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The Kafka connector receives serialized data from the export tables and writes it to a message queue using the Apache Kafka version 0.8 protocols. Apache Kafka is a distributed messaging service that lets you set up message queues which are written to and read from by "producers" and "consumers", respectively. In the Apache Kafka model, VoltDB export acts as a "producer".
Before using the Kafka connector, we strongly recommend reading the Kafka documentation and becoming familiar with the software, since you will need to set up a Kafka 0.8 service and appropriate "consumer" clients to make use of VoltDB's Kafka export functionality. The instructions in this section assume a working knowledge of Kafka and the Kafka operational model.
When the Kafka connector receives data from the VoltDB export tables, it establishes a connection to the Kafka messaging service as a Kafka producer. It then writes records to the service using the VoltDB table name and a predetermined prefix as the Kafka "topic". How and when the data is transmitted to Kafka and the name of the topic prefix are controlled by the export connector properties.
The majority of the Kafka properties are identical in both in name
and content to the Kafka producer properties listed in the Kafka
documentation. All but one of these properties are optional for the Kafka
connector and will use the standard Kafka default value. For example, if
you do not specify the
queue.buffering.max.ms property
it defaults to 5000 milliseconds.
The only required property is
metadata.broker.list, which lists the Kafka servers
that the VoltDB export connector should connect to. You must specify this
property so VoltDB knows where to send the export data.
In addition to the standard Kafka producer properties, there are
several custom properties specific to VoltDB. The properties
skipinternals, and
timezone affect the format of the data. The
topic.prefix and
properties affect how and when the data is written to Kafka.
topic.prefix property specifies the text that
precedes the table name when constructing the Kafka topic. If you do not
specify a prefix, it defaults to "voltdbexport". Note that unless you
configure the Kafka brokers with the
auto.create.topics.enable property set to true, you
must create the topics for every export table manually before starting the
export process. Enabling auto-creation of topics when setting up the Kafka
brokers is recommended.
batch.mode property specifies whether
messages are sent in batches, like the JDBC connector, or one message at a
time. When configuring the export connector, it is important to understand
the relationship between batch mode and synchronous versus asynchronous
processing and their effect on database latency.
Using batch mode reduces the number of packets that must be sent to
the Kafka servers, optimizing network bandwidth. If the export data is
sent asynchronously, by setting the property
producer.type to "async", the impact of export on the
database is further reduced, since the export connector does not wait for
the Kafka server to respond. However, with asynchronous processing, VoltDB
is not able to resend the data if the message fails after it is
If export to Kafka is done synchronously, the export connector waits for acknowledgement of each message sent to the Kafka server before processing the next packet. This allows the connector to resend any packets that fail. The drawback to synchronous processing is that on a heavily loaded database, the latency it introduces means export may not be able to keep up with the influx of export data and and have to write to overflow.
VoltDB guarantees that at least one copy of all export data is sent by the export connector. But when operating in asynchronous mode, the Kafka connector cannot guarantee that the packet is actually received and accepted by the Kafka broker. By operating in synchronous mode, VoltDB can catch errors returned by the Kafka broker and resend any failed packets. However, you pay the penalty of additional latency and possible export overflow.
To balance performance with durability of the exported data, the following are the two recommended configurations for producer type and batch mode:
Synchronous with batch mode — Using synchronous mode ensures all packets are received by the Kafka system while batch mode reduces the possible latency impact by decreasing the number of packets that get sent.
<property name="producer.type">sync</property> <property namr="batch.mode">true</property>
Asynchronous without batch mode — Using asynchronous mode eliminates latency due to waiting for responses from the Kafka infrastructure while not using batch mode ensures that if a request fails, only one row of export data is affected, reducing the durability impact.
<property name="producer.type">async</property> <property namr="batch.mode">false</property>
Finally, the actual export data is sent to Kafka as a comma-separated values (CSV) formatted string. The message includes six columns of metadata (such as the transaction ID and timestamp) followed by the column values of the export table.
Table 15.4, "Kafka Export Properties" lists the supported properties for the Kafka connector, including the standard Kafka producer properties and the VoltDB unique properties.
Table 15.4. Kafka Export Properties
|Allowable Values
|A comma-separated list of Kafka brokers.
|true, false
|Whether to submit multiple rows as a single request or send each export row separately. The default is true.
Specifies which table column value to use as the Kafka partitioning key for each table. Kafka uses the partition key to distribute messages across multiple servers.
By default, the value of the table's partitioning column is used as the Kafka partition key. Using this property you can specify a list of table column names, where the table name and column name are separated by a period and the list of table references is separated by commas. If the table is not partitioned and you do not specify a key, the server partition ID is used as a default.
|hex, base64
|Specifies whether VARBINARY data is encoded in hexadecimal or BASE64 format. The default is hexadecimal.
|true, false
|Specifies whether to include six columns of VoltDB metadata (such as transaction ID and timestamp) in the output. If you specify skipinternals as true, the output contains only the exported table data. The default is false.
|The time zone to use when formatting the timestamp. Specify the time zone as a Java timezone identifier. The default is GMT.
|The prefix to use when constructing the topic name. Each row is sent to a topic identified by {prefix}{table-name}. The default prefix is "voltdbexport".
|metadata.broker.list, request.required.acks, request.timeout.ms, producer.type, serializer.class, key.serializer.class, partitioner.class, compression.codec, compressed.topics, message.send.max.retries, retry.backoff.ms, topic.metadata.refresh.interval.ms, queue.buffering.max.ms, queue.buffering.max.messages, queue.enqueue.timeout.ms, batch.num.messages, send.buffer.bytes, client.id
Standard Kafka producer properties can be specified as properties to the VoltDB Kafka connector.


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When I order my burger I stress very strongly to the server, very very rare, like run it through a warm room and bring it to me. I've gone so far as to start telling the servers that if they bring me a burger that isn't rare I will send it back. I hate to do that, one it's not the server's fault and two, it sets up an adversarial relationship right off the bat. But darn it, there a few things I loathe more than cutting into my supposedly rare burger to find it barely pink.
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Supreme Court Strikes Blow to Voting Rights Act: What's Next?
