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If you're among the many men who try to keep an eye on their weight but still have a sweet tooth, I have some good news: You can now have your cake and eat it too — as long as it's low fat.
I've listed the worst desserts you can eat if you're trying to lose your gut, and recommended some healthier alternatives that will hopefully satisfy your sweet craving. I have to admit that no dessert is really "healthy," but if you must have it, my suggestions will be more sympathetic to your waistline.
the seven deadly sinsLoaded with fat, calories and cholesterol, these sweet indulgences are sure to put an end to any weight-loss goal. I've provided the frightening fat and calorie breakdowns for a single serving size of each tasty — but deadly — dessert listed below.
1. Oreo Cookies
Oreos don't seem too bad per serving, but can you really eat just three?
Oreo cookies — the tasty sandwich cookies that are so fun to dunk — are high on our list of worst desserts. They contain roughly 60% fat and are extremely high in trans fat, which has been linked to heart problems and diabetes.
Oreo, the best-selling cookie in the world, has been under the microscope recently, as scientists study the effects of sugary and fatty snacks on the brain. Reportedly, Oreos top the list of cookies that people crave most. Furthermore, there is ongoing neurological research that shows that Oreos may be addictive.
Healthy alternative: SnackWells Vanilla Creme Sandwich cookies.
We know that it's hard to compare any cookie with the world-famous Oreo, but SnackWells' sandwich cookies do not taste low fat, and they will give you the same creme-filled satisfaction as Oreos at a fraction of the calories and fat. For a serving of two to three cookies, there are only 3 grams of fat and 110 calories.
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New book 'a recipe' on how to be an LDS woman
ClarkHippo Tooele, UTAug. 23, 2011 8:45 a.m.
@LValfre 8:14
Actually, I was referring more to the endless use of filthy language on these websites, as well as the numerous offensive pictures such as people mocking sacred LDS temple clothes. One popular website critical of the LDS Church even has a page in which Primary songs are re-written in th most vulgar tone possible.
If the LDS Church is so blatantly false, why use such language and images except to play on people emotions?
LValfre CHICAGO, ILAug. 23, 2011 8:14 a.m.
"On top of this, I have yet to come across a website, critical of the LDS Church, which did not in its language or images use some kind of emotional manipulation. "
Yes usually the ex-members giving their emotional story of how they found it was false and how hard and emotional it was for them to leave.
ClarkHippo Tooele, UTAug. 23, 2011 12:27 a.m.
@LValfre 3:11
You said - "Feelings and emotions are the opposite of logic."
I'll remember that next time someone hands me a pamphlet entitled something like, "What the Mormon cult won't tell you," or "Mormon temples and the satanic parallels."
Titles clearly intended to play upon people's emotions.
When LDS critics accuse Latter-day Saints on relying too much on feelings or emotions, I can't but think of a TV movie I once saw on one of these Christian stations in which a girl who is not Christian dies and is sent to, well you can guess where. She is then subjected to all kinds of torture and misuse.
The movie did not inspire me in anyway to want to become a Christian, because the intent of the film was to clearly impose manipulated fear into it's viewers.
On top of this, I have yet to come across a website, critical of the LDS Church, which did not in its language or images use some kind of emotional manipulation.
sue1951 MAY, TXAug. 22, 2011 10:32 p.m.
I guess I should have read all the comments. Jane66, I bet you could write a great book on history about our ancestors. I think we all can. I also believe that this little book can uplift our sisters and brethran. I live in a Branch with about 20 adult women. we are small, but we love each other. but there is still bit of clicks and people we can't get close too. It's their loss. You should be in a small branch to appreciate what you have and what your children do without. Just enjoy this little book that the church is spending a fortune for us to read. I think it is great.
sue1951 MAY, TXAug. 22, 2011 10:13 p.m.
You know, I have been a member since 1985 and I have never felt i was quilted because of written words. I have always felt uplifted. I live in the mission field, right in the middle of Texas (now that is hard) I can hardly wait to read it and get copies for my daughters and daughter in law. they are all inactive and it makes me sad. but maybe this book will lift them up.
Happy2bLDS SPIRIT LAKE, IDAug. 22, 2011 9:02 p.m.
Wow! It is amazing to me how something meant to be seen as a loving gift can bring about so much negativity. It is sad really. I personally can't wait to get my copy. I will also be purchasing a hardbound copy for the family library. A heart felt "Thank you!" goes out to those who were a part of compiling this book.
LDSimmunologist Salt Lake City, UTAug. 22, 2011 8:48 p.m.
I hope in this book there is a place to LDS Woman like me, who love learning and working, who has no desire of being a mother or stay at home wife. The culture of the church sometimes makes us feel like we are of less value or like we are wrong and we should be like other sisters that have 6 kids and apparently have the perfect Mormon family. I admire women that sacrifice everything raising a family, but i just don't have that desire. I want to give my life to my husband and my career...
Grace Bakersfield, CAAug. 22, 2011 3:47 p.m.
I am 7th generation LDS, born and raised Mormon for the first 35 years of my life, and my "credentials", contacts and experiences are what you would expect from a child of priveleged church parentage. You would know my family if I just mentioned the books they've authored, the BYU classes they've proffed, or the missionfields they've presided over... And I never felt better or more important than any human, LDS or non. I was raised not to flash pedigree or privelege, but to remain humble while striving for all that God had blessed me with. My family is not perfect because we are human; we have our snooty to our rebels, but we do love each other and still travel far for reunions.
I can see and relate to all sides of this equation as expressed here and I appreciate each opinion's honesty. I bristle at the snobbery and silly "anti-LDS" whiners. That is what is wrong with any church, family or person, in my oponion: when they stiffle expression and refuse introspection.
I have been an evangelical Christian for the past 25 years and I know that everyone needs Jesus, His love and power of life.
LValfre CHICAGO, ILAug. 22, 2011 3:11 p.m.
@A Guy With A Brain,
1. You're telling me a spirit of god converts a young kid who grows up in the LDS church and is indoctrinated from birth on? I don't think so. His parents, church life, and society did that to him.
2. So you won't accept mentally handicapped or someone who has had a traumatic experience and lost some portion of his cranium?
When you pray and ask if it's true and wait to feel the 'burning in your bosom' .. that's not using your brain. It's using feelings. Feelings and emotions are the opposite of logic.
jane 66 ALAMEDA, CAAug. 22, 2011 2:10 p.m.
I have been looking forward to this book since it was announced last year in the General Relief Society meeting. I am somewhat disappointd to hear that it was written by Susan Tanner, who I'm sure is a wonderful person, but not a qualified historian. There are many highly educated and well qualified LDS women scholars who could have made this a true history of LDS women - we have a fascinating past full of strong women. LDS women today could gain strength from studying them, and recognize their own importance to the church. Without women, there is no church and women today continue to do a major part of the work of the church. Also, this is NOT the first authorized history of LDS women - see History of the Relief Society: 1842-1966, published by the General Board of the Relief Society, 1967. There are probably others too. For a scholarly treatment of LDS women, see Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society. Why isn't this a manual? To me, that seems to give it second class status.
A Guy With A Brain Enid, OKAug. 22, 2011 1:46 p.m.
@ LValfre | 12:47 p.m. Aug. 22, 2011......
Hey, LValfre, you're right on two counts, actually.
First, the "church" can't convert anyone. The Spirit of God does.
Second, we're not interested in anyone who only has half a brain. We accept only those who use ALL of their brain.
LValfre CHICAGO, ILAug. 22, 2011 12:47 p.m.
"LDS women "recipe?" How patronizing. Why not just say barefoot, pregnant and submissive? "
Yeah tell me about it. Don't forget to bare as many LDS babies as possible. They need the members, can't convert anyone stateside anymore that has half a brain (the logic side).
Mandie29 EDGEWOOD, NMAug. 22, 2011 12:07 p.m.
I have felt that guilt and discouragement myself, but have learned to not compare myself to others - and I know that Heavenly Father loves me for doing the best I can.
I consider myself outside the "mainstream" of the "Molly Mormon" ideal. I was a vegetarian while living with 5 roommates at BYU... something of a free spirit back in the 70's. I was a spur of the moment kind of mom with my kids, and the house was often cluttered. I had to work outside the home while some of my children were young.
I have learned that my feelings of guilt or inadequacy arise from myself when I perceive the sisters around me as being "perfect" in some area that I struggle with. Over time I have come to realize that I have strengths and qualities that are unique and valuable... though different.
I have also found it so important to do all I can to stay healthy. That makes all the difference in how I feel about myself. The adversary has many tools to discourage us and to lead us astray.
The Caravan Moves On Enid, OKAug. 21, 2011 11:00 p.m.
SeanetteB -
The Church is true and IF some of the members of your Stake are indeed cliquish, pay them no mind. Improve what you need to improve in your own life and don't worry about others.
The Caravan Moves On Enid, OKAug. 21, 2011 10:53 p.m.
What's wrong with Sis. Beck using the word "recipe" in her description of the book?
- The purpose of any recipe is to create something good and wonderful.
- Recipes are meant to be dependable: do what the recipe says and you're guaranteed to end up with something wonderful. Is this not what God says?...follow Me and I'll turn you into something wonderful? What's wrong with that?
