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Sr Informatica Developer Resume
Sr Informatica Developer
Primary Skills
Oracle-SQL, Oracle-Packages, Store Procedures & Functions, Oracle-PL/SQL, Hive, Java Script, VB Script
US-NJ-South Orange (will consider relocating)
Seasoned senior ETL developer with over 15 years experience in ETL design, development. I am seeking a challenging position that will utilize my skills and experiences which will provide me with the opportunity for growth and advancement while contributing towards the achievements and values of any organization.
Area of Expertise:
Data Migration & Integration
Data Warehouse Design
Data Warehouse Development
PL/SQL Development
ETL design and process development
Informatica development & Performance Tuning
Informatica Data Quality Starter Pack
Relational & Dimensional Modeling
Report Development
Production Support
Programming Languages: Oracle-SQL, Oracle-Packages, Store Procedures & Functions, Oracle-PL/SQL, PIG, Hive, Java Script, VB Script, Visual-Basic, C, Java Swing, Core Java
Databases: Oracle 11g, Oracle 10g, Oracle 9i, Oracle 8i, Oracle 7, Hbase, MYSQL, POSTGRESQL, MSAccess
Operating System: Vista, Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows 95, UNIX, Hadoop
Technical Tools: SQL Developer, SQL Developer Data Modeler, Erwin 8.1, TOAD, Informatica Powercenter & Power Exchange 8.6/9.1, Informatica Data Quality Starter Pack, Powercenter Scheduler, Visual Studio, SourceSafe, Global Event Control Server (SCHEDULER), ODBC, Microsoft Visio, Crystal Reports Pro, Notes Pump, Siperian Master Dada Management
Wipro Technologies Sept, 2011 - Mar. 2013
Client: Marsh & McLennan, Hoboken, NJ Sept, 2011 - Dec, 2012
Senior Informatica Developer/Lead
Project Summary and Goals: Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC) is one of the world's largest professional services and insurance brokerage firms and is based in the United States. BASYS is the current US billing and fiduciary system used for Invoice Billing, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payables. This 30 years old system requires manual and independent business processes resulting in operational inefficiencies and challenges in meeting client expectations. The initiative is to convert the current billing system to Oracle's financial system called Revenue Management & Billing (RM&B). There are number of downstream systems that require BASYS Revenue Files in their current format. It is therefore necessary, as part of the RM&B project, to reverse engineer required BASYS files.
Participation: I was the Informatica Developer/Informatica Lead, responsible for developing and leading the onshore and offshore developers in designing, developing, implementing, and supporting five critical database systems that were used for data migration and conversion project. These systems are as follow: The Global Integration Data Stage database is a global system that is a repository for the Marsh's colleagues and product information. The Reference schema database contains translation and reference data. The pre-stage database contains the legacy data that was loaded from the BASYS flat files. The RMB staging area contains the transformed data that will be deployed to the RMB application. The Financial staging database contains Invoice Billing, Account Receivable and Payable transactions, and Reference data. The converted data is used to feed the consuming application and data warehouse. Created conceptual, logical and physical data models. Duties over the course of the project included:
* Requirement Gathering and data Analysis of all supporting systems. Designed Informatica architecture and data flows.
* Gather Business Requirements and translate into Technical Specifications for Informatica ETL team.
* Provide technical strategies and directions to five onshore and four offshore Informatica developers.
* Extracted data from data warehouse to feed downstream systems. (Bill Inmon, Ralph Kimbal Methodology)
* Knowledge of extracting heterogeneous and homogeneous sources (XML, Flat Files, Tables, CSV)
* Developed, tested and migrated Informatica ETL mappings for OLTP AND OLAP systems. Mappings include but not limited
to the following: PLSQL Packages, Procedure and Functions, SQL Transformation, Update/Insert Strategy, Mapping
Parameters and Variables. Documented all associated mappings by creating Low Level Design documents. These
Documents are used by the production support teams.
Value Line, New York, NY Nov, 2010 - Feb, 2011
Senior ETL & Data warehouse Developer (2010 - 2011)
Project Summary and Goals: Value Line Inc. is one of the most widely used independent investment information services in the world. They provide comprehensive reference and useful information on stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. They had a global initiative to upgrade their legacy web base application and database. My primary responsibility was to this project.
Participation: I was the ETL Architect/Developer responsible for the data migration scripts for the Account Receivable, Payable, and Reference data from the OLTP system. The existing database was an Oracle 7i that focused on the transactional, reference and billing system. There were unique challenges due to the age of the version of the database. The short time frame involved, and the requirement to do deep analysis on the data was overcome by my ability to learn the database structure, performed detail analysis, and performed needed optimization and tuning. Value Line did not want to purchase any ETL tools so the ETL scripts were customizable using Oracle Packages and procedures. Created conceptual, logical and physical data models.Duties over the course of the project included:
Created ETL scripts using Packages and procedures to migrate data to Oracle's Revenue Management Billing
financial system (RMB).
Created translation and cleansing scripts using PLSQL Packages, Procedure, Functions and SQL.
Utilized Oracle performance tools to accurately optimized and tuned SQL scripts reducing extraction process by 70%.
Validated completeness and accuracy of converted data. Analyzed and validated data against business rules.
Developed scripts to enabled fast recovery of Oracle objects.
Developed PLSQL/SQL code using information from Metadata.
NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICAL, East Hanover, NJ Sept, 1998 - June, 2010
Senior ETL and Data Warehouse Developer (2008 - 2010)
Project Summary and Goals: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NPC) researches, develops and markets patent-protected prescription drugs for important health needs. An outside company was contracted to redesign the legacy OLTP/OLAP territory management system. The Project was developed in a manner that had significant shortcomings at all layers of the system. I was part of a team responsible to enhanced and redesigned the Datastage ETL mappings for the existing adhoc data load processes and supported the new OLTP web application territory management and HR system.
Participation: The scope of this engagement included a redesign of the Datastage ETL adhoc load and extraction processes. The existing processes had not been created using best practices and this resulted in unacceptable load time, poor data quality, and poor query performance. After implementing a correct design the adhoc load times were cut by approximately 70%, and data quality and performances were improved dramatically. The existing ETL process was very error prone and was extremely difficult to understand, troubleshoot, and manage. The new process resulted in dramatically improved data quality, and system manageability. The technologies on this project included the following.
