WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $81 million in grants through the National Farmworker Jobs Program to provide additional employment, training and housing assistance to migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families. Recipients include 63 organizations in 49 states and Puerto Rico.
Migrant and seasonal farmworkers often experience chronic unemployment and underemployment due to the nature of the agriculture industry. The NFJP is designed to help participants retain and stabilize their current jobs, and acquire new skills and better living arrangements to start careers that provide higher wages and stable, year-round employment.
The department will award NFJP Employment and Training Grants totaling $75,885,000 to 52 organizations in 49 states and Puerto Rico, with the exception of Alaska. The department is also awarding $5,509,657 in NFJP Housing Assistance Grants to 11 organizations in regions needing farmworker housing services.
The NFJP is part of the administration's ongoing commitment to raise the standards of living for migrant and seasonal farmers, and adheres to the job-driven training principles presented in 2014 by the Vice President's Ready to Work: Job-Driven Training and American Opportunity report.
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New England Farm Workers' Council, Inc.
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Financial implications. Changing your job is stressful and it's risky if you are moving from a position that is fairly secure to one where you are on a three month probationary period. You want to make sure that it makes sense financially for you to take this step. What will be the take home salary in this job, as compared with what you are earning now? What will be the difference in benefits or perks? Will you have to take on additional expenses to do this job, such as childcare or commuting costs? Once you take everything into consideration, you would hope that you will have more money in your pocket and not less.
Your career goals. You will be much more successful in your career if you are working from some sort of plan. Where do you see yourself in five years? What do you need to do now to reach that goal? When deciding whether or not to accept a job, consider what skills you will gain through this experience and what doors that will open for you in the future.
Your daily routine. Try to visualize your day-to-day life working in this job. What time will you wake up every morning? How long will it take you to get to work? What will your time at work be like? What time will you arrive home? Will you be working on evenings and weekends? Will you be expected to answer your phone and respond to emails after hours? All of these factors will have an impact on your family and on your quality of life so they need to be considered.
Your intuition. When you are making any big decision in your career, you have to trust your gut. How does this opportunity make you feel? Are you excited or do you feel a sense of dread? If the job doesn't feel right, let it go. Your subconscious mind may be picking up on something that your conscious mind isn't. Have enough faith in yourself to wait for a job that makes you excited.
These decisions are tough because there are always unknown variables like if you are going to be let go from your current job or if you will be offered another job next week. You can only make a decision based on what you know. Make a choice and don't look back. If it doesn't work out as you had hoped, there will always be other opportunities.


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Costa Navarino, the prime sustainable destination in the Mediterranean, located in the Greek region of Messinia, features the first two signature designed golf courses in Greece, The Dunes Course which opened in May 2010, and The Bay Course in 2011. Designed by former US Masters champion and Ryder Cup Captain Bernhard Langer in association with European Golf Design, the par-72 seaside Dunes Course ventures into olive groves and along a small river, with linksstyle features adding to its unique playability. The nearby par-71 Bay Course, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr.,meanders through three distinct natural landscapes-amid centuriesold olive trees, along box canyons, beside the sea and directly over historic Navarino Bay – offering sublime views and a challenging but fun golfing experience. Players of all levels can benefit from multi-lingual coaching with an experienced Head PGA Professionals who will also help beginners take their first steps. After your game, relax with a drink or meal in the comfort.
THE DUNES COURSE Greece's first signature designed golf course, see on: www.costanavarinogolf.com
Former Ryder Cup Captain and US Masters Champion Bernhard Langer, in association with European Golf Design, is the architect of the first 18-hole signature designed golf course in Greece. Much of the contouring mirrors the rugged outlines of the distant mountains. Close to the sea, there is a links-like feel; further inland, it reflects a more typically Greek landscape of olive and citrus groves, and there are large undulating greens, wide fairways and steep-faced pot bunkers. Primarily a resort course, the variety of tee placements on offer means that it will be hugely enjoyable for the casual golfer whilst at the same time an exhilarating challenge for the best players. Measuring a full 6,018 meters from the championship tees down to just under 5,000 meters from the front, the playing areas are generously wide and cater for the occasionally breezy conditions so close to the sea.
The Bay Course
Just a few minutes from Navarino Dunes, at the Navarino Bay development, the Bay Course offers an alternative set of challenges and choices in a quite different setting. Designed by leading American architect Robert Trent Jones Jr., it plays a little shorter than the Dunes Course at 5,760 metres from the back tees. The par 71 course places a slightly greater emphasis on strategic play and positional golf. The Seaside, Canyon, and Grove holes provide striking contrasts that create a dramatic and memorable golf round. The course plays to a par of 71 from a variety of lengths designed to test the golfing skills of amateurs and pros alike. The imaginative layout offers panoramic seaside and mountain views, including several holes that play directly along the ea and two directly overlooking the historic bay of Navarino.
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Our mission is not only aimed at academic competency. It is likewise a mission concerning love, being used by God to aim a child's heart and affections in the right direction. We are not so much concerned with where our students attend college or where they will be employed. Our most fundamental educational care is who our students become. Therefore, our courses are founded on the Word of God, and our faculty consists of godly men and women who love their students, their subjects, and who embody the virtues they teach.
Please explore our site to learn more about our classes, school culture, and vision for education. On behalf of our board and faculty, thank you for your interest. We are glad you visited. And we hope your time here will be most helpful in your family's educational decisions.


