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California Enterprise Zone tax credit services.
The State of California has established 42 business incentive zones spanning from the Bay Area to the Mexico border. The purpose of these "Enterprise Zones" is to encourage economic growth, reduce unemployment and serve as an attraction and retention tool for cities. Businesses operating in one or more of the 42 Enterprise Zones are eligible for California income tax credits based on qualified hires, investments in equipment and lending. Of the tens of thousands of companies located in state Enterprise Zones, only about 10-15% are actually taking advantage of the substantial tax breaks. This general lack of participation can be attributed to the complex nature of the program and a lack of awareness.
The Hughes Marino tax credit services team has been working hard to bridge the gap. We have created a risk-free opportunity for companies to evaluate potential savings and refunds available, we work in collaboration (not competition) with your current accounting representative and offer complimentary audit support and amended tax returns. The result has been over $65 million in savings generated to date.
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California Enterprise Zones
What exactly is a California Enterprise Zone? It is a geographically-designated business community in which a company like yours may be eligible for substantial state income tax refunds and savings based on jobs created and investments made in capital equipment including hardware and software. Of the 42 Enterprise Zones, here are some of the most recognizable:
- San Diego Enterprise Zone. San Diego is home to one of California's largest and most unique Enterprise Zones. Established in October 2006, the San Diego Enterprise Zone includes business communities throughout the region including; Downtown, North and South Park, University and City Heights, Barrio Logan, National City, Chula Vista, San Ysidro, Otay Mesa and others. As of September 4, 2012, the State officially approved San Diego's application to expand the zone North of the 8 Freeway into business communities such as; Rancho Bernardo, Mira Mesa, Kearny Mesa, Mission Gorge, Linda Vista, Bay Park, and North Bay. Begin taking advantage of the San Diego Enterprise Zone.
- Anaheim Enterprise Zone. The newest of California's 42 Enterprise Zones—making it a wealth of development opportunity—is The Anaheim Enterprise Zone. A central Orange County city and a hub of both industry and tourism, the zone in the City of Anaheim includes large regions on both sides of Interstate 5, the City's main corridor. Businesses can also receive tax credits within Anaheim's industrial triangle, bordered by CA-57 on the west, Orangethorpe Avenue on the north, and CA-91 on the south. Begin taking advantage of the Anaheim Enterprise Zone.
- Long Beach Enterprise Zone. Formed in January 2007, the Long Beach Enterprise Zone covers over 41 square miles, and includes the majority of the City's commercial and manufacturing districts. Begin taking advantage of the Long Beach Enterprise Zone.
- Los Angeles Enterprise Zone. The City of Los Angeles is home to two paramount Enterprise Zones: Hollywood and East Los Angeles. The Hollywood Zone includes business communities within Central City, Wilshire, and Hollywood. In 2010, an expansion led to the inclusion of portions of Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Chatsworth, Northridge, and the areas surrounding LAX, creating unparalleled business opportunities. Nearby, Central City North, Boyle Heights, and Northeast Los Angeles make up the East Los Angeles Enterprise Zone. Begin taking advantage of the Los Angeles Enterprise Zone.
- Pasadena Enterprise Zone. Established in 2007, the Pasadena Enterprise Zone is an economic development program incorporating 90% of the commercially and industrially zoned parts of Pasadena, and the majority of business communities within the City. Begin taking advantage of the Pasadena Enterprise Zone.
- San Francisco Enterprise Zone. Rapidly growing since its inception in May 2007, The San Francisco Enterprise Zone creates opportunities and tax credits for businesses operating in a number of world-famous districts in California's landmark city. Business communities in San Fransisco include the heartbeat of the City—Downtown and the Financial District—as well as Fisherman's Wharf, the Embarcadero, Central Waterfront, and The Mission. Begin taking advantage of the San Francisco Enterprise Zone.
- Santa Ana Enterprise Zone. Covering over sixteen square miles of commercial and industrial-zoned land (nearly 60% of the City), the Santa Ana Enterprise Zone is one of California's largest. Begin taking advantage of the Santa Ana Enterprise Zone.
More California Enterprise Zones
Download maps for the other California Enterprise Zones below:
- Calexico Enterprise Zone
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Tax Credit Programs
How can Hughes Marino work for you? Here's some of the tax credit programs we'll help you navigate:
- California Enterprise Zone Program – The California Enterprise Zone Program offers state income tax credits to companies operating in one or more of the 42 zones statewide for qualified job creation and capital asset expenditures. On the hiring side, Enterprise Zone based businesses can obtain up to $37,000 in state income tax credits over a five year period for each qualified hire. In addition, for qualified asset purchases or leases, companies in the Enterprise Zone can obtain state income tax credits equivalent to the sales tax paid on those purchases. Lenders can also obtain a net interest deduction benefit for lending to business operations within Enterprise Zones.
- Federal Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Program. When you hire qualified new employees, there's tax credit savings there, too. Via the WOTC Program, offering Federal income tax credits for these new hires, you'll receive credits calculated as a percentage of qualified wages earned in the first year of your employee's tenure. Your credit is up to 40% of the first $6,000 in wages earned by a qualified employee. There is constant screening required, complex requirements, and time constraints (HUD requires all applications to be filed within 28 days of employment, and retro-active filings are not accepted), but we'll be with you every step of the way. That's our job.
- Federal Empowerment Zone Program. The Federal Empowerment Zone Program offers companies in designated areas up to $3,000 in federal income tax credits per year per qualified hire. There are 22 Empowerment Zones in the United States, including four in California.
