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With tax time's arrival, those Americans who don't normally have to file an income tax return usually think their circumstances mean they have no benefit to filing a return.
This year, however, could be very different. Credits can make it happen.
The individual's first priority should be finding out whether they have to file. The Internal Revenue Service's Interactive Tax Assistant can help them answer that question.
Most times, the need to file is based on income, filing status and age. Other rules could come into play if the would-be filer is self-employed or can be claimed as a dependent of another taxpayer.
Basic questions may point the way
In determining whether to file, taxpayers need to answer some simple questions:
- Did the taxpayer's employer withhold federal income tax from their pay?
- Did the taxpayer make estimated tax payments during the tax year?
- Did they overpay last year on their taxes and have it applied to their 2021 tax?
If the taxpayer can answer yes to any of these three questions, they could be due a refund. However, they will have to file an income tax return to receive it.
Reasons why some non-filers should file
While some individuals may think their income isn't enough to warrant filing an income tax return, that income may be enough to qualify for some tax credits. These credits are refundable, meaning a qualified taxpayer can receive the credit even if their tax bill is zero.
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC): For the 2021 tax year, a working taxpayer needed annual income of just $57,414 or less to qualify for the EITC. By filing this year, taxpayers can qualify for the credit which is worth from $1,502 to $6,728, depending on how many children they have, and the couple's filing status.
People can use their income from either 2019 or from 2021 to calculate their credit – whichever year gives them the larger credit can be used. The EITC Assistant on IRS.gov can give taxpayers a look at their eligibility.
An important note for taxpayers claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit: the law specifies that income tax refunds with amounts for the EITC cannot go out before mid-February.
Child Tax Credit (CTC): Along with its other requirements, the CTC requires qualified taxpayers to have at least one child under the age of 18. For those taxpayers who have other kinds of dependents, there's a different credit available.
These credits are available to taxpayers who have:
- Dependent children who are age 18 or older at the end of 2020
- Parents or other qualifying individuals they support
Taxpayers can get help in determining if they qualify for these credits by visiting the Child-Related Tax Benefits webpage on IRS.gov.
Education Credits: A pair of higher education credits can help ease the bite of going to college, sending a child to college, or even being retrained for a job. The American opportunity tax credit targets the costs of getting a four-year undergraduate degree, while the lifetime learning credit provides post-graduates and other long-term part-time students with their own credit.
The student can be the taxpayer, their spouse, or their dependent. The qualified student must have been enrolled at least half-time for one academic period. Being refundable, these credits allow taxpayers to qualify even if they don't owe any taxes.
Use Form 8863, Education Credits, to claim the credits.
Recovery Rebate Credit: If someone missed out on one of the first two Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) or didn't qualify for the third one, they might be able to claim the recovery rebate credit.
An individual's 2021 tax year information is used to determine their eligibility. If they qualify, they have to file a 2021 tax return to get the credit – even if they don't normally file.
The credit reduces any tax due for 2021 or will be included in a tax refund.
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DAVID McHUGH Tuesday, 15 October 2019 12:38 PM EDT
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The sanctions the U.S. announced against Turkey this week over its offensive in Syria fall well short of doing serious damage to an economy still healing from a recession and currency collapse.
President Donald Trump could take far tougher action that would deter foreign investment and credit that Turkey badly needs — but doing so could backfire in a number of ways, and it's not clear he really wants to.
Trump has said he could "destroy and obliterate" the economy of Turkey if it ignores U.S. demands which include a ceasefire in its military action in northern Syria. The sanctions announced Monday, however, fall short of that rhetoric and were seen as minimal by analysts and financial investors.
The measures were limited to the Turkish defense and energy ministries and three Turkish officials, the ministers of defense, energy and interior security. They block transactions involving any assets they may have in the U.S. financial system and bar U.S. residents and businesses from dealing with them. The U.S. also raised tariffs on Turkish steel exports from 25% back to 50%, where they were in May, and suspended talks over a U.S.-Turkey trade deal.
Given the dominant role that U.S. financial institutions and the dollar play in world commerce, such measures fall far short of what the U.S. could do by targeting Turkey's banks and their links to the global financial system. Turkey's currency and stock market both rose Tuesday as investors breathed a sigh of relief that harsher measures were not imposed.
Timothy Ash, emerging market strategist at Bluebay Asset Management, called the sanctions "minimal" and "window dressing," noting that the trade deal was years off in any case.
The muted initial response from investors "flies in the face of President Trump's threat," said Jason Tuvey, senior emerging markets economist at Capital Economics in London.
One risk from the current sanctions, Tuvey said, is that they may be a prelude to tougher ones, given support in Congress for action against Turkey.
And even though the direct impact on the economy may remain slight, the bigger risk could be on investor and financial market confidence in the country. The imposition of sanctions has re-started talk of Turkey possibly putting limits on the flow of money to prevent it from being taken out of the country. That could support the country's currency but deter foreign investors.
"If Turkish financial markets do come under fresh downward pressure, the resulting tightening of financial conditions will stifle the recovery from last year's recession. The impact would probably be a lot more severe if sanctions are expanded to include Turkey's financial sector," Tuvey wrote in a research note.
Trump's move against Turkey does not come close to sanctions against Iran, where the U.S. persuaded the international financial messaging system SWIFT to cut off Iranian banks. The U.S. re-imposed the sanctions as it withdrew from a deal limiting Iran's nuclear programs.
That said, Turkey's economy remains vulnerable despite returning to economic growth after a recession and currency plunge in 2018. Its currency, the lira, has recovered and a strong tourism season this summer helped reduce the net outflow of money and investment.
The country is still plagued by double-digit inflation and the International Monetary Fund said last month that economic stabilization "remains fragile." Many companies owe money in foreign currency, leaving them vulnerable to another drop in the lira.
German automaker Volkswagen said Tuesday it was postponing a decision on where to locate a new production plant. German media have reported that Izmir in western Turkey was the leading candidate over sites in Bulgaria and Serbia.
Josef Braml, head of the Americas program at the German Council on Foreign Relations, said that Trump appears to be trying to get ahead of calls for sanctions from Congress amid resentment among security officials over Trump's decision to give Turkey a green light to invade a strip of northern Syria to create a buffer zone. The military action is aimed at Kurdish fighters whom Turkey considers terrorists but who have been U.S. allies fighting Islamic State.
Braml said that much may depend on what kind of understanding Trump reached with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before giving him the free hand to send troops in. "He didn't sell the Kurds for nothing," Braml said.
Tougher sanctions risk unintended consequences, such as pushing Turkey closer to China. Trump did not impose sanctions on Turkey even after Erdogan last month defied the U.S. over buying oil and gas from Iran.
Trump appears to want to appear tough on Turkey to pre-empt questions from Congress and the U.S. security services over the implications of his decision to let Turkey attack the Kurds in Syria, Braml said: "It's always better, if you have a revolt against you, to get ahead of it. You appear as the strong man who is doing sanctions, otherwise Congress would force him to do something."
The open question, Braml said, is "whether he's really serious about using the full arsenal - if it's just window dressing or is he more serious."
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text: Wal-Mart chops toy prices extra earlyWorld's largest retailer ignites holiday price war in October by announcing deep discounts on some holiday toys.NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- It's only the first day of October but Wal-Mart set the ball rolling on holiday price wars Monday by announcing deep discounts on some popular toys for the holiday shopping season. Wal-Mart (Charts, Fortune 500), the world's largest retailer, said it cut prices between 10 to 50 percent beginning this week on a select number of toys. "We're starting early and aggressively with unbeatable prices on the items we know are on [childrens'] lists," Wal-Mart's chief toy officer Laura Phillips, said in a statement. The retailer said it will announce new discounts every week through the holiday shopping season. But perhaps the move also indicates some nervousness on the part of retailers about the upcoming crucial holiday shopping months. Typically, November and December account for as much as 50 percent of retailers' annual profits and sales. The National Retail Federation (NRF) estimates that total holiday sales this year will grow 4 percent, weaker than last year's 4.6 percent increase, as many more Americans struggle with less discretionary income tied to a housing slowdown and credit market crunch. These two economic headwinds hurt low-to-middle income shoppers in particular, who also happen to be core shoppers at discounters like Wal-Mart and Target (Charts, Fortune 500). Another big concern this year for retailers like Wal-Mart, Target and Toys "R" Us, three of the biggest toy sellers, are the millions of Chinese-made toys that were recalled in recent months because of lead contamination and defective designs. The fourth quarter also represents more than 80 percent of annual toy sales. So any slowdown in toy sales because of safety concern could be damaging for retailers and toy makers' holiday profits. Among the new discounts, Wal-Mart said it is slashing prices on Tonka Trucks to $19.76 from $27.44, Kid Tough Digital Camera to $54.88 from $64.88, now $54.88, Fur Real Squawkers Parrot to $54.88 from $69.96 and the Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader game to $12.88 from $18.96. New "mystery" Elmo on list Wal-Mart also announced its top 12 toys for Christmas, which include the Kid Tough Digital Camera and the Smart Cycle from Fisher Price, Air Hogs Havoc Heli and Aqua Dots Super Studio from Spin Master and the Power Tour Electric Guitar from Hasbro (Charts). Also on the list is the new Elmo from Fisher Price, a division of Mattel (Charts, Fortune 500). Fisher-Price is expected to reveal this year's surprise Elmo doll on Nov. 8. Fisher-Price's 10th anniversary Elmo called T.M.X. Elmo was one of the hottest toys last year. Jim Silver, editor and co-publisher of Toy Wishes magazine said Wal-Mart could be making a mistake by slashing toy prices this early. "When you cut prices that deep, Wal-Mart will probably get a good [sales] month in October but could be sold out of the hot toys by December," Silver said. "That happened to Wal-Mart last year when its sales in December weren't that great," he said. Moreover, he said one of the items on Wal-Mart's Top 12 toys list - the Kid Tough Digital Camera - is actually a product from last year. "I haven't seen this new Elmo. Frankly, I'm a little surprised that it's on their Top 12 list," he said. Toy Wishes is expected to release its annual list of the "Hot Dozen" toys for the holidays on Tuesday. |


