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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Triple Snapshots of Feb '10 - Children of the Waters, The Housekeeper and the Professor, and Eon
This month 2/3 of the books are POC related. [I don't care what people say about Eon, that book doesn't deserve a POC subject label)
Children of the Waters by Carleen Brice
I'll have to admit, this novel was a bit slow for me at the beginning. This may or may not have been influenced by the fact that I was anticipating that sister reunion far sooner than it actually happened in the story, which I would like to blame on the summary, lol. But once the sisters meet, it was a non-stop roller coaster ride for me. The most fascinating aspect of Children of the Waters, for me anyhow, was the challenges to both sisters on the perception of family and race. Between the two sisters, I found Billie's storyline on how she confronts having a 'white' sister the most compelling of the two. I'll confess that there were moments when I was simply exasperated with Trish. Yes, I know she means well, but her cluelessness and her insistence on a "colourblind" world just made her seem rather naïve. It wasn't that I hated Trish, quite the opposite: I'm honestly very fond of her attempts to connect with her sister. In fact, I did like all the characters and their flaws, and there were moments between Trish's and her son Will's exchange that either had me laughing out loud or veering off to the other spectrum, of sadness and pain. All in all, besides the thing Brice chose to do with the ending [SPOILERS: "I'm iffy about the whole Trish finding some shiny Japanese Zen Buddhist tradition to ~*heal*~ her sister, to be honest. Didn't gel with me.] I really enjoyed this novel. =D
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, trans. Stephen Snyder
O. M. G. This was AMAZING. Simply astounding. It grabbed me from page one and had me racing through till I got to the end. Heartrendering and beautiful and perfect, the type of novel that I'd go out and buy in a heartbeat. (FYI, borrowed this from the library) I loved how Ogawa told her story without ever giving names to her characters – indeed, I barely paused to wonder at why we never know the names. I liked the way Ogawa used the roles of the characters to refer to them, the exploration of the relationships between each cast member. I've seen a lot of reviews that say that they found the relationship between the Professor and the son Root the most compelling but I will admit that it was really the relationship between the Housekeeper and the Professor (as the title says) that grabbed me by the heart – possibly because it's so much more fragile and transient. With the Professor and the Son, our Professor shows instant like towards the son even though he doesn't remember the kid, whereas every time the Professor and the Housekeeper meet, the meeting is much harder in comparison. The absence of that connection should have estranged their relationship with one another, but each time they meet the ties that get newly formed every couple hours is beautiful in that evanescent way, like the view of autumn leaves, rendered beautiful because we know they won't last. This book even managed the impossible and made me enjoy the MATH in the story, and anyone who knows me IRL knows how much I can't take math. (ugh graphs *shudders*) For the time I spent reading this novel, I was a math convert and saw the beauty in numbers and equations. (… I can't believe those words just came out of my mouth. SEE HOW AMAZING THIS BOOK IS?! It actually got my stubborn self to CHANGE MY MIND about math – for a moment.) Beautiful, and the translation was fluid and lovely as well and basically what I'm trying to say is that you HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK NOW. So good, so shelf-worthy. I can't recommend this book enough.
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman
… Holy shit, what was this crap? This book is reminded me of all my reasons why my gut reaction is to always shrink whenever I see white authors trying to write out "Asian fantasies" - 99% of the time all I get is faux chinoiserie orientalist CRAP. The world screamed FAKE FAKE FAKE and omg the crappy gender relations was so awfully handled. It was like Goodman has this uber shallow understanding of the Yin/Yang concept and then just shoved in all her "modern" gender role theories into the novel and it was soooooo awful, it made me want to scream. And, just for good measure, when I managed to get to the END of the novel, the author's notes goes as follows: "The Empire of the Celestial Dragons is not a real country or culture, It is a fantasy world that was at first inspired by the history and cultures of China and Japan, but rapidly became a land of imagination with no claim to historical or cultural authenticity." (italics and bold mine) WAY TO RUB SALT TO THE WOUND. Not only was the worldbuilding awfully handled, but now I *also* know that she didn't even TRY for authenticity and thorough research. Always nice to know. [/sarcasm] And you know what's the worst part (for me)?! Not only did I read this all the way to the end, but I actually want to read the last book of this damn series. Don't you hate how you get all attached to some stupid minor character and have to read to the bitter bitter end just to see how it goes? (Sounds familiar? Why yes, I am doing the same thing for the Darkest Powers series. Clearly I have a masochistic streak) Because I'm all fond of Lady Dela, who is a trangendered woman (transgender in my fantasy whut?!) and I so badly want her and Ryko to end up together. Which is terrible because some part of me tells me they're going to end up with a tragic rocks-falls-everyone-dies kind of ending, or either be sacrificed as the loyal sidekicks to Eona's awesomeness. So when the last book comes out and they don't end up together, if you see me lying around in a sobbing mess and hating on everything and being generally useless, you now know why I'm in such a state.
6 comments:
- Jenny said...
I'm glad you liked The Housekeeper and the Professor so much! It's been on my list for a while but I'm always nervous to read books in translation because I often find them difficult to get through.
- Feb 28, 2010, 4:56:00 PM
- Chutzpah said...
Hi I'm here from the Saturday Network and I just want to say you have a new follower!
- Feb 28, 2010, 6:17:00 PM
- ninefly said...
damn it, if you see a cheap copy (ex. under $7) buy it for me and I'll pay you back the cash, along with oodles of gratitude ♥
I don't have much time going to book stores =T
- Mar 1, 2010, 12:30:00 AM
- Jennifer (Crazy-for-Books) said...
I have "Professor..." on my TBR pile and I keep hearing amazing things about it!! It looks like a quick read, so I need to get to it very soon!! Great review!
Interesting how the author doesn't give names to the characters! I don't think I've ever read a book like that! You've really peaked my interest now!!
Happy Reading!
- Mar 1, 2010, 9:48:00 AM
- Esme said...
I am putting this on my wish list. thank you
- Mar 5, 2010, 11:13:00 PM
- parrish lantern said...
This is a beautiful book, the way Yoko Ogawa writes has a breath-taking simplicity, that disguises how well this is written.
Have you read The Diving Pool
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Hi Jay-
I'm ready to start playing again this season. I can make the Wednesday meet ups if you are still doing them this year. Let me know. Do you still have my number?
Hey Vea -
Yes, I would like to start hitting again. Wednesday would be great. I will plan on this coming Wednesday if you like?!
Hi Jay-
Actually, I started a meetup at BDHS on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. So far, I have two people confirming that they will be joining us. We played this past Wednesday and plan to continue playing at that time. We are also thinking of picking up another day of the week if we get enough interest.
Can you play at 40th and Meridian on another day for meetups? That way, I can keep the BDHS Wednesday meeting and then join you for whatever other day you can do it on. Let me know. You can also email me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com or if you still have my phone number, call me on my cell.
I hope we can work something out.
Hey Vea,
Yes, Monday would be good at the North Meridian Courts.
Monday works well for me at the Meridian Courts.
I am a maybe at Ben Davis and I can not on Saturday.
Sounds very good Eric.
Eric that sounds like a good schedule to me. I agree about the "not for beginners". Maybe you can state it as 3.0 level or higher. Or that players must know the rules of the game, how to keep score, and have the ability to play at level 3.0 or higher.
If it doesn't rain on Monday, I'll see you all at the 40th and Meridian Courts.
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Plosser: Fed Should End Bond Buying by Year's End
The Federal Reserve has seen enough progress in reducing unemployment to start shrinking the size of its bond-buying program, veteran central banker Charles Plosser said. Michael Derby reports.
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... I ... after the upper floor full with the job with the FOMC minutes yesterday and one assume that the jobs report for March was so bad that the Fed of course they wouldn't change course ... that was to unchanged but ... one that fitted on one Fed president or the regional Fed presidents trials Plosser from Philadelphia ... he's been banging the drum on this for awhile but he said in a speech today that the Fed to be tapering ... their bond buying program certainly by year's end ... Mike derby was there at the speech he heard the warnings to Mr. Plosser right there ... and Derby is joining us from the Nestle is still in Brooklyn ... but his apartment in Brooklyn ... I like is this kind of trial splotches you know this is the standard line ... as anything really change though I mean ... the FOMC minutes or more hawkish than normal right ... I think what's important ... watch the show from this morning she hit Hong Kong Island would love to do there ... it was actually there but ... he cautioned observers ... that ... you gotta focus on the train to the job market now one month status though I know you do the job to job from foreign funds rate to spend a lot of folks ... photo terms of what will this this changes the whole tapering or even if it's going to stay in buying bonds from law order ... Buffett cautions us that you know it's it's one month's data and ... jobs report for jobs in a very volatile subject of big revisions ... so I he's actually very optimistic about jobs where he's going to look through what was seen on Friday ... he hopes the weather trend forms but for now he's sticking to Wisconsin tapering ... write to Interpol the pitch are on the jobs report ... I mean look it's it's been positive for young couple of years now the numbers of them positive ... not great but part of ... it yet that those inching from Pasir a nice and I noticed this in the minutes to is that ... it seems like what the Fed those aware of the risks the unintended consequence of their of their policies ... it seems like that side of the Oregon coast or to get a little more attention ... with this there was a speech on Monday by a Cleveland Fed President Sandra Pianalto she's seen as a centrist ... where she ... used to mean is where the committee's going I and ... the speech she gave him one day she says that the jobs report was disappointing but she also talked in terms of a it's time for the Fed to think about it in part of what she's worried about ... is growing about the risk to grow in the balance sheet for the kids you there's been a financial imbalance question whether that fuels the bubbles ... or ... the issue of whether it ... just gets too large to gracefully ... winds down it ... will mean that in a very very distant future so ... begins another piece of the things they chose ... to suspend the job for me and then ... the officials are not ... necessarily react quickly to a unity they've been here for what they've seen the job market would cover ... the slaughterhouse and so ... they are being very cautious but they they are sticking them in the ones that the opposite is the position that they're speaking after sticking to support the jobs data ten minutes and change ... their rhetoric that much ... now are I might