- The book absolutely does not tell women how to do 'everything'; the Lord's plan doesn't work except without free-agency and anyone with an ounce of testimony and honesty knows that.
Seriously, those of you who are complaining over one single word seem to be looking for something to complain over.
Go, Sister Beck, go!
The Caravan Moves On Enid, OKAug. 21, 2011 10:45 p.m.
Three: the number of comments it took before someone criticized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for doing something uplifting and good.
"Kami", at 8:35AM on August 20th, said this will only make LDS women feel even more guilty than they (supposedly) already do.
So, Kami, should Jesus have not set a good example for us because He would make us all feel guilty, too?
LValfre CHICAGO, ILAug. 21, 2011 6:18 p.m.
This is sad. If only they could open their eyes and see there is no mold to fill ... you are a unique individual.
SeanetteB Sacramento, CaliforniaAug. 21, 2011 4:06 p.m.
I'm just relieved that this is not, as other stories about this book I had seen seemed to be suggesting, the new RS course of study for next year. Aside from my own desire to get back to Teachings of the Presidents, I live in a very cliquey stake, in which those of us who are not of multi-generation pioneer descent are lesser members, Church history discussions turn into "I'm so special because of who I descend from" bragfests leaving those of us of less exalted lineage pointedly excluded from TRUE membership, and if you aren't a lifelong resident of said stake you're an intruder.
I have an absolute certainty of the truth of the Restored Gospel, I just have difficulty with some aspects of LDS culture.
Kami Bountiful, UtahAug. 21, 2011 3:52 p.m.
@ Rifleman, I know of many sisters who have been pressured by the culture to compete with other sisters in the ward and prepare baked goods for their husbands to deliver when their husbands home teach! This is very prevalent in the church. And if you want to deliver invitations to ward members for something, you sure better be very good at creating invitations on your computer and tie all of them with pretty ribbons, etc. And Christmas time! Heck you better spend days in the kitchen making homemade goodies for every singles ward member! I don't think you realize how much pressure is on the sisters to keep up with the Joneses so to speak. I'm one of the black sheep. I don't buy into any of it. I do what I think is right and I could care less what any outsiders think about it. But not that many women have that kind of backbone.
Kami Bountiful, UtahAug. 21, 2011 3:40 p.m.
From all the comments, I'd like to clarify something. I don't feel the guilt - because I don't buy into the LDS cultural ideas of being the best baker, the best seamstress, the best wife, the best mother, the best scrapbooker, having the most beautifully kept home, the best this and that and of course finding a way to do all of that and having the children clean and scrubbed when husband/dad gets home from work. But many many sisters in the church are pressured into feeling this way. You want to know why prescription drug use in Utah is among the highest rates in the country? Take a gook look at the culturally imposed guilt. Its terrible.
ke7ejx REDMOND, ORAug. 21, 2011 3:19 p.m.
I can't wait to get my hands on this book. I really enjoyed "My Dear Sisters" that was published shortly after President Hinckley's passing. It made me a better sister of Christ and I read it whenever I need inspiration. I am always excited to have another inspirational book in my collection that I can identify with.
tobeone FARMINGTON, UTAug. 21, 2011 1:16 p.m.
Like others, I was put off by the DN headline, but was happy to see that the cookie-cutter recipe concept is not even mentioned on the church website. There is a five minute video interview with Julie Beck, and a lengthy article, but the word recipe is not in either that I could see. Instead of a single recipe, we look forward to reading a smorgasboard of stories of women of faith, hope and love throughout the world who are striving to be their best selves in the mortal journey as daughters of divine parents. May we have compassion for each other, including Sister Beck, trusting honest good intentions, and seek to ever be "one."
Vanka Provo, UTAug. 21, 2011 12:46 p.m.
I have seen the gossiping in the church destroy lifelong relationships, devastate otherwise competent, intelligent women, and turn healthy young women into dependent, patriarchally dominated shells, all because of this tacit idea that there is A "recipe" for being a righteous LDS woman. I have read the comments that say there is no such thing, but those comments do not ring true to real experience. I have seen women with full-time jobs criticized and condemned behind their backs as being less valiant and righteous because of their employment. I have seen women who exercise regularly and take care of themselves criticized as being too worldly and openly accused of "flirting" with other women's husbands. I have seen a regular stream of gossip spilling forth from the visiting teaching program, whereby women enter the homes of their fellow sisters and glean fodder for their gossip sessions, either held during "walking" in the mornings or evenings, or during RS Presidency and auxiliary meetings. Books like this one only feed the flames that are consuming the fellowship and sisterhood that should exist in the church. It provides a blunt weapon with which individuals beat one another (and themselves) up.
Rifleman Salt Lake City, UtahAug. 21, 2011 12:32 p.m.
Re: Jess758 | 7:16 p.m. Aug. 20, 2011
"From being told that if we don't go out of our way to bake the world's best cookies every time we go visiting teaching ....we're failing our sisters"
I don't know of any visiting teachers who have ever taken cookies to their 'sisters'. Could it be possible that you are hypersensitive and looking for reasons to justify your anti-LDS bias?
Furry1993 Clearfield, UTAug. 21, 2011 11:01 a.m.
I have been an LDS woman for 40+ years, and this book has no interest for me. Why? Because I've been subjected to the "recipe" mindset for a lot of them, by both the men and women of the church. There was the Elders Quorum President who asked my husband how he could "let" me go to law school. And the criticism I got from a Relief Society President when I insisted on saying "men and women" instead of just "men" in comments. And the Stake President who debated whether to sign my temple recommend because, when asked, I told him that my husband and I make all family decisions jointly and that we, jointly, are the head of our family (he wanted me to say that I let my husband control everything, but that would have been a lie). And there are many more examples, too many for my word limit here.
I stay faithful in the LDS Church because I knew, and know, that the Gospel is true. I stay faithful in the LDS Church because I recognize that a lot of the people aren't, and I just ignore them and what they have to say.
dailynews Augusta, GAAug. 21, 2011 9:21 a.m.
I echo O'Really comments. Competition is rampant among women. We as LDS women should be above it. We don't have time for such petty and unimportant things. I live far away from family and have to rely on my ward for most of my social and emotional support. Many of us have husbands deployed or are in school and are gone for long periods of time. I need my fellow sisters for support and the last thing I would do is compare one to another - they all are unique and come from a wide range of backgrounds which I think this book will represent....the face of the LDS woman. The LDS woman comes in many different colors, backgrounds and cultures and yet we are the same. Thinking of the title with the word "recipe" - my own recipe box has dishes from Italy, Mexico, China, America, Spain, etc.....and each dish loved and enjoyed by others....I look forward to reading and learning about my fellow sisters.
ipr Spanish Fork, UTAug. 21, 2011 8:58 a.m.
Women have a tendency to feel guilty. I went to a non-LDS university when my last child started kindergarten. I eventually got my doctorate in physics at the age of 50. Whenever I got a B on an exam, I would kick myself and told myself I was stupid. If I got an A, I would tell myself that the professor was feeling sorry for me. I was never good enough. After attending the annual meeting for female professors and students in the department, I found out that most women, including the professors, had the same feelings. It's just a female thing. It's not the fault of the school, it's not the fault of the church, it's just something we are born with. Isn't it nice that we get help from the church in outgrowing these feelings? I am certainly looking forward to reading this book, and it doesn't bother me one bit that there are recipes in there that will help me grow. I'm still not to old to learn.
Cinci Man FT MITCHELL, KYAug. 21, 2011 8:28 a.m.
I think the book is a wonderful idea and my wife and I look forward to it. We love to read inspiring stories. We find so much happiness in the church, and we each have a testimony that every good deed is a service to others. We are grateful for the hundreds of saints who serve us personally and our ever-growing family. Every good thing we do for each other is a portion of God's work to bless His children and to sprinle them with kindness and love. The widow's mite matters. Every phone call or visit from one sister to another can bring a blessing to the life of another. If the book does nothing more that bring warmth and a smile, even a whisper of hope to the hearts of many sisters, I rejoice in its goodness. Even THIS gesture, large or small, matters. Peace and joy to all!
carman Wasatch Front, UTAug. 21, 2011 8:15 a.m.
To Jess758:
I've been going to wards and branches in the church for nearly 50 years and have never heard anything remotely close to what you have supposedly heard. Mind you, I have heard some crazy stuff. But when I do hear it, I ignore it as misguided statements from imperfect people. IMHO, you are either exaggerating, projecting your own thoughts and feelings into the mouths of other, or simply failing to use common sense in ignoring statements that are obviously misguided. Either way, cheer up and don't put so much pressure on yourself.
Curmudgeon Salt Lake City, UTAug. 21, 2011 7:40 a.m.
The Church leaders go out of their way to build women's self esteem. There's usually at least one talk in every general conference devoted to it (e.g. Elder Cook's talk "Women are Incredible!" in April 2011), and now this book is one more effort. Obviously, the brethren must perceive that women have low self esteem, or are suffering under a burden of unrealistically high expectations, and are seeking to address that issue.
One side effect of these efforts may be that men will be persuaded that women are by nature more spiritual, more righteous, more worthy of uplifting approbation from the leaders of the Church, and by implication, from God. By extolling women so much, the leaders are sending a subtle, implied message that men are less spiritual, less righteous, and more in need of chastisement than encouragement.
