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If you have been following these articles on Vatican II's Constitution on the Church, you will likely have realized that the core message of the document is that God's plan of salvation is to offer eternal life to humanity through his Church.
It is clear from the opening paragraphs of Lumen Gentium that the only way we can come to share in God's divine life is through participation in the one, true Church, which subsists in the Catholic Church, although "many elements of sanctification and truth are found outside its visible confines" (LG 8).
This conclusion has been phrased, since the earliest days of Christianity, in this way: "No salvation outside the Church." Vatican II labelled this positively, calling the Church "the universal sacrament of salvation."
But no matter how it is couched, this notion that only Catholics, or only Christians, can be saved is offensive to many today. What of those millions of people who were raised in other faiths or in no faith at all and who lived good lives? What of those who have never even heard of the Gospel? How can the Catholic Church say that they are excluded from the salvation offered by a loving and merciful God?
The fathers of the Second Vatican Council did not say these people are excluded from salvation. In fact, it goes to great lengths to say something different. Further, it is unlikely that the Catholic Church ever meant to say that those who, through no fault of their own, did not accept the Gospel would be left outside God's eternal kingdom.
The council fathers begin this somewhat extended discussion by saying, "The one Christ is mediator of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church, which people enter through Baptism as through a door.
"Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse to enter it or to remain in it" (LG 14).
The qualifying clause in the last sentence is important. If one is unaware that the Catholic Church is necessary for salvation, then perhaps there are other ways that a person might enjoy eternal life with Christ than through full incorporation into the Catholic Church.
The next article in Lumen Gentium lists several ways that other Christians "are indeed in some real way joined to us in the Holy Spirit" – holding the Bible as the rule of faith and life, Baptism, belief in the Trinity and receiving other sacraments.
The council goes even further. Even "those who have not received the Gospel are related to the People of God in various ways" (LG 16). The Jewish people received God's covenants; Muslims believe in one God and hold the faith of Abraham.
There are those "who in shadows and images seek the unknown God," those who seek God with a sincere heart and those who have no explicit knowledge of God, but strive to live a good life.
The question thus arises, if the Church is the sole means of salvation, how can people who do not know God or even think about God receive eternal life through the Church?
Further, if people can be saved without explicit Church membership, why does the Church continue its missionary efforts, which involve such hardship and persecution?
The council does not give anything close to a full answer to the first question. But the Jesuit theologian, Francis Sullivan, does offer an answer – the Eucharist. "We have good reason to conclude that all the grace which the Holy Spirit distributes throughout the world is in some way mediated through the Church's offering of the Eucharist. . . .
"The new Eucharistic Prayers, which are a fruit of the council's renewal of the liturgy, express in various ways the Church's understanding that this sacrifice is offered not just for those present at it, not only for the Christian faithful, but for the salvation of all people, both Christian and non-Christian, both living and dead" (The Church We Believe In, p. 127, emphasis added).
Lumen Gentium does answer the second question about the value of the Church's missionary activity. The Church, it says, must carry out Christ's command to preach the Gospel to all nations. Christ is the source of salvation for all the world. The catholic nature of the true Church involves making the Gospel known to all.
While people may be saved without knowing Christ, our love for God and for other people should impel us to try to bring them to faith and to help that faith grow to the fullest maturity (LG 17).
The Church is the universal sacrament of salvation. Salvation cannot be taken for granted. The People of God must strive to spread God's word throughout the world.


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Hi All,
This pretty moth is currently sitting on a leaf in my garden but my not-so-complete Collins Complete Guide to British Garden Wildlife doesn't have details of a moth matching it's description.
Can someone please tell me it's name?
It is an angle shades moth, Phlogophora meticulosa
It's stunning.
Thanks MIke. Have a great day!

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An Indiana police officer is one of several to experience a young boy's heartwarming act of kindness in the aftermath of the deadly attack against officers in Dallas.
Dan Dickey is a police officer in the town of Porter, Indiana, and like so many across the country, he was shaken by Thursday's shooting that left five officers dead and seven others wounded.
So when a young boy sought him out to give a special, heartfelt thank you, it meant quite a bit. He was driving in Chesterton, Indiana, on Friday when a car began following him, he said.
"I was off duty, so I was in plain clothes but I was in my fully marked car," Dickey said. "I started to see a car following me, and every so often they would honk."
He was nervous in light of recent events, but proceeded to pull to the side of the road.
"I pull over, and of course I'm thinking worst of the worst, either they want to come yell at me or who knows what," Dickey said.
That was when he met a young boy named Damyon.
"Damyon jumped out of the car with a big old smile on his face and a Superman baseball hat," Dickey said, "and the woman driving the car, his mother, said 'he wants to give you something.'"
Damyon gave him a Mickey Mouse thank you card that said "Thank you for your service. Our hearts are heavy for the loss of your fellow officers. You are in our prayers."
Dickey said that after handing him the card Damyon "said thank you and he was smiling ear to ear."
"I was stunned because one, that doesn't happen all that often, and two, they usually don't chase you down in a car," Dickey said.
When he and Damyon's mom connected on Facebook he realized they had extended the same kind gesture to several other officers in the area. But when Dickey shared their story, he found out that officers in the Chesterton area were not alone.
"This is happening all over the country," Dickey said, telling NBC 5 that his colleagues are sharing stories of "groups of kids going up and thanking police officers," and that someone even bought his station's lunch Saturday.
No matter what happens, Dickey said, "We're still going to do our job." But a gesture of kindness "absolutely plays a role in our attitude and how we go about the day," he said.
"We feel like nobody has our back except each other most of the time," Dickey said. "And then when you have the public coming up and doing that, to have a little kid like that come up and give you a card means a lot."
"I think most officers know that the majority of the public does support us, but it's easy to forget that with social media, even the media sometimes," Dickey said.
Dickey has wanted to be a police officer since he was a child, and that's part of the reason that Damyon's gesture meant so much.
"Even with the risks of this job, I couldn't imagine doing anything else," he wrote in his Facebook post.
"At times you can want to quit or want to leave," he said. "But whether it's a kid or a grown person, you are a hero to someone, and I think that's what keeps us going."


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Mander grew up on the northern New Zealand frontier and had little formal schooling. At the age of 15 she taught primary school while completing her high-school education under a tutor. When her father purchased a newspaper, the Northern Advocate, Mander worked there as a reporter from 1902 to 1906. In 1912 she moved to New York City in order to study journalism at Columbia University. While in the United States she became involved in the woman suffrage movement and wrote her first three novels, all set in frontier New Zealand. The independent female protagonists of these novels are, in part, self-portraits.
The Story of a New Zealand River (1920) contrasts the life of a cultivated, educated, lonely woman who maintains strict social and moral values in a frontier settlement with that of her uninhibited daughter, who finds employment in Australia and lives with her lover. It was one of the first significant novels to come out of New Zealand. Mander's other novels include The Passionate Puritan (1921), the story of a lively young frontier schoolteacher who is attracted to an irresponsible married man, and The Strange Attraction (1922), in which another young woman seeks financial and romantic independence while living on the frontier. In 1923 Mander moved to London, where she wrote three more novels, Allen Adair (1925), The Besieging City (1926), and Pins and Pinnacles (1928). After she returned to New Zealand in 1932, she limited her writing to journalism.


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Behind the wheel of his new Mercedes car, Lewis Hamilton felt right at home.
The 28-year-old British driver, who left McLaren for Formula One rival Mercedes this season, drove his new team's new wheels Monday and wasn't disappointed.
"I'm happy, that's what I can tell you," said Hamilton, the 2008 world champion. "It's still got a Mercedes engine, so it has all the power I used to have."
Hamilton will be driving with Nico Rosberg this season, and Mercedes is hoping to rekindle the fiercely competitive spirit that they shared as go-kart rivals 13 years ago.
"I've known him longer than any other driver here," he said of the German driver. "It's a real privilege to work alongside him."
Team principal Ross Brawn said "the dynamic" between the two Mercedes drivers will be very important.
