text:
Dexter, Season 7
Is Debra the wife, and Hannah McKay the "other woman?"
Every week in Slate's Dexter TV club, Katy Waldman will have an IM conversation with a different Dexter fan. This week, she rehashes episode 7.5 with Dr. Christopher Ryan, a psychologist, contributor to Psychology Today and Huffington Post, and most recently the author of Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. Ryan's essay, "Being Dexter Morgan," appears in The Psychology of Dexter and is excerpted in Psychology Today.
Christopher Ryan: I watched the whole season (what's available) in the last two nights. Lots of nightmares...
Katy Waldman: I'll bet. Did any of them take place in bathtubs?
Ryan: ! Can't remember.
Waldman: Deb's bathtub dream from last week morphed and splintered this episode into a bunch of drowning images. What did you make of Dexter's final lines about navigating the depths while Deb stays onshore?
Ryan: I think one of the major subtexts of this season is about marriage, differences between male and female sexuality, how couples deal with fidelity issues, porn, etc. The writers are doing a masterful job with these interwoven themes.
Waldman: Deb and Dex are standing in for lovers who keep secrets from each other?
Ryan: Right. But Dex gets caught and they go through many of the same steps couples often go through (in therapy or not). First, all the anger and public spats. "Not here!" Dexter keeps saying. They mirror the tension in marriages when an affair or porn use is discovered and man says "but I haven't changed," and the woman says, "but everything has changed, because you're not who I thought you were." Even Deb's insistence on 24/7 total honestly mirrors many therapists' approach to dealing with the betrayal. Then, after a lot of back and forth, Deb says, "I get it. I hate it, but I get it." The irony and sub-text go very deep in light of the fact that Deb and Dexter are brother and sister acting as if they were lovers, and deeper still in light of the fact that Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter (who play Dexter and Deb) divorced in the previous season.
To finally get to your initial question, about the end of this episode: It ends with Deb asking about the blood report from the bodies uncovered. "Is there anything I should know?" she asks. He says, "no," protecting Hannah, and betraying one kind of love (familial?) for another kind (erotic? shared darkness?). Then he lights fire to a photograph of…what? A wedding! He burns it while saying, "Deb was always better on the shore. From now on, I'll face the depths myself." Back to don't ask, don't tell.
Waldman: They've both found equilibrium in denial. Is that sustainable, do you think?
Ryan: I tend to agree with Dexter and Deb's father that it isn't, that it will wear her down, "like salt water on steel," because it's not her nature. So maybe we're looking at the writers' projections concerning male vs. female sexuality. On the other hand, I get the sense that Hannah McKay is brought in to balance that vision. She is a woman who "gets it" in a way that Deb never could. Man, I'd love to be in THAT writer's room!
Waldman: For sure! I want to understand what you mean about the difference(s) between male and female sexuality. Hannah represents a more aggressive, masculine set of desires? (That detail about her "straddling" her victim was borderline erotic.)
Ryan: Yes, I suspect she's there to show us that women are indeed capable of riding these animalistic waves, though probably not as typically as men. (How many serial killers are women?) But since the subtext is about sex, she's super hot and all about sexual desire. Recall Dexter's hand shaking as he tries to take the DNA sample from her mouth in Episode 3. In a wet, hot environment, no less. And Wayne Randall recalled his time with her, saying, "Every day was like an unwrapped present." I think that line will come back.
Waldman: There is something sexy about all the unwrapping. But in your essay on Dexter in Psychology Today, you also make a very convincing case that his kills are coldblooded and mission-oriented. How do you reconcile that with season 7's spiciness?
Ryan: I don't think Dexter gets off on the killing in an erotic sense. In fact, I think previous seasons pretty clearly demonstrated that he is (was) asexual. He was faking it with Rita, for example. So I was surprised to see him getting nervous around Hannah. I think we're going to see the awakening of his eroticism with her, in the context of his familial bonding with Deb. Hannah will be "the other woman" and Deb will represent the wife. The writers are really playing with the dissolution of the marriage of these two actors, which is pretty courageous on their part! And for the actors to agree to play with these themes, while no-doubt going through intense personal feelings around them ... very interesting indeed!
Waldman: I love this reading of the Deb-Dex-Hannah triangle! (Not to mention the Carpenter-Hall intrigue). But is Hannah just a temptress? Might she be a better match for Dexter than Debra? I mean, on some level, to awaken his sex drive is to humanize him, right?
Ryan: Yes and no. This reminds me of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, one of the best novelistic examinations of male sexuality, in my opinion. Deb is Teresa: trustworthy, nurturing, safe, reliable (also, in TUBLOB, communism); Hanna is Sabina: sexy, dangerous, surprising, challenging (capitalism). Both have their advantages and disadvantages. I think this is the conundrum almost all married people face eventually. Chris Rock put it this way, "We have to choose between loneliness and boredom."
Check out the Wikipedia entry for Hannah."The Hebrew word 'Hannah' has many meanings and interpretations, including 'beauty' and 'passion'," it says. "In the biblical narrative, Hannah is one of two wives of Elkanah; the other, Peninnah, bore children to Elkanah, but Hannah remained childless. Nevertheless, Elkanah preferred Hannah."
Our Hannah will offer Dex an escape. I suspect she'll try to lure him into leaving Miami (going on another "spree" with her—maybe to Argentina, like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and replicating Hannah's original plan with Wayne Randall). But in the end, he'll have to stay in order to rescue Deb—maybe from Hannah. It will be freedom vs. domesticity.
Waldman: And Isaak? Where does he fit in?
Ryan: I'm not sure, but what's going on with him and Viktor? Was Viktor a son or lover? I'm thinking the latter. In either case, the relationship is secret. So maybe he'll come to represent the danger of the closeted relationship? Or maybe he's just a very compelling Bond-like nemesis with no thematic connection to what we're talking about.
Waldman: Ha! He's just, as Deb says, the Terminator. Although maybe he represents the dangers of surrendering to all sorts of passions, romantic and vengeful? "This is personal," he tells Dexter, even though he should be a bureaucratic figure: the head of a large crime organization.
Ryan: I'm going to have to wrap this up. Final issues you wanted to cover?
Waldman: In your Psychology Today article, you cast Dexter as a hero a la Batman or Spiderman. That word got a real workout tonight, between Debra telling Dex "You were my hero" (heartbreaking) to Isaak describing his great uncle as a Red Army "hero." (Of course, that great uncle died, to be avenged by his much more villainous-seeming brother). What makes a hero in the world of Dexter?
Ryan: That's a complicated question. We do call those who kill or die "for us" our heroes. In real life, I find it strange that people who die in a bombed building are heroes but those who die in an earthquake aren't. People who join the military and get hurt are considered heroes but those who get hurt building bridges or mining coal aren't. I'm pretty cynical about the use of the term in that I think it's often used as a way to manipulate people into doing what we want them to do.
There's another thing that's been eating at me. Earlier in the episode, Dex told Deb they shouldn't arrest Isaak because "he'd talk," but then they did, and he didn't. Strange oversight by the writers. In any case, we haven't seen the last of Isaak. Presumably, he can afford the best lawyers, who will get him out somehow.
Waldman: The Terminator…will be back. Schooner or later.
Ryan: That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Monday: What other writers and Slate commenters thought about Episode 5.


text:
School of Theology & Christian Ministry Mission
Our Commitment to the Mission of the Anderson University School of Theology
The faculty and staff of the seminary are committed to being a community where biblical faith, academic integrity, Christian spirituality, love for persons, and a responsible relation with the created order and all humankind is both believed and practiced.
To this end, the School of Theology is sensitive to the need for facilitating the spiritual growth of the seminarian. It values spiritual formation as a central integration point of preparation for ministry. This integration complements the academic disciplines with a responsiveness to the divine presence of the Lord in word and deed. Students and faculty are encouraged to share together in the community life of faith through chapel attendance, small prayer groups, spiritual formation groups, and personal meditation. Active participation in the life of a local congregation is also highly desirable.
Reflections on the AU School of Theology Mission Statement
- Dr. Guy R. Brewer: Spiritual Formation for Biblical Reconciliation [PDF]
- Dr. James W. Lewis: On the Horizontal Dimension of Biblical Reconciliation [PDF]
- Dr. Gregory A. Robertson: Our Hope for Biblical Reconciliation [PDF]

subset: commoncrawl


text:
FREE SHIPPING on orders $75 or more.
- bvseo_sdk, dw_cartridge, 17.1.0, p_sdk_3.2.0
- CLOUD, getAggregateRating, 29ms
- reviews, product
- bvseo-msg: Unsuccessful GET. status = '{0}', msg = {1};
12 MONTHS PROMOTIONAL FINANCING AVAILABLE* on orders of $999 or more with your Y Credit Card. See Details
Quantity Available:
CSL Lighting (Creative Systems Lighting) are committed to creating high-performance, energy-saving architectural lighting fixtures since 1990. Serious about lighting technology, CSL invests annual in the latest lamping and electronic technologies to remain a leader in concealed LED lighting and architectural LED lighting industry. CSL is dedicated to low energy consumption, manufacturing performance-engineered lighting fixtures that are low-maintenance while adhering to the most stringent of sustainable building standards to date.
- Design In: 2011
- Includes a 120 integral driver
- Able to fit on single-switch box (not included)
- Applied to both step and wall mounts
- Manufactured In: China
- Location Rating: UL Listed for wet locations
- Die Cast Aluminum
- 1 X 3W 120V LED Array, 120 lumens, 2700K, 90 CRI (included)
- Fixture: W 2.5 in , H 4.75 in , D 0.63 in
- Our specialists can walk you through finding the right design for your home or project. With over fifteen years of average experience, our team can assist with everything from product selection to project advice to technical specifications. For members of the trade, our account managers become a part of your team to bring your design vision to clients and keep your projects on schedule.
- Our curated collection represents the best in modern design today. Here, modern isn't just about a look, but about innovation and possibility in the new frontiers of technology, material and artistry. We celebrate the many ways that design helps bring modern to life.
- If you've found a better price on the same item from another source, let us know. We are happy to match a competitive price from another authorized retailer to guarantee you the best value on authentic modern design.
LED SS3007 Step Light Diagram
- bvseo_sdk, dw_cartridge, 17.1.0, p_sdk_3.2.0
- CLOUD, getContent, 8ms
- reviews, product
- bvseo-msg: Unsuccessful GET. status = '{0}', msg = {1};


