Coming on the heels of their success with the single action P238 in .380 ACP, Sig Sauer released the 9mm P938 back in 2012.
Then, at SHOT Show this year, we saw that Sig had a .22 LR version of the P938 in the works, and a few months ago they revealed that there would also be rimfire conversion kits available for existing 9mm P938 pistols. I've been getting in some range time with the P938 recently, and we were able to pick up one of the conversion kits when Sig quietly released them a few weeks ago.
With a few trips to the range with the pistol under my belt, I was able to to put together the video review of the Sig Sauer P938 with 22 LR conversion kit that you'll see below below.
The 9mm P938 comes standard with one 6-round flush fit magazine. 7-round mags with an extended baseplate are also available from Sig.
The slide for the .22 LR conversion kit is made from annodized aluminum, and perfectly matches the finish of the original frame.
The rimfire conversion kit is available with a 3.3″ barrel and night sights, or the "target" version (pictured) with a 4.1″ barrel and adjustable 3-dot sights.
Unlike the 9mm version, the .22 kit uses a barrel bushing and guide rod plug.
The .22 LR barrel has a stainless finish. Several versions of the P938-22 are also available as complete pistols, including threaded barrel variants.
The 10-round magazine for the rimfire kit is made almost completely from polymer, except for the spring.
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...... I am looking at Kurker as being a 5th year senior as being the one to have have the breakout year. Like McMutry last year.
Getting Kurker back is good. He should be able to give the third line a needed boost. The first two lines are already loaded with talent.
Kurker does have that potential to deliver one of those senior year breakouts. He certainly has the motivation, and like McMurtry's last season, his contribution could be a huge plus.
Gr8Sk8M8
Speaking of Quinnipiac, they are currently out of the Top 10 pairwise. I refer you all back to my post stating that they were not a Top 10 team - when they were ranked #2.
Something to keep in mind about ASU, Robby Baillargeon transferred there and is eligible to play.
Madigan needs to start riding his top two lines like they owe him money. The lull in both Friday's and Saturday's games are inexcusable. This team is the best team that I have seen since 2009 and I believe that this team would beat that team. This is where Mad Dog steps up and shows that not only can he recruit talent but he can motivate it as well.
NU_Husky
Yes, why try to develop secondary scoring against the lower-tiered teams when you can just heap on the top two lines. This team has talent lines 1-4, and needs to worry about developing a third scoring line, not cramming it all into the top two. Gaudette is our best player, and the Big Line will be there, but what happens when they are off the ice? Can't just dump and chase. I'd like to see 17-15-10 together on a line once they are healthy, see what that can do. That could be a scoring line coupled with two big bodies for board play.
Also yes, Robbie B is eligible for ASU. So is former NU player Ryan Belonger and a former Lowell player. ASU has a goalie drafted to the NHL and a couple kids who have multiple points but also stupid high sh% so far this year. They might score 1-2 goals, but NU should walk all over them this weekend. Should be fun target practice with the back of the net.
Yes, why try to develop secondary scoring against the lower-tiered teams when you can just heap on the top two lines. This team has talent lines 1-4, and needs to worry about developing a third scoring line, not cramming it all into the top two.
Madigan is somewhat formulaic. He goes into every game rolling all four lines. If you look at Quinn, York, Berry, etc...the top two lines will rotate out about every third shift and the third and 4th lines will account for 14-16 minutes. At home, you get your checking line out against the top line for 20-25 seconds then get your top line out against them as their shift winds down and you catch them either tired or in a change.
Top line minutes should be well in excess of 20. IN the HEA championship game, IIRC, they got about 19.
There is no argument to be made that the Collier and Pond lines should be getting similar even strength minutes to the top two lines. It's not a matter of developing scoring. It's a matter of managing the game so that your developed scorers have a chance to score.
He has a tendency to miss opportunities because of this formula. Early in the third period of Quinnipiac game when it was still 3-1, QPac iced the puck with their third line on the ice...he put out the Pond line. QPac won the faceoff and cleared the puck and changed...over the boards comes the Big Line.
The night before in OT, final minute, he had the Collier line out there.
And, frankly, we're talking about Keefer as he manages the lines.
Gaudette is our best player
Gaudette is a very good player as is Sikura. In my opinion, we have great players on the team and let's leave it at that.
Interesting. Just curious now, who do you think is better than Gaudette? His play has impressed me immensely this year, driving the offense as well as playing 200 feet of defense. Only people I can consider for the throne are ZAR and Nolan.
Gaudette is probably the most naturally gifted offensive player that they now have. On that I can agree. Frankly, I don't believe that he plays 200'. I believe that he needs to develop more of his defensive zone game. I also believe that he needs to get a little grittier and use his size better.
I believe that when Kurker returns that the top two lines are going to be as good as any in D1. The question will be what the next two lines looks like. Fillipe - after a hiccup in the first Bentley game - appears to be better than past years' 3rd and 4th line players still with the team as is Jozifek.
Truth be told, I'd like to see Fillipe moved up to the second line. Griffin needs to be in there on the 3rd or 4th line. I'd like to see a buzz (speed) line with Jozifek and Lerario (two gifted scorers in the USHL) with either Collier or Rosenthal (speedsters) centering.
I mentioned before that this may be the most talented team that they have had in close to 10 years. He needs to take advantage of that. He knows that he's losing ZAR and JStevens and there is a good chance that both Nolan and Gaudette will be signing in the Spring. The newer kids need to get in there and gain experience.
I agree.. let's leave the 'he's our best player' analogy out.. we have several excellent players & that's good.
Leave it at that.. it's a team sport. :)
HHound
What gives you the idea that Kurker will be promoted to the second line upon his return? He was on the 4th line at the start of the year and that means limited PT. If he had remained at bu, he would have picked up his degree and would probably be part of the workforce. I can't think of any reason that his return will boost the offense. Jozefek, Griffin and hopefully Pecararo (who was originally ticketed for the LW spot on that line) are better options.
What gives you the idea that Kurker will be promoted to the second line upon his return?
Putting aside the issue that I never stated that Kurker would be on the second line upon his return, he was on the 3rd line with Collier and Griffin versus Acadia. I stated that I would like to see Fillipe put on the second line with Gaudette and Sikura. If Jozifek is still injured, it's probably a good bet that Kurker WILL be on the 2nd line but I do hold out hope that they move Fillipe up into that slot.
The point was that the marginal players who have rotated into the lineup in Kurker's absence will no longer be in the lineup.
I kept Pecs out of the conversation simply because until he suits up he isn't part of the conversation.
As for the blueline, Cecere is eligible to dress this weekend.
I see what I did...my initial response should have read like this:
I believe that when Kurker returns that the top two lines are still going to be as good as any in D1. The question will be what the next two lines looks like.
Assuming Jozefek is back for the ASU games, it seems to me that right now those two lines will consist of in no particular order Collier, Kurker, Griffin, Filipe, Lerario and Pond. There is enough talent and experience there to put together very good 3rd and 4th lines. Hopefully, Madigan can come up with the right combinations this weekend as the HE schedule begins the following weekend.
TheRevengeance
I'm hoping Lincoln stays on the second line honestly. My ideal situation is probably the same top six from Bentley Game 2, then:
Kurker-Filipe-Jozefek
Collier-Pond-Lerario
I mostly just want Filipe to play center at some point here. Stevens, Collier, and Pond are all graduating after this year and who knows whether Gaudette will be back. He's our 2C of the near future, if not our 1C. Let him get some time there now instead of throwing him in the deep end next year.
+1 to all that was said here
I, too, believe Griffin would flourish on Gaudette's line. They have a long and prosperous history golng back to Thayer. That line could use another shooter as it already has Sikura as a setup man. IMO Jozefek's passing skills could really help Kurker, more than hey would help Felipe. (After he scored Saturday, the PA announcer called him "Felip-pay. He will never make that mistake again!);)
Lerarrio, I suspect, was recruited to take on Pond's duty as our "disruptor" with more offensive capability. He seems to be slower than Pond, but that may be a result of his trying to adjust to the speed of the game. I thought his spot as RW4 would be taken by Paddy Schule, but he's been a health scratch, AFAIK, through five games. He's the only forward who has not seen the ice. Perhaps this weekend will bring an opportunity for Schule as well as for Barry or Fiorentino and the other goalies.
Revengeance: Is there a reason that you put both Jozefek and Kurker on their off-wing?
No partcular reason, I wasn't thinking about it too hard. Jozy was always listed as a RW in juniors off memory and has continued playing RW here so I put him there and moved on.
Lerarrio (sic), I suspect, was recruited to take on Pond's duty as our "disruptor" with more offensive capability.
I love the heart that Pond brings to every stride he takes but, bless his heart, he falls down 3 times a shift. He wasn't much of a scorer in the USHL but he was a scrapper.
Lerario is a very smooth skater who has excellent offensive instincts and, like Pond, was a scrapper in the USHL. He'll be first or second liner next season. Pond is never going to be anything more than what he is.
Huskies have some USHL scrappers. ZAR was a fighter. Pond and Cockerill were fighters. Lerario was a fighter.
Glad I'm not the only guy who noticed that. I noticed it for the first time last season. You'd think in 4 years of college play he would have found a way to rectify it
Ronnieb
Curious, if Cecere played for CC last year, what part of the eligibility rules allows him to play this season.
You're referencing PWR after two weeks? When some teams haven't even played a game yet?
He played in the first 4 games for CC last season. Then, for whatever reason, he left the team and school, and returned to the USHL. He sat out the rest of the CC season and 4 games of the NU season and paid his debt to the NC$$.


