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If you are looking to benefit from the way payments would be made in the future, then you should take a look at VeriFone Systems (NYSE: PAY). But then, you need to have a really strong stomach if you are looking to hitch a ride on this stock since it's quite volatile. The stock's down almost 7% so far this year, and swings wildly every time there's some positive or negative news around it.
For instance, the stock fell around 8.5% early in October when it was reported that VeriFone's rival, Square, had landed a deal for installing its own payment systems into more cabs in New York City. But it did cover back those losses once the cloud cleared and it emerged that no such thing had happened.
The next big test for VeriFone investors comes on Dec. 13 when the company posts its fourth-quarter results. The last time it did so, the stock had tanked 11% as the company missed on the top line and guided fourth-quarter revenue behind estimates. However, one of the main reasons behind the company's lowly outlook was that its staging and repair center in Brazil had caught fire, and led its customers to find other vendors.
VeriFone had expected the effect of this fire to go on in the fourth-quarter, leading to a lower revenue outlook. In addition, negative currency effects had also held back VeriFone last time; but over the long run, its prospects are very strong.
The Common Link
VeriFone's leadership position in electronic payments and solutions is a big advantage for it. The company has positioned itself nicely to benefit from whatever method people would use to make payments.
Consider this -- PayPal, eBay's (NASDAQ: EBAY) subsidiary, processed $35 billion worth of transactions in the third-quarter, and also saw a three-fold jump during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In addition, PayPal is also moving to support in-store payments.
Next comes Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Isis, both of which have put their weight behind mobile payments. Google Wallet enables customers to store credit/debit card information and also uses near field communication (NFC) to process payments at MasterCard Paypass merchants. Isis, prevalent mostly in retail stores, is also quite well-known and it is expanding its presence through its mobile application.
The common link between all the above mentioned ways of payment is VeriFone. As fellow blogger Chad Henage points out, "VeriFone supports Google, PayPal, Groupon, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express." Hence, VeriFone's support of all the major players in the mobile payments industry is undoubtedly a big advantage, which should help it keep its growth intact. Moreover, VeriFone has also partnered with McDonald's and Dunkin' Brands' Dunkin Donuts for their own wallets.
Diversified Application Areas
And if you though that the catalysts end here, you are wrong. VeriFone is recording impressive growth in emerging markets. It has landed contracts in China and is finding favor at many Asian banks. In addition, the company has successfully deployed its systems in the transportation sector, and had won another contract from the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the third quarter. Also, VeriFone's systems are present in cabs in London and it had secured a contract to fit 6,500 cabs in Washington, D.C. with its systems earlier this year.
Moreover, VeriFone's valuation also makes it an intriguing buy. The company trades at a trailing P/E of 15.14, which is lower than its direct rival NCR Corp's (NYSE: NCR) trailing multiple of 25.88. Also, a lower PEG ratio of 0.42 as against NCR's 0.71 suggests that VeriFone is expected to grow at a faster rate. Hence, even though NCR's diversified offerings, which include software services, offer an advantage, it might not offer the same rate of earnings growth as blogger Chad Henage pointed out in his article.
The Bottom Line
As I stated at the outset, if you are looking to ride the evolution of the payments industry, VeriFone offers a good option, but you should be prepared for short-term rockiness. Hence, in case the stock tanks once again after earnings, it would be another opportunity to buy into this long-term story to gain from growth in digital payments.
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Eva's statement came after model Alexandra Paressant claimed in an interview, run Wednesday on X-17's Web site, that she had an affair with the San Antonio Spurs star, one which began following their alleged meeting at the couple's wedding.
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Rare Siouxsie and the Banshees singles on vinyl were the first things I found at this hole-in-the-wall used book and vinyl store in Brighton, Massachusetts. Accidental, this discovery at Diskovery, which is very much the type of attic I wish my parents or grandparents had when I was young. (Or younger. I don't feel old right now.) Soundtracks to Murphy Brown and Dune, Whitney Houston first pressings, VHS tapes of Everything But the Girl and Cure concerts, just there, no searching necessary.
Books divided by category, on shelves practically falling over. Dozens of boxes–some taped shut, others not–stacked in piles, mostly in front of shelves. Even the entrance to the store, partially blocked by boxes of used vinyl, is minefield. The casings of now-defunct cassettes, and two bowls of cat food (not to mention two cats), and newspapers and magazines from before I was born.
An issue of Wrapped in Plastic (the Twin
Peaks fanzine) and the Rolling Stone issue with Madonna interviewed by Carrie Fisher, and an all-about-Warhol issue of New York Magazine.
I'm not a mass market reader, but I was when I was a kid, and in this store, over the course of four hours, I found about 18 books from when I was a kid that I read and re-read. Mostly novelizations of movies. Had to have them.
Also had to have movie storybooks about Annie and Batman Returns and Return to Oz (Annie was the first movie I saw in a movie theater. I think I was three or four.) Shaun has been trying to put together Christopher Pike's entire oeuvre, and this store yielded two gems: Chain Letter and Chain Letter 2.
True story: Chain Letter was the first Christopher Pike book I read. I was in sixth grade. And the events in the book frightened me. Haven't read it in, what, 20 years or so, but I remember the characters and even some of the lines ("He could have been my friend," said by the author of the chain letters about a man who was accidentally killed).
Some of my best finds: Single issues of Sandman and several versions of Alice in Wonderland (one of the things I collect, different editions of the story of Alice's tumble through and out of the rabbit hole), most of which were pop-ups. And the novelization of Adventures in Babysitting, one of those movies I never get tired of watching.
The thing about movie novelizations, at least from the 80s, is that the writer of the book used the screenplay, but added to it, rounding out moments that worked on the screen but don't work so well without a little something on the page.
Chris and Brenda, likening their outfits to characters from Dynasty, is just — it's just.
Shaun called me a treasure hunter, as I sent him pictures of the books I found and brought home (novelizations of Supergirl and Starman and Total Recall–the original, not this remake travesty). On par with the kids in Goonies, he said.
I said to the store's owner, Yolanda, a cagey pro at bargaining ("I'll give you these magazines, but I'm going to charge you $20 for this rare book about the Cure") that she'll see me again.
I take care of you, she said. You come back and see.
I will. I left several books I'd like to own: An out-of-print oral history of and by The Eurythmics and a book of Bruce Weber's photographs and Annie Liebowitz's collection of Olympics-related photographs (except I think the book originally had a dust jacket, and the book at this store is missing its dust jacket, so I need to do some research before buying it). Hundreds of books I haven't even looked at, despite how long I spent in the store over the weekend.
