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Good news from the IRS for companies taking advantage of safe harbor election under the new tangible property rules.
In an announcement made recently, they have raised the de minimis safe harbor amount from $500 to $2,500 for companies that don't maintain an audited financial statement. This means that smaller companies with qualifying activities can now receive a higher benefit effective for the tax year 2016. Remember a safe harbor election allows a company to immediately deduct the full amount of tangible property purchases below certain dollar thresholds instead of capitalizing them for tax purposes. The de minimis – or "small dollar" – safe harbor can provide a better tax benefit versus spreading a depreciation deduction out over a period of several years. To help clients, prospects and other understand this change and it's benefits, Hanson & Co. has provided a brief summary below.
Implementation Date
The new $2,500 threshold takes effect starting with the 2016 tax year. However, the IRS also announced that it would not challenge use of the new $2,500 threshold in tax years prior to 2016 if the taxpayer otherwise satisfies the de minimis safe harbor requirements. One of those requirements is to have the accounting policy to expense amounts below a certain threshold in place at the beginning of the tax year. For this reason, taxpayers without an AFS will generally still be limited to the $500 threshold for 2015 unless their pre-existing capitalization policies already exceeded that amount.
What Qualifies?
The de minimis safe harbor applies to amounts spent to acquire, produce, or improve tangible property that would normally qualify as a capitalized item. The new $2,500 per-item threshold will cover the cost of many more common business expenditures, such as personal computers, tablets, smart phones, high-end office furniture, machinery, and equipment parts that typically surpass the $500 threshold and had to previously be depreciated as a capitalized expense.
Planning Ahead
There are a number of steps to follow in order to take advantage of the new changes, keep the following in mind:
- The de minimis threshold is applied per invoice or per item. If you plan to purchase multiple pieces of the same equipment at one time (for instance, computers, phones, tablets, office chairs, etc.), ensure that your accounting staff is applying the de minimis threshold on a per item basis to maximize your current deductions.
- If you are subject to uniform capitalization rules for the production or acquisition of inventory, you may still be required to capitalize the cost of tangible property if it is produced or acquired for resale (direct or allocable), even if the amount falls below the de minimis threshold.
- Be sure to document your accounting capitalization policy or any changes to it prior to January 1, 2016, (even though a written policy is not required for taxpayers without an AFS) because the amount that can be deducted under the de minimis safe harbor is limited to the lesser of the current threshold or the specifics relayed in your accounting policy.
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The recently announced changes will provide many companies with immediate tax savings. However, to ensure compliance with the complex record keeping and compliance regulations, it's essential to work with a qualified advisor to guide you through the process. If you have questions, Hanson & Co. is here to help! For additional information contact us at (303) 388-1010, or click here for email. We look forward to speaking with you soon.


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The Animal Shelter League of Rohnert Park will present its third annual "Bark After Dark" Sat., Nov. 3rd. This shelter fundraiser includes dinner and a silent and a live auction and takes place at the Rohnert Park Community Center at 5401 Snyder Lane between 6:30 and 10 p.m.
The silent auction begins early and continues throughout most of the evening. People have plenty of time to examine the more than two hundred items up for bid. No host beer and wine and other drinks will be available. Dinner begins to be served about a half hour after the opening. The Pasta King will present pasta, salad, garlic bread and there will be many delicious desserts.
Pat Kerrigan, a well-known animal lover and anchor of KSRO's "Sonoma County Morning" will be the celebrity MC. The auction includes wines/winery tours, entertainment, and restaurants, unique hand made crafts and artwork, pet supplies and service, gift baskets and more. There will also be raffle items throughout the evening.
The live auction includes some very special activities. Participants can bid on an afternoon cruise on the bay with a picnic for six, a Madrona Manor dinner and a one night stay, or a five night stay in a pet friendly home near Mt. Shasta. Other big ticket items include a two night stay in the World Wyndam Condos in Clearlake, a dinner for four and a tour at a Rohnert Park Fire Station, or a Murder Mystery Dinner for eight at Windsor Performing Arts Academy.
The cost of this evening of food and fun is $25 per person or $40 per couple if signed up in advance. After Oct. 29th, the cost is $30 person or $50 per couple. The shelter suggests: "Give a holiday gift that gives twice—-your family and friends get a special item and the knowledge that the money spent saves animals.
This money is raised to maintain special programs at the animal shelter. The first Bark After Dark raised ten thousand dollars while the second one raised fifteen thousand dollars. This year's goal is to raise thirty thousand dollars. This ambitious goal is necessary as last year's event was cancelled due to the Oct. fires.
The Animal Shelter League runs many life-saving programs that benefit from funds raised by Bark After Dark. It offers a summer camp for children from second through seventh grade to learn about shelters and animal care. Another program, Get Them Back Home, provides free micro-chips and pet identification tags. Some of the money will be used to help support the clinic remodel. Silver Paws benefits low-income elders who need veterinary care for their pets.
Shelter Supervisor, Mickey Zeldes, emphasizes the importance of this event. She wants to continue the programs mentioned and others that help save animals. "We rely on the financial assistance of the Animal Shelter League to save as many as we can, said Zeldes. "This event will raise much needed funds to support the programs." Join her on Nov. 3rd at this fun event that has a serious and special goal: save animals. More information can be found at tinyurl.com/barkafterdark2018.