Responsibilities for the development of the logical and physical data models for the OLTP system.
Redesigned 24 Datastage ETL inbound and 70 Datastage ETL outbound mappings.
Supported and maintained the Materialized Views and Provision Layers for 70 downstream systems.
Developed PLSQL Packages, Procedure and Functions. Managed data for enterprise Data Warehouse.
Designed and developed reports using Crystal Reports Pro.
ETL Production Support - Sales & Marketing (2006 - 2008)
Project Summary and Goals: The legacy territory management system is an OLTP enterprise application written in Visual Basic, Oracle, and Crystal reports that was used to manage the Sales Representatives personal information and territories. This application is used throughout the main and regional offices to align Novartis sales associate territories, personal information, and provides reports and data to over seventy internal and external systems including Financial.
Participation: The scope of this engagement includes supplying technical support to the business users, ensuring that daily extraction was sent to the various departments as schedule, analyzing and fixing production technical issues, meeting with the business owners, Financials Analyst, and project managers to gather information for enhancements. Duties include:
Maintained the OLTP logical and physical models.
Optimized and tuned existing ETL scripts (SQL and PL/SQL).
Maintained, supported, and created ETL scripts for the inbound and outbound systems.
Managed the load and extraction of data to over seventy internal and external systems.
Designed and developed reports using Crystal Reports pro for financial department and stake holders for analysis.
Extensive use of VB, Unix Shell Script, Store Procedures, Functions, Packages, SQL, PL/SQL and Crystal reports.
Senior ETL Developer/Application Developer (2006 - 2008)
Project Summary and Goals: The sales and marketing financial executives relied on the data from the territory management system for data mining, online analytical processing, market research and decision support. The data was extremely important so special efforts were made to make sure the data was cleaned, transformed, catalogued and simple to read.
Participation: Lead all aspects of the ETL data extraction and reporting processes. This involved overseeing logical and physical data modeling and stored procedure. This process had run into major trouble because of the inaccuracy of the data. I was responsible for delivering, cleaning, and transforming accurate data while keeping the data extraction processes on schedule. This also included redesigning the reporting processes in Crystal Report Pro and tuning the ETL scripts, ETL scripts were written using Oracle's PLSQL Packages, Procedures, and Functions.
Senior ETl and Application Developer-Production Support (1998 - 2006)
Project Summary and Goals: The Sample Operations group manages the Sales Representatives samples in regards to their
sample accountability. Their focus is to monitor distribution of product samples. They needed the capability to reduce the risks typically associated with sample accountability and ensure that Novartis is compliant with all PDMA regulations. Additionally, they wanted to reduce the individual PDMA risk born by sales representatives. This was a large project to replace the legacy software system currently used.
Participation: Lead all aspects of the development during the OLTP full project life cycle. Worked with the sample operation business owners and users to developed business requirements. Defined the GUI. Define high level data flows processes, and supplied technical solutions to specific business requirements. Performed logical and physical data modeling during the database development phase. Defined system architecture to support business needs. Worked within a team environment during the coding testing and deployment phase. Duties over the course of the project included:
Defined business tasks such as inventory control, sales processing,
Defined the scope and develop user requirements for the projects.
Created and managed the training environment as well as creating training documents.
Created Lotus Notes GUI interface, Stored Procedures, Functions, SQL, PL/SQL, and ETL principles to support the application.
Crystal Report Pro Development.
HOECHST MARION ROUSELL, Bridgewater, NJ June, 1996 - Sept, 1998
Senior ETL, Application and Data Warehouse Developer (1996 - 1998)
Project Summary and Goals: Hoechst Marion Rousell engaged in the discovery, development, manufacturing, and sale of pharmaceutical products. The Biologist needed an OLTP GUI based system to do substructure searches on chemical compounds. The existing system was dos base and extremely slow. Chemists and Biologists consistently need the ability to request compounds for research. Using the existing paper based system to disburse and track compounds was inefficient and did not meet FDA regulations. They needed a system that was robust and user friendly and had the capability for reporting. Hoechst underwent realignment and was shutting down their Kansa City operation.They needed to consolidate the research development data with the data at the Bridgewater office. I was part of a team responsible for this project.
Participation: I was the Software developer, Data Architect and Data analysis during this engagement and was part of a team responsible for the multiple developments of the listed projects. I was also part of a team responsible for migration of the research data from INGRESS to Oracle 7. Routine duties through the course of these engagements included:
Designed, developed and migrated the OLTP GUI application for substructure searches on chemical compounds.
Designed and developed customizable reporting using Visual Basic. Created conceptual, logical and physical models.
Part of a team responsible for the architecting the research data warehouse project.
Developed PLSQL Packages, Procedures, and Functions for ETL
BS, Computer Science, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
AS, Engineering Technology, Essex County College, Newark, NJ
AS, Electronic Engineering, Radio & Electronics School, Nutley, NJ
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D7's Exhibitionist Tendencies: New Committee Takes On Museum Programming
The Museum Management Committee is exploring ways to highlight Caltrans' history, diversity and culture.
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Russian conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov once created a cutting-edge art installation for the SculptureCenter in New York called "The Empty Museum." And that's what it was – a replication of a museum gallery with nothing in it. District 7 has its own version of the Kabakov show, though in our case, it's not trendy installation art – it's an actual empty museum.
Sometimes empty, anyway. We've had some wonderful exhibits staged in the District 7 museum space – examples include the shows on environmental stewardship, Park 101 and Diversity and Disability Awareness. We've also had many filming requests from directors who find the location offers a certain edgy starkness that looks great on film. But this beautiful, light-filled museum has been long underutilized, its potential never fully realized.
That's about to change, a change initiated in large part by Chief Deputy Director Lindy Lee. When Lee first came on board, she asked many questions to get a better sense of the district, questions like: Who are we? What do we do? How can we show our passions? Lee got a partial answer at an offsite meeting during which executive staff came up with a punchy one-liner to describe what we do: "District 7 Delivers Sound Transportation Solutions." A more complete answer was waiting for her on the first floor of the headquarters building.
