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Voters Approve Temporary Tax Rate Hikes and Mandatory Single Sales Factor Apportionment Formula
At the November 6, 2012 general election, California voters approved temporary increases to the personal income tax and state sales and use tax rates and made the current elective corporation franchise and income tax single sales factor apportionment formula mandatory.
Personal Income Tax Rates
Proposition 30 increases the personal income tax rate for the 2012 through 2018 tax years. The current 9.3% rate (10.3% rate for taxable incomes over $1 million) will be raised by:
Sales and Use Tax Rates
Proposition 30 also increases the state sales tax rate by 0.25% for four years. Effective January 1, 2013, the standard statewide rate is increased from 7.25% to 7.50%.
Single Sales Factor Apportionment Formula
Proposition 39 requires that taxpayers use a single sales factor apportionment formula to apportion income from multistate tax activities to California, beginning with the 2013 tax year. Currently, taxpayers may make an annual election to use the single sales factor apportionment formula rather than the standard double-weighted sales apportionment formula based on property, payroll, and sales factors. Apportioning trades or businesses that derive more than 50% of their gross business receipts from one or more qualified business activities (agricultural, extractive, savings and loan, and banking or financial business activities) will continue to apportion their business income to California by multiplying such income by the equally-weighted three-factor formula.
Taxpayers will be required to use the market-based sourcing rules for purposes of sourcing sales of other than tangible personal property. Special sourcing rules are also adopted for cable companies that are part of a qualified combined reporting group that makes an investment of at least $250 million in qualified expenditures in California.
Propositions 30 and 39, as approved by California voters at the November 6, 2012 general election; Revised 2012 Personal Income Tax Rate Schedules, California Franchise Tax Board, November 7, 2012
FTB Files Petition for Review of Gillette Decision
The Franchise Tax Board (FTB) has filed a petition with the California Supreme Court to review the Court of Appeal's decision in Gillette v. FTB, in which the appellate court held that taxpayers had a right to elect to use the Multistate Tax Compact's equally-weighted apportionment formula for purposes of apportioning their net income to determine their California corporation franchise and income tax liability. The appellate court held that California's partial repeal of the Compact was unconstitutional because it violated the prohibition against impairing the obligation of contracts and the California Constitution's reenactment rule.
The FTB contends the Supreme Court should grant review because the issues involved in the case affect tens of thousands of businesses doing business in and outside California as well as in the other Compact member states. The FTB also claims that the state would be liable for over $750 million in refunds if the taxpayers' position is upheld, which would place a tremendous burden on the state after it relied on the state's law for over 13 years, as well as providing an unexpected "windfall" to taxpayers who had previously filed under the double-weighted sales factor apportionment formula. The FTB also contends that the appellate court failed to perform the requisite "impairment of contracts" analysis prior to finding that the law repealing the Compact election was unconstitutional and that the court's finding that the use of the "notwithstanding" language as a means to repeal the election violated the reenactment rule calls into question the validity of hundreds of California statutes.
The FTB makes the following arguments in support of its petition for review:
Gillette Co. v. Franchise Tax Board, California Supreme Court, No. S206587, petition for review filed November 13, 2012
Nexus of Partners Discussed
A partner in a partnership doing business in Illinois generally has sufficient nexus to be subject to Illinois income taxation with respect to his or her share of the partnership's Illinois business income. The Illinois Department of Revenue stated in a general information letter that the guaranteed payment the taxpayer received from an LLP to be ordinary income of the partnership, which was characterized by the partnership as business income. Accordingly, the amount of the taxpayer's guaranteed payment that was apportioned to Illinois by the partnership was taxable and also subject to withholding.
The DOR did note that although the matter has never been raised before an Illinois court, courts in other states have held that guaranteed payments received by a nonresident partner from a partnership doing business in the state are subject to the state's income tax, even when the partner has no other connection with the state.
General Information Letter IT 12-0028-GIL, Illinois Department of Revenue, September 27, 2012
Apportionment of Sale of Stock of Subsidiary Company Addressed
Receipts from sale of stock in a subsidiary corporation are not included in the Illinois numerator of the sales factor when no income-producing activities are performed within Illinois. The Department of Revenue noted that Illinois regulations provide that "when gross receipts arise from the incidental or occasional sale of assets used in the regular course of a person's trade or business, such gross receipts shall be excluded from the sales factor."
In this instance the taxpayer is in the business of investing in other entities, in the instant case Company A, and is not regularly in the business of buying and selling entities. The taxpayer had a gain from the sale of Company A. There is no unitary relationship between the taxpayer and Company A because Company A operates almost exclusively outside of the United States. Because the companies are not a unitary business group, pass-through income of Company A is apportioned at the pass-through entity level and is excluded from the income of the owner, the taxpayer.
Therefore, this sale of an investment entity by the taxpayer was deemed an "incidental or occasional sale" pursuant to the regulations, and the gross receipts recognized from the sale must be excluded from the sales factor of the taxpayer.
Private Letter Ruling, IT 12-0001-PLR, Illinois Department of Revenue, October 25, 2012
Dissolution of Corporation Discussed
The Illinois Department of Revenue has issued a corporate income tax general information letter stating that transferees of a dissolved corporation are potentially liable for unpaid Illinois income tax obligations of the corporation. The dissolution of a corporation under state law does not render uncollectible the corporation's previously assessed income tax liabilities.
General Information Letter IT 12-0030-GIL, Illinois Department of Revenue, October 18, 2012
Purchases Taxable and Nontaxable Under Transportation Exemption
The Indiana Tax Court has held that certain purchases of tangible personal property by a licensed common carrier were not entitled to the transportation exemption from sales tax. Other property, however, did qualify for the exemption.
The court found that the carrier's transportation services are generally provided as a continuous, integrated process of transporting its customers' oversized equipment on the highways. The carrier's services were not a series of separate services.
To qualify for the exemption, property must be necessary and integral to the provision of public transportation services. Property used in preparing customer estimates was not necessary and integral because it was not a part of the carrier's public transportation process. Property used to plan the routes and obtain the travel permits was necessary and integral as the carrier could not legally haul oversized machinery without travel permits for its route. Property used to disassemble, load and secure customers' machinery for subsequent movement over highways also was necessary and integral because, without disassembly, the machinery would be too heavy for loading and too large for legal road transport. Property used to transport, escort and secure its customers' machinery was necessary and integral because it was the movement of another's property for consideration. Property used in reassembly services at the customer's location was not necessary and integral as the services were not public transportation services.
In addition, all property used to provide warehouse storage services was necessary and integral because temporary storage is considered to be an integral part of rendering public transportation. Property used to transport customers' machinery to other locations for repair services was necessary and integral because a common carrier's movement of another's property over the highways for consideration is public transportation.
To qualify for the exemption, an item must be predominantly used in public transportation. The items that were necessary and integral to the carrier's provision of public transportation services qualified for the exemption because roughly 70% of the jobs the carrier performed involved the provision of public transportation.
