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Cheddar Ale Soup with Pumpernickel Toast from 'Stewed'
Mention "cheese soup" and my mind immediately goes towards the neon orange cans of condensed Campbell's stuck between the chicken noodle and bean with bacon in the middle of the grocery store. But for Dave Becker, cheese is just another way to dress up soups in his new book, Stewed. Instead of attempting to incorporate cheese directly into his Cheddar Ale Soup, he melts it on top à la French Onion. Oh, and that soup base? It's made up of beer. Yes, beer. And bacon. If this combination seems a bit off the wall, consider what's often eaten with beer: cheese, bread, pork products, and mustard. All make an appearance in what is one of the strangest, yet strangely comforting bowls of soup I've made so far this winter.
Why I picked this recipe: Beer and cheese soup is way outside of my comfort zone but seemed worth an exploration (especially since the cheese goes on top, and not in, the soup).
What worked: Rye bread, cheese, and mustard are obvious pairings for beer; they work just as well in a soup as they do on an appetizer platter.
What didn't: I would have liked larger pieces of vegetables, or at least more of them, in the soup. As written, the bulk of the soup is a bit too brothy, even when the bread soaks up some of its liquid.
Suggested tweaks: If you don't have broiler-safe soup bowls, you may make a reasonable approximation by broiling the cheese toasts and floating them on top of the soup. Be sure to let the bread sit on top for a minute or so to allow it to begin to soak up the broth before digging in.
Reprinted with permission from Stewed: A Collection of Soups, Braises, and Stews from Sweet Basil by Dave Becker, copyright 2012. Published by Garden Variety Publishing. All rights reserved. Available wherever books are sold.
- Yield:serves 4 to 6
- Active time: 40 minutes
- Total time:1 hour
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 ounces bacon, cut into 1-inch chunks
- 1/2 cup parsnips, scrubbed, 1/4-inch dice
- 1/2 cup turnips, scrubbed, 1/4-inch dice
- 1/2 cup carrots, scrubbed, 1/4-inch dice
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
- 1 teaspoon fresh ginger, peeled and minced
- Pinch allspice
- 1/4 vanilla bean
- 1 cup Spanish onions, finely diced
- 1/2 cup celery, 1/4-inch dice
- 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 3 cups okay ale
- 1 quart beef stock or chicken stock
- Kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons whole grain mustard
- 4 to 6 slices rye bread (preferably stale)
- 3 cups good and sharp cheddar cheese, finely grated
In a large saucepan, preheat the olive oil over medium-low heat. Add the bacon to the pan, and sauté for 1 to 2 minutes, until some of the grease has rendered. Place all of the root veggies in the pan, and sauté for 5 to 10 minutes, or until they are beginning to brown.
Add the bay leaf, thyme, ginger, allspice, vanilla bean, onions, and celery. Sauté this mixture for 5 minutes or until the onions begin to brown. Add the vinegar and the ale, bring the liquid to a boil, and then add the beef or chicken stock.
Return the liquid to a boil, and then season with some salt and pepper. Decrease the heat to the lowest possible setting, and allow the soup to simmer for 20 minutes, or until the root vegetables are softened to your liking. Remove from the heat, fish out the bay leaf, and swirl in the butter.
Preheat the oven's broiler. Ladle the soup into heat proof bowls or crocks. Smear the grain mustard over the bread slices, and then arrange on top of the soup. Top each slice of bread with a portion of the cheese. Place the crocks o' soup under the broiler until the cheese is bubbly and brown. Serve immediately.
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Awards season rolls on and next up this evening, it's time to honor the brightest artists in music.
That's right, the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, also known as music's biggest night, will air at 8 p.m. on CBS.
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But before all of the gold gramophone trophies are handed out and your favorite musicians take the stage for some dazzling performances, here are 10 things you gotta know:
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1. Beyonce and Jay Z to Perform?: That's right, Queen Bey and Hov are expected to take the stage. The superstar couple's upcoming appearance was all-but confirmed during a commercial that aired on CBS, which listed the duo as performers. However, the spot has since been removed and so the mystery remains if Blue Ivy's parents will indeed perform. Fingers crossed it's "Drunk in Love!"
2. Performances to Watch: Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Lorde, John Legend, Keith Urban and many others will sing their biggest hits from the past year in front of the star-studded audience. With surprise appearances, over-the-top costumes and glitzy backdrops, which performer or performance will be the most-talked about after it's all said and done?
NEWS: Complete list of nominees for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards
3. Madonna Last-Minute Performer Addition: That's right, the Material Girl confirmed her performance just two days before the big show. "It's official! I'm off my crutches and I'm looking for the perfect pair of heels to wear to the Grammys..........#instagrammy," she captioned an Instagram pic of herself strumming a guitar.
4. Beatles Tribute: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the remaining surviving members of the Fab Four, will accept the 2014 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. Both are slated to perform, but they're keeping us guessing if it will be together. If they do indeed collaborate, it would be their first performance since a 2010 concert to celebrate Starr's 70th birthday.
PHOTOS: 2014 Grammy party pics
5. Best Dressed Goes to...: The Grammys is a "formal" affair but some A-list celebs have made some memorable and wild fashion choices over the years. Case and point, who could forget Jennifer Lopez's iconic and daring Versace plunging neckline gown. Or Lady Gaga arriving in an egg, and Nicki Minaj emulating Little Red Riding Hood.
