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Chicago Fed president Charles Evans says that without stimulus there is little hope of 'mitigating the losses in jobs and output.'
Last Updated: January 3, 2009: 6:51 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -- The Federal Reserve's new lending programs should help cushion the impact of the year-old U.S. recession but a large traditional fiscal stimulus plan is also needed, a top Fed policy-maker said Saturday.
"We expect large amounts of more traditional types of fiscal stimulus to increase aggregate demand. I believe a big stimulus is appropriate," said Charles Evans, president of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.
A year into the recession, the U.S. jobless rate appears on pace to exceed 8% in 2009, Evans said in remarks to the American Social Sciences Association meeting in San Francisco, noting that many non-financial industries face the risk of "long-term structural impairment."
In November, the jobless rate was 6.7%.
Without the Fed's series of moves to help unfreeze credit markets and cut official interest rates to the bone, "the downturn -- and its costs to society -- would be even more severe than what we are currently facing," said Evans, who is a voting member of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee in 2009.
Since the financial market crisis erupted, the Fed has created several new programs aimed at bypassing the traditional banking system and smashing through the credit-market logjam, including the direct purchase of mortgage-backed securities.
With the Fed holding down the monetary policy aspect of the equation, Evans said similarly aggressive actions are needed on the fiscal side to shore up the economy.
"Since most economic forecasters envision the current downturn as rivaling the deep recessions of 1974-75 and 1981-85, I think these fiscal programs must be large in order to be effective and to instill badly needed confidence," he said.
President-elect Barack Obama has said that signing a major economic stimulus package will be his first priority when he takes office on Jan. 20, with a goal of creating 3 million jobs over two years.
Evans said the Fed will be increasing its nontraditional policies further now that the federal funds rate, its traditional tool to influence economic growth, has been cut to almost zero, in a reference to the "quantitative easing" measures taken by the central bank recently.
"We are faced with the challenge of calibrating these unfamiliar policies and, in the future, determining the appropriate time and methods for winding them down," he said.
Evans also said the market crisis that erupted in 2007 showed huge holes in financial regulation.
"Significant weaknesses have been revealed in our system of financial regulation. ... These failures call for a reassessment of the roles of market discipline and our regulatory structures," he said
Many of the Fed's moves have been done on the fly in response to "emerging distress," and the central bank must do a better job communicating its motives to the public, Evans said.
"In a complex and dynamic environment, the public needs effective and transparent communications. As our lending facilities and other policy responses continue to evolve, this is a daunting task," he said. "We should strive to do more."
Let me ask again, are there any adults left? Here's a voting member of the Fed who simply does not understand how we got to where we are and he certainly does NOT understand the ramifications of his actions. In fact, it appears that understanding history or basic economics is a DISQUALIFIER for working at the Fed!
"…I think these fiscal programs must be large in order to be effective and to instill badly needed confidence," he said." Oh, really? From my perspective, what the Fed is doing is destroying not only the confidence in the system, but they are destroying the underlying math - Death by Numbers.
"Evans said the Fed will be increasing its nontraditional policies further now that the federal funds rate, its traditional tool to influence economic growth, has been cut to almost zero, in a reference to the 'quantitative easing' measures taken by the central bank recently." Oh really? Has anybody or any country ever become wealthy by printing money (My MONEY 'tis to thee...)?
And this is the statement that just pisses me off to no end, "In a complex and dynamic environment, the public needs effective and transparent communications. As our lending facilities and other policy responses continue to evolve, this is a daunting task,' he said. 'We should strive to do more.'" Once again, they are taking simple problems (too much debt already) and obscuring them with words like "complex" and "dynamic" while they claim to be working towards TRANSPARENCY. How can these clowns even say that with a straight face? Bloomberg and Fox News have filed lawsuits just to try to find out who is on the receiving end of our taxpayer money handouts, and it is THEM who refuse!
But we know why they are playing this game! The truth is that ALL the large financial institutions are INSOLVENT if forced to expose their true holdings. They all overleveraged beyond belief, JPM being the epicenter of the black hole. And remember, that the Federal Banking system is really not Federal at all – it's private. These people at the Fed, Paulson especially, came from this private system and they are still working for IT, not for US. They are still in process of the greatest heist and Ponzi scheme in the history of mankind and they are trying to perpetuate the illusion at least until they can exit.
So, either Charles Evans is complicit, or he is simply naïve beyond belief.
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The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B'Tselem, released a video Sunday that shows Israeli Brigade Commander Israel Shomer possibly breaching the rules of engagement shooting and killing a Palestinian youth in an incident near Qalandiya 10 days ago.
The video footage shows Muhammad Al-Kasbah, a 17-year-old Palestinian teenager, throwing a rock at Shomer's passing Israeli military jeep. The jeep stops immediately after the rock hits its windshield. Three Israeli soldiers are then seen exiting the car and two of them running after the boy and shooting.
"The forces called the suspect to halt and shot warning shots in the air. Once he continued hurling rocks at close range and in response to the imminent danger the forces fired towards the suspect," says the official IDF statement, as the i24news reported.