- LAMBRA Credits. Lesser known but no less rich in incentives, The Local Military Base Recovery Act allowed many former military bases (since converted to commercial business centers, such as San Diego's Liberty Station) to become tax incentive zones. This is powerful not only for the community, but for your business. When you operate in a LAMBRA Zone, you can earn income tax credits for qualified hires and sales. You can use credits for equipment purchases, and up-front expensing of certain depreciable property.
Why work with Hughes Marino Tax Credit Services?
- Our Tax Credit Services team operates on a performance-based contingency model. Simply put, there is no cost or risk to you. If we cannot refund your taxes from past years or save you taxes now and in the future, you have no financial obligation towards us. We help you get tax credits, period.
- We do not compete with accounting representatives or CPAs. Our tax credit studies are conducted in a way that is complimentary to your current accounting representation. We are a valuable resource for many accounting firms and tax preparers.
- Hughes Marino Tax Credit Services defends all associated FTB and IRS tax credit audits free of charge for our clients with our Audit Protection Guarantee.
- We've saved clients—like you—over $65 million since 2006. Be one of them. Our expertise in this niche field and our extensive real estate and location-based tax credit experience allows us to offer you pack-leading advice and knowledge. We offer complimentary site selection analysis service, based around The California Enterprise Zone, that is unpaired in the industry.
- Your information remains 100% confidential. We are committed to the privacy, confidentiality, and security of information for our clients. We provide confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements to all of our clients. Your business belongs to you, not the world.
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WASHINGTON -- It isn't fun for anyone involved: From spouses to kids and the women themselves, menopause can be a difficult time.
Even though about half of the world's population will one day go through "the change," it's still considered a taboo subject. That's what inspired the women behind "Menopause, The Musical" to create the hit show.
"Menopause was called 'the silent passage' for many years," says producer Kathi Glist. "It just wasn't talked about."
The idea behind the musical, which is celebrating its 13th year, came about when writer Jeanie Linders was drinking wine with some girlfriends, Glist says. She experienced a hot flash, and started singing "I'm having a hot flash" to the tune of the 1963 song "Heat Wave" by Martha & the Vandellas:
Linders kept writing lyrics like that to pop songs from the '60s, '70s and '80s, and soon a musical was born.
It has since traveled throughout the United States and to 15 other countries. It has a permanent residency in Las Vegas at the Luxor Hotel & Casino for nine years.
The musical centers around four female archetypes: the businesswoman, the hippie, the housewife and the actress. The characters collide while shopping for lingerie in an upscale department store and soon discover they have one thing in common.
"When a woman is at this passage in her life, it can really go either way: She can say 'the best is behind me' ... or 'now it's my turn,'" Glist says.
"[The musical] helps women take back control at a time when they feel like they have no control."
But there's something for the men, too.
"A man in Seattle, many years ago when we first produced this show, gave me a line I will always remember: 'This show should be a mandatory workshop for all men,'" Glist says.
Students of pop music will appreciate the many puns offered up through the musical. Remember the Bee Gees' "Staying Alive"? That gets tuned into "Staying Awake." And lyrics from Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" are transformed into "In the guest room or on the sofa, my husband sleeps tonight."
Glist says that she started working with the musical on the front end of her own change -- she hadn't experienced a single menopausal symptom. But now, Glist says, her experience with the cast has helped lighten her load as she comes out the other side.
"I can really relate to ... looking in the mirror and seeing my mother," she says. "And the line 'My hourglass shape turned into a glass of water.' What did happen to my waist line?"
"Menopause, The Musical" comes to the Warner Theatre in Northwest D.C. June 13 and 14. The previously scheduled June 15 show has been canceled. Tickets for that show can be exchanged for one of the other three performances that weekend.
Tickets can purchased online through the Warner Theatre website.
Watch creator Jeanie Linders talk about the show below:
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013 (All day)
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) today announced $39.9 million in continuation funding for 10 current Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grantees, strengthening the agency's investment in local nonprofits that are best positioned to transform lives and communities. These funds allow recipients to meet and exceed program goals, expand reach, and execute rigorous evaluation models.
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Each year, more than 5 million individuals of all ages and backgrounds help meet local needs through a wide array of service opportunities through the Corporation for National and Community Service's core programs: AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and the Social Innovation Fund. These programs and others, such as the Volunteer Generation Fund, support projects in six priority areas: disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and military families.


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Redevelopment Vetoes Lead to Disappointment, Cautious OptimismBy Josh Stephens on 9 October 2012 - 9:44pm
Over the past year, even the most irate objectors to Gov. Jerry Brown's dismantling of redevelopment held out hope that in agreeing to kill redevelopment, the legislature would invent a new, better system for stoking local economic growth. Last week, the governor dashed those hopes.
Deficit Dooms Affordable Housing Funds in Budget ReviseBy CP&DR Staff on 14 May 2012 - 1:58pm
California's relentless, ever widening budget deficit has claimed another victim: redevelopment's affordable housing funds.
Brown Separates Transportation and Housing in State ReorganizationBy Josh Stephens on 8 January 2012 - 11:37pm
In releasing his proposed 2012-13 budget last Thursday, Gov. Jerry Brown also proposed a major reorganization of state government that would separate transportation and housing at the same time Brown's policy thrust is intended to link the two closer together.
In particular, Brown has proposed a major restructuring of the Business, Transportation, and Housing (BTH) Agency that would have here parts:
RDA Ruling Just In Time for Gov. Brown's BudgetBy Josh Stephens on 7 January 2012 - 12:51pm
Amid all the debating and litigating around redevelopment's demise, it's sometimes easy to forget what, exactly, Californians are fighting over. But this week's premature release of Gov. Jerry Brown's 2102 budget offers a handy reminder: it's money.
