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The Northern Ireland Assembly snap election will bring about the early implementation of plans to reduce the number of Members from 108 to 90.
Under legislation already in place, the next assembly poll will see five Members of the Legislative Assembly, known as MLAs, returned in each of the region's 18 seats - down from six Members previously.
Elections to the Assembly use the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system, a form of proportional representation involving voting for candidates in order of preference.
This system aims to reduce the so-called "wasted votes" seen in the UK Parliament's first-past-the-post system, where many electors in traditionally "safe" constituencies find their chosen party never wins and their vote does not count towards electing an MP, or it always wins, piling up majorities of thousands of votes above the number actually needed for victory.
Under STV, instead of a majority of votes, the winning post for the candidates is the quota - the number of valid votes cast divided by the number of seats plus one, plus one vote.
In all of the Northern Ireland constituencies, this comes to a sixth (previously a seventh) of the votes plus one vote. Any candidate passing the quota at any stage during the counting is elected.
Voters are asked to number candidates on the ballot paper in order of preference. The count then involves distributions of votes through many rounds.
Candidates passing the quota are declared elected and the number of their votes above the quota are then distributed to others in accordance with their supporters' lower preferences as they have expressed on the ballot paper.
Low-scoring candidates are progressively eliminated, with their votes distributed to others in accordance with their supporters' lower preferences.
This means that the five people elected in each of the 90 seats will be either candidates passing the quota or those remaining when all the other candidates have been eliminated.
:: Example of a count of first preference votes in a five-member constituency with fictitious candidates:
Peter Johnson (SF) 7,001
Ann Carr (DUP) 6,201
Bill Moffatt (SF) 6,110
John Harper (SF) 5,476
Richard Miller (UUP) 4,910
Paul Jones (SDLP) 4,002
Julie O'Malley (SDLP) 3,445
Ann Kelly (UUP) 1,004
Ann Brookes (Ind) 877
David Hopkins (ND) 845
Martin Thompson (Ind) 598
John Arnott (Alliance) 556
William Jones (UKIP) 411
Danny Gibson (Green) 287
The turnout - the number of valid votes cast - is 41,723 and the quota is set at one-sixth of that, 6,594 plus one vote to be elected.
One candidate, Peter Johnson, is above the quota and therefore is declared elected at this stage.
The count then moves on to a second round where Mr Johnson's surplus of 407 votes is redistributed to other candidates in accordance with his supporters' second choices as they have expressed on the ballot paper.
The result of the second count in this fictional example is:
Ann Carr (DUP) 6,201
Bill Moffatt (SF) 6,337
John Harper (SF) 5,586
Richard Miller (UUP) 4,910
Paul Jones (SDLP) 4,003
Julie O'Malley (SDLP) 3,447
Ann Kelly (UUP) 1,004
Ann Brookes (Ind) 877
David Hopkins (ND) 847
Martin Thompson (Ind) 598
John Arnott (Alliance) 557
William Jones (UKIP) 411
Danny Gibson (Green) 289
Nobody new has passed the quota this time. The lowest-scoring candidate, Danny Gibson, is now eliminated from the contest and his votes may be redistributed in a subsequent round to other candidates on the basis of voters' lower preferences.
If there are a number of candidates at the bottom of the tally whose total vote is insufficient to make further progress, they could all be eliminated at the same time.
This process continues into further rounds of counting, with candidates either passing the quota and being elected or being eliminated from the bottom of the tally.
An example of a final - and in this case 10th count - where three candidates have passed the quota in earlier rounds and have been declared elected, with just two places remaining:
Distribution of Julie O'Malley's votes after she was eliminated from the contest in the previous (9th) round:
John Harper (SF) 5,998
Richard Miller (UUP) 6,003
Paul Jones (SDLP) 6,025
None of the remaining candidates has cleared the quota but the two highest-scoring ones, Paul Jones and Richard Miller, are declared elected while the lowest-scoring candidate, John Hawkins, is eliminated from the contest.


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Congress Crafting Broadband Investment
By: Brian Santo, CedMagazine.com
The Obama Administration's economic stimulus package is going to include investments in broadband Internet infrastructure, in addition to funding upgrades and repairs for the national power grid, alongside more traditional funding for road and bridge repair.
That broadband infrastructure that would be included is according to a report from the Dow Jones news service, and attributed to a senior aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D- CA).
A week ago, Rep. Pelosi's office issued a statement saying that legislation is being drafted in the House that, among other things, would help "build a high-tech infrastructure that brings the power of renewable energy and broadband to communities across America."
The legislation would also include a tax cut aimed at the middle class.
The language in the Pelosi statement suggests that the legislation would include incentives for extending the reach of broadband service, which would be consistent with long-standing government goals that have yet to be achieved through commercial efforts alone.
Universal broadband Internet coverage was often mentioned by President-Elect Obama while campaigning.
Details of the package are still being worked out, according to the Dow Jones report.
Congress' options include tax credits to the phone and cable companies, greater subsidies to the companies to offset the costs of providing high-speed Internet service in sparsely populated areas, and increasing aid to states specifically for broadband coverage programs.
Source: http://www.cedmagazine.com/Congress-broadband-investment.aspx

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Olathe official calls radio station prank "a terrorist attack."
Olathe, Kan. (AP) -- A city water official says a radio station April Fools Day prank that caused some residents to think their water supply was unfit for drinking and even bathing was akin to "a terrorist attack."
Jerald Robnett, the city's superintendent of water protection, said his department received calls from 150 customers Monday after KQRC reported the water contained "high levels of a naturally occurring substance," dihydrogen monoxide, that causes increased urination, profuse sweating and wrinkling of hands and feet. Boiling the water long enough would get rid of the substance, however.
City officials said about 30 residents called 911.
Technically, radio personalities Johnny Dare and Murphy Wells had their facts straight. Dihydrogen monoxide is a scientific name for water. It can cause the "symptoms" described, and boiling will make it go away.
But the April Fool's Day gag upset Robnett so much that he said, "It's a terrorist act as far as I'm concerned.
"It's like going to the airport and shouting that you have a gun. It's stupidity."
City Manager Michael Wilkes called the joke irresponsible and said it jeopardized public safety.
KQRC program director Neal Mirsky said that as soon as the station realized there was a problem, "we pulled the plug on it."
"We didn't intend for any of this," he said. "We thought a couple of people would go to work without a shower."
Dare and Wells, known for their stunts, announced the "contamination" at 6:30 a.m. and revealed the prank about 8 a.m.
View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif some people need to fucking learn to take a joke... they're all just pissed b/c they're too stupid to realize that they were duped
"It's like going to the airport and shouting that you have a gun. It's stupidity." View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif ... riiiight. it's *just* like that... :shakehead: some people's kids
do you really see anything wrong with this? it it their fault that so many people are stupid? just because so many dumb people complained doesn't make it a terrorists act.... sheesh....


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Lolita Bungalow Samui
151 Moo 1, T. Maenam
Koh Samui , Suratthani 84330
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Lolita Bungalows is a long time and well established owner-managed beachfront resort of some 30 bungalows set in the center of Maenam's extensive long white beach. All the bungalows are either built on stilts set in the sand or located on the plush grass lawns just a few meters from the beach. Wake up with the morning sun streaming through the windows and within seconds you can enjoy a refreshing morning swim in the cool blue sea. The restaurant is located directly on the beach, serving Thai cuisine and seafood. The shopping and entertainment venues are just minutes away from the resort.
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Jun 14, 2017
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i fine hotel on the best place in koh samui
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Jun 16, 2017
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Feb 14, 2017
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We ve been twice in this resort and really enjoyed our stays. Lolita was willing to fullfill our wishes ( as perhaps to change the bungalow) and her whole family was very helpfull
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May 11, 2015
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The beach and the view from the bungalow is beautiful and perfect!
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Lolita Bungalows are a great place to stay on Haad Maenam beach. The 1st row bungalows are right on the beach with the 2nd row seconds away. The gardens surrounding the bungalows are lovely and well kept. We had a second row bungalow which was spacious even with two extra single mattresses on the floor for the kids. The bathroom was big and the whole place very clean. The only negative was that the shower wasn t very good, but the water was nice and hot. The hospitality received by Arm who runs the bungalows alongside Lolita was brilliant. We stayed from the 15th-20th of January. The only thing which wasn t great was that Maenaam beach was pretty dirty. Not sure if a lot of rubbish had been washed up due to the recent stormy weather. On the second last day of our stay a big clean up was done which restored the beach to it s beautiful self.
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Hannah Palmer
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Oct 28, 2014
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Very bad. Not many rent of them. Animals on toilet. Prize for room 100 bath not more for much to do with room . I never rent again of lolita bungalow for bad.
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Immer wieder gerne!
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Great Holiday!!
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Apr 24, 2014
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relaxter urlaub am schönsten strand von samui.tolle lage in erster reihe unter palmen. prima service von lolita und co .alles okay.
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alles schnell und okay . wie vereinbart.
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We (my husband, my daughter 2years and me) realy enoyed the stay at lolita bungalow. the location is perfect, the bungalows a simple and very clean! thanks to the family of lolita bungalow for this great holiday!
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Arrived at 9:30, room not ready, owner treat us with a very poor welcome (not as Thais usually do). We quited the first day and went to Florist resort nearby.
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clear. Nothing to say.
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Tip Top Bungalows dirket am Meer. Wer früher als Backpacker unterwegs war und jetzt ne ordentliche Unterkunft sucht ist hier genau richtig. Natürlich gibt es bessere und saubere Anlagen, aber wer will und braucht das schon in Thailand?! Essen kann man besser ausserhalb...in unmittelbarer Nähe gibt es einige tolle Restaurants.
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Dec 29, 2013
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nice place + bungalow, unfortunateldirectly beside the c onstruction workingof a new building
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Jan 10, 2014
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is a long time and well established owner - managed beachfront resort of some 30 bungalows set in the center of Mae Nam extensive beach and right next to Koh Samui 5 - star top luxury resort. Lolita Bungalows is in every sense of the word a beachfront resort.
All the bungalows are either built on stilts set in the sand or located on the plush grass lawns just a few meters from the beach. Wake up with the morning sun streaming through the windows and within seconds you can enjoy a refreshing morning swim in the cool blue sea.
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Octagonal marble beachfront restaurant with beautiful views of the beach, sunsets and neighbouring island of Koh Phangan.
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Mae Nam village location: 5 minutes walk to the center of Mae Nam Village with it shops, restaurants, cafes and market.
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VANCOUVER, BC - Former Vancouver Whitecaps FC midfielder Sebastien Le Toux is back in town and his good friend and former teammate is hoping it won't be a pleasant stay – at least for 90 minutes Saturday at BC Place.
When Whitecaps FC host the Philadelphia Union this weekend, it will be a reunion of sorts for Le Toux and 'Caps defender Jordan Harvey, who made 46 appearances with the Union between 2010 and 2011.
"I'm looking forward to seeing him," Harvey told whitecapsfc.com. "But in those 90 minutes, it will be about competing and wanting to beat your old team and old friends."
Harvey and Le Toux first met back in 2010 as members of the expansion Union. In fact, they were roommates those first few weeks and hit it off right away.
The duo played together for about a year and a half before Harvey was acquired by Whitecaps FC – who at the time were an expansion team in their own right.
They wouldn't be separated for long, however, as Le Toux soon was reunited with his former teammate on the West Coast after he too was acquired by the 'Caps at the start of the 2012 season.
The hard-working Frenchman appeared in 19 matches with the Blue and White, scoring four goals during that period, before being traded back to the East to join the New York Red Bulls. Finally, Le Toux came full circle and returned to Philadelphia in December 2012.
Although they're now on different sides of the continent, Harvey and Le Toux still keep in touch on a regular basis – as do their girlfriends.
"His girlfriend is actually staying with us right now," Harvey laughed. "We've all become good friends."
And they all went out for dinner on Friday evening, but the camaraderie will be short-lived. As the old adage goes, there are no friends on the pitch.
As a left fullback, there's a good chance Harvey will be tasked with shutting down the Frenchman – something that many teams have struggled with this season. Le Toux, an attacking right midfielder, leads MLS with nine assists in 20 appearances this season.
"Jordan knows a lot of Sebastien's tendencies and what he likes to do as a player, which bodes well for Jordan," said Whitecaps FC goalkeeper Brad Knighton, was also a member of the inaugural Union squad. "Sebastien's pace up and down the wing - that you saw here - is second to none in the league. As long as we can limit him and limit his role on the ball, I think we'll be better off."
For his part, Harvey has quietly become one of Martin Rennie's most reliable defenders. The versatile MLS veteran assumed Vancouver's starting left back position earlier this season and has not disappointed. Though not known for his offence, he's even chipped in with three goals in 11 appearances.
"I've gotten that opportunity and I've tried to grab a hold and not let go," said Harvey. "Hopefully the fans and people around the league see that. I'm just trying to prove myself day in day out, game in game out and hopefully I've been doing that."
He will have another opportunity to do that this weekend.
With Union striker Conor Casey suspended due to caution accumulation, the match-up between Harvey and Le Toux could play a part in deciding the outcome of the game.
"I don't think he slows down for 90 minutes and I think that's the key to his game," said Harvey. "Hopefully I can just close him down. He's been getting a lot of assists lately, so hopefully I can just deny him the ball and get stuck in a few times because that's always fun."


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De La Salle High basketball coach Frank Allocco earned his 600th career win Friday night with a 64-29 victory over visiting Livermore in the East Bay Athletic League.
Then Allocco dished off the credit to "the kids."
"That's what makes it so rewarding," said Allocco, whose team clinched at least a tie for the league title. "It's not so much a strategy as it's just getting kids to love each other and compete for each other."
Making the night more special for Allocco was that he received a plaque for the achievement and his parents were in the stands.
Allocco, 59, has a 600-83 career record as a varsity coach. His first 167 wins came at Northgate (1991-1997), where he won a state championship in 1995 and a Northern California title in 1996. He has 433 wins at De La Salle (1997-present), including state championships in 2000 and 2006 and NorCal titles in 2004 and 2011.
De La Salle senior stalwart Elliott Pitts, who had 12 points, explained Allocco's success.
"I think he just loves his teams more than any other coach," Pitts said. "He's just so close with us. He loves us, and we love him, and that's why we play for him."
The Spartans (24-3, 11-1) lead Monte Vista by two games with two league games to go.
And the future looks bright for the Spartans, whose impressive freshmen trio of Devin Asiasi, Nikhil Peters and Jordan Ratinho combined for 14 points and ran like floor like upperclassmen.
Senior guard Michael Inman led the Spartans with 17 points, including five 3-pointers.
The Cowboys (13-11, 3-9) were led by Ryan Sturtz's and Jason Morant's six points apiece.
Allocco becomes the 29th varsity boys basketball coach in the state with 600 wins.
Bishop O'Dowd 64, Berkeley 53: The Dragons took control early and held off a late rally by the host Yellowjackets to claim a share of the West Alameda County Conference-Foothill Division league championship.
O'Dowd has two more chances to clinch the outright title, including a Wednesday game with second-place San Leandro.
The first time O'Dowd and Berkeley met this year, the Dragons (21-3, 11-0 WACC) barely escaped 76-73 at home. This time, the Dragons dominated the first three quarters to earn their 13th consecutive win.
O'Dowd went on an 18-0 run to close the first quarter, then added to the lead by holding Berkeley (13-11, 6-5 WACC) scoreless for the first five minutes of the second quarter.
The Dragons led 51-25 after three, but Berkeley made the score respectable with a 28-point fourth quarter.
Sophomore Ivan Rabb made an impact at both ends of the floor for O'Dowd, finishing with 18 points, nine rebounds and eight blocks.
In one sequence during the big first-half run, Rabb swatted a shot, then threw down a dunk on the Dragons' ensuing possession.
Michael Perri added 15 points for O'Dowd.
"What I liked the most is at times it looked like we were really in sync," O'Dowd coach Lou Richie said. "We haven't looked like that a lot this year, so I was very happy about that."
Saturday, the Dragons will get a look at a possible NorCal playoff opponent when they travel to Modesto Christian. Both Division III teams are eligible for the new Open Division playoffs.
Justyce Key scored 13 points to lead Berkeley.
— Stephanie Hammon
Girls soccer
Bishop O'Dowd 2, Mt. Eden 0: Stanford-bound Ryan Walker-Hartshorn scored less than two minutes into the first half, and that proved to be the only goal the Dragons needed as they beat the host Monarchs to clinch the WACC-Foothill Division title outright.
Nicole Mitchell also scored for Bishop O'Dowd (20-2-1, 15-1 WACC-Foothill), which will likely receive a high seed for next week's North Coast Section Division II playoffs. The Dragons are the defending section champions.
Mt. Eden finished the regular season with a 7-10-5 overall record and a 4-9-3 mark in league play.
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It's no secret that high-income households have historically paid more than their fair share of income tax relative to their numbers.
For the 2013 filing season for 2012 individual income tax returns, as of July 25, 2013, IRS processed 137 million returns with adjusted gross income, or AGI (gross income minus deductions for AGI), totaling $7.6 trillion and income tax after credits totaling $894 billion. Of these returns, filers with AGI of $250,000 or more were responsible for:
- 2.5 million, or 1.8%, of total returns
- $1.4 trillion, or 18.4%, of total AGI
- $330 billion, or 36.9%, of total income tax after credits
2014 tax-season postmortem
Although the IRS hasn't released statistics yet for the 2014 filing season, I recently completed a tax-season postmortem review of my tax-preparation clients' 2013 income-tax returns. This is an annual ritual that I perform to assist clients with current-year income tax planning. It involves a detailed analysis of the various components of my clients' income-tax returns to determine what steps can be taken to reduce their income-tax liability in the current year.
To analyze the impact of the various 2013 tax law changes, I supplemented my traditional review with preparation of pro forma, or "what if," 2012 income-tax returns using 2013 income and deductions for clients in the top three tax brackets of 33%, 35%, and 39.6%. In other words, I applied the tax law in effect in 2012 to my clients' 2013 tax returns.
In 2013, you were subject to the 33% rate when your taxable income (AGI minus the greater of itemized deductions or the standard deduction minus personal exemptions) exceeded approximately $183,000 if you used single filing status or $223,000 with joint filing status. You entered the 35% bracket at $398,000 with single or joint filing status. Finally, taxable income of $400,000 (single) or $450,000 (joint) subjected your taxable income to a 39.6% rate.
Even though I studied, wrote about it on my website (See: The 2013 Tax: Law Schizophrenic Definition of Income) and did extensive income tax planning to reduce the fallout from the 2013 tax law changes, the review that I completed for the 2014 tax filing season was eye-opening. As expected, the impact on clients in the 33% and 35% tax brackets was minimal, with average income tax increases of 1.2% and 2.9%, respectively, for the same income and deductions in 2013 versus 2012.
It was a much different story, however, for clients in the 39.6% bracket. The average AGI for these clients exceeded $1.4 million in 2013. Their average income tax after credits was $436,000, or $51,000 greater than their pro forma 2012 average income-tax return liability of $385,000 with identical income and deductions.
Despite the fact that the top federal tax bracket increased by only 4.5%, going from 35% in 2012 to 39.6% in 2013, the average increase in federal income-tax liability for my top bracket clients was 13.3%, or approximately triple the amount of their tax bracket increase. Several clients approached, or exceeded, an increase of 15% in their 2013 versus 2012 pro forma income-tax liability, once again using identical income and deductions.