However, the video does not capture either the verbal warning, or the shots fired in the air, both of which allegedly preceded the direct shooting.
"B'Tselem's investigation found that the shooting that killed Ali-Kosbah was unjustified and unlawful, and that the official version presented did not accord with the facts of the incident," reads the NGO's press release published this morning.
Prior to the video's release, an Israeli military official told the Jerusalem Post that, "the attack on the commander's vehicle had been planned in advance and [Shomer] reacted exactly as expected given that the incident presented an immediate risk to his life."
"The claim that Al-Kosbah posed a mortal threat to the soldiers at the time of the shooting, having fled the scene, is unreasonable. Feeling a sense of danger is not enough to justify any action," asserts B'Tselem.
The Israeli army insists that Shomer, "initiated [and followed] the IDF-sanctioned procedure to arrest Al-Kosbah, in which it is permissible to shoot at suspect's legs," as Haaretz reported.
B'Tselem's researcher Iyad Hadad, who photographed the youth's body and interviewed the doctors at the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, said that the teenage boy was shot three times and none of the injuries were in the lower parts of his body.
Al-Kosbah, rather, sustained deadly wounds in his back and face, which has raised questions as to whether Shomer followed the proper arrest procedure anchored in military protocol.
"[The military open-fire regulations] do not permit killing [Al-Kosbah] by firing three shots at his upper body. The fact that the soldiers drove away without offering the injured youth any medical assistance runs counter to basic human morality," claims B'Tselem.
The video along with other material that the NGO collected, including interviews with eyewitnesses, were sent to the Israeli Military Police Investigations Unit (MPIU) that launched an investigation into the incident last week.
However, B'Tselem's officials expressed their doubts about the neutrality of the investigation process saying that, "it is highly doubtful that the MPIU could carry out an effective, unbiased investigation," especially since Shomer's actions already received strong backing from the Israeli public and political figures.
Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Eli Ben Dahan, told Haaretz prior to the video's release that, "throwing stones is terrorism. Stones kill. The Brigade commander [Shomer] was acting in self-defence."
Similarly, Naftali Bennet, Israeli Education Minister, wrote on his Facebook page that, "if a man comes to kill you, kill him first.
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Best Fleets to Drive For, now in its fifth year, identifies North American for-hire trucking companies that provide the best workplace experiences for their drivers. Nominated carriers are evaluated on the range and depth of offered programs, the overall effectiveness of those programs across key metrics, and the responses of surveyed drivers. The top finishers are identified as Best Fleets to Drive For, and the highest scoring fleet in each category is named overall winner.
Both companies received their awards Tuesday morning as part of the TCA Annual Convention at the Wynn Las Vegas in Las Vegas.
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Reduce poverty, make development sustainable and overcome global risks – these are the main goals of Swiss international cooperation. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs are responsible for implementing these aims. Switzerland has earmarked CHF 11.35 billion for international cooperation for the 2013–2016 period.
Switzerland's engagement worldwide
Sustainable global development is a key factor in reducing poverty and global risks. Switzerland's commitment has five specific five objectives:
- Prevent or overcome crises, conflicts and disasters
- Create universal access to resources and services
- Promote sustainable economic growth
- Support transitions to democratic, market-based systems
- Help shape globalisation that favours development, safeguards the environment and is socially responsible
In the field of international cooperation, Switzerland works both bilaterally and multilaterally – with priority countries and regions as well as 13 international institutions (financial institutions, UN organisations, global networks and funds).
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) are responsible for Switzerland's international cooperation. This covers the following four areas:
- Humanitarian Aid (SDC)
- Technical cooperation and financial aid (SDC)
- Economic and trade policy measures within the context of development cooperation (SECO)
- Cooperation with the countries of Eastern Europe and the CIS (SDC/SECO)
For 2013 to 2016, Switzerland plans to devote CHF 11.35 billion to these four areas.
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Humanitarian Aid helps cope with the humanitarian consequences of wars and conflicts, climate change, food crises, water scarcity, environmental changes, nuclear accidents and migration. Increased attention is now being paid to prevention and crisis resistance, advocacy for and support of victims as well as international networking. Humanitarian Aid deploys instruments such as rapid response teams and Swiss Rescue. It is present in the field and makes experts of the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SHA) available, also to UN organisations.
Technical cooperation and financial aid for developing countries (SDC)
From 2013 to 2016 SDC is focusing on the following ten countries and regions: Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mozambique, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Bolivia, Cuba and Central America. At the same time, it is expanding its activities in the following countries and regions: Great Lakes region of Africa, Horn of Africa, Southern Africa, Niger, Chad, Northern Africa/Palestine, Hindu Kush region, Mekong region, Nepal and Haiti. Switzerland carries out programmes in the areas of health and education, employment and income, rural development and governmental and administrative reforms.
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A few weeks ago, I took a day trip to Berlin for some avant-garde currywurst and a short walk along the Spree river. Imagine my undercaffeinated surprise, then, when an airport bus dropped me off in the middle of Budapest airport's tarmac in front of a plane from a '60s theme movie—and instead of presenting me with a photo opportunity, I was ushered inside to face its Lilliputian cabin.
