle of local geese.
Joan Ransley, who is also an honorary lecturer in nutrition at Leeds University, was highly placed in the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Competition, held at the Mall Gallery, London.
The photograph, Let's Scarper, shows geese running away into the woods at Lower Austby. It was taken in October as a subject for a Christmas card. The overall winner of the competition, Tessa Bunnie is also from Yorkshire.
The Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Awards honour the best in food photography – recipe shots, pictures of ingredients and striking images of people around the world making and producing the food we love to eat.
Judge Jay Rayner said: "What this year's images represented was the kind of appetite that makes a hungry man like me happy."
There were more than 6,000 entries to the 2014 awards, so competition was tough. The judges included David Loftus, Jamie Oliver's photographer, Yotam Ottolenghi and Julia Bradbury.


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Arizona's Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed a law on Monday to expand Medicaid, embracing a key part of Democratic President Barack Obama's healthcare plan in a hard-won policy victory over conservatives in her own party.
Brewer, a feisty opponent of the Obama administration over immigration enforcement, signed a bill that will make about 300,000 additional poor and disabled residents eligible for the Medicaid program, a move opposed by some conservative Republican lawmakers.
With the signing, Arizona became the 24th state to move ahead with the expansion, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a California-based nonprofit that tracks the issue.
Brewer, who outmaneuvered opponents by forming a bi-partisan coalition of legislators, said the $1.6 billion expansion drawing on federal funds under the Affordable Health Care Act was the right move for the state.
"I knew I had not chosen the easy path. But I learned a long time ago that what is easy and what is right are rarely the same. Well, today I know in my heart that we have made the right choice," said Brewer, surrounded by lawmakers at a signing ceremony at the state Capitol in Phoenix.
Opponents said the decision to take up a key part of the federal reforms they call "Obamacare," could be costly for the state should the federal funding run dry. They dubbed the plan "Obrewercare" during legislative debate.
The Medicaid expansion was Brewer's top policy goal. For five months she pushed its passage with rallies across the state and the backing of a group of business and health care groups.
Brewer called the legislature into special session last week, armed with the votes of key moderate Republican lawmakers. Both houses, which are controlled by Republicans, passed the measure with comfortable margins on Thursday.
In addition to expanding services, Brewer said the move would protect rural and other hospitals from the rising costs of paying for uninsured patients, inject $2 billion into the state's economy and create thousands of jobs.
As part of the plan, Brewer said there would be a "circuit breaker" to call an automatic halt to the expansion if the federal reimbursements decrease.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government agreed to increase Medicaid eligibility and cover 100 percent of the costs for three years, after which it will cover 90 percent.
Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Obama's healthcare overhaul, but allowed states to opt out of a provision expanding the Medicaid program.
Brewer first became widely known as an Obama administration critic in 2010 when she signed Arizona's tough crackdown on illegal immigration, allowing police to question those they stopped and suspected were in the country illegally about their immigration status. The law was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
She drew nationwide attention when she wagged her finger at Obama during an encounter at an airport tarmac in Phoenix.
On Monday, she thanked coalition lawmakers for mustering the courage to pass the legislation.
"You put people before politics and you stayed strong in the face of personal attacks," she said.


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(Editor's note: This guy really seems like a great team guy, and that's what everybody says about him, too).
Mike Rupp:
On the firefighters and policemen skating with the team yesterday:
"A bunch of them wanted to work on their fighting. Some of them probably get more reps in the fighting department than we do."
On tonight's game, his first as a Ranger:
"You want to go out and make a first impression, I don't care who you are. You want to go out and play your game. The first one's always … you finish it and you think it was ugly and you feel kind of goofy getting back into the swing of games, but it's an important one to get under your belt and you go from there."
Where he wants to be now:
"I'd say today, yesterday were better days. If you asked me maybe three or four days ago, maybe I'd say no. But you get over that hump, and there's a little bit of a hump from the conditioning part of camp and today's practice was working on things we're going to be doing in games or just the systems of the New York Rangers, and those are things that are important."
On not being able to simulate actual games:
"I think it's important just to familiarize yourself with all the players and all the styles of each player. You get to know the tendencies of certain players. It's easy when you see a guy like Brian Boyle. I have a pretty good idea from playing against him, watching him out here, that you know where he is in the offensive zone. You read off each other and it's important to get that read off every guy because, whether you're in-between shifts or bumping around the lineup, you need to be able to play with each guy. So these games are big to get those things under your belt."
On if it means anything to be playing against his old team, the Devils:
"No, not really. I've done that already and it's just an opportunity here and it's a preseason game to get yourself ready. I'm sure that when the regular season rolls around I'll be able to taste that rivalry from this side."
Won't be around the team much today, but I'll be here. Will have our second "It's Go Time!" tonight.


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Getting a compromise farm bill is far from certain. If Congress does proceed to a conference committee, the challenges to get a compromise that can pass both houses of Congress are huge.
If the House could not accept a farm bill proposal with spending cuts to the nutrition program of $20 billion over 10 years – it seems unlikely that they would approve a bill with cuts somewhere near the $4 billion contained in the Senate bill.
However, if the conference committee can come up with a bill that satisfies the conferees, the bill could bypass the full House and Senate votes if it is attached to some must-pass bill like a continuing resolution.
That may be the only way to get a new farm bill through Congress.
A possible government shutdown is now only days away. The end of the fiscal year is fast approaching and Congress has not passed a continuing resolution to keep the government running past September 30.
The House is preparing a bill that would fund the government through mid-December but it is expected to include a defunding of the Affordable Care Act, which has little chance of being approved by the Senate or signed by the President. Unless leaders in the House of Representatives cancel next week's recess, there is essentially no time left to get this thing ironed out.
Other news from Washington:
- The crop insurance program is under attack. At a rally on Capital Hill Wisconsin Representatives Tom Petri and Ron Kind called for policymakers to revamp the crop insurance program claiming that the existing program guarantees insurance companies a 14 percent profit at taxpayer expense, and Bloomberg News carried a three-part series criticizing the program. Supporters of the program argue that the program allows farmers to manage risks before, not after problems develop, which saves taxpayers money. There is still a chance that Congress will make changes to the crop insurance program as part of any new farm bill.
- A panel of three federal judges upheld California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which means the law can be implemented. Fuel companies had sued arguing that the standard discriminated against biofuels produced in other states. The standard requires fuel to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the emissions are calculated on the fuel's entire life cycle.
- USDA says it will not investigate the discovery of genetically modified alfalfa in a non-gmo field in Washington. Earlier this year the discovery of gmo wheat in Oregon triggers an extensive investigation, but the gmo wheat was a type that had not been approved for commercial production. GMO alfalfa has been deregulated and available for commercial sale since 2011. But the gmo contamination is a problem because some importing countries, including Japan and Saudi Arabia, refuse to accept contaminated alfalfa. Since alfalfa is cross pollinated by bees, preventing gmo contamination is almost impossible.
- The new farm bills being considered may violate world trade rules and trigger challenges at the World Trade Organization according to some major business groups. The House bill links support payments to actual planted acreage which would likely be successfully challenged at the WTO. A successful WTO challenge would probably lead to retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports. The business groups making the claim include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Foreign Trade Council.