"They're good friends," Brawn said, adding that Hamilton was one of the fastest drivers on the circuit. "His speed is unquestioned, and with Michael Schumacher coming to the end of his career, he's a fantastic replacement."
First around the Jerez circuit in the new car was Rosberg, who said it felt very good and he could "straight away push hard."
The 27-year-old German also said the change of partner, with Hamilton replacing seven-time world champion Schumacher, was good.
"It's a fresh start. We're going to push each other," Rosberg said, adding the entire team was aware of a need to improve on its lone victory last season. "We need to close the gap with other teams."
Brawn said Mercedes would this season use two development teams working in parallel, "one on developing next year's car and one just for this one."
Last year, the car's performance on the track suffered when engineers began concentrating on developing the new car, he said.
"We don't want to fade in 2013, like we did last year," Brawn said, adding the car was already technically advanced. "There's a lot of innovation under the skin of the car which I'm pleased about."
New developments would be added to the car quickly, beginning with a new front wing, which would be unveiled for testing on Tuesday.
Hamilton said he was confident Mercedes would close the gap with its rivals this season.
"Last season sometimes they were almost two seconds off the pace, I'm hoping for a massive improvement," Hamilton said, adding he still had a lot to learn about the car. "I've got double the buttons I used to have, I've already got rid of some of them, but there is still much to learn before I can give good feedback."
Mercedes counting on Hamilton and Rosberg
Behind the wheel of his new Mercedes car, Lewis Hamilton felt right at home.


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Paul is now part of the fourth generation in America that is involved in farming and hopes the next generation will be involved also. Through his blog he provides analysis and insight to farmer tax questions.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City just published their National Trends in Farm Lending for the second quarter of this year.
Due to the increase in input costs, operating loan levels have increased dramatically from the second quarter of 2010, up nearly 36%. The number of livestock loans dropped slightly from the year before, however, the average loan amount almost doubled, pushing the volume of livestock loans more than 25% higher.
Capital spending on the farm for machinery and equipment seems to have cooled during this quarter. Loan volumes for farm machinery and equipment plunged from a first quarter spike and were 36% below the year-ago levels. I have a feeling that the 50%/100% bonus depreciation enacted late last year has soaked up a lot of the demand for new equipment and these types of sales may remain low until year-end.
The average borrowing rate on operating loans fell from 5.3% to 4.7%, however, the rate for equipment loans did incur a slight uptick to almost 5.4%.
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Entering the brave new world of genomics
Original post made on Aug 2, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, August 1, 2013, 5:07 PM
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a resident of Crescent Park
on Aug 3, 2013 at 10:52 pm
> That's when he got the official word that he had type-2 diabetes. He might never have spotted the condition so early, except that he'd had his own genome sequenced, and he and his lab members had discovered that he had a genetic predisposition.
This almost made me laugh ... the agricultural and food service business in this country gives us thousands of times higher probability than genetic predispositions ... the model of medicine we get in this country is to push things that are making money for people ... until, and even after we have total proof that it is killing us. Cigarettes highlighted this model decades ago.
Fellow Palo Altans and Americans, this is simply not working for the greater majority of us, and that number keeps increasing. Why is America the only developed country that does not have a national health care system? As we head farther down this road and misanthropic profiteers see and shape the system it merely turns into a kind of sardonic social-darwinesque machine.
Genetics is most certainly one of the most powerful technologies of the future, but forecasting type-2 diabetes ... come on.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 4, 2013 at 8:39 am
> Why is America the only developed country that
> does not have a national health care system?
And why does American need a nationalized health care system? Is it your premise that there are no diseases, or other maladies, to be suffered by people living in these other developed countries? (BTW—care to name them?)
Why not answer the following question: Would organizations like Stanford be free to investigate whatever it wants to investigate (like genomics, as in the case of this article) in a system that is fully nationalized—meaning funded by Washington, directed by Washington? The idea that universities would be free to pursue their own research directions, or pharmaceutical companies free to develop the drugs that they want seems unlikely after a collapse of the free market health system—being replaced by Obamacare, and it's successor programs—which will only be more draconian that what is being promised now.
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a resident of Crescent Park
on Aug 4, 2013 at 11:23 pm
Joe, more useful medicine and technology is developed in those countries that have universal health care systems than in the US. Maybe that is a good reason we should have it here too. Maybe it is a state of mind ... clearly not yours, a goal to have a fair, just society where we invest in our people ... really teach them how to think so they will not be led astray by some of the vapid arguments they might hear on some message boards that invoke slogans and deliberate misinterpretations -- by the way I did not say "nationalized", I said national health care system as in universal for all their people. Another reason would be that American is dead last in health care outcomes while we pump the most into our system.
What is developed here in the US typically are drugs to follow the drugs whose patents are about to expire so profits can be maintained. Not that it's bad to maintain profits which probably be your next inane disingenuous question, but profits by gaming the system are really not so great.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 5, 2013 at 8:37 am
> more useful medicine and technology is developed in those
> countries that have universal health care systems than in the US.
Really? By what authority do you make such claims?
Perhaps you could help us understand you claim? In what countries were the following pioneered?
1) Heart transplants?
2) Joint replacements
3) Polio Vaccines developed?
4) MRI Machines developed?
5) Human Genome sequenced?
6) Watson-based Medical Diagnostic software?
7) Surgical Robotics (Da Vinci, for instance)
Please answer these questions, and then, if you will, rebut the premise that American technology, and the private sector, has produced these tools for the medical profession, and that thousands of lives are saved, or enhanced, by this technology, every year.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 5, 2013 at 8:39 am
> by the way I did not say "nationalized", I said national health care
And what makes you believe that a "national health care system" will not end up being "nationalized" within a short period of time. You also did not answer the question about providing us with a list of "industrialized countries" that have non-private sector systems that are superior to the US.
Please, educate us.
a resident of Mountain View
on Aug 8, 2013 at 8:16 am
Most of this discussion has become distorted by failing to differentiate between national Single Payer schemes like France or Canada, or regulated insurance company schemes like Switzerland, or Socialized systems like the US VA hospitals or the British National Health. Only the last fail to have mixed care delivery systems. Further, in the US many well regarded centers of excellence are organized as non-profits and many private care facilities were built with public funding.
France and Switzerland spend around 12% GDP on health care. For their money they get Universal Care, more choice, usually no employer involvement, and years longer life expectancies than the US (ref, CIA World Factbook online or the OECD site). The US spends, pre-Obamacare, 17 1/2% GDP. That extraordinary number is not any market allocation, it's bought in Pay-To-Play Washington. It grows inexorably without commensurate results. Is there a limit? Between medical care overall and the financial sector, the US is spending roughly 1/4 GDP, again bought in Washington and unsustainable.
Republican schemes of shedding substantial numbers of people from medical care or the notion that ideally people die in net worth order would not fix the problem but only destabilize the society. The US Pay-To-Play political system is the real source of this problem and many others.
Switzerland's mostly private insurance scheme might seem more politically workable in the US than France's Single Payer but clearly if the US could have something like the Swiss scheme it would already. With the institutionalized corruption of Pay-To-Play Washington and the state capitols, a Founding Flaw, we cannot. In the long run a Single Payer scheme here is most likely, perhaps like Canada's with a bit more money.
Both France and Switzerland have private pharma and other medical market corporations. There is no reason to think they will ever be nationalized. Actually, even the UK does as well.
The Bay area's life expectancy as related in a recent DJ Mercury story is up there with the Northern EU. California's overall is 80.4 as is New York State's last I looked. In fact, it is the Confederate culture area and bordering states that bring down US life expectancy to the lowest of Western developed countries (ref above). There is a county in Mississippi where the present male life expectancy is between 66 and 67, well below some developing countries. The Confederate culture area states are heavily supported economically by Blue State and Texas money with the core area the most dependent - far more than Greece is on the EU.
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With a successful Gold Cup in the books, Landon Donovan is enjoying some of his best form of 2013 and with his success comes questions about his future.
Donovan's contract with MLS concludes at the end of the 2013 season, but the Galaxy forward admits that he's not focusing on his contract just yet.