"The day after the offsite, I was on a tour of the office and asked about the space behind the security desk. I was told it was the museum, but of late little used," she said. "I decided that we can show our passions in that space – what we do, who we are. We can show not only our work, but the real people behind the department."
And so in September, the District 7 Museum Management Committee (MMC) was born. The MMC, made up of representatives from all divisions, is overseeing and driving the museum's role as an educational and marketing vehicle. The committee is charged with exploring ways to leverage the museum to share the history, diversity and culture of Caltrans. The space will also highlight the people behind the agency, showcasing not only the work they perform, but their interests and sources of inspiration.
The committee has been meeting monthly to discuss how to best use the museum and to develop a tentative schedule of exhibits. The first MMC-initiated show is slated for January and will focus on the Arroyo Seco Parkway's 70th anniversary. Other exhibits planned for 2011 include Bike to Work Week in May and Diversity and Disability Awareness in October. The committee is also considering shows that highlight high-speed rail, Route 66, bridges, major incidents, lost history, and traffic speeds, to name a few. All divisions will be represented.
The all-volunteer committee hopes to eventually mount three to six exhibits a year, and they'll have some help doing it. Southern California AAA has offered to provide historical materials, such as archival photos and objects, as well as graphic display elements for exhibits. Additionally, the committee will be calling on internal functional units for assistance when a planned exhibit relates to the unit's area of expertise.
Currently, the district has no funding to support museum exhibits, so committee members will have to be creative about assembling the necessary resources. Although money may be in short supply, enthusiasm is abundant. Everyone involved is looking forward to transforming this once vacant space into a dynamic part of District 7's organizational culture.
"We can use the space better than we have in the past to tell the story of Caltrans, maybe even attract some of the tourists who come by to see the building," said Chief of Programming and Contract Management Alberto Angelini, who also serves as the Museum Management Committee co-chair. "It's one more way that we can connect with the public and educate them about our work."


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Kirby: Triple Deluxe
Review by KFHEWUI
"Don't be mad, Kirby! Your game is excellent!"
It is another quiet night in Dreamland, Kirby is fast asleep when a beanstalk sprouts under his house and carries Kirby and his home into the sky. A strange creature kidnaps King Dedede and Kirby follows the strange creature.
Kirby: Triple Deluxe has a decent story albeit generic plot, but the pacing of the story is uneven. While there is a scene that sets up the start, the only other plot development is in the final few levels where the villain and their plan is revealed.
Triple Deluxe plays similar to Return to Dreamland for the Wii. Most of the abilities from Return to Dreamland return, there are some new abilities including beetle, circus, archer, bell, and hypernova. Beetle is an interesting ability that allows Kirby to fly and also impale enemies and slam them into the ground. Circus is interesting. Kirby can juggle and jump through a flaming hoop. Archer has Kirby using a bow which can be charged to perform a stronger shot. Hypernova is basically the equivalent of super abilities from Return to Dreamland, but this time Kirby gains a stomach of steel and can swallow anything. In fact, Kirby at one point swallows a boss and the bosses' health bar that is how powerful this hypernova is. Other abilities include flame, ice, leaf, fighter, spear, cutter, beam, sleep, stone, and many more to equal in total around 26 abilities.
Not much has changed in Kirby: Triple Deluxe when it comes to the gameplay. The levels are linear in design and Kirby must go from point A to point B. One big change that has come, is now that Triple Deluxe brings to the table is that Kirby must move back-and-forth between the foreground and background. This is done by a gold hollowed star with a red star in the middle but also sometimes Kirby will get shot into the background with help from a barrel.
Aside from reaching the end of the level, there are several items to collect. Health items include drink, spicy curry, donuts, hotdogs, and burgers to name a few. Stars return from Return to Dreamland and to give an example, a gold star is worth 1 while blue stars are worth 30. 100 stars will net the player an extra life. In each level there are sun stones, and there are around 3-4 per level with a few exceptions later in the game where there is only one per level. There are two purposes for sun stones: first a certain number of stones are needed to open up the boss level; second collecting every sun stone in a world unlocks a bonus level. The other new addition are key chains. These key chains are of enemies or Kirby models from his past adventures, and there are a whopping 250+ key chains. In each level there are silver and gold key chains that can be found. Gold key chains give rare key chains while silver give common drops. Another way key chains can be obtained are through the mini-game at the end of each non-boss level.
Speaking of end levels, at the end of each level is a mini-game that can be played and it is similar to past games. The major difference is that this time the game plays on a horizontal plan instead of a vertical like past games. Kirby is dropped into a cannon while a bar underneath him fills up, but the strength of the shot is determined by how high the bar is when A is pressed. The higher the bar is filled, the farther Kirby will be shot. Reward is determined upon where Kirby lands yet the farther Kirby goes the better the reward. Landing on cloud 7 gives no reward while landing on cloud 1 nets the player stars and a silver key chain.
A series standard is the fantastic soundtrack and Triple Deluxe does not disappoint at all while there are some remixes of past titles, the newer tracks are pure gold. The tracks are charming, catchy, and memorable. The sound effects are excellent with the death effect sounds like a popping balloon or how there is a heavy but satisfying thud when Kirby touches an enemy. Kirby's grunts and groans sounds adorable like the hiya!
Graphic-wise, Triple Deluxe is gorgeous. Each level has their own distinct look and style rather it is a romp through a forest or across a dirt road that lies across railroad tracks, each level looks and feels unique. There is a heavy emphasis on 3D, and Kirby: Triple Deluxe actually makes good use of the 3D. Most of it consists of objects popping out like giant hands that shoot out towards the screen or drops of paint splattering on the screen. That side there are some unique effects like one boss that burns the screen with a flamethrower or streaks of paint blocking the screen.
Controls are solid and easy to grasp yet are fluid and responsive. Movement is set on D-Pad and control stick while A and B are used for jump and swallow respectively. There is also a guard move however not once did I ever need it also X and Y are used however X removes current copy ability while Y uses item. Gyroscope controls are supported yet thankfully they are few and far apart. Mainly the controls are used to rotate items like barrels, gondola, and bowl of water to name a few. They work for the most part although some of the boulders with an opening gave me issue even if I held the system dead center, the boulder would move.