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Every once in a while, a party comes along that trumps all other parties and lives on in our minds as something legendary. This party might be special for various reasons, however one thing remains the same: It was awesome.
Every once in a while, a party comes along that trumps all other parties and lives on in our minds as something legendary. This party might be special for various reasons, however one thing remains the same: It was awesome.
Well, as fun as the parties we've been to may have been, the following 10 parties are so outrageous and outlandish that they put even those most legendary ones to shame. It's really too bad we didn't get the invite!
Jay Gatsby's House
No one in the history of literature could throw a party quite like F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby. His extravagant, lavish soirees, planned out for the purpose of wooing lost love Daisy Buchanan, were the place to be in the (fictional) 1920's. Now, if only we were around back then!
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The Toga Party in Animal House
Okay, so this party didn't really happen. But if you've seen National Lampoon's Animal House, you probably wish you were invited too! The movie popularized the tradition of toga parties, and seemed like a very, very good time.
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Grand Opening of Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai
Atlantis, The Palm, located in Dubai, hosted its grand opening in 2008 with a bang. A $16 million bang! That's right, the incredible fireworks display included 100,000 fireworks, and cost $16 million. That's just for fireworks.
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Founding Fathers' Constitutional Celebration
What better occasion to celebrate in a big way than the signing of our nation's constitution? Two days before that fateful day in 1787, fifty-five delegates, among them Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, went out for a wild night on the town. Apparently over one hundred bottles of wine were consumed, along with large quantities of whiskey, hard cider, and beer. Additionally, there was a great deal of reported damage to the bar they ventured to, including broken bottles, tables, and even chamber pots!
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Paris Hilton's 21st Birthday(s)
Turning 21 is meant to be celebrated, and celebrate Paris Hilton did-- with five birthday parties! The wealthy socialite traveled across the world, spanning destinations from New York City to London to Tokyo, hosting another leg of her epic birthday bash in each city. The estimated cost per guest? $75,000. Enough said.
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Admiral Russell's Fountain Punch Bowl
Where there's a party, there tends to be alcohol. However, no party featured more alcohol than this 17th century party hosted by British Lord Admiral Edward Russell. Admiral Russell is said to have filled an entire garden fountain with a cocktail, made up of many ingredients including wine and brandy, for his guests. The party lasted for an entire week, at which point the fountain was finally empty. Talk about a hangover!
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Truman Capote's Black and White Ball
You can't help but feel the sting of not being invited to a party dubbed "the party of the century." Around 500 guests were invited to the talented Truman Capote's masked ball held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. All of Manhattan's most famous and elite were in attendance, so an invitation meant more than just entry to a fabulous night. Don't worry about not getting on the list, though-- it was all the way back in 1966!
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The Party in Project X
Project X is a movie that tells the story of the wildest high school party, ever. Although it is fictional, we really wish it were real.
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The Royal Wedding
The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey was one of the most highly anticipated, hyped-up events of the decade, if not the century. The price of the event, which was declared a public holiday, was upwards of 20 million pounds, with even more spent on security. To the ceremony itself, around 1,900 guests were invited.
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The Sultan of Brunei's 50th Birthday
It's not every day you turn 50! So seemed to be the mentality of the Sultan of Brunei when he hosted his $25 million birthday bash, complete with a polo match with Prince Charles, and a concert from Michael Jackson.
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4 Hot Spring Nail Trends
Brighten up your digits with these flirty nail polishes!
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If ever you wanted to play with color, this spring has granted you your wish! Not only can you play with the "It" color of the season; honeysuckle, you have so many options to pick from the trends: brights, darks (yes, there are dark shades for spring) and pastels.
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You may have spring in your heart, but winter outside your window, how do you transition from winter to spring colors without looking silly? To find out, I asked celebrity nail technician, Skyy Hadley, owner of As U Wish Spa in Hoboken, NJ. Skyy's worked on celebs, editorial shoots, you name it, the woman knows nails. Skyy's advice is to use a"medium soft brown mauve/beige color like Essie's Sand Tropez. It blends well with all skin types and the color smoothly transitions from winter to spring."
Essie Sand Tropez nail polish ($7.79, target.com)
It's easy to fall in love with a nail polish that doesn't look good on you. Skyy says, "Choosing a color should always be based on your skin tone. If you have a light skin tone, pick polishes with a blue background. Medium toned beauties should stick to nail polishes with warmer pink to white backgrounds. If you have dark toned skin, choose shades with neutral/mauve backgrounds."
This brings us to our first trend: pastels. Now I've seen this trend subdivided into nude, but do you want to drive yourself crazy? Nah. This spring, pastels encompass everything from a pale opalescent white to the palest green.
Three to try:
Spa Ritual Airy Sopranos nail lacquer ($10.69, soap.com)
Zoya nail polish in Heather ($8, zoya.com)
Dashing Diva Old Money nail polish ($8, dashingdiva.com)
Brights these spring encompass 80s neon shades to honeysuckle to acid green and brilliant blue.
Three to try:
Borghese Rapido nail polish in Limoncello ($8, ulta.com)
CND nail polish in Smoochie ($9, bebeautiful.com)
Love and Beauty Orange Crush nail polish ($2.80, forever21.com)