Follow @sarah_childressJune 25, 2013, 11:51 am ET
The Supreme Court struck down a major part of the landmark ban on voter discrimination, saying that it was up to Congress to bring the law into the modern age.
The Voting Rights Act, first passed in 1965, subjected a swath of the country with a history of discrimination — mostly the Deep South — to what it called "pre-clearance." That meant that state and local governments had to submit any changes in their voting laws to the Justice Department before it could implement them.
The purpose was to avoid whack-a-mole litigation from the federal government, as the states kept coming up with more creative ways to discriminate against black voters, and later, Latinos and Native Americans. Fighting these battles in court was costly and time-intensive, and until the courts ruled, states were free to proceed with their discriminatory policies.
But that was then. Alabama's Shelby County, which brought this case, argued that the policy of pre-clearance was unconstitutional because it forced some jurisdictions to submit to these requirements but not others.
In its ruling today, the Supreme Court didn't go that far. It ruled that pre-clearance could still be used, but that the formula Congress used to decide which jurisdictions would be covered was outdated: The formula covered state and local governments that had used tests or devices to discriminate in the past and had low minority turnout. The court ruled that formula was unconstitutional because it applied to conditions in 1965 and didn't account for conditions today. (Read the full opinion here [pdf].)
"Regardless of how one looks at that record, no one can fairly say that it shows anything approaching the 'pervasive,' 'flagrant,' 'widespread,' and 'rampant' discrimination that clearly distinguished the covered jurisdictions from the rest of the Nation in 1965," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts, for the 5-4 majority. Roberts was joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a strongly worded dissent, noted that Roberts acknowledged that "voting discrimination still exists; no one doubts that."
"But the Court today terminates the remedy that proved to be best suited to block that discrimination," she wrote. "The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has worked to combat voting discrimination where other remedies had been tried and failed."
The ruling doesn't come as a major surprise. The court, in oral arguments in this case, made clear that it was skeptical whether a law first passed in 1965 to protect the right of blacks to vote was still needed.
Scalia, in oral arguments, referred to the act, which bans discriminatory voting practices, as a "racial entitlement" that members of Congress continued to authorize not because it was necessary, but because they didn't want to appear prejudiced.
"Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes," he said, adding that "there are certain districts in the House that are black districts by law just about now."
Kennedy, the anticipated swing vote on this case, suggested in oral arguments that he thought the VRA's time had come. "The Marshall Plan was very good, too, the Morale Act, the Northwest Ordinance, but times change," he said.
Times have changed. Blacks are no longer lynched for trying to cast a ballot, nor are they required to pass a test proving they can read or recite passages from the Constitution.
Discrimination today more often takes the form of racial gerrymandering and redrawing legislative districts to dilute the vote of minority groups — which is far more difficult to prove. But the law has continued to be used to challenge these practices nationwide.
In the 1970s, the Justice Department roped more jurisdictions into Section 5 based on their discrimination against Spanish-speaking voters, including the states of Texas and Arizona, and parts of California, New York, South Dakota and Florida.
Texas remains bailed in today. A 2011 case in the state centered on a concerted effort by state legislators to draw borders to dilute the power of the Latino vote. Because it would have to submit those changes for clearance, they plotted to make the changes look good enough to "pass muster for the Voting Rights Act," according to the lawsuit.
But the federal court in D.C. disagreed, ruling that its review of these changes found "a deliberate, race-conscious method to manipulate not simply the Democratic vote but, more specifically, the Hispanic vote." The maps were thrown out before they could be put in place. But without pre-clearance, the maps would have been used until the federal government could gather enough evidence to prove voters were being disenfranchised, bring and win a lawsuit.
In order to return to pre-clearance, Congress will have to come up with a new formula. But it's unclear how or whether Congress will act, given that some legislators would have to admit that their own state and local governments might be more likely to discriminate against voters than others. Several states had already begun to chafe under the pre-clearance requirements.
In arguing against reauthorization of the VRA in 2006, Lynn Westmoreland, a representative from Georgia invoked a black voting-rights activist to protest pre-clearance: "We have repented, and we have reformed, and now, as Fannie Lou Hamer famously said, 'I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.'"
At least for the foreseeable future, pre-clearance will no longer stand.
[Update: This afternoon, Texas announced it would move ahead with its restrictive voter ID law and the 2011 redistricting maps, both of which were blocked because the federal government found them discriminatory. Mississippi and North Carolina also said they'll move ahead with their own voter ID laws, which no longer require federal pre-clearance.]
Hal Pigg is reflected in an image of a flag, as he casts his vote on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Jamul, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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V/h/s (2012)
Sounds good, doesn't it? Personally I love me some early hype.
Saw it tonight and loved it! V/H/S is one of the best found-footage horror films I have seen, if not the best. It's a very creative and fun anthology film. There's not a weak story in the bunch. It is pretty long too, it was going on 2:30AM by the time the movie got out. It gives each story a chance to fully develop.
The opening scenes are really obnoxious, it is basically just these guys running around smashing stuff. Even though the movie starts out pretty rough, stay with it. I was hooked by the end of the first story.
I'm going to go into a little detail as to what each of the segments are about, but I'll avoid any spoilers. I have no idea who directed what.
The wrap-around segment involves a group of men who are being paid to break into a house and steal a VHS tape. Once inside, they find the dead body of an elderly man surrounded by numerous tapes. Each time they plug a tape in, it jumps to one of the segments. This was my least favorite of the segments. It gets off to a very rough start, but it does end extremely well.
The first segment is about three friends who get more than they bargained for when they try to lure a girl back to their hotel room in order to videotape her without her knowledge. This is by far the most extreme of the segments in regards to both violence and sex. Like the wraparound, it starts out a little rough, but about halfway through it grabs you by the throat. Definitely one of the stand-outs!
The second segment also takes place primarily in a hotel room. This one follows a couple on vacation, who notice a strange girl lurking outside their motel room. This one is kind of like The Strangers in a motel. I'm guessing this is the one Joe Swanberg directed, as he stars in it as well.