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Q: Using local.xml, I'm getting "Invalid Nesting" errors With the aim to simplify a lot of our layout XML, I've moved the pertinent parts of our individual files to one local.xml.  Everything works fine.  However, in the logs, I see errors like this:

2013-03-05T21:44:53+00:00 DEBUG (7): [INVALID NESTING!] Found: layout/package_update: catalog_product_view | Expecting: layout/db_update: SHORTCUT_uk_popup

The expected <update handle="SHORTCUT_uk_popup" /> node is in paypaluk.xml.  I tried just adding it to the same area of my local.xml but didn't fix it.
I could just comment it out but I wanted to understand what the Best Practice way should be.  Could anyone advise?

A: You are right that aoe_profiler causes the issue. The error you are getting is in relating to profiler 'buckets'.
ref: http://www.fabrizio-branca.de/magento-profiler.html and check the defining buckets section.
Varien_Profiler::start('<bucketName>');

... code to profile in the bucket ....
Varien_Profiler::stop('<bucketName>');

Basically what you have is one block defining a starting bucket, then another block inside the first starting a bucket, before the original bucket its closed.
I had this before, and can be safely ignored, unless you are in need to profile the parts in the buckets.
or disable your profiler ;)
It is just noise.
If someone knows better, I stand corrected.

A: Looks like the message goes away when I uninstall Aoe_Profiler. So not sure if that fixes anything or just hides the message.

A: I prefer this als comment, but then it is unreadable.
I pasted your file to my system and ran it, it throw an error and I removed the following lines (I have a CE here):
<action method="cachePage">
    <expires></expires>
    <disqualifiers>cart,loggedin</disqualifiers>
    <holecontent>lightspeedcontent/hole/index</holecontent>
</action>

and it runs without error.
I think you made a cut&copy error in your paypaluk.xml. Please check, whether the XML is valid.

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Q: What are the benefits of converting data using a scalar-valued function as opposed to doing the conversion directly in your code? Here is the code being used:
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_ConvertInttoString]
(@inValue int)
RETURNS varchar(1000)
AS
BEGIN
-- Add the SELECT statement with parameter references here
RETURN (convert(varchar(1000),@inValue));
END

GO
It is being used to do a data conversion on an integer input as a part of Dynamic SQL:
 IF (@strValue IS NULL) OR (RTRIM(LTRIM(@strValue)) = '')
BEGIN
SET @strSQL = 'UPDATE ' + @strTableName + 'SET ' +                       @strColumnName  + ' = NULL ' +
                            ' WHERE ' +  @strColumnPrimaryKey + ' = ' + dbo.fn_ConvertInttoString(@intPrimaryID) + ';'
        SET @strOutputMessage = 'SUCCESS! ' + @strTableName + ' Updated!';
    END

What is the benefit of doing the conversion this way?
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Rapper Meek Mill was recently given the key to the state of Connecticut for his work for criminal justice reform.
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The Diffusion of the Islam in North Africa/Southwest AsiaThe North Africa/Southwest Asia realm has spread itself from the Atlantic shores of Morocco to the mountains of Afghanistan. Sometimes this part of the world is referred to as the Arab world. This realm is one the richest in the world of historical and cultural point of view. It has been the origin of three of four religions; Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
The Islam is the major religion in the "Arab World", but along with it Christianity and Judaism take an important place. It is also a region of intense conflict basically on religious and cultural issues. The Islam started to spread out more than thousand years ago, A. D. 613, with the work of Muhammad the Prophet.
This man began to receive messages from Allah and soon he started preaching among his people. The Islam could be interpreted as an improvement or revision of the Christianity and Judaism. In someway Islam brought to the Muslim world not only uniting religion but also a new set of values, understandings, a whole new way of life. After the death of Muhammad the Prophet the Islam continued to spread.
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The Arab armies were attacking, invading and conquering different parts of three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa. They converted to their religion wherever they went. About A. D. 700 the Islam reached North Africa and most of Southeast Asia. Centuries later it came to Southern and Eastern Europe, West and East Africa, South Asia and it reached even China about A.
D. 1000. This spreading religion is a perfect example of diffusion processes, particularly spatial diffusion. The first center was at Medina in Arabia, but it was moved to Damascus and finally to Baghdad.
The Islam was carried by any man of this religion, no matter if he was a child, soldier, teacher or even the sultan. Not only the Islam fit in the definition. Any new form in the fashion, in the music or in our culture that takes place in our live is a form of spatial diffusion. Almost every place, every city and nomadic community in the Arab world was touched by the expansion diffusion formed by the local nearness, which is referred by scientists as a contagious diffusion.
High ranked people like sultans and kings also spread the Islam, which is hierarchical diffusion and this is only one of the various forms of hierarchical diffusion. The main idea is spreading the trend from larger to smaller scale. The Islam also disseminated by relocation diffusion, from Morocco to the East Indies and from Subsaharan Africa to Eastern Europe. Spreading from city to city the Islam was meeting new cultures and it was overtaking them. Arabs were not destroying everything and after that building all over again.
On the contrary, they were building great mosques, they had very developed architecture, pottery, textile, etc. Their science was surpassing the European one. Most of time they were living in consensus with the other religions, although trying to convert all of the population into the Islam. When Europe was entering the so-called "Dark Ages" the Arab world was in its heyday. The Arab world so strong, that even after centuries of Holy War and Crusades the Catholic world could not get back the Promised Land.
Throughout more than one thousand years the Arab world has reigned over huge part of Southeast Asia, North Africa and the most of Eastern Europe. It is one of the most appropriate examples for the different kinds of diffusions. The Islam succeeded to convert basically everyone into it and now it has more one billion followers in every part of the globe. With small exceptions it has left remarkable wealth in our civilization, from which people still benefit.
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The Diffusion of the Islam in North Africa/Southwest AsiaThe North Africa/Southwest Asia realm has spread itself from the Atlantic shores of Morocco to the mountains of Afghanistan. Sometimes this part of the world is referred to as the Arab world. This realm is one the richest in the world of historical and cultural point of view. It has been the origin of three of four religions; Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The Islam is the major religion in the "Arab World", but along with i


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Wu San-lien (; Tainan, 15 de novembre de 1899 - Taipei, 29 de desembre de 1988) va ser un periodista i polític taiwanés que exercí com a alcalde de la ciutat de Taipei entre 1950 i 1954, sent el primer alcalde en arribar al poder per mitjà d'eleccions directes. Durant l'ocupació japonesa del Taiwan, va treballar al Mainichi Shimbun.

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Membre del Partit Socialista Democràtic de la Xina, Wu va ser designat alcalde i posteriorment es va presentar com a candidat independent en les primeres eleccions municipals després de la derrota del Guomindang en la guerra civil i el trasllat del règim a Taiwan, el 1951. No va poder ser legalment candidat del CSDP a causa que el govern de Chiang Kai-shek havia prohibit els partits opositors fins a la recuperació del continent. Tot i el monopoli polític del Guomindang, Wu va derrotar amb facilitat a tots els seus oponents (cinc independents i un candidat del Guomindang) amb el 65.61% dels vots, sent fins a l'actualitat la major victòria obtinguda per un alcalde de Taipei.