6. Possible Winners to Watch: While there are so many categories, 82 to be exact, some big artists that we are singling out as safe bets to walk away with a Grammy are Jay Z--he leads the pack with 9 nominations--Justin Timberlake, Sara Bareilles, Kendrick Lamar, Daft Punk and newcomer Lorde.
7. Will Kanye West Show Up?: Kanye West blasted the Grammys for only receiving two nominations for his album "Yeezus."
"Yeezus is the top one or two album on every single list, but only gets two nominations from the Grammys," he told an audience during his tour in December. "What are they trying to say?"
Well, we will have to wait and see if he decides to attend the show. Our guess is probably not, since he didn't show up back in 2012 when he led the entire field with seven nominations--and he won four.
8. Plenty of Presenters: Many awards=a bunch of presenters. Julia Roberts, Jeremy Renner, Gloria Estefan, Jamie Foxx, Ariana Grande, Neil Patrick Harris and Jared Leto are just a few.
9. LL Cool J Is Hosting Again: Third time's the charm! The hip-hop artist and NCIS: Los Angeles star will be the evening's emcee.
10. Delicious Dining Experience: The mouthwatering menu will feature ahi tuna sandwiches, roasted salmon, beef short rib and pork belly teriyaki. Sounds delish!
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Rumors of Amazon building its own smartphone just refuse to die down. We hope you like large-screened smartphones because a new report states that Amazon's already begun testing a smartphone of epic proportions.
Whether you're in the Apple or the Android/Windows Phone camp, smartphones with large displays capable of high definition resolutions are here to stay.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon is testing a smartphone that is between four and five inches.
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[Chorus 2X: Natina]
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Howdy...I am not sure how I feel about this turn of events in law..but I am pretty sure I don't like this one.
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Yeah that seems silly. Also, isn't there some legal canon that prevents convicting someone under a law that is supposed to benefit them?
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Civil Rights Group Divided Over Gay Marriage
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
LOS ANGELES The Southern Christian Leadership Conference the 50-year-old civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others is seeking to remove the president of its Los Angeles chapter in response to his support of same-sex marriage in California.
The effort by the Atlanta-based organization is meeting stiff resistance in Los Angeles from both the board of the local chapter, whose chairman is secretary of the state Democratic Party, and the City Council president.
During the battle last fall over Proposition 8, an amendment to the State Constitution that banned same-sex marriage, the chapters president, the Rev. Eric P. Lee, was more than a tangential figure for the opposition. He was front and center at an opposition groups large rally at City Hall and marched in the blazing sun for 15 miles in Fresno. Many other local African-American pastors prepared mailings featuring church leaders in support of the proposition and linking their views to President Obama, then the Democratic nominee for president.
Mr. Lee was very helpful to us, said Rick Jacobs, head of the Courage Campaign, a left-leaning political action group in Los Angeles that fought to the initiative.
While the Mormon church raised a great deal of the money in support of the proposition, the role of African-American churches, and their voting parishioners, was not insignificant. Exit polls in California found that 70 percent of black voters backed the ban, which passed with 52 percent of the vote.
Mr. Lees opposition to Proposition 8 created tension in my life I had never experienced with black clergy, he said. But it was clear to me that any time you deny one group of people the same right that other groups have that is a clear violation of civil rights and I have to speak up on that.
In April, Mr. Lee attended a board meeting of the civil rights organization in Kansas City, Mo., and found himself once again in the minority position among his colleagues on the issue of same-sex marriage, but was told, he said, by the interim president of the civil rights organization, Byron Clay, that the group publicly had a neutral position on the issue.
So a month later, Mr. Lee said, he was surprised to receive a call from the National Board of Directors summoning him immediately to Atlanta to explain why he had taken a position on the same-sex marriage issue without the authority of the national board.
Explaining that he was unable to come to Atlanta on such short notice, Mr. Lee then received two letters from the organizations lawyer, Dexter M. Wimbish, threatening him with suspension or removal as president of the Los Angeles chapter if he did not come soon to explain himself.
Mr. Wimbish did not return calls to his office, nor did the Rev. Raleigh Trammell, chairman of the organizations national board. A woman who identified herself as Renee Richardson left a voice mail message for a reporter, saying the organization did not discuss internal matters. She did not return follow-up calls.
The issue attracted the attention of the president of the Los Angeles City Council, Eric Garcetti, who wrote to the board in support of Mr. Lee.
Because chapters of the leadership conference operate autonomously and presidents are picked by local boards, it is not clear that the national organization has the authority to remove Mr. Lee from his post, which he has held for two years.
Its been our position that the local board hired him, said Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, chairman of the local board and secretary of the states Democratic Party. And, in fact, we are also the ones that approved his stance on the position of marriage equality. We have asked the national board if we have violated any procedures, and we have not gotten an answer.
Mr. Lee, the former pastor of In His Steps, an African-American Wesleyan Church in Los Angeles that he described as very conservative, said he saw failures both in the leadership of the conference (Dr. King would be turning over in his grave right now, he said) and the largely white anti-Proposition 8 movement that did not more actively seek the support of church-going African-Americans.
The black church played a significant role in Proposition 8 passing, he said. The failure of the campaign was to presume that African-Americans would see this as a civil rights issue.
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my ($rin, $win, $ein);
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CORN - May '09 Electronic
Open - $3.59 1/2, High - $3.63 1/4, Low - $3.54, Close - $3.63 Up $.02 1/4
First things first, if you will notice I shifted from March '09 corn to the May '09 contract. I said yesterday I thought we would see some support at $3.48 3/4 and if we violated that for a few hours then we could test yesterday's low of $3.42 but we only got as low as $3.45 1/4 before finding support. I also said I needed to see a close above $3.52 before I got excited about the market; we got that close today at $3.54 1/4.
