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MTV VMAs: 5 Craziest Moments From 2013's Show
It's almost that time! On Sunday, Aug. 24, the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards will air live from the "Fabulous" Forum Arena in Southern California. With the eccentric, over-the-top show right around the corner, there's no telling what this year's "foam finger moment" will be.
PHOTOS: Biggest show moments from the 2013 VMAs
Nicki Minaj, Jessie J, and Ariana Grande are set to start things off on an explosive note, performing their latest single "Bang, Bang," and Beyonce is sure to shut down the arena in her lengthy Video Vanguard Award acceptance performance.Â
Let's not, however, forget the OMG-greatness of last year's Brooklyn-based show, or the frenzy it created. Us Weekly looks back at the craziest moments from 2013's VMAs:
5. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Perform "Same Love"
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Great music and a progressive message — what could be better? How about throwing in the vocal stylings of a powerhouse like Jennifer Hudson to kick Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, and Mary Lambert's hit "Same Love" up a notch. It was a performance that brought Lambert (and the rest of us) to tears.Â
PHOTOS: Best 2013 VMAs beauty looks
4. Lady Gaga's Shell Bra and Thong, Square HeaddressÂ
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Under the sea! The Mother Monster didn't disappoint after years of exotic VMA performances. Starting off her song "Applause" in a choir robe and strange square headdress, Gaga went through a series of costume changes before landing on a tiny shell bikini top and thong, which she proceeded to wear for the rest of the show.Â
3. One Direction's Cold Reception
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Turns out not everyone's obsessed with the boys from across the pond. When boy band One Direction hit the stage to accept their Moonman for Song of the Summer, they were hit with an overwhelming amount of "boo's" from the audience. Lady Gaga later comforted the boys backstage, bashing the audience for their rude response. "Don't you dare let those people boo you," she told the group. "I want to leave right now. I don't even want to stay anymore because I don't want to be in a room where people would be like that."
PHOTOS: Hilarious celebrity audience reactions
2. 'N Sync's Reunion
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Following weeks of rumors, 'N Sync made boy band fans' dreams explode when the group — including JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Joey Fatone — reunited during Justin Timberlake's Video Vanguard Award performance. After what felt like ages of JT's solo singles, the group hit the stage for less than two minutes. They only sang brief clips from two of the group's massive collection of hit songs, but the reunion was praised by fans just the same.Â
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Bye bye, Hannah Montana! From the moment a punk-pixie cut Miley Cyrus hit the stage twerking in her teddy bear leotard, fans of the former Disney star knew something was different. By the time she stripped down into a nude latex bra and bottoms and pulled out her infamous foam finger, her child star image had essentially been murdered. Her antics, which included grinding, twerking, and rubbing the then-married Robin Thicke, became the most buzzed-about event from the 2013 show — and arguably one of the biggest VMA moments ever — solidifying her status as pop music's new wild child.Â


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Spring break stunner!
Lisa Rinna shared a series of snapshots on Instagram over the weekend, flaunting her age-defying beach bod during a family trip to Cancun.
The 50-year-old actress hit the beach in a paisley two-piece that showed off her amazing toned figure.
"Loving @vdpcancun #villadelpalmar," she captioned the cute candid.
The "Days of Our Lives" star traveled to Mexico for a getaway with two daughters, Delilah and Amelia, and husband Harry Hamlin to celebrate their 17th wedding anniversary.
Rinna also posted a throwback wedding pic and wrote, "And then this happened.....17 amazing years ago today, March 29 1997, I married the love of my life, my soul mate, my everything. HH +LR." She later added, "Loving @vdpcancun a little more anniversary celebrating."
The couple and their kids have been relaxing at the beach and pool, but they also went scuba diving and kayaking.
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Adam Rubin of ESPN, Wally Backman, a finalist for the Mets' managerial position that went to Terry Collins, is expected to be named manager of Double-A Binghamton, according to organization sources.
Backman, who skippered Class A Brooklyn last season, last managed at the Double-A level with Birmingham in the Chicago White Sox organization in 2002 and '03.
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Tim Teufel, who managed Binghamton last season, is expected to succeed Ken Oberkfell as Triple-A Buffalo manager.
Mets have also made other staffing changes. The Triple-A staff also is expected to include Ricky Bones returning as pitching coach and Luis Natera serving as hitting coach. Natera was the Bisons' hitting coach during the first half of the 2009 season, before being sent to Binghamton for the remainder of that season.
Jack Voigt, who was Buffalo's hitting coach last season, is expected to assume Mookie Wilson's former role as minor league outfield and baserunning coordinator.
Oberkfell is joining the major league staff as bench coach, with Wilson returning to the Mets as first base coach.
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Jocassee recognized as one of world's great destinations
Jocassee recognized as one of world's great destinations
OCONEE COUNTY — There are 50 places in the world the editors of National Geographic Magazine recently named as spots that should be on everyone's "must see" list, all places of preserved natural beauty where the hand of man has fallen lightly or barely at all.
Three of the 50 are in North America. Two are the South Dakota Badlands and Banff National Park in Canada's Alberta province. The third is in our own backyard, the Jocassee Gorges, laying mostly along the mountainous North Carolina-South Carolina border.
"This edition (of the magazine) was about undisturbed natural resources," said Ken Sloan, executive director of Oconee County's Mountain Lakes Convention and Visitors Bureau. "It doesn't surprise me that Jocassee was named in the list. I think it is one of the most beautiful places in the world."
Sloan's own family has some its roots deep in the Jocassee area, and when he left a career in the computer industry to return to Oconee County, he first established the Jocassee Outdoor Center, catering to visitors to the area, before coming to his present job. He well understands the area's natural appeal.
"As the National Geographic pieces shows, it's one of the last generally undisturbed areas left on the planet," he said. "Those are in short supply, and they have a pull on people that you could almost describe as mystical in some ways."
Mysticism does indeed surround the Jocassee Gorges area, stemming from its holding a central place in the mythology of the Cherokee tribe, whose ancestral lands once included the gorges and the surrounding area for several hundred square miles. The name "Jocassee" is said to come from a Cherokee word meaning "Place of the Lost One," from a tribal legend. A warrior of a rival tribe, Nagoochee, was injured while hunting on the grounds of the Oconee Cherokee, but was nursed back to health by Jocassee, the daughter of the Oconee's chief. The two fell in love. Later Nagoochee was killed by Jocassee's brother during a war between the tribes. Carrying the head of her beloved, Jocassee took a canoe out into the river and stepped over the side. Instead of sinking, however, she walked across the surface of the water to meet the ghost of Nagoochee.
For some like Sloan, whose families came later to the Jocassee area, the roots also seemed to reach mystic depths. Writer Debbie Fletcher, author of "Whippoorwill Farewell: Jocassee Remembered," about growing up in the Jocassee Valley, wrote about the connection that was partly severed when part of the area was flooded following the 1973 completion of the Jocassee Dam by Duke Energy. Fletcher said in her memoir that her uncle had put it most aptly: "You know, Jocassee wasn't just a house, or a piece of land. We had a love affair with that place." The natural beauty of the place, Fletcher said, "just got into our souls. …"
For those with no personal roots but with a love of nature, the area is practically a nirvana, according to experts.
Clemson University's Patrick McMillan, naturalist and director of the South Carolina Botanical Garden, and host of the nationally seen ETV program "Expeditions with Patrick McMillan," has long touted the Blue Ridge escarpment, which includes the Jocassee Gorges, as one of the key places where nature has made a hearty stand.