Brown: Funding Redevelopment Requires Offsetting CutsBy Bill Fulton and Josh Stephens on 5 January 2012 - 9:16pm
In a hastily called press conference to roll out the 2012-2013 budget on Thursday afternoon, Gov. Jerry Brown said he would consider funding redevelopment only if the Legislature brings him offsetting cuts.
The California Redevelopment Association is seeking legislation that would postpone the elimination of RDAs beyond the February 1 date set by the state Supreme Court last week. In response to a reporter's question about whether Brown would support an extension "for a few months," Brown said:
Redevelopment Reform Measures Move Ahead During Budget DeadlockBy Josh Stephens on 6 May 2011 - 5:44pm
While the Legislature remains deadlocked on Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal, it seems that what does not kill redevelopment may in fact make it stronger. Many observers had written the obituary for the state's redevelopment system back in March when Brown was insisting that the state had to recoup redevelopment's tax increment in order to help plug its $24 billion deficit.
Update: No Vote On Redevelopment; Next Session Scheduled for Mar. 29By Josh Stephens on 25 March 2011 - 7:25am
The wait continues.
Reports indicated that the leadership in both houses would push for a vote on the elimination of redevelopment in today's 9 a.m. floor sessions. The vote on the mirror bills SB 77 and AB 101 has been anticipated for two weeks as Gov. Jerry Brown has attempted to shore up support for his budget package, including some $12 billion in taxes.
Those sessions have come and gone.
Big-City Mayors Make Last-Minute Plea to Save RedevelopmentBy Josh Stephens on 8 March 2011 - 11:58pm
The debate over the fate of redevelopment has called into question the usefulness of redevelopment in places such as, say, Coronado or Palm Desert. But there is no doubt that blight still infects large swaths of the state's major cities -- and that those cities are deeply concerned about the fate of their redevelopment agencies.
In response to the release of a draft bill that would make the elimination of redevelopment official, the mayors of the state's nine largest cities today sent a stern letter [.pdf] to Gov. Jerry Brown asking him once again to reconsider his intention to eliminate their redevelopment agencies -- along with nearly 400 others across the state.
CP&DR's Redevelopment Deathwatch Page, 2011-2012By Josh Stephens on 2 March 2011 - 11:54pm
California is usually full of surprises. But we at the California Planning & Development Report -- like almost everyone else involved with California land use -- already know what the story of the year is.
Gov. Brown Releases Bill Language to Eliminate RedevelopmentBy Josh Stephens on 24 February 2011 - 6:06pm
As debates and hearings over the fate of redevelopment have raged on, the Governor's Office has been drafting legislation that would eliminate redevelopment much as the governor has proposed. A strongly worded preamble lays out the case for the governor's position, and, in anticipation of potential legal battles, it claims that "the Constitution does not explicitly state that redevelopment agencies must exist and, unlike other entities such as counties, does not limit the Legislature's control over that existence."


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I almost wanted to sleep right there in the barn, snuggling with Judy and Patsy. The 700-pound pigs, sisters abandoned as piglets, were living out their days on the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary with a couple of hundred other creatures.
"Get right in there and rub their bellies," Jenny Brown, the sanctuary director, suggested while leading about a dozen visitors on a tour this spring. "They love it."
So there I was, down in the hay, hands on warm pink tummies. It was the closest I'd ever been to a pig, and I wasn't eager to leave.
Luckily, I didn't have to go far: I would be staying right across the sheep meadow at the Guesthouse at Woodstock Sanctuary, a handsomely renovated pre-Civil War farmhouse with four airy bedrooms (from $140, plus a $30 membership fee), mountain views and, naturally, vegan breakfasts. "We feel like the B&B is part of our advocacy, to allow people to wake up to happy, peaceful animals," Brown said.
Woodstock Sanctuary (actually in Willow, N.Y.) is not the only haven for rescued animals that gives a chance to visit, volunteer and stay overnight. While a handful of such accommodations are scattered throughout the country, upstate New York is home to a concentration of them: In addition to Woodstock, the nearby Catskill Animal Sanctuary has opened a bed-and-breakfast as well and, in Watkins Glen, Farm Sanctuary has operated one for years.
Woodstock Sanctuary opened the Guesthouse in April, part of a natural evolution for Brown, who chronicles her animal-rights career, which began with undercover filmmaking for the advocacy group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in a memoir, The Lucky Ones, to be published in August.
She and her husband, the film editor Doug Abel, opened the sanctuary in 2004 on their sprawling nine-hectare property. Since then, the animal population has grown from a handful of chickens from a factory farm and a rooster found in a New York City schoolyard to pigs, turkeys, goats, sheep, geese, cows and ducks. On her tour, Brown shares anecdotes about the animals as well as disturbing facts about meat and dairy production.
"There's an agenda behind what we do here," she said. The B&B is part of that mission; its proceeds benefit Woodstock Sanctuary, potentially creating a much-needed source of revenue.
Visitors contribute more than just money. At least half of them volunteer for tasks ranging from shovelling dung from barns to helping with feedings. (During my stay, I dutifully brushed dreadlocks out of some friendly matted goats.) But others stay just to experience the rarity of farm animals whose purpose is neither to entertain in a petting zoo nor to be slaughtered for food.