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NBC Sports Group has announced key roles for Al Michaels and Apolo Anton Ohno on its Sochi Winter Olympics coverage. The announcement was made during NBC Sports Group's presentation at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Los Angeles.
Michaels will host daytime Winter Olympics coverage on NBC Sports Network (weekdays) and NBC (weekends), marking his third consecutive Olympics for NBC Sports Group after serving as host of NBC's weekend and weekday daytime coverage from London (2012) and Vancouver (2010).
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Ohno, the most decorated Winter Olympian in U.S. history, winning eight medals (two gold) over three Olympic Winter Games, has retired from short track speed skating and will serve as an analyst for NBC's coverage of the sport. He will also work on features and offer studio commentary during NBC's extensive Olympic coverage.
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Editor's home horror story ends happily
WILTON, Conn. — In the annals of domestic horror stories, Jay Fielden's is as gothic as they come. It begins with the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the attendant financial meltdown in the fall of 2008. He and his wife, Yvonne Orteig Fielden, now both 43, and their two young children had just moved into their new home, a sturdy example of Connecticut's storied collection of modernist glass houses, which they had spent eight months renovating.
Just as they were settling in, Jay Fielden, who grew up in San Antonio and graduated from Clark High School, lost his job as editor in chief of Men's Vogue when it folded. He wasn't thrown out on his ear. There was a stint at Vogue.com, but when he finally left, it was clear that the age of the golden parachute was long gone. Then, in October 2010, when he had been out of work a year and their third child had arrived, an electrical fire tore through the house, destroying most of it.
If this were a short story, it would be gilding the lily to add that he also contracted Lyme disease during this time and his father passed away as well, but this tale is not fiction. It does have a happy ending, however.
"It's amazing we're still married," said Yvonne Fielden, who in the middle of the events detailed above became guardian of her father, who suffers from dementia. "Man, it was a lot of straws."
It was a bright, morning, and Jay Fielden was home from his new job as editor in chief of Town & Country magazine. His house has been rebuilt (again), as has his magazine, a 167-year-old publication that has struggled to stay relevant. (In the age of social media, what role should the original chronicle of America's social life play?) Fielden is a former New Yorker editor with a taste for the U.S. literary canon that peaked around the time his house was built, in 1960. He has re-imagined Town & Country as a Vanity Fair manque, a sassy primer to the good life with a bit of meat thrown in.
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November's began with these words: "My three kids don't particularly like the fact that I have a job."
He regularly shares the details of a complex life that should be familiar to his target readers. (The November letter goes on to chronicle his daughter Eliza's day in Town & Country's offices, with lunch at the American Girl Cafe.)
Certainly his candor is unexpected, editors in chief being a notoriously circumspect tribe. But after having lost so much, he said, his life is rich in ways that have nothing to do with possessions. By his own account, he'd always been a guy who delighted in the totems of patrician luxury.
When the Fieldens decided to rebuild, they turned to Robert Dean and Jesse Carrier, the architect and designer who had rehabbed the house in 2007 to help them.
This time around, there is a lot more Ikea, Yvonne Fielden said, than "Jesse is probably used to."
Built by James Evans, a protege of Louis Kahn, the house had all the optimism of its period, as Dean put it, "when architects thought they had made a breakthrough to a fresh new time."
It had all the drawbacks, too: tiny bedrooms, cheap materials, awkward connecting spaces. So the new house, into which the Fieldens moved last summer, is a nearly perfect design — open and light, yet private and safe.
Not all their belongings were ruined. Jay Fielden saved half of his books, along with artwork by Irving Penn and by his own children, and some family furniture. Yvonne Fielden's Madam Alexander dolls, which Jay Fielden's mother painstakingly cleaned up and now live in Eliza's room, have only slightly blackened eyes.
And on the coffee table in the living room, two architecture books — one on Richard Neutra, one on Louis Kahn — are stacked on top of each other. If you remove the topmost book, you can see its bright silhouette in the singed, smoky cover of the book below.


