The revised IRS withholding tables reflect the TCJA's increase in the standard deduction, suspension of personal exemptions and changes in tax rates and brackets. The law roughly doubles the 2017 standard deduction amounts to $12,000 for single filers and $24,000 for joint filers. It also temporarily eliminates personal exemptions, which taxpayers previously could claim for themselves, their spouses and any dependents. (The personal exemption amount for each such individual was $4,050 in 2017.) And the TCJA adjusts the taxable income thresholds and tax rates for seven income tax brackets.
Employers and payroll services use the withholding tables to determine the amount to withhold from employees' paychecks in light of their wages, marital status and number of withholding allowances. Employees provide this information on their Forms W-4. The new withholding tables are designed to work with the Forms W-4 that employers already have on file for their employees. In other words, employees don't need to complete any new forms or take any other action at this time. Employers, on the other hand, must move to incorporate the new tables into their payroll systems as soon as possible — and no later than February 15, 2018. They should continue to use the 2017 withholding tables until they adopt the new figures.
Of course, paychecks also are subject to withholding for non-income taxes. Specifically, wages are subject to withholding for Social Security and Medicare taxes (known as FICA taxes), too. For 2018, the employee's share of the Social Security tax is 6.2% of the first $128,400 of taxable earnings. The employee share of the Medicare tax is 1.45% of all taxable earnings. Taxpayers with taxable earnings of more than $200,000 for individuals or $250,000 for couples also are subject to a Medicare surtax of 0.9%.
This is an industry update from HBK CPAs & Consultants. Please contact pkimerer@hbkcpa.com for more information.