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by: Barb
What a busy and fun weekend.
Saturday was rainy, so I just did a quick walk through of the the Hell's Kitchen Flea Market. Maybe I'll have better luck next month.
It was my first meeting as a new member of the Empire Quilters, who meet in NYC. They are an active and vibrant group of women and I look forward to getting to know them better. Here is the result of their Block of the Month - what a turn out of blocks!
The speaker was, David Taylor, an incredibly talented art quilter from Steamboat Springs.
His precise process is hand applique', previewing each piece on the design wall, and then heavy machine quilting (thread paint style) with variegated thread. David changes thread color every 5 to 10 mins and buries all the knots on the back. His quilts are almost reversible, as you'll see with the Calf quilt.
The Chicadee quilt has 500 indivdually selected and appliqued pine needles. Amazing.
Sunday, we took a drive to Mystic Seaport Museum in Conn. It's a wonderful 19 Century Whaling Village Museum.
Isn't this great spontaneous public art? It's the visitor stickers and wrist bracelets on a trash can.
Me and Hanna Whaling around.....
Nice strippy in one of the cottages.
This sweet little doll bed was carved by a captain at sea. Upon his return, he was informed that his baby daughter had died while he was away :(
The little quilts are so sweet.
Monday brought another day of quilting and guild fun, but I'll save that for next time.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Weekend Update
3 comments:
- Kim said...
that's an amazing amount of blocks- maybe I will join them - did you see Elaine there??
- September 16, 2009 at 3:19 PM
- antique quilter said...
love the doll quilts, the courthouse stops looks wonderful..
Davids quilts are amazing.
great blocks, look like they would be fun to make
- September 16, 2009 at 4:24 PM
- Crispy said...
Gosh Barb, It looks like you had a wonderful weekend!! I'm sure you will make friends in the guild quickly, quilters are usually a very friendly bunch :0)
- September 16, 2009 at 6:21 PM
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Pete Davidson is basically the king of spur-of-the moment tattoos. The SNL star famously has ink over large portions of his body, and has covered up at least two ex-related tats in the past year (and that's only the ones we know about). However, let's hope his most recent tattoo is here to stay. That's right…it looks like Davidson has honored another important woman in his life.
As in Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
As crazy as this may sound, it's actually not that unexpected for the comedian. Not only does he get new tattoos on the reg, but much of his comedy—both in his personal standup and his frequent bits on Weekend Update—is political in nature. While he often plays the part of "disengaged millennial," Davidson doesn't hold back when it comes to supporting progressive platforms and legislatures.
Tattoo artist Dave Sirus of No Idols Tattoo in N.Y.C. posted a picture of the new tat—which is on Davidon's right shoulder—on November 20th.
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120 days is a quarter. Quarters are often used to dissect past information to predict future outcomes.
We had a meeting to day to discuss the next half years outlook and one of the presentations was the USD outlook and future trends September2009 to March 2010
while I cannot post the original material I took some notes and have transferred the relevant data from whence it came . (data is correct up till 3rd August 2009 and back 120 days) The frightening thing is there were very few of the 30 shown where the USD had risen off the boxing mat (retraced some ground)
latest (Aug 3)0.699154 lowest (Aug 3)0.699154 highest (Mar 4)0.796495
% Fall USD/EUR/120 days cycle 12%
latest (Aug 3)1.18996 lowest (Aug 3)1.18996 highest (Mar 9)1.58241
% Fall USD/AUD/120day cycle 24.8%
latest (Aug 3)1.49934 lowest (Aug 3)1.49934 highest (Mar 2)2.02533
% Fall USD/NZD/120 days 25.9%
latest (Aug 3)1.8515 lowest (Aug 3)1.8515 highest (Mar 3)2.41522
% Fall USD/BRL/120 days 23%
latest (Aug 3)0.593722 lowest (Aug 3)0.593722 highest (Mar 12)0.728212
% Fall USD/GBP 18.4%
latest (Aug 3)1.06789 lowest (Aug 3)1.06789 highest (Mar 9)1.30561
% FallUSD/CAD/120 days 18.2%
latest (Aug 3)5.20513 lowest (Aug 3)5.20513 highest (Mar 4)5.93437
% Fall USD/DKK/120 days 11.5%
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Indo Rupiah -19.4%
Polish Zloty -25%
Norway Krone -15.3%
Mex Peso-14.7%
Ruski Ruble -14.3%
THE GOOD NEWS - USD is Holding on by a fingernail to a few currencies that ARE Banana republics. Banana fruit therefore will not rise to much
CONCLUSION - POOM - You have let the Inflation Genie out of the lamp. Deflation in the USA is dead now and you may
welcome to at least 18% inflation looking forward as well as infecting the rest of the world with commodity shock.
Oil and commodities in the USD exchange are going to go ballistic.
Thank you for painting us into a corner Paulson/Bernankie and destroying what hope we had left of a recovery- Why - well you cant fight the Inflation Gene without a sword (interest rates) Try lifting them and its a POOM KA POOM. If the US/ World economy were a Chess game Id say checkmate in 3 moves. You have no Pawns or rear guard pieces left. It was inevitable in the end, the lie is going to kick us all in the wallet
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Game is played with 8 field players + 1 goalkeeper / 9v9. Maximum squad size: 18 players.