"Every place is special," McMillan has said of the area. "But this area is so unique I call it the 'crucible of life' because of its diversity and the incredible resiliency of the species here."
The geography of the area has bred a hardiness in people, plants and animals that have lived in it, and that has accounted for the resilience, said McMillan.
"The people who live here know what it is to survive in hard times," he said. "It's the same with the other species."
McMillan has filmed one of his "Expeditions" in the Gorges area, focusing in one instance on the Table Rock region. "No matter what season and no matter where you venture in this landscape," he said in his narrative, "there are amazing natural treasures under every stone and around every corner. This place has been drawing humans to its majesty for thousands of years."
The Jocassee Gorges extend from Lake Jocassee in northern Oconee County to where South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina meet and onward to South Carolina's Caesar's Head State Park. The area is known for plunging, misty waterfalls and a panoramic diversity of wildlife and plant life that includes over 60 species of rare or endangered plants.
The wildlife offers a range of nearly every species that swims, walks, flies, crawls or creeps. From brown and rainbow trout to deer, bobcat and the odd black bear. The bald eagle is known to visit the area but none have ever been known to have nested. The peregrine falcon, however, has made the Gorges its home. Among the hard to see residents, the area is said by naturalists to have the largest diversity and populations of salamanders in the world.
The area has always drawn the scientists, beginning with the Englishman William Bartram in the 1770s and later the French botanist Andre Michaux in 1788. It was Michaux who noted the Oconee Bell (Shortia galacifolia), an extremely rare flower believed exclusive to the area (though some have claimed a variety exists in China). The Cherokee called the flower "Shee-Show," meaning "two-colored plant of the gods." The tribe is said to have made annual pilgrimages to the area to collect the flower, which was thought to be a lucky talisman of the rain gods because it always grew close to the edge of streams. National Geographic devoted two pages of the four-page spread on Jocassee Gorges to pictures of the flower.
About 43,000 acres make up the Gorges region, sandwiched between the Mountain Bridge Wilderness to the east and U.S. Forest Service lands to the west to create nearly 200,000 acres of wilderness.
Hiking and fishing are the main reasons people visit the Jocassee Gorges area now, stepping around the naturalists as they go their way, and rough figures from the two Carolinas estimate visitation at maybe 100,000, though some are repeat visitors.
For tourism marketers such as Sloan, the naming of the area as one of the world's great destinations is manna from heaven.
Sloan has few concerns that the potential for increased visitation will despoil natural beauty that led to the area's recognition in the first place. He is confident the federal protections in place can handle increased visitation, and says that if new problems develop, further steps at protection can be taken.
The Jocassee Gorges, he said, are a treasure to be protected but not hoarded."We shouldn't be hesitant to share this with the rest of the world."
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Hudson River Almanac July 30 - August 6, 2006
It was a week of record-setting heat coupled with high humidity that made outdoor observations problematic. The Hudson warmed to the low 80s, about as warm as it ever gets. Our Florida manatee had acquired a nickname, at least in the Tappan Zee, but its travels were still a mystery. By week's end, the humidity had eased, making 88°F and a clear blue sky seem like autumn.
7/28 - Town of Poughkeepsie, HRM 68.5: Just before the start of the Peter Frampton concert on the river at Bowdoin Park, a beautiful adult bald eagle with its distinctive white head soared above the crowd. The eagle may have stolen some of Frampton's thunder.
- Mike Boyajian, Jeri Wagner, Bill Randazzo, Hanna Randazzo
7/30 - Town of Gallatin, HRM 103.5: I paddled my kayak across Lake Taghkanic at sunset and saw a strange sight: a pair of ears in the middle of the lake! They belonged to a very young fawn, swimming strongly, headed for the west beach, but then changing its course toward the cabins at the south end. Arriving, it jumped up the bank and ran off. It still had its spots and Mama.
- Jude Holdsworth
7/31 - New Paltz, HRM 78:. I picked 20 lb. of chanterelle mushrooms near New Paltz. The heat, however, is putting an end to the season. Last year the summer drought caused a scarcity.
- Alice Barner
8/1 - Town of Poughkeepsie, HRM 68: The air temperature reached 97°F today, breaking the old record for the date of 96°F.
- National Weather Service
8/1 - Town of Wappinger, HRM 67.5: Shades of autumn: not long after first light, a huge contingent of mixed and noisy blackbirds came through along the river, heading north, cottonwood to locust to ailanthus to cottonwood. Most of them were common grackles. The direction they were heading was less important than the fact they were flocking up for their late summer migration.
- Tom Lake
8/1 - Hathaway's Glen Brook, HRM 63: There is a very nice low-tide beach here. To get to it, you have to wade knee-deep across the mouth of Hathaway's Glen Brook. Today the tide pools were crammed with banded killifish, darters, spottail shiners, and several other species finding refuge in the 73°F water. Not much more than 100 feet away, the river was 83°F. By comparison, the creek felt like ice water. (The air temperature was 96°F.) There was no measurable salinity. In our seine we caught many young-of-the-year [yoy] spottail shiners and a few yoy striped bass (40 mm) with one possible yearling at 110 mm. Conspicuous by their absence, but not surprising given the very warm water, were yoy river herring. On the way out, we counted a dozen butterflies of five species on the edges of the tide pools, including tiger swallowtails, black swallowtails, monarchs, mourning cloaks and a red admiral.
- Tom Lake, Phyllis Lake
8/1 - Town of Montgomery, HRM 59: A record air temperature for the date of 99°F was recorded today, breaking the old record of 96°F.
- National Weather Service
8/1 - Newark, NJ: A record air temperature for the date of 100°F was recorded today.
- National Weather Service
8/1 - New York City: Record air temperatures for the date of 100°F were recorded at Staten Island and LaGuardia Airport.
- National Weather Service
8/2 - Poughkeepsie, HRM 75: While repairing crab pots this morning, I noticed that there was a constant chatter of locusts coming from the trees around me - so constant that, quite remarkably, for a twelve minute period there was never a moment when there wasn't at least one locust "singing out." Perhaps triggered by the 90°F temperature at 9:00 AM, the din of locusts was a little heat music on a summer morning.
- John Mylod, Big Jimmy Johnny's Crab Company, a Division of M/T Net Ltd.
8/2 - Town of Poughkeepsie, HRM 68: The air temperature reached 98°F today, breaking the old record for the date of 95°F.
- National Weather Service
8/2 - Town of Montgomery, HRM 59: A record-tying temperature for the date of 95°F was recorded today.
- National Weather Service
8/2 - Little Stony Point, Putnam County, HRM 55: It was 82°F at sunrise - not a promising start to a hot summer's day. By the time I put on my snorkel mask and entered the river a couple of hours later, the air was 89°F. The river did little to cool, as it was a warm 82°F. I was introduced to snorkeling 12 years ago in Lake Erie by C. Lavett Smith. There, in the crystal water, made clear in part due to the effects of zebra mussels, we had views of giant walleye and northern pike that took our breath away. However, the Hudson on a windy day is not Lake Erie. A strong westerly breeze blew over Storm King, making the bay turbid and creating low visibility. Small schools of colorful, male banded killifish darted among the bones of an old barge. There are remnant stands of three-square sedge, arrow arum, and cattails that usually hold young blue crabs, darters, and killifish on half tide. But in the warm water they were empty. The day was similar to one in 2001, August 9, when we held a teacher's workshop on this beach in 103°F heat with a river that had warmed to 84°F.