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Flames Advance to Big South Championship Final
|Flames guard Tavares Speaks (right) finished with 10 points
The Liberty men's basketball team ended a nine-year streak without a Big South Championship finals appearance, defeating No. 2 South seed Gardner-Webb, 65-62, in Saturday's semifinals matchup.
The Flames (14-20) will meet No. 1 North seed Charleston Southern tomorrow in the tournament final. Tipoff is slated for noon, with the contest airing live on ESPN2.
John Caleb Sanders paced the Flames offense with 19 points, followed by Joel Vander Pol (11) and Tavares Speaks (10). Vander Pol also collected seven boards to go with his scoring effort off the bench.
Tashan Newsome and Max Landis led the Runnin' Bulldogs (21-12) with 15 points, apiece. Point guard Tyler Strange finished with 12 tallies followed by Kevin Hartley, who closed out Gardner-Webb's scoring with 10 points.
The Flames shot 46.8 percent (22-of-47) from the field, compared to 39.2 percent (20-of-51) for the Runnin' Bulldogs. Dale Layer's squad outscored Gardner-Webb in the paint, 26-8. Gardner-Webb made up for the difference from the three-point arc, going 10-of-26 from downtown. Liberty finished the night shooting 62.5 percent from three-point land (5-of-8).
Liberty jumped out to an early 10-5 lead off baskets by Andrew Smith, Sanders and a Tomasz Gielo three-pointer. The Runnin' Bulldogs bit back with a pair of treys from Kevin Hartley to briefly take the lead. Liberty then responded with a 7-0 run off buckets from Casey Roberts, Vander Pol and Speaks to claim a 17-11 advantage at 10:55.
Harper helped cut Garnder-Webb's deficit to three with under nine minutes left in the period. However, the Flames widened the gap with a trifecta by Sanders. On the next Gardner-Webb possession, Speaks came up with the steal and fed it to Davon Marshall, who ran up the court and found Gielo open for the 2-on-1 fast break alley-oop. Following a Newsome jumper, Marshall knocked down his 94th three-pointer of the season, putting the Flames ahead by seven, 26-19, at 6:11.
Gardner-Webb outscored Liberty, 7-2, in the ensuing 4:06, making it a two-point game with just over two minutes remaining in the period. A Smith layup gave the Flames some more breathing room, but a Landis three-pointer cut the Runnin' Bulldogs deficit to one. After a Vander Pol layup, Newsome closed the half with a free throw, allowing Liberty to carry a 32-30 lead into the locker room at halftime.
Liberty shot 48.1 percent (13-of-27) in the opening period, while the Runnin' Bulldogs closed the half with 41.7 percent shooting (10-of-24). The Flames outscored Gardner-Webb in the paint, 16-4, but the No. 2 South seed made up for some of the difference from the perimeter. Despite Liberty holding its opponents to 14.3 percent (5-of-35) from three-point range in the first two tournament games, Gardner-Webb hit 5-of-10 (50.0 percent) from downtown in the first half.
Newsome opened the second stanza with a short jumper to knot the contest at 32. Liberty then went on a 7-0 burst capped by a Sanders trey. Newsome broke the streak with another jumper, while Jerome Hill followed with two free throws, cutting the Liberty lead to three, 39-36, at 15:48.
Liberty outscored the Runnin' Bulldogs 10-2 over the next 2:36 to stretch its advantage to 11. Marshall's second three-pointer of the game gave the Flames the double digit lead, but three-pointers from Strange and Landis cut Liberty's advantage to five, 49-44, with 12:23 left in the contest.
With the Flames ahead by eight with 8:12 remaining, Gardner-Webb erased its deficit within five minutes. A Tyler Strange three-pointer knotted the game at 62 with 3:21 left on the clock. Liberty was able to reclaim the lead under the two-minute mark, thanks to a Vander Pol free throw. Gielo was able to grab two key rebounds on opposite ends of the floor in the remaining seconds, setting up two Marshall free throws to seal the 65-62 victory.


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Courtney Hicks Hodges (January 5, 1887 – January 16, 1966) was an American military officer, most prominent for his role in World War II, in which he commanded the U.S. First Army in Northwest Europe.
Hodges's father published a small-town newspaper in Perry, Georgia where he was born. He attended West Point but was forced to leave after a year, along with George S. Patton Jr., because of poor test scores ("found deficient" in mathematics). In 1906, however, he entered the United States Army as a Private, and became a commissioned officer three years later. He served with George Marshall in the Philippines and Patton (who reentered to graduate in 1909) in Mexico.
He earned the Distinguished Service Cross (second only in precedence to the Medal of Honor), during the closing days of World War I while leading an attack across the Marne River. After the war he was so well thought of that he became an instructor at West Point, even though he had not graduated from that institution.
In 1938, he became an Assistant Commandant of the Infantry School, and in 1941, he became full Commandant.
In May 1941, he was promoted to Major General and was given various commands,including Chief of Infantry until he finally received a frontline command, that of the X Corps, which he received in 1942. In 1943, while commanding both X Corps and then the US Third Army, he was sent to Britain, where he served under General Omar Bradley. During Operation Overlord, he was subordinate to Bradley as Deputy Commander of the U.S. First Army, but in August 1944, he succeeded Bradley, as the latter went to command 12th Army Group and took command of the Army.
Hodges's troops were the first to reach Paris, France, and he led them through Germany. His troops fought the Battle of Hurtgen Forest and had a major role in the Ardennes Offensive, otherwise known as the Battle of the Bulge. The First Army was the first unit to cross the Rhine River, by using the still standing Ludendorff bridge at Remagen, and to meet with the Soviet Red Army near Torgau, on the river Elbe. Hodges was promoted to General on April 15, 1945 making him the first man to rise to full General from enlisted private.
In May 1945, after the German surrender, Hodges and his troops were ordered to prepare for the invasion of Japan; that became unnecessary, however, when the atomic bomb caused Japan's surrender later that year. Hodges was present at the surrenders of both Germany and Japan.
After World War II, he served First Army Commandant stationed at Governors Island, New York until his retirement in March 1949.
Hodges died in San Antonio, Texas in 1966. His extreme personal modesty prevented him from receiving the credit due his efforts.


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The Mets' former starting catcher has signed with the Philadelphia Phillies. What do you think of his going to the Mets' primary rivals?
Below's the story:
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PHILADELPHIA — Free-agent catcher Brian Schneider and the Philadelphia Phillies agreed Tuesday to a $2.75 million, two-year contract.
Schneider, who spent the last two seasons with the New York Mets, will be a backup to Carlos Ruiz for the NL champion Phillies.
"We feel Brian is ideal for our ballclub," Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said. "He's a guy that we would feel comfortable with playing for an extended period of time, if needed."
The 33-year-old Schneider hit .218 with three homers and 18 RBIs in 59 games last season for the Mets. He threw out nine of 28 runners attempting to steal.
Schneider began his career with the Montreal Expos in 2000 and played with the Expos/Washington Nationals through 2007. He is a .251 career hitter with 59 homers and 356 RBIs.
He gets a $250,000 signing bonus and salaries of $1 million next season and $1.5 million in 2011. The deal also includes performance bonuses based on playing time.