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Skillful ( so far ) Thirty year Climate Forecast - 3 year Update and Latest Cooling Estimate.
1. Original Forecast v Reality.
In the last few months there have been numerous discussions on the WUWT site and amongst establishment scientists questioning the validity of climate models as a source of useful predictions about future temperature trends.Notably, the UK Met Office has reported on "The Recent Pause in Global Warming" for which they have no good explanation.The fact is that,as will be discussed later, their models are incorrectly structured and the modelling approach is inherently useless for making predictions.A much better approach is to recognise and project forward quasi-cyclic quasi-repetitive patterns in the temperature, oceanic systems and solar driver data as was done in the 30 year forecast reviewed here.
Here are extracts from the original (6/18/10) 30 Year Forecast and the 2012 update which readers can check against the last 3 years of data and their own experience.
"The geologic record shows clearly that the sun is the main climate driver. The Milankovitch multi-millennial orbital cycles in NH insolation are firmly established in the record as are the Schwab and deVries cycles. Other millennial and decadal variations in solar activity are present in the record. TSI is not the only or even the best indicator of solar activity – variations in EUV radiation and the GCR flux (via cloud formation and earth's albedo) seem to be more important on decadal and centennial scales . Earth's climate is the result of complex resonances between all these solar cycles with the lunar declination cycles and endogenous earth processes.
"There will be a steeper temperature gradient from the tropics to the poles so that violent thunderstorms with associated flooding and tornadoes will be more frequent in the USA, At the same time the jet stream will swing more sharply North – South thus local weather in the Northern hemisphere in particular will be generally more variable with occasional more northerly heat waves and more southerly unusually cold snaps. In the USA hurricanes may strike the east coast with greater frequency in summer and storm related blizzards more common in winter.
Arctic and Antarctic sea ice may react differentially to an average global cooling. We might expect sea ice to increase in the Antarctic but in the NH the Arctic Oscillation while bringing cooler temperatures further south may also occasionaly bring warmer air into the Arctic with possible relative loss of sea ice in that area during those years"
In brief - NOAA - HCN - SSTs show that warming peaked in 2003 and there has now been no net warming since 1997 - 15 years with no net warming and CO2 up 8.2%. Since 2003 the global temperature trend is slightly negative. The PDO remains in its negative phase while the solar magnetic field strength continues an inexorable decline ,which is looking more and more likely to be a precursor of a Maunder type minimum. Sunspot data and the relatively high GCR count for this stage in solar cycle 24 confirm the secular change in solar activity relative to the previous century.
All the recent empirical data - especially the negative phase of the PDO and the continued decline in the Solar magnetic field strength now ( July 2012) suggest that once solar cycle 24 starts its decline in 2014-15 we will see an acceleration of the current slight cooling trend and that this trend might well last for 25 -30 years. Beyond then we do not know enough at this time to make useful predictions"
Readers might note that I think of the thirty year forecast as starting from the warming peak in 2003.
For reasons discussed in several earlier posts I use the SST data as the best metric for climate change and the Oulu neutron count as the most useful proxy measure of solar activity.
We have now had an eleven year cooling trend during which CO2 has continued to rise steadily - about 19 ppm in total.
The unprecedentedly high neutron count (GCR and solar activity proxy) as the Solar Cycle 24 maximum is approached compared with earlier cycles and the unprecedented count peak durimg the 23/24 minimum in late 2009 are the main indicators suggesting the continuation and possible deepening of the cooling trend in the coming decades.In addition the Livingston and Penn solar data point in the direction of the possible approach of a Maunder Minimum.
2.How Not to Do and How to Do Climate Science.
During the last twelve months I have laid out ,in a series of posts on this site, a review of the basic climate data and of methods used in climate prediction and from these have developed a simple transparent forecast of future cooling. For details see the pertinent posts listed below.
4/2/13 Global Cooling Methods and Testable Decadal Predictions.
5/14/13 Climate Forecasting for Britains Seven Alarmist Scientists and for UK Politicians.
The most important points are summarised below.
a) Total Collapse of the IPCC - Met Office Modelling Approach - How Not To Do Climate Science.
The inadequacy, not to say inanity, of the climate models can be seen by simple inspection of the following Figure 2-20 from the AR4 WG1 report.
The only natural forcing is TSI and everything else is classed as anthropogenic. The glaring deficiency of this model structure is immediately obvious. Under natural should come such things as eg Milankovitch Orbital Cycles,Lunar related tidal effects on ocean currents,Earths geomagnetic field strength and all the Solar Activity data time series - eg Solar Magnetic Sield strength, TSI ,SSNs ,GCRs ,( effect on aerosols,clouds and albedo) CHs, MCEs, EUV variations, and associated ozone variations and Forbush events. Unless the range and causes of natural variation are known within reasonably narrow limits it is simply not possible to calculate the effect of anthropogenic CO2 on climate.
The results of this gross error of scientific judgement ,not to say lack of simple common sense,is seen in the growing discrepancy between global temperature trends and the model projections - see this example from Spencer.
This disconnect has been acknowledged by the establishment science community which is now busy suggesting various epicycle like theories as to where the "missing" heat went.Some say its in the oceans (Trenberth) some say its due to Chinese aerosols (Hansen) but the all main actors still persist in the view that it will appear Lazarus like at some unspecified future time.This is like the Jehovah's witnesses recalculating the end of the world each time a specified doomsday passes.
In Britain , the gulf between the Met Office expectations for the last several years and the actual string of cold and snowy winters and wet summers which has occurred has made the Met Office a laughing stock-to the point of recently holding a meeting of 25 "experts" to try to figure out where they went wrong.The answer is simple.Their climate models are incorrectly structured because they are based on three irrational and false assumptions. First that CO2 is the main climate driver ,second that in calculating climate sensitivity the GHE due to water vapour should be added to that of CO2 as a feed back effect and third that the GHE of water vapour is always positive.As to the last point the feedbacks cannot be positive otherwise we wouldn't be here to talk about it .
Temperature drives both CO2 and water vapour independently,. The whole CAGW - GHG scare is based on the obvious fallacy of putting the effect before the cause.As a simple (not exact) analogy controlling CO2 levels to control temperature is like trying to lower the temperature of an electric hot plate under a boiling pan of water by capturing and sequestering the steam coming off the top.A corollory to this idea is that the whole idea of a simple climate sensitivity to CO2 is nonsense and the sensitivity equation has no physical meaning unless you already know what the natural controls on energy inputs are already ie the extent of the natural variability.
"Moreover it is not yet clear which tests are critical for constraining the future projections,consequently a set of model metrics that might be used to narrow the range of plausible climate change feedbacks and climate sensitivity has yet to be developed"
What could be clearer. The IPCC in 2007 said itself that we don't even know what metrics to put into the models to test their reliability.- ie we don't know what future temperatures will be and we can't calculate the climate sensitivity to CO2.This also begs a further question of what mere assumptions went into the "plausible" models to be tested anyway.
In summary the projections of the IPCC - Met office models and all the impact studies which derive from them are based on specifically structurally flawed and inherently useless models.They deserve no place in any serious discussion of future climate trends and represent an enormous waste of time and money.As a basis for public policy their forecasts are grossly in error and therefore worse than useless.
b) A Simple Rational Approach to Climate Forecasting based on Common Sense and Quasi Repetitive- Quasi Cyclic Patterns.
How then can we predict the future of a constantly changing climate?
a) Night is colder than day.
b) Winter is colder than summer.
d) Temperatures vary more widely in deserts and hot humid days are more uncomfortable than dry hot days - humidity (enthalpy) might be an important factor. We use Sun Screen against UV rays - can this be a clue?
e) Being a Geologist I knew that the various Milankovitch cycles were seen repeatedly in the Geologic record and were the main climate drivers controlling the Quaternary Ice Ages.
f) I also considered whether the current climate was unusually hot or cold. Some modest knowledge of history brought to mind frost fairs on the Thames and the Little Ice Age and the Maunder Minimum without sunspots during the 17th century . The 300 years of Viking settlements in Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period and viniculture in Britain suggested a warmer world in earlier times than at present while the colder Dark Ages separate the MWP from the Roman Climate optimum.
g) I noted that CO2 was about 0.0375% of the Atmosphere and thought ,correctly as it turns out, that it was highly unlikely that such a little tail should wag such a big dog.
I concluded ,as might any person of reasonable common sense and average intelligence given these simple observations that solar activity and our orbital relations to the sun were the main climate drivers. More specific temperature drivers were the number of hours of sunshine,the amount of cloud cover,the humidity and the height of the sun in the sky at midday and at Midsummer . It seemed that the present day was likely not much or very little outside the range of climate variability for the last 2000 years and that no government action or policy was required or would be useful with regard to postulated anthropogenic CO2 driven climate change.
These conclusions based on about 15 minutes of anyone's considered thought are,at once , much nearer the truth and certainly would be much more useful as a Guide to Policymakers than the output of the millions of man hours of time and effort that have been spent on IPCC - Met Office models and the Global Warming impact studies and the emission control policies based on them.
One method of investigationg climate change is to perfom spectral and wavelet analysis on the temperature and any possibly useful driver associated time series to find any quasi-cyclic quasi-repetitive patterns which can be projected forwards - but it is not even that difficult.
It turns out, on reflection perhaps not surprisingly, that simple inspection of the temperature and ocean system data is sufficient to detect useful quasi-periodicities which probably embrace the greater part of the changing climate signal.Furthermore,although it is obviously ultimately highly scientifically desirable, it is not necessary to understand exactly how the system works to be able to make useful forecasts.
For decadal scale variations an approximate 60 year cycle which seems to correlate temperatures and the PDO is well established in the temperature data and in the record of the PDO.
PDO indices, 1900-2008 with predictions to 2040.
"The recent shift from PDO warm mode to cool mode is similar to the shift that occurred in the mid-1940′s and resulted in 30 years of global cooling (Fig. 4). The global warming from ~1915 to ~1945 was also brought on by a mode shift in the PDO (Fig. 4). Every indication points to continuation of the PDO patterns of the past century and global cooling for the next 30 years (Fig. 4). Thus, the global warming the Earth has experienced since 1977 appears to be over."
For multidecadal and centennial predictions we need to know where we are relative to the appriximately millenial cycle seen in the ice core and proxy temperature reconstructions.
Fig 6 . Gisp2 Temps and Epica CO2.
The millenial spacing of the temperature peaks over the last 2000 years is clearly seen in the Gisp2 ice core data Fig 6. Incidentally, the CAGW fraternity might note that this Figure also indicates the total disconnect between the general trends of CO2 and Temperature over the last 8000 years.
For forecasting purposes it is perfectly reasonable to assume from Figures 5,6 and 7 as a conservative working hypothesis that the temperature peak at about 2003 was a peak in both the 60 year and the Millennial cycles and estimate the future cooling trend on that basis .
The shape of the curve of Fig 7(Fig 5) from 1000 - the present should replace the Mann-IPCC hockey stick in the public conciousness as the icon for climate change and a guide to the future.
The simplest assumption for temperature trends to be expected following the current peak is that the downslope to about 2650 AD may well look like the general downslope from 1000 to1650.Naturally, predictions beyond the 30 years which coincides with a PDO declining temperature trend would be increasingly more speculative.
Using the HADSST 3 Global data as a more detaled mirror image template for the coming centuury (Fig 8) produces the following estimates .
which may well represent an open phase of the iris effect.
The relatively higher counts at the cycle 23 and especially the cycle 24 neutron minima troughs (solar cycle SSN peaks) suggest a continuing downtrend in temperatures to at least 2024.
There was a secular change in the related Ap index in 2004-5 which could presage a sharp temperature drop in about 2016-17 . The Oulu data show an increase in the neutron count also in 2004- 5 which might indicate the same thing and which is already built in to the system.
8 The effect of increasing CO2 emissions will be minor but beneficial - they may slightly ameliorate the forecast cooling and more CO2 would help maintain crop yields .
The Solar Cycles 2,3,4 correlation with cycles 21,22,23 would suggest that a Dalton minimum could be imminent. The Livingston and Penn Solar data indicate that a faster drop to the Maunder Minimum Little Ice Age temperatures might even be on the horizon. If either of these actually occur there would be a much more rapid and economically disruptive cooling than that forecast above which may turn out to be a best case scenario.
How confident should one be in these above predictions? The pattern method doesn't lend itself easily to statistical measures. However statistical calculations only provide an apparent rigor for the uninitiated and in relation to the IPCC climate models are entirely misleading because they make no allowance for the structural uncertainties in the model set up.This is where scientific judgment comes in - some people are better at pattern recognition and meaningful correlation than others.A past record of successful forecasting such as indicated above is a useful but not infallible measure. In this case I am reasonably sure - say 65/35 for about 20 years ahead. Beyond that certainty drops rapidly.I am sure,however, that it will prove closer to reality than anything put out by the IPCC, Met Office or the NASA group. In any case this is a Bayesian type forecast- in that it can easily be amended on an ongoing basis as the Temperature and Solar data accumulate.
Just one quibble but an important one.
It appears that when the sun is less active the gradient of tropopause height from equator to poles is less not more.
A steeper gradient tends to push the entire circulation poleward for a zonal flow rather than the meridional flow as observed.
It is necessary to propose that low solar activity actually warms the stratosphere preferentially towards the poles so as to push the jets equatorward in a meridional flow.
If this solar cycle continues to not just match, but to exceed (in sunspot inactivity) sc5 as it has so far http://www.landscheidt.info/?q=node/50 it demonstrates that your theory is not just valid, but even possibly slightly cautious in its prediction of culture cooling!
The http://www.landscheidt.info/ site blew my mind and completely destroyed any lingering credibility that the IPCC climate models had, and your theory is representative of a credible, logical, and scientific approach to climate research.
Fascinating; I think I believe you.
But your text is irksome to read. Please fix the punctuation. This is not Arabic; commas are not preceded by a space, and periods are always followed by one in English. You could fix this with a couple of passes of your Find/Replace function. Please do so.
I have been reading articles linked on the realclearpolitics.com site (many articles in their science section, and elsewhere). I have realized (as appears about half the world, as well) that the global warming crowd is all wet, their projections of global warming are ludicrous.
But, the key realization for me has been that the global warming crowd is connected like a Siamese twin to the leftist democrat party and other leftist groups and parties worldwide, in order to use the global warming theme to hoodwink their country's into socialist control of the energy industry and extra taxation schemes, to give to the left even greater, gigantic power over society.
The plans they have, their vision, would likely involve trillions of dollars of spending, and would accomplish nothing in terms of "solving" non-existant global warming, but would have MASSIVE detrimental effects on western democracies, the ones most likely to be swayed by the global warming political correctness (say what you want about dictatorships such as Russia and China, but they pay zero homage to the hugely destructive forces of political correctness).
The traditional strength of America, almost 400 years since the Pilgrims, has been it's steady rule of law, combined with personal freedom, free enterprise, and in past decades (up to the Great Depression), quite limited government.
If the Global Warming adherents were to have their way, the MOST important industry, all aspects of energy production, the key industry which has born the modern age (oil and gas usage created the modern world) would fall under their destructive control.
The USA remains one of the last bastions where private enterprise controls the energy industry. In most other countries, the energy industry has been nationalized, and these national companies are very inefficient compared to the equivalent American industry. Indeed, the most recent revolution in the oil and gas industry has been the hugely successful development of oil and gas shale deposits. These technologies were created in America, and now, the whole world is clamoring in trying to duplicate these successes in their countries if they have shale deposits containing hydrocarbons. However, they will surely be dependent upon partnering with American know how.
(Imagine government running our biggest oil companies, with nepotism, union control, political control, injection of political correctness, with oil production being wound down and cash flow siphoned off to unrelated political causes, and to wasteful, unworkable alternative energy projects).
If the Global Warming special interest groups and leftist political movements were to implement their desires, as illogical as they are, the main thrust would be the government takeover of the oil and gas industries, as well as massive interference in energy production in electrical utilities and energy usage in manufacturing., and the result would be a MASSIVE misallocation of resources. I would expect that the USA economy would lose many trillions of dollars wasted on curbing non-existent global warming, and thrown after nascent, uneconomic, alternative energy fiascoes.
Communism failed world wide, because as a system, it was an entirely inefficient director of economic resources into productive uses to advance the economic well being of the nation. Central planning is clumsy, and it is always beholden to the personal whims and collective ideology of political movements, regardless of how ludicrous their ideology turns out to be. In contrast, free enterprise is completely organic, in that all economic decisions, must, by nature be profitable, or else the individual enterprise becomes defunct.
The net effect of the leftist government takeover of the private energy industry, and the imposition of massive, all encompassing controls across the board for industry, in accordance with the dogma of curbing global warming, would be akin to what happened in Eastern Europe when the communists took over. Both Russia, and Eastern Europe became extremely inefficient in producing economic well being, as resources were simply misallocated for decade after decade. Their economies were a cruel joke for their people compared to the galloping advances made by America.
Thus, the eventual, government mandated remedies to the created myth of global warming, which is being actively propagandized by the leftists around the world, and in America, by the democrat party, IF implemented, will be a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions, leading to long term destruction of our economy on a massive scale, and long term destruction of the American tradition of the rule of law, small government, free enterprise, and personal freedom.
In short, the combination of the global warming adherents and the leftist democrat party is the greatest risk America has faced, likely greater than the enemies we faced down in WWII, and the crisis of the Great Depression.
I believe that the scientists standing up to this politically correct, leftist myth of global warming are performing great service to America, and to the Western World, as well the earth in whole. Exposing this massive fraud is crucial. Wasted economic resources are a tragedy. Human well being can be advanced so much better, and economic and political catastrophe avoided (and freedom prevailing inoculates against despotism) if we are able to avoid the attempts of the leftist, would be autocrats, from harnessing our economy to the Sisyphusian task of curtailing non-existent global warming.
I whole heartedly advise disseminating this blog in all appropriate forums. The more minds changed, the better chance we have of defeating this incredibly insidious rise of political correctness and all the aspects of totalitarian leftism, in America, and around the world.
The propaganda of totalitarian leftism must be thwarted if we are to be able to live in a sane society guided by reason and the rule of law. American traditions need to be saved, upheld, as they are precious.
It is our heritage we are preserving. America advanced through freedom, and this was the foundation of our people's ability to pursue science and harness it to serving mankind. Despotism and propaganda are the kryptonite of truth and science.
Maverik Thanks for your accurate comments on the political aspects of the CAGW scare. I certainly endorse your advice "I whole heartedly advise disseminating this blog in all appropriate forums. " and welcome any efforts you may make in this regard. Even the sceptics still frame most of their arguments in the context of the modeling method which should actually be ignored.
which shows that are at least two known cycles that influence the weather.
The Gleissberg solar/weather cycle (87-88 years) was known for a long time.
Peristykh, Alexei N.; Damon, Paul E.
Among other longer-than-22-year periods in Fourier spectra of various solar-terrestrial records, the 88-year cycle is unique, because it can be directly linked to the cyclic activity of sunspot formation. Variations of amplitude as well as of period of the Schwabe 11-year cycle of sunspot activity have actually been known for a long time and a ca. 80-year cycle was detected in those variations. Manifestations of such secular periodic processes were reported in a broad variety of solar, solar-terrestrial, and terrestrial climatic phenomena. Confirmation of the existence of the Gleissberg cycle in long solar-terrestrial records as well as the question of its stability is of great significance for solar dynamo theories. For that perspective, we examined the longest detailed cosmogenic isotope record—INTCAL98 calibration record of atmospheric 14C abundance. The most detailed precisely dated part of the record extends back to ˜11,854 years B.P. During this whole period, the Gleissberg cycle in 14C concentration has a period of 87.8 years and an average amplitude of ˜1‰ (in Δ14C units). Spectral analysis indicates in frequency domain by sidebands of the combination tones at periods of ≈91.5 ± 0.1 and ≈84.6 ± 0.1 years that the amplitude of the Gleissberg cycle appears to be modulated by other long-term quasiperiodic process of timescale ˜2000 years.
So that is how I know. We are 7 years away from disaster. Unless we do something now.
Brian - Both constructive criticism and supportive comment gratefully received .Thanks..


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GRAND OPENING: Grains Research and Development Corporation, GRDC, board chairman John Woods and grower relations manager Courtney Ramsey open the GRDC's office in Horsham. It is the corporation's first office in Victoria. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER
Horsham home to first GRDC office
By Colin MacGillivray
Wimmera farmers will have in-person access to Grains Research and Development Corporation, GRDC, for the first time after the world-class grain research organisation opened its first Victorian office in Horsham.
The corporation now has an office at Horsham's Grains Innovation Park at 110 Natimuk Road.
New office head and GRDC southern region grower relations manager Courtney Ramsey said the office would facilitate better communication between grain growers and the GRDC.
She said Horsham was chosen as the site of GRDC's first Victorian office because of its central location in the Wimmera grain-growing region.
"We've never had a bricks and mortar office in Victoria before, and we've recognised a need to have an on-the-ground presence here," she said.
"In the spirit of regionalisation, we're looking to service our growers here.
"The role is really about engaging with growers about what the issues, constraints and opportunities are that they see in their businesses, and helping to build business cases for research around that.
"The role is about two-way information flow, enabling people to ask questions and also provide feedback and responses from the organisation about that."
Ms Ramsey said face-to-face contact with growers in the region would benefit everyone.
"Opening up an office in Horsham gives people an opportunity to come meet me in person," she said.
"Also, if people want to show us something, we're able to get around on the ground and actually see what's going on.
"It's about the ability to service and participate in all of the discussions and forums.
"It's a one-woman show at the moment, and I'm really enjoying getting out and getting to know people."
Ms Ramsey said people were welcome to call into the office with any questions or concerns.
"People are welcome to drop in at any time, but we're also contactable via email and phone," she said.
"My phone number is 0428 274 018 if people want to get in touch."
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Q: C# equivalent for PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod -Token I have a PowerShell script that I want to rewrite in C# (initially I wanted to call the PowerShell script from C#, but here it turned out that rewriting it is propably easier and more elegant).
So this is the PowerShell code I need to port to C#:
$uri = "$BaseUri/auth/token"
$bodyJson = ConvertTo-Json @{token = $ApiToken} -Compress
$response = Invoke-RestMethod `
           -Uri $uri `
           -Method Post `
           -ContentType "application/json" `
           -Body $bodyJson
$jwtToken = $response.token

#jwtToken is then used to authenticate a GET request:
$response = Invoke-RestMethod `
           -Uri $uri `
           -Method Get `
           -ContentType "application/json" `
           -Authentication Bearer `
           -Token $jwtToken `
           -AllowUnencryptedAuthentication

This is the C# equivalent I came up with:
//this is only called once
//ApiToken only has a field called "token", the class only exists for the JSON parser to work
ApiToken apiToken = new ApiToken();
client.BaseAddress = new Uri(baseUri);
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("token", apiToken.Token);

//this is called every time
Task <HttpResponseMessage> postTask = client.PostAsJsonAsync("auth/token", apiToken);
HttpResponseMessage response = await postTask;
jwt = response.???

Multiple problems here:

*

*I am new to PowerShell and HttpRequesting and I didn't write the script, so I don't fully understand every little detail here

*I don't know how to retrieve the JWT returned by the API, as I can't use response.token in C# (why does that even work in PowerShell? Why does response have a field called token?)

*The C# code returns Error 401 (Unauthorized), while the PowerShell works fine with the same token. My theory is that this happens because I think I don't send the token correctly. (I'm not sure if my C# message matches the PowerShell ConvertTo-Json @{token = $ApiToken} -Compress) I feel like I didn't really find the proper equivalent for the -Token parameter that Invoke-RestMethod has.

A: 1) What precisely do you not understand?
2) It works in Powershell because Invoke-RestMethod de-serializes the response and the response contains a field named 'token'. The C# program however wants to know the data structure at compile time. So unless you define it, your program doesn't know about it.
3) If you are doing OAuth, you should be setting "Bearer" in AuthenticationHeaderValue
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization =
    new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", apiToken.Token);

About the request itself:
I can not comment on client.PostAsJson() as I cannot find recent information on the HttpClientExtensions class and my dev environment does not import it automatically either.
However, here is how I did my last webrequest:
var apiToken = new ApiToken()
{
    Token = "mysecret",
};

HttpResponseMessage response = Task<HttpResponseMessage>.Run(async () =>
{
    return await client.PostAsync(
        requestUri: uriEndpoint,
        content: new StringContent(
            content: JsonConvert.SerializeObject(apiToken),
            encoding: Encoding.UTF8,
            mediaType: "application/json"))
    .ConfigureAwait(true);
}).Result;

string fullResponse = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().ConfigureAwait(true);
ApiToken apiResponse = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ApiToken>(fullResponse);

Please note that JsonConvert comes from Newtonsoft.Json

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LaVaughn Robinson was born February 9, 1927, in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He learned to dance from his mother at the age of seven. "My mother taught me my first time," he said. "She taught me in the kitchen of our house at the time, because it had hardwood floors." Soon he was dancing for tips on downtown and South Philadelphia street corners.
"Then I learned by being on the street with other dancers. We all came up on the streets of Philadelphia and had a tramp band where we played homemade instruments — a washboard that we played with our fingers, cymbals on our fingers, a big wash tub with catgut string ... similar to a bass ... and we always had a bazooka (toy instrument) with us. And danced on the street and passed the hat. We call that busking (impromptu appearances). But to us it was going to work."
Robinson enlisted in the Army in 1945, and during his years of service he performed from time to time in military facilities around the country, honing his dance skills and picking up experience. After his discharge in 1947, he embarked on his professional career, and over the years he appeared with Cab Calloway, Tommy Dorsey, Maynard Ferguson, and Ella Fitzgerald. "Everything we did (with tap) at that time was with music.... I've had several dancing partners — Howard Blow, Henry Meadows, Eddie Sledge — and I've been with big bands ... Ray Anthony's band, Louis Kramer's big band."
By 1972, Robinson was forced into temporary retirement, like many of his contemporaries, because the stage and nightclub life that had supported him had declined, as discotheques became increasingly more popular and electronic instruments drowned out the sounds of the tap dancer. Throughout his career, Robinson had maintained his base in the city of Philadelphia, where he kept strong ties with his family and community. In 1980, he entered upon what was to become almost a second career: He was invited by Philadelphia's College of the Performing Arts to help build its tap dance program. He also taught tap in Washington, D.C., Boston, and Portland, Maine. "I feel good about it (teaching) because I see a lot of the students," he said. "I get calls every now and then from a company that wants me to teach a piece of material.... Special material that I teach. Everybody teaches their own material and everybody teaches different. No two hoofers (tap dancers) are alike."
Unlike many of his peers, Robinson retained a solid appreciation of the street sounds from which tap emerged. He helped in the "discovery" of street poet and rhythmic artist Horace "Spoons" Williams and brought him to the attention of the International House of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Folk Festival.
In performance, Robinson stresses the vernacular origins of tap, an art form grounded in community tradition and honed by generations of tap masters, many of whom, such as Honi Coles and the Nicholas Brothers, grew up in Philadelphia. Robinson has worked as a teacher and advocate for public understanding and appreciation of the tap dance tradition.
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The presence Trabucchi are typical of our coast.
With a very complex architecture, made of wooden poles that are woven wire and pulleys, they are a very effective tool, especially on our coast, fishing for fish passage.
Their method is simple and consists in a large network in the sea bag supported by several antennas, out of these places is a lookout from which he can see the arrival of schools of fish and its signal to the people present Trabucco on to spin a wheel through a dense and complex network of wires and pulleys raises the codend from the sea and imprisoning a bunch of fish.
This fishery has been practiced for a long time and takes advantage of the migration of shoals of fish from north to south Adriatic.
Today many Trabucchi have become quite typical restaurants where you can taste the fish after fish.


