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Most video game studios hire talented freelance composers to build their soundtracks for them, but not Bungie. Martin O'Donnell is a full-time employee with Bungie, and the only people who have been with the studio longer than him are those who started the company. If you've played any of Bungie's Halo games, you know that the soundtrack is one of the most defining elements of the series. For Destiny, O'Donnell has created a whole new soundtrack that heightens the cinematic intensity.
The Destiny presentation showcased lots of visual aspects of the game, including glimpses of the engine and plenty of concept art. For O'Donnell's section of the presentation, he showed a PowerPoint slide with his name and title, and then turned off the projector, dimmed the lights, and played snippets of the soundtrack. Hearing Destiny's music was one of the highlights the event. You can still hear some of O'Donnell's signature flourishes, like the use of choruses and human voices, but Destiny's soundtrack is distinct from Halo's. It abandons the heavy percussion focus in favor of a theme that seems to mix John Williams' best science-fiction work with O'Donnell 's memorable violin riffs. We heard optimistic soft tracks presumably written to highlight successful missions, as well as combat music that offered a sense of high seas ship battles. The stirring tracks easily live up to O'Donnell 's excellent reputation of knowing how to tell a science-fiction story with music.
What will Destiny call home?Bungie says Destiny is coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and made no mention of next generation consoles or PC. Bungie said that it makes console shooters, so playing with anything other than a controller seems unlikely. The game also has a mobile component. Though details were minimal, Bungie showed off a Destiny app for iOS that allows players to send and accept invitations to play, as well as customize their Guardians.
The Hopeful Apocalypse
Video game worlds often showcase bleak post-apocalyptic worlds. Games like Fallout and Gears of War feature dark worlds where characters don't know what the future holds, and some don't want to know, preferring to focus on the present. Destiny may take place after a major global disaster, but everything from the concept art to the soundtrack represents a hopeful world where humans are doing more than surviving – they are fighting for the future. This is part of Bungie's plan. It wants to create a world that is inviting and interesting and appeals to all gamers, even the "impatient and distracted ones," says project director Jason Jones.
Bungie has yet to showcase Destiny's gameplay, but it has established an interesting world and laid the foundation for the expansive narrative. The studio wants to show it can add more to its legacy than Master Chief, and they're going all in on Destiny. "We hope you'll agree – it's really crazy," Jones says.
For more on Destiny, check out this documentary from Bungie.
Email the author Kyle Hilliard, or follow on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and Game Informer.
This game looks good, but after what they said about wanting to be similar to Star Wars and the actual similarities between the two, it almost seems like it takes place in the Star Wars universe.
I'm fairly impressed so far. It looks great and I love the concept behind it. It definitely has peaked my interest and I can't wait to see more.
I. Want. This.
im excited for the game, but im not so happy about leaving master chief in the dust.
looks awesome, except for the whole always online part and it's basically a console mmo thing. If it doesnt off offline play then my desire for this game has been drastically reduced... sorry bungie. I know your trying to overhaul the gaming universe and whatnot, but please dont do it at the expense of those of us without a stable internet connection. Thanks...
I will definitely be following this one. Go Bungie!


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Labour's housing policy data queried
Labour leader David Shearer has thrown down a challenge to his political opponents to say why his policy on foreign house buyers is bad for New Zealanders.
Labour on Sunday said it would bar non-residents, other than Australians, from buying existing homes.
"So what's the downside of this? That we stop foreign speculators coming in and pushing prices up? Where's the downside in that? We give first home buyers a better chance," Shearer said.
Critics have said the plan is xenophobic, would potentially breach provisions on free trade deals and would be impractical. They have also argued it would not have the planned impact on house prices, because there are few foreign buyers of property that would be caught by the plan.
Housing Minister Nick Smith said the policy was a gimmick and would not work.
"The proportion of homes that are purchased by overseas persons is just tiny. We need to focus on the real issues like land supply, like the cost of building materials, productivity in the sector, the compliance costs, the infrastructure costs."
Those were the things that would make a real difference for Kiwi families, Smith said.
"I just don't think there is a credible case that shows that overseas buyers are having any substantive impact on New Zealand house prices."
He said it was "the oldest trick in the book" to blame foreigners for unemployment, crime or house prices.
Shearer said there were estimates about 9 per cent of houses were being bought and sold by overseas speculators, but that was likely to be understated because data was being gathered by real estate agents.
"I'm fed up with John Key talking the big talk but no work. There is absolutely nothing there he is putting up to help those young couples."
He said the policy would not prevent New Zealanders living overseas from buying property here.
The onus would be on the purchasing solicitor to check if a buyer was barred under the policy.
He said the exemption for Australians did not breach the most favoured nation status in the China free trade deal.
Labour had been working on the policy for about four months and it had been put up by Labour list MP Raymond Huo who said it was an issue being faced in Hong Kong.
Smith said that on a recent trip to Australia officials had told him that a similar policy there was difficult to implement because it was hard to tell which buyers were overseas entities.
"They had no confidence that their provisions were actually making any difference in terms of being able to prevent overseas persons who are not moving to Australia to purchase homes," Smith said.
Labour's housing plan is one of several tools it would introduce to make houses more affordable, along with a capital gains tax and increasing housing stock.