That's also the case just 35 kilometres east in Saugerties, at the 45-hectare Catskill Animal Sanctuary, which opened its own inn, the Homestead, in May. That guest house, which dates back to the 1700s and has undergone an impressive gut renovation, offers three spacious rooms and one apartment (from $115 a night, plus a $40 membership fee), vegan breakfasts made with produce from an organic garden out back, and a cooking-demonstration space for the sanctuary's Compassionate Cuisine classes.
"People come here to find encouragement in their journey toward a compassionate life," said Kathy Stevens, its director. Stevens, who grew up on a thoroughbred horse farm in Virginia, founded the sanctuary with Jesse Moore in 2001, moving it to Saugerties in 2003 with her first resident, Dino, a 30-year-old pony who kicked his way out of a Brooklyn barn to escape a fire.
The sanctuary has housed more than 2,200 farm animals, and about 200 of them currently reside there. (Most of the others have found homes through Catskill's adoption program.) As at Woodstock, guests may volunteer, join public tours or simply hang out with the horses, cows, pigs and geese.
All of the sanctuaries have followed the lead of the original such haven: Farm Sanctuary in the Finger Lakes region, founded by Gene Baur in 1986 to combat the abuses of factory farming. It mentors what has become a growing movement (there are now more than 25 animal sanctuaries across the country, according to Farm Sanctuary), and houses visitors and volunteers in its bed-and-breakfast, opened in 1993. Guests staying in the three spare, barn-red cabins (from $110 a night) are given a vegan breakfast and a tour of the property, and are invited to pitch in with farm chores or simply commune with its collection of more than 500 animals.
"We love for visitors to wake up to the sound of roosters and of farm life," said Meredith Turner, a Farm Sanctuary spokeswoman. "You become part of the daily rhythm, and it's transformative."
Aude Gerspechar, a Brooklyn lawyer (and vegan), was a recent visitor at the Guesthouse at Woodstock Sanctuary. "All you ever see is the horrible side of animal-rights issues, which can be depressing," she said. "Coming here, I think, is hopeful."
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More information
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: woodstocksanctuary.org
Catskill Animal Sanctuary: casanctuary.org
Farm Sanctuary, Watkins Glen: farmsanctuary.org
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ExpeShare partners develop technology for capturing and sharing experiences
European research partners in Finland, France, Spain and Italy have started a project, ExpeShare, that develops concepts and technologies for capturing and sharing experiences securely, legally and in a simple way.
You are having the time of your life: skiing, visiting a picturesque village
or attending an interesting conference or concert. It's so great that you
would like your friends to know how it feels. Not to mention you'd like to
relive it later. How to convey this experience to others? Why is it so
difficult to capture the moment and pass it on for others to enjoy?
The challenge of the ExpeShare project (2007 – 2009) is to make sharing of the experience easy and secure, right where and when it happens. Therefore novel concepts and networking technologies will be created in the project to facilitate sharing of information between mobile devices such as mobile phones, MP3s, DVD players, memory sticks and digital cameras. The project goes beyond web-based sharing of digital multimedia content such as pictures, videos, music and games. It will achieve its goals by innovative mobile peer-to-peer networking solutions, multimedia content and community management facilities as well as interaction solutions that utilise a variety of devices.
Experience is a complex phenomenon that goes beyond the picture or video clip that can easily be captured. The project will attempt to define this concept of experience and develop intuitive tools for capturing, managing, sharing and replaying experiences. Selecting the peer(s) or community with whom to share is another issue requiring innovative interactive solutions.
Peer-to-peer networks suffer from an image of illegality. They are, however, efficient means for distributing information. The ExpeShape project will take the peer-to-peer networking paradigm to the mobile world, while also suggesting ways to secure the legality of the exchanged content. Special attention will be given to the management of content rights and understanding the associated value chains.
The project will set up real-world pilots to evaluate the developed concepts. The pilot environments may be e.g. tourist areas, sports centres, public spaces and events or professional meetings.
The ExpeShare project, coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, involves 22 partners from four European countries together contributing an effort of more than 150 man years spread over two years. The project is currently in its starting phase, and is due to end in June 2009. The project resorts under the Eureka ITEA programme.
The following companies and research organisations take part in the ExpeShare project: Brieftec, CBT, CCRTV, CityPassenger, Engineering, Gemalto, GET-INT, Innovalia, INRIA, Kutalab, Movial, Nextel, Nokia, NXP Semiconductors, Software Quality Systems, Telefonica I+D, Transatel, University of Evry, University of Oulu, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, University of Rome - La Sapienza and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.


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Coach the Coach
In the world of youth sports, good coaches can be hard to come by. Many leagues believe they lack the knowledge and means necessary to attract and retain good coaches, but that doesn't have to be the case. By using a training program that covers all the pertinent topics in coaching youth sports, finding -– and keeping –- the best youth sports coaches doesn't have to be a challenge.
"You don't have to be an NFL Pro Bowler to coach youth football," says Fred Engh, founder and CEO of the National Alliance For Youth Sports, a national nonprofit whose areas of focus include youth sports coach and parent training, "but it is necessary that coaches know the basic principles of the sport they are coaching, and more importantly, the proper way to work with children. That way, kids are more apt to stay involved in sports and fitness, which leads to healthier and more productive lives."
Many times, the number of leagues needing coaches far surpasses the number of available volunteer coaches, sometimes called "warm-body syndrome." However, it is important not to catch this, and to make sure you find coaches who are willing to take the time to learn about and dedicate themselves to the important charge of working with children.
Training is one of the best ways to ensure that a youth sports coach is contributing to positive, safe sports experiences. Regardless of whether coaches are working with a soccer team of six-year-old girls or a group of 15-year-old football players, they are going to encounter a variety of challenges throughout the course of a season. They must know how to effectively communicate with youngsters who have vastly different personalities, backgrounds, talents and skill levels, and have sound methods for dealing with meddling parents and volatile fellow coaches.
Beyond issues of communication, they must also acquire nuts-and-bolts skills such as basic first aid and the design of effective practices. among the many vital areas that often are foreign territory for volunteers.
Training Program Components
When implementing a training program, it is important to make sure that the following subjects are covered:
• Development of a coaching philosophy. Every volunteer coach's philosophy should be centered on fun and good sportsmanship. This is often easier said than done, since good intentions can be shoved aside once the season begins and scoreboards, league standings and championship trophies enter the picture. Coaches have to maintain their focus on the kids -– not win-loss records –- and avoid directing all of their attention at those who run faster, jump higher or catch better.
• How to be an effective teacher and communicator. One of the most important characteristics of being a good coach is the ability to teach. This means being able to present information clearly and correctly, giving children time to practice, and offering them feedback on how well they perform. A good coach must be able to identify both efficient and inefficient performances, as well as analyze and correct any errors. Being able to do so will help players develop the skills that are necessary to perform in a competitive environment. It's important to choose drills that involve as many players and variety of skills as possible.
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Swisher: "I don't believe you" Rubinstein: "I don't have an iPhone. I've never even used one." Considering the fact that Rubinstein was the person most responsible for developing Apple's iPod, that is a statement that many would find very hard to believe. As for Palm not really paying attention to Apple, it would be very unusual for a company not to keep close tabs on what its main competitor is doing. Could you imagine Pepsi not wanting to know what Coke is up to? Rubinstein could be saying that nothing of interest to him has been produced by the gang at Cupertino since his departure. Most likely he is just trying to get Apple's (and Steve Jobs in particular) goat.
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1. vzwman (Posts: 385; Member since: 26 Oct 2009)
Same here f**k the iPhone
3. HatedaIphone (Posts: 42; Member since: 08 Jun 2009)
Totally Agree .
7. vzw fanman (Posts: 1973; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)
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4. bagsofcole (Posts: 28; Member since: 19 May 2009)
He is full of sh!t and so are you 3 bozos. the iPhone is still king of the heap.
8. BigRed83 (Posts: 142; Member since: 19 May 2008)
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5. JeffdaBeat (unregistered)
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Berkeley Fellowship of UU's SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE issued The "STANDING ON THE SIDE OF LOVE" Resolution calling for resolute support for Chelsea Manning for her identity rights in addition to a reinvigorated defense of her public service in upholding the laws of the land by her commendable effort to expose war crimes and cover-ups. The chat room logs that led to Manning's arrest show that Private Manning was motivated to uphold the law by exposing war crimes and cover-ups because he/she feared that an uninformed citizenry would be ill-fit to govern a democracy. After years of extraordinarily cruel techniques on Manning, including sensory deprivations such as sleep or light, and being exposed to extremes in temperatures in a cell with no blankets or clothing, as well as long stretches in solitary confinement, the military tribunal gave the patriotic whistle-blower a 35 year prison sentence. Meanwhile, all the war criminals all go free!
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TRUTH TROUBADOUR BLOGSPOT Sept 27, 2012: "On Taking an Oath to Become a 2012 Electoral College Presidential Elector for Rocky Anderson: It's Time to Vote for Justice!" – "Berkeley Broadside Balladeer" Vic Sadot was sworn in as a Presidential Elector for Justice Party Presidential candidate Rocky Anderson on September 25, 2012. Questions the Clerk about the Meaning of the Oath to Defend the Constitution – Posts Song for Rocky as Free MP3 on Sound Cloud: IT'S TIME TO VOTE FOR JUSTICE!
Last summer songwriter Vic Sadot met Rocky Anderson, 2012 US Presidential candidate for the Justice Party USA, at a small dinner gathering at the home of Cynthia Papermaster of Code Pink Golden Gate Chapter in Berkeley, CA. Rocky is the former mayor of Salt Lake City with extensive management experience, a great record on human rights, and a reputation for getting people to work together. During a road trip to Santa Cruz, Vic wrote a song and sang the first version of it in Santa Cruz at a restaurant gathering for Rocky after he had spoken at Occupy Santa Cruz earlier in the day. The Truth Troubadour Blog is about the day that Vic Sadot was asked to be a Presidential Elector for Rocky Anderson and had to sign a document and make a solemn oath to "defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic".