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Q: error when cloning git repository with ssh I set up a git repository in a directory named ABC3 on my remote server public_html/ABC3.
git init

I want to clone the repository to my local computer. Here's what I do: cd into the directory where I want to work, say Desktop/GitFun, then I attempt to clone with the following command
git clone myusername@myserver.com:/public_html/ABC3.git

After entering my password I get back the error
fatal: '/public_html/ABC3.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Am I doing it right? ABC3 is the name of the directory, right?
Probably important: I'm working with a Bluehost shared server. On their site they mention installing GIT on a VPS or private server, but nothing about it on the shared server. When I git --version I get a positive response, 1.7.11.3. Suggestions?

A: Considering you have created a non-bare repo, the url should have been:
git clone myusername@myserver.com:/public_html/ABC3

I would recommend creating a bare repo though (as in this video):
cd /public_html
git init --bare ABC3

Then the url would be indeed:
git clone myusername@myserver.com:/public_html/ABC3.git

A: This answer could be useful for others whose git repository is not in public_html
If you created your bare repo here:
cd ~
mkdirs git/myapp.git
cd git/myapp.git
git init --bare

You can try (note the use of ~ instead of /home/myusername)
git clone myusername@myserver.com:~/git/myapp.git

If this still does not work, I also incorporated suggestions from here and here

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Q: Integral of two radial wave functions I am wondering how to evaluate the following integral of two radial  hydrogenic wavefunctions:
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\int r^{3}R^{*}_{nl} R _{10} dr
$$
The whole problem is related to the calculation of the Stark effect (second-order correction to energy).
Here is the answer ,
https://quantummechanics.ucsd.edu/ph130a/130_notes/node337.html
but I would like to understand a way of calculation mentioned integral. Thank You in advance for any hints and suggestions.

A: The strategy is to first consider integrals of the general form
$$
I_k(\lambda)=\int_0^\infty dx e^{-\lambda x} x^k \tag{1}
$$
which one can solve using repeated integration by parts or by functional differentiation:
$$
\frac{d I_k(\lambda)}{d\lambda}=-\lambda I_{k+1}(\lambda)\quad
\Rightarrow\quad I_{k+1}=-\frac{1}{\lambda}\frac{d I_k(\lambda)}{d\lambda}
$$
$I_0(\lambda)$ can be evaluated by hand and then one can generate the other values of $k$ by differentiation.
Next you can write your integral as a sum over $k$ of integrals of the type given in (1).
Note that in the link you refer to the integral is of the general form (1) but there is an additional restriction on the possible values of $\ell$ that come from the angular integration.


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Atkinson Academy is a public elementary school at 17 Academy Avenue in Atkinson, New Hampshire. It is a part of the Timberlane Regional School District. Built in 1803, it is claimed to be the oldest standing co-educational school in the United States.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Building
Atkinson Academy is located in the town of Atkinson's main village, on the north side of Academy Avenue between Woodlawn Avenue and Maple Avenue.  The original main building is a large two-story wood-frame building, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior.  A tower with open octagonal belfry and cupola rises at the center of the roof.    The main facade is seven bays wide, with the central three set apart by pilasters and a pedimented gable.  The entrance is flanked on one side by a sidelight window, and both sides by pilasters, which rise to an entablature and pedimented gable.  Modern wings extend to the rear of this building, giving the building a rough W shape.

History
Atkinson Academy was founded in 1787 as an all-boys school by the Reverend Stephen Peabody, General Nathaniel Peabody, and Dr. William Cogswell. It began admitting girls in 1791. