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At this season’s sec-ond ski cross World Cup race yesterday, U.S. alpine legend Daron Rahlves took second place behind young-gun Simon Stickl of Germany.

The event, which took place in Johann, Austria, also doubled as an Olympic quali-fier.

Vail local Chris Del Bosco, vying for an Olympic bid, made it to the quar-terfinal round, finishing tenth overall and beating out notable Casey Puckett of Aspen, who took third in the season opener.

“It’s not easy. I’ll tell you that. It’s a tough situation right now, especially

with the Olympics coming on,” said Del Del Bosco, Chris’ father. “They had 90 men there trying to qualify. The top 32 move on and the rest go home. The competition is a helluva lot tougher in an Olympic year.”

Del Bosco, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, opted to race for our friends to the North because the Canadian Team simply offered him more in terms of training and financing. He’ll know if he’s qualified for the Olympics by the end of this month, and he’s receiving some tough competition from fellow Canadian team member David Duncan, who took third in Tuesday’s World Cup.

“His training’s been going well, but when you get four guys in there, every-thing changes,” said Del Bosco.

Del Bosco said ski cross is an unpre-dictable sport. “When you have short

courses, one or two little mistakes and you lose two or three tenths, you don’t make the top 32, it’s just that simple,” he said. “The top guy in the world (Tomas Kraus) didn’t make the cut.”

Birds of Prey veteran Daron Rahlves took a big step towards getting back on the U.S. Olympic team by finishing run-ner-up.

Winner of the 2008 Winter X Games title in ski cross, Rahlves strengthened his chance of competing there with his performance in this key qualifying event.

Ski cross, which features a mass start and head-to-head racing on a course with turns and rolls, replicates and formalizes the “Chinese Downhill” style of racing that we all grew up with.

The event will make its Olympic debut in Vancouver this February.

Schmid leads the overall standings with 250 points, followed by Audun Groenvold of Norway with 166.

Del Bosco 10th at SX World CupEagle-Vail local gunning for Olympic bid

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Edwards snowboarder rips Grand Prix qualifier

The Vail Valley was well represented at yesterday’s qualifying round for the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix Men’s and Women’s Superpipe competition in Mammoth, California.

18-year-old Broc Waring of Edwards qualified with authority for today’s finals, taking fourth, just behind two names you may have heard of: Shaun White and Louie Vito, who placed first and second, respectively.

Waring said his second run was a lot cleaner. He started off with a Michalchuk (a back flip with a 540

By Geoff MintzMountaineer Staff Writer

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ond trading day of the year as a pair of economic reports sent mixed signals about how the recovery was going. Major stock indexes ended flat a day after the Dow Jones industrials soared more than 150 points on upbeat manu-facturing reports in the U.S. and China. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 11.94, or 0.1 percent, to 10,572.02. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 3.53, or 0.3 percent, to 1,136.52. The Nasdaq composite index rose 0.29, or less than 0.1 percent, to 2,308.71.

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spin) on the first hit into a backside rodeo, followed by a front-side 1080 into a cab 720, finishing with an air-to-fakie into a cab 1080.

“I’m just looking to ride the best I can,” Waring said Tuesday after the qualifier. “Everyone here is looking to make the Olympic Team. There are some big names in the finals right now, and everyone is expecting them

RIGHT: Broc Waring of Edwards qualified fourth for today’s finals at Snowboarding Grand Prix in Mammoth, an Olympic qualifier. He finished behind Shaun White and Louie Vito.

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2 Vail Mountaineer Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Waldir Prado doesn’t like taking risks, but takes them anyway because he loves seeing things created.

Doing his best to hold back tears, Prado addressed his staff at the Vail Plaza Hotel yesterday afternoon, telling them that the hotel will undergo new ownership, the result of a judge’s verdict after the hotel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy roughly a year ago.

