Posted on 02/09/2009 12:36:11 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny
Delmarva Chicken Corn Chowder
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/article/208/18681
It was adapted from a culinary staple of the area’s Amish population.
Ingredients:
4 strips of bacon,diced
1/2 cup diced celery
1/2 cup diced onion
1/2 cup diced carrot
3 tablespoons flour
1 quart chicken stock
2 cups diced cooked chicken
2 cups pured or cream style corn
1 cup corn kernels (either fresh or frozen)
1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1 cup heavy cream at room temperature
salt and pepper to taste
Instructions:
In a large soup pot, sauté bacon until crisp. Pour off grease. Stirring frequently, add celery, onions and carrot. Cook until tender. Stir in flour and cook for 2-3 minutes. Pour stock slowly into vegetable mixture while stirring with a whisk and scraping mixture from sides of the pot. Add chicken, corn and poultry seasoning. Stir in cream, simmer 3-4 minutes and serve.
ping
bttt
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg63.htm
March 19, 2009
tg63
Administration Launches New Consumer Website For Responsible Homeowners Seeking Relief
MakingHomeAffordable.gov Features Self Assessment Tools, Calculators
to Help Borrowers Determine Eligibility, Payment Reductions
under Administration’s Refinancing and Loan Modification Program
Washington, DC— The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today launched a new website for consumers seeking information about the Obama Administration’s Making Home Affordable loan modification and refinancing program. MakingHomeAffordable.gov offers features including interactive self-assessment tools that will empower borrowers to determine if they’re eligible to participate and calculate the monthly mortgage payment reductions they could stand to realize under the Making Home Affordable program.
First announced by President Barack Obama in February, Making Home Affordable will offer assistance to as many as 7 to 9 million homeowners making a good-faith effort to make their mortgage payments, while attempting to prevent the destructive impact of the housing crisis on families and communities. MakingHomeAffordable.gov is a joint effort of the Department of the Treasury and HUD.
“Education and outreach is central to the success of our Making Home Affordable program,” said Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. “Putting resources and tools directly in the hands of homeowners will expedite the process of delivering relief to responsible borrowers, and stabilizing the housing market is central to our overall economic recovery.”
“The tools offered on this site will help American families access the help they need even faster,” said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan. “Communicating how this program works and who is eligible to those who need it is critical to the program’s success, and this website does just that.”
Since releasing the guidelines to enable servicers to begin modifications of eligible mortgages under Making Home Affordable on March 4th, representatives from Treasury, HUD and other members of a broad interagency task force have conducted detailed briefings and training sessions for mortgage loan servicers and investors, nonprofit housing counselors and nationwide borrower advocacy groups. Through these early and aggressive efforts to arm those interacting directly with borrowers with information, interagency representatives have briefed more than 2,500 participants on the Administration’s plans in the last two weeks.
A wide array of large banks to small lenders have already agreed to participate in Making Home Affordable, and servicers have undertaken steps to proactively engage borrowers and respond to their inquiries related to the new program. For example, JP Morgan Chase has put several special tools into place and initiated proactive solicitations to eligible borrowers around the Making Home Affordable program, including an online site to provide program details and allow borrowers to download a new financial information package; increased staffing in a dedicated service center that provides simple entry point for all borrowers, including CHASE, heritage Washington Mutual and EMC; a partnership with Fannie Mae to solicit over 125,000 eligible borrowers; and solicitation to an additional 180,000 non-GSE eligible borrowers.
With those wheels in motion, the Administration is now accelerating efforts to communicate directly with borrowers about the Making Home Affordable program. Features of the MakingHomeAffordable.gov website launched today include:
* Extensive information about the Administration’s Making Home Affordable plan
* Self assessment tools to allow borrowers to determine if they are eligible for the program
* A calculator feature that allows homeowners to estimate the reduction to their monthly mortgage payment that they might stand to realize under the plan
* Resources to find free, HUD-approved counseling services for borrowers who have additional questions
* A handy checklist to ensure homeowners collect all the documents they need before calling their servicers
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Gee, pretty simple - he picked up his daughter (a college junior) for break over Christmas and they were driving home, stopped at the diner that was in front of a motel for a cup of coffee (about half way on a 5 hour trip).
Caleb Boggs, Bill Roth, Russ Peterson, Pete duPont are a few others who were top notch. I feel fortunate to have known all of them.