I am still not super excited but I did add to my long feed position today buying the May '09 futures around $3.59 1/2, this was on 50% of what our needs are. I also have $3.50 May puts in place against my long futures in case I am wrong about the market. I purchased futures and puts instead of a call because if the market rallies like I think it could I can sell my put options and salvage some cost but if I had a call option in place I would have to pay the entire premium amount to keep my upside open.
Bottom line - Again I am switching to commentary about the May '09 contract instead of March. I am going with a firmer bias for tonight and tomorrow for various reasons, 1.) we closed above $3.61 1/4 which now projects $3.68 1/2 as a target and 2.) the stock market made most of its significant rally after the corn market was closed. As mentioned I think we will be firmer tonight/tomorrow unless President Obama says something the market doesn't like in his State of the "Economy" Address this evening. Resistance is $3.62 3/4 and then $3.68 1/2 which I think we will touch. Support is $3.61 1/4 to $3.59 1/2, we may touch $3.61 1/4 but assuming no surprises from the President tonight I think the first support level will hold. I believe corn is searching for a bottom and I am taking a more aggressive approach to protecting upside price risk on feed needs. We still need to get back above $3.63 1/4 and close there on a Friday if we want to show further signs of a bottom.
MEAL - May '09 Electronic
Open - $272.20, High - $275.00, Low - $269.50, Close - $275.00 Up $1.70
As mentioned in corn I am now referring to the May '09 meal contract instead of the March because of pending expiration. As a review from yesterday I said; if we continue to trade above $270.70 we should begin to make our way back higher with our first target at $295.30, $302.30 and ultimately $325.20. Today's close was at $275.00 which once again is above my key area of $270.70. I failed to mention another area of resistance when I gave targets yesterday and its $281.20 basis the May '09 contract.
The $281.20 area is the 50% level between the Dec '08 low and the Jan '09 high so we need trade above this level for a day or two before I feel very comfortable saying $295.30 is our next target. I still feel like soybean meal is trying to bottom this week but like I said yesterday I need confirmation first and I don't have it yet.
Bottom line - With the Dow Jones rallying into its close today I believe it will bring support to the grain markets tonight therefore I look for meal to open higher tonight. There is one thing I don't like on the hourly chart (very short-term) is if we gap higher tonight and retreat there is a small sell signal at $274.50 on a sell stop with the risk management buy stop above the most recent high. I WILL NOT take this trade tonight because of all the other longer-term indications I get of a potential bottom. Resistance for tomorrow is $276.70 and then $281.20 and support will be $272.30 to $271.60. I believe we will have an early low and a late high tomorrow.
HOGS - April '09 GLOBEX
Open - $57.60, High - $57.95, Low - $56.875, Close - $57.70 Down $.525
Flat out called hogs wrong today on support and resistance targets. I mentioned yesterday there was a buy signal on the intra-day charts at $58.05 but I wouldn't take that trade because the daily charts were so lackluster, this was a good thing today. There is really nothing good to talk about on the fundamental side from a short-term perspective, cash remains weak and we can't seem to light a fire under the cutout.
April '09 hogs actually had good price action today if you are looking for signs of a potential reversal in the market. I have a cycle indicator that says yesterday we were near the bottom of the cycle and today's price action confirms that to me BUT I need to see good buying above today's high of $57.95 and a close above this level tomorrow. A close tomorrow above $70.425 in the June '09 contract would also be beneficial for the prospect of a rally in that contract. When I talk about reversals and rallies I am looking at a shorter-term basis and not calling market bottoms because we need much more confirmation than what we have right now. The information I am giving you on the April and June '09 contracts are just a conditional setup right now.
Bottom line - The cutout was down $.17 tonight which is better than yesterday's number of down $.81 but we can't get around the fact that it is still lower. It sounds like most packers are out of the market for buying pigs this week (at the moment) to continue pressuring the cash market looking to increase the demand for product/cutout. Today is confusing because we have a bunch of bearish fundamental news out there but the charts are showing signs of a possible change in direction. I am a technician so I will go with what I objectively see in the charts. I see support for tomorrow at $57.40 and then $57.25 and resistance above the market is $57.95 and if we manage to sustain trade above $57.95 we should trigger some buy stops to cover some short positions AND it is a buy signal on my chart. IF this buy signal is good and starts a rally over the coming week(s) our next upside target would be $60.475. I wouldn't get aggressive with this signal because of the fundamental situation we are in but I want to talk about it so you know it is there. The way I am handling risk of a potential reversal is using puts to protect downside risk. I'm looking for pressure early and then stabilization as the day progresses.
NW_LS500 Des Moines, IA Tue, Feb 24, 2009 USDA Market News USDA NATIONAL CARLOT PORK REPORT as of: 3:00 P.M. Purchases equated to FOB Omaha Basis. Compared to Monday's Close: Fresh loins weak to 2.00 lower; butts 1.00-2.00 lower; sknd hams 17-20 lbs steady, 20-23 lbs steady to 1.00 lower, 23-27 lbs steady to 2.00 higher; sdls bellies steady to 2.00 lower; lean trimmings steady to 2.00 lower. Trading slow to moderate, with mostly light demand and moderate to heavy offerings. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Loads PORK CUTS : 125.75 Loads TRIM/PROCESS PORK : 11.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------- USDA ESTIMATED PORK CARCASS CUTOUT Based on FOB Omaha carlot pork prices and industry yields. Calculations for a 200 lb Pork Carcass 53-54% lean, 0.65"-0.80" backfat at last rib ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Today's Primal Cutout Values Date Loads Carcass Loin Butt Pic Rib Ham Belly ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 02/24 136.8 56.02 71.03 60.10 36.40 98.15 40.66 71.27 Change : -0.17 -1.17 -1.68 3.54 -1.63 0.25 -0.49 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- THE USDA AFTERNOON CASH REPORT WAS NOT AVAILABLE AT THE TIME OF THIS POST.
