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Edward S. Murphy
Interviewed by Melissa Johnson
20 July 2013
Oral History Program
Weber State University
Stewart Library
Ogden, Utah
Edward S. Murphy
Interviewed by
Melissa Johnson
20 July 2013
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The Oral History Program of the Stewart Library was created to preserve the institutional history of Weber
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Business at the Crossroads - Ogden City is a project to collect oral histories related to changes in the
Ogden business district since World War II. From the 1870s to World War II, Ogden was a major railroad
town, with nine rail systems. With both east-west and north-south rail lines, business and commercial
houses flourished as Ogden became a shipping and commerce hub.
After World War II, the railroad business declined. Some government agencies and businesses related to
the defense industry continued to gravitate to Ogden after the war—including the Internal Revenue
Regional Center, the Marquardt Corporation, Boeing Corporation, Volvo-White Truck Corporation,
Morton-Thiokol, and several other smaller operations. However, the economy became more service
oriented, with small businesses developing that appealed to changing demographics, including the
growing Hispanic population.
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Edward Murphy
July 20, 2013
Abstract: The following is an oral history interview with Edward Murphy. The
interview was conducted on July 20, 2013, by Melissa Johnson. Edward
discusses his experiences with 25th Street.
MJ: This is Melissa Johnson and I am in the home of Edward Murphy in Layton, Utah.
It is July 20, 2013 and we are interviewing him as a part of our Business at the
Crossroads oral history project. Why don't you tell us a little bit about when and
where you were born?
EM: I was born in 1925 in Ogden, Utah. I was brought home to a loving mother,
father, brother and grandfather. When I turned six-years-old in 1932, my
grandfather died. In the morning, I awakened and asked my mother, "Where's
Grandpa?" She said, "Grandpa's gone to heaven." I found out shortly later that
he died of pneumonia. Two years later, my father died. I miss those two men
very much and have missed them all my life. They loved and cared for me.
Soon after my grandfather died, my other grandfather, on my mother's
side, took me under his wing and brought me to his Indian trading post known as
the Indian Curio Shop. Here I worked during the tourist season. The first thing I'd
do was sweep the sidewalk, and in those days people were not as tidy as they
are now and the sidewalk really needed sweeping. I then mopped the floor in the
shop and washed the windows and the counters. I waited on customers as the
tourists came into the store. Later, I would run errands until about 10 a.m. and
then I would go home. In the evenings, I would return at 6 p.m. and work until 8
p.m. waiting on customers. This would last until September when I would return
to school. I lived about six blocks from the store on Washington Blvd. My mother
bought me a bicycle so that I could get to work sooner.
My grandfather was very good to me. He would pay me 50 cents a day if
business was good and occasionally he would take me to a movie. It was usually
at the Egyptian Theater in Ogden. Before we went to the movie, he would take
me into Keely's Café and we always had limeade. It became a routine. Often
during the day, he would take me to the shooting gallery on 25th Street. He
taught me how to shoot a rifle and then he would take me to one of the
restaurants on 25th Street. There was the City Café, the Senate Café, Ross and
Jacks and a Chinese place that is still there. I enjoyed my grandfather's company
and the interesting people that we would meet.
At this time, Ogden was called the Junction City and it was equidistant
from the major cities of the West Coast: approximately 800 miles to Los Angeles,
800 miles to San Francisco and the same distance to Portland, Oregon. People
at this intersection would have layovers ranging from three hours to sometimes
all day. They would have time to come to this immensely interesting store that my
grandfather established. During the day the Indian women would come in and
buy their beads. It was my job to sell them the beads. On one side of the store
were the cheap souvenirs, beads, and a few inexpensive items. On the opposite
side of the store, my grandfather sold the products of the Indians such as the
beaded gloves, purses, genuine Indian jewelry, baskets and rugs, and all the
items that commanded higher prices. He also had a vast array of interesting
items that he collected in the West. We had an abundant supply of fossil fish
from Kemmerer, Wyoming. We had woven blankets from Southwest Utah and
Arizona. We had Apache baskets and pottery from the Zuni tribe in Arizona. We
had moss agate rings made by white men from Montana. We had horse hair
belts and leather belts made from prisons in Montana.
My grandfather always wore a dark suit, white shirt and a tie, and was
distinguished and also educated. He had a degree in accounting from the
Valparaiso in Illinois. He came to Utah in the latter part of the 19th century from
Colorado where he was employed as the accountant for the superintendent of
mines, who later became my grandfather's father-in-law. He married the boss'
daughter, which turned out to be an advantage because it was his father-in-law
who gave him the money to set up the business.
After my great-grandfather retired, my grandfather was en route to San
Francisco to begin a new life when they stopped in Ogden for the birth of my
mother. In their brief stay, they came to like it and negotiated with my other
grandfather to set up a business in his building, which he did, and the work lasted
a lifetime. In off season, when the tourist trade would decline, my grandfather
would go on buying trips throughout the West. He would collect petrified logs
from Arizona, which wasn't illegal at the time. We gathered obsidian from
Yellowstone Park and buffalo horns which would be polished. We had copper
souvenirs from Bingham Canyon in Utah. We had older guns and he had an
array of rifles and pistols.