Va decidir no presentar-se a la reelecció el 1954, sent succeït per Henry Kao Yu-shu, candidat també recolzat pel CSDP. Entre els motius per desistir d'una segona candidatura va citar la seua fatiga mental i física, a més de la possibilitat que el règim nacionalista intentara orquestrar un frau electoral en contra seua si es presentava.

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Warning: Saturday TR outage planned, 12-3pm EST!
Just a little heads-up to our Insiders...we're deploying a fix to our site authentication system, which will mean the system will be down for a few hours. When authentication is down, it will block access to any site features that require login, including making or editing posts, or accessing the TRI forum.
The outage is planned for noon to 3pm EST. Hopefully, no unforeseen problems will extend it, but given our recent track record, I'll go ahead an apologize in advance.
When I tried to respond to a TRI link last night I was told that I was Attempting to Access a Restricted Site.
Just for that I'm not going to answer any of your questions about Ubuntu but I'll drop a hint here your current problem with the updates revolves around the initial setup so that is a good place to start looking for a fix.
I couldn't even access TR Discussions on friday night / saturday morning..server upgrades was the reason I got.
then, this is the first time in 4 days that TRI has shown in my dicussion topics list.
I was locked out until 3 minutes ago.
posting: 02:05 Pacific Time AM Sunday March 19, 2006.
fun stuff, left the site for a while, the TRI forum disappeared again, until I click on the posts from my contacts and clicked on a post in the TRI forum.
I thought Finally I've got lucky and might have slightly more time to do some paying work.
BAD BAD COLIN using those nasty 4 letter words again! I'll remember to slap my wrists.
every time I come onto TR I have to start finding a post by a contact to a TRI discussion to even see the section in the list.
It ran much longer than planned didn't it???
I'm not really complaing so much as I am slightly confused since so many other Cnet sites don't appear to have the same problems, as frequently as TR does. It makes me wonder what OS the servers are running on. You wouldn't expect these things to pop up so often on a site dedicated to IT. Maybe a quick check with the other divisions might assist you in eliminating the worst of the annoyances. One other thing I might suggest is, that before you add any more bells and whistles, the addition of a spell checker would be ever so nice and might make some of us appear a little more intelligible, if not intelligent. This would be a real boon for those like myself who are somewhat challenged as typists.
This outage was due to maintenance on a central CNET service. So, all the CNET sites that used that service had the same outage. It was not specific to TR. And, yes it did run long. Way long.
And when I click on a notification of a new message in the TRI I'm still getting The Access Denied page.
But I can get in straight through the Discussion forums and the link that I clicked on appears to have been read when I finally get in.
This outage was due to maintenance on a CNET wide service that we use for TR, and it ran far longer than it was supposed to. There was nothing the TR guys could do about it.


The National Park Service is moving ahead with its prejudicial plan to ban all predator hunting in California's East Mojave National Preserve. All hunting, except for the limited bighorn sheep hunt, would also be banned between February 1 and August 31, and there is still a huge "safety" closure of one-mile around Kelso Depot.
In spite of a huge outcry from hunters throughout the region and from detailed comments provided by the Department of Fish and Game explaining how the NPS staff was operating outside state and federal agency recommendations, the land management plan for the National Preserve was signed by the regional director and preserve staff.
The final document would outlaw the hunting of all predators and non-game animals, end target shooting and plinking, and close the park to hunting seven months of the year to eliminate potential conflicts with other users. All of those uses are being disallowed without any biological justification.
The NPS' final document did change rules that would have banned the hunting of small game (cottontails and jackrabbits), and it rescinded most of its moronic "safety" closures around roads, trails, campgrounds and other facilities, closures that were often up to a mile in scope. It did, however, keep the one-mile, no-shooting buffer around Kelso Depot for reasons that mystify everyone involved with the process.
Sent before the final plan was adopted, Curt Taucher's four-page letter to Mary Martin, superintendent of the preserve, pointed out four major flaws in the final draft document. The implication was clear. The DFG is willing to fight for the sportsmen on these issues, and that the park service was treading on very unstable legal ground.
• First, that the management of wildlife within the state was the responsibility of the DFG and Fish and Game Commission, and that final adoption of the plan with any hunting restrictions should only come after extensive consultation with the DFG and adoption by the Fish and Game Commission, allowing for public comment on the proposals through the state regulatory process. This did not happen.
• Second, the park staff adopted the hunting restrictions on a clear misinterpretation of what was allowed under the Desert Tortoise Recovery Plan (DTRP), which specifically recommended that legal hunting be allowed to continue even when other activities in the desert areas were restricted to protect tortoises. Because the DTRP didn't specifically mention small game hunting and hunting of non-game species (varmints), the park service staff saw this as their opportunity to restrict these activities.
• And fourth, the letter pointed out the park service staff proposals for large, so-called safety buffers around campgrounds and visitor centers (no discharge of a rifle within one mile of these areas) are completely unwarranted and unprecedented anywhere in the state. Taucher's letter states "In reviewing the Department's hunter safety records, it is clearly demonstrated... the general public is not at risk.... The Department does not support proposed restrictions on such a responsible user group within the MNP." It also pointed out what a nightmare these restrictions would be to enforce.
The NPS apparently heeded only a small portion of the DFG's comments when it adopted the final plan.
The DFG is to be commended for going to bat for sportsmen on this issue. It is clear from the letter's tone the DFG would be willing to go to court over the proposed hunting bans in the preserve, and it has a strong legal leg to win such a case should the National Park Service not make the DFG's proposed changes in the plan.
The park service staff needs to remember the only reason there is a Mojave National Preserve at all is because sportsmen supported the proposal when hunting was allowed as part of the legislation. As conservationists, sportsmen saw the need for greater resource protection and enhancement than was happening under Bureau of Land Management control but didn't want to lose the vast area to hunting. When the "park" proposal was changed to a "preserve" proposal that allowed hunting, the Desert Protection Act passed. It passed only because of support by sportsmen who lobbied the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus to support the bill.
Unfortunately, this hunting ban proposal has fostered a huge distrust of the park service personnel within the general public and the state agencies' staff that are now required to work with the park staff to protect and enhance wildlife within the preserve. The wholesale removal of wildlife water sources on retired cattle leases, without thorough evaluation of their impacts on desert wildlife, further has damaged the park staff's credibility and dedication to the resources in the desert. It simply appears as though they are all anti-hunting, and they have a major hurdle to clear to prove to the preserve's largest group of users — hunters — that is not the case.
Wong said the park service must take their proposed closures to the Fish and Game Commission before the state regulations will reflect any changes in the region, and the DFG is going to recommend that none of them be approved because they are outside sound management and outside of the scope of the legislation that authorized the creation of the preserve.
"However, failing to get what they want from the Commission, we are told they have a federal process they can go through to bypass the state," said Wong.
That will set the stage for the DFG to sue over this issue, and it looks like the DFG is willing to fight for hunters' rights over this issue.
The tragic part of this equation is that the preserve is setting itself up for a lawsuit with the state over an issue that shows park service's bias against hunting. The enabling legislation — the Desert Protection Act — clearly states that hunting will be allowed in accordance with state hunting seasons and regulations in the East Mojave. Now the NPS staff is going to waste public money that could have been used to do resource work and improve facilities at the preserve on legal fees.
This prejudicial and ignorant agenda needs to end. The staff responsible for this needs to be fired, or at the very least demoted and transferred. Call your federal legislators and ask why prejudice is allowed to be so deeply rooted in the National Park Service. Ask how the NPS staff can get away with writing and adopting documents that violate the law, the Desert Protection Act. Call today.


