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Nikki Henderson knew since she left Argentina in 2012 that she would return to Latin America someday. She didn't know someday would be just a year later.
"When I saw an email in my inbox one day explaining this research trip to Ecuador that was fully funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and actually offered to pay me," Henderson said. "I about jumped out of my chair and contacted David Roon."
Roon, director of the University of Idaho's ecology and conservation biology program, coordinated the summer 2013 trip to Ecuador, the third year of ongoing summer research in partnership with the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL) funded by a NSF grant. He led graduate and undergraduate teams from UI in genetics, soil erosion, water and aquatic research in the region.
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Henderson said such generosity and hospitality were common among Ecuadorians. During her last week in the country, she got a job teaching English, and a UTPL student said she could stay with his family for a while.
Instead, she returned to Idaho and is living in Boise, saving up for a move to Seattle or Washington, D.C., where she'll be closer to international job opportunities. Giguiere is finishing her fourth of five years as an undergraduate, and hopes to return to Latin America.
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Henderson sees the ongoing connection between UI and UTPL as hopeful for the future and a legacy of past innovators.
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The state spent $375,000 two years ago to buy Rhodes Pond for anglers, paddlers and hunters who enjoy practicing their passions at the 455-acre pond north of Godwin.
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rob looked happy whenever there was kris...and kris did look glowing despite her mullet...I think their eyes spoke LOVE out loud...
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i think kristen is trying to hard to look like she is avoiding rob...watch all the videos too...she's trying to hard to look not interested...hmmm...honostly could care less if they are or not, but it still looks that way...is it just me, but kristen looks stoned, kinda outa it..idk
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Taylor looks hot I'm definitely on Team Jacob.
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Hello! She worked all night on her latest project "Runnaways", came from the set to San Diego still in make up. Some of you "ladies" came be very _itchy! Lighten up...
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Summit i hear said that New Moon is for Taylor and Bella so Edward is gonna take the back seat for this movie. She has to be intune to Jacob so at the eComic Con it had to reflect that and thats why she looks uncomfortable and phony!
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I suggest you go to Cullen Press and Robsten Lovers and look at video and more pictures. You will see that Robsten is alive and well. Good for these kids! Summit had a woman watching them like a hawk. The stupid People magazine cover did not help anything. Material was all old stuff. The cover must have hurt Rob. E-mail people and complain.
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Give Kristen a break. She said with one interview that she just got out of work at 9pm the night before and didn"t get to San Diego till 1:30 am then she had to do press in a few hours. Try working for hours then driving from San Fernando Valley to San Diego. She must be tired and she looked tired. Probably she is also trying to prove a point with the tabloid mag that said she was gonna get all dolled up to win Robs attention.
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I think they all look great and comfortable, except for Kristen's hair, but obviously that is for a movie, so whatever.
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and Taylor looks like he wants to rub it robs face. and rob looks heart broken
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and Taylor looks like he wants to rub it robs face. and rob looks heart broken
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she looks like she is about to kill robert.
weffie 6 years
Why should she have to wear a dress when they both get to dress like a gay lumberjack couple?
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she looks like she can't stand Rob, wonder why?
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For the body language thing: you guys need to take a closer look! or just check other websites! Her hand was ON ROB all the time! She might try to get closer to Taylor just to shut the media's mouth, but in the end her body's always ATTACHED to Rob's!!
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I love her & if she doesnt wanna wear a dress she doesnt have too. And as Redprincess0 also noticed - the body language here is kinda weird, no? She's not even touching Rob and kinda blocking him out...maybe just doin it for the press??
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yea. seriously, she looks a bit sloppy lately. its nice to wear jeans for going to the grocery store, but on the red carpet, her co-stars looks 20 times better than her!
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OMG. Body Language... Something is happening between this two. Kristen is always giving her back to Rob. And Rob looks awkward, like wanted to be in some other place. The smiles are different, or not smiling at all. Wow, what a difference between this pics and before ones!. May be I am speculating, but the "environment " between Rob and Kristen doesn't looks good at all.
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Kasper Schmeichel will fulfil a lifetime ambition tomorrow night when he earns his first international cap for Denmark.
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"I met up with the squad on Monday and I have to be focused and ready to perform.
"Who knows, hopefully it will be the first of many.
"It is a great honour for anyone to play for their country. It is the pinnacle of any player's career. I am really looking forward to it.
"It has been my driving ambition. I have been called up and been in the squad a couple of times, and you really get a taste for it and want to play.
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Schmeichel's career has really taken off since joining City in June 2011.
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Please work out your issues with Remember The Milk. I prefer it over Toodledoo. ToDo is a great program and I love it. A missing feature for me is the ability to add reminders and to-do's via voice so that you don't have to type it in. "remind me to call Bob at 10AM on Friday October 13th". That is a must have feature for those of us who move around a lot and want to voice themselves a message.