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" Now, the first point that ..."
Hearing, 16 May 2012
11:27 a.m., May 16, 2012
If only to distinguish Mr Taylor's sentence from that of the people that have gone before him.
But if you say there should be a distinction, then by definition we should take them into account, wouldn't you agree?
Mr Griffiths, when Ms Hollis was submitting a while ago, she alluded to the sentences that were imposed on Mr Sesay, the leader of the RUF, and on Mr Brima, the leader of the AFRC, and she cited just these two people. Of course, there are more convicts that we ...
Hearing, 11 March 2011
1:08 p.m., March 11, 2011
Perhaps you could simply simplify this issue and save time by simply telling us what additional words were in the order, the draft order.
12:49 p.m., March 11, 2011
Mr Anyah, sorry to interrupt you but lest I be misunderstood in the question that I put yesterday, I did not, by any means, seek to shift the burden of proof to the Defence. That burden remains with the Prosecution. I was merely seeking a clarification.
10:01 a.m., March 11, 2011
And the underlining?
This would be very helpful to the judges, if we could have some kind of indication. Because this is a Prosecution exhibit, we would like some kind of indication as to why we have a copy, and why this copy is underlined in certain aspects.
10 a.m., March 11, 2011
And, ancillary to that, Mr Koumjian. Again on this document, was there an explanation given as to why certain parts of this document, particularly relating to Mr Taylor, were underlined and by whom?
Thank you. That would be all from me.
Right. And again the last question is document-related, and this is the issue of Sam Bockarie's trips to Monrovia in the year 1998. I think the evidence somewhere between the Prosecution and the Defence, is that Sam Bockarie made trips in September, October and November of 1998, and Mr ...
Very well. My second-last question relates to Mr Taylor's being the "ECOWAS point president", in quotes, in 1998. Now, Mr Griffiths, during his presentation, mentioned ECOWAS minutes showing that ECOWAS asked Mr Taylor to quote unquote "get involved" in Sierra Leone. And this is referred to at the transcript ...
It's this latter category that I'm asking. Do you indicate in your final trial brief, the written brief, this distinction? Or not?
I think the question that I'm asking or the clarification is not for more examples, because your submission was there are some witnesses who fall in the category of not reliable, and then there are others who are so unreliable that the chamber should just throw them out.
I think it will be safe if we go by TF1-numbers.
All right. My next question, Mr Griffiths, is during your presentation, you've asked the Trial Chamber to - when addressing credibility of witnesses, you've said some witnesses are not to be believed completely, one example being Isaac Mongor. You just gave us that one example. You didn't give ...
As Madam President said we will adjourn for half an hour, and return. I'll give you the questions, you can give us the answers whenever.
If you prefer for me to ask these questions tomorrow and thereby to eat into your two hours of rebuttal, I can do that.
I have about three or four questions, but the problem of course was with the record, the tape having run out.
Supplementary to that, is it the Defence submission that ULIMO controlled the entire border from 1992, 1993, or does the Defence accept the Prosecution's submission or position that ULIMO controlled the entire border over a period of time commencing from late 1992, 1993 progressively.
The first one relates to, I think paragraph 439 of the Defence brief, which deals with the ULIMO buffer zone. Paragraph 439. Closure of the border by ULIMO. In this paragraph the Defence argue that ULIMO controlled the borders between Liberia and Sierra Leone from late 1992, early 1993, to ...
Mr Munyard, I know that you in the Defence team, you've organised your closing arguments by dividing certain topics between yourselves, but I have questions that I'm not sure which of you should be answering them, but I'll place the questions any way.
9:28 a.m., March 10, 2011
These being payments from which unit?
I'm sorry, Mr Munyard, the computers seem to have frozen, the LiveNote.
Hearing, 9 March 2011
2:41 p.m., March 9, 2011
We will in a few moments but you can proceed with the background.
In the meantime, please tell us what it is so we can attempt to find alternative ways.
11:43 a.m., March 9, 2011
What we are interested in is not the photo but the text.
No. We've lost the document altogether.
Please, can you shift the exhibit so we can read what counsel is referring to?
9:53 a.m., March 9, 2011
Mr Bangura, I, for one, am trying to put your comments into the Defence brief as we go along, for ease of reference. So it's important that you quote the paragraphs of the Defence brief as accepted by the Trial Chamber correctly.
Could you give us the correct reference, please? It's not 1225.
Again, you cannot be referring to paragraph 986. What paragraph are you referring to?
Because you quoted something, you said the beginning of the quote, the end of the quote, and we are looking for the quote. Refer to the quotes in that paragraph to us.
Mr Bangura, you can't be referring to paragraph 986. Could you please check this. I do not seem to see what it is you're referring to in that paragraph. Please do - do refer to the brief that the Court admitted, not to any other document.
TFI number? Oh, okay. I understand. I understand.
Mr Bangura, could you give us the TF1-number for this witness.
Mr. Munyard, do you reckon a month is reasonable?
Do I correctly recall that the Prosecution has filed a public version of your revised version?
But Mr. Munyard, this is not to reinvent the wheel, really. When we were hearing the evidence, closed session or otherwise, everybody was enjoined to respect the witness protection, protecting the identity of those witnesses that did enjoy protective measures. And where the content of the evidence they were giving ...
You expect the judges to tell you what's confidential and what's not, Mr. Munyard?
There is one other item that we had not canvassed and that's the item of the public filings of your various final trial briefs. Perhaps we should make an order in that regard. Normally it's an option, but this being an important document, there should be a public ...
Mr. Munyard, do you want to say anything in response to that?
What I was hoping for you to do is to show me arguments, an argumentative content, because the Defence submission was these are summaries of transcript.
Mr Koumjian, one last question on the annexes of the Defence final trial brief. It is the Prosecution position that the content of all three annexes is argumentative? Could you illustrate for me just one example of argument in, say, the first annex?
And would you object if the Defence presented their responses in writing? Provided, of course, that it was within the time limit set by the judges? Would you have any objections to that?
Mr Koumjian, do I get you clearly, when you say the Prosecution prefers oral responses, is it because you do not have the manpower to write the responses?
Mr Koumjian, in reality the two hours you're asking for is in lieu of a written response, isn't it?
You want the Prosecution to have an opportunity of two hours to respond to the Defence written final trial brief before the Defence is given an opportunity to present its closing argument?
Mr Koumjian, where would you place the rebuttal arguments? Would you merge or marry the two?
12:16 p.m., Feb. 11, 2011
I think, listening to you for the last five minutes, everything that you're saying has nothing to do with the issue that we are dealing with now.
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Q: Can altering a computed column definition cause an update trigger to fire? Scenario:

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*Table has 1 or more computed columns. Those columns have simple calculations based solely on the values of other columns in the table. Columns are marked as PERSISTED.

*Table has an AFTER INSERT, UPDATE trigger to INSERT or UPDATE rows to a second table.

*Second table schema is identical EXCEPT there are no computed columns.

*After deploy and table use (table now has production data in it), it is determined that the calculation is in error and needs to be corrected.

The developer expected that changing the computed column calculation would cause the trigger to fire (basically a DML operation). What was observed was more like a DDL operation. The source table showed the correct results of the changes to the calculation but the second table did not. The fact that the computed column values were corrected led the dev to conclude that the changes would be reflected in the other table.
It is my assertion that such a table change is similar to altering the type of a column. It is a DDL operation and does not qualify as an operation that would cause a DML trigger to fire. The problem is that I am inferring that result based on experience. I have not found documentation stating that this should be the expected result. Can anyone enlighten me?
THank you

A: An alter to the table is not an update to the data, so a trigger defined to fire on update will not fire when an alter is executed.
You must refresh the second table:
delete from table2;
insert into table2 select * from table1;

A: In the documentation for CREATE TRIGGER it says: (my bold)

Creates a DML, DDL, or logon trigger. A trigger is a special type of stored procedure that automatically runs when an event occurs in the database server. DML triggers run when a user tries to modify data through a data manipulation language (DML) event. DML events are INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statements on a table or view. These triggers fire when any valid event fires, whether table rows are affected or not. For more information, see DML Triggers.
DDL triggers run in response to a variety of data definition language (DDL) events. These events primarily correspond to Transact-SQL CREATE, ALTER, and DROP statements, and certain system stored procedures that perform DDL-like operations.

And in that linked article it says:

Types of DML Triggers
AFTER trigger
AFTER triggers are executed after the action of the INSERT, UPDATE, MERGE, or DELETE statement is performed....

As you can see clearly, the only actions which fire DML triggers are those for statements. ALTER instead fires DDL triggers, which are very different.
And you can see from this quick mock-up in db<>fiddle that that is the case.