“I think we can be proud to say we achieved what we said we would do - the hotel is here - and you helped that we opened it to the satisfaction of everybody, and I would like you all to cooperate with the new owner to benefit Vail more than anything,” Prado said. “This is a good asset to Vail - for the community - and it should continue to be a good for Vail.”

On Monday, a judge decided to award ownership to a New York developer after creditors rejected Pardo’s offer to remain open and repay his debts within three years.

Vail Plaza Hotel filed for bankruptcy in October of 2008 with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Denver. Prado blamed his financial difficulties in part on delays in the hotel’s opening.

The Plaza opened December of 2007, with 100 guest rooms and 38 club condos with up to four bedrooms.

Those employed at the hotel will remain, said Gener-al Manager Connie Dorsey, save possibly a few people in upper management.

“Most of the staff has been here since the beginning ... my hat is off to the fortitude and dedication they dis-played throughout this process,” Dorsey said.

Prado has been coming to the valley for 36 years, but when he and his wife decided to settle in Vail perma-nently in the late 1990s, he set out to reshape the town’s hotel market.

Prado’s redevelopment ventures are well known in the valley. He set out to incorporate the Chateau at Vail

into the Vail Plaza’s design before the Four Seasons bought it from him in 2003. He also owned the Vail Village Inn.

After sinking $42 million into the Plaza’s construc-tion from his calculations, Prado plans to bow out gracefully, relocating to his native Brazil by the time the new owners representatives arrive within the next 10 days.

“For me, the flavor is gone (from Vail), the friends we have here are superb, but surely I don’t enjoy look-ing at this everyday,” said Prado, referring to the Plaza. “At this age, I am more of a beach boy than a mountain man.”

Plaza Hotel has new ownersNew York developer takes over Vail Village business

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SSCV wins every run in every groupat Crested Butte Age Class GS races

ATHLETIC STUFF

In a show of tremendous talent, the group of racers representing SSCV in the Age Class Giant Slalom races at Crested Butte this past weekend, January 2nd and 3rd, took control of the competition and the podiums by winning every run in every age group.

The charge of the SSCV team started Saturday with the girls a.m. races. For the J5 girls, Brianna Trudeau placed 1st, Elise Viola 5th and Sylka Snyder 9th. In the a.m. race for the J4 girls, Sasha Horn took 1st, Camilla Trapness 2nd, Megan McGrew 7th, Heidi Livran 8th, and Abi-gail Murer placed 9th. In the A.M. race for the J3 girls, Katie Talbot took 1st, Molly McGrew 2nd, Leah Newton 3rd, Haley Wallace 4th, Delaney Patterson 5th, Erika McCormick 6th, Genevieve Soden 7th, and Samantha Hancock 9th. For the Saturday P.M. races: J5 girls: Nel-lie Talbot 1st, Brianna Trudeau 2nd, and Elise Viola 10th. J4 girls: Heidi Livran 1st, Sasha Horn 2nd, Megan McGrew 3rd, Abigail Murer 4th, Camilla Trapness 5th, and Hannah Clauss 10th. J3 girls: Erika McCormick 1st, Molly McGrew 2nd, Katie Talbot 3rd, Haley Wallace 4th, Leah Newton 5th, Delaney Patterson 6th, Genevieve Soden 7th, and Samantha Hancock 10th.

For the boys in Saturday’s A.M. race, J5 boys: Brendan Keane 1st, Colby Lange 2nd, Peer Carnes 3rd, Gus LeB-

lanc 4th, Flinn Lazier 5th, Jacob Dilling 6th, and Jake Dippy 8th. J4 boys: River Radamus 1st, Jack Keane 2nd, Quintin Cook 5th, Sands Simonton 6th, Victor Guilmineau 9th, and Paul Cuthbertson 10th. J3 Boys: Quin Davis 1st, Nicholas Romano 2nd, Kevan Aubel 4th, Clay-ton Kirwood 5th, and Harrison Alonzo 6th. For the boys P.M. races, J5 boys: Brenden Keane 1st, Colby Lange 2nd, Jacob Dilling 3rd, Gus Leblanc and Jake Dippy tied for 4th, Patrick Scruggs 6th, Flinn Lazier 7th, and Peer Carnes 8th. J4 boys: River Radamus 1st, Sands Simon-ton 5th, Jack Keane 6th, Woody Scruggs 7th, and Victor Guilmieau 8th. J3 boys: Quin Davis 1st, Nicholas Romano 2nd, and Clayton Kirwood 5th.