Age Control
Only players born 2009 (or later) are eligible to play. Each player must have a valid player's pass – it has to be shown if necessary. Any player who is not able to present his document can't participate in the tournament. IMPORTANT NOTE: If a player, who is not able to present his document, the team automatically loses the match 0:3.
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Offside and back pass rule (= goalkeeper is not allowed to pick up back pass ball) apply.
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Blue card = 2 minutes suspension, a suspended player cannot be replaced. The suspension is terminated if the team of the suspended player concedes a goal.
Red card = player is excluded from the game. The excluded player may be replaced after 2 minutes or if the team of the excluded player concedes a goal. The tournament committee has the right to exclude the player for additional games or to fully exclude the player from the tournament.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If a player, who is suspended, is participating in a match, the team automatically loses the match 0:3.
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Each protest must be handed to tournament committee a maximum of 15 minutes after the end of the match. No protest against referees will be accepted.
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A city that is accepted to have its cause in Hindu folklore, Haridwar is an antiquated as a place can be. Hundreds of years old sanctuaries, entrancing religious functions, local people that are excessively cheerful, making it impossible to let you know of Hindu old stories. Lose yourself to the peacefulness that encompasses the Ganga ghats around dawn or watch the interesting arti in the night, the stuff profound encounters are made of. Other than its religious criticalness, it is a quick developing focal point of yoga, contemplation, and Ayurvedic rehearses. Visit it for an ordeal that is nothing not exactly rare.
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, at the base of the Shivalik Mountain extend in Uttarakhand. Trains from significant urban communities all over India stop at Haridwar on their approach to Dehradun. For those originating from Delhi to Haridwar, it takes at least four hours to arrive via train or six hours by street.
The closest air terminal is Dehradun's Jolly Grant Airport, around 40 kilometers in the north of Haridwar. Travel time from the airplane terminal to Haridwar is around 60 minutes. Hope to pay for a taxi. Local transport offers a good service.
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The best time to visit Haridwar is from October to March.
Summers, from April to July, get extremely sweltering in Haridwar. Temperatures float around 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). The spotless water of the Ganges is extremely reviving, however, and May to June is viewed as pinnacle season. The rainstorm season, from July to September, is inadmissible to taking a plunge in the Ganges as the stream bank winds up unsteady and ebbs and flows are solid in light of the rain.
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Bender To Transfer; Hunter Reportedly Headed To Nicholls State
West Virginia University basketball coach Bob Huggins announced Monday that sophomore forward Maciej Bender has asked for his release and plans to transfer.
Bender, a native of Warsaw, Poland, played in 35 games in 2017-18, averaging 1.2 points and 1.9 rebounds per game.
"We have enjoyed Magic and his contributions to Mountaineer basketball," Huggins said. "We wish him the best in his future endeavors."
In addition to Bender, there is news on another WVU basketball player who is transferring.
D'Angelo Hunter, who left West Virginia's basketball team just prior to last month's NCAA Tournament, is reportedly going to transfer to Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
WVU granted Hunter his release shortly after his departure from the basketball team.
Nicholls State finished the 2017-18 season with a 21-11 record. It entered the Southland Conference tournament as the league's No. 2 seed, but The Colonels were bumped off in the conference tourney semifinals by No. 3 seed Stephen F. Austin. At the conclusion of the season, NSU head coach Richie Riley was hired as the new head coach at South Alabama. Nicholls assistant coach Austin Claunch was promoted to become the program's 12th head coach.
A native of Louisville, Hunter came to WVU last summer after a two-year stint at Navarro (Texas) Community College. The 6-foot-6 guard played sparingly for the Mountaineers this past season, appearing in 17 of West Virginia's 37 games and averaging 1.5 points per outing.
Per NCAA rules, Hunter will have to sit out this coming season at Nicholls before being eligible for game action in the 2019-20 campaign. He can always appeal the year-in-residency status that applies to most transfers, though, and that could be his avenue to play immediately next season. The Colonels can certainly use help right away, as their club this past year featured seven seniors, including five who were their top scorers.


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Our opinion: The Constitution wins
A cooler head has prevailed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Judge Christopher Conner has struck down as unconstitutional a hasty and overly broad piece of legislation passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to cash a political check provided by a short speech by a convicted cop killer.
We commented at the time of its passage last October that knee-jerk legislation very seldom makes good law.
In this case, within days of the brouhaha over Mumia Abu-Jamal's recorded commencement speech presented to the graduating class of a New England college hardly anyone had ever heard of, the Pennsylvania General Assembly saw its chance to make points with the electorate by capitalizing on the revulsion that Abu-Jamal, who had shot and killed a police officer years before, had made a public statement. The statement had nothing to do with the crime, his guilt or innocence, the victim or the victim's family. It turned out to be one of those classic be-true-to-yourself commencement speeches.
Nevertheless, it was claimed, any public utterance by Abu-Jamal, or any other convicted criminal, could inflict emotional harm on their victims.
We suggested that the law was overly vague and could abrogate the free speech rights of anyone who was ever convicted of a crime at any time in the past.