text:
Creative Virtual, a provider of customer experience management solutions, is rolling out V-Person Social Media to merge the interactive power of social media and virtual assistant technology to improve customer retention and reduce support costs.
V-Person Social Media employs natural language and knowledge management technologies to deliver personalized, self-service social experiences to customers on Facebook, Twitter, or any social media network. Virtual assistants can interact with fans and followers seeking 24/7 answers to customer service, marketing, or sales questions without requiring them to leave the social networks or contact call centers. This advantage allows companies in a range of industries to refocus their human capital on higher-level tasks.
"Putting cross-market companies within social media interaction points is critical for the success of today's branding strategy," said Chris Ezekiel, founder and CEO of Creative Virtual, in a statement. "Our goal is to continually build on our comprehensive suite of self-directed customer service solutions so our customers can evolve their customer relationships."
V-Person Social Media offers the following:
"V-Person Social Media simplifies social media engagement by providing a robust solution for social customer service using virtual assistants that emulate real person interactions and provide a reliable, consistent customer experience," said Richard Simons, Creative Virtual USA CEO, in a statement. "This addition to our customer solution suite is easy to scale and can be deployed from V-Portal, our integrated multichannel knowledge management platform, lowering cost per conversation."
V-Person Social Media leverages V-Portal to create, share, and manage contextually based conversations across a variety of Web, social media, and mobile applications. Creative Virtual's virtual assistants tap into a company's knowledgebase to use all available information and deliver natural language conversations. If human interaction is required, virtual assistants can identify and escalate issues via live chat, email, or call back, using existing call center management software.
Training Customer Service Representatives for Live Chat
A new platform brings a potential for misunderstanding.
The Siri Effect
The iconic digital assistant is changing how customers—and companies—think about customer service.


text:
B602AX Combat Smock - Light Grey/ Experimental Camo #029 - Limited Edition
Click Image for Gallery
Limited edition B602AX smock, using experimental camo #029 for the facing.
The B602AX is a showerproof combat smock based off the B110 which is used by many special forces around the world. It hasn't got a lining, but that doesn't mean it misses out on any of the critical features of an Arktis jacket. The smock is a fine performer for hot climates, and with the right layers, cold climates too. The fabric has a DWR water repellent finish so it's shower-proof. Worn in combination with our excellent Stowaway Shirt (A192) the Smock will be windproof and highly water repellent. Worn in combination with our Rainshield (B310) it will be fully waterproof/breathable. The user seeking full flexibility from his jacket should consider going with this triple system.
Heavy duty nylon thread, powerful bartacks and a simple, robust design makes the B602AX a fine jacket. The pockets are nylon-lined and waterproof to the outside. You won't get better.
Material: 50/50 RipStop
Spray Resistant Rating: 5 out of 5
Water Drop Resistant Rating: 5 out of 5
- Showeproof durable 50/50 ripstop
- Experimental Camo #029
- Button adjustable wire frame drawstring hood
- Velcro neck fastening
- Two way zip fastening with button stormflap
- Two large front pockets
- Drawstring waist and hem
- Button cuffs
- Made in England
Equipment inside pouches, pockets etc. is unfortunately not included.
Note smock branding is ArkAir however refer to standard size guide.
|Technical Specs
|50/50 RipStop
|Water Drop Test Rating
|5 out of 5
|Water Spray Test Rating
|5 out of 5
Worldwide Delivery
Fast, reliable delivery to 100+ countries.
14 Days Returns
Changed your mind, need another size? No problem.
Superior Quality
Engineered with pride in the UK for over 35 years.


text:
NEW BEDFORD —Spinner Publications will hold its "Spinner Celebrates!" 32nd Annual Fundraising Gala at the New Bedford Whaling Museum March 8, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
NEW BEDFORD —Spinner Publications will hold its "Spinner Celebrates!" 32nd Annual Fundraising Gala at the New Bedford Whaling Museum March 8, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Highlighting the event will be a live auction of paintings and other works by renowned local artists, antique artifacts, rare books, and collectibles.
There will be an open-bar cocktail party catered by Russell Morin Fine Catering; live jazz music by John Harrison and Dori Legge; and a silent auction, followed by the presentation of an original short movie including never-before-seen vintage film clips of New Bedford.
Tickets are $75 and can be purchased at www.spinnerpub.com or by calling (508) 994-4564 through March 1. Supply is limited; early reservations are recommended. Proceeds will support the nonprofit publishing company's educational projects and new books, including "A Picture History of New Bedford" due out in June.
Spinner Publications is a New Bedford-based, award-winning publisher of books, videos, and calendars focusing on the history and culture of southeastern New England.
Among its most popular titles are "Lincoln Park Remembered," "A Picture History of Fairhaven," "Drifting Toward the Southeast," "Portuguese Spinner," "Cranberry Cooking for All Seasons," "Brick by Brick," "Branded on My Arm and in My Soul" and the Spinner anthology series, "People and Culture in Southeastern Massachusetts."
Perennial favorites are the two calendars, The New England Fisherman and Historic Southeastern New England.
For more information, contact Spinner Publications at (508) 994-4564, visit www.spinnerpub.com, or look up Spinner Publications on Facebook.


text:
New Monopoly Pieces for Modern America
Hasbro announced that they would be retiring one of the classic Monopoly game pieces and replacing it with a brand new one! (Your days are numbered, Iron!) Fans will get to vote on which piece gets the heave-ho, and on which new one should replace it — either a cat, a robot, a helicopter, a diamond ring or a guitar. But those choices are about as fun as playing Monopoly without cheating!


text:
By losing to the Ottawa Senators at TD Garden Sunday night, the Bruins fell from second to fourth in the Eastern Conference and failed to win the Northeast Division.
Boston will square off with the Toronto Maple Leafs starting Wednesday night.
The Leafs haven't been in the playoffs since 2004. The Bruins won three of four meetings in the regular season. Here's the complete schedule for the Bruins-Leafs games.
Game 1: Toronto at Boston, Wednesday May 1, 7 p.m.
Game 2: Toronto at Boston, Saturday May 4, 7 p.m.
Game 3: Boston at Toronto, Monday May 6, 7 p.m.
Game 4: Boston at Toronto, Wednesday May 8, 7 p.m.
*Game 5: Toronto at Boston, Friday May 10, 7 p.m.
*Game 6: Boston at Toronto, Sunday May 12, time TBD
*Game 7: Toronto at Boston, Monday May 13, time TBD
* = if necessary


text:
Last year I debuted The Clutter-Free Classroom Project which included weekly tasks for helping teachers get organized. This year I am taking that same concept, reorganizing it and making it bigger and better. So many of you were new to the blog during the summer of 2012 and the New Year is always a great time for a everyone to get a fresh start (which is not to say you can't jump in at anytime). In fact, I go through this very process in my own classroom annually to keep the clutter at bay.
Most of us are passionate about what we do and are lucky enough to have been blessed with a career that is also a hobby. We don't mind the hard work and are dedicated to our jobs. However, as teachers we face many challenges that are out of our control.
So if you are looking to...
- become more organized in the classroom
- be more efficient with your time
- be a more effective teacher
- be viewed by parents and administration as a teacher who "has it all together"
...then you've come to the right place
Most of us are passionate about what we do and are lucky enough to have been blessed with a career that is also a hobby. We don't mind the hard work and are dedicated to our jobs. However, as teachers we face many challenges that are out of our control.
I started the Clutter-Free Classroom to help teachers be more effective with less stress and less mess. One of the greatest obstacles teachers have is the clock. There just aren't enough hours in the day. Therefore, it is important to be efficient and organized in order to make the most of the time we do have.
My goal is to assist you in creating a learning environment that is beautiful, well-planned, organized, and purposeful. I've composed and compiled a collection of tips, tricks, and ideas to help and inspire you on your path to a "Clutter-Free Classroom." (with oodles and oodles of photos of course)
Since starting this blog and opening my store, I've been humbled by the response, support, and feedback. I receive so many emails from amazing teachers telling me how motivated they were by something they read in my Clutter-Free Classroom Guide or on this blog. They often share something they had done as a result of a picture or idea I had given them and the positive impact it had on them.
While it is awesome to receive these messages, I began thinking about how inspiring these teachers would be to other teachers who are in similar situations. The fast-growing community of teacher/bloggers has been an inspiration to me and I feel that my teaching has improved greatly as a result of the thoughts, pictures, and ideas that have been generously shared by so many of you on your blogs.
I want to continue with my goal of helping teachers become more organized and effective, while at the same time taking advantage of the benefits of learning and gaining motivation from each other.
Many of you made last year's Clutter-Free Classroom Project awesome and with the increased audience that has joined us since then I am really looking forward to this year's PROJECT!
I've been working diligently over the past couple of months to plan out this year's project so that it will be bigger and better than before. My Blog/Store Planner for Teachers is chock full of posts, freebies, giveaways, guests, featured classrooms and more for 2013.
I'm hoping to continue building a community of teachers sharing what they are doing in their classrooms to be organized, effective teachers. We will continue to learn from, encourage and inspire one another. I want to give you a place to share your organizing projects, your struggles and your success stories in a simple and easy way while creating an ongoing resource for others to learn from.
Each Sunday I'll put up a blog entry specific to the Clutter-Free Project. Each Sunday post will pose a specific topic/challenge and FREEBIES to help in completing the task. We can talk in the comments about anything related to classroom organization and management that relate to that week's challenge. Organizing is not a means to an end. It's an ongoing process that involves habits, routines, and maintenance.
MONDAYS through THURSDAYS:
Throughout the week I will be posting tips, links, videos and photos related to the weekly topic. After we get going, I'm looking forward to hosting some guest bloggers do the same.
Each Friday I will host a Linky Party based on the Clutter-Free Project Challenge for that week. Those of you who have a blog can post about your efforts taking on the weekly focus tasks and share your experiences with others. If the weekly topic is something you already do or if you have additional tips to share, you can blog about it and link up as well. Doing so will automatically give you something to blog about each week and will drive tons of traffic to your site, but most importantly it will help other teachers in the process.
While I'm kicking it off at the start of the year, the intention is that teachers will join in at any time. I am hoping that each topic/linky will continue to grow and grow throughout the year as more teachers find it and add their thoughts and ideas. I want the project to be an ongoing resource and source of inspiration.
Feel free to visit previous posts and link up when you complete a project or have a related idea to share at any time during the year. I'll have a page dedicated to the project with all of the weekly challenges listed and the links needed. You don't even need a blog to participate. Simply post your thoughts, ideas, questions, and words of advice to others in the comment section...you can even do so anonymously. Easy Peasy!
Also, be sure to follow my Facebook Page and Pinterest Boards for additional content, inspiration and motivation
Spread the love. The more teachers who participate, the more we will all learn from each other.
- Blog about The Clutter-Free Classroom Project and link back to this page. Let other's know what it is all about and encourage them to participate as well.
- Please consider adding my button to your blog by copying and pasting the code listed in my sidebar to the right. This will let others know that you are "Creating a Clutter-Free Classroom." Being accountable will keep you motivated and inspired.
- Add the Clutter-Free Classroom to your blogroll.
- Encourage your colleagues to participate. Snag my Free Printable and post it in your teacher's room or copy room. Imagine an entire school of organized teachers! All that additional time on task will be so beneficial to the building as a whole.
If you've been thinking about starting a blog this might be a good time to start. You can use it to track your progress. It's super easy to do (although slightly addictive).
I'll be back on Sunday with the first challenge. In the meantime...
Questions for the Comments:
So what do you think...will you join me back here on Sundays for some organizational fun? Could you use a little motivation and inspiration? Do you have ideas to share that will help others?
keywords: classroom organization tips classroom organization ideas classroom organization supplies classroom storage classroom management classroom arrangement classroom organization skills the organized classroom getting organized organization ideas for the classroom organization ideas for teachers organization ideas for elementary classrooms decluttering a classroom declutter classroom kindergarten first grade second grade third grade fourth grade fifth grade sixth grade preschool 1st grade 2nd grade 3rd grade 4th grade 5th grade 6th grade
Follow my Teacher Store so you don't miss
Flash Freebies or Discounted Debut Items and view my easy-to-navigate online catalog.
Check out CFC's Helpful Series for Teachers:


text:
Most employees receive payslips and take them for granted, but what are the legal requirements?
All employees, including those working part-time and temporarily, are entitled to receive a written payslip on or before their pay day. The Employment Rights Act (ERA) sets out the required contents of a payslip:
- Gross pay
- Amounts and purpose of variable and fixed deductions e.g. PAYE, NIC, student loan, pension etc.
- Net pay
- Method of payment (where different amounts are paid in different ways)
Employers deducting premiums for stakeholder pensions must show the deduction clearly on the payslip.
In practice, most employers give much more information than the basic statutory requirements. For instance, it is obviously good practice to analyse gross pay to show:
- Basic pay
- Overtime (hours and rate)
- Bonus, commission, etc.
- Special allowances
- Sick pay (including statutory sick pay)
- Statutory payments (namely statutory maternity pay; ordinary statutory paternity pay; additional statutory paternity pay and statutory adoption pay)
- Holiday pay
Use our payslip calculator to check your net pay.
It is also usual to show the period covered by the payment, and the date of payment.
You can significantly reduce queries from employees by giving basic details such as:
- National insurance number
- PAYE tax code
- Tax office name and reference
- Business
- Personal
- Tax
- Year-End Tax Guide
- Autumn Budget 2017
- Tax rates and allowances
- PAYE and NI
- IR35 Centre
- Tax and business calendar
- Budget and Autumn Statement archive
- Calculators


text:
Welcome to SolidTrade BANK!
Solid Trade Bank is a financial institution with a long history. Like other banks with traditional principles our company aims to extract maximum from the opportunities we have while operating assets of our customers.
The foundation of Solid Trade Bank consists in the aspect that now has become our distinctive feature. It is cross-insurance mechanism that enables all our clients to have protected their funds even if the world falls apart.
Click here to open your very own investment account. Solid Trade Bank is not all about loans, credits and funds storage. The way we see it, focusing on these things only can be harmful for one's business. That's why Solid Trade Bank develops 4 directions funded by our Innovations and Technology department. It is en external subdivision designed for getting profit in non-financial domains.
Solid Trade Bank has subsidiary companies in the following areas:
- Oil and gas industry;
- Forex Trading;
- Banking;
- Heavy industry;
- Real Estate and Insurance.
To learn more, please check about us page or contact our customer service team if you wish to speak to a representative directly.


text:
US&Canada: No GH3 kits? And now $200 price drop on 12-35mm X lens.
Right now we have a new $200 price drop on the 12-35mm X lens at Amazon (Click here). And I guess many would like to buy that lens in an appropriate GH3 package. But as noted by our reader Travis the GH3 kits are non available for preorder in US and Canada. But they are of course promoted on the Panasonic.net site. Someone can tell us when these kits will arrive?
Meantime here are some EU, US and Canada links to the GH3:
12-35mm GH3 kit:
Wex UK, Wex DE, Photoexpress UK, FotoHansKeuzekamp (NL),
14-140mm GH3 kit:
Wex UK, Amazon UK, Photoexpress UK, Wex DE, Amazon FR,
Body only:
Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Panasonic store, Samys, Henry, Vistek, Wex UK, FotoHansKeuzekamp (NL), Amazon FR, Webdistirbution FR,
All current GH3 auction on eBay (via Slidoo).


text:
- Home
- News
- Sports
- Opinion
- Obituaries
- Features
- Special Sections
- Classifieds
- Public Notices
I read Bruce Miller's column, "Put America first, not your political party," in the Dec. 30, 2011, edition of The Lancaster News and I would like to respond.
As I started to read it, I became a bit puzzled by his apparent confusion between "we" the American people and "we" the Republican Party. He appears to bunch them together as one and the same. He goes on to say that the Democrats are "partying" over the struggle for an identity by (his) party.
If you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the The Lancaster News, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below.
Click the question mark below to see where your account ID appears on your mailing label.
|ZIP Code:


text:
LAN fighting eviction from Argentine airport
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Latin America's largest airline said Wednesday that an Argentine government order to vacate its hangar at the downtown Buenos Aires airport would force it to stop operating domestic flights in the country and that it was seeking a court injunction to block the eviction.
LATAM Airlines' subsidiary, LAN Argentina, said it has invested $5 million on the maintenance hangar at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, and pays $20,000 a month in rent under a contract that runs through 2023.
The airport regulator's eviction notice doesn't explain the state takeover other than declaring it to be "in the national interest." The notice says the government offered to help move LAN's domestic flights to Argentina's main international airport in the Buenos Aires suburb of Ezeiza, but the company refused.
The Ezeiza airport is much less convenient for domestic flights than Aeroparque, and would add hours to any domestic trip for many residents of the capital. If LAN stops using Aeroparque and ends domestic flights, the money-losing state airline Aerolineas Argentinas would be free to operate without its toughest competitor.
"We'll go to the courts to enforce our rights," Agustin Agraz, LAN's spokesman, told Argentina's Diarios y Noticias agency. He said the eviction order would make it impossible to maintain 10 jets that currently fly within Argentina, and would put 1,500 employees out of work.
The union representing airline cabin staff and technicians warned that it would use "all union and legal means" available if the move brought job cuts.
The union said that since 2010, LAN "has been the object of systematic persecution by different state organs and businesses to make things difficult for it and cause its services to deteriorate by raising costs."
"If the Argentine government is bothered" that Aerolineas Argentinas and its domestic subsidiary Austral must compete against LAN Argentina, "it should be an honest rival in costs, prices and services," the union said.
The head of Aerolineas Argentinas, Hector Recalde, denied the union's accusations. "There is a conflict that has to do with other things and the hangar is being used as an excuse," he said.
He said LAN has held a privileged position in the domestic market and the Argentine government is now looking for a system "that is a bit more just in its proportional distribution and priority given Aerolineas Argentinas as Argentina's airline."
Calls asking for comment by Argentina's national airports regulator were not returned.


text:
21 U.S. Code § 335b - Civil penalties
A civil penalty under subsection (a) shall be assessed by the Secretary on a person by an order made on the record after an opportunity for an agency hearing on disputed issues of material fact and the amount of the penalty. In the course of any investigation or hearing under this subparagraph, the Secretary may administer oaths and affirmations, examine witnesses, receive evidence, and issue subpoenas requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence that relates to the matter under investigation.
In lieu of a proceeding under subparagraph (A), the Attorney General may, upon request of the Secretary, institute a civil action to recover a civil money penalty in the amount and for any of the acts set forth in subsection (a). Such an action may be instituted separately from or in connection with any other claim, civil or criminal, initiated by the Attorney General under this chapter.
In determining the amount of a civil penalty under paragraph (1), the Secretary or the court shall take into account the nature, circumstances, extent, and gravity of the act subject to penalty, the person's ability to pay, the effect on the person's ability to continue to do business, any history of prior, similar acts, and such other matters as justice may require.
Any person that is the subject of an adverse decision under subsection (b)(1)(A) may obtain a review of such decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia or for the circuit in which the person resides, by filing in such court (within 60 days following the date the person is notified of the Secretary's decision) a petition requesting that the decision be modified or set aside.
The Attorney General may recover any civil penalty (plus interest at the currently prevailing rates from the date the penalty became final) assessed under subsection (b)(1)(A) in an action brought in the name of the United States. The amount of such penalty may be deducted, when the penalty has become final, from any sums then or later owing by the United States to the person against whom the penalty has been assessed. In an action brought under this subsection, the validity, amount, and appropriateness of the penalty shall not be subject to judicial review.
A prior section 307 of act June 25, 1938, was renumbered section 310 and is classified to section 337 of this title.
1993—Subsec. (b)(3)(A). Pub. L. 103–80 made technical amendment to reference to May 13, 1992, to reflect correction of corresponding provision of original act.
This section not to preclude any other civil, criminal, or administrative remedy provided under Federal or State law, including any private right of action against any person for the same action subject to any action or civil penalty under an amendment made by Pub. L. 102–282, see section 7 of Pub. L. 102–282, set out as a note under section 335a of this title.
LII has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references LII.