"We will see. I'm open to whatever happens," Donovan told reporters in Kansas City on Tuesday. "I haven't made any decision yet. If there are offers, I will analyze them and see what happens."
This season, Donovan has made 12 appearances in MLS regular season play with three goals and six assists. Donovan also shined at the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup with five goals and seven assists en route to winning the tournament's Golden Ball (MVP) and a share of the Golden Boot (tournament leading scorer).
However, after his much publicized break from the game earlier in the year, the fact that Donovan is going through life day by day is not surprising.
"I don't know yet," Donovan added of his MLS future in 2014. "I'm enjoying every day at this moment. I want to continue like this and when the time comes, I will make a decision. We will see."
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Codex Gigas: The Devil's Bible
In the early 13th century, a book came into existence that mystifies the literary and theological worlds to this day. Not much is known about this manuscript called the Codex Gigas (Giant Book). Many legends and myths have grown around its origins. That this book has created so much speculation is not shocking. The very appearance and content of the Codex, also called The Devil's Bible, are as mysterious as the quandary of its creation. It holds the distinction of having once been regarded as the 8th Wonder of the World.
The Codex Gigas is the largest Medieval Manuscript in the world. Bound within a leather covered wooden folder, ornamented with metal, the giant book is 92 cm (36.2in.) tall, 50 cm (19.7in.) wide and 22 cm (8.6in.) thick. It originally contained 320 pages, however 8 were removed by unknown hands for unknown reasons. Weighing in at an incredible 165 pounds, the vellum (calf or donkey skin) pages were created out of approximately 160 animals.
So, who wrote this Giant Book? It is believed to have originated from the Benedictine monastery of Podlažice in Bohemia in what is now the Czech Republic. Attributed to a Monk known as Herman the Recluse, the records in the codex end in the year 1229. Legend has it that good old Herman was a monk who broke his monastic vows. As punishment, he was sentenced to be sealed alive into the walls of the monastery. In an effort to circumvent said sentence, Herman vowed to create a book to glorify the monastery for all time. The book was to contain all vital human knowledge. He promised to complete this book in one night.
He set about his task, but as the witching hour approached, Herman became convinced that his goal was unattainable. Rather than praying to God for mercy as a good monk should, he made a plea to the fallen one himself….Satan.
Of course being the agreeable fellow that he is, Satan completed the book, and Herman showed his gratitude by adding the now infamous illustration of the Devil himself. The Devil then possessed poor Herman, who was forced to add a number of exorcism spells within the Codex in an attempt to exorcise himself.
Legends are funny things. It seems that the legend about Herman making a pact with the devil is more likely a mistranslation of the word inclusus, which rather than meaning "walled up alive", more literally means choosing to live a solitary life.
However, as experts have analyzed the book, it does appear to have been written entirely by the same hand, and is not beyond belief that perhaps Herman was commissioned to write the Codex as a form of punishment. But it certainly took him more than one night. Scholars estimate that the book would have taken a minimum of 25-30 years to complete, including the time taken to rule the pages, write the text, and complete the illuminations and drawings.
Besides a desperate attempt at exorcising his own demon, what else did Herman put within the wooden covers of this massive tome? Well, it contains the entire Latin Vulgate version of the Bible, except for the books of Acts and Revelation. It also contains mystical medical formulas for anything from treating fevers and epilepsy to resolving practical issues such as finding a thief. It contains spells and incantations, as well as many other strange and bizarre inscriptions. The above mentioned portrait of Satan is placed on a page that directly faces an illustration of the Kingdom of Heaven.


text: For all those who want McElroy to start, do you really think that Rex is going to start him after not having him on the active roster the last couple weeks?? How bad would that look if he starts a guy that he chooses to not even make active on game days. Rex has managed this QB situation into a giant clusterf**k right now.


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Here is one of my guest posts on What's Cookin Italian Cuisine!
|This was a guest post on @Whats' Cookin' Italian Style Cuisine maybe you remember this one?
Shown Dipping Sauces are : Bourbon, Salsa Cheese, Asian Peanut Butter, Buffalo Wing, Creamy Parmesan, just 5 shown out of 18 wonderful sauces that are so versatile. Mom and I developed them together.
|Grilled Italian Style Chicken Wings
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In medium bowl, stir together
Honey Mustard Sauce Dip:
In medium bowl, stir together
2/3 cup Dijon mustard,
1/4 cup sour cream,
1/4 cup honey,
and 3/4 teaspoon Worcestershire. Makes about 1 1/4 cups.
Buffalo Wing Sauce Dip
2 oz cream cheese, softened at room temperature
4 oz bottle blue cheese dressing
1/4 cup of bottle Frank's hot sauce (or your favorite buffalo wing or hot sauce)
1/4 cup sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
Microwave for around 1 minutes for cheese to melt. Add more blue cheese if too think and hot sauce.
Chili Lime Dipping Sauce
2 tablespoons of jalapeno pepper chopped finely
1 tablespoon chili sauce
1/2 cup lime juice
1/3 cup chicken stock
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro (coriander leaves)
2 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
Combine all ingredients in a blender and mix until smooth. Pour into a saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Serve warm.
Ranch Dipping Sauce
3/4 cup plain yogurt
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1 (1 ounce) package ranch dressing mix
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
In a medium-size mixing bowl, blend yogurt, mayonnaise, and ranch dressing mix. Mix well with a wire whisk. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Sprinkle with parsley before serving.
Sun-dried Tomato Aïoli Dipping Sauce
1 1/2 cups light mayonnaise
1/3 cup firmly packed sun-dried tomatoes in oil, drained
1/4 cup milk
1 garlic clove
2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
Process all ingredients in a food processor 15 seconds or until smooth, stopping to scrape down sides as needed. Cover and chill until ready to serve. Store in an airtight container in refrigerator up to 1 week
2 garlic cloves
Herb Dipping Sauce
1/4 cup fresh basil leaves, stems removed
2 teaspoons oregano
1 cup fresh chopped parsley
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/2 cup warm water
1/2 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Process garlic in a food processor 20 seconds or until minced. Add basil and next 5 ingredients; process 10 seconds. Whisk in the rest of the ingredients.
Teriyaki Dipping Sauce 1 1/2 cloves minced garlic
4 teaspoons oil
8 tablespoons sherry wine
8 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoon toasted sesame sees
4 tablespoons brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
4 teaspoons cornstarch
4 tablespoons water
In a bowl, combine garlic, sherry wine, soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame seeds and red pepper flakes, mix well. Heat in a small sauce pan. In a small bowl mix cornstarch with cold water, add to hot mixture till thickens.
Bleu Cheese Dipping Sauce
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup heavy cream
16 ounces blue cheese
2 tsp hot red pepper sauce
1 tsp Worcestershire
1 tsp salt
optional: 1 tablespoon celery
Place all the ingredients in a food processor or blender and process on high speed until smooth, about 2 minutes.
Curry sauce
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup chicken broth
1/2 cup dry white wine
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley, or about 1 tablespoon dried
4 cloves garlic, finely minced
1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder, or to taste
3/4 cup heavy cream
Salt, to taste
In a saucepan, add the chicken broth, wine, parsley , garlic, and curry powder. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Cover and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes longer. Stir in cream and add salt, to taste. Heat through. Dip wings in the sauce.
Cajun Remoulade Sauce
2 cups mayonnaise
2 tablespoons ketsup
2 tablespoons creole mustard, cajun mustard or deli style mustard
1 tablespoon fresh chopped parsley
1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
2 teaspoons prepared horseradish or more if you like
2 garlic cloves
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon celery salt
1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
Mix all together using a hand held blender, mixer, store in glass jar use for dipping chicken wings.