Vic made numerous revisions to the song and he recorded It's Time to Vote for Justice in Robot Envy Studio in Berkeley. Then the song was posted as a Free MP3 at SoundCloud on 9-27-12 after Vic received this email from Rocky: "Great to hear from you, Vic! And thanks for the great song for our campaign. I so admire what you do — and why you do it! Keep up the great work!" Best, Rocky
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Wholesalers who helped orchestrate smuggling of tens of thousands of Apple's newest iPhone into China are slashing prices to move inventory, weeks before phone officially goes on sale in the country; smugglers' experience represents new reality for Apple in China, as iPhone has gone from being status symbol to simply one option among many. MORE
Jul. 30, 2014
New York City correction officers Steven Dominguez and Infinite Divine Rahming, and former guard Deleon Gifth, are arrested on charges including conspiracy, bribery and drug possession; they are accused of smuggling prescription pills, cocaine and other contraband into Rikers Island. MORE
Jul. 15, 2014
Customs inspectors at Los Angeles International Airport seize shipment of several dozen live giant African snails, considered a delicacy in Nigeria but also voracious pets that can eat paint and stucco off houses. MORE
Apr. 5, 2014
Two drug-smuggling tunnels with rail systems across United States-Mexico border are discovered by law enforcement officials, and a 73-year-old woman is arrested on suspicion of helping run one operation. MORE
Mar. 5, 2014
Mexico has stepped up its effort to crack down on the Knights Templar, one of the most powerful and feared criminal organizations in the country, with a focus on gang's lucrative infiltration of mining industry along with operations smuggling iron ore to China. MORE
Jan. 31, 2014
Egypt's clampdown on hundreds of smuggling tunnels connecting it with Gaza has taken major toll on finances of militant group Hamas; $200 million that Hamas once collected in tax revenues from tunnel trade has been reduced to few million dollars. MORE
Jan. 31, 2014
Matiur Rahman Nizami, leader of Bangladesh's main Islamist opposition party, is among 14 people convicted and sentenced to death for smuggling weapons to rebel group in India in 2004. MORE
Jan. 11, 2014
Michael Wilson Crime Scene column presents competing images of Michael Slattery Jr, Irish man on trial in Brooklyn for his role in trafficking horns of endangered rhinos; defense describes illiterate innocent who did not understand enormity of crime, while prosecution holds that Slattery is vital link in international crime organization. MORE
Jan. 8, 2014
Jay G Conrad, Tennessee collector of wildlife curios, pleads guilty to three federal charges for his role in illegally bringing more than 100 narwhal tusks into United States. MORE
Nov. 14, 2013
United States announces $1 million reward for information to help dismantle one of Asia's largest wildlife-trafficking syndicates. MORE
Nov. 4, 2013
Customs agents at borders of European countries in economic crisis say they are seizing increasing amounts of undeclared cash exceeding 10,000 euros each traveler within European Union is allowed to carry; cash smuggling is following political currents as some Europeans seek to hide their wealth from rising taxes, high-profile tax investigations, and tightening rules at Swiss banks and other traditional havens. MORE
Nov. 1, 2013
Federal officials say deep tunnel snaking nearly 600 yards from Mexico under border and into San Diego warehouse is shut down; more than eight tons of marijuana and 325 pounds of cocaine is confiscated and three people are taken into custody; tunnel featured electricity, ventilation and an electronic rail system and took about a year to build. MORE
Oct. 22, 2013
Authorities in Panama say that they will release 33 of the 35 North Korean crew members of a rusting freighter impounded more than three months ago for carrying a secret stash of Soviet-era Cuban military gear hidden under bags of brown sugar. MORE
Oct. 1, 2013
Maricopa Country, Ariz, halts prosecutions of both smugglers and those being smuggled after Judge Robert Broomfield of Federal District Court rules that 2005 state law does not allow Sheriff Joe Arpaio or county prosecutors to charge immigrants with conspiracy to smuggle themselves across the border. MORE
Sep. 7, 2013
Prosecutors accuse New York City Police Officer Rex G Maralit and his brothers Wilfredo and Ariel of smuggling military-grade firearms to Philippines in violation of federal laws prohibiting sale of weapons overseas without permission from government, and without licenses. MORE
Aug. 15, 2013
Lithuanian court orders extradition to the United States of Dmitry Ustinov, Russian man suspected of illegal arms dealing. MORE
Aug. 8, 2013
Jordanian police question two Syrians who were detained and accused of trying to smuggle antitank missiles, surface-to-air missiles and assault rifles into Jordan. MORE
Aug. 8, 2013
Officials in Togo say major ivory trafficker Emile N'Bouke, who activists say has fueled slaughter of more than 10,000 elephants dating to 1970s, has been arrested; N'Bouke was found to have more than 1,500 pounds of ivory at his shop in capital Lome. MORE
Aug. 8, 2013
Hong Kong customs officials seize illegal shipment of ivory tusks, rhino horns and leopard skins worth more than $5 million; haul is second seizure of endangered species parts in a month in the city. MORE
Jul. 25, 2013
David McNevin, who served as defense attache at American Embassy in Nairobi, was stopped at Kenyan airport in June with a little less than two pounds of ivory; his arrest means that a former official of American government dedicated to stopping poaching that has threatened the very existence of Kenya's elephants was engaged in ivory trading himself. MORE
Jul. 20, 2013
Customs officials in Hong Kong announce one of their largest seizures of smuggled ivory, intercepting 1,148 tusks weighing in at 4,800 in a container coming from the West African nation of Togo; incident highlights pervasiveness of trade that conservationists describe as an all-out crisis for elephant populations in Africa. MORE
Jun. 15, 2013
Arnold Bengis, David Bengis and Jeffrey Noll, convicted in 2004 of smuggling sea bass and rock lobster from South Africa, are ordered by a federal court to pay that nation $22.5 million in restitution, largest amount ever awarded for such a crime. MORE
Jun. 14, 2013
Former Argentine Pres Carlos Saul Menem is sentenced to seven years in prison for illegally smuggling weapons to Ecuador and Croatia in violation of international embargoes in the 1990s. MORE
May. 17, 2013
Sixteen people are arrested and charged with trafficking untaxed cigarettes in New York; officials say men, who plead not guilty, made tens of millions of dollars by buying cigarettes in Virginia, where state tax is 30 cents a pack, and selling them across New York, where they are far more expensive as a result of taxes as high as $5.85 a pack. MORE
Apr. 24, 2013
Federal prosecutors say thirteen female correctional officers, seven inmates and five others with gang ties have been charged with plotting to smuggle drugs, cellphones and other contraband into Baltimore's jail and other correctional facilities. MORE
Mar. 9, 2013
Appeals court in Argentina convicts former Pres Carlos Saul Menem of smuggling contraband weapons in 1990s. MORE
Feb. 21, 2013