text:
Jan. 23, 2010
FULLERTON, Calif. - There were more twists and turns on Saturday at Titan Gym than an Agatha Christie novel. But in the end, the whodunit was Emilie Johnson, who nailed the game-winner in the second overtime to give UC Santa Barbara a thrilling 60-59 double overtime victory over Cal State Fullerton.
It's so hard to pick a place to begin in this one, so the end is appropriate.
Trailing by a point with 53.4 seconds to play, the Gauchos ran their offense to perfection in the closing seconds of the second overtime, with Ariana Gnekow finally getting the ball to Johnson. The sophomore guard hit a 12-foot jumper from the baseline to give UCSB the one-point lead.
Meagan Williams blocked a shot on Fullerton's next possession but the Titans retained the ball and UCSB played more great defense as Lyndsey Grove's 3-pointer at the buzzer wasn't close.
The victory extends UCSB's winning streak against CSUF to 34 consecutive games and gives the Gauchos a 6-12 overall record and a 3-3 mark in the Big West and the team's first double-overtime win since the 1976-77 season. Fullerton falls to 8-11, 4-3.
"We showed a ton of poise and a lot of people made plays," said UCSB head coach Lindsay Gottlieb. "That was a fun one."
The Gauchos' second-year coach might have been singing a different tune - and nearly was - had Fullerton pulled the game out.
In the first overtime the Gauchos took a 53-49 lead on a layup from Mekia Valentine, who finished with 19 points, nine rebounds and two blocked shots. However Mya Olivier made a layup and Megan Richardson hit a 3-pointer to give Fullerton a 54-53 lead with 2:03 left.
Jordan Franey, who finished a wild play at the end of regulation with a basket with 0.2 seconds left to send things into overtime, had a 17-footer rim out with 18 seconds left, which would have given UCSB a lead. Instead Jasmine Scott hit the front end of a one-and-one free throw, but missed the second one.
Williams, who had 17 points, five rebounds, four steals and two assists, corralled the rebound, sent it to Gnekow, who crossed halfcourt and was met by two Fullerton players. The senior swung a pass over to Johnson, who flicked the ball in to Valentine for an easy layup with 0:04 left in the first overtime to tie things at 55-apiece.
If not for Franey, though, Emilie Johnson's heroics wouldn't have been realized.
Despite holding a five-point led with 5:45 remaining in the game, Grove, Britt Peters and Scott all hit 3-pointers, giving the Titans a 47-45 advantage with 2:31 left before Megan Richardson's jumper with 1:04 remaining pushed CSUF's lead to four points.
Valentine made a quick layup with 0:37 remaining in regulation and then blocked Richardson's layup attempt with 0:11 left to give the Gauchos hope.
Johnson had her shot with four seconds left blocked, and the ball bounced off three players before falling into Franey's hands. The senior calmly gathered the ball and knocked down an eight-foot jumper - her only basket of the game - with 0.2 seconds left to send it to overtime.
After UCSB had captured the win, Gottlieb and Franey embraced at midcourt amidst a celebration of ecstatic Gauchos.
UCSB will face Cal Poly on Thursday in San Luis Obispo at 7 pm in the first meeting between the schools since last year's Big West Tournament championship game, which the Gauchos won 64-57. The game can be heard live on AM 990 or by clicking here.
It is also the first game between the two teams since the start of the Blue-Green Rivalry series for sustainability.
All men's and women's basketball games will be broadcast live on AM 1490 and AM 990 again this year, and those games will also be available online, by clicking here.. And, UCSB Athletics is proud to announce that the baseball team will have over 20 games broadcast live on the air and through our website, UCSBgauchos.com.
UCSB Athletics has a new weekly radio show called Talk'n Gauchos which airs every Tuesday from 6-7 p.m. on AM 1490 KIST. The show is broadcast live from State & A Bar and Grill, located on the corner of State Street and Anapamu Street in Santa Barbara. Fans are encouraged to attend the show for free gear and ticket giveaways or to even e-mail a question in to one of the guests and have it read live over the air. The show also airs live online via audio streaming and fans can click here to check out the entire lineup of live audio streaming online.


text:
LONDON (AP) — Bruce Springsteen is returning to headline the London Hard Rock Calling festival, a year after authorities pulled the plug on his duet with Paul McCartney for violating a curfew.
The American rock star brings The E Street Band back to the event that is moving to a new location at the city's Olympic Park.
Concert organizers Live Nation are leaving Hyde Park amid friction between fans and the neighborhood's well-heeled residents, many of whom gripe about the late-night noise.
Springsteen had already exceeded the 10:30 p.m. curfew by half an hour when he welcomed McCartney on stage last July. They sang the Beatles hits "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Twist and Shout." But officials turned the microphones off, and they were forced to leave the stage in silence.
Springsteen will headline the second night of the two-day festival on June 30. Other acts include Kasabian, Paul Weller, the Black Crowes and Alabama Shakes.
Live Nation Entertainment is holding a series of concerts at the former Olympic venue this summer — including the Hard Rock Calling and Wireless festivals — after gaining exclusive rights to the venue.
The 560-acre (227-hectare) site of the 2012 Summer Games is due to reopen to the public in stages between July and early 2014.


text:
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — After tiny Union College toppled the heavyweights of hockey for the national title, its president, Stephen Ainlay, couldn't resist a little cheerleading.
"How about them Dutchmen!?" Ainlay shouted Monday to a room full of accepted students, who promptly broke out in a thunderous roar.
There have been a lot of hoarse voices on campus since Union (enrollment 2,200) thumped Minnesota (enrollment 48,000) 7-4 on Saturday for its first NCAA title. Garnet-and-black-clad students and fans who watched the game spilled into the streets to celebrate, thousands joyously mobbed the team when it came home and the mayor of Schenectady is planning a parade on Thursday.
At a school that has always emphasized academics (it doesn't offer athletic scholarships), there's a feeling that the rafter-rattling victories over Boston College and Minnesota in the semi-final and final championships known as the Frozen Four will give it a greater profile nationally and draw more interest from prospective students.
"When we played in the Frozen Four they had to put 'New York' next to it," said Adam Appelbaum, a freshman from Boston. "We're getting time with these big-time schools that have 50,000 kids — playing them and beating them!"
Union, a cloistered campus of manicured lawns and stately buildings about 145 miles north of New York City, was founded in 1795 and has always been known more for its history (former President Chester Arthur was an 1848 graduate) than its hockey.
The Dutchmen made the jump to Division I from Division III for hockey during the 1991-92 season, and they initially served as a whipping boy for the major college powers, going 3-21-1 in that first year.
The team still plays in a cozy arena that seats 2,200, but it improved enough to make it to the Frozen Four two years ago. Winning it all this past weekend in a Philadelphia arena packed with more than 18,000 fans took it to a new level.
"That feeling in that arena — it was literally shaking with chants around Union," Ainlay said. "That's the feeling a lot of people have. So it will translate undoubtedly into admissions behavior. It will translate into giving behavior. It's a very important thing for this school."
Ainlay said he was particularly proud the players won while maintaining the school's high academic standards. In an era where the term "student athlete" is regularly derided as meaningless or deceptive, he said, "I hope this team redeems that phrase."
Robert A. Baade, a Lake Forest College economics professor who has extensively studied college sports, said Union's big win may result in more giving but he was less convinced it would create a big bump in applications.
"Students aren't going to make a decision on attending a small school based on how accomplished their hockey team is," Baade said.
Still, for Lexington, Mass., high school student Jordan Herbert, who was among the accepted students Ainlay addressed Monday, the hockey win is an added bonus.
"If someone asks you where you're going to college and you say, 'Union,' and they know that name, it's a small thing," he said, "but it's definitely a little bit better."


text:
Featured News - Current News - Archived News - News Categories
GIHS DECA group second largest in state
by Kathleen Duff
On Monday evening, the Grand Island Board of Education held its regular meeting "on the road" at Kaegebein Elementary School and were treated to pre-meeting festivities as part of the school's 60th anniversary celebration. Trustees and administrators toured the facility, viewed items from the 1952 cornerstone time capsule and listened to the school song and other selections by the fourth and fifth grade choir. The business meeting continued afterwards in the Kaegebein auditorium.
School Related Personnel representative Linda Lichtenthal talked through a PowerPoint presentation on the many duties of SRPs. She covered just a fraction of what the school nurses, clerks, aides, monitors, bus drivers, custodians, and many others do to support students, teachers and administrators each day at the five district buildings. School Board President David Goris commended the group, calling its members vital, and saying that they are usually the first to greet a student at the beginning of the day and the last to see him home at the end. The presentation will be posted to the district website:www.k12.ginet.org.
In other business, Joe Giarrizzo, director of school business services, reported that all windows at Huth Road Elementary School will be repaired at no cost to the district during the February break. The windows have been difficult to open and will receive new ballasts.
Giarrizzo also reminded the board of the communications push regarding the public referendum for the proposed news transportation center. The anticipated cost of the project is $6,377,000. Details are posted to the district's website and Facebook page. In addition, lobby boards and brochures detailing the bus garage will be available at the district office, all five school buildings and at the current transportation center.
The curriculum report from Karen Cuddy-Miller, director of curriculum and instruction, included information on this year's DECA installation dinner. The business club boasts a membership of 155 Grand Island students, the second largest club of its kind in New York state. The featured speaker at the dinner was GIHS graduate Corey McGowan, organizer of the Taste of Grand Island in October. McGowan spoke of his own DECA experience as being invaluable to him now in adult life.
Upcoming events of interest at the schools are:
•High School Share the Holiday Magic program on Wednesday, Dec. 5, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Viking Mall.
•The next Board of Education meeting is Monday, Dec. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at Veronica E. Connor Middle School The board will tour the facility.
•A public vote on the proposed transportation center on Tuesday, Dec. 18, at the high school gym beginning at 10 a.m.