text: Stockton Diocese Heading Towards Bankruptcy Rich Ibarra Tuesday, September 10, 2013 | Sacramento, CA Listen / Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Sexual abuse lawsuits have cost the Stockton Catholic Diocese almost 20 million dollars over the last decade. The church is preparing for bankruptcy as more victims may come forward. Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire oversees 250,000 Catholics in 6 counties. He has written in an open letter that he is ready to have the diocese declare bankruptcy because of pending lawsuits, and future claims by victims of sexual abuse at the hands of priests. David Clohessey of the Survivor Network of those Abused by Priests is urging the bishop to reconsider. He says bankruptcy would prolong the suffering of victims who are still coming forward. "When bankruptcy is declared, all litigation, all discovery, all depositions, all of that stops, the focus shifts from uncovering the truth to dividing the assets," said Clohessey. Clohessey says bankruptcy would also remove the requirement that the bishop testify in abuse cases. In his letter Bishop Blaire said parish churches, schools, cemeteries, and Catholic Charities would not be affected by a bankruptcy because they are separate corporations. Follow us for more stories like this CapRadio provides a trusted source of news because of you. As a nonprofit organization, donations from people like you sustain the journalism that allows us to discover stories that are important to our audience. If you believe in what we do and support our mission, please donate today. Donate Today