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TV antiques expert Philip Serrell was the guest of honour when developer McCarthy and Stone opened its newest assisted living development in Malvern.
Philip, who owns his own auctioneers' business in Malvern, was joined by staff and homeowners at Cartwright Court, off Church Street for the opening ceremony.
He hosted a special game, where he produced weird and wacky artefacts, including a wooden sheep's leg and a glass eyeball, and guests had to guess the value.
Gill Sabin of McCarthy and Stone said: "This ceremony signalled an important milestone for the development, and we were delighted to have someone of Philip's stature here to help us mark the occasion in style.
"The day was a huge success and we look forward to welcoming visitors living in and around Malvern to the development to have a look around."


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One thing I already miss about the good old PC era -- this sounds so quaint -- is that PC companies actually used to compete to provide the best tech support.
I haven't conducted any surveys to determine to what degree the struggles of the PC industry have affected support, though I think I can assume a decline (imagine all those Windows 8 users jamming the support lines). But I seriously wonder if it could be as bad as my recent experience trying to get support for my Samsung Android tablet.
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See, I happen to be a big fan of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and its S-Note application. I fell in love with the S-Pen -- because the drawing and note-taking felt natural and finally offered something I could do with a tablet that I couldn't do with a laptop (for a review, see "Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 shines bright"). So I went out and bought the Note 10.1.
I loved using it. I spent a lot of effort customizing everything just the way I wanted it. I became attached to the thing.
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Then a few weeks ago I downloaded and installed Android "Jelly Bean." This was not a seamless process. Back when I bought the tablet, I had had to encrypt the device to use it as an Exchange client for work -- and to install "Jelly Bean," I was forced to decrypt and then encrypt again. Not a huge deal, but it was annoying.
As it turned out, a new version of S-Note had come along for the ride. When I tried to use the S-Pen, resting my hand on the screen spontaneously caused S-Note to zoom in without warning. My favorite app -- a big reason I had bought a $500 device -- had just become unusable.
I immediately started searching user forums to see if others had encountered the problem, and sure enough, they had. There was no way to turn off the zoom; one guy suggested using a fingerless glove as a fix. Although I bike to work and happened to have a biking glove handy, I didn't feel like wearing it to scribble on a tablet.
I tried Samsung's Web-based tech support and started a chat session, which led me nowhere. Then I tried phone support and asked if I could downgrade to the previous version. No way. Did Samsung have a fix? The tech replied curtly: "Samsung updates its software all the time." Then he pulled out a support script for dummies, so I thanked the guy and hung up.


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Ferguson is apparent winner in Attorney General race, Constantine talks vacated county council seat
With new election numbers showing King County Council member Bob Ferguson with a nearly 200,000 vote lead over fellow councilman Reagan Dunn for Attorney General, King County Executive Dow Constantine has begun talking about a replacement for Freguson.
"His election will create a vacancy on the council and I will work to ensure the people of his district are represented by a qualified councilmember," said Constantine.
After redistricting took place with the 2010 Census, Ferguson's first district was redrawn to cover Kenmore, Bothell and Finn Hill in Kirkland, along with parts of Shoreline, Lake City and Lake Forrest Park.
Constantine said that after the election is certified he will convene a "stakeholder" committee that is "representative of the district."
"The committee's job will be to vet the candidates who apply for the vacancy, and pass along all qualified candidates to me," said Constantine.
The Executive said that he will then recommend three people to the council for members to vote on.
"This will enable the council to fill the position as soon as it officially becomes vacant," said Constantine. "Applicants should plan to submit a resume and statement of qualifications to the stakeholder committee after the election is certified."
Certification of the election will take place at the county level on Nov. 27. The Washington Secretary of State will certify all election results by Dec. 6.


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Swiss Rösti Bratwurst Burger
This burger is a spin-off from the Swiss Rösti (potato hash) and the ever so present bratwurst in that country. Combined the two are a perfect pair in this burger. Gruyere cheese is a wonderful topping as well as the grainy mustard apple sauce.
1 pound small size Yukon gold potatoes
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
2 pounds Bratwurst (about 7-8 bratwurst, good quality German style)
½ cup diced onions Mustard Apple Sauce:
½ cup mayonnaise
½ cup Grey Poupon Country Dijon mustard
1 cup grated red skinned apple
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons oil for greasing grill
6 Gruyere Swiss cheese slices (about ¾ pound)
4 tablespoons butter
6 Artisan white bread slices, (½ -inch thick slices)
6 butter lettuce leaves
Place potatoes on gas grill and cook on medium heat until done, about 15-30 minutes depending on size. Remove from grill and let cool until ready to touch. Grate potatoes and mix with salt and pepper. Set aside. Remove bratwurst from casings and place into a large bowl. Discard casings. Mix bratwurst with onions and grated potatoes. Form into 6 patties to the size of the bread slices. Set aside. In a medium bowl, combine mayonnaise and mustard. Combine grated apple with lemon juice and add to mustard sauce. Set aside. Quickly oil grill rack. Grill burgers on medium hot gas grill until done about 3-5 minutes per side. Place a cheese slice on each burger for the last few seconds of grilling time. Spread butter on both sides of bread slices and grill briefly until lightly toasted, a few seconds. To assemble burgers, spread mustard apple sauce on 6 bread slices. Top with lettuce leave and patty. Add a second bread slice on top and serve. Makes 6 burgers
Small Yukon potatoes cook perfect on a grill. When you grate potatoes the skin will come off on the grater so there is no need to peel the potatoes. I used butter on the bread slices for toasting, since butter is more of a Swiss staple then olive oil. It also gives the bread great flavor.