- Tom Lake
8/2 - Ossining, HRM 33: In the 100°F heat, a movement at the end of the yard caught my eye. Hard to see in the dappled shade of the apple tree, a large doe was kicking at her twin fawns as they nursed. Still spotted, they were quite big and quite insistent, butting their heads against her teats. One, standing at the doe's side, had to twist its head down under the doe; the other was kneeling under the doe's tail. Mom, obviously thinking they were big enough to wean, stood still for a couple of minutes and then leaped away. I put out a wheelbarrow of water for them.
- Hale Sims
8/2 - Newark, NJ: Again today, a record air temperature for the date of 100°F was recorded.
- National Weather Service
8/2 - Queens, New York City: Another record air temperatures for the date of 100°F was recorded at LaGuardia Airport.
- National Weather Service
8/2 Sandy Hook, NJ: Twenty-six children and eight adults showed up for our Wednesday evening seining trip to Horseshoe Cove on Sandy Hook's bay side. The tide was ebbing, the air temperature was 92°F and the water was 77°F. As is usual, we caught hundreds of silversides, tens of killifish, blue crabs, pipefish, juvenile mullet, winter flounder, bluefish, and two species to which we paid special attention: juvenile blackfish, or tautog, and northern kingfish. All three blackfish were a beautiful shade of green, matching almost perfectly the color of the sea lettuce algae that drifts in the bay this time of year. The kingfish, which to me look like miniature "sharks,"are known for their ability to change color according to their habitat, and matched the sandy, silty bottom with diagonal bands of black and gray. Nature provides a way to protect its vulnerable small fry from predators. Kingfish are grouped in with drums, croakers, spot and weakfish. All, except for the kingfish, have swim bladders they use to produce sounds. The kingfish is "bladderless," and that suits its preferred feeding station on the bottom.
- Dery Bennett
8/3 - Town of Poughkeepsie, HRM 68: The air temperature reached 96°F today, breaking the old record for the date of 95°F.
- National Weather Service
8/3 - Ossining, HRM 33: We were on our way to the early morning commuter train, about to merge onto Route 9A, when an imperious mother Canada goose started across the road. Despite my warning honk as I stopped, she marched regally on, dutifully followed by 9 half-grown goslings about half her size. Equally spaced, they looked straight ahead, unperturbed by the cars lining up behind us.
- Hale Sims
8/4 - Delmar, HRM 143: Nancy Payne came in to get us to see a gray phase screech owl. It was in a spruce tree on a branch right up against the trunk. It was absolutely invisible except for the outline of the head with those distinctive ear tufts. The only reason it was spotted was the unmerciful mobbing by chickadees and a blue jay. It was very close to our Five Rivers Environmental Education center building and even closer to the bird feeders.
- Dee Strnisa
8/4 - Delmar, HRM 143: I led a Frog Watch walk this evening. We only heard a few green frogs and one gray treefrog. We saw bullfrogs, but they were silent. We spotted a mass of frog eggs, probably green frogs. I guess that even the bullfrogs have finished their breeding for this year. It was a strange year for frogs. Too warm too early, then very cold, then back to hot. It was also dry and then really wet. Even the breeding cycles seemed out of synch.
- Dee Strnisa
8/4 - Magdalen Island, HRM 100: After 12 hours of sporadic thunderstorms (0.95" of rain), the humidity left. Eight days of 90°+, even 100°F, heat had ended. A strong north breeze was pushing with the ebb tide in mid-afternoon and still the river was capping over. The air was warm (88°F) but at least was dry and moving. An immature bald eagle was perched on a bare limb across the river on Magdalen Island, facing the breeze, finding relief.
- Tom Lake
8/4 - Hudson Valley: A heat wave that began on July 27 and lasted for 8 days finally eased. While the Northeast seared in the sun, we were not alone. Nationally, during this span, more than 2,300 individual daily high records were set.
- National Weather Service
8/5 - Poughkeepsie, HRM 75.5: It was afternoon when I was heading home from the city of Poughkeepsie to the town, taking Main Street to Route 9, when, unbelievably, I spotted an immature bald eagle atop one of the street lamp posts!
- Stephanie Koslow
8/5 - Croton River, HRM 34: Two Caspian terns fished near the railroad bridge where the Croton meets the Hudson, and a red-throated loon fished just upstream near the Route 9 bridge. They were doing better than the Boyz at the Bridge, who cast without results from the boat launch. The talk was of several sightings of "Tappie" the manatee. All were near the Croton Yacht Club, a mile and a half upriver. Estimates of the size ran 6-10', color unnoted. Maybe it was attracted to the dense beds of wild celery on the inshore flats between Ossining and George's Island. Gino Garner was having a rough day: half the night was spent drifting a net for bunker (menhaden). He caught no bunker and saw no manatees.
- Christopher Letts
[There have been other unconfirmed reports by boaters and shore walkers of the manatee being at least as far upriver as Kingsland Point Park, Sleepy Hollow, river mile 28.]
8/6 - Cruger Island, HRM 100: An immature bald eagle looked up from its perch on Cruger Island as a biplane flew over the river, banked toward Tivoli Bays, and returned south. The eagle watched, expressionless as always, as the crop duster-type plane, maybe from the Rhinebeck Aerodrome, circled overhead. Was it wondering why kind of new bird this was?
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Future of Screen Technology. New step in portable computers. 30 Cool High Tech Gadgets To Give Your Home A Futuristic Look. Gadgets are becoming a part of our everyday life and like the mobile phone (one of the first gadgets) we are starting to be addicted, depending on them for our daily actions.
As technology advances, so do these gadgets that we are fond of and we are amazed by the new concepts created by young and ambitious designers. These innovations appear from a necessity of solving the problems that old products have and besides new and improved functions, they also come with a beautiful design. Transparent TV The transparent tv designed by Michael Friebe is a marvelous piece of technology that combines conventional LCD and the latest TOLED display technology.
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Designing the Future. Autodesk Gallery At Singularity University there are several overarching themes.
Exponential technology, entrepreneurship, and positive global impact are probably the top 3 at work, but this year's focus on design seems to be embedded within all of the above. Design track chair Jonathan Knowles works as a strategic advisor to the CEO and CTO at Autodesk, the company literally designing the world around us. Autodesk software is responsible for everything from the New York Freedom Tower to Tesla's electric cars, and even the world of Pandora James Cameron created in Avatar. Recently they have been focusing on educational products and 3D Printing technologies, and Knowles brings this wide range of expertise to the community at SU. Bye Bye Ugly A/C Bricks and Power Strips by Gilles Belley. iPhone Cases & One Awesome Lamp. Retro Gear with a Techie Twist. Good Looking Cords So You Can Stop Hiding Them. Either you take the time to hide all those pesky cords and wires around your TV and computer, or you feel guilty about the mess they make when left exposed.
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The creators of Glide TV plan to reinvent the concept of controlling an internet TV device through either a keyboard, mouse or a classic remote control. This has it all. Fitting perfectly into the palm of your hand and having a IR/WiFi interface and a touch pad, you can use it to easy browse the internet on your TV. The curved touch sensitive pad can also be a perfect replacement or the classic mouse or, if used in combination with the on screen keyboard, can even be used as a keyboard.
All you need to do is sit back on your couch, relax and enjoy this stylish new way of browsing the internet. Glide TV is an elegant answer to an age-old consumer electronics industry search for a simple, elegant and user friendly interaction device. via newdealdesign.com. DATA clip – USB paperclip for Elecom on DesignRulz. The Japanese studio Nendo has designed the 'data clip' a USB key in the shape of a paperclip for Elecom.
The USB stick has a paperclip shape. 10 Weirdest Remote Controls. Pillow Remote Control Well, this is just a weird combination of items; it's a sofa pillow that works as a remote control.