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September 26, 2012
Social Entrepreneurship
How Brenden Millstein's Carbon Lighthouse helps businesses conserve more energy.
There are all manner of approaches to 'green investing,' and the folks at
Carbon Lighthouse
— recipients of an $80,000 Social Innovation Fellowship from the Center for Social Innovation at the Graduate School of Business — manage to combine two of them under the same roof. The for-profit portion of the company helps businesses conserve energy via a unique business model in which Carbon Lighthouse pays for all the up-front costs and then gets reimbursed over time from the money clients save. Separately, a nonprofit portion of Carbon Lighthouse is aimed at individuals who want to make sure that any money they spend on carbon offsets isn't wasted. Carbon Lighthouse CEO Brenden Millstein, Stanford MBA '10, explains how it all fits together.
Compared to other parts of the world, energy costs in the United States are relatively low, at least if you don't consider externalities like climate change. Does this fact lessen the incentives for businesses to conserve energy?
Definitely. Utility bills in the U.S. might be, say, three bucks a square foot. But the salary of the people working in the building might be the equivalent of $300 a square foot. When you look at all of the steps that need to be taken to comprehensively optimize energy usage in a building, it ends up being an incredible amount of work for relatively little financial benefit.
What exactly is so hard about it?
If you're a building owner trying to reduce energy, right now you have to work with many different firms. There are companies that will make your lighting more efficient, and other companies that might install solar panels. Everything is totally fragmented.
How does Carbon Lighthouse do it?
We combine all of that into one easy package. We figure out absolutely everything that could possibly be done to reduce energy, and every single new system that would need to be installed to make that happen. And then we install it, and even pay for it up front. So, if we determine it will cost $200,000 to save a company $100,000 per year on energy, we will front them that $200,000. Then the company pays us back $80,000 a year, until they have repaid the $200,000.
Aren't there a lot of consultants who do something similar?
There are a lot of companies that do parts of what we do, but most of them are manufacturers; they make equipment. So when they send an engineer to a site, his or her job is to get enough data to justify the sale of a new piece of equipment. We try to achieve the maximum amount of savings with the least amount of equipment, since we're often paying for the equipment up front. Our interests and our clients' interests are totally aligned. We find that we're able to get 90% or 95% of the savings that a manufacturer might get, but with literally one-tenth of the cost.
Carbon Lighthouse also works with carbon offsets, helping business and individuals buy offsets in an audited and verifiable way. Are there problems with the current system of buying offsets?
About $400 million is spent every year on voluntary carbon offsets, and there's a pretty good argument to be made that, unfortunately, the vast majority of that money is wasted. One big difficulty involves verification. Someone might say, 'I'll plant a forest in some country thousands of miles from here.' But it's very difficult to make sure that the forest was actually planted. Or to make sure it wasn't planted on land that previously had a forest that ended up being cut down. Or to make sure that the people planting the forest didn't sell the same offset to 4,000 other people.
How do you help with this?
Not many people know this, but there is a mandatory cap-and-trade system in the U.S. It's called the
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
, and it's comprised of nine northeastern states from Maine to New York. It was set up through a system of state laws, and it's binding on all of the power plants in the region. Because of that legal framework, this particular market is very well regulated, but the average consumer hasn't been able to participate in it. Carbon Lighthouse forms a bridge between this legally enforceable market and environmentally aware individuals and institutions so that when they buy carbon offsets, they can have confidence in the process. Most of the time right now it's a Wild West show.
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Brenden Millstein: 2011 Social Innovation Fellow
America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs 2012
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Shaking, disoriented and weak, a student with diabetes at a suburban Jackson elementary school was showing signs of low blood sugar. An administrator, convinced she was doing the right thing, stuffed the child's mouth full of cookies.
The trouble is, the girl quickly began losing consciousness and was unable to chew. Had a teacher knowledgeable in diabetes not acted quickly, squeezing glucose gel from a tube into her mouth, she would have fallen into a coma.
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Practical Change Management for IT Projects
Practical Change Management for IT Projects
Book Details
About This Book
- Ensure your IT project is a long-term success by creating a comprehensive Change Management plan
- Build support for your project and new system with both leadership and end users
- Full of easy to use templates, tips for success, practical examples, and insider know-how from a Change Management consultant to several Fortune 500 companies
Who This Book Is For
Whether you're an IT Project Manager, Human Resources professional, or the summer intern, this book will provide you with the tools you need to create a comprehensive Change Management plan. Even if you have never before heard the term "Change Management", you will be able to immediately begin using the templates to create a plan that will enable the successful implementation of IT change across your organization.
