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In America, there is a National Food Holiday for every day of the year. This means that you can celebrate food all year long instead of only enjoying great foods on holidays such as Christmas and Thanksgiving. This article features a list of the National Food Holidays for the month of October. You'll even find suggestions on how to celebrate each day.
Homemade Cookies Day, October 1st- Don't wait until Christmas to make homemade cookies, instead celebrate this food holiday with a big batch of chocolate chip or peanut butter cookies.
National Fried Scallops Day, October 2nd- If you don't live right on the coast, you may want to visit a restaurant to enjoy this food holiday or at least buy frozen scallops. Make it a full meal with a baked potato and a large salad.
National Caramel Custard Day, October 3th- You have an option on this food holiday, you can either buy caramel custard or you can make some from scratch, either way this is an easy and delicious holiday to celebrate.
National Taco Day, October 4th- Taco Bell. Need I say more?
National Apple Betty Day, October 5th- Now this is a classic dessert that definitely calls for a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
National Noodle Day, October 6th- This is a food holiday that lets you be truly creative. Just create your favorite pasta dish or try a new recipe.
National Frappe Day, October 7th- You can easily make a frappe at home. Just create a chocolate milkshake using ice cream, milk, and chocolate syrup but make it thinner than a regular milkshake by adding more milk.
National Fluffernutter Day, October 8th- Now this is a food holiday that will take you back to your childhood. A Fluffernutter is fresh white bread, peanut butter, and marshmallow cream. Serve with a big of glass milk.
Submarine-Hoagy-Hero-Grinder Day, October 9th- Subway. Need I say more? Okay, okay. Go to a great deli and a great bakery and get all your favorite sandwich ingredients and build the ultimate sub.
National Angel Food Cake Day October 10th- This food holiday is so easy to celebrate. Just pick up an angel food cake at your grocery store along with strawberries, sugar, and whipped cream. Slice the strawberries and sprinkle with sugar. Allow the berries to sit until a syrup forms. Pour over a slice of angel food cake and top with sweetened whipped cream.
National Sausage Pizza Day, October 11: Enjoy this food holiday by sautéing ground sausage with sliced onions. Top a pizza crust with your favorite pizza sauce, provolone and mozzarella cheese, and the sausage and onion mixture. Bake until golden brown and enjoy.
National Gumbo Day, October 12th- Celebrate this food holiday by going out to a local Cajun restaurant. Even better, make a trip to New Orleans for the real thing.
National Yorkshire Pudding Day, October 13th- Yorkshire Pudding is actually a British dish, so how this became a National American Food Holiday is uncertain, but find a recipe for Yorkshire Pudding and serve it with roast beef which is very traditional.
National Chocolate-Covered Insects Day, October 14th- This is a food holiday I would never, ever celebrate. But, during October you can also find chocolate candy that is shaped like insects. Celebrate that way.
National Chicken Cacciatore Day, October 15th-Treat yourself to a delicious meal at the finest Italian restaurant on this food holiday.
National Liqueur Day, October 16th- I don't drink alcohol, but if you want to celebrate you could make your favorite drink at home or go to a nice restaurant.
National Pasta Day, October 17th- October is just loaded with Italian style holidays. To enjoy this food holiday, prepare a huge batch of spaghetti and slip into a delightful carb coma.
National Chocolate Cupcake Day, October 18th- Go all out on this food holiday and create chocolate cupcakes that are beyond decadent. Try adding candy to the cake batter and make homemade chocolate buttercream frosting.
National Seafood Bisque Day, October 19th- There are so many different bisques to choose from. Try making a lobster or crab bisque at home. This is a great way to spend a cool October evening.
National Brandied Fruit Day, October 20th- Again, I don't have alcohol in my home or prepare recipes that call for alcohol. But, you can find many recipes online for this dish.
National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day, October 21: Pumpkin cheesecake is a match made in heaven. You have the wonderful taste of pumpkin pie with the creaminess of cheesecake. I highly suggest celebrating this food holiday.
National Nut Day, October 22nd- Don't just open a can of nuts on this tasty food holiday. Instead make pralines or sugared nuts.
National Boston Cream Pie Day, October 23rd- Have fun with this fun holiday and make Boston Cream Cupcakes. Just bake vanilla cupcakes and when they are cool, stuff them with vanilla pudding. Then frost them with chocolate frosting and enjoy.
National Bologna Day, October 24th- Step back to your childhood on this fine food holiday and enjoy a fried bologna sandwich.
National Greasy Foods Day, October 25th- Only in America would we have a delicious holiday like this. Get out your deep fryer and make French fries, chicken tenders, deep fried Oreos, deep fried candy bars, and anything else that looks friable.
Pumpkin Day, October 26th- Is there any better way to celebrate this food holiday than having a big piece of Pumpkin pie? I didn't think so.
National Potato Day, October 27th- On this food holiday do something fun and make a potato buffet. Bake up several large potatoes and put out several toppings for everyone to choose from.
National Chocolate Day, October 28th- Do something truly decadent on for this food holiday and order a box of Godiva chocolates. Schedule them to arrive on this fabulous day.
National Oatmeal Day, October 29th- Skip the bowl of oatmeal and bake oatmeal cookies.
National Candy Corn Day, October 30th- Do something fun the day before Halloween and make your own candy corn from scratch.
National Candy Apple Day, October 31st- While candy apples are delicious, why not make caramel apples instead? Buy Kraft Caramels and melt them according to package directions. Dip your apples into the caramel, then into melted chocolate, and then roll them in nuts. This is a Halloween treat everyone will