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I've Got My Eye On You
Robert R. Goodman 1/20/2011 6:29:03 AMHi Carla,The detail is stunning my friend.Sure has some long claws on him.I should try to capture some of wildlife here.Most our wildlife is nocturnal becuse of our desert sun.Beautiful lighting and color,I think you have a winner!!! #1345863
Bojan Bencic 1/20/2011 7:16:05 AMAmazing color and clarity, Carla. Fantastic photo. #9179930
Melissa G. Meiselman 1/20/2011 7:28:45 AMFantastic close up with dazzling hues of green and great shallow DOF, Carla!!
Melissa #9179956
Rebecca A. Menard 1/20/2011 7:50:03 AMWonderful color and detail, Carla! Great image! #9179999
Arthur Bohlmann 1/20/2011 8:02:55 AMNice to know you are out and about making new friends Carla LOL!! Very good image #9180047
Ron McEwan 1/20/2011 8:15:02 AMDon't I see this guy on TV all the time. Superb detail excellent dof Carla the composition is excellent #9180095
Dr Silly 1/20/2011 10:52:42 AMI agree with Bobby. Awesome colors. :O) #9180573
Kim Andelkovic 1/20/2011 1:04:10 PMThis is amazing Carla.....I can see finalist next month coming :-) #9180915
Freddy Bland 1/20/2011 1:28:22 PMFabulous image, Caral! He's a stunner and it's going straight into my favs!! #9180984
Orsi 1/20/2011 6:22:37 PMAmazing image!Beautiful shot,Carla! #9181931
Terry Cervi 1/20/2011 8:10:27 PMWhat a cute little guy and the color and detail is awesome, Carla! #9182129
Kathy Salerni 1/20/2011 8:19:34 PMYour details, color and POV are spectacular, Cara! Beautiful image! #9182145
Sherran Andersen 1/20/2011 9:23:32 PMBeautiful. #9182211
Fanie Heymans 1/21/2011 4:03:22 AMGreat DOF and colors Carla! #9182500
Carla Capra 1/21/2011 6:42:15 AMG'day everyone!
Emile Abbott 1/21/2011 3:26:39 PMLove the detail and texture you got with this macro capture Carla. Nice work #9183927
Kathy Reeves 1/22/2011 3:22:12 AMSuperb! #9184556
Carla Capra 1/22/2011 7:20:13 AMHi Emile and Kathy;
Kim Andelkovic 1/28/2011 2:47:37 PMBrilliant Macro :-) #9199505
Carla Capra 1/31/2011 5:49:37 AMHi Kim;
Robert R. Goodman 2/10/2011 10:58:22 AMA Big Congratulations,Carla!!!! #9225281
Kay E. Mahoney 2/10/2011 12:27:56 PMCongratulations on your beautiful finalist. Good luck in the next round.
Emile Abbott 2/10/2011 12:44:57 PMI am so glad to see him again. Congratulation again on another great finalist Carla. WTG #9226277
Lydia Williams 2/10/2011 12:53:47 PMI love this little guy, Carla...Well done..Congratulations! #9226342
Bojan Bencic 2/10/2011 1:41:52 PMCongratulations on your finalist, Carla. #9226716
Kim Andelkovic 2/10/2011 2:22:07 PMCongrats again Carla and I'm not surprised to see this one up there.....I can see Gold on this one :-) #9227008
Freddy Bland 2/10/2011 4:23:59 PMCongratulations on your superb Finalist, Carla!! #9228025
Arthur Bohlmann 2/10/2011 4:47:33 PMA Very Big ATTA GIRL Carla. #9228205
Karen Celella 2/10/2011 5:52:47 PMCongratulations on your fabulous finalist, Carla. #9228642
Irene Colling 2/10/2011 6:25:50 PMFascinating close up of this interesting creature Carla.
Congratulations on your excellent Finalist. #9228919
Carol Eade 2/10/2011 6:27:43 PMA beautiful finalist, Carla, congratulations! #9228935
Phyllis H. Burchett 2/10/2011 7:12:12 PMCongrats on this fantastic finalist Carla! #9229314
Nadia Paul 2/10/2011 7:16:32 PMFantastic capture Carla - congrats on your wonderful finalist! #9229346
Ron McEwan 2/10/2011 7:23:39 PMHuge congrats on your SILVER for Jan #9229399
Tiia Vissak 2/11/2011 1:21:15 AMCongratulations! #9230292
Carla Capra 2/11/2011 6:15:25 AMHi, my friends!
Mariann Kovats 2/11/2011 6:38:05 AMCongratulations on your awesome finalist! Excellent capture, Carla! #9231317
Terry Cervi 2/11/2011 1:05:08 PMCongrats on this awesome Finalist, Carla!! #9232603
Renee Doyle 2/11/2011 4:43:53 PMFantastic close up!! Congratulations Carla!! #9233182
Orsi 2/11/2011 5:39:05 PMCongratulations on your beautiful finalist Carla! #9233362
Renee Doyle 2/11/2011 7:45:43 PMCongratulations Carla on this wonderful winner!! #9233752
Phyllis H. Burchett 2/11/2011 7:51:17 PMBIG congratulations to you Carla on this fantastic winner! #9233784
Kim Andelkovic 2/11/2011 8:09:08 PMI was right.....Gold it is.....whooo hoooo congratulations Carla :-) #9233865
Agnes Fegan 2/11/2011 8:42:26 PMCongratulations on your win...beautiful light and details! #9233998
Freddy Bland 2/11/2011 8:48:50 PMWay to go, Carla!! Many congratulations on your beautiful gold winner!!! #9234015
Barbara Waldoch 2/11/2011 9:46:12 PMHuge congratulations for the GOLD, Carla! #9234160
Rona L. Schwarz 2/11/2011 10:00:12 PMFantastic close up of this little guy, Carla! Marvelous detail and clarity and fantastic shallow DOF. HUGE CONGRATULATIONS ON A SUPERB GOLD WINNER! #9234179
Jeff E Jensen 2/11/2011 10:10:02 PMCongrats, Carla! #9234194
Stan Kwasniowski 2/11/2011 10:30:14 PMCarla, congratulations #9234218
Debra R. Harder 2/11/2011 11:17:50 PMLove this image, Carla!! Huge congratulations on your OUTSTANDING GOLD WINNER!! Deb #9234328
Bojan Bencic 2/11/2011 11:24:43 PMCongratulations on your winner, Carla! #9234352
Joannie Bertucci 2/11/2011 11:41:34 PMNo silliness on this image Carla! Just a great big congratulations on a marvelous gold badge macro! #9234389
Gord MacEachern 2/12/2011 5:08:30 AMBig congratulations on your well deserved GOLD Carla, no surprise here!!! #9234815
Courtenay Vanderbilt 2/12/2011 5:36:10 AMCongratulations, Carla!!! #9234921
Melissa G. Meiselman 2/12/2011 6:36:48 AMHuge congrats, Carla on this stunning winner!! #9235101
Lydia Williams 2/12/2011 7:49:50 AMFantastic gold medal win...love it. Congratulations, Carla! #9235376
Linda Blair 2/12/2011 8:04:53 AMAwesome winner Carla...congratulations!!! #9235440
Carla Capra 2/12/2011 8:19:58 AMG'morning My Friends!!
Mark Dodge 2/12/2011 10:22:49 AMExcellent work, Carla. Congratulations! #9235789
Emile Abbott 2/12/2011 11:23:25 AMOh I am so glad to see Gold on this little green fella. Huge congratulations Carla. WTG #9235897
Karen Celella 2/12/2011 1:09:09 PMCongratulations on your excellent winner, Carla. #9236207
Terry Cervi 2/12/2011 2:15:44 PMCongrats on your awesome win, Carla!! The detail is superb! #9236370
Mariann Kovats 2/12/2011 6:11:22 PMI knew it will win! Awesome capture, Carle, congrats on your win! #9236665
Carol Eade 2/12/2011 7:07:03 PMCongratulations, Carla! #9236883
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JO ANN CLEVELAND 2/13/2011 10:36:44 AMCongratulations on this awesome Gold Winner...and very well deserved Carla!
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Nadia Paul 2/13/2011 3:57:58 PMCongrats on your wonderful winner Carla! #9238612
Laura E. Swan 2/13/2011 4:55:24 PM
On This Wonderful Gold Winner, Carla!
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Songbird Cline 2/13/2011 7:53:46 PMTerrific!! wonderful!! Did you take this at the zoo? Were you at the Quady art show this weekend? I was hoping to meet and chat with you.. I had 3 images in and met some great people.. HUGE congrats on your win, its a terrific photo! #9238946
Carla Capra 2/14/2011 6:30:00 AMHappy Valentines Day, my Friends.
Songbird, I did take these at the zoo in the reptile house...through the glass. We usually attend but, couldn't this time. Our family was recovering from 14 days of cold/flu...UGH! Congrats tho.
Anita Hogue 2/14/2011 7:36:50 AMA gorgeous capture, Carla! Congratulations on your fabulous winning image! #9239867
Robert Jensen 2/14/2011 12:16:21 PMCongratulations on this superb closeup #9240391
Carla Capra 2/15/2011 5:52:36 AMThank you Anita and Robert.
Shelly A. Van Camp 2/19/2011 7:41:44 PMA beauty!! Congrats!! #9250743
Usman M. Bajwa 2/20/2011 10:21:57 AMHuge CONGRATZ on getting into the Winners' Circle, Carla!!!
Anthony L. Mancuso 2/21/2011 9:54:48 AMCongrats on this awesome winner Carla! #9253678
Susan D. Royce 2/21/2011 3:40:13 PMCongrats Carla on your beautiful winner!! #9254206
Carla Capra 2/22/2011 6:11:42 AMHi Shelly, UB, Tony and Susan;
Steve A. Mark 3/1/2011 4:58:12 AMAmazing Capture Carla! Congrats & Well Deserved!!! #9267554
Phyllis H. Burchett 3/1/2011 6:13:51 AMHey Carla, congrats on being featured in SnapShot today! #9267760
Alexander Decoster 3/1/2011 6:51:47 AMCarla,
Carla Capra 3/1/2011 8:05:04 AMHi Steve;
Hi Phyllis;
Thank you!
I was so surprised and thrilled.
Hi Alex;
It has been awhile, I'm really glad to hear from you. Thank you!!
I shot the image in camera raw, making a few minor adjustment there. I then opened the image in PSE6. There I made a curves adjustment, cropped and no sharpening. I shot this image through glass and found it necessary to apply the curves adjustment to illuminate any indication of the glass.
BP Staff and editors;
I'm honored to have my image selected as the feature image in SnapShot, edition #514. Thank you.
Lydia Williams 3/1/2011 8:23:21 AMHi Carla,
Teresa H. Hunt 3/1/2011 12:06:15 PMCongratulations on your photo being featured in the snapshot newsletter. Very cool! :)
Its a great photo too :) #9268258
Lisa B. North 3/1/2011 12:27:31 PMWhat a great portrait of this little green guy. Looks like it's got one hell of a personality that you captured perfectly! Congrats! #9268288
Carla Capra 3/2/2011 6:28:47 AMHi Lydia, Teresa and Lisa;
Anita Hogue 3/2/2011 11:11:17 AMCongratulations on your fabulous image being featured in snapshot! #9269848
Emile Abbott 3/2/2011 12:45:58 PMEnjoyed seeing this fella again on Snapshot Carla. #9269994
Carla Capra 3/3/2011 7:28:11 AMThank you, Anita and Emile.
Kimberly Cline 3/4/2011 8:35:09 AMAwesome!!! #9273444
Nancyj E. Hovey 3/5/2011 5:49:44 PMC O N G R A T U L A T I O N S
Carla Capra 3/7/2011 6:40:01 AMHi Kimberly and Nancy;
Dennis Gay 5/20/2011 9:13:51 AMG'day *CARLA*!
My heartiest and warmest Aussie congratz for the EP and 2nd PLACE awards bestowed upon this very colourful Nature study.
The lizard is such an intense and eye catching green yet it still cannot overcome the impact of that wonderful eye that has been made so prominent by your sharp focus and shallow depth of field.
Dennis #9417097
Carla Capra 5/23/2011 10:35:35 AMHi Dennis;
Carla Capra 11/28/2011 2:58:15 PMIggie is a resident in the reptile house at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo. Each year the zoo hosts a photo competition for images taken within the zoo. Iggie was my entry in the animal portrait category. I'm pleased to say I was awarded 2nd place in the 2011 competition. #9835766
Liz blahh 12/7/2011 7:40:57 AMI can see why it's one of your favs. Congratulations on your win too! #9852382
This is a Fiji Island Banded Iguana.
A very curious little critter who kept, at least, one eye on me.
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Thomas Eugene Paris was a former prisoner and acting helmsmen aboard the USS Voyager.
Tom was recruited by Captain Janeway from a penal colony in New Zealand, where he was serving a sentence for perjury. He'd been responsible for a piloting accident that killed three Starfleet officers and tried to cover up his role. Janeway pulled him out of the colony because he was acquainted with a Maquis leader, Chakotay, whom she had been assigned to capture. When the Caretaker dragged the USS Voyager to the Delta Quadrant, and many of the ship's crew died in the process, Janeway assigned Tom to serve as the ship's helmsman. He later marries and has a child with B'Elanna Torres.
Tom seems to be the only competent member of the Voyager crew, as he seems to be the only person that can get anything done. He is a direct contrast to Neelix, who claims to be competent at everything but is actually good at nothing useful. Tom claims only his piloting skills but proves to be good at almost everything.
- He built a large combat shuttlecraft, the Delta Flyer, from scratch.
- He is the only person on the crew aside from Kes and the Doctor to demonstrate simple first aid skills.
- After the rest of the crew were captured and marooned by the Kazon, he not only survived having his shuttlecraft heavily damaged, he repaired it back to combat readiness (while being shot at) and managed to lead a force of Talaxians to successfully recapture the Voyager and rescue the rest of the crew.
- He even built an engine capable of breaking the Warp 10 barrier, albeit with some odd side effects.
He has acted as a commando, pilot, field medic, engineer, scientist, historian, and more.
- "And this is the guy Starfleet doesn't want!"
- —Chuck Sonnenburg