Kirby: Triple Deluxe is not a hard game at all in fact the game is very easy however mastering the game will take some time like collecting all key chains and sun stones. Beating the game start to finish without collecting everything can take about 7 hours. Although the game makes up for it with bonus content. There is a new Kirby fighter mode where four players can duke it out however it is local only. Also included is Dedede's Drum Dash which is a mini-game where King Dedede jumps across drums and must collect coins. The player is rewarded with an emblem however obtaining the highest emblem is no easy task that will take practice to master each level. Beating the game also unlocks Boss arena and Dedede Tour, and like the title says Boss arena is simply fighting the bosses of the game. Dedede Tour on the other hand is a time attack of the main game however it has fewer healing items. There are also warp holes that send the player farther into the game plus an additional boss. Just be warned Dedede Tour is addictive, and I simply tried it for the review and found it hard to put the game down.
Also Streetpass is supported however streetpass only swaps items for levels plus times and scores for Boss arena, Dedede Tour, and Dedede Drum rush. Play coins can be used to swap for key chains, and costs 3 play coins for a single key chain.
Kirby: Triple Deluxe may be an easy and short game however it makes up for it with the plethora of bonus content and mini-games. Plus playing the game is easy however mastering it takes skills and getting some of the high scores in the mini-games is no easy task. Simply put Kirby: Triple Deluxe is easily the best platformer available on the 3DS and is a must have game.
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 05/05/14, Updated 05/12/14
Game Release: Kirby: Triple Deluxe (US, 05/02/14)
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Oberhausen, Germany (SPX) Nov 14, 2012
Rubber residues can be downcycled to floor coverings and safety crashpads, and for the first time, also processed into high-quality plastics. A new kind of material makes it possible: the environmentally-friendly material mix is called EPMT.
Each year throughout the world, up to 22 million tons of rubber are processed and a large portion of it goes into the production of vehicle tires. Once the products reach the end of their useful life, they typically land in the incinerator. In the best case, the waste rubber is recycled into secondary products. Ground to powder, the rubber residues can be found, for example, in the floor coverings used at sports arenas and playgrounds, and in doormats.
But until now, the appropriate techniques for producing high-quality materials from these recyclables did not exist. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT in Oberhausen recently succeeded in optimizing the recycling of rubber waste materials. They have developed a material that can be processed into high-quality products, like wheel and splashguard covers, handles, knobs and steerable castors.
The new plastic compounds are called elastomer powder modified thermoplastics or EPMT for short. They are comprised of rubber residues crushed into elastomer powder that are blended with thermoplastics.
"In the first step, the rubber residues - that can be meter-long rubber pieces are granulated to three-millimeter large particles. The particles are cooled with liquid nitrogen and then ground into elastomeric powders. This is then conducted to the melt-mix process with thermoplastics and additives. Here we use, for example, polypropylene as a thermoplastic material," as Dr. Holger Wack, scientist at UMSICHT, explains the production process.
Working jointly with his colleagues Damian Hintemann and Nina Kloster, the trio collaborates on the "EXIST Research Transfer" project sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology BMWi, where they work meticulously on various recipes for new blends of materials that are already protected by patent and trademark rights.
Variable material properties
"EPMT may contain up to 80 percent residual rubber; only 20 percent is made up by the thermoplastics," says Wack. EPMT can be easily processed in injection molding and extrusion machines, and in turn, these products are themselves recyclable. The clou: The physical and mechanical material properties of the substance - like elasticity, breaking strain and hardness - can be individually modified, according to the customer's wishes.
Altogether, three basic recipes have been developed that collectively can be processed on the large technical production machines. The researchers are capable of producing 100 to 350 kilograms of EPMT per hour. Spurred on by this success, Wack and both of his colleagues founded Ruhr Compounds GmbH.
In addition to the production and the sale of EPMT materials, this Fraunhofer spin-off offers custom-made service packages: "We determine which of the customer's materials can be replaced by EPMT, develop customized recipes and also take into account the settings required at our customers' industrial facilities," says the scientist.
The widest array of industries will benefit from the expertise of these professionals: processors of thermoplastic elastomers can obtain EPMT and further process it into products. Industrial companies whose work involves elastomers - such as the industrial and construction sectors, or car-makers and athletics - could recycle these products, make EPMT from them, incorporate them into their existing products and thereby close the materials cycle.
Nike tests EPMT
As one of its official promotional partners, "Tim Green Gifts" created the first EPMT-based promotional articles under the "Nike Grind" brand, like frisbees, shoehorns and boomerangs. Discussions about using new EPMT compounds in the original portfolio, such as zippers, bag bases and sports equipment, have also been initiated. "We are extremely excited about this collaboration," says Wack.
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by Tom Harper
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The Lazarus Vault by Tom Harper (2010)
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Two stories 800 years apart about two very strongly willed but troubled people who are on a quest for lost secrets.... that's about as exciting as this book gets. While the story keeps you wanting to come back to read more, it doesn't really give anything in return for all your efforts.. even tho the ending is the bog standard "wait for the next indiana jones adventure" it isn't fulfilling. Won't be recommending this one.
This is a "da Vinci genre" book with the usual hunt for the holy grail: there is also a lance ...
There are two different time zones, the 12th century and the 21st century with parallel stories; an interesting concept.
However, all the characters, with the exception of the 21st Century boyfriend, were rather unpleasant people who spent their lives making the wrong choices, mostly with fatal results.
So, OK, there is a cipher. Unfortunately it is necessary to have a knowledge of Norman French in order to solve it and since the original Norman French poem is never presented to us it is not possible to even have an honest try at the solution.
I found my eyes glazing over after a time and only finished it because my copy is in e-book format and I have to get to the last page for the book to consider itself read.
I would say "Don't bother" but if you like blood and guts and some insights into medieval jousting then you might enjoy it.
Dan Brown fans are not fussy about mangled history and disjointed writing, so might enjoy The Lazarus Vault, a story of characters on the run trying to crack a code, with the prize being nothing less than the Holy Grail, hidden in the vaults of an ancient and sinister private bank.