My question is, why doesn't the Church publish similar books and make similar positive, encouraging statements about men? Are men really that bad? Do they not feel guilt and inadequacy too? Just asking.
O'really Idaho Falls, IDAug. 20, 2011 11:06 p.m.
To Jess758 I don't know what ward you go to but honestly I've never heard those things you mentioned within the walls of any church I've gone to. All I've heard is love your visiting teachees with a Christlike love. Watch out for them, pray for them, help them. It has nothing to do with cookies of any kind.
And Gap model kids? Where in the scriptures does it tell us that? Kids should get a bath now and then and it's always a good idea to comb their hair (and look for lice while we're at it) but I always learned at church that we should mostly just love our kids and teach them the Gospel.
If you're hearing those things in your ward, it's not coming from the scriptures or the lesson manuals. It's most likely coming from your own mind as you see the competition that is so common to women. It's not just a Mormon thing either. Get any group of 3 or more women together and they start comparing themselves to each other. It's the nature of women. Too bad we do this to each other. The Lord loves us- burned cookies and all.
Rob Logan, UTAug. 20, 2011 10:52 p.m.
I am very excited to get his book. I think I will find things in there that make me feel 'normal' and will inspire me.
DistantThunder Vincentown, NJAug. 20, 2011 8:16 p.m.
Guilt could be the beginning of a growth process, the recognition of what and where I am today, and where I want to be in the future. But maybe guilt is the wrong word - do we expect our children to feel guilty for studying arithmetic, when they know an older sibling is studying algebra? I hope not. Maybe some will feel envy or discouragement at what other women are able to accomplish. The only way to prevent this for some people is to keep them ignorant of the possiblities - but that's not fair to those who want to achieve more.
So maybe reading the book, and the stories of the lives of other LDS women will create a yearning to try something new, learn a different way, or a new skill. Some perceive this as an unpleasant external pressure but many will be excited at the new thoughts and ideas. Remember, we are an international church and not everyone has been exposed to what we've been exposed to here in the US. If you think the book will make you feel poorly about yourself, don't read it - find a good counselor - and ask her to help you find out why
bebot SHAWNEE MISSION, KSAug. 20, 2011 7:25 p.m.
Probably a good book, but just a terrible title. Women and men feel guilt and insecurity because the church isn't an environment that encourages people to openly discuss their struggles. People talk about how they struggle with fhe or other small things at church not the major serious issues. I feel that it would be hard to open up and talk about real issues when nobody else does. Church isn't AA but I think the guilt and pressure would ease if everyone quit acting like they don't struggle and maybe address some of the more serious and prevalent struggles many members have.
Quayle Dallas, TXAug. 20, 2011 7:17 p.m.
Until the women in the church (particularly in Utah) decide to play offense, to educate and train themselves, and to INDEPENDENTLY shoulder a responsibility to develop and build the kind of society THEY want - until they do this, they'll continue to be upset by thoughtless local ward and stake leaders, and be insecure or defensive about their standing in the world.
Zion, the most just, merciful society ever to be on the earth, cannot be built by men alone, nor can it be built from a defensive posture or reactionary efforts. It won't be built by whiners, the silly, the defensive, or the self critical.
I don't care what weakness or faults a woman might have. If she can build, she should build. If she can unify, she should unify. If she can organize, she should organize. If she can nurture and heal, she should nurture and heal. If she can only weep for the world, she should weep well for us all.
'Cause standing around looking at one's own or others' weakness and faults is a suckers game that Satan plays perfectly in this church.
Let's build a society so perfect that God will have to forgive us.
Jess758 PROVO, UTAug. 20, 2011 7:16 p.m.
"Where is this guilty or the church expecting to much from the women in the church coming from?"
From being told that if we don't go out of our way to bake the world's best cookies every time we go visiting teaching, we might as well not be visiting teaching at all because we're failing our sisters. From spreading the idea that if our children don't look like squeaky clean GapKids models, we aren't taking church seriously enough. By teaching that if any woman has a career outside of raising a family, she isn't living up to her full potential That is where it is coming from... Right within the walls of the church.
Grace Bakersfield, CAAug. 20, 2011 6:25 p.m.
I just strive to be a follower of Jesus Christ and that takes care of everything.
Then you'll love your husband, children and family with pure love and don't need a latter-day distinction:
From Christ's life forward all who He calls are called to His standard. When we fail, we go to Him for support and restoration.
Then no one here would be commenting off of other comments, they'd be focusing on His light and example. I did the perfect church woman thing for 35 years and it was a grind. When I finally realized that Jesus said, "It is finished" because He did all the work, then I could 'rest in His love and finished work'. What a joy the believer's life became then!
Sarah B SLC, UTAug. 20, 2011 4:56 p.m.
I think the guilt that comes from women in the church is self generated. It is especially bad in Utah. I've had friends who stressed over the silliest things, like ironing their 5 year olds t-shirts, for fear their neighbors would judge and condemn them. If you live outside of Utah, you'll find for the most part the guilt isn't there. Sisters just love and cherish each other for who they are. Probably b/c they are the minority elsewhere and don't take each other for granted.
A voice of Reason Salt Lake City, UTAug. 20, 2011 4:03 p.m.
jill17, My intention was not to chastise her in anyway, as I stated that I meant 'no offense'. I only mean that the logic that 'guilt is automatically bad' is flawed. I realize that 'flawed' can seem negative, but I don't mean anything rude at all. Perhaps I should have worded it in a friendlier manner, but I didn't mean anything negative.
But anyway, trust me when I say that I absolutely do not believe I am in higher standing in anyway. I usually believe myself to play the least important role possible. Only recently after reading an article about an alcoholic member of the church (on the DN, from a staff-member who is the grandson of the man in the article, if that helps at all), only after reading this did I realize the importance of knowing that everyone is truly 'needed' for the work. I think that article drives the point well and I believe that this book relates to this.
With that in mind, my only intention is to support a line of logic where the book helping in this regard, to help women know their loved and needed, etc.
Sorry it came off wrong.
Millsap fan Taylorsville, UTAug. 20, 2011 3:59 p.m.
I think many women will be suprsised with this book and I think we've taken Sister Dibbs words a little too literally. I think a book like this with different experiences of LDS throughout the world and history is simply motivational, not degrading. Every woman is different, every woman unique. My wife isn't an expreriened cook and that isn't going to keep her from entering the Celestial Kingdom. I guess being a guy I don't understand the expectations tht may sometimes be falsely placed on women but I know that Christ understands what you go through and will judge you compassionately, more so than men I believe. So just relax and enjoy the book. :)
Jeanie b. Orem, UTAug. 20, 2011 3:51 p.m.
My mother's generation felt tremendous guilt if they were not what THEY believed to be the "perfect LDS woman" - striving for the impossible. (Remember Mother's Days? Whew!) In my generation it was "you can't say anything that would harm my precious self-esteem" - so essentially "give me no guidelines or correction".
Some of my favorite books are on early Utah history, not through the eyes of the LDS church, but rather through the eyes of historians and recorded eye-witnesses. Being LDS, it has been fascinating to me to see just how people lived, what kinds of decisions they made and why. In reading history it has helped me see patterns in life in general and separate out what is cultural LDS expectations and what is enduring doctrine.
To understand the history of LDS women will be rather eye opening. I appreciated how the article stated that it will help clarify and give direction to LDS women who live now.
No guilt needed. Possibly a poor choice in the word "recipe", but no need to get our dander up either.
IngridUsa lehi, utAug. 20, 2011 3:00 p.m.
Where is this guilty or the church expecting to much from the women in the church coming from?
It's expected every Sons and Daughters of Our Heavenly Father to try to keep the commandments, not just the women.
Why this book would make some women feel guilty? If I read something that I'm not doing it, but I feel that is a good advice, I will do it then, but I won't feel guilty for not doing that before, unless I already know that I'm failing in something that I know that I'm supposed to do, it doesn't have anything to do with the church telling me that I'm guilty, but my own feelings knowing that. If I can read a book that can helps me to be the best I can be, why should I feel any pressure about it? It's helping me to be the best I can, this is a great blessing, I don't want to go down, I want to keep going up.
jill17 Salt Lake City, UTAug. 20, 2011 2:31 p.m.
@A voice of reason: as reasonable as you often are, to tell kami to reconsider her views is a bit much. Go ahead and say what you will about guilt and religion--sure, but you don't know where this woman is coming from. For all you know, she's likely a better standing member than yourself, who, like most women in the church, holds onto unnecessary guilt because of not looking right, or not being the best mother EVER, or not being the most perfect visiting teacher. Not all guilt is right, and guilt is not from God. Often, satan uses guilt on the most righteous members, making them feel poorly about themselves, instead of feeling Gods love. You've got this all wrong chastising her the way you are. She is a lovely daughter of god who is sick of feeling the pressures to be perfect because of members like yourself who don't give her a break. And this has nothing to do with the contents of the said book. This has to do with what many are agreeing on: "a recipe on how to be" is just not the most appealing to women who already try so hard.
IngridUsa lehi, utAug. 20, 2011 2:30 p.m.