The third segment is a backwoods slasher. Four friends go into the woods and… we'll just leave it at that. Fun segment, but not my favorite (which is surprising, because I'm all about the backwoods slashers). I really liked the characters in this one.
The fourth segment seemed to be the audience favorite, because it definitely got the most crowd reaction. This one is filmed entirely via Skype, where a boyfriend talks to his girlfriend as she experiences paranormal activity in her apartment. Very strange twist in this one, I wasn't sure what to think about it. But it definitely has some very effective scares. It doesn't make a lot of sense that a Skype conversation would be recorded onto a VHS tape, but this is easily overlooked for the sake of entertainment.
The fifth and final segment was my personal favorite. Four friends head to a Halloween party at a creepy old mansion, but when they get there they find the house seemingly vacant. Are the strange occurrences in the house a Halloween prank, or is there something in the house with them? Very playful and fun segment, I really enjoyed it!
Overall, the movie does a really good job toying with the experimental nature of the found-footage genre. Nowadays, computer effects really take away some of that movie magic, but there are a lot of effects here that look so convincingly practical that I was wondering how they did it. It is extremely impressive, especially combined with the long takes. Even though you'll catch occasional shades of other films in V/H/S, its creativity and originality makes this essential viewing for all horror fans.
Saw it as well. For a found footage film, it was very well done and actually had graphic violence. Interesting stories to boot.
Mixed bag for me. First, fourth and fifth weren't bad, second and third were pretty awful. Especially the third, the one with the friends in the woods, I couldn't believe how terrible the acting was. The second, the one with the couple on vacation ended too abruptly with not much of a worthwhile 'payoff' for the 10 minutes of setup. The 'main story' that ties them all together is pretty flimsy and predictable as well. Not bad, but certainly nothing special.
You have all been warned don't expect anything it's was bad. This was indEEd awful all they did was rip off youtube videos.
They combined these two videos lame lame lame!!!
Then they did this one lame lame lame!!!
You are on the money, Dobby. I thought I was up on my shit. Can't believe I had no clue. And yes, I hate rip off artists, too. Now I am pissed at these guys.
Rip off or not I still enjoyed it. It wasn't as good as the hype said it was or the trailer I saw but I liked it.
Watched this today and loved it. Easily the best horror film of the year imo. I enjoyed all the segments to different degrees With 1 and 4 being strongest and 3 and 5 being the least effective. As for the youtube videos all i see is that they might have borrowed a couple of scare ideas. I guess we better discount Carrie for borrowing from Deliverance or Halloween from Black Christmas Cabin in the woods from every horror film in history or Tarantino's entire filmography ect.
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It had one screening in Baltimore for the MD FilmFest (in the MICA auditorium), but I wasn't able to make it. I've heard reasonably good things, but like all anthologies I'm sure some bits work better than others.
This is showing on HDnet movies on October 3rd.
Loved it!!! I honestly can't see any other horror film this year topping it. For those of you who are not fans of the "found footage" subgenre, this won't do much to change your mind. But if you are a fan, like me, this is everything you could want.
I had mixed opinions about this. I didn't like the way they ended most of the stories. They felt too abrupt for the most part.
Also, what was with the wrap around story not wrapping around? It ends with the second last story and then randomly we're watching the last story which is one of the better ones in the mix.
Bump for tonight's showing on HDNet Movies. It seems to be getting a mixed response on this site from those who have already seen it, so maybe it's best to watch it for free...
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Indeed, the indispensable value of ISEAS Library as the backbone of ISEAS research process was recognised early in the founding of the Institute. Its set-up began one year before the Act of Parliament, June 1968 was passed to establish the Institute.
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Belen dropout rates increase, graduation rates steady with fewer students
Although dropout rates increased slightly and graduation rates remained the same, enrollment numbers in Belen Schools were what caught school administrators' attention.
Although dropout rates increased slightly and graduation rates remained the same, enrollment numbers in Belen Schools were what caught school administrators' attention.
She sat clutching the letter in her hands, crying.
Belen Schools administrators are on high alert due to a pack of dogs that reportedly mauled a small dog last month, roaming Veguita neighborhoods near La Promesa Elementary School, located in northern Socorro County.
The Casper Baca Rodeo Co. is hosting the Matt Clouser Benefit Rodeo for one of its own professional bull riders.
One Belen High School valedictorian has been named a finalist in the running to be a National Merit Scholar.
For Donald A. Chavez, it's been a long, arduous 30 years worth of work coming to fruition at the New Mexico legislative session.
Trophy poaching and wanton waste of game might result in a fourth degree felony for violators if House Bill 55 is passed.
Belen Schools officials are busy implementing suggestions two board of education members made about making schools safer for students.
The classrooms and halls of Henry T. Jaramillo Community School ring with childhood memories for one Belen native.
With half of Belen's population earning less than 60 percent of the area median income, it's not a surprise that home ownership has declined and renter-occupied housing has increased within the last 10 years.
This classroom doesn't contain row after row of desks and chairs in front of a chalkboard.
There wasn't a swipe of mascara, a brush of blush or a smear of lipstick amongst more than 100 female students, staff and teachers at Belen High School on Thursday.
Even though the month of March is just a few days away, the calendar hanging in Lenore Pena's office has been turned to that page since January.
Residents will have one more place to watch their favorite sports team on the big screen with a beer, steak or a pastry in hand once Moonrakers opens its doors in mid-March on the west side of Interstate 25 in Belen.
The Belen Board of Education voted 3-2 to extend the superintendent's contract for one more year.
In a few quick steps, she walked up to the black microphone, held the dry erase board and marker in her hand and stood over a nearby desk ready to spell.
The first to come down was a burned down home on 13th Street. Then came the vacant Freeway Inn and now two more homes, declared to be public safety hazards, are next in line to be demolished.
When it comes to completing the north Belen interchange, the New Mexico Department of Transportation won't be joining the bandwagon until the funds for the project are in the bank.
The Feil and Ellermeyer building will sit boarded up and vacant a little bit longer, even though a Belen businessman bought the building earlier this month.
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I'm not really sure whether that's the right term for someone who tweets but I've just signed up to Twitter – http://twitter.com/pauldmonaghan Last week's bfa specialist seminar on social media was both well-attended and well delivered. It certainly raised my awareness of the rapid growth of the various social media and their different roles in general brand building and particularly in the new processes being used in franchise recruitment marketing. The way people communicate with each other has changed dramatically over the last few years. Letters have all but disappeared, most fax machine gather dust in the corner, (remember when a fax was the latest gadget? It wasn't all that long ago) and it is no longer sufficient just to know how to e-mail.
My first Tweet, they tell me, was made available to the WORLD this morning, not that it contained anything earth shattering, and, rather like my intermittent blogging, I'll slowly learn what use it can be to me and others. What I do know already is that as these new communications systems develop, and they will, we need to keep abreast of them and learn how they can be of help to our businesses. Fortunately there are people out there who can help us and some of them presented at the seminar last week.
Recent research by Yahoo suggested that over 80% of buyers did their research and often made their purchase on-line. We've known for a long time that this was happening because there is plenty of evidence that that is the way people are researching into franchise opportunities. Are they finding what they want when they search for 'that' opportunity? I wonder.
Oh – in case anyone is interested – my first granddaughter arrived during last week's Franchise Training Centre workshop – and yes I did leave my phone switched on!


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Reading a little bit through the Shalise Manza Young chat and she had this to say about Chung...
Scott - I agree on McCourty/Chung potentially being the best safety pairing, but that obviously isn't how things have gone (before McCourty was pushed back to CB for the last two games). Chung has had injury issues, and I've heard whispers that perhaps he's packed it in - which is not smart for a couple of reasons: first because you're hurting your team and second because you're hurting yourself. Chung is a free agent after the season and if you put out bad film, you're not going to get many teams looking to sign you.
I mean if this is true..wow, just wow. This is a guy that isn't good enough to be packing it in - it's not like he's got a body of work that he can just fall back on to get a contract somewhere else. Could this be sour grapes from not starting and perhaps feeling like it is killing his chances in free agency? I've heard him on his weekly Friday interview show on weei and honestly they have to be some of the most useless interviews I've ever listened to...he always sounds like a guy that cares more about his happy meal toy than the people who are asking the questions. But he can't be mailing it in, can he?
People that cover this team don't strike me as the type to just float assumptions out there - we've all seen how this organization has treated people that do that - maybe there's something to this.


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Strange Characters – Shia Laboeuf and Lars Von Trier Get Together with a Nymphomaniac
A film now in production is creating all kinds of headlines long before it reaches screens. Starring Shia LaBoeuf and directed by Lars von Trier it tells the story of a Nymphomaniac – including sex scenes shot for real.
The film Nymphomaniac brings together a young actor predicted to be the next big A Lister – or the next Charlie Sheen – and a director who has both won awards at Cannes – and been banned from the festival.
They are two characters guaranteed to make sparks fly when they work together.
Shia Laboeuf is a wild talent who has worked with Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone in Money Never Sleeps. He first hit the TV screens as a Disney star, made the hit Disturbia, and has presented Saturday Live. He first started working as a stand up comedian when he was 10 and says he told filthy jokes.
Laboeuf announced that the sex scenes he will film on Nymphomaniac will be for real. Von Trier will take the film through and beyond the limits of reality.Laboeuf says he's both excited and intimidated by von Trier. He disclosed there is a notice on the script stating that scenes will be filmed for real. His co–star and partner will be Charlotte Gainsbourg, daughter of the acclaimed French singer and composer, Serge Gainsbourg.
Lars von Trier is a hero of European cinema who won a Grand Prix at Cannes in 1996 for Breaking the Waves which starred Emily Watson. He has also been praised for making quality porn films, aimed at the female audience. His production house Zeutropa is the first mainstream company to make porn. Writing about his film All About Anna, a critic said "Women like watching other people have sex, what they don't like is the close-up hammering of body parts. Von Trier is the first director to appreciate this."
Both Laboeuf and von Trier have exotic family backgrounds. Labouef's mother, Shayna Saide is Jewish and a ballet dancer while his father Jeffrey is a Vietnam war veteran of French Cajun origin. Von Trier's mother told him on her deathbed that his real father was a German who had worked for the Danish resistance in the war. She was a Communist, a nudist and a follower of the hippy way of life.
Von Trier was banned from the Cannes film festival when he tried to make a joke about Hitler. He said he grew up thinking he was Jewish then, when his mother made her deathbed revelation, he discovered he had German origins. Jokingly he told a press conference that he understood Hitler and even sympathised with him. He realised his "joke" was not going well but then made it worse by saying "Yes, I am a Nazi."
Afterwards he tried to say it was all a joke that had gone wrong – but said he would not be giving any more press conferences.
Meanwhile, Shia LaBoeuf's girlfriend burst into tears when she discovered the sex scenes would be for real. The build-up has been an event. All we need now is the film!
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A man with a mind-controlled bionic leg climbed the Willis Tower in Chicago Monday.
Zac Vawter, 31, climbed all 103 floors of stairs in the 1,451-foot skyscraper, formerly known as the Sears Tower, in 45 minutes as part of a charity event, reported The Associated Press. His goal to finish the climb was originally one hour.
"Vawter's climb was the first public showing of a new kind of prototype prosthetic that is controlled, in part, by electrical impulses traveling from his brain," according to the MIT Technology Review.
Vawter lost his leg in a motorcycle accident. The bionic leg, which is not yet available to the public, was built to react to electrical impulses from muscles in his hamstring.
"Everything went great," Vawter told The Associated Press. "The prosthetic leg did its part, and I did my part."
The prosthetic leg is powered by two electrical motors and weighs around 10 pounds.
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Rebuttals to the recent bad press about fixed indexed annuities
By Lew Nason
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Here we go again! Fixed indexed annuities are being slammed by the financial media. Forbes magazine and Money magazine are up to their old tricks, using the same old scare tactics we've seen over and over again in their efforts to discredit the insurance industry and their products by the misrepresentation of facts, outright false statements, and citing the actions of a few bad apples as evidence to support their claims.
The misleading and false statements in these articles bring up some disturbing questions:
- Why would these respected publications even publish something this blatantly biased and false? What's their hidden agenda? Is it just sensationalistic journalism to get more readers? Or, maybe it's to satisfy their big Wall Street advertisers?
- What credentials do the authors of these articles have? Where is their due diligence? They are accusing our industry of misleading consumers. Isn't that exactly what they are doing in their articles?
- How can they dismiss a product that offers principal protection and guaranteed returns? Especially when the stock market has dropped 50 percent for the second time in less than 10 years, and has hurt so many people?
- How many people will be mislead by their false information? Will some of the people who read these articles believe their outrageous propaganda and not have the opportunity to benefit from the clear, exceptional advantages of a fixed indexed annuity?
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Court-appointed Republican poll inspectors are being forcibly removed from voting stations in some Philadelphia wards and replaced in some cases by Democratic inspectors and even members of the Black Panthers, according to GOP officials.
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The Philadelphia GOP is reporting that court appointed Minority (read GOP) Inspectors are being thrown out of polling locations in several Wards.
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New Mexico – New Mexico officials have launched an investigation into a large contractor based on allegations that it used out-of-state workers in violation of its agreement.
The New Mexico Behavioral Health Collaborative says it's looking into OptumHealth New Mexico and whether the firm had hired overseas and out-of-state workers to process claims instead of New Mexicans.
The agency says it will withhold payment to the contractor pending the investigation.
The investigation stems from a complaint received by the agency.
Last year, OptumHealth won a four-year, approximately $1 billion state contract to manage the money that pays for services used by thousands of New Mexicans who are mentally ill and who struggle with substance abuse.
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Wednesday January 2nd, 2013
A state once considered an epicenter for brutal animal fighting operations is now going to set the bar for animal fighting legislation in other parts of the country.
"Michigan is not a good place to bring dogfighting," said State Senator Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge), one of the sponsors of the new legislation.
Under the new law, people convicted of dogfighting or cockfighting in the state of Michigan could face as much as $100,000 in fines and up to 20 years in prison. Previously animal fighting only carried a prison sentence of up to four years in prison and maximum fine of $50,000 with most offenders paying the bare minimum of $1,000 to $5,000, according to Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Raj Prasad.
"It enables us to go after the more long-term breeders and fighters," Prasad told the Lansing State Journal. "These laws are designed to go after the bigger operations that have a lot more invested in dogfighting [and] cockfighting."
Prasad also points out that dogfights are often venues for other illegal acts.
"They're hotbeds of criminal activity beyond the fighting—gambling, narcotics, guns," the Assistant Prosecutor said. Illegal contraband and unregistered weapons are often found at locations where animal fighting has taken place, Prasad explained.
Offenders practicing these cruel blood sports could also lose their property under the new legislation, which will grant police the power to seize homes, barns, sheds, vehicles, and other venues associated with animal fighting. These new measures will put these cruel crimes in the same category as racketeering, large scale drug operations and prostitution rings.
"[It is] a welcome punishment for those who are caught," said Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon. "If you're going to profit from this, we're going to take your profit from you."
"It's sweeping legislation that has been noticed nationwide as a real example of getting tough on a terrible blood sport," Jones said proudly.
Midwest State Director for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Vicki Deisner agrees that Michigan's anti-dogfighting measures set a new national precedent.
"Michigan is out ahead on this one," Deisner told USA Today.
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If there's one thing every right winger wants you to know, it's that they support the troops. Love the troops. Get weepy-eyed at the mere thought of those heroes in uniform. Unless one of them becomes anti-war. Then former South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Todd Kincannon hopes that "the enemy splatters his brains JFK-style." All these tweets were from Kincannon about Mike Prysner, an Iraq war vet and now an anti-war activist:
@MikePrysner You are an Iraq veteran? Shame you didn't come home in a body bag…
Go read what the asshole wrote. I wish the Iraqis had better aim with his ass…
@lrindl Yes, I hope if that guy is ever in combat again, the enemy splatters his brains JFK-style. He deserves it.
This guy is a lawyer (former chief counsel for the SC GOP as well as its past chairman and a former member of the Republican National Committee) and political consultant, for crying out loud. And you look at his Twitter feed and it's just a cesspool of racism, misogyny and pretty much every other form of bigotry you can imagine. Just a few examples:
@ikev85 Why don't you hippie cocksuckers go have a drum circle in Pakistan where they'll cut your fucking heads off. I'll pay your airfare.
@jmedoom Go jerk off to Star Trek IV while I eat some dolphin-seasoned tuna. And tell your mom to shave for me next time. This ain't 1970.
I hope your mom uses less teeth next time. My dick looks like somebody drew on it with a red marker.
@/Partisangirl Go suck some American dick, sweetheart. Unlike your terrorist friends, we bathe and don't taste like goat vag.
@sholovenow Your name is Sholanda. I rest my case.
@outandabout12 Funny thing. The boss of the office and department I work for is me. So go suck a boatload of Chinaman dicks, twat.
Go waller around in a bag of dicks with your mouth open.
If you need something to measure 9 inches, holler. RT @Jimi971 7-12inches of snow tonight? Spring!
Remember folks, TV's first interracial couple was Lucille Ball and Ricky Ricardo. Not Kirk and Uhura. #MiscegenationNation
But Ricky was a Red Island Mexican. RT @gracels Actually both Arnaz and Ball were white. So not interracial couple. But you knew that.
I can't watch Octopussy without being reminded of that goddamn foreign hoor who had octuplets.
Then go fuck a horse in Tijuana or something. RT @JerryRivers78 OK cocksucker I'm a Mexican
@JerryRivers78 Go tell your dad to stop sucking off British sailors for a nickel a pop and we'll talk.
@taktics520 "Pretty sure"? Son, you gonna burn in Hell and you know it. Time to repent.
Good, cunt. RT @AmandaBynes If I'm not following you on twitter, I hate you
Pope Frank the Mexican is a Mexican. RT @gracels @djwolf76 @toddkincannon Ok, what race is Pope Francis?
I didn't realize state Republican parties were run by 12 year olds.


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Eye Mobile Service to the Community Members of the Latin American Lions Club served the local community by screening for vision, hearing, and other health issues with the Eye Mobile May 5, 2013 at St John the Evangelist Church in Los Angeles CA Lions helped ophthalmologist Dr. Ronald Smith examine 103 people and ;provided 6 referrals for help. Lion Nancy Hayakawa from the L A Mid-Valley Lions Club helped with the Blood Pressure testing.
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"Little bitty burgers that are perfect for party snacks!"
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ground beef
salt and pepper to taste
1 pinch
mesquite seasoning
French baguette, sliced into 1/4 inch rounds
6 leaves
romaine lettuce
cherry tomatoes, thinly sliced
prepared yellow mustard
What a fun way to eat burgers! As soon as I saw this recipe, it reminded me of the *Bar Burgers* they serve at Dave and Busters. Except they use Hawaiian Rolls. So, for dinner tonight, we fixed Baby Burgers and they were EXTRA good! It all goes back to that saying we all know ~ *good things come in small packages*! Plus, these are super kid friendly! Thanks so much, Bridge, for bringing some fun to our Friday Night Dinner! :o)
Cute idea for sliders. This made 10 burgers from 1 lb of ground beef. They weren't anything to rave over, just burgers though. I didn't know exactly what mesquite seasoning is, so I used a couple of splashes of Mesquite liquid smoke. Thanks Bridge, these were really fast and simple to put together in a hurry.
24 Ratings
i modified this for a lighter appetizer. I made the meat patties smaller (1 1/2 tsp). Too small to fry so baked them on a tray in a toaster oven at 350 for about 10 minutes. Before serving I spread mustard on the bread, added the meat and topped them off with a small square of cheese. Reheated the "burgers" until the cheese melted. Did not toast the bread previously, this made for a semi-toasted less dry bread. As for slicing cherry tomatoes? Forget it. Optional, some grated onions. Made 24 appetizers with about 10 oz. of meat. My guests at my last party loved these, they were tasty and not too filling for the dinner to follow.
My Variations
We didn't bake the baguette slices
We ran out of baguette, so we also used dinner rolls, cut in 4 & sliced in half
I used (my favorite) McCormick's Broiled Steak Seasoning Salt, instead of mesquite seasoning
I also added sliced, sauteed mushrooms onto my burgers
The dinner rolls turned out quite well, but were a little too bulky for my taste
The crust on the baguettes made them a little difficult to eat
Could've used full-sized tomatoes, instead of cherry tomatoes
These are good, but after making them a couple of times, we prefer them slightly different. First, I highly recommend you try these on soft Hawaiian sweet rolls. They are so good. Also, for a perfect game day treat, try this: Grill pineapple and fry bacon. Grill patties (I use the grill and make the patties the size of the bottom of a standard drinking glass - maybe a tad larger). Brush patties with bottled teriyaki sauce. Place patties on rolls with a small, thin slice of the grilled pineapple, a small piece of bacon, and the cheese and/or condiments of your choice. This is our preferred way to eat them and my d/h and three kids agree. We'll be making them for the football games all winter!
I changed this slightly -- just used steak sauce and cheese on each burger instead of the lettuce, tomato, ketchup, mustard etc.
simple and fast, especially if you make everyone assemble their own mini burgers
I'd like to try these on rolls next time. They were too tall to really eat! I'd also like to try the hawaiian version someone suggested. Still, for a basic appetizer, they were pretty good.
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This week, Miami Law began a new tradition that will add to these signifiers – the Passing of the Gavel ceremony on the Bricks. Previously part of the Barristers' Ball, the annual event was brought to the Bricks this year and recognizes the outgoing and incoming presidents of Miami Law's student organizations. During the ceremony, each of the new leaders took possession of their group's gavel, along with the responsibility of leading the organization into the next academic year.
"This is our first time having this ceremony on the Bricks," by Dean of Students Janet Stearns said to the crowd, filled with outgoing presidents on the left and incoming presidents on the right. "We want to increase openness and transparency within the Miami Law community."
Dean Stearns went on to note that with 60 official student organizations at Miami Law, the campus has an extremely diverse array of choices for students wishing to become involved in extracurricular activities and other matters.
"Eight organizations represent diversity or affinity," she pointed out. "Five work within political philosophy. Seven are religious organizations. There are 18 practice-area and bar organizations, a testament to the importance of networking with the professional community. There are five organizations that deal with student governance, two moot court boards and seven law reviews that offer publication opportunities."
Davang Desai, the president-elect of the Law Alumni Association, addressed the student leaders before everyone headed to a catered lunch in the Alma Jennings Foundation Student Lounge. Desai is a partner in the South Florida law firm of Gaebe, Mullen, Antonelli & DiMatteo, and plans to continue building closer relationships between current students and alumni.
"Congratulations to each incoming president," Desai said. "And to the outgoing presidents, I'm sure it feels like a tremendous weight has been lifted off of you. You truly learn more about yourself when you serve others."
As the students gathered in the lounge for lunch, incoming and outgoing presidents talked about their plans for the upcoming year. Outgoing OUTlaw co-president Dale Noll, 3L, said of incoming co-presidents Charles McGinley and Sean Maye: "I know they are going to do a really good job, and I'm happy the organization is in good hands. We've worked really hard the last two years to grow the organization. The momentum will just keep going."
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The Castle in the Forest: A Novelby Norman Mailer
"How could a writer as intelligent and original as Norman Mailer have digested this library of books and returned with the superficial, twisted, and finally just plain stupid vision of Hitler in this novel?...After all the decades of inquiry into Hitler by writers and historians and philosophers and psychologists, this is what Mailer has come to propose: the devil made him do it!" Ruth Franklin, The New Republic (read the entire New Republic review)
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No career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe, from Henry Miller and Mohammad Ali to Jesus Christ. Now, in The Castle in the Forest, his first major work of fiction in more than a decade, Mailer offers what may be his consummate literary endeavor: He has set out to explore the evil of Adolf Hitler.
The narrator, a mysterious SS man who is later revealed to be an exceptional presence, gives us young Adolf from birth, as well as Hitler's father and mother, his sisters and brothers, and the intimate details of his childhood and adolescence.
A tapestry of unforgettable characters, The Castle in the Forest delivers its playful twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all. At its core is a hypothesis that propels this novel and makes it a work of stunning originality. Now, on the eve of his eighty-fourth birthday, Norman Mailer may well be saying more than he ever has before.
"Mailer did Jesus in The Gospel According to the Son; now he plumbs the psyche of history's most demonic figure in this chilling fictional chronicle of Hitler's boyhood. Mailer tells the story through the eyes of Dieter, a devil tasked by Satan (usually called the Maestro) with fostering Hitler's nascent evil, but in this study of a dysfunctional 19th-century middle-class Austrian household, the real presiding spirit is Freud. Young Adolph (often called Adi) is the offspring of an incestuous marriage between a coarse, domineering civil servant and a lasciviously indulgent mom. The boy duly develops an obsession with feces, a fascination with power, a grandiose self-image and a sexually charged yen for mass slaughter (the sight of gassed or burning beehives thrills him). Dieter frets over Hitler's ego-formation while marveling at the future dictator's burning gaze, his ability to sway weak minds and the instinctive fhrerprinzip that emerges when he plays war with neighborhood boys — talents furthered by Central Europe's ambient romantic nationalism. Mailer's view of evil embraces religions and metaphysics, but it's rooted in the squalid soil of toilet-training travails and perverted sexual urges. The novel sometimes feels like a psychoanalytic version of The Screwtape Letters, but Mailer arrives at a somber, compelling portrait of a monstrous soul." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"The prospect of this novel is enticing: Norman Mailer on Adolf Hitler. Mailer, who has fearlessly, full-throatedly tackled Marilyn Monroe, Jesus Christ, Lee Harvey Oswald, Picasso, Muhammad Ali and Gary Gilmore (among others), seemed to be taking on his biggest confrontation yet. This hefty book from an iconic American man of letters, now in his 84th year, seemed to promise that the familiar Mailerian... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) audacity was in fine fettle. I wondered if, here, he might just match his masterwork, 'The Executioner's Song.' 'The Castle in the Forest' is a baffling, meandering, self-indulgent curio of a book — at moments brilliantly insightful and fascinating but more often prompting jaw-dropping incredulity. Mailer has decided to investigate Hitler's immediate family: his father, Alois, his mother, Klara, their relatives and his siblings. The period covered is approximately 1837 to 1903, the lifespan of Hitler's father. When Alois died, Adolf was 14 years old, still a subaverage schoolboy. So far, so straightforward. But Mailer is not content with a third-person, historical account of the antecedents and early life of perhaps the most vicious man who has walked this Earth: He has decided instead to have his novel narrated by a devil. A middle-ranking devil, moreover — not Satan himself ('The Evil One' or 'The Maestro,' as he's termed here), but a devil who has the Maestro's ear and whom we know as Dieter. 'The Castle in the Forest' has its own freakish cosmology — one I found most uncongenial, not having any belief in supernatural beings of any category. You cannot read this novel without encountering passages such as: 'Spirits like myself can attend events where they are not present. I was in another place, therefore, on the night Adolf was conceived. Yet I was able to ingest the exact experience by calling upon the devil (of lower rank) who had been in Alois' bed on the primal occasion. ... A minor devil can, on the most crucial occasions, implore the Evil One to be present with him during the climax. (The Maestro encourages us to speak of him as the Evil One when he does choose to enter sexual acts, and on that occasion, he was certainly there.)' The book is replete with these asides. The tone is arch and pompous; the dialogue throughout reads as if badly translated from rudimentary German. Mailer, in a long career full of bravura risk-taking (think 'Ancient Evenings' and 'Harlot's Ghost'), has taken perhaps his biggest risk ever. And yet his intention is not merely to suggest that Hitler is 'the spawn of the devil' — nothing so facile. When we strip away the toe-curling mumbo-jumbo of all this diabolism, a sober and thoroughly researched thesis is being proposed here: Hitler was the product of a fuming stew of routine peasant incest in rural Austria; his mother was at once Alois Hitler's niece and his daughter, the product of a random sex act between Alois and his half sister Johanna. The supposition is entirely possible and has been mooted by Hitler scholars. There is no firm evidence, but novelists need no firm evidence: They are free to go where academics, historians and journalists dare not tread. And much of what is buried in this maddening novel is highly engaging — most notably the portrait of Hitler's father. Indeed, the book is far more about Alois than Adolf, and it's in the sustained depiction of this boorish, fornicating, self-important, minor provincial customs official that Mailer's great strengths as a novelist shine: his feeling for character and detail, his empathy for the unworthy and the sly, his wit. Like a sculptor facing the lumpy, daunting block of marble that is 'The Castle in the Forest,' the reader wants desperately to hew out the real, serious novel that is hidden within. Mailer knows Hitler's life intimately (as do I, having spent a year writing a six-hour film drama of his rise to power), and his insights and intuition into how that warped mind was influenced and grew are genuinely intriguing, if occasionally a bit too apt. Hitler was insane — incontrovertibly, I would say — and his mania may well be explained (as might his alleged solitary testicle) by the complex incestuous web of his parentage. But in this novel, the ludicrous superstructure of devils and angels obfuscates the argument most damagingly. William Boyd's latest novel is 'Restless.'" Reviewed by William Boyd, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"In his first novel in more than a decade, Mailer continues to provoke....Mailer is never an easy read...many readers will find the Satan-and-army-of-devils conceit a gimmick....Other readers will be, as always, excited by Mailer's intelligence and creativity." Booklist
"A novel as odd as it is thematically ambitious reveals the source of Adolf Hitler's evil. (The devil made him do it.)....Alternately engaging, embarrassing and exasperating." Kirkus Reviews
"The Castle in the Forest is a baffling, meandering, self-indulgent curio of a book — at moments brilliantly insightful and fascinating but more often prompting jaw-dropping incredulity." The Washington Post Book World
"[F]or all his excesses, Mailer paints an icy and convincing portrait of the dictator as a young sociopath, both prissy and sadistic, simultaneously sentimental and stupendously cruel. (Grade: B)" Entertainment Weekly
"The new book is lascivious, grandiose, cosmically critical (finding something Teutonic in technology and touting it as the Devil's own handiwork) and cantankerous, filled with grandstanding pronouncements on the nature of evil." Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"A nervy and sometimes pratfallen story, both absorbing and absurd....At its best, the book...is attention-sustaining and uncartoonish." Thomas Mallon, The Wall Street Journal
"As fascinating and deft as The Castle in the Forest is, it seems, at nearly 500 pages, only to have tilled the ground. Perhaps the harvest of this novelist's great talent and imagination will come in a necessary sequel." Ron Hansen, The Los Angeles Times
"[A]udacious, preposterous and often delicious....You can forgive most of his out-of-this-world setup when the stuff on the ground — plotting, characters and action — are this engagingly drawn....Give Mailer credit for taking a big swing and shining a light on a past that Hitler, himself, tried to hide." Chicago Sun-Times
"[W]ith a narrative that alternately plods and rambles, an absence of convincing psychological insight, and an oversupply of stale literary tricks, what Mailer's novel mostly demonstrates is the evil of banality." The Houston Chronicle
"When Mailer drops the theological fantasy and concentrates on Hitler family relations, he actually delivers a compelling, convincing drama....But the devil-made-him-do-it explanation of young Adolf's start on the road to genocide feels like a cop-out. It may be a metaphor, but it's an awfully tired one." Seattle Times
About the Author
Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; and The Gospel According to the Son. He passed away on November 10, 2007.