It should be noted that most (except Russ & Pete) were from downstate! They kept their conservative principles with them when they moved into the political arena.<<<<
You are indeed fortunate, not only to have known them, but to live in a state that they served.
I am so glad it was his daughter, there are so many who would not have put out the effort to even pick her up.
because we the people have been buying into prosperity via borrowing and hidden taxation for so long, we don’t realize that the ‘accumulated wealth’ is a mirage built upon creeping inflation from massive federal money from nothing debt and usery rates stepped to what the market will bear.<<<
Yes, Putin is already calling for a new money for the world and it will happen, as too many communist countries will vote with him.
I thought/and still think that they played America for a fool, when the wall came down.
One of my real estate clients was a foreigner and had been here for many years, but never gave up his ties to the socialist culture.
I asked him what it meant when the wall came down.
He told me, “Russia has so many dissenters in it and they are beginning to cause trouble, so the wall came down and they were told to get out of Russia, and in time the wall will go up again...”
From what I can see and read, Russia is gaining control of all the countries that they had before, some willingly, some with the Russians they moved in to influence the country’s vote and the rest with the threat of no gas for heating and cooking.
Add to the old countries, they have moved into other areas of the world and the mid-east.
And I see a dark future, for someone has to win.
Interesting, I too am past needing them.
Welcome to the thread, thank you for coming to read it.
Join in if you wish, it is a wonderful group of Freepers.
I did find out you can salt veggies too.<<<<<
Check out the Morton Salt google link that I sent, for it appears to still be the #1 salt curing book.
There are many methods of keeping foods, LOL, some scare me, as it does not make sense to me to let something age and sour and call it good...like Sauerkraut.
Old Bay Seasoning is a standard - but if you can’t find it in your local store, try this substitute.<<<
As I read the recipe, I thought it should go in a Corn Chowder recipe...and I see you posted one...
Never having lived around that much fishing, I am not a fish fan.
A recipe for Delmarvelous Crab Cakes<<<
I bet they would be good.
Delmarva Chicken Corn Chowder<<<
Now that is a recipe that I can get excited about.
So of course we have lots of chicken recipes - here are a few.<<<
Do You realize that you have now used up all the names for Chicken dishes?
Thanks for the bttt, glad you are still reading.
http://www.state.gov/p/inl/rls/rm/120679.htm
Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
Affairs Remarks (2009)
Guns, Drugs and Violence: The Merida Initiative and the Challenge in Mexico
David T. Johnson
Assistant Secretary of State
Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
Statement before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
Washington, DC
March 18, 2009
(As prepared)
Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Mack, and Members of the Committee:
Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the Merida Initiative, which is a security cooperation partnership to combat transnational narcotics trafficking and organized crime in Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean.
Roughly 90 percent of all the cocaine consumed in the United States transits Mexico. The country is also the largest foreign supplier of marijuana and much of our domestic consumption of methamphetamine still originates in or transits through Mexico to the United States. Central American officials have identified gangs, drug trafficking, and trafficking of arms as the most pressing security concerns in that region. Transnational crime and narcotics trafficking affect us all, and I would like to share with the Committee what we – at the Department of State, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Justice, and across agencies – are doing to address it.
Our partners in Mexico, Central America, Haiti and the Dominican Republic have already made considerable progress in their own efforts to confront these problems, and they appreciate our help, which will enable them to greatly expand on this progress. Likewise, the U.S. has committed tremendous resources domestically to reduce drug demand and to secure our borders so that dangerous people and drugs do not come in and guns and drug proceeds do not go out. However, our domestic efforts must be complemented by regional cooperation to confront what is increasingly a transnational problem. Through bilateral and multilateral initiatives, and specifically the Merida Initiative, the governments of Mexico, Central America, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic are demonstrating unprecedented willingness to work with us and each other to address these issues. This is a compelling opportunity to advance our common national security interests. <<<
[Only a snippet, but you should go and read it, for it sets out what we are doing to help them and are not managing to do in our own country.
Somethings confuse me, and the State Department is one that always leaves me wanting to ask which country they serve, not the U.S. , in my opinion.
granny]
http://www.cashill.com/regional/etiquette.htm
The Etiquette of Economic Distress
by Jack Cashill
Published in ingramsonline.com - March 2009
Some years back, I found myself scrubbed up in a surgical suite, interviewing a doctor as he extracted a gall bladder from the poor sucker on the table in front of us.