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John Hull
John is from Sydney, Australia. He joined Northern Ballet in 2003. He was trained at Ecole Ballet Studios and the English National Ballet School.
In June 2014 John left to join Royal New Zealand Ballet.
Learn more about John
Favourite roles
'Girl Crazy' solo and 'I Got Rhythm', I Got Rhythm; Anthony's friend and Simon, Swan Lake; Athos & D'Artagnan, The Three Musketeers; Cavalier, The Nutcracker; Oberon/Theseus, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Benvolio, Romeo & Juliet; Solor, La Bayadère; Edgar, Wuthering Heights.
Where were you born and raised?
Born and raised in Sydney, Australia.
Where did you do your dance training?
English National Ballet School.
When did you join Northern Ballet?
What made you want to be a dancer?
My mum used to teach so I ended up joining in class and it just went from there.
What would be your dream role to dance be and why?
I would like to dance Spartacus as he is such a strong and powerful character and I also really like that period in history.
Who are your artistic influences or heroes?
Igor Zelensky as a dancer because at his fluid yet strong style and technique.
Describe your perfect Sunday morning...
Wake up reasonably early and go for a bike ride. Then a nice cup of coffee with some bacon and eggs then spend the day catching up on tv series and movies.
What was the first album you bought and what was the last album you bought?
My first album was The Offspring, Ixnay on the Hombre and the last album Them Crooked Vultures.
What would be your luxury item on a desert island?
My bike.
What are your favourite places in Yorkshire?
Shipley Glen for the views and scenery. Carluccios Italian restaurant


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Laramie Heroin Overdose Leads to Investigation
A man in Laramie, who was said to have overdosed heroin, was found to be in possession of a felony amount of the drug.
According to an official release from the Laramie Police Department, officers responded just before 8:00 Thursday evening to a rescue call on the 1200 block of N. 19th Street in Laramie. Officials are saying that Justin Alec Heddy was visiting from out of town and overdosed on the drug heroin. Laramie Police Commander Mitchell Cushman says that Heddy was not breathing when he was found by emergency responders.
"His life was saved by our well trained EMS fireman," Cmdr. Cushman said in an email statement. "This is a good example of how crimes involving drugs from one jurisdiction can use resources of another jurisdiction. Heddy likely purchased his drugs in another jurisdiction but was arrested here within hours of his arrival."
A subsequent investigation did find that Heddy was in possession of a felony amount of heroin.
Possession of a Schedule 1 drug, like heroin, is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.
"He will be housed in our jail and be seen by our judges. If he is imprisoned, he will be a ward of our state until his sentence is served," says Cmdr. Cushman. "If anyone ever tells you 'what happens in other states do not affect us', you know that to be untrue."


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DOVER — The death toll in New Hampshire for this year's flu season — which runs October 2012 to May 2013 — has risen to 20, seven of which occurred in the first two weeks of January.
Beth Daly, chief of infectious disease surveillance for the state Department of Health and Human Services, told Foster's three deaths had been reported as of Monday but the number jumped to seven on Wednesday. She explained there is a lag in information received by the state as influenza data is gleaned only from received death certificates, and sometimes health-care providers may not list influenza as the primary cause of death.
Daly noted typically, there are between four and 21 deaths reported every season so the number is fairly high, though not entirely alarming, with the first case of influenza reportedly occurring in September 2012.
Currently there are 44 outbreaks in the Granite State, 24 of which are still ongoing, according to Daly. On average, she said the state sees between 10 and 30 outbreaks every season. She added 40 of the outbreaks occurred in health care settings so far and the remaining largely occurred in school and child care settings.
The DHHS is not reporting exactly where these outbreaks, or deaths, occurred.
So far, none of the reported deaths in New Hampshire have involved children, though the state of Maine did report the death of a young child shortly before Christmas.
Mariann Murphy, a representative for Huggins Hospital in Wolfeboro, said even with the number of deaths reported this month, the hospital saw a dip in patients with influenza visiting the hospital or the emergency department in the last week. Noreen Biehl, vice president of community relations for Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, similarly reported a lower number of people arriving with the flu in the last several days.
Murphy said she believes the current media coverage of influenza in the region has gotten through to the general public, who are staying home and finding ways to protect themselves.
"The more we know, the better we can care for ourselves," Murphy said.
Daly noted currently there is no shortage of vaccine supply in the state which can protect against the three most common strains recorded, those being H1N1, known as swine flu, along with Influenza A and B.
"It's a good match to what is circulating out there. We know it's not 100 percent effective, and no vaccine is," she explained. "It's still possible to get the flu but generally it should be a less severe illness, will help with being hospitalized or developing pneumonia."
Daly added typically health care providers and pharmacies order vaccine supply at the start of the flu season and as they have been running out off supplies in their facilities, there has been a little bit of lag time in redistribution of the vaccine. She noted patients may need to call several locations, either doctor's offices or pharmacies, to track down available vaccine but that does not mean the state is running low. She noted Manchester and Nashua are also offering clinics at a low cost to the public as well.
While the state department does not track the vaccination rates of adults, so far, 95,000 children have been vaccinated this season.
The DHHS warns residents to stay home from work or school if they have the flu, to cover their mouths when the cough or sneeze, to refrain from touching their eyes and mouth to limit the spread of germs and to wash their hands frequently throughout the day for 20 to 30 seconds with hot water and soap.


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More PCB testing is planned
More PCB testing is planned
By CHRISTINA STYAN
Special Writer
WESTPORT — School Nurse Leader RN Tracy Pereira detailed the new model for a Medical Emergency Response Plan to the Westport School Committee at their Oct. 24 meeting.
"We were required to do a district-wide emergency plan. We fine-tuned the existing plan; each of the school buildings is similar" as are the plans for each school, she reported.
All of the phone numbers for the district Emergency Response Team are in place in each school building," she noted. EpiPens for severe allergic reactions are available in each building, she added.
In each school, the plan is twofold: to reduce the incidence of life-threatening emergencies, and to promote efficient responses to such emergencies, Ms. Pereira told the School Committee. Because the phone system is sometimes unreliable, "we depend on cell phones and a walkie talkie system at the Macomber during recess," Ms. Pereira noted.
According to Superintendent Dr. Carlos Colley, the district's phone system is very antiquated, and the plan takes that into account. "The number 911 isn't recognized; the Middle School phone system works when it wants to," he advised.
School Committee Chairperson Michelle Duarte added she knew of someone who had dialed 911 on their cell phone and didn't reach local police, but instead contacted the State Police barracks in Middleborough.
Ms. Duarte suggested some location identification information be placed on the back of the personnel identification card carried by each school staffer to help provide timely responses to the proper location.
Each school has a "Code Blue Medical Response Team" to be activated for emergencies involving multiple injuries, or when the school nurse needs additional support.
"I would like to run a mock drill in each of the buildings; this would be new this school year. The first drill would be announced, especially at the Macomber and elementary schools," commented Ms. Pereira.
If one of the members of the Medical Response Team cannot be contacted, the staff has enough other people on the team to cover an emergency, she added.
Each school has also arranged for school nurses to provide training for designated school staff in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). "All the staff at the Macomber has been CPR certified," Ms. Pereira explained.
In other business last week, School Committee members approved hiring the environmental engineering firm of CGKV, Habeeb and Company to complete the middle school PCB feasibility and monitoring study.
"We still have PCB's at the middle school, and we have to continue to monitor air quality," Dr. Colley noted. "The good news is most of the rooms are still below the EPA threshold of 300 nanograms," he reported. "However, Room 263 increased from 72 nonograms to 200 nanograms. We will continue to test the caulking along the indoor windows," he added.
WHS Student Representative Daniel Marques reported to the extensive list of activities going on at the high school. "The Villager newspaper added a calendar section and a box for scores of the games. On the last page may be pictured the Wildcat of the Week and Athlete of the Week to be commended for academic performance and community service," he noted.
The National Honor Society chapter at WHS this year has 34 members this year, an increase in membership over last year of 27 students, he reported.
The Advo-cats will hold a food drive starting Friday, Nov. 9 and running to Tuesday, Nov. 20. "The food drive will benefit the Harbor House in New Bedford," Mr. Marques said.
Thirty-four members of the Class of 2013 have qualified to receive a John and Abigail Adams Scholarship by earning high scores on MCAS tests. This means they are entitled to four years of free tuition upon acceptance to a participating Massachusetts state college or university.