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Go, team, go! I may not be able to tell you the difference between a blitz and a bump-and-run or a guard and a tackle (I Googled those terms…), but I do enjoy the festive atmosphere surrounding a good ol' game of football. The family gathers around the television, with plenty of snacks at hand, arrayed in their favorite team's colors. It almost feels like a holiday. I always cook up a batch of my best appetizers and snuggle up in a quilt, right alongside my husband. And if you're especially full of game-day spirit, a few decorations might be in order as well.
This year I went all out and stitched up some accents in classic football prints and colors to make the occasion even more memorable. No matter what team you're rooting for, enjoy the end of a spectacular football season with a few of your favorite recipes and a couple quick and easy projects to add to the fun.
This table runner is so much fun in football fabrics! It's the Flower Fancy Runners Pattern from Missouri Star Quilt Company. Here are the fabrics that were used for this project:
Footballs & Helmets: https://www.missouriquiltco.com/shop/detail/39169/timeless-treasures/kimberly-knight/sports-football-helmets-black-yardage
Sports – Tossed Footballs Green: https://www.missouriquiltco.com/shop/detail/64782/timeless-treasures/timeless-treasures/sports-tossed-footballs-green-yardage
Football Stripe: https://www.missouriquiltco.com/shop/detail/64783/timeless-treasures/timeless-treasures/sports-football-stripe-black-yardage
All Sports – Team Mascot Black: https://www.missouriquiltco.com/shop/detail/61798/kanvas-studios/maria-kalinowski/all-sports-team-mascot-black-yardage
Sports Life 3 – Grass: https://www.missouriquiltco.com/shop/detail/27044/robert-kaufman/studio-rk/sports-life-3-grass-yardage
These Micro-Safe Hot Holders for Indygo Junction are perfect for serving any hot dish, like some delicious queso or little smokies and aren't they so darling in the football fabrics? What are some of your favorite snacks and appetizers to eat while you're watching the game? Amy Barickman, the designer of the Micro-Safe Hot Holders, has a go-to recipe called Amy's Super Bowl Salsa that just looks amazing!
Here's a breakdown of the recipe for Amy's Super Bowl Salsa.
- 3 cans corn
- 3 cans black beans
- 1 bunch scallions
- 1 bunch cilantro
- 8 oz. feta cheese
- 1/2 c. sugar
- 3/4 c. apple cider vinegar
- 3/4 c. oil
Do you enjoy watching sporting events with family and friends? Do you like to add something quilty to the occasion? Leave a comment and let us know!


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Cosworth's mini laser ride height sensor accurately measures ride height distances from 50mm to 350mm, with a 0.02mm to 0.45mm resolution and a response time of 900μs. The output from the sensor is a single analogue channel which can be fed to a data logger.
The sensor is supplied with a 1m un-terminated flying lead.
If the laser is interrupted or a measuring errors occur, the analogue output will stay on the last valid output value for a maximum time of 200 ms. Any valid measurement will immediately update the output. If no valid measurement is made for 200 ms, then the output will drop to 0V.
Cosworth's laser sensor can be taught a specific distance range within the normal operating range. This allows the 0-5V output voltage to work across a smaller measurement range. Teaching the sensor a new measurement range is a simple process;
To teach the sensor: Connect +12V to the blue wire for 6 seconds. Within 20 seconds, with the sensor at the required new minimum distance, connect 12V momentarily to the blue wire. Move the sensor to the required new maximum distance and repeat.
To reset the sensor: Apply +12V to the blue wire for 20 seconds. If the optional AS connector is fitted, the teach connection is held to ground, and it will not be possible to teach the sensor without connector modification.


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By "knowledge question", I mean any sort of question intended to check whether the listener already knows the answer or not. For example:
- Are you familiar with how an operating system works?
- Do you know how to vote?
Unfortunately, in certain contexts, these sorts of questions can cause offence because those being asked either
A: Don't know the subject but feel it is common knowledge and so they should know about it
B: Do know the subject and feel they are being patronized
This creates a problem because it is often difficult to tell which way a person is going to go in taking offence, especially if you don't know them very well. Therefore, I can't simply modify the question to "Of course you are familiar with how an operating system works, right?" as this will comfort B but offend A. Similarly, skipping the question entirely will comfort A but offend B.
I work in technical support and usually deal with this situation beginning any conversation with a short script explaining that I try not to assume any knowledge on the part of those I am talking to and that they should ask me to skip stuff if I am going too slowly. I think this is quite clumsy, however, and not always appropriate in less formal situations so I am wondering if there is a way to ask this kind of question more neutrally.


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Celebrating God
From Series: "Daring Hope"
"Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God." Psalm 42:5 Richard Sibbes, one of the great Puritan preachers of Cambridge who died in 1635, wrote a whole book (175 pages) on Psalm 42:5. He was called "the sweet dropper" because of how much confidence and joy his sermons caused. He called his book The Soul's Conflict with Itself, because in Psalm 42:5 that is exactly what you have, the soul arguing with itself, preaching to itself. "Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God!" Hoping in God does not come naturally for sinners like us. We must preach it to ourselves, and preach diligently and forcefully, or we will give way to a downcast and disquieted spirit. Therefore, in March we are going to examine hope. Daring Hope, to be exact. It is the biblical concept of hope is not the ordinary concept we use in everyday speech. It does not imply uncertainty or lack of assurance. Instead biblical hope is a confident expectation and desire for something good in the future. There is moral certainty in it. I can't wait to dig into hope. May the central cry of our live be…hope in God! We'll have a memory verse each week and a reminder each day of some — daily hope. Our theme is Hebrews 6:19: "We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain." May we learn as a church to hope in God!