Judge Conner recognized the obvious, stating in his ruling: "Indeed, throughout its brief legislative gestation, the law was championed primarily as a device for suppressing offender speech." Testimony at a legislative hearing on the bill was further evidence of its vague nature. "The attorney general suggests that the term includes even persons who are accused but not yet convicted. It is thus unclear whether an offender includes the accused, the convicted, the exonerated, third parties, or all of the foregoing," Conner wrote.
We too were repulsed by Goddard College's selection of a commencement speaker and suggested it may have relied on the theory that any publicity, even bad publicity, is better than obscurity.
We would suggest that if the legislature really wanted to protect crime victims from perpetrators under such circumstances, a much narrower law might be written to describe specific acts. But, of course, there wasn't time for that. The legislature had to strike while the iron was hot, while the anger was fresh in everyone's mind. Hence, the broad, vague, lazy and unconstitutional law that resulted, a product for which the Pennsylvania General Assembly is expert.


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Hitman (2007)
Hitman is one of those series that looks like it's right up my alley, yet I've still never gotten around to playing at all. So I can't really comment on fidelity to the source material. What I can tell you is that the movie is clearly trying to be nothing more than one over-the-top action sequence after another with only the thinnest of plot development to connect everything, and to that extent, it's extremely competent.
Our bald protag Agent 47 is played by Timothy Oilyphaunt, the guy who played a major character in the pretty good show Deadwood, then rode that success to a bunch of mediocre performances in terrible movies. I suspect he's wearing some kind of latex bald cap, but can offer no evidence, other than he just looks a little awkward (but then, some dudes just aren't made to rock the bald head.)
The one thing this film does really well? Backstory. Over the opening credits, the creation of young Agent 47 is shown in an effective montage with no dialogue whatsoever, just set to the tune of Ave Maria. You get the full idea quickly and effectively – kid orphaned or kidnapped or something, shaved and put a barcode on his head, trained in kung fu and killing, locked up in some facility that prevents escape. Tight and effective. I hope Uwe Boll watched this part and took notes.
The rest of the movie isn't quite at the same level, but the 16% Critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes seems far too low to me. Now, it isn't a good movie. It's fairly boring and has all sorts of awkward performances. But strictly as an old-school Hong Kong style violence romp that simply rushes between action sequences? It's really not bad at all. 16% is down near Uva Bowels territory, and this really is way better. I'm not sure I'd even give it a score of 70%, but purely as an action movie, 16% is ridiculously low.
At the writing helm for this one is Skip Woods. Apparently, prior to this, he only had two major films under his belt – Swordfish, that movie known mostly for having a gratuitous shot of Halle Berry's nipples, and Thursday, some movie from the late 90's I've never heard of, but that apparently Roger Ebert hated because it was basically a snuff film. Again, I'm not familiar with the games, but I see an interview with the producer here that claims he didn't base it on any game in particular, maybe airlifting a few elements out of different ones. Standard game-to-movie procedure. Really, there's so little time spent on non-action sequences, the writing is almost irrelevant. Director Xavier Gens? A bunch of French art films that don't even have Wikipedia entries, and some French movie called Fronterie, a confusing mishmash of Neo-Nazis and zombies. However, earlier in his career, as an actor he starred in some Italian movie called "The Good, The Bad, and The Zombies", which I feel makes him by far the best director we've seen yet.
I think the thing that makes the movie turgid in spite of decent action is that 47 never once faces a real challenge, like ever. He's basically in God Mode with an aimbot on the entire time. Early in the movie, he's staying in a hotel and gets set up by someone or something, and some Russian special forces unit is about to bust into his room to apprehend him. He has to quickly run out of the room and rappel off the balcony in just his work shirt and pants with no gear on him. We then find out he hid his "ballers" in an ice machine on another floor for some reason, however, and just kind of casually fights his way out of the hotel with those alone, sliding around elevator shafts barefoot and etc. That's really the closest you ever see this guy to anything approaching danger. Hordes of other barcode assassins come after him through the entirety of the movie, but he dispatches them with little more trouble than any of the other mooks and grunts, including when three of them ambush him simultaneously in a train car.
The other thing is that he has no personality whatsoever other than "uncomfortable around women." I assume both this and the "god mode" thing is to keep fidelity with the game. What works in an action-heavy game doesn't work in a film, however. There's no kind of moral consideration or redemptive arc, really the only challenge Hitman has to face is "will he ever get laid?" Which he doesn't. When that Russian hooker he's toting around for inane reasons (the original "girl with the dragon tattoo") gets drunk and tries to give him a ride out of nowhere, just to get a sex scene of some sort into the movie, he pulls some sort of roofie injection out of nowhere. Which now that I think about it is even more creepy.
The action is at least a competent knockoff of John Woo type movies, which is something I guess, if you somehow get forced to watch it. It's probably not worth paying money for though.


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With all the abundant huckleberries this year, lots of recipes are cropping up.
One of the yummiest sounding ones is the huckleberry pudding cake recipe posted on the Bozeman Daily Chronicle online edition:
- Cakes
- 1 cup huckleberries
- 4 tbs. unsalted butter at room temperature
- ⅔ cup plus 2 teaspoons sugar
- Pinch kosher salt
- 4 large eggs at room temperature, separated
- 2 tbs. lemon zest
- 5 tbs. all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup milk
- ½ cup lemon juice
- Compote
- 1 ½ cups huckleberries
- ½ cup sugar
- 3 tbs. lemon zest
- 1 tsp. lemon juice
- Pinch kosher salt
- The cakes - Position oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Butter eight 4-ounce ramekins and coat the inside of each ramekin with sugar. Add enough huckleberries to cover the bottom of each ramekin. Place the ramekins in a deep-sided roasting pan.