I haven't even seen everything, Yolanda said. And I'm here nine, 10 hours a day.
She says she's going to close the store, and signs on the store's windows say the same thing, but I think this threat is part of Yolanda's bargaining tactics. Get it while you can, before everything disappears into wherever she has to put the things that don't sell.


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During the early years at Cowpens NBS, visitors included passing motorists and various school groups. Although some visitors used the area for picnics or other recreational activities, after the Mission 66 improvements the National Park Service began discouraging such uses in an attempt to focus on the historical significance of the site. Wofford College students used the battleground to study battle tactics and to conduct metal detector searches for musket balls. In addition, staff from Kings Mountain manned the site for two annual events. The first event occurred each January 17 when the NSDAR held battle anniversary ceremonies that usually attracted between one and three hundred locals. During the 1950s and 1960s, an open house was held every May 4 to celebrate the anniversary of the federal legislation establishing the national battlefield site at Cowpens. Annual visitation estimates for the site grew from a few hundred during the 1940s to nearly two thousand by the late 1950s. Following Mission 66 improvements, the estimates increased dramatically and reached over forty thousand by the late 1960s. By contrast, Kings Mountain, a full-scale park, had annual visitation estimates ranging between three and four hundred thousand. [1]
Once at Cowpens, visitors received little interpretive assistance. Except for special occasions, the site was without staff or interpretive devices. Information about Cowpens could be obtained at Kings Mountain, but the only interpretation at Cowpens was the inscription on the U.S. Monument. In 1955 the NPS produced a free interpretive folder, but the site had no dispenser. Instead, folders were distributed at Kings Mountain or through the mail in response to requests. The mayors of nearby Chesnee and Cowpens handled many such requests. [2]
Mission 66 improvements at Cowpens provided the first significant attempt at on-site interpretation. The Mission 66 plan recognized that in the absence of "the rewarding benefits of personal service available at other historical parks, it is that much more necessary that interpretive devices effectively substitute." [3] Between 1958 and 1959, the NPS installed two Petersburg exhibit cases near the U.S. Monument overlooking the battlefield. The sealed cases housed texts, illustrations, maps, and diagrams related to the battle. Topics covered included the military situation in the southern colonies, biographical information on Morgan and Tarleton, descriptions of the Patriot and British troops involved, battle tactics, and the victory of the Patriots. [4] The exhibits avoided "any controversy of subject matter." [5] In addition, the NPS installed a Mohawk message repeater in one of the cases with an audio recording using a second person dialogue to encourage visitors to imagine themselves as Morgan watching the battle unfold. Despite frequent mechanical problems with the message repeater, the device was a valuable interpretive addition. The information for the exhibits and the audio message resulted from a 1958 research project by Kings Mountain Historian Sherman W. Perry. The NPS provided the site with a free folder dispenser as well. While visitors still received information about Cowpens through interpretive programs at Kings Mountain, they could now get detailed interpretation at Cowpens itself. [6]
While the development program at Cowpens was underway, the park provided interpretation and visitor services with a temporary visitor center located in the administration building, a house adjacent to the original NPS tract. Opened to the public in 1978, this temporary facility provided visitors an audiovisual room for a fifteen-minute slide show and a twenty-eight-minute film Private Yankee Doodle, which focused on eighteenth-century military life. Museum exhibits utilized artwork, artifacts, a reproduction British cannon, and audio message repeaters. The artwork included portraits of Morgan and Tarleton painted by South Carolina artist Robert W. Wilson. In addition, the facility housed an outlet for the Eastern National Parks and Monuments Association (ENPMA), a private organization that donated a percentage of sales revenue to the NPS for park projects. ENPMA provided the film for the park. Its sales items included books and reproduction artifacts. [7]
As the development program progressed, Cowpens gradually completed interpretive facilities, although its temporary visitor center was still used. Both the walking tour trail and the automobile tour loop were opened to the public. [8] Kings Mountain Superintendent Benjamin Moomaw made occasional modifications to NPS guidelines, as when an exhibit-planning document called for the display of modern artwork in the new visitor center. According to Moomaw, "the local community is not quite ready for an abstract painting." [9] The final exhibit plan for the visitor center was completed in December 1979. It advised the display of eighteenth-century military artifacts and reproductions, paintings and portraits, reproductions of the Cowpens medals, and an audiovisual map presentation showing the troop movements during the battle. The Recreation and Park Administration Program at Clemson University compiled a 1980 interpretive prospectus for the Robert Scruggs House that called for the structure to be furnished and used to interpret colonial life in the backcountry. To increase public interest in Cowpens, park staff sponsored special interpretive events. Summer programs included weekend concerts and a children's nature workshop that focused on environmental education. [10]
Interpretive efforts at Cowpens have primarily involved visitor center orientation through exhibits and programs, staff-guided and self-guided battlefield tours, and special programs like living history demonstrations. The park gradually expanded the exhibits in the visitor center during the 1980s. The exhibits continued to consist of original and reproduction artwork and military artifacts, although the park possessed no artifacts directly linked to the Battle of Cowpens. The park expanded and upgraded ENPMA's sales area in 1984. Donations by ENPMA to the park funded various research activities, including a study of battle participants by Professor Bobby Moss from nearby Limestone College. Besides the battlefield tours and living history demonstrations, the park began a new program in 1981. Reenactors portrayed Morgan and Tarleton through first person interpretation. This program was offered off-site at events such as the South Carolina Peach Festival in Gaffney. [11]
A major addition to the park's interpretative program was Daybreak at the Cowpens, an audiovisual slide show for the visitor center. Completed in 1983, the show was the result of a cooperative endeavor between the park and businessman Arthur Magill of nearby Greenville, South Carolina. Magill financed the program, which was based on a poem of the same title he had written and published. In both the poem and slide show, a fictitious veteran of the battle tells his great-grandson about the event. Produced by Spectrum South, Inc., of Greenville, the program primarily presented slides of reenactment scenes. Working with ENPMA, the park negotiated a memorandum of understanding with Magill. The agreement allowed ENPMA to use Daybreak at the Cowpens at the visitor center and charge admission fees, which would be split between the association and Magill. The slide show was premiered at a hotel in Greenville and subsequently put into use at the visitor center. The interpretive potential of Daybreak at the Cowpens was further enhanced by the inclusion of a VHS tape, a soundtrack tape, and sets of slides from the program as sales items at the park around 1990. Magill funded an equipment upgrade for the presentation in 1994. [12]