For the J5 girls in Sunday’s A.M. race,

Nellie Talbot was first, Brianna Trudeau 2nd, and Gabrielle Myers was 7th. J4 girls: Megan McGrew 1st, Sasha Horn 2nd, Camilla Trapness 5th, Heidi Livran 6th, and Katelin Hennum 7th. J3 girls: Molly McGrew 1st, Erika McCormick 2nd, Katie Talbot 3rd, Leah Newton 4th, Genevieve Soden 5th, Haley Wallace 6th, Delaney Patterson 7th, Samantha Hancock 8th, and Meghan Mulligan 9th. For the P.M. run, J5 girls: Nellie Talbot 1st, Brianna Trudeau 2nd, and Gabrielle Myers 5th. J4 girls: Megan McGrew 1st, Sasha Horn tied for 2nd, Heidi Livran 4th, Abigail Murer 6th, Katelin Hennum 7th, Camilla Trapness 8th, and Hannah Clauss 10th. J3 girls: Molly McGrew 1st, Erika McCormick 2nd, Leah New-ton 3rd, Sara Gezon and Katie Talbot

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For Sunday’s a.m. run, J5 boys: Colby Lange 1st, Brendan Keane 2nd, Chad-wick Mulligan 3rd, Flinn Lazier 4th, Gus LeBlanc 5th, Jake Dippy 6th, and Max Bervy 8th. J4 boys: Jack Keane 1st, River Radamus 2nd, Sands Simon-ton 5th, Victor Guilmineau 7th, Woody Scruggs 8th, and Paul Cuthbertson 10th. J3 boys: Nicholas Romano 1st, Clayton Kirwood 2nd, Kevan Aubel 4th, and Har-rison Alonzo 7th. For the P.M. run at the hill, J5 boys: Brendan Keane 1st, Colby Lange 2nd, Jacob Dilling 3rd, Chadwick Mulligan 4th, Flinn Lazier and Peer Car-nes tied for 5th, Max Bervy 9th, and Gus LeBlanc 10th. J4 boys: River Radamus 1st, Jack Keane 4th, Victor Guilmineau 6th, Woody Scruggs 7th, Quintin Cook 8th, and Paul Cuthbertson 10th. J3 boys: Nicholas Romano 1st, Quin Davis 3rd, Kevan Aubel 4th, Clayton Kirwood 5th, and Harrison Alonzo 6th.

SSCV’s head J5 coach Rika Moore credits the fantastic success of the team this weekend to the early season train-ing available at the SSCV’s new Golden Peak Competition Center.

“I am proud of how they have worked diligently, and the results this weekend are proof of their hard work,” added coach Moore.

Ski and Snowboard Club Vail athletes Jack Keane, left, and River Radamus, right, clear gates in the J5 boys Age Class Giant Slalom races at Crested Butte Sunday morning. Keane and Radamus went 1st and 2nd, respectively, in the race. SSCV athletes won every run in every age group.

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ERS ballot counting rolls past midnightNEWS

The fates giggled Tuesday as the Eagle River Station ballots were counted next to a room where Eagle’s planning commission was dealing with two guys who want to open medical marijuana dispensaries.

More than 2,200 voters showed up for Tuesday’s ERS election. Eagle has 3,800 registered voters, and they’re all ready for this to be over.

The counting was still going past mid-night, which is way past our bedtime. You’ll have the results as soon as we do.

Unlike the 2000 presidential election, there are no hanging chads, the counting won’t run for weeks, and the Supreme Court won’t decide outcome. Eagle voters will.