- Bring a large pot of water to a simmer on low heat.
- Add the butter, kosher salt, 2/3 cup sugar and 2 tablespoons lemon zest to the bowl of a stand mixer. Fit the mixer with the paddle attachment and mix at medium speed until the creamy. Add the four egg yolks, one at a time, mixing between each addition.
- Turn the mixer to low and add the flour slowly to combine. Gradually add 3/4 cup milk and continue mixing. Add 1/2 cup lemon juice. Once fully mixed, transfer the batter to a large bowl.
- Wash and dry the bowl of the stand mixer and fit the mixer with the whip attachment. Add the egg whites to the mixer and beat until the egg whites hold firm peaks.
- Fold one third of the egg whites into the batter. Quickly add the remaining two thirds egg whites to the batter and fold to combine.
- Divide the batter equally into the eight ramekins. Pour the simmering water into the roasting pan until the water rises halfway up the sides of the ramekins.
- Place the roasting pan with the cakes in the oven and bake for 45 minutes or until the tops of the cakes are golden and puffy. Remove the ramekins and place them on a wire rack to cool.
- The compote - While the cakes are baking, add all the ingredients for the compote into a medium saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil and stir gently so as not to break the huckleberries. Boil for 1 minute and then remove from the heat to cool.
- To serve - Once the cakes have cooled, remove them from the ramekins by inverting them into the palm of your hand. Turn the cakes right side up and place them on a small plate.
- Spoon a portion of huckleberry compote over the cakes and serve.


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Persona 4 the Golden Animation –7 It's Cliché, So What?
I don't know what the team's goal was for this episode. It felt disjointed in both content and presentation. The music video of Adachi's memories was nebulous in direction and therefore effect. What was the purpose? If seeing Adachi's life was intended to make Yu Question his own actions and motives equally to or more than Adachi's verbalized accusations, I have a heard time believing that. A waste of four or so minutes is not the kind of thing this show needs; I feel a monologue or dialogue over that section would have helped a lot, but I suppose the team deserves credit for making a bold choice. Too bad it was a misstep. Another mar on the episode was the seemingly off message brutality Yu displayed towards Adachi. I lost count of how many time he hit him, but it seemed uncharacteristic and didn't really match with the tone, especially because as soon as he and Adachi seem to be making headway in understanding each other, he gets taken over by the eye in the sky. The idea that the two of them took such different paths while being so similar was well presented and it was neat that it was acted out by Yu using Adachi's Persona. The best thing in this episode, which was unfortunately not interwoven well, may have been Marie chiding Yu for not accepting all the consequences of his actions (somehow hurting Adachi in the course of doing what he saw as kindness and helping Marie) for good and ill. She doesn't drone on about opportunity costs or eating one's cake and still having it, but succinctly shakes him from self-doubt and accepting Adachi's path of isolationist inaction. I think a lot can be read into seeing that dichotomy and making a choice.
For nicely representing a cliché message that resonates with me, but mucking it up with unorthodox chronology that adds little to the narrative, I give this overly-ambitious, mediocre episode a 3 out of 5.


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I saw this at the Glock booth here at Shot Show 2015.
It is the Glock 19TB. It comes with tall suppressor sights and a threaded barrel. When I asked Glock reps about the new MOS optic guns and the the lack of suppressor sights, their answer was vague. They do not really know the reasoning. One surmised that it was due to the fact that they do not make tall suppressor sights so they went with the factory sights. It seems like a major oversight to not include the gun with tall suppressor sights. Until I saw this Glock 19TB, I thought Glocks did not come with them and the end user would change them out himself. Well if they can install suppressor sights on the Glock 19TB in the factory, why can't they get more to have the MOS line to compete against the S&W M&P CORE?
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Welcome to the fifth annual Enterprise Architecture Awards, presented by InfoWorld, Forrester Research, and the Penn State University Center for Enterprise Architecture. This year, we have six winning EA programs from the following companies: Allstate Insurance, Australia Post, Dell, Dubai Customs House, Molina Healthcare, and State Farm Insurance Companies.
This group shows how far EA has come in terms of overall business impact and, in particular, in its focus on customer-facing systems that drive engagement and increase revenue. Our winners clearly understand that big data and mobile are more than leading-edge technology areas -- they also represent enormous opportunity to increase customer interaction and prove the value of EA done right.
The winners were selected by a six-person panel of leading EA practitioners:
Gary Vonderhaar, enterprise architecture group executive, and
Vijay Bhuvanagiri, head of business architecture at Mastercard, a 2013 Enterprise Architecture Awards winner
Igor Gershfang, senior director of emerging technology solutions at Walgreens
Jason Graf, IT director at Yum Brands, another 2013 winner
Eric Meredith, vice president of architecture governance and communications at PNC Financial
David Parrott, chief architecture officer at Thomson Reuters
We're grateful for our panel's efforts in selecting finalists and choosing six winners among many worthy entrants. The results speak for themselves. It's difficult to imagine an array of EA practices that could be more successful in helping their organizations achieve strategic business goals.