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US VC Investment Into UK Reaches Record
US venture capital firms are showing a strong appetite for investing in London and UK companies, with latest data from PitchBook produced for London & Partners, showing that 2019 is already a record year for US VC investment into British businesses. The findings have been released to coincide with this week's Silicon Valley Comes to the UK event series, bringing together investors, entrepreneurs and CEOs from the UK and the Bay Area.
Fantastic news that 2019 was a record year for US #investment into #London and UK companies! 👏
Data from @PitchBook 📊 #MondayMotivation https://t.co/tCUCxkyZa4
— London & Partners (@londonpartners) November 18, 2019
According to the research, American investors have been involved in $4.4bn worth of deals into UK companies so far this year, with London businesses accounting for 77% ($3.4bn) of all VC investment from the US in 20191.
Major funding rounds for UK companies involving US investors in 2019 include: a $144m series F funding round for London fintech unicorn, Monzo, led by Silicon Valley investment firm, Y Combinator; a $70m Series B round into London Cybersecurity firm, Snyk, by Palo Alto based investor Accel Partners and a large $200m Series A funding round, for UK data privacy firm, OneTrust, led by New York based investor, Insight Partners.
As London continues to produce high volumes of unicorn companies, US investors are increasingly looking to the UK capital as the scale-up capital of Europe, with the findings showing that over the past five years, London companies have received significantly more funding from US VCs than any other European business hub2.
Investment ties between the UK and Silicon Valley are particularly strong, with Bay Area VCs investing almost double the amount into UK companies ($10.7bn) in the last five years than the levels seen in Germany ($5.95bn) and France ($2.87bn).3
Sherry Coutu CBE, Angel Investor and Co-founder of SVC2UK said: "The UK remains a top place for global investors because it is now producing high volumes of scale-up companies. While Brexit has created some uncertainty, investors from the US and further afield continue to look to London as Europe's leading tech hub because it is home to world class talent and an abundance of innovative companies – especially in areas such as Fintech, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. We're excited to bring together some of the best minds from the UK and Silicon Valley this week as we see lots of opportunities for companies and investors to do business across both regions."
David Hornik, General Partner at Silicon Valley based investment firm, August Capital added: "The UK and Silicon Valley share strengths in technology and innovation. As an investor, I always like to keep an eye on what's happening in London as it is a truly global centre for business with a large pool of companies building breakthrough technologies. I've been involved in the SVC2UK programme for a number of years now and it's a great way to build networks and connect two of the world's leading start-up hubs."
London's booming Fintech sector is particularly attractive for US investors, with a number of large deals this year including: a $175m Series D investment into London online money transfer platform, WorldRemit, involving Accel Partners; a $75 million Series E round for online payment service, GoCardless and a $40m Series E round for online international money exchange platform, CurrencyCloud – both led by GV, the venture capital investment arm of Alphabet Inc.
Separate research by Innovate Finance and London & Partners recently revealed that London has received more Fintech VC funding than New York and any other European tech hub, second only to Silicon Valley.
US investors appear to be flocking to the UK looking for good returns, with a recent report from British Business Bank showing that UK venture capital funds generated better financial returns than their US counterparts. The Analysis of UK Venture Capital Financial Returns report found UK venture capital funds generated a higher distribution-to-paid-in-capital ratio (DPI) in the period of 2002 to 2006 than those based in the US.
Trade and investment links between the US and UK remain strong, with some of America's largest companies recently announcing significant long-term investments into London. This includes:
Apple is set to open a new London campus in 2021 at Battersea Power Station for 1,400 staff
Google will open a new HQ in Kings Cross to house up to 4500 staff
LinkedIn moved into its new UK HQ in Farringdon in January 2019
In 2018 Facebook announced it will be leasing 3 new offices in the London Kings cross area to double its headcount in the UK capital with space for up to 6,000 staff, including its largest developer hub outside for Silicon Valley. The company also announced it has chosen London as its base to develop WhatsApp payments, hiring an additional 100 people in the UK capital
In 2018, Microsoft announced a $20m investment to open up its 'Reactor' accelerator space in Shoreditch for global start-ups. It will also open its first European flagship retail store in Oxford Circus in July this year
In July 2017 Amazon UK announced they would double the capacity of the London Development Centre from 450 to 900 high tech staff and by the end of the year there would be 5,000 corporate roles and R&D roles in London across their London offices including their new UK HQ.
The United States also remains a key market for UK firms looking to expand internationally, with a number of British Fintech unicorns announcing plans to launch their services in the US market this year including: Revolut, Monzo and TransferWise.
Artificial Intelligence is another key area for collaboration, with UK AI firm Babylon Health announcing plans to expand to the US market following a recent $550m funding round and London based financial AI identify software firm, Onfido, announcing it has launched an international partner programme to expand the reach of its platform in the US market.
From 18-20th November the three-day SVC2UK event programme will see events take place in Oxford, Cambridge and London. This year's speakers from the Bay Area include: David Le, Vice President at Lyft; Dr Anita Sengupta, Co-founder Airspace Experience Technologies; Karen Appleton Page, General Partner, B Capital Group. UK representatives include: Dr. Gordon Sanghera CEO, Oxford Nanopore; Jacqueline de Rojas, CBE President, techUK; Martha Lane Fox Founder & Executive Chair, doteveryone.org.uk and Saul Klein Investor, LocalGlobe.
Source: London & Partners
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Q: Mismatch between apple developer documentation and functions in swift playgrounds In the apple developer documentation here, the applyImpluse function from SpriteKit seems to have two parameters: impulse: and duration:. However, when I go into Swift Playgrounds and create a playground, after importing SpriteKit I seem to get this function in my auto complete: dot.physicsBody?.applyImpulse(CGVector) (where dot is a SKShapeNode).
Now, If you noticed, the function only takes one parameter, which is impulse, but not duration. Trying to insert a duration: parameter raises errors, and playgrounds, tries to suggest different function with a at: parameter. The same thing happens with applyForce.
This also happens if dot is a SKSpriteNode.
I am confused, as this shouldn't happen. Have I misread the docs, or is there something I am missing?

A: When you look on the docs that you sent you can notice that method is class function. And you are calling that method on the instance instead of class.
class SomeClass {
    class func someTypeMethod() {
        // type method implementation goes here
    }
}
SomeClass.someTypeMethod()