Wendt, LLP v. Indiana Department of Revenue, Indiana Tax Court, No. 02T10-0701-TA-2, October 30, 2012
Different Accounting Methods Allowed for Final SBT Return, Initial MBT Return
The Michigan Court of Appeals allowed a fiscal-year taxpayer to file its final single business tax return using the "actual method" and its initial Michigan business tax return using the "annual method." The Department of Treasury did not approve of the taxpayer using two different methods. The department argued that the lower court incorrectly interpreted the applicable statute (M.C.L. 208.1503). The appellate court disagreed: the statute gave taxpayers a choice to use the actual method or the annual method. Furthermore, the statute did not require taxpayers to use the same method for the final short year SBT return. Even though Revenue Administrative Bulletin 2007-5 directed taxpayers to use the same accounting method for both the final SBT return and the initial MBT return, it was not adopted under the Administrative Procedures Act and thus was merely explanatory. The department next argued that because the statute did not require consistency in methods of filing the final SBT return and the initial MBT return, the statute violated the state constitution's uniformity guarantee. Again, the appellate court disagreed. The statute met a rational basis of review: the purpose behind providing alternative methods of tax computation was to create ease of administration. Accordingly, use of the different accounting methods was permitted for the final SBT return and the initial MBT return.
P&M Holding Group, LLP v. Department of Treasury, Michigan Court of Appeals, No. 307037, November 15, 2012
Nonresident's Stock Option Income Partially Allocable to New York
In a New York personal income tax case involving a nonresident individual who, in 2006, exercised stock options received from his airline employer, it was proper for the Division of Taxation to allocate a portion of the stock option income to New York. Given the individual's work history in the state, the division reasonably and correctly concluded that he worked in New York during the allocation period. The division thus rationally concluded that the 2006 stock option income was allocable to New York in accordance with Reg. §132.24. Further, the method of allocation reflected in the deficiency notice (i.e., the individual's workday allocation for his last full year of employment at the airline) was reasonable under the circumstances. At that point, the individual had not provided any option dates of grant, vesting, or exercise to enable the division to source the option income under any of the methods provided for in the regulations.
The sourcing method reflected in the revised deficiency was also reasonable. Although the division asserted that it was an alternative method under the regulations, the method was actually an approximation of the date-of-grant to date-of-termination method provided for in the regulations. The division's use of a year-of-grant starting point for the allocation period (rather than date-of-grant) was reasonable because the individual did not provide any information regarding specific New York or non-New York workdays during the allocation period. With respect to the options granted in 1996 through 2001, the division's inclusion of New York workdays only through 2001 in the numerator of the workday fraction, while using total workdays through April 30, 2005 (date of retirement), was an apparent error in the individual's favor.
The individual contended that the regulation was unfair and unworkable for nonresidents. However, under the regulation, income from stock options is subject to New York income tax only when a nonresident works in New York during the allocation period. In addition, such income is apportioned to New York based on the ratio of New York workdays to total workdays during the allocation period. Because the regulation subjects to New York income tax only that portion of option compensation attributable to New York employment, it is neither unfair nor unworkable.
The individual also argued that the provisions in question were improperly applied retroactively, but that argument was rejected.
The portion of the deficiency related to deferred compensation was also sustained, although the division was directed to make an adjustment to the computation. The individual offered no evidence to show that the income constituted a nontaxable annuity and introduced no evidence to show that the allocation method employed by the division with respect to the income was improper.
Gleason, New York Division of Tax Appeals, Administrative Law Judge Unit, DTA No. 823829, October 25, 2012
Comptroller Rejects Use of MTC's Three-Factor Apportionment Formula Again
A taxpayer's amended Texas franchise tax reports and claimed refunds for tax years 2008, 2009, and 2010 were properly denied because the taxpayer used the three-factor apportionment method permitted under the Multistate Tax Compact (MTC) rather than the single-factor apportionment method.
The Comptroller ruled that the Texas Franchise Tax Act clearly requires use of the single-factor apportionment method and does not allow usage of the MTC formula. In rejecting the amended reports, the Comptroller noted that it has decided this exact issue multiple times and that the taxpayer did not raise any arguments that would compel a reconsideration of the previous holdings that entities may not elect to use the MTC's three-factor apportionment formula.
Decision, Hearing No. 106,149, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, September 11, 2012
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Laser hair removal in weeks post-rhinoplasty
Dying hair on your head will not be a problem. However, I suggest you wait another few weeks before lasering the upper lip area.
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Several years ago, I used to work as a Project Manager for Google's Global Ethics & Compliance team. I had always expressed an interest in travel and given the size and scope of our team, the number of travel opportunities were never lacking.
The awesome thing about Google travel?
Going to great offices around the world, staying in pretty nice hotels, meeting lots of smart, great colleagues, and eating even more yummy food on the company's dime.
The not-awesome thing about travel?
The Google doctor eventually prescribed me a few Ambien pills for those difficult times I had falling asleep after traveling across six or more time zones. The pills worked pretty well at putting me to sleep, so I was happy.
After a few months, I spoke to my personal doctor about the sleepless issue for long-haul trips and he suggested I try Ambien CR (controlled release) instead. He felt they would work better since they were designed to not only put me to sleep, but help me stay asleep for at least seven hours.
I didn't want to test the new pill "on the road," so I tried the Ambien CR prescription that evening. I woke up the next morning feeling great and rested. It worked! The only time I recall waking up was feeling super hungry at 4.30 AM. Score!
Then, I walked into the kitchen…
The rest of this story had to be deduced from this culinary crime scene.
It appeared that I made myself a snack - a pretty complex one at that. I was quite concerned when I didn't find any dirty dishes next to the food, but thankfully, I found a rinsed out bowl in the sink. I used a bowl at the last minute for the mixing and then rinsed it off. Good call (and good manners), Matt!
At least the snack appeared healthy: it looked like I had mixed a tuna, olive oil, sea salt, and crushed black peppercorn salad of some sort. Yes, that is a mortar and pestle I used to crush the whole black peppercorns.
All of this was enjoyed on an equally healthy brown rice cake. Yum! If you're super attentive, don't worry. This wasn't the same brown rice cake bag I had mentioned earlier on Twitter where I had previously found a hair.
We don't have an electric can opener (no idea why I've never invested in one), so I used one of those clumsy can openers you use when you go camping. I made at least four attempts at opening the can of tuna (in water, not oil) and eventually succeeded!
I originally thought that I was going for convenience when creating this snack. Under less coma-like circumstances, I probably would have used the grey sea salt. However, the location of the pink sea salt was not only closer to the setup, but the jar was also easier to open. This led me to believe it was all about ease.
Then, I looked at the olive oil and realized that I must have put some serious thought into this. You see, the Lisbon Lemon oil is located in the cabinet to the far right of this entire setup. The olive oil bottles of the Persian Lime and the Tangerine are located right above the pink sea salt and were clearly more accessible and visible. I must've thought the lemon would've definitely tasted better or something because I searched and went for that instead. Go me!
As amazing as that snack probably was, I decided that not remembering any of this ordeal would be reason enough for me to stop taking Ambien CR. But, I still rely on the regular Ambien for any long-haul flights, primarily because it works like a charm.
I was afraid of sharing this story with my friends and colleagues, for fear of any anti-Ambien, judgy pants commentary. Then I remembered, that even after a normal Saturday night out in a non-Ambien situation, I still somehow managed to leave my real non-judgy pants in the hallway outside my apartment:
And, on a different non-Ambien occassion, I managed to eat all of the marshmallows from an entire box of Lucky Charms without remembering.
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Automating human thought processes for a UAV forced landing
Eng, Pillar C., Mejias, Luis, Liu, Xi, & Walker, Rodney A. (2009) Automating human thought processes for a UAV forced landing. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 57(1 - 4), pp. 329-349.
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This paper describes the current status of a program to develop an automated forced landing system for a fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). This automated system seeks to emulate human pilot thought processes when planning for and conducting an engine-off emergency landing. Firstly, a path planning algorithm that extends Dubins curves to 3D space is presented. This planning element is then combined with a nonlinear guidance and control logic, and simulated test results demonstrate the robustness of this approach to strong winds during a glided descent. The average path deviation errors incurred are comparable to or even better than that of manned, powered aircraft. Secondly, a study into suitable multi-criteria decision making approaches and the problems that confront the decision-maker is presented. From this study, it is believed that decision processes that utilize human expert knowledge and fuzzy logic reasoning are most suited to the problem at hand, and further investigations will be conducted to identify the particular technique/s to be implemented in simulations and field tests. The automated UAV forced landing approach presented in this paper is promising, and will allow the progression of this technology from the development and simulation stages through to a prototype system
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Egyptology, archaeology, what's the diff?
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Enemies of Israel always want to bury history confirming our Bible. We are moving into prophetic times right now. Bush just made a pact with Israel's enemies the Libyans. Ezekiel 38:5 Iran/Persia, Phut/Libya & Sudan/Ethiopia are now aligned against Israel. Sudan a British creation was north Ethiopia in Ezekiel's day. Sudan signed a military alliance treaty with Iran on March 8, 2008 according to the Debka Files. Bush siding with Libya is found in www.jpost.com today. If you don't believe in Biblical history--Biblical prophecy is staring us in the face right now. I hope you enjoyed this research!
Putin's troops are now on Turkey's southern border. If Putin can control the world's oil supply-Putin believes he can control the world. Prophet Ezekiel predicted 2500 years ago 5/6ths of the Russian army would be defeated on the mountains of Israel Ezekiel 38:5-6 & 39:1-4 & 39:12.
Bush betrayal of Israel will bring the downfall of the USA quite abruptly. Revelation 8:7-11.
Time for witnessing about Jesus Christ is getting shorter everyday!
#165 Sep 29, 2008
One world currency is being promoted by Saudi Arabia. Time is real short as the rise of the anti-Christ nears.
Nations wanting to divide Jerusalem Zechariah 12:1-3 are facing God's wrath. USA banks are failing. Global New World Order is arising!
Ancient History supporting our Bible is becoming better known.
Genesis chapter 14-15. Abraham aligned with the Amorites whom have a 400 year history. Genesis 15:13-16. Abraham lived 251-426 years in the history of nations.
Elamite king Kindattu/Chedorlaomer destroyed Ur the 326th year with Amorite help. Kindattu's nephew was Indattu I "Son of Pepi".
Pepi II had trouble with the Amu Amorites whom sided with Elam the last 12 years of Pepi II's reign over Egypt. Amorite power existed 348-748 years in the history of nations. Genesis 15:13-16. Abraham slew Kindattu whom had destroyed UR. 748th year was Exodus 1495 B.C. Amorite power was destroyed by Thutmose III. Egypt's 7-10 1st intermediate dynasties and 13-17th dynasties were phony. From Pepi II reign to Thutmose III only 400 years existed. 11th dynasty 1913 B.C. Pepi II death to 1495 B.C. the Exodus.
11th dynasty only Mentuhotep I 15 years. Mentuhotep II 50 years. Mentuhotep III 11 years & Mentuhotep IV 6 years. 1913-1831 B.C. 12th dynasty 1831-1628 B.C. 18th dynasty begins 1628 B.C. when taking out 7-10 dynasties a mere list of names of kings--none found having history in Sinai & the 13-17th dynasty kings none on the Abydos, Egypt king list or listed at Sinai.
12th dynasty kings had contact with Amorite kings reigning over Babylon.
The legendary Egyptian king list hides the real history. Our Bible is historically accurate in our modern world which does not investigate history existing since the Tower of Babel.
People are destroyed by lack of knowledge. Truth is in the word of God in a world which has rejected God.
Egyptian historian priest Manetho's work continues unchallenged in our modern age. Not surprising since Daniel 11:43 since everyone is fascinated by the treasures of Egypt and are not interested what history comes to light.
Few seek correlation of ancient history from the Tower of Babel to the Exodus by following Biblical numbers.
#166 Oct 8, 2008
If Khufu had the entire male population of Egypt work on his Giza pyramid, Khufu was the son of Sneferu and grandson of Pathrusim (Genesis 10:14 & Ezekiel 29:14) as Khufu appeared around the very beginning of Egypt's history.
#167 Oct 9, 2008
We must not let anger to lead us to sin. Life is too short. Enjoy every moment you have. Don't let hidden dangers destroy you. Keep your eyes on the clouds. Christ is coming soon!
Make sure you get sleep at night. Smile as often as you can. Don't discover love too late. Embrace and mean it.
#168 Jun 3, 2009
History indeed follows Biblical chronological outlines!
#169 Aug 5, 2009
Making it simple:(1)1 Kings 6:1 Solomon's 4th yr. some 480 yrs. after the Exodus-pharoah before Solomon's 4th yr. = Thutmose III.(2)Thutmose III had crushed the power of the Amorites. Genesis 15:13-16. Amorites were in power for 400 yrs. For 430 yrs. Hebrews lived in both Canaan and Egypt.(3)Amorites (Amu)burned down the Egyptian temple at Byblos,Lebanon 12yrs.before Pharoah Pepi II died. Elamite king Chedorlaomer/Kindattu Genesis chapter 14 destroys Ur III Abraham's city.
#170 Aug 5, 2009
Kindattu's nephew was Indattu I nicknamed "Son of Pepi" arising to power in Elam 2 yrs. after pharoah Pepi II had died after Abraham slays Elamite king Chedorlaomer/Kindattu(4)This means the 400 yrs.of Amorite power occurs during the reigns of Mentuhotep I-IV, Amenemhet I,Senusert I,Amenemhet II, Senusert II, Senusert III,Amenemhet III & IV, Queen Sobekneferu, Ahmose, Amenhotep I, Thutmose I, Thutmose II, Queen Hatshepsut & Thutmose III reigns.
#171 Aug 5, 2009
(5)This means the 1st and 2nd intermediate Egyptian dynasties are phony. 7-10 & 13-17 dynasties are fake.(6)Abraham's Ur III is destroyed by Kindattu/Chedorlaomer.Non-lege nday history of Sumer.(6A)Accad/Agade/Akkad Genesis 10:10 Sargon/Nimrod's city/empire lasts 120 yrs. before the Gutium knock Naramsin out of power. Gutium control Sumer 91 yrs. Utu-Khegal defeats Gutium and reigns for 7 yrs. Ur III dynasty = 108 yrs. 120 + 91 + 7 + 108 = 326 yrs.
#172 Aug 5, 2009
(6B)Genesis 11:18-12:4. Peleg was born yr. 0. Reu was born 30th yr. of civilization. Serug born 62nd yr. Nahor born 92nd year. Terah lives 121-326 yrs.!(6C)Terah dies in Haran, Syria the same yr. Ur III is destroyed.(6D)Genesis 10:10-12:4 have been historically verified!(7)Abraham 75 & Sarah 65 visit 96 yr.old Pepi II, who had trouble with the Amorites whom until his death were allied with the Elamites.
#173 Aug 5, 2009
(8)Sumer history from Akkad's beginning to Ur III's end = 326 yrs. Abraham entered Egypt the same yr. Terah died yr. 326 in the history of nations. Pepi II was 96 yrs. old in the 326th yr. of nations. (9)0-18 yr. Djoser Step Pyramid 18-42 Sneferu Bent Pyramid 42-64 Khufu Giza Pyramid 64-71 Redejef trade with Dilmun 71-95 Khafre 2nd Giza Pyramid,95-121 Menkaure 3rd Giza pyramid. Menkaure called Manium by Naramsin whom invaded Egypt.
#174 Aug 5, 2009
121-125 Shepsekaf murdered by the Egyptian priesthood. 125-135 yrs. Userkaf developes trade with Cythera,Greece. 135-149 Yrs. Sahure developes trade with Talhatum,Asia-Minor and Punt. 149-178 Unis great-grandfather of Pepi II. Defeats Egypt's enemies in the north,south,east & west giving praise to his god Atum for victory. 178-191 Teti developes trade with Lagash. 191-240 Pepi I 1st pharaoh to use Black Africans to fight the Canaanites. 240-330 Pepi II trades with UR III.
#175 Aug 5, 2009
(10)Snef-ru son of Path-ru-ism (Genesis 10:14)ism = tribe. Actual name Path-ru.(Ptah)(10A)Imhotep worshipped Ptah. Imhotep designed Djoser's Step Pyramid. Snefru son Khufu, Khufu son Redejef, Khufu's son Khafre, Khafre's son Menkaure, Menkaure's son Shepsekaf, Menkaure's son-in-law Userkaf, Userkaf's son Sahure. Egyptian history after the Tower of Babel STARTS with the pyramid builders! Unis defeats Egypt's enemies. Unis reigns, Teti Unis son-in-law, Teti's son Pepi I & Pepi I's son Pepi II.(10B)NOTE: After Pepi II's reign the real rulers name their sons after themselves or their father's name. Mentuhotep I,Mentuhotep II, Amenemhet I, Senusert I.Amenemhet II (10C)the 7-10 & 13-17 dynasties
are mere names on a list with no history.(10D)This list all the kings have blood ties!(10E)Hope you enjoyed this insight on history which supports Bible chronology. Egyptian history must start with the pyramid builders because there is only 326 yrs.from Genesis 10:10-12:4 Sargon/Nimrod's beginning to Ur III's end = 326 yrs. Peleg's birth to Terah's death = 326 yrs. in the history of nations.
#176 Aug 12, 2009
REAL EGYPTIAN HISTORY:(1)Djoser builds 1st Egyptian pyramid in Africa after the Egyptians leave the Genesis 10:10 city of Babel (2)Abraham age 75 Sarah 65 visit 96 yr. old Pepi II whom finds Sarah attractive.(Genesis 12:17)(3)Abraham digs a well and must protect his water source (Genesis 21:25) like Mentuhotep II protected his water source.(4)God tells Isaac not to enter Egypt.(Genesis 26:2) Senusert I called "Throat Sliter of Asiatics" reigns over Egypt.(5)Joseph enters Egypt age 17 living in Egypt 93 yrs.(Genesis 37:2 & Genesis 50:26)Senusert III,Amenemhet III & Amenemhet IV reigns = exactly 93 yrs.!(6)Exodus 1:8 A pharaoh arises in Egypt who knows not Joseph. Thutmose I was that pharoah.(7)Ahmose destroyed Biblical On Joseph's city destroying all records of Joseph ruling the city, therefore Thutmose I had no idea Joseph reigned as governor.(Genesis 41:41-45)(8)
Queen Hatshepsut was the princess who saved Moses as an infant.(9)Thutmose II's power was usurped by Queen Hatshepsut.(10)Pharoah Thutmose III was pharaoh of the Exodus some 480 years before king Solomon's 4th yr.(1 Kings 6:1)(TRUTH revealed in actions of each king's lives matching biblical events and not by the dog star Sirius chronology.)
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It's mysterious. There is something that lurks in Meowmy's bed. They tend to be at the bottom of the bed, so at least they aren't up by her head where they can get in her ears or something. I do still have to protect her, though.
So I sit and I wait. Sure enough, they move. They must be pretty skittish because every time Meowmy moes, they move. So I sit at the end of the bed, crouched and ready for action. When I see one move, I warm up my leg muscles by doing a good little butt wiggle. I release the springs and Wham! I must have hit them really hard because it even made meowmy jump! I got it that time, but they must reproduce quick because they never go away?
Anybody else have this problem? How do you get rid of the bedbugs? Why are they so darn big?
All of us kitties were just lounging around, relaxing and doing our normal activities, when it appeared. We get really excited when one appears. It doesn't happen often, so it seems like more of a treat than anything else. When one does appear, Meowmy says it must be suicidal. In case you haven't figured it out, I am referring to a mouse. Well of course we had to battle it. And I'm sure you can guess the outcome. Meowmy wasn't there, so she can't relay our play by play. How does she know we even battled one you ask? Not how you are thinking. Most kitties leave it for their human to find, but it is usually mostly intact. Today Meowmy found a couple of bits here and there mixed all into our yark. The piles only vaguely resembled what they had started out as. Mousie Picatso statues all for you, Meowmy!
I am a very skilled assistant. Meowmy needs help effury morning, you see. She does that crazy thing that humans do... you know, where they get wet voluntarily! I don't know why they do it, but they do. Anyway, when Meowmy gets out, she puts those fake fur wraps on. (I think they are called towels?) Then she puts fur sticks in her ears - small white things called Q-tips.