Dual parallel worlds jumping between 2009 and the 12th Century rather irritated me, although the skullduggery of the banking world through the ages proved mildly entertaining. Harper is a gifted writer – as evidenced by the brilliant 'Mosaic of Shadows': he can do better than this.
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From the author of The Lost Temple, another gripping action-packed thriller in the bestselling tradition of The Da Vinci Code and Codex
Deep in the heart of London, the Monsalvat Bank is small, secretive, and fabulously wealthy. When Ellie Stanton, an impoverished graduate student, is unexpectedly invited to join the firm, the privileged world they offer looks too good to turn down—but the bank is more than it seems. Soon Ellie realizes that her life belongs to her employers, and that they're watching her every move, for buried in their medieval vaults lies a closely-guarded treasure of immeasurable power—one inextricably bound up with Ellie's own history. Now Ellie is in a race against time, hunted by the bank and pursued by her past, her only hope of escape to unearth the secret hidden in the vault—but getting in is only the beginning.
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The dilemma: I've never considered myself the jealous type, but I recently moved in with my boyfriend and we keep quarrelling about all the photos he keeps of his ex-girlfriend. If she'd died in a tragic accident or moved to the other side of the world, his shrine to her might be more appropriate, but they're good friends and she just lives a short distance away. She's not the only ex who appears in the pictures around his flat, but he was with her for eight years so she features in a lot of them, even if sometimes she's only in the background. Surely when you get together with someone you can expect them to tidy away their past in a box instead of forcing their new partner to confront it every day?
Mariella: Years ago if you'd brought this up I would doubtless have shared your indignation. Why should you have to come to terms with the fact that you're not his first girlfriend, even if it's true? Can't he just pretend that he's never felt like this before? It's irrational, but I shudder every time I hear that expression. Generally it's from unfaithful partners trying to defend their duplicity. Perhaps it's not a coincidence. Only those who can delude themselves about their motives can possibly justify such behaviour. If you walked into a supermarket and grabbed the thing you most wanted without going through the proper procedure, you'd be arrested. Why don't we expect similar censure for uncontrolled passion? After all, I've seen things in shops I've wanted far more than most of the men I've dated, so how come I managed not to make a lunge for Harry Winston sparklers or an iPod Nano? Not that your boyfriend is lying - if anything, he's being too honest.
To you it seems unfair to be expected to keep up appearances and convince the "Joneses" that your relationship is a passionate, once-in-a-lifetime affair when he's hell-bent on making plain his previous affections. You expect nothing short of full-throttle devotion with not a glance or a glimpse of anyone who could prove you one of a small crowd. Yet it's the man or woman who admits to past loves who can be presumed to be a person you can truly trust. The need to obliterate previous passions burns particularly fiercely in the young. It's a harder pretence to keep up when ex-spouses and step-children start cluttering your horizon.
I know it's unfashionable, but it strikes me that we could all do with growing up a little. Pretending that we're living the dream has got us into a painful position financially, but delusion still reigns supreme when it comes to the L-word. Could it possibly be that your ex's photo gallery is a healthy reminder that nothing can be taken for granted? That only hard graft and clear sightedness lies between your current euphoric romance and immortality in a 6" by 8" frame. Unless you work on the partnership, you too may end up captured for eternity, frozen in time like a victim of Narnia's Snow Queen? Alongside the celebration of happy times those pictures tell another story. The relationship ended after all and in between the bikini clad sunbursts there's plenty of less celebratory nature to be read between the lines.
If a relationship flourishes in the artifice that nothing before or after will ever match up to your heady romance, you're surely on a losing wicket. As a teenager, tangled up in the knots of first love, a paranoid exploration under my then-boyfriend's bed unearthed a picture of a jaw-droppingly beautiful brunette. I knew he'd had a holiday romance with a girl in France and here was evidence that that passion still burnt ferociously. Weeks went by as I festered in the knowledge of her presence so close to the epicentre of our own passion, but to admit to my discovery would expose my shameful intrusion into his private domain. Eventually, during a row about what film we should see, I managed to weave in her name "Perhaps you'd rather bring Veronique - she probably preferred Jules et Jim to Star Wars, too?" He looked at me baffled. "Well why else would you keep her photo under your bed?" I demanded. "That's not Veronique, that's Carly Simon. I stuck her in a frame when I was 14. It's with the rest of my childhood junk in the only storage space I've got in this room." No black hole in this galaxy or beyond was large enough to hide in. Our relationship crawled on for a few months, but in truth it was over the moment my insecurity polluted the air. I now wonder what I was so worked up about. Even if he'd kept photographic evidence of that Gallic strumpet, what possible threat did it pose? Hindsight is useless, but foresight a valuable tool. You are the one breathing air in your partner's vicinity, the others are just one-dimensional memories stored for posterity. I know where I would rather be.
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|October 10 - October 16, 1996
Music GrillWhat was the original name of Led Zeppelin? If you know the answer to that one, we've got 33 more.
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SoundbitesThe Paladins play the revived Rialto Theatre--need we say more?
By Lisa Weeks
Quick ScansMars, Charlie Hunter Quartet, New Edition.
Club ListingsWhat's happening at Tucson night spots for the week of October 10 - October 16, 1996.
Music BinA fabulous collection of reviews and articles by the Tucson Weekly staff of highly trained experts. And we've got links to all kinds of cool online music sites.
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Spurs chairman Daniel Levy had hinted the club might move to the proposed 80,000-seater stadium in Stratford.
But London 2012's Jackie Brock-Doyle told BBC Sport this would not happen.
"We are committed to building a stadium with athletics at its core. The aim is to provide a sustainable post-Games legacy for athletics," she said.
The stadium will hold just 25,000 people after the Games, when the other 55,000 temporary seats are ripped out.
Tottenham are looking to expand their 36,000 capacity or move from their White Hart Lane home.
Fellow Premiership side Manchester City took over the City of Manchester Stadium following the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Meanwhile, Brock-Doyle dismissed reports suggesting that it would cost more than the £250m set aside to build the stadium.