The policy has emphasised how little information is available on who is buying houses in New Zealand.
Labour used Inland Revenue Department figures to claim 11,000 homes are owned by foreigners who don't live here, although an IRD spokesman said this number included expats and commercial property owners and excluded others that weren't making a profit and didn't have to pay tax.
BNZ chief economist Tony Alexander, who supports restrictions on foreign buyers, is perhaps the only person to provide evidence of the issue so far.
According to his BNZ-REINZ residential market survey in March, 9 per cent of dwellings were sold to people offshore.
Of those, 18 per cent were in Britain (foreigners and expats), 15 per cent were in China, and 14 per cent in Australia. Australians are exempt from the restrictions.
Only 3.2 per cent were sold to people who were planning to stay away.
Claire Matthews, of Massey University's Centre for Banking Studies, said not enough was known about the number of homes sold to non-residents.
"There is simply not adequate information to really make an informed view in terms of what impact it's going to have."
To make good policy, it was necessary to know who was buying the properties, where and in what price range, she said.
None of Statistics New Zealand, the Overseas Investment Office, Inland Revenue or Land Information New Zealand collect that information.
A spokesman for Land Information Minister Maurice Williamson said there were no plans to collect it.
Labour housing spokesman David Parker admitted there was little data available but said the move would have an impact - along with the party's other proposals.
"There's no one step that you can take that cures these problems of ridiculously overpriced houses, especially in Auckland, and everything that you can do that reduces the marginal price helps."
That would reduce the number of people competing for houses, he said.
"We're not into fortress New Zealand, we actually do want to have an open economy that trades with the rest of the world, but we want to do it on terms where it's in New Zealand's interest, and where we think that there is an adverse effect on New Zealand we are willing to act."
New Zealand's policy was based on Australia's, he said, while other countries such as Switzerland and Hong Kong had similar restrictions.
Real Estate Institute of New Zealand chief executive Helen O'Sullivan said the lack of data made generating informed policy difficult.
Overseas examples provided little evidence of whether the policy worked.
"We have places which don't restrict foreign ownership and they've got price deflation - and we have places where you have policies that do restrict foreign ownership and they have experienced price inflation as well."
Harcourts New Zealand chief executive Hayden Duncan said aside from a shortage in supply, there was not enough understanding around what the problems are. Anecdotal evidence suggested the sale of properties to foreigners for investment purposes were minimal.
"It just simply isn't happening."

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Phoenix, Arizona (October 17, 2011) – Today, the AICPA released the findings from a year-long initiative to examine what's on the horizon for CPAs and the accounting profession. CPA Horizons 2025 leveraged insights from more than 75,000 comments from CPAs in all segments of the accounting profession, regulators, thought leaders and futurists to highlight key trend and charts what the profession will face in the years leading up to 2025.
The findings were announced at the Fall meeting of the AICPA governing Council in Phoenix, Arizona.
The visionary exercise used the information collected to identify global and local trends and the steps CPAs can take to plan for the challenges and leverage the opportunities the future will hold. The profession can expect to face the greatest impact from long-term trends such as technology, globalization and expanded service offerings, according to an analysis of the data.
"The CPA Horizons 2025 project was created for the accounting profession, by the accounting profession," said Paul Stahlin, CPA, AICPA chairman, who presented the results at the fall meeting of AICPA's governing Council. "The visionary insights contained in this report will serve as a compass to guide current and future CPAs on a path of success in the profession."
Ten key insights and directions for the future which emerged from the research are:
1. Technology: Understand and leverage relevant technology in conjunction with core CPA competencies to deliver superior services.
2. Pre-Certification and Lifelong Learning: Evolve the educational framework to keep pace with the changing dynamics of business, government and our profession.
3. Worldwide Profession: Position the CPA as a premier designations of the accounting and finance profession throughout the world.
4. Pride in the Profession: Encourage pride among CPAs in the CPA profession and in the value CPAs create throughout society.
5. Trusted Attester: Preserve the role of the CPA as the trusted attester of financial and other information.
6. Trusted Advisor: Promote the CPA as the trusted advisor who develops solutions to complex problems.
7. Market Permission: Leverage the strengths of the profession to expand market permissions.
8. Marketplace: Address continual changes in the marketplace, economy, businesses, and regulations by managing change.
9. Value Proposition: Increase the visibility of the profession's value proposition by demonstrating the profession's core values in multiple areas of business and society.
10. Demographic Shifts: Continue to offer opportunities that enhance the appeal of the profession and be proactive in addressing both US and global demographic shifts.
CPA Horizons 2025 built upon and extended the work of the CPA Vision Project, which took place in the late 1990's and created a roadmap for the profession which led to 2011. The Vision Project defined the profession's core values, competencies and services, which were refined in the CPA Horizons report.
"The overarching theme that emerged from the research is that the entire profession has an incredibly bright future," said Stahlin. "CPAs will continue to serve as trusted advisors helping others make sense of an increasingly complicated and ever-changing world."
Over a six-month period, research for the CPA Horizons report was conducted through in person forums, online discussions, focus groups and an online survey which generated more than 75,000 total comments from CPAs about the current state and the direction of the profession. These findings were then reviewed and synthesized by a 21-member Advisory Panel, representing a wide and diverse swath of the profession.