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Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection
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Knoxville, TN 37902
Historical and Genealogical Research
One of the premier research libraries in the Southeast, the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection provides a wealth of materials for East Tennessee research. While the collection is regional in focus, visitors will find a wide range of materials for all of Tennessee and for most other states. These include the First Families of Tennessee files, which are the largest collection of resource information for Tennessee pioneer settlers, a large manuscript collection, photographs, books, thousands of surname and subject files, published and unpublished family histories, military records, materials for Cherokee and African American research, published and microfilmed Tennessee county records, and much, much more.
Established in 1921, the McClung Historical Collection is the genealogy and history research branch of the Knox County Public Library.
To access the Historical Collection, the Selected Holdings or the Digital Photographic Collection, visit the McClung Historical Collection website.
- To narrow your catalog search results, be sure to choose McClung Collection from the drop down menu in the Library field.
- For additional research materials choose McClung Collection below Local History and Genealogy.


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Wearables are commonplace now, from fitness trackers to smart watches. They're more than just technology you can wear, though: A wearable usually has Bluetooth connectivity as well as sensors that track step count, heart rate, and other biometric data. But in the last few years, wearables have migrated — to the ear and to the wish list.
The Hearable
That's right, you can now wear smart technology in your ears. This kind of device is called a hearable. The market is too broad for any one definition to fully describe what a hearable is, but a good working definition is a wireless in-ear micro-computer.
Some hearables are as simple as earbuds that enhance your music-listening experience. Others are hearing aids that double as sophisticated wellness trackers. Below are features you'll commonly find in different hearables.
- Connectivity. Sync to a smartphone, tablet, or smart home device.
- Biometric tracking. Track your steps, your heart rate, or even your running pace with sensors embedded in the hearable.
- Improved sound quality. Drawing on technology used in today's hearing aids, you can enjoy noise-canceling capabilities or choose how much environmental sound you want. For example, you can allow just enough noise to ensure you remain aware of traffic.
- Translation. Have a foreign language translated to your native language in real time.
Notable Hearables
What does all this look like in action? Let's check out some of the hearables currently on the market.
Jabra Sport Pace.
Listen to music, talk on the phone, and switch between the two seamlessly during your running workout with these wireless earbuds that connect via Bluetooth to your smartphone. They're sweat and weather resistant and, with the Jabra Sport Life app, you can monitor your pace. These wireless earbuds last up to five hours on one charge, or you can use the rapid-charge feature for when you're on the go: 15 minutes of charging gives you an hour of battery life.
The Pilot.
These wireless earbuds connect via Bluetooth to your mobile device and allow you to listen to music and phone calls — and they translate spoken language in real time! The Pilot translates 15 languages and 42 dialects in natural-sounding male and female voices, provides on-screen transcripts, and offers quick access to a dictionary as well as a phrasebook. Plus, they last up to 20 hours on one charge with the portable charger.
Jabra Elite Sport.
Unlike the Jabra Sport Pace, this one is built for professional athletic training. You can still listen to music, talk on the phone, and switch between the two seamlessly, but the Elite Sport also features better moisture resistance, a heart rate monitor, step count, rep count, VO2 measurement, and hear through, which allows you to determine how much environmental noise to filter out. Plus, with the Jabra Sport Life App, you get personalized audio coaching in real time.
AGXs liv AI.
This product is intended for those with a diagnosed hearing loss. These hearing aids stream phone calls, music, and more directly from your mobile devices and offer a rechargeable option. If that weren't enough, they use integrated sensors to monitor brain and body health. The Thrive™ app tracks it all, provides wellness scores, transcribes conversations so you can read them, and even translates 27 spoken languages. To top it all off, the devices can detect if you've fallen and will alert chosen contacts.


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Friday, May 02, 2008
The Moment of Interpretation and Those Carried in its Wake
The questions asked of me afterwards were terrific, helping me to frame the project in new ways. From a scholar who works on the recovery of Roman monuments in fascist Italy, I was asked what political narrative might account for Alexander Keiller's desires to disinter Avebury in 1938. I need to think more about the context of that excavation: why turn to the earth as the secret resting spot of ancient architectures at that time and in that place? Kent Cartwright asked me about the change he perceived in my scholarly voice and method in the project. He was particularly interested in the moments when the interpretive moment intrudes, specifically in the vignettes set at Barber Rock (At Avebury) and in the British Museum (Who Mourns for Lindow Man?). I told him two things that I realize I've come to believe strongly over the past few years and that have changed my scholarship: it is time for our critical modes to become more experimental, to attempt new voices and create new genres ("The Weight of the Past," for example, is a kind of scholarly performance piece with seventeen beautiful images that weave into a mixture of storytelling and critical analysis); and it is no use doing cold history any more, one in which a disembodied "I" surveys the evidence from a dispassionate (lacking in time and place) viewpoint and renders judgment. I'm interested in including the context, in sweeping along in the writing's wake those who were present in the moments gathered and brought forward.
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- ljs said...
"it is time for our critical modes to become more experimental, to attempt new voices and create new genres ("The Weight of the Past," for example, is a kind of scholarly performance piece with seventeen beautiful images that weave into a mixture of storytelling and critical analysis)"
JJC, this is so exciting to me. Not that its new to ITM, or unexpected given the interests of the contributors here, but it's exciting to have it put this way: a call to action as well as a statement of purpose, methinks. There's some very interesting work going on in contemporary poetics about rethinking how criticism takes places and how it rethinks creativity (Nathaniel Mackey, who won last year's National Book Award, is a key proponent, especially his book Paracritical Hinge ). Why not medievalists too?
And that statement of yours also makes me re-read your opening sentence, about giving your "song and dance." I think we need independent reports to filter in: did JJC deliver his thoughts, in an early experimental/critical gesture, though the new genre of interpretive critical songdance? I hope so! - 1:57 PM
- Jeffrey Cohen said...
It will surprise no one who reads this blog (I think) for me to admit that I can neither dance nor sing.
However that does not stop me from trying either at odd moments. Yet among those odd moments -- so far -- has never been a presentation involving scholarship. The most I can imagine doing is paying Karl, Eileen and Mary Kate to dress in tight fitting black clothing and to perform some interpretive kinesthetic maneuvers in the background while I read a poem and perhaps bang random rhythms on a bongo drum. Look for that at Kalamazoo in 2009.
Thanks for the commment! - 7:18 PM