It turned out that the Hungarian flag carrier Malév had recently celebrated its 65th birthday by painting one of their Bombardier Dash 8 turboprops with the livery they'd used from 1960 to 1974 on their Ilyushin Il–18's.
Accidentally, I was dressed to match the plane in a very white shirt with an aqua blue bow tie, and as the heavily vibrating Bombardier banked above Budapest on its way to Berlin, all that was missing was a pack of unfiltered cigarettes to smoke on board. What I got instead was a stale croissant and a cup of modern airplane coffee.
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Pastry Chef Ashley Brauze on Balancing Tradition and Modernity at Cafe Boulud
"I can show you how to make a mousse, but that doesn't mean you own every mousse ever made. There's a lot to be learned, and you need patience to figure it out."
We've seen so many amazing desserts throughout this interview column, but a recent visit with Café Boulud's pastry chef Ashley Brauze still blew us away. Boulud's restaurants often have the feel of calm amongst the storm of New York City's energy, and Brauze's plates embodied that feeling that with their grace, complexity, and abundance of concentrated flavor. And then there's the presentation; you can see traces of her time at El Bulli and under Dominique Ansel in the variety she offers to the eyes.
Brauze fits well in the Dinex family, warmly saying hello by name to those who stroll in and out of the quiet bar, signing off on menus and then jumping smoothly back to the topic at hand. As Brent snaps away, she brings us out her favorite spoon—a common thread we like to chat about with chefs—then looks down at her plates; "I like how they have a little bit of life."
You've credited your love of fine dining pastry from an epic meal you had at Daniel in 2004. What was so significant about it? I was working at the Inn at Little Washington, and it's the tiniest town; like 300 people. So to go to the grocery store you'd spend 30 minutes in a car, and one night I was driving home and I almost hit a cow just standing in the middle of the highway going 60 minutes an hour. And I was like, "That's it, I'm done!" I had to get out of there!
I had a lot of friends out in San Francisco so I went there to visit, and it was nice, but I didn't really feel it; it didn't have a lot of energy. So I came here for vacation and ate at Daniel. And I remember walking into the dining room, and Daniel was walking up the stairs, and he just had so much energy, and I remember being like, whoa. And he wanted to sit and talk with you; he's so friendly. I'd never met anybody like that before. Everything was clean and simple, and I loved the service and the atmosphere. I was super impressed. So I came up two weeks later and did a trial, and then moved up a month later. I was sold.
How do you feel you've progressed the dessert menu? What are you adding that wasn't here before? My background is really varied. I started at Daniel in 2005, then was lucky enough to go with my husband to El Bulli, then to Per Se, then back to Daniel. And I think for me, I love using very modern techniques, but keeping classic. So nothing really crazy, just extra little touches and knowing more modern pastry techniques that help make the desserts look modern without being way out there; we still have to be able to plate rather quickly so we're not losing time.
I loved the part of your bio that points out that your desserts have a lot of color and pop. Can you walk us through one dessert that feels particularly personal? The Napoleon. It started with receiving this really great nougat paste. February and March are sort of a struggle for everyone in the kitchen because you're just sort of tired of looking at apples and pears and brown and white. And so I was like, okay, what can I do that's going to have some color, and not be, like, raspberries? So my husband is from Michigan, and he loves the dried Michigan sour cherries, and nougat and sour cherries are kind of a natural combination.
And then as far as the look goes, you kind of get in a rut doing the same thing over and over again, but you don't need to necessarily reinvent yourself, so you look to see what you have in the kitchen to make a different shape that's not too far away from what you're doing already. We use a lot of tubes—which is very common in pastry—so the wave design came out from putting the tubes together and pressing the chocolate between them. I like it because it's still classic, but has that feminine curve to the top. I like thinking outside of the box with what I have in the kitchen.
You worked with Dominique Ansel at Daniel, and I love how, in a recent piece, he said that you're "constantly curious". How do you think your sense of curiosity has served you best? When I started at Daniel, everything was so classic, and I was always asking a lot of questions. Then at El Bulli it was the same thing; I would always ask, 'How does this work?' 'How does this chemically balance?' And Albert would be like, "If you're curious come in and play around." You have to make a thousand mistakes before you figure out something that works, and that can be really frustrating, but you're always learning from it.
That was one of the things that I learned from Dominique and Albert; there are a thousand ways to do one thing. And constantly reading up and going out to restaurants and figuring out how other people are doing things helps. And having a good network of pastry chef friends who like to talk about things and new techniques is always fun.
Is anything you learned at El Bulli particularly applicable to your menu now It's funny, when I was at El Bulli I appreciated everything I was doing there, but at the same time I missed making tarts and classical stuff. I think that's when you realize how much you've learned from working in another kitchen; when you move onto something. In no way did I dislike anything I did there, but I was antsy to get back and do stuff that was a little more structured. Working with Albert was amazing; when he creates the space that he goes to it's unlike anything I've ever seen, so to see that was really cool. Now I use a lot of the espuma guns, I have foams, but I don't put foams on everything; it's very selective. I think you have to be very selective about what modern things you use.