Table of Contents
What You Will Learn
- Quickly begin to use Change Management tools to improve the success of your project
- Complete over 20 templates that address the most important Change Management activities and combine to form a comprehensive plan for sponsorship, stakeholder management, communications, and training
- Build strong relationships with the people and departments that can support you and your project
- Influence the leaders and end users whose involvement in your project is critical to its success
- Determine how your project will impact the people, processes, and systems in your company
- Create a communication plan that enables you to send the right message to the right people at the right time
- Proactively identify and mitigate "people"-risks to your project
- Build a training plan that enables your organization to adopt the change quickly and smoothly
In Detail
Transform your IT project and make change stick with this step-by-step guide.
In today's fast-paced world of change, companies expect you to do more, with less. Drawing on over a decade of Change Management experience as a consultant with Fortune 500 companies including IBM and NCR, Emily Carr shares the secrets to making change happen smoothly.
If your company is like most, the number one reason that projects have failed over the years don't have to do with technology. They have to do with people. People didn't like the new technology. People weren't trained properly on the change. People hadn't received adequate communications and didn't understand the change. Sound familiar?
Project teams rarely forget to work on the technology, but they often forget to work with the people, and no matter how amazing your new technology is, it's useless unless people use it efficiently.
This book will help you focus on the people.
Packed with templates, checklists, and real-life examples, this user-friendly guide will provide you with the insights and guidance of an expert consultant, for a fraction of the price. You'll follow a clearly laid out path from Change Management novice to confident and prepared change manager. You'll be introduced to the Five Pillars of Change: Sponsorship, Stakeholder Management, Communication, Training, and Organization Design. You will work step-by-step through templates in each pillar to build and run a comprehensive Change Management plan tailor-made to your project and organization.


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David A. Handler is a partner in the Trusts and Estates Practice Group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. David is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), a member of the NAEPC Estate Planning Hall of Fame as an Accredited Estate Planner (Distinguished), and a member of the professional advisory committees of several non-profit organizations, including the Chicago Community Trust, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Goodman Theatre and WTTW11/98.7WFMT (Chicago public broadcasting stations).
He is among a handful of trusts & estates attorneys listed in the top tier in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the Wealth Management category, is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and is recognized as an "Illinois Super Lawyer" by Super Lawyers magazine. The October 2011 edition of Leading Lawyers Magazine lists David as one of the "Top Ten Trust, Will & Estate" lawyers in Illinois as well as a "Top 100 Consumer" lawyer in Illinois.
He is a member of the Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Advisory Board, and an Editorial Advisory Board Member of Trusts & Estates Magazine for which he currently writes the monthly "Tax Update" column. David is a co-author of a book on estate planning, Drafting the Estate Plan: Law and Forms. He has authored many articles that have appeared in prominent estate planning and taxation journals, magazines and newsletters, including Lawyer's Weekly, Trusts & Estates Magazine, Estate Planning Magazine, Journal of Taxation, Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal. He is regularly interviewed for trade and news periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Lawyer's Weekly, Registered Representative, Financial Advisor, Worth and Bloomberg Wealth Manager magazines.
David is a frequent lecturer at professional education seminars. David concentrates his practice on trust and estate planning and administration, representing owners of closely-held businesses, principals of private equity/venture capital/LBO funds, executives and families of significant wealth, and establishing and administering private foundations, public charities and other tax-exempt entities.
David is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law and received a B.S. Degree in Finance with highest honors from the University of Illinois College of Commerce.
Memberships & Affiliations
Admitted to the NAEPC Estate Planning Hall of Fame as an Accredited Estate Planner (Distinguished)
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago - Legacy Partners
American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) Fellow
Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Advisory Board
Professional Advisory Committee of the Chicago Community Trust
Chicago Estate Planning Council
WTTW11/98.7WFMT Planned Giving Advisory Committee (Chicago public broadcasting stations)
The Goodman Theatre Professional Advisory Board