The full CPA Horizons 2025 report will be available on Wednesday, October 19 at www.cpahorizons2025.org
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Doug Tull, the gay bar patron who was shot during a robbery a few blocks from his apartment in Oak Lawn in late August, was released from Parkland Hospital on Wednesday, Sept. 15 after two surgeries.
"It's nice to be home but there are a lot of medical things I have to do," Tull said.
Tull thanked his friend Darwin Kopaska, who has been by his side since the shooting; and Ron Nelson and Frank Holland, owners of Pekers, for saving his life by their quick action.
"I have a home nurse that comes by Monday, Wednesday and Friday to take vitals and all that," he said.
So far there are no suspects. Photos from a bank surveillance camera of the suspects' vehicle driving through the parking lot were not clear enough to reveal the license plate number.
"I just hope the police catch those guys so they can't hurt anybody. Anyway, I'm doing all right and thanks for asking," Tull said.
And yes, we keep using the same photo of Tull, but we'll get a new one once Tull is feeling up to it. He preferred this one of him smoking outside at Illusions taken last year to a current one of him looking like crap after surgery.


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Have Real Estate Law Questions? Ask a Real Estate Lawyer.
is veterans day considered a holiday in the count, is the day of receipt of intent to cure called day 1 or is the day after (receipt of intent to cure) day 1?
Day of sale would be counted as day 5 to complete 5 day requirement? does counting begin the day that a publicly recorded document is recorded at county records?
Dec 8 notification to trustee of intent to cure, Dec 16 sale, intent to cure ignored. Publicly recorded document of assignment of negotiater assigned to cure on Dec 4 at County Recorders.


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Monahans angler Isaac Denson snags big bass from Falcon Lake
Monahans angler Isaac Denson caught a 13.4 pound largemouth bass from Falcon Lake Feb. 7. It's the fifth entry this season in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Toyota ShareLunker hatchery program.
Denson said he was fishing in about three feet of water when he caught the big fish. It's the season's first ShareLunker from Falcon. Last year, Bassmaster Magazine named the international border lake at Zapata America's top bass lake.
Falcon has yielded 20 total ShareLunkers, nine of them caught since 2010. Denson did not say what lure he caught the fish on but the depth of water and fish's bloody tail indicates the bass was in the process of spawning.
At 26.5 inches, Denson's fish is the longest ShareLunker caught at Falcon. The lake record, 15.63 pounds, was 28 inches long but was not entered in the program. Historically plagued by low water conditions, Falcon is currently 29 feet low. That's 10 feet higher than in August. Lake O.H. Ivie, with 25 ShareLunkers to its credit, is currently 35 feet low. The west Texas reservoir was 44 feet low in August.
March has produced 44 percent of the 541 ShareLunkers. The program runs from October through April.
Fly Fish Texas on tap
Fly Fish Texas returns to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) March 9. The event, near Lake Athens, has a goal of teaching visitors to tie a fly, cast and fly and catch a fish with it, all in one day. Event hours are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Activities are free with paid admission to TFFC. Details are online at tpwd.state.tx.us/tffc.
Red snapper in short supply
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council is recommending an emergency rule to shorten the recreational red snapper season in federal waters off the Texas coast from the planned 27-day season to as little as 11 days. State officials said they were stunned by the recommendation that they consider political rather than biological. Red snapper regulations in Texas waters (nine nautical miles offshore) are more lenient than those set by the Gulf council. "We are simply outraged by this move to penalize Texas anglers, local economies and fisheries for simply exercising our regulatory authority in Texas waters," said T. Dan Friedkin, Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission chairman. "I do not intend to stand idly by while Texas anglers are penalized by such egregious federal overreach."
Minnesota cancels moose season
Minnesota wildlife officials, shocked by a 35 percent decline in the state's northeast moose population in one year, have canceled the 2013 moose season. Officials say hunting is not causing the decline. Just 46 bull moose were taken by hunters last season, yet the population plunged by nearly 1,500. Since 2006, the population has declined from 8,840 to 2,780. Biologists have observed high death rates in moose of all ages and believe there are several problems, including climate change. Hot weather stresses the huge animals, and makes them vulnerable to predators and to parasites like ticks. Individual moose infested with 50,000 to 70,000 ticks have been documented.
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Jungle Theater Presents Tony-Nominated Play NOISES OFF! Tonight, 6/8
This summer Jungle Theater will stage NOISES OFF! Joel Sass will direct the Tony-nominated play by Michael Frayn, playing tonight, June 8-July 29 at the Lyn-Lake theater, 2951 Lyndale Av. S., in Minneapolis.
NOISES OFF! follows the on- and off-stage antics of a troupe of has-been and never-were actors as they stumble from bumbling dress rehearsal to the disastrous closing night of a touring play called "Nothing On." Everything that can go wrong does in this play-within-a-play as actors desperately try to hang on to their lines, their performances…and the furniture.
"Only a perfectly calibrated ensemble can pull off this mind-boggling mayhem and present a full realization of what the playwright envisioned," said Sass. "That's why we're putting it in the hands of a cast with virtuosic talent."