But in the meantime, Eagle’s planning commission, which spent two years work-ing through Eagle River Station, is ham-mering out the details for a couple medical marijuana dispensaries, Sweet Leaf Pioneer

with David Manzanares, and The Pharm with Barry Hasman – as in wants to sell some Pharm to help you take a trip without leaving the farm.

Eagle River Station is not slated to con-tain these two reefer retailers, or any others right now.

If Eagle’s voters approved it, Eagle River Station will be 550,000 square feet of retail and residential space, $17.5 million in one-time fees, $64 million in off-site infrastruc-ture and an estimated $5 million per year in sales tax revenue.

If they didn’t, it will remain an open field on the east edge of Eagle, at least until the developers sell the land and some other de-veloper wants to build something.

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RIGHT: An Eagle voter prepares to cast his ballot on the controversial Eagle Riv-er Station proposal in Eagle yesterday. Avery Cunliffe photo.

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The U.S.’s elite sprinters, skate and classic skiers, some of whom will comprise Team U.S.A. at the 2010 Winter Olympics, are up in Anchorage, Alaska for the Cross Country National Championships.

Around 500 competitors, including several from Ski Club Vail, are expected to hit the snow at nationals, the most important domestic race event of the season.

Kevin Hochtl, Sylvan Ellifson, Tony Ryerson, Josh Smith, Briana Perkins, Sean Woods and Dominic Monypenny are some of the Vail athletes competing in the National Champs.

Kincaid Park, where the race is held, is set just above sea level and has a makeup similar to the Olympics’ Nordic venue. The races will help U.S. coaches deter-mine who makes the U.S. Olympic team.

The event will also help determine the U.S. teams for three international age-group competitions -- the World Junior Championships, the Under-23 World Champi-onships and the Scandinavia Cup.

On Tuesday, Ski Club Vail coach Carl Hochtl said

the event will serve as the last races for the Olympic trials. “And we also brought Sylvan (Ellifson) up here to try and qualify for U-23 World Championships,” he said, “and Tony Ryerson is trying to qualify for World Juniors.”

There isn’t a whole lot of light up in AK this time of year, which is something the coaches have to keep in mind when trying to hit the wax.

“There’s some light, but it kind of feels like late af-ternoon all day, which is quite an adjustment,” Hochtl said. “I was out here testing wax at 8 a.m. and it was completely dark. They do have the stadium and some of the trails lit up. But it’s pretty dark, which is defi-nitely a different experience.”

He said the best result so far has been Hochtl and Ellefson qualifying 13th and 15th respectively in the skate sprint and Ellefson’s 21st place finish at the open Men’s Skate 15K – a great result, which puts him in the mix for the U-23 Championship.

The team is up in AK until Friday with the distance classic races today and the classic sprints to finish out the championship.

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In an announcement that wasn’t surprise to most, Electronic Arts Inc. said Monday it will stand behind Tiger Woods.

The relationship between EA and Woods stretches back more than a decade. Tiger Woods-branded games have pulled in hundreds of mil-lions of dollars for the company over the years.

Woods’ image has been tarnished following an admission of extramarital “transgressions.” He is taking a break from golf and has been dropped by major corporate sponsors AT&T Corp. and Accenture.

Gillette, a unit of the Procter & Gamble Co., and Swiss watch maker Tag Heuer, a unit of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, have also said they will cut back their use of Woods in their advertising campaigns.

On Monday, EA Sports President Peter Moore said the company decided to stick with Woods because he is “still one of the greatest athletes in history” despite his “mistakes” off the golf course.

Moore added in a statement that the company has spent “considerable time” developing and testing the new “Tiger Woods PGA Tour On-line” game, which he called a “breakthrough experience.”

EA said it doesn’t have a date yet for the launch of the finished game.