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Professional Advisory Committee
The Art Institute of Chicago Gift Planning Advisory Committee
West Northfield School District 31 School Board Member (2011-2013)
Editorial Advisory Board Member of Trusts & Estates Magazine
Other Distinctions
Listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business - Tier 1
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America
Recognized as a "Top Ten Trust, Wills & Estates" lawyer by Leading Lawyers Magazine October, 2011
Named a "Top 100 Consumer" lawyer by Leading Lawyers Magazine October, 2011
Recognized as an "Illinois Super Lawyer" by Super Lawyers magazine, 2005-2013
The Complete Estate Planning Sourcebook
Drafting the Estate Plan: Law and Forms (CCH)
Essential Estate Planning: A Definitive Guide to Planning and Practice
Chapter titled "Asset Freeze and Valuation Reduction Techniques" in Estate Planning for Illinois Attorneys: The Basics and Beyond, published by Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), 2001, 2003 and 2007 supplement
Contributing Editor of the American Bankers Association Estate Planning Manual (1998-1999)
Venture Capital Review:
"Using Derivatives to 'Transfer' Carried Interests in Private Equity, LBO and Venture Capital Funds" - Spring 2006
Trusts & Estates Magazine:
Monthly Tax Update column - 2003 - present
"Economically Zeroed-Out GRATs Produce the Best Results" - January 1999
"Discounts: Know When to Hold 'Em" - October 1999
"Guaranteed GRATs: GRATs Without Mortality Risk" - December 1999
"GRAT Remainder Sale to a Dynasty Trust" - December 1999
"Retaining Testamentary Power of Appointment" - January 2000
"RPM Trusts: Turning the Table on Chapter 14" - July 2000
"The HEET Trust: A New Twist on Section 2503(e)" - July 2000
"Locking-In The Benefits of Investment-Driven Estate Planning Strategies" - January 2001
"The Estate Trust Revival: Maximizing the Full Basis Step-Up for Spouses" - August 2001
"Uses and Benefits of Conservation Easements After the 2001 Tax Act" - December 2001
"Fresh Thinking About Gift-Splitting" - January 2002
"The GRAT Remainder Sale" - December 2002
"Tax-Free Gifts of Prepaid Tuition" - February 2003
"Avoid FLPs" - May 2003
"FLPs vs. RMAs" - August 2003
"Tax Year in Review" (pullout supplement) - January 2003 through 2012
"Bona Fide Sale" - February 2005
"The Power of Grantor Trusts" - March 2006
"The Case for Principle Trusts and Against Incentive Trusts" - October 2008
"The Net Gift Strategy: Good for a Bear Market" - December 2008
"Scratching Your Head Over Estate Plans" - August 2010
Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal:
"Life After Strangi: What to Do with Existing Entities" - Volume 29, No. 3, May 13, 2004
"GRATs and RPM Annuity Trusts: A Comparison" - Volume 29, No. 4, July 8, 2004
"RPM Trusts: A Better Way to Transfer Wealth" - 2009
Estate Planner's Alert RIA:
"Practice Alert: Accumulation QTIP Trusts: The Overlooked Provisions of the Marital Deduction Regulations" - March 2000
Estate Planning Magazine:
"The LPA LID: A New Way to 'Contain' Gift Revaluations" - June 2000
CCH Journal of Practical Estate Planning:
"Self-Adjusting GRATs" - October 2005
CCH Financial and Estate Planning:
"Self-Adjusting GRATs" - March 2006
CCH Journal of Retirement Planning:
"Self-Adjusting GRATs" - February 2006
Chase Journal:
"Investment-Driven Estate Planning: Why Make It If You Can't Keep It?" - Volume IV, Issue 2, 2000
Journal of Taxation:
Co-author of "Tax Consequences of Outstanding Trust Liabilities When Grantor Status Terminates" - Volume 95, No. 1, July 2001
Co-author of "Formula Disclaimers: Procter-Proofing Gift Revaluations" - March 2002
Estate Tax Planning Advisor:
"Using Net Gifts to Reduce Gift Tax Exposure" - February 2003
Lawyer's Weekly:
"RPM Annuity Trusts: A 'GReAT' Alternative - January 2004
Northwestern Mutual Advanced Planning Bulletin:
"Making and Optimizing Gifts and Bequests to Pay Educational and Medical Expenses" - July 2007
On Wall Street:
"Lesson from the Michael Jackson Estates" - August 2009
"The Future of the Estate Tax is Upon Us" - December 2009
Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning
"Financed Net Gifts Compared to Sales to Grantor-Trusts" - 2010, Volume 44
"There's No Place Like Home-Unless You Give It Away" - 2012, Volume 46
New York University Institute on Federal Taxation
"Alternative Planning Strategies to Enhance GRATs and IDGTs: Decreasing Short-Term GRATS and Financed Net Gifts as an Alternative to Sales" - 2009, Volume 67
"Evaluating the Sometimes Surprising Impact of Grantor Trusts on Competing Strategies to Transfer Wealth" - 2010, Volume 68
"Estate Planning with Disregarded Entities" - 2012, Volume 70
Steve Leimberg's Estate Planning Newsletter
"The Estate Trust Revival: Maximizing Full Basis Step-Up"
American Bankers Association National Graduate Trust School (1998-99, 2004)
The Philanthropy Roundtable Annual Meeting (1999)
Cannon Financial Institute Courses and Teleconferences (2000-2001)
Tax Management Educational Institute Symposium on EGTRRA (2001)
Southern Nevada Estate Planning Council (2002, 2011)
Northwest Suburban (IL) Estate Planning Council (2002)
Chicago Bar Association - Probate and Trust Law Section (2002, 2003)
The International Forum Annual Meeting (2003)
Chicago Estate Planning Council (2003, 2005, 2011)
IICLE Annual Estate Planning Short Course (2003-2007)
AICPA Advanced Estate Planning Conference (2003, 2005)
Appraisers Association of America Annual Meeting (2003)