My experience occurred during the Depression and at that time people
would sell their valuables to buy bread to live. There were always rich people to
buy things; it was the rich people that traveled on the train. One of the interesting
things I liked about working with my grandfather was meeting the people that
came off the train. I met such people as William Randolph Hearst and Mrs.
Hoover—but not her husband, as he rarely came in because the crowds would
follow him and that was a bother to him. Mrs. Hoover always came in to visit with
my grandfather, whom she liked very much. There were a number of movie stars
I met. In those days, they traveled by train. I met Elizabeth Taylor, Richard
Burton, and a number of others that I remember. Charlie Russell came in and I
liked him. He was the eminent artist that portrayed cowboys. I also met Mrs.
Zane Gray and her daughter. At the time I met them, Zane Gray had passed
away. It was interesting to meet them.
25th Street was an interesting street. It was an intersection of life that lived
to the fullest. There were good things and there were bad things that happened
on this street. I won't go into the bad things because that was not part of my
experience. What I remember of 25th Street are the good things. The people who
ran the stores were people of character and personality that made them
interesting. Across the street was the Healy Hotel, owned and operated by
another Irishman who came to work on the Central Pacific Railroad, Patrick
Healy and knew my grandfather. He was an immigrant from Ireland. My
grandfather was not an immigrant, but his folks came from Ireland. His father
died when he was very young and he was apprenticed out and raised in another
situation. One of his regrets in life was that he missed having a family. He missed
family life, but he made up for it later.
At 18 he was drafted into the Union Army and became an artilleryman. He
engaged in three major battles with William Tecumseh Sherman, the General of
the Army. After the campaign, he went back to New York barefoot as his shoes
had worn out. There wasn't much for him to do at home, so he got on a boat to
San Francisco and got a job with the Central Pacific where he became a
surveyor. Both the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific employed a lot of young
men, most of whom were immigrants. Most were young Irish men that had
served in the Union Army, and these young men built the Union Pacific. On the
Central Pacific, the Irish laid the rails because they were big. The Chinese
worked on the track bed and that was the real hard work.
When the rails were finished, my grandfather and Patrick Heely became
roommates and got a job with the Central Pacific. Patrick Heely became the
engineer and my grandfather became his fireman. They lived and worked
together for a while in Corinne, and then my grandfather went to Salt Lake City
and got a job in a bank. He was there a short while and the opportunity came to
open up a business in Ogden, so he came to Ogden and put up a dry goods
store at the very place where the Union Depot stands today. One day, after a trip
to Salt Lake City, he came back and his business was burned down. This didn't
deter him, however. He opened a new business at the location where the hotel
was and put up a hotel with a number of retail outlets and a saloon in it.
My father and uncle grew up to become bartenders. They worked there
most of their lives. It was an attractive saloon, in fact, the most attractive in the
city of Ogden. It had three Italian arch windows facing the depot, one of which
was later bricked in. It had revolving fans on the ceiling and a beautiful
mahogany bar on the east side with a number of tables with chairs spread
around. It reminded me of the bar I saw in the movie, "Casablanca," and brought
memories back to me. It was here in this atmosphere that I grew up, which to this
day I hold cherished memories of it.
I remember the stores on 25th Street with their particular odors. You'd go
into a bakery and you'd smell the wonderful odor of fresh bread. You'd go into
Cave's pharmacy, which was across the street in a part of the hotel, and you'd
smell the spicy smell of botanicals. You'd go into my grandfather's store and
smell the peculiar odor of tanned buckskin, which was agreeable and
distinguishing. You'd go into these other stores where people lived in the rear of
them and you'd smell their cooking, although sometimes it wasn't very nice.
Today it's different. Everything is air conditioned. You'd go into the department
store on 24th Street in the summer time when it wasn't air conditioned and go
upstairs and you would start perspiring. In those days there was entrepreneurial
opportunity for plain people, something that I feel isn't present so much today.
Times have changed and we all change, there's no stopping it.
I am a poet. I've written two books of poetry and I'm now on my third one.
Last Sunday, the church secretary came up to me and said, "I'd like you to recite
a poem for next Sunday church services, would you?" I said, "Yes." So I went
home and wrote one. I wrote a poem that summarizes life, but this poem is
special because it's written at the pinnacle of my life experience. I should like to
end this interview with my impression of life from the experience that I have had.
I was also a soldier in World War II. I was an infantryman and saw seven months
of combat, so I can relate life from each stage. I'll read my poem. It's called, "A
"A lifting melody if filtering through discord. A resurgence with intent is
giving form. The continuum of fury is fashioning a new design. An
effervescence of ideas rise within instinctive fervor. The vigor of renewal
ignites the eternal intention. For something to be will never remain the
same. Since evolving pieces are meant to fuel change. Though a day may
seem bland, time is churning. Surprise is often the remedy for oversight.
Change opens the vent for good. For one to garner starch to meet affront.
These earthly sounds bear the lifeblood for what is beautiful to become
the pathway for reaching."
MJ: Thank you. We really appreciate you taking the time to meet with us today and to
share your memories, they are quite wonderful.
JC: I have one question. When you were a kid, what did you do for fun?
EM: I liked to play softball, tennis and hike. I had a friend my age who lived across the
street that was like-minded. We would walk all over the city of Ogden, poking our
noses into everything. We liked to go to the foothills and hike the trails. We would
gather on a hot summer day and read each other stories. I remember in
particular, we would read Edgar Allan Poe and scare each other.