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Beautiful Sunsets (didn't get around to editing these pictures yet, but still gorgeous!)
A short 2-hour drive from the Woodlands checkpoint on the north side of Singapore and a quick 20-minute boat transfer from Mersing to arrive on this pristine private island in Malaysia. The beaches are gorgeous, plentiful snorkeling, swimming and kayaking; the food called us back for every meal and the spacious villas were lovely, until the third night when we were moved to a villa unsafe for the children to stay. Diminishing their claim to be a "family friendly boutique resort" in our minds.
Beautiful Private Beaches
After nightfall, the mosquitoes were out in full force and the Ocean Villa we were moved to was not built to keep the little pests out. Even securing the mosquito netting around the beds all day long, the little pests found their way in to eat us alive all night.
It was too hot and humid to stay covered throughout the night, but with the bugs biting outside the sheets, we were left with no choice. If the villa was designed to keep the air-conditioned air inside the villa, instead of letting it all escape through the huge gaps where the wall and roof come together, it would improve the experience quite drastically. The staff had placed additional table fans in the villa, but they blew the bug netting open to give the little guys a place to enter for their feast. So, we suffered through a night in an unfinished, not ready for guests, villa and PAID FOR IT!
Island Jetty
I can't say that we hated our entire stay on the island. The first 2-nights we stayed in a wonderful Beach Villa that did not have the same issues. The Beach Villa with child sleeping area was amazing! We had restful sleeps and woke-up to the beautiful beach and relaxing porch. The only thing missing in this villa was breakfast in bed.
The island itself is an environmentalist dream. Migrating birds and sea eagles, corals, fish, Sea turtles, crabs - just to name a few of the sea creatures spotted on the island. We were able to hike around the entire island, as it is quite small and it was amazing (although Little Miss M thought the long hike was something she would never want to do again...Ever!). Some of the fish spotted, crabs and coral that are all especially visible during low tide are a rare sight for most city dwellers and I was so happy that the children were able to experience the magic of the ocean and spot Sea Urchins, as well.
Makayla particularly found the little ghost crabs pretty cool when mommy almost stepped on one and it scurried away to hide under a rock.
The nightmare started after the 2nd night, when we were told there was some kind of miscommunication, or computer glitch and we had to shift villas. It was never clear what happened with our reservation, as different staff including the owner, told us conflicting reports. We ended up shifting, not thinking too much of it besides the inconvenience, to an Ocean Villa with no child area. The Ocean view Villa was more of a tree view with a big palm tree blocking the ocean view, but if we looked through the tree, there it was - the beautiful blue-green water of the South China Sea.
Bummer ~ Tree blocking view from Ocean Villa.
This particular Ocean Villa should NEVER have children assigned to it! Upon entering the villa on stilts built into a cliff side, the stairs are open and there is no landing to enter the villa. When the doors are opened, the handrail is not accessible and the children had to use the stairs on their bums, very carefully.
Just a little stressful for parents of toddlers.
The other child disaster waiting to happen was the opposite side door. The door through the bathroom opens to an outside balcony/deck with no safety side rails. The flooring is there, but there is nothing around the sides of this high deck. The door leading out to the area has a wooden latch like the one seen in the above picture to hold the door closed, but easily accessible by toddlers. There is no additional lock on this door leading to an unfinished deck. Makes no sense at all to place two small children in this villa.
We asked for a change of villas, but we were told there was nothing else available. After staying for one very stressful night in this villa, we decided the next morning to leave a day early. We approached the staff to book a seat on the transfer boat and let them know we wished to leave early, they suddenly came up with 1 or 2 other optional villas!?
Sorry, too late. Our experience of enjoying the tropical, quiet island has been ruined by this unfinished, unsuitable villa that was irresponsibly assigned to a family with small children.
It is really too bad, because we were truly enjoying the relaxing experience the first 2-nights staying in the lovely Beach Villa that was ready for guests to enjoy and safe for the children.
Playing on beach outside villa the 1st morning.
Lovely porch for morning coffee on the Beach Villa.
Didn't need this mosquito netting, because the beach villa was built correctly and finished for guests. Still a nice touch :-)
Enormous bathrooms!
Relaxing in the infinity pool.
Riley enjoyed finding cool shells and reef that had washed up.
Wish I would have taken some pictures of the various wildlife on this eco-resort island.


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Public relations battle over health care heats up
- White House and Republicans plan outreach as critical deadline looms
- House had voted to delay the individual and employer mandates
- Law remains largely unpopular with Americans
WASHINGTON — The public relations battle over President Obama's signature health care law has simmered long past the point when it became law more than three years ago.
But in the days and weeks ahead, a critical deadline looms for implementation of the law, and the battle for public opinion is heating to a boil.
As the Obama administration nears the Oct. 1 deadline to establish health care exchanges in all 50 states, the White House and Republicans are exchanging barbs and revving up outreach efforts to make their case to the public in the most highly partisan policy battle in the president's 4½ years in office.