Is there a chef you've worked with who's taught you something profound that you think about today? Before I worked with Dominique, there was a lot of screaming and aggressiveness in the kitchen. And he was the most patient person I've ever worked with. Yelling in a kitchen doesn't make anyone learn any faster. He'd explain, 'This is not OK, and this is why it's not OK.' But at the same time, if you had an idea, he was always very interested to learn from other people. When I got back from Spain he was like, "OK, come show me what you learned." He was very interested in that. And he's very humble. I think that's something that's very necessary.
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grew up in New York City, where she was lucky enough to attend the kind of elementary school where you could sit in a windowsill, or even under a table, and read or write, and no one told you to come out and be serious (well, eventually someone did, but not right away). It was here that Rebecca began writing. Sometimes she invented stories, and other times she just wrote down things she overheard – jokes, or snatches of conversation. Writing down what people say is a great way to learn what they might say, if you wanted them to.
Much, much later, Rebecca became a lawyer, got married, and started working as a public defender. She still wrote stories when she could find the time. Then her first child, a fabulous son, was born. A few years later, she had another fabulous son. There wasn't much time for writing stories after that.
One day, Rebecca read a wonderful newspaper article about a scientist who studies climate change by camping in the arctic every summer and watching birds. That same month, her four-year-old son, though fabulous, accidentally pushed her laptop off the dining-room table, and the short stories she had worked on for several years were gone. Poof.
So. It was time to write something new. Rebecca plunged into First Light, stopping now and then to research. She decided that her story took place in Greenland, where dog sledding is part of everyday life, and suddenly she had a cast of dogs. She discovered that a glacier can conceal a freshwater lake, and that firefly light is triggered by oxygen. A glaciologist told her how to scare a polar bear with a flare gun, and why he loves his bread maker.
First Light also hints at other things she's learned, such as the fact that children don't need to be shielded from truth. They are often much braver than the rest of us.
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Peter's father is a scientist who studies global warming. But why is he so interested in Greenland?
The ice on Greenland is melting more than scientists expected it would. In some parts, the ice sheet is almost two miles thick. As chunks of ice break off and fall into the ocean as icebergs (a process known as "calving"), sea levels rise all over the world. And calving ice isn't the only way for ice to leave Greenland - it can also simply melt and run off into the ocean. At the current rate of ice melt, worldwide sea levels will rise 1.6 feet within the next hundred years. If the ice starts to melt more quickly, the oceans will rise even faster. By carefully watching the changes in Greenland, scientists hope to better predict how other parts of the world might change.
What's causing the melting?
The Earth's climate is slowly changing. We often refer to these changes "global warming," but the truth isn't quite as simple as that. Parts of the world are getting warmer, but others are seeing different effects of climate change – bigger storms or drier conditions, for example.
How does the ice move in Greenland? Isn't it all stuck together like a big ice cube?
During the warmer summer months, some of Greenland's surface ice melts and drains down through the ice cap in vertical rivers called "moulins." Moulins can be thirty feet wide and fall hundreds of feet into the ice. Huge blocks of ice then slip along on this ice melt, toward the sea.
The people of Gracehope live deep within the ice next to a lake. Are there really lakes under the Greenland ice?
The lake in Gracehope is an invention of the author. However, "subglacial lakes" do exist on Earth – in 1996, for example, scientists using satellite radar technology mapped Lake Vostok, an unfrozen lake several miles beneath the ice in Antarctica. Lake Vostok is enormous – as big as Lake Ontario – and scientists believe it may be partly warmed by geothermal forces from the Earth's interior.
What do scientists think causes climate change?
The use of fossil fuels such as oil and coal has added a lot of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" to the Earth's atmosphere – more than has existed in the past 500,000 years. In higher concentrations, these gases trap more heat. Scientists say this is the cause of the changes being observed in Greenland and the rest of the world. The reduction of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions would help a lot. Even small changes, such as switching to efficient light bulbs and doing less driving, add up.
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Tony Stewart talks soda cookies and splits
SPOILER ALERT: Stop reading if you believe Tony Stewart is an agile, limber and graceful athlete.
That wasn't Stewart doing a split in his new Mobil 1 commercial with Formula One driver Jenson Button.
And he doesn't actually eat "soda cookies."
The spot, which began airing last month, shows Stewart using Mobil 1 oil to lubricate his hips and legs before sliding into a full split to dunk his cookie in a glass of soda.
"Let's make no mistakes about it - if I got down there, I would still be down there," Stewart said Friday at Daytona International Speedway. "They did not ask me to do that. They had me get down on the ground for the camera shot, but they had green screens. They had some male gymnast do it, I don't know who it was, I didn't want to be there when he did it."
Mobil 1 currently has two ads out with Stewart and Button, and the second one has the drivers comparing their fitness levels with Stewart easily riding a stationary bike. Both scripts were a surprise to Stewart when he showed up to film.
"It actually was a lot of fun shooting the spots because I never look at what the spots are supposed to be and I get there and I'm starting to read the scripts and it's saying `Tony is getting on an exercise bike, he's doing splits' and I'm like `Which Tony is doing this? Is there another Tony?' " he said.