Egyptian military has resorted to flooding smuggling tunnels connecting Sinai and Gaza with sewage in order to shut them down, saying it is determined to block destabilizing flow of weapons and militants; approach raises new questions about relations between Egypt's new Islamist leaders and their ideological allies in Hamas who control Gaza Strip. MORE
Feb. 7, 2013
Immigration authorities in Britain, Belgium and France carry out coordinated raids at scores of addresses to round up suspected members of gangs that smuggle people across or under English Channel into Britain as stowaways in long-haul trucks. MORE
Jan. 12, 2013
Americans Jay G Conrad and Andrew J Zarauskas plead not guilty to charges that they participated in decade-long international smuggling operation that brought tusks from rare narwhal whales into United States. MORE
Jan. 5, 2013
Customs officials in Hong Kong announce their third large seizure of smuggled ivory in less than three months, saying they had intercepted 779 elephant tusks weighing 2,900 pounds in a container originating from Kenya. MORE
Dec. 12, 2012
Malaysian authorities uncover more than 1,000 smuggled elephant tusks hidden in secret compartments in two shipments of mahogany, staggeringly large seizure that conservationists say is biggest in history; increase in smuggling is fueled by growing demand in Asia, especially in China, and rising prices. MORE
Dec. 11, 2012
Joint operation of federal law enforcement officials leads to arrest of 25 people suspected of human smuggling on fishing boat off coast of Southern California. MORE
Dec. 4, 2012
Mexican nationals Jose Meija-Leyva and Manuel Beltran-Higuera are charged in death of Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne, who was killed in encounter with the smuggling suspects off coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. MORE
Nov. 15, 2012
South African police arrest 25-year-old man who swallowed 220 polished diamonds in effort to smuggle them out of country. MORE
Oct. 5, 2012
Russian officials have a muted response to potentially embarrassing revelation that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had uncovered a ring of Russian agents smuggling microchips out of the United States. MORE
Sep. 10, 2012
Submarines are the new challenge facing the United States and Latin American countries as narcotics organizations bankroll machine shops to build diesel-powered vessels that would be the envy of all but a few nations; American authorities have discovered at least three models of a new and sophisticated drug-trafficking submarine capable of traveling completely underwater from South America to the coast of the United States. MORE
Sep. 8, 2012
Enormous black market has sprung up for HCFC-22, coolant gas used in air conditioners that was banned under the terms of an international treaty because it contributes to global warming; gas is still produced in enormous volumes and sold cheaply in China, India, Mexico and elsewhere, making it a profitable if unlikely commodity for international smugglers (Series: Chilling Effect). MORE
Aug. 3, 2012
William Hoover, the former deputy director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is reassigned out of the agency in the wake of the uproar over a gun-smuggling inquiry called Operation Fast and Furious. MORE
Jul. 12, 2012
Europe's four-year-old economic crisis is expanding the black market for cigarettes, robbing European Union nations of valuable revenue and drawing in a new class of smugglers; the impact of lost tax revenues is enormous, especially since the European Union is partly financed by customs duties. MORE
Jun. 13, 2012
Chinese authorities say they have detained 23 suspects in Shanghai and broken up an international gun trafficking ring that conspired with a United States soldier to smuggle firearms into China. MORE
Jun. 8, 2012
Rep Darrell Issa and Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr clash once again during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the botched gun trafficking case known as Operation Fast and Furious; Issa accuses Holder of withholding information requested in a 2011 subpoena. MORE
Apr. 7, 2012
Lai Changxing, man who battled deportation from Canada for a decade after being accused of running China's largest-ever smuggling ring, goes on trial; Lai was deported by Canada in July. MORE
Mar. 15, 2012
Iran appears to have increased its political outreach and arms shipments to rebels and other political figures in Yemen as part of what American military officials say is a widening Iranian effort to extend its influence across the greater Middle East; scale of Iranian effort is unclear, and some Yemeni officials are skeptical about the impact of any smuggled weapons. MORE
Mar. 10, 2012
American officials say Afghan defense officials are impeding an investigation into accusations that members of their air force are smuggling opium and weapons and that an Afghan officer who shot and killed eight American service members last year may have been involved in the suspected trafficking; investigators have been given limited access to Afghan military personnel who could provide needed evidence, but they have been kept away from parts of the airport where they suspect smuggling may still be taking place. MORE
Feb. 28, 2012
Former New York City police officers Gary Ortiz, Joseph Trischitta and John Mahoney plead guilty to taking part in scheme to help transport weapons and stolen goods across state lines; three other officers have already pleaded guilty in connection with the case, bringing the total to six. MORE
Jan. 6, 2012
Afghan government is shutting down the operations of GardaWorld, a private Canadian security outfit that is one of the largest foreign security companies operating in the country, after detaining two of its contractors on suspicion of gun smuggling. MORE
Dec. 31, 2011
Chinese authorities accuse former fugitive Lai Changxing of running a multi-billion-dollar smuggling network out of the southeastern province of Fujian in the 1990s. MORE
Oct. 26, 2011
Justice Dept indicts four men in Singapore on charges of breaking American export-control laws by smuggling electronic parts made in Minnesota to Iran, where some of the devices ended up in makeshift bombs that were seized by American forces in Iraq. MORE
Oct. 25, 2011
Anna Fermanova is sentenced in Manhattan to four months in prison for trying to smuggle night-vision weapon scopes to Russia, following guilty plea. MORE
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November 18, 2014, Tuesday
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November 9, 2014, Sunday
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October 21, 2014, Tuesday
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October 18, 2014, Saturday
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October 1, 2014, Wednesday
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September 29, 2014, Monday
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Some random thoughts before Tuesday's practice:
Of course, Gomez sports only a paltry 4.9 shooting percentage, which suggests that while he's improved in his willingness to shoot, he hasn't necessarily improved his shot. I know that Tom Renney last season wanted to get Gomez to fire more pucks on net, so Gomez shooting more may be a case of the coaching staff encouraging him to do so. Or it could be a reflecion of the fact that after playing most of last season with Brendan Shanahan, one of the great snipers in league history, he doesn't yet have the linemate that he's consistently looking for in the slot. Hence he's the one taking more shots.