text:
Orders for U.S. durable goods fell in March by the most in seven months as demand slumped for commercial aircraft and business investment cooled.
Bookings for goods meant to last at least three years decreased 5.7% after a revised 4.3% gain the prior month that was smaller than previously estimated, the Commerce Department reported today in Washington. The median forecast of 78 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 3% decline. Orders excluding transportation equipment, which is volatile month to month, unexpectedly fell for a second month.
Weakness in overseas markets and lower commodities prices have restrained demand at some companies such as Caterpillar Inc., showing manufacturing slowed as the first quarter drew to a close. At the same time, sustained motor vehicle sales and a pickup in the housing market may help keep production from faltering.
"Manufacturing ended the quarter on a very weak note," said, Brian Jones, senior U.S. economist at Societe Generale in New York, who projected a 6% decrease in March orders. "Not only was the March number weak but we lost on the prior revision."
Orders declined in March for metals, machinery and electrical equipment, today's figures showed. Estimates for durable goods in the Bloomberg survey ranged from a drop of 6% to a 1% gain after a previously reported February gain of 5.6%.
Stock-index futures erased gains after the figures, with the contract on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index expiring in June declining less than 0.1% to 1,573.3 at 8:45 a.m. in New York.
Commercial Aircraft
Today's figures showed bookings for commercial aircraft declined 48.2%. Boeing Co., the Chicago-based aerospace company, said it received orders for 39 aircraft in March, down from 179 placed in February.
Orders for automobiles increased 0.2% after a 4.7% jump in February. Cars and light trucks sold at a 15.2 million annual rate in March after 15.3 million the prior month, according to Ward's Automotive Group data.
Bookings excluding demand for transportation equipment decreased in March after a 1.7% decline the prior month. Those orders were projected to rise 0.5%, according to the Bloomberg survey median.
Copyright 2014 Bloomberg. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.


text:
- Inside Athletics
- Tickets
- Fan Zone
- Media Zone
- Social
- Shop
- E Fund
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 20, 2011) - The ETSU women's basketball team will look to wrap up the number one seed in next month's General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament Monday night when the Lady Bucs face Belmont inside the Curb Event Center in Nashville. Tip is set for 8 p.m. (EST).
The Lady Bucs (17-10, 14-4) are coming off a 66-52 victory over Lipscomb Saturday night - and a win over the Bruins or a Stetson loss at Florida Gulf Coast - would lock up the top spot of the conference tournament for the Blue and Gold for the fourth consecutive season.
Junior Natalie Pickwell (Kingsport, Tenn.) scored a game-high 20 points against the Lady Bisons, while red-shirt senior post Latisha Belcher (Martinsville, Va.) recorded her third straight double-double - finishing with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Despite shooting less than 30 percent from the field and trailing by seven with 13:36 left in the contest, the Lady Bucs won the game at the free throw line as ETSU went 30-of-36 from the charity stripe - including Pickwell, Belcher and Gwen Washington (Manassas, Va.) going a combined 18-for-18.
Meanwhile, Belmont is coming off a 63-53 setback Saturday night against USC Upstate and the Bruins bring a record of 8-18, 5-12 in Monday's contest.
The Bruins are led by all-conference player Haley Nelson's 12.9 points and 8.1 rebounds per game. Freshman guard Molly Ernst is posting 10.2 points and 2.8 threes per contest.
As a team, Belmont ranks tenth in scoring offense (57.4) but the Bruins are third in defense (64.2) among conference foes.
Since falling to Belmont in the 2007 A-Sun Championship, the Lady Bucs have won eight straight against Belmont and lead the all-time series, 11-5. ETSU defeated Belmont, 58-49, last month inside the MSHA Athletic Center.
Fans unable to make the trip to the Music City can listen to the game live on WXSM-AM 640 as "Voice of the Bucs" Jay Sandos will carry the play-by-play. Also, live video streaming will be available on A-Sun.TV, while live stats will be offered on www.BelmontBruins.com.
For more information on Lady Buccaneer hoops, visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


text:
Here's a quote from Jo Sermon of the UK:
"Basically, bring me an adult dog that is fully grown, fit and healthy
and in full control of his body, knows where all of his feet are and is
aware of them and knows how to use them. If that dog has the control
training in hand, can pay attention to his owner in an exciting
environment, knows how to control and channel his own excitement. If he
has an instant response to his name, a solid recall no matter the
distraction levels, a good confident sendaway, with his target
behaviour *on cue* (not see target stick nose to
it) and with drive built into it. Bring me that dog and we'll have no
problems at all teaching him Agility. We'll also have a LOT of fun )"
For me, those are words to live by. Take the puppyhood time to train the
elements Jo lists and you'll have a dog ready to learn agility, freestyle,
therapy dog or any other sport/activity you can think of.
I rarely get dogs like this, but a girl can dream! What else would you want in a perfect (performance dog) world?


text:
Office of Research Development
Research Development
Office of Research Development (ORD) operates under the Vice President for Research to support the needs of faculty. We work closely with other offices in Research Administration, such as Research and Sponsored Programs (pre-award) and Grants and Contracts Accounting (post-award), as well as the Foundation for Research Development (technology transfer). ORD identifies extramural funding opportunities and assists faculty members in preparing competitive proposals, with an emphasis on strategic research areas prioritized by the colleges and university administration as well as institutional research resources and infrastructure.
Funding Opportunities
Proposal Development
Research Communications
Research Education & Training
|Promotes outreach activities such as workshops and trainings


text:
Tax Information For International Businesses
Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
FATCA will increase information reporting by foreign financial institutions, non-financial foreign entities, and certain U.S. persons holding financial assets outside the United States.
2012 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program
The IRS offers an offshore voluntary disclosure program to help people get current with their taxes. The current program is open for an indefinite period until otherwise announced.
Transfer Pricing Audit Roadmap Now Available
The Transfer Pricing Audit Roadmap is a toolkit organized around a notional 24 month audit timeline. It provides recommended audit procedures and links to reference material. It is not intended as a template. Every transfer pricing case is unique and requires the exercise of judgment and discretion.
Help with Tax Questions - International Taxpayers
If you've looked around our site and still didn't find the answer to your general tax question for International Taxpayers, we'd like to help.
Qualified Intermediaries (QI)
A Qualified Intermediary (QI) is any foreign intermediary (or foreign branch of a U.S. intermediary) that has entered into a qualified intermediary withholding agreement with the IRS. A QI is entitled to certain simplified withholding and reporting rules.
U.S. Withholding Agent Program
Focus enforcing compliance through examinations and voluntary compliance of withholding tax on foreign payments. Responsibilities include coordinating exams and training exam teams, consulting with internal/externals stakeholders, and providing guidance to ensure consistent treatment for taxpayers.
Internal Revenue Service International Visitors' Program (IVP)
The purpose of the International Visitors Program is to introduce the Internal Revenue Service as one of the world's premier tax systems to interested countries.
Income from Abroad is Taxable
There have been recent reports about the interest of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in taxpayers with bank accounts in Liechtenstein. The IRS' interest, however, extends beyond bank accounts in Liechtenstein to financial accounts anywhere in the world. The IRS reminds you to report your worldwide income on your U.S. tax return and lists the possible consequences of hiding income overseas.
U.S. Citizens by Birth or through a U.S. Citizen Parent
All persons born in the United States are U.S. citizens. This is the case regardless of the tax or immigration status of a persons parents. Furthermore, a person born outside the United States may also be a U.S. citizen at birth if at least one parent is a U.S. citizen and has lived in the United States for a period of time.
U.S. Citizens and Resident Aliens Abroad
This section covers tax topics for U.S. citizens or resident aliens living overseas.
Taxation of Nonresident Aliens
The U.S. source income of nonresident aliens is subject to U.S. taxation.
Taxation of U.S. Resident Aliens
A resident alien's income is generally subject to tax in the same manner as a U.S. citizen.
Foreign Students and Scholars
Aliens temporarily present in the United States as students, trainees, teachers, researchers, exchange visitors, and cultural exchange visitors are subject to special rules with respect to the taxation of their income.
Tax Withholding on Foreign Persons
This section covers tax withholding topics for payments made to U.S. citizens abroad or aliens employed both in the United States and abroad. This section also covers tax withholding and reporting rules on payments of U.S. source income made to foreign persons.
Tax Treaties
Tax treaties may allow residents of foreign countries to be taxed at a reduced rate, or to be exempt from U.S. income taxes on certain items of income they receive from sources within the United States.
Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TIN)
A Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) is an identification number used by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the administration of tax laws.
Taxation of Foreign Athletes and Entertainers
This section describes the special rules which affect the taxation of foreign athletes and entertainers who have income sourced in the United States.
Alien Taxation - Certain Essential Concepts
This section describes certain essential concepts involved in the taxation of aliens.
Classification of Taxpayers for U.S. Tax Purposes
This section will help you determine if you are a "Foreign Person" or a "United States person" for U.S. tax purposes.
Determining Alien Tax Status
If you are an alien (not a U.S. citizen), you are considered a nonresident alien unless you meet the Green Card test or the Substantial Presence test.
Taxation of Dual-Status Aliens
You are a dual-status alien when you have been both a resident alien and a nonresident alien in the same tax year.
Special Categories of Alien Workers
For U.S. tax purposes, Au Pairs and Farm Workers may be treated differently than others.
Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR)
If you own a foreign bank account, brokerage account, mutual fund, unit trust, or other financial account, then you may be required to report the account yearly to the Internal Revenue Service.
Employees of Foreign Governments or International Organizations
The wages paid to employees of foreign governments and international organizations are not usually taxable, but may be taxable in the case of U.S. citizens and resident aliens.
New Developments in International Taxation
This section provides the latest news on international taxes.
Miscellaneous International Tax Issues
This section covers subjects not previously discussed.
Frequently Asked Questions - International Taxpayers
Frequently Asked Questions for Aliens and U.S. Citizens Living Abroad