MJ: Poe is pretty scary.
EM: We read, "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and The Pendulum," "The
Black Cat," and we would read his poetry: "El Dorado," "The Raven," they are
great works from a master. We would also get on our bikes when we were
teenagers and pedal up to Pineview Dam and rent a canoe or a catamaran and
paddle around the lake until we got tired and then we'd ride our bikes home. I
had cousins and uncles that I would do things with, which left good memories.
Once a year, my mother, brother and I would get in the car and we'd drive
as far as Idaho Falls where the roads were paved and then take the dirt road
from there to Yellowstone Park. In those days, the idea was to keep ahead of the
car next to you. If you didn't, you would eat their dust for 90 miles. We would visit
my uncle Carl, who had a store in West Yellowstone and stay there two weeks.
We'd tour the park and go to the same places usually in July when all of the
beautiful flowers were out in bloom. We'd "ooo" and "ahh" about the beauty of
this wonderful national park.
Occasionally, we'd go to Zion National Park. I remember one trip that we
made with an aunt, uncle and cousin. We all got into the car and my sixteen-year-
old girl cousin did the driving. We went to Bryce, Zion and the Grand
Canyon; it was a wonderful trip. I've had a most fortunate life with many
wonderful memories and wish to carry them over. Thank you very much.
MJ: I'm glad we got to hear some of them today. Thank you.
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This is going to be a little off topic. It really doesn't fit into my particular blog scope but it's a story worth telling. On a Sunday night I was home with all but my eldest daughter (Pepper) and my second daughter got a frantic message from one of Pepper's male friends. We will call him Frank. "Help. It is not safe for me to stay in my home. I need to leave. Can you help me?" Of course dear hubby went straight out and picked up this teenager, a frequent visitor in our home. When he arrived, I explained that Pepper was sitting for a neighbor, but I'd do what I could to help him. I cautioned him, however, that if he had been the victim of violence, I would be… [more]
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My family has celebrated a year together as an adoptive family this past weekend. Things are starting to feel normal and we are just one regular family. My daughter asked me, are we going to have any more children? I said with a chuckle "We", but I knew what she meant. I told her that her dad and I have planned on adopting another child from foster care just like her. We told her that we would like to adopt a boy no older than the age of eight. So this week I decided that I will call the agency that I worked with to see what the next steps were. After speaking with them I found out my husband and… [more]
Will they Ever be OURS?
We are a visible family. We have 5 kids and not one of them looks like me (although a couple of them act like me!). It's obvious that they're "ours" and that we adopted them. Our visibility opens the door to a lot of questions; it goes with the territory. People wonder about a lot of things, but one of the biggest (to them) is this: Will they be "ours?" I now know that this is code for - "What if they are too different from you?" This is a hard topic for an adoptive mom to tackle. We never expected our kids to be carbon copies of us. We aren't that "live vicariously through your kids" couple. We were grateful that our girls did not get my… [more]
Celebrating One Year Since Placement!!!!
Just a year and a half ago my husband and I were trying to adopt from foster care. We had a failed adoption 1 year prior to that so we were trying to be cautious on how we move forward. We decided that we would not be in a rush and take our time to see what God has in store for us. We got matched within a month of our home study being updated with a six year old girl. Her behavioral needs were pretty great so much so that it would have required for her parent(s) to be accessible to pick her up from school when they called. I know that this was not the situation for my husband… [more]
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20 October 2013 15:07
Factory Aprilia rider Eugene Laverty finished the 2013 WSB season with a double win at Jerez after also setting pole position. The Irishman got a good start, but was soon pushed back to second by newly-crowned champion Tom Sykes. Sykes stayed at the front as the pair streaked away from third place man Sylvain Guintoli. Sykes was unable to get ...
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20 October 2013 11:36
Tom Sykes has won the 2013 World Superbike championship at Jerez after finishing third in race one. Sykes becomes the fourth Brit to win the World Superbike crown. The race was one by Aprilia rider Eugene Laverty from pole position. The Irishman rode a strong race to hold off BMW rider Marco Melandri to the line. Melandri moved in to ...
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Factory Aprilia rider Eugene Laverty made it two wins in two in Istanbul today to narro the gap to championship leader Tom Sykes. Sykes finished second ahead of his main championship rival Sylvain Guintoli in third. Marco Melandri finished fourth on the GoldBet BMW ahead of an impressive Toni Elias in fifth. 1. Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 34'58.7752. Tom ...
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Kenan Sofuoglu has taken the win at his home race in Istanbul after a thrilling battle with championship leader Sam Lowes. The two riders both got good starts, with Sam Lowes taking the early advantage as Sofuoglu got caught up with the second group. Sofuoglu got clear of the chasing pack and had Lowes firmly in his sights. With just ...
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Factory Aprilia rider Eugene Laverty has won the first race of the day in Turkey - his fifth race win of the season. The Irishman rode a good race to take first place from Tom Sykes, who struggled in the latter stages of the race. Sykes managed to fend off championship rival Sylvain Guintoli to take third spot and extend ...
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Frenchman Loris Baz claimed his second WSB win in the second race at Silverstone in a race that again started dry and finished in tricky conditions. Baz took to the front after a strong start and looked in control when the rain flags came out on lap six. Despite the rain flags, the pace stayed high until it really began ...
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Kawasaki rider Kenan Sofuogolu won the World Supersport race at Silverstone after a race long battle with Sam Lowes, which saw the two riders collide on the final lap. Sofuoglu's Kawasaki was visibly faster than the Yamaha of Lowes, but Lowes made his move in to first on the final lap. Sofuoglu looked to cut straight back and mvoed up ...
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Pata Honda rider Jonathan Rea braved changing conditions during the first WSB race at Silverstone today to take his first victory of 2013. The start was delayed after rain began to fall, but the race eventually got underway on a dry track. Title contender Tom Sykes started from the second row, but moved in to the lead on lap four and ...
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For the second year in a row, a British rider has triumphed at the Suzuka 8hr race, as the MuSASHI Harc-Pro Honda team of Leon Haslam, Michael van der Mark and Takumi Takahashi took the win by a lap. Early race leaders were the FCC TSR Honda team of Haslam's Pata Honda WSB teammate Jonathan Rea and Samsung Honda BSB ...
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DIY Earl Grey Tea for Earl Grey Tea Haters (and Lovers, Too!)
Here's a fun, simple, very rewarding DIY project to help lift the January doldrums: make your own Earl Grey (or Lady Grey) tea! I can personally attest that this tea will win over even those of you who, like me, usually don't care for Earl Grey. The process itself is easy but it does offer one challenge: sourcing fresh bergamot fruit. Read on for my very simple homemade Earl Grey tea recipe.
I must confess up front that I don't care for Earl Grey tea. I often find the bergamot too overpoweringly strong and flowery and will usually opt for a simple black cup whenever I can. So when a friend came over with a small stash of her homemade Earl Grey tea as a special treat, I wasn't thrilled. But politeness prevailed and I brewed us up a pot and oh my, this was a horse of a different color! Fragrant and citrusy with just a touch of floweriness, this was indeed a special treat.
A little research revealed that Earl Grey tea is often made with bergamot oil but my friend's homemade Earl Grey was made by simply mixing dried bergamot peel in with a strong black tea. It's only a working theory at this point, but I wonder if this is the key difference for me between loving and hating (well, strongly disliking) Earl Grey tea. Perhaps the dried peel is a little softer, less intense? Or maybe something happens in the distilling process to create the oil that disagrees with my tastebuds?
To duplicate my friend's delicious tea, I simply removed the peel from the fruit using a vegetable peeler, cutting as closely as possible to avoid the pith. I air-dried the peels by placing them on a plate near a radiator. They were dry within 12 hours (my house is very dry). I then broke them up and added them to jars along with loose black tea.
How much to add per jar? A lot depends on how fragrant your fruit and subsequent peels are. I placed about three 1-inch-long pieces of bergamot in a small jar, figuring that someone like me would like it on the mild side. Experiment and add more or less peel, based on your tastes. Just be sure when your brew your tea that you include a peel when filling the brew basket. Any extra dried peel can be stored in a glass jar with a tight lid. To make Lady Grey, add a small strip of dried lemon peel and a few pinches of dried lavender (or the dried petals of a blue cornflower).
Some further digging into bergamot revealed that it is a citrus fruit grown primarily in southern Italy. It is about the size of a small orange and is yellow when ripe. It's primarily used for its peel, from which an oil is extracted for teas, candies, and liqueur as well as perfume. Although the fruit is considered to be inedible, it can be used to make marmalade. (There is a green, leafy herb that is also called bergamot but it is not the same thing.)
While bergamots are mostly from Italy, a few orchards in California are growing them. My local grocery store is the incredibly well-stocked Berkeley Bowl, so it was no surprise when I stumbled on a bin of bergamot last weekend. But in general, these fruits will be hard to find in your average grocery store and are about to go out of season as bergamots are usually only available in December and January. So keep a sharp eye out for them, or consider ordering from one of the sources below. You can always split an order with a friend if 10 pounds seems like too much..
• Bergamot Sour Orange from Pearson Ranch ($26.00 for ten pounds.) • Bergamot from Specialty Fruit Clubs (on sale for $21.99 for 6 fruits) • An interesting article on bergamot from David Lebovitz, with many links. • Plant your own bergamot tree from Four Winds Growers, $22.00 - $40.00 each.
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My husband and I love a variation on that tea called cream earl grey. It has vanilla and cornflower petals mixed in with the black tea, and the bergamot is very mild. We call it our "house tea", we drink so much of it!
This might inspire me to try crafting my own cream earl grey, if I can find bergamot fruit.
oh, fascinating! I had no idea what bergamot was! I actually love a very strong Earl Grey, so I would enjoy controlling the amount of bergamot peel.
Can you share your tea mixture recipe? Also, how long will it last in the cupboard?
I love Earl Grey tea and definitely have to try this out. But yes, where will I get bergamot at this time of the year (or any time) in Chicago?
@jaminess: For about 1/2 cup of black tea, I added 4 1-inch pieces of dried peel. I imagine if your container is airtight, it will last for several months in the cupboard.
I wonder if I could make this work with Meyer lemon peel instead? It might be an interesting flavor.