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Organ-Trading is Not so Weird
by Jeff Stier
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Something unusual happened to me. I wrote an op-ed for the New York Post and nobody wrote to tell me they disagreed. Yet the policies I am arguing for are certainly not the norm. I argued in favor of incentives to promote organ donations.
I suggested that last week's news of the allegation that a surgeon in California brought about the premature death of a patient to harvest an organ shouldn't be such a surprise. With the outrageously long wait for donated organs, something had to give.
The statistics are overwhelming. Yet there seems to be a certain complacency about them. Some 96,825 patients are waiting for an organ donation in the United States, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. In 2002, more than 6,000 people died during their wait. Consider the attention the media gives to trapped miners or a grisly murder case. And we are all gripped by the sad loss of perhaps fewer than a dozen lives in the bridge collapse. All tragic, but minor in scale compared to the 6,000 or so dying each year for lack of organs. Sure, these examples are all different in their own way. But if we share the goal to reduce the number of premature death, perhaps we can make the most gains (and, dare I say, for the least amount of money) by making a dent in the organ shortage crisis.
Unless you're lucky enough to have a relative or some other highly motivated and altruistic donor, there is no legal way to improve your chances in the painfully slow race against death.
The shortage of organs available for donation from unrelated donors has led to the macabre black market that exists today. National Geographic reports that a poor neighborhood in India is known as "Kidney Village," since residents illegally sell their kidneys for about $800, far less than the $100,000 that some recipients have been willing to pay. A whole new industry, transplant tourism, has emerged to meet the needs of the wealthy patients creating demand.
Current patients face a choice between two extremes: Wait for a fundamentally broken system and risk death, or venture into the unregulated Wild West of the black market for organs. But there is a better and more ethical alternative.
We don't need to delve too deeply into the black market to see that donated (or purchased) organs have a high value to potential recipients. Yet, because of the ban on incentives for donations, a familiar economic principle comes into play: Whenever a product's price is held below market demand, a shortage quickly ensues. Despite campaigns to increase altruistic donations, organ donations are basically stagnant.
As George Mason University economics professor Alex Tabarrok has argued, the status quo is no more ethical than exploring new approaches, even if we can't foresee all the downsides of those new approaches. There are many innovative plans that could help shorten the line for an organ -- and they do a better job than the current system of taking incentives into account.
As Tabarrok's colleague, Tyler Cowen, argues in his new book, Discover Your Inner Economist, incentives work -- and they can take forms other than cash. For instance, Tabarrok describes the "no give, no take" idea floated in Israel, which (with some exceptions) would allow only those who sign their donor card (or their relatives and friends) to receive a donated organ.
I argued in the Post that "a regulated system that creates incentives for donors, whatever those incentives may be, would save lives, reduce the shortages that promote the black market, and level the playing field, by helping all potential recipients, not just those who can afford a trip to Kidney Village."
Organ donations are not the only area where society seems to be squeamish about offering incentives. As I've written in this space previously, blood centers place limits on the offering of incentives for blood donations, even as they warn of perennial shortages.
There are signs of progress, which I will address in more detail in a future column. One bright example is an organization called LifeSharers. Executive Director David Undis explains that anyone who joins LifeSharers and agrees to offer his organs to other members after he dies "gets preferred access to the organs of other members." This is a small step in the right direction.
Should there be limits on what incentives should be permitted? If we allow the gift of an organ, why not allow a regulated system that would allow for flat-out payment for an organ?
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In small town America, the best ways to create jobs and expand economic opportunity is fostering entrepreneurship and small business. On America's country roads that means value added agriculture and niche marketing.
Such entrepreneurship keeps wealth in rural communities, enhances farm and ranch profitability, revives rural mainstreets and helps young families return to rural America.
For over a decade, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made Value Added Producer Grants that assist farmers and ranchers in starting and expanding ventures that increase the value of raw farm and ranch products. These ventures include both processing of crops, produce or livestock and niche marketing - local, natural, grass-fed, organic, etc. - that also adds value.
Right now, the USDA is accepting applications for $14 million grants to develop value-added agricultural business ventures. And ten percent of that is reserved specifically for beginning farmers and ranchers and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. October 15, 2012 is the application deadline.
Farmers and ranchers - especially those just getting started - who are interested in starting up a value added venture should give a serious look at this grant program. And the Center for Rural Affairs will assist with the following fact sheets and additional information - http://www.cfra.org/node/2672. Or, producers can call our Farm Bill Helpline for help and guidance in accessing these grants and other resources by calling (402) 687-2100 and ask for the Farm Bill Helpline or emailing tracib@cfra.org.


What Would Kate Do In An Embarrassing Situation? - What Would Kate Do?
What Would Kate Do In An Embarrassing Situation?
For many of us, our lives seem pretty imperfect compared to Kate's. I know my own is full of embarrassing moments, Pinterest-fail attempts at adulthood (one of which inspired this post), and bad hair days. It's rare to hear about these things happening to Kate. But it's important (although difficult) to remember that the Duchess, as well as those seemingly-perfect Instagram stars and celebrities, are only human. They just have the benefit of teams of people to make them look flawless all the time. But the rest of us have the equally appealing benefit of not having our every move photographed. (And it makes that coffee-stained shirt and lipstick on the teeth much easier to deal with.) This also means that every once in awhile we see a less-than-perfect glimpse of Kate. And since she has admirable manners, there must be a few tips we can learn from her. What would Kate do in dealing with a potentially embarrassing situation?
There are big deals and there are small deals. It's important to know the difference. It may have been embarrassing and awkward when Kate got her heel stuck in a grate, but she kept her cool, kept a smile on her face throughout, and accepted the help of those around her. However, when the paparazzi invade the royal family's privacy or break the law doing so, it is a big deal and they act according. Evaluate the situation and know the difference before reacting.
Wind happens. Double-stick tape fails. Zippers break. These things are unavoidable. But they can also help us learn for the future. Since the wind got the better of Kate's yellow dress in Canada, she's worn longer hemlines or fitted-skirt dresses, especially in occasions when the weather might be a factor. Because she learned from what happened. (She's also probably a lot more careful walking over a grate in heels these days!) When you can, plan ahead and learn from your mistakes. That button-up shirt that's always gaping in all the wrong places? Bring along a safety pin or two next time. Wearing a bold lipstick? Keep a mirror on hand to correct any smudges.
Sometimes you get busted. Like when Kate was captured on film with that epic eye roll after being told to "keep wrapping." She was likely not thrilled that this went viral and became an Internet meme, but it made us relate to her that much more because it made her human. Kate was probably aware of the existence of this meme but she didn't acknowledge it or drawn more attention to it. If something happens that, in the long run, isn't a big deal, don't draw attention to it and don't apologize if it isn't necessary. In a social-media world, people forget quickly and drawing attention to a minor infraction will only make it last longer.
When in doubt, don't sweat it. Everyone makes mistakes and they will pass. When photos of Kate wrangling children at her sister's wedding appeared, they could have easily been construed as pictures of an angry Kate yelling at her brood. Instead, everyone loved seeing a glimpse of Kate taking a backseat to Pippa and acting like a real mom, something many people could relate to. We admire her all the more for her flaws because they're what make her (and all of us) human. So don't apologize for your flaws or faux pas unless it's necessary; they make us what we are.


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Q: Internet Explorer 11 "n" char based width doesn't fit "n" characters I'm building an app which requires a char ("ch") width components. But in IE11 it doesn't seems to be working.
For example:
<input style="width: 5ch; padding: 0; margin: 0; font-family: monospace" maxlength="5">

The width just don't fit 5 characters. Do anyone knows why? I couldn't find the answer anywhere.

Plnkr example here

Edited: I'm using monospace family fonts unlike the another question

A: Better use size attribute:

The size attribute gives the number of characters that, in a
  visual rendering, the user agent is to allow the user to see while
  editing the element's value.

input {
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-family: monospace;
}
<input size="5" maxlength="5">


Less than a week after 3-year-old Jeida Torres was beaten to death by her stepfather in a Bushwick homeless shelter, another child met a similarly awful end in Queens. On Friday, 35-year-old Latoya Curry was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and assault in the death of her daughter, 4-year-old Linayjah Meraldo, at the Briarwood Family Residence.
The New York Daily News reports that Curry called the police to the shelter on Thursday afternoon. By the time EMS workers got there, Linayjah was dead. Curry initially claimed she found the girl "limp" on the floor after keeping her home from school because of a stomachache. She also tried to blame bruising on her daughter's face on a recent fight with a 5-year-old sibling and, later, a fall. But when an autopsy revealed that Linayjah had died from blunt force trauma, her mother was forced to explain what had actually happened.
Curry faces up to 25 years in prison. She has four other children, though their whereabouts are currently unknown. The family had reportedly been living at Briarwood for about a year.


