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In 1792, Captain Robert Gray navigated his ship, the Columbia Rediviva, into a hidden river entrance. In doing so, he discovered one of America's largest rivers, and quickly named it after his trusty boat. Gray would be best remembered for his foray into the Columbia River, but that leg of the journey was just one part of his explorations throughout the Pacific Northwest. The Garibaldi Maritime Museum honors his voyages ?and those of others?with models and displays about sailing in the 18th century.
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Little Oaks is a six double bedroom family house with a large garden to the rear and private parking in the front. All six bedrooms offer en-suite accommodation and downstairs there is a large kitchen with dining area, a generously-sized sitting room with wood burning stove, a cosy study, a utility room and a large front hall. The kitchen opens out onto a sun terrace and the garden beyond, and there are sun loungers and an outdoor table and chairs for guests to enjoy alfresco eating.
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"Why should you carry other people's bags?"
"Well, that's my business, Madame."
"That's no business. That's social injustice."
"That depends on the tip."
- "Ninotchka" (1939)
SUMMARY: Everyone keeps dragging "EM experience" into the debate over
whether Greece and the European periphery should devalue - so we
we'd put out a few charts to try and set the record straight: the EM
experience with devaluation is not very convincing. In fact, in most
cases devalation doesn't seem to do anything at all.
Chart 1. How convincing is this chart?
Source: World Bank, IMF, UBS estimates
In the 12 months since Greece first catapulted itself into market
consciousness as a potential threat to European stability, there have
been endless discussions about how to solve the "periphery problem".
the key a combination of fiscal adjustment and debt restructuring? Or
there are more systematic issue at heart, i.e., do Greece and other
peripheral economies fundamentally need to leave the Euro area and
As emerging economists we don't really have direct answers to these
questions, of course. But along the way it seems that an extraordinary
number of brokers and analysts want to invoke emerging market
in the great "default vs. devaluation" debate.
And, so, after the umpteenth request to comment on the European
situation "from an EM perspective", we thought we'd make a more
systematic attempt to clear the air here.
Does devaluation work?
We have two key points. The first is that there are no "easy" emerging
market lessons here. The abundant academic literature on the topic is
all over the map; there are times when devaluation has clearly worked,
and times when it hasn't, and the same is true with default and
And second, when we look at the data ourselves the practical case for
devaluation seems particularly weak. Indeed, if anything we think the
arguments for rapid balance sheet delevering and debt "clearance" are
more clear-cut.
In today's note we examine devaluation experience in the emerging
and in a subsequent follow-up note we will look at the arguments
surrounding balance sheet adjustment.
Defining our terms - what are we looking for?
Before we jump into our charts, we need to define our terms. First,
which questions exactly do we want to address? With an eye towards the
current situation in the European periphery, it appears to us that the
two most relevant issues are whether moving the exchange rate can (i)
achieve a meaningful increase in export competitiveness and thus
and/or (ii) significantly reduce current account imbalances.
This is perhaps less obvious than it sounds. We've had any number of
correspondents come to us touting the wonders of devaluation in
any number of EM problems, and almost inevitably the example they give
is one variant or another of what we might call the "Venezuela
- i.e., a resource-based economy where commodity exports account for
bulk of external and fiscal revenues. In such cases there's little
that exchange rate adjustment is the proper response to a worsening in
external conditions; this is very cut-and-dried from both a
and practical point of view ... but has almost nothing to do with the
discussion at hand, which is focused on more standard manufacturing
services economies like Greece.
Defining our terms - what are we looking at?
Second, how do we get there? What we do below is to take the simplest
approach imaginable: We located every instance of significant
devaluation in the emerging universe over the past 30 years - or 51
specific country episodes in total, with "significant" defined as a
or greater decline in the nominal value of the exchange rate in one
(see footnote for details) - and threw them all together to see what
kind of regularities we could find.
We should also note that we did not attempt to adjust our outcomes for
real exchange rate movements. Any reader with economics training will
understand that variables like trade and growth depends on real rather
than nominal exchange rate movements - but that, in a sense, is
the point. The only variable that policy authorities have at their
disposable is the nominal rate, and the first thing we want to know is
how successful they have been when they decide to devalue that rate.
Devaluation and trade
So here we go. To begin with, does devaluation promote subsequent
Looking at Chart 2 below, the answer would have to be a broad "no".
chart plots average export growth in volume terms in the five years
leading up to devaluation on the vertical axis, and volume export
in the five years after devaluation on the horizontal axis. As you can
see, there are eight or nine countries (to the lower right of the
45-degree line) that did see a significant acceleration in exports
the event - but the remaining majority are clustered around the
45-degree line, with no meaningful change, and there were also a
where export growth deteriorated visibly.
Chart 2. Devaluation and exports
Source: IMF, World Bank, UBS estimates
Chart 3. Devaluation and imports
Source: IMF, World Bank, UBS estimates
What about imports? Here the outcomes are much more dispersed - and if
anything are even more paradoxical; we normally assume that one of
channels through with devaluation works is import compression, as
switches in favor of domestic goods, but there are a substantial
of countries where import volume growth actually accelerated after the
exchange rate moved, and surprisingly few where import growth dropped
As a result, it is not perhaps not surprising that less than a dozen
countries reported a meaningful improvement in the trade balance as a
share of GDP (Chart 4), with the rest showing a broadly unchanged
situation. Moreover, for those countries that did see an improvement,
the change came predominantly through falling imports rather than
exports (you can see the correlation between import changes and trade
balance adjustment in Chart 5; the relationship using export changes
far weaker).
Chart 4. Devaluation and the trade balance
Source: IMF, World Bank, UBS estimates
Chart 5. Trade balance and import adjustment
Source: IMF, World Bank, UBS estimates
The bottom line is that there's relatively little evidence to suggest
that devaluation has "worked" in terms of consistently promoting
growth or trade adjustment in emerging countries.
Devaluation and growth
Ok, then, how about growth?
At first glance, the numbers here look better. As shown in Chart 6
(which is a duplicate of Chart 1 above), only a few countries had a
deterioration in growth prospects in the five years after devaluation,
while far more reported a visible acceleration.