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The Crap We Missed – Wednesday 6.25.14
Welcome to Wednesday's The Crap We Missed which is pretty Instagram heavy — even more than normal — but when Ireland Baldwin returns in a bikini after a prolonged absence in a move clearly calculated to shame Lindsay Lohan's diarrhea freckles, I must document it. This is my charge. I also tossed in Samuel L. Jackson who is like the bacon of celebrity photographs, they're always improved by him, as well as a double dose of Satan's representation on earth starting here, because it's important to remember exactly how ugly they truly are on the outside as well.
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HUNDREDS of ale lovers are heading for Colne for the start of the ninth annual Pendle Beer Festival today.
The best breweries from across the north of England, including 13 from East Lancashire, will be among those gathered at Colne Muni Theatre until Saturday.
This year's theme is 'The Great Outdoors', with the brewers expected to produce more than 100 tipples for punters.
The festival, which kicked off last night with a return of last year's successful ladies-only preview, is raising money for Pendleside Hospice.
Volunteer Karen Pashley said the idea was for women to try real ale in a relaxed and friendly atmos- phere.
She said: "With so many beers available it's difficult to decide which ones to try.
"This event provides an introduction to beer styles and will help women to find their favourites while they sample some great beers."
Burnley giant Moorhouse's and Blackburn favourites Thwaites will be among those showcasing their ales.
Members of the Campaign For Real Ale (CAMRA) can attend events for free for the duration of the festival.
Martyn Pashley, the festival's organiser, said: "CAMRA was pleased to hand over a cheque to Pendleside Hospice last year for an amazing £5,000 and this year we hope to top that amount.
"We look forward to seeing what's sure to be another amazing real ale fest- ival."
Musical highlights of the festival include rock 'n' roll quartet The Witnesses from 8pm tomorrow, Waggy's Solo, PYO Music and Sugar Cool Bones on Saturday afternoon followed by headliners Vicky and the Big Combo from 7.30pm on Saturday evening.


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Gear up for holiday baking with Cooking Channel. Your favorite chefs & Food People have opened their kitchens to share their best cookie recipes. From mini Red Velvet Whoopie Pies to Chuck's Maple-Pecan Shortbread, we'll keep you baking all season. Visit our All-Star Cookie Swap, then head over to FoodNetwork.com for great takes on holiday baking from Food Network chefs.
When trying to decide what cookie we'd contribute to Cooking Channel's cookie swap, we were inspired by all of those (somewhat scary) scented candles and potpourri that seem to pop up around the holidays. Lets be serious — they are way too strong and basically give everyone migraines. What those products are trying to emulate is the subtly spicy scent that wafts through the air while holiday baking is underway. And so we created these pumpkin cookies, to capture all that seasonal goodness (nary a wax candle in sight).
To replicate those sweet, spicy and tart smells in the form of a cookie, we started with a pumpkin base and studded the dough with bits of white chocolate and dried cranberries. (Pumpkin is one of our favorite wintry flavors and we bake with it as much as possible during its short season.) The result? These super soft, fluffy cookies with alternating bits of creamy and chewy textures. We promise: Baking these cookies will remind you what the holidays really should smell like.
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Steelers pay price with injuries as their road woes continue
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ben Roethlisberger broke one of the Steelers' oldest-standing records. With a lineup that was patched together from series to series, Roethlisberger and his teammates couldn't break from one of their newest traditions.
They lost yet another road game they were expected to win easily — their fourth straight loss away from home and fifth in sixth games — as Rob Bironas kicked a 40-yard field goal on the final play to give the Tennessee Titans a 26-23 upset win Thursday night at LP Field.
"We're not making plays when we need to," Roethlisberger said. "We don't make excuses. ... It stinks. It's not good. We've got to get better."
Roethlisberger, who dodged and ducked pass rushers all night after offensive linemen Maurkice Pouncey and Marcus Gilbert went down with leg injuries, went 24 of 40 for 363 yards to surpass Terry Bradshaw's career passing record of 27,989 yards. Roethlisberger came in with 27,703 yards and now has 28,066.
The Steelers (2-3) had a punt blocked, lost two starting offensive linemen and two running backs to injuries, and they fell behind 16-10 to a Titans team that is allowing points at what is nearly an all-time record rate.
One more injury, and they might have had to use Casey Hampton as a running back.
Pouncey injured an MCL, although several teammates said they don't believe the injury is serious, and Gilbert (ankle), running backs Rashard Mendenhall (Achilles) and Isaac Redman (ankle), and linebacker Brandon Johnson (hamstring) also were hurt. Right guard Ramon Foster (right leg) and safety Ryan Clark (hip pointer) returned after getting hurt.
"I've been through games like that," left guard Willie Colon said. "Thank God there's no season-ending things."
Amid the injuries and the lineup upheaval, Roethlisberger converted on third-and-long three times during a go-ahead, 80-yard drive that ended with Baron Batch's 1-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter.
But even after they came back to lead 23-16, the Steelers gave up the final 10 points in a loss nearly identical to that of their 34-31 setback to the Raiders three weeks ago when they led by 10 points late.
This time, Shaun Suisham kicked three field goals, the last a 52-yarder, but also missed a 54-yarder that gave the Titans a short field on their decisive field goal drive. Matt Hasselbeck's 25-yard throw to tight end Jared Cook was the key play of the drive. Cook lined up next to the left tackle, cut across the line of scrimmage and wasn't picked up until he had made the catch.
"We've got to win those games — especially games when we feel like we should win," receiver Mike Wallace said. "We got to put them away. We gave them too many chances and they made plays at the time and we didn't."
The Steelers' past three games have been decided by last-play field goals, and they have lost two of them.
"We're 2-3, and we've not accomplished anything," linebacker Larry Foote said. "We're off to a rocky start."
The Titans came in 1-4 and was the first NFL team in 58 years to allow 30 points or more in its first five games.
"Maybe that's the problem," Foote said. "Maybe mentally that's how we're looking at these games (as easy wins) right now."
Redman exited after he was 11 yards away from breaking Frenchy Fuqua's modern-era team record of 116 yards receiving by a running back in a game, set in 1970. He wasn't in any boot or wrap after the game, and neither was Mendenhall.
"I've never had a 100-yard receiving game (at any level)," Redman said.
A big chunk of Roethlisberger's yardage came on his 82-yard touchdown hookup with Wallace in the first quarter that pushed the Steelers into a 10-3 lead. Roethlisberger and Wallace hooked up for the 24th time on a completion of 40 yards or longer.
"Congratulations to him for the record," Wallace said. "He knows it really doesn't matter right now because we didn't get the win. It's not about personal records. It's not about personal stats. It's about winning ballgames."
But after the Wallace big-play score, Tim Shaw broke up the middle unimpeded — Ryan Mundy apparently missed a block — to block a Drew Butler punt with Jason McCourty recovering at the 1, and Jamie Harper scored one play later for Tennessee's first rushing touchdown this season, making it 13-10.
Shaw also blocked a Daniel Sepulveda punt last season in Pittsburgh, not that it mattered in a 38-17 Steelers win.
After Bironas added a 47-yarder, Suisham sliced it to 16-13 with a 28-yarder, and Roethlisberger then patched together the best Steelers drive of the game, one kept going by his 17-yard completion to Heath Miller on a third-and-10, and Batch scored with 13:34 remaining.
But just when it looked like the Titans would return to the form that has seen them lose by margins of 21, 28, 24 and 23 points, Matt Hasselbeck steered them on an 80-yard, 11-play drive finished off by his 5-yard touchdown throw to Kenny Britt with 4:19 remaining that tied it at 23.
Hasselbeck — filling in for the injured Jake Locker — repeatedly had success targeting cornerback Ike Taylor in coverage, finished 25 of 44 for 290 yards, one touchdown and one interception as the Titans converted on 9 of 16 third downs.
Chris Johnson, held to 25 yards or fewer four times this season, had 91 yards on 19 carries, the most he's had against Pittsburgh.
The Steelers drove inside the Titans' 40 in the final minute, but Suisham missed for the first time in 12 attempts, a 54-yarder that was a few yards short. Coach Mike Tomlin allowed him to kick from that range because he had made a 52-yarder earlier.
"I've got to complete one more pass there to make it easier for him," Roethlisberger said.
Right now the Steelers aren't making it easy on themselves at all. Not even against the easy teams that suddenly have become very hard to beat.