During the summer of 1984, following the production of the main audiovisual program, park staff embarked on a major expansion of the interpretive program. Superintendent Stanek's expectation of this effort was "a big summer season at Cowpens with increased visitation." [13] The expanded program included two guided battlefield walking tours and one British three-pounder cannon demonstration each day. The weekend schedule added interpretation at the Scruggs House and evening programs at the picnic shelter. The evening programs featured films and speakers on topics as varied as eighteenth-century cooking, women in the Revolutionary War, landscape restoration at the battlefield, snakes, stars, and other national parks. Despite the park's efforts, the expanded interpretive program failed to attract more visitors. With limited community participation and the park's increasingly tight budget, Stanek decided to terminate the program, [14] noting that "the interpretation programs have been streamlined to get back to the basics and concentrate on the park's story in a more timely and cost effective manner." [15] Thereafter, park efforts to educate visitors through audiovisual programs stagnated because of the lack of visitor participationa lack due in part to the growing amount and variety of television programming available in visitors' homes. [16]
Despite these cutbacks, the park continued outreach efforts for local schools. During the 1980s, park rangers visited schools to discuss the battle and display some living history reproductions. For school groups that visited the battlefield, the park offered tours and followup efforts like Park Historian Karen G. Rehm's 1985 essay contest. However, as staffing and funding levels stagnated or decreased, the park became unable to offer guided tours to every school group. Realizing the need to rely on teachers to guide the students around the battlefield, the park produced a teacher guide for use in preparing class visits to the park. The guide was prepared by Dr. Anita P. Davis of Converse College in Spartanburg and funded by ENPMA percentage donations. Completed in 1993, the guide included historical information on the Battle of Cowpens as well as exercises and games intended to help teach students about colonial life and the Revolutionary War. In addition to the teacher guide, Davis prepared a children's book on the American Revolution in the South as an ENPMA sales item. These efforts were further enhanced in 1993 with the purchase of eighteenth-century reproduction clothes sized to fit children and used in the park's interpretive program for schools. Other programs have highlighted certain topics. For example, four hundred school students attended Earth Day activities at the park in 1998. [17]
Following up on its school efforts, the park initiated a junior ranger program in 1994 thanks to a grant from Kraft Food, Lite and Lively. The program brought children to the battlefield for a couple of hours to work through four of seven activities in the park's junior ranger booklet. After these activities and picking up litter or recycling, each child pledged to protect resources and received a certificate and badge. Polaroids of participating children were included in a visitor center display about the junior ranger program. [18] Ruff stated that the staff "feel the Junior Ranger program is one of the most important activities we have attempted for children." [19]
During the 1990s, the park has made numerous additions to its interpretive publications and programs. With the park situated on the fringe of the Greenville-Spartanburg metropolitan area, a region with a significant number of international manufacturing firms, staff had the park brochure translated into German in 1984 by a student from the University of South Carolina and again in 1992 by Wilfred and Heinz Thiele. A volunteer prepared a Japanese translation of the park brochure in 1998. In 1996, the park prepared a bird checklist and a tree booklet, the latter being particularly useful to visitors seeking fall colors in October. Special programs were sponsored by the park, like a living history show with Howard Burnham of Great Britain portraying Cornwallis in 1993. [20]
The park also stepped up its efforts to interpret early nineteenth-century life at the Scruggs House. Living history programs were offered at the house on spring and summer weekends in 1993. Staff and volunteers in period costume demonstrated eighteenth-century cooking techniques and other processes. Since the Scruggs House was not staffed except during the living history programs, the park took steps to allow unmanned interpretation for visitors at the structure. In 1993, metal security gates were placed at the house's doorways to allow visitors to view the furnishings inside. Postcards of the house were included as ENPMA sales items, and a brochure on the house was produced in 1996. [21]
Changing visitation patterns sparked new interpretive programs at Cowpens. One such pattern was that the average visitor was spending less time at the battlefield. Over the 1990s, park visitation increased by half and receipts for ENPMA sales items more than doubled, but admission fees for Daybreak at the Cowpens stagnated. Not only were fewer visitors viewing the audiovisual program, but fewer were walking the interpretive battlefield trail. Recognizing that many visitors were lacking the orientation provided by Daybreak at the Cowpens and the wayside exhibits on the battlefield trail, park staff developed an audio tape tour of the battlefield as a sales item meant to be used by visitors driving the automobile tour road. The script for the audio tape was written by Chief Ranger Ruff and included a version for the walking trail. Using ENPMA donations, the audio tape was produced by the Finley Holiday Film Corporation and made available for sale at the park by the end of 1996. [22]
Another interpretive initiative at Cowpens during the late 1990s was the incorporation of African-American history in the park's programs. The earliest such efforts were inspired by the creation of the park's first equal opportunity program in 1984. As part of that program in subsequent years, the park included an appropriate exhibit in the visitor center and sent information packets to local schools during Black History Month. However, these efforts generally focused on NPS sites that commemorate African-American heritage as opposed to specific information on blacks at Cowpens. [23] In 1993 the park began stocking postcards of William Ranney's 1845 painting of the cavalry fight after the battle that depicts an African-American servant saving Colonel William Washington's life (see Figure 2). At the time, the park viewed the painting as "the only interpretive medium that shows an African-American participating in this battle." [24] New research during the mid-1990s provided solid information for the interpretation of black participation in the Battle of Cowpens. Dr. Donald Williams of the University of Southern Mississippi discovered the names of over a dozen African-American battle participants in Revolutionary War pension records. The discoveries by Williams came unexpectedly from his research for the park's GIS database project. Between 1997 and 1999, the park followed up on this research with additions to its interpretive programs. New displays in the visitor center included a manikin of a black militiaman in the First Spartan Regiment and a painting of two African-American militiamen by Lisa Price with appropriate interpretive text panels. In addition, information on black participation in the battle was included in the park's interpretive talks at the battlefield. [25]