However, this arguably also has to do with the fact that the immediate
impact of devaluation (i.e., in the year where the devaluation takes
place) is overwhelmingly negative, with a sharp drop in activity for
least 20 of the countries in our sample (Chart 7). It may be only
natural to see a period of "catch-up" growth after a one-off collapse
demand during a crisis scenario.
Chart 6. Devaluation and growth
Source: IMF, World Bank, UBS estimates
Chart 7. Immediate impact of devaluation
Source: IMF, World Bank, UBS estimates
In short, here as well it's very difficult to point to unambiguous
So why doesn't devaluation work as planned?
Why hasn't devaluation had a more consistent and visible positive
across emerging markets? For answers we can go right back to the
academic literature.
First, even in developed economies exchange rates can move a lot
having much visible impact on trade flows; trade elasticities can be
long and variable ... and in an environment of corporate
pricing-to-market and other practices, some question whether
elasticities are a useful concept at all.
Second, to go back to the real exchange rate point we made earlier,
because you devalue once doesn't mean the exchange rate "stays"
devalued; knock-on inflation can take away competitiveness very
Most studies point to the need for "follow through" in terms of
supporting macro policies in other areas; in particular, monetary
needs to remain tight and credible in order to prevent the
effects of a weaker exchange rate from passing through immediately to
domestic wages and wage expectations. Usually a fiscal adjustment is
also necessary to ensure that there is no excessive monetary
accommodation of the public sector and that private credit demands can
be met.
External conditions also matter tremendously. If you devalued in 1997
Asia, for example, you didn't see much "bang for the buck" in terms of
exports or growth, in part because of the weak post-crisis regional
conditions and in part because of the subsequent global IT-related
downturn in 2000-01. By contrast, if you devalued in 2002, you
reported a significant pick-up in both trade and growth - just as
everyone else did - in the great 2003-08 global boom.
Finally, and very important, if you have a large stock of
foreign-currency liabilities devaluation can make thing worse rather
than better - and this brings us back around to the question of
and balance sheet adjustment. The same is true even for domestic debt;
if devaluation takes place at the very end of a long period of rising
imbalances, the effects of trend delevering or even crisis at home may
overwhelm any positive impact from relative competitiveness. We'll be
addressing these issues shortly, so please watch for the next note.
And in the meantime, keep in mind that the evidence in "favor" of
devaluation is a lot less compelling than many people think.
Jonathan Anderson
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The Hebrew word kebir , rendered "pillow" in 1 Samuel 19:13 1 Samuel 19:16 , but in Revised Version marg. "quilt" or "network," probably means some counterpane or veil intended to protect the head of the sleeper. A different Hebrew word (meraashoth') is used for "bolster" ( 1 Samuel 26:7 1 Samuel 26:11 1 Samuel 26:16 ). It is rightly rendered in Revised Version "at his head." In Gen 28:11,18the Authorized Version renders it "for his pillows," and the Revised Version "under his head." In Eze 13:18,20another Hebrew word (kesathoth) is used, properly denoting "cushions" or "pillows," as so rendered both in the Authorized and the Revised Version.
Head-rest; pillow.And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his BOLSTER. ( 1 Samuel 1:1 Exodus 26:12 )
Found in the King James Version only in 1 Samuel 19:13,16, "Behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goat's hair at the head thereof" (the King James Version "for his bolster"), and 1 Samuel 26:7,11,12,16, "Saul lay sleeping .... with his spear stuck in the ground at his head." "Bolster" in these passages in the King James Version was used to translate a Hebrew word whose true significance is "the place of the head," or "the head-place." It will be noted that it has disappeared from the Revised Version (British and American), which rightly has throughout "head," instead of "bolster."
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Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) - Cole Hamels rediscovered his 2008 form on Tuesday in a dry desert heat, striking out nine over eight dominant frames, as Philadelphia continued its red-hot play with a 4-3 victory over Arizona at Chase Field.
Hamels (7-5) gave up one run on four hits without a walk, throwing 79 of his 112 pitches for strikes. Shane Victorino finished 3-for-5 with two runs scored and a solo home run, as the Phillies won their 19th game in July, the most in the month since 1977.
"It's something I've been working towards really hard is to try to go deep in a game, then you really feel like you've actually pitched, actually helped your team and that's what I definately felt I was able to do today," said Hamels.
Dan Haren (10-6), who was 7-1 over his last eight decisions, gave up three runs -- two earned -- on four hits with three walks and five strikeouts over five laboring innings. Ryan Roberts hit a solo shot in the first and Mark Reynolds drilled a two-run bomb off Brad Lidge in the ninth. Arizona is now 5-8 over its last 13 games.
"Very hard, I don't know what was harder, that or the All-Star team line-up, that's basically the All-Star line up right there," said Haren.
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If someone can help me figure out how to close last year's polls, that'd be excellent. Unfortunately, those results were somewhat ruined by the board redesign, which deleted tons of votes and posts. Even so, it was very exciting to see Majora's Mask finally beat Ocarina of Time on this board, and something I never really expected to happen. Please vote only once so we may keep an accurate representation of how us hardcore fans feel about the series. If you wish to vote for your favorite portable Zelda, please go here. Note: I do not include remakes or side games such as Four Swords Adventures or Link's Crossbow Training Past results (due to poll glitch, the polls have reset): 2001: Ocarina of Time blew away the competition. 2003: Ocarina of Time narrowly won over The Wind Waker. 2004: Ocarina of Time beats the competition handily, but Majora's Mask earns a significantly larger portion of the votes. 2007: Twilight Princess withheld Ocarina of Time for the first half of 2007, but Ocarina of Time had more endurance, surpassing Twilight Princess later in the year for a narrow victory. 2008/2009: No data. 2010: Ocarina of Time narrowly defeats Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess dips to a 3rd place tie with The Wind Waker, older games are ignored entirely! 2011: Ocarina of Time withstands an early surge of votes for A Link to the Past and Majora's Mask, possibly thanks to some help from the 3DS remake. Majora's Mask takes second, and A Link to the Past made a furious comeback after a lackluster performance the previous year to take third. 2012: Majora's Mask finally supplants Ocarina of Time as this forum's Best Overall Zelda Game. OoT loses for the first time ever. Poll will be bumped out of necessity.
