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Sherman A1's JournalBlues lay off several employees in midst of NHL lockout
ST. LOUIS (KMOV) – The St. Louis Blues have laid off some employees in the midst of the NHL lockout.
A team source on Monday confirmed it laid off nearly 20 front-officers last week. The official said 75 other employees took pay cuts. Some even switched to four-day work weeks, the team said.
The laid-off employees worked in an array of departments at Scottrade Center. Some of them will likely be brought back if and when the lockout ends.
The Blues regular season is scheduled to begin October 11 in Denver. The NHL has already cancelled all pres-season games through September.
http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Blues-lay-off-several-employees-in-midst-of-NHL-lockout-171228451.html
Conservative fund considers backing Mo. Rep. Akin
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A conservative fundraising group that had shied away from Missouri Rep. Todd Akin is now seriously considering whether to come to the embattled Republican's aid in his challenge to Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, an official with the group said Monday.
The Senate Conservatives Fund, which has raised more than $11 million for other Republican Senate candidates, could provide a much-needed financial boost for Akin, who is facing a Tuesday deadline on whether to stay in the race. Akin vowed again Monday to remain in the contest. Appearing at a Kirkwood, Mo., rally with former presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, Akin said there had been discussions with the super PAC but no official agreement on aiding him.
The group previously had shied away from Akin, in part, because of his past use of spending earmarks to direct federal money to specific local projects. Earmarks now are banned in the Republican-controlled House, and Senate Republicans have voted not to use them.
In the primary, Akin aired an ad that touted a life saved by federal funding that some considered an earmark. But in a statement to The Associated Press last week, Akin said he backs a prohibition on earmarks in some circumstances.
http://news.yahoo.com/conservative-fund-considers-backing-mo-rep-akin-164547033--election.html
SKIRMISH AT GRANBY, MO SEPTEMBER 23 or 24, 1862
Granby, MO (Newton County) is in SW Missouri and as described part of the Joplin, MO statistical area.
An Obviously Confederate View of the Granby Fight
Granby Fight. -- During the early part of the Civil War it was a matter of great importance to the Confederates in the Southwest to secure supplies of lead from Missouri, and in the fall of 1862 General Rains, with a force of 2,000 men, was stationed on the old Pea Ridge battle field to cover the transportation of lead from the Granby mines to the Confederate arsenal at Little Rock. To break up the business a body of Federal troops took possession of Granby and stopped the shipment of lead South. Colonel Shelby sent a force of Confederates, under Colonel Shanks, to attack the place and secure possession of it at whatever cost. The attack was made at daylight on the 23d of September, and resulted in the surprise and defeat of the Federals, who lost twenty-seven killed and wounded and forty-three taken prisoners, the Confederates losing only two men wounded. The mines were then actively worked under the protection of the Confederates, and large quantities of lead were sent to Rains camp to be forwarded to Little Rock.
SOURCE: Howard L. Conrad, Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri (1901), Volume 3, page 84.
NOTE
This encyclopedia entry was apprently taken almost verbatim from Shelby and His Men, by John Newman Edwards (page 86). Edwards was Joseph Shelby's adjutant during the war and a notorious liar and drunkard afterwards. On August 29, 1885, the Neosho Miner and Mechanic had this note, "The 'apoplexy' with which Maj. John N. Edwards of the St. Joseph Gazette was attacked ... at Higginsville, was probably apple-jaxy instead of 'plexy.'" Bob Schultz and William Shea provided information for this note.
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cappscreek/civilwar/or/ornewton39.html
Sep 23, 1806: Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis
Amid much public excitement, American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark return to St. Louis, Missouri, from the first recorded overland journey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast and back. The Lewis and Clark Expedition had set off more than two years before to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase.
Even before the U.S. government concluded purchase negotiations with France, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned his private secretary Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, an army captain, to lead an expedition into what is now the U.S. Northwest. On May 14, the "Corps of Discovery," featuring 28 men and one woman—a Native American named Sacagawea—left St. Louis for the American interior.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lewis-and-clark-return
Green Homes & Great Health Festival at Missouri Botanical Garden
Saturday, September 29, 2012 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Help your family live green – and live healthier! Celebrate sustainable living and explore ways to maintain a healthy you and a healthy planet.
Bring your home improvement ideas and talk with over 100 green product and service exhibitors. Enjoy local foods and live music, and shop for handmade crafts in the Green Marketplace. Get a free flu shot and talk with experts about your health questions. Kids will enjoy solar car races, puppet shows and more! Help paint a Metro bus and explore the alternative vehicles on display. Learn from expert presentations and demos about the many ways that plants, air, water, soil and energy sustain our homes, our health and our living Earth.
Bike down on September 29! We are pleased to provide ample self-service bicycle parking courtesy of Trailnet.
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/things-to-do/events/signature-events/green-homes-great-health-festival.aspx
Household income declines, poverty rate flat graphic with interesting points on consumer food prices
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Newt Gingrich is coming to St. Louis Monday for a Todd Akin fundraiser
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ST. LOUIS • Newt Gingrich is coming to St. Louis Monday for a Todd Akin fundraiser because he wants “to tell the people of Missouri” that they have the right to stand by the Republican Senate candidate of their choice, regardless of what the party's leaders tell them.