BNA Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trust Advisory Board Meeting (2004, 2009)
Kellogg Alumni Club of Chicago (2004)
Orange County Estate Planning Council (2004)
William Blair & Company, LLC (2004)
Notre Dame Annual Estate Planning Institute (2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010)
New York University Institute on Federal Taxation (2004, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013)
IICLE Spring 2005 Seminar (2005)
IIR Family Office Management Conferences (2006)
IICLE Illinois Estate Administration Conference - Creative Use of Disclaimers (2006-2008)
JPMorgan Private Client Services Group (2006)
Financial Planning Association - Illinois Financial Forum (2006)
National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) Council of Advanced Practitioners Program (2006, 2011)
Virchow, Krause & Company, LLP 2006 Financial & Estate Planning Group Meeting (2006)
David Vaughan Investments Tax, Estate & Retirement Planning Forum (2006)
Philadelphia Estate Planning Council (2007)
Lorman Educational Seminar (2007)
Sun Valley Estate Planning Conference (2008)
University of Miami Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
Sidney Kess New York Estate, Tax and Financial Planning Conference (2009)
American Institute on Federal Taxation (2009)
Chicago-Kent College of Law of Federal Tax Institute (2009)
JPMorgan and Chicago Botanic Garden (2010)
WTTW/Museum of Science & Industry (2010)
Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (2010)
Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA) (2010)
Chicago Bar Association (2011, 2012)
Brownson, Rehmus & Foxworth Fall Meeting (2011)
Austin Bar Association (2012)
South Dakota Bar Association (2012)
Crowe Horwath meeting (2012, 2013)
Forum 400 (2013)
Denver Estate Planning Council (2013)
Goodman Theatre's Annual Estate Planning Seminar (2013)
Illinois CPA Society Estate and Gift Tax Conference (2013)
National Association of Estate Planners and Councils (2013)
Chicago Financial Planning Group (2013)
Milwaukee Estate Planning Forum (2014)
Camp Owners & Directors Association (2014)
AICPA Conference on Tax Strategies for High Income Individuals (2014)
American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law 25th Annual Spring CLE Symposium (2014)
Notre Dame Tax & Estate Planning Institute (2014)


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Taxation Issues - Individual Income Tax Issues
Types of Income Tax
An individual may be subject to one of the following four types of income tax:
- Ordinary income - this includes all income earned from salary, commission and business income. Some investment gains, such as bond interest and withdrawals from traditional IRAs and company retirement plans, are taxed at "ordinary income" rates.
- Capital gains - this refers to income resulting from the appreciation of a capital asset (e.g., stocks, real estate, coins). Capital gains are not realized until the asset is sold. Capital gains are classified as either short- or long-term:
- Short-term - assets held for 12 months or less are considered short-term capital gains and are taxed at ordinary income rates.
- Long-term - assets held for longer than 12 months benefit from reduced tax rates (based on your marginal tax bracket). In 2013, taxpayers within the 10 to 15 percent bracket foot a bill of 10% on long-term capital gains while taxpayers above that bracket (25%+) are taxed at a rate of 20%.
- Short-term - assets held for 12 months or less are considered short-term capital gains and are taxed at ordinary income rates.
- Dividends - prior to 2003, dividends were taxed at ordinary income rates along with bond interest. In 2013, "qualified" dividends are taxed like capital gains, with taxpayers within the 25 to 35 percent bracket required to pay 15% while those under 25 percent receive a tax bill of 0%.
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For starters, suspension training focuses on improving stability, particularly in the core muscles, which is key to being able to make a good swing and play golf injury free. They also do a wonderful job of improving mobility, particularly in the key areas of the body needed for golf (hips, mid-back, shoulders, ankles, etc.). I also like them because they focus on using your body weight as resistance, making it nearly impossible to train beyond physical limitations and get hurt. Finally, they're really good because they're portable.
On a personal note, I still get a little freaked out when I place a foot in the harness and work on single-leg exercises. But I'm freaked out in a good way, as the level of instability it creates automatically makes me use muscles that rarely get trained properly doing standard exercises.
My friend Trevor Anderson (@TA2claps), fitness director for the David Leadbetter Golf Academy, put together a pretty simple dynamic warm-up for golfers using a TRX Trainer. You can view it here (PDF file). But I also reached out to Scott Gump at TRX (@trxtraining) for a bonus exercise that is great for golfers. You can view it by clicking on the video below, but read his instructions first.
TRX Golf Rotation
Setup: Adjust the TRX Suspension Trainer to mid-length and stand facing the anchor point. Grip the handles with your arms extended in front of you and bend your knees slightly
Movement: Press down on both handles and rotate your shoulders, reaching up and back with both arms.
Return: Lower both arms back to center, lift chest and keep tension on the TRX.