2013 income tax law changes
How is it possible that an increase of 4.5% in the top tax bracket can result in a 13% to 15% increase in income tax liability in 2013 compared to 2012 with identical income and deductions? The answer lies in the fact that the increase in the top tax bracket was just one of several changes, the cumulative effect of which wreaked havoc on high income households.
In addition to the increase in the Social Security tax rate from 4.2% to 6.2% (which wasn't included in my 2014 tax-season postmortem analysis since it wasn't an income-tax law change), there were six changes in the tax law that were responsible for a decline in spendable income for high income filers in 2013. The changes are summarized in the table referenced in the Schizophrenic Definition of Income as well as Robert Powell's Jan. 11, 2013 MarketWatch column, Now is the time for tax-efficient investments.
The common theme of the six changes is that they're all income-driven. Their impact is felt as you exceed defined income thresholds. The thresholds begin at modified adjusted gross income of $200,000 and $250,000, for single and joint filing status, respectively, for the Medicare earned income tax of 0.9% of earned income and the Medicare investment income tax of 3.8% of net investment income.
Adjusted gross income, AGI, of $250,000 (single) and $300,000 (joint) drives the itemized deductions limitation and personal exemption phaseout. The limitation on total itemized deductions resulted in an average loss for my clients of 14% of otherwise allowable deductions, i.e., after limitations on individual deductions were applied. Finally, when taxable income exceeds $400,000 (single) or $450,000 (joint), in addition to the top tax bracket increasing from 35% to 39.6%, long-term capital gains and qualified dividends are taxed at a 20% versus 15% tax rate.
In summary, if you were in the 39.6% tax bracket in 2013, the 4.5% increase in your tax bracket, combined with additional income-tax liability resulting from additional tax on Medicare wages, a loss of itemized and personal exemption deductions, a 5% surcharge on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends, and the 3.8% tax on net investment income, reduced your spendable income considerably. The damage was greater for those subject to state income tax to the extent that unfavorable state tax law changes took effect in 2013.
Begin your 2014 income-tax planning now
If you haven't done so already, I would recommend that you begin your 2014 income-tax planning now by preparing a detailed analysis of your 2013 income-tax returns, including the effect of the 2013 tax law changes on your returns if you were in a high income-tax bracket. Keeping in mind that the six changes are all income-driven, with most of them based on adjusted gross income, AGI, the primary goal of high-income households should be to reduce AGI using proactive income-tax planning strategies.
Assuming that the experience of my clients is in line with other high-income filers with similar AGI's, the amount of income tax paid by high income households in 2013 was especially onerous due to the 2013 income-tax law changes.
This should be confirmed when the 2014 tax filing season statistics are released by IRS.
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Feds reveal cash trail at trial of Detroit ex-mayor
DETROIT -- Large amounts of cash that Kwame Kilpatrick deposited into bank accounts may have been gifts or money that he had saved for years and stored at home, the former Detroit mayor's lawyer suggested Monday.
Prosecutors went right to the money in the first day of evidence in Kilpatrick's corruption trial, showing jurors a $4,000 cash deposit slip he used in 2005. Kilpatrick is charged with committing fraud, bribery, tax crimes and a racketeering conspiracy before resigning from office in 2008.
Internal Revenue Service agent Ron Sauer said the government traced $531,000 in cash transactions from 2001, when Kilpatrick was elected mayor, through 2008. The transactions included deposits, payments on his credit card and cashier's checks, and compared starkly to the few if any cash transactions made at banks before he became mayor.
On cross-examination, defense attorney James Thomas suggested the cash could have been gifts or simply transferred to banks after Kilpatrick had saved it under his bed or in shoes.
"Depending on how big the shoe is," Sauer replied when asked if that was possible.
"Well, this guy's got big feet," Thomas said of the 6'4" former college football player.
Later, Chad Smith, a police officer who was assigned to protect Kilpatrick's wife and children, testified that he once retrieved $1,500 from Kilpatrick's shoes to pay a credit card bill.
Thomas asked another witness if he recalled Don Barden, a late businessman, pledging $5,000 and urging people to give cash gifts at a 2006 birthday party for Kilpatrick.
Dwayne Love, an officer assigned to mayoral security at the time, said he doesn't remember the pitch.
Kilpatrick's father, Bernard, city contractor Bobby Ferguson and former Detroit water boss Victor Mercado are also on trial.
The government alleges that Kwame Kilpatrick rigged contracts to benefit Ferguson's construction company and got a share of the spoils. The former mayor also is accused of abusing a nonprofit fund for personal use and shaking down businesses that wanted city work.
A former Kilpatrick bodyguard, police Sgt. Jefferson Travis, said he regularly accompanied him to Ferguson's offices but stayed outside any meetings between the two and never saw money change hands.
"I didn't believe it was shady, no sir," Travis said on cross-examination, referring to the Kilpatrick-Ferguson relationship.
Jurors heard opening statements Friday in a trial that could stretch into next year.
Kilpatrick, 42, a Democrat and son of ex-U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, was a state lawmaker when he was elected mayor in 2001. He resigned in 2008 and pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by lying in a civil case about having sex with an aide. He subsequently served 14 months in prison for violating probation in that case.


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God's Judgment
August 26, 2014
"And it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment." - Hebrews 9:27
No one likes to think about it, but there is a judgment coming. One day we will be judged for what we have done with our Christian life since we were saved.
There are many people in churches all across the world who are religious, but they are lost. They are morally clean and religiously zealous, but according to the word of God their names are absent from The Book of Life.
Do you have a close friend, son, daughter, or family member whose name is not written in the Book of Life? Who shared Christ with you? What will you do with Christ today?
For more resources from Above & Beyond Fellowship, visit www.abidingabove.org.


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R.E.M. once sang about "the end of the world as we know it," but Michael Stipe & Co. never suspected that the brat-loving, cheese-eating, grain-growing Midwest might be the source of the world-ending scourge. But a pair of recent federal court cases coming from Wisconsin and Illinois have threatened to turn the most primitive functionality of the web—the hyperlink—into an "ask permission before linking" system.
Perhaps the full lyric should run, "It's the end of the web as we know it, and I feel fine," except that it's hard to feel to great about the end of the web.
We've got trouble, right here in Brat City!
First up is Jennifer Reisinger (of the Sheboygan Reisingers), a web designer from Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The town is right on Lake Michigan, perhaps a bit down on its luck, but a quintessentially Midwestern town, the kind of thing where no mayor would start harassing a private citizen over a link she had posted to a web site. Right?