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Autumn is in the air. The mornings have that slight chill, and you need an extra blanket on the bed at night. The days are still sunny and warm, but in the evening, the sun dips below the horizon earlier and earlier, and the pervasive scent of leaves and smoke fills the air. It's the time to curl up with a good book and enjoy the changing season. And speaking of good books, I've been rereading the "Little House on the Prairie" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder again, something I do every year as the season turns to fall. Comfort reading at its best!
It's funny to read something as an adult that you loved as a child. These books were my escape as a little girl. I loved Laura and her intelligence and her naughtiness, and the fact that she, too, loved to read. I used to think the vagabond life lived by her, her two sisters and her Ma and Pa sounded so exciting and fun. But then reading as an adult, I found myself thinking how painful walking on a bare wooden floor would be if you stepped on a splinter, how hard it must be to sweep a dirt floor, and how horrible it would be to have to spin and dye wool and make your own clothes. And I found myself feeling sorry for Ma, what with Pa constantly running off on adventures and moving them from a log cabin in Wisconsin to the prairies of Kansas to a mud house on a creek bank in Minnesota to – finally! – a nice home in South Dakota.
In the seventh book of the series, "Little Town on the Prairie," the family is (finally!) happily settled into their home in De Smet, SD, and all the girls are growing up. There are socials, parties, sleigh rides, in addition to the daily life chores of housework, caring for the farm animals, and cooking. In fact, reading the food descriptions in this series are a great joy for me, as a home cook. On Thanksgiving, the entire town contributes to a communal Thanksgiving dinner, complete with a roasted pig with an apple in its mouth. There is food galore, pumpkin pies and beans and casseroles and cornbread and pickles and all sorts of goodies, and each table has its own delicious chicken pie.
"In all their lives, Laura and Carrie had never seen so much food. Those tables were loaded…….there were heaped dishes of mashed potatoes and of mashed turnips……there were plates piled high with golden squares of corn bread…….there were cucumber pickles and beet pickles and green tomato pickles………on each table was a long, wide, deep pan of chicken pie, with steam rising through the slits in its flaky crust."
I love chicken pot pie, and have always wanted to try making one from scratch, piecrust and all. But I've always wanted to make cornbread, too, so I decided to combine them into one yummy recipe, in homage of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the changing season.
This is the method that worked for me, based on my memories of chicken pot pie and all the goodies inside. The cornbread crust came from one of my Nana Jean's recipe cards I found stuck inside her old cookery book from the 1950s……..a little bit of happy serendipity for me. And the beauty of a cornbread topping is that you don't have to knead it into a dough. You just spread it on top of the pie filling and bake.
For the pie filling:
6 boneless, skinless chicken thighs, poached and shredded
2 potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes
12 baby carrots, cut into small circles
1 and 1/2 ribs of celery, finely diced
1 and 1/2 cup frozen peas
1 medium-sized onion, chopped
Olive oil and butter for sauteeing
2 tablespoons chicken bouillon paste
1 and 1/2 cups flour
2 cups chicken stock
1 cup lowfat milk
Salt and pepper for seasoning
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg (or more depending on your taste)
For the cornmeal crust:
1 and 1/4 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 cup lowfat milk
1/2 tablespoons olive oil
1 egg, beaten
In a saucepan filled with 1/2 cup of chicken stock and 1 tablespoon of butter, cook the potatoes, celery and carrots until soft, but not mushy, up to 30 minutes, but check them for texture. Add the onions and cook another 5 minutes. Add the frozen peas during the last 2-3 minutes of cooking. Put this mixture onto a plate and set aside.
In the same pan, heat the olive oil and a bit more butter. Add the flour, a little at a time, to the the oil and butter, and stir to ensure all the flour is absorbed. This part is important, because you don't want that floury taste. Gradually add the nutmeg as well, a bit at a time.
Gradually incorporate the milk and the chicken stock, alternating between the two, slowly pouring into the flour and oil. Whisk vigorously with a metal whisk, creating a roux. The roux will create that thick sauce that characterizes the inside of a chicken pot pie, thickening as you keep adding liquid. Rouxs do take awhile, so be prepared to keep whisking for a good half-hour. Add in the bouillon paste as you're whisking, and keep tasting to see if the flour taste has disappeared.
Add the bouillon cube, the cooked potatoes, carrots, celery and peas to this mixture, and stir well to mix. Cook everything together for a couple of minutes. Add the shredded, cooked chicken, mix through and let heat through one last time. Cover and set aside.
Heat the oven to 400F, and get on with making the cornbread crust.
In a mixing bowl, combine the cornmeal, flour, salt and baking powder. In yet another small bowl, mix together the milk, oil and egg yolk, then slowly add it to the dry ingredients. The batter will be lumpy, but that's the idea.
Spray the inside of 4-6 ramekins with olive oil spray, then fill about 3/4 of each with the chicken mixture.
Top with the somewhat lumpy cornbread batter, as evenly as you can. Place the filled ramekins on a baking tray and pop into the oven to cook for about 15 minutes. You'll know they're done when the formerly lumpy batter has puffed up and gotten golden-brown on top.
Allow to cool for 5 minutes, then eat happily, and be thankful you didn't have to go out and pick the potatoes or pluck the chicken, like you lived in a little house on a prairie or something.

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Red Rover, Red Rover, send Dickie right over... It's a Cheneypalooza!
I wanted to get this post up ASAP. Check back later for a bio of our new contributor. -- MJWS
(One question I have today is, where's Rumsfeld?)
If he isn't leading a coup, or just bustin' everyone's balls, then it may be that our Vice President is showing overt signs of dementia setting in... Senility or Alzheimer's, perhaps... Could also be his notoriously bad heart (both literally and figuratively).
It may be that the days of the week are confusing him, and he thinks he's on one of his weekend Armageddon retreats.
How else to explain that he believes he is not part of the Executive Branch?
Long past the shock of illegal, law-breaking misdeeds
Who knew, last month, when we called for volunteers to become a "Cheney's Cheney" and join his team for the Iran venture that we'd see that the Darth Vader Man was already well ahead of the curve on it.
We also saw signs last November, when Cheney broke from the White House to form his own Iran Study Group.
And we had a feeling, earlier, back in November 2005, that Dick was quite the Magic Vice Prez.
He has his lavish Secret Bunker... The family, in particular the wife, is with him all the way... He'll dress-down, and swear at, a senator, or turn around and expose a covert CIA agent at the drop of the hat... And he shares with his boss/underling, The Commander Guy, a disdain for democracy...
He's already long past the shock of conducting his illegal, law-breaking misdeeds, that there haven't been any blaring sirens coming for him ... No scoldings, no detention, so he's looking around, his head spinning like Linda Blair's, and sees no one after him, so it's time to push that secret envelope out more, and more.
We should expect some type of fiat next from the VP Man, perhaps suspending the 2008 election, removing Bush, keeping the surge he sings praises for, and, of course, leaving all Iran options on table -- particularly the bombing ones.
Which way does it go -- over the cliff or top of the world?
He doesn't give a shit about nose-diving ratings, he's got his hands on the wheel, his fingers on the buttons... And he's going for broke...
A Thelma and Louise, pedal-to-the-medal drive off the Constitutional cliff?... A Cody Jarrett, Top-of-the-World-Ma scream, standing on a blazing and exploding Iranian nuclear reactor?... Or a more fitting, Sam Peckinpah-inspired, Pike Bishop shoot out with Congress?
For me, I'd like to see, with a nice, lush, Bernard Hermann score, Cheney, sweating and panicked, on top of Mt. Rushmore, holding a trinket containing all the secret Energy Meeting Notes and Secret Service Visitor Logs, being chased and hunted by Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson (hey, lay off, it's pretty close casting), and the good guys end up winning.
The only thing of it is, whose definition of good and evil do we go by?
Red Rover, Red Rover, send Dickie right over...
- Cheney Defiant on Classified Material; Executive Order Ignored Since 2003
- Rahm Emanuel To Cheney: Please Get The Heck Out Of The White House
- Cheney: Neither Here Nor There?
- Cheney Power Grab: Says White House Rules Don't Apply to Him
- Kucinich announces impeachment charges against Vice President Cheney
- White House Fiercely Divided; VP Cheney Wants State of Union Address Kept Private
- Libby Trial Update -- The Scooter and Cheney Show Theme Song
- Libby Verdict Has Bush, White House Urging Cheney Into Rehab; Sources Claim "Can't Be Trusted He Won't Break"; Iraq Comments "Last Straw" and "Were Not An Enormous Success"
- Smearing like it's 2003
- Why Dick Cheney Cracked Up
- Cheney Briefly Hospitalized After Television Appearance Yesterday; Vice President Complained Of Dizziness After Relentless Spin Session on 'Meet The Press'
- Top Ten Cloves: Slogans and Tag Lines For Caffeine-Free Diet Sprite -- If Dick Cheney Was Pitchman
- New White House Press Strategy On VP Shooting Deemed "Smashing Success"; Expect More Reports From Average Citizens, Local Papers Breaking News; President May Board Up Press Room
- Bush To Change Legal Landscape; White House Primed To Replace "Miranda" With New, "Cheney Decision"; Says Still Tough On Crime; Won't Be Applicable For Rounded-Up Terror Suspects -- "That's What Patriot Act Is For"