Allstate Insurance: Enabling business innovation
Property and casualty insurance in the United States is a relatively low-margin business. To compete in this market, the best strategy is to create differentiated products and services for unique customer segments, each with a customized value proposition. This requires both great service and innovative products.
Allstate Insurance realized that in order to grow its business, it needed to transform IT from a "fix and run" organization to a group focused on ways to "run and grow."
To accomplish this, Allstate named a Chief Innovation Officer to build and lead a team creating, evaluating, and developing new products and services for customers. Working closely with each business unit and an Innovation Execution group within Enterprise Architecture Innovation draws on both data-driven analytics and customer insights to create new offerings, enhance existing ones, and coordinate activity across the enterprise.
Prior to the creation of the Innovation Execution group, innovation chiefly derived from the ad-hoc implementation of ideas. Even when prototypes showed promise, they could not easily be integrated back into production environments. Today the EA practice's Innovation Execution activities target both business and IT, enabling innovation through the following methods:
Building "more real, more quickly," by pipelining business ideas through the systems development lifecycle faster
Uncovering potential roadblocks very early to minimize project risks
Providing development teams with working, proven prototypes for reference
Ensuring migration to production is streamlined without sacrificing quality or engineering rigor
The EA practice has adapted in several ways. Key architects with extensive development expertise are tapped to lead innovation projects, while solution architects now work on projects using both waterfall and agile methodologies. They are always part of a cross-functional team for innovation projects.
In addition, EA and the Innovation Execution teams proactively engage the IT operations teams early. This devops-style approach cultivates a collaborative commitment to successful implementation and fosters a much better understanding of nonfunctional requirements and operational needs.
The Innovation Execution team builds on the classic EA deliverables -- including application road maps and architecturally scalable designs -- by providing prototypes, market tests, and the assessment of high-risk portions of large complex systems.
The primary technology challenges come from keeping pace with new trends, including:
Mobile development and architectural changes, such as responsive UI design
Telematics and the connected car -- and their impact on such offering as usage-based insurance
Big data analytics capabilities with open source tools
Going forward, the Innovation Execution practice within EA will expand from its three core functions -- proof-of-concept projects, market tests, and fast business enablement -- to create an advanced R&D team. This team will focus on key capabilities and platforms that are two to three years out. They will also develop partnerships with key businesses and with the technology and innovation departments of leading universities.
Stakeholders see a new partner in EA thanks to the Innovation Execution practice, which not only supports their IT development teams, but can also assist in making their strategic goals and plans a reality by providing actionable solutions in significantly less time.
Australia Post: Focusing on customers
Australia Post is a for-profit, government-owned business enterprise with products and services across many industry verticals. Since 2011, digital disruption has accelerated downturns in the company's traditional letters and retail business, while at the same time creating growth opportunities in areas such as parcels, e-commerce, and government services. In response, Australia Post has undergone a fundamental transformation and created new products and services that are relevant and compelling for customers in the digital age.
The technology organization has shifted its focus from back-office, ERP system consolidation to enabling business growth and innovation through technology by investing in customer, product, and channel platforms. At the same time, Australia Post has increased efficiency and agility by adopting new technologies -- such as big data analytics and cloud infrastructure -- and a new customer-centric operating model. The EA practice, in turn, has reorganized itself around the following strategic objectives:
Drive customer centric-thinking across the technology organization and the enterprise as a whole
Enable business growth by guiding projects toward solutions that better address customers' needs and wants
Set strategic technology goals to maximize the value of technology investments
Australia Post's EA practice champions customer-centric tools and methods across the organization, partnering closely with business units. The EA practice developed leading-edge thinking on how to integrate customer experience management principles with business and technology architecture, and it recently rolled out training on these techniques to several hundred of Australia Post's staff.
With strong traceability to both business and customer outcomes, the EA group created architectural blueprints for key domains. Its iterative approach to enterprise architecture recognizes both "intentional" and "emergent" architectures, while considering various future-state scenarios. Long blueprinting cycles are avoided in favor of quick response and practical solutions that enable rapid progress. To ensure customer perspectives were represented, the EA group partnered with the sales organization to engage directly with customers, particularly e-commerce merchants, to better understand their needs -- which directly influenced technology strategy and solutions.
With a deliberate communications plan, the EA group engaged all levels of the business with tailored messages and deliverables. These included an interactive demonstration of technology strategy to the board, top-level summaries of key blueprints and road maps for business executives, and reference architectures/patterns for software engineering teams. Many of these artifacts are regularly referred to today.
Many initiatives have been developed, scoped, and sequenced as a result of the EA group's blueprints and road maps, which have informed the spending of approximately A$2 billion ($1.8 billion U.S. equivalent) in capital investments. At the same time, the benefits in terms of technology cost, speed, and sustainability have been substantial:
A projected cost avoidance of A$40 million over five years (with A$5 million already realized) through a new data/analytics platform, hosting, and IT network services
A$1.8 million in projected annual cost savings and simplification through technology decommissioning
A projected 34 days' reduction in project duration through accelerated infrastructure provisioning
A projected annual carbon emission reduction of 6,030 tons
The impact has been even more impressive in terms of business growth. Thanks to a human-centric re-architecting of the digital experience, adoption of customer self-service solutions has increased, as has revenue from digital channels. Digital platforms have been scaled to support a year-over-year increase in mobile and Web visits of 200% and 30%, respectively. Leading-edge in-memory systems have been deployed to handle the massive volumes of data associated with routing and tracking parcels, providing customers with greater convenience and choice.