The Pillow Remote Control ($39.99) is a full-featured universal remote that works with over 500 different components. Gel Remote Control This conceptual gel remote from Panasonic lies limp when not in use, pulsating with a soft light. But when its sensors detect a hand coming, it stiffens, ready for action! Magic Wand Remote Control Imagine walking into the room where your children and their Muggle friends are watching TV, you whipping out a magic wand from under your jacket and changing the channel in a flash.
Largest Remote Control Go big or go home! Design Milk: Modern Design - Page 2. NoteSlate eSketcher. NoteSlate eSketcher The NoteSlate eSketcher takes a bold direction in the world of gadgetry– simplicity.
Life used to be so simple– just a pencil and paper combined as the perfect sidearm of the student, the artist and the list maker. Today we've got our laptops, our iPads, our Kindles and our mobile phones cluttering up our desks. The NoteSlate hopes to simplify that, providing one basic function to its user: the ability to write, draw and doodle to their heart's content, just like pencil on paper.
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Rotary Mechanical Smartphone – Concept Phone by Richard Clarkson. Is there space for old school guises in the digital revolution? I think there is, which is why steampunk is alive. Settling the Digital v/s Mechanical dispute with his Rotary Mechanical Smartphone, designer Richard Clarkson gives us a smartphone that is so very tangible that its aura speaks for itself! Stalling the 'digital-take-over', the phone features two interchangeable brass dials, a true rotary dial and a button dial. Top 6 Sites to Find Cool Gadgets and Gear.
Whether you're an early adopter who gets excited about purchasing the latest tech toy, or you're a busy professional looking to find the perfect gift, everyone knows that searching for products can be a long and frustrating experience.
Eun-Gyeong Gwon & Eun-Jae Lee. This one's kinda hard to swallow so take a deep breath, open your minds, and pretend it's 2100.
I CONTACT is essentially a mouse fitted to your eyeball. The lens is inserted like any other normal contact lens except it's laced with sensors to track eye movement, relaying that position to a receiver connected to your computer. Theoretically that should give you full control over a mouse cursor. Future technology.


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Debbie Reynolds and Robert Osborne
Monday, May 19, 2014
Turner Classic Movies host, Robert Osborne is an ambassador to a bygone era. We hear from him and a star who was at the very heart of "The Golden Age of Hollywood": Debbie Reynolds.
Fred Armisen and Paula Pell
Monday, May 05, 2014
Hear from two veterans of SNL— a writer and an actor. Paula Pell was singing at a Florida theme park when she got the call from SNL and Fred Armison was drumming in a punk rock band.


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I can reassure myself not to be bummed that I missed The Guard at Sundance, because it actually wasn't that great.
Sgt. Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is an Irish cop who takes acid on the job, alludes to crack experiences, and whores around with escorts. He plays around on crime scenes and mouths off when respectable officers try to lead. FBI Agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) comes to Ireland to bust some drug traffickers, and he gets stuck with Boyle.
Basically, it's Rush Hour with an obnoxious WHITE cop, and a reasonable competent black agent has to deal with him. Gleeson and Cheadle are both likeable enough actors, but I didn't find many of their shenanigans amusing.
To be fair, I missed a lot with the dialect. At one point I thought Boyle accused someone of interfering with a llama, but there were no llamas in the case. Maybe on DVD with subtitles I'll realize The Guard is a comic masterpiece.
Probably not though, because what I did understand wasn't that funny. I know, I should find fondling the privates of a murder victim hilarious, but I'm just too highbrow. Boyle's "innocent" racism is not ironically misguided. It's just obvious. A foreign suspect tells her partner "there's a black man at the door" in a subtitled twist on every Will Smith action movie joke. I suppose Boyle's refusal to see Everett's baby picture came out before "The Office" did it, but it's still less funny in The Guard.
I don't care about or fear the criminals they're after. Towards the end there's a nice standoff scene with banter between the hero and villain, and a fun cowboy climax complete with cowboy music. It's still a mess.
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This review from the man who's 'one to watch' on Criticwatch's Whores of the Year!
I, for one, wouldn't wipe my arse with his opinion.
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Piran Cottage
This centrally located Holiday House over 4 floors, is part of historic Piran, which is traffic free and next to local beaches, cafes, restaurants, markets, bakery, shops, historic squares, churches, bank and post office (all within 5min walking distance). Its quiet location is ideal for a truly relaxing holiday.
It offers 4 double sized bedrooms (sleeping 2 each), a living room, and a fully furnished traditional kitchen with all mod/cons. Large modern bathroom includes toilet, wash basin, shower and washing machine. Large ground floor entrance provides a storage space for summer equipment.
The property is clean and welcoming, and can be booked only as a whole property / House . It comfortably sleeps 8, and is offered for a minimum booking of 3 nights. Children are welcome - subject to their parent's / carer's supervision at all times. We accept no liability for any accidents or injuries occurred within the property.
Disponibilidad y preciosPara ver la disponibilidad y los precios, selecciona las fechas y pincha "Actualizar fechas"
Instalaciones & Políticas de Apartamentos
- Estacionamiento de bicicletas
- Desayuno no incluido
- Estufa
- Nevera/congelador
- Plancha y tabla de planchar
- Cocina
- Incluye ropa de cama
- Salón
- Guardaequipajes
- No fumadores
- IVA incluido
- Cafetera/tetera
- Toallas incluidas
- Utensilios
- Lavadora
Política de cancelaciónEsta propiedad cuenta con una política de cancelación de 3 días. Si no se realiza la cancelación dentro de ese plazo se aplicará un recargo de anulación igual a la primera noche de tu estancia.
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By air from International Airports:
1 Fly to Slovenia (Brnik - Ljubljana). Take a bus or taxi to Ljubljana's central station, and from there proceed by coach to Piran direct. Piran Cottage is located 15min walking distance from Piran bus station.
2 Fly to Trieste (Italy). Take a bus or taxi to Trieste's central coach station, and from there take a direct coach to Piran (Slovenia).
3 Fly to Venice (Italy). Take a bus or taxi to Venice, and from Venice take a speed boat to Piran marina direct (please note that this service is available during summer months only). Property is located a short walking distance from Piran marina.
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Pornstar Profile, Date added: 15 Dec 2005
Adrianna Nicole was born in San Francisco, California on a date that places her under the sign of Aries on the astrological charts. She is a blonde haired, hazel eyed Caucasian American woman with a full and buxom 34D-27-37 figure. Standing five feet seven inches tall with a weight of just under 130 pounds, Ms. Nicole has no known body piercings but does sport several colorful tattoos.
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When Adrianna was working in a retail store setting she met adult industry veteran and super star Nina Hartley and her husband through a mutual friend. This kick started her adult career and she met with an agent who signed her with the modeling company LA Direct Models right around the year 2000. She did fetish photo work for a while before breaking into actual film work in the S and M fetish theme. On these earlier film credits her name appeared simply as Seven, or later under the name Petal Benson while working under BDSM specialist Simon Benson. She moved into doing more standard hardcore porn and finally settled with her name Adrianna Nicole. When she does any BDSM work these days, she will sometimes revert to the name Seven.
In the year 2007 Adrianna was nominated for and won an AVN (Adult Video News) award for Best Group Sex Scene for her work in the video Fashionistas Safado: The Challenge. This film was a sequel to an earlier award winning work by John Stagliano. The movie was shot in standard high-definition format on location in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Berlin. The film was touted as starring "the most sexual girls in the adult business today" and fans certainly agreed! Adrianna has been nominated nearly a dozen times in subsequent years up to and including 2011 for many AVN and XRCO (X-Rated Critics Organization) awards.