Technological developments like the internet have presented additional opportunities to the park's outreach efforts. In 1999, going beyond a standard NPS park web page, Cowpens developed an expanded web page with the assistance of volunteer John Robertson. A current internet project is a Revolutionary War database to be housed by the Amercian Battlefield Protection Program at NPS's Washington office and accessed via a web site. The database will include information on battle participants, military campaigns, and NPS sites related to the Revolutionary War. The planning stage of the project received a boost in 1997 with a donation of funds by the Magill family of Greenville. [26]
In addition to interpretation through visitor center exhibits and the battlefield itself, the park has sought to further educate the public on the Battle of Cowpens by upgrading its ENPMA sales outlet. During the 1990s, staff worked to expand the number of items offered and the volume of sales. Between 1992 and 1996, the space used for the ENPMA displays was expanded with more shelving several times. This expansion allowed the park to offer more books as well as other items like VHS videos, audio tapes, and reproductions of period items. In 1996, the park worked with Overmountain Press to reprint Battle of Cowpens: A Documented Narrative and Troop Movement Maps, by retired NPS Historian Ed Bearss, as a sales item. This attention to the ENPMA outlet at Cowpens appeared to pay off as sales increased from $20,003 in fiscal year 1990 to $52,695 in fiscal year 1999. Besides providing educational materials for sale to visitors, the relationship with ENPMA allowed the park to receive partial funding for a staff position as well as percentage donations to fund special events and interpretive programs. [27]
Over the past two decades of NPS management at Cowpens, visitation patterns have evolved. Most importantly, there was a general increase in total visitation from 64,614 in 1981 to 179,108 in 1998. This large increase is consistent with the Service-wide trend of increasing visitation. Cowpens visitors can be separated into several groupsstandard visitors, school groups, annual event attendees, special groups, and locals using the park's roads and trails for walking, running, bicycling, horseback riding, rollerblading, and skateboarding. As visitation increased during the 1990s, the park had to address certain problems, especially the competition between automobiles and other recreational users for right of way on roads and trails. One interesting group of occasional visitors has been the military. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, visits to the park have been conducted by the U.S. Army out of Fort Jackson in South Carolina, the U.S. Marine Corps out of Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, local National Guard units, and other military groups. The primary purpose of these visits is to educate service personnel on the tactics used during the Battle of Cowpens. [28]
In addition to its interpretive programs, Cowpens has sponsored various annual events. The park continued hosting battle anniversary observances each January. Until the completion of park facilities in 1981, these events usually consisted of an afternoon program with a wreath-laying at the U.S. Monument, speeches, music, and eighteenth-century military demonstrations by living history reenactors. During the 1970s, similar activities were coordinated by the Cherokee County American Revolution Bicentennial Committee chaired by Dr. J.N. Lipscomb, a staunch park supporter. The bicentennial celebrations were sponsored by state and local officials, community leaders, and the NPS. As the first battle anniversary in the nation during the bicentennial year 1976, the Cowpens observance featured a parade and a reenactment of the battle before a crowd of eight thousand spectators. Between 1978 and 1980, the park held a historical seminar dinner on the evening prior to the battlefield anniversary ceremony. The speakers were noted historians like Hugh F. Rankin in 1979 and Thomas Fleming in 1980. In addition, the park invited Manning, Gettys, and other local supporters who had led the fight to enlarge the battlefield site. [29]
Marking the two hundredth anniversary of the battle and the formal dedication of the new park facilities, the 1981 anniversary observance at Cowpens was more elaborate than any previous one. The event was planned by the Cowpens Bicentennial Celebration Committee with Lipscomb and Wilhelmina Dearybury serving as co-chairpersons. On Saturday, January 17, the celebration began with a wreath-laying at the Morgan Monument in Spartanburg, a parade in the Town of Cowpens, and a ceremony at a local junior high school to cancel commemorative Cowpens U.S. Postal Service postcards. Twice on Saturday and once on Sunday, five hundred reenactors staged scenes at Cowpens to demonstrate the military tactics used during the battle. Noted historian Richard B. Morris spoke Saturday evening at a dinner in Spartanburg's Memorial Auditorium. During the celebration, the park gave its first Daniel Morgan Memorial Awards to three individuals for their contributions to Cowpens history, including Magill for the poem Battle at the Cowpens, University of South Carolina history professor Henry Lumpkin, and artist Wilson. Unlike earlier anniversary programs lasting only a few hours, the 1981 anniversary marked the beginning of weekend-long celebrations with numerous activities. [30]
In addition to the anniversary of the Battle of Cowpens, the park observed the anniversary of the patriot militiamen's march to the Battle of Kings Mountain. This event began in 1975 when a group of reenactors marched the route of the mountainmen from the mountains of Tennessee to Kings Mountain. Subsequently, the participants organized the Overmountain Victory Trail Association to coordinate future anniversary marches. In 1980 congressional legislation was signed into law designating the Overmountain Victory Trail as a national historic trail. The 220-mile tour route followed highways from Abingdon, Virginia, to Kings Mountain NMP and highlighted various points of interest. [31] Like the original militiamen in 1780, the reenactors camped at Cowpens for a night during their annual October marches along the Overmountain Victory Trail. Over the years, the two to three dozen reenactors have provided various interpretive opportunities for the local community and visitors at the battlefield, including living history demonstrations, school visits, and special exhibits. [32]
After the 1981 battle anniversary celebration, the park continued to add new activities, such as a candlelight walking tour of the battlefield that quickly became a tradition in the early 1980s. A contingent of Washington Light Infantry members from Charleston placed a wreath at the unit's monument in 1987. In 1990 U.S. Army troops and equipment from Fort Bragg in North Carolina participated in the celebration to demonstrate the changes in military technology since 1781. A living history program with a park ranger and volunteer portraying Morgan and Tarleton was added in 1996. Total visitation to the anniversary observances varied. For example, attendance numbers fluctuated from five thousand in 1993 to thirteen thousand in 1994 to only fifteen hundred at a rain-hampered program in 1995. [33]
Anniversary celebrations remained the primary focus of the park, but they generated spin-off activities. For example, a competitive run known as the "Race for the Grasshopper" was started with the 1986 anniversary. The name was inspired by the Patriot effort to seize the British cannon position at the end of the Battle of Cowpens. The Spartanburg YMCA sponsored this race along the automobile tour road. The annual event attracted between two and three hundred participants for both five-kilometer and ten-kilometer runs as a well as a one-mile walk. By 1994 the "Race for the Grasshopper" was occurring on another weekend in January apart from the battle anniversary celebration. [34]