Written in 1982 by British playwright Michael Frayn, NOISES OFF! was partly inspired by Frayn's experiences with one of his earlier farces, Chinamen. He once commented that during a performance of that play, the chaos behind the scenes was often more entertaining than the action on-stage.
Starring in NOISES OFF! (and the dreadful British sex comedy, Nothing On) are several Jungle favorites: Bradley Greenwald as Frederick Fellowes (playing 'Phillip Brent' in Nothing On), Kirby Bennett as BeLinda Blair (playing 'Flavia Brent' in Nothing On), Stephen D'Ambrose as Selsdon Mowbray (playing 'The Burglar' in Nothing On) and Cheryl Willis as Dotty Otley (playing 'Mrs. Clackett' in Nothing On). Neal Skoy as Tim Allgood, stagehand for Nothing On, and E. J. Subkoviak as Lloyd Dallas, the director of Nothing On, take their second turns on the Jungle stage, and making their Jungle debuts are Summer Hagen as Brooke Ashton (playing 'Vicki' in Nothing On), Ryan Nelson as Garry Lejeune (playing 'Roger Tramplemain' in Nothing On) and Kimberly Richardson as Poppy Norton-Taylor, stage-manager for Nothing On.
Sass is also the scenic designer for NOISES OFF!, which will have a rotating set to clearly reveal the backstage antics. His creative team includes Barry Browning (lighting design), Annie Enneking (fight choreographer), Amanda Cheever (costume design), Lucinda Holshue (dialect coach), Sean Healey (sound designer), Jenny Lang (stage manager), John Novak (props) and John Stillwell (technical director).
NOISES OFF! performances are Tuesdays ($20) and Wednesdays ($28) at 7:30 p.m.; Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. ($33); Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. ($38); Sundays at 2 p.m. ($33); and Sundays at 7:30 p.m. ($28). Senior, student and group discounts are also available, and half-price rush tickets are available every night of the week 30 minutes prior to the performance for $10 off the regular price. Tickets are available at (612) 822-7063 or online at www.jungletheater.com
About the Jungle Theater: The Jungle Theater is one of the region's most dynamic theaters, renowned for its definitive productions of plays drawn from our rich theatrical heritage as well as from the body of work written in our own time. Since founding the Jungle in 1991, Artistic Director Bain Boehlke has won numerous awards for his exquisite design, brilliant casting, and razor-sharp direction. A flagship example of the transformative power of the performing arts, the Jungle Theater plays a vital, continuing role in the economic, social and cultural life of its Minneapolis neighborhood.
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A year one, anger rages over Russian lawyer's prison death
The death in a fetid Moscow jail of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was aged just 37 and had spent a year locked up without ever being convicted of a crime, still angers rights activists a year on.
Magnitsky's death from untreated illnesses on November 16, 2009, while he was in pre-trial detention, is one of the most flagrant violations of human rights in Russia in the past years, they say.
The lawyer had been charged with tax evasion in connection with his work for investment fund Hermitage Capital Management fund but supporters contend his only offence was to expose foul play by top Russian officials.
No-one has been charged over Magnitsky's death and the interior ministry last week even awarded the same officials he had accused of financial abuses and had handled his case.
"A Russian citizen was put in detention and held as a hostage by interior ministry officials, in conditions which according to Russian and international norms are seen as torture," said veteran rights campaigner Lyudmila Alexeyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki group.
Magnitsky's supporters are to mark the first anniversary of his death Tuesday by showing a slick new hour-long documentary "Justice for Sergei" in parliaments in Europe, Canada and the United States.
"Sergei Magnitsky is arrested after he uncovers the largest tax fraud in Russian history, committed by officials of the Russian government," alleges the documentary.
On the eve of the anniversary, global anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International posthumously gave Magnitsky one of its Integrity Awards for fighting corruption.
His "commitment to integrity ultimately cost him his life", it said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who has pledged to reduce the numbers of suspects in pre-trial detention for white collar crimes, ordered an investigation just one week after Magnitsky died.
His death also became the subject of a highly praised play shown at Moscow's Teatr.doc in a rare example of Russian theatre tackling a contemporary issue.
However Russia's top investigator Alexander Bastrykin said in September there was no reason to believe the officials who handled the case were responsible or that Magnitsky was subjected to physical pressure.
The interior ministry's investigative committee last week even gave its "Best Investigator" award to Pavel Karpov, the man accused by Magnitsky of being behind the embezzlement scam.
It gave a similar honour to Oleg Silchenko, who led the criminal case against the lawyer, and an "Honoured Interior Ministry Employee" award to Natalya Vinogradova, also involved in the investigation.
Interior ministry investigators insisted Monday that Magnitsky involved in an alleged scheme by Hermitage to embezzle 5.4 billion rubles (175 million dollars) from the Russian budget through tax evasion.
Spokeswoman Irina Dudukinka rejected that Magnitsky was even a lawyer and said he worked as an accountant for the Hermitage fund. In this role, "he worked out a tax evasion scheme", she said.
Two Russian businessmen -- Vyacheslav Khlebnikov and Viktor Markelov -- had been detained in the case and gave evidence against Magnitsky, she said.