These Q-tip things must be tricky, because they like to stay in there after she puts them there. (Yet another thing humans do that I don't understand.) This is where my presence is so greatly needed. I stand on the sink and put my front paws on her to balance, then I save her from the Q-tip by pulling it right out of her head.
You might think I am just playing around, but I can assure you I am not. I don't keep it. I just spit it right out into her hands. You may be asking why it is so necessary that I be the one to pull it out. Why can't she pull it out? Well, I think it is a very sneaky thing. It looks all soft and fluffy and completely harmless, and that is what draws her in. But when it gets in there, it sends tentacles into her brain and keeps her from being able to raise her hand to get it out! If left in there, it would probably crawl in there completely and take over her brain! That might be a good thing, but I highly doubt it. What if that thing forgot to feed us? I'm sure it would probably start eating our food.
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However my dealer is apparently having difficulty getting MY14 information from Mopar. Apparently the new tow bar (which I believe is made is Aus anyways) is scheduled for realease on 9/8 but they have no word on anything else.
All I am really after is the skid plates, rock rails and tow pack and was only looking at the packs because they were well priced.
Dropped into ARB today and they are in the process of getting ADR compliance for their new towpack.
Contemplating ordering the skid plates and Rock rails from the states that way they will actually be here when my car arrives and I can fit them myself and save a few quid.
Anyone else having issues with accessories?
I too am thinking the tent. Have you had prices?
I want mud flaps, cargo mat and side steps (unwillingly getting side steps for the shorter people whinging)
Still Waiting for the dealer to get back to me for the 14 part numbers are released
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The MY13 pack prices were $995 and $3,950 respectively, as I said I cant get MY14 pricing in Aus, US pricing can be found here: http://www.wk2jeeps.com/pdf/2014_wk2_Accessories.pdf
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I'm new here ... first post, but have been reading with interest for a while. I ordered a JGC Laredo 3.0 CRD (white) last Wednesday. The dealer says it will be in sometime in August, but I'll believe it when I see it. It's our first Jeep and I'm feeling a bit nervous given some of the reliability, dealer and aftersales service issues detailed in this forum. At the same time, I can't wait to get behind the wheel of the thing and start driving.
Anyway, as this is an accesories thread thought I'd ask if most folks are ordering their stuff directly from the States or buying from the dealers? Is there anything that I need to be aware of when ordering directly from the States? What suppliers are people using?
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East Coast made the most of their opportunities to overcome Mid Canterbury 20-13 at the Ashburton Showgrounds today.
The visitors capitalised on two Mid Canterbury mistakes to outscore the hosts two tries to one, with the hosts frustrated by their own errors and the defensive tenacity of the East Coast.
Mid Canterbury started full of intent and posted an early Andrew Letham penalty but were caught napping by East Coast, who returned favour through John Semple.
The Hammers resumed their attacking onslaught, and were rewarded with a try to Tukulua Tolu that Letham converted for a 10-3 lead.
But just as Mid Canterbury threatened to open the game up, they let East Coast straight back in with a mistake from the kick-off handing the visitors field position. From the ensuing scum, Semple sliced through and converted his own try to level the scores 10-10.
Mid Canterbury produce further patches of attack only to blow their opportunities with simple mistakes and the cause wasn't helped when Letham limped from the filed just before halftime.
A mistake straight from the kick-off in the second half again handed the visitors a prime opportunity and East Coast profited again with Everett Reid going over for the try and Semple landing the conversion.
Down by seven, the Hammers looked to conjure up a response but every time they got on the front foot, East Coast were able to frustrate them and force a mistake.
Substitute first five-eighths Solomona Paraki landed a penalty to close the gap but Semple landed his second penalty of the afternoon for the East Coast to keep the margin at seven.
Mid Canterbury came close to producing as second try but the East Coast defence scrambled well to hold on for the win.
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Posted on Wednesday, December 29 @ 17:00:00 PST by Daniel BischoffI'll admit, I'm not big on flash games. My PC is capable of running DirectX.
So when I hear that PETA is giving an award to Adult Swim for their flash based games, I have to take a look for myself. Awarding Polar Bear Payback and Tofu Hunter for progressive animal rights gaming seems a little odd, but I guess I understand why the games are getting such a distinction from PETA.
Polar Bear Payback features a Polar Bear over the edge. The playable polar bear mauls countless humans, sucks the blood from their skulls for health, and picks up weapons to use against the homo sapient wielders. Tofu Hunter replaces all the cute, furry, delicious animals you'd normal hunt with tofu, making them cute, furry, bland tasting animals.
What's with PETA's marketing department? Seriously, how does endorsing violent, obviously parodic browser-based games further their agenda in any way? No one is taking you seriously PETA, certainly not gamers.
I mentioned previously that I was an employee of Greenpeace for a summer. The pay was good, there was room for bonuses, and you could generally spend a lot of time outdoors unsupervised. That last detail is pretty key. It was just a job.
Anyway, everyday I was working, there'd be some asshole who would come up and scream in my face about how I'm a hippy freak who'd been "drinking the koolaid" and that the Earth is theirs to destroy however they saw fit. They'd proceed to walk off angrily, muttering obscenities until they got in their Hummer H2 and drove to their mansion at the outskirts of San Mateo, CA.
All this in response to being asked if they had a moment to help the environment.
Invert all of that and you have PETA, a group of starving lunatics who've made spreading guilt to everyone who's ever found a cheeseburger tasty their mission in life. I've seen the condition chickens are kept in while they await their eventual fate as 20 McNuggets you pay $5 for. I don't agree with it, but society votes with their dollars and I think the McNuggets are a safe incumbent.
What happened to PETA members when they were children is wrong. Whatever made them the way they are is sad and I lament their condition. Basically they're nuts.
What bothers me most is that PETA's focus on gaming only brings video games down with them. Please don't award video games anything PETA. Please stop making parody games, even if you do have Tommy Tallarico backing you up. Leave Cooking Mama alone. You're making us all look bad. We're not friends. All this attention is only serving to make that Cabela's hunting game look more appealing by the day.
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Don't expect the low volatility that characterized the capital markets in 2012 to continue. Global economic uncertainty remains, and markets are poised like a "coiled snake" to reward or penalize investors in certain asset classes, according to Jeffrey Gundlach.
Gundlach, the founder and chief investment officer of Los Angeles-based Doubleline Capital, delivered his 2013 forecast to investors in a conference call on January 8. His talk was titled "The Year of the Snake," and the slides from his presentation are available here.
"Returns in 2012 were really better than they deserved to be," Gundlach said. "Just about every equity and fixed-income asset class had positive returns."
Risk-taking investors did well last year, he said, as sectors such as convertible, high-yield and emerging-market bonds performed very well – much better than they did in 2011. Those investors were aided by Federal Reserve and central bank policies that dampened volatility, according to Gundlach.
But Gundlach warned investors to be wary of volatility in 2013. Markets this year are more likely to resemble those in 2011, according to Gundlach, when safe investments – like government bonds – were among the strongest performers.