Another important program begun in the mid-1980s was a park effort to focus visitor attention on the Patriot and British armies that fought at Cowpens. First held during a weekend in May 1984, the "Rebels and Redcoats of Cowpens" included eighteenth-century living history military camps and weapon demonstrations along with a ceremony recognizing battle participants and their descendants. In addition, the park hosted sessions to provide visitors with genealogical research techniques and related information. Professor Bobby Moss, author of The Patriots at the Cowpens, presented a lecture. After a second program in 1985, the event was suspended due to low turnout. One reason for the failure of the "Rebels and Redcoats" program was declining interest in military reenactments sparked by a controversial change in NPS policy related to so-called "opposing line" battle recreations. In 1979 the Park Service had issued a directive banning such events. Various reasons inspired the directive, including a desire to preserve the memorial quality of national battlefields and to avoid resource damage. Safety was also a chief concern. The major Cowpens battle reenactment in 1981, re-classified as an "interpretive" or a "tactical" demonstration and orchestrated on NPS property not officially part of the battle site, allowed park managers to grandfather the event through bicentennial celebrations despite the policy change. Afterwards, however, such activities were strictly prevented. As a result, some re-enactor groups chose not to participate in NPS-sponsored recreated history demonstrations, including those at Cowpens. Less dramatic living history events did continue, however; for example, a military encampment was held at the park in May 1995. [35]
In 1993 another annual tradition began with the park's first Fourth of July celebration. Funded by the Spartanburg Convention and Visitors Bureau, local businesses, and Magill, the evening program included patriotic music, speeches, and a fireworks show. After the first event proved a success, the park decided to continue the Fourth of July celebration. Funded by the local community, the celebration's attendance grew from three thousand in 1993 to twenty thousand by the mid-1990s. [36]
Commemorating the USS Cowpens
In addition to interpreting the Battle of Cowpens, park staff developed a tangential theme focused upon U.S. Navy ships named after the battle. The first USS Cowpens, CVL-25, was an Independence class aircraft carrier commissioned in May 1943. During two years of service in World War II, the ship's crew earned twelve battle stars and a Navy unit citation. Nicknamed "The Mighty Moo," the aircraft carrier was decommissioned in January 1947. After four decades without a ship named after the battle, in March 1991 the Navy commissioned the second USS Cowpens, CG-63, a Ticonderoga class Aegis guided missile cruiser. [37]
As early as October 1976, the connection between the battlefield and the World War II carrier was recognized at Cowpens when the Greenville-Spartanburg Chapter of the Naval Reserves Association donated a photograph of the carrier for use at the developing park. [38] However, the park's interest in the USS Cowpens grew out of annual reunions of former crewmembers sponsored by the nearby town of Cowpens. While encouraging the use of the park's new picnic area for the 1982 reunion, Superintendent Stanek stated, "[W]e feel a close affinity to the USS Cowpens and look forward to meeting her men." [39] The June reunion included a picnic at the battlefield with nearly two hundred people in attendance. By the early 1990s, the annual event had grown into the Mighty Moo Festival, a weekend-long event complete with a parade, entertainment, sports, rides, craft shows, and other activities. Though the festival was based in the town, a Saturday picnic and reception were held at the battlefield with walking tours and temporary exhibits. During the 1990 festival, the U.S. Navy presented the park with a model of the second USS Cowpens, which was under construction at the time by the Bath Iron Works in Maine. The presentation ceremony included former crewmembers of the World War II carrier, future crewmembers of the Aegis cruiser, and South Carolina dignitaries like General William C. Westmoreland, the commander of American forces during the Vietnam War. In March 1991, six park staff members were present at the commissioning ceremony for the second USS Cowpens held in Charleston. During a cocktail party before the ceremony, the park delegation presented the cruiser's crew a bronze plaque with an inscription by Magill. [40]
Beyond participating in USS Cowpens events, park staff developed a permanent exhibit on the two ships for the visitor center. The initial aim of the project was to build a database of men who had served on the two USS Cowpens ships. The 1990 donation of the model of the second USS Cowpens sparked the development of an interpretive display in the visitor center. In 1995 the park issued a contract for a model of the World War II carrier, but later rejected it due to inaccuracies by the contractor. The park issued a second contract in 1996 for a one-sixteenth scale model of the ship. Funded by donations from the former crewmembers, the model was on display in time for that year's reunion. Al Kalbfleisch of Connecticut created and donated a one-sixteenth scale model of the Aegis cruiser for display in the visitor center two years later. Using funds from the U.S. Navy's Legacy Resource Management Program, the park completed a more permanent display on the ships. It consisted of new display cases funded by ENPMA percentage donations from Daybreak at the Cowpens proceeds, a touch screen exhibit with videos produced by local television studios WSPA and WRET, a display with historic photographs and interpretive text panels, and a brochure on the ships. The touch screen exhibit provided access to the database of men who served on the two vessels. [41]
Navy ships are not within the park's core interpretive mission. Similarly, the park's sponsorship of running marathons and Fourth of July celebrations might seem beyond its formal mandate. Yet, such commemorative activities have helped Cowpens officials to strengthen the relationship between the NPS and the local community even despite declining interest in history and competition for visitor leisure time from a growing variety of other attractions. At the very least, these events inspire local park visitors to return year after year, deepening their affection and helping to integrate the park into the life of the community.
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June 19 is National Martini Day, so we're kicking back and enjoying a drink - and so should you. Here are five recipes to help you celebrate the year's most important holiday.
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1 ½ oz. Camus VS Elegance cognac
¾ oz. orange liqueur
¾ oz. cranberry juice
¼ oz. lime juice
Lime twist for garnish
Combine all ingredients with ice and shake. Strain into a martini glass and garnish with a lime twist.
Apple and Thyme Martini
10 oz. vodka
6 oz. apple Juice
1/4 thyme syrup
1 apple, peeled
4 fresh thyme sprigs
Combine vodka, apple juice, and thyme syrup in martini shaker. Shake and pour into glass. Garnish with one sprig of thyme and three balls of apple.
Earl Grey Martini
1 teaspoon Earl Grey tea leaves
2 (1.5 fluid oz.) jiggers of gin
White sugar
1 lemon wedge
1 (1.5 fluid oz.) jigger of fresh lemon juice
2 fluid oz. simple syrup
In a glass, sprinkle tea leaves over gin and let steep for two hours. Strain the infused gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup into a martini shaker over ice. Cover and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Strain into glass and rim with sugar.