The company, which is based in Redwood City, wouldn’t comment on whether Woods’ sex scandal will affect EA’s plans for a new edition of Woods’ popular console game, “Tiger Woods PGA Tour,” a franchise that that doesn’t do as well as the company’s enormously successful “Madden” football series but is still a serious moneymaker. EA has raked in more than $670 million from the Woods franchise in the United States alone over the length of the partnership, according to estimates by market research firm NPD Group.

The most recent installment of the con-sole game, “Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10,” was launched in June 2009. The next one is sched-uled for the summer of 2010. The games are es-pecially popular on the Nintendo Wii, whose in-tuitive motion controls lend themselves to sports games.

The game has no real competitors. EA is the only company licensed by the PGA to make games that carry its name. It lets players play in a setting that looks as close to the real thing as possible.

Tiger Woods assumes his golfer’s stance at the unveiling of EA Sports’ new “Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10” on the Wii in Times Square on Thursday, June 25, 2009 in New York. EA announced recently that they will stand by the world’s No. 1 golfer despite his dirty dog status. AP Photo.

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Randy Johnson retiresAfter 22 major league seasons, five-time

Cy Young Award winner Randy Johnson is retiring.

The man they call The Big Unit, who became the 24th pitcher to win 300 games last June, made the announcement most had been expecting on a conference call Tues-day.

“I really wanted to go out on my terms,” Johnson said. “I just feel like there’s not a lot more for me to do in this game. I just think it’s a natural progression when you play this long. Eventually you have to say it’s time.”

The overpowering accomplished just about everything in his remarkable career that a player hopes for in baseball.

He owns a World Series ring and co-MVP honors, and was a 10-time All-Star. He threw two no-hitters, including a per-fect game, and ranks second on the career strikeout list.

The 46-year-old, 6-foot-10 Johnson fin-ishes with a career record of 303-166 and 4,875 strikeouts in 4,135 1-3 innings for Montreal, Seattle, Houston, Arizona, the New York Yankees and San Francisco. His strikeouts are the most by a left-hander and second to Nolan Ryan’s 5,714.

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RIGHT: Randy Johnson acknowledges the crowd after the Giants beat the Washington Nationals 5-1 for his 300th career in Washington. Johnson is retiring after 22 major league seasons. The Big Unit made the announcement during a conference call yesterday. AP Photo.

Ochocinco tweeted and talked trash to Jets corner-back Darrelle Revis leading up to the last game, say-ing he couldn’t cover him in a phone booth. Ochocinco also said he’d change his last name back to Johnson if Revis shut him down.

The cornerback did, but Ochocinco backed off the name-change promise partially because he didn’t play the second half after a minor injury on his knee was suffered during warmups.

Ochocinco will likely play in the rematch against the Jets.

The Jets held him without a catch ending his streak of 120 games with a reception in a game where the Bengals suffered a 37-0 loss. He watched the second half from the sideline to protect the knee.

He couldn’t fully extend the knee on Monday and had a precautionary medical test. He was cleared to participate in practice on Tuesday even though he was still trying to get the swelling down.

“I’m all right,” the receiver said. “I’m taking medicine.”Coach Marvin Lewis expects Ochocinco to be ready for the Jets (9-7), who have the league’s top-ranked defense.

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Two Democrats with knowledge of Ritter’s decision disclosed it on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to publicly discuss the governor’s political plans.

Among potential Democratic candidates: Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and Andrew Romanoff, a former state legislator who currently is challenging Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet for the party’s U.S. Senate nomination.

Two Republicans are seeking the GOP nomination: former congressman Scott McInnis and businessman Dan Maes.

Johnson & Johnson heiress dead at 30

Casey Johnson, the heiress to the Johnson & John-son fortune who recently made tabloid headlines with

a purported engagement to reality star Tila Tequila, has died at age 30, according to CNN.com.

Her death was announced by Tequila on her Twitter page and confirmed by police. Los Angeles police and firefighters were report-edly called to a house at 11:51 a.m. Monday. Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene.

“It appears to be a natural death,” police Officer Sara Faden was quot-ed saying. “There’s no evidence of foul play.”