Less than 24 hours after the GOP-controlled House voted to delay both the individual and employer mandates of the law — a move that has no chance of passing in the Senate -- Obama went on the attack Thursday to plug some of the early successes of his health care overhaul, while slamming GOP lawmakers for continuing their efforts to repeal his landmark legislative achievement.
Obama used a speech that was billed by his aides as an opportunity to tout one of the early successes of his health care law — more than 8 million Americans will receive $504 million in rebates from their insurers as a result of a provision in the law — to make the case to Americans that the GOP was doing little more than making "political hay" with their continued opposition.
"We've got a lot of problems in this country and there's a lot of work that Congress needs to do…and yet we're re-fighting these old battles," Obama said. "Sometimes I just try to figure out why. Maybe they think it's good politics."
But implementation has been marked by bumps. The latest hiccup came a little more than two weeks after the White House announced that it would delay until 2015 the requirement that businesses with more than 50 employees provide health insurance to their workers or pay a penalty. And the landmark legislation has remained largely unpopular with Americans. In an NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll published last month, 49% of respondents said they thought the health care overhaul was a "bad idea," while 37% said it was a good idea.
Obama didn't speak directly to the delay in the employer mandate, but he lamented that his health care overhaul is facing the same sort of political resistance that Social Security and Medicare — two broadly popular programs today — faced when they were introduced.
Not long after Obama spoke, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., took the Senate floor to rebut the president's pitch. "Well, Mr. President, the reason why this issue is still being talked about is because Obamacare is a disaster," he said.
Both Democrats and Republicans are gearing up their constituent outreach on the issue.
Supporters, including the pro-Obama group Organizing for Action, have aired commercials trumpeting the rebates, small business tax credits and free preventive care visits that have been spurred by the plan. In the coming days, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle will step up their outreach with a more personal touch.
On Friday, Rubio will attend a roundtable with business owners to discuss the impact it will have on their companies.
Mark McHugh, the president and CEO of Gatorland, a theme park and wildlife preserve that will host the roundtable, said in an interview that he remains concerned that the law will lead to a spike in premiums. McHugh, whose family owned business covers 80% of health insurance costs for full-time employees, said uncertainty about costs has led him to put off new hiring.
"It's getting to the point where we can't bring on any new employees, because we don't know what premiums will be," McHugh said. "It's hampering our growth plans."
On Saturday, Del. Donna Christensen, a non-voting Democratic House member from the U.S. Virgin Islands, will host the first of an eight-state outreach effort sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss the health care changes with constituents.
Christensen said that both Democratic lawmakers and the White House have fallen short on plugging the benefits of the law and were outflanked by Republican "misinformation" in the public relations battles
"We were drowned out," Christensen said. "We are trying now to make sure we can drown them out as we move forward."


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The 35-year-old skater was placed on a stretcher and taken by ambulance to a hospital. She was conscious and talking to paramedics.
Cliff-Ryan had her back to the ice at the Utah Olympic Oval during off-day practice for the U.S. Olympic trials. She was talking to other skaters after her workout when she was hit by Kevin Geminder. He fell and smashed into Cliff-Ryan, flipping her in the air. Trainers raced to put a neck brace on her.
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Geminder just missed hitting a metal bench. Four-time Olympic medalist Shani Davis was sitting nearby and saw Geminder starting to fall. Davis, who has already made the U.S. team for the Sochi Games, says he was lucky to get out of the way.
Geminder finished 28th in the 1,000 meters Sunday.
Cliff-Ryan, from Cedar Springs, Mich., and living in Philadelphia, was a contender in the 1,500, to be held Tuesday. She also was to compete in the 5,000 on Wednesday.
She just missed qualifying for the U.S. team in the 3,000 last Friday. She finished third in a personal-best time, but only the top two made the team.
Cliff-Ryan is a longtime inline skater who switched to cycling in an attempt to make the Summer Olympics. She almost qualified for the U.S. team in both 2008 and 2012 and then went back to skating - on blades instead of wheels - in a last-ditch attempt to make the Winter Games. After just 6 1/2 months on ice, she nearly pulled it off.
"It's disappointing," Cliff-Ryan said after the 3,000. "But I'm pretty proud of what I've done."


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WASHINGTON, DC – The top Republican leading the House investigation into Operation Fast and Furious said Sunday he expects a "bipartisan" floor vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress this coming week.
"I believe they will (vote to hold him in contempt)," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., told "Fox News Sunday." "Both Republicans and Democrats will vote that — I believe it will be bipartisan."
Issa kept his focus on the Justice Department, clarifying that he has no evidence the White House was involved in any Fast and Furious cover-up. But he repeatedly said Congress is trying to get to the bottom of why the Justice Department "lied" about the operation.
The comments underscored the apparent momentum among majority House Republicans behind the contempt push, following a committee contempt vote against Holder along party lines this past week. That vote proceeded after Holder and Republicans were unable to reach an agreement over subpoenaed documents pertaining to the Obama administration's Fast and Furious discussions.
Issa said Sunday it's possible the vote could be delayed or even "eliminated" if the administration produces the subpoenaed documents the House is seeking. He noted the entire schedule is at the discretion of House Speaker John Boehner.
"But we have to see the documents first," he said.
Barring such a resolution, Issa and his allies are teeing up a major election-year clash this coming week between the Executive and Legislative branches, and between Democrats and Republicans.