Wow, another great book is coming to help me to be a better wife, better mother, better daughter, better woman, why should I complain about it? The better I can be, the happier I am :).
4scoutmom Tomball, TxAug. 20, 2011 1:05 p.m.
According to the quote from Sis. Beck. It is a "recipe book" not a single recipe. I know I have many different recipes on how to make chocolate chip cookies for instance. I suggest we all wait and read this new book with an open mind before we judge the content. I am looking forward to it.
A voice of Reason Salt Lake City, UTAug. 20, 2011 12:53 p.m.
I wondered about the same 'cookie cutter' bit as well at first glance to the headline, but after reading the article I can assure you that it is not the case.
"The 208-page book is not a comprehensive history of the church, nor is it an LDS manual. It is intended as a personal and family resource to support women and strengthen them in their responsibilities"
It isn't a manual that says "in this situation, do this... in that one, do that"
It is a collection of real examples of good women in the church. Everyone interprets things differently and people will reflect differently on their own experiences. The Church does not teach cookie-cutter conformity on how we should act in this life. Our moral system maybe have a definite right and wrong but that doesn't mean we have no individuality. We believe in free agency which is not a belief of conformity. Study the War in Heaven and you should understand that. I may agree with someone completely on morality, but I still make different choices in life. Not all Mormons agree on everything, just share the work. Hopefully that helps.
And Maryquilter, thanks!
formerUT Osawatomie, KSAug. 20, 2011 12:51 p.m.
What is the point of distributing this to just the women? If changes are going to happen, and education, in the Church--this needs to go to the men as well as the women!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh--and I don't need a "recipe" thank you....the Lord has taught me how and whom to be!
A voice of Reason Salt Lake City, UTAug. 20, 2011 12:40 p.m.
I don't mean to offend you, but your statement can only be founded on flawed logic and I'll ask you to reconsider your views. Your statement is based on the idea that rules create unnecessary and harmful guilt.
1- not all guilt is bad. Should a murderer feel guilty? I would hate living in a world where all crime was guilt free. I can assure you, things would be far worse. This book is obviously not addressing murder, etc. But the concept is still the same, guilt isn't automatically bad. It's how people use guilt, which is my second point.
2- We are not a Kantian ethic based religion (like the catholic church and others) where things are absolute 'sinner' or 'perfect'. There is certainly black and white in what is right and wrong. But the key is our approach; it is similar to virtue ethics, where we climb a latter. We can fall down, but no words, whether guilt or praise, are designed to keep you at the bottom. The entire work of this church is not designed to keep people down on the latter but to bring people up, eventually back to our heavenly father.
SLCWatch Salt Lake City, UTAug. 20, 2011 10:23 a.m.
I agree without reading the book that many could misunderstand the "recipe" reference.
However with that said, highlighting the wonderful role women play in the church and their wonderful contributions to the church, their Divine role in eternity and the positives they bring to life can be a wonderful blessing.
My wife is my partner and best friend. Her contributions to our marriage make me better and I help her in this wonderful partnership. I'm not perfect and neither is she. But we are better together than apart.
I look forward to reading this book with my companion so we can use it's valuable insights to make our lives together better.
The cost to give this resource to every woman is staggering. The Lord loves the sisters very much (priceless) and this is only a small token to every woman about their worth to all of us.
DistantThunder Vincentown, NJAug. 20, 2011 10:21 a.m.
Ouch, gives the impression of "cookie cutter" production of a single recipe we must follow - and I know that isn't true. They may have to rethink this. How about a smorgasbord of creativity and love?
jill17 Salt Lake City, UTAug. 20, 2011 9:47 a.m.
As an lds woman and returned missionary, I am looking forward to the book, and agree with what sister beck said its purspose will be, but I have to empathize and agree with kami on that terrible line choosen: "a recipe on how to be an lds women". This is terrible PR and rather demeaning. First off: to cleverly use the word recipe, which is a word that would never be used for a book given to priesthood holders. For the same reason we changed "homemaking night" to "enrichment night" there could have been a much better word chosen than recipe, that could relate to all women. Secondly: I don't want to be taught how to be an lds woman. I am an lds woman, and I feel like a rather happy, good one. So now there's a "recipe" I must follow? To clarify one last time, I am looking forward to the book, ad don't think its real purpose is to give us a "recipe" on how we must live, but with a line like that, expect more posters like kami. I concur it is a turn off and rather unappealing and out of touch.
Open Mind Taylorsville, UTAug. 20, 2011 9:15 a.m.
Kami, I'm so sorry you feel that the expectations of women are too high in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. But Heavenly Father expects the best of you and me and every one of his children. He knows we're far from perfect and all he asks is that we try. He'll always love you for who you are but like every good parent he wants you to be the best you and nobody else. I'm excited for this book, I think it will inspire women and motivate them to keep pushing through adversity.
Jeanie b. Orem, UTAug. 20, 2011 9:13 a.m.
It is possible that after reading this book some of your misconceptions about what it means to be an LDS woman will be laid to rest.
From the article:
She (Sister Beck) added that the history "addresses some of the insecurities and myths" many LDS women have felt about themselves and their religion."
The definition of Latter-day Saint woman is likely broader than you believe.
Kami Bountiful, UtahAug. 20, 2011 8:35 a.m.
The first authorized account of women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, titled "Daughters in my Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society," is more than just a written history. It is "a recipe book for how to be a Latter-day Saint woman," said Sister Julie B. Beck, Relief Society general president.
Another way for women in the church to feel guilt -- cause most of them won't live up to the expectations in this book. I can hardly wait to get my copy.
Maryquilter Farmington, UTAug. 20, 2011 8:17 a.m.
Voice of Reason: As usual, great comments that I concur with.
A voice of Reason Salt Lake City, UTAug. 20, 2011 2:16 a.m.
I'm not a woman, but this is certainly very exciting. This book will surely be an invaluable resource for women in the church.
With their stating that it isn't a manual, but more 'stories to uplift and help', I imagine that some may feel inclined to brush this off as a 'mere' addition. However I believe that first, any good addition to a good work cannot be discounted; second, I believe this book is absolutely needed. I believe this as otherwise it wouldn't be published.
I believe this book will help members of the church to better themselves and help each other. Women are absolutely essential to the work and this book stands only to prove the need we have of them.
We see so many attempts to diminish the role, even the need that everyone plays in doing good work. Mothers roles, Fathers roles, siblings, church callings, and any other 'assignment' is often viewed as a burden when it is really a place where we are all needed. People are called because they are needed for the work, to help others. This book will help uplift women and help them to understand that they are loved and needed.


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"America's future prosperity and security are tied to our ability to advance peace and security along the arc extending from the Western Pacific and East Asia into the Indian Ocean and South Asia. That reality is inescapable for our country and for our military, which has already begun broadening and deepening our engagement throughout the Asia-Pacific," said Panetta in Annapolis, Md.
He called on the incoming officers to work towards strengthening historic alliances, as well as building "robust" partnerships with countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and India.
The secretary also spoke specifically of the need to "strengthen defense ties with China."
"China's military is growing and modernizing. We must be vigilant. We must be strong. We must be prepared to confront any challenge. But the key to peace in that region is to develop a new era of defense cooperation between our countries — one in which our militaries share security burdens to advance peace in the Asia-Pacific and around the world," he said, according remarks released by the Defense Department.
Panetta said he will be traveling to Southeast Asia Wednesday and will visit China for the first time as secretary of Defense later this year.
President Obama announced in January that more of the military's attention would shift to the Asia-Pacific region as "the tide of war is receding" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This was Panetta's first graduation speech since becoming Defense secretary. He delivered the commencement speech at the University of Maryland in 2009 as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Obama and Vice President Biden also delivered commencement speeches at U.S. military academies this spring.
The president touted his administration's foreign-policy achievements in an address to graduating cadets at the Air Force Academy last week, telling graduates that the United States was entering "a different world."
"You are the first class in nine years that will graduate into a world where there are no Americans fighting in Iraq. For the first time in your lives, and thanks to Air Force personnel who did their part, Osama bin Laden is no longer a threat to our country," said Obama last Wednesday in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The vice president echoed Obama's remarks, telling the graduating class at West Point Saturday that the winding down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has allowed the United States to "rebalance" its foreign policy.


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A two-win weekend
Vonn and Ligety are keeping up the beat
Despite her hiccup in the first run of Tuesday's slalom, Lindsey Vonn's season has started off pretty much as her gold-plated run finished last year, including Olympic and World Cup overall and discipline championships.
And her counterpart on the US men's side, Ted Ligety blazed down the "crazy, crazy icy'' giant slalom course in Italy Sunday to win his third straight World Cup GS.
Last weekend in Val D'Isere, France, Vonn topped the podium twice winning the downhill and super-combined on successive days, and taking an overall lead in the young Cup season.
In Europe, Vonn also got word that she had been awarded the 2010 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year. Earlier, she was named Glamour magazine's Woman of the Year.
Vonn said 2010 was "the best year I've ever had.''