Johnson, who leaves a toddler daughter, Ava, whom she had adopted, was the great-great granddaughter of the founder of the pharmaceutical giant, and the daugh-ter of New York Jets owner Robert Wood Johnson, writes CNN’s Mike Fleeman.

A screw-up that could have been disastrous

President Barack Obama told his security chiefs on Tuesday that the botched Christmas Day plane bomb-ing was the result of a screw up by U.S. intelligence and that the country had barely dodged disaster, according to a quotation released by the White House, reports the Reuters news agency.

“This was a screw up that could have been disas-trous,” the president was quoted saying during a meet-ing in the White House situation room, according to the White House media office. “We dodged a bullet but just barely. It was averted by brave individuals not because the system worked and that is not acceptable. While there will be a tendency for finger pointing, I will not tolerate it.”

Domestic violence dropping to a whisper

in FranceMarried couples in France could end up with criminal

records for insulting each other during arguments, ac-cording to the Daily Mail, a British newspaper. Under

a new law, France is to become the first country in the world to ban ‘ psychological violence’ within marriage. The law would reportedly apply to cohabiting couples and to both men and women.

It would cover men who shout at their wives and women who hurl abuse at their husbands - although it was not clear last night if nagging would be viewed as breaking the law, writes the Mail’s Peter Allen.

The law is expected to cover every kind of insult including repeated rude remarks about a partner’s ap-pearance, false allegations of infidelity and threats of physical violence.

Police are being urged to issue a caution in the first instance, but repeat offenders could face a fine, a re-straining order or even jail, reports Allen.

North Dakota Senator will not seek re-election

North Dakota Democrat Byron Dorgan says he will not seek re-election to the Senate in 2010, a surprise announcement that could give Republicans an oppor-tunity to pick up a seat from the Republican-leaning state.

Dorgan, who was first elected to the Senate in 1992 after serving a dozen years in the U.S. House, said he reached the decision after discussing his future with family over the holidays. The moderate Democrat said he has other interests he wants to pursue.

Republican Gov. John Hoeven has been mulling a possible challenge to Dorgan and the veteran law-maker’s retirement could clear the path for the popular governor. Democratic Rep. Earl Pomeroy could be in-terested in seeking the seat.

Tun-zilla sells for $177K in Japan

A giant bluefin tuna fetched 16.3 million yen ($177,000) in an auction Tuesday at the world’s largest wholesale fish market in Japan.

The 513-pound (233-kilogram) fish was the priciest since 2001 when a 440-pound (200 kilogram) tuna sold for a record 20.2 million yen ($220,000) at Tokyo’s Tsukiji market.

The gargantuan tuna was bought and shared by the owners of two Japanese sushi restaurants and one Hong Kong-based sushi establishment, said a market repre-sentative on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose the information.

Caught off the coast of northern Japan, the big tuna was among 570 put up for auction Tuesday. About 40 percent of the auctioned fish came from abroad, in-cluding from Indonesia and Mexico, the representative said.

Japan is the world’s biggest consumer of seafood with Japanese eating 80 percent of the Atlantic and Pa-cific bluefins caught. The two tuna species are the most sought after by sushi lovers.

China says time and patience needed

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U.N. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, saying the issue requires more “time and patience,” ac-cording to the Reuters news agency.

“This is not the right time or right moment for sanc-tions because the diplomatic efforts are still going on,” Chinese envoy Zhang Yesui reportedly told reporters.

“The efforts aimed at diplomatic negotiations on the Iranian nuclear issue still need some time and patience,” Zhang was quoted saying, while his country holds the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council this month.

“Trying to bridge differences and finding a settlement through diplomatic efforts -- there’s still space for such efforts,” he reportedly said through an interpreter.

Tehran already has been hit with three rounds of U.N. sanctions for refusing to comply with demands that it halt sensitive nuclear activities. The United States and its allies have said it is time for a fourth round of sanc-tions, but diplomats in New York say Russia and China are resisting, according to Reuters.