Belvedere Vodka Martini
2 oz Belvedere Vodka
¼ oz Lillet Blanc
Pink grapefruit for garnish
Using a jigger, combine Belvedere and Lillet Blanc into a mixing glass. Add ice cubes, cracking just a few with a bar spoon to promote dilution. Stir for 15 seconds and Julep strain into a chilled martini glass. Peel a healthy strip of pink grapefruit and twist the zest oils over the cocktail for aromatics.
Vesper Martini
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1 measure of vodka
1/2 measure Kina Lillet
Lemon peel for garnish
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Black Widow Spiders in Delaware
As I was walking down a path along the C & D Canal, just off Dutch Neck Road south of Delaware City, and just some yards away from where some folks were fishing, I observed a female Northern Black Widow Spider on her web. The web seemed rather random, with no magnificent pattern as you find with some other spiders.
That was the second Northern Black Widow Spider for me this month; as I noted in my earlier blog, I observed the other at night in the New Jersey Pine Barrens near Warren Grove.
I confess I hadn't realized Black Widows occurred this far north so I researched their occurrence. Turns out Northern Black Widows can be found throughout the eastern United States, from southern Canada south to Florida. And the "Southern" species can be found as far north as Delaware.
The distinctive red "hour glass" stigma on the underside of the abdomen is incomplete or split in the middle for the Northern species.
The venom of Black Widows is amazingly 15 times as toxic as that of rattlesnakes. Fortunately, being much smaller creatures, Black Widows don't inject nearly as much. But Black Widow bites are obviously nothing to sneeze at. The pain occurs almost immediately, and is said to be intense. It builds over 1---3 hours, but can last up to 24 hours. Large muscles can become rigid with spasms, and the victim can experience rises in body temperature and blood pressure. The person suffering the bite may sweat profusely.
Severity of the reaction depends on many factors, including age and size of the person bitten; location of the bite; depth of the bite; and when the spider last used its venom. Mortality rate: 1%, mostly children.
Jim White, Associate Director of Land & Biodiversity Management for the Delaware Nature Society, tells me Black Widows typically occur in a swath extending from Newark south through Kent and Sussex Counties. They are rare or absent in Piedmont Country -- Delaware's higher elevations -- just south of the Delaware--Pennsylvania arc.
Fortunately, Black Widows typically will avoid an encounter with humans rather than attacking. The one I photographed began scurrying to the ground. Jim White tells me hunters and fishermen walking through brush will rarely encounter these arachnids. People bringing in firewood downstate appear to be the most vulnerable.
Searching around the internet, I found one report of Black Widows around a recycling receptacle in a beach area.
To switch to likable invertebrates, you can check out the butterflies seen in Delaware and adjacent states - not to mention around the country - on the "Sightings" page of NABA, the North American Butterfly Association. Please do forward me photos if you want me to identify anything...
Posted at 6:52pm on May 29, 2012 by Allan Loudell
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Sun, Jun 24, 2012 12:53pm
Much has been speculated upon the demise of the honey bee across the USA.
Confession here: I last mowed my lawn Friday the week before. It was still pristine on Monday, and then the excessive heat hit. Surprisingly, the heat caused some flowers to add about 6 inches then bloom in less than 24 hours, and those long things that kids can wrap the stems around the old blossom heads and shoot at people, seemed to add 6 inches as well. And... the clover bloomed.
Intimately knowing chemical structures from my study of Organic Chemistry, for the sake of my pets and children, we chose to refrain from using the weed and grow treatments that burst on the scene a while ago, coincidentally, right at the same time bees began disappearing.
Because of our restraint, my yard in the heat had erupted into a white carpet of clover blossoms. And around my feet, I counted in a glance, perhaps 15 to 20 honey bees. These were the ones with the amber striped abdomens, not the newer species appearing recently, similar in the head and thorax areas, but with almost white and black striped abdomens.
Around the nearby flower garden, as usual, nary one honeybee. In fact, the only time I see honey bees is when my clover blooms, and that happens rarely, only when I am negligent in my duty as the prime caretaker of the outside of my house..
Standing in a sea of white, looking up and down my neighbors yards, all I saw were the green lawns of manicured grass, probably Kentucky Blue. One yard, (rentals), had a small patch of clover blooming as well.
I'm not that old, but I can remember when clover was an accepted commodity in every yard in town. Every child spent at least one day of their lives looking for a four leafed one.
Could this widespread lack of clover, a very important food source for honey bees, be a potential factor in their recent population decline?
You can't live, if you can't eat.....
So I here offer this tiny piece of a random observation just in case anyone out there is as concerned about this extinction as I am.
All I'm saying is that they've been extinct in my yard for years, and suddenly, here they were in numbers.
Sun, Jun 24, 2012 1:55pm
Just curious, would anyone out there be interested in pursuing the a legislative option of having DNREC sow the bare embankments along roadsides with milkweed to possibly assist with the continuation of the Monarch species of butterfly?
Allan Loudell
Mon, Jun 25, 2012 6:54pm
The honeybee indeed seems to be making a comeback in some areas.
And yes, honeybees will nectar with abandon on clover blossoms.
I suspect widespread use of insecticides has contributed to the depletion of "beneficial" insects. Such insecticides are not as species-specific as the manufacturers claim.
How or why did America begin its love affair with manicured grass?
For several reasons, I suspect:
(1). Many Americans really don't like nature, certainly not the nasty insects and arachnids, and some rodents too. (In the case of ticks, which seem to occur disproportionately in these parts, I can understand that tendency!) Pristine manicured lawns repel most insects and consequently spiders too. Parents might fear kids walking barefoot on a clover yard (as fluffy as that feels) might be stung by nectaring bees.
(2). Historic: The United States was first colonized in the East, and the Brits wanted to bring their pristine lawns to this side of the Atlantic.
(3). Class: For obvious reasons, the upper classes would generally have the most pristine, manicured lawns.
(4). In turn, some neighborhoods and communities might frown on anything other than the conventional lawns.
On Milkweed and other nectar along highways, particularly in the median strip areas: I have mixed emotions. I encourage planting for butterflies and most other nectaring insects. Conversely, I always fear such stretches of nectar might attract butterflies and other nectaring insects, only to be hit by vehicles whizzing by. (I would love to see a study on that subject). That said... I suspect Monarchs are somewhat more adept at avoiding speeding vehicles, as they tend to fly higher as part of their migration.
Chicago's famous North Michigan Avenue has a long median stretch of flowers and I've seen both Monarchs and Cabbage Whites nectaring. I've never seen any butterfly road-kill along that famous stretch (which I'd be more apt to notice!). But, vehicles travel at a considerably lower speed along North Michigan Avenue, and have to stop at lights.