"I am not sure I would advise taking a lot of risk right now," he said.
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US equities and the economy
Gundlach's outlook on the US economy was downbeat.
He cited estimates from Goldman Sachs that spending cuts – at the federal, state and local levels – and tax increases would decrease economic growth by 1.75%. The next debt-ceiling debate will be "uglier" than the recent fiscal-cliff rancor, he said.
Indeed, GDP estimates have been decreasing. Bloomberg's forecasts for the first quarter 2013 GDP have been steadily declining over the last two years, according to Gundlach, and those reductions have been even more pronounced for the second-quarter GDP estimates. "Economic growth keeps being over-predicted for forecasting purposes, and I think that is still the case," he said.


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Becoming a physician was young Josie's dream, but at the time, she wondered how she would achieve it. Money was the problem. The daughter of a World War II machine gunner-turned cowboy who took his family wherever he could find work, Dr. Williams grew up all over the Southwest, from Texas to Oklahoma to New Mexico. She attended nine schools by the time she was in the ninth grade, finally finishing high school in Oklahoma.
During that time, there was work. Backbreaking work.
"We built fences, we herded sheep. I ran a Grade A dairy for my dad from the time I was 13 on. Literally, I was his primary hand."
Because there was no money for college, she opted for nursing school, paying her tuition by selling 40 head of cattle on the Saturday before she enrolled on Monday. Still, times were hard. The $5 a week her mother sent her helped, but she had to work at several different jobs while studying to become a nurse.
She made it through Sparks Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Fort Smith, Ark., graduating in 1962, but the dream of becoming a doctor lived on. After taking a year off to work to pay bills "and play a little bit," Dr. Williams joined the U.S. Air Force so she could qualify for GI Bill benefits to pay for college.
Her Air Force nursing experience included being surgical ward nurse at USAF Hospital, Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota, then 18 months at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, where she cared for Vietnam War casualties in the surgical intensive care unit. She went on to become chief nurse at Bergstrom AFB in Austin, earning an Air Force commendation medal for her work there.
After the Air Force, Dr. Williams enrolled at Texas A&M, thus becoming, as Howard Gravett, MD, pre-med advisor at the time, told her, "the first woman to go to A&M, graduate from A&M, and go to med school."
In 1975, she earned her medical degree from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Medical School. Finally, after all those years of sacrifice and struggle, she was able to write, "J.R. Williams, MD."
During a career as a gastroenterologist and internal medicine specialist in Paris in Northeast Texas, Dr. Williams developed an interest in quality of care, eventually becoming a national expert on measuring quality.
She was medical director of the Texas Health Quality Alliance from 1998 to 2001 and is a member of the National Patient Safety Foundation Board of Governors. She also is on the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association's Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement.
Currently, Dr. Williams is assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Texas A&M University System Health Science Center College of Medicine. She is director of the Rural and Community Health Institute and the Institute for Healthcare Evaluation at Texas A&M, where she specializes in quality and patient safety initiatives. Before being appointed director of the Rural and Community Health Institute, she directed the Quality and Patient Safety program at the Texas A&M Health Science Center.
Dr. Williams has a long history of involvement with the Texas Medical Association. She served on the Board of Trustees from 2001 until her selection as president-elect and has been a Texas delegate to the American Medical Association since 1994. She's served on various TMA councils and committees, including the Council on Legislation (2000-01), the Council on Socioeconomics (1994-2000), the Texas Health Care Information Center Technical Advisory Committee (1997), the Special Technical Advisory Committee to the Governor's Task Force on Health Care Reform (1993-94), and the Quality Committee (1992-96).
On May 3, Dr. Williams added another accomplishment to her resume when she became TMA's 143rd president during TexMed 2008 in San Antonio.
Texas Medicine interviewed Dr. Williams about her career and what she hopes to accomplish as TMA president.
Texas Medicine: Did your experience as a nurse make you a better physician?
Dr. Williams: Absolutely. Nurses are taught to communicate with patients first. Knowing how many times the doctor had left the room, and I had spent the following 30 minutes trying to tell the family what the doctor had said, made me a better physician. It gave me a much better sense of what the patient was worried about, what the patient really wanted, what the patient understood and didn't understand than I ever would have if I hadn't been a nurse first.
It also taught me what a sick patient was. I knew what a sick patient was long before I went to med school, and I knew when a patient was turning south long before I went to med school. That allowed me to focus on medicine, not on trying to decide if this patient was sick or not. I could go into a room and do a nursing assessment and know whether the patient was sick or not and have some sense of if there had been a change since the last time I saw him or her. I credit my being a nurse with being an honor student in medical school.
Texas Medicine: How did you get interested in quality issues?
Dr. Williams : In 1982, I was dealing with a patient who had hepatitis C and was very ill. I had just talked to Dr. Lee in Dallas, whom I knew personally, and who was a world expert on this disease. He said I was on the right track.
Then, the next day, I fought with an insurance agent who told me I should not be giving IV cyclosporine in Paris, Texas. It made me livid. I was board certified in internal medicine, residency trained in GI, and this guy was questioning whether I should be doing it or not. I got mad, just like most doctors do, and I reacted just like most doctors do.
Then, I thought, this is stupid. If we're so smart, why can't I explain to this man that this is one of my sicker patients and, yes, she needs this drug, and, yes, she's perfectly fine here. If that's the case, why can't I explain that? Where are my numbers to prove it? How do I differentiate my quality from the guy's next door?
And as I asked myself those hard questions, there were no answers. I had no idea what my practice was compared with anyone else's. That disturbed me. I talked to Dr. Tom Riordan at AMA, who was then a Board of Trustees member and upcoming president, and he said to me, "If you really want to make a contribution to medicine, you really will find out what quality is, how to develop it, and how to measure it."
It started an incredible change in my entire career. It changed the way I look at things, and it made me face some hard questions and some hard answers. We're good scientists in saying what to do; we're lousy about saying how to do it. We do not know whether our practices are good or bad. We do not know the best way to deliver health care. That's what's driven me throughout my entire career. If we're good scientists, as we should be, and if we truly are about caring for patients, then we don't just want to know how to do it or what to do; we want to know what's the safest, quality way that is patient-centered and the most effective way to do that.
Texas Medicine : Have you run into resistance from other physicians?
Dr. Williams: Absolutely. They don't understand it. They don't understand that we talk about disease as being measured in 1 per 100,000 or 1 per 10,000, yet we very rarely realize that in our own experience we see 30,000 to 50,000 patients total. My lifetime experience alone says very little.
Those small numbers make us feel like an error was just one of those things. You didn't say anything and it happened to me, and I didn't say anything and it happened to him, but he didn't say anything, so now we have three incidents where we may have harmed one patient; but over medicine as a whole that may be 100,000, it may be 70,000 or 80,000, it may be nine patients we could have saved had we all known we'd had that issue.
Texas Medicine : Did the Institute of Medicine's To Err is Human report that said 98,000 patients a year die in hospitals from medical errors have a lot to do with changing physicians' perceptions of quality?