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This Blog focuses on Ancestor Stories, both the stories themselves about my family's ancestors and discussions of where they come from and how to prepare and share them. These stories may be non-fiction or fiction – we will always tell which is which, of course. Also see my KINNICK blog and The HOMEPLACE Series Blog, left sidebar, scroll down.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Surname Saturday - MILLER
Today, we will look at the MILLER surname.
This is my story where my father and mother (typical 'family tradition' story) had always said: "...the cowboy came in from the west and swept the farmer's daughter off her feet; married her, took her back west to his ranch..." where they raised four children - the youngest of which was Dad's mother. [More family tradition from my aunt, Dad's sister, under John Butler story]
There is still much to learn but the known facts do tell an interesting story, with many levels, that will continue to be shared as time goes by. John MILLER (1806-1888) was a prosperous farmer in Williams County, Ohio. His youngest child, daughter Ellen Rebecca MILLER (1850-1912) married James P. PRESTON (1835-1906) in 1871 in Williams Co, Ohio. His ranch was in Deer Lodge, Montana, where their four children were born (1872, 1873, 1874, 1880).
James P. PRESTON was the youngest son of William PRESTON, the first Sheriff of William Co, Ohio. James went to the gold fields as a young man and had some great successes as well as great failures as a miner and mining supervisor over his entire life. He raised Morgan Horses on his Montana ranch, but could not deny the recurring call of the gold fields. He died alone as a pauper. It has been said that his marriage to Miss MILLER was primarily to meet the requirements of the Homestead Act to achieve ownership of this Montana ranch. New information of the details of this relationship continue to be discovered.
To be continued...
Families are Forever! ;-)
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Oooooh! That would totally suck! I envision a lonely bride, in the middle of nowhere, feeling the constant reminder that she was not loved, but filled a sort of a monetary need.ReplyDelete
On the other hand, there could have been that feeling on both sides. Or, it could be that they each felt an emotional connection to the other.
I'll be watching to learn more. I do hope that the latter is closest to the truth.
Have a successful New Year!
~ Yaya
Yaya's Home
I'm fairly confident the true emotions were there in the early years; exhibited by a closeness to the children, each in their own way, over the years. However, after about ten years on the ranch, related activities do suggest a divergence of interests... not uncommon in everyday life, unfortunately. I will carefully post some of this signs and symptoms.
Thank you for your comments. I really appreciate them! ;-)


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Hertz introduces three new Porsche sports cars into its U.S. fleet
The Hertz Corporation, announces it has expanded its line of sports cars available for rent to include the Porsche 911, Boxster, and Cayenne, which join the already-available Porsche Panamera. With the expansion, consumers in select markets are now able to rent a variety of Porsche vehicles that transform an ordinary trip into an extraordinary journey.
"The response among Hertz customers to the Porsche vehicles in our fleet has been overwhelming, clearly demonstrating our customers' passion to get behind the wheel of these cars," commented Mark P. Frissora, Hertz Chairman and CEO. "The race-proven technology and intelligent performance Porsche brings to everyday driving offer a truly unique driving experience to Hertz customers."
Hertz was recently voted Top-Rated for Vehicles in the Zagat 2012/13 U.S. Car Rental Survey; the expanded line of Porsche products provides more options for consumers looking for an unforgettable travel experience. With suggested retail prices beginning from approximately $50,000 to $85,000, the 911, Boxster, and Cayenne offer a sports car driving character and everyday practicality without compromise. Beginning this month, Hertz customers in select California, Florida, and Nevada markets can experience these remarkable vehicles with rates starting at $250/weekend day. Terms and conditions apply, visit www.hertz.com or call for details.
In addition to the new Porsche offerings, Hertz has once again been named a series partner of the 2013 IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge by Yokohama and a sponsor of the 2013 JDX Racing Team. As part of the sponsorship, Hertz will remain integrated into the GT3 Cup Challenge, with Hertz branding displayed prominently on all vehicles, while the 2013 JDX Racing Porsche GTC car will compete throughout 2013 in the American LeMans Series.
"JDX had a strong 2012 season, winning their first ALMS race at Mid-Ohio, and we're excited JDX will campaign the #11 JDX/Hertz Porsche GTC for the complete 2013 season. With a new line up of avid passionate drivers, we're confident their skills and expertise will continue to impress throughout the year," Frissora added.
Operating one of the youngest and most diverse fleets in the industry, Hertz is committed to offering its customers the most technologically innovative products and services available to keep customers "Traveling at the Speed of Hertz." This includes Hertz Carfirmations and Carfirmation Upgrade which provide mobile confirmation of one's rental car and the ability to upgrade straight from a customer's mobile device; Gold Choice, which gives Gold members the power to keep the car they reserved or simply choose a different car from the Gold Choice area; and e-Return, with the fastest car rental drop-off that includes an email receipt within hours. These are all complimentary services for members of Hertz Gold Plus Rewards, which is currently free to join. In addition, Hertz continues to expand the presence of its ExpressRent Interactive Kiosks that let customers rent a car, with or without a reservation, through a live, face-to-face video kiosk.


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Accommodation details
- 1 storey - reached by a steep stairway of over 100 steps and not suitable for less mobile people
- Sleeps 4 - 1 double, with additional bunk beds in recess
- Sitting/dining room with wood burning stove
- Kitchen
- Shower room with WC
- Laundry facilities in an outbuilding
- Night storage heating
- Immersion water heating
- Parking for 2 cars at top of steps
- EPC Rating: F24
Please note that the bunk beds are not full size beds.
Please bring a torch for night time.
Additional apartments are available at Culzean. An interlinking door leads to South Segganwell Cottage which can be unlocked if both cottages are booked.
About Culzean Castle
Monumental, romantic and splendid, Culzean Castle was designed by Robert Adam in the 1770s on one of Scotland's most dramatic clifftop sites. The Armoury, the Library, the famous crimson oval staircase; all are guaranteed to leave a lasting impression.
228 hectares (565 acres) of Country Park surrounding the castle offer a variety of countryside to explore, including clifftop and woodland walks.
About the area
Maybole is the closest town, an ancient village established in the 12th century. As well as a Victorian town hall and 17th century castle, the High Street has a range of shops and amenities.
Ayrshire is famous for its golf courses including Turnberry, Royal Troon and Old Prestwick. Fishing, cycling, horse riding and clay shooting are also available nearby.
Things to do
- Spend a day losing yourself in Culzean's massive grounds. Spot the Ice House, the Swan Pond, visit the Deer Park and adopt a deer, or explore the rock pools on the beach.
- Alloway is only a short drive away. Learn about Scotland's National Bard at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, then follow in the footsteps of Tam O'Shanter and visit Alloway's 'auld haunted kirk'.
- There's not much left to see, but nearby clifftop ruin Turnberry Castle is steeped in medieval history. It's said Robert the Bruce's mother held his father captive here until he agreed to marry her, and the castle is widely held to be King Robert's birthplace. The ruin is old and unstable; take great care if exploring.
Getting there
Culzean is 12 miles south of Ayr, 4 miles west of Maybole.
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Chevrolet never built the 1954 Corvette Nomad wagon that Harley Earl built for General Motors' Motorama traveling road show, but ever since a few hearty after-market designers have attempted to graft a taller hatch onto the Vette's rear flanks to form a proper two-door shooting brake (British for "sports car station wagon") — often with questionable results. Now long-time Corvette customizers Callaway Cars has announced it may produce an add-on kit for the 2014 Corvette Stingray that would create what it calls the Aerowagon.
Callaway says its modifications would use a custom carbon-fiber bodywork and glass to the Vette, with minimal impact on its performance or mileage. Total cost for making your Kentucky-built sports car into a Ferrari FF fighter: no more than $15,000, if there's enough interest. Which, should enough journalists win a few MegaMillions drawings over the next few months, there would be.