The interview proved useless as we could not see the doctor’s lips move behind his mask—duh!—and the viewer had no way of knowing who was talking. Still, the doctor served up an insight into human nature that has proved valuable in this period of economic instability.
We were shooting a TV commercial about a then newish procedure called a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. As it works, the doctor inserts a tiny video camera into the patient’s abdomen and guides his own instruments by watching them on a video monitor. At the climax of the video, the money shot, this seriously funky gall bladder comes squirting out a hole at the patient’s navel, an image as gross as it sounds.
“We give the patient a copy of the video,” the doctor told me matter-of-factly.
“Who would want such a thing?” I asked.
“You’d be surprised,” he told me. “Some people request multiple copies for their friends and relatives.”
I did not doubt that some people like to navel gaze, but I seriously doubted whether anyone’s friends or relatives wanted to share the experience.
To get the gist of the guidelines that follow, the first ever “etiquette” for the downwardly mobile, just remember that others will think of your “portfolio” the way you think of this fellow’s gall bladder, and it will all begin to make sense.
Rule #1. Keep your portfolio to yourself.
Yes, sure, it is shriveling and diseased. So what? Whose isn’t? With the oddball exception, your friends and relatives want to hear about this no more than they do your latest round of golf. The economy isn’t about you. The Masters of the Universe don’t wake up each morning thinking how they can screw you. Stuff happens, and at the end of the day our kids get all the money anyhow.
Rule #2. Lose the anger.
Unless Bernie Madoff was your broker, you really have no cause to be mad at anyone other than perhaps yourself. For years, you insisted you could outsmart the market. You told us so fairly often. You couldn’t, and the world is run by people no wiser than you are. Barney Frank comes conspicuously to mind here. No one promised us that we, uniquely in the history of the world, would continue to grow richer and fatter forever. We got kicked out of the Garden, remember?
Rule #3. Hold all talk of the Apocalypse.
No one wants to listen to your distinctive insight into the end of the world as we know it. You have no more a clue about the future than my mother-in-law or your average economist. Your friends would rather you get back to talking about cheerier subjects like global warming, nuclear winter, or the Kansas City Royals.
Rule #4. Don’t blame capitalism.
It has been a while since I read Adam Smith, but I do not remember him advising bankers to lend money to low and middle-income people for home loans that they would not be able to pay back. I think that advice was hatched in Washington. And if my memory serves me, although the message came from Uncle Sam, there was nothing avuncular about its delivery. “Deregulation,” me arse.
Rule #5. Get some perspective.
Some years ago, I was flying back from London via St. Louis. On the flight I was reading this epically gloomy book on the siege of Leningrad during World War II. Just as the book was reaching its doleful low point, we landed in St. Louis.
There we changed planes. The fellow next to me on the Kansas City leg had also been on the London flight. As the plane started backing out of the gate, he saw his bag still on the baggage train, jumped up, and demanded that the plane turn around and pick it up. When the flight attendant told him this was impossible, he reacted as if they had left his baby on the baggage train. Still fuming, he turned to me for consolation. A mistake. I was not in the mood.
“Mac, the poor schmucks in my book here are eating sawdust and rats for their Sunday brunch, and you are outraged because, worst case, someone brings your bag to your house a few hours after you return from a European vacation.”
As it happened, his bag had not been left behind. When the fellow saw it being loaded on to the baggage train in Kansas City, he blamed the airline for creating the illusion that it had been. Can you imagine being this guy’s broker?
Rule #6—Share your deeper thoughts.
Once you have given up squawking about your investments or sputtering madly at Wall Street and Washinton, you have to talk about something. I would recommend you switch from CNBC to ESPN or HGTV or the Animal Planet. They don’t run a stock ticker on any of those channels.
You might also take a long walk every now and then. You will notice that sunsets are fully indifferent to equity markets. Even the worst day on Wall Street does not discolor them. At your next dinner party, share your newly developed “Deep Thoughts” with your fellow guests.
If need be, borrow a few from Jack Handey like, “If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” Even if you make up your own, they would be better received than still another whine about your dwindling wealth.
Rule #7—Don’t count your chips until the game is over.