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- Issue of child sexual abuse emerges in L.A. Council District 6 race
Issue of child sexual abuse emerges in L.A. Council District 6 race
By Catherine Saillant
The closing days of a quiet race to choose Los Angeles City Hall's only female elected official have erupted in an unusual clash over which candidate is likely to be more attuned to issues of child sexual abuse.
The late-breaking controversy — which included one candidate telling her story of being abused as a child — has added a wild card to Tuesday's special election to fill the eastern San Fernando Valley 6th District seat vacated by Tony Cardenas, who was elected to Congress.
The volley of charges and countercharges escalated when Cindy Montañez, a former state legislator and Department of Water and Power executive, sent out mailers accusing her opponent of failing to protect students from sexual predator-teachers as a Los Angeles school board member.
The target of the political attack, Nury Martinez, responded in an emotional interview with The Times by alleging that someone in her Van Nuys neighborhood repeatedly touched her inappropriately when she was a girl of 3 or 4. Martinez said she was hurt by her opponent's attacks.
The timing of Martinez's decision to go public with her story, in the final week of the campaign, left some election analysts scratching their heads over the potential effects on the race. Dan Schnur, director of USC's Unruh Institute of Politics, said the exchange may not sway many voters unless Montañez knew about Martinez's past and sent out the mailers anyway. No such evidence has come to light.
"Voters would be very angry at Cindy Montañez if she knew about this painful episode in Martinez's life," Schnur said. "But it seems that this was simply a policy-based criticism that happened to align with a personal matter."
Jaime Regalado, professor emeritus of political science at Cal State Los Angeles, said some voters could view the timing of Martinez's discussion of childhood abuse as a Hail Mary tactic late in the race. In the May primary, Montañez led Martinez by 19 percentage points and has since far outpaced her rival in fundraising. "It can't help but look like a response, and a very late response, to apparent headway that her opponent is making in these allegations," he said.
Montañez contends she is simply stating facts. She says Martinez was on the school board in 2012 when multiple cases of alleged sexual abuse of students by teachers became public. Montañez defends her mailers that highlight the cases, saying they were a response to earlier attacks made by outside groups supporting Martinez's campaign that criticized her work at the DWP. "She went negative," Montañez said. "We had to respond."
Martinez said the assertion that she failed to do enough to protect students "is an absolute lie."
"She is completely taking advantage of these victims for political purposes, and that's not OK," Martinez said.
Until recent days, the race had been a relatively low-key contest between two Latinas with similar backgrounds who are vying to become the only woman holding elected office in the nation's second largest city. Former Councilwoman Jan Perry and former City Controller Wendy Greuel were the last remaining female officeholders at City Hall before leaving their positions July 1.
Both of the council candidates say City Hall needs more female elected officials, but neither sees that as a defining issue in the race. "We need to do more to recruit women and make them viable candidates," Martinez said. "That should happen in every election."
The heavily Latino 6th District includes Van Nuys, Arleta and Pacoima. Montañez, 39, and Martinez, 40, onetime political allies, both were raised by immigrant parents in the eastern San Fernando Valley and speak fluent Spanish. Both served on the San Fernando City Council at different times, before moving to Los Angeles. Both campaigns have been largely grass-roots, with the candidates knocking on doors, meeting in living rooms with small groups and sending out mailers.
Montañez has raised twice as much campaign cash as Martinez for Tuesday's runoff election and is backed by the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, Mayor Eric Garcetti, the Sierra Club and several public-employee unions. Martinez is endorsed by Cardenas, former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and a handful of business groups and unions.
Both candidates have focused on cleaning up and revitalizing the district. Montañez said that the area has been "neglected" for 10 years and that she will bring new vigor to improving the ailing Van Nuys Boulevard business corridor. Martinez said she too would revitalize Van Nuys Boulevard and help neighborhoods deal with increasing graffiti, vandalism and crime.
Martinez, a Sun Valley resident, says she helped keep budget cuts out of the classroom during her time on the school board. On the San Fernando council, she helped build an aquatic center, she said. And as head of the nonprofit Pacoima Beautiful, she oversaw the cleanup and redevelopment of polluted properties.
Montañez, who lives in Van Nuys, describes herself as a "nerd" who likes to drill deep into policy. That aptitude benefited DWP ratepayers, Montañez said, when she helped negotiate a pact that gives the utility more time to comply with costly pollution regulations.
(To read original article, visit this Los Angeles Times link)


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linguoboy wrote:Delodephius wrote:From where I come we use Mongoloid when referring to the race. I don't know which is the most appropriate term in English.
"Mongoloid" as a racial term sounds like something out of a 100 year-old textbook.
In El Salvador people still say Mongoles though. (Though only if mocking their appearance.)
Most people in the US would simply say "Asians", which in everyday use excludes South Asians ("Indians") and Southwestern Asians ("Middle Easterners").
And sometimes Southeast Asians, sometimes not.
Delodephius wrote:At college we were taught the Caucasian sub-races that were typical for Slavs. I later did a bit of research and as far as I can tell I'm a mixture of the Alpinid and Baltid sub-races. It was in the Slavic Studies class when we were going through the section "Anthropology aspect" of Slavs (there were other sections of other aspects: linguistical, confessional, ethnic, cultural, etc.). So basically, from where I come the concept of race is still used to classify humans. Living in a nearly 100% white community there is also a high level of bias and stereotyping, but then again most people, like my 84 year-old grandfather, have never seen a black or a yellow man in their whole life and wouldn't really have an opinion about them.
In El Salvador there are literally no blacks, no people from the Middle East, and almost no Chinese (and the only way to meet some of them is actually going to look for them in some gathering places, but normally you're unlikely to find them walk by you or anything.)
And I'm pretty sure old people would be scared of a black person if it walked even down the street. Not because they would associate it with crime or violence, they don't know about those, but because the person's very appearance would be frightening to them.
We don't get to the extreme of the Slovaks however.


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This charming 'chocolate box' thatched, detached holiday cottage is situated in the heart of the coastal village of Winterton-on-Sea. It has been tastefully decorated and furnished. The cottage has exposed beams throughout and offers a welcoming holiday break whatever the season. Set in a quiet crescent…
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ORLANDO, Fla. - Orange County Fire Rescue is investigating what sparked a fire at an apartment complex in Orlando on Monday morning.
Fire Rescue officials said at 10:32 on Monday, a fire broke out in the attic of the Royal Palms Apartment Complex in Orlando. The fire was put out 30 minutes after firefighters arrived.
16 units were affected and are deemed unlivable.
The cause of the fire is currently unknown, according to Orange County Fire Department.
The complex is located at 2527 W Oak Ridge Road.
Because of the size of the building and the potential for injuries and loss of life, a second fire alarm went off which brought additional firefighters to the scene. Over 40 firefighters along with support teams responded.
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When planning the same holiday year after year, how do you keep your celebration fresh and interesting while maintaining a sense of tradition? We asked our favorite bloggers and food people to share what's inspiring their Thanksgiving planning this year. From ancestor's recipes and falling leaves, to beautiful piles of ingredients and thoughtful home decor, there was no shortage of imagination. See what motivates some of the most creative minds we know, and then start planning your annual feast.
When we hear the word "Thanksgiving," a number of things come to mind: family, togetherness, feasts, just to name a few. For some people, the lucky ones, it also means stepping outside and indulging in beautiful colors that weren't there during the summer months and which will soon disappear. These colors are easily found within typical Thanksgiving fare, so when we think about table decor, we like to offset that palette by adding in some light colors, like blues and greens. It's a bit of an unexpected route to take your table decor, but it really makes the food look amazing because of the contrast it provides.
As a food stylist and photographer, we also really appreciate it when the food looks really pretty. Pick plates that fit your food nicely. Consider the color of your plate, and how it will match up with the food you serve on it. You don't have to be "matchy" about it. Mismatched napkins, plates and silverware can also look amazing.
We also understand that making a huge meal can be a whole lot of work. We really appreciate it when recipes are manageable, yet still having something about them that takes them to the next level. While we like to stick with the staples of any Thanksgiving meal, because they're some of our favorite foods and give us a great sense of tradition, we also like adding unexpected elements here and there to keep things new and exciting. We convey this through some of our recipes like, herb turkey meatballs with a sweet and savory cranberry barbecue sauce (instead of the traditional whole brined turkey) and maple roasted acorn squash (instead of the more familiar butternut squash). All of these recipes are simple, easy and delicious. Anyone can make them, whether you're a newbie to hosting Thanksgiving dinner or a 10-year veteran. Happy Thanksgiving!
Spoon Fork Bacon
Cinnamon-Spiced Cupcakes Topped with Cream Cheese Frosting and Candied Ginger
Heavenly Mashed Potatoes
Herbed Turkey Meatballs and Cranberry Barbeque Sauce
Sausage and Sage Stuffing with Dried Cranberries and Toasted Hazelnuts
Cinnamon and Star Anise-infused Cranberry Sauce
Maple-Glazed Roasted Acorn Squash
For more Thanksgiving ideas, visit our Thanksgiving Inspiration Board Gallery.
Jenny Park is a food stylist and recipe writer born and raised in Chicago. She has worked for companies such as Herbalife, Harvest House Publishers, Lucky Strike Lanes and Quirk Books. Teri Lyn Fisher is a food and interior photographer born and raised in Boise, Idaho. She has produced images for companies such as Rue magazine, Clos Du Bois Winery, Anthology and Sterling Publications. Jenny and Teri both currently live in Los Angeles and collaborate on Spoon Fork Bacon together.
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Next Stop Hollywood, ABC1, 9.30pm
IT'S nearly the final episode of the ABC's engaging and enjoyable documentary series (it could fall into the ''reality'' category, but features too much actual reality) following six Australian actors trying to get a break during the Los Angeles ''pilot season'' - a journey made by scores and scores of actors every year. The program's actors have had ''proper'' experience, but for most of them it's still been a hard six weeks. Tonight follows the six in their final week and there are some emotional moments. Actor and writer-director Craig finally lands a meeting with famed agency UTA, but when the Next Stop Hollywood crew asks for details, he insists he's not allowed to divulge anything, and there's a rare moment of hostility between him and the program's producers. Without giving anything away, not everyone gets a Hollywood ending. But there's always next pilot season.
Packed to the Rafters, Channel Seven, 8.45pm
IT'S a big night of surprises tonight, which this once top-rating program probably needs now the series has moved so far from its original premise. Youngest son Nathan returns from London with several announcements that leave Julie and Dave exchanging pantomime-style glances and hamming it up no end. Ben, meanwhile, decides to make a spur-of-the-moment life change, which leads to some excruciating mother-and-son exchanges between he and Julie, in which they wring out a metaphor until it's a husk of its former charming - if twee - self. It's hard to imagine where this series can head now the Rafter house is well and truly not packed.
Against the Wall, Channel Seven, 10.45pm
IT SEEMS odd that US cable channel Lifetime, which produces ''TV and movies for women'', made this cop show - until you actually sit through an episode. Against the Wall is billed as police drama with an edge of female empowerment, but it's more a cavalcade of cop-show and strong-female-character cliches. Our own Rachael Carpani (Jodi Fountain from McLeod's Daughters) is Abby Kowalski, who takes an opening in internal affairs to rise to the level of detective. The problem is that regular cops hate internal affairs, and Abby is from a proud family of regular, hard-bitten Chicago cops: her father and three brothers are all internal affairs-hating officers. They all, somewhat inconveniently, work at the same station and are often, it would seem, being investigated by internal affairs. It could be an interesting premise, but instead it's merely a loose plot device that weaves its way through what feels like a series of Naked Gun-style police-procedural parodies. Tonight's episode has everything: someone weeping while holding a framed photo to their chest, someone slapping a table during an interrogation before standing up and running their hands through their hair, scenes ending with moody night-time shots of the city skyline, a pregnant character eating a hot dog for breakfast (crazy!), our female heroine relieving tension by working out with a punching bag on the roof of her warehouse apartment. The only thing missing is a scene in which Kowalski gets an urgent call on the patrol car radio and must throw a half-drunk coffee out of the window. That's probably next week. But it might be prudent not to get too into Against the Wall, because it wasn't renewed for a second season.
Parenthood, Channel Seven, 9.45pm
IT'S a bit of a racy episode of Parenthood tonight, opening with Crosby and Jasmine getting it on on their kitchen floor and Crosby learning that Adam and Kristina schedule their sex, which they refer to, in their synced Google calendars, as Funky Time. But we learn all this with good reason, of course, and by the episode's end Jasmine wishes Crosby were more carefree and more like Adam when he misses an appointment. Young love is also explored tonight, as Drew, beginning his senior year, finds himself dumped on the first day. One of tonight's highlights is Sarah's new boss, grumpy photographer Hank (the brilliant Ray Romano in a recurring role), explaining his experience with women and offering Drew some sage advice.