Bourbon Dipping Sauce
1/3 cup Diced Red Onion
1/2 teaspoon Finely Diced Garlic
1/2 cup Water
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1/3 cup Teriyaki Sauce
1/4 cup Soy Sauce
1/3 cup White Grape Juice or substitute 2 tablespoons grape jelly mixed with water to make 1/3 cup
1/2 cup Bourbon
1/2 teaspoon Tabasco Sauce
Place ingredients in sauce pan in order listed. Mix and stir after each ingredient. Place on medium heat and stir until mixture reaches boiling stage. Turn temperature down to low until mixture is on a slow simmer. Cook sauce for 35 – 45 minutes and remove from heat. Mixture will have reduced in volume about a 1/4 to 1/3.
Pizza Dipping Sauce
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
2 oz cream cream
1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper, optional
1/2 c. canned or homemade pizza sauce
1/4 cup shredded provolone
1/4 cup Mozzarella cheese, shredded
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
Combine spices, cheeses. Add sauce. Microwave for 5 to 7 minutes.
Salsa Cheese Dipping Sauce
1 16oz package of sharp cheddar cheese
1 8 oz jar picante sauce or salsa medium heat
1 tablespoon finely chopped black olives
Microwave till cheese melts transfer to a crockpot on warm.
Asian Peanut Butter Dipping Sauce
1/3 cup smooth peanut butter
1 garlic clove
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon cayenne, or to taste
1/3 cup water
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
In a blender puree together peanut butter, garlic, lime juice, soy sauce, sugar, cayenne, water, salt and pepper until mixture is smooth.
Transfer sauce to a serving bowl.
Makes about 1 cup.
Greek sauce:
1/2 cup plain yogurt
1/2 cup chopped peeled cucumber
1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
2 tablespoons snipped fresh dill or 2 teaspoons dill weed
1 garlic clove, peeled
Dash salt
In a blender, combine the sauce ingredients; cover and process until smooth. Transfer to a small bowl; cover and refrigerate until serving.
Salsa Sauce:
3 tablespoons finely chopped onion
2 small cloves garlic, minced
3 large ripe tomatoes, peeled and seeds removed, chopped
2 hot chile peppers, Serrano or Jalapeno, finely chopped
2 to 3 tablespoons minced cilantro
1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons lime juice
salt and pepper
Rinse off in a strainer chopped onion and garlic with hot water pat dry. Place all other ingredients in a bowl or a food processor and pulse a few time and mix together. Serve with chicken wings.
Creamy Parmesan Dipping Sauce
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 teaspoon minced fresh parsley
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
Caesar Sauce
2 egg yolk
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
6 to 8 anchovy fillets, minced
2 tablespoons chopped garlic
4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
3 teaspoons lemon
dash of worcestershire sauce
2 cups olive oil
1 tablespoon warm water
1 cup parmesan
Place egg yolk, mustard, anchovies, garlic, vinegar, lemon juice, and Worcestershire sauce into a bowl.
Mix with whisk or hand held blender.
Slowly add olive oil to unifomerly blend together
If dressing gets too thick, add warm water and then continue until all the oil is added.
Add parmesan and still till evenly blended
Makes 1 1/2 cups
1/2 cup parmesan cheese grated
1 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoon butter
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
white pepper to taste
1/2 cup chicken broth
In a medium saucepan add broth, butter garlic, pepper, bring to a boil. Add heavy cream, cook till thickens and creamy. Stir in cheese.


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Imagine hearing a ringing noise in your ears or head that sometimes doesn't go away. This maddening type of noise, experienced by many people, can range in volume from ringing to a roar. Some people hear buzzing, hissing, roaring, whistling, chirping, or clicking in stead of ringing. Ear noise may vary for each person. It can be intermittent or constant, with single or multiple tones, and its perceived volume can range from subtle to shattering.
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Most people will experience some type of incessant ear noise during their lifetime. In America alone, as many as 50 million people say their ears ring. About 12 million have severe ear issues which cause them to seek medical attention. Ear issues like those described previously can, in fact, interfere with concentration, work, sleep, relaxation, normal communication with others, and can lead to psychological distress.
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Few things excite a summertime farmers market crowd more than a spread of vividly-hued heirloom tomatoes. Unlike mass-produced tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes are breed with unique characteristics that have been passed down for generations. There are countless varieties that differ in color, shape, and size, as well as maturation times.
They range from the hefty, irregularly shaped, explosively juicy cherokee purple to the tiny, tart, and firm green zebra. Because heirloom tomato cultivars come in early-, mid-, and late-season varieties, pay attention to what's available at your local market that day. Generally speaking, select tomatoes that are firm, heavy for their size, and free of any open cracks or wounds. For ideas on how to cook with them,
Enjoy them the way I do most often, which is simply sliced and drizzled with good olive oil, freshly ground pepper, and flaky sea salt. Or highlight their flavor in a variety of dishes:
- Slice super thin and serve carpaccio style with an Asian-inspired drizzle.
- Use a grater to crush ripe heirlooms into a classic gazpacho.
- Cut a thick midsection out of an heirloom to include in a picnic-perfect caprese-inspired tomato and mozzarella sandwich.
- Take advantage of small, intensely-flavored varieties to create an unconventional tomato water martini.
- Make a flaky, savory heirloom tomato tart reminiscent of the French countryside.
- Toss them in a Calabrian bread salad along with basil and olive oil-packed tuna.
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I agree with the title of this article: Beards Keep You Young, Healthy & Handsome, Says Science. Furthermore, I find their conclusions totally copacetic.
Gentlemen, they're not just for hipsters and the homeless any more. While both dead sexy and totally awesome, beards are also a boon to your overall health. Researchers discovered that men with beards and moustaches actually enjoy numerous benefits including, but not limited to, instant handsomeness.
A study from the University of Southern Queensland, published in the Radiation Protection Dosimetry Journal, found that beards block 90 to 95 percent of UV rays, thereby slowing the aging process and reducing the risk of skin cancer. Got asthma? Pollens and dust simply get stuck in that lustrous facial hair. Additionally, all that hair retains moisture and protects from the wind, keeping you looking young and fresh-faced. What's more, shaving is usually the cause of ingrown hairs and bacterial infections that lead to acne.
Not noted, because their methodology was to leave bearded and unbearded mannequins in the bright sunlight of the Australian outback while measuring radiation absorption, is that they also keep your face warm in Minnesota winters.
Also not noted is that the way they make you more handsome is by hiding half your homely face.


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Wiggins does not get drafted #1.
Julius Randle goes #1 shocking everyone except Marty McFly.
Wiggins does not get drafted #1.
Julius Randle goes #1 shocking everyone except Marty McFly.
- Raptors get the 6 seed and eliminate the Knicks in the 1st round in 7
- Andrew Wiggins' birth certificate reveals that he's 25, causing his stock to plummet to mid-round
- Wiggins falls and the Raptors select him 18th, at which point he reveals that his birth certificate was fake, and his real one says that he's 18
- The Raptors hoodwink everyone in the NBA, and people rejoice in the streets of Toronto.
- The Raptors do not tank.. they try to make the playoffs but fail landing in the 9th seed in the East, and 10th worst overall.
- The lottery Gods are helpful and they move up in the lottery into 3rd and draft Exum.
- Lowry is not traded, but becomes a UFA.
- Gay opts out and resigns for 4 years / $50M
- DD suffers an injury and only plays 35 games. He is not traded.
- JV makes the highlight reels by blocking Lebron at the end of Toronto's first win against the 'big 3'.
- The entire team buys in to Casey's team defense and they become top 8 defense
- Lowry finally gets it and becomes a play-making PG, while gambling less on defense and rebounding
- Rudy regains his 3 pt shooting and raises his average to 38-40%
- Demar improves his 3 pt shooting to 34%, but still doesn't shoot that many
- With these above two improving their efficiency, coupled with effective 3s from Novak, Ross, Fields, Jonas gets overshadowed a little on offense in many games, but develops into the defensive anchor the team needs
- And to be really BOLD, they make the 6th seed and advance to the second round,,,,,,,,,, OR, Masai finds a way to swing a trade(s) and get Wiggins
Jonas Valanciunas is seen twerking with Miley Cyrus after being named MVP
Over approx the last 10 seasons they've expected (planned in some fashion or at some point anyways) to be in the lottery 4 times, those times they have:
#7 Charlie V - not much of an NBA career but had a very good rookie season and was a valuable trade asset
#1 Bargnani - not going to say nearly as much here as I could, but the opportunity to grab some high end talent was there and missed
#5 Jonas - if not a homerun this was a stand up triple
#8 Ross - the opportunity to draft Drummond was right there and passed up
The draft itself has not been unfriendly to Toronto as much as the guys making the decisions were making bad choices.