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A defense attorney for George Huguely V has filed a motion in a Charlottesville, Va., court requesting a retrial for the former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of second-degree murder and grand larceny in the 2010 beating death of his former girlfriend, Yeardley Love.
The motion to set aside that verdict and schedule a new trial, and a memorandum in support of the motion, were filed Friday, which was the deadline.
The motion questions many aspects of the February trial, including the selection and treatment of the jury — which recommended that Huguely serve a total of 26 years in prison for Love's death and the theft of her laptop — and the handling of an illness suffered by one of Huguely's attorneys during the trial.
It also questions the validity of the charges Huguely was found guilty of, arguing that the evidence in the case doesn't support them.
The motion was largely expected, given the complexity and high-profile nature of the case, and even if denied helps establish the legal groundwork for a possible appeal after Huguely's sentencing at the end of August.
"In any kind of a big case like that, it's very routine to file a motion for a retrial," said David Heilberg, a Charlottesville attorney and past president of the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, who has followed the case. "The thing you do is lay out and basically renew some of the grounds for appeal."
The motion says there is "no evidence" that the injury that killed Love, who grew up in Cockeysville and also played lacrosse for the university, was caused by "anything other than the fall from the bed."
A struggle between Huguely and Love, and the beating, occurred in Love's bedroom.
The motion also says there is no evidence Huguely "willfully or purposefully embarked upon a course of 'wrongful conduct likely to cause death or great bodily harm.'"
"It was clear from the evidence that Mr. Huguely should have been convicted of no more serious offense than manslaughter," the motion says.
The memorandum supporting the motion states that "the jury could not find that any single event that occurred during the time Mr. Huguely was with Ms. Love caused her death. It is just as likely that a fall by Ms. Love from her bed, which is suggested by the evidence, was the mechanism that caused the injury that ultimately caused her death, as anything else."
The motion says the court denied multiple motions filed by the defense in regards to jury selection, including a motion to sequester the jury, and that restricted certain lines of questioning by the defense.
Huguely's lawyers also argue that the jury selection was made difficult because of the "unprecedented level of pretrial publicity" and the court's "unprecedented measures to accommodate" the news media.
The motion says the court did not honor Huguely's right to use an attorney of his choice by placing an "unyielding emphasis on expeditiousness" in the case and forcing the defense to move forward despite the illness of attorney Rhonda Quagliana.
In addressing the complaints, Judge Edward Hogshire will look at whether the defense should have raised them during the trial, and for whether alleged "mistakes" in the case by the prosecution could be considered "harmless," Heilberg said.
"There's no such thing as a perfect trial," Heilberg said, and the judge won't grant a retrial lightly.
"But if there was a serious mistake made, that can throw everything back to a new trial, or change the verdict," Heilberg said.
Huguely's attorney could not be reached for comment Friday, nor could Charlottesville Commonwealth Attorney Warner Chapman, the prosecutor. Love's mother, Sharon Love, could not be reached for comment either.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – On a sunny autumn day in New England the MIT women's lightweight crew team opened its 2013-14 season at the annual Head of the Charles regatta. As they did last year, the Engineers had entries in the Women's Lightweight Fours and the Women's Lightweight Eights, with both teams posting solid results to kick off the season.
First up was the lightweight fours crew that had the last starting spot in the 15-boat field. MIT started with a first split of 5:09 at Riverside and later picked up the pace, clocking a 5:50 at Cambridge Boat Club. In the end the team came in with a 21:09.275 that was good for 11th and was just a little over a second behind an entry from the Ottawa Boat Club from Canada. The team was a little less than two minutes off the winning time set by a team from Western University in Canada.
In the eights race the MIT crew got off to a 4:24 start at the first split, which was eighth among the nine boats in the field. The Engineers could not make up any ground on the field over the rest of the three-mile course and stayed in eighth at the finish, stopping the clock at 18:28.838, which put MIT ahead of the second Radcliffe crew, and finishing behind a team from Princeton. The Engineers were 1:23 off the winning time turned in by team from the Minerva Rowing Club in the Netherlands.
MIT will continue its fall season on Saturday, November 2 when it races at the Dartmouth Green Monster Invitational.
Boat Lineup
Women's Club Fours
Coxswain Joyce Hong
Stroke Catherine Potter
Bow Amelia Mockett
Coxswain Emily Chen
Stroke Sharon Wu
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Students who plan to transfer to a four year college
or university and earn a bachelor's degree in this
discipline should consult with a counselor or visit the
Transfer/Career Center to determine the appropriate
major preparation courses for their specific transfer
institution and major. Transfer students may also
earn an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Arts
and Sciences with an emphasis. This degree may
be individually tailored to each student's specific
transfer requirements in order to provide the most
efficient path to transfer. More information on
transfer programs and procedures is available in the
Transfer Programs section of the catalog.
The Associate in Arts in Political Science for Transfer
Degree is intended for students who plan to
complete a bachelor's degree in Political Science
or a related major in the California State University
(CSU) system. It is accepted by some but not all
CSU campuses. Students who complete this degree
and transfer to a participating CSU campus will be
required to complete no more than 60 units after
transfer to earn a bachelor's degree. It may not be
appropriate preparation for students transferring
to a CSU campus that does not accept the degree.
Students who plan to complete this degree should
consult a counselor for additional information about
participating CSU campuses as well as university
admission, degree and transfer requirements.
It is strongly recommended that students consult
with a counselor to determine which general
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National Register of Historic Places Program: Books and Videos
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources.
Bulletins and Brochures / NR Forms / Policy clarification and Guidance / Books and Videos
• National Landmarks, America's Treasures: The National Park Foundation's Complete Guide to National Historic Landmarks is the ultimate catalog of the nation's treasures. Covering all 50 states, it provides locations, descriptions, and some photographs for more than 2,200 nationally significant historic places. Ordering information can be obtained from the National Park Foundation or by calling the Preservation Press, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1-800-225-5945 (Reference ISBN# 0-471-19764-5).
• Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction is a comprehensive history of the policy, principles, and practices of landscape design through which the natural parks of the National Park System became accessible to ever-increasing numbers of visitors. Available from Johns Hopkins University Press, 1-800-537-5487 (Reference ISBN # 0-801805582-9 for hardbound and ISBN# 0-89133-253-7 for paperback)
• Presenting Nature: The Historic Landscape Design of the National Park Service 1916 to 1942 is a study of naturalistic landscape design in the national parks, reveals how the National Park Service met the dual challenge of developing parks for visitor appreciation and enjoyment while ensuring the preservation of scenic resources. Available online or from Superintendant of Documents, Government Printing Office, 202-512-1800, fax 202-512-2250, PO Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954• African American Historic Places describes more than 800 National Register properties in 42 States and 2 U.S. Territories that have played a role in African American history. Also included are 8 essays on the African American experience. Available from the Preservation Press, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1-800-225-5945 (Reference ISBN# 978-0471-143-451)
VideosAmerican Legacy: The Work of the National Register of Historic Places : please e-mail us for copies of this video. It was produced around 1994.
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Courtesy of Harvard University Sports Information
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard methodically pulled away from visiting MIT in a battle of Cambridge neighbors Monday afternoon as the Crimson won easily, 88-61, at Lavietes Pavilion. It was the first match-up between the two Cambridge neighbors since 1985.
MIT, ranked 22nd nationally in Division III, entered the game undefeated with its best start in program history and sees its record dip to 11-1 overall. Harvard improves to 8-3 with the victory as the Crimson improves to 5-0 at home this season.
The statistics told the story in this one as Harvard's deep bench outscored MIT by a count of 43-7. Harvard also battered the smaller Engineers in the paint, outscoring its guest, 54-18.
Jeremy Lin led all scorers with 18 points in 26 minutes while adding four assists, three blocks, three steals and four rebounds. Pat Magnarelli added 16 points (7-9 FG) and eight rebounds in 19 minutes. Dee Giger added 14 points in 22 minutes and Christian Webster had 10 points, six assists and three steals.
Keith Wright had four blocks as the Crimson swatted 11 MIT shots on the day.
Harvard led by as many as 15 points in the first half though MIT cut the deficit to six, 44-38, following a 3-pointer by Billy Bender early in the second half. The Crimson rattled off nine straight points afterwards however as part of a 20-6 run to claim a 64-44 lead with 11 minutes remaining. Harvard also closed the game with a 16-4 run.
MIT was led by Mitchell Kates's 14 points (6-16 FG) and five assists.
MIT stayed close thanks to impressive long range shooting with nine early trifectas. The Engineers could not get a triple to fall for the final 13:30 of play however, in ending the game 9-of-25.
Harvard shot 55 percent from the floor overall (33-60) and was 17-of-22 from the free throw line.
Tech returns to action on January 5, traveling to Tufts University for an 8:00 p.m. contest.