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Bam and Goodwin Only Cats Remaining in Playoffs
A Father, A Son, A Dream
Cameron Mills Radio – July 16, 2016 – Full Show
The second round of the summer league playoffs saw most of the former Cats eliminated from the competition, while others survived to play another day. After a day off on Friday, the quarterfinals will begin on Saturday.
NOLA vs SA
New Orleans was eliminated from the playoffs by the San Antonio Spurs, 86-84. For his last outing in the summer league, James Young didn't have his best game. He ended the game with 5 points and 4 rebounds but also had 3 turnovers.
MIA vs LAC
For the second straight game, Bam Adebayo didn't play, but Miami won anyway, ousting the Clippers 91-84. Kyle Wiltjer's summer league came to an end with the Clippers loss. Kyle had 7 points on 3-7 shooting (1-4 from beyond the arc). Wiltjer had goose eggs in all the other stat categories (rebounds, steals, assists, blocks, and turnovers).
DEN vs BRK
Archie Goodwin's summer season will continue at least one more game as the Brooklyn Nets defeated the Denver Nuggets 85-74. Goodwin had a nice game with 8 points, 4 boards, 1 assist, and 1 block. While he did have 4 turnovers, his overall game balanced that out and his performance with the Nets during this league play has been solid.
SAC vs DAL
De'Aaron Fox returned to action Thursday night after injuring his right ankle Monday. His return only lasted 7 minutes, however as he tweaked the ankle again and left the game for good with 2 points and 3 assists.
De'Aaron Fox with the steal and the halfcourt alley oop. pic.twitter.com/Q7DrjpzlS8
— Scott Charlton (@Scott_Charlton) July 14, 2017
Dominique Hawkins saw action again in what turned out to be the Kings' final game of the tournament, as the Mavericks eliminated Sacramento, 83-76. Dom's numbers (2 points, 3 boards) don't tell the story of his play as he played great defense, gaining the praise of the television commentators. Hawkins did have a scary moment (he did return before the end of the game):
Dominique Hawkins takes a nasty spill. pic.twitter.com/56cWanihMW
Though he had a very solid summer season, Skal Labissiere had a quiet night, scoring 4 points and pulling down 2 rebounds.
POR vs TOR
Mychal Mulder did not see any action in the Raptors' 91-85 loss to Portland. Toronto has now been eliminated from the playoffs.
LAL vs CLE
Lonzo Ball was back in action as the Lakers took on the undefeated Cavaliers. While the Cavs lead for a good portion of the 1st half, the Lakers came back and ousted Cleveland, 94-83. Ball had another triple-double (16 points, 10 rebounds, 12 assists), and added 5 steals and 2 blocks. His 7 turnovers accounted for half of the Lakers' miscues. The Lakers will face off against Brooklyn in the quarterfinals.
Quarterfinal Games with Former Cats (all games will be on Saturday):
MIA vs MEM
BRK vs LAL
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This gene encodes a component of vacuolar ATPase (V-ATPase), a multisubunit enzyme that mediates acidification of intracellular compartments of eukaryotic cells. V-ATPase dependent acidification is necessary for such intracellular processes as protein sorting, zymogen activation, receptor-mediated endocytosis, and synaptic vesicle proton gradient generation. V-ATPase is composed of a cytosolic V1 domain and a transmembrane V0 domain. The V1 domain consists of three A and three B subunits, two G subunits plus the C, D, E, F, and H subunits. The V1 domain contains the ATP catalytic site. The V0 domain consists of five different subunits: a, c, c', c'', and d. Additional isoforms of many of the V1 and V0 subunit proteins are encoded by multiple genes or alternatively spliced transcript variants. This gene is one of two genes that encode the V1 domain C subunit proteins and is found ubiquitously. This C subunit is analogous but not homologous to gamma subunit of F-ATPases. Previously, this gene was designated ATP6D.

In melanocytic cells ATP6V1C1 gene expression may be regulated by MITF.

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Can't Balance Your Budget? It May Be Time to See a Money Therapist
From paying off credit cards to prioritizing bills, Clinician Amanda Clayman breaks down the anxieties in reaching financial freedom.
By Marisa Meltzer
"I see people who want to feel more powerful and in control around money," Amanda Clayman says, "but their felt experience is one of anxiety, lack, insecurity." Los Angeles-based Clayman, 44, is a clinician with an undergraduate degree in psychology and a masters in social work who specializes in money issues. She's not going to tell you which stock to pick — it's more about clearing out the murky feelings that keep us from dealing head-on with bills and debt.
"I don't advise people on how much they should invest or where — that's outside the boundaries of my interests and licenses," Clayman says. "I am exclusively focused on process." In honor of tax season, the most money-anxious time of the year, we talked to her about overcoming feelings of shame and chaos around money, and how getting in control of your finances doesn't have to mean total deprivation.
I bounced checks and owed money to everyone.
Marisa Meltzer: Have you always been good with money?
Amanda Clayman: I moved to New York City with money from a convenience check from a credit card to pay for a deposit and broker on an apartment. I was an emotional spender and would weirdly spend more money to self-soothe over my finances stressing me out. I ended up incurring $20,000 of credit card debt. Plus, I bounced checks and owed money to everyone. I had my utilities turned off; it was chaos. Meanwhile I was performing well in other areas of my life. I just felt like, what the heck is going on here? Why is this such as disaster for me? I assumed everyone else had it all figured out.
MM: How did you get a handle on it?
AC: Five or six years into this cycle, my mother came to New York. I asked her to cut my hair and she gave me an awful haircut. I had a breakdown. She said don't panic, we'll tell your hairdresser it's an emergency and she'll see you. I had to admit I bounced a check there and couldn't go back. That was my coming clean. My mom was really surprised and also very Midwestern-practical. She re-parented me in a specific way that I needed, to develop greater maturity and self-awareness. She showed me how a budget can be a tool of yes rather than a tool of no or a punishment.
MM: You went from paying off your own debt to helping other people do the same?
AC: I thought, This should be somebody's job! But there was no road map. My undergrad degree was in psychology, but I was working in marketing and event production. Ultimately where I landed was a social work [master's degree program]. From there I got lucky and was given an opportunity to develop a financial wellness program for The Actors Fund, and went on to develop a private practice and consulting business.
MM: Is money therapy open-ended, like traditional therapy?
AC: Currently, with individuals I do 60-minute sessions for $200 and 30 minutes for $100. One hundred percent of my clients are in financial distress — I don't want to create another problem in their lives with high fees. After a significant intake and onboarding — what's not working; what they've tried — I come up with a scope of work. Generally there are three to six sessions: Process sessions, a lot of homework, and 30-minute regroups on their independent work.
MM: What are some of the more universal problems people bring to you?
AC: They are bumping against the ceiling — trying to get a handle on something and back sliding into avoiding it, going back to self-soothing behaviors with money. People often say, "I seem to get in my own way."
MM: Does it all go back to how we were raised?
AC: Family money history is our original software. But if that software is not reflective of the life we're living… like, a family that values frugality and stability like mine, but I was like, screw it, I'm moving to New York by myself. Or if there's trauma in family history around money such as bankruptcy. If grownups are anxious about money, that can severely encumber the ability to work with money in a clear-sighted way.
MM: So how do we get a handle on our relationship with money?
AC: It's a combination of how and what. The what is the financial issue bringing you here: debt, fighting, budgeting. It doesn't matter what the problem is — how much or little you have, or how enormous your debt — we're trying to achieve safety and stability in an immediate sense. Then we can start to look at bigger things. What emotions are being activated? What are the signals — how can we respond to them instead of react to them? How do we notice when we are getting into a red zone — a fight, flight, or freeze stance — with the problem we're working on? How do we take a break? We're looking at behaviors, triggers, awareness.
It's not that you're bad at money or a terrible person.
MM: What if you don't have a steady income, like me — I'm a freelancer.
AC: Have a regular practice with money. Prioritize getting ahead of bills. Try having all of your income go to a savings account, and transfer into checking how much you need that month. That will reduce the day-to-day stress and you can start building that cushion, ramping up saving. But also I work with decoupling money tasks from anxiety, so if you get the credit card bill and are afraid to open it, the anxiety of avoiding creates more anxiety than just looking at it. Instead, say, I'm going to sit down every week or two weeks and spend 15 to 30 minutes to review, predict, and plan. You look at what's coming in and out, what's coming up. That maintenance can help you avoid a lot of problems before they even become problems.
MM: If we're in debt, how do we deal with the shame?
AC: It's not that you're bad at money or a terrible person. You are a complicated person trying to meet all these needs, which is hard to do, so let's cut ourselves a little bit of slack. Start small. Be grounded in your life and get to know yourself. We are complex, imperfect humans just trying to do our best.
MM: What do you tell clients who are too interested in keeping up with the Joneses?
AC: I see that especially in my performer clients. I want to carry a designer bag or get this hair treatment which changes how people perceive me when I'm auditioning. That's where people feel more justified holding onto those behaviors, because it's about getting to what's underneath that financial behavior. All of us spend lots of time wishing we didn't have certain needs when we feel dispirited. All of these are emotional needs expressed through behavioral choices we make. We think the solution is to ignore the need and not react to it. What I'm trying to do is recognize and relate to the need with a degree of acceptance to find a healthy way to express it. I don't have a problem with retail therapy. But buying something after a bad day isn't the solution to a job you don't like. It's our brain's way of being, "How can I get out of that feeling?" That distance can be enough to help us make a different choice.
MM: What's the most common tax-time predicament you find your clients in?
AC: Tax time is usually a time where people need to reconcile past behavior and face consequences. They are paying attention because they have to—there's an external deadline. They're casting back instead of casting forward. So they're only looking at past budgeting and not formulating ideas of how to use this information to guide behavior moving forward.
MM: How do you help?
AC: I let people vent and work through what their feelings are. We tend to limit that experience for ourselves. We rush to premature judgment and action without allowing ourselves to decompress. The very act of talking about it is like, I can wring it all out, leave it on the floor and reach a more balanced point of view. The next thing is we want to take the labeling judgment off of these behaviors. For example: labeling expenditures as inherently good or bad. Some are a mix of both. We talk about the matrix of competing needs, and how we use money to meet those needs. Sometimes they're complex like wanting to spend time with a friend to meet a social need, but that's not meeting the goals we have for saving for the future. If these things are competing for dollars, can we relate to the need that doesn't require money or requires less money? So we're teasing those things apart. Slowing it down, unpacking, letting people come to their own solutions about it. I am not here to tell you five ways to save on your grocery bill.
For appointments, email amanda@amandaclayman
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iii. If despite this, the certificate is not issued within reasonable time, write a letter to Joint Commissioner or Addl. CIT of TDS wing who has jurisdiction over the Deductor mentioning the detailed facts elaborated above.
ii) Readers may note that TDS wing of Income Tax department is working pro-actively and very rigorously initiating the penal proceeding against the defaulters who are illegally withholding the amount of TDS thereby causing hassles to the deductee.
1. Grievances have been received by the Board from many taxpayers that in their cases the deductor has deducted tax at source from payments made to them in accordance with the provisions of Chapter – XVII of the Income Tax Act, 1961 but has failed to deposit the same into the Government account leading to denial of credit of such deduction of tax to theses tax payers and consequent raising of demand.
2. As per section 199 of the Act credit of TDS is given to the person only if it is paid to the central Government Account. However, as per section 205 of the Act, the assessee shall not be called upon to pay the tax to the extent tax has been deducted from his income where the tax is deductible at source under the provision of Chapter- XVII. Thus, the Act puts a bar on direct demand against the assessee in such cases and the demand on account of tax credit mismatch cannot be enforced coercively.
3. This may be brought to the notice of all the Assessing Officers in your region so that if the facts of the cases so justify, the assessee are not put at any inconvenience on account of default of deposit of tax into the Government account by the deductor.