With all the titles and honors coming her way in 2010, the 26-year-old racer mused on a memory of being a 9-year old in Minnesota, whose passion for ski racing found her lining up for hours at ski shows just to meet a winning racer. One of them was then downhill champion Picabo Street, who became Vonn's mentor and friend. In fact, Vonn still has a poster Street signed for her 15 years ago in a ski shop in Bloomington, Minn.
"This was for sure the best year I've ever had,'' Vonn said via teleconference. "It couldn't have gone any better for me, even if I had just won the Olympic gold medal. That would have made it the best year of my career and my life, period. Winning the World Cup races and overall title just topped the year off.
"But winning the Olympics, that was the biggest day. It was so emotional. It was everything I worked for, go to the gym for. I was crying the whole way through [the awards ceremony].''
Ligety, an Olympic gold medalist (combined downhill) from the Turin Games, posted his seventh and eighth career World Cup wins at Alta Badia, Italy. His unseating French hopefuls Thomas Fanara and Cyprien Richard, who made such blistering runs down the GS course, seemed a tall order, and their second-run times were standing up well.
But Ligety, whose heavy physical training helps him carve turns on icy courses, put down a nearly perfect second run to beat Richard by a slim 15/100ths of a second.
"This is a dream come true,'' Ligety said in the finish corral. "Especially [winning] three in a row. I just feel really lucky to have won because Cyprien was the best skier. He made the mistake and I just got lucky in that sense."
Such a deal Skiers looking for bargain lift-ticket prices should also be rooting hard for the Patriots defense. At Waterville Valley, a promotion based on how many points the Patriots give up during a game is the basis for what next Tuesday's ticket price will be.
"For example, the Packers scored 27 points on Sunday, so that was Tuesday's ticket price, $27,'' said Waterville's Tom Gross. "If they just give up 3 points, that's what the Tuesday ticket price will be."
The promotion continues throughout the playoffs, except for next Tuesday, which falls during a vacation week.
Price is right The three parcels of land up for auction Dec. 15 at defunct Tenney Mountain in Plymouth, N.H., fetched $850,000, with the ski area selling for $500,000. The sole bidder, the general counsel for Iroquois Capital, once a Tenney investor, indicated the resort would be put up for resale so that Iroquois could recoup previous losses on investments. Prior to the auction, Tenney was on the hook for $170,000 in back taxes . . . According to Ski Area Management magazine, the owners of Bolton Valley in Vermont are seeking either an equity partner for future development or an outright sale of the resort . . . Cannon's 70-passenger aerial tramway, which has had its use curtailed in recent seasons during non-peak periods, is scheduled to open tomorrow.
A wrap party If you get stuck with a lousy holiday gift, Gunstock is having a "re-gift'' promotion on Sunday. Bring a wrapped or re-wrapped gift to the mountain and exchange it for another between 9 a.m. and noon (extra gifts at the end of the day will be donated to charity) . . . A number of resorts will feature torchlight parades and fireworks during the holiday week, but Okemo is offering a free guided snowshoe tour in conjunction with Sunday's pyrotechnics. Meet inside the Okemo Express Rental Shop at the main base lodge at 6 p.m. to be fitted for snowshoes (or bring your own). The tour departs from South Ridge Quad at 7 p.m . . . Blue Hills has a telemark and snowshoe demo day Sunday . . . No need to take a break from learning during school vacation: Wachusett Mountain will offer "Science on the Slopes'' nature programs Dec. 28 and 30 . . . Crotched Mountain, which bills itself as having the latest operating hours in the East, will fire up its first Midnight Madness (9 p.m.-3 a.m.) session of the season Jan. 1, and will continue with late-night Friday and Saturday slopeside bonfires and concerts through Feb. 26 . . . College Fest activities at Black Mountain include $15 discounted lift tickets to anyone who flashes a valid student ID Jan. 3-7 and 10-14.
Worth the wait Burke Mountain has instituted a no-wait policy that awards a $10 voucher toward your next lift ticket if you have to stand more than five minutes in any lift line . . . Attitash and Wildcat, once rival neighbors but now under joint ownership, keep expanding their comingled ticket offerings. Single-day tickets are now interchangeable between resorts, meaning you can buy a ticket at Attitash, ski as long as you'd like, then drive the 17 miles to Wildcat to take a few runs there (or the other way around) . . . You can now rent and take lessons on a Snowbike at Pats Peak. The device features a seat and swivel handlebars mounted to a pair of front and rear short skis. Packages start at $26 . . . King Pine now features an all-activity policy, meaning your Alpine lift ticket is also valid for same-day use on cross-country and snowshoe trails.


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GLENDALE, Calif. -- Trouble disappeared as quickly as it arrived for Sweden's Catrin Nilsmark after she found herself in the left bunker at the 18th hole.
She let fly with her third shot on the 440-yard, par-5. The ball landed on the green and rolled in for an eagle to complete a course-record 7-under-par 65, giving Nilsmark a two-shot lead over Stephanie Lowe in Saturday's second round of the Valley of the Stars championship.
The duo was tied for the lead until Nilsmark's eagle.
''It's up there as one of my best bunker shots,'' said Nilsmark, a fifth-year pro whose best finish is two third-place ties. ''Six-under just happened. I didn't have much time to think about it.''
Nilsmark takes a two-day total of 11-under 133 into Sunday's final round after bettering the previous Oakmont Country Club record of 66 by Annika Sorenstam, Leta Lindley and Terry-Jo Myers in 1997. Her 65, which included one bogey on the 14th, was also a career best.
Lowe, an Englishwoman who's also winless on the LPGA tour, was at 9-under 135 after a 67. Her round included 40-foot birdie putt at the par-4, 363-yard 13th. Lowe led most of the day until Nilsmark tied her with a birdie at the 16th.
''I was just trying to stay relaxed and enjoy it, just play the course and not worry about what everyone else was doing,'' Lowe said. ''We were playing well as a group. We were all sort of firing at the flag.''
Nilsmark and Lowe started one shot behind first-round leader Sorenstam, who fired a 70 for a two-day total of 137, four shots behind countrywoman Nilsmark. Jane Geddes was alone in fourth at 5-under 139 with a 70.
''She's a very streaky player,'' Sorenstam said of Nilsmark. ''She's one of the best putters I've seen when it means something. Of course, she didn't have to putt at 18.''
Nilsmark isn't even the most recognizable Swede on the tour. That title belongs to Sorenstam. Liselotte Neumann and Helen Alfredsson usually get mentioned ahead of Nilsmark, a native of Goteborg.
''I've wished I'd been from Norway or something,'' Nilsmark joked, ''but I don't anymore.''
Also of note, Georgia freshman Summer Sirmons, who got a wildcard into her first LPGA event ever with a win at the Georgia Women's Open, shot a 76 on Friday in the first round.
The Georgia native though, followed with an 83 on Saturday to miss the cut by eight strokes.
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Greg Toler of the Arizona Cardinals likely earned himself a spot in the inevitable end-of-the-year NFL highlight reel yesterday.
During the second half of the Cardinals loss to the Falcons (a very sloppy game), Toler laid out as his teammate knocked the ball out of the opposing player's hands. Seeing that the ball was about to go out of bounds — and that the chance of a possession change was inches away — Toler dove in an attempt to throw the ball back in bounds. It worked, and his teammate recovered.
See footage below (due to copyright laws, this is the best that's out there — you can see a high quality version at 1:30 here):
There were some great images captured of the play:
(H/T: Business Insider)
This story has been updated.


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Whitney Otto doesn't write as much as some authors, but what she does is choice. Eight Girls Taking Pictures, her fourth novel since debuting in 1991 with How to Make an American Quilt, is the choicest yet.
Like that runaway best-seller about the emotional lives of a quilting bee, her latest is a series of vignettes about the loves, works and desires of eight creative women.
While as original and wise as her other novels, Eight Girls Taking Pictures is a work of fiction inspired by real women photographers Imogen Cunningham, Madame Yevonde, Tina Modotti , Grete Stern, Lee Miller and Ruth Orkin and others, whose lives and art influenced the author's own.
"The origin of the novel," Otto says by email, "was wanting to spend time with those women who happen to be photographers, as opposed to wanting to write about photography and then deciding which ones to write about."
In an author's note, she calls the novel her love letter, mash note and valentine to these women photographers she's loved all her adult life.
"When I was in college," Otto writes in her email, "I went to a gallery exhibit of Judy Dater in Orange County, of all places. It was the first time I wanted to buy a photograph. I mean, I really, really wanted one."
One of the pictures in the show was Dater's image of Imogen Cunningham and Twinka Thiebaud titled Yosemite, 1974. "Being broke, I had to settle for the free postcard of the show of Yosemite, 1974," she says. "That postcard ended up on almost every wall of every place I lived until it fell apart."
In the book, Otto's electric vignettes spark our interest in the art and lives of these amazing women. Since this series of portraits is as much fiction as fact, Otto doesn't use actual names. Rather she gives us a clue to her characters' identities in the black-and-white photo that precedes each chapter.
Here is Cunningham's The Unmade Bed, 1957 with its sense of place without a person, Madame Yevonde's Machine Worker in Summer, 1937 with its naked seamstress stitching clouds of tulle, and Man Ray's surreal Observatory Time, the Lovers, 1936 with the lips of his apprentice, muse and lover Lee Miller floating above her languid, supine form.