Dr. Williams: I think it brought people's attention to the problem. People were all concerned about it and thought it was flawed and that there were a lot of problems with it. Those of us who work in quality think they were wrong. The report's numbers were not correct. It's worse than that. It is wrong by some-fold, but until we really evaluate it, we don't know how wrong.
The other thing that bothers me is that no one quotes the other 25+ reports on quality that came out of the Institute of Medicine since 1999 that don't bash doctors. To Err is Human was not about how bad we are. It said we need to look at how we deliver care. If we do this right, we could do a better job.
Texas Medicine : Are you finding that physicians are becoming less resistant to your quality efforts?
Dr. Williams: I think it depends on the way they are approached. Many people are beginning to get the message and see the data and read the literature that we really don't do as well as we think we do. It's based on slips and lapses. Slips and lapses are straight out of the literature about safety, not just patient safety, but safety overall. Did you ever walk out in the morning without your car keys?
Texas Medicine: Sure.
Dr. Williams: That's a slip. Is that human?
Texas Medicine: Sure it is.
Dr. Williams: So if you're in the middle of a heated operation and you're doing five gazillion things and somebody distracts you, do you think you might have a slip?
Texas Medicine: Absolutely.
Dr. Williams: Duh! That's what we're talking about. How can we build our systems to the point where they are fail-safe? Or at least as fail-safe as possible. At least build a system that minimizes harm. That's what they're asking us to do in medicine. Those are the things we have to do if we're really going to continue to be the leaders in health care.
Texas Medicine : Are you worried that if physicians don't do it, someone else will do it for them?
Dr. Williams: They are doing it for us. They're doing it now and doing a lousy job. The insurance companies … big business. Big business is driving this now because they can't afford what we're doing.
Texas Medicine : What do you hope to accomplish in your presidential year?
Dr. Williams: Number one, a new vision. Number two, a glimmer of hope that we can drive this ship better than they can drive this ship.
Texas Medicine : What do you mean by a new vision?
Dr. Williams: I believe health care is in shambles, just like other doctors believe it is. I believe the payment system is in shambles, just like they believe it is. I also believe we can learn a better way to deliver health care. I'm not even sure what that is, right now, but I believe that as far as the vision and wisdom of physicians, TMA might as well lead that bandwagon. I believe that collectively as physicians, we can put our heads together and we can find the solutions better than government.
Texas Medicine : How do you convince your colleagues of that?
Dr. Williams: I don't know that I will. When I started talking about performance measures 20 years ago, they thought I was crazy. Today, they're not talking about me being crazy anymore; they're saying, "What are you talking about? How does it work?"
My job is to open the door and for them to understand that we're the only people who can salvage medicine today. We have to believe that we can learn not only a defensive strategy, but also an offensive strategy. We can realize that we have put up with a lot for so many years.
A perfect example comes to mind. For 30 years, we have argued about how unsafe the pumps they put on IVs are. They're just now fixing it because we just accepted it for all those years. We didn't say "not no, but hell no" to a pump that doesn't work. We didn't send it back to the distributor. We didn't send it back to the manufacturer. We didn't call their bluff, so we had equipment that didn't work.
We don't understand the science, and we don't look at the science of performance or of systems that might inform us. We learned to do it one way and we've always done it that way. In 1950, that worked. When I graduated from medical school in 1975, there were a little more than 2000 randomized control trials. Last year, there were 20,000. Things are so much more complex than they ever were, you cannot humanly keep up with that without building a system that works, not just for you, but your entire unit, your entire facility. We're going to be in a living hell until we do it.
The only hope is that we keep a strong defense, strong liability reform, strong push to get paid for what you do. The other thing we must do is lead on what is quality of care. We can learn a better way to deliver health care. We can learn the dangers of the health care that we deliver today.
We reserve the right to police ourselves. When we lose that right, when we give that right away, we are no longer a profession but a trade, and I'm not willing for us to go there.
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Column: 'Gandu' director Q on good indie cinema
The Indian Indie could be mapped back to the beginning, as it always has been, anywhere in the world.
New Delhi: DearCinema completes five years this February. A journey full of ups and downs, yet immensely meaningful and fulfilling, driven by passion and conviction. Similar to the journey of the cause that it supports: the good Indian indie cinema. So here, DearCinema brings to you a few voices that define the Indie scene in India today, ruminating over what independent cinema means to them. Straight from the horse's mouth. The series begins with Q a.k.a Qaushiq Mukherjee who shook us out of our ennui with 'Gandu' and is set to do that again with 'Tasher Desh'.
There cannot be a definition for independence, whether it is Individualistic, collective or cinematic. Independence is entirely contextual in a postmodern world. What is critical therefore, is to understand where we stand in terms of history of cinema to be able to begin looking at what constitutes the truest spirit of the indie.
The Indian Indie could be mapped back to the beginning, as it always has been, anywhere in the world. Before the potential of cinematic commerce was discovered, individuals, or artists, driven by passion, made films. Since then, every now and then, independent films raised their defiant heads and challenged norms, sometimes even moulding, or changing them altogether. The last time it happened was in the late sixties and seventies. This particular movement, a continuity of the cinematic and political revolution around the world, had its foundation strongly hinged on ideals. An exalted feeling of following a path of truth, challenging impure tendencies, a sense of black and white, inspired the artists.
The word challenge may be the key to deconstruct indie cinema. Perhaps the only way that a film could claim that it's indeed an independent film is when it challenges, provokes and engages.
But indie as a concept is quite postmodern. Because never before was cinema this accessible. Never was it a pure art form. Cinema was largely an elite game, available only to those with resources or high technical education, kind of like flying a plane. It involved large cameras, large crews, large egos, and had to be larger than life. Unlike any other art form, cinema could not be made alone, unlike painting, writing, dancing, or making music. To get beyond this hurdle, filmmakers strived to make cinema more and more buxom, injecting doses of adrenaline and pumping money into individual shots. They wanted to strike awe and a respectful fear into the hearts of the hapless audience. And they did. Goggle eyes, people around the world watched those helicopters sweeping down and those bridges exploding. They still do.
Independence in cinema, or in life in general, is linked to money. And this is why now is a good time to be a pedestrian filmmaker. Now, it is possible to be an Indie, simply because it is cheap. We all know of the digital explosion, and the rise of consumer/amateur cinema. With the correct amount of information and research, anyone could, hypothetically, shoot a film. Finally, cinema was free. And now emerged the true question. What film do you make?
India has suddenly realized that there could be this other way to make films. In the throes of this revelation, DSLRs are flying off the shelf, and a mother is cautiously putting on her lipstick as the nervous son shifts around the curtains for the correct light on the bed, his DSLR hanging in his left hand nervously, like a cigarette on Godard's lips. What could possibly come out of this experiment? We can only wait and watch. Meanwhile, let us keep on experimenting the ways to go about in the quagmire of digital real estate, trying to hunt for those details that will make the true Indie get made.