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1 chicken carcass, bones, scraps
6 quarts cold water
Seasonings (or your choice):
1 tsp. thyme
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. sage
1/2 tsp. crushed rosemary
1/2 tsp. oregano
1/4 tsp. celery seed
1/8 tsp. mustard seed
1/8 tsp. ground black pepper
1/8 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
1 Bring water and seasonings to a slow simmer in an 8 qt. stock pot. Add chicken carcass, bones, and scraps. Simmer for 3 hours, stirring periodically. Turn heat off and allow to cool for an hour before straining.
Note: I used the frozen remains of a 3 lb. chicken that was roasted a week prior. After dinner on the night of roasting, I sit quietly and strip the bird of its meat. The FRE opts to leave the room during the stripping process. He's especially unsettled by the sound of the leg bone twisting in its joint.
You may also add vegetables with the seasonings at the beginning. Coarsely chopped onion, celery, carrot, and garlic cloves are the typical additions.
2 Remove largest pieces with a slotted spoon. Then strain stock through a fine sieve. You can remove fat now with a fat separator (my choice) or pour stock into a bowl, cool to room temperature, cover, and refrigerate overnight. The fat will rise to the surface and harden. It's easily spooned off.
3 Divide stock into portions and freeze. Manang uses a muffin pan. I usually use 2-cup storage containers but I saw this method in Cook's Illustrated this month: Ladle stock into 1-qt. ziplock freezer bags (I propped the bag in a 2-cup measuring cup), lay bags into a baking pan, and freeze.


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Any Catholic who spends time reading popular atheist literature will soon encounter the claim that the Gospels are works of myth and legend, devoid of much or any historical fact.
One of my favorite examples of this popular — that is, both non-scholarly and widespread — atheist ignorance comes from a filmmaker, Brian Flemming, who recently produced a documentary titled "The God Who Wasn't There." The documentary, he explained, is to show that the "biblical Jesus" is a myth, created whole cloth by superstitious, unlearned early Christians. Asked to summarize the evidence for his stance, Flemming said: "It's more a matter of demonstrating a positive than a negative, and the positive is that early Christians appeared not to have believed in a historical Jesus. If the very first Christians appear to believe in a mythical Christ, and only later did 'historical' details get added bit by bit, that is not consistent with the real man actually existing. … I would say that he is a myth in the same way that many other characters people believed actually existed. Like William Tell is most likely a myth…. Of course, [Jesus] is a very important myth."
"All I'm saying," Flemming added, "is that [Jesus] doesn't exist, and it would be a healthy thing for Christians to look at the Bible as a work of fiction from which they can take inspiration rather than, you know, the authoritative word of God."
Actually, it would be helpful and healthy if skeptics like Flemming would put in the time and effort demanded by the evidence. As examples of such efforts, I'll mention just three recent, impressive works: "Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony," by Richard Bauckham (Eerdmans, 2006); "The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach," by Michael R. Licona (InterVarsity, 2010); and "The Historical Jesus of the Gospels," by Craig S. Keener (Eerdmans, 2012). These detailed, lengthy works highlight three basic facts.
First, the Gospels were written by men who knew the difference between myth and historical fact. The author of the Second Letter of Peter makes this abundantly clear: "We did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty" (1:16). The opening verses of Luke's Gospel shows that Luke sought "to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us," so that "you may realize the certainty of the teachings you have received" (Lk 1:1-4). Thus the Gospels and other New Testament texts include numerous references to secular rulers (Caesar Augustus, Pontius Pilate, Herod, et al.), as well as Jewish leaders (Caiaphas, Ananias) — names unlikely to be used inaccurately or even show up in a "myth." As such, the historical content of these works should be judged not against mythologies, but against other first-century works of history.
Second, the Gospels are a combination of biography and history following the structure and approach taken by Greek and Roman authors to the same literary genres. The German historian Martin Hengel wrote that Luke was "a historian and theologian who needs to be taken seriously. His account always remains within the limits of what was considered reliable by the standards of antiquity." As Keener shows, ancient historians — including the Gospel writers — had high standards for accuracy, even if they didn't always employ the same techniques as modern historians. For example, ancient historians sometimes changed chronologies, or presented their works in a topical, not chronological, manner.
Third, the uniqueness of the Gospels has less to do with the literary form and much more to do with the radical identity of Jesus Christ. And this, really, is the ultimate point of conflict. Atheists begin with the philosophical assumption that there can be no divine intervention in history. Thus the Gospels must be myth. Christian historians, however, while acknowledging their belief in God, are willing to begin by examining the Gospels as historical texts, and then follow the evidence where it leads. In doing so, they are being truly open-minded.
Carl E. Olson is the editor of Ignatius Insight. He and his family live in Eugene, Ore.