I've found that two things really affect how much I like a given flavored tea: 1) the base tea and 2) how the flavorings were added. Flavored teas are traditionally made with peel and dried fruit, not with oil. If you get a really fragrant tea, it's probably more cheaply made because buying tons of fresh fruit then harvesting and drying it is almost certainly more expensive than just buying the oils. Also, different black teas taste really distinct. I tend to prefer assam and hate ceylon, but I know many people feel the reverse. The flavor of the tea itself interacts with the flavor of the peel or fruit or whatever is added and that can make a big difference too. Finally, if you are buying packaged tea, Twinings makes by far the best Earl Grey.


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NEWPORT – Fantasy is in the air this time of year as high school students head to the prom, some as traditional couples and others, more recently, in groups of girls or guys.
Lake Region Union High School's prom was Saturday, May 14th at the Elks Club in Derby and North Country Union High School's prom is in the gym Saturday, May 21st. The United Christian Academy held its senior banquet at the EastSide Restaurant Saturday.
The Lake Region baseball team went 1-1 in weekend action.
Friday saw Lake Region unload on Stowe for a 14-4 victory, but Saturday was a much tougher day as they fell to Winooski 6-3.
Tyler Jacobs picked up the win in game one while Kyle Perry was saddled with loss in game two.
ORLEANS-There are many ways to win a softball game, and when one way doesn't work, manager Matt Tinker's team has found other ways to get it done.
The Ranger girls broke open a close 2-2 game in the fifth with four runs only to see Stowe get four of their own in the top of the seventh, sending the game into extra frames.
It ended in the bottom of the ninth as Stephanie Merchant laid down a perfect suicide squeeze, plating Whitney Poginy with the game winner, giving the Lady Rangers their best nine game start in school history at 7-2.
NEWPORT– The North Country girls tennis team defeated Lake Region by the score of 7-0 on Friday afternoon at Prouty Beach.
The Falcons lost only two sets during the match, as they out played the Rangers all afternoon.
Lake Region was forced to place their number one player Desirae Colorado in the number three spot, as she was dealing with some injury issues and not functioning at one hundred percent. She would eventually lose to Kelsey O'Donnell, NCU's number three. Taking her spot at number one was Kelly Leblanc who fell to Falcons ace Martha Petzoldt.
North Country took third place in their first home match of the year on Friday with a team score of 336.
Here are the NCU Individual Results: Dylan Gobeil 82, James Grondin 82,Nick Kincaid 85, Logan Fortier 87, Brendan Betts 99.
NEWPORT– Cris Buckles came in to pitch in the top of the 2nd with the bases loaded and one out and never looked back. The senior reliever ended up going the rest of the way, striking out eight while only surrendering one run as North Country came back from an early 5-0 deficit to beat St. J on Saturday.
Jason Hatin was 4-4 with 2 doubles, and Tom Blake was 3-4 for the Falcons.
The North Country Girls softball team raised close to $1,600.00 on Saturday to help fight cancer. They held a variety of events at the team's field after their loss to St. Johnsbury. The event included such activities a fun run for kids and homerun derby.
NEWPORT– North Country's girls tennis team ran into very good Harwood squad on Wednesday, halting their two game winning streak. The only Falcon to pick up a win was Alana Perry playing in the number five slot, as she went over Elizabeth Defreest 7-6, 6-3.
There was some good news for North Country as doubles players Mollie O'Keefe and Briana Treadwell returned to action after missing time from competition for a variety of reasons.
North Country will wrap up its four games in five days today when they square off against Lake Region at Prouty Beach.
SOUTH BURLINGTON–The North Country Girls Golf Team competed at Vermont Nationals in South Burlington on Wednesday, May 11. Coach Brian Hampton brought Bailey Walker and Eilish Muir.
Junior Bailey Walker, who is in her third year of golf, had a rough game overall during the competition.
"I don't really know where I was going wrong," said Walker, "It just took me a long time to get on the green."
Walker finished the 9th hole strong with an off the green putt for par. Her teammate, Eilish Muir, also a junior, had trouble chipping and putting.


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The Toronto Maple Leafs' goaltending controversy looks like it will be put on hold for at least a week.
The club announced on Thursday that Jonas 'The Monster' Gustavsson was placed on Injured Reserve because of a groin injury.
The rookie goaltender will be out for at least a week.
"I was examined yesterday, and they think I pulled it a little bit," Gustavsson said at pratice on Thursday. "So I'll take it easy for a few days."
Head coach Ron Wilson said that he was going to rotate his goalies before Gustavsson's injury, but now there's an opening for Vesa Toskala, who didn't look good in the Leafs' first two games, to re-establish himself.
"Vesa is our number one goalie anyway and he'll play until further notice," Wilson said. "This is an opportunity for him to take charge now without looking over his shoulder."
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"I got one point in the first game and lost the second one," Toskala stated on Thursday. "It's only two games, I'll try to win the next one when I play."
Toronto recalled Joey MacDonald on Emergency Recall from the AHL's Toronto Marlies to back up Toskala.
"I just want to come in and keep on playing like I did in training camp," MacDonald said. "Training camp wasn't that long ago, and it's good to be back and get the opportunity."
Wilson expressed confidence in MacDonald's ability to play if the need arises.
"Last year, he was basically a number one goalie in the league," Wilson said. "If things don't work out, I wouldn't hesitate to put Joey in there."
Gustavsson appeared in two of the Maple Leafs' first three games to start the season and has a goals against average of 3.09 in 97:27 minutes of play.
In his first career start on Tuesday against the Ottawa Senators, Gustavsson stopped 26 out of 28 shots.