Allan Loudell
Mon, Jun 25, 2012 9:05pm
I was intrigued by your 4 reasons for manicured lawns.
The only problem with that interpretation, is that those who are most fastidious about their lawns, ironically tend to also have the most disrespect for anything academic.
So instead of your four, I think the main reason, is simply because of Lowes and Home Depot, both of whom enabled us to do it because we can.
If one neighbor has all Kentucky Blue, two inches tall, your lawn next cannot help but to appear skimpy. So the next time as you walk through the Garden Center, there is a display put there just for you, that beckons to you psychologically..."you don't have to be second anymore..."
And the benefit of no bugs... no ticks, no ants, no roaches, no grubs, no worms, no beatles (lol), is a hard one to turn down. Only the most astute, are aware of the virtual desert devoid or life existing underneath their Scott's brand carpet and cognizant of the danger that without some of those other life forms, their beautiful carpet is not self sustaining....
That would me my take, although I like yours better. And my opinion is just based on my perspective that those who are most fastidious about their lawns, were not those academics paying super close attention in science classes... :)
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Since its founding in 1980, Sun & Ski Sports has remained true to its philosophy: "do a few things, but do them better than anybody else." The shop stocks equipment in five categories of extreme and outdoor activities, including camping, skating, running, bicycling, and water and snow sports. It specializes in these to ensure its merchandise maintains a high standard of quality, and its employees are knowledgeable participants in the sports their department represents.
Bikers can drop off their steeds for tune-ups from certified mechanics who put all brands through the rigors of a 12-point inspection, checking chains and adjusting wobbly pedals and malfunctioning spoke-card motors. While waiting, curious eyes might linger on a North Face two-person tent, a Blackburn Airtower bicycle pump, or a vast selection of shoes from brands such as New Balance and Asics. Men and women can traipse nearly barefoot in the park with Vibram FiveFingers, which offer minimal structural encumbrances for a more natural stride, or cast their feet aside for the new-wheeled prowess that comes with a Fuji SL-1 LE Ultegra performance road bike.
Owner Greg Klein first learned the art of customer service as a child, watching his father found the store that, 37 years later, would continue to bear his name. Greg remembers, "My father would close a sale and say, 'My name is Willi Klein. If you ever have any problems, you find me⎯I'll make it right.' It is still our motto today." This commitment to customer care is passed along to the sales staff at five locations, helping them pair outdoors enthusiasts with name brand gear from Burton, Nordica, Oakley, and Ride Snowboards. Team members take pride in helping boarders and skiers find boots that conform to their feet, a seemingly small detail that can make an enormous difference in staying comfortable on the slopes, performing on halfpipes, and attaining top speed while running off with a friend's poles.
Pacers provides a large inventory of running shoes, apparel, and more in its new P Street location. Highly trained employees, who earned a 2009 ABBIE for Best Customer Service, help customers select the proper footwear, taking into account individual fitness levels, previous injuries, running goals, and the results of Pacers' complimentary gait analysis. After the hoof assessment, match needs with fashionable racing boots from brands such as Asics, Saucony, Brooks, and Nike (average price is $100). Runners can show off triple-striped sleeves with an Adidas zip-up top ($65) or wrap themselves in Nike shorts (starting at $28), tops (starting at $25), and pants (starting at $55). To quench runner's thirst or ensure buoyancy after running into a kiddie pool, strap on a water belt ($50).
The planners behind SocialBot Events have a knack for putting together social events to help both long-time residents and newcomers navigate the DC area and meet locals. Many of these events are geared toward singles, such as speed-dating nights, which help people pair up without needing to resort to lines like, "So, do you come here often?" or, "You must have fallen from heaven, because your hair looks wind-blown and you seem confused." But SocialBot's events include activities to help folks make new friends as well, such as the winter day trips. Attendees load up into a bus and spend a day together skiing or snowboarding the slopes of Snowshoe Mountain.
Calleva at National Harbor organizes adventures that traverse land, water, and air, each designed to inspire the intrepid with the bounties of nature. A terra-based encounter, the guided bike ride over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and Mount Vernon Trail combines the thrill of physical activity with the wonder of american bald eagle and bald presidential monument sightings. From 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on weekends, pedal pumpers are treated to panoramic views of the Potomac River. If the allure of the deep overcomes grounded wanderings, embark on a watery outing in a solo kayak, canoe, or tandem kayak, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends. After a mind-stretching lesson on paddling and water safety, boat brethren can drift through the National Harbor in their floating vessels and explore the shores of the District and Alexandria, stopping occasionally to feed breadcrumbs to migrating politicians.
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With a name that means "where the paths cross," it's no surprise that Calleva is dedicated to bringing people of all ages and from all walks of life together to appreciate the outdoors. The certified MAEOE environmental center helps its guests dive into the heart of the wilderness right outside D.C. and raise awareness about its delicate ecosystems. In doing so, it encourages others to cooperate and take risks while stepping out of their comfort zones, like baby birds leaving the nest to start their own nest-building business.
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William James Glackens (March 13, 1870 – May 22, 1938) was an American realist painter.
Glackens studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later moved to New York City, where he co-founded what came to be called the Ashcan School art movement. This group of artists, dubbed by the press "the Eight Independent Painters" or The Eight, chose to exhibit their works without pre-approval by the juries of the existing art establishment. He became known for his dark-hued paintings of street scenes and daily life in the city's neighborhoods. His later work was brighter in tone, and showed the influence of Renoir. During much of his career as a painter, Glackens also worked as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines in Philadelphia and New York City.
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A Baltimore County woman was shot and killed in front of her 3-year-old son Tuesday morning in the 1300-block of Dalton Road in Parkville. Now police want to talk to her estranged husband.
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Convicted. A jury found the woman who admitted hiring the hitman that murdered her husband guilty of first degree murder.
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Right now a jury deliberates in the case of a Baltimore county woman who admits she hired the hitman that killed her husband.
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The woman who claims years of abuse drove her to hire a hitman to murder her husband continues her fight to avoid jail time.
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A Howard County jury has acquitted a woman of killing her quadriplegic husband.
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An employee of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center has been charged with fatally shooting her husband in their District of Columbia home, police said Friday.
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The death of an 86-year-old Baltimore County woman has been ruled a homicide, but authorities aren't bringing any charges against her elderly husband.