Reisinger filed a federal case in late August against Sheboygan after the town attorney contacted her and—not appearing to have a totally complete understanding of this Internet thing—advised Sheboygan's mayor that it would be acceptable for the town to ask Reisinger to cease and desist. Her offense: putting a link to the city police department on the main page of her web design firm, Brat City Web Design.
It wasn't the attorney's idea, however. The mayor's office had instituted the inquiry, perhaps because Reisinger had previously been involved in an attempt to recall the mayor. After the attorney sent Reisinger a letter, she pulled the link, though her court filing says she also "expressed her surprise that the City of Sheboygan had a concern relative to a local business sharing a taxpayer-funded web site with visitors to the city."
Reisinger was then contacted by the police department, which was investigating the situation. The news found its way to the local paper, and Reisinger "experienced death threats, other threats to her personal safety, including vulgar and obscene comments and letters left at her residence." It got so bad that she installed video cameras and a burglar alarm. She also saw a 53 percent dropoff in annual income, which she links to the controversy.
Only after she (finally) retained an attorney did the city notify her in late 2007 that it was revoking the cease-and-desist letter. She is suing Sheboygan for violating her right to free speech.
The court documents we looked at showed that the town viewed the whole matter a bit differently. While the cease-and-desist order was in fact issued, Sheboygan never threatened Reisinger with a penalty for noncompliance. Further, the police investigation was not into Reisinger's contact, but an internal investigation into the actions of a police officer who had apparently given "permission" at one point for Reisinger to create such a link.
The city also claims that Reisinger contacted Wisconsin talk show bigwig Mark Belling to publicize her plight and that she also "contacted the news media to garner publicity and to embarrass the named defendants."
Finally, the revocation of the cease-and-desist letter wasn't due to Reisinger's attorney, but to the fact that the city attorney "had determined that there was no clearly established law applicable to web site linking." We would have imagined an attorney would look into this before issuing such a bizarre letter, but this is probably why we are not lawyers.
So, case closed? Not really. Reisinger is going ahead with the suit and demands compensation from the city. Both sides have filed arguments in the case.
Let's keep that public information a little less public
But while Sheboygan has backed down, well-connected Chicago law firm Jones Day has not. The firm filed a federal suit of its own against BlockShopper.com, a small outfit run out of a Chicago apartment. The site offers real estate information for particular urban communities, showing for instance that a prominent real estate lawyer bought that condo on 46th Avenue. Or, more to the point, that Jones Day had purchased homes/condos/apartments on Chicago's north side.
The information on these sales is public record, and publicizing public records would seem to be pretty much ok, right? But Jones Day sued BlockShopper for the odd charge of trademark dilution.
BlockShopper used pictures of Jones Day lawyers grabbed from the Jones Day web site, and it linked to the site, but Jones Day doesn't seem worried about this. Instead, our review of the Jones Day complaint shows that the issue cited is "confusion"—the claim is that people visiting BlockShopper and seeing the pages in question might assume that it was somehow officially related to Jones Day. This is... unlikely (see our example from the site).
All of this led lawyer Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen to conclude, "It thus appears that Jones Day is a serial abuser of the trademark laws to suppress commentary that it does not like. Bullies like this need to be resisted."
Robert Ambrogi of Legal Blog Watch concluded his own writeup on the case by saying, "In this age of electronically enhanced transparency, this whole dust-up reflects a sentiment I encounter time and again: 'We like our public records to be public—just not too public.'"
But BlockShopper has agreed to a temporary restraining order and has pulled the information in question. The case could potentially determine whether BlockShopper has the right to use the Jones Day name on its pages and to link to the law firm's site; if it does not, the US could quickly find itself deluged beneath a flood of similar lawsuits.
Further reading:
- Sheboygan: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
- Sheboygan: Slashdot on the case
- Chicago:Public Citizen
- Chicago: Legal Blog Watch
- Chicago: Techdirt has a writeup


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The 13 Point Dossier! Were Pakistan Cheated?
October 2, 2010 Leave a comment
When an umpire makes one bad decision against your team, you accept it as human error and move on…..may be if he makes a 2nd one you feel hes just having a bad day…..but 13 bad decisions against one team…..and these r no silly decisions.
1- 4th ODI – Umar gul being called for no ball = free hit…..thats possibly 7 extra runs.
2- 3rd ODI – Afridi being referred after being originally given not out…..Afridi could have made a big difference in that innings as we all know.He was 34(29). Pakistan were 185-6 and had 11 overs to go and no power play taken. pakistan only made 242 in the end.
3- 3rd ODI – Luke Wright given not out stumped – england were 178-5 at that stage with only another 64 needed. Wright finished on 48 not out.
4- 1st ODI – Trott was on 26 when Billy Doctrove missed an edge of Ajmal – He went on to make 69.
5- 2nd ODI – Strauss Nicked Umar Gul, Caught by Kamran Akmal – 38* at the time – Strauss went on to make 126 and win England the match.
6- 5th ODI – Collingwood LBW B gul – England 150-4 Key Position in the match – England went on to make 256, Collingwood finishing on 47.
7- 5th ODI – Doctrove calling Shoaib for a wide (hilarious) – penalty one run against Shoaibs Name (could be costly later on in life when pundits mull over strike rates etc)
8- 2nd ODI – Afridi LBW not given against Trott – Trott finished on 53. score went from 114-1 to 189 before he got out.
9- 2nd ODI – Hafeez LBW not give against Trott – Didnt cost anything for once as prat got himself run out on the same ball.
10- 3rd ODI – Mohammed Yousuf LBW – FLAT Batting Track – given out on 16 off 22…..who knows what would have happened had he stayed. Pakistan only made 241.
11- 5th ODI – Kamran Akmal given LBW – The Ball clearly hit the bat. He made 41(53), Score was 80-2 off 18 overs chasing 256… Batsman was set.
12- 4th ODI – Strauss Plumb LBW to Hafeez not given. Strauss was on 41. Went on to make 68.
13- 2nd ODI – Kamran Akmal given out LBW on 74(72). Benefit of doubt should have been given. too close a decision to call. Pakistan were on 122-0 (22 Overs)


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The Fourth Amendment makes strange bedfellows.
Today's 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Maryland v. King—that police can take DNA samples from individuals arrested for serious crimes—found the unlikely combination of Justice Antonin Scalia with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joining on the dissent.