I had the privilege of growing up around my parent’s poker table. When I was old enough to sit in, I had the etiquette of the game drubbed into my head: play the hand close to your vest, no whining, no weeping, no gloating, no blaming the cards.
The game’s most critical lesson was simple enough: don’t count your chips until the game is over. If you are winning, you will annoy the other players. If you are losing, you will only unnerve yourself.
This larger game is far from over. Keep your cool and leave the counting of chips to the lesser mortals at the table. Although I shy from making economic predictions, I tend to be an optimist, and I will bet my house against your mailbox that no one reading this column will end his or her days eating rats and sawdust.
AFRICAN SWINE FEVER - RUSSIA (03): (STAVROPOL)
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A ProMED-mail post
http://www.promedmail.org
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International Society for Infectious Diseases
http://www.isid.org
Date: Thu 19 Mar 2009
Source: The Moscow Times [edited]
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/600/42/375463.htm
African swine fever strikes collective farm
A Moscow region lab confirmed that pigs at the Lenin kolkhoz
[collective farm] were infected with the disease. A team of
veterinarians, law enforcement officers and Emergency Situations
Ministry officials were working in the quarantine zone, and police
are guarding entrances to the farm, local news agencies reported.
The disease, which has largely been eradicated outside sub-Saharan
Africa, has caused serious damage in the agricultural Stavropol
region since an outbreak was confirmed there in October [2008]. More
than 18 000 pigs there have been culled or died of the disease since,
Rossiiskaya Gazeta said on its website Thursday [19 Mar 2009]. The
Gazeta newspaper reported Thursday that officials were also trying to
contain a suspected outbreak in South Ossetia.
African swine fever is not dangerous to humans.
A local Emergency Situations Ministry official said that about 50
pigs had died at the farm in the Kievka [Kiyevka] village, Interfax
reported. Roughly 2700 pigs — most of them at private farms — are
within the quarantine zone, a local veterinary official told the news
agency.
A major outbreak in the Caucasus in 2007 was blamed on wild boars,
and Georgian officials had to cull 30 000 pigs after the United
Nations warned that the outbreak could cause an economic disaster.
In January [2009], some 7000 pigs were culled after the disease was
detected at another Stavropol region farm. Sochi, in the neighboring
Krasnodar region, said at the time that it had allotted RUB 4 million
(USD 118 000) to contain a smaller outbreak there.
In February [2009], 4 workers at a Stavropol collective farm — also
named after Lenin — were found guilty of veterinary violations and
fined RUB 50 000 to 60 000 [USD 1480-1770].
—
Communicated by:
ProMED-mail
promed@promedmail.org
[Following its initial introduction into Georgia, probably through
the Black Sea Georgian harbour of Poti, during the 1st quarter of
2007, ASF has been continuously spreading in the Caucasus region,
continuing its northwards march in south Russia. Initially affecting
the territories of Georgia, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, and
Azerbaijan, ASF penetrated Russia in November 2007. The distance from
the current outbreak, in Kievka (Kiyevka), to the Ukrainian border,
on its north west, is about 350 km (218 mi).
The Russian epizootic has, by now, been reported from the territories
of Chechnya, North Ossetia-Alania, Ingushetia, Orenburg (outside the
Caucasus; reportedly, wildlife affected), the Stavropolskiy Kray
(Stavropol), and the Krasnodarskiy Kray (Krasnodar). As of 16 Jan
2009 (most recent, 13th follow-up report), the total number of
outbreaks reported to the OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health)
by Russia since the start of its epizootic on 5 Nov 2007, had reached
50.
For an OIE summary, with a map including all said outbreaks, see
http://www.oie.int/wahis/public.php?page=event_summary&reportid=6546
For the location of Kievka (Kiyevka), go to
http://healthmap.org/r/007l (zoom in).
An update of the situation, in a new follow-up report, is
anticipated. - Mod.AS]
[see also:
African swine fever - Russia (02): (STA,KDA) 20090117.0192
African swine fever - Russia: (STA) 20090113.0139
2008
[Please pass the tinfoil, my hat isn’t working....
How long before it reaches here?
It appears to be in many of the countries that Russia wants to control...
granny
KGB know how to topple a country with ‘peaceful’ destructions ... attack the food provision chain and wait for them to beg for Mother Russia’s aide.
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