"One of the primary reasons for wanting to write this novel," Otto says in her email, "was to write about the creative life. Artists tend to have a lot of conflicting desires. And I'm always interested in the creative lives of women."
In literary sleight of hand, she manages to write about her gifted, conflicted and groundbreaking subjects with both ephemeral, fluff-on-the-wind delicacy and sharp-eyed crystalline acuity.
She captures not only a sense of their times, which span three-quarters of a century, but also a whiff of the cities like New York, London, Berlin, Buenos Aires and Rome where these globe-trotting women loved and worked.
Cymbeline (the visionary Imogen Cunningham) anchors the book, sets the recurring theme of family demands vs. art, then weaves in and out, popping up at the end to close the artful circle.
With "one hand in the dishpan and the other in the dark room," Cymbeline virtually invents the male nude, focuses without schmaltz on domestic subjects and gains renown for her stunning black-and-white botanical photography.
Not all the vignettes are equally engrossing, but the one about model-photographer Lenny Van Pelt (Lee Miller), who collaborated with surrealist artist Tin Type (Man Ray), shot fashion and the Blitz for London Vogue and photographed the liberation of Paris, Dachau and Buchenwald in World War II, is spellbinding.
Unlike the six chapters inspired by real women, Otto's email says, "the last two are fictional, but their work is inspired by known photographic work …." And these chapters are enchantments with more than a hint in the last of Sally Mann, whose nude photographs of her children stirred controversy.
Though Otto never considered becoming a professional photographer, the stories in the photographs of these particular picture takers have meaning for her. And the stories revealed in this perceptive author's lively prose have meaning even for those who don't know a Leica from a Rolleiflex.
"I mean really," writes Otto in her email, "you don't have to know anything about any of these photographers or their work to enjoy the book, which is really all about love and desire."
Jane Sumner is an Austin freelance writer.
Eight Girls Taking Pictures
Whitney Otto
(Scribner, $25)


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Morris Area seniors graduate
On Friday, 68 area seniors received their diplomas at the Morris Area Elementary School Gym.
Eighteen students were recognized as Honor Students, and seven graduated with distinction.
Valedictorian Kevin Viratyosin and Salutatorian Holly Amundson delivered graduation addresses.
Here are the students' speeches:
Kevin Viratyosin, Valedictorian
"Good artists copy; great artists steal." Steve Jobs used to say this with attribution to Pablo Picasso. Given Apple's history with Microsoft at the time, it was evident that Jobs was referring to the now famous intellectual theft of the graphic user interface, comparing Microsoft to the good artist and Apple to the great artist.
However, that story has past and most of us will never need to worry about who really stole what from whom, but the note applies elsewhere as well. "Good artists copy; great artists steal." Since the pantograph and before, man has been able to copy his world, to replicate the work of his fellows past. But to steal a work, to boldly take as one's own and for one's own purposes, is a feat reserved for the creative mind.
At the start of the 20th century, short of minimally adjustable box cameras, cameras were relatively voluminous; they had bellows on rails and large ground glass plates and would frequently require the use of a tripod. Given such a great weight, for asthmatic photographer Oskar Barnack, this was problematic. So, in 1912, he engineered a still camera to make use of existing 35mm movie film. A researcher at a German optics company, Barnack presented this invention to his employer Ernst Leitz. From this prototype came the Leica I whose 35mm format would enjoy popularity among photographers throughout the following century and give rise to many of the camera companies we know today. Although he only made use of existing technologies - the focal-plane shutter, a lens derived from the Cooke triplet, and 35mm film - for his invention, today, Oskar Barnack is regarded as an innovative mechanical engineer and the father of the 35mm camera.
By now it must be evident that I don't mean to tell you to stroll into the Louvre and steal the Mona Lisa. Rather, as you walk through life, do not fear to take and learn from the discoveries of our predecessors as you strive to mark the world. Do not feel limited by the need to be original; there is no original idea - only great people who derive from life novel creations. Let us strive to be those great people - those great artists. Congratulations class of 2012. Let the years gone by be past and the years that follow, well begun.
Holly Amundson, Salutatorian
It all started out in the fall of 1999. The Class of 2012 came together for the first time. We left the security of our homes and daycares to get on the big, yellow school bus to start our learning process. We have created many memories over the years and I wanted to share a few of them with you this evening.
May 2000
Dear Diary,
Kindergarten is a lot of fun. I have made lots of new friends and my teacher, Mrs. Fluegel, is very nice. Today we performed the play "Jack and the Beanstalk." James Aronson was Jack and Jacob Erickson was the Giant even though he isn't very tall. I bet one day they will be great actors.
September 2000
Dear Diary,
First grade is not as fun. We barely get any time to play and my new classroom doesn't have a pretend Pizza Hut like last year. Right now, we are learning to read words like "cat" and "hat." Maybe I'll even be able to read books soon.
May 2002
Dear Diary,
The second graders got to go to Ice Cream and Lollipops today. I accidentally hit Jaimie Bergerson on the head with my lollipop.Thomas McPhee got the part of the rooster in our concert "E-I-E-I Oops!" He was surrounded by all of the cute chicks, but I still think boys have cooties.
October 2002
Dear Diary,
In third grade, Mrs. Turner helped us make a list of classroom rules. She told us by doing each of these things we could reach our hopes and dreams. The rules were to be positive, be a friend, help others and share, always try, be quiet during certain times, and listen to each other. We got to go the pumpkin patch today. We are going to paint and sell the pumpkins we picked at Willie's SuperValu.
September 2003
Dear Diary,
Fourth grade. We got assignment notebooks today. What's up with that? Plus, our moms and dads have to sign them every night!
May 2005
Dear Diary,
Do we really have to get up at 5:00 a.m. for a rocket launch?
April 2006
Dear Diary,
We are in the new school this year and are the top dogs. On our sixth grade class trip up North, half of our grade got in trouble for using the game room and arcade that was off-limits. To top it all off, someone forgot to close the windows in our cabin. It was freezing outside so we squeezed six girls into two bunk beds. I'm very nervous to move to the high school next year.
September 2006
Dear Diary,
The Class of 2012 just got much larger. The students from both St. Mary's and Cyrus joined us and we have lots of new names to memorize. We're also trying to remember our locker combinations. My locker is right next to the boy's bathroom. Gross!
October 2010
Dear Diary,
These last couple of years have gone by so quickly that I forgot to keep you updated. School keeps us all pretty busy with sports, clubs, theatre, music, and other activities... not to mention math tests, science fair projects, and English papers.
Last year, the one act show took first place at sub-sections. Our very own Thomas Roberts even received a "starred" performance in this original production. My classmates have come a long way since "Jack and the Beanstalk." This month, Kaitlin Van Horn and Lloyd Lesmeister go to FFA Nationals for the Ag Issues contest. They were part of the first team from the Morris Area chapter to win a State competition and continue to the National level. Even though our class lost the Powderpuff game, Megan Mecklenburg had the highlight of the game with her long run for the only junior touchdown.
June 1, 2012
Dear Diary,
This year has been full of many memories that we can cherish for the rest of our lives. For instance, it's no secret that many of you in this class have a favorite vehicle. You know how we love our trucks. Although I know we will miss seeing each other, I think we might miss seeing Weston Anderson wear his "Friday shirt" every week the most.
As we each go in our separate directions, it's important for us to take a few moments to look back and remember what brought us to this point. Each of my fellow graduates should be very proud of their accomplishments. Even though next year we will be without one another, there is no doubt in my mind that this class will succeed in their future endeavors.
Tonight the Morris Area Class of 2012 will walk across this stage to receive their long-awaited diplomas. I wish you all the best in whatever you do. Let me leave you with this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt, "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Thank you!


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Education in FinlandMore Related Discussions
-- Recently read the following book about education in Finland; thought it might be of interest. "Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?" by Pasi Sahlberg (Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 2011) In recent years, Finnish students have consistently earned among the top scores in the world on international tests in reading, math, and science. And – educator Pasi Sahlberg reports -- this has happened even though the Finns only begin school at about age seven, don't have very much homework, don't have a particularly long school day or school year, and don't regularly take high-stakes national tests. Most of the gains in achievement have occurred within the past decade or two. In the 1950s, Finland began a series of reforms that eventually moved the country away from a "mediocre" system in which most people had only completed the equivalent of middle school. But, as Sahlberg notes, it is the most recent changes that appear to have produced the dramatic rise in Finland's test scores. Two sets of factors seem to be at work. Educationally, the Finns have a philosophy of "less is more": trying to do things better, rather than just do more of the same things. In practice, they have relatively small schools and limited national-level bureaucracy, give teachers a lot of respect and autonomy, and, generally, cooperate with each other (they haven't privatized public education – no charter-school movement -- and have a strong national teachers' union, which has actively helped to implement reforms.) They offer a wide range of in-school services (free lunch for all students, counseling, and special education), don't give numerical/ letter grades in elementary school, and, at least at the elementary school level, try to avoid grade repetition by letting students progress at different rates in different subjects. And, college is free. Societally, the Finns have created a relatively egalitarian country that combines a free-market economy with the elements of a Scandinavian welfare state. Only about 4% of children live in poverty, compared to 20-something (?) % in the United States. (When I saw scenes of Finnish classrooms in a television segment on education there, the difference was quite visible: the Finns have apparently created a largely middle-class society, which seems to make it easier to offer most of the country what we would describe as "middle" or "upper-middle-class/ income" schooling. When he was interviewed, Sahlberg indicated that he was dismayed by the poverty he had observed in his visits to American schools.) Pasi Sahlberg writes both as a teacher and as a professor of education. (He is also the child and grandchild of teachers: he actually grew up in a rural school building in northern Finland, where his parents taught.) I wish that Sahlberg had provided a more detailed description of the "nuts and bolts" of daily educational practice in Finland, but the information he does provide is fascinating. He notes that, in general, Finland has simply borrowed educational ideas that originated in the United States and elsewhere, but has implemented those ideas in a persistent, pragmatic way. And, in most respects, according to Sahlberg, the Finns have been following a course that is almost exactly the opposite of the current reform agenda in the U.S. and a number of other countries. Any thoughts, or other information – pro or con -- about education in Finland? Or elsewhere? Michael Castro
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During his visit last week, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao dazzled Indians with the oblique diplomacy at which the Chinese excel. Resisting pressure to proclaim China's recognition of India's 1975 annexation of the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, he nevertheless delighted his hosts by quietly handing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a map that showed Sikkim as just another Indian state.