States allow the collection of DNA for those convicted of a crime, but lower courts are split on whether states can collect DNA without a warrant from people who have only been arrested. The federal government and 28 states allow the collection of DNA from arrestees.
In 2009, after Alonzo Jay King Jr. was arrested on assault charges in Wicomico County, Md., police obtained his D.N.A. profile by swabbing his cheek. That profile matched evidence in a 2003 rape case, and King was later convicted of that crime. The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that a state law authorizing D.N.A. collection from people arrested but not yet convicted violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches.
Writing for the majority and reversing that court, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said:
When officers make an arrest supported by probable cause to hold for a serious offense and they bring the suspect to the station to be detained in custody, taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee's D.N.A. is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.
But Justice Scalia and his colleagues typically on the other side of court rulings disagreed, with Scalia summarizing his opinion from the bench—a rare move signaling sharp disagreement among the members of the Court.
Scalia wrote:
"The court's assertion that DNA is being taken, not to solve crimes, but to identify those in the state's custody, taxes the credulity of the credulous.
Today's judgment will, to be sure, have the beneficial effect of solving more crimes. Then again, so would the taking of DNA samples from anyone who flies on an airplane (surely the Transportation Security Administration needs to know the 'identity' of the flying public), applies for a driver's license, or attends a public school. Perhaps the construction of such a genetic panopticon is wise. But I doubt that the proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would have been so eager to open their mouths for royal inspection."
The Court has yet to issue its decisions on another 25 pending cases, among them the controversial and potentially historical cases involving affirmative action, marriage equality and voting rights.
The next round of rulings are expected on Monday, June 10.


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Some With Once-Deadly Leukemia Can Take a Break From Gleevec
TUESDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A small group of people with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) who decided to stop taking the cancer drug Gleevec (imatinib) have remained cancer-free two years later, French researchers report.
The study, published online Oct. 19 in The Lancet Oncology, is the first to raise the possibility that the drug might go beyond long-term cancer control and offer some patients a possible cure.
"We've never really told patients that we have a therapy that can provide a cure for this disease," said one expert, Dr. John Cole, chairman of the department of hematology/oncology at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans. "We've simply never used the 'cure' word."
Gleevec -- a highly targeted member of a class of drugs called protein-tyrosine kinase inhibitors -- was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use against CML in 2001. The medication works by thwarting the activity of an aberrant protein that helps drive the disease. Gleevec has proven to be a revolutionary advance against CML, a cancer of the white blood cells that previously had a very poor prognosis.
According to the researchers, studies suggest that the drug now offers CML patients an 89 percent chance of survival five years after treatment initiation, and an 85 percent survival rate after eight years.
Still, the drug does have one major downside: cost. Currently, the bill for Gleevec therapy can total about $4,500 per month.
The new study was led by Francois-Xavier Mahon, of the Hematology Lab and Blood Disease Service division of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux in France. To establish whether or not Gleevec could actually thwart CML in certain cases, Mahon and colleagues spent a year tracking 69 CML patients at 19 different medical facilities across France. "We are on the 'path to cure' of CML," Mahon said.
All the patients had enrolled in the study between 2007 and 2009, were 18 years or older, had been taking Gleevec for a minimum of three years and had been in remission for a minimum of two years.
After all the participants discontinued Gleevec, the authors observed relapse among more than 60 percent of the patients -- most of whom showed renewed signs of active disease after less than six months of treatment cessation.
However, after a full year without Gleevec approximately 40 percent of the patients remained in full remission, with no detectable signs of recurrent disease. And two years after stopping the drug, remission continued for 38 percent of the patients.
There was even good news for those patients whose cancer did return. These patients seemed to fare well once Gleevec treatment was reinstated, the authors said, suggesting that treatment interruption does not give rise to drug resistance or undue safety concerns.
Nonetheless, Mahon and his team cautioned that full disease remission remained the exception rather than the rule for patients. And they stressed that total discontinuation of Gleevec would probably be an option for only about 10 percent of CML patients.
That said, they concluded that Gleevec can be safely halted among CML patients who maintain remission for two years or more.
"This development -- if it can hold up in larger studies -- could prove to be very, very encouraging," said Cole. "It might actually pave the way for other studies focused on situations where we have a shot now to completely eradicate some types of cancer with similar approaches. It won't necessarily, as is the case here, affect all patients. But it will have a huge impact on an important subgroup of patients, helping them to get off a very expensive treatment without compromising their long-term well-being."
For his part, Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, said he would hesitate before calling this a cure, given the study's small patient pool and short follow-up period.
"But what is very important here is that those people who were taken off Gleevec and relapsed and then were put back on the drug did respond to it again," he noted. "So, for patients who might simply want a 'holiday' from Gleevec this says that that holiday is safe."
"And that is important because this drug has huge side effects," Brawley noted, in reference to the lower leg and eye swelling, muscle cramps, muscle pain, diarrhea, rashes, nausea and vomiting that can accompany its use. "And it's very expensive. So being off-drug for a length of time is a good thing in and of itself, even if it doesn't turn out to be a permanent cure."
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Well, Comrade, I went and watched that video of The Melvins.
And I respect that you enjoy them, I truly do.
But that's hardcore bad music there. Just my opinion.
I also went and checked out The Electrical Guitar Company that you mentioned.
Here's where I feel old and conservative ..
I mean to tell you in the strongest terms .. there's a reason why Gibsons are Gibsons and Fenders are Fenders. When Champion was getting ready to release our second album in 1983 .. there was a flurry of companies that offered me contracts to play their gear. The most prominent of these was Charvel-Jackson. A lot of guys were playing them .. Randy Rhoads was my hero and he played one .. so .. I took a very, very close look at them. I tried hard to like them. Paul Reed Smith (PRS) came along a little later in the eighties. I remember when they came out, and I had a BUNCH of buddies flock to those.
I tried with both of those guitars. I tried really hard.
The fact of the matter is .. there is a reason it is a Gibson. It's like .. to me .. playing guitar for over 40 years .. I just want to say, "What the FUCK .. are you people stupid or deaf?".
But, a guy named "JawBreaker" is never all that subtle.
I can't believe the way people will defend PRS guitars. They go banzai on it. It escapes me. They are just giving their money over for no apparent reason other than they are flat fucking stupid. Or deaf. Or both.