Indie cinema is not only about telling a story. That's not the job of cinema, though it has been relegated to that job by the ever-turning wheels of industry. It is an experiential form, working with more than one dimension. Stories are the basis of cinema, but the way one tells the story makes it cinema. Form, therefore, plays a major character in this set up. Technique is crucial. It's the thing that sets it free. To free oneself from the burdens of classic moviemaking, careful scrutiny and knowledge of the technology is unavoidable. And since this technology is transient, unlike analog, one has to be on that ball. I am not insinuating that the genius indie filmmaker is a geek, but usually it turns out that way.
About money, there's really nothing to say. Subversion is the only mantra for a pedestrian filmmaker. And the greatest joy of all is in subverting economy. Frequently I feel that knowing how much you can spend and then crafting the exercise of production is the best way. You also need money to bring a film out, and if one is looking at the entire process as subversive, the distribution should also be looked at in the same way. Progressive distribution and new media are the obvious answers, but the first thing is to prepare the indie crew to deliver faithfully. Faith is the most important ingredient of the mix. Faith on challenging, on deconstructing, and on cinema.
Time is non linear. So is indie cinema.
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More gun control
More gun control
Obama, although he wants it, is smart enough not to come out for outright gun control.
Instead, "we will look at many different options, including gun control." Well, just how well does gun control work?
In Chicago, Obama's hometown, we find one of the most restrictive gun control set of laws in the country. Yet last weekend, just one or two days after the Connecticut school shootings, Chicago recorded nine murders.
Sure seems like tougher gun control laws is the answer.
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Category: names that mean brilliant
What does a name's meaning really mean? Lots of parents today don't know, much less care, what the baby names they like mean in Old German or Ancient Hebrew. The root meanings of so many names come down to some equivalent of "dark-haired sword protector gift of Jehovah" that have very little relevance to modern life.
And yet there are some names with meanings so uplifting that they gain appeal on that basis alone. What parent can fail to hope that a name that means wise or noble or loving might inspire a child to embrace those qualities?
If the meaning of a name means a lot to you, consider this wide range of choices. And there are lots more where those came from. Search either via the meaning option on supersearch or download the ebook version (or hey, even buy an old school paper edition!) of The Baby Name Bible.
One of the most interesting blog posts we've done – interesting from a research standpoint, I mean — was on individual names with the same meaning for twins.
So today I decided to spin that idea a bit differently and look for compatible names with contrasting meanings, for twins or for siblings.
I tried to come up with pairs in a range of styles. This is an exercise with near limitless potential, of course, so if any of you are inclined to search nameberry by meaning for other pairs that fit the bill, we'd love to hear your ideas.
Here, the opposing meanings and names that go with them (and each other):
Beautiful & Brilliant


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>Look What I Can Do!>Before and NOW pictures!
Agony of Da Feet (#2867)
Here's my before & after photo. After losing more than 85 pounds...
Run to Win24 Marathons, 17 Ultras, 16 States (Full List)
(wow, been a while since that's been updated...)
Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. (Heb. 12:1b) Mile by Mile
Needs more cowbell!
• Chemo
• Chemo-Radiation
• Surgery
• Return to kicking my own ass by 2018
Another Passion
Rick "The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa "I wanna go fast." Ricky Bobbyrunningforcassy.blogspot.com
Hoping to Run Again :-(
Champions are made when no one is watching
Call me Ray (not Ishmael)
Oh Mighty Wing
GREAT JOB Vix!!! Enjoy those size 0's!
"I've been following Eddy's improvement over the last two years on this site, and it's been pretty dang solid. Sure the weekly mileage has been up and down, but over the long haul he's getting out the door and has turned himself into quite a runner. He's only now just figuring out his potential. Consistency in running is measured in years, not weeks. And over the last couple of years, Eddy's made great strides" Jeff 14 Jan 2009
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After yesterday's High Court verdict, Julian Assange and his legal team have 14 days to lodge an appeal against his extradition to Sweden over allegations of rape and sexual assault. But rather than fighting, the WikiLeaks founder would do better to practise what he has so uncompromisingly preached.
That the two British judges ruled against the first appeal on all four counts is not the issue. Neither – contrary to Mr Assange's assertions yesterday – are the procedural minutiae of European arrest warrants. Even his claims that the case against him is a politically motivated conspiracy are irrelevant.
For a self-appointed champion of global openness to baulk at openness of his own – and manoeuvre so hard to avoid it – risks charges of hypocrisy. If Mr Assange is to live up to his own rhetoric, he should go to Sweden and face his accusers.Reuse content


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Authentication, identity management and access control are critical components of many cloud services. Claims-based access is typically used for SSO (single sign-on) solutions in enterprise environments that use WS-Federation, SAML, and WS-Trust, but has not been an option for REST-based cloud services.
ACS (Access Control Service) is a Windows Azure service that handles authentication and access control logic for applications deployed to Windows Azure. It implements WRAP (Web Resource Authentication Protocol), a REST-friendly protocol that developers can use to request compact Simple Web Tokens (SWTs) from ACS and then use those tokens to control access to REST services.
Many developers don't want to take on the burden of managing identity information, and most users already have an identity from their on-premises network or a third party such as Office 365, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, or others. ACS simplifies authentication, identity management, and access control for both developers and users, by making it possible for Windows Azure applications and services to reliably and easily accept on-premise identities or off-premise identities from trusted third party identity providers.
This diagram from the MSDN article ACS Architecture shows how it works:
The client application sends the user's credentials to a trusted identity provider such as Office 365, Facebook, Google, or others, and the identity provider returns a token. The identity provider token is then sent to the ACS Security Token Service (STS) endpoint, which returns an ACS token that can be used to control access to Windows Azure cloud services. STS maps input claims to output claims based on access control rules that the developer has defined.
ACS supports a variety of protocols that allow it to be accessed from any web platform including .NET Framework, WCF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Flash.


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This week's word is "encouragement." We are instructed to write for 5 minutes, unscripted and unedited. Check out the other blog posts written on this topic by clicking on the icon above.
Sometimes the people you think need encouragement the least actually need it the most. The woman who seems to have it all together, who looks amazing, who has the perfect kids…. The lady at church who runs every ministry and always has a smile on her face…. the friend who just got a promotion…
In our selfishness, sometimes we withhold encouragement because we don't think people need it, or because we are too busy. But sometimes we withhold encouragement because we are jealous, we are insecure, and we wonder if our encouragement might go to their heads. We don't want them thinking higher of themselves than they ought to, right?
Yet the people you think need the encouragement the least are often fighting silent battles.
Your pastor, who always has a smile on his face. Your friend, who cries herself to sleep at night. Your neighbor, who thinks nobody cares.
Everyone needs encouragement. I can either wait for someone to encourage me and get frustrated that nobody is, or I can get out there and encourage someone myself.
This week, let's put ourselves aside and encourage someone – especially that person who you think might need it the least.