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San Jose Earthquakes 0, Chivas USA 1 | MLS Match Recap
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Erick Torres' 11th goal of the year was the difference Wednesday night as Chivas USA edged out the San Jose Earthquakes, 1-0.
The Goats' win, coupled with their 1-0 defeat of Real Salt Lake last Saturday gives them back-to-back victories for the first time this season, and sees them leapfrog San Jose in the Western Conference standings. For San Jose – now last in the West – it was their third straight 1-0 loss in MLS competition, and stretches their scoreless string to 315 minutes.
Both teams were not at full strength, still missing players returning from World Cup duty. Oswaldo Minda (Ecuador) started in midfield for Chivas USA, but Marvin Chavez (Honduras) did not dress for the match. For San Jose, Victor Bernardez (Honduras) came off the bench for the game's final quarter hour, but Chris Wondolowski (USA) was still making his way back from Brazil after the USA's 2-1 loss to Belgium on Tuesday.
San Jose also had to do without regular starters Clarence Goodson and Shea Salinas, both out with injuries.
Both goalkeepers were tested in the scoreless first half; the Goats' Dan Kennedy smothered a Khari Stephenson strike, then later tipped a Steven Lenhart header over the crossbar. Seconds before the halftime whistle, Torres sent Mauro Rosales in on goal, only for the Argentine to be denied from close range by the Earthquakes' Jon Busch.
A minute after intermission Busch again came up big, punching away Torres' open shot from outside the area, but the next time Torres had a chance he made no mistake.
In the 53rd minute, Rosales' cross from the right side fell to him at the far post after glancing off the heads of two Quakes, and the Mexican forward slotted it home to give Chivas USA a lead they would not relinquish.
San Jose's opportunity to even the score went begging five minutes later when Stephenson had an open look at goal only to miss wide right.
Searching for an equalizer, San Jose brought Alan Gordon on for Sam Cronin in the 71st minute, but the Quakes struggled to break down Chivas USA's backline. Off a free kick in the 81st minute, the Earthquakes had their best chance as Ty Harden's header forced Kennedy to make a diving save to keep them off the scoreboard.
Marco Delgado should have doubled Chivas USA's advantage in the 84th minute, but he missed an empty net after some good setup work by Leandro Barrera. San Jose tried to make the Goats pay for that mistake, replacing defender Jordan Stewart with forward Mike Fucito as the game headed into stoppage time, but Chivas USA held strong to earn a hard-fought win.
Chivas USA now head home to the StubHub Center to host Montreal this Saturday, while San Jose get a short break before returning to action at home against D.C. United on July 11.
MLSsoccer.com Men of the Match
|What We Saw
|Mauro Rosales
|Showed why he is still one of the finest playmakers in MLS with a great outing at Buck Shaw Stadium. Gave the Quakes fits all night with his passing and control, and helped set up Torres' goal
|Erick Torres
|Got the goal and tested the Quakes on a few other opportunities. After a brief lull, he's right back in the Golden Boot race
|Carlos Bocanegra
|Stepped up as a defensive leader, especially when the Quakes were putting on the pressure in the first half.


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NBCDFW.com compiled cell-phone video clips of the fire; view more videos at: http://nbcdfw.com.
Stunned attendees at the State Fair of Texas witnessed the iconic Big Tex go up in flames Friday morning.
Some fabric that made up the towering structure's hand and sleeves could still be seen as firefighters gathered around the scorched area.
Big Tex's 75-gallon hat, 50-pound belt buckle and slow drawl -- "Howdy, folks!" -- have been greeting fair visitors since 1952. This year's fair, which closes Sunday, had been celebrating Big Tex's 60th birthday.
"It's a great loss for us because of its icon stature," fair spokeswoman Sue Gooding said.
Gooding said she didn't know the cause of the fire but did note electrical controls move Big Tex's mouth and head.
Gooding noted that no one was injured in the fire and added that she expects him to be back for next year's state fair.
"He'll be back, bigger and better than ever," she said.
"Dallas is about Big Things and #BigTex was symbolic of that. We will rebuild Big Tex bigger and better for the 21st Century," Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said on Twitter.
LM Otero / AP
Fire begins to engulf "Big Tex" on Friday in Dallas.
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The burned remains of Big Tex stand at the State Fair of Texas on Friday in Dallas.
Bill Bragg, the voice of Big Tex, said all the fair's safety measures were in place and no one was in any danger. Bragg says the fair will rebuild the iconic statue for next year's fair.
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Dickies, the clothing company that creates Big Tex's wardrobe, sent this statement:
"Dickies® has proudly been the official clothier of Big Tex for 15 years. Although we're saddened by today's news, we're confident that together with the State Fair of Texas, Big Tex will return better than ever in new Dickies apparel," said Matthew McCartin, VP of Marketing, Williamson-Dickie Mfg. Co.
LM Otero / AP
A worker hangs onto a surviving hand from "Big Tex" on Friday.
Fair organizers are currently dismantling the framework that was not damaged with a crane.
Ironically, Big Tex had only one more weekend to greet visitors at the fair -- it closes for this year on Oct. 21.
The 52-foot-tall statue that welcomes State Fair of Texas visitors caught fire Friday, and an investigation to determine the cause of the flames is underway. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
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Best definition
To be bulldozed, paved over and wiped off the map. Derived from the shameless corporate policy of the Wawa corporation
to build massive convenience centers that result in the loss of historic buildings and villages due to their prime locations along long established roadways.
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February 8, 2010, marks the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. This year is also the 30th anniversary of Melrose Boy Scout Troop 68, of which I am the scoutmaster. We usually set up displays around town during Scout week so I have some serious work to do in the next couple of days.
Four local businesses have given us permission to place exhibits about Scouting in their lobbies: Central Minnesota Credit Union, Freeport State Bank, US Bank, and the City of Melrose. Each display is designed to fit on an eight foot long table. The displays include literature, books, patches, memorabilia, and photographs.
During the last patrol leader council, we discussed themes for each of the four exhibits. We wanted a different one for each place so people would get to discover more about Scouting. Besides, I do not have enough stuff to do four displays of the same theme. This year's themes are:
High Adventure – This will highlight the BSA's high adventure bases but will concentrate on Philmont Scout Ranch. It will include mugs, plaques, posters, and photo albums.
National Jamboree – Since this is the year of the National Jamboree we added this as a theme for one location. I attended the 2001 Jamboree as the scoutmaster for Central Minnesota Troop 1417 so most of the display will feature items from that trip, including the uniform and tee shirt, photo albums, patch collection, and a new shadow box with various memorabilia.
Scouting History – I have collected quite a bit of Scouting memorabilia during the last thirty years and some of it will find its way into this display, including a 1932 Boy Scout handbook and fictional novels from 1911. Last night I put together a shadowbox featuring Boy Scout rank patches from the 1980's, the current patches, and the special 2010 anniversary rank patches. (See the picture above.)
Boy Scout Troop 68 – This will probably be the largest of the exhibits since I have collected the most on this subject. The hardest part will be deciding which of the thirty photo albums will be a part of the arrangement.
The displays will be set up this Friday and Saturday. Each of the businesses is allowing the exhibits to be in place for two weeks. I have been told that past displays have been popular, especially the photo albums. I will take photos of each of the displays and post them online for you to see. Check back to this blog for an update with the link.


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Izanagi is a dōjutsu that has the power to connect illusion and reality, which the Uchiha clan deemed forbidden due to the terrible consequences of its use. However, according to Madara Uchiha, only those who possess and can control the powers of both the Uchiha and Senju are capable of utilizing the complete form of this particular technique.
The Sage of the Six Paths is said to have been the first to manipulate this respective technique, as he bore the origins behind the two necessary bloodlines, most notably using the ability in order to create the nine tailed beasts from the chakra of the Ten-Tailed Beast. As stated by Madara; the exact process he utilized initially involved the administration of imagination, and the spiritual energy which forms the basis of Yin chakra to create shape and form from nothingness. Then through the application of vitality, and the physical energy which forms the basis of Yang chakra, he would breathe life into the prior form. Thus, it is basically the power to turn imagination into reality.[1]
However, as used in action by Danzō Shimura and Madara, Izanagi is a genjutsu that's meant to be cast on oneself instead of others, and it's the most powerful among such genjutsu.[2] When activated, the caster removes the boundaries between reality and illusion within their personal space. To a degree, this allows the user to control their own state of existence. The actual effects of Izanagi vary from user to user, dependent on their level of dominance over the required bloodlines, but all seem to involve the ability to deem negative events an illusion and positive events a reality, in regard to themselves.
When Izanagi is activated, it is capable of turning injuries and even death inflicted upon the user into mere illusions. Whenever the user receives a fatal injury, their body fades away as a genjutsu. The user then returns back to reality, physically real and unscathed. Danzō, in an effort to make practical use of the jutsu, had ten Sharingan embedded onto his right arm. This allows Danzō to increase the length of time that Izanagi can stay active, as well as the number of times he could use it in succession. However, not being of Uchiha blood, this technique requires substantial amount of chakra for Danzō to use, which is made possible only by the transplant of Hashirama Senju's DNA to increase his energy.
Though the sustained time of the jutsu is normally the briefest of moments,[3] Danzō is implied to have had Orochimaru forcibly extend the time it takes for each eye to close to as long as one minute. After the aforementioned time, the eye used to activate Izanagi will permanently close and be stricken with blindness forever, which is not at all unlike Mangekyō Sharingan overuse-induced blindness.
Like the various jutsu used with the Sharingan, this jutsu is named after a Shinto kami. In this case it is Izanagi, who, together with his sister and wife Izanami, created the islands and other deities of Japan.
One of the most famous stories about Izanagi tells the tale of how he goes into Yomi, the Japanese underworld, to retrieve Izanami after she died giving birth to the Shinto fire god Kagutsuchi. After he fails to retrieve her and leaves Yomi, he washes himself in a stream. As he cleans his left eye, Amaterasu is born, as he cleans his right eye, Tsukuyomi is born, and as he cleans his nose, Susanoo is born.


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This is my final post on my coverage of the 30th annual [Data Center Conference]. IBM was a Platinum sponsor, and there were over 2,600 attendees, of which 27 percent were IT Directors or higher. Two thirds of the companies have 5000 employees or more. Here is a recap of the last few sessions I attended.
So that wraps up my coverage of this conference. In addition to attending great keynote and breakout sessions, I was able to have great one-on-one discussions with clients at the Solution Showcase booth, during breaks and at meals. IBM's focus on Big Data, Workload-optimized Systems, and Cloud seems to resonate well with the analysts and attendees. I want to give special thinks to Lynda, Dana, Peggy, Hugo, David, Rick, Cris, Richard, Denise, Chloe, and all my colleagues, friends and family from Arizona for their support!
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The Central Connecticut men's golf team sits in 10th place after the first two rounds at the VCU Shootout in Manakin-Sabot, VA. The tournament is being played at the Hermitage Country Club.
Central shot a first round total of 301 and sat in eighth place after the morning's first round. Senior Matthew DeJohn led the way with a +1 score of 73, followed by freshman Nick Direda (75, +3) and then junior Monte Mullen (76, +4). Freshman Matt Hills shot a 77 (+5) followed by sophomore Connor Murphy's 84 (+12).
Playing as an individual freshman Jack Ayers shot 77 (+5) in the first round, and followed that up with 79 in round two for a total of 156, good for a tie for 61st place.
The Blue Devils shot 312 in the second round, and currently sit in 10th place with a 613 after the first day of action. They sit just one shot out of ninth place.
After two rounds it's Mullen leading the way for CCSU with a 150, good for a tie for 39th place. He shot a team-best 74 in the afternoon round. Hills sits at 152 after a 75 in the second round, he is tied for 45th place. DeJohn shot a second round 80, and is tied for 51st place at 153. Direda shot 83 and is in 66th place, followed by Murphy who shot an 85 and sits in 77th place.
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Bean Fields - smart tags for command and domain objects
compile "org.grails.plugins:bean-fields:1.0"
Smart rendering of fields of domain and command objects. For Grails 2 we recommend changing to Grails Fields plugin.
This plugin provides a suite of tags for rendering form fields for domain and command objects.
This plugin is deprecated for users of Grails 2 and higher. Grails Fields plugin is a cleaner and more up to date solution and it is recommended that you use this. However Grails Fields does not work with Grails 1.x apps, so Bean Fields may still be useful to you.It takes the pain, boredom and scope for error away.Out of the box it:
- renders a field using a UI element appropriate for the property type. Constraints are used to set maximum lengths etc.
- automatically renders  tags for fields, from i18n message bundles
- renders "required" indicators if the field is nullable:false and/or blank:false
- renders errors adjacent to the field that had the error
- renders the current value as appropriate
It's quite concise and expressive isn't it!
<bean:withBean beanName="form"> <bean:field property="firstName"/> <bean:field property="lastName"/> <bean:field property="company"/> <bean:field property="email"/> </bean:withBean>
Deprecated This plugin works but you may enjoy the new Grails Fields plugin more, although that is currently Grails 2.0 only.Beyond this however you can customize almost every aspect of it:
- The markup and layout of labels, errors and required indicators
- Per-field type markup eg custom templates for select fields
- No CSS is supplied, all standard CSS customisations are possible
Known issues The CSS errorClass setting is not used when rendering fields with errors except for the default  template and simple text <input> fields
Commercial SupportCommercial support is available for this and other Grailsrocks plugins.
Getting startedInstall the plugin:
Then in a GSP where you have a form and a domain or command object do this:
grails install-plugin bean-fields
That's it. This will expect an object in the model/pageScope called 'myFormObject' and will create an appropriate field and label for the 'firstName' field.This tag will look at the type of the property and constraints for it and make a best-guess at the type of field to use.It will indicate if the field is required (according to the constraints) and also show any errors on that field.You can of course force the usage of a specific field type by using another tag, such as:
<bean:field beanName="myFormObject" property="firstName"/>
Any attributes you supply that are not used by bean-fields will be passed through to the underlying grails tag, eg "id" is commonly used for CSS styling.All of the rendering is passed through templates that you can use to customize how and where labels, fields, errors and required indicators are rendered.
<bean:input beanName="myFormObject" property="firstName"/> <bean:select beanName="myFormObject" property="firstName" from="['Peter', 'Paul', 'Mary']"/> <bean:textArea beanName="myFormObject" property="firstName"/>
i18nLabels and error messages for fields are resolved against the i18n message bundles of your application.Labels are generally resolved as "${beanName}.${property}". The radio group tag uses "${beanName}.${property}.${thevalueofcurrentitem}".However custom labelKey values can be provided for any of the tags, and a literal label using the "label" attribute which will bypass i18n.If label messages cannot be resolved a "humanized" version of the camelcase property name will be used.
The core tagsUnless you are using the bean:withBean tag, all field rendering tags require the following attributes:
- beanName - the name of the model variable that is the bean you wish to render a field for
- property - the property path for the field on the bean, with dot notation support for nested properties
This would render a field for editing the value of ${book.author.name}If you are rendering many fields on the same bean, you can use withBean which will set beanName for all bean:xxxx tags nested within it.All of the field tags also support the following attributes:
<bean:field beanName="book" property="author.name"/>
- label - a manual override for the label text, which will bypass i18n
- labelKey - a manual override for the message code used to resolve the label for the field, in the i18n bundles
- labelClass - a CSS class to apply to the label
- showErrors - a manual override for whether or not the field's errors should be rendered. If not specified, falls back to the value set with bean:showErrors tag, or true if that tag is never used
- requiredField - a manual override for the required field indicator that allows you to replace the currently set indicator (usually set with bean:requiredIndicator) for the current field only. Eg. you can use this to clear the indicator so that the current field is shown as non-required even if the constraints say it is.
- value - a manual override for the current value of the field. This will be used instead of the current property value
- default - a default value to use if the current value of the property is null
- useValue - a boolean expression that if false will mean the current property value is NOT used even if it is set. Use to prevent display of current values based on a condition
- noLabel - suppress rendering of a label for the field
bean:withBeanUse to set the beanName attribute for all nested bean:xxxx tags:
This is just a shortcut to save repeating the beanName
<bean:withBean beanName="form"> <bean:field property="firstName"/> <bean:field property="lastName"/> <bean:field property="company"/> <bean:field property="email"/> </bean:withBean>
bean:formRenders a whole load of fields automatically. You just supply the name of the bean and the list of property names in the "properties" attribute. It will auto-sense the rest.
The fields are rendered in the order you list them. Each field is rendered using a call to the bean:field tag with the appropriate values.
<bean:form beanName="book" properties="title, author.name, isbn"/>
bean:fieldRenders a field using some trivial logic based on the type and constraints of the property.
If the rules result in a field type that you don't want, you can use a more specific tag. Any other attributes are passed through to the underlying tags.
<bean:field beanName="book" property="author.name"/>
bean:inputRenders a text input field, applying the size constraints of the property to HTML attributes.
Attributes you can use to override the smart behaviour include:
<bean:input beanName="book" property="author.name"/>
- size
- maxLength
- class
- type (defaults to 'text')
bean:selectRenders a select list field, using the inList or range constraint to supply the values (keys) if set.Alternatively if the property type is an association, it will default to selecting an instance of the association type.
Attributes you can use to override the smart behaviour include:
<bean:select beanName="book" property="genre"/>
- from - change the list of items
- noSelection - specify the noSelection value to use if the field is not mandatory
bean:countryA simple wrapper around the g:countrySelect tag, following the pattern of all the other tags.
<bean:country beanName="book" property="author.country"/>
bean:dateA simple wrapper around the g:date tag, following the pattern of all the other tags.
<bean:date beanName="book" property="publishedOn"/>
bean:textAreaA simple wrapper around the g:textArea tag, following the pattern of all the other tags.
<bean:textArea beanName="book" property="notes"/>
bean:checkBoxA simple wrapper around the g:checkBox tag, following the pattern of all the other tags.
<bean:checkBox beanName="book" property="matureContent"/>
bean:radioGroupA simple wrapper around multiple g:radio tags, following the pattern of all the other tags.One radio field will be rendered for each value in the inList constraint of the field.
<bean:radioGroup beanName="book" property="author.gender"/>
Customizing the renderingMost of these use an identical pattern - you specify a tag body that will be used to render the field/field element in question in future.The body is passed variables including:
- field - the already rendered markup for the field itself, eg <input id="x" name="x" value="y"/>
- label - the already rendered label for the field, eg Name
- required - the required indicator, if any. Will be blank if the field is not required.
- bean - the bean instance the field relates to
- beanName - the original bean name passed into the field tag
- propertyName - the name of the property the field relates to
- labelKey - the generated or supplied labelKey (message code) for the field
- errors - the already rendered list of errors, eg "Field must not be null
Minimum length is 50
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The label itself is built with the default label template of:
${label} <g:if test="${errors}">