In response, Hermitage Capital said: "The interior ministry is trying to besmirch the name of Sergei Magnitsky, who in essence they killed in prison, using the fact that Sergei is no longer alive and cannot respond."
Magnitsky was held in Moscow's notorious Butyrka jail which housed political rebels in Tsarist times and top dissidents in the Soviet Union.
According to his lawyers, he fell ill with gallstones, acute calculous cholecystitis and acute pancreatitis, a diagnosis confirmed by doctors at Matrosskaya Tishina prison where he was finally transferred for treatment.
Magnitsky had repeatedly complained about his health in jail and his supporters argue he was deliberately refused help in a bid to break him.


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Carroll College, based in Montana, is a Catholic arts college in Montana that has earned both national and regional awards for its academic offerings.
Founded in 1909, it was originally called Mount St. Charles College and was as an all-men's college which focused on preparing men for careers in the priesthood, law, medicine, teaching and engineering. Carroll College is now coeducational and was renamed in 1932 in honour.
As an arts college, Carroll College offers numerous academic degrees within subjects such as arts and life sciences, engineering, education, computer science, nursing, ROTC, and theology. The school offers as well as several medical pre-professional programmes including pre-seminary, pre-med, pre-dental, pre-pharmacy and pre-veterinary. An Intensive Language Institute for international students is also based at the college.
Carroll College has received plenty of recognition throughout its history and has been recognised as number one in the West of America by U.S. News and World Report for Best Regional College, Best School for Veterans, and Best Value School.
Moreover, thirteen faculty members have received Fulbright Scholarships.
The campus at Carroll College houses four residence halls – Trinity Hall, Borromeo Hall, Guadalupe Hall, and St. Charles Hall – on-campus apartments open to 3rd year students and above, a football stadium, the Hunthausen Activity Center (HAC) which houses athletics, as the Student Centre, which is informally known as The Cube.
Athletics teams at Carroll College – nicknamed as the Fighting Saints – are part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Frontier Conference. Men's sports include basketball, cross country, football, golf and track and field; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, soccer, track and field and volleyball.
Notable alumni include a former member of the Detroit Lions, Casey FitzSimmons, George Leo Thomas, the current Bishop of Helena (Montana), and Norman "Jeff" Holter, a renowned biophysicist.


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Who doesn't file a tax return?
Posted February 11, 2014
Certified Public Accountant Ben Micham is a regular guest on the WRAL Noon News, advising about tax and financial issues. This time around, he answers questions from viewers:
Q: My son is a NC resident & college student in NC. He worked out of state last summer. Is he considered a part year resident?
A: He is probably a non-resident of the state he worked in rather than a part-year resident. It normally depends on the amount of time he spent living and working in the other state, but since you state he is a student and an NC resident, he is probably a non-resident.
Q: I am a single mom with no income. Do I need to file taxes? I have received conflicting answers.
A: No, you don't need to file. There are minimum income levels you have to meet in order to file, and if you have no income, you don't need to file.
Q: Do you have to claim Social Security Benefits? One spouse works; the other receives only a small check.
A: If you are filing a joint return, the way to figure it is the following:
- Add one-half of the Social Security benefits you received to all your other income, including tax-exempt interest. Tax-exempt interest includes interest from state and municipal bonds.
- Next, compare this total to the 'base amount' for your filing status. If the total is more than your base amount, then some of your benefits may be taxable.
The three 2013 base amounts are:
$25,000 for single, head of household, qualifying widow or widower with a dependent child or married individuals filing separately who did not live with their spouse at any time during the year;
$32,000 for married couples filing jointly; and
$0 for married persons filing separately who lived together at any time during the year.
Q: Do we have to file NC state return if our only income was military retirement and Social Security?
A: Social Security is not taxable, however, military income can be taxable. Basically, if you had five or more years of creditable service as of August 12, 1989, then your benefits are tax-free. If you don't meet this "Bailey vs State of NC decision" then you will get a $4,000 exclusion on NC return.
Circular 230 Disclosure: Any tax advice contained in this communication (including any attachments) is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of avoiding tax related penalties or promoting, marketing or recommending to any another party any tax related matter addressed herein.


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Making Change: The New Urbanism
New urbanism is also called "neo-traditional design" because it mimics the city neighborhoods laid out in small town America in the early 20th century. Proponents of new urbanism say its smaller lots plant a gentler footprint on the environment. And they say it has something that the suburbs lack - namely, the social interaction of urbanity. Cleveland architect Paul Volpe says that's what Americans like so much about New York, San Francisco, and European cities.
Paul Volpe: The way I describe it is the places we love are the places we go on vacation, and why does that have to be the exception? Why can't that be what we have every single day when you go out the door? A great neighborhood, an intimate environment, shopping just down the street and you keep the car in the garage. You can have that.
New Urbanism revolves around the pedestrian, not, as in most suburban allotments, the automobile. It's a return to the town neighborhood where people can walk down the block to a bakery - or they might actually live upstairs from one. Cleveland State Professor Tom Bier.
Tom Bier: The suburban style that emerged out of the 1960s, the cul de sac way of life, where nothing was in walking distance, no store, no recreational facility was within walking distance, no sidewalks. Well, that is fading as a preferred style.