Bold Prediction for the year:
The Raptors roster sees little to no change of significance.
The people making the decisions have messed up critical components at critical junctures.
The story of the Raptors existence has been the inability to get all the ducks in a row (star talent, with compliementary players, solid coaching) at the same time.
They might nail the draft but then give out bad contracts, sign poor coach, remove all financial flexibility, etc.
They might biff on the draft but load the roster full of complimentary players being pushed in to larger roles than their talent merits or whatever.
Lowry is a top 10 fantasy player the first two week into the season and then gets hurt and is never the same.
Raptors start 5-0
Raptors approach the trade deadline 2 games over .500, but Masai trades Lowry and Gay for first round pick n' stuff. Every Raptor fan in Toronto goes nuts claiming we had a chance to make some noise in the playoffs until Masai screwed it up.
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Hotels/motels that are electric car Friendly?
Hotels/motels that are electric car Friendly?
I have not seen a comprehensive list of hotels but it would be great.
Marriott has a website that lists their hotels that offer this.
I suggest emailing/calling to check at the locations you plan to visit. The more requests they get, hopefully the sooner they'll get with the program. Seems like a no-brainer from a business standpoint.
In addition to EV charging stations, would any hotels have RV hookups (14-50)?
Also, a number of KoA and RV facilities also have cabins or other overnight accommodations.
any starwood properties?
Just bring your tent and a sleeping back and you are welcome at any Campground with 50Amp service:-) All kidding aside, my wife and I have been talking about doing a road trip across the country doing just that - the only thing missing right now is our Model S!
Fold the seats down, and you don't need the tent; just a double size air mattress and sleeping bag!
Brian, most campgrounds won't allow you to sleep in your car - don't ask me why:-)
@E60 - Starwood has a chain of "green" properties called Element. I think they all have chargers.
I bet the RV parks would be more accommodating. Just tell them to think of it as a very small RV!
And you could always pitch a pup tent outside, but sleep in the car. ;)
Not a big fan of element , prefer W, st Regis, or westin
Great idea and a fantastic adventure, carefree.
I am considering doing that now.
Looks like the Dallas Element only has Level 1 (120V/16A) - not very useful.
Would be nice if there were a web-based trip planner that would let you enter start and end points and max daily mileage and give you multiple routes with overnight options listed.
I'm staying at the Santa Barabara Biltmore (Four Seasons) next month and I contacted them about charging the car. While they don't have any 240V plug, they responded that they could accomodate my request by reserving a spot for me right in front of a 110V plug which I would be free to use.
I wish they'd spend the small $ to install a 240V outlet for their EV patrons, but I really appreciate their effort to accomodate me, and given that the car will be charging for 30+ hours it will definitely get the job done.
Which brings me to my point that people should contact management of the hotel they're staying at ahead of time, as they may be able to offer similar accomodations.
I was just planning a trip to Las Vegas from LA area. We wanted to stay in the Lake Las Vegas area and called every hotel. At first they didn't know what I was asking for. Only one hotel said they would try to accomodate a 110 outlet but that would take too long to charge for our evening out and return trip home. They said the found a 240 in the kitchen but the alley way behind was further than the 15 ft cord we have. I appreciated that they took the time to try and accomodate us but we ultimately decided to stay on the strip.
I checked the Marriott's website and found one hotel that was supposed to have a charging station. I called the hotel and spoke to three diffent personell (front desk, manager & facilities manager) and all three said they didn't have a charging station or any where to charge an EV and the website was incorrect. I did find that Las Vegas has many public J1772 stations through out the town, and some in the parking structures to several hotels, so it looks like we will be staying at one of those hotel. We didn't want to leave our baby at the shopping center charging location over night.
A realiable website for hotels with charging stations would be great for a starting point. For now, plenty of planning at this point and time. Don't forget, just because a website says there is a charging station, always call ahead to make sure.
This sounds like a good task for AAA.
Maybe they will get enough demand and start including charging stations in their travel info.
There is an app called Plugshare for iOS. Amazing collection of charging locations. It is superimposed on a map and so it will show locations around where you are in real time.
Point out the Sun Country X-country route in Canada; 70A plugs all paid for by site hotels and restaurants, etc.
For Las Vegas, why not stay in KOA.com at Circus Circus?
It's kind of unusual to "camp" right next door to casinos but it does provide NEMA 14-50 which charges faster than most 30A J1772 public chargers.
It costs about $106/day stay in an Airstream rental trailer.
If you squint your eyes just right, that looks like an overhead view of the Model S!
It is aluminum after all!
Check the APP for I phones "Recargo". This app lists all the sites that have connections.
When folks do find charging at their hotel, what kind is it? 15a, 20a, 14-50 at 50 amps, or a j1772?
the KOA web site has a trip planing feature, I am tempted to do a cross country trip sometime, and found the photos of those who charged at an empty field very pretty.
In researching Dallas and Austin hotels, found a few that appear to have Blink or ChargePoint J1772 stations - though I haven't tried them on a trip yet.
I am at the Four Seasons in Santa Barbara and they two Tesla Model S charging stations with the cable. You may have to ask
Wife and I stayed at Four Seasons Santa Barbara last weekend. They have HPWCs. Excellent!! Valets charged Sparky on request, treated the car gently, knew not to touch the paint, everything I would have done. Perfect.
Re: Above, The Aloft hotel in Dallas has two Blink stations.
In Santa Barbara the Montecito Inn has a couple of HPWC's
Used both.


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This is probably the last literary spinoff from G2E: a piece in today's Vegas Seven about the man behind the music in many Las Vegas casinos:
Here's the funny thing about music in public places: If it's working the way it should, you don't even notice it on a conscious level. There's just an extra spring in your step or, if you're in a casino, pep in your poke as you hit the "bet again" button on your favorite slot machine. It's the backbeat to your night out, or day at the spa, pushing you along without getting in your face. And that's exactly how it's supposed to be.
I've been interested in the art and science of casino music programming for a while now, so it was great to be able to talk to Allen Klevens and learn all about how it's done.
You really notice when it's done wrong. I remember walking through MGM a while back when "Gold Dust Woman" by Fleetwood Mac came on. It was a bit disquieting, because that's the kind of song that makes you think, "what am I doing with my life and what am I doing here?" rather than "let's party!"
And I liked getting the peek behind the curtain, with Klevens revealing the three top tracks for casinos and three that won't work. I've been listening to Brian Eno's "This" a lot since then–but not in a casino.


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I didn't see if we started one for January or not.
But I had to start it because I thought this article was hysterical. I like to think I'm a pretty generous person. I've been donating and I rarely think twice about the money when I'm trying to donate things. Though I can see how greed can be part of it too. I've been one to shamefully do it before in the past.


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This Arizona band led by Joey Burns and John Convertino dramatically revamps their sound to stunning effect on their 5th album. While their previous albums were heavily weighted with atmospheric instrumentals, vocals are a prominent part of every song here. The mariachi horns and other south-of-the-border sounds that spiced their previous releases are deemphasized (though not entirely absent) in favor of an expansive folk-rock sound that places the focus squarely on the songs. And what songs they are – beautifully crafted, with lyrics often touching upon political and social issues, but using telling, evocative imagery rather than settling for ham-fisted diatribes, many of them rank with the finest of the band's career. 2/23/2006 - Don Yates
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The proposed project would include improvements to Prairie Creek and Engineers Ditch, as well as the construction of a detention basin near Weir Road. Improvements would be made from the basin west to the culmination of Prairie Creek and include the widening of the channels.