This year marks Skyward Sword's first appearance. I don't expect Skyward Sword will have many voters, but I'm curious what game those voters would have picked pre-SS. I will inevitably vote for either The Original, OoT, or Majora's Mask. Most likely, I will vote for The Original because the instruction manual is a crucial element to that game, an element that newer players will likely never experience. In those days, video games didn't start and end with the game data. If you have never played The Original Zelda with the manual and map, look here: http://store.nintendo.com/webapp/wc...l=null&tranId=0&jktranid=&rpComment=&dropOff=
Going with Majora's Mask once more. It has my favorite Dungeon of the series, superb music, excellent characters, plenty of sidequests, the brilliant mask system, doesn't have a hijacked by Ganon moment (this is becoming more important for me with time), the game's atmosphere is amazing, especially since you can look up and see the doom-bringing moon from just about anywhere that the sky is visible and it has just the right amount of mystery to it. Nice to see a game other than OoT finally win. I'm fairly interested in seeing how SS will play into this. Still, I'm pretty sure one of the Nintendo 64 games will win it.
Quite fitting to see Majora's Mask win the so-called apocalyptic year of 2012. Now that the mass media have disgraced themselves in lies and illogical assumptions regarding the Mayans, we can now move onto more important things: voting in this thread. lol Ocarina of Time takes my vote. MM may have a far surpassed list of strengths that Falcor has mentioned, but OoT has the soundtrack, overall magical, mystical, & legendary experience filled with landscapes that literally took my breath away. That does not mean MM must have those things to be #1 to me, because what MM has accomplished is simply perfect. It's just that OoT has a sort of style that I share and admire greatly. To put it at a clearer perspective: OoT in gaming is like my love for LotR in cinema. While my love for MM matches similarly to any film art powerhouses that are 2nd on my top of all-time (like, idk, A Clockwork Orange).
Now that MM finally has won this after all these years, I actually thought long and hard about choosing WW. In the end I'm still going with Majora's Mask, but I'm sure that I'll be voting for Wind Waker sometime in the future. It's gotten fairly underrated.
I want to give a unique answer for once, but I have to vote for Majora's Mask once again. No matter how many times I replay other console Zelda titles, nothing captures the perfection of gameplay, originality, story, characters, message, and mood of Majora's Mask.
*raises hand* Dumb question. Are we voting for the best game relative to its time, or as if they were all released today?
Ocarina of Time, because Majora's Mask doesn't have a 3DS remake like OoT does. I'm not entirely sure MM would supplant OoT if it had a 3DS remake, but it would be very close. Without it, however, it's not really much of a challenge.
It's your interpretation. SouthPawLink put it well a couple years ago: I continue to consider the older Zelda games because they have an attribute that the newer games, in my opinion, don't have; a game world that you can expand with your own imagination. I continue to vote for The Original every once in a while because the instruction manual helped flesh out my imagination of what Hyrule was like, a dark, accursed place devoid of all hope. I don't think any subsequent game has matched the utter despair and danger I felt in from the first game.
Thanks for the reference, PDL! Before voting, I'm first going to finish a file on A Link to the Past (GBA version). The choice for me comes down to that game and Ocarina of Time. In my opinion, they best exemplify what the series is all about. And since you quoted me, PDL, I would add that Ocarina of Time probably started the shift from classic Zelda to modern Zelda, although Link's Awakening is also partially responsible. Still, I'd argue that Ocarina of Time leans more towards the "classic" end of the spectrum, given its non-linear adult Link portion of the quest and its (overall) fairly open-ended overworld.
I just stumbled across that orchestrated OoT title Theme. Anyone hear it before? Good GOD is it amazing... Had to put it in my post.
Voting for The Original, again. The modern games can't compare to The Original when it comes to the player's own imagination. Sure, Ocarina of Time has excellent music, and Majora's Mask has some of the best NPC's in gaming history, but neither speaks to the imagination the way the first Zelda game does. I will never forget the epic title screen, the phenomenal artwork, or the freedom of the Overworld. I used more items in that game than in any Zelda game since. Sometimes just the sword, sometimes the wand when I took damage, bombs on tough enemies like Dark Nuts, bait to help take some pressure off of me, the boomerang ALL THE TIME in the Overworld to avoid taking damage, and the bow and arrows too. In the 3d age, battles end up being limited almost entirely to the sword because of Z-targeting. My entire vision of "What is Zelda?" revolves around the first game, from labyrinths instead of puzzle dungeons, to dark, foreboding artwork instead of bright, cheerful places. Zelda is The Legend of Zelda.
Twilight Princess GCN. Large encompassing experience, inventive in adapting old aspects, and my favorite part, manual camera control.
Uuuuggghhh, if only it was a Wii exclusive. They'd take advantage of the hardware and extra data capacity. One could only dream ...
I completely finished Wind Waker in October and I have to say... what an amazing beautiful revolutionary game, it rivaled Ocarina of Time so i've had to choose WW in this instance.
Very articulate explanation, PDarkLink. I'm going to have to go with Ocarina of Time, despite the fact that it's not as pure as is A Link to the Past (i.e. no classic overworld theme, no sword beams, few enemies in overworld), which was a perfectly refined sequel to Zelda 1. What it lacks in purity, OoT more than makes up for it by dramatically increasing the series' presentation: rising and setting suns, wildlife sound effects and cinematic story scenes. I think Ocarina of Time best represents both what the series once was (freedom to explore at will and accomplish tasks out of order) and what it has since become (a focus on storytelling and unique gameplay events, e.g., racing and stealth). Lastly, and again to its credit, Ocarina of Time wonderfully balances exploration and side quests while also being almost totally devoid of annoying fetch quests (save for finding the carpenters); the recent 3D Zelda games could learn much from OoT.
My favorite title is a tie between Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess, but for the sake of this poll I voted TP just because of how long the adventure was. Despite it's length I never wanted it to end.
As last year I will vote for Majora's Mask. I thought about voting for TWW since it's a very close second favorite of mine.
A Link to the Past. I'm surprised on the amount of votes go to MM since I remember people not liking the game.
I think the problem was that MM was somewhat misunderstood at the time, overshadowed by OoT, and underappreciated especially by people who don't have any patience. As the years have gone by more and more people have realized what a damn good game it is.
Well that's good since it tried so many different things all at once. I'd say it's the most unique game the Zelda series has.
I only voted for Skyward Sword because it's better than TP, and it's got less votes then TP. Though the best game is either ALTTP, OOT or MM.