Ron Kaspriske is the fitness editor of Golf Digest.Follow @ronkaspriske


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When Old-Economy Jobs Become New-Economy Gigs
I love the sharing economy because it's efficient. Got some spare time? Become a TaskRabbit! Spare space? AirBNB it! A car and nowhere to go? Drive for Uber or Lyft! The taxi industry is a regulatory-capture nightmare. Disrupt 'em 'til they're dead! …But our 21st-century sharing-economy dream is beginning to look worryingly like a 19th-century robber-baron nightmare. Read More
TaskRabbit Debuts Revamped Platform, Launches New Website And Mobile Apps
Last month, errands marketplace TaskRabbit announced plans to shake up its business model, shifting away from the auction- and negotiation-based platform that it founded five years ago to a more tailored matchmaking marketplace that pairs task-requesting users with contractors (or, as they'll be called now, "clients" and "taskers," respectively) for fixed… Read More
Following A Drop In Completed Jobs, Errands Marketplace TaskRabbit Shakes Up Its Business Model
Errands marketplace TaskRabbit is shaking things up today with a change to its business model. The company says it's shifting away from the auction model where contractors bid for tasks posted by end users, and will now match clients to potential "Taskers" (aka contractors, which the company formerly referred to as "Rabbits"). It will also offer transparent… Read More
UK Home Cleaning Startup Housekeep Raises $1M To Take On Hassle, Homejoy, Mopp And Others
The UK home cleaning market continues to lather up. Hot on the heels of Hassle.com's $6 million fund-raise from Accel Partners, local rival Housekeep is announcing it's closed a $1 million investment led by Pentland Group (majority owner of JD Sports and numerous other major brands). Read More
TaskRabbit For Business Service Portal Quietly Disappears
TaskRabbit for Business, the errands marketplace's business-focused web portal announced at the beginning of last year, has quietly disappeared. Links to this particular service, which was aimed at companies looking for temp workers, have been instead redirecting users to the main TaskRabbit sign-up form instead. However, TaskRabbit claims that the business offering was not shut… Read More
TaskRabbit Takes Its Errands Marketplace To London For Its First Move Outside The U.S.
TaskRabbit, the U.S. startup that runs a marketplace for people who need help with short-term work and errands, is hopping over the pond for its first international city launch. On Thursday, it will open for business in London, starting with 50 Taskers ready to take on your every need in the areas of Christmas-related errands, cleaning and handyman-type work. Further UK cities will come in… Read More
Deliv Raises $6.85 Million To Bring Same-Day Delivery To A Store Near You
Investors have recently piled millions into same-day delivery startups such as New York's Zipments and San Francisco's PostMates, and now Palo Alto firm Deliv has become the latest beneficiary, with plans to use a $6.85 million series A investment to hire new staff and roll out services to hundreds of retailers located in shopping malls across America. Read More
Zipments Closes $2.25 Million Seed Round To Speed Up Same-Day Deliveries
New York based Zipments, a same-day delivery marketplace that connects retailers with couriers, has closed a $2.25 million seed round to further build out its product and expand to new cities. It's facing increasing competition from consumer-focused San Francisco delivery heavyweights such as TaskRabbit and Postmates, the latter of which recently raised $5 million to muscle into New York. Read More
Sooqini Raises $500,000 Seed Round For Its 'UK TaskRabbit'
With the heavily-funded and U.S.-based TaskRabbit having a few teething problems, the jury is still out on how much growth there is in a reverse-marketplace for 'tasks'. But that isn't stopping a few UK TaskRabbit-inspired services from pressing on. Today, UK task marketplace Sooqini is announcing that it's raised $500,000 in seed funding. Read More
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Second LA Earthquake: A Wake-Up Call
A magnitude (M) 5.1 earthquake struck the Greater Los Angeles area in Southern California on Friday March 28 at 9:09 pm (4:09 UTC on March 29). The earthquake was located 1 mile (1 km) south of La Habre, approximately 20 miles (32 km) southeast of downtown Los Angeles and 20 miles northeast of Long Beach, CA. This event follows the M4.4 earthquake near Beverley Hills (30 miles to the northwest) on March 17. Earthquakes are frequently accompanied by a series of aftershocks and it is expected that these two events are related. Based on internal modeling, this earthquake is not expected to cause earthquake insurance losses exceeding $50 Million.
The Greater Los Angeles area is the most populous region of California and the second most populous area of the United States, and as a result, this earthquake was felt by more than 18 million people. The USGS ShakeMap (version 8) indicates a maximum shaking intensity of VII (very strong) on the Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) Scale, however, the USGS PAGER report states only approximately 38,000 people (13,100 households) felt this level of shaking. Approximately 927,000 people (319,700 households) were subjected to a strong (MMI VI) level of shaking, 2,601,000 people (896,900,000 households) subjected to a moderate (MMI V) level of shaking and over 14,845,000 people (5,119,000 households) subjected to a weak-to-light level of shaking (MMI II-IV).