"You see a lot of residential benefits from the detention basin on down to (State) Highway 7 and you see, obviously, the commercial benefits in the mall area," Gabriel Knight, hydraulic engineer with the Corps, said while showing maps of the proposed improvements.
Knight later said as a result of the project, "you're looking at a lot less frequent flooding."
As a result, flood maps maintained by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) could be amended to reflect the improvements. This leaves open the possibility that some areas could be removed from the flood plain, and thus property owners would no longer be required to maintain flood insurance on those properties.
Many variables are still unknown as the project is still in preliminary planning stages. Dana Coburn, the Corps project manager for the proposed improvements, said the cost figures are very conservative, meaning they plan for a "worst-case-scenario." Much of the city's costs are related to property acquisition, which could come in much lower than projected.
For planning purposes, however, the figure of $14.784 million was used. For these types of projects, the Corps has a cap of $7 million, leaving the city with a maximum contribution of $7.784 million. Coburn said if a proposal is submitted by December, the project may be eligible for additional federal funds.
Another option, she said, would be to split the project into two separate projects. Because Prairie Creek and Engineers Ditch are hydraulically independent of each other, they do not have to be completed at the same time. Total costs for Prairie Creek improvements only would be $10.577 million, and Engineers Ditch would cost an estimated $4.207 million.
The city's portion of the project cost would be paid for with proceeds from the city's 1-cent sales tax, should voters decide next month to extend collection of the tax. Over the course of seven years, slightly more than $25 million is estimated to be dedicated to streets and drainage projects.
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Groom Carefully as Tick Season Fires Up
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Temperatures are warming, pastures are greening, and the flying, creeping, and crawling pests are making their yearly appearance. Some are large and obviously bothersome. Others, however, are pretty elusive.
One that horse owners need to be particularly mindful about is the tick. Ticks are masters of "hide and seek."
What does this mean to you, as a horse owner?
Everyone wants their horses to be healthy. Ticks are carriers of Lyme disease, for which there is no currently licensed equine vaccine available. Pay careful attention to your horses and monitor them for ticks. Lyme disease can also occur in humans, so be sure to check yourself after spending time outdoors.
Where do ticks hide?
Ticks are pretty ubiquitous once the weather warms, but particularly populate wooded and grassy areas. While they like to attach in areas of the body with folded skin, or other "cover," they will take just about any opportunity to hitch a ride for a blood meal. You should develop a system to regularly check your horse for ticks.
Grooming time is a logical time to do this. First, be sure to groom your entire horse. If there is a raised or bumpy area, look more closely to make sure that it is not a tick. As you groom, pay special attention to the horse's ears and face. Check inside the ears and under the horse's jaw.
Any crevices on the body are potential places for ticks. The forelock, mane, and tail are areas where ticks tend to congregate. Also be sure to examine the loose skin around the front legs and in the fetlocks. Look carefully under the horse's belly, in the groin area, and especially under the tailhead and around the anus.
How do I remove the tick?
It is best to use tweezers to grasp the tick at its mouthpart, where it attaches to the horse. Firmly remove the tick, but be sure to avoid rupturing it as you remove it. Once the tick is removed, place it in a closed container for further observation or flush it down a toilet.
Can I prevent ticks from biting and attaching to my horse?
There are tick repellent products available. While they might decrease the number ticks on your horse, it is still a good idea to continue to check your horse thoroughly for ticks, even if using one of these products.
Enjoy the warm, sunny days with your horse, but be sure to keep the "tick check" in mind when grooming.
Article courtesy of Maryland Cooperative Extension.
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[Client Libraries]
Collaboration diagram for libplayerc_py:
Detailed DescriptionA Python client library for the player server.
libplayerc_py is a SWIG-generated Python interface to libplayerc. You can guess the Python API by a little mental translation of the symbol names in the C API.
For now, check out the example.
- Todo:
- Document this library properly.
|libplayerc_py example
|An example of using libplayerc_py.


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Hello everyone,
For non-template function/class, compiler knows the symbol is there and bind to a definite symbol. It is straight forward to understand.
But for a two-step name-lookup compiler, I am curious, how did compiler binds another referred template from one template in the first name lookup step, before instantiation?
Since template symbol is not finalized until it is instantised. But during the first step of compiler look-up, the compiler only sees the definition of template, how could it bind (generate binary code to link to some symbol) (before a referred template is instantised, the real code is not generated)?
For example, in the following code, during the 1st step of name-lookup before function func is instantised, how did compiler work internally to bind to vector<T> (T is not ready at this time, so vector<T> is not instantised)?
Or, I am wrong that compiler will do nothing to bind the referred template, like vector<T> in the sample?
Code:template <class T> void func (T a) { vector<T> vc; vc.push_back (a); // ... }
thanks in advance,


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World in Brief
North Korea vows to restart nuke facilities in latest escalation on
already tense peninsula
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea said Tuesday it will restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material, in what outsiders see as its latest attempt to extract U.S. concessions by raising fears of war.
A spokesman for the North's General Department of Atomic Energy said scientists will quickly begin "readjusting and restarting" the facilities at its main Nyongbyon nuclear complex, including the plutonium reactor and a uranium enrichment plant. Both could produce fuel for nuclear weapons.
The reactor began operations in 1986 but was shut down as part of international nuclear disarmament talks in 2007 that have since stalled. North Korea said work to restart the facilities would begin "without delay." Experts estimate it could take anywhere from three months to a year to reactivate the reactor.
The nuclear vows and a rising tide of threats in recent weeks are seen as efforts by the North to force disarmament-for-aid talks with Washington and to increase domestic loyalty to young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by portraying him as a powerful military commander.
Tuesday's announcement underscores concerns about North Korea's timetable for building a nuclear-tipped missile that can reach the United States, although it is still believed to be years away from developing that technology.
Buyer beware: New health insurance subsidies could result in surprise federal tax bills later
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of people who take advantage of government subsidies to help buy health insurance next year could get stung by surprise tax bills if they don't accurately project their income.
President Barack Obama's new health care law will offer subsidies to help people buy private health insurance on state-based exchanges, if they don't already get coverage through their employers. The subsidies are based on income. The lower your income, the bigger the subsidy.
But the government doesn't know how much money you're going to make next year. And when you apply for the subsidy, this fall, it won't even know how much you're making this year. So, unless you tell the government otherwise, it will rely on the best information it has: your 2012 tax return, filed this spring.
What happens if you or your spouse gets a raise and your family income goes up in 2014? You could end up with a bigger subsidy than you are entitled to. If that happens, the law says you have to pay back at least part of the money when you file your tax return in the spring of 2015.
That could result in smaller tax refunds or surprise tax bills for millions of middle-income families.
Sentencing transcript shows judge wanted long sentence for Colo. prison chief slaying suspect
DENVER (AP) -- Court transcripts show that the man suspected of killing Colorado's corrections chief knew he was being sentenced to four more years in prison for punching a guard in the face.
But a paperwork and communication mistake in court led to Evan Spencer Ebel's release in January.
The transcripts show Ebel told the judge he'd be 33 when he was released, and asked for a more lenient sentence. The judge told him at the 2008 hearing that four years on top of an already under way eight-year sentence was fair.
The judge, however, didn't use the word consecutive, and the court clerk didn't write it down. So prison officials let Ebel serve the term at the same time as his previous sentence. Ebel died in a shootout with Texas deputies.
GOP Sen. Kirk announces support for gay marriage, says 'government has no place in the middle'
CHICAGO (AP) -- GOP Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois said Tuesday he supports gay marriage, becoming the second sitting Republican senator to make such an announcement in recent weeks.
Kirk, who has opposed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, said in a post on his blog that "same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage."
"Our time on this Earth is limited, I know that better than most," said Kirk, who suffered a stroke in January 2012. "Life comes down to who you love and who loves you back -- government has no place in the middle."
Kirk went through months of rehabilitation before returning to work in Washington this January. He said in his blog post that when he went back to the Senate he promised himself he would return "with an open mind and greater respect for others."