Perhaps, but after replaying it so many times, the Dark World quest has become a bit of a slog: seven dungeons before the final one, and there isn't too much to do outside of that. In truth, the dungeons aren't too long and it's dumb to complain about having too much content, but maybe I just wish there more to do in the Light World, so as to balance things out (true, most Heart Pieces, three Bottles, the Flippers and Magic Cape are all found there). Maybe the Dark World is too dark for me? A strange critique, but I've always preferred the more colorful games (the good ones, anyway). I could flip-flop back and forth between ALttP and OoT: ALttP is pretty much the perfect Zelda game (in all seriousness), but OoT brought the adventure to life in a manner which probably isn't possible in a 2D game. I think the 3D games will most likely always lack the precision and immediacy of the 2D games, but on the other hand, they're on the whole much more immersive adventures.
I would have pointed out counters to the claims in your first paragraph, but you more or less did that for me. I admit the Dark World isn't the prettiest thing (for the most part, Death Mountain's pretty cool looking), but I've never minded the less colorful Zeldas.
I forgot to mention that two of the Medallions are found in the Light World as well. Curiously enough, I find TWW to be too colorful, insofar as you're looking at a blue sky and a blue ocean at the same time. It becomes uninteresting or even monotonous after a while. TP is a great example of there being too much brown. Sunrise and twilight (Link glowing while it's just becoming dark out - bloom effect) are very well done, and the sky looks beautiful at sunset, but the ground isn't pretty to look at; honestly, I think the sunset effect looks better on the original N64 version of OoT.
I really need to get farther into Twilight Princess on my next replay, I can never manage to keep playing because the early pacing is unforgivably slow. I remember really, really enjoying the game once I got 50% of the way through it.
A good Zelda game doesn't stop being good with time just because the technology used to make the new games has improved; (Skyward Sword is the most technologically advanced console Zelda and it's also one of the worse.) You wouldn't watch Citizen Kane or Seven Samurai and deride them for being in black and white just like you wouldn't play Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask and lament the lack of next-gen graphics, motion controls, (which I find completely unnecessary but that's another discussion) or combat moves just because newer games have improved them.
I agree, the beginning (up to the third dungeon) is quite slow and becomes frustrating on replays (if you're not fond of hunting for insects). Some people say that the story is dropped after the fourth dungeon, but at least at that point it doesn't take so long to reach each new one (I understand these two factors are not necessarily related). Running errands for people is okay when they're side quests (because they're optional), but they aren't when they're part of the main quest. I — and I'm sure you do too, PDL — miss being able to go from dungeon to dungeon quickly (remember Zelda 1 and ALttP?), without getting slowed down by generally pointless tasks. We used to have control over doing things when (and sometimes in which order!) WE wanted to, rather than being forced to jump through hoops to get to the "good stuff." I'm probably repeating myself, so I'll end here. Hopefully Nintendo not only lets us complete dungeons out of order on Zelda Wii U, but that they also cut out the filler that's been interrupting (strangling?) the fun for the last 10-13 years... I've yet to beat SS for the second time, and I bought it on launch day! That's unheard of for me. The filler's got to stop, or at least be reduced or made optional.
To be honest, I wouldn't mind having such linear quest intros if they were done better. The circumstances surrounding our heroes' needs to go on adventures are neither compelling nor cinematic. Link's driving ambitions in TWW, TP, and SS aren't very deep, he always sets off because someone close to him is taken, and his relationship with those people is rarely fleshed out. I guess I want a character that yearns for adventure, who wants to explore the world for the simple reason that he wants to see something new (Vyse from Skies of Arcadia is one of my favorite protagonists in gaming). I would even accept a hero that wants to protect what he has, sort of like in the Lord of the Rings. I just got sidetracked, but what I mean to say is something I've said for a while now: that if the story is more linear, then it needs to be more of a cinematic adventure that never relents, that always pushes you forward whether through tension or dire necessity.
Since I never posted mine, for me personally the console games go: TP > MM > OoT > ALttP > SS > TWW > AoL > LoZ > FSA
This really lowers my opinion of you V_s. LoZ > MM > OoT > ALttP > SS > TWW > AoL > TP You mixed up TP and LoZ noob.
Yeah, if you were to switch aLttP with MM, LoZ with OoT, AoL with MM, and MM with LoZ. And then put FSA in between OoT and SS.
The LoZ : OOT IMO simply because it transcended the series the greatest. Your boy Aunoma (spelling?) even stated himself he set the bar to high with OOT... My personal favorite is MM, but It's hard to argue with what OOt did to the series. It's all about the timing, because eventually a game had to make that cross over into 3D. OOT did it, and boy did it do a great job. I have a feeling the new Wii U Zelda will be that next revolutionizing Zelda game. It will start a new chapter as OOT did for the following games. Point being, I think the best is OOT.... but the game i enjoy playing more is MM.
This is honestly the first time I am seeing anyone put WW before ALTTP. lol I guess there's a first for everything. The way I see it is: OOT ALTTP LOZ MM - 10/10... amazing game, just can;t call it the best because it's a side quest AOL SS WW was decent, but not deserving to make the list.... TP is the worst game I've ever played/beaten. Sadly.


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In the above-entitled cause, the Clerk will enter:
¶ 1.
This appeal involves a request by plaintiff, a
¶ 2. The parties stipulated to the following facts. Plaintiff is the sole owner of a business that locates and recovers unclaimed assets. In April 2006, plaintiff sent a written request to the Treasurer for copies of "fiscal records concerning undeliverable, stale dated and/or outstanding state issued checks/warrants." Plaintiff explained that she was interested only in records that met certain criteria: (1) those belonging to non-individuals, (2) those over $1000, (3) those managed by the Treasurer's office, and (4) those that had remained outstanding for more than one year and the payee retained the right to claim the funds.
¶ 3.
The Treasurer's office denied the request, claiming that the records
were exempt from disclosure under 1 V.S.A. § 317(c)(10).[1] This section exempts from
disclosure "lists of names compiled or obtained by a public agency when
disclosure would violate a person's right to privacy or produce public or
private gain."
¶ 4. Following argument, the superior court ruled from the bench on the parties' motions for summary judgment. The trial court determined that the Treasurer sufficiently demonstrated the statutory requirements of the exemption: (1) that plaintiff's request was for a list of names, and (2) that it was for private gain. Concerning the first element, the court acknowledged that plaintiff's request was "not actually for a list," but nonetheless concluded that the request met the statute's definition of a list because it required the agency to perform a "sorting function" and to create a "summary document." The court's conclusion rested on its determination that the purpose of the exemption in § 317(c)(10) is:
to conserve government resources in a manner that state employees are not obligated to spend their time sorting through masses of agency data when the purpose of that time and attention would be to serve commercial purposes on the one hand or even public purposes under circumstances that involve public gain.
Because plaintiff's request would require the Treasurer to "engage in [a] kind of compilation process," the court concluded that it was for a list.
¶ 5. As to the exemption's second requirement—that the request be for public or private gain—the court recognized that generally motive is not relevant to a request for public records, see Finberg v. Murnane, 159 Vt. 431, 437, 623 A.2d 979, 983 (1992), but concluded that, in this case, motive was pertinent because of the exemption's language. Plaintiff did not dispute that she would be using the information as part of her commercial business.[2]
¶ 6.
We review a motion for summary judgment de novo using the same standard
as the trial court. Springfield Terminal Ry. Co. v. Agency of Trans., 174
¶ 7.
To resolve this question, we must construe the statutory exemption in 1
V.S.A. § 317(c)(10), a provision that we have not
had occasion to consider in the past. This provision exempts "lists of
names compiled or obtained by a public agency when disclosure would violate a
person's right to privacy or produce public or private gain."
¶ 8.
In construing exceptions to the PRA, we are mindful of the strong public
policy favoring access to public documents and records. Finberg,
¶ 9.
On appeal, plaintiff claims that her request is not for a list and
therefore the records are not exempt from disclosure. In the alternative,
plaintiff argues that if the request is for a list, this Court should conduct a
balancing of the interests involved to determine if disclosure is in the public
interest. See Kade v. Smith, 2006
¶ 10. We first address plaintiff's claim that the trial court erred in concluding that her request was for a "list" within the meaning of the statutory exemption. As described in the parties' agreed statement of facts, plaintiff requested copies of "the State Treasurer's fiscal records concerning undeliverable, stale dated, and/or outstanding state issued checks/warrants (i.e. deposits or obligations NOT currently held by your state's abandoned property division)," subject to certain criteria. By its plain terms, plaintiff's request was not for a list of names. See Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary 697 (1985) (defining list as "a simple series of words or numerals"). Plaintiff requested financial records, not a series of names.
¶ 11. The trial court
agreed that plaintiff did not request a list; however, the court concluded that
the request amounted to a list because it required the Treasurer to sort and
compile information for a private enterprise, contrary to the purpose of the
exemption. We disagree that sorting and compiling information
necessitates a finding that the request is for a list. Had the
Legislature intended to include any records that were sorted and compiled, it
could have so indicated. Instead, the Legislature exempted "lists of
names compiled or obtained by a public agency." 1 V.S.A. § 317(c)(10). We also disagree with the trial court that the
sole purpose of the exemption is to prevent public employees from spending
their time to retrieve information that will be used for public or private
gain. Virtually all public-records requests require public employees to
spend time locating the information requested. The Legislature
acknowledged that providing "free and open examination of records," id.
§ 315, would also entail expending public resources to
fulfill requests. The statute provides a process for public agencies to
charge requesters for the actual costs of copying public records and for staff
time associated with fulfilling requests.
¶ 12. Furthermore, the language of the exemption does not require consideration of the time or energy public employees will expend in fulfilling the request. Therefore, we decline to include this as an element of the exception. See State v. Jacobs, 144 Vt. 70, 75, 472 A.2d 1247, 1250 (1984) (explaining that this Court will not "expand a statute by implication, that is, by reading into it something which is not there, unless it is necessary in order to make it effective").
¶ 13. The Treasurer
similarly argues that plaintiff's request was "the functional equivalent of a
request for a list of names" because she would have received a list of names of
entities to which the State owes money. We disagree that the Treasurer
must create a list to supply plaintiff with the information she
requested. In the agreed statement of facts, the Treasurer explained that
although it does not have copies of uncashed checks,
the Treasurer can print warrant reports that contain "the following
information: bank code, bank account number, bank account code, payment method,
payment date, payment number, payment amount, vendor ID number, and vendor
name." The Treasurer also has access to
¶ 14. Alternatively,
the Treasurer contends that even if the information is not compiled into one
document, it is still a list because the exemption cannot be defeated by a
request that asks for the individual components of a list rather than the list
itself. We conclude that the Treasurer's suggested definition of list is
overly broad. Under the Treasurer's definition, virtually any document
containing a name would be exempt from disclosure because it could possibly be combined
with information from similar documents to create a list. We reject this
interpretation because it unnecessarily expands the exemption and contravenes
the Legislature's "strong policy in favor of disclosure." Finberg,
¶ 15. Finally, we reject the Treasurer's argument that granting plaintiff's request would be inconsistent with the public policy embodied in the abandoned-property statutes that requires asset locators to wait for a statutory period, currently two years, before they can contract with individuals to find property on the individual's behalf. 27 V.S.A. § 1265(b) (voiding any contract made between an owner and an asset locator to recover property "if it was entered into during the period commencing on the date the property was presumed abandoned and extending to a time that is 24 months after the date the property is paid or delivered to the treasurer"). The Treasurer contends that the Legislature disfavors collection by asset locators initially because the owner will recover less than all of his property, and because allowing asset locators, such as plaintiff, to locate property through the PRA before expiration of the waiting period is contrary to this policy.
¶ 16. We disagree that
the request in this case contravenes the purpose of the abandoned-property
statutes. First, plaintiff did not seek information about abandoned
property; rather, she requested information on property that has not yet been
deemed abandoned.[3]
Second, while the Legislature has specifically limited the use of asset
locators for abandoned property, the Legislature has not indicated a similar
policy with respect to property held by the State, but not yet deemed
abandoned. We will not expand the statute beyond its terms. See Lecours v. Nationwide Mut.
Ins. Co., 163
¶ 17. Plaintiff did not request a list of names, and therefore the information she requested is not exempt from disclosure. Because of our disposition, we do not reach plaintiff's additional claim that the trial court was required to conduct a balancing of the interests involved.