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The FBI Wants To Hide Your Face
I used to think of the FBI as the good guys. Defenders of the law, and all that sort of stuff. Now it seems like just another politicized government agency, with their (metaphorical) guns aimed at the very laws they are sworn to uphold. Sometimes I even wonder if the KGB has been reincarnated as the FBI. The topic of today's article is one such occasion…
Wanted: YOU (or maybe just your face)
The FBI has access to 411.9 million photos of people's faces, and uses facial recognition technology to rapidly scan them in search of "persons of interest." In June, it was revealed that the Bureau has been hiding this fact from the public for years, in flagrant violation of federal law that requires its disclosure.
And that's not the only law the Bureau has conveniently ignored, according to the General Accounting Office's report to Congress on the FBI's Next Generation Identification System (NGIS). (PDF)
Your face may well be among these digitized photos, for they include mug shots, passport and visa application photos, the Defense Department's biometric database, fingerprints and photos of foreigners applying to become naturalized citizens or permanent residents. The database even includes driver's license photos drawn from at least 16 States (the FBI won't reveal exactly how many States are part of this scheme).
Your mugshot might be displayed on an FBI agent's computer screen right now. Or maybe it's someone who only looks like you enough to confuse facial recognition software. Current facial recognition technologies are only "95 percent" accurate, according to Toby Rush, CEO of EyeVerify, which develops iris-recognition software. In a recent interview with The-Parallax.com, he added, "As a security mechanism, we need 99.998 percent accuracy."
Errors in the NGIS could be very, very bad for you if that "someone" robs a bank or bombs a marathon. But the stakes don't have to be nearly so high to ruin your day. Each year, thousands of Americans wrongfully lose job opportunities because of errors in the FBI's fingerprint identification system that is used in many background checks. And facial recognition is not nearly as mature or accurate as fingerprint identification.
When the Law Becomes Lawless…
Are cameras tagging and identifying you when you walk into church, stores and other public places? Can authorities predict your behavior by looking at your face? Read my articles on how facial recognition is being used is other alarming ways. See Time To Worry About Facial Recognition? and Your Face Predicts Your Behavior?
The FBI has not even attempted to verify the accuracy of the NGIS, despite another law requiring it to do so, the GAO investigation found. Furthermore, the FBI allows State and local law enforcement agencies to access NGIS data without verifying that those entities are using reliable technologies, violating yet another legal requirement.
Now the FBI has made a proposal to the Justice Department to exempt the NGIS from all provisions of The Privacy Act of 1974, not just the pesky transparency and due diligence parts. The Privacy Act, among other important protections, prohibits the government from creating databases about the political activities of its citizens. But the FBI's proposal would allow it to do exactly that, and citizens could not take the Bureau to court. The Privacy Act also protects citizens' right to know what data the government keeps on them and how it is used or shared, and our right to challenge the accuracy of such data and force its correction.
Caught redhanded in violation of multiple parts of the law, the nation's top law enforcement agency's response is, "Let's just forget about the whole law, shall we?" (Perhaps they should grant themselves immunity.) The limitless arrogance of the FBI's proposal seems designed to stun any opposition into immobility. But that isn't going to work.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is all over the NGIS and the FBI's proposal. The EFF joined dozens of other privacy and civil liberties watchdogs (and, oddly, Uber and Lyft, the ride-sharing companies) in successfully pressuring the Department of Justice (DoJ) to extend the period for public comments on the FBI's proposal. You can find the latest information https://www.eff.org/foia/fbis-next-generation-identification-biometrics-database on the FBI's efforts to build and use biometric databases, and what the EFF is doing to shine light on the situation.
It's now up to the DoJ to hold the FBI accountable. Or not. We shall see. Your thoughts on this topic are welcome. Post your comment or question below...
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Most recent comments on "The FBI Wants To Hide Your Face"
The Political Comments on this tech site have become more and more bizarre.
Since this is the season, I don't mind a political reference (or even a preference), but no name calling or invective here, please. I'll edit or remove anything that crosses that line.
A couple of things that shouldn't be commented about here are religion and politics. I'm with Henry, political posts should be denied.
Unitary
>>>> The Privacy Act ... prohibits the government from creating databases about the political activities of its citizens. But the FBI's proposal would allow it to do exactly that, and citizens could not take the Bureau to court.
It appears that you wish you could sue one agency of the USA government (the FBI) in another agency of that government (a court of law).
There is NO SEPARATION between the Executive and the Judicial branches of the USA government.
The president, who nominates the head of the FBI, also nominates the Justices of the Supreme Court. (See Section 2 of the Constitution.)
Those extraordinary powers of the president definitely make the USA an "exemplary democracy"!
I'm with Vulcan..........this is Obama's Baby.
Also agree strongly with Vulcan and Ken Mitchell.
Tell that to Richard Jewell. He was the Atlanta Olympic Games guard accused by the FBI even though he was totally innocent. In fact he was driven from job to job after the bombing (even after the actual perpetrator was caught)and hounded to death. There are many more such "incidents." So much for being safe just because you're law abiding.
Daniel Presley
Vulcan, you got my vote-that's for sure.
Here's the rub that seems to be mising from what I've been reading: ID-ing a person rests upon the foundation of 'matching' various points of a persons face, finger prints, hand-foot prints etc.
After a QUICK perusal of the Web I can find that with fingerprints, for example, standards range from 5 points of match to 18 points of match. And some countries rely more upon the 'experience' of the investigator rather than on a 'fixed' number of points between to separate to 'match'. There are 'Rules of Seven' and "Rules of 12" and "Rules of 18", etc.
The point being that with each increasing 'match' in a point a percentage of the population has to 'drop out' of the sample because you have found a 'false positive'. That means that I'm in Central Nevada and you are in Central Mississippi, and a fingerprint shows up on the butt of a a pack of smoke at a murder scene in Maine.
With a "7 point rule' - meaning that seven points of a print need to match -both YOU and I can not be ruled out as suspects and become 'persons of interest'. With each increasing 'point' match, more people are excluded. So by 10 points YOU are excluded and at 12 points *I* am excluded. But until then, we are both, pretty much in the eyes of the law, 'suspects'.
Each country sets its own 'rules' for how many points of match are required to make a POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION OF A SPECIFIC INDIVIDUAL. Some, as I have mentioned would "Like to see" 'at least 5' - but that can be swayed by the expert testimony of a specialist.
I think everyone can see where this goes when we start talking about 'matching' faces - just EXACTLY how many matching 'Points' are needed to make YOU the suspect - or which will rule YOU out and ME in? -- no one knows.
This is not watching NCIA or CSI or some Si-Fi thriller - this difference often 'balances' the life of a person -- 5 points match - experts will say that's Proof Positive- beyond a doubt. That person goes to prison for 'life', 'life without parole' or is murdered by the state for a crime which the person did not commit.
Fingerprints were only the FIRST method to 'scientifically' discover 'hidden' evidence - and to then allow that evidence into court.
What IS the standard for the US when they are at war with most of the world, ---- and the important question - would that change were we at peace with most of the world (God Forbid!).
There is a well funded political side to the number of points needed to convict a person based upon fingerprints - and there is, or will be, a standard which will help convict a person of a crime -- unless they prove they were not there. (Innocent until proven guilty?, Yeah, right).
So as you read the article, and the comments, remember that the more points you need for an ID the farther up the 'bell' you move towards fewer 'false positives' (think about your anti-virus program, it says you ABSOLUTELY have a virus, ABSOLUTELY WITHOUT QUESTION -- but then you run three more programs that say - "Heck! You look clean to us!!" Which do you believe. The 1/4 that says you are infected so you put the computer to death - or the 3/4 that says, you are NOT infected, it was probably a 'false positive', so forget about it, you can keep your computer and use it safely.
So let's stay on topic - and here the topic is how accurate ARE the programs, and how accurate CAN they become - and WHAT IS YOUR COUNTRIES STANDARD FOR PRESUMPTION OF GUILT?
Want numbers? I'd give you cites, only I started out just jotting numbers down, so there really aren't any I can give you, but with a bit of work you can find them - with a 5 point match, you have a 27% false-positive match. That means that 25% of people who have fingerprints that match a crime scene were NOT there. Move the 5 point match to 7 points and only about 14% of the people get false-positives - and the outliers - places which require 18 point matches only have 3% false positives.
So at 5 points 25% of the people are likely guilty, and at 18 points only 3% of the population are likely guilty (PLEASE READ: Likely = MIGHT BE, and DO NOT READ likely ='IS GUILTY').
So the CORE problem is how many points do YOU want to be required before a person comes under police harassment. (And here I'm being overly brutal on the police, I live in a county with a TINY population where 'bad' cops don't last long - so we have different standards in a county of 2, 000 people than a city with 200,000 people).
It's not shocking to find out that the Government has this technology and has not told us about it, and who may well have had some people in authority LIE bout it's existence or capability -- WHAT WILL BECOME SHOCKING IS HOW MANY 'POINTS' OF MATCH WILL ***YOU*** REQUIRE FOR A MACHINE TO IDENTIFY **YOU**? (Sorry for the all caps rule Bob, it had to be shouted to catch attention).
If 5 points on a fingerprint match mean a person can be murdered for a crime they did not commit, how many points on your face will our society and culture require to murder a person who has a face very much like yours?
The time to make up YOUR mind is before they ask you, BEFORE they propose some number out of the sky. In the mid 1960's the US Spy Satellite system was said to be able to read the date on a dime from a U-2. We believed it. "We" meaning most of the rural America I grew up in. And today. 50 years later we learn that we can't even find an entire airliner that goes missing over the Indian Ocean -- by satellites from MANY countries, 'spy' or 'intelligence' aircraft from MANY countries, 'spy' or 'intelligence' ships, boats and submarines from many countries -- all the various types of radar and radio communication instruments in use by so VERY many counties -- we not only cannot trace the route the plane took, but we could not find the 'black boxes' which they carried.
That alone should tell you that for many reasons we, as the people of this planet and the citizens of many nations are still being lied to about our (non)existent capabilities. Though Moors Law says that we will reach what the lies of today tell us, FAR faster than we would like - so NOW is the time to make up your own minds about what is a 'reasonable' number of 'point-matches' that will exclude you from being a suspected Enemy of the State? NOW is the time to think about this problem in the cold light of reason, before it becomes an inflamed (in medicine when something is 'inflamed' it is generally not working very well, and keeps other surrounding parts of the body from working well)- NOW is the time to start thinking about how many 'points in common' you want to have judging YOU separate from others.
The Science Fiction of today is the reality of tomorrow - what will YOU allow to become that reality? Remember: you live in a democracy, and you DO have a say if you start making informed decisions today, and communicating those decisions to others -- your 'Masters' -- those who 'own' you and make those laws that apply to their 'ownership' of you - now and in the future.
A VERY long post and I have thought about edits, but would like everyone who reads this to ponder what may be some of THE most powerful laws yet to be placed on the books. When a TV Camera and a Microphone 'Boom' look like anti-personnel weapons and those who carry them must be shot is NOT the time to debate what rules will be used against others in the future.
Remember to you **I** am just 'another' person who may or may not be a threat to you. What is YOUR criteria that will result in a kill-no-kill order?
Some good comments.
However, with an extensive military history, I feel that I can say with quite a bit of authority, that things weren't quite so bad until the "patriot act" was passed. THAT is what is giving the FBI, among others, so much leeway to do just about anything they want to do, to anybody they want to do it to.
Will j
As a former fingerprint examiner, in my Division a match was 13 points. On the very rare occasion when separate individuals had equal points at 13 or above, we sent in both suspects as 'possibles'.
J Russell
Bob, Everyone, how is it, you did not know that the F.B.I. had those photographs? Seriously, if you live in this country, how could you not already know this?
EDITOR'S NOTE: The existence of this FBI database was not revealed until recently. Prior to that, you might have surmised as much, but now we know for sure.
pmwill
Well I would have to say that anyone who hasn't seen Director Comy of the FBI has missed a great deal of the level of corruption that is bringing this about in double time. I have lived in Virginia Beach and the cameras are everywhere. It is just another testing ground for all the invasive things that bureaucrats can get away with. Your article is not more rumor mongering and I would have to agree that resorting to name calling is ignorance in action. When the electronics overlords subject to more fear and danger some will sing a different tune.
Land of the Free is no longer. Too much has been given up in the name of security. Again we see numerous posts along the lines of "if you don't do anything wrong you have nothing to fear". However, what they forget is that they are looking at this through today's rules and laws. What if next year being left-handed is illegal, or red-headed? Or if saying homosexuality is wrong - wait - that's already here. My point is the definition of what is "wrong" or "illegal" changes. If the law allows such indepth and intrusive information on all citizens, it is much easier to pick out the "guilty" from the general population.
Vulcan nailed it! "We have met the enemy and he is us." Said by Pogo many years ago.........
Doc Eibenschotte
FRED- NOT posting political comments is one reason we have all the problems we have- PEOPLE NEED TO BE INFORMED!!! Amerikans are blissfully ignorant victims of normalcy bias. As long as they have their sports and chicken wings, everything else is tolerable- UNTIL IT ISN'T!
Kenneth Maltby
When I went from Canada to Mexico a couple of years ago there was a flight transfer in Chicago. Without being informed of this beforehand we were all made to pass through US immigration and have our fingerprint and photos taken. Another person (non US citizen) in the line up told me this had happened to her before, and she didn't like it. Neither did I - but we both submitted to it before our onward journey, because there was no other choice given. I no longer visit the US but now I have to work out how to avoid stop-overs there too
Eric Tanner
"I have nothing to hide" is an incorrect assumption to make where the government is concerned. Benjamin Franklin once said: "Any society that will give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Oh, Golly! What a fuss.
To be a volunteer at the local VA Medical Center, I have my photo and fingerprints taken yearly. I also went through state and federal background searches. To work at a top secret program years ago I was fingerprinted,photographed and subjected to a remarkably rigid FBI investigation.
Amazingly, I survived it back then and I survive it now. I never worried about it. I have never been bothered by any police or federal agency, nor do I fret about the possibility.
I have bad knees and am old and bald. That bothers me a heck of a lot more than who can recognize me at the ball games or on the street.
Google already does the same thing to zillions of photo collections. Where's the weeping about that? Oops! time for my hot Ovaltine and bed.
Nighty night!
The necessity of computer screening is here to stay- the Terrorists saw to that. But they shouldn't be able to do this in secret. Apparently we have rules and laws that are being ignored by the FBI (and others). We need Congress to press for enforcement of all these "protections". It doesn't matter how much it costs, or how much manpower it takes- if you can't follow all the rules- you can't use the tool.
Article information: AskBobRankin -- The FBI Wants To Hide Your Face (Posted: 29 Sep 2016)
Source: https://askbobrankin.com/the_fbi_wants_to_hide_your_face.html