Man, there's nobody who has ever been more on the cutting edge. I rode that friggin' wave .. HARD .. and continue to do so in my professional life. But .. sucks is sucks, man. I can't put it anymore plain than that. You can feel like it is "the next thing" or "your generation of guitars" or whatever it is that you have latched on to. But, if you do .. you've missed the entire point of guitar playing. As in "playing". PLAY the fucking thing. Write "The Next Generation". Play it. But don't claim that something that is blatantly inferior to be equal to a Gibson or a Fender. Because you're just friggin' wrong. Sorry if that hurts your feelings. Put down that fucking water bong and cut a line. Jesus, you people and your dope smoking. Smoking marijuana has now morphed in this country as a badge of nerd, geek and totally fucking uncool. It's for overweight smelly dudes who masturbate incessantly and play their Playstation all day while eating goddamn Hot Pockets. This generation needs to put that shit DOWN, man. It's robbing you of ambition.
As for this:
What the fuck am I supposed to do with that .. put a couple goldfish in it so they can swim faster and faster while I play some Nickelback solo? Maybe at the end of it I could just pop a cork and drink the fuckers as the crowd cheers.
See, a guitar is alive. It is made of something that was alive. It has the capability to absorb blood & tears & hardcore sweat oozing from troubled pores .. emotions .. joy, unbearable sadness, aggression .. even hate. And when you pick up somebody's guitar they have had for a while . .you can FEEL that energy .. smell that sexual frustration worked out through the fretboard.
With plastic, I got nothing for ya there, man.
Here .. Fender is releasing a new guitar ..
You want something to keep for 41 years and give to your grandson?
There ya go ..
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Students at Liberty High School greeted local veterans in the school media center on Thursday, Nov. 8, for a special Veterans Day celebration.
The event was designed to acknowledge the "service and sacrifice that was made to ensure our freedom," according to the school. The morning ceremony included a presentation by the school's History Club, as well as participation by members of Liberty's JROTC members and other students.
Students had the opportunity to talk to veterans to learn about their service experiences. As part of the commemoration of Veterans Day, photos of those in attendance will be displayed as part of an electronic presentation at the school.
Also on Thursday, Francis Scott Key High School was scheduled to host a breakfast in honor of veterans in the school cafeteria. That morning event was slated to conclude with a thank you march of the veterans through the hallways of FSK.
The Liberty and Francis Scott Key events were two of several being hosted this week, and in the coming week, to commemorate Veterans Day.
According to the county school system, the following are included:
• Century High School will hold its annual Veterans Day assembly on Friday, Nov. 9, with an 8 a.m. breakfast for veterans, family members and guests, followed by an assembly. The guest speaker will be Col. Ed Rothstein, Garrison Commander of Fort Meade. There also will be performances by students and the U.S. Coast Guard Glee Club.
• Manchester Valley High School's Class of 2013 and the Fine Arts Department will host a dinner and show for veterans and their spouses on Saturday, Nov. 17, at 5 p.m. Admission is free for veterans and spouses. (RSVP by Nov. 11 to Diane Jackson, at 410-374-1682 or firstname.lastname@example.com.)
• Mechanicsville Elementary School will support Operation Welcome Home Maryland. Participating classes will be making cards for the returning soldiers. They also will be sponsoring a snack and water drive.
• New Windsor Middle School will honor veterans with stars for service members and veterans, as well as showcasing them in a slide show.
• North Carroll High School will hold its Veterans Day program Monday, Nov. 12, with breakfast at 8 a.m., followed by a program at 9 a.m. Attendees are asked to pre-register by emailing email@example.com or calling 410-751-3450.
• Oklahoma Road Middle School will hold a Veterans Day activity on Nov. 9, 9 a.m.
• West Middle School will unveil a "Freedom Shrine" on Monday, Nov. 12. The shrine includes items donated to West Middle School by The National Exchange Club.
• Winters Mill High School will host its 11th annual Veterans Day program on Nov. 9 with a breakfast at 7:45 a.m., and an assembly at 9 a.m. Breakfast will be prepared by the Carroll County Career and Technology Center, as well as the Pro-Start program. The Winters Mill JROTC, along with Winters Mill students, will greet veterans and serve them. The assembly will include the Winters Mill Wind Ensemble, Select Chorus, Dance Team, JROTC and student speakers.


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Sorokin, Leo T.
Born 1961 in Hartford, CT
Federal Judicial Service
Judge, U. S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
Nominated by Barack H. Obama on December 19, 2013, to a seat vacated by Joseph L. Tauro;
Confirmed by the Senate on June 10, 2014.
Magistrate Judge, U. S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 2005-2014
First appointed to the Court April 11, 2005.
EducationYale College, B.A., 1983
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Lucid Dreams
The following is a dream journal and analysis that I did for a research project. I wanted to share my experience and ask for everyone's opinions on the meaning of the dreams and the way I went about it.
Inquiry 20 Dream Journal
Dream Journal Entries
June 4th, 10:36 PM
Regular sleep (I think):
Some people I know and I were at some big electronics store taking some sort of tour with the owner. He gave me a couple of monitors/televisions for free. I only remembered this dream because I remembered about my new free stuff before realizing it never happened.
June 5th, 2014, 8:13 AM
I went to some store like a gas station, hobby shop or CO-OP hardware store (weird places to think of) and I ran into someone from my basketball team. As we walking through we found more and more people, some already together. The coincidence was too much, I thought maybe it was planned (never considered I was dreaming). I found our coach there, too. I think there was someone I knew who wasnt on the team as well. Also, I think there was a payphone somewhere.
June 7th, 2014, 12:05 PM
Regular sleep (no delayed nap this day):
Someone followed me on Instagram and I went to change my name but never did. I had a different phone (Samsung Galaxy S5?) and didn't notice.
June 9th, 2014, 9:05 AM
Regular sleep:
Running down 8th street east to west, coming from Arlington to Circle. I remember someone telling me to watch out for the speed trap but what I was doing was too important for me to care.
I was playing in a basketball game and I was doing well, but my right hip was starting to hurt more and more. I got a pass on a fast break and had and open lane to the basket but at this point I could hardly move. I put up the layup and didn't even check if it went in because I immediately subbed out (even though there was no whistle).
June 10th, 2014, 7:44 AM
Regular sleep:
Dreams were very scattered and disconnected. There was something about some sort of rating system of something (very faint memory). I remember having a cold ice pack on that was warm 10 minutes before and it hadn't been cooled. I told a friend about that. There was a pickup basketball game with people I know. I wasn't playing but I wasn't watching from nearby either. It was like a movie - I wasn't even there. There was a very rich couple who were having a guest from Europe come and so they were planning a mansion party with hundreds of people and they were arguing about it. I also noticed the Facebook Messenger app on my phone was very old and outdated. I don't remember messaging anyone.
June 14th, 2014, 10:12 AM
I was going on vacation somewhere really strange. I dont believe my family was coming along.