Reversed and remanded.
Paul L. Reiber, Chief Justice |
John A. Dooley, Associate Justice |
Denise R. Johnson, Associate Justice |
Marilyn S. Skoglund, Associate Justice |
Brian L. Burgess, Associate Justice |
[1] Initially, the Treasurer asserted that the records were also exempt under § 317(c)(7), which allows an agency to deny a request for "personal documents relating to an individual." The Treasurer later withdrew § 317(c)(7) as a basis for denial of plaintiff's request.
[2] At oral argument, plaintiff explained that she will use the list to determine if any of her current clients—government and corporate entities—have money owed to them. She represented that she will not use the information to solicit business from entities with which she does not already have a contractual relationship.
[3] At the time plaintiff made her request, the statute directed that property held by the State would be deemed abandoned after three years. 2003, No. 66, § 301g. The unclaimed-property statutes were amended shortly after plaintiff made her request to the Treasurer. 2005, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 1 (effective July 1, 2006). Under the current version of the statute, property held by a government agency is presumed abandoned one year after it is distributable. 27 V.S.A. § 1242(a)(11).


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In her 1989 hit Miss You Much, Janet Jackson sings a line of chorus over and over again: "I miss you much, I really miss you much." And when this finally winds down after four interminable minutes, she had the cheek to ask: "That's the end?" The song was a multiplatinum monster smash.
Repetitive reinforcement is also the Federal Reserve's favored tactic, and last week it renewed its pledge to keep buying $85 billion of assets a month. But the ensuing selloff of bonds and stocks shows that's no longer music to our ears. All we hear now are the newer notes in this familiar refrain: the marginal upgrading of economic outlook, the hints the Fed could scale back monetary stimulus later this year.
Quite clearly, our central bank will keep monetary policy supportive to help create as many jobs as possible; it might even lower the 6.5% unemployment target if that doesn't fairly reflect the state of our labor market. But expect the Fed to keep talking up its flexibility in reducing monetary support -- the better to keep the stock and housing markets from overheating in the mean time. The Fed "seems simultaneously anxious to start slowing the pace of its asset purchases, and reluctant to tighten policy too early or too quickly," observes Credit Suisse economist Neal Soss. Bottom line: The next Fed meeting in late July now looms as a source of uncertainty and volatility.
What's different about this selloff? For a start, stocks' beating isn't accompanied by a flocking toward safer havens; Treasuries and gold both fell hard too. We've gotten used to shallow pullbacks prompted by bouts of growth concerns. This one, for a change, is triggered by increasingly unpredictable interest rates. Rising rates needn't spell doom for stocks. After all, rates are merely rising off rock-bottom depths, their resurrection a happy rebuttal of the deflation fears that have gripped the planet. But what spooks us is the whiff of rate volatility. On cue, concerns are mounting that some firms might be caught with big bond holdings that might prove messy to unwind.
Here's the damage so far: The Standard & Poor's 500 is 4.6% off its peak, and has just absorbed its worst two-day drubbing since late 2011. Within a month, the crop of stocks holding above their 50-day averages has plummeted from 90% to 35%, fast approaching the 20% threshold seen last November, notes Bespoke Investment Group. But bonds had it worse: the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond TLT 1.7737543239861633% iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 138.28 2.41 1.7737543239861633% /Date(1422655200260-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13943048 AFTER HOURS 138.68 0.4 0.2892681515765114% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 928173 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 2.267512293896442% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » exchange-traded fund (ticker: TLT) has lost more than 11% since May, and the $34 billion pulled from bond funds recently marked its worst three-week outflow ever. At this rate, this could become that rare recent quarter where stocks gain while bonds bleed.
While an unbridled dumping of assets smacks of a knee-jerk reaction, it also shows how pervasive and entrenched the low interest-rate regime had become -- and how tricky it may prove to unwind. Within a 24-hour blur from Wednesday to Thursday, the yield on 10-year Treasuries had spiked from 2.17% to 2.44%. The 30-year Treasuries' yield has jumped from 2.45% to about 3.59% within 11 months, and investors are reeling from the swings.
"Cash is king right now," writes Michael Hartnett, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's chief investment strategist. "A bond crash or forced deleveraging would be the major 2013 risks," he adds, and capitulation in sentiment and "a subsidence of bond volatility are necessary for a new buying opportunity in risk assets."
MEANWHILE, THE WORLD probably has seen the peak in central-bank liquidity and the bottom in interest rates. This should continue to favor stocks over bonds in time. Already, economically sensitive stocks are starting to outperform even as the economic outlook stayed ho-hum. So far, this quarter has meted out losses totaling 6.9% to rate-sensitive sectors like utilities and 1.9% to telecoms, while financials, consumer discretionary, and technology are clinging to gains of 5.4%, 4%, and 2.6%, respectively. And last week, thanks to firmer private U.S. demand and moderating fiscal drag, Morgan Stanley's business-conditions index notched its biggest one-month gain since we emerged from recession in the summer of 2009.
Stocks' 5% slippage also looks mild compared with drawdowns at one point of 28% in 2009, 16% in 2010, 19% in 2011, and 10% in 2012, notes David Kostin, Goldman Sachs' U.S. equity strategist. "Bond yields are rising, arguably because the domestic economic outlook is improving while inflation remains low," and he expects stocks to outperform as rates rise and bond prices fall.