President Obama intervened this past week, invoking executive privilege to protect the documents in question, but Republicans dismissed the claim and proceeded with the contempt vote. On the sidelines, minority House Democrats are pleading with Republicans take a step back and work out the document dispute without the threat of contempt. At the same time, both sides are antagonizing each other at the dais and in the press over what Democrats claim has become a political "witch hunt."
Rep. Elijah Cummings, R-Md., ranking Democrat on the oversight committee, told "Fox News Sunday" that the confrontation was entirely avoidable.
"I think it's extremely unfortunate," he said. "The attorney general has made it clear that he is willing to work with this Congress."
Cummings called on Boehner to intervene and try to reach an agreement with Holder that involves turning over some documents while also halting the contempt proceedings.
"I think that we have a duty … at this critical moment to get the documents," he said. "I know we can get them. It's just a matter of sitting down and talking to Holder."
Cummings suggested the course of the committee's investigation has lost sight of one of the major reasons for the probe — the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, whose murder scene included weapons from the Fast and Furious operation.
But Issa defended the escalation, saying the committee is trying to obtain critical documents to help explain why Congress was initially told — incorrectly — in February 2011 that the government did not knowingly let guns "walk" across the U.S.-Mexico border. The department later issued a correction to that statement.
"We, in fact, are simply trying to get to the truth when we were told a lie," Issa said. "It's about the cover-up."
"Ultimately, Justice lied to the American people on February 4 (2011), and they didn't make it right for 10 months."


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NASA: Commercial-crew flights on track to start in 2017
- NASA has committed $1.5 billion to develop commercial crew systems since 2010
- Safety concerns raised over agency's flight programs
- Three companies awarded money to develop commercial flight systems
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA and industry partners on Wednesday touted progress they've made developing private spacecraft that could fly astronauts from Florida to the International Space Station by 2017.
Soon after the briefing at Kennedy Space Center, NASA's independent Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel released a report confirming progress while identifying several concerns with the agency's Commercial Crew Program.
"The ASAP is pleased to see that progress has been made with the CCP over the last year, but many challenges remain that will require resolution at the earliest possible time," the panel's 2012 annual report said.
NASA has committed about $1.5 billion to develop commercial crew systems since 2010, with most of that awarded last year to The Boeing Co., Sierra Nevada Corp. and SpaceX.
Those three companies hope to complete system designs in 2014 and could launch crews on test flights as soon as 2015 or 2016.
Among the safety panel's concerns is the possibility that NASA could ask its commercial partners to fly orbital test flights with their own crews before NASA astronauts board the new vehicles.
The optional tests, the report says, raise questions about who would certify their safety and whether NASA could be seen as "irresponsible in its sponsorship/facilitation or tacit acceptance of a high-risk activity."
NASA has told the panel it has no plan to exercise those flights.
Ed Mango, manager of the Kennedy-based commercial crew program, said Wednesday that the commercial crew program's goal was to develop and certify systems that could fly NASA crews to the space station and also enable commercial flights to other destinations.
As such, the agency wanted companies to say when they would be ready to put their own crews at risk.
"All of us have the same initiative, and it doesn't matter who's sitting on top of the vehicle," he said. "It's a person, and that person needs to fly safely and get home to their families."
Garrett Reisman, a former NASA astronaut heading upgrades of SpaceX's Dragon capsule for crewed flight, said he might not fly the company's initial test flight but would have to be willing to.
"I have to be willing to go, because I'm not strapping somebody else into it if I'm not willing to strap into it myself," he said.
Rob Meyerson, president and program manager at Blue Origin, which received NASA funding earlier in the development program, said he expected there would be many volunteers.
"If I know the people that come to work at commercial space companies, I think there's probably no shortage of people that will want to sign up and fly on any of our vehicles in those early flights," he said.
Still, the safety panel said of the optional flights: "We do not understand the full implication of the optional approach and are concerned that it increases risk."
The report also noted concerns about NASA's non-traditional contracting strategy, which reduces the agencies role in the design of private spacecraft, and how it would go about certifying the vehicles' safety.
But it said a two-phase certification program that begins this month "helps to clear the certification 'fog' and is a significant step forward."
The panel's only issue given a "red" level of concern was NASA's overall budget uncertainty.
It questioned whether NASA would be able to afford to certify at least two commercial systems and said operational flights would not start by 2017 without increases in funding.
The program requested $830 million for 2013 and later years, and this year is expected to receive closer to $500 million.
Mark Sirangelo, vice president and chairman of Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems, which is developing the Dream Chaser mini-shuttle, said lower budgets would delay schedules, extending U.S. reliance on Russia to reach the station and impact research performed there.
"It might take longer to get there, and that's going to have an effect on the really valuable work that's being done on the station," he said.


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Video released of trooper stopping wrong-way driver
Incident happened June 29
Maine State Police have released video from last month's incident where a trooper intentionally ran his cruiser into a car driving north in the southbound lane of I-295 in Portland.
The incident happened on June 29 at the start of the busy 4th of July weekend.
Trooper Doug Cropper said he had just pulled over a truck on I-295 when he got a call about a car going the wrong way.
"No sooner do I hang the microphone up, I see the vehicle coming at me in the passing lane, I jumped out, tried to flag him down," said Cropper.
Police said the car which was being driven by Kenneth Gill, 88, of Scarborough, kept going, so Cropper had to make a decision.
"One, back up, turn around, go the wrong way and follow him, or back up, take Exit 6-A and try to cut him off," said Cropper.
Cropper chose to cut him off.