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Forever Families — Learn How to Help and Foster or Adopt a Child
There are approximately 130 children in Bowie County that do not have homes. There are only 10 foster families in Bowie County which means there are not enough homes in this area for the children so they have to be moved out of town and away from everything that they are familiar with.
You can help out by becoming a foster family. There will be an information meeting at the Texarkana Library on Thursday, November 15, 2012. At this meeting you will learn how to become a foster family as well as what it takes to adopt one of these deserving children.Ashley Gipson with Texas Department of Family and Protective Services came by the studios this week to tell us about the meeting and the need for foster families in this area.
Interview with Ashley Gipson of Texas Dept. of Family and Protective Services:
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New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has dropped his lawsuit against Major League Baseball for tortious interference. Rodriguez's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, told ESPN that a notice of voluntary dismissal had been filed on Friday afternoon. By withdrawing his suits against the Major League Baseball Association and Commissioner Bud Selig, Rodriguez has given up on his fight to overturn his 162-game suspension and will sit out the entire 2014 season.
The lawsuits would likely have cost him a reported $10 million in legal fees at a time when A-Rod is already losing $25 million in salary during his suspension. Dropping the lawsuit could help Rodriguez maintain a good relationship with the MLB going forward after he returns to the game following the end of the 2014 season. Rodriguez's contract with the Yankees is set to expire at the end of the 2017 season.
"We believe that Mr. Rodriguez's actions show his desire to return the focus to the play of our great game on the field and to all of the positive attributes and actions of his fellow major league players," the MLB said in a statement. "We share that desire."
Rodriguez's suspension is the longest in history for a Major League player using PEDs. The New York Yankee has maintained his innocence throughout the legal process.


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"The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world," The Washington Post reported at midday Wednesday.
"By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from among hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans," the Post adds.
Its source for this report: "documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials."
In just 30 days ended Jan. 9, the Post says, the documents indicate that "field collectors had processed and sent back 181,280,466 new records — ranging from 'metadata,' which would indicate who sent or received e-mails and when, to content such as text, audio and video."
Google issued a statement says it is "troubled" by the news. Yahoo said it has not given the NSA or another other agency access to its data centers. White House officials "declined to confirm, deny or explain why the agency infiltrates Google and Yahoo networks overseas," according to the Post report.
Google and Yahoo thought their systems were secure. But the Post says that:
"In an NSA presentation slide on 'Google Cloud Exploitation' ... a sketch shows where the 'Public Internet' meets the internal 'Google Cloud' where their data resides. In hand-printed letters, the drawing notes that encryption is 'added and removed here!' The artist adds a smiley face, a cheeky celebration of victory over Google security.
"Two engineers with close ties to Google exploded in profanity when they saw the drawing."
The program the Post is reporting about — reportedly called MUSCULAR — is said to be separate from the PRISM program that was disclosed earlier this year. Under PRISM, as we wrote in June, "Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, AOL, Apple and Paltalk all negotiated with the government under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to provide the National Security Agency with user data."
According to The New York Times, under PRISM such data are shared only after the companies' lawyers review the government's requests and determine that they meet the FISA requirements. But MUSCULAR, writes the Post, "appears to be an unusually aggressive use of NSA tradecraft against flagship American companies."
Barton Gellman, one of the two reporters who wrote today's Post story, talked with Fresh Air last month about how he came into contact with Snowden and about the effectiveness of post-Sept. 11 surveillance programs.
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Why do most bone health supplements contain twice as much calcium as magnesium when recent studies show taking more calcium isn't necessarily better?
Why do most bone health supplements contain twice as much calcium as magnesium when recent studies show taking more calcium isn't necessarily better?
If you like this, you may also be interested in these tips for taking supplements.
After a recent talk at Expo West with Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, magnesium expert and medical director of the nonprofit Nutritional Magnesium Association, I had the urge to call my mom, my sister, and my women friends to ask them to take a good look at their calcium supplements, and most likely, to consider changes to their regimen.
I've been hearing that typical bone health supplements contain too much calcium, especially in relation to cofactors like magnesium and vitamin D that help the body effectively absorb and use calcium. My ears have been especially pricked since 2010, when a review of Women's Health Initiative (WHI) data suggested that taking calcium supplements may raise heart disease risk in post-menopausal women.
As I was writing up notes today on the points Dean had highlighted about magnesium and calcium, I saw online that she had just done a thorough write-up herself, as you can read in the release below:
"About 43 percent of the U.S. population (almost 70 percent of older women) use dietary supplements containing calcium(1), but without balancing their calcium with magnesium, they may be at risk, says Carolyn Dean, MD, ND. Most people, including the majority of MDs, do not understand key facts about calcium and its sister mineral, magnesium:
- Typically, less than half of calcium intake is absorbed in the gut(2), the rest either being excreted or potentially forming kidney stones or being transported to soft tissues where it can harden (calcify).
- Adequate levels of magnesium are essential for the absorption and metabolism of calcium and vitamin D.
Magnesium converts vitamin D into its active form so that it can aid calcium absorption. Magnesium also stimulates the hormone calcitonin, which helps to preserve bone structure and draws calcium out of the blood and soft tissues back into the bones, lowering the likelihood of osteoporosis, some forms of arthritis, heart attack and kidney stones.
- There is a growing amount of scientific evidence pointing to high calcium – low magnesium intake leading to calcification, or hardening, of arteries (atherosclerosis—the number one cause of death in the U.S.), osteoporosis and osteoporotic bone fractures(3, 4).
- Recommendations for calcium intake vary greatly. In the U.S., adults are told to take 1,000 mg per day and women over 50 are told to take up to 1,500 mg. In the United Kingdom, the RDA is 700 mg daily, while the World Health Organization recommends only 400-500 mg.
Often supplementation is taken without consideration for the amount of calcium in the diet both from food sources and water. Many people, especially those consuming dairy products, have high-calcium diets. This can lead to a greater amount of unabsorbed calcium.
"Most people—and most MDs—do not understand the importance of calcium-magnesium balance at a cellular level. The effectiveness and benefits of calcium with respect to bone health and the prevention of osteoporosis are enormously impaired in the absence of adequate levels of magnesium in the body," Dr. Dean states.
"If we consume too much calcium without sufficient magnesium," according to Dean, "not only will we create stress within the body but the excess calcium won't be utilized correctly and may become toxic. Magnesium keeps calcium dissolved in the blood. Too much calcium and too little magnesium can cause some forms of arthritis, kidney stones, osteoporosis and calcification of the arteries, leading to heart attack and cardiovascular disease(5).
"The commonly agreed-upon ratio of 2:1 calcium to magnesium found in many supplements traces back to French scientist Jean Durlach(6)," explains Dean, "who stipulated the 2:1 ratio as an outermost not-to-be-exceeded level when considering calcium intake from all sources (food, water and supplements). This has been largely misunderstood and is taken as a recommendation of a 2:1 calcium-to-magnesium imbalance.
"The fact that most people do not get their minimum daily requirement of magnesium exacerbates the situation. The high calcium – low magnesium diet of most Americans, when coupled with calcium supplementation, can give a Ca to Mg imbalance of 4: or 5:1, which constitutes a walking time bomb of impaired bone health and heart disease."
Dr. Dean recommends monitoring calcium intake, supplementing with vitamin D, getting the minimum daily requirement of magnesium, "and going for a 1:2 or at the very least a 1:1 calcium-magnesium balance."
A 32-page guide to the benefits of magnesium and how to avoid osteoporosis, strengthen bones naturally and support a healthy heart is available as a free download."
In my role as a health and science editor, I know that beyond its role with calcium, magnesium helps with myriad other body functions, including: heart health, migraines, pain, anxiety, constipation, diabetes and more. I have started taking magnesium at night myself and find it helpful in several ways. Eating magnesium-rich foods can also help: kelp, wheat bran and germ, almonds, cashews, molasses, brewer's yeast.
Do you take calcium and/or magnesium supplements? What's your take on the best way to supplement these minerals?