For the longest time, insurers' big investment portfolios have suffered near-zero rates. No surprise, they're now cheering as rates rebound. After years of managing their capital cautiously, "rising rates could see companies grow more willing to draw down their excess capital," notes Morgan Stanley analyst Nigel Dally. This improves the odds that companies like Ameriprise AMP -2.5884921253703417% Ameriprise Financial Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD124.94 -3.32 -2.5884921253703417% /Date(1422655361101-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1248595 AFTER HOURS USD124.94 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 121370 P/E Ratio 14.765179985345908 Market Cap 23055428240.7397 Dividend Yield 1.8568913078277574% Rev. per Employee 1021350 More quote details and news » (AMP), CNO Financial CNO -1.20942075111394% CNO Financial Group Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD15.52 -0.19 -1.20942075111394% /Date(1422655522892-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1620945 AFTER HOURS USD15.52 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 27448 P/E Ratio 41.945945945945944 Market Cap 3182702000.61234 Dividend Yield 1.5463917525773196% Rev. per Employee 1018710 More quote details and news » (CNO), Hartford Financial Services HIG -1.6932019206469549% Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD38.9 -0.67 -1.6932019206469549% /Date(1422655242855-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4246214 AFTER HOURS USD38.9 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 338879 P/E Ratio 12.483553159397966 Market Cap 16784611074.0372 Dividend Yield 1.8508997429305913% Rev. per Employee 1143030 More quote details and news » (HIG), Prudential PRU -1.4033264033264032% Prudential Financial Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD75.88 -1.08 -1.4033264033264032% /Date(1422655445607-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4815608 AFTER HOURS USD75.88 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 140898 P/E Ratio 14.849315068493151 Market Cap 34753038742.0654 Dividend Yield 3.0574591460200318% Rev. per Employee 1082970 More quote details and news » (PRU), Reinsurance Group of America RGA -1.0987698554878778% Reinsurance Group of America Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD82.81 -0.92 -1.0987698554878778% /Date(1422655374156-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 244716 AFTER HOURS USD82.81 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 20207 P/E Ratio 9.040393013100436 Market Cap 5688715521.52466 Dividend Yield 1.5940103852191765% Rev. per Employee 5695950 More quote details and news » (RGA) and StanCorp Financial Group SFG -3.799038610637308% StanCorp Financial Group Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD62.04 -2.45 -3.799038610637308% /Date(1422655262573-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 547489 AFTER HOURS USD62.04 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4578 P/E Ratio 11.817142857142857 Market Cap 2608161695.28809 Dividend Yield 2.0954223081882657% Rev. per Employee 1032860 More quote details and news » (SFG) might buy back shares.
"While drawing down on existing balances provides a one-time boost, the more important driver of sustainable capital management is cash-flow generation," Dally notes. Examples of companies with robust cash returns on equity include Ameriprise, Torchmark TMK -1.5339233038348083% Torchmark Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD50.07 -0.78 -1.5339233038348083% /Date(1422655640734-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 801489 AFTER HOURS USD50.07 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 27919 P/E Ratio 12.272058823529411 Market Cap 6441155239.67194 Dividend Yield 1.01218294387857% Rev. per Employee 1349030 More quote details and news » (TMK) and Aflac AFL -0.9887250650477016% AFLAC Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD57.08 -0.57 -0.9887250650477016% /Date(1422655491182-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2288807 AFTER HOURS USD57.08 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 87584 P/E Ratio 8.890965732087228 Market Cap 25719507105.567 Dividend Yield 2.7330063069376314% Rev. per Employee 5339100 More quote details and news » (AFL).
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Today is Thanksgiving Day in the U.S., a day when we gather with family and friends, stuff ourselves with traditional foods (or their vegetarian, gluten-free, low-sodium versions), and reflect on what we are thankful for. Some of us also watch football.
No matter which fabric dyeing techniques you use, dyeing fabric can be a fun--some might even say transformative--creative experience. Pulling the hand-dyed fabric from the dye bath to reveal the colors and patterns you have created is absolutely magical.
For many of us, coloring books were our first foray into the Zen-like focus color play can bring. Time spent in my studio rearranging textiles for fabric art brings me back to those days.
I'm so excited to share a new season of" Quilting Arts TV" with you, especially the debut of our new host, Susan Brubaker Knapp.
I love dyeing fabric with Procion-MX Fiber Reactive dyes, they allow me to create fabric that is just the color and visual texture that I need for each of my textile art projects
Looking to stir up a little fun in the kitchen? Try dyeing with resists from the kitchen! You can create many of the same effects as wax batik techniques using resists off your pantry shelf.
Why did I ever take up quilting? Necessity! I was 16 years old and redecorating my impossibly small bedroom.
Usually when hand-dyeing fabric you're trying to put color in. With discharge dyeing, your objective is to remove color in an artistic way. You can create patterns on fabrics using many of the same methods you would use for other surface design processes, including painting and shibori techniques.
A few years ago I visited Old Sturbridge Village (a living history museum in Massachusetts) with the kids and was fascinated by the costumed interpreters demonstrating how to hand dye fabric with horse chestnut hulls. I tried it myself at home, but limited success--probably because I tried to speed up the process and didn't follow the instructions I found on the Internet.
If you've never hand-dyed fabric before, the process can seem intimidating. Yet learning how to dye fabric is not that different from learning how to cook. If you follow the recipe and take simple safety precautions, you will almost always end up with a feast of delicious color.
Last year about this time, I was inspired by a group dyeing adventure at the Interweave offices to host my own dyeing party at home.
I'm an equal-opportunity fabric monger: I drool just as much over hand surface-designed fabrics. I gobble up every new technique and have even tried some fabric stamping, ice dyeing, resist dyeing, and fabric painting. I love it.
When I returned to New England from QuiltCon in Austin, Texas, this week, I couldn't help but notice: it snowed again while I was gone. Yes, while I was in the climate-controlled comfort of the exhibit halls surrounded by colorful quilts--and quilters--Mother Nature had thrown another heavy blanket of snow over my region.
Our foremothers knew how to make a quilt using only what they had, from scraps of fabric to natural dyes. But, quilt making the frugal and eco-friendly way was easier for them:
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Seriously, why did I make these? I think I have single handedly eat ALL of these Shamrock Shortbread. They're buttery, tender cookies, dotted with milk and mint chocolate chips.
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St. Patrick's Day is just days away. I've started to decorate and I'm hunting down cute party supplies. I have a yummy minty green drink for you to serve. This frosty treat is so simple, it only has two ingredients (a carton of Lime Sherbet, and a 2 liter bottle of Sprite). Scoop the sherbet into a pitcher, punch bowl or individual glasses and then top with Sprite. I served my minty green drinks with some yummy minty green Pistachio Wedding Cookies. The recipe is from the gorgeous food blog Mother Thyme.
I dressed up my milk bottles with little gold shamrocks. These were so easy to make. I used gold heart stickers from We Love Citrus and a tiny strip of gold washi tape (I use Minted's). I also dressed up my paper straws with a little more gold washi tape. If you are looking to host a party, visit We Love Citrus. This San Diego based shop, has unique party supplies to make your party treats extra special.