And the soda cookies were new to three-time NASCAR champion who has never tried to hide his love of fast food and snacks.
"I can't say that I've ever sat down and grabbed a coke and grabbed Oreos ... I've ate Oreos and I've chased them with coke, but I can't say that I've done a lot of dunking," he said. "It actually was pretty good. I might have started a trend now."


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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Dan Haren and Josh Beckett threw batting practice on Wednesday, leaving Paul Maholm as the only Dodgers starter yet to face live hitters.
Maholm, who had left elbow issues in September with Atlanta, said he's healthy and expects to throw a bullpen session on Thursday, which still would leave him a few days behind the rest of the starting rotation. He was making throws during pickoff drills.
Maholm was signed when camp opened as fifth-starter insurance for Beckett, who is coming off career-threatening thoracic outlet syndrome surgery. However, Beckett continues to impress and said he considered facing hitters a milestone in his comeback.
"I was a little nervous going in," he said. "Mentally, this was a big hurdle today, more than people think. [It's big] each time I get out there and get over a mental hurdle. I felt really good today. I'm excited."
Beckett was greeted as he came off the mound by Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax, who has worked with Beckett for more than a decade.
"I was standing there with Haren, we were a few feet from Sandy, and I said, 'Did you ever think we'd be pitching and standing here with Sandy Koufax?' And he said, 'There should be a unicorn out here.'"


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{mosimage} My name is Carl Wimble and I am seeking a three-year term on the Moretown Select Board. For the last several years I have found myself at odds with many of the decisions made by the select board and believe the only way to bring change to the board is to have a seat at the table. All of the current members of the select board have served multiple terms and have far more "experience" than I have in town management.
However, I think they have become so comfortable in the chairs they occupy that they have difficulty making timely and cost-effective decisions for the town. I believe my presence at the table will bring a new perspective to the issues and allow us to resolve some of the "old business" the town has been dealing with for far too long.
There are several important issues facing the town and I would like to briefly address a few of them.
1. Town garage: For more than a decade the town has been trying to find a location on which to build a new garage. The latest plan would rebuild on the existing site and require the purchase of additional land on which sand and other materials would be stored. The purchase price for the land is $150,000 for 2.5 acres. I find it ironic that just last year the town sold the development rights on town-owned property for $1,200 per acre and we are now being asked to pay $60,000 per acre for land for this project. I strongly support building a new garage; however, I don't know if this is the appropriate location at an appropriate cost.
2. River's quarry: Moretown voters need to know that as of October 2007, the town had spent in excess of $70,000 on legal and consulting fees relating to the River's quarry. And in preparation for the environmental court proceedings, which began on February 12, 2008, have likely spent thousands more. I think three questions must be asked:
a. Did voters authorize this spending?
b. What oversight has the select board had?
c. Has the town derived any benefit from these expenditures?
Since the quarry issue only seems to be discussed in executive session, I can't answer these questions. I will say that I think we have much better uses for our money. I believe Moretown must be proactive in finding local sources four our road maintenance materials and will support efforts to find such resources.
3. Moretown Landfill: The landfill is a tremendous asset to our town enabling us to enjoy low taxes and providing us with money for the capital reserve fund. While we all enjoy the benefits of the landfill, I think it is very important to realize that it is our fellow Moretown residents who live on Route 2 who must endure the traffic, noise and smells associated with the operation of the landfill. As the landfill works to permit a fourth cell, I think it is critical to periodically examine our relationship to ensure that the town is benefiting to the fullest extent possible from our host town agreement. Incidentally, when I was a boy, Route 2 was considered a scenic byway where my family would picnic. How times change.
These are just a few of the many matters the next select board will be dealing with and unfortunately there isn't room to discuss any of them in sufficient detail. I would be happy to hear any thoughts, ideas or concerns that you believe are important for the future of Moretown. Feel free to call my home at 223-7736. I look forward to serving the town of Moretown on the select board and would appreciate your vote. Thank you.
Biographical information: Age 43, married, one child, self-employed electrical/home improvement contractor, part-time farmer. Associates degree in business from Champlain College; Vermont Army National Guard, Soldier of the Year 1990.


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OK, so I'm impressionable.
All it took was a coffee mug to reverse my longstanding loathing of the Nebraska Cornhuskers into a Facebook "like," which is far removed from love, but Facebook put some oomph into an otherwise noncommittal word.
Even though I have lived in Illinois for more than 30 years, I still consider myself to be an Iowan, who happened to be born in Minnesota. I graduated from Central Lee High School in Donnellson, Iowa, and the University of Iowa in Iowa City. I became strong in Iowa, throwing around bales of hay. I got my start in the newspaper business in Iowa.
I'm a Hawkeye.
And Hawkeyes don't like Cornhuskers. And Iowans don't like Nebraskans, in a moderate Midwest sort of way. It's not like we would attack Cornhuskers, but we might be prompted to say, "Hawkeyes rule, Cornhuskers drool!" in a confrontation outside the football stadium.