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The Cutest Puppy
Born on Halloween and the May(hem)or of Main Street. I am a very, very happy dog.
My name is Skully! I'm 2 years old and love to swim, wear bow ties and chase squirrels. IG: @TheGoldenSkully
Hi I'm Chloe, a lovable, energetic, ball of golden fluff! My favorite activities include chasing a soccer ball, eating dirt clots from Mom's garden, splashing in my water bowl, and taking long naps in the shade. My curiosity sometimes gets me into mischief, but my family loves me no matter what!


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When our super awesome wedding photographer Sharon Cooper told us she'd secretly submitted our wedding pics to Rock n Roll Bride I was pretty exited to hear that the wonderful Kat wanted to feature us. And now you can see her post all about our big day(s), I'm feeling incredibly honoured and excited!
I'll still be writing more about our wedding….I wanted to keep a sort of diary of each day and will be sure to post it here soon. In the mean time though, if you'd like to see some more photos of our ceremony and reception you can see a whole bunch here!
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The Counseling Service is the clinical wing of the Stone Center, providing confidential individual and group counseling and a variety of outreach programs to Wellesley College, from small group discussions and workshops to major campus-wide events.
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Instructor: Dave
Route: 40I, Local
Weather: Clear, 76 degrees, wind 110 degrees at 3 knots
Today was all sorts of fun - but we'll get to that. When we were at the airport last Saturday I booked time with Dave for this evening. I last completed a phase of WINGS in September 2009, so I either had to complete another or complete a full-on BFR by the end of next month. Since I already completed two out of of three of my required flight activities back in March, it made the most sense to go up with him and finish off this phase to extend my BFR currency by two more years.
Flight Tracks - Cessna 150 (red) / Stearman (green) / Cub (blue)
I had reserved the Cub but realized this afternoon that part of what I needed to do included hood work. Luckily the 150 was open, so I swapped rides and we hopped into the tiny Cessna. Hard to believe, but I haven't flown a 150 in nearly a year - that's what I used to always fly, nearly half my hours (98+) are in 150s! Anyway, after reacquainting myself with that tiny cockpit we took off and flew up to 2,500 feet over the lake.
Dave had me put the airplane into slow flight with 30 degrees of flaps, level at about 2,700 feet and hanging on the prop at 35 to 40 knots. I held the ailerons level and used the rudder pedals to turn us in a few circles. Then I pushed in the power and raised the nose until we had a nice break into a power-on stall. That went pretty well, so power to idle and two power-off stalls followed. The last one was one of the best I've ever done - a couple taps of the rudder and the nose dropped and the remained wings perfectly level at the break.
After all that, it was time to strap on the hood and do a little instrument work. The last time I went under my hood was my checkride in 2008, so needless to say I was overdue for some practice whether or not it was part of my WINGS activity. I won't say I did great, considering the lack of training and practice, but I did manage some decent turns and climbs. Obviously I've got a loooong way to go towards my IR. Dave then had me lower my head, tossed the airplane around, then had me recover for unusual attitude practice - always fun. I think he had me in a nose-low attitude once and an extremely nose-high attitude twice.
He asked for a landing just past a specific point on the runway, so I set up for a short field approach. Extended downwind, then all 40 degrees of flaps and 50 knots on final. Manage airspeed with pitch and descent with throttle. I was hanging on the prop as we crossed over the edge of the runway but we hit a tiny bit of lift and I touched probably 50-100 feet past my intended point. Still good, but I enjoy the challenge of a spot landing and would've liked to really nail that one!
Stearman + Grass = Perfection
Back in the office, Dave said he had to put the Stearman away. For those not familiar with the fine folks at Red Stewart Airfield, putting the Stearman away equates to a trip around the pattern and a free ride if you happen to be there at the right time. After over three years flying there, I was finally at the airport at the right time!
He explained how to climb in and I have to say it was easier than I expected - the cockpit was more spacious than you might think, too. The radial engine coughed to life and the smell was oh-so-vintage-airplane-good. Dave handed me the controls and had me taxi down to the other end of the runway. Needless to say, compared to a Cub, you really need to do S-Turns to see out of this thing on the ground!
I think I looked the part...
I did all the preflight checks and run-up, then taxied onto the runway. Dave was also on the controls but I managed to get us off the ground and climbed slowly at about 85 mph as we made our way around the pattern. Abeam the numbers, throttle back to about 1500 RPM and a descent at around 85 mph again. Dave said to give her a little forward slip on short final to really see where we're going, so left stick and right rudder and we lost some altitude and airspeed and I could see the grass strip out in front. With some more help on the controls, I brought the stick back all the way and we touched down somewhat softly. They really don't lie when they say it flies just like a big Cub.
So yeah, that was fun and awesome. The view was incredible - nothing like the air whipping past the wires and being able to see in every direction. No way I could come close to flying it without a CFI onboard anytime soon, but I did get to fly a Stearman this evening. 'Nuff said.
Gotta love the view from downwind - the runway's under the bottom wing
After all that fun, I still had the J-3 booked because that's what I originally was going to fly in with Dave. It really was too beautiful an evening not to fly some more. I figured I might as well take it around the patch three times for currency purposes.
A hot air balloon was launching on the field right when I took off, so I immediately side-stepped to the right of the runway to give them some room. If you watch the video below, you'll see me wave the wings to say hello a few different times as I fly past the balloon. Every landing was a monster slip power-off approach, partially because I thought they'd look cool with the fisheye lens and partially because they're just so much fun. The final landing was intentionally long to save some taxi time.
A little video fun - only at Stewart can you fit in 3 takeoffs and landings in 0.3 hours!
Between the finally-nice, fall-like flying weather and getting to fly three different airplanes there's not much else I need to say about today. Just one of those glad-to-be-a-pilot evenings. And, to be a little more specific, glad-to-be-a-taildragger-pilot. Sorry, but you'll never convince me you can have fun any cheaper or better than a Cub with the door open. Well, maybe in a Stearman - but then I'm not so sure that cheaper part applies.
Flight Tracks: Google Earth KMZ File
Today's Flight: 0.7 hours / (not logged) / 0.3 hours
Total Time: 205.1 hours


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A groundbreaking survey comparing the activities, demographics and motivations of "religious activists" involved in politics has found that activists on both ends of the political spectrum are deeply religious, though their religious and political profiles are dramatically different.
The results of the 2009 Religious Progressive and Conservative Activist Surveys were released by the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron, Ohio, and Public Religion Research of Washington, D.C., on Sept. 15. The researchers divided the activists surveyed into "conservative" or "progressive" groups and posed slightly different questions to each group.
Regarding political priorities, a large majority of the conservative group listed just two issues as "most important" for religious people to focus on: abortion, cited by 83 percent, and same-sex marriage, cited by 65 percent. No other issue was categorized as "most important" by more than 26 percent of the group.
The responses by progressive activists were more diverse, with five different issues being identified as "most important" on a five-point scale measuring each of eight issues. Seventy-four percent of progressives identified poverty as most important; 67 percent identified health; 56 percent marked the environment; 48 percent listed jobs/economy; and 45 percent, the war in Iraq. The only issue for which the two groups gave similar rankings was immigration, which 21 percent of progressives and 26 percent of conservatives marked as most important.


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DNC calling for removal of Kushner security clearance
DNC calling for removal of Kushner security clearance
After it came to light that President Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner was being investigated in relation to the FBI probe, the Democratic National Committee have asked for his security clearance to be suspended until further notice.
In a statement, the DNC said "The FBI's Russia investigation reached Trump's backyard, and now it's in his house. Kushner's security clearance should be suspended until the FBI's findings are complete."
Points of focus that pertain to Kushner include: the Trump campaign's 2016 data analytics operation; his relationship with former national security adviser Michael Flynn; and Kushner's own contacts with Russians, according to US officials briefed on the probe.