That's my theory at least. I'll investigate later.
The Rangers, like most teams, prefer to measure "chances," which is not an official statistic, but something they monitor on their own. It's basically any shot from relatively close range in the middle of the ice. You would think that the league with all its resources could figure out a way to measure that, since it would be a much better gauge.
It's hardly my job to defend the Rangers coach. He's a smart enough guy on his own and the Rangers have a full PR staff to help try to spin things in their favor.
If you don't like decisions the coach has made, that's more than fair. I have my own quibbles as well—from why the team doesn't call up a seventh defenseman to spell one of their struggling regulars; to the complete alienation of Petr Prucha; to the coach's heavy reliance on his fourth line. But I'm not sure it's fair to completely misinterpret something the coach has said and then use it as ammunition against him.
OK, that's enough from this soapbox.
More from practice in a bit…


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For holidaymakers staying here there is the option of holiday parking
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EPISODE 102 Today Brighton Beach is known for Brooklyn's thriving Russian community, while its neighbor Manhattan Beach is calm and family oriented. But over a hundred years ago, these neighborhoods were the homes of giant, lavish hotels catering to the upper classes. While regular folk were playing at Coney Island's Steeplechase Park, Dreamland and Luna Park, the wealthiest were enjoying 'the tonic of sea bathing' at three of the most toniest hotels on the East Coast -- Brighton Beach Hotel, the Oriental Hotel and Manhattan Beach Hotel.
Find out the origins of these long-gone resorts and how they make their mark on the current neighborhoods of Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach.
ALSO: Why should we care so much about one particular raging anti-Semite? And why did the Brighton Beach Hotel, several thousand tons of it, have to get dragged inland 500 feet?
Music in this episode is the "Manhattan Beach March" by John Philip Sousa!
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The Bowery Boys: Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach
A map of Coney Island from 1879. Click into it to see the detail of the various train and horsecar lines traveling over bridges to the island. The Oriental Hotel was built in 1880 and is thus not listed. (Find the original here.)
The Manhattan Beach Hotel by postcard
Facing the other way -- the boardwalk of the Manhattan Beach hotel.
And from the water. The hotel was built in 1877 by railroad financier Austin Corbin. He would later scandalize progressive New Yorkers by prohibiting Jewish guests from staying at the resort.
The Oriental Hotel, built in 1880. Click here for another view by George Bradford Brainerd.
An illustration of the Manhattan Beach Hotel in the foreground, the Oriental in the distance. (Courtesy MMCSL)
An illustrated train map for the New York and Manhattan Beach Railway, featuring the two Corbin hotels on the flap. (Courtesy LIRR history)
The Brighton Beach Hotel in 1906. Even as millions streamed into Coney Island to enjoy the frenetic rides and attractions, others could relax here, just a few hundred feet away.
The Brighton Beach was moved -- all 6,000 tons of it -- in 1888 when the beach in front of it eroded. (Click into pic for better view.) Below it, an illustration of the hotel under siege by the sea. (Courtesy Weather blog)
Along today's Brighton Beach Avenue, you can find a host of shops and restaurants harkening to the tastes of old Russia.
The real fun lies along the boardwalk at night, a string of Russian restaurants and clubs where the action sometimes spills out to the beach. Up the street at Brighton Beach Avenue, you can find The National restaurant, the closest a New Yorkern can come to finding Atlantic City style dinner entertainment.
In places, you can almost see the line where William Engeman's Brighton Beach property ends and Austin Corbin's Manhattan Beach/Oriental Hotel property begins. Brighton Beach is distinguished by handsome pre-war apartment buildings; Manhattan Beach is more single-family homes, many recently built and some very ornate.
Sheepshead Bay, north of Manhattan Beach, is named for a fish which no longer swims here.
One of my favorite things in all of Brooklyn -- the Ocean Avenue footbridge. Originally built in 1880, commissioned by Austin Corbin, the pedestrian bridge links the promenade in Manhattan Beach with the one in the neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay. According to Forgotten New York, Corbin kept closing the bridge, worried about 'undesirables' flocking to his precious upper-class hotel.
Kingsborough Community College at the far eastern end of the former island. If the college feels a bit like a military barracks, that's because it was. After Corbin's hotels were demolished, most of the land went to private home developments. But the far tip went to the Coast Guard and later served as a training base for the United States Maritime Service.
Manhattan Beach Park, a seemingly out of place sandy oasis in the quiet neighborhood of Manhattan Beach, is a remnant of the former resorts.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach, at your leisure
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Great stuff. I actually found a rare picture of the interior of the Oriental hotel in an old newspaper. Wish there were more.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 12, 2011 at 8:59 PM
I had a friend that I would visit who lived within a few blocks of Manhattan Beach Park and we played tennis there well into November. The sea air there is clean as the Hamptons.ReplyDelete
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