MacDonald, who signed with the Leafs in August, has previous NHL experience with the Red Wings, Bruins and Islanders.


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"Star Wars" Baby Names
Looking for a super-stellar baby name? Every episode of Star Wars is jam-packed with 'em! (But may we suggest you avoid C3PO, Ewok and Darth Vader?) Channel "the Force" with these suggestions.
George & Lucas
The perfect pair for expecting Star Wars fanatics! And let's not forget–Luke (as in, you know, Skywalker) is the perfect nickname for baby Lucas!
While it may be best known for being a legion of warrior monks, Jedi is a short form of biblical faves Jediah and Jedediah. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Sith.
Her name may mean "delicate" or "weary," but Princess Leia is anything but. Just don't let her get her hands on a lightsaber if you give your little girl-power-player this fierce name.
Thinking about giving little Leia a baby sister? Christen her Cinnamon, in honor of Princess Leia's hairstyle, which is lovingly referred to as "cinnamon buns" by Star Wars fans.
After the theatrical release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 1999, an entire order of boys was dubbed with the future Darth Vader's moniker!
Fun fact: Harrison Ford was cast as Han Solo–the role that made him a superstar–after he built cabinets for George Lucas. So, name your little guy Harrison and it's pretty much guaranteed he'll one day play an intergalactic warrior. Or be an awesome carpenter.
Skye & Walker
Before they were commonly known as vodka and a famous Chuck Norris character, Skye and Walker joined forces as the surname of hero Luke Skywalker!
This abbreviated form of Orlando has the same smooth appeal as Billy Dee Williams himself!
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lol at Cinnamon!
When I was pregnant with my twins my brother wanted me to name them Luke and Leia
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York troopers say they issued 141 tickets to motorists for having unrestrained or improperly restrained children in their vehicles found during a weekend traffic detail at a state park.
They say the checkpoint Sunday morning at the entrance to Lake Welch State Park in Rockland County showed youngsters lacking required child seats, booster seats, seatbelts or some combination of those.
Drivers were issued tickets returnable to Stony Point Town Court.
State police say the checkpoint tickets are part of a summer-long effort to ensure the safety of children in vehicles.
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- Monetary policy and TIPS yields before the crisis (2011)
- We make three points. First, the decade before the financial crisis in 2007 was characterized by a collapse in the yield on TIPS. Second, estimated VARs for the federal funds rate and the TIPS yield show that while monetary policy shocks had negligible effects on the TIPS yield, shocks to the latter had one-to-one effects on the federal funds rate. Third, these findings can be rationalized in a New Keynesian model.
- Money in monetary policy design under uncertainty: a formal characterization of ECB-style cross-checking (2007)
- The European Central Bank has assigned a special role to money in its two pillar strategy and has received much criticism for this decision. The case against including money in the central bank's interest rate rule is based on a standard model of the monetary transmission process that underlies many contributions to research on monetary policy in the last two decades. In this paper, we develop a justification for including money in the interest rate rule by allowing for imperfect knowledge regarding unobservables such as potential output and equilibrium interest rates. We formulate a novel characterization of ECB-style monetary cross-checking and show that it can generate substantial stabilization benefits in the event of persistent policy misperceptions regarding potential output. JEL Classification: E32, E41, E43, E52, E58
- Money in monetary policy design under uncertainty : the two-pillar Phillips curve versus ECB-style cross-checking (2007)
- The European Central Bank has assigned a special role to money in its two pillar strategy and has received much criticism for this decision. In this paper, we explore possible justifications. The case against including money in the central bank's interest rate rule is based on a standard model of the monetary transmission process that underlies many contributions to research on monetary policy in the last two decades. Of course, if one allows for a direct effect of money on output or inflation as in the empirical "two-pillar" Phillips curves estimated in some recent contributions, it would be optimal to include a measure of (long-run) money growth in the rule. In this paper, we develop a justification for including money in the interest rate rule by allowing for imperfect knowledge regarding unobservables such as potential output and equilibrium interest rates. We formulate a novel characterization of ECB-style monetary cross-checking and show that it can generate substantial stabilization benefits in the event of persistent policy misperceptions regarding potential output. Such misperceptions cause a bias in policy setting. We find that cross-checking and changing interest rates in response to sustained deviations of long-run money growth helps the central bank to overcome this bias. Our argument in favor of ECB-style cross-checking does not require direct effects of money on output or inflation. JEL Classification: E32, E41, E43, E52, E58
- Gradualism, transparency and improved operational framework : a look at the overnight volatility transmission (2007)
- This paper proposes a possible way of assessing the effect of interest rate dynamics on changes in the decision-making approach, communication strategy and operational framework of a Central bank. Through a GARCH specification we show that the USA and Euro area displayed a limited but significant spillover of volatility from money market to longer-term rates. We then checked the stability of this phenomenon in the most recent period of improved policymaking and found empirical evidence that the transmission of overnight volatility along the yield curve vanished soon after specific policy changes of the FED and ECB. JEL-Klassifizierung: E4, E5, G1
- Monetary policy and uncertainty about the natural unemployment rate (2003)
- Inflation-targeting central banks have only imperfect knowledge about the effect of policy decisions on inflation. An important source of uncertainty is the relationship between inflation and unemployment. This paper studies the optimal monetary policy in the presence of uncertainty about the natural unemployment rate, the short-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff and the degree of inflation persistence in a simple macroeconomic model, which incorporates rational learning by the central bank as well as private sector agents. Two conflicting motives drive the optimal policy. In the static version of the model, uncertainty provides a motive for the policymaker to move more cautiously than she would if she knew the true parameters. In the dynamic version, uncertainty also motivates an element of experimentation in policy. I find that the optimal policy that balances the cautionary and activist motives typically exhibits gradualism, that is, it still remains less aggressive than a policy that disregards parameter uncertainty. Exceptions occur when uncertainty is very high and in inflation close to target. This version: December 2002