text:
You are not logged in.
Pages: 1
What is the largest square that can be inscribed in a 3-4-5 triangle?
2 + 2 = 5, for large values of 2.
Well, we could start off by making a little formula to figure out the area at any point.
Let us have the triangle like this:
| \
| \
I imagine that the square would have one corner at B and another corner somewhere between A and C
If we drew the triangle on some graph paper, we could have the lower corner B at (0,0), the upper corner A at (0,4) and the far corner C at (3,0).
Ummm ....
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
As an extension, find the largest (in terms of area) such rectangle. Generalise to an a-b-c right triangle.
2 + 2 = 5, for large values of 2.
First I was wary about helping, because as you used phrases such as 'as an extension' and 'generalise', it looked suspiciously like something that you had to do for school. However, due to a combination of the facts that it has now been quite a long time, so if it was work you would most probably have handed it in by now, and you gave that cool trigonometry help thingy on the 'This is Cool' board, and it was such an interesting puzzle, I decided to help.
Thinking about the corner opposite the corner of the square that is also in the corner of the triangle, we know that it must have the same x and y co-ordinates (because it's a square) and that the point must lie somewhere on the diagonal line of the triangle (because it's a big square). Using MathsIsFun's graph idea, the equation of the diagonal line in the triangle would be y=-4/3x+4. We also know that the square's opposite corner must lie somewhere on y=x, so we have 2 simultaneous equations.
Substitute in y=x and you get x=-4/3x+4.
Add 4/3x: 7/3x=4
Divide by 7/3: x=4/ (7/3)=12/7.
This means that the largest square has a length of 12/7 units and an area of 144/49, or 2 44/49, square units.
Unfortunately, this post is in the realm of the chocolate teapot until someone proves that the biggest square must have the same corner as the triangle and I'm terrible at proofs. The pigeon-hole principle might do it, but I'm not exactly sure how to use it on this.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
For the extension, I used advanced calculus that I won't bore you with now (unless someone requests it), but basically, if the triangle has perpendicular sides of lengths a and b, then the biggest rectangle will always have sides of length a/2 and b/2, subject to the proof being proved that I mentioned previously. This obviously means that the rectangle will have an area of ab/4, which means that its area will also be half of that of the triangle.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
I'm not a student -- at least not in the formal sense -- so no worries there! I just posted it as an interesting puzzle in its own right, and subsequently thought of the generalisation to a rectangle.
The rectangle problem can be solved without calculus. (Anyway, did you really mean to imply that advanced calculus is boring?!)
In your diagram above, if the square has a vertex at (0,0) and side a, by similar triangles, (4-a)/a = 4/3, so a = 12/7.
If the square has one side on the hypotenuse, the small triangle at the top is similar to the whole 3-4-5 triangle. By area considerations, the height of the 3-4-5 triangle is 12/5. So, by similar triangles, a/5 = (12/5 - a)/(12/5), from which a = 60/37; a tad smaller than 12/7 = 60/35.
If the square is to be inscribed, i.e., each vertex touches the triangle, these are the only two possibilities.
For the inscribed rectangle, suppose the rectangle has vertices (0,0), (0,r), and (s,0), and the triangle has vertices (0,a) and (b,0). Then by similar triangles, as above, a/b = (a - r)/s, so s = b - (b/a)r. Then the area of the rectangle, A = rs = br - (b/a)r² = (b/a)(ar - r²). Completing the square, A = (b/a)[(a²/4) - (r - a/2)²]. So the maximum area of ab/4 occurs when r = a/2, as you said.
The case where the rectangle has one side on the hypotenuse may be handled similarly. Is the maximum area in that case <. =, or > ab/4? I won't spoil the fun by giving that away!
2 + 2 = 5, for large values of 2.
Many ways to skin a cat, hey?
Yes, I started off with the "equation of line" approach, because ... I don't know why ... I guess I was just teasing the problem apart. I was kinda looking forward to optimising the area of that rectangle problem in Excel - to see if it had a pretty curve, and whether the answer was some magic number. Maybe I will one day.
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
1) Sorry for thinking that you were trying to cheat.
2) Of course advanced calculus isn't boring! One of the reasons why I used it!
3) Um, thats it, really.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
The case where the rectangle has one side on the hypotenuse may be handled similarly. Is the maximum area in that case <. =, or > ab/4? I won't spoil the fun by giving that away!
Nor will I. It's annoying how after you do lots of complicated work to find the answer, you can tell just by looking though!
Last edited by mathsyperson (2005-06-26 08:55:48)
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
Pages: 1


text:
About 37% of births are unintended at the time of conception, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics—that's more than one-third of all pregnancies.
Plus: 16 Early Signs of Pregnancy
Unintended births include both pregnancies that are unwanted and those that were mistimed, meaning a woman got pregnant earlier than she had wanted or planned. The study found that the overall proportion of unplanned births has not changed significantly since 1982, and that unmarried women, black women, and women with less education or income are still much more likely to experience unintended pregnancies compared with married, white, college-educated, and high-earning women.
Plus: The Question that Everyone Is Asking: "Did You Plan on Getting Pregnant?"
Unintended births are accompanied by a an elevated risk of adverse social, economic, and health outcomes for mother and baby, which include delayed prenatal care, smoking during pregnancy, not breastfeeding, poorer health during childhood and poorer outcomes for the mother-child relationship. Pregnancies ending in miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion were excluded from the study.
Plus: How to Handle an Unplanned Pregnancy
Did you have an oops baby or did you plan your pregnancy? Leave a comment.


text:
18 U.S. Code § 1468 - Distributing obscene material by cable or subscription television
§ 1468.
Distributing obscene material by cable or subscription television
Whoever knowingly utters any obscene language or distributes any obscene matter by means of cable television or subscription services on television, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 2 years or by a fine in accordance with this title, or both.
As used in this section, the term "distribute" means to send, transmit, retransmit, telecast, broadcast, or cablecast, including by wire, microwave, or satellite, or to produce or provide material for such distribution.
Nothing in this chapter, or the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, or any other provision of Federal law, is intended to interfere with or preempt the power of the States, including political subdivisions thereof, to regulate the uttering of language that is obscene or otherwise unprotected by the Constitution or the distribution of matter that is obscene or otherwise unprotected by the Constitution, of any sort, by means of cable television or subscription services on television.
(Added Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7523(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4501.)
References in Text
The Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, referred to in subsec. (c), is Pub. L. 98–549, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2779, which is classified principally to subchapter V–A (§ 521 et seq.) of chapter 5 of Title 47, Telecommunications. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1984 Amendment note set out under section 609 of Title 47 and Tables.
LII has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references LII.


text:
Hello there,
I'm experiencing a weird bug...
My setup :- OS X 10.9- Sublime Text 3 nightly (but tested on 2.0.2 and same thing)- VMWare Fusion 6.0.2 (with debian) with Shared Folder on a web project. PHP files are in OS X folder, web env is on virtual machine, accessing through HGFS shared folder.
The problem :
When I save a file, there is a lot of chance (95% maybe) that this file gets "corrupted" or not updated when read by the VM. Examples :Most of time after save, PHP tells me "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in ...".Sometime i change a few characters in code, save, then refresh and the change made does not appear.
When it came :I think this bug arrived with OS X 10.9 (update from 10.8). I do not remember this bug on 10.8.
What I tried :- Enabling or disabling atomic file saving. No change.
The workaround :I need to multiply characters (like 3 semicolons at end of a line), save, then refresh page and problem solved. It's like forcing the app to see that I changed something and forcing it to re-save the file correctly.
This problem is not present when editing the same files with another editor like Coda.
Thanks for you help, Sublime Text has many advantages over others editors (like file reading and color syntaxing speed!), it's hard to not use it!
It may be a VMWare Fusion bug but not confirmed : communities.vmware.com/thread/4 ... 5&tstart=0It seems that when adding bytes to the file, everything works correctly. But when removing bytes somewhere in the file, it removes it at the end of the file. That's why I got "unexpected $end..." with PHP. When I read the file with vi from OS X, file is correct but when i read the same file from Linux VM, the end is missing.
Since using vi or TextEdit does not trigger the bug, maybe the method Sublime Text saves the file can trigger the bug.
Is atomic_save enabled? Check your default prefs, then user prefs.
I've heard about some edge-case issues with it, though it's never caused me problems. Try changing this setting; it's explained in the default prefs comment.
Interesting, I also see this behavior with atomic_save enabled and disabled, but not with TextEdit or BBEdit.
Running into this same issue.
Tried atomic enabled and disabled and that doesn't seem to fix it. Tried other editors and they don't have any issues. Upgraded from VMWare Fusion 5 to 6. Same issue. Not sure where this is originating.
I'm having the exact same problem... this is very frustrating. I've switched to using BBedit for now as I really don't think this is a VM ware fusion issue... if it were than fusion would have the same issue reading a file that BBedit saved. I have to put //FOO or put a new linebreak at the end of every file in ST to get my files to save. Although I will note that I suppose now that I think of it this could have something to do with VM ware fusion because the very same issue is present in sublime text 2.
Has anyone seen any correlation between the occurrence of this problem and the use of a solid-state drive (SSD)?
Last week I was just assisting a coworker who has this very issue. He has a MacBook Pro retina from 2013 (contains an SSD). This is a new setup and he's always had the bug. On the other hand, in the many months that I've been working on the same project, same tools, I never had the issue... Until I decided to switch to SSD for performance reasons. So now I have the same problem.
(The SSH received a clone copy of the contents of the HDD that I was using prior to the switch.)
Setup: OS X 10.9 + VMWare Fusion 6.0.2 (running Fedora 12) + Sublime Text 3.
I've been using ST 3 from some where around build 3015 till now on a SSD with no saving issues.
Are we still talking about files found corrupted when accessed from within a virtual machine? (VMWare Fusion accessing the host's files through shared folders)
Sorry, I forgot to add "Not using a VM".
If there is a trial version of VMWare fusion I could try and do some testing this week/weekend to try and help narrow this issue down.
I, too, am having the exact issue. I run Ubuntu in a vm through vmware, and do my development in sublime on windows 7. I share a folder through VMWare to the vm to serve the content. It appears to be truncating the end of my files when I save in sublime text through windows, causing runtime errors when i run the source from the vm server in a windows browser.
I tried setting the sublime text file end setting to always be unix LF, but that didn't seem to help. Currently, I'm doing my development in the vm through sublime text installed there to bypass this problem. I'd like to move away from this so I can just use the vm as a server and to run commands.
Has anyone made any headway on this issue? It's baffling me.
Apparently, switching to using an NFS share fixes this problem, so it looks like it's an issue with VMWares folder share. Using NFS is not an option since it only comes with Windows 7 Ultimate, and I'm not upgrading.
You might want to try an SMB share (which is Windows' native file sharing, so it's supported in all versions). In Linux it's supported by the Samba packages.
Was there ever a solution to this?
I personally haven't seen the problem, however there have been recent fixes to shared folders support in Workstation 10.0.2 (and Fusion 6.03 and probably Player 6.0.2). The following is from the release notes for Workstation 10.0.2:
Reading and writing to a file using two threads with a shared folder has been improved.Resolved an issue about shared folder when the user read and write file using two threads.
Linux virtual machines access updated contents when using shared folders.Resolved an issue that caused Linux virtual machines to see stale file contents when using shared folders.
VMware Player 6.0.2 was released at the same time – I expect that the fixes mentioned above would apply even though they aren't mentioned in the release notes for Player (does Player support shared folders?).
And this community post, communities.vmware.com/thread/4 ... 5&tstart=0, mentions that the fix is also in Fusion 6.0.3 even though the release notes don't mention it.
I'm having the same issue - using
OSX 10.10.4Sublime Text 3083VMWare Fusion 7.1.2
It is pretty much identical to the issue described above where I can save a file from any other editor except ST and the change persists to the VM. And I can add characters in ST and save the file and the changes persist. But the moment I remove a character from ST and save it seems to sever the link to the VM and any subsequent changes aren't seen.
I've already tried changing atomic_save to no avail.
Has anyone been able to determine a resolution for this issue?
Thanks for your time and help
Has anyone had any luck on resolving this issue?
I'm running VMWare 8 on OS X, and while I was originally using Atom and having this issue, the same thing happens with Sublime.
It's driving me nuts and killing my productivity.
Anyone have instructions for mounting as NFS on OS X?