${errors}
 </g:if> ${field}

The errors are also rendered via template, which defaults to code which is equivalent to:
${label}${required}"
Changing the templates used for the various types is done with the following tags. You can call these as many times as you like in a page, and the template will take effect for the rest of the current request unless changed again.A code example. Say we want to show a colon between label and field and we want to render errors under the field, and wrap them all in a div:
<g:message code="${message}" encodeAs="HTML"/>

<bean:inputTemplate> ${label}: ${field} <g:if test="${errors}">
${errors}</g:if> </bean:inputTemplate>
Field template customization tags
bean:labelTemplateThe template used for the label part of all fields. This is rendered and passed to the field's template for final layout.Example:
This is passed the following variables:
${label}${required}
- errorClassToUse - The CSS class to use to indicate errors. Blank if no errors
- required - The required field indicator. Blank if field is not required
- fieldName - The original property name, typically used as field name
- label - The label, as rendered from label template
- fieldValue - The current value of the field
- fieldId - The id attribute of the field
- defaultValue - The default value of the field
- varArgs - The extra attributes supplied for the field
- bean - The bean instance
- beanConstraints - The constraints of the bean
- beanName - The name of the bean
- propertyName - The final resolved property, last component of fieldName if it was a nested property path
- errors - Any errors for the field
bean:inputTemplateThe template used for rendering <input> text fields. $field contains the completed <input> tag
bean:textAreaTemplateThe template used for rendering <textarea> fields. $field contains the completed <textarea> tag
bean:checkBoxTemplateThe template used for rendering <input type="checkbox"> fields. $field contains the completed <input> tag
bean:radioGroupTemplateThe template used for rendering a single <input type="radio"> field in a radiogroup. $field contains the completed <input> tag
bean:dateTemplateThe template used for rendering Date fields using g:datePicker. $field contains the completed date fields, which will be several fields
bean:selectTemplateThe template used for rendering <select> fields. $field contains the completed <select> tag
bean:customTemplateThe template used when rendering a custom field, where you supply the markup for the $field variable but label and errors are supplied for you
Other configuration tags
bean:maxInputLengthSets the maximum display length in characters for text fields. Even if the maxSize constraint for a string exceeds this, the display length will be clamped at this value.
bean:labelClassThe CSS class name to use when rendering a label (whether there is an error or not)
This value will be used for all fields tags that are invoked without an explicit labelClass attribute. The default is blank.
bean:errorClassThe CSS class name to use when rendering a label for a field that has an error
bean:errorTemplateA template to use for rendering a single error on a field, called repeatedly with variables "error" (the error string) and "message" (the error string resolved against i18n bundle)

Ooops! ${message.encodeAsHTML()}

bean:requiredIndicatorThe body markup to use to indicate a field is required. This is rendered into the other templates, so those templates control the positioning of it.
<bean:requiredIndicator>  </bean:requiredIndicator>
bean:showErrorsThe value attribute is used to set whether or not errors are shown inside fields by default. You can control this per-field also.
bean:maxAutoRadioButtonsSets the threshold at which bean:field tag will switch from using radio buttons to a select box for a property with an inList constraint


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A planned strike by thousands of University of California hospital workers was averted after contract talks yielded a deal, officials said Sunday.
The proposed four-year contract will keep 13,000 patient care technical workers on the job at five major medical centers, said Todd Stenhouse, a spokesman for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 3299.
The workers, who include respiratory therapists and surgical technicians, had planned to strike early Monday.
The workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a five-day strike after the hospital system decided to impose new contract terms that included broad layoff powers, Stenhouse said.
The new deal includes fair wage increases, secure benefits, staffing protections and meets the university's aspirations for pension reform, union officials said.
It was reached after hospital officials and workers resumed bargaining Friday night and still must be ratified by union members, Stenhouse said.
"Our members are looking forward to ratifying this agreement, returning to work, and doing what they do best – caring for patients," Kathryn Lybarger, president of the local, said in a statement.
University of California officials also welcomed the deal that ended two years of arduous contract negotiations.
"There was true compromise by both sides," Dwaine Duckett, UC vice president for human resources, said in a statement. "The agreement also allows our medical centers and student health centers to continue to deliver the quality care our patients and students depend on without any interruptions."
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"Valley Observer" folds: Life cut short after 21 months
The staff of the Shenandoah Valley Observer was getting ready to put out last week's issue when they received some late-breaking news: There would be no January 16 issue or any other issue, for that matter.
Although reporter Richard Prior was spotted dutifully covering the January 13 Waynesboro City Council meeting, the next day, the Valley Observer staff of four was told that their paper had ceased publishing, and that the January 9 issue, already on newsstands, had been its last.
"We decided we're going to shut that operation down immediately," says Kimberly Robbins, general manager of the Observer, which will continue its Charlottesville edition. "Decisions made by prior management," she adds, "made it necessary."
With backing from former Ronald Reagan Cabinet member and Christian Coalition president Don Hodel, Jeffrey Peyton purchased Charlottesville's oldest weekly in 2000; he started the Valley edition in April 2001.
"From Day One, the Valley Observer had everything going for it – a great staff, quality production, an enthusiastic readership," says Peyton in an email to The Hook. "The paper's demise is a shame. It's too bad for the Valley residents who, over the past 20 months, really adopted it as their hometown paper. But it's especially too bad for the folks who worked so hard to make the paper as good as it was."
Peyton, famous for filling the papers with his own columns about faith, family, and publishing, left the Observer with uncharacteristic silence in November, and Robbins says Hodel also is no longer in the picture.
During its short history, the Valley Observer had its share of staff turnover. In July 2002, three employees– editor Crystal Abbe Graham; her husband, reporter Chris Graham; and account exec Tracy Gonzales– left abruptly after a disagreement with Peyton.
Sports reporter Patrick Hite will continue with the Charlottesville Observer. Robbins says she made an offer to one of the two ad reps, but the reps and Prior, who was former managing editor of the Waynesboro News Virginian, will not be coming to Charlottesville. "We really don't need other staff people," says Robbins.
The Shenandoah Valley edition's hasty demise does not perplex media watchers over the hill.
"I'm surprised it took this long," says Chris Graham, who now publishes the on-line Augusta Free Press. "They weren't making anything near what they needed," he says, estimating that the paper's revenues were between $3,000 and $4,000 a week while expenses hovered around $10,000 to $11,000.
"Starting in the fall, when I heard Jeff was in trouble and trying to find a buyer, I knew intuitively this would happen," Graham says. "Putting out two editions didn't make sense."
Graham notes that the Augusta County market is a tough one, and that two publications Augusta Country and eightyone ceased last year.
"It never looked to me like it was financially successful," says former eightyone editor and publisher Deona Houff. "I never heard anyone talking about it."
Houff believes the Valley edition will be missed in one quarter. "It is a shame for the small retail advertiser who couldn't afford to advertise in the [Staunton] News Leader."
Houff agrees that the Shenandoah Valley is a tough market "but the Observer wasn't offering any reason to pick it up."
She adds, "It's pretty sad over here."
Waynesboro Mayor Charles Ricketts was an Observer fan. He calls its articles "well written" and he thought the paper had been doing well.
"A lot of the stories in the Staunton and Waynesboro newspapers are canned," he says. "One of the nice things about the Observer is that it was all local coverage."
Former publisher Peyton hasn't given up on the Augusta media market. "My hope is that there are a few business folks in Waynesboro and Staunton with enough resources and media savvy to pick up where the Observer left off."