Stanford economist blames Bernanke

John Taylor, creator of the so-called Taylor Rule for guiding monetary policy, disputed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s argument that low inter-est rates didn’t cause the U.S. housing bubble, accord-ing to the Bloomberg news agency.

“The evidence is overwhelming that those low inter-est rates were not only unusually low but they logically were a factor in the housing boom and therefore ulti-mately the bust,” Taylor, a Stanford University econo-mist, reportedly said in an interview today in Atlanta.

Taylor, a former Treasury undersecretary, was re-sponding to a speech by Bernanke two days ago, when he was quoted saying the Fed’s monetary policy after the 2001 recession “appears to have been reasonably appropriate” and that better regulation would have been more effective than higher rates in curbing the boom.

“[Lowering interest rates] had an effect on the housing boom and increased a lot of risk taking,” said Taylor.

Wedding crasher marriesVince Vaughn started the New Year as a married man

-- he wed Canadian girlfriend Kyla Weber on Saturday, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

The couple invited only their closest friends and family to the intimate ceremony in Chicago, Vaughn’s spokesperson reportedly tells People.com.

Vaughn began dating the 31-year-old in the summer of 2008 and proposed to her on St. Valentine’s Day last year, according to the Chronicle.

Top earners to pay higher taxes in health plan

Two top Democrats said the U.S. House may accept a plan to increase Medicare payroll taxes on high-salary earners as a compromise to help get a health-care over-haul through Congress, according to the Bloomberg news agency.

A Senate plan would reportedly impose an addi-tional 0.9 percent tax on individuals earning more than $200,000 a year and on joint filers making more than $250,000. A measure passed by the House would im-

pose a 5.4 percent surcharge on people with incomes of at least $500,000 and couples earning at least $1 mil-lion.

The Senate would also pay for the health plan by im-posing a 40 percent tax on employer-provided health insurance worth more than $23,000 a year for family coverage, a provision opposed by labor unions that ne-gotiated the so-called Cadillac plans for some of their members in lieu of wage increases, writes Bloomberg’s James Rowley and Laura Litvan.

Rihanna now dating power hitter

A spokesperson for Rihanna’s new boyfriend, Matt Kemp, has confirmed the stars are having “fun” together, ac-cording to the San Francisco Chroni-cle.

Rumors swirled after the pair was reportedly spotted traveling back from the singer’s New Year’s Eve concert in

the United Arab Emirates.Rihanna was then snapped smooching the 25-year-

old Los Angeles Dodgers baseball star during a roman-tic vacation in the Mexican resort of Cabo San Lucas, the Chronicle reports. And a representative for Kemp reveals a romance is blossoming.

“They’ve only had a few opportunities to be together, but those times have been fun,” his agent, Dave Stew-art, was quoted telling People.com,

Hemlines trump food in Senegal

Senegal’s government is considering taking action against one of its most prominent women for a hemline that’s too high—by about 30 feet, according to Newser. Having spent $30 million on a giant statue of an African family meant to tower over the capital Dakar, President Abdoulaye is reportedly considering a costly revision because the female figure in the sculpture shows too much thigh for the Muslim country.

President Wade, 83, had previously been quoted say-ing he was involved with the design of the sculpture, which is taller than the Statue of Liberty, but appar-ently failed to notice the skimpy loincloths sported by the towering family. The last-minute indecision has left some residents of Dakar bemused. “I think they should have thought about this before, they’ve spent so many millions on it already,” one student was quoted telling the Reuters news agency. “The money could be going elsewhere.”

Ford up 33 percent, GM and Chrysler down

in DecemberAutomakers ended a miserable year with some less

bad sales figures, though the Ford Motor Company was the only one of the three domestic companies to report higher numbers in December, according to the New York Times.

Ford reportedly said its sales in the United States rose 33 percent in December from a year ago, making

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to be the top four dudes to go to the Olympics.” He went on to say, “I kind of feel fortunate that no-

body’s expecting a ton from me. I get to ride with the best at the best level, which pushes me to get better. It’s a lot less pressure. Some of the other guys have a ton of pressure on them.”