June 16th, 2014
Regular sleep:
Two dreams - one in which I think I was a security guard and another that I can't remember at all.
Update: upon seeing my mother this morning I know that she was in one of these dreams along with other family members, I just don't know how. I was so close to remembering one of the dreams.
I went to the gym at Walter Murray for basketball practice, but knew that our practice wasn't there that day because both gyms were taken. I was surprised that much of our team was waiting by the gyms. However, the gyms weren't like normal. It was almost like they were on the second story of some castle. The walls were all stone. Anyway, I thought we were in the wrestling room instead for some reason but our coach showed up and it turned out the boys' gym was open.
() = odd observations about dream details
Dream Journal Analysis
Recurring Themes
The most recurring theme I have noticed in my dreams by far is the connection to basketball. Basketball has on my mind a lot lately due to all of the practices tournaments and the NBA playoffs. All of the nights that I dreamt of something basketball related were either the night before or after basketball practice (I only have two practices each week). They tended to be on Monday mornings/Sunday nights.
I also noticed that in many dreams I was surprised to see people I know in unexpected places. I never arrived at the destination with them I arrived there and then ran into them. I would like to note that although I remembered many specific names, I left them out of this journal.
Connections to Reality:
Entry 1: I have wanted to buy a new monitor or two for quite a while now. I believe the store was a Frys Electronics, a large American chain which I visited once over the February break.
Entry 2: I have not had any interactions with a hobby store lately but I did have practice with the people on that team right before sleeping that night.
Entry 3: I have wanted to change my name on Instagram for a while now but have not bothered to do so. I have not had any thoughts about a different phone, though.
Entry 4:
Dream 1: I think this was a result of the speed trap setup in this exact area recently, but I dont know why I was running that fast.
Dream 2: This one very closely predicted what followed that night. My hip had been hurting for quite a while and it was getting to be quite severe at that point. I knew I had a basketball game the following night. Because I also had football practice right before, by the time the game came around it was bothering me quite a bit while running or moving laterally. I couldnt really sit out, though, because we were already short on numbers. There was no missed wide open layup, though.
Entry 5: The only connection to reality with this dream is that there was a news story around this time about some ridiculously huge party some kid threw in his parents mansion. My dream wasnt focused on the party, however, but on the drama between the couple.
Entry 6: This dream occurred the night before I went to Regina for a Roughriders game. I went with my brother and mother and met my father there (he was already there for work). I guess that I did go without some of my family but it was still a family trip, and not really a vacation.
Entry 7:
Dream 1: I have been watching a television show that involves security guards a lot lately.
Dream 2: I did have basketball practice later that day, but it was with a completely different team.
There was not a single dream without a connection to my real life in this journal. Although I know that dreams tend to be based on real-life aspects it is possible that I only remembered the dreams involving components from reality. Looking over the parts of the dreams I remembered or did not, it tended to be the more obscure elements that were most difficult to remember. I would remember key points but rarely any specific storyline.
The Delayed Nap Effect
In total, I had five dreams in my regular sleeping time and four dreams in the half hour of napping after a half hour awake. That may seem like a lot because of how much more time I spent asleep in regular sleep, but it is important to remember that it takes a long time to reach REM sleep and begin dreaming in regular sleep, whereas a nap within an hour of waking up tends to go straight back into REM sleep, allowing for immediate dreaming.
Three of these four nap dreams were very vivid and detailed when recalling afterward, while only two out of five regular sleep dreams had very much detail. This could be due to all of the naps being short enough that I woke up not long after dreaming. In regular sleep it could have been a while since I had been dreaming. In addition, the lack of deep sleep (N3 stage) in the naps likely made recall easier.
Recall Improvement
I actually began keeping this journal on June 2nd but did not have a dream to enter until the 5th. The dreaming was pretty evenly spaced. I did not have most of the dreams near the end. There was a stretch between the 10th and 14th where I could remember dreaming every night but could not remember the dream itself. This did not happen when I first began keeping track; I simply had no memory of a dream. By the end, however, I remembered dreaming almost every night. With more time my recall of the dream itself might improve as well.
Achieving Lucidity
I did not achieve lucidity in the time that I kept this journal. Two weeks is not much time for this to occur. The main strategies I put in place were the delayed nap, the dream journal, thinking to myself that I am lucid dreaming before the naps and reality checks. Now that I am done with this particular experiment I will probably adjust my strategy in the future. Although it is disappointing that I did not experience a lucid dream, I learned a lot more about dreaming than I expected to. I am going to share my findings on the websites listed in my learning journal. I think that there were a lot of interesting findings that these communities would benefit from reading about. In addition, they can give me tips on how to progress and achieve lucidity.


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By DAVID GREEN
Morenci city council took another step in the process to demolish two buildings on Orchard Street in preparation for the parking lot rebuild project.
Council approved a measure to seek bids for an asbestos survey for the old Grange building and the house to the south, located at the intersection of Orchard and LaGrange streets.
City administrator/clerk Renée Schroeder expects the asbestos survey to delay demolition by a month.
Council also gave Schroeder permission to proceed with bids for demolition. She expects that bids will be due Dec. 9 and demolition should follow in mid-January or February.
Requests for items from the Grange Hall will be made through the firm chosen to demolish the building.
Councilors voted to allow the Morenci Area Chamber of Commerce to construct a haunted house inside the former TNG building at the back of Wakefield Park, contingent on approval from the city's liability insurer.
Since the building is owned by the city, mayor Keith Pennington suggested that a council member review the plans and sign off on the project. Everyone's has a different idea of what's safe, he said. Leasa Slocum volunteered to look over the group's plans as they're created.
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Chamber representatives at the meeting said they also intend to build an outdoor maze for younger children.
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LIBRARY—Stair Public Library board members Kathy Schiermyer, Sandy Emmons and Lois Speed were appointed to additional three-year terms.
DONATION—Mayor Pennington told council members that Ken and Betty Richardson donated $12,500 to the city to use "as we see fit." The city paid the Richardsons that amount to acquire property for the parking lot project.
WATER—Water service to the EMS building was severed from the former hospital and a new line was installed.
VOTING—Schroeder stated that Monday is the final day to register to vote in the November General Election.
ALCOHOL—Council voted 6-1, with Mayor Pennington in opposition, for an alcohol permit requested by the Eagles club. The club will again operate a beer tent at the Town and Country Festival.
HALLOWEEN—The Morenci Bible Fellowship was granted permission to use the city parking lot northwest of the church on Oct. 31 for a Trunk or Treat project.
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