With over 300 adult film titles under her belt, Adrianna could probably move on to other things in her life and call it a wonderful career. Certainly her adoring fans around the world would thank her but be sorry to see her go. But our Adrianna is still active in adult movie production as an actress who will do most anything, and one must certainly believe her fans are even more thankful for that. She also has several credits in which she appears as herself, including the documentary called 9 to 5: Days in Porn produced in 2008.
In 2009's documentary coverage of the Adult Entertainment Expo '09 she appeared as an attending actress. She appeared again as herself in the television series aired on G4TV and hosted by Sasha Grey titled Rated A For Adult in two episodes; Under The Covers and Women On Top, both aired in 2010.
Also known in some movie credits as Adrianna Stone, Adrianna Nichole, Seven, Petal Benson and Petal, her fans know her as the all natural 34D blonde with the bright white smile and the willingness to explore her own sexual limits on camera. A career first for Miss Stone came in the movie 2 In 1 Hole, who's title leaves little to the imagination in regards to what the subject matter of the film is. Yes, her very first double anal scene ever is in that movie put out by Hustler studios in 2006 which features many threesome sex scenes.
Known early on for her more fetish themed works, Adrianna appeared in the 2011 film from Evil Angel studios entitled Fetish Fanatic 8 for which she was nominated for the AVN award for Most Outrageous Sex Scene. The scene (called Enema Boot Camp) is a climax for the entire film and Adrianna is a drill sergeant who lines up her charges Allie Haze and Amy Brooke on the beach and drills them in enema training.
Most recently she was nominated for a 2011 AVN award for Best Oral Scene which is for a scene from the movie Fuck Face, also a Belladonna movie put out by Evil Angel studios. Her scene is a three girl on one guy oral scene where she stars along with Bobbi Starr, Charlotte Vail and male co-star Steve Holmes.
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'The Little Couple' Previews New Season
NEW YORK (WLNY) — After a long and emotional journey to parenthood, Bill Klein and Dr. Jen Arnold from TLC's 'The Little Couple' have welcomed a new member to their family.
They have decided to pursue international adoption with a focus on finding a child with special needs. They joined us on 'The Couch' with their personal story.
Fans have followed as the couple faced fertility and surrogacy challenges, including the heartbreaking moment when their surrogate suffered a miscarriage. Determined to stop at nothing to grow their family, Bill and Jen have decided to pursue international adoption with a focus on finding a child with special needs.
This season follows the busy Houston-based couple as they embark on this journey while still juggling their demanding careers. Bill is expanding their pet store, Rocky & Maggie's, while Dr. Arnold continues to face life or death decisions as a neonatologist at Texas Children's Hospital.


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A new chapter of the 'Continuous Integration with Hudson' book is available.
A new draft chapter of the 'Continuous Integration with Hudson' book is now available online. This new chapter discusses automated testing with hudson, including unit, integration and performance testing.
Running JUnit tests in parallel with Maven
A little-known but very useful feature slipped into JUnit 4 and recent versions of the Maven Surefire Plugin: support for parallel testing. This feature has been around for a while in TestNG, but has been missing in JUnit. And now, if you are a JUnit user, you too can run your tests in parallel!
Talking in London: Zen and the art of build script maintenance
Next week (on July 8) I'll be giving a talk in London for the folks at Skills Matter, on the much-neglected topic of build script maintenance:
A new Java Power Tools Newsletter is out - 10 build script bad smells!
A new Java Power Tools Newsletter is out!
Don't Just be a Java Developer - Become a Java Master Craftsman
Become a Master Craftsman in the art of Java Development. You know the language - learn to master the tools and techniques.
Starting a Hudson slave on a Unix machine without SSH
One great feature about Hudson is the support for distributed builds. Distributed builds can be used to absorb load or for specialized build jobs such as system or functional testing or automated deployments. In this article, we look at a special case - what happens when you need to start a Unix Hudson slave from the slave machine itself.
Running Hudson behind an Apache Server: a primer
If you are running Hudson in a Unix environment, you may want to hide it behind an Apache HTTP
server in order to harmonize the server URLs and simplify maintenance and access. This way, users
can access the Hudson server using a URL like http://myserver.myorg.com/hudson rather than http://myserver.myorg.com:8081.
A new Java Power Tools Newsletter is available: the Art of Writing Maintainable Selenium Scripts
Selenium is a popular web testing framework, that works well for both regression tests and acceptance tests. It works well almost all web applications, even those using complex AJAX-based user interfaces. However, writing maintainable Selenium scripts is harder than it looks, and in the real world these test scripts often fall into disuse as they become less and less maintainable.
"Real Developers Don't Need Unit Tests"
Recently I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the Canberra Java Users Groupon the topic 'Real Developers Don't Need Unit Te
A new chapter of the 'Continuous Integration with Hudson' book is available
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Buddha Guest Villas - Poolside
Hi! Welcome to Bali and our True Balinese Villas and Swimming Pool, surrounded by tropical gardens in the center of Kuta and Legian!
All of our villas have free satellite television, free fast WiFi, free clean drinking water, free tea & coffee, free daily cleaning, free toiletries and linens, soap & towels and a kitchen including refrigerator, stove, sink, dishes. And each villa has its own private garden surrounding it with large patios on each villa to enjoy lounging and relaxing.
All Villas have Air Conditioning and Hot Water Showers and Baths, DVD/CD/USB Players and we do have DVD's available as well.
We have a large swimming pool in our complex with deck chairs and goddess fountains for your relaxation.
We have cheap return tickets to Gili Islands on the FAST BOAT including pickup and return drop to our villas for just $60 per person.
We are just a few minutes walk to the BEST nightlife, restaurants, and shopping in Bali, but still secluded and quiet in our villas.
The beach is 7-10 minute walk and 5 minutes walk to the famous Poppies Lane.
Our guests enjoy free dedicated WiFi in the entire area, including while sitting next to the pool!
We are a 10-minute drive from the vibrant area of Seminyak. Ngurah Rai International Airport is a 20-minute drive away. Guests may request for airport transfers at an extra charge.
We have motorbike and car rental services, tours and private drivers, surf lessons, and free parking on site.
Additionally, laundry and ironing services are available upon request for a great price.
Disponibilidad y preciosPara ver la disponibilidad y los precios, selecciona las fechas y pincha "Actualizar fechas"
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- Recepción 24 horas
- Seguridad 24 horas
- Aire acondicionado
- Traslado al aeropuerto
- Estacionamiento de bicicletas
- Desayuno incluido
- Desayuno no incluido
- Televisión por cable
- Ventilador de techo
- Se aceptan niños
- Cunas disponibles
- Tipo de cambio
- Acceso gratuito a Internet
- Aparcamiento gratuito
- Wifi gratuito
- Limpieza
- Acceso a Internet
- Cocina
- Lavandería
- Salón
- Guardaequipajes
- Comidas disponibles
- Sin límite de hora
- Piscina al aire libre
- Terraza al aire libre
- Aparcamiento
- Caja fuerte
- Piscina
- IVA incluido
- Cafetera/tetera
- Toallas incluidas
- Accesible en silla de ruedas
Política de cancelaciónEsta propiedad cuenta con una política de cancelación de 1 días. Si no se realiza la cancelación dentro de ese plazo se aplicará un recargo de anulación igual a la primera noche de tu estancia.