Join us for our part I of our Summer Nights Arts Series! To kick off the series, we'll be joined by Cameron Michael Moberg and friends doing LIVE PAINTING and Tender Souls, with their soul piercing photography.
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Life insurance, estate tax and married joint filers are key terms up for discussion with the new tax overhaul.
The first major American tax overhaul since 1986, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 has arrived. Congress has approved it, and now the bill will be sent to President Trump to be signed into law, expected before Christmas.
What does the largest overhaul of the tax code in a generation mean to you, and how does it affect your planning? While this is a highly complex and voluminous law, read on for first impressions!
Under the new law, the individual tax brackets are set at 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35% and 37%.
What this means for your planning: You and your advisers should quickly review what marginal bracket you will be in for 2017 vs 2018. This may impact the advisability of deferring income or accelerating deductions, depending on which year will provide the greatest benefit.
— The deduction for state and local income, sales and property taxes is capped at $10,000.
— The deduction for mortgage interest is reduced, and only allowable on up to $750,000 of acquisition indebtedness (note that mortgages incurred on or before Dec. 15, 2017, are grandfathered in and thus still allowed $1 million of acquisition indebtedness).
— The home equity loan interest deduction is repealed.
— Taxpayers will be allowed to deduct medical expenses if they exceed 7.5% of adjusted gross income (instead of 10%) for tax years 2017 and 2018.
What this means for your planning: Be mindful of how the loss of personal exemptions affect your taxable income. For those of you who are used to deducting sizable state and local income taxes, work with your advisers to determine if accelerating the payment of state and local property taxes makes sense.
Those no longer allowed to deduct state income taxes should speak to their advisers about alternative solutions to avoid or mitigate state income taxes.
If possible, you may wish to accelerate medical expenses into 2017 and 2018 to take advantage of the lower 7.5% of AGI limitation.
The new law increases the charitable contribution limit to 60% of AGI for cash contributions (up from 50% now), while keeping the limit on contributions of appreciated property at 30% of AGI.
What this means for your planning: If you will no longer itemize, you may wish to consider a contribution to a donor advised fund before the end of the year where you can make a charitable contribution and receive an immediate tax benefit.
The AMT exemption is increased to $70,300 for single filers and $109,400 for married joint filers. The thresholds for the phase-out of the AMT exemptions are increased to $500,000 for single filers and $1 million for married joint filers.
What this means for your planning: Those of you with incentive stock options should consult with your advisers to time the exercise of these options in years they are not subject to AMT due to higher exemptions.
TCJA does not repeal the estate tax as was proposed in the House version, however it doubles the estate, gift and GST tax exemption amounts from the original $5 million (which has grown to $5.49 million in 2017 and which will be $5.6 million in 2018, due to adjustments for inflation) to $10 million (which, when adjusted for inflation, is $10.98 million in 2017). The 2018 Unified Exemption – which is the gift and estate tax exemption combined, meaning if you use the exemption for gifting it will reduce the amount you can use for the estate tax — will be $10.6 million per person. It's double that per couple, and the surviving spouse may use any unused portion left over from the spouse first to die. It also provides for increases to the exemptions based on inflation. The exemption sunsets after 2025.
What this means for your planning: With the exemption set this high only a tiny fraction of families will be affected by estate taxes. However, for those that are affected, it is an enormous tax bite at 40%! This can easily destroy a closely held business or large family farm – and for those affected it will definitely undermine family legacy goals! This means planning is still critical for families with large, closely held businesses or those that have a net worth significantly greater than the exemption amounts.
Considering that, barring further congressional action, the exemption amounts will revert back to $5 million for individuals in 2026. So planning now while the gift tax exemption is doubled for the next several years may be crucial. Make sure to discuss these matters with your adviser!
Clients who purchased life insurance to finance the payment of estate and other taxes and expenses should think carefully before canceling or reducing coverage. If your estate does not now nor is ever likely to exceed the inflation-indexed exemption amount(s), using the new-found exemption amounts to "un-wind" life insurance premium financing and note sale transactions may be attractive. Making large gifts to irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs) that have dynastic provisions could also be worth exploring.
Estate tax planning is still required for those who live in states that have decoupled and instituted their own state estate tax. In many cases, the state exemption may be significantly lower than the federal amount.
Unlike the changes affecting personal income tax, most of the changes affecting business income are permanent.
The corporate income tax is reduced to 21%, down from 35%, and corporate alternative minimum tax is repealed.
What this means for your planning: Premiums on corporate-owned life insurance should be lower while death benefits received by a corporation from a life insurance policy it owns may be more effective. All arrangements involving corporate payment of life insurance premiums should be reviewed.
TCJA provides for a 20% deduction on non-wage portions of pass-through income. In short and simply stated, if the pass-through income for a married couple is $315,000 or less ($157,500 for single filers), then the 20% deduction is limited to 50% of the W-2 wages, or in the case of a business that requires capital (a non-personal service business) 25% of W-2 wages plus 2.5% of the adjusted cost basis of the assets. Architects and engineers have been exempted from these limitations. Pass-through income exceeding the $315,000/$157,500 thresholds receives no 20% deduction.
In practice this means that pass-through businesses (partnerships, LLCs, S corporations, and sole proprietorships filing a Schedule C) will be effectively taxed on only 80% of their pass-through income – or, put another way, on only 80% of their normal rate on all business income!
What this means for your planning: Planners and business owners will need to revisit how a client's business should be structured and operated and re-evaluate the pros and cons of pass-through entities in the light of the law dropping the C Corporation rate to 21% and changing the long-standing approach of taxing pass-through business income at individual tax rates. Numerical comparisons are essential!
You should talk to your adviser about finding the lowest tax bracket party to pay for needed life insurance, and about split dollar life insurance to remove equity out of a business while minimizing current income tax.
The step up in basis is retained so assets held in your taxable estate at death will receive a new stepped up tax basis. This is very valuable, especially in the high-tax states such as New York, California, Illinois and Hawaii, so make sure you do the math before moving your low basis appreciating assets out of your estates. Careful planning and flexible dynasty trusts, like the HYCET Trust, will be vitally important.
— Full expensing of investments in new depreciable assets made after Sept. 27, 2017, and before Jan. 1, 2023, will be permitted.
— There is a 20% per year phase-down of the full expensing for property placed in service after Dec. 31, 2022, and before Jan. 1, 2027.
— The limit on section 179 deductions wherein businesses can deduct the full purchase price of qualifying equipment and/or software purchased or financed during the tax year is increased to $1 million.
— Deductions for certain fringe benefits, such as business entertainment expenses, have been limited.
— Net operating loss (NOL) deductions are limited to 80% of pre-NOL taxable income. There is an indefinite NOL carryforward, but no carryback to prior years for most companies.
— A three-year holding period is required for a carried interest to qualify as a long-term capital asset.
— The itemized deduction for personal casualty losses would be restricted to losses incurred in a presidentially declared disaster area. This sunsets after 2025.
— Tax-preparation fees are no longer deductible. This sunsets after 2025.
— Except for members of the armed forces, moving expenses are no longer deductible. This sunsets after 2025.
— Reversing or re-characterizing a Roth IRA is no longer permitted.
— The penalty for failing to maintain minimum health care coverage is effectively eliminated starting Jan. 1, 2019.
— 529 Plans can be used for K-12 schools and for homeschooling.
— The alimony deduction for the payor ex-spouse and the inclusion of alimony in gross income of the recipient ex-spouse is repealed for any divorce or separation instrument executed or modified after Dec. 31, 2018.
We have just seen the first major tax change since 1986. It may be years before the broader ramifications of TCJA are known, but it is fairly certain to impact most all Americans.
Be that as it may, much remains to be seen. Will the new law result in meaningful higher wages, new jobs and business growth? Will it help middle or lower income Americans to any meaningful extent? Will it dangerously increase the deficit? Will it weaken social safety nets?
What is certain is that in the end whatever is done can be eventually undone when the political climate changes. Most of the provisions affecting individual, as opposed to corporate, taxpayers sunset after 2025, and if the other party is in power at that time, you can most predictably expect the lower tax provisions not to be extended. Accordingly it seems safe to say that none of this is will be "permanent," as permanent fixes are never permanent so long as future Congresses can make changes. This is why executives, professionals, business owners, high-income and high-net-worth individuals and families will always benefit from planning advice and expertise to understand their options.