Many years ago, I worked as an adjuster for a major insurance company and since then I have been explaining on this blog and my website the many ways in which insurance companies attempt to devalue your personal injury claim and poke holes in your liability claim to make you appear at fault. I have used this personal experience to the benefit of my clients resulting in fantastic and quick personal injury settlements. Despite my previous writings, I was surprised to see an article about the "secrets of insurance adjusters" on a major website such as MSN.com. Nevertheless, there it was… This is a very interesting article covering many of the insurance industries tactics and tricks to ensure you do not receive what you are entitled to for your personal injury claim.
Although they are contractually obligated to protect their insured and pay for all reasonable damages, it is essential to note as this article points out that insurance companies did not become multi-billion dollars businesses by giving away their money!
1) The adjuster will tell you that you do not need an attorney because they value cases the same way with or without an attorney and that the attorney will just take your money. Ask my recent client about this strategy. She attempted to work with the insurance company directly until they offered her an insulting amount of money (less than $20,000). Just a few months after hiring me we settled the case for the at-fault driver's policy limits – $100,000.After hearing this you should understand why insurance adjusters want you to stay away from auto accident lawyers.
2) They will try to convince you to settle quickly. Releases are binding contracts and the insurance companies know that if they throw a few thousand dollars at you early on before you know the full extent of your injuries they can receive a binding Release which will prevent you from seeking any further damages in the future. Never settle early and without first speaking to a Rhode Island personal injury lawyer.
3) They will try to steer you to "preferred" auto body shops. Do not get me wrong, many "preferred" auto body shops do a wonderful job repairing your vehicle, but they do not press the insurance companies for certain repairs that other body shops might. This is because they receive a good amount of business referrals from the insurance companies. Go to the shop you want to go to and if it happens to be a "preferred" body shop then that is fine you can still be confident that they will do a great job!
4) They will look to take a recorded statement from you. Remember that you are under no obligation to give any kind of statement to the other driver's insurance company. They are taking the statement, in part, to confirm the facts of the accident, but also in hopes that you might trip up and say something damaging to your own case. If you make a statement against your own interest, they know have it on tape and will use it against you to offer you less than 100%. In Rhode Island, as I have discussed in the past, the insurance company can withhold any percentage of money that they feel you contributed to the accident. If they believe you were speeding do not be surprised to find out they are reducing your payout by 10-20%. Do not give a statement to the other driver's insurance company without first speaking to a car accident lawyer.
Do not confuse this with your own insurance company who you are contractually obligated to cooperate with.
5) Devalue your injury. The insurance adjuster will attempt to settle your case early, even if you are still seeking medical treatment. They will try to convince you that the injury is not very serious and that their offer is fair. They may even tell you that this is all the money you would receive even if an attorney were involved or if the case went to trial. If you think the offer is too low, it probably is.
As you can see the insurance companies set out early with a plan to cut costs and devalue your case. If you do not hire an experienced personal injury attorney they will use one or all of these tactics to ensure that you do not receive all the money you are entitled to. Don't fall into any of these traps… even MSN money wants to make sure you do not make bad financial decisions following an accident or injury, this is no longer just my office speaking. Call my office today for a free initial consultation. There is no fee unless we obtain money for you!


The team at Complete Function Hire have enjoyed sharing the stories of our awesome team with our event clients, partners and fans in our 'Who's Who at Complete Function Hire' series. What a team of characters we work with! Our team of hard working event professionals enjoy providing the best possible customer service to our Melbourne wedding and event clients and we all enjoy the friendly culture that has been created by our Co-Founder Steve Withers.
Steve has been involved in the Melbourne events industry for the last 26 years and prides himself on his strong relationships with our event partners, clients and our team.
Unofficially, Steve says his role is to 'build and fix stuff'. Officially, Steve is a wonderful leader that has created a culture of true team spirit and an environment where we all work towards the same goal – to deliver seamless events every time. For the last 17 years, Complete Function Hire has gone from strength to strength and this can be attributed to the whole team's personalised approach to every wedding and event, no matter how big or how small.
What prompted you to start Complete Function Hire?
I had a desire to own my business and have always enjoyed the excitement of the events industry. After being involved in various industries including fitness (as a personal trainer) and sales, I met by business partner and Complete Function Hire Co-Founder Andrew when we worked together at Mr Party Hire for many years. We were like minded and wanted to give our own business a go. We filled my single car garage and house with hire equipment such as stage decks, chairs and glassware and the rest is history! 17 years later, Complete Function Hire is still going strong and now we supply furniture and equipment hire to some of the most amazing Melbourne events, venues and weddings.
The Complete Function Hire team are committed to providing the best event hire products and customer service to our wedding and event clients.
Working with like-minded people who share my passion for ensuring every client is extremely happy with the products and service that we provide. We all work exceptionally hard but we also enjoy having a laugh together at the end of the day too. I am very proud of the team environment that we have here at Complete Function Hire.
I love spending time with my beautiful wife and our 2 sons and enjoy being on the water, boating and fishing.
I love a good cup of tea (in a nice china tea cup). Beer is another favourite, especially after a big day of weddings and events!
Who do you barrack for in the AFL and why?
I don't have an AFL team but I absolutely love going to the MCG with my sons and wife Robyn, we always have a great time together.
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