- The credibility of central bank announcements (2002)
- In this paper, we present a monetary policy game in which the central bank has a private forecast of supply and demand shocks. The public needs to form its inflationary expectations and can make use of central bank announcements. However, because of the credibility problem that the central bank faces, the public will not believe a precise announcement. By extending the arrangement proposed by Garfinkel and Oh (1995) to a model that includes private information about both demand and supply shocks, we investigate the feasibility of making imprecise credible announcements concerning the rate of inflation. Klassifikation:E52;E58
- Optimal monetary policy inertia (1999)
- This paper considers the desirability of the observed tendency of central banks to adjust interest rates only gradually in response to changes in economic conditions. It shows, in the context of a simple model of optimizing private-sector behavior, that such inertial behavior on the part of the central bank may indeed be optimal, in the sense of minimizing a loss function that penalizes inflation variations, deviations of output from potential, and interest-rate variability. Sluggish adjustment characterizes an optimal policy commitment, even though no such inertia would be present in the case of a reputationless (Markovian) equilibrium under discretion. Optimal interest-rate feedback rules are also characterized, and shown to involve substantial positive coefficients on lagged interest rates. This provides a theoretical explanation for the numerical results obtained by Rotemberg and Woodford (1998) in their quantitative model of the U.S. economy.
- Does talk matter after all? : Inflation targeting and central bank behavior (1999)
- Since 1990, a number of countries have adopted inflation targeting as their declared monetary strategy. Interpretations of the significance of this movement, however, have differed widely. To some, inflation targeting mandates the single-minded, rule-like pursuit of price stability without regard for other policy objectives; to others, inflation targeting represents nothing more than the latest version of cheap talk by central banks unable to sustain monetary commitments. Advocates of inflation targeting, including the adopting central banks themselves, have expressed the view that the efforts at transparency and communication in the inflation targeting framework grant the central bank greater short-run flexibility in pursuit of its long-run inflation goal. This paper assesses whether the talk that inflation targeting central banks engage in matters to central bank behavior, and which interpretation of the strategy is consistent with that assessment. We identify five distinct interpretations of inflation targeting, consistent with various strands of the current literature, and identify those interpretations as movements between various strategies in a conventional model of time-inconsistency in monetary policy. The empirical implications of these interpretations are then compared to the response of central banks to movements in inflation of three countries that adopted inflation targets in the early 1990s: The United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. For all three, the evidence shows a break in the behavior of inflation consistent with a strengthened commitment to price stability. In no case, however, is there evidence that the strategy entails a single-minded pursuit of the inflation target. For the U.K., the results are consistent with the successful implementation the optimal state-contingent rule, thereby combining flexibility and credibility; similarly, New Zealand's improved inflation performance was achieved without a discernable increase in counter-inflationary conservatism. The results for Canada are less clear, perhaps reflecting the broader fiscal and international developments affecting the Canadian economy during this period.
- Why EMU is irrelevant for the German economy (1998)
- No one seems to be neutral about the effects of EMU on the German economy. Roughly speaking, there are two camps: those who see the euro as the advent of a newly open, large, and efficient regime which will lead to improvements in European and in particular in German competitiveness; those who see the euro as a weakening of the German commitment to price stability. From a broader macroeconomic perspective, however, it is clear that EMU is unlikely to cause directly any meaningful change either for the better in Standort Deutschland or for the worse in the German price stability. There is ample evidence that changes in monetary regimes (so long as non leaving hyperinflation) induce little changes in real economic structures such as labor or financial markets. Regional asymmetries of the sorts in the EU do not tend to translate into monetary differences. Most importantly, there is no good reason to believe that the ECB will behave any differently than the Bundesbank.


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At NYC Restaurateur Taavo Somer's Latest Hotspot, a Southern-Inflected Feast
Taavo Somer, patron saint of hipster nightlife and arbiter of old-timey American style, isn't one to mess with a holiday like Thanksgiving. His newest venture, Peels, a two-story restaurant on a happening stretch of the Bowery, will be open this Thursday. Unlike Freemans, Somer's taxidermied Lower East Side hangout, or the Rusty Knot, his deliberately kitschy West Village bar, Peels opens at 7:30am, serving Stumptown coffee and freshly baked biscuits with house-made jam to early risers. "Peels is kind of supposed to be Freemans' girlfriend," Somer says. "He's all old New England, and she's like a feminine, Southern girl." Somer modeled the downstairs dining room after a 50s-style soda fountain, with menus spelled out in plastic letters on blackboards and cooks in kerchiefs operating meat slicers behind the counter. To celebrate Thanksgiving, Somer, his wife Courtney and business partner William Tigertt, invited a collection of friends to Peels to sample the Thanksgiving menu, created by husband-and-wife chefs Preston and Ginger Madson. It's a classic Somer blend of traditional and modern by way of Preston's Southern upbringing: Smoked turkey with giblet gravy, cornbread stuffing with poblano peppers, a spiced sweet potato soufflé under a blanket of house-made marshmallows, and freshly baked Parker House rolls. "The food's the point of Thanksgiving, right?" Somer says. Peels' full Thanksgiving menu follows below, or click here for recipes for Peels' sweet potato pie and punch.