text:
DOVER — A Boston attorney who has defended a range of high-profile clients in the last decade, including the Archdiocese of Boston, has taken a prominent role in Exeter Hospital's legal defense team.
William Dailey Jr., senior partner at Sloane and Walsh, is serving as coordinating defense counsel for the hospital as it prepares to face as many as two dozen lawsuits connected with a hepatitis C outbreak.
Federal investigators say David Kwiatkowski, a former hospital technician, spread the virus to patients by shooting up with drugs stolen from the hospital. Kwiatkowksi is facing criminal charges in connection with the outbreak, which came to light in May.
A majority of the 32 patients who were infected with hepatitis C while receiving treatment at Exeter Hospital have now filed lawsuits against its owner, Exeter Health Resources, seeking compensation for their physical and emotional damages.
Exeter Health Resources has engaged at least three law firms to respond to the hepatitis C outbreak. Through a spokesman, the hospital declined to answer questions on Friday about the composition of its legal team, or the role Dailey is playing.
Although he isn't litigating the cases himself, Dailey is acting as a kind of legal quarterback for the hospital and other co-defendants, overseeing their strategy in all of the civil cases, according to sources with knowledge of the proceedings.
Dailey's role also includes facilitating settlement talks with the plaintiffs, and identifying firms that could be named as potential co-defendants in the lawsuits, including the employment firms that helped Kwiatkowski land a job in New Hampshire.
Colleagues say Dailey is well-suited to the challenges posed by the hepatitis C cases. His decades of legal experience includes defending construction contractor Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff against a lawsuit brought by the family of Milena Delvalle, who was killed in 2006 when portions of the ceiling collapsed in a Boston tunnel, crushing her car.
Before that, he helped cardiologist Dr. Gilbert Mudge successfully defend against a lawsuit from the wife of late Boston Celtics team member Reggie Lewis.
"He instantly defuses the emotion in almost any situation, and is able to sit down and talk to the other side," said fellow attorney Michael Mone.
Over the span of his career, Mone has matched wits against Dailey in court numerous times. Mone has prevailed in some cases, scoring legal victories on behalf of his clients. But Dailey has bested him in others — such as the 2007 medical malpractice lawsuit brought by former New England Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis.
Represented by Mone, Weis filed a lawsuit against two doctors he claimed botched his care after he had gastric bypass surgery in 2002. Weis accused the surgeons of negligence for allowing him to bleed internally for 30 hours before performing a second surgery to correct the complication.
After two trials, a jury determined that Dailey's clients were not negligent.
Mone said despite their adversarial relationship in court, he and Dailey remain friends, and he recommends Dailey to doctors seeking legal representation.
"Sometimes, in very, very emotional cases, he's able to sit down and talk in a way that often allows people to come together and reach some kind of consensus," Mone said.
Dailey earned a bachelor's degree from Boston College and a law degree from Georgetown Law School in Washington, D.C. He specializes in the defense of professional liability, product liability, general liability, insurance coverage, and general civil litigation matters, according to his firm's website.
Dailey was part of the legal team that represented the Archdiocese of Boston after the priest abuse scandal that rocked the church in the early 2000s came to light.
Attorney Mitchell Garabedian has represented numerous clergy sex abuse victims in cases where Dailey represented the church. He is also attempting to bring 23 new suits in federal court in Connecticut in connection with alleged abuse at a church camp.
Garabedian said his relationship with Dailey has been "litigious" and "adversarial" over the years, though he described Dailey as thorough and "practical."
"What I can say is he's a well-seasoned, skilled litigator who knows his way around the courtroom," Garabedian said last week.
Concord attorney Peter McGrath, who is representing multiple victims of the hepatitis C outbreak, also became familiar with Dailey while he was representing victims of the clergy sex abuse scandal. He said Dailey is a reasonable negotiator, with a strong reputation.
"I think he's got a certain panache — he's got a certain style that works," McGrath said.
McGrath has 190 clients who are hoping to receive compensation from Exeter Hospital as a result of their connection to the hepatitis C outbreak. McGrath had initially asked the court to allow the cases to be tried together as a class action lawsuit, but judge McHugh denied the request in October.
The hospital has now agreed to address the cases individually, McGrath said this week.
"The defendants and Bill Dailey have agreed to be reasonable in addressing each of their individual circumstances," he said.
During an interview with Foster's Daily Democrat on Friday, Dailey described himself only as a specialist in "complex civil litigation."
Asked to describe his role in the hepatitis C lawsuits, Dailey responded: "I'm trying to identify anyone who had exposure and facilitated Mr. Kwiatkowksi's actions."
Among the defendants who could potentially be named in the lawsuits are two medical staffing companies that facilitated Kwiatkowski's hiring: Triage Staffing, which places medical workers at temporary assignments; and American Healthcare Services Association, a national organization that arranges employment on behalf of hospitals.
Kwiatkowski, a traveling medical technician, has been employed in at least 19 hospitals in eight states during the last decade, including stints in New York, Maryland, Michigan, Georgia, Kansas, Arizona and Pennsylvania.
Problems with his conduct that should have raised red flags arose as early as 2008, when he was fired by a hospital in Pennsylvania for allegedly stealing drugs from a procedure room. In another instance in 2010, Kwiatkowski was found passed out inside a men's restroom while working at the Arizona Heart Hospital.
Another group facing legal action is the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT). ARRT is the group that provided a radiology certificate for Kwiatkowski when he was hired at Exeter Hospital.
Officials in Arizona have reported they notified ARRT about Kwiatkowski's termination after he was found passed out at the Heart Hospital.
Rockingham Superior Court Judge Kenneth McHugh will decide whether the hepatitis C victims will be allowed to name additional defendants in their lawsuits. If the lawsuits go to trial and the plaintiffs win, it will be up to a jury to determine the proportion of responsibility each defendant bears in the hepatitis C outbreak.
In October, McHugh granted a request by Exeter Hospital to temporarily block attorneys from deposing hospital employees or requesting documents related to the hepatitis C outbreak.
The stay of discovery has stopped lawyers from forcing Exeter Hospital employees, such as Chief Executive Officer Kevin Callahan, to give sworn statements about the hepatitis C outbreak until January.
Jan. 18 is the next significant date in the lawsuit proceedings. McHugh has called a scheduling conference on that day. All attorneys representing clients have been asked to appear at Rockingham Superior Court to discuss a schedule for the cases. They will likely establish procedures regarding discovery and set trial dates.
Portsmouth attorney Michael Rainboth, who is representing four hepatitis C victims, said he plans to ask the court to allow depositions to go forward at the Jan. 18 hearing.
Rainboth said he's eager to learn more from Callahan, as well as the nurses who worked at the cardiac catheterization laboratory with Kwiatkowski.
Nevertheless, many of the lawsuits could be settled before such a deposition is allowed to go forward. Like others engaged in litigation against the hospital, Rainboth said his clients are considering the possibility of agreeing to a settlement.
"I can just tell you that the hospital has expressed an interest in attempting to settle these cases early on, and my clients are all considering their options," he said. "It is difficult to agree to settle a case before any discovery takes place. There are a lot of details that have yet to be uncovered with respect to Exeter Hospital's role in this tragedy."
Rainboth said he first met Dailey a few months ago in connection with the hepatitis C cases. Dailey requested the meeting to discuss the possibility of resolving the lawsuits, according to Rainboth. He has also supplied Rainboth with information about other potential defendants, and their legal representatives.
"We met for approximately one hour, and I was impressed with his genuineness and his concern for the patients, and for his client..." Rainboth said. "He told me of the hospital's desire to try to resolve these cases early if they could be resolved. I thought he was very cordial and respectful."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


text:
I found this pic a while back, and had a idea of sorts. So week by week by week I played around with it when I had some free time. Now I'm stuck, lol. So I ask fellow addicts and graphic enthuisasts what would you add/fix/remove/change, etc.?
IMO, it just looks "empty." I have a graphic block, lol.. and need some constructive criticism/comments or a kick in the *** to get me on track.
>> Troy Polamalu <<