Several small communities like North Royalton and Solon are actually looking to build a downtown. Terry Schwartz, who teaches at the Cleveland Urban Design Center, finds some suburbanites are beginning to tire of the isolation and are looking for some civic identity.
Terry Schwartz: We do a lot of work in the townships. There is this yearning people have for that sense of connectedness. Even though the thought of high-density residential or rental units above storefronts and that kind of thing may not play out in Concord Twp. or Brimfield Twp., the idea of a place where you can go, do more than one thing, pay your bills, visit city hall and get a building permit, do a little shopping have a green space, a library.
Shopping centers are trying on the urban look in places like Legacy Village in Lyndhurst or Crocker Park in Westlake. Crocker actually has residential units to complete the look of a city - even if it's a private city. And if Legacy is only a simulated village, Schwartz sees people using it as a real one.
Terry Schwartz: If you drive there early in the morning, you find people walking their dogs there. How do they do that? They must drive there, park in the parking lot, get the dog out and walk around the neighborhood. So it succeeds in its way because I think people really do like having a pleasant setting to be and to congregate away from the risks and surprises of a real urban place.
New urbanist housing developments have been built both inside and outside the city. They reject the large lots and giant driveways of suburbia. Instead of large, dominant garages with attached houses, they feature houses with front porches and backyard garages that are accessed by small service alleys. The homes are on small lots placed close to the street. Developers not only leave some open land as shared green space for the residents, they also encourage some retail - like a coffee shop or grocery store where people can gather. Cleveland's Beacon Place and Mill Creek developments are examples. In Akron, the most recent housing developments have followed that model.
Developers Tony Troppe and Todd Ederer are building one such project between the Ohio Canal towpath and the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad tracks not far from downtown Akron. They believe people yearn for this traditional, pre-World War II neighborhood layout of their Hickory Street development. First Troppe.
Tony Troppe: I'm really a student of the past, and I look historically and I travel around and look at great neighborhoods and this form really is a place that builds community, builds a great place that invites neighborhood interaction. I think if people are given this choice they will look long and hard at living closer to each other and to the city.
Todd Ederer: You look at the rejuvenation in many historic areas in many towns across the country, so there is a demand to live in places like that. We are not unique here at Hickory with traditional neighborhood development. This is occurring across the country and the interest is market driven and market proven.
But the market hasn't always embraced it. Barberton tried to construct a New Urbanist neighborhood on farmland outside the city, but it failed to attract buyers. Terry Schwartz of the Urban Design Center says while some suburbanites may be attracted to the design, city dwellers in the Lee Miles area of Cleveland were turned off.
Terry Schwartz: This particular neighborhood has remained viable for a very long time because it emulates the suburbs. There are single family houses on larger lots. And for that population, that demographic the suburbs look like success. I mean trying to recreate the urban neighborhoods that at least in the city of Cleveland have really struggled - that language, that vocabulary didn't really play in that kind of setting.
City officials in Cleveland and Akron once thought suburban style houses might attract people back to the city. Now both communities have embraced new urbanism - which they often call true urbanism - for the advantages it always had.


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Determinacy in linear rational expectations models
The purpose of this paper is to assess the relevance of rational expectations solutions to the class of linear univariate models where both the number of leads in expectations and the number of lags in predetermined variables are arbitrary. It recommends to rule out all the solutions that would fail to be locally unique, or equivalently, locally determinate. So far, this determinacy criterion has been applied to particular solutions, in general some steady state or periodic cycle. However solutions to linear models with rational expectations typically do not conform to such simple dynamic patterns but express instead the current state of the economic system as a linear difference equation of lagged states. The innovation of this paper is to apply the determinacy criterion to the sets of coefficients of these linear difference equations. Its main result shows that only one set of such coefficients, or the corresponding solution, is locally determinate. This solution is commonly referred to as the fundamental one in the literature. In particular, in the saddle point configuration, it coincides with the saddle stable (pure forward) equilibrium trajectory.
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The number of wheelchair accessible taxis in Chicago has almost doubled since January -- it's up to about 178.
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Thomas said she typically has to wait at least forty minutes for an accessible cab.
The RTA said it costs between 15 and 20 thousand dollars more for a cab company to add a wheelchair accessible taxi to its fleet than a non-accessible vehicle.
The city's Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV) Cost Reimbursement Program reimburses cab companies for that added cost.
The WAV fund was established in January of 2012 as a part of a taxi ordinance passed by the city council.
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WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today regarding President Bush's nomination of Samuel Bodman for Energy Secretary:
"I have known and worked with Samuel Bodman for several years and know that he is a man of intellect, integrity and creativity who will serve our nation well. In his positions as Deputy Commerce Secretary and more recently as Deputy Treasury Secretary, he has worked in a bipartisan fashion to find common-sense solutions.
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Hungarian Chicken Paprikash Recipe
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 broiler/fryer chicken (4 to 5 pounds), cut up
- 2 tablespoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1-1/2 cups water
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons cold water
- 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
- 1. Preheat oven to 350°. In a large skillet, heat butter over medium-high heat. Add onion; cook and stir until tender. Sprinkle chicken with paprika, salt and pepper; place in an ungreased roasting pan. Spoon onion mixture over chicken. Add water. Bake, covered, 1-1/2 hours or until chicken juices run clear.
- 2. Remove chicken and keep warm. Pour drippings and loosened browned bits from roasting pan into a saucepan. Skim fat. In a small bowl, mix cornstarch and cold water until smooth. Stir into pan juices with onion. Bring to a boil; cook and stir 1-2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat. Stir in sour cream. Serve with chicken. Yield: 6 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 serving: 377 calories, 22g fat (11g saturated fat), 144mg cholesterol, 574mg sodium, 7g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 1g fiber), 34g protein.
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"Excellent recipe! I made it exactly as written and served it with homemade noodles. Delicious and will definitely make this again. Used Sweet Hungarian Paprika."
"This went very well. I really like the moist, steam roasting in the oven. I was out of regular sour cream because I made a dill dip with it, so I just used that and I liked what the dill did for it. I served it with some spaetzle."
"Delicious dish! I messed up and forgot to add the hot water before baking, however it turned out just fine. Wouldn't change a thing!"
"This is absolutely delicious, there was a place in Wyandotte Mi called Hungarian Kitchen that everyone in our family loved & ordered from for over 40 years. They closed a few years ago & this recipe is almost - if not - the same as theirs. We have been missing it ever since they closed so thank you for sharing this recipe, I made a batch last night & by family demand I am doing another batch today.....thank you again!!"
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The Italian reiterates that Romanian goalkeeper Costel Pantilimon will be preferred in goal, as opposed to the England No.1, when they face Wigan at Wembley on Saturday
The Romanian keeper has played in all of City's cup games so far this season and the Italian believes it would be unfair to revert back to his regular No.1 instead for the final.
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When asked if Hart would play on Saturday after Saturday's 0-0 draw against Swansea City, Mancini told reporters: "I don't think so.
"We decided this at the start of the season. Pantilimon deserves to play.
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Today CREW received a response from Education Under Secretary Martha J. Kanter to our letter of March 1, 2011, requesting that Education Secretary Arne Duncan investigate the role hedge fund managers and other outside groups have played in the agency's development of regulations governing the for-profit education industry. CREW's request was based on the growing body of evidence that top Education officials carried out a planned leak of the soon to be released proposed regulations to a select group of individuals and knowingly allowed short-sellers to manipulate agency processes for personal gain. Despite this evidence – much of it from documents produced by Education in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from CREW – Ms. Kanter insists the agency's process has been "open, inclusive, and transparent throughout" and accuses CREW of making allegations based on an apparent "misunderstanding" of the regulatory process.
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Published 10:00 pm, Wednesday, December 6, 2006
The ordeal of the Kim family underscores the dangers of winter travel, and experts warn people to take precautions before heading out.
Stranded for nine days after they got stuck in snow, James and Kati Kim burned their car tires to stay warm. Kati Kim nursed her two daughters when they ran out of food and then flagged down a helicopter by taping SOS to an umbrella.
"Burning the tires was a very smart thing to do," said Timmy Williams, chairman of Seattle Mountain Rescue, whose volunteers assist in mountain rescues and try to educate people about how not to get into trouble.
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Peter Stivers, whose family was stranded for 17 days last March in the same area where the Kims got stuck, said his experience has taught him an important lesson.
"I'd be a lot more prepared, and I wouldn't travel these mountain roads in the wintertime," Stivers said, adding that his wife avoids such travel now. "She sees the snow and the stress is on."
He and five members of his family were headed on a day trip to the Oregon coast near Grants Pass when their RV got stuck in mud and later snow when a huge storm moved in.
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If you are lost, rescuers advise you to make yourself "big" and really visible, by using something bright or waving your arms back and forth.
Last month, a Seattle lawyer who was lost for two days near Snoqualmie Pass used a pair of bright yellow rain pants to signal a helicopter.
"Hunker down. Protect yourself. Make some type of shelter," said Fran Sharp, president of the Mountain Rescue Association, a national non-profit group of 90 search-and-rescue teams. Find a tree well, dig a snow cave or use branches to create a shelter. Carry a whistle, honk your horn.
People traveling on mountain roads -- even on Snoqualmie or Stevens passes -- should carry blankets, food, water, a flare and other emergency supplies.
"That should be part of your normal winter driving," said Janet Ray, a spokeswoman of AAA Washington.
Check the weather and road conditions before you go.
"We preach the 10 essentials when you go out into the backcountry," but that could apply to drivers as well, Williams said.
Having basic things such as matches, a blanket or a sleeping bag, and food and water in your car can make a big difference.


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The Balloon Boy Vs. Reality Television
Truth is stranger than fiction, and reality is more interesting than reality TV. The recent television coverage of Falcon Heene, the six-year-old boy who was thought to be aloft alone in a balloon — until he was reportedly found safely at home — seems to be a fresh indication that reality stars are often more interesting in real life than on their programs. The balloon boy's family was once featured in ABC's "Wife Swap," a show about families switching mothers for a short period. That reality show's premise is nowhere near as riveting.


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With Jan 12 marking one year since a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, you may be wondering what charities did with the $1.4 billion they raised from Americans on the victims' behalf.