The new Wembley Stadium will cost the Football Association £757m and Arsenal's Emirates Stadium is expected to cost £365m.
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>> The group should be set to daemon. That did the trick for me. Daemon >> is the one that runs the mail server when things come in, not the >> majordomo group. > >Then you don't have wrapper installed correctly or aren't using it. >Wrapper sets the uid and gid of all Mj programs to what was configured >in the Makefile. The only reason to have the list files (and parent >directory) owned by group 'daemon' is if you set things up for *no* >world permissions. Then the only way sendmail can get to the list files >is through the group permissions. I just set up my majordomo a couple of weeks ago and when I came up with that problem, that is what someone told me to do and it worked just fine. Except that I forgot to mention that He also told me to go into my sendmail and set up majordomo as a Trusted User. Other then that, everything EXCEPT wrapper is majordom:daemon on my system and that was set up by the install. It set wrapper up as owned by root because I am on a SunOS system and had to compile using the POSIX compliance options. I am not an expert at it and I could be wrong on my answers, but since I just installed it, I was just giving what worked for me as an answer. :) ------------------------------------------- Steven K. Buehler S & B Computers, Inc. St. Joseph, Missouri 64507-1632 Phone 816-232-2918 Fax 816-232-2336 firstname.lastname@example.com -------------------------------------------


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Watergate morphs into Nampa's and Caldwell's Watergate to pay for Oregon
community college in Idaho
(Nov 29, 2008)
Former Idaho Supreme Court Justice Linda Copple Trout -- the same
judge who suddenly switched lower court judges in the middle of the Boise
Watergate scandal's Ada County Courthouse scam to allegedly "game" the outcome -- now
rules via "judicial confirmation" that it's OK for the Nampa and Caldwell
Urban Renewal Agencies to unconstitutionally go into multi-year debt without
a 2/3 vote of the voters.
Dave Frazier, local citizen
watch dog who won a recent Supreme Court battle vs. the same type of
judicial shenanigans says it's not
the project is "worthy" or "unworthy" in somebody's opinion, but rather
the project is funded. Cities who use Urban Renewal Agencies to bypass
the Idaho Constitution by pretending to be "private" institutions instead of
"public" institutions (and thus exempt from spending law limits) are still in
violation of the Idaho Constitution -- clever judges notwithstanding.
A second constitutional issue
is: why should Idahoans pay for an Oregon community college, TVCC --
especially since Ada and Canyon County taxpayers were recently tricked by a
"gamed," targeted home mail-in ballot, off-date election, into paying for a new Idaho
community college, College of Western Idaho, 9 miles away from Oregon's
TVCC (Treasure Valley Community College) located within Idaho?
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Whoa, girl friends, pull up the floor and pour yourselves another hot cup of
Rocket Java. The tricky bureaucrats are after your wallets again.
As predicted by
author Deep Throat II in his 2006 book, Boise's
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crooks in Boise's Watergate were not brought to justice -- and they weren't
-- there will be more and more Boise Watergates occurring throughout Idaho
in the future.
Well, surprise-a-roonie! The future is here and
so are the Urban Renewal Agency crooks and their political buddies pulling
off the same old judicial tricks to force the taxpayers to pay for what the
politicians want, not what you want.
There is no need to
rehash how the Bad Guys are tricking the system to unconstitutionally run
around the Idaho Constitution and go into multi-year debt when you can read
all about it (and laugh your butt off) in the original
Boise's Watergate book
(click here) . Simply
change the name "Boise" to
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"Caldwell." It's almost exactly the same game, plus you
get a free Ghirradeli Chocolate Brownie recipe at the end of
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Provost's Message - Continuing Forward
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
This week' surprising news that Dr. Smatresk is the sole finalist to lead another university has captured campus and media attention. Yesterday, the Chancellor and Chair of the Board of Regents outlined the process for identifying immediate as well as longer-term campus leadership that ensures have continuity forward for UNLV. As the Chancellor and Chair begin this process, our effort together as a campus to make UNLV great continues forward.
Despite the rare, chilly fall rain that greeted us yesterday, students, staff and faculty continued to work diligently across the campus. Finals and fall commencement are just around the corner, and we all have important work to do. Notwithstanding the rain, we are heading to our classes, or to the library to meet our study group. We are continuing to do the work we must do to achieve our goals, individually and collectively. UNLV's situation today as an institution is like to that of our students, staff and faculty at the end of the semester: we have multiple, significant projects ongoing, all of which require the support and guidance of our community partners, and on which there will be many tests in the weeks to come.
UNLV has a clear and historic agenda, an experienced and cohesive leadership team, and an accomplished and talented faculty and staff to ensure that all of our priorities and initiatives are continuing, unabated. Each of our major initiatives has widespread campus and community support and, with that support, our agenda will continue forward. We are taking steps to restore faculty morale, and we are recruiting high-impact teachers and researchers. We are revamping our undergraduate curriculum, degree programs, and our Graduate College. This year's entering undergraduate class is the largest and most talented in UNLV history, and we are recruiting even stronger classes for the coming years. We have begun to implement a forward-looking campus building master plan, and we are developing strategic plans for our information technology, research and academics. We are improving our business practices to enhance efficiency and increase response times. We are tracking and actively working to improve student success, and all measures-- from graduation rate, to student retention, to student applications, admissions, and enrollment yield -- trend upward. This forward momentum is the result of the work of the entire institution, and during the coming transition, that forward progress will continue.
We have begun to address faculty and staff pay restoration and to restore morale across campus. We are implementing a new and more equitable funding formula based upon our institutional performance. We have proposed an ambitious and realistic business plan to achieve Carnegie Research/ Very High ("Tier 1") designation, and we have forged a statewide consensus to begin the establishment of a UNLV medical school. We are actively engaged with the Las Vegas business community in planning an on-campus stadium and events center. We are preparing for a game-changing capital campaign. This agenda reflects unprecedented engagement of UNLV with our students and in our regional and state economic development. These institutional priorities reflect the needs of our students, faculty, staff, region, state and System; all have an interest in UNLV's continuity forward. Our dedication as a campus to these goals continues, because each initiative promises to improve our campus, enhance the educational experience we offer our students, and contribute to the economic diversity and quality of life in Southern Nevada and across the state.