Leave your comments here for improving public transit in Pinellas County. Light rail, ferry boats, and bike paths are badly needed as well as more and better bus service. It's time to consider converting Pinellas County's CSX rail line to dual use for light rail during the day and freight service at night between downtown Clearwater and Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg.


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Q: storing anonymous information in a database Our application will store some information from a user that we do not want to be traced back to any other records in the database.  For example (albeit a stupid one) - a user must pay to tell us anonymously what their favorite color is.  We want to store each color record as a new row in the database and keep track of the transaction information.
If we stored the colors and transactions in separate tables, the rows could be correlated to one another if the server were hacked, by using the sequential ID of the rows (because a color will always have a transaction) or by the creation time of the row.  So to solve this we won't have a sequential ID column for the colors table, or an update/modification time for the colors table.
Now, the only way to associate a color with a transaction is to look at the files that are used to actually store the database information.  While this may be difficult and tedious, I imagine it is still possible because the colors table information would probably be stored sequentially in the files.
How can I store database information in an un-ordered matter, so that this could never happen?  I suppose a more general question is how do I store information anonymously and securely? (But that is way too broad)
Obviously, an answer is don't let your database get hacked, but not a good one.

A: You can pre-generate millions of rows and randomly populate them.

A: If you need to analyze data, you will need to understand it, and if you can attacker can also. No matter what clever solution you will come up with correletion will still be possible. Relational DB transaction logs, wil show what and when and where was inserted updated deleted. So you cannot provide 100% decoupling of data, if you want to use the same db. You could encrypt data with some HSM, which would render stolen data useless for attacker. Or you can store data on some other machine with random delay or some batch processing, (wait and insert 20 records instead of one)... but it can be tricky and it can fail.