He drove north on Marginal Way, took Exit 7 to get back onto I-295 and raced to get ahead of Gill.
"I saw him still going and decided this was the time to punch it, beat him to the crossover and stick my car out in front of him," Cropper said.
No one was hurt, and Cropper said he was just doing his job.
"If he made it past me, we would have been dealing with serious bodily injuries if not fatalities."
Cropper said Gill seemed confused but knew he was in the wrong lane.
"He was just happy. Everyone was safe, including a husband and wife who could have been victims of a head-on collision," said Cropper.
"I talked to them that night and they were incredibly grateful and that was one of the most nicest phone calls I have ever received from civilians."
A safety board is still reviewing Cropper's actions, but he said he has the support of several of his superiors.


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It was published in The Kathmandu Post, 14 October 2016.
Constraints on effective development planning are pretty much the same now as they were in the 1960s
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the National Planning Commission (NPC) are the two most important government agencies responsible for designing fiscal policy, which primarily consists of prioritising public expenditure and mobilising internal (tax and non-tax revenue) and external (grants and loans) resources. They also oversee formulation of laws and policies that have fiscal implications, prepare medium- and long-term development plans and advise the government on the optimal path to achieving political-economic priorities.
However, with their existing administrative structure, leadership style, and roles and responsibilities, these two crucial agencies are increasingly ineffective in fiscal management and economic planning. Ministers, secretaries and joint secretaries from other ministries regularly complain about the implementation hurdles in these bodies such as delays in budget approval, insufficient fund allocation, and a heavy-handed approach to the selection of sector-specific projects. This lack of effective inter- and intra-ministry coordination and haphazard project planning contribute to the low capital spending. Last year, for example, only 56 percent of planned spending was expended. The functional and administrative structure of the MoF and the NPC, which was created about six decades ago and marginally tweaked in successive years, cannot effectively respond to the fiscal management and economic development challenges the country faces now.
Recurring issues
Despite the socio-political changes over the decades, the constraints on effective development planning and its implementation are pretty much the same now as they were in the 1960s. In a 1972 paper titled 'Why Planning Fails in Nepal?' published in the journal Administrative Science Quarterly, Aaron Wildavsky (the then dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley) outlines the probable reasons: "insufficient information, few and poor project proposals, inability to program foreign aid, opposition of the finance ministry, and severely limited capacity to administer development." The paper highlights the ritualistic meetings at the NPC and its lack of authority; inadequate attention to boost absorption capacity by determining targets and outlays; lack of competent and relevant officials at the helm of planning and budget execution; and the rise in recurrent expenditure due to shoddy capital spending.
Furthermore, other problematic issues outlined in the paper are the under-execution of capital budget; the cumbersome and obstructive processes at the MoF and the NPC to release funds for already approved projects; a tug-of-war between the NPC and the MoF in planning, financing and monitoring of projects; high staff turnover; low incentive to perform better; deficient technical education of divisional heads (joint secretaries) or project directors; and a culture of waiting for orders from above to skip decision-making on management and implementation issues by project directors. In essence, "economic development is only a sometime thing for them", concludes Wildavsky.
These were some of the administrative and operational issues hindering planning and implementation back in 1972, when the economy was still closed to competition and trade. Fast forward to 2016 and these issues still remain the same despite the economy's liberalisation, entry into the global and regional trade regimes, a devastating decade-long Maoist insurgency, and a sea of change on social, economic and political fronts. It, unfortunately, points to the fact that these two agencies have failed to evolve to confront the emerging economic and development challenges.
In every monthly or quarterly project portfolio meetings, these issues are discussed without much sense of responsibility. The ministries point fingers at the MoF and the NPC, and vice versa. At best, they end up forming a committee to study the constraints and recommend appropriate remedies. This drama of project planning, budget approval and implementation and formation of countless committees is repeated in every budget cycle.
The MoF officials act as if they are the ultimate authority to decide on project selection, planning and financing and, at times, even impose their will on the line ministries by controlling budget allocation and approval. Meanwhile, the NPC veering off its intended path is lost in the political and bureaucratic quagmire. It has become a toothless organisation with no tangible authority to make line ministries follow the path outlined in the medium- and long-term development plans. Its top leadership has remained unstable and busy in inaugurating insignificant workshops, attending futile overseas seminars and bickering with politicians over petty projects. The core functions of development planning and policy advising to the government are forgotten. Amidst this mess, the line ministries are seeking guidance on project preparation, planning, funding and implementation along with appropriate policies and laws.
Restructuring the two agencies
The corridors of the MoF and the NPC are most abuzz during budget preparation. But except for the fruitless yet ritualistic portfolio meetings, they remain largely silent during the phase of budget execution. Hollow steps are taken to deal with issues on project implementation by forming countless committees and subcommittees while, in reality, real progress is as elusive as it was six decades ago.
This has to change now. As a start, the functional and administrative restructuring of the MoF and the NPC should be initiated. The NPC should focus on designing and monitoring medium- to long-term development agenda with a time-bound action plan to be implemented by the line ministries, on assisting the line ministries in project readiness, including public private partnership projects, and on advising the government on fiscal and development issues. Additionally, given the shortage of investment-ready projects, the NPC should work with line ministries to come up with a project bank, which may include shovel-ready projects that could be taken up for implementation if funds are available.