Kirk is Illinois' ranking Republican lawmaker. His announcement brings to 50 the number of U.S. senators -- the vast majority of them Democrats -- who are on record in support of gay marriage, according to Freedom to Marry, a group that supports gay marriage.
Serbia, Kosovo talks
fail to reach accord
BRUSSELS (AP) -- EU-mediated talks between the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have broken up without a deal, the Serbian prime minister says.
The talks, which took place in Brussels, were an attempt to resolve one of the most difficult issues dividing the two sides -- the status of Serb-dominated northern Kosovo, an EU official said. The talks broke up early Wednesday.
Kosovo, a former Serbian province, declared independence in 2008. While many countries have recognized it as an independent country, Serbia has not.
Neither have many ethnic Serbs living in northern Kosovo, who reject the authority of the government in Pristina, the Kosovo capital.
Serbia is required to normalize relations with its neighbors if it wants ultimately to join the European Union.
Pope prays at tomb of Pope John Paul II on anniversary of death; Vatican stresses continuity
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis prayed Tuesday before the tomb of Pope John Paul II on the eighth anniversary of the beloved pontiff's death in what the Vatican said was evidence of Francis' "profound spiritual continuity" with popes past.
In his three weeks as pope, Francis has jolted the Catholic Church with several gestures that broke with papal tradition, including renouncing certain liturgical vestments, choosing to live in the Vatican hotel rather than the papal apartments, and washing the feet of a Muslim woman during a Holy Thursday ritual re-enacting Jesus Christ's washing of his apostles' feet.
But Francis has also visited with his immediate predecessor, Benedict XVI, and spoken on the phone with him at least three times. And on Monday, he visited the tomb of St. Peter, the first pontiff, which is located in the necropolis underneath St. Peter's Basilica.
On Tuesday, he waited until the basilica was closed to the general public to visit the tomb of John Paul II, the Polish pope who died in 2005. The tomb is located in the St. Sebastian chapel, just inside the entrance of the basilica. He also prayed before the tombs of Popes Pius X and John XXIII.
"As with the visit yesterday to the tomb of St. Peter and the Vatican grottoes, this evening's visit to the basilica expresses the profound spiritual continuity of the popes' petrine ministry, which Pope Francis lives and feels intensely, as he has shown repeatedly with his phone calls to his predecessor Benedict XVI," the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said in a statement.
Man whose conviction in deadly Ariz. fire was questioned enters plea, clears way to freedom
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- A man who has spent more than 40 years in prison for a 1970 hotel fire that killed 29 people agreed to a deal with prosecutors Tuesday that cleared the way for him to be released after his conviction was called into question.
The plea deal marks a stunning reversal for Louis Taylor, who was 16 years old when he was arrested in the fire at the Pioneer Hotel in Tucson, where employees of an aircraft company were celebrating at a Christmas party. He is expected to be set free later Tuesday or Wednesday once his paperwork is processed.
Taylor, 59, showed no visible reaction as he accepted the deal and said "no contest" 28 different times -- for each murder count leveled against him. When it was all finished, Superior Court Judge Richard Fields said, "Welcome back, Mr. Taylor."
Taylor was sentenced to 28 consecutive life sentences and repeatedly has maintained his innocence. Taylor, who is black, contends he was wrongly convicted by an all-white jury after he says police failed to investigate other suspects. Reports at the time indicate Taylor was helping people escape the blaze before being arrested later that night.
Prosecutors still believe that Taylor is guilty, but said they would not be able to pursue a new trial due to a lack of evidence and living witnesses.
German pastor accused of inciting violence at anti-Nazi protest warns trial may deter activism
BERLIN (AP) -- A German pastor due to stand trial for allegedly inciting violence at an anti-Nazi demonstration said Tuesday that authorities risk deterring people from standing up to right-wing extremists if he is convicted.
Prosecutors accuse Lothar Koenig of serious breach of the peace, attempted obstruction of justice and attempted coercion at a protest in the eastern city of Dresden two years ago.
Koenig, 59, allegedly used a van equipped with a loudspeaker to urge protesters to attack officers and later tried to drive a police vehicle off the road, Dresden prosecutor Lorenz Haase told The Associated Press.
Koenig, who faces several years in prison, denies the charges, saying he was part of a group trying peacefully to block thousands of neo-Nazis from commemorating German victims of Allied bombings in World War II.
"I've been working against violence for 22 years," he said in a telephone interview before the trial, which starts Thursday. "If I'm convicted then the message will be, don't get involved, stay at home."
Daredevil 'mudding' was 'medication' for 'BUCKWILD' reality star found dead in SUV in W.Va.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The sport of tearing into trails in backwoods in trucks and all-terrain vehicles, known among enthusiasts as "muddin'," is a part of life for many amateur daredevils who love to get dirty in rural West Virginia, just as it was for "BUCKWILD" cast member Shain Gandee.
It was a fitting pastime for the 21-year-old, one of the stars on a show that warned viewers not to mimic the "wild and crazy behavior" they witnessed -- swearing, fighting, four-wheeling, even swimming in the bed of a dump truck-turned-swimming-pool.
He and two others were found dead inside an SUV on Monday about a mile from Gandee's Sissonville home. The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday that autopsies confirmed they died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. The vehicle was stuck so deep in a mud pit that its tail pipe was submerged; it is possible the gas flooded the cabin because of the clogged exhaust.
In one episode, he describes four-wheeling as a stress-reliever: "This is my medication right here," he says before getting stuck in a mud pit and blowing up his engine. And there was no place he enjoyed being more than behind the wheel in the woods, said Gandee's cousin Ashley Gandee Lewis.
Just two days before he died, Gandee had gone mudding with people he met Saturday at the grand opening of her general store in Proctorville, Ohio.