Husband Of Missing Md. Woman Found Dead
Wicomico County authorities say the husband of a missing teacher has been found dead in their Allen home.
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A Carroll County Circuit judge has sentenced a New Windsor man to 12 years in prison for attacking his wife with a hammer.
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A court document says a parolee admitted he'd stabbed his estranged wife as he unleashed an ugly rant to Maryland police who arrested him on charges of killing her in a New York City hair salon.
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Update to original post: Utilising Facebook Chat (without needing to be on Facebook) Facebook Chat can now be used with chat clients that support Jabber - this includes iChat, Adium, Pidgin and AIM.
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My best friend/fiancé Kate (KateorDie) and I are madly in love with each other on a purely platonic level, and are going to be celebrating our love and eternal friendship in October at what we're calling our Friendship Wedding.
We know some may think its a strange thing to do, but we're two pretty strange ladies and think that getting "married" on October 13th at dusk on our friends rooftop in downtown Halifax sounds lovely.
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HEIDI MONTAG and SPENCER PRATT will be starring in "Celebrity Big Brother" UK…
So get ready for more of Speidi, folks!
Looks like these two are about to be broke no longer!
Job offers have been few and far between for Heidi and Spencer, and for the last few years, they've been pretty much broke and irrelevant… until now.
According to recent celebrity news, the publicity-loving couple has just signed up to join the UK edition of "Celebrity Big Brother" to compete against 10 other celebrity housemates.
HEIGI MONTAG is scheduled to headline at a famous Vegas strip club, according to entertainment news.
Get ready to drool!
We hope the world is ready to see Heidi Montag shake her stuff on stage because the former reality star—and plastic surgery addict—has reportedly agreed to a $25,000-worth deal to host the 3rd Year Anniversary Party of the Crazy Horse III strip club in Vegas this coming October 19.
But if you think you're going to see her surgery-given assets, think again.
In recent star news, "The Hills" star HEIDI MONTAG is once again speaking out on her plastic surgeries… and she says that she "wouldn't really recommend it" to anyone.
After undergoing 10 plastic surgery procedures (in one day!!!) back in 2009—which she once said was the best decision she ever made—Heidi Montag is now very much against doing any kind of cosmetic surgery on herself, and claims that she regrets all of the procedures she previously had.
HEIDI MONTAG and SPENCER PRATT have decided to set the record straight—they ain't broke!
Yes, they're not! Which is pretty surprising, since Spencer is an unemployed reality TV star and Heidi's latest gig, "Famous Food," is reportedly one of the lowest rated shows VH1 has ever produced.
Heidi and Spencer may have dropped under the radar a bit, but over the past few weeks the notorious reality star couple has been gracing celebrity gossip websites again—because they reportedly have no money.
HEIDI MONTAG and SPENCER PRATT are now completely broke… and totally irrelevant. Is anyone really all that surprised about this? We're not!
Heidi and Spencer may have once been the most talked-about couple on celebrity gossip websites, but it seems that their 15 minutes of fame are finally up. And their money's almost gone, too.
The couple is reportedly living in a beach house in Santa Barbara, which is owned by Spencer's parents—and they're not even paying any rent. Why? Because they are broke and unemployable.
According to the latest celebrity news, DANIELLE STAUB has this to say about her 'Famous Food' co-star HEIDI MONTAG: "She's not the sharpest tool in the shed." We kinda already knew that, Danielle.
Danielle became one of TV's most hated reality stars after her stint in 'Real Housewives of New Jersey', but now she's back to stir up trouble on VH1's new reality show 'Famous Food'—a show that will have seven celebrities competing to become a partner of the LA-based Dolce restaurant group.


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Chock-full of potatoes, this vegetarian soup is as filling as it is flavorful. Serve on cold winter nights with crusty bread or take a thermos-full to work; with this in store, you'll really look forward to lunch! —Hannah Thompson, Scotts Valley, California
11 Servings
Prep: 20 min. Cook: 5-1/2 hours
3 cans (14-1/2 ounces
) vegetable broth
6 medium potatoes, cubed
1 medium carrot, thinly sliced
1 large leek (white portion only), chopped
1/4 cup butter, cubed
1 garlic clove, minced
1 teaspoon dried thyme
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon dried marjoram
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1-1/2 cups half-and-half cream
1 cup frozen peas, thawed
In a 5-qt. slow cooker, combine the first 10 ingredients. Cover and
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Welcome to the N.H.K (NHK ni Youkoso!)
Satou-kun, a socially withdrawn loner, barricades himself in his apartment, subsiding on a meagre allowance sent by his parents, only venturing to the outside world to buy food under cover of darkness. One day, afraid he might miss the utility person, he opens the door to find a cute, mysterious girl, accompanying an elderly religious [...]
Yuki, a brave-hearted and naturally inquisitive girl, stumbles into a secret. Her recent acquaintance Tetsu has been raising a strange shape-changing creature called Cenco, that he can telepathically control. Yuki, instantly becomes fascinated by Tetsu and quickly develops a bond with his pet. Then a mysterious boy appears with control over the huge monster threatening the [...]
Ouran High School Host Club
Ouran High School is a school for the extremely wealthy or talented. Haruhi just happens to be more talented than wealthy. Since she had a hair mishap the week before school started and could not afford the school uniform, she was mistaken for a boy.
Azumanga Daioh
Azumanga Daioh is about high school life through the eyes of six girls with unusual personalities: Chiyo (the 10-year-old genius), Osaka (the resident airhead), Sakaki (the shy one prone to cat bites), Tomo (the loose cannon), Yomi (the short-tempered one) and Kagura (the resident jock).
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The story centres around Keiichiro, a young man who lives alone in his house. He went through a lot of pain in his life, since the tragic car accident that killed his parents and younger sister, blaming himself for surviving.
Pale Cocoon
In the far future when the continuity of the history has been lost, humans live in an ever more deteriorating completely artificial and enclosed world. The sea and the sky have disappeared, and the only window to "living" scenery exists in the records from the past, excavated in the relic.
Voices of a Distant Star (Hoshi no Koe)
Set in 2046 after the discovery of the ruins of an alien civilization on Mars, man has been able to make leaps in technology and is planning to send an expedition into space in the next year. Nagamine Mikako and Terao Noboru are junior high school students. However, while Noboru will be entering senior high [...]
Clannad is a story of a high school boy Okazaki Tomoya, and the relationships he has with the various students in school. There are five main girls, and there are stories with each one.