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Hi, Welcome to Bali Buddha Guest Villas - Poolside
From the airport, in a taxi it should cost about 60,000-100,000 Rupiah to get here. Don't pay more than that! Tell the driver you're staying in Legian, on Legian Street close to the STARBUCKS.
Once you get to Legian Street, turn left at the small street just before STARBUCKS. The name of the street is Gang MANGGA. Go up about 400 meters. AFTER the small bend to the right, it is the first gate on the left. The sign inside the gate just says 'GUEST VILLAS. There isn't a sign on the actual gate. It's just a big yellow gate and it's the only one in that part of the street (first one left AFTER the first curve to the right).
Call or SMS us if any problems. The number will be given to you after you've already booked.


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Inspiring Couples: Matt and Kelly Allen
While a junior at Oklahoma State University, Kelly Allen decided her dating life needed a change. No more loudmouth, full-of-themselves guys. She was going to find a quiet, nice guy. She met Matt at a sorority and fraternity function.
"Why he struck me as quiet ... I'll never know," she said. "That's a word never used to describe me," Matt Allen said. Sometimes, nice is enough. "So, we went out on a date," he said, "and I never went out on a date with anybody else ever again." "Me either," she said. They married June 1, 1991, about two weeks after she graduated. How they envisioned their lives together couldn't have included what they're enduring now. Last September, Matt was diagnosed with grade 3 brain cancer. He literally was running up and down a football field a few hours before a throbbing headache began that forced him to the doctor the next morning, and then to the hospital that night. He thought it was a sinus headache, aggravated by all the dust he was stirring up as he tore out the tile in their house. Sinuses didn't cause the headache. At the hospital, doctors kept asking his wife questions about family history and cancer. "There's no cancer in Matt's family," she said. Too soon, it all made sense. She was told he had a tumor. The scan was wrong, she kept thinking. Maybe it was a shadow. Then she saw the scan, showing a tumor the size of her fist. "It was a bad guy," Matt said. Surgery required 5½ hours to remove most of the malignant, aggressive tumor that had pushed his brain into the shape of a boomerang. He has since had seven weeks of radiation, and the Allens have experienced an outpouring of love and support from family, friends and community. They also knew they were strong enough to be in control. "The very first oncologist that we met told us he had less than a year to live," she said. "Basically told us to go home and hug our kids and buy more life insurance. We didn't like that attitude, so we found another doctor who has helped us come up with a plan, encouraged us to work with M.D. Anderson in Houston, and like everything else in this process, we've been able to surround ourselves with positive people who have hope and people who are working towards that," she said. The Edmond couple wouldn't accept anything less. "That's who I am," he said. "I am that guy. I always see the bright side. I always am half full. ... Even if it's a half a percent, that's what I will focus on. ... There are two things you can take to the bank about me: I will always be positive, and if you make it a game, you make it a competition, I play to win." The couple like to remind their children that you can't always choose what happens to you, but you can choose how you react to it. "You can choose your attitude," Kelly said, echoing an often-repeated sentiment of Matt's. "We certainly can't pretend we're perfect, and I can't tell you that I get up every day and smile through it, because we don't. I want our kids to know that we have rough days, too, and I have bad days, and we work though that." As long as someone's telling them there's hope, that's whom they choose to listen to. A positive attitude strengthens them. "The last five months haven't defined who we are," Kelly said. "I think the previous 18 years have helped build us for the last five months." "Sure, I'm going through a little adventure," Matt said, "but I'm still getting good news." Kelly is a teacher at Rosary Catholic School in Oklahoma City; Matt sells pharmaceuticals for Glaxo Smith Kline. Their daughter, Taylor, is 15; their son, Chris, is 12. Even before they had children, Matt coached sports. He believes in the life lessons that can be learned. Inspiring Couples


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Ways and Means Takes Testimony on the Charitable Deduction
In a lengthy hearing before the full House Ways and Means Committee yesterday, 42 witnesses in six panels of seven each spoke about the future of the charitable deduction.
Extended Summary
The full text of the formal testimony is available on the Committee's website. Written comments are to be submitted by the close of business Thursday, February 28, 2013.
In anticipation of the hearing, the Joint Committee on Taxation released a report summarizing the present law and detailing the recent proposals to reform the deduction structure. These include:
limiting the existing deduction to contributions in excess of a floor, expressed either as a fixed dollar amount or as a percentage of adjusted gross income; limiting the marginal benefit of the itemized deduction, as has been proposed by the Obama administration in several successive budgets; extending the benefit of the deduction to nonitemizers by allowing an "above the line" income adjustment, with or without a floor; and replacing the deduction with a nonrefundable credit, with or without a floor.
The likely revenue effects and impacts on giving of each of these approaches were the subject of a Congressional Budget Office study two years ago.
Selected highlights of yesterday's testimony:
Roger Colinvaux, a law professor at the Catholic University and former legislation counsel to the Joint Committee on Taxation, suggested that while the choice among policy options would depend in part on whether the deduction is seen as an adjustment to a taxpayer's income base or as a subsidy. Accoridng to the professor, either rationale would support placing a floor under the deduction, and repealing provisions allowing a deduction at fair market value for appreciated property. C. Eugene Steuerle, a fellow at the Urban Institute and a co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, proposed a combination of measures he said would increase charitable giving with little or no revenue effect. Among other things, he suggested an creating "above the line" deduction for non-itemizers, subject to a floor, allowing deductions for contributions made until April 15, expanding the charitable IRA Rollover, limiting the deductibility of gifts of non-related use tangible personal property, reducing and simplifying the foundation excise tax, and changing the foundation payout rule, which he said punishes higher payouts in a recession. Diana Aviv, president and CEO of Independent Sector, cited data from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University she said contradicted the suggestion "that the charitable deduction disproportionately benefits those charities favored by wealthier donors," specifically, arts organizations and private colleges. The 2012 Study of High Net Worth Philanthropy, she said, found that 79.3% of households with incomes above $200,000 per year gave to "basic needs" charities in 2011, with the average size of these gifts increasing by 17.5% from 2009. Ms. Aviv urged legislators to make permanent several "extenders," including the charitable IRA Rollover, the enhanced deduction for contributions of food inventory, and the enhanced incentives for contributions of conservation easements. Conrad Teitell, volunteer legal counsel to the American Council on Gift Annuities, urged an expanded version of the charitable IRA Rollover to allow a taxpayer as young as 59-1/2 to roll over as much as $500,000 to fund a charitable remainder trust or gift annuity.
No fewer than fifteen of the witnesses represented regional affiliates of the United Way. Testimony from these and several other witnesses focused anecdotally on social services performed by local charities and asserted broadly that the charitable deduction is an essential element of the landscape.
At least two witnesses did step somewhat outside predictable comments.
Jan Masaoka, CEO of the California Association of Nonprofits, asked legislators to "take a full-picture approach" in looking at the deduction. She noted a CBO report that "taxpayers who earn more than $100,000 a year took in 76% of the total charitable tax subsidy in 2006, despite contributing [only] 57% of all donations," and that "the charitable giving of higher earners tends to go more toward large institutions, such as for facilities projects at universities," underscoring her point by noting that "[m]illionaires give just 4% of their total contributions to 'basic needs' organizations." Ms. Masaoka suggested an "above the line" deduction for non-itemizers and a floor on deductions as "ideas worthy of discussion." Ms. Masaoka's figures were underscored by a report issued last week by the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. John M. Palatiello, president of the Business Coalition for Fair Competition, decried the encroachment of exempt entities into the private sector, unfairly competing with for-profit businesses. He urged closer tracking and stronger enforcement of the tax on unrelated business income, and legislation to provide a more workable definition of what constitutes an "unrelated" business.