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Zentomino Review
If you're a fan of low-key puzzle games without explosions or time limits– games like Zen Bound and PathPix Pro— then you should definitely play Zentomino. This game actually came out a while ago, but its most recent update (which introduced Game Center achievements) is what made us check it out. And we're glad we did.
Each level presents you with a shape that you must fill in using some or all of the 12 Tetris-like pieces placed along the sides of the screen. You can rotate or flip the pieces, but you must fill in the entire shape without overlapping. That's all there is to it.
A blank slate.
There's no time limit, so you never feel pressured to think fast or blaze through the game. In fact, soothing music plays in the background, so you might be able to zone out while you play (provided, of course, that you're capable of complex spatial thinking while zoned out). The controls are extremely intuitive and responsive as well.
The game comes a jaw-dropping 216 puzzles of varying difficulty, all of which are immediately accessible the moment you boot up the game. Are you breezing through the early stages? Jump to later ones. Want to play a level shaped like a dog? Go ahead.
Tetris, you've changed, man.
Because there are so many options– 12 pieces that can be rotated, flipped, and rotated again– the levels can get brain-strainingly difficult. Luckily, if you lay down a few pieces in one puzzle and get stumped, you can leave that puzzle to work on others. When you come back, you'll find your pieces right where you left them. If you're hopelessly stuck, you can use the hint system to nudge you along the right track.
Zentomino has a simple but addictive play mechanic and tons of content (with more coming in every update). Whether you're looking for a puzzle game you can dabble in here and there, or one you can sink hours of time into in one sitting, Zentomino has you covered.


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by Maggie Wollman
I've written before about my feelings on the importance of the public library. Growing up in the Bronx, after-school activities were jump rope, stoop ball and going to the library. While the library was across a wide street, it was only two blocks from my apartment, a nothing trip for a New Yorker.
When my husband and I bought our house in Mt. Airy many years ago, part of the attraction was the proximity to the library, supermarket and the State Store. All three assets remain.
I am a reader with an agenda. I do not browse the shelves but have a list of books culled from newspaper book reviews, the New York Times Book Review, obituaries and recommendations from friends. These I reserve on the library computer. Some time later, be it days, a week or a month, I receive a telephone call. A deep male voice says, "Mar-jor-ie Woll-man."
I don't have to listen to the rest. It is the library telling me my book is at Lovett. It's with excitement that I stand at the library turnstile and look for my book, conspicuous because on its spine is a label with the first four letters of my last name.
I can immediately judge how many pages: 250, 400, 500. Will it take days or a week to read? Since I don't remember what I reserved, I'm excited. Will it be a novel, a biography or memoir, a travel or food book or a mystery, or an author I've never met but who promises to give me the inside scoop on working in a hotel or restaurant or insight into a business or organization?
The anticipation is real. What's ahead for me this next week? I'm never disappointed. If the book doesn't grab me, I use my speed-reading skills to move along quickly. Every book is an introduction into a different world. I don't need a boat, plane or rocket to travel, just skillful writers.
I recently enjoyed reading about the monumental task of building Rockefeller Center and the fabulous character who ran United Fruit.
With books costing $20 or more, I'd be spending over $1,000 a year for books which, once read, I don't care to keep. Simply by paying my taxes, I have the opportunity to read any book published because if the Philadelphia library system doesn't shelve the book I want, it will contact other systems and universities for me. I don't know any organization more accommodating . . . when it's open.
Maggie Wollman is a long-time resident of Mt. Airy and a member of the Lovett Library Writers Group.


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Opinion: Foreign Companies Create Jobs, Too
Organization for International Investment President & CEO Nancy McLernon on the virtues of "insourcing." Photo: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... the US has a hard enough time welcoming foreign labor but what is our attitude towards foreign capital ... and why should you care ... and love me Nancy McClennan president and CEO for the organization for international investment ... I ... so is sourcing this is not something that gets a lot of attention that should ... absolutely Mary ... U S subsidiaries of foreign companies have already helped the U S economy ... over five million Americans get their paychecks ... from U S subsidiaries of foreign companies companies ... like Air bus and Dimar ... and Siemens ... and it's something that is not known very much about we focus a lot in U S multinationals in the work they do in the U S and around the world ... but I e investment here this is in sourcing ... this is about jobs ... to foreign companies are deciding to invest in the US and in plainer oh it's like the other American car ... industry which is clearly a Nissan in Tennessee ... what's at the chart we got us into years of global companies top five states it might ... surprise you ... Pennsylvania ... a quarter of a million people was that come from ... you know what it's coming from all over the world principally a lot of European companies have invested heavily in the U S in Pennsylvania ... they are of a German ... company is heavily invested there ... you have companies that are not only here ... seem to do work in United States and serves the U S market ... but they're here actually to serve ... as a platform for worldwide exports ... so you have Michelin who had doubled down on the U S recently announced ... a seven hundred and fifty million dollar investment ... in South Carolina ... making the first mover tires ... mostly for export a thing about eighty percent of what they're going to make here ... is for exports so ... the old way we use to think about foreign companies in U S companies ... just doesn't make sense anymore because ... global companies make things for export not only in the markets where their home country as ... an all over the world in the US can benefit from the date they can be a talking about Stadium Michelin a French company ... anywhere is better to do business in France I so let's talk about the policy in Iran here in United States ... taxes are going up regulation is going up ... how's that going to affect ... these employment opportunities in your talk him down while the U S has to work harder ... competition for this investment has gotten more intense ... about a decade ago the U S use to attract about thirty seven percent ... of worldwide foreign investment ... today it's about seventeen percent so other countries ... are working harder to get this investment ... the US is still the top source ... on the top location for foreign direct investment but were losing some Graham ... any administration has started to do some work ... to try to attract foreign investment ... that the policies that you mention before are exactly the point tax policy ... are we doing enough to eat in gauging free trade agreements what are the policies the global companies ... wanna look at to invest more hits and got about thirty seconds left I mean let's be real the Obama missed ration was the one by American million free trade agreements are any indication ... that there to welcome this type of ... job creating investments that firm well we're hopeful and administration actually started something called select USA ... whose sole purpose is to bring in foreign direct investment ... and it's a start but we got we got a long way to go to appeal on a little skeptical but I'm glad we are hopeful he is in decline and President CEO of the organization for international investment ... the key so much for being here thanks ...


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If true, the five-time Open champion would become their oldest-ever captain. Sam Snead was 57 when he did the job in 1969.
The United States, though, have lost five of the last six matches and their only success on European soil in the last 31 years came in 1993 - with Watson in charge.
While not confirming that the Professional Golfers' Association of America had been in touch with him, Watson said in Australia at the weekend: "It would be a great honour if I got tapped on the shoulder.
"I'd like to go back as captain. That would be cool."
He has not even attended a match since he was captain and to hand him the position again would be seen as a huge gamble - especially as he has been critical in the past of Tiger Woods's behaviour.
After Woods fell from grace following a sex scandal in 2008 Watson said: "I feel that he has not carried the same stature as the other great players that have come along like Jack [Nicklaus], Byron Nelson, [Ben] Hogan in the sense that there was bad language and club throwing on the golf course.
"You can grant that to somebody, a young person, that has not been out there for a while, but I think he needs to clean up his act and show the respect for the game that the people before him have shown."
The PGA of America have appointed captains for one match only since Jack Nicklaus served for a second time in 1987 on his own course at Muirfield Village, a match that ended with Europe achieving their first-ever away win.
Davis Love was in charge in Chicago in September, but the United States suffered a one-point defeat after leading 10-4 earlier in the contest.
David Toms was thought of as the likeliest man to take over, but PGA of America president Ted Bishop fuelled the speculation about Watson by saying yesterday: "I'm looking forward to Thursday because I think we've done something a little bit different.
"The role of the PGA of America in naming a Ryder Cup captain should not be to name somebody to reward them for their previous playing experiences. We need to look for captains that are going to put our team in the best position to win it.
"We're tired of losing. And whether it's him (Watson) or its somebody else, that's what our mission is."


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28 September
Events which occurred on 28 September.
On Earth
- 1930 - Illustrator Livia Rusz is born.
- 1937 - Donald Gee, who would voice Radagast in 1981 radio series, is born.
- 1973 - The National Review publishes an article on J.R.R. Tolkien's death.
- 2004 - The parody book The Sillymarillion is published.
- 2010 - The book The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films, by Doug Adams, is published.
In Arda
- Frodo and his companions traverse the Barrow-downs and are captured by a Barrow-wight. Tom Bombadil rescues them, gives them weapons and four ponies and suggests to visit the Prancing Pony at Bree.
- Gandalf reaches Sarn Ford.
- Boromir travels towards Rivendell to ask for counsel.