USGS ShakeMap: La Habra, CA Shakemap
Source: US Geological Survey (USGS)
Generally, earthquakes in this magnitude range have perceived levels of ground shaking of MMI VI to VIII as was experienced in the March 28 event. Significant damage is highly unlikely, but light to moderate damage is expected and has been observed in this event. The USGS' "Did You Feel It" shows the various levels of shaking observed from this earthquake. It is important to note the importance of the underlying soil conditions when trying to understand different levels of shaking one may experience. Soft soils, as present in the Los Angeles Basin, can amplify ground motion and result in a higher level of shaking when compared to rock or stiff soils.
The USGS suggests that the March 28 earthquake occurred on the Puente Hills thrust fault. This is a blind thrust fault similar to the source of the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
EQECAT's USQuake™ model is guided by Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (UCERF)—the first comprehensive framework for comparing earthquake likelihoods throughout all of California. The model includes both an occurrence of an event with magnitude and location parameters of the March 28 earthquake, as well as a rare, but devastating likelihood of large rupture along this fault under the city of Los Angeles.
Drivers of Risk for Southern California
CoreLogic|EQECAT studies on the drivers of risk in Southern California indicate that the Puente Hills Fault is the fourth largest driver of risk for Southern California, following the Santa Monica, Southern San Andreas, and Sierra Madre faults.
EQECAT TVAR-250 Fault Drivers of Risk
Source: EQECAT, Inc.
Earthquake Aftershocks and What to Expect
Earthquakes typically occur in sequences of many earthquakes within a region. The largest earthquake is typically denoted as the main shock, with related earthquakes occurring before the main shock identified as foreshocks and earthquakes occurring afterwards identified as aftershocks. Review of historic data has provided good insights into the rate of earthquake aftershocks, and their distributions in magnitude and location. The two predominant models used in earthquake aftershock modeling are the Short-Term Earthquake Probability Model (STEP) and the Epidemic type aftershock sequence (ETAS) models. Earthquake aftershock models are used to develop probabilistic forecasts of what may occur but do not predict specific aftershock activity.
Most aftershocks do not cause as much damage and loss as the main earthquake. Notable exceptions do however occur. For example, the M6.3 earthquake in Christchurch on February 22, 2011 was an aftershock of the September, 2010 M7 further outside of town. Also, the M5.4 earthquake 3 months before the deadly 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Northern California has been identified as a foreshock. The association of earthquakes as foreshocks and aftershocks requires significant analysis and sometimes lacks consensus. The USGS cites that immediately after this March 28 event there is a 5% chance of an aftershock with a magnitude higher than M5.1 (the probability of a larger aftershock has declined with time since the foreshock). Even if a larger aftershock does occur, it could occur anywhere in the general Southern California region, including the sparsely populated Mojave Desert, and may not have devastating consequences.
The March 28 earthquake is a reminder of the risk to commercial and residential properties in Southern California. Many sources note that most homeowners do not carry earthquake insurance, and those that do typically carry deductibles ranging from 10% to 15% of the replacement value of the home, and commercial insurance often carries large deductibles and strict limits on insurance coverage – the remainder of the risk which is not insured is retained by property owners and frequently, their lenders. CoreLogic regional studies have noted that a major earthquake in the Los Angeles Basin could easily produce damages to residential and commercial property exceeding $200 Billion (Source: the EQECAT Insured Loss Database, 2013). The general lack of insurance coverage and high deductibles have led to concerns over the likelihood of widespread residential mortgage defaults arising from a large basin earthquake. CoreLogic has worked with property owners, risk managers, insurers and lenders to assess this risk and to help them develop response and mitigation plans for this risk.
Proxy Events for RQE® Users
Users of the CoreLogic|EQECAT RQE model should use Event IDs 18462 and 18463 with model region 1 as suitable proxies for the March 28 M5.1 earthquake. Both of these events are located within 5km of the rupture of the event. Event 18462 is M5.15 and event 18463 is M5.05.
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CoreLogic's deep foundation in data and analytics coupled with EQECAT's industry-leading science and engineering, provides a combined strength that allows transformation of highly granular data into meaningful information that is easy to access, use and apply.
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Trotter Tom Yum Soup
About the author: Born in Shanghai and raised in New Mexico, Chichi Wang currently resides in Manhattan, where she divides her time between writing, cooking, and tracking down the best noodles in the city. Visit her blog, Mostly Tripe.
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Trotter Tom Yum Soup
About This Recipe
|Serves 4
|Active time:
|30 minutes
|Total time:
|3 hours 30 minutes
|Special equipment:
|3 quart saute pan
|This recipe appears in:
|The Nasty Bits: Trotters Tom Yum
- 4 pork trotters (about 2 pounds)
- 1 stalk lemon grass, cut into 2-inch sections and bruised slightly
- One 1-inch piece of galangal
- 4 kaffir limes leaves
- 6 to 8 bird's eye chilis
- 1/2 cup sliced mushrooms
- 1 large tomato, cut into 16 wedges
- Thai Chili Paste (Nam-prik Pao), optional
- 3 to 4 tablespoons fish sauce
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- rice noodles cooked according to instructions on package
Rinse trotters under running water. Place trotters in large saucepot pot and cover with water. Simmer until trotters are tender, about 2 1/2 hours, skimming off whatever meat scum rises to the top.