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Earlier in the week, Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) announced the creation of eleven tax reform "working groups" within the committee, each tasked with compiling "feedback" on a specified topic from stakeholders, academics and think tanks, practitioners, the general public, and colleagues in the House. The groups' work product is due April 15.
The "charitable/exempt organizations" working group is to be chaired by Rep. David Reichert (R-WA), with Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) serving as vice-chair. Rep. Lewis has repeatedly sponsored the "Artist-Museum Partnership Act," most recently as H.R. 112-1190, which would allow the creator of a literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly work to claim a deduction for fair market value for contributing the work to a charity for which it would be related use property. He was a co-sponsor of H.R. 111-4090, which would have temporarily replaced the two-tier excise tax on investment income of private foundations with a flat rate.
Rep. Lewis also sponsored H.R. 110-7083, which would among other things have grandfathered certain non-functionally integrated Type III supporting organizations from the then threatened five percent minimum payout requirement and permitted a supporting organization to pay reasonable compensation to a substantial contributor without running afoul of excess benefit restrictions. That bill passed the House, but was killed in the Senate in a procedural maneuver by Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-IA), then the ranking member of the Finance Committee.
Rep. Lewis also urged the Treasury and IRS to abandon the five percent minimum payout requirement. The final and temporary Regs issued in December yielded to these comments, substituting a requirement that a NFI Type III SO distribute annually the greater of 85% of its adjusted net income or 3.5% of the fair market value of its non-exempt use assets.
For his part, Rep. Reichert is a co-sponsor of H.R. 112-4035, which would exempt from excess business holdings a private foundation's investment in a wholly owned business, acquired under a decedent's will or trust, that distributes all of its net operating income to the foundation. He was also a co-sponsor of H.R. 112-1478, which among other things would have allowed an electing small business trust to pass through the full amount of any charitable contribution, without regard to the shareholder's basis in the stock.
Kallina's Korner: Getting back to the hearing and charitable income tax reform, it appears that some witnesses have the perspective that tax deductions, and the attendent tax dollars belong to the government. Would the testimony and conclusions be different if these individuals believed that charitable dollars belong to the taxpayer, and not Congress? It is true that tax deductions are a matter of "legislative grace," but ultimately the American taxpayer will decide the issue at the ballot box.
Comment Period Closes on Proposed Medicare Surtax Regs
As the comment period closes on the proposed regulations under Section 1411 implementing the 3.8% Medicare surtax on net investment income ("NII"), two commenter's focused on issues relating to charitable remainder trusts and gift annuities.
Extended Summary
Investment manager Kaspick & Company urged Treasury to reconsider its proposal to characterize distributions from a charitable remainder trust as NII to the extent of current or accumulated NII at the trust level, regardless of the character of the distributions under the four-tier method of accounting.
While Treasury's proposal "seeks to avoid sub-accounting within each tier of income" under Reg. Sec. 1.664-1(d)(1), Kaspick claimed it "effectively creates a fifth tier." Thus, Kaspick contended, Treasury would impose further administrative burdens on trustees, creating confusion for beneficiaries, who would sometimes be subjected to the surtax on distributions that did not, under the four-tier method, actually include NII.
Kaspick also suggested final regulations should clarify that NII distributed from a gift annuity may be spread out over the life expectancy of the annuitant, and that capital gain realized upon the creation of a gift annuity funded prior to 2013 would not be subject to the surtax.
Finally, echoing the comments of Conrad Teitell on behalf of the ACGA, Kaspick urged the Treasury to exempt from the surtax short-term capital gains recognized by pooled income funds.
2. Texas Bar Tax Section Comments
The Section of Taxation of the State Bar of Texas took a somewhat different approach, urging the Treasury to allow the trustee of a charitable remainder trust to elect to allocate NII according to the four-tier method.
The Texas Bar also suggested that the Treasury allow the trustee of an existing noncharitable trust who has discretion to allocate realized capital gains to distributable net income but who may have elected to retain gains as corpus, a "fresh start" in light of the fact that undistributed gains will now be subject to a surtax at the trust level.
CPC Commentary
The comment period closed Tuesday, March 5. A public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, April 2. Altogether, about thirty comments were submitted, mostly dealing with issues surrounding "material participation" in an activity generating passive income or losses. Only a handful specifically addressed fiduciary income tax accounting, split interest trusts, and gift annuities.
Using a CRT to Sell Section 1250 Real Property
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This case study illustrates the use of a CRT to defer gain on the sale of depreciated rental property.
Richard and Kathy Bates, age 70 and 69, respectively, want to retire and spend more time traveling. To meet these goals, they decide to sell an apartment building they purchased twenty years ago for $2,000,000 which recently appraised for $6,000,000. After claiming $750,000 of depreciation, their current basis is $1,250,000. They are concerned about the effect of capital gain tax on the remaining $4,750,000, which they think would leave them with only $5,288,000 to invest toward their retirement and travel goals.
To make matters worse, the Bates' CPA explains that depreciated real property is subject to a higher capital gain tax rate (25%) for the portion of the capital gain attributable to depreciation. This is referred to as unrecaptured section 1250 gain.
As a result if they sold the property, the Bates would pay a higher capital gain tax on a portion of the property. This extra capital gain tax is an extra $75,000, which means they would only have $5,213,000 to invest toward their retirement and travel goals.
At a meeting with their financial planner, Richard and Kathy learn how a charitable remainder trust (CRT) can sell the apartment building without paying capital gain tax and preserve the full $6,000,000 thereby enhancing their retirement income. The Bates are thrilled with the benefits of a CRT. Acting on their planner's advice, they create a 6% CRT that sells the apartment building and pays them a lifetime cash flow initially based on the full $6,000,000 sales proceeds (less a Realtor's commission). As an extra benefit, because the Bates' CRT will leave a substantial gift to charity in the future, Richard and Kathy can claim an immediate income tax charitable deduction and reduce their taxable estate.
CMFR = 2.8%. Total Return rate of CRT portfolio = 8%. Federal income tax rate = 35%. Federal capital gains tax rate = 15%. State tax rates assumed to be 0%. 10% of original cost basis allocated to the land. Depreciated on a straight-line basis over 39 years. Richard and Kathy can benefit their heirs through life insurance or separate planning. The property in the CRT cannot be used by or sold to the Bates' family. Assumes the property is not subject to a mortgage. Selling expense of 8%.
Note: This example is hypothetical and for educational use only. The situations, tax rates or return numbers do not represent any actual clients or investments. There is no assurance that the rates depicted can or will be achieved. Actual results will vary. Please consult with legal and tax counsel about the suitability of this plan before proceeding. For more details about this strategy or any other charitable or trust case, please call Renaissance at 800.843.0050.
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CPC Commentary
The views, opinions, and conclusions expressed in this Commentary are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or conclusions of CPC.
It appears that the 3.8% tax on net investment income, enacted as part of the Health Care Reconciliation Act, will be added to the 25% rate referred to above in the case study.
A cautionary note: under the four-tier, "worst in, first out" ordering rules for CRTs, the depreciation recapture will be distributed ahead of the long-term gain.


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It's morning in America—again.
The Most Important Election of Our Lives
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The case for re-electing Obama--and feeling good about it.
How the GOP Destroyed its Moderates
October 05, 2012
Moderate Republicanism is not intellectually dead. So where is it?