Today, the value of EA is well recognized. Thanks in part to customer and digital channel blueprints, Australia Post boasts more than 1.4 million registered customers with single sign-on across five products/services. In 12 months, it is estimated that this will rise to 4 million customers across 12 products/services.
Dell: Shifting from hardware to solutions
Over the past several years, Dell has undergone a transformation from transaction-based PC vendor to end-to-end solution provider. Customers asked Dell to become much more than a vendor. The company responded with a commitment to deliver innovative new solutions to customers in four key areas:
The adoption of virtualization, convergence, and cloud technologies
Access to powerful, integrated applications
The ability to turn masses of data into insights
Overcoming evolving security threats and ensuring regulatory compliance
To meet this challenge, Dell formed the Business Architecture Team (BAT), which includes senior business unit and functional leaders, and reports directly to members of the founder's leadership team. BAT is responsible for understanding the strategy, transformation planning, and strategic realization of the entire Dell business. The EA group partners closely with BAT to recommend architecture strategy and create solutions across the company. EA is represented at the executive table with other cross-functional business teams, giving it a strong voice in strategic decisions.
Most difficult was the scope of change. Nothing in the Dell value chain was left untouched. Under the new model, Dell may combine software with servers, cloud services, and professional services for installation. Consequently, almost every aspect of Dell's key IT systems needed to change to support the new business strategy.
Faced with this new direction, the EA group adopted a phased approach to strategic planning:
Strategy rationalization: The EA group reviewed Dell's nine functional and four business-unit strategic plans to identify where IT could provide enablement. In addition, the group was charged with identifying strategic contradictions and overlaps, such as two business units proposing different solutions to the same problem.
Enablers and prioritization: Enablers are defined as independently valuable changes to business capabilities. EA and BAT identified the key enablers for each strategy. For example, "solution validation" is an enabler for Dell's strategy to build out its solutions portfolio.
Enabler rationalization: EA identified where multiple strategies required the same enabler. Ultimately, EA created a one-page visualization that presented the rationalized enablers in an easy-to-understand format. The visualization resembles a subway map, where the subway stations are the enablers and the strategies are subway lines -- which often share subway stations.
Architecture and road map planning: Lead architects created an architecture strategy document for each strategy. These describe the architecture transition states for each enabler -- such as the annual changes to the business, application, information, and infrastructure architecture. This approach resulted in a set of funded programs, which amounted to the discretionary portion of Dell's annual IT budget of approximately $1 billion.
Dell's reuse-oriented strategy has several benefits. First, it results in a simpler enterprise architecture and lower implementation cost; IT savings alone are conservatively estimated at $152 million. Second, Dell is optimizing for global, end-to-end solutions rather than disconnected or siloed solutions.
Above all, the EA group has brought architectural clarity, earning the respect and confidence of other internal Dell stakeholders in the planning process. By following through on outcomes, EA provides a clear implementation plan to close all gaps associated with each enabler.


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AllHipHop.com: What artist are you looking forward to seeing the most this weekend?
Ludacris and Trey equally. Ludacris because he is actually a friend and I'm so proud of him and all of his success. And Trey because I watched his career progress and now he has become this big superstar. I love them both and the great thing is I get to bring them both on stage! So excited!!!
AllHipHop.com: What's the difference between this region and the other regions where you were on the air?
Kendra G: Every city is different! Chicago was a GREAT city but I'm an east coast girl at heart! I'm actually from Connecticut, so it's great to be in Philly! Philly has embraced me and I LOVE them so much for that. They say that Philly keeps it real so its good to know that they actually like me! The biggest difference in each city is always the people. Chicago people tend to be a little more laid back where's Philly people are aggressive!
AllHipHop.com: As a woman in the business, what kind of challenges have you encountered?
Kendra G: I think sometimes people think I'm too aggressive or too blunt. If I were a man people wouldn't feel that way, but most people don't expect me to be as aggressive as I am. I take my career very seriously and I leave the emotions at home when it comes to business! So the biggest challenge is to get people to understand that I'm not mean, at times …just out spoken. (laughs). Some women have the challenge with men disrespecting them, but I don't have that problem. I think its because I carry myself a certain way.
AllHipHop.com: Why do you feel it is important to be a role model?
Kendra G: VERY IMPORTANT TO ME! Honestly I feel lucky to be me. I'm so grateful words can't explain it! I know I am blessed and GOD has allowed me to actually live out my dreams and its very important to me that I remember that. I know anyone can do my job, but it's mine! So since GOD allowed my voice to be heard throughout the tri-state area I better be talking about something worth while! I truly realized this in 2008 when I moved to Philly and that's when I created "Abstinence is Kool" which is a challenge to get teen girls to say no to sex for the school. The best thing I have ever done!
AllHipHop.com: Who are some of the people who have inspired you over the years?
Kendra G: Oh God Janet Jackson, Oprah and Beyonce! Janet because when I was young I wanted to be her! Beyonce because she taught me about hard work, being an independent woman and being beautiful inside and out. And Oprah…will because she is OPRAH!