Internally, we have launched efforts to enhance student success and faculty achievement, to rebuild staff morale and rigor after the economic crisis, and to operate more effectively. My office's recent efforts to improve student retention, progression and completion, in conjunction along with Student Affairs' work to streamline and enhance the recruitment and integration of students will remain a focus of our offices. So will our joint effort to develop an improved orientation process. There is noting more important that ensuring that students who chose UNLV complete their studies – rigorous, challenging studies that transform them into the sophisticated citizens our globalized Las Vegas economy increasing needs.
In the past two years, we have recruited a large, accomplished and diverse group of faculty. We have solidified our academic leadership team of experienced and talented deans, department chairs, and provost, and we have a reorganized executive cabinet that ensures cohesive leadership to achieve its goals. Our staff includes accomplished support personnel, shrewd financial managers, experienced managers, and effective communicators. This team has experience and established ties to the faculty, staff, students, community and state.
Our efforts to enhance that leadership, faculty and staff will also continue unabated. We expect to hire new deans for those colleges currently under interim leadership this spring. Weexpect to complete searches at the cabinet level. We will continue the leadership development programs that we have piloted this year. We will continue our efforts to support, advance and empowered department chairs and school directors, so our academic programs will be able to adjust more rapidly to changing conditions. And will continue our aggressive effort to rebuild our faculty by focusing available resources on appointment of nationally prominent, full-time educators, researchers, scholars and artists.
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This overview of the many activities on campus highlights that we have much going for us. Leadership is important, and I am confident that the Chancellor and Chair will ensure that UNLV has the leadership it requires to become the nationally prominent university that Nevada needs. In the meantime, we are equipped to continue to pursue our goals unimpeded. The goals Neal articulated are, after all, our goals. The campus is dedicated to achieving them.
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In Washington the Interparliamentary Union (TIME, Oct. 12) last week closed its sessions. Two major resolutions had been passed:
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Mo Farah, a gold medalist for Great Britain in the 5,000- and 10,000-meter runs, just so happened to take an ice bath at the London Olympics. Someone just so happened to take some water from that ice bath. And someone just so happens to be selling that water on eBay.
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Greg Scarlatoiu is Executive Director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) in Washington, D.C. At HRNK, he has directed the publication of 24 reports and books and leads public, media, and international organization outreach to highlight North Korean human rights abuses. A seasoned lecturer and media commentator on North Korean human rights, political security and economic issues on the Korean peninsula, Scarlatoiu has appeared as an expert witness at several Congressional hearings on North Korean human rights. Scarlatoiu's recent publications include journal articles and book chapters authored for the International Council of Korean Studies (ICKS), the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, and the Hanns Seidel Foundation as well as Washington Post and Washington Times op-eds. Scarlatoiu is an experienced social audit consultant, having conducted eleven annual surveys of compliance with International Labor Organization (ILO) core Conventions in South Korea. Prior to HRNK, he was with Korea Economic Institute (KEI) in Washington, D.C. Scarlatoiu has worked with the International Labor Organization's Department for the Activity of Multinational Enterprises (ILO-MULTI) in Geneva, Switzerland. He has over six years' experience in international development, having delivered technical assistance under missions funded by USAID, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. For fourteen years, he has been authoring and broadcasting the weekly Scarlatoiu Column to North Korea, for Radio Free Asia (RFA). A visiting professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in Seoul, Scarlatoiu teaches and coordinates the Korean peninsula and Japan class at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI). He holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from the Fletcher School, Tufts University; and an MA and BA from Seoul National University, Department of International Relations. Scarlatoiu was awarded the title of Citizen of Honor, City of Seoul, in January 1999. He is fluent in Korean, French and Romanian.
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I love anything banana! This is a lovely banana dessert courtesy of Anthony Worrall Thompson.
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Fantastic recipe. Really quick to make. Very tasty. In NZ we don't have double cream, and the only milk in the fridge was skim. Would be interesting to try it with full fat versions, as we all thought it was brilliant as it was. I did have to increase to 4 bread slices to cover my dish. Total time to make also is a bit off - took me less than 10mins to throw together and was perfectly golden after 15mins in the oven.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 bananas, peeled and chopped
- 50 g unsalted butter
- 50 g clear honey
- 50 g soft dark brown sugar
- 2 slices bread, crusts removed
- 100 ml whole milk
- 100 ml double cream
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2. Re: Refer to 'parent' 'uix.current'?55663 Nov 19, 2003 7:36 PM (in response to 4996)I'll talk to one of our EL experts and let you know what
I find out.
3. Re: Refer to 'parent' 'uix.current'?157564 Nov 20, 2003 7:28 PM (in response to 55663)1. Unfortunately, there is no way to refer to the 'parent' uix.current.
This is a serious limitation and we are going to fix this for the JSF release of UIX.
2. Most Unfortunately, there is also no way of setting a temporary variable. The workaround is to write and register an EL Function that will take a Map, a key and a value and set the value on the Map. Then you can use that to set a temporary value on the requestScope.
To create your own EL functions, you need to write a UIExtension.
And in the
to register all the public static methods in klass as EL functions, under the specified namespace.
registerSelf(ParserManager manager) method, you will use XMLUtils.registerFunctions( ParserManager manager, String namespace, Class klass)
4. Re: Refer to 'parent' 'uix.current'?4996 Nov 20, 2003 11:54 PM (in response to 157564)Thanks, Arjuna. Could you please confirm the following implementation? It appears to be working, but I want to be sure I haven't overlooked something that will get me into trouble down the line. Also, if this is a correct implementation, I thought it might be nice to have an example here that others could learn from or use.