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HOUSTON, TX (May 7, 2012) – More than 1,300 people were on hand Monday, May 7, 2012, as Holocaust Museum Houston honored Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and worldwide voice of conscience Elie Wiesel with its internationally recognized Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award in honor of his tireless, life-long service to stop hatred around the world.
Elie Wiesel, right, receives the award from Honorary Chairs Lester and Sue Smith as Event Chairs Danny and Isabel David look on.
The event, held at the Hilton-Americas Houston, raised more than $1.2 million to support ongoing educational programs of the Museum that promote awareness of the dangers of hatred, prejudice and apathy against the backdrop of the Holocaust and enable the Museum to continue to offer free general admission to the public year-round.
Wiesel received the award from Honorary Chairs and Presenting Underwriters Lester and Sue Smith, as event chairs Danny and Isabel David looked on.
Among VIPs in attendance were Peter N. Berkowitz, chair of the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission; Fred Zeidman, former chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council; Mark White, former governor of Texas; Bill White, former mayor of Houston; Arthur Schechter, former American ambassador to the Bahamas; and Meir Shlomo, consul general of Israel to the Southwest.
The crowd included more than 25 Holocaust survivors and many children of survivors. Also seen in the crowd were Lorraine and Ed Wulfe, Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff, Joan and Stanford Alexander, Soraya and Scott McClelland, Kelli Cohen Fein and Martin Fein, Punkin and Walter Hecht, and Regina Rogers.
Wiesel used the occasion to remind those in attendance that "to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all."
"It's not easy, it's not easy to try to believe in moral courage in a world that lacks it, " he acknowledged. "It lacks it because people are afraid, afraid of their own temptations."
Wiesel also spoke of what he called a kind of 11th commandment, "Thou shalt not stand idly by, which means whenever there is an injustice committed against the destiny of a person or of a people, thou shalt not stand idly by. You must speak up. You must defend. You must tell the victims, 'Look, at least you should know that you are not alone, that somebody cares.' "
Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, and he is the author of almost 60 works dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust and the moral responsibility of all people to fight hatred, racism and genocide.
He was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. He was 15 years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perished, his two older sisters survived. Wiesel and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945.
After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir "Night" (La Nuit), which has since been translated into more than 30 languages.
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed Wiesel as chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust. In 1980, he became the founding chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
Holocaust Museum Houston created the Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award in 1994 in cooperation with the Johnson family. In 1938, as a young congressman, Johnson stretched the limits of his authority and risked his personal dreams to provide American sanctuary for threatened European Jews. It is because of these acts of moral courage that the Museum proudly named the award in his honor. The award recognizes either a single righteous act or a lifetime of morally courageous behavior.
Previous recipients of the award have included television producer Norman Lear; the Houston community of Holocaust survivors; the late Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan; activist Sir Bob Geldof; former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell; former U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, Jr.; former U.S. Sen. Robert Dole; U.S. Sen. John McCain; filmmaker Steven Spielberg; and former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, among others.
Holocaust Museum Houston is dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, remembering the 6 million Jews and other innocent victims and honoring the survivors' legacy. Using the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides, the Museum teaches the dangers of hatred, prejudice and apathy.
Holocaust Museum Houston is free and open to the public and is located in Houston's Museum District at 5401 Caroline St., Houston, TX 77004. For more information about the Museum, call 713-942-8000 or visit www.hmh.org.


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If you want to trace the weakness in the US economy to one root problem, here it is in a word: debt.
To many economists it's a conclusion that's hard to avoid. The lingering effects of a credit boom and bust continue to hinder a strong economic recovery.
Lest we forget, debt problems were the precipitating cause of the deep contraction of 2008. And still today, US consumers remain saddled with historic debt burdens. What's more, government borrowing has soared to worrisome levels, and banks face piles of bad loans – a problem that makes them less able to provide new credit to the economy.
Of course, borrowing in itself isn't necessarily good or bad. When used with moderation and for useful purposes, credit is actually a major fuel for economic growth. The word "leverage," employed by finance types as a synonym for debt, rightly implies a tool – a kind of force multiplier.
But when debts grow too large, the multiplying effects can turn negative. And the fallout can be stagnation that lasts for years. That's the risk facing the US and world economies today.
The urgency of the debt issue is visible in Congress, as a 12-lawmaker "super committee" has struggled without success to strike a deal taming chronic federal deficits. It's visible in the Obama White House, which recently stepped up efforts to help at-risk mortgage borrowers refinance troubled home loans. And it's apparent in Europe, where efforts to contain a government-debt crisis are at a critical stage – with spillover implications for the rest of the world.
But if the problem of debt is simple to identify, it's mighty hard to fix. Divided power in Washington, with Republicans and Democrats not seeing eye-to-eye on policy, is just one part of the challenge.
"We're not in an easy position," says Desmond Lachman, an economist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington. "The policy options aren't that obvious, even if you didn't have the political constraint."
If not addressed, public- and private- debt levels will stand as an ongoing obstacle to growth in the United States, as well as Europe and Japan, concludes a September report by economists at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.
Already, it's clear that the US economy has been weakest – both during and after the recession – in regions where household debts are highest. That's the conclusion of county-level analysis by Amir Sufi of the University of Chicago, working with Atif Mian of the University of California, Berkeley, and Kamalesh Rao of MasterCard Advisors.
Even after two years of recovery, debt remains the economy's major challenge, says Mr. Sufi.
Debt may be dampening growth in a variety of ways, including:
Tighter credit. This affects consumers and small businesses through things like lower credit-card limits, closer scrutiny of mortgage applications, and higher bank fees since the recession. Part of the reason: Banks themselves are far from healthy, and regulators are calling on banks to boost their capital reserves as high rates of default on home loans persist.
A bust for family wealth. Before the recession, consumers were busy extracting cash from their houses (through home-equity loans and refinancing) – pumping cash directly into the economy. Now, after a drop in home values, many families with diminished net worth are trying to save more and spend less.
Diminished mobility. When people feel free to relocate, that helps the economy grow faster by using available labor in the most efficient ways. But between 2010 and 2011, a record low percentage of the population moved, according to recently released census numbers. One important reason appears to be inertia from the housing bust. Many people are staying put because they can't sell their homes at a price that would pay off their mortgage.
Leaner government spending. With many American voters worried about rising public debts, and credit-rating agencies issuing their own warnings, the climate for government spending has shifted sharply since 2009. Whether or not they believe more fiscal stimulus programs (like tax cuts or infrastructure spending) would be helpful right now, most economists say cuts in federal spending will reduce growth of the gross domestic product in the near term. Taking both state and federal governments into account, US fiscal policy is already restricting growth, by some estimates.
All this doesn't mean debt is the only obstacle in the path of a stronger recovery.
Some economists see other problems at the forefront. One camp, for example, argues that US government debts remain manageable in size (for now), and therefore the big policy failure is that fiscal stimulus programs haven't been big enough. Another camp argues that the missing ingredient for recovery is to get government out of the way by putting new regulations on hold (including the Obama health-care reforms) and by signaling resolve to restrain federal spending and keep future tax rates low.
Brian Bethune, an economist at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass., agrees with the notion that one big drag on consumers and businesses is uncertainty – doubts about everything from tax and health-care policy to the future trajectory of the economy. But he sees this problem as intertwined with debt.
"The two kind of feed on each other," Mr. Bethune says, and are "part of the same overall malaise that we're in."
The debt burdens don't halt US growth outright. The economy appears to be expanding at an annual pace of about 2 percent. The problem is, that hasn't been fast enough to bring unemployment down significantly, because the labor force is growing and so is worker productivity. And the tepid growth leaves the economy vulnerable to a recession if a new head wind arises.
A recent Heartland Monitor poll found some 47 percent of borrowers saying the downturn has encouraged them to pay off debt or not take on new debt, even if that means spending cutbacks. And since the recession began, the amount of income that households must devote to monthly debt payments has fallen from 14 percent of income to 11 percent. "It's like having 3 percent more income to spend," says Karen Dynan, an economist at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
By other measures, millions of families still have a long way to go. Despite all the defaults and foreclosures in the past four years, total mortgage debt today is nearly $10 trillion, down only 6 percent from its peak year of 2007.
So what can be done? Some leading policy options would target mortgages and the housing market directly.
President Obama recently announced changes in a program to reduce monthly payments for at-risk homeowners. The goal is to offer refinancing to some of the 11 million borrowers who owe more than their homes are worth. Moody's Analytics estimates that the new "refi" push could help 1.6 million households, bringing the total served by Mr. Obama's Home Affordable Refinance Program to 2.85 million.
Some economists call for more aggressive re-financing, or new incentives to bring buyers into the housing market – whether as occupants or landlords.
Sufi, at the University of Chicago, says he supports considering ambitious plans. He also cautions against viewing any as a quick fix.
In fact, by some estimates a large-scale refinancing effort might allow GDP to grow about half a percentage point faster – helpful, but still not an enormous benefit.
That means policymakers might need to consider a range of other policies to get the recovery back on track:
•The Federal Reserve could attempt more unconventional means to pump monetary fuel into the economy, although economists are divided over whether such an effort would work.
•On fiscal policy, a credible long-term plan to reduce US budget deficits could be a confidence boost for consumers and businesses, while not necessarily causing a big immediate plunge in federal spending.
•Other moves might help the economy grow faster regardless of how long the debt drag lasts. Streamlining the tax code or taking steps to promote innovation are examples.
Even small successes could be important, helping the economy achieve what Bethune calls "escape velocity." The more jobs and incomes grow, the easier it will be for debtors and home prices to revive.