AllHipHop.com: Where do you expect to be in ten years?
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Federal funds to launch Nebraska businesses' foreign trade
A U.S. Small Business Administration representative says Nebraska small business owners who feel daunted by international markets have thousands of dollars in federal money available to help them.
Regional administrator Patricia Brown-Dixon awarded the state $300,570 in grant money at a ceremony Monday to aid the state's small businesses in expanding foreign exports.
The money is part of the federal State Trade and Export Program, which Gov. Pete Ricketts says has been used by 62 Nebraska businesses and created over $30 million in exports in the past three years. Brown-Dixon says companies that export are less likely to fail.
Representatives from previous grant recipients say the money has been instrumental for establishing international relationships and translating marketing materials.


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upcoming exhibits at Art Central… call for artists!
hi all! As you should have seen already, our March exhibit will be called "A Riot of Color", and we want BRIGHT and BOLD paintings! (Spring colors, if you will!) We will have a couple of great guys playing guitar & bass guitar for us - Dave & Dave - during the artist reception. Click… Continue reading upcoming exhibits at Art Central… call for artists!
The latest deals at Art Central! New products, new discounts, great stuff on clearance!
Get your paints and brushes out for this great deal! We have dropped our pricing on Stretched Canvases - 40% off, EVERY DAY! Plus, members get an additional discount of 25%! We have also lowered the prices on our canvas panels, AND additional members discounts... Stock up Now! DaVinci Watercolors, Galeria Brushes, Gold sectional frames, plus lots more on… Continue reading The latest deals at Art Central! New products, new discounts, great stuff on clearance!
Gold Coast Art n Frame
Hey there - Sad news for all of us, Gary at Gold Coast is closing his doors at the end of February. The only silver lining is that he has a lot of inventory to sell... Go see him for great prices on mat board and your other framing needs! See his note: Gold Coast… Continue reading Gold Coast Art n Frame
You're Invited to the Opening Reception!
Come Check Out these Amazing Art Students from North SLO County High Schools! Opening Reception February 7th, 6-8pm Show runs thru March 4th. Regular store hours M-F 10-5:30pm Sat 10-5pm Come show your support of these young upcoming artists!
Our 3rd Anniversary was a BLAST!
Our Third Anniversary Event was AMAZING ..... & it's all thanks to YOU! We really appreciate all of your support in making this event happen! We hope that if you came you had a great time watching the demos and playing with different products - we sure did! The day started off with colorful demos of the Derwent XL Sticks and the… Continue reading Our 3rd Anniversary was a BLAST!


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Sunday, October 15, 2017 - 11:30 to 15:30
During this difficult and negative political climate the organisers of Western Sydney Idahot would like to invite our LGBT community and friends to a picnic in the park. Let's come together for support and strength. Bring your own picnic lunch, blanket, and wear pride colours at beautiful Regatta Park. This is the same venue that we have held our 2015 and 2016 IDAHOT events. Children's playground and BBQ facilities are available. A sausage sizzle and drinks will also be available.
Let's be there for each other and have a great day together.
7 River Road, Emu Plains
Info: Steve 0417 393 877 or Gay 0424 298 762


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The Yankees know they will be without James Paxton to start the regular season, as he had surgery to remove a cyst from his back before the start of spring training. The initial recovery time was three-to-four months, and Paxton provided an update on Thursday.
Paxton said he can start throwing again in four-to-six weeks, while that three-to-four month timeframe before he can get into a game remains the same. May or June is the target, but Paxton said he is shooting for May.
"Big Maple" went into detail about why it took so long for him to undergo surgery for the cyst.
Doctors didn't know there was a cyst, but he pitched through it anyway during the 2019 postseason. It was in November when Paxton began feeling pain down his left leg, which was treated with injections, and it wasn't until January that doctors figured out what was ailing him.
Paxton figures to be the No. 3 starter in this Yankees rotation behind Gerrit Cole and Luis Severino -- when he returns healthy of course.
In the meantime, Masahiro Tanaka and J.A. Happ will move up a spot while the fifth starter role will be up for grabs in spring training. Jordan Montgomery is the favorite to win the job, as Domingo German is serving the rest of his 81-year domestic violence suspension to start the season.
Paxton, who agreed to a one-year, $12.5 million contract with the Yankees earlier this offseason to avoid salary arbitration, owned a 15-6 record with a 3.82 ERA and 186 strikeouts in his first season in pinstripes. His better second half and solid postseason is what the team will hope he can emulate when he returns.


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Artist Information
CountyBaltimore City
ARTIST WEBSITEhttp://HAYAKIM.COM
Artistic Category
Visual Arts
Artist StatementI was sitting in the prairie. I was looking at the moving clouds, feeling the wind touching me. In the morning, I walked and the grass was wet with dew. In the evening, I walked and clusters of fireflies burst over the prairie. Two big trees soughed with warm wind. leaves and branches were swaying softly and made balmy sound. After dusk fell, it was quiet, but it was not quiet. Every leaf was busy and gave me sound. As I gave my eyes to them, they showed me more and more of each of their movements. The prairie I saw The sounds I heard are still always in my head and I am following my brush with what I am remembering.
Artist Bio
Haya Kim received M.F.A. in Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art in May 2018 and she is working in Baltimore, Maryland.


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