In a phone interview today with the Post-Dispatch, Gingrich, the former House Speaker and presidential candidate, said the controversy surrounding Akin isn't the point. “The people of Missouri picked him to be their nominee in a fair fight.”
He also warned what others have said: That for the GOP to throw in the towel on the Missouri Senate seat, as the party's national leaders appear to be doing, will probably mean losing the Senate.
“I don't see how the Republicans are going to win the Senate if they throw away a seat like Missouri.”
Gingrich will attend a St. Louis fundraiser Monday for Akin, the Senate candidate. It's an event that may be at least as important to the struggling campaign for its message as for its money.
The $500-a-plate lunchtime event (or $750 per couple) will be held at Trattoria Branica restaurant on South Kirkwood Road. Akin spokesman Ryan Hite said the invitation-only event would be "a small gathering" of possibly about 100 people.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/aafc3e6c-029a-11e2-8655-0019bb30f31a.html
WWII Landmines Block Egypt’s Access to Oil and Gas
Interesting.......
German “Desert Fox” Erwin Rommel and the British Eighth Army left behind hundreds of thousands of mines and unexploded shells in their North African battles of World War II. The explosive relics are hampering Egypt’s access to untapped oil and gas reserves in the desert.
Egypt is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. The unexploded ordnance left lying in its desert from World War II battles ranks the country right up there with Afghanistan on this dubious list. Every year, Bedouins and farmers come across unexploded mines and shells, and it’s not uncommon for undiscovered bombs to explode amid retrieved scrap metal.
Some 22 million landmines and unexploded ordnance have lain hidden in the northwest of Egypt since World War II, Fathy El-Shazly, national project director for mine clearance and development at the Ministry of International Cooperation, told United Nations news service Irin.
Many of the mines are near the battlefield of El-Alamein, where the British Eighth Army forced the Africa Corps of “Desert Fox” Erwin Rommel to retreat all the way back to Tunisia. That war and today’s peace lie close together in the no-man’s-land of the desert. Anti-tank mines, anti-personnel mines and unexploded artillery shells block today’s transportation routes.
http://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured-article/nazi-landmines-block-egypts-access-to-oil-and-gas.html
Albertsons Store Closings Identified
MINNEAPOLIS — The Albertsons stores slated for closure in Southern California are spread throughout the region, while the 22 Save-A-Lots slated to be closed are mostly in the Southeast and Pacific Northwest.
As previously reported, Supervalu is planning to close 60 stores across the country by year-end, including eight it has not yet identified. The list includes four Acme stores (Morrisville, Pa.; Glassboro, N.J.; Sharon Hill, Pa.; and Stevensville, Md.) and one Jewel-Osco (Michigan City, Ind.).
Following is the list of specific Albertsons closings provided to SN by Supervalu:
Southern California:
• Mesmer & Jefferson, Culver City (already closed)
• 7th & Redondo, Long Beach
• Harbor & Garden Grove Boulevard, Garden Grove
• Harbor Bouevard & Imperial Highway, Fullerton
• Dale & La Palma, Buena Park
• Brookhurst & Katella, Anaheim
• Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles
• Central & Chevy Chase, Glendale
• Devonshire & Reseda, Northridge
• Van Nuys & Sherman, Van Nuys
• Bear Valley & Amethyst Roads, Victorville
• Pigeon Pass & Ironwood, Moreno Valley
• Colima & Fairway Drive, Rowland Heights
• Hamner Avenue & Hidden Valley Parkway, Norco
• Grove Ave & Walnut Street, Ontario
• Limonite & Clay, Riverside
• Amar & Nogales, Walnut
• Azusa & Cypress, Covina
Oregon:
• La Grande
• Corvallis
Washington:
• North Marysville
• Juanita, Kirkland
• Benson & 208th, Kent
• Lacey
• North Auburn
• Bonney Lake, Sumner
Read More: http://supermarketnews.com/retail-amp-financial/albertsons-store-closings-identified#ixzz263LwlA87
Martin’s Food Markets Checkouts Trade Candy for Fruit
RICHMOND, Va. — At Martin’s Food Markets here, customers now have the opportunity to use checkout lanes that feature apples, nuts, nutrition bars and baked chips instead of candy.
Each of the eight stores participating in the project offers two healthy checkout lanes, with one guaranteed to be available from open to close, according to Martin’s In-Store Nutritionist Valerie Waters.
“Almost everything we have in the aisle is single serve or has the ability to be single serve and also to be able to eat on the go,” said Waters, who noted it was important to Martin’s to make the experience like grabbing a candy bar.
Martin’s calls out the new lanes with a big overhanging sign at the register and then with smaller signs, too, said Waters.
Developed in partnership with the city of Richmond and the health and wellness nonprofit Fit4Kids, the lanes offer drinks and food with strict requirements — no more than 35% added sugar for drinks and no more than 30% fat or 10% saturated fat for food.
Read More: http://supermarketnews.com/health-amp-wellness/martin-s-checkouts-trade-candy-fruit#ixzz25gKbeyfZ
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