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Nostalgia Alert! Herbal Essences Classics Are Making a Comeback
Clairol's Herbal Essences brand is going retro!
-Lucia Peters
Sure, Herbal Essences may have gotten all wild in recent years with shampoos, conditioners, and styling products designed to do everything from straightening unruly locks to giving them an artfully tousled look; but who could forget the brand's classic lineup from the '90s? You know, the one they advertised with this oh-so-memorable ad?
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Well, if you've been missing the good old days, we've got news for you: They're making a comeback!
According to WWD, Herbal Essences is re-launching two of their classics: The Smooth Collection and the Shine Collection. Walter Geiger, an exec for Herbal's parent company, Clairol, noted that the brand "moved away from classics" in the 2000's in order to reenergize the brand: "We needed to reset our target 'who,' and focused on Millennials," Geiger said.
Now, though, they're making the nostalgia factor work for them. Both the Smooth Collection and the Shine Collection will be coming back as sulfate-free conditioners and silicone-free shampoos. The first official ad for the re-launched products will run during the Grammy Awards telecast on February 10 (CBS, 8pm).
Tell us: Will you be picking up some good old-fashioned Herbal Essences goodness?
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.


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AFTER my somewhat damning verdict on City manager Derek McInnes in last week's article, I got the opportunity to hear from the man in person last week at a 'Q & A' session hosted by the club.
McInnes was certainly in a bullish mood and looked like a man under pressure, not surprising given the club's league position. He was asked some pressing questions about his summer signings, tactics and team selections.
When asked if he had an action plan to get us out of trouble, he cited the reasons for us being in trouble was down to injuries (eight players currently) and having to work within a tighter wage budget. He didn't give any details of how he envisaged us getting out of trouble, but insisted that the team would finish in a better position than last season come May.
Another key point of discussion was the announcement of club record losses, with City posting a £14.4m loss in the past year. Chairman Keith Dawe was clear in his view that this was not acceptable and that the clubs £18m wage bill would have to be slashed, eventually to around £8-10m in order to comply with the incoming Financial Fair Play regulations. Dawe, who runs a recruitment business himself, emphasised the importance of investing in youth development and scouting to get the best players to the club and not wasting money on overpaid journeymen as the club has been guilty of in recent years.
This approach sounds promising for the future, however, there is a worry in the short term that we are going to struggle as the club cuts its cloth. The reality of our situation has made me reassess my expectations for this season a little and survival would again be an achievement.
A couple of days later we got a big boost in that respect with a thrilling 3-2 away win at fellow strugglers Sheffield Wednesday, which temporarily lifts us out of the relegation zone.
We've now won away from home more times than we have at home this season. If we want to stay up then our home form must improve quickly; hopefully starting this Saturday when Derby County are the visitors to Ashton Gate. Derby are 10th in the league but have a fairly unremarkable away record, winning just twice on the road this season and scoring just eight times. Here's hoping we can get back-to-back wins going into another big game at Ipswich just before Christmas.
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ON Semi plans more job cuts
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SAN FRANCISCOON Semiconductor Corp. plans to cut additional jobs as part of a plan to save the company between $10 million and $15 million per year, company executives said Thursday (Aug. 2).
In a conference call with analysts Thursday, Donald Colvin, ON Semi's chief financial officer, said the company planned to cut 10 percent of non-manufacturing jobs in "high cost regions." Colvinwho the company announced Thursday plans to resignsaid the company carried out a 10 percent reduction in headcount at its Sanyo Semiconductor division during the second quarter. ON Semi acquired Sanyo in Jan. 2011.
The announcement came in the wake of ON Semi's second quarter financial report. The company announced second quarter revenue and a third quarter sales target that came up short of consensus analysts' expectations.
ON Semi announced last year plans to close three fabs in Japan and two back-end test and assembly facilities in Thailand. The fab closures are taking place this year, while the back-end facilities never reopened after being damaged during the Thai floods in 2011.
Keith Jackson, ON Semi's CEO, said the 10 percent cut in the Sanyo division, combined with the new job cuts and various other measures put in place should help better position the company for prevailing weak economic conditions. "We do believe that these are the right type of actions to be taking in the likely economy over the next year," Jackson said.
Like other semiconductor executives in recent earnings calls, Jackson said ON Semi has been hurt by sluggish sales as customer OEMs and distributors continue to maintain very lean levels of inventory. At the same time, Jackson said ON Semi is seeing an unusual amount of rush orders.
"We've seen a lot of folks that have continued to push on being lean, and then they get in the jam and have to order stuff quickly," Jackson said.