I'm also reusing the Pom Pom bunting I made for Olivia's first birthday party.
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St. Patrick's Day Garland
With St. Patrick's Day only a week away, I wanted to make a little something to celebrate and came up with this simple garland.
For the past several years we have had my sister and brother-in-law over for a meal of corned beef and potatoes on St. Patrick's Day. It would typically involve a fun tablescape – here's last year's table and the year before. But now that we're in San Antonio and they're in Chicago, it won't be quite the same. In case we don't get around to having a special meal, this garland is may be it this year!
I've gotten in the habit of hanging holiday garlands under the bar in our kitchen. It seems like a little less formal spot than the mantel. I did the same at Valentine's Day and Christmas.
I made this garland in a little over an hour while watching TV. It consists of a pack of glittery shamrocks I got at the dollar store and some green pom-poms. Here's what you need.
Supplies for Shamrock Garland
- Green yarn
- Foam shamrocks (I got a pack of 12 for $1 at Dollar Tree)
- Hole punch
- Scissors
- Bakers twine or jute twine
How to Make Shamrock Garland
1. Make as many pom-poms as you want. Here's a full tutorial for making pom-poms (they're easy!). For these particular pom-poms, I wrapped the yarn around 3 fingers about 85 times. Make sure to leave the two loose ends when trimming your pom-pom. You will need these to tie them to the garland.
2. Use a hole punch to punch two holes at the top of each shamrock.
3. Unwind a length of twine (as long as you think you'll want your garland). Thread the twine through the holes on a shamrock, sliding it down to the start of the length of twine. Then tie on two pom-poms. Once they are tied on you can slide them around and reposition them as needed. Thread on another shamrock and repeat until you have the garland as long as you want it.
4. Slide around the pom-poms and shamrocks to space them out evenly and then trim the long ends on the pom-poms. Hang your garland!
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Giant Geometric Wall Shamrock
Well, I had to do it. Here's the St. Patrick's Day version of my Giant Geometric Wall Heart that I made for Valentine's Day. Green is my favorite color, so I think this guy is going to stay on my dining room wall for quite a while. Plus, it should bring me some good luck to have a giant shamrock in my home, right?
For this shamrock, you'll need 10 pieces of scrapbook paper. I used mint, forest green and metallic gold. You simply cut each piece of paper into 6" squares and then cut those squares diagonally to make triangles. Each piece of 12" scrapbook paper will give you 8 triangles. To make the shamrock shape, you will be making 3 hearts (like my giant geometric heart) and then adding a stem that is 3" wide. I attached the triangle to the wall using glue dots. I tried double stick tape, but with the texture of my walls, it didn't want to hold well.
It goes perfectly with my Green and Gold Geometric Pillow. I am really loving this mint and gold combo for St. Patrick's Day.
What do you think about my "go big or go home" holiday decorations? I'm having fun with it, would you put up something this big on your wall? If you do decorate for St. Patrick's day, what does it look like?
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In winters, you would find sometimes (especially at very low temperatures) that you feel like scratching your skin. I have seen my mom do it many times. That is because of the excessive dehydration of your skin. At that time, apply a moisturizer or oil and massage it slowly into your body. Oil is always better as it gives fatty acids into your body and keeps it nourished from inside instead of outside. And, improve your diet as indicated. Food is the only thing which can keep you well in winters. Eat lots of eggs and fish if you can. Otherwise, depend on lots of seeds of every kind. Do not forget nuts, any kind of them. You can go on a binging spree without any qualms.
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Five ingredients, 10 minutes of work. One delicious dinner. Submitted by 2BHOTT Carbs: 15.1g | Fat: 3.4g | Fiber: 0.5g | Protein: 34.4g | Calories: 232
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This filling chicken and cheesy gravy dish is so simple to make, with only five ingredients. Serve with a green salad on the side. Submitted by MISSY_MAGOO Carbs: 3.5g | Fat: 10.1g | Fiber: 0.1g | Protein: 31.2g | Calories: 236.6
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This tangy chicken dish is simple and delicious. Submitted by VJB2601 Carbs: 6.7g | Fat: 6.2g | Fiber: 1.1g | Protein: 31.4g | Calories: 208.9
Six ingredients, 5 minutes of hands-on cooking, and dinner is served! Submitted by ORANGECOWCAT Carbs: 24.1g | Fat: 12.5g | Fiber: 0.9g | Protein: 41g | Calories: 385.4
Everytime I make these, they are everyone's favourite new treat! No one will be disappointed! I have requests for these all the time. Submitted by QUEENYEESH Carbs: 2.5g | Fat: 2.3g | Fiber: 0.2g | Protein: 1.6g | Calories: 37.4
Good 3.7/5
(55 ratings)
Easy and filling...no mess! Submitted by CHALIGAL155 Carbs: 24.8g | Fat: 4.1g | Fiber: 1.2g | Protein: 30.2g | Calories: 268.3
Very Good 4.5/5
(4 ratings)
Submitted by CAROLHE1 Carbs: 28.2g | Fat: 3.8g | Fiber: 7.1g | Protein: 40.6g | Calories: 306.1
Very Good 4.6/5
(23 ratings)
I got this recipe from my sister and it has become a favourite dish for our family. It can be made with chicken or turkey - a GREAT recipe for leftovers. Submitted by CELESTIE4 Carbs: 34.2g | Fat: 12.1g | Fiber: 6.8g | Protein: 33.8g | Calories: 410.8
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This variation of pot pie uses dropped biscuit dough instead of pie dough Submitted by NANNAMOM60 Carbs: 29.4g | Fat: 6.4g | Fiber: 1.7g | Protein: 30.8g | Calories: 294.8
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Very Good 4.0/5
(3 ratings)
Easy and Delicious! Submitted by DIVA26 Carbs: 2.8g | Fat: 10.2g | Fiber: 0g | Protein: 12.9g | Calories: 156.2
The same great taste of the Italian favorite, but this one only has five grams of fat! Submitted by CONNIE563 Carbs: 13.6g | Fat: 5.4g | Fiber: 0.9g | Protein: 17g | Calories: 173.3
I love faux frying foods using panko. This crunchy, spicy chicken would be great on a taco salad. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 19.5g | Fat: 3.8g | Fiber: 3.2g | Protein: 29.7g | Calories: 221.8