Indians are hoping that similar sophistication also explains Wen's refusal to commit himself to India's claim to a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. All he would say in this context was that "China understands and supports India's aspirations to play an active role in the UN and international affairs." Jubilant listeners interpreted this as effective support, arguing that only Japan's embarrassing candidature prevented an explicit endorsement.
More likely the Chinese are waiting to see which way the Indian cat jumps in the emerging pattern of alignments. The stakes were underlined when the United States, which has been wooing India with the prize of global status as a future counterpoise to China, pressed its suit during Wen's visit with the offer of a range of military network systems of far greater consequence than the controversial fighter jets promised to both India and Pakistan.
China's objective is to redraw Asia's strategic map so that a booming but friendly India replaces Japan as the other regional pole, and also supplements, if not replaces, the United States as a virtually bottomless market for inexpensive Chinese consumer goods.
Hence a $20 billion trade target for 2008, rising to $30 billion by 2010, that would oust the United States as India's largest trading partner. The intense interest Wen, himself an engineer, took in India's information-technology industry confirmed plans to develop former Prime Minister Zhu Rongji's imaginative proposal for a marriage between Indian software and Chinese hardware, presumably one day to mount an Asian challenge to the West's industrial supremacy.
There is no denying the temptation for India in this replay of cold war games. The "guiding principles" for settling boundaries could pave the way for peace along the long Himalayan border by swapping disputed territories over which the two neighbors fought a brief but bitter war in 1962. Moreover, their new "strategic and cooperative partnership for peace and prosperity" acknowledged parity between the two sides, whereas in the past China treated India as a regional power, important in South Asia maybe, but of no more global consequence than Pakistan, which has one-fifth India's area and one-seventh the population.
Though the partnership arrangement's content and purpose have not been defined, Indians see it as setting an Asian imprimatur on U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice's highly gratifying description of India as "a major world power in the 21st century." It is a moot point whether Wen would have been so forthcoming without this earlier U.S. overture.
Despite last week's bonhomie, India remains wary of Chinese moves and maneuvers in South Asia and surrounding seas. Continuing military (including nuclear) help for Pakistan, where Wen stopped off before flying to Bangalore to start his Indian tour, remains a sore point, the $250 million deep-sea port China is building at Gwadar on the Arabian Sea being a particular cause for anxiety. When ready, it will enable the Chinese, already entrenched in Myanmar across the Bay of Bengal and with a surveillance station in the Coco Islands, to restrict India from both flanks.
China's pointed cordiality toward King Gyanendra of Nepal is another irritant. In contrast, the United States is as severe with the king as India is.
Similar rivalry in the 1950's enabled India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, to hold the world's spotlight. A revival of heady diplomacy is a reminder that the Indian Dream is not so much to exercise world power as to be hailed as a world power. Having said goodbye to Wen, India's external affairs minister, Natwar Singh, flew to Washington for parleys with Rice. Pakistan's strongman president, Pervez Musharraf, will be in New Delhi this weekend, and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan a few weeks later.
The lesson of all this shuttling is that in the emerging Great Game, India will neither forsake its American alliance for a Chinese version of the Concert of Asia, nor help the United States to contain China. A John Foster Dulles among the neoconservatives would undoubtedly find this neutrality immoral.
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, a former editor of The Statesman in India, is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.


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Every day on the Internet, another wide-eyed high-school student asks a movie star or athlete to prom. But what's it really like to take a bold-faced name to the big dance?
Don't expect a lot of alone time.
"Even in the limo, there was a camera guy. But he was pretty quiet," said Jake Davidson, the plucky California 17-year-old who snagged a date with supermodel Nina Agdal, 21, to his prom two weeks ago.
"I was preparing some jokes, in case it was awkward, but it was just fluid conversation. She liked the Miami Heat and travels a lot."
Classmates were welcoming to Agdal — in part because she wasn't the model whom Davidson originally asked via YouTube.
"A lot of the girls were angry when they thought Kate Upton was coming," Davidson said. "They thought she'd overshadow them."
The date was a smash hit — except for the fact that they spent a grand total of about a minute inside the venue, the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica.
"If we would have gone inside, the ["Inside Edition"] camera crews would have hounded all the kids," Davidson said. "I wanted to respect my friends."
The roots of taking a celebrity to prom predate Google — beginning with the original Internet "it" girl, Cindy Margolis.
In 1996, she went to Tommy Kanable's prom in Michigan, having met him four years earlier as he recovered from a mysterious illness.
It was a Margolis poster — affixed to the ceiling over Tommy's hospital bed — that miraculously aroused the ailing teen, his mom, Kathy, believes.
The model learned of her curative effect and reached out to the family, with whom she remained close. Healthy and emboldened, Kanable, now 35, asked her out the old-fashion way — on the phone.
"I originally asked her to homecoming, and she said she couldn't. Me being a smart-ass, I said, 'How about prom?' And she said, 'OK, let's do it.'
"Some of the girls at school were resentful — but I had such an ego at that point that I didn't care," said the self-described "geek" who's single and still keeps about five posters of the blond beauty on his wall.
Of course, everyone knows there's no chance of ever getting lucky with a celeb prom date — unless of course, you're Brad Parascandolo.
In 1999, Parascandolo took porn star Houston to his prom at Tottenville HS on Staten Island, a match brokered by shock jock Howard Stern.
The two reportedly dated a year after that — and even lived together at her Los Angeles home.
Parascandolo, 32, now a New York City police officer, would not comment about any post-prom relationship he may have had with Houston, known for such films as "Many Happy Returns" and "Flesh Peddlers 2."
"It was every 18-year-old's dream," he told The Post. "It was a great experience. Something that I might not tell my grandchildren about."


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Forged Dollars Printed in Italy, Circulated in Egypt
The public funds intelligence officers in Egypt have arrested a three-man gang that forged US dollars in Italy and promoted them in Egypt, according to the daily Al Akhbar.
The gang whose task was to promote forged dollars in the country consisted of a lawyer, a driver and a vocational training center graduate.
The daily said that the authorities in Al Qalyoubiyyah district have managed to seize two of the gang members carrying 10,500 counterfeit dollars, and an arrest warrant was issued for the third.
Two weeks ago, six university students were also arrested for forgery charges. It was reported that the suspects used computer technology to counterfeit the Egyptian five-pound note.
IT and modern printing facilities have given forgery crimes in Egypt new shapes and dimensions that required quality investigation and police work to stop them -- Albawaba.com


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A for Andromeda (2006 film)
|A for Andromeda
Kelly Reilly as Andromeda and Tom Hardy as Fleming
|Science fiction thriller
|Created by
|Fred Hoyle
John Elliot
|Written by
|Richard Fell
|Directed by
|John Strickland
|Kelly Reilly
Charlie Cox
Tom Hardy
Jane Asher
|Nina Humphreys
|Country of origin
|United Kingdom
|Original language(s)
|Executive producer(s)
|Richard Fell
Bethan Jones
|Alison Willett
|Sean Van Hales
|Patrick Moore
|Running time
|85 minutes
|BBC Worldwide
|Original network
|BBC Four
|Original release
|27 March 2006
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A for Andromeda is a 2006 remake of the 1961 TV series of the same name by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot.