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When Should Pros Give Away Their Photos?
Posted By Scott Dickerson On November 18, 2007 @ 10:00 pm In Business of Photography | 7 Comments
Reading my way around the photography blogosphere, I've seen plenty of warnings aimed at amateur or hobbyist photographers urging them to never — ever — give their photos away. Most of these arguments are based on the belief that this sort of free licensing takes work away from professionals, or lowers the value of photography.
How does this same advice apply to a professional photographer? One would assume that if amateurs shouldn't give away licenses because it hurts the pros, then certainly the pros should never permit use of their photos without payment. But is this always the case?
Last year, I was presented with several photo requests for images to be used in environmental conservation efforts that I fully support. The requests each concluded with a now-familiar statement: "We love your photos, and would like to pay you for them, but we don't have any money."
My under-the-breath response is always, "Oh, and you think I do?" Wondering what to do about the situation, I asked a successful cinematographer friend for some guidance on how to proceed. I really did want to see the photographs used in support of the cause, but it's pretty clear that if I'm not paid for the licenses to use my images, I won't be able to continue creating them.
To give or not to give, that is the question. My friend advised me to reply by making the following points:
From this point in the negotiation, the discussion can go anywhere. The client may come around and agree to pay your rate. If not, perhaps you can barter for advertising (not just photo credit), promise of future paid work, in-kind work or products, etc. Think about how to make it work. If you can make a creative photo, you can apply that same creativity to identify non-monetary ways that a client can help your business.
Here's a real-life example: One of my largest stock licenses came from using the above technique. The client came to me begging, but ultimately agreed to pay the fair market rate in full. They have since licensed more photos as well. I believe that I not only had the photo they wanted, but made myself into an ally by being open and honest — all the while respecting myself and the work that I do.
And — as I write this — I have just responded to yet another e-mail asking to license a photo for a good cause. I responded by tailoring the above points into my e-mail, and I'm excited to see what becomes of it. The client is a for-profit company that I would really like to shoot for. This time I'm hoping that I'll be able to secure a promise for some future paying work as compensation for licensing a photo to them for one-time use.
So, should you give your photos away? In general, I say "no," but I also recognize that payment can come in many forms. I love to shoot photos; I'm in this business so I can do it as much as possible. I've found that when I am flexible and communicate honestly with my clients, they will do what they can to see me succeed. People like to help those who are willing to help them.
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7 Comments To "When Should Pros Give Away Their Photos?"
#1 Comment By Colin Thomas On November 19, 2007 @ 8:13 am
Is there a legal mechanism for writing off photos as charitable donations (as long as the organization is a 501c)?
#2 Comment By Scott Dickerson On November 19, 2007 @ 1:33 pm
Good question, I can't answer it professionally. In the past I have been given a receipt from a 501c3 for the market value of the work I performed for them. I would assume this counted as a charitable contribution. But there maybe some complications with 'gift-in-kind' donations. Perhaps someone else here can enlighten us?
I would like to know more about the potentials here as well. Especially as tax time approaches.
#3 Comment By Paul @ www.photographyvoter.com On November 19, 2007 @ 3:28 pm
Excellent article - probably something we've all come across at some point..
#4 Comment By Andy On November 19, 2007 @ 11:13 pm
This isn't tax advice but in general you can only deduct the actual cost of materials and not your time or, in other words, the "creative fee" part of making a picture.
A win-win strategy I've used is to present an invoice and get paid and then write a check to the organization either as a donation or for advertising or sponsorship. This would be worked out with the client up front of course. This makes sure that I can deduct the cost of my outlay (say as advertising) and has the added benefit of making the real value of your work known to the client.
#5 Comment By Scott Dickerson On November 20, 2007 @ 12:12 am
Andy- Great idea! I always hate to create more paperwork, but I can see some very good advantages to following the course you explained. I'm going to put this one to use asap.
Thanks for sharing.
#6 Comment By Colin Thomas On November 20, 2007 @ 9:35 am
Many thanks for the information.
#7 Comment By Scott Dickerson On November 21, 2007 @ 11:58 pm
I just found this post:
by John Harrington that talks about working for non-profits. It includes some interesting information directly related to what we are discussing here.
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Apple WebKit reaches perfect Acid3 score
updated 12:15 pm EDT, Thu March 27, 2008
WebKit gets 100 in Acid3
The WebKit team notes that a perfect score does not necessarily guarantee a full pass; animation must be smooth, and in some cases errors can appear despite technical compliance. As of version r31356 of the WebKit, however, the developers believe they have achieved total accuracy. It is unknown when this might be implemented into future versions of Safari.