I was fine with my dislike of Nebraska, until my growing-older son announced he was going to attend the University of Nebraska to study political science as a doctoral student. It has something to do with the style of political science that is taught there.
And once I got up off the floor after falling out of my chair, I tried to be supportive. But I was told by my growing-older son that he would root for Nebraska when the Cornhuskers played the Hawkeyes. And that stung. That's serious.
I mean, what's a Cornhusker? My closest frame of reference was the Cornjerker, as in the Hoopeston-East Lynn High School Cornjerkers. And I had no idea what a Cornjerker was when the Harvard Hornets played the Cornjerkers in 1985 for third place in the boys basketball state tournament. The Cornjerkers beat the Hornets to win the consolation title.
I covered that game for the Harvard Herald, and it wasn't until this week that I found out – for the record – what a Cornjerker was. That definition is courtesy of Thad Matta, men's basketball coach at Ohio State University, which played Arizona last night, trying to advance to the Elite Eight in the NCAA basketball tournament. He's come a long way since 1985.
"A Cornjerker is a very powerful warrior-type person who back in the days before they had combines and things, kids would walk the fields and jerk the corn off stalks and throw it into a trailer, so therefore it came to be the Cornjerkers," Matta told WBNS-TV in an interview two years ago. And I've come to find out that Matta was born in Hoopeston, and he was a senior on the Cornjerker team that beat Harvard. In fact, he was one of the top three players in the state that season.
I'm not sure how he gets warrior from yanking corncobs off stalks, but that's for the farm report. At the very least, it cannot be easy work.
A Cornhusker is a step down the production line in the corn harvest from days gone by. The cornjerkers may have pulled the cob from the stalk and tossed it in the wagon, but it was the cornhusker who got the cob ready for market by pulling the leaves off the cob to expose the field corn, which was thrown into another trailer to be taken to market.
If you have husked sweet corn for dinner, you can consider yourself a cornhusker.
But my growing-older son is a capital "C" Cornhusker, attending school in Lincoln, Neb. Nebraska? Really? The only worse school would have been Iowa State University in Ames. He has grandparents, and aunts and uncles and cousins in Iowa. He went to high school in Iowa his freshman year. Nebraska?
But before the school year began, he brought me a coffee mug. A heavy, slightly oversized, black ceramic mug, with the University of Nebraska emblazoned in crimson over the raised emblem "Dad." Gee, thanks. I'll choke my coffee down.
But over the past seven or eight months, I have used the mug nearly every day. Talk about brainwashing, or behavior modification, or the sneaky type of political science my son is learning.
I like the color, I like the weight, I like the feel. And, hush my Hawkeye mouth, but I like the University of Nebraska. Not when the Cornhuskers are playing Iowa, but I was pulling for them in the Capital One Bowl against Georgia. And I'm pulling for the Cornhusker women's basketball team to beat Duke on Sunday in the NCAA Sweet 16 game.
I'm impressionable. All it took was a mug that I used every day since last summer to give me a jolt in the morning. I'm a changed man. And I am a Cornhusker fan, except when the Hawkeyes are in contention. Egad. What has become of me?
• Dick Peterson, who lives in Woodstock, is a mental-health advocate, freelance writer and a former Northwest Herald Opinion Page editor. He can be contacted at email@example.com.


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Anna Soubry, the minister for public health, declared that Britain has a "weird" relationship with food and urged people to "take the time" to cook and enjoy their own meals.
She disclosed that she had banned her daughters from using the word "fat" at home because she did not want them to become "obsessed with their weight".
Miss Soubry was criticised by anti-poverty campaigners on Wednesday after claiming that it was easy to identify the poorest people in society because they tended to be overweight or obese.
She said it was "ironic" that the country enjoyed watching celebrity chefs such as Delia Smith and Jamie Oliver cooking on television when the art of cooking at home was in decline.
"We are a weird nation," she said. "We consume television programmes about cooking, all the books, but we don't as a nation, any more, cook," she said.
Miss Soubry said she had told staff in her constituency office in Broxtowe, Nottingham, to "take time out to have a meal" for lunch rather than eating at their desks.
"Today, people don't get paid for their lunch. It's mad and it's wrong," she said. "Also, it's disgusting eating over a keyboard."
Taking a proper lunch break is "good for you" because it provides the time to "chill out, get your head back together, and enjoy what you're eating" in the middle of the working day, she said.
However, Miss Soubry confessed that she did eat lunch in her own office, which her officials would help provide.
"One of the things that freaked me out when I came in here was, they said, 'minister, we'll get your food.' I thought, 'how kind'. It was to keep me at my desk so I can't escape," she said.
The minister said it was "sad" that many children started primary school not knowing how to use a knife and fork because they had been raised on TV dinners that can be eaten with their fingers.
"It's like good table manners," she said. "I am not going to get overly precious about it, but eating is also about talking and enjoying food and sharing food.
"Part of that is having a set of sensible table manners so you don't talk and eat at the same time, that's pretty disgusting, and you don't eat with your mouth open.
"I know it sounds old fashioned but it's all about the pleasures of food and some would say discipline in families."