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text: TITLE: Aventine DISCLAIMER: All things Babylon 5 belong to JMS, The Star Trek universe, Starship Aventine and various crew members belong to a ton of people at CBS or Paramount, all owing to the great Gene Roddenberry, but I'm not any of them… All I own is the twisted idea... RATING: FR18 SUMMERY: Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace... It failed... But, in the Year of the Shadow War, a new ship arrived to cast a light on the ancient Shadows... The year is 2260. The ship, is the Aventine. AN: This story takes place shortly after the Borg battle of Acamar for Star Trek, and during the Episode Matters of Honour for Babylon 5 "Captain's log, Stardate 58035.62," Ezri sighed as she leaned back in the comfortable chair in the captains ready room, she'd been Captain now for a little over a week since the official order from Starfleet had come through promoting her, but still couldn't get used to thinking of the ready room as her own. In fact, she couldn't get used to the idea of being Captain at all, every time one of the handful of crew called her 'Captain', she still turned around looking for Captain Dexar, the original Captain of the Aventine and someone she had considered a friend. "We're on our way back through the Gamma Quadrant; slipstream drive is still inoperational though Lieutenant Leishman is doing her best to repair it." She reached up and ran her hand down her face in a weary gesture while looking around. The USS Aventine had only been officially relaunched a few months ago after undergoing a refit. Using the latest breakthroughs in technology brought back from the Delta Quadrant by then Captain, now Admiral, Janeway. The ship was the first Vesta class ship to be fitted with the experimental Quantum Slipstream drive, along with mark XII Transphasic cannons, an updated Astrometrics array using a multidimensional wave-function analysis module and chroniton integrator. For the ships maiden voyage, Admiral Janeway had posted the ex-Borg Seven of Nine on the ship for the first mission to make sure the updated Astrometrics array and transphasic weapons were blended correctly with the Federation and alien technology. The result was a truly formidable ship of cutting edge design, merging both the cutting edge technology of the ship with Borg technology, or it was, until their maiden voyage when everything had gone drastically wrong. The Aventine had been dispatched to the Gamma Quadrant to investigate a possible connection between the Borg attacks on the Acamar system and a possible incursion into Federation space. "We're doing our very best to return home, we are heading to the Wormhole in the gamma quadrant and should hopefully be there within the next few days. Hopefully from there we should be able to signal Utopia Planetia from Deep Space Nine and request assistance." Ezri sighed as she put down the PADD for her log and picked up another one. The same one she looked at every day to remind herself of all the people that had died on this mission so far, and how they had died. Captain Dexar and Commander Tovak were at the top of the list, the two senior officers who she considered friends, two of the crew she'd watched die in front of her on the bridge before Lieutenant G'Fokk had managed to intervene. Captain Dexar had done his best during the battle of Acamar, they all had. In the end, they just the Borg had caused as much damage as the Aventine had inflicted. The Cube had begun attacking instantly, causing damage to the weapons and deflector array before they'd had chance to get the ablative shielding up. By the time they had, Borg drones were already on board and working through the ship methodically. Captain Dexar had been one of the first to 'die', assimilated by the first wave of Borg attacks. The security forces on the ship had done their best, and in a combination of luck and firepower had managed to defeat the Borg on the ship before they assimilated the entire crew, though there had been heavy losses. What was originally a crew of a five hundred and forty one, was now down to a crew of eighty four. Doctor Bashir had been aboard the Xavier, a ship that had been destroyed by the Borg trying to escape Acamar. He had been there involved in discussions with Starfleet tactical about a possible diplomatic mission to the Breen Federation when the Borg had attacked; he was now among only seventeen of the Xavier's crew they had managed to rescue. Though now she was thankful he had been aboard, a friendly face and someone she knew amongst the chaos of the ship, he'd been her rock through this ordeal and had been there for the rest of the crew as well. "Engineering to Captain Dax," Her Comm badge chirruped, drawing her attention away from the 'list of the dead' and back to the present. "Dax here," Ezri said, activating her comm badge as she put the PADD down. "We've managed to repair the final coupling to the plasma grid on the Quantum Drive; I believe we're ready for a test run." "That's the best news I've had all day Mikaela," Ezri smiled to herself, if they'd managed to fix the slipstream drive then there was every chance that by this time tomorrow they would be back home in the Alpha Quadrant. Practically jumping out of her chair she moved to the main bridge and smiled at the crew members that were there, it had been a tiring week, they were running on less than a skeleton crew as it was, and moving through what was still dubious, if not currently enemy territory, had them all on edge. She smiled over at her first officer, Sam Bowers, before nodding at him as she took the Captain's chair while he moved down to her left where his chair was, swivelling the control panel between their chairs around so he could continue using it to monitor the situation. "I don't know how long the Quantum drive will last for," Lieutenant Leishman informed her over the Comm link. "We've done the best we can down here, but I think short hops would be best so I can gauge how much power is being fed into the Quantum Integrator through the EPS system on each jump." "Sounds good Mikaela," Ezri nodded. "Bring her online." "Aye captain," Lieutenant Commander Helkara nodded back as he moved down the 'pit' area of the bridge to take the helm control from Lieutenant Oliana, allowing her time to rest. They'd all been pulling extremely long hours in shift patterns, using a combination of caffeine and stimm's from the sick bay to stay awake and alert, though even artificial stimulants couldn't replace a good sleep, as the crew was rapidly finding out. "Plot a course for the wormhole," Ezri said with a soft smile, there was no point in plotting a course directly back to the Alpha Quadrant. If they did that and the slipstream drive burnt itself out before they got there, then they would have wasted their one shot at using the wormhole to get back to Federation space. "Course laid in," Lieutenant Commander Helkara reported as his fingers played along the advanced controls of the Aventine. "Let's go then," Ezri smiled as she got herself ready in the chair. Quantum travel still didn't feel as natural to her as warp drive, but it was still new technology, currently the Aventine was one of the only ships in the fleet to use both quantum drive and standard warp drive, giving them an edge up over any other long term research vessel. "Activating Slip Stream drive," Lieutenant Leishman voice came over the comm badge a split second before the view screen showed the familiar blue and green tunnel of the slipstream. "Power is holding steady, the quantum integrator seems to be working fine, Seven's repairs seem to be holding up Captain." "Check our heading," Ezri said nervously, she didn't want a return trip to Borg space any time soon, in fact she'd be thankful if she never saw another Borg vessel as long as she lived. "On course for the wormhole," Lieutenant Commander Helkara reported easily with a satisfied nod. "Ezri to Seven," Ezri said out loud as she activated her comm badge. "Seven here," Seven of Nine responded. "The slipstream drive is working; we're back on course to the wormhole." Ezri reported. She knew that Seven was busy repairing some of the systems on the ablative hull armour today but knew the ex-Borg would want to know they were on their way back home. Being stranded so far in the gamma quadrant had hit her worse than anyone on board, a flashback to Voyager and her old crew it seemed. "Acknowledged Captain, I am finishing up work on the hull armour now and will be with you shortly." Seven's voice reported with a small smile in her tone of voice. "See you soon," Ezri smiled as she deactivated the comm system and turned her attention back to the main bridge. "Sensors?" She asked, turning to the Klingon Lieutenant Commander G'Fokk who was currently manning the tactical station. "We are in the the heart of the gamma quadrant captain," G'Fokk responded with a slight nod. "No sign of Borg or Dominion ships, it is, 'quiet', as you say." "Quiet is good, I think we've had enough excitement for one trip," Doctor Bashir commented off hand from the back of the bridge with a smile. "Let's hope it stays that way." He'd been sat at the science station, observing the crew in the quiet so far. Captain Dax was more than happy to have him on the bridge these days, while they had had strained times before, she still considered him a friend, and after the death of Captain Dexar, he was the rock she'd clung to to help her transition through to Captain. "Indeed," G'Fokk frowned at him. "We are currently travelling through Dominion space, at current speed; we should be at the wormhole in a little over one hour." "Thank you," Ezri smiled before activating her comm badge. "Ezri to all hands, we're on course for the wormhole and should be arriving in a little over an hour. Everyone to their positions please, if we're lucky we might get out of this without a fight." With that said she deactivated her comm badge and wriggled in the chair slightly to make it more comfortable. It didn't help that she was still a clear foot and a half shorter than Captain Dexar had been, and even now still couldn't work out how to adjust the seat properly for her height. So every time she sat in it she felt like a child as her feet dangled off the edge but didn't quite touch the floor. "Seven," Ezri smiled as she watched the ex-Borg come out of the turbo lift and make her way to the main bridge area. "Did you get the repairs done you wanted?" "Indeed Captain," Seven said with a nod. "The ablative hull armour is fully functional again. I wished to see if there was anything I could do up here." "We're good," Ezri smiled softly. Ever since she'd taken over as Captain she'd been running a looser ship than most of the Starfleet personnel had been used to, despite Commander Bowers' protests. Working on a first name basis with most of the crew, giving them a lot of latitude when it came to planning their days and shift patterns, strangely enough, Seven had been the one that had slipped into the regime easiest. Planning her own day far more effectively than a standard shift would have, and the loose structure of the ship allowed her to focus on the repairs she needed to on an 'as and when' basis. "Astrometrics is running details scans as we pass through this region of space, I believe Starfleet will be thankful to receive them." Seven announced as let G'Fokk take over tactical completely while she moved into position on the astrometrics station, keeping a close eye on the slipstream station next to her while working. "Probably," Doctor Bashir nodded in approval; it had been far too long since Starfleet had actually received reliable scans of Dominion space. And while there was currently peace between the two sides, Starfleet would still be alert of another threat coming from the Gamma Quadrant. "Thanks Seven," Ezri smiled over. "Julian, care to join me?" She offered with a smile. "Happy to," Doctor Bashir smiled as he followed her off the bridge into the ready room. "Sam, you have the bridge," Ezri called out as an afterthought as the doors to the ready room closed behind her. "Quite," Seven said out loud as she shared a small smirk with G'Fokk, causing him to bare his teeth in a wicked grin. They had both seen Julian and Ezri dancing around each other for weeks now, when he'd first came aboard there had been a few awkward glances, with Julian staying out of her way most of the time, but over the time they had been in the Gamma Quadrant they had both seemed to latch onto each other again, repairing the friendship that had been lost when Julian had left her when she chose to follow the Command path with Starfleet.