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Undeterred by past failures, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) is launching another attempt to develop a high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft with the hover capability of a helicopter.
The VTOL X-Plane program is a 52-month, $130 million effort to fly an experimental aircraft capable of exceeding 300 kt., but with a hover efficiency of 75% or better and a cruise lift-to-drag ratio of 10 or more. By comparison, according to Darpa, today's conventional helicopters are capable of 150–170 kt., with a hover efficiency of 60% and a cruise L/D of 4–5.
High-speed compound helicopters such as Sikorsky's X2 are capable of 240–260 kt., while the Bell Boeing V-22 tiltrotor can exceed 275 kt., but with low hover efficiency.
"We have a simple objective: to fly much faster, with improved efficiency in hover and forward flight, without sacrificing the ability to do useful work," says Ashish Bagai, Darpa program manager and former Sikorsky principal engineer.
Useful work is defined as the difference between empty weight and maximum gross weight, he says. The program is targeting a useful load of at least 40% of gross weight, which is expected to be 10,000–12,000 lb. for the X-plane demonstrator.
This compares with a useful load of 35–40% of gross weight for a state-of-the-art helicopter, according to Darpa.
Bagai says Darpa is looking for "elegant" designs combining the attributes of fixed– and rotary-wing aircraft, that are "not overly complex and not brute-force approaches," he says. A broad agency announcement has been released, and Darpa is hoping to attract proposals from nontraditional companies and "exotic ideas from smaller companies on technologies, agile teaming and rapid design," he says.
This is not the agency's first attempt to develop a high-speed VTOL aircraft. The canard rotor/wing Boeing X-50A Dragonfly was designed to demonstrate a circulation-control rotor that could be stopped in flight to act as a fixed wing. Both subscale unmanned demonstrators crashed before transition could be achieved and the program was terminated in 2006.
The Groen Heliplane was a high-speed gyroplane design with a rotor that was powered by tipjets for vertical takeoff and landing and autorotated in forward flight at speeds up to 350 kt. The program encountered technical challenges with noise from the tipjets and was terminated in 2008.
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Plastic bread tags are ubiquitous. They don't just close bread bags; you can find them on plastic mesh produce bags, and tons of other supermarket items. How many plastic bread tags do you throw away per year? I know that I'm probably responsible for throwing at least two per week into the garbage. Multiply that by everyone in the USA who buys bags of pita bread, loaves of bread, and bags of produce, and that's one massive pile of plastic!
One way to reduce the amount of solid waste that you produce is to upcycle the things that you'd otherwise throw away. Plastic bread tags have a lot of potential uses. These six are practical and easy.
1. Bread tags as cord labels: You know how cords get tangled up under desks? When you need to unplug or move one, you end up unplugging and moving all of them. Eliminate that problem and reduce plastic waste by repurposing bread tags as cord labels. Simple write the name of the device that each cord connects, and place the bread tag on the cord. It's such an easy way to organize your technology.
2. Mini-scrapers: Bread tags are hard plastic and have a good edge on them. That's why they work really well as scrapers. They're especially good for getting into nooks and crannies that are too small for larger scrapers. Use bread tag mini scrapers to remove baked-on food in the corners of baking pans.
3. Garden label: Write the name of the kind of plant in each pot on a plastic bread tag, and then affix each tag to the edge of its respective pot. It's a cheap and easy way to stay organized when you're starting plants in trays.
4. Tape marker: Isn't it frustrating when you lose the business end of a roll of tape? Solve that common annoyance by using a plastic bread tag as a tape marker. Just fold the end of the tape over the plastic bread tag, and your tape will be ready to use next time you reach for it.
5. Use a bread tag as a guitar pick: This is a real MacGyver solution! If you're ever without a guitar pick when you need one, take the tag off a loaf of bread. Turn the open end away from the guitar (that end will catch in the strings) and strum with the flat end of the tag.
6. Use a bread tag as a hair tie clip: When you travel, it's so easy to lose your hair ties. Keep them all in one place by sliding each one into the opening of a single bread tag. It's so easy to do, and will save you the frustration of needing a hair elastic but not being able to find one.
With tricks like these, you can do good things for the Earth and also for your organizing and decluttering efforts.
Chaya Kurtz originally wrote this story for Networx.com. It is reprinted with permission here.
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Greetings. I'm Alec Nesbitt and I've spent most of my life trying to make sense of what went wrong in Europe during the summer of 1914. Sadly, the more I learn the less sense the story makes. But it's a story worth studying, if only to learn how stupid we humans have been and probably still are. And what more entertaining way to examine human folly than a collection of model trains and tiny people who represent the world that went mad in 1914? It may be unique, certainly one of very few model railway collections that represent so large an area at a specific moment in time. When completed, the layout will be as much a work of art as a medium for running trains. People who have seen it identify at once with the stories of the individuals they meet in miniature. Every HO scale person's life has been influenced by the forces at work reshaping the cultures of Europe.
My "SARAJEVO 1914" collection of trains, accessories and landscape, suggests a vast sector of Europe, greatly compressed, at 18:45 hours on the 28th of June, 1914. The "star" of the collection is the "Orient-Express" - the legendary luxury train - as it travels, on that date, from Paris to the threshold of Asia.
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In twenty-nine minutes the "O-E" will depart the Gare de l'Est bound for Constantinople. None of the passengers gathering on the platform in Paris can imagine that the assassination in Bosnia that morning will change their lives. Some don't yet know that it happened. Too many won't care. Nevertheless, in 33 days the old European order will convulse and begin to die.
My collection and this website are devoted to answering the question: "Why?"
The murder at Sarajevo of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand is often said to have been the immediate cause of World War I but the greater reasons run far deeper than the wounds of his assassin's bullets. My layout doesn't include the Balkan states; Franz Ferdinand isn't here. But a man on the platform in Paris, waiting to board the "Orient-Express", is reading the special edition of a newspaper that carries the story. Perhaps he knows how single-minded the lust for revenge in Vienna will be - enough to chill the entire population of Europe through the heat of July. This elegant passenger's three sons are all officers in the French army. But what happened that morning is a matter between Serbia and Austria, no concern of France, or Russia or Germany or Britain or ...
Why is this subject important to the 21st century? The answer is simple: we humans learn our most necessary lessons slowly. Often, lessons must be repeated before we change negative behavior. War can be said to be negative behavior on an epic scale; world war more so. War is not represented in my collection. Instead, we meet people who will die in the conflict about to begin and in the following conflict that resulted from the disastrous handling of the first one. The history of our species holds no more horrifying example of human folly than the prelude to the First World War. Many scholars believe it to be the most horrifying example of all. How could so many men with so much power have exercised it so irresponsibly - even frivolously - or not at all? Few agree on the exact number of deaths their stupidity caused. "Somewhere between 10 and 15 million" is a common estimate. The very sound of so inexact a total is an insult to the dead, each of them someone's child, friend and foe alike, bound to one another by their common humanity.
And so the train quietly departs Paris in an odd coincidence of time - 19:14 hours - vanishing into the twilight, into the final weeks of the old European order. There is much to know and understand about that old order before we can begin to grasp what went wrong.