Add lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, and chilies and simmer for 30 minutes longer. Remove the aromatics from the pot and discard. Add sliced vegetables and simmer 5 minutes longer.
Add chili paste (if desired), fish sauce, and lime juice, adding more or less according to taste. Serve with rice noodles and additional segments of lime.


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Irrational Games lost two key staff members leaving more speculation about the status of BioShock Infinite in the shadow of their absences.
Gamasutra reported that Irrational's director of product development Tim Gerritsen and art director Nate Wells both have parted ways with the company.
Both contributed some key elements to the BioShock games that could contribute to the new game's delay. Gerritsen basically oversaw and managed the entire content creation process for BioShock Infinite and Wells was one of BioShock's chief architects and creators who is often credited with creating and shaping the series' unique style.
Irrational and Take-Two have yet to respond to this latest bit of bad news, but it could contribute to more delays down the road. Plus, Take-Two really needs this game along with other heavy hitters like Grand Theft Auto V to keep their numbers from floundering any further.
Gamasutra: Two top Bioshock Infinite team members leave Irrational


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A night of firsts for the Strom Thurmond Rebels ended with head coach Antwuan Hillary's first career victory at his alma mater, as the Rebels were able to overcome some Week Zero growing pains en route to their 17-10 win at Aiken.
"It was a lot of firsts for everybody; it was a first for me, a first for my quarterback," Hillary said. "The biggest thing is getting back to the drawing board, looking at the film and correcting the things that we made mistakes on."
Aiken scored the game's first points on Strom Thurmond's first drive. The Rebels were set to punt from deep in their own territory when a high snap sent the ball into the end zone. The resulting safety put the Hornets ahead, 2-0, near the end of the first quarter.
Strom Thurmond answered back, and the Rebels looked poised to carry a 10-2 lead into the halftime break, but a pair of costly penalties aided Aiken in a 69-yard scoring drive to even the game.
Aiken quarterback Bryson Jones connected with Antwan Chandler for 22 yards to move the ball into Strom Thurmond territory. A personal foul added 15 yards to the play, putting the Hornets in striking distance with under two minutes to go in the second quarter. A pass interference call on the next play gave Aiken a first down just outside of the red zone.
The Hornets made the Rebels pay, as Jones and Chandler hooked up again, this time for a 25-yard touchdown pass with just 31 seconds to play. Brayton Sanders ran in the 2-point conversion to tie the game, bringing the home crowd at Hagood Stadium to its feet.
Another penalty, a personal foul committed well behind return ace Deandre Ryan on the ensuing kickoff, wiped out a 90-yard return touchdown, sending the Rebels and Hornets into the locker rooms tied at 10.
"(Mistakes) made it extremely hard," said Hillary. "But when you're in the heat of the battle, you can't worry about a penalty ... I'm just glad we were able to overcome it."
Despite the miscues in the game's first three quarters, Strom Thurmond turned in a clean slate when it mattered the most. The Rebels turned to Stidem and running back Chad Gilchrist, who took over the game's final period.
Stidem passed for 150 yards and ran for 60 more on the night, while Gilchrist bounced back from a rough start to record 29 of his 41 rushing yards in the fourth quarter.
Benefactors of sloppy play for most of the game, Aiken returned the favor late, committing a pair of penalties on the Rebels' final drive to ultimately allow Strom Thurmond to run out the clock.
The first occurred with the Rebels prepared to punt. Aiken broke the huddle with 12 men on the field, giving Strom Thurmond an automatic first down with the game near the two-minute mark.
The next, a personal foul committed with a minute to play, effectively ended the game; the Rebels were able to take a knee and give their head coach his first win.
The Rebels will have a week off to get back to the drawing board before a Sept. 5 trip to Silver Bluff.
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Peachy Pork Chops*
Boiled Red Potatoes
"Cool" Veggie Salad*
Bread w/ butter and jam
Butterscotch Pudding Parfaits
(layers of butterscotch pudding and whipped topping)
Peachy Pork Chops Recipe
4 pork chops
1 10 oz jar peach jam
2 Tbsp. vinegar
1 Tbsp. mustard
1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
Dash of Tabasco sauce
Brown meat and cook until done. Mix and heat rest of ingredients and serve over meat.
"Cool" Veggie Salad
1 head cauliflower, cut into pieces
1 bunch broccoli, cut into pieces
10 oz. frozen peas (peas don't need to be cooked)
1/4 to 1/2 cup onion
1 cup sour cream
1 cup salad dressing (like Miracle whip)
1 pkg. Hidden Valley ranch dressing mix
Mix dressing ingredients. Pour dressing over veggies and chill overnight. Will keep well in the fridge for several days.


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