I've got the TempValueUIExtension registered in the uix-config.xml. The output of the above test page renders as just the string 'testValue', which is what I would expect. I wasn't sure where to include the el for setting the value, but since it is a null function, I figured it couldn't hurt to throw in a <text> tag that would probably just print nothing at all. Any better suggestions?
public class TempValueUIExtension implements UIExtension { public static final String TEMP_VALUE_NAMESPACE = "http://tempvalue.avega.com"; public TempValueUIExtension() { } public void registerSelf(ParserManager parserManager) { XMLUtils.registerFunctions( parserManager, TEMP_VALUE_NAMESPACE, TempMap.class ); } public void registerSelf(LookAndFeel lookAndFeel) { } } public class TempMap { public static final String MAP_ATTRIBUTE = "tempMapAttribute"; public static void put( UIImplicitObject uix, Object key, Object value ) { getTempMap( uix ).put( key, value ); } public static Object get( UIImplicitObject uix, Object key ) { return getTempMap( uix ).get( key ); } private static Map getTempMap( UIImplicitObject uix ) { RenderingContext context = uix.getRenderingContext(); BajaContext bajaContext = BajaRenderingContext.getBajaContext( context ); HttpServletRequest request = bajaContext.getServletRequest(); Map tempMap = (Map)request.getAttribute( MAP_ATTRIBUTE ); if ( tempMap == null ) { tempMap = new HashMap(); request.setAttribute( MAP_ATTRIBUTE, tempMap ); } return tempMap; } } <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?> <page xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/controller" xmlns:temp="http://tempvalue.avega.com" expressionLanguage="el"> <content> <dataScope xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui"> <contents> <document> <contents> <body> <contents> <text text="${ temp:put( uix, 'tempKey', 'tempValue' ) }"/> <text text="${ temp:get( uix, 'tempKey' ) }"/> </contents> </body> </contents> </document> </contents> </dataScope> </content> </page>
Also, you say there will be a way to refer to outer loops in the next release of UIX (do you mean the 10g production release, or after that?) Will there also be a built-in mechanism for temporary variables?
5. Re: Refer to 'parent' 'uix.current'?6015 Dec 18, 2003 10:47 PM (in response to 4996)Hi,
The JSF release is the release after JDeveloper 10g Production.


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Hi, California is certainly NOT the answer (relatively high corporate and LLC taxes) and ver restrictive (i.e, no sevice for capital contribution up front ... basically lots of impediments)
Nevada has no income tax ... and is very pro business right now, several incentives
If the SanFrancisci company continues to pay you the Canadian piece is not really a issue ... you onlybpay tax in Canada is you are a resident there
A lot of this might depend on WHERE it is that you do the work... various states have different requirements about registering in that state as a foreign corporation is you actually are long enough to be considered domiciled in that state
Essentially, for now, I'd stay with GA .. what will happen is CA will tax you on their source income, but you will get a credit from GA for taxes paid to another state (the net of that is that you end up paying the higher rate)
One thing top keep in mind ... as an S-Corp (may be stating the obvious here) you don't have to pay self employment taxes on the dividends (profit left over after your salary and other expenses) ... so keep your salary (within reason) as low as would bee deemed "reasonable" (and the IRS doesnt define that, they just base it on comparable salaries, etc.
There ar severn states that have no income tax:
Two states have a limited income tax on individuals. These states taxonly dividend and interest income:
The states that top the Tax Foundation list as the most tax-friendly are: 1. South Dakota: No corporate or individual income tax2. Wyoming: No corporate or individual income tax3. Alaska: No individual income tax or state-level sales tax; however, there are local jurisdictions that impose sales taxes4. Nevada: No corporate or individual income tax5. Florida: No individual income tax6. Montana: No sales tax7. New Hampshire: No sales tax8. Delaware: No sales tax, but second worse corporate income tax in the nation; however, does have a favorable business law environment9. Washington: No individual or corporate income tax10. Utah: Assesses all major tax types, but has low property tax rates and a favorable unemployment insurance tax system
Another thing to keep in mind with the commuting, be the way IRS deems business travel as deductible is by determining your tax home
And the time frame is important ... that is to say, ...
From IRS: "Travel expenses paid or incurred in connection with a temporary work assignment away from home are deductible. However, travel expenses paid in connection with an indefinite work assignment are not deductible. Any work assignment in excess of one year is considered indefinite."
And on the tax home piece..Again directly form IRS: "Generally, your tax home is the entire city or general area where your main place of business or work is located, regardless of where you maintain your family home. For example, you live with your family in Chicago but work in Milwaukee where you stay in a hotel and eat in restaurants. You return to Chicago every weekend. You may not deduct any of your travel, meals, or lodging in Milwaukee because that is your tax home. Your travel on weekends to your family home in Chicago is not for your work, so these expenses are also not deductible. If you regularly work in more than one place, your tax home is the general area where your main place of business or work is located"
Seems as if, given the info you've provided some of these travel expenses issues may be a cery large factor
Here's the IRS guidance on this:
But again , in terms of working in other places (depending on who is actually paying you) your best practice is going to be sure to take the foreign tax credit (if applicable) http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Foreign-Tax-Credit and the state tax credit for your home state (resident state) against taxes paid in other states: http://taxes.about.com/od/State-Income-Taxes/a/multiple-state-tax-returns.htm
This is the overview ... but it sounds like (if it's possible) your "tax home," the length of your assignments/projects, (may be the most important, given that this is where much of the variation lies in your federal tax deductions, other business expenses will be what they will be) ... and then, to a lesser extent, looking at the various states that have no or low income tax and other incentives (although state taxes are not nearly as big a financial piece of the tax cost pie)
(if it's possible to project, that is )
By the way California has a relatively high S-corp tax and even if your expenses take your profits down to nothin, they have a minimum $8000 per year corporations tax
( but you are, of course) ... that piece about not being taxed at the federal level was frm them ... California is VERY aggressive, relatively speaking
in ATL here, by the way
Questions? ... I've tried to lay out the important pieces
... still don't see you coming into the hat here , s I'll move us to the Q&A mode (that will allow you to see this all at one time better) ...We can still continue a dialogue there, just not in real-time as we can here Also, I'll paste everything above in the Q&A window so you can see it all ... Let me know if you have any questions at all
Hi Line. I can't believe that I told you that I have an S-corp! That is typing error. I have a C-Corp. How does that change the above?
Lane, thanks. I find your advice a little bit generic, but on the other hand because I am busy I have been unable to ask more questions so I thought it would be unfair to keep this open longer.
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