2009 was a solid year for Waring, who kicked off the season with a twelfth-place World Cup result in New Zealand.

But, he truly shined throughout the season on the U.S. Snowboarding Revolution Tour, taking third in the halfpipe and second in the slopestyle at the Copper Mountain.

Minturn’s Clair Bidez had a great run and advanced to today’s final. Younger brother Dylan separated his shoulder and wasn’t able to compete.

Today’s final is the first of two Grand Prix events at Mammoth this week, followed by two more comps in Utah later this month. The Grad Prix determines the 2010 U.S. Olympic team, which is made up of four men and four women.

it the company’s best month since May 2008. For all of 2009, Ford’s market share rose to 16.1 percent, from 15 percent in 2008, writes the Times’ Nick Bunkley. Gen-eral Motors reportedly said its sales declined 6 percent in December, and Chrysler’s sales fell 4 percent for the month.

For the full year, Ford’s sales fell 15 percent, and G.M.’s sales were down 30 percent. Chrysler fared worst among all major automakers, down 36 percent, selling just 931,402 vehicles. It was the first time since 1962 that Chrysler sold fewer than a million vehicles in a year, writes Bunkley.

5,000 eat their way off BeautifulPeople.com

More than 5,000 people were kicked off Beautiful-People.com for losing their looks over the holiday sea-son, reports the Telegraph, a British newspaper.

The online dating site, which has a strict ban on “ugly people,” reportedly said it had thrown out more than 5,000 members from around the world who had put on weight. Most of the ‘’former beauties’’ were expelled from the US, UK and Canada.

According to BeautifulPeople.com, ‘’vigilant mem-bers’’ called for drastic action after users posted photos of themselves celebrating Christmas and the New Year — revealing they had “let themselves go.”

Coldest Orange Bowl everTuesday night’s matchup between Iowa and Georgia

Tech is the coldest Orange Bowl ever, with the kickoff temperature 49 degrees and a northwest wind making it feel seven degrees cooler.

Part of the region’s worst cold snap in a decade, tem-peratures across the region have been about 20 degrees colder than normal for several days.

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Investigators in the Florida Keys say they lured a suspected marijuana grower into turning himself in by leaving a ransom note in place of six seized pot plants.

The sheriff’s office in Monroe County says detec-tives discovered the plants in a wooded lot and confis-cated them.

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Steven Alan Locasio called the number about 10 minutes later. Locasio offered $200 for the plants, and detectives agreed to meet him for an exchange.

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AUTHOR PETER GRIffITHS stopped by the office recently while on tour with the release of his novel Tongue Tied. He had an intimate signing in Edwards at the Bookworm. The book is available to purchase at the Bookworm, for more information on the author go to www.ylolfa.com

MARKER BINDING REPS have skinny ankles and shorts…not a good combination. Don’t you think his wife should have told him? Brian (Bone, Thugs and Harmony) Huelik should not have been allowed out of the house looking like this. If you see Brian around wish him good luck on his calf implant surgery and call him Drama while your at it.

THE VOTES ARE IN and Pazzos in Vail has the best servers around. Carolyn and Jodi made the semis, the finals and went on to tie for first place in the “best servers in the Vail Valley competition” held recently. Not really, ther is no such thing, but Pazzos in Vail does have 2 of the best looking and fun servers around, Carolyn and Jodi.


TIM AND NED (the Blue Heeler) are checking out the Blue Heeler 2010 calendar. Stop into Scully’s and check out their great selection of 2010 calendars. Scully’s is locate in Eagle-Vail.

MARIANA BOTERO, MARTIN fIGUEROA AND MANUELA BOTERO enjoyed their last night in the States with dinner at E-Town in Edwards and a stop by the Mountaineer offices. They were visiting from Colombia and had a great time snow-boarding and said they love how friendly all the people here are. Hopefully we’ll see them again soon!

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