Speaking to the Telegraph, Miss Soubry said that it was "heartbreaking" that obesity rates were highest among the poorest families and that "you can almost tell somebody's background by their weight".
However, Imran Hussain, head of policy at Child Poverty Action Group, said obesity and poverty would worsen as a result of the government's policies.
"Rather than blaming parents, ministers should look at the piles of evidence that make it absolutely clear that the real reason why our obesity problem is going to get bigger in the years ahead is because our child poverty problem is going to get much bigger as a result of the Government's own policies," he said.
"Poor children are much more likely to miss out on healthy food on cost grounds than children living in households with average incomes.
"With low income families being hurt by stagnating wages, cuts in Government support for the low paid or those out of work, and soaring prices, the obesity problem and the pressures on the NHS are likely to worsen."


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Upgrading Breakfast with Local Heirloom Grains in Thai TownPost date:
At Friends & Family, a new all-day eatery in East Hollywood, celebrated pastry chef Roxana Jullapat is introducing L.A. to a wider diversity of locally-grown, heirloom grains with her sweet and savory baked goods.
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Quietly tucked inside of a bustling swapmeet in East Hollywood, you'll find Nabi, a fast-casual counter serving Korean comfort fare with a Mexican twist. It is owned by a James Beard Award-nominated author of both Korean and Mexican cookbooks.
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L.A.'s Lost Cahuenga ValleyPost date:
Hollywood was once known as "the pride of the Cahuenga Valley." So how did an entire valley vanish from L.A.'s cultural topography?
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Iconic Neighborhood Restaurants: East Hollywood & Little ArmeniaPost date:
The people in this neighborhood represent upheavals in practically every part of the world in the last century.
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Urban Ryu-newal: A New Era of Asian American Political Representation Begins in L.A.Post date:
In the year of the improbable, the impossible has happened: David Ryu became L.A.'s first Korean American and second Asian American to be elected to the city council.
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Nic Cha Kim visits the Hollyhock House, one of L.A.'s most iconic homes designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the early 1920s. After a recent $4.4 million dollar renovation project, many of the original features have been restored and are now vie...
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Before the Hollyhock House, there were olive trees -- a veritable army of them, each spaced 20 feet apart, marching up the hillside in an orderly grid formation.
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Libraries are learning institutions. Albeit indirectly, I learned about California native plants through my local library, and the learning continues today.
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Creating Transnational Spaces in Thai TownPost date:
Thai Town is an example of a transnational space as the geographic place that serves as home to Thai immigrants, restaurants, and community organizations.
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On any given night, restaurant tables are filled, cash registers ring, and empty street parking spaces are nonexistent. But Thai Town still faces some big challenges.
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We went to two of the most beloved falafel purveyors in L.A. to find the very best in ancient snack foods.
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Los Angeles's system of Neighborhood Councils, often severe critics of our highly-paid City Council, managed to evade having their budgets cut by nearly 80 percent through loud citizen activism and complaints this month.


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Latos continues to progress quickly from knee surgery
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Reds pitcher Mat Latos continues to make speedy progress from left knee surgery. On Sunday, Latos' fourth day of his long-tossing program had him throwing at distances of 100-120 feet.
"I set a goal of the end of next week to start throwing at 100 feet and I've surpassed that today," Latos said.
What really pleased Latos, though, was that he could participate in stretching, throwing and drills with his teammates for the first time this spring. He had a torn meniscus repaired in his knee on Feb. 14, the first day pitchers and catchers reported.
"All in all, today was the best day that I've had," Latos said. "I had been doing my exercises and strengthening stuff, but I wasn't able to actually get out and interact with the guys. This was a huge positive to be able to go out there and throw and run and the other stuff."
Latos backed up the bases during cutoff and relay drills and did some limited fielding drills that didn't require turning on his knee to throw. He also performed some agility drills on his own.
"Backpedaling bothered me a little bit, but that's to be expected," Latos said.
There is no target date known yet for when Latos will begin throwing from a mound. He is not considered to be too far behind the other pitchers, however. He began throwing again quickly after the surgery and had completed his rehab from October elbow surgery that removed four bone chips.
"We're boosting up the cardio where I'm putting in a huge amount of effort real quick, because I have to get my legs under me," Latos said. "The arm has been there. I've already rehabbed that. I haven't taken a huge step back. After four days, I'm already at 100-plus feet. The knee feels good. Dr. [Tim] Kremchek says he's not worried about me reinjuring it."


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My sisters and brothers in Christ,
This mystery of the Holy Trinity is at the heart of our Christian faith. We come to this mystery humbly because it is given to us by Jesus Christ Himself.
The first reading today, from the Book of Deuteronomy, is a delightful picture of Moses speaking about the mystery of God in his own time. Our God is the God of Moses and is the God who continually breaks into our human history to call us to Himself, to be present on our behalf, to work marvels for our good. No other people have a God such as ours. This is as true today as it was in the time of Moses. And today also people reject this God and refuse to believe in this God because this God seems so unbelievable at times. In the time of Moses, our God worked wonders for His people and also gave to the people a form of life that separated them from other peoples. Our God is rejected today mostly because people do not want to live the form of life that He has given us.