Smoked turkey
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Roasted Brussels sprouts
Autumn salad
Spiced sweet potato soufflé
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Market apple pie (served warmed with vanilla bean ice cream)
Sweet potato pie (served with chantilly)
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Pasta with Artichokes, Tomatoes and Feta
My cherry tomato plants are the rockstars of my garden this year.
It's true. They were my first plants to produce a harvest, and (even despite not being watered quite as much as they would have liked) continued to produce a few zillion tomatoes all summer long. But the best part is that they're not done! Apparently they missed the memo that we're moving into fall, and are still producing like crazy. So cheers to my little overachieving plant!
In my continued efforts to put all of those little gems to use, decided to cook up a simple pasta dish to get some carbs tonight before I went on a l-o-n-g evening walk with a friend. Had a jar of artichoke hearts that needed to be used, so combined them with some feta, fresh basil, and a garlicky white wine sauce. And the result? Quite delightful! Very nice and light and summer-y (or so I'm still pretending).
The original recipe that I based this on also included kalamata olives (to give it a more Mediterranean flare), which I'm sure would be quite nice if you're an olive person. (As of yet, I am not. Trying…but still not a fan.) Feel free to also add or sub in whatever other fresh veggies you have on hand. Or if it's winter and you don't have good, fresh tomatoes onhand, you could always add a can of diced tomatoes to the sauce.
Pasta with Artichokes, Tomatoes and Feta
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 12 ounces whole-wheat spaghetti
- 2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 medium onion , thinly sliced, lengthwise
- 4 garlic cloves, minced or thinly sliced crosswise
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 1 (13.75 oz) can artichoke hearts, drained, rinsed, and quartered lengthwise
- 1 pint cherry or grape tomatoes , halved lengthwise
- 1/3 cup crumbled feta or grated Parmesan cheese, plus more serving
- 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves, julienned or torn
In a large pot of boiling water (generously salted), cook pasta until al dente according to package directions. Drain, reserving 1 cup of pasta water. Return pasta to pot.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium-high. Add onion and garlic, season with salt and pepper, cook, stirring occasionally until browned, 3 to 4 minutes. Add wine and cook until evaporated, about minutes.
Stir in artichokes and cook until starting to brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Add olives and half of the tomatoes; cook until tomatoes start to break down, 1 to 2 minutes. Add pasta to skillet. Stir in remaining tomatoes and 1 tablespoon oil. Thin with reserved pasta water if necessary to coat the spaghetti. Transfer to plates and garnish generously with cheese and basil.


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Five SA firms on 'global challengers' list16 January 2013 Five South African companies are named on the Boston Consulting Group's list of "100 global challengers" - companies from emerging markets that are "growing so quickly overseas that they are reshaping industries and surpassing many traditional multinational companies". South Africa increased its number of "challenger" companies from three in 2011 to five on the 2013 list released by the US management consultancy on Tuesday. The five, all members of the the JSE's top 40, are pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharmacare, services, trading and distribution group Bidvest, mobile telecommunications firm MTN, media group Naspers, and petrochemicals company Sasol. Aspen, MTN and Naspers are newcomers to the list.
Outpacing household names in US, EuropeAccording to the report, the 100 challenger companies - which come from 17 emerging market countries - are outpacing household names in the US and Europe and are having a profound impact on the global economy. "They are expanding their business portfolios, reaching the rapidly expanding consumer class in emerging markets, exploring new businesses based on the rising connectivity of the emerging world, and moving into underserved fast-growing markets." In the past five years, the report finds, these companies have created 1.4-million jobs, at a time when employment at the non-financial S&P 500 stayed flat. Their average revenue was US$26.5-billion in 2011, compared with $21-billion for the S&P 500's non-financial companies and $20-billion for the entire S&P 500.
'Wake-up call for business leaders in the West'"If ever there was a wake-up call for business leaders in the West, this is it," report co-author David C. Michael said in a statement. "We have been monitoring the rise of global challenger companies for nearly a decade, and the ambition of these companies - what we call the accelerator mindset - has never been stronger." According to newspaper Business Day, Aspen Pharmacare, one of South Africa's best-performing stocks over the past three years, was chosen "because, among other reasons, it had acquired 25 brands in Australia from GlaxoSmith-Kline in well received deals". MTN, for its part, "had grown strong businesses in Africa and parts of the Middle East", Business Day reported, while Naspers was commended "for being the largest media company in the developing world". The report calls on business leaders in the West to follow the example of other multinationals that are working with this new generation of companies. "Global challengers bring far more to the table than a low-cost structure," Tenbite Ermias, a report co-author and head of Boston Consulting Group's office in South Africa, said in the statement. "Multinationals that view global challengers only as low-cost competitors misunderstand their competitive threat and their potential for partnership." SAinfo reporter
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