The series was produced by Richard Fell, who the previous year had overseen The Quatermass Experiment, a live remake of the 1953 TV series of the same name, also largely absent from the BBC archives.[1]
Talking about the decision to commission the remake, Fell said, "We thought A for Andromeda was too good an opportunity to miss... it is the obvious follow up [to The Quatermass Experiment]. It had a huge impact when it arrived. It's also lost to the TV archives and it was an amazing story and, like Quatermass, very forward looking".[2] He added, "It raises themes about artificial intelligence, cloning, biological warfare and the political exploitation of science which are as important today as they were when it was written – if not more so. It is also a strange kind of love story, if a man can fall in love with a machine that is".[3]
Fell also adapted Hoyle and Elliot's original teleplays; at 85 minutes, this new version was much shorter that the original which ran for almost 300 minutes. In condensing the script, Fell used considerably fewer characters and locations. This included resetting the location from a radio telescope to a signals intelligence ground station. Fell also merged several characters – for instance, Judy Adamson and Christine were merged into the character of Christine; the Madeline Dawnay character combined the roles of both the original Dawnay character and that of Rheinhart while General Vandenberg took on the role of many of the authority figures from the original.[4]
Cast as Christine/Andromeda was Kelly Reilly, best known for her role in Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) for which she won a number of awards including a Chopard Trophy at the Cannes Film Festival.[5] Fleming was played by Tom Hardy, best known to science fiction fans as Shinzon in Star Trek Nemesis (2002).[6] Bridger was played by Charlie Cox and Vandenberg by David Haig. Dawnay was played by Jane Asher; Fell had hoped to be able to cast Julie Christie in this role as a nod to the original but the actress was unavailable.[4] Directed by John Strickland, it was shot on location in early 2006 at Stanmore Air Base and the Brecon Beacons.[3]
First broadcast on Monday, 27 March 2006 on BBC Four, it was watched by 580,000 viewers, making it the top rated programme on BBC Four for that week.[7] Reviewing the production for the Independent on Sunday, Hermione Eyre said, "I squirmed as I watched, because I really liked it, even though I knew I shouldn't. The attempts at making the cast seem like convincing astrobiologists were risible. They swanned round in fitted white coats, occasionally sucking their pen tops as if deep in thought and then going rat-at-a-tat carelessly on their vast computer keyboards, more as if they were playing the honky-tonk piano than typing complex binary code to outer space. But this lent the programme a hammy, homemade charm".[8]
- ^ Richard Fell on IMDb
- ^ Brown, A for Andromeda, R for Remake, p. 80.
- ^ a b "A for Andromeda press release". BBC Press Office. 9 February 2006. Retrieved 13 June 2007.
- ^ a b Brown. A for Andromeda, R for Remake, p. 82.
- ^ Kelly Reilly on IMDb
- ^ Tom Hardy on IMDb
- ^ "Weekly Viewing Summary: Multichannel Top 10 BBC4 – w/e 02/04/2006". BARB. Archived from the original on 29 November 2006. Retrieved 3 June 2007.
- ^ Eyre, Hermione (2 April 2006). "Television: A Whiter Shade of Bland". Independent on Sunday. Independent News and Media. p. 18.


text: In front of Jay Cutler was the clear-blue but chilly-watered swimming pool at the Ihilani resort. The gang of Pro Bowl football players had been gathered around the tables, swapping stories, when suddenly the Broncos' quarterback had 300-pound Nick Mangold pushing from one side, 310-pound Kris Dielman holding the other and his cellphone swindled into the hands of a coy Peyton Manning. Cutler's radar had gone up, but he never had a chance. Splash! "We gave him a Pro Bowl baptism," said Dielman, the star offensive guard of the rival San Diego Chargers. Great fun. Big laughs. There was just one problem. Cutler is a Type 1 diabetic, and in his pocket was his blood-sugar monitor. "That was a prank where I thought we were smart enough to get the cellphone out of his pocket," Dielman said. "But then, 'Oops.' " The monitor was fried by the chlorinated water. Fortunately, Hawaii has drug stores, and after a few calls here and there, Cutler was well-equipped by lunchtime Wednesday. "It was a bad audible on our part," Manning said. "I think we were thinking right, trying to get the cellphone. Then we realize, the guy gets insulin shots. We missed that." — Denver Post


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Britons Move Towards A New Era of "Civilized Street Design"
In Britain, a movement is underway to make the streets become "civilized." Hamilton-Baillie Associates, a firm from Bristol, has taken the concept of shared-space streets - an idea that had largely been implemented in small town settings - and transplanted it into the heart of London. Design strategies such as visually-interesting paving patterns, sidewalks that are level with the street, and diagonal street crossings have thus far been successful in cutting down automobile-pedestrian collisions, according to a report by The New Urban Network's Philip Langdon.
"Maybe it's a reflection of American car culture. Or maybe it's a sign of how risk-averse the United States has become. Whatever the reason, the US is a long way from catching up to Europe in designing streets that allow the flexible, unchoreographed mixing of cars, trucks, buses, bicycles, and pedestrians."
"A recent presentation by Ben Hamilton-Baillie at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, highlighted how far Europe, and especially Great Britain, have gone toward letting motorists and pedestrians sort things out for themselves rather than having traffic engineers impose a strict order on circulation."


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He was born Jan. 11, 1967 in Walnut Creek and was a 1985 graduate of Monte Vista High School. He attended San Diego State University and became a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity.
He will be remembered for his uncanny ability to round up friends at a last minute's notice and fun was his middle name - he was always ready for action and adventure. He had an "anything is possible" attitude. His talent for cooking showed through the cookbook he created. He also loved conquering opportunities in farming and real estate.
He was preceded in death by his mother Sharon in April 2007. He is survived by his two daughters, Sara and Shelby; his girlfriend, Kris Doyle, and her daughters Megan and Shannon; his father, Pete; sister Kristi; brother-in-law, Jerry; and other relatives. His life was celebrated June 27 at St. Isidore Catholic Church in Danville.
Paul Grant Wing
Paul Grant Wing, a former resident of Danville, died on June 13.
He was born on Dec. 9, 1957 in Charlotte, N.C. and moved to California with his family in 1963. He grew up in Danville and attended San Ramon Valley High School, Class of 1975. He attended UC Davis and graduated in 1979 with a bachelor's in Chemical Engineering.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Tom and Sara Wing. He is survived by his wife, Rosemary; his daughters, Charlotte and Sara; his brother, Tom; and his sisters, Sydney Wing and Margaret Howlett. Services will be held in Wheaton, Ill. at Hultgren Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Lillian Ruth Sheller
Lillian Ruth Sheller, 87, a resident of Danville, died Tuesday, June 10.
She was born January 7, 1921, in Ellsworth, Pa., the daughter of Eli and Mary Dobric' Sucia Shultz Bizick. She was a 1938 graduate of Ellsworth High School. During WWII, she moved to Dayton, Ohio, and was employed by the Air Force at Wright Field, in the payroll department. It was at Wright Field she met Robert. They were married on April 1, 1945. When the couple moved to Harrisburg, Pa., she enrolled and graduated from Practical Nursing School.
An avid gardener, she was a long-time member of the Carmichael Morning Garden Club, where she held numerous positions on the board. She was active in the Diablo Lodge community, and enjoyed visiting family all along the West Coast.
She is survived by her two children, Kathleen Ann Sheller McCann (John, deceased Oct. 28, 2002), of Danville and Robert Lee Sheller (Naomi Kato), of Issaquah, Wash.; three grandchildren; her brother, Paul "Zack" Bizick of Rice's Landing, Pa.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Leroy Sheller, on Nov. 15, 2001; two sisters, Dorothy Bizick Rusilko and Anna Bizick; and two brothers, George and Miller Bizick.
Her ashes will be scattered over Lake Tahoe, where Robert's have already been scattered, and the immediate family will hold private lakeside services there. A memorial gathering is also being planned in Danville in July.
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It's a wonderful, dreary, rainy day here in the Bluegrass, perfect for pot after pot of tea. This is my first ever Lovers Leap. It's deliciously rich black tea, with an undertone of flowers (though I couldn't tell you what kind of flowers). It has just the right amount of astringency to make this a great morning cup.
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Corn prices could slip through 2012 -- FAPRI
Net income for corn and soybean farmers has been good in the last couple of years. Though that looks to continue in 2012, a new outlook this week has crop yields bouncing back and grain stocks normalizing, taking some of the edge off the most bullish factors for farm income over the last 2 years.
"While net farm income may fall a little short of last year, we expect 2012 to be another good year for most producers," says Pat Westhoff, director of the University of Missouri Food and Agricultural Policy Research institute (FAPRI), which released its latest major ag price projection report Monday. "With normal weather, a bigger crop in 2012 may lead to lower prices this fall. Other crop prices tend to follow corn."
FAPRI leaders stop short of calling for a 94-million-acre corn crop this year, saying farmers will likely plant 93.5 million acres. If yields are "normal," that size of a crop could send prices to down around $4.80/bushel, Westhoff says.
For soybeans, FAPRI officials see prices remaining over $11/bushel, likely making that crop a strong competitor for acres with corn this spring.
"Soybeans must remain strong to be competitive with corn for acreage," Westhoff says. "Given current tight corn supplies, markets will be sensitive to news about 2012 supply-and-demand prospects. Prices could fall if favorable weather increases crop production."
Ethanol production -- one of the major drivers for corn demand -- looks to remain close to 2011 levels, Westhoff says. But, the expiration of the 45-cent/gallon ethanol tax credit and generally high corn prices could contribute to slower growth for ethanol production through 2012.
Volaility in sectors like ethanol and beef herd numbers, which comprise another major end-user for the U.S. corn crop, will continue to feed similar conditions in the corn and soybean pits through 2012, Westhoff says. "Many of the factors that caused recent price swings remain in flux," he adds.