Meanwhile, the MoF needs to focus on fiscal management—expenditure and debt management and resource mobilisation (revenue and foreign aid). It still lacks a centralised public debt management office, which could effectively shoulder the responsibility of managing domestic and foreign debt. Instead of micromanaging the line ministries' projects, the MoF should focus on arranging and approving funds to the projects that need it the most. Furthermore, its Chief Economic Advisor's office, Economic Policy Analysis Division, Revenue Management Division, and Budget and Programme Division need to be more agile and effective. They all should facilitate, not hinder, project implementation across all ministries.


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Edited #3 Hey guys I surely have to refine my post in many aspects but my initial thought was this one: Even if google answers failed that does not mean that in a couple of years will not appear a service coming from a huge community such as facebook or google promising: "Questions answered in 15 or 10 or 5 minutes or just in time answers"... I do not say that they will find an AI algorithm answering automatically questions but I believe they have already implemented a super AI algorithm finding from their enormous meta-user data who has speciality in what sector of knowledge and who can answer a particular question in 15 or 10 or 5 minutes or just in time and through their billion users will find at least 1000 major users specialized in that subject of that specialized question... And among that 1000 major users which will be notified (facebook) or recieved an email (gmail) to answer that question, statistically at least 1 of 1000 will do it successfully in the proper time (When I refer to time I mean the time that takes in Stackoverflow for a user to accept an answer)... And their reward maybe more valuable than reputation, maybe a medal on their WALL or promotion of their paper in google scholar...
So my own (and maybe I am wrong) point to view is to take time under consideration before it is late and find ourselves asking what time is it in Stackoverflow... I will really be happy to be proven wrong from you and from history because I am concern about Stackoverflow.
Edited #2: It seems to me that I have to give a real, actual example: Right here I found a similar problem with my experience in database programming. It seemed to me that was a problem very similar to one I solved many time ago... Later I found out what exactly the question asks and it finally was too much different... I launched mysql and I found that it is very difficult for that question to be solved except if I would use dynamically cursors in the loop of a stored procedure... When had the above sub problem solved I was bored to launch again mysql because I was in vacation so that question is still unanswered but I got a vote for just providing a link.
If there were a user that launched Mysql (at the same time I was trying to figure out how to use cursors in stored procedure loops) and wrote down nested cursors in stored procedure loop in a couple of minutes and the question is very speciallized and the only person who is interested voting the answers is the one who asked (as it happened) and that brilliant programmer took a vote as I did YES IT IS UNFAIR FOR HIM to gain equal reputation to mine
I am studying several years human productivity and I am working on that issue trying to improve productivity through software.
Since in Stackoverflow so many questions are asked and answered about "just in time" coding in interviews and so on, I had an idea these days which I hesitated to propose due to it's most probable rejection.
Nevertheless I can't stand but writing it down.
I believe that user reputation could be calculated (according to it's votes of-course) in accordance with the time that took the user to post the answer.
That is the time between having read the question and the moment the button: "post your answer" is clicked. Surely there is an unpredictable factor which is the time that took the user to read the question and even if one adds a button labeled: "I've just read the answer" and then the interval between clicking that button I just mentioned and the other button: "Post your answer" is calculated, surely one shall cheat...
So I think that there could be an estimation how much time it would take for a user to read a question by the time he clicked the question, deduced from the words (even the links) of that question.
To be more specific when a user posts his answer there is a timer that counts the time between clicking the question and posting the answer. Right then the automatically estimated time: how much it should have taken to read the question, which for once again could be automatically estimated from the number of words or some other characteristics (some factors that we can all try to figure out such as the number of links provided) so this estimated time is subtracted from the previous time interval (between clicking a question and posting an answer).
That could deduce a better estimation for a programmer's skills and after that whole process a coefficient could be estimated which would be multiplied to the reputation that the answer gained from it's votes.
If the majority, including me, agree that it is a strict or cruel way of calculating reputation there should be a checkbox in ones profile for him to choose if he accepts that particular pattern of being his reputation calculated or instead prefers the classic way.
It is an amazing joy for me developing software that concerns productivity so it would be a great pleasure to help the stack community in such an effort, despite the fact I am pretty sure my proposal will be rejected.
I thought that the above complex system of estimating a-priori the time that takes to read a question could be simply skipped by solely counting the time between clicking a question and answering that question so as to deduce more simply that coefficient but various practical problems emerge using that approximation, except if you propose some features on that surely simpler way.
Thanks for your patience ;)
PS: I did not mentioned it because I took it for granted. The whole idea surely concerns comparison between times (and of-course votes) between all answers in that question... It does not concern individual calculation, the individual calculation of reputation is formed from existing voting system...
Edited 1: I had another idea too and I enjoy it a lot!
The collection of times that took all users to answer a particular question can also tell us(after finding a proper pattern) about the quality of the question except from the programming skills of users that answered that question. Question votes will be surely in that pattern, too.
The final aspect which (in my personal point of view) could merge successfully all above is this:
The user that posts a question has the choice to turn on the "time pattern mechanism" for the question, because the time that is going to take the users to answer his question matters for him. Besides that and independently each user has the choice for his reputation to be evaluated according to the "time pattern" or to be evaluated as classically.
The time pattern mechanism now works for and only for those questions that have the "pattern" turned on and in those questions it works for those users who had turned on the mechanism in their profiles, too. So now that "time pattern mechanism" should be a mathematical function (probably using AI) which we can all together try to find it out that takes as input times and votes (as described above or somehow) for all the answers in a question and finally gives an output score(some people call it reputation) --most probably a coefficient multiplied to votes -- for each answer but for that question, too!
My next "major proposal" (major in negative votes ;) ) concerns voting system... Stay tuned :)


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