The second reading, from the Letter to the Romans, is one of those few instances in the New Testament where we meet with Father, Son and Spirit all together in one passage. It is the Spirit who gives us power to call God our Father, the Spirit who confirms our relationship with Christ and the Spirit who gives us the strength to suffer with Christ in order to be glorified with Him.
The Gospel is the very end of the Gospel of Matthew. It is important to note clearly that even among the eleven who remained faithful to Jesus, there were doubts. We can ask the Spirit to help us in our doubts and help us then to live these words of Jesus: proclaiming the Good News of Salvation and inviting others to baptism because Jesus is with us always until the end of time. In all of this, we meet the mystery of the Trinity.
The Father is the One whom Jesus calls Abba. The Spirit is the One whom Jesus sends to give us strength to live His message. And Jesus Himself is the One who has come to us in the flesh to redeem us. But they are not three Gods, but only One God; they are of one nature and indivisible. That is the mystery at the heart of our faith. Jesus is God, the Father is God and the Holy Spirit is God. They are the One God. An incredible mystery that we can only live and continue to seek to understand in some small ways.
May the Spirit open our hearts and our minds so that we accept this mystery in faith.
Father Jesus


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This first lo was done for the Sept. Challenge over at Scrapbook.com for the EFG that I am with.
September Technique Challenge: Use Die-Cuts!! You may choose any subject, any number of pics, etc., but you must use at least one die-cut on your layout! This can be as your background (as in a die-cut paper), or it can be an embellishment. You can even die-cut your photo(s)! It can be from a kit/paper collection, or you can cut it from a die-cut machine. 25 points!
TWIST: Distress something, somewhere on the layout--use scissors or an edge distresser, tear something, crumple something--just distress at least one item for an extra 10 points!
I have had these two pictures out forever wanting to scrap them of Avery... Heck I think he is about 2 or 3 here.. I will have to go hunt now to put a date on. But I used BG paper and my die cut it the snowflake which I added stickles and a button to. Then I distressed the edges of the cardstock and added stickles along that as well, you can't hardly see it, but it looks very nice and is eye catching. The santa and Spirit of Christmas are actually from the dollar store from way back when. Added the ric-rac for a simple interest as well as the row of buttons!
I just love these pics of Avery, even if he has his meal all over his face!
This second lo was for the September BOM Challenge: Create A Layout About Someone or Something That Inspires You! This can be anything, really! A special person--you don't have to have actually met them, either! Or it could be a family member, friend, whoever! Or maybe it is a thing, place, object, etc., that inspires you! Whatever it is, scrap it for your BOM so you can remember it! 25 points!
TWIST: Use buttons! You must use at least 2 buttons on the layout to get an extra 10 points!
I did my lo on my best friend Cynthia. I listed the things that inspire my about her, although I can't believe I left off the word intelligence! I realized that when I was finished... ugh... oh well, this is quite simple, but I love the green and pink which is basic grey papers. I used the buttons as you can see as well as the twist.
I guess I am starting to get the hang of a simple lo...lol... when I get down to hours before they are due, I guess that happens, although I do really like them both.
Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek and if you, please leave me a message and tell me hi!
September 30, 2009
Some More Layouts!
Posted by Nina at 8:53 PM 3 comments
Labels: BOM, bom challenges, layout, scrapbooking
Welcome Little One
This is a card I made my friend Angie that just had her beautiful daughter Kenzie Bella. I really liked the touch of green and so I went with the paper from the DCWV glitter stack. This is also not one of my images, but it is my favorite one that I own to make a baby card. I can't even tell you who makes it, it is not on the block only Santa Rosa, CA. The sentiment was computer generated.
Thanks for stopping by....
Thanks for stopping by....
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September 28, 2009
FREE Digital Stamp Image: Dancing Hearts
This week's free digital image from There's Magic In The Air is "Dancing Hearts". I figured when most people see this image they are going to think Valentines Day. I know I would. So, I thought I would think out side the box and attempt to use non-traditional heart colors. Not sure how well I achieved that, but I still felt compailed to pull a coral color in to have some contrast with that blue. Certainly not a valentine look though, maybe more a country feel? I don't know what do you think? LOL... Anyway I started with a blue card stock and then I added the pp which is K&Company added the 3 lines of ribbon and bows; American Craft. I then used the swiss dot Cuttlebug folder to emboss the blue card stock I laid on top of the pp. I used my corner punch to make the hearts and feel some of the white area on the image and then I added some rhinestones on the vase and also to the right of the image. Added some red stickles on the tips of the drips and then added the sentiment of "where there is love" and on the inside the sentiment says: "There is Life". I will probably save this for an engagement type card, something a little different and non-traditional.
Well, that's it for me for Dancing Hearts. I hope you can spread a little love not only by snaggin this image, but by making a card with it and then sending it on to someone! Oh, and don't forget to leave me some luvins as well in the comments! Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!!
Well, that's it for me for Dancing Hearts. I hope you can spread a little love not only by snaggin this image, but by making a card with it and then sending it on to someone! Oh, and don't forget to leave me some luvins as well in the comments! Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!!
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