A: Consider leveraging a non-realtional database, e.g. NoSQL.


During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontation--not as a story of how the military victimized homosexuals, but as a story of how a dynamic power relationship developed between gay citizens and their government, transforming them both. Drawing on GIs' wartime letters, extensive interviews with gay veterans, and declassified military documents, Berube thoughtfully constructs a startling history of the two wars gay military men and women fough--one for America and another as homosexuals within the military. Berube's book, the inspiration for the 1995 Peabody Award-winning documentary film of the same name, has become a classic since it was published in 1990, just three years prior to the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which has continued to serve as an uneasy compromise between gays and the military. With a new foreword by historians John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, this book remains a valuable contribution to the history of World War II, as well as to the ongoing debate regarding the role of gays in the U.S. military.
Among the many histories of fighting men and women in World War II, little has been written about the thousands of homosexuals who found themselves fighting two wars--one for their country, the other for their own survival as targets of a military policy that sought their discharge as "undesirables." To write this long overdue chapter of American history, Allan Bérubé spent ten years interviewing gay and lesbian veterans, unearthed hundreds of wartime letters between gay GIs, and obtained thousands of pages of newly declassified government documents. While some gay and lesbian soldiers collapsed under the fear of being arrested, interrogated, discharged, and publicly humiliated, many drew strength from deep wartime friendships. Relying on their own secret culture of slang, body language, and "camp" to find each other and build spontaneous communities, they learned, both on and off the battlefield, to be proud of their contribution and of who they were.--From publisher description.
As World War II raged, millions of men and women confronted injury, destruction, separation from home and loved ones, chaos, and death. These challenges and traumas and many others forced an entire generation of everyday heroes to take stock of their lives. And in the process, many turned to God in ways they never had before. In Faith Under Fire, you'll experience scenes of astonishing bravery, moments of heart-breaking loss, and a pervasive sense of love for God, neighbor, and country that was strong enough to transcend denominational and national differences, inspiring selfless acts of courage and compassion under the worst of circumstances. From the Catholic chaplain who offered mercy among the carnage of Iwo Jima, to the Pentecostal boy who was saved from an incoming shell by the voice of God calling his name, to the young wife praying that her husband would survive life in a concentration camp, to the Tuskegee Airman who fought both totalitarianism and racism, these stories reveal the power of faith that sustained these heroes when there was nowhere else to turn. Award-winning author Steve Rabey presents more than twenty firsthand accounts of faith under pressure, many of them illustrated with war-time photos, letters, and journal entries. At a time when many who lived through these trying times are dying, their stories live on, passing on a legacy of faith and fortitude to future generations.
This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and gay history in the United States. The book provides a retrospective on Berube's life and work while it documents the emergence of a grassroots lesbian and gay community history movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Taken together, the essays attest to the power of history to mobilize individuals and communities to create social change.
This study draws together scholarship on the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and its aftermath. Contributors hope to draw attention to the tragedy, to honour its victims, and to bring a clear historical voice to the debate over its legacy.


Title: CONTROVERSIES SURROUNDING POLICE TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE - ARE THE POLICE DOING IT ALL WRONG?
Annotation: THE POSITIVE AND THE NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF WEST GERMAN TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE AND EFFORTS TO IMPROVE POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS ARE OUTLINED.
Abstract: BECAUSE OF THE RECENT UNPOPULARITY OF POLICE MEASURES, WEST GERMAN EFFORTS TO CONTROL TRAFFIC BEHAVIOR AND ACCIDENT RATES HAVE BEEN CRITICIZED, DESPITE THE RELATIVE LENIENCY OF POLICE TRAFFIC LAW ENFORCEMENT. A NEW SET OF TRAFFIC RULES IS DESIGNED TO PREVENT ACCIDENTS: THE CITIZEN-POLICE CONFRONTATION IS ACTUALLY A CONFRONTATION OF CITIZENS WITH THE LAW. PRACTICE HAS SHOWN THAT TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE AND REPRESSIVE MEASURES REALLY DO ENCOURAGE MOTORISTS TO OBEY TRAFFIC RULES. POLICE ARE FREQUENTLY CRITICIZED FOR PETTINESS, BUT IF THEY DO NOT CORRECT THE EVERYDAY MISTAKES WHICH CREEP INTO INDIVIDUALS' DRIVING HABITS, ACCIDENTS WILL BECOME MORE COMMON. ALTHOUGH MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THE POLICE SHOULD INSTRUCT INSTEAD OF ISSUING TICKETS, SUCH A POLICY IS INEFFECTIVE, AS SEVERAL EXAMPLES ILLUSTRATE. POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT THROUGH PRAISE OF SAFE DRIVERS IS IMPRACTICAL BECAUSE OF DEMANDS ON POLICE PERSONNEL DEMANDS AND POSSIBLE INJUSTICES PERPETRATED FROM A LACK OF INFORMATION ABOUT SO-CALLED GOOD DRIVERS. SURVEILLANCE FROM HIDDEN SQUAD CARS IS CRITICIZED, BUT IS THE MOST EFFICIENT USE OF AVAILABLE MANPOWER RESOURCES. SURVEYING ONLY PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SECTIONS OF ROADWAY GIVES MOTORISTS THE FALSE IMPRESSION THAT THEY DO NOT NEED TO OBEY RULES ON OTHER STRETCHES. WHILE PUBLICITY ON GENERAL PREVENTIVE EFFORTS CAN BE HELPFUL IN REDUCING ACCIDENTS, PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF SPECIFIC RADAR TRAPS DEFEATS THE PURPOSE OF SURVEILLANCE. IMPROVEMENT OF THE POLICE-CITIZEN RELATIONSHIP IN TRAFFIC MATTERS REQUIRES A BASIC CHANGE IN THE ATTITUDE OF MOTORISTS TOWARD DRIVING. SUCH ATTITUDE CHANGES MUST BE PROMPTED BY MEASURES OF AGENCIES OTHER THAN THE POLICE, E.G., REVIEW OF THE LEGAL NECESSITY FOR CRIMINALIZING CERTAIN OFFENSES, RETHINKING POLICIES FOR RELAXATION OF SURVEILLANCE, PROPER MARKING OF CONSTRUCTION ZONES, CLEAR GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR STRICT ENFORCEMENT, AND DEFINITION OF THE POLICE SURVEILLANCE ROLE. TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS ARE SUPPLIED. --IN GERMAN.


Skills Minister Michaelia Cash needs to reassure the group training industry and its employer partners that her 'bush wage' scheme will not cripple the group training sector.
The so called "bush wage", based on One Nation's costly apprenticeship policy, has set off alarm bells throughout the group training industry which has been told it is ineligible for the scheme.
There are about 100 group training organisations operating throughout regional, remote and metropolitan Australia, who over four decades have engaged with more than 100,000 employers.
Group training organisations fear existing employers could hand back existing apprentices so they can access the ill considered and overly generous new scheme.
This would severely undermine the good work being done by quality community-based apprenticeship employers already operating in regional and rural Australia.
Shadow Minister for Skills, TAFE and Apprenticeships, Senator Doug Cameron said this latest policy disaster from Senator Cash will not add a single apprenticeship to the Australian workforce if existing employers decide to cash in on the scheme.
"This has all the hallmarks of Minister Cash's other ill-conceived and politically opportunistic policies and has been done without any consultation with the experts in the group training industry," Senator Cameron said.
"This desperate grab for One Nation votes is reminiscent of former Senator Bob Day's 'Student Builder' pilot which the Coalition funded at a staggering cost of $92,000 per apprentice.
Labor is also calling on Minister Cash to outline details of protections within the policy against apprentice exploitation and steps taken to deal with rampant exploitation of apprentices exposed by FWO reports.
"Minister Cash's track record on apprenticeships is abysmal. Under her draconian Building Code, agreements can't be made between employers and employees that guarantee the employment of apprentices," Senator Cameron said.
On top of its $3 billion cuts to vocational education, the Coalition's last budget cut a further $270 million from apprenticeships as part of its deeply flawed Skilling Australians Fund.
"While Senator Cash is announcing expensive, damaging and incoherent side-deals with the National Party and cross-benchers she has failed to negotiate an agreement on apprenticeship funding with the Victorian and Queensland governments," Senator Cameron said.


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