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Tata Global Beverages: Greenpeace pesticide study 'confirms tea brands safe to drink'
Asked if the company accepted the controversial report's findings, a Tata Global Beverages (TGB) spokesperson told us today that the firm "cares deeply about the quality of the tea grown in the country from the standpoint of safe domestic consumption, trade and export, and sustainable production".
"Plant protection products form a necessary part of ensuring a viable tea industry. This study confirms that these brands comply with all the legal standards and are therefore safe to drink," they told BeverageDaily.com.
A Hindustan Unilever spokesperson said: "All our teas are safe to consume. Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) follows a strict quality management system and regularly monitors products for compliance to regulations.
"Our extensive data from testing done at external laboratories shows that we fully comply with the Indian foods regulations as stipulated by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), and our consumers can continue to enjoy their favorite daily cup of tea which is great tasting and safe to drink," they added.
Asked how TGB could assure Indian and foreign consumers that its brands are safe, the spokesperson said that Indian tea grown in compliance with government guidelines is safe, with the use of 'plant protection products' "stringently regulated" in India.
"Indian tea is subject to some of the most stringent standards globally. All export tea will be subject to the requirements of those markets to which it is exported. Indian tea that is grown as per the guidelines issued by the government is safe to consume," they added.
Tea plantations in India operate under several statutes and laws passed by the Government of India, TGB's spokesperson said – notably the Food Safety & Standards Act 2006 (FSSA), which regulates the India's entire food industry.
They added that India's Central Insecticide Board & Registration Committee (CIBRC) had identified 35 plant protection products permitted for use in tea plantations.
"The Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is engaged in further expanding this list and has defined Maximum Residue Levels for several plant protection products," the spokesperson said.
TGB insists it is working closely with other companies and the Tea Board of India (click here to read their response to the Greenpeace report) to tighten up the standards regulating Indian teas.
Tea Board of India has been working closely with the tea industry to deliver even higher standards and are engaged in several joint initiatives to further improve standards regulating Indian teas.
We asked TGB what actions, if any, it planned to take as a result of this report – if it accepted the testing protocols, results and recommendations?
The spokesperson said TGB has already put in place guideline on using PPFs in the supply chain, and planned to buy 100% of its tea from trustea-certified sources by 2020 – this includes a commitment to good agricultural practices, see more details on trustea below.
Unilever told BeverageDaily.com that it had committed to producing all its agricultural raw materials using only sustainable crop practices by 2020, and was working closely on long-term sustainability goals with the Tea Board of India and other industry stakeholders.
"HUL does not own any tea plantations in India. We procure tea for our India domestic and exports businesses from auctions (conducted under license from the Tea Board of India), as well as directly from producers. All stakeholders of the industry need to work together to produce tea sustainably," a spokesperson said.
HUL was a founder member of trustea, a multi-stakeholder industry initiative led by the Tea Board of India, they added, which has worked closely with industry members to develop a code for sustainable tea agriculture in India.
One component of this code is a Plant Protection Code issued by the Tea Board of India in March 2014, which HUL describes as "another key step in this journey".
"Our stated aim is to reduce and eliminate the use of synthetic methods of plant protection in tea cultivation in partnership with suppliers, plantation owners and farmers," the spokesperson said.
"As a first step, Unilever in consultation with industry partners has commissioned a research project with an international independent expert agency, CABI, to investigate the feasibility of growing tea in India through non pesticide management (NPM) methods," they added.
"We have engaged with Greenpeace in this regard. The results of the first phase will be jointly analysed with the Tea Board and key stakeholders for planning of next steps including pilot field studies," the spokesperson said.