Romney's Closing, Obama's Opening
August 31, 2012
Mitt Romney on Thursday evening presented a politically effective argument: President Obama raised your hopes, only to dash them. I don't agree with that line of argument. Saving the country from economic catastrophe, laying the groundwork for a clean energy future, and making health care affordable for nearly all Americans represent a huge set of accomplishments—particularly given the obstacles, economic and political, that Obama faced from the day he took office.
Sheldon Adelson and the Jew Card
August 21, 2012
Can you criticize Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson without being accused of anti-Semitism?
How Do You Say Brouhaha In Polish?
May 30, 2012
I have little patience for overreaction to political gaffes or misstatements, but usually this lack of patience takes the form of dismay at the blatant cynicism involved in such overreactions. In the case of the upset over President Obama's reference last night to "Polish death camps," I'm left with more mystification than dismay, because the uproar of sensible people like David Frum and Michael Tomasky is genuine.
Romney's Other Southern Problem, Hooah
March 14, 2012
The Romney campaign, as well as the Last of the Mohican Moderates like David Frum, are doing their best to downplay Rick Santorum's wins in Alabama and Mississippi by casting those states as deeply unrepresentative of the national electorate (less representative than American Samoa?).
Charles Murray, Maytag Man
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It's not strictly a 2012 campaign matter, but to the extent that the campaign's going to be about inequality I figure the debate over Charles Murray's new book, Coming Apart, is fair game for the Stump.
Chicago's Choice: Flip-Flopper Or Plutocrat
November 29, 2011
There's been an interesting debate burbling under the surface the past few weeks over whether the Obama reelection team faces a condundrum in deciding to frame Mitt Romney primarily as a flip-flopper or as the standard-bearer for an extremist Republican Party.
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August 30, 2011
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Drake says the shark washed ashore Friday morning, around 9AM between The Outrigger Beach Resort and The Sand Piper Beach Resort.
"It was just laying there on the beach, a couple of feet from the water," said Drake.
She was on a family vacation to the Southwest Florida beaches.
"Honestly it's kinda freaky, I've never seen a shark up close like that before," said Drake, "only on TV so I really didn't know how to react."
But Drake reacted like most of us would nowadays. She pulled out her phone and started snapping pictures, even though she says she was freaked out by the entire thing.
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It's happening in reality, but sharks have been all over the internet and on TV in the past week.
On Monday, a teen was bitten by a shark at the beaches in Sanibel.
A shark was found dead on an empty NYC subway train earlier this week.
But the biggest stage for sharks was the 26th season of Discovery Channel's annual series, "Shark Week."
While the specials on "Shark Week" can often scare viewers from getting into the water out of fear, the shark discovered by Bridget Drake was no longer able to attack.
So she and her entire family took advantage of it; they took turns lining up for pictures to prove they saw one of nature's most dangerous creatures in person.
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Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law
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"(T)hese essays have collectively expanded the context of the case and greatly enriched our understanding of its impact, then and now.… (an) enormously thought-provoking volume."
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"(The Dred Scott Case) conveniently brings together a striking array of important perspectives, both on the nineteenth-century story of Dred Scott itself and on its continuing significance. Scholars and undergraduates alike will find this volume rewarding."
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In 1846 two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri. As the first true civil rights case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, Dred Scott v. Sandford raised issues that have not been fully resolved despite three amendments to the Constitution and more than a century and a half of litigation.
The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law presents original research and the reflections of the nation's leading scholars who gathered in St. Louis to mark the 150th anniversary of what was arguably the most infamous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision, which held that African Americans "had no rights" under the Constitution and that Congress had no authority to alter that, galvanized Americans and thrust the issue of race and law to the center of American politics. This collection of essays revisits the history of the case and its aftermath in American life and law. In a final section, the present-day justices of the Missouri Supreme Court offer their reflections on the process of judging and provide perspective on the misdeeds of their nineteenth-century predecessors who denied the Scotts their freedom.
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David Thomas Konig is a professor of history and a professor of law at Washington University, St. Louis. He is the author or editor of articles, books, and documentary collections on American legal history from the first colonial settlements to the Civil War, including Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629–1692 and Devising Liberty: Creating and Preserving Freedom in the New American Republic.
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Impact of Vitamin C on Endothelial Function and Exercise Capacity in Fontan-Palliated Patients
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In this study, investigators will evaluate the effect of vitamin C on endothelial function, exercise tolerance and quality of life in patients with a single ventricle who have been palliated to Fontan physiology. The hypothesis is that vitamin C will result in improved exercise tolerance and endothelial function in patients who have undergone the Fontan operation, compared to placebo.
Fontan Procedure
Hypolpastic Left Heart Syndrome
Tricuspid Atresia
Drug: Vitamin C
Drug: Placebo
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Vitamin C May Improve Endothelial Function and Exercise Capacity in Functional Single Ventricle Patients After Fontan Palliation
- Change in peak oxygen consumption (from baseline to post-study drug testing) [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Oxygen Pulse [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Peak Work [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Endo-PAT score [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Framingham Modified Endothelial Function Score [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- PedsQL 4.0 - quality of life assessment [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- BNP [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Vitamin C
High-dose Vitamin C in 4 age-based doses will be given in two-daily doses for four weeks
Drug: Vitamin C
High-dose Vitamin C will be administered in 4 age-based dosing groups
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Placebo will be given in two-daily doses for four weeks
Drug: Placebo
Placebo will be administered twice daily for four weeks
Detailed Description:
Recent evidence suggests that after Fontan operation, single ventricle patients have impaired function of the vascular endothelium due in part to abnormalities in nitric oxide signaling. Endothelial dysfunction may contribute to the development of congestive heart failure and exercise intolerance that have been well-documented in Fontan patients. Therapeutic interventions to improve endothelial function in adults with heart failure have mainly focused on increasing the synthesis or decreasing the degradation of nitric oxide. We propose a randomized, prospective, placebo-controlled trial of vitamin C, an antioxidant that protects NO deactivation, in subjects with single ventricular anatomy after Fontan palliation. The specific aims of this study are to compare NO signaling, endothelial function and exercise capacity in Fontan subjects to that of a control group that is frequency-matched to case subjects by age and sex, and to assess NO signaling, endothelial function and exercise capacity in Fontan subjects after 4 weeks of oral vitamin C (or placebo) therapy. These results have particular importance because improving the endothelial response in Fontan patients has the potential to reduce the risk of developing congestive heart failure and improve exercise capacity. Furthermore, assessing endothelial function and the effects of therapies aimed at improving vascular health may be generalizable to many other chronic pediatric conditions associated with increased cardiovascular risk such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|8 Years to 25 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- 8-25 years of age
- Fontan-palliated patient
Exclusion Criteria:
- New York Heart Association (NYHA) classes III or IV
- Diabetes mellitus
- Family history of premature coronary artery disease
- Use of Sildenafil or other pulmonary artery vasodilators
- Prior cardiac arrest (outside the first 24-hours postoperatively)
- Life-threatening dysrhythmias
- Severe ventricular dysfunction
- Severe AV valve regurgitation
- Pregnancy
- Severe renal or hepatic impairment
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00974025
|United States, Michigan
|University of Michigan
|Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109
|Study Director:
|John R Charpie, MD
|University of Michigan
|Principal Investigator:
|Bryan H Goldstein, MD
|University of Michigan
Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|John R. Charpie, University of Michigan Health System
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00974025 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 9, 2009
|Last Updated:
|October 20, 2011
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Tricuspid Atresia
Cardiovascular Abnormalities
Cardiovascular Diseases
Congenital Abnormalities
Heart Defects, Congenital
Heart Diseases
Heart Valve Diseases
Ascorbic Acid
Growth Substances
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Protective Agents
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