To find out, the non-profit watchdog group Charity Navigator asked major charities to provide information on how donations were used. It asked the groups to describe their accomplishments, their future plans for helping the stricken country, and their take on the biggest obstacles that Haiti continues to face.
The group has posted the information for the 37 groups that responded.
For example, among its accomplishments over the past year, Connecticut-based AmeriCares said that it has given more than $30 million in medical assistance to dozens of health care facilities and provided medicine and medical supplies to 200 volunteer medical teams.Among its accomplishments, Virginia-based Project HOPE reported that it has shipped more than $60 million in medicine and medical supplies and that its volunteers cared for more than 1,000 Haitians aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort and in Haitian hospitals.
In a message posted on the White House web site, Patrick Gaspard, director of the White House Office of Political Affairs and the highest ranking Haitian-American official in the Obama Administration, praised the efforts of non-governmental organizations. "We remember the non-governmental organizations who swept in to provide immediate relief, and continue there today, helping to rebuild the country," he wrote. He added later that "a great deal of work remains ahead, work that will take years to complete."
Check the Charity Navigator report to learn more about the accomplishments of these and other charities that accepted donations to help out in Haiti.—Anthony Giorgianni
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An insurance company that issued an "excess liability" policy in 2010 to John M. O'Quinn & Associates, doing business as the O'Quinn Law Firm, filed a complaint on Sept. 21 seeking a declaratory judgment that the policy provides no coverage for the firm and related parties in an ongoing negligence suit.
The defendants named in the complaint filed by Ironshore Indemnity Inc. of New York City include the Houston-based O'Quinn firm and T. Gerald Treece, the executor of the estate of John M. O'Quinn. O'Quinn, a prominent plaintiffs lawyer, died in October 2009 following an automobile accident in Houston.
In Ironshore Indemnity Inc. v. John M. O'Quinn & Associates PLLC, D/B/A The O'Quinn Law Firm, et al., Ironshore alleges it issued the excess liability insurance policy to John M. O'Quinn & Associates with a policy period of Sept. 26, 2010, to Sept. 26, 2011. Ironshore also alleges the underlying negligence suit, House, et al. v. The O'Quinn Law Firm, et al., was filed in connection with alleged "acts or omissions" that occurred before the policy was issued. Ironshore alleges in the complaint that it has notified the O'Quinn firm that it is "reserving" all of its rights under the policy, and it wants a declaratory judgment that the House claim is not covered by the policy.
Dale Jefferson, a partner in Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom in Houston who represents Treece in House, says Ironshore filed its complaint seeking a declaratory judgment prematurely because House is still in discovery with no trial date. "This is kind of a pre-emptive strike," Jefferson says.
House was filed in April 2011. In the petition, originally filed in Harris County state district court, the plaintiffs, a group of former O'Quinn Law Firm clients, allege the defendants overcharged them for expenses in silicosis suits, failed to distribute some silicosis settlements and communicate information about them, and were negligent in handling claims against some bankrupt silica defendants.
The defendants in House, which include the O'Quinn firm, O'Quinn's estate and others, deny the allegations.
In July 2011, House was transferred to Probate Judge Mike Wood's Houston court. A trial date has not been set.
Jeffrey Parsons, a partner in Beirne, Maynard & Parsons in Houston who represents Ironshore, declines comment. Don McFall, a shareholder in McFall, Breitbeil & Smith in Houston who represents the O'Quinn Law Firm, did not return a telephone call seeking comment.
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Canon G12/S95 Lensmate filter adapter to EX1 / TL500
I've been looking for good alternatives for filter adapters for my EX1. I think so far I like the Kiwi adapter found on eBay the best, but I'd be really interested in preserving the compactness of the camera too.
Now, I'm not sure if Lensmate ever made those nifty quick-change adapters for the EX1, but began wondering: would the G12 or S95's adapter work on the EX1, or will there be vignetting (because EX1 has a wider angle)? I must say I don't even know the difference between the lenses' diameters (outer or inner), so I couldn't tell if this would work at all.
Does anybody have such an adapter and also the EX1 / TL500? Could you share your opinion - maybe even test it (if it doesn't ruin your adapter)?
Many thanks,
PS: (offtopic) Is there a way to enable receiving of notifications when somebody replies to posts here?
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Body As Light
by Clarity
About the Book
Mandala: Body As Light. Created during the making of a Tibetan Sand Mandala.
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- Category Religion & Spirituality
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
200 Pages
- Publish Date Nov 11, 2008
- Language English
- Tags dalai lama, visionary art, outsider art, mandala, tibet, art, Maine, Camden, library, monks, sacred, community, light, patterns, monastery
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About the Creator
Clarity Artists
Rockland, Maine, USA
We, Robert & Su.Sane Hake (Clarity), are multi-media artists and writers. We collaborate on the same piece at the same time, it is the hallmark of our style. Our work is intuitive. We've been called Contemporary Visionaries, Outsider Artists, Folk Primitives, Patternists, and our work falls within the Healing Arts, but most of all each body of work we do is unique to itself, and lies within the path of the Sacred. We are interested in Mysticism, the Sacred, divinational beliefs of indigenous people, sacred patterns, and alchemy within the creative process.
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