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Matt Brown ran for 141 yards and a long score, Chris Coyer had a touchdown passing and rushing, and Temple beat Villanova 41-10 on Friday night in its first game since returning to the Big East.
The Owls won their third straight Mayor's Cup - presented to the winner of this city rivalry - in the finale of this series played before 32,709 fans at Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles.
These clearly aren't the same Owls who used to be a pushover and were booted out of the Big East in 2004. Al Golden turned the program around before bolting for Miami, and Steve Addazio kept it rolling last year in the MAC.
Addazio led Temple to a 9-4 record and the second bowl victory in school history, a 37-15 rout of Wyoming in the New Mexico Bowl.
The Owls picked up where they left off last December, dominating inferior Villanova from start to finish as Bill Cosby, the most famous of Temple alums, looked on.
Coyer connected with Kenneth Harper on an 8-yard shovel pass for a score to put Temple up 7-0 on their first possession. Coyer threw just three passes during the 14-play drive, completing all of them for 30 yards.
The Wildcats answered on the ensuing possession, driving down to Temple's 3. But they couldn't push it in and settled for Mark Hamilton's 21-yard field goal.
Temple went up 14-3 when Vaughn Carraway intercepted Chris Polony's pass and returned it 58 yards for a TD.
Another turnover two plays later set up Coyer's 19-yard TD run that made it 21-3, and the rout was on.
Just when it seemed Villanova had gained momentum going into the half on John Robertson's 5-yard TD run late in the second quarter, the Owls struck back 43 seconds later.
Brown burst through the line and sprinted 56 yards for a score to make it 28-10 with 21 seconds left in the half.
Harper had a 38-yard TD run in the third quarter.
Temple's Spencer Reid, son of Eagles coach Andy Reid, entered late in the game and carried three times for 4 yards.
An energized crowd - the third-largest for Temple at the Linc - showed up hours before kickoff to tailgate in the parking lots. Once they made it inside, the maroon-and-white portion of the fans had plenty to cheer about.
Temple had 10 seasons of one or two victories spanning their Big East years of 1991-2004. The Owls were forced out of the conference after 13 years for failing to meet minimum requirements for membership, most notably in attendance, facilities and fielding a competitive team.
Temple played as an independent and eventually landed in the Mid-American Conference in 2007. While there, it turned its program around and ran off winning seasons the past three years.
The Owls rejoined the Big East for football in March and all other sports in 2013. They'll host South Florida on Oct. 6 in their first conference game.


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Jason Paul McCartan at OSR Today wrote a short link to an article from a site called RPG Knights that alleges to give advice for how to design adventures. Unfortunately, it's really not. The advice given is a recapitulation of Freytag's pyramid (in a modified version slightly different from the above, where the rising action is temporarily interrupted), the dramatic structure you learn in middle school, without significant insight into how to make it into an RPG adventure.
This kind of adventure writing is lazy, bad and everything that should be avoided both by referees and by writers creating modules for RPGs. If you've already written the plot, the PCs aren't the protagonists; they are just along for the ride. And that sucks.
In a well run roleplaying game, the elements of Freytag's pyramid (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and denouement) arise organically out of player choice. Plotting them in advance prevents this from happening; if your climax requires that a certain character be in a certain place at a certain time, well, the best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley*.
An RPG adventure needs something completely different. It's a type of writing that is totally different from writing a screenplay or short story, since the referee is not an author and doesn't know what the protagonists will do. So it should be no surprise that the elements needed are totally different as well.
The main responsibility of the adventure is that it becomes plot when PCs are exposed to it. This requires it to have potential conflict, or the seeds of conflict, within it. This doesn't need to be anything fancy; it's just another way of saying there should be monsters and/or NPCs standing between the PCs and what they want. A dungeon will often do this literally, for instance by having the quintessential orc and pie. If the PCs decide they want pie, that instantly transforms into conflict between the PCs and the orc. Nothing fancy is required, and it can be as detailed or simple as the referee prefers.
Conflict can be between factions, or between NPCs, or simply with the PCs. The more complex your potential conflicts are, the more ways that adding PCs can make the plot go pear-shaped. What is critical is that nothing ever be indispensable. There can be no NPC who can't be killed, no monster that must get away from a fight, nothing that the PCs need to find or know or do that will stop the adventure cold.
Everything else, really, is optional. A dungeon with monster and treasure keys is a baseline for a solid adventure. But there are a few different elements that help a good adventure.
- Background. This can be revealed through exposition, items, and dressing. The real shame of a lot of professional adventure writing is that it has extensive background that is not revealed to the PCs organically through the elements in the module.
- Methods of discovery. Ways to reveal background and information about the world and their enemies to the PCs are helpful. This can be through books, talkative NPCs, visions of the distant past, or many other strange and odd ways to show the world to the PCs. Rumor tables are a classic method for revelation and point up the key fact that they are not necessarily reliable
- Physical obstacles. Sticking a chasm between the PCs and a goal, or making an adventure location particularly dangerous to approach, are good ways to add to the conflict without reference to more NPCs or monsters. Traps, of course, are a personal favorite.
- Dynamic world elements. A good adventure has elements, usually random, that can happen throughout the adventure so that it is not static. For instance, a random encounter table indicates that events outside the PCs' adventures are happening, and it is not necessarily a good idea to respond to all of them. Other examples include timed changes to the setting, such as the Swedish Army that will be coming soon in Better Than Any Man.
* The English for this line from Robert Burns's Scots poem "To a Mouse" is usually given as "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry."


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