text:
APNewsBreak: Defense contractor to plead guilty
HONOLULU (AP) — A civilian defense contractor accused of giving military secrets to a Chinese girlfriend half his age will be entering a guilty plea, his attorney said Tuesday.
Benjamin Bishop was expected to plead guilty in federal court on Thursday to one count of transmitting national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it and one count of unlawfully retaining national defense documents and plans.
Bishop, 60, was arrested last March at the headquarters for the U.S. Pacific Command, where he worked.
A document for the plea agreement filed Tuesday said Bishop emailed his girlfriend classified information on joint training and planning sessions between the U.S. and South Korea.
It said Bishop had classified documents at his Hawaii home, including one titled "U.S. Department of Defense China Strategy," another on U.S. force posture in Asia and the Pacific and a U.S. Pacific Command joint intelligence operations center special report.
An FBI affidavit last year alleged the then-59-year-old gave his 27-year-old girlfriend classified information about war plans, nuclear weapons, missile defenses and other topics.
Bervar has said the two were in love and that the case was about love, not espionage.
Bishop has been in federal detention in Honolulu for the majority of time since his March 2013 arrest.
U.S. District Court Judge Leslie Kobayashi allowed him to move to a halfway house last June. But a magistrate judge ordered him back to jail in December after he violated the terms of his release by emailing his girlfriend and writing her a letter.
The FBI alleged Bishop and the woman, now 28, started an intimate, romantic relationship in June 2011. The prosecution said she was a graduate student and she and Bishop were having an extramarital affair.
Utah state records show Bishop was married until 2012.
The FBI's affidavit alleged the woman may have attended an international defense conference in Hawaii, where she initially met Bishop, specifically to target people like Bishop who have access to classified information.
Authorities haven't released her identity or whereabouts. They also haven't said publicly whether they believe she was working for the Chinese government.
She was living in the United States as a student on a J-1 visa, according to the FBI.
Defendants must normally be indicted within a month of their arrest, but Bishop's defense team waived the deadline in exchange for an opportunity to view the prosecution's evidence, much of which is classified.
Bishop, who is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, worked in the field of cyber defense at Pacific Command from May 2011 until his arrest. Prior to that, he helped develop Pacific Command strategy and policy.
Bishop was familiar with the Pacific Command's highest priority capability gaps, the command's chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Anthony Crutchfield, said in a declaration filed in support of the prosecution's motion to have him detained without bail.
From 2010 to 2012, Bishop had access to "top secret" information on efforts to defend against a ballistic missile attack from North Korea, Crutchfield said.


text:
UCLA All-American candidate Kyle Anderson and leading scorer Jordan Adams were suspended one game each by coach Steve Alford for violating unspecified team rules.
They served the suspensions Thursday evening during the Bruins' 87-83 double-overtime home loss to Pacific-12 Conference rival Oregon.
Anderson has been a revelation at point guard for the Bruins (21-7, 10-5) after spending most of his first year playing at power forward. Anderson is a 6-9, 230-pound sophomore from Fairview, N.J. He averages 14.9 points, 8.6 rebounds and 6.9 assists, one of the best across-the-board stat lines of any player in college basketball. Earlier Thursday, he was announced as a finalist for the Oscar Robertson Trophy, presented by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association to the national player of the year.
Adams, a 6-5 shooting guard from Atlanta, averages 17.2 points and 5.6 rebounds and shoots 46.6 percent from the field. He scored 28 points in the Bruins' victory over California last weekend.
Freshman Kyle Alford, the coach's son, took the point guard position and his gifted classmate Zach LaVine, the team's best option off the bench, took over Adams' spot. Alford scored 31 points and LaVine added 17.
The development was significant for Oregon, which is fighting for an NCAA Tournament spot. The Ducks improved to 19-8 overall record and 7-8 in conference.


text:
Moleskine is publishing Inspiration And Process In Architecture, a new series of illustrated monographs dedicated to key figures in contemporary architecture . The first four books of the series have been released in December 2011 and feature interviews, writings, drawings and notes from four international architects: Zaha Hadid, Giancarlo De Carlo, Bolles+Wilson, and Alberto Kalach. Now, two new architects join the collection: Wiel Arets and Cino Zucchi.
The focus is on style and craftsmanship in the creative process, that primordial step of sketches and freehand drawings. Each volume, edited by Francesca Serrazanetti and Matteo Schubert, presents a different perspective of the design world. Sketches, scribbles, watercolors and personal notes from each designer are included.
Inspired by the classic style of printer Giambattista Bodoni, the new series introduces a new clothbound format, with a hard, paper cover and colored spine matching the elastic band. The distinctive features of Moleskine notebooks - rounded corners, elastic closure and inside pocket - are maintained. The drawings inside are printed on glossy coated paper.
The collection Inspiration and Process in Architecture follows the series dedicated to the design world which includes The Hand of the Architect (2009), The Hand of the Designer (2010) and The Hand of the Graphic Designer (2011).
The monographs are available at the Moleskine Store.


text:
Stack Exchange network consists of 174 QA communities including
Buy Cheap Real Moschino Flatform monochrome sandals Buy Cheap Websites ctLwAv
, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
Nicholas Kirkwood Woman Metallic Leathertrimmed Embroidered Mesh Espadrille Wedge Sandals Size 39 Outlet Store Cheap Price Discount Pay With Visa Buy Cheap Low Shipping Best Deals Fashionable Cheap Price 58Zu6cpHp
There is accumulating evidence from bioinformatic studies that hepatitis C virus (HCV) possesses extensive RNA secondary structure in the core and NS5B-encoding regions of the genome. Recent functional studies have defined one such stem-loop structure in the NS5B region as an essential cis-acting replication element (CRE). A program was developed (STRUCTUR_DIST) that analyses multiple rna-folding patterns predicted by mfold to determine the evolutionary conservation of predicted stem-loop structures and, by a new method, to analyse frequencies of covariant sites in predicted RNA folding between HCV genotypes. These novel bioinformatic methods have been combined with enzymic mapping of RNA transcripts from the core and NS5B regions to precisely delineate the RNA structures that are present in these genomic regions. Together, these methods predict the existence of multiple, often juxtaposed stem-loops that are found in all HCV genotypes throughout both regions, as well as several strikingly conserved single-stranded regions, one of which coincides with a region of the genome to which ribosomal access is required for translation initiation. Despite the existence of marked sequence conservation between genotypes in the HCV CRE and single-stranded regions, there was no evidence for comparable suppression of variability at either synonymous or non-synonymous sites in the other predicted stem-loop structures. The configuration and genetic variability of many of these other NS5B and core structures is perhaps more consistent with their involvement in genome-scale ordered RNA structure, a structural configuration of the genomes of many positive-stranded RNA viruses that is associated with host persistence.
Discrete RNA secondary and higher-order structures, typically local in extent, play a fundamental role in RNA virus replication. Using new bioinformatics analysis methods, we have identified genome-scale ordered RNA structure (GORS) in many genera and families of positive-strand animal and plant RNA viruses. There was remarkably variability between genera that possess this characteristic; for example, hepaciviruses in the family Flaviviridae show evidence for extensive internal base-pairing throughout their coding sequences that was absent in both the related pestivirus and flavivirus genera. Similar genus-associated variability was observed in the Picornaviridae, the Caliciviridae, and many plant virus families. The similarity in replication strategies between genera in each of these families rules out a role for GORS in a fundamentally conserved aspect of this aspect of the virus life cycle. However, in the Picornaviridae, Flaviviridae, and Caliciviridae, the existence of GORS correlated strongly with the ability of each genus to persist in their natural hosts. This raises the intriguing possibility of a role for GORS in the modulation of innate intracellular defense mechanisms (and secondarily, the acquired immune system) triggered by double-stranded RNA, analogous in function to the expression of structured RNA transcripts by large DNA viruses. Irrespective of function, the observed evolutionary conservation of GORS in many viruses imposes a considerable constraint on genome plasticity and the consequent narrowing of sequence space in which neutral drift can occur. These findings potentially reconcile the rapid evolution of RNA viruses over short periods with the documented examples of extreme conservatism evident from their intimate coevolution with their hosts.
Clearance Low Shipping Fee Outlet Store Locations Saint Laurent Glitter Flats Where To Buy Cheap Real kUz7o
A step-by-step blueprint for beginning bloggers
GIANNICO 10MM SOFIA METALLIC LEATHER SANDALS Online Shop From China Wholesale Price Discount Wholesale RncoUPEz
Best Store To Get Online Online Sale Online Dolce Vita Womens Woven Leather Block Heel Booties Buy Authentic Online Cheap Sale Official Site jWeF4je
Frustrating isn't it?
Everybody told you social media is oh-so-important for generating traffic, so you focused so much of your time and effort building a following on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or whatever the flavor of the month is today.
But every time you publish one of your blog posts, these sources don't seem to drive all that much traffic. Only a small percentage of the following you've built seems to click-through to your site.
Well, what if I told you about a social media platform that not only generates mass traffic, but you don´t even need many followers to benefit from it.
If you're disappointed with your results from traditional social media, you should try Flipboard.
Flipboard is an app and website that allows you to curate content in the forms of an online magazine. (Few people know it also has great potential as a source of traffic to your website. But more on that later. )
The reasons Flipboard is preferable to traditional social media are simple.
When you sign up for Flipboard, it first presents you with a big list of topics. You select what you're interested in, and when you're done, Flipboard will create an online magazine with cover stories from all the topics you selected.
These cover stories are articles selected by other users.
You can personally add articles to your Flipboard as well.
Imagine you find an article on copywriting that you'd like to read, but you don't have time right at that moment. You might then add it to your Flipboard (also known as "flipping"), and later, when you do have some time, you can read it (and other articles you've flipped) at your leisure.
Flipboard's format differs from other content curation sites you find on the web. Instead of presenting the curated content on lists like on StumbleUpon or on boards like on Pinterest, Flipboard enables its users to have a real journalistic feel by collecting users' content into a magazine-style format.
So you must be wondering, how can this help you get traffic?
200 Main Street, Suite 212
Falmouth, MA 02541
Falmouth Housing Trust
P.O. Box 465
Falmouth, MA 02541
Telephone: 508-540-2370
2018 Unisex Chiara Ferragni Glittery Flirting Sock Slipon Sneakers Pay With Visa Best Wholesale Cheap Price Sale Eastbay Shop Cheap Price t3IWf
Falmouth Housing Trust, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Sign up to receive our e-newsletter
Free Shipping Excellent Sale Get To Buy Mephisto P5118600 Wedge sandals Women womens Sandals in Sale Pre Order New For Sale Quality Free Shipping AsKK4
carmens A38146 Ankle boots Women womens Mid Boots in Cheap Wiki L1AO6eht
unisa Cele18ks Womens Espadrilles Outlet Where To Buy Outlet Cheap CyY4r9
AGL ATTILIO GIUSTI LEOMBRUNI Sequin floral appliquéd sneakers Clearance New Cheap Discount Free Shipping Latest Collections qxOttnwV