The "MISSION" link of this website will take you to my "vision" for the collection as a teaching aid and how it might be expanded and used in the future.
The "STORY" link relates the collection to the events of June 28, 1914 and the following month, as well as describing how the "Orient-Express" makes its way from country to country discussing, for example, the role that Alsace-Lorraine played as one of the festering causes of the First World War.
The "TRAINS" link illustrates and describes the railway rolling stock, the towns and peoples of the empires, kingdoms and grand duchies through which the "Orient-Express" traveled. In this link you will discover how little related the southern kingdoms of the German Empire considered themselves to be to the mighty Imperial monarchy established in Berlin. Why did the Austro-Hungarian Empire see itself as irrevocably related to Germany?
The "HISTORY" link offers background to the crisis ignited by the assassination at Sarajevo. There you can go deep into the causes of the First World War, discovering that the more you know about the subject, the more disbelieving you will be that such irresponsible behavior could ever have happened. You will ask yourself - over and over - why no one could stop the inexorable march to destruction. Like myself, you may come to see this collection not as toys or, more correctly, working scale models, but as symbols of an age when pride and mindless power ran away with the ability of men to understand what might happen if there were no controls. You will meet many men here, any of whom might have stopped the madness unleashed in August of 1914. You won't ask who was "guilty" because you'll know that all of them were. "Our side", "their side" - it doesn't matter who's side you or they might have been on - the guilt lay among all of the so-called "leaders," a pathetic flock of sheep driven by aristocratic complacency, traditional hatreds and vicious national prides. The sleepy charm of my layout belies the sinister currents running beneath the smiles and waltzes of European life. The collection has been assembled to represent that final, suspended instant before the cataclysm.
Finally, the "LINKS" link offers you the e-mail and/or web addresses of especially knowledgeable craftsmen and historians, stars of the European model railroading world. No finer workmanship than theirs can be found. There are examples of their work on my layout. Some of it exists as superdetailling parts; some as background information, painstakingly discovered over a lifetime of research and study, assisting greatly my own research and craftsmanship.
The text of this website is copyrighted and may not be quoted in publications - including websites - except in brief critical reviews, without written permission of the author. © Alec Nesbitt 2005
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Front wheel drive. More like wrong wheel drive, AM I RIGHT?
Not so fast, FWD hater! there are plenty of front drivers that handle. And you bet your saggy ass that you can get them into some fairly mad slides with a little understanding of weight transfer, left foot braking, lift off oversteer, and the handbrake.
I've driven a few excellent front-drivers, but the one I really want to get my hands on is the Mini Marcos, a lightweight special built on the driveline of a classic Mini. What could be better than that?
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Today, the Isetan Department in Shinjuku launches its Designers Week product fair "Hand Made By For Me," featuring numerous lifestyle brands across various floors of the Isetan main building. The fair runs till Nov. 5 and with all items also available to purchase, it could be a good opportunity to get a little Christmas shopping in early.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida coach Will Muschamp wasted little time finding a replacement for departing defensive coordinator Dan Quinn.
He didn't have to search very far, either.
Muschamp promoted linebackers coach/special teams coordinator D.J. Durkin to the DC position Thursday, keeping some continuity during a hectic recruiting period. Durkin will continue to serve as linebacker coach.
"D.J. and I will run the defense, continuing the way that Dan and I did for the past two years," Muschamp said in a statement.
Quinn accepted an offer to return to the NFL as Seattle's defensive coordinator earlier Thursday, hours after Gus Bradley left to take the head-coaching job with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Quinn served as Florida's coordinator the past two seasons, working closely with Muschamp as the Gators ranked in the top 10 nationally in total defense. He previously worked as Seattle's defensive line coach.
"I'm happy for Dan and this opportunity," Muschamp said. "I always encourage my staff, when opportunities arise, to take the next step in their career. Dan's background is in the NFL, and this is a great chance to go back to a place he's familiar with."
Muschamp plans to hire an assistant to fill out his coaching staff.
Durkin spent the last three seasons in Gainesville, one of the few holdovers from former coach Urban Meyer's staff.
Durkin began his coaching career as a graduate assistant under Meyer at Bowling Green in 2001 and later served stints as a defensive assistant at Notre Dame (2003-04), Bowling Green (2005-06) and Stanford (2007-09).
He was a four-year starter at defensive end/linebacker at Bowling Green (1997-2000) and was a team captain as a junior and senior.
Now, he becomes Florida's third defensive coordinator in the last four years. Charlie Strong left to become Louisville's head coach following the 2009 season. Teryl Austin replaced him for one season. Muschamp hired Quinn in 2011.
Durkin takes over a Florida defense that is losing seven starters. Defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd, safety Matt Elam and linebacker Jelani Jenkins left school early to enter the NFL. Four seniors - defensive tackle Omar Hunter, safety Josh Evans, linebacker Jon Bostic and defensive end Lerentee McCray - also are moving on.
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SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - Dozens of armed tribesmen took to the streets in southern Yemen on Friday to protest against drone strikes that they say have killed innocent civilians and increased anger against the United States.
A drone killed at least three suspected al Qaeda militants including a local commander in the town of Redaa on Thursday, the fifth strike by a pilotless plane in the area in 10 days.
One tribesman participating in a sit-in in front of the government administration building in Redaa told Reuters by telephone that at least seven innocent civilians were killed in the recent raids.
"If the authorities don't stop the American attacks then we will occupy the government institutions in the town," he said.
Another said: "The government has opened up the country to the Americans so that they can kill Muslims." The protesters were carrying rifles, as Yemeni tribesmen usually do, and there was no report of violence.
Separately, an army officer was kidnapped by suspected drug traffickers in Yemen's eastern region of Hadramout, a local security official told Reuters, declining to be identified.
The kidnapping, which happened in the desert near the Saudi border, was thought to be a revenge act against an army operation against drug trade in the area three days ago that forced a group of traffickers to flee, the source said.
Yemeni officials will not comment on who exactly carries out drone attacks and on whose orders. Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi spoke openly in favour of the strikes during a trip to the United States in September.
Praised by the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa as being more effective against al Qaeda than his predecessor, Hadi was quoted as saying that he personally approved every attack. Hadi has not commented on the most recent strikes.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is considered by Western governments to be the most active and dangerous wing of the global network, and has attempted a number of attacks against U.S. targets.
Redaa was the scene in September of the killing of at least 10 civilians including a 10-year-old girl in an air strike that apparently missed its intended target, a car carrying militants nearby, tribal officials and residents said.
In 2011, AQAP offshoot, Ansar al-Sharia (Partisan of Islamic Law), seized a number of towns in the south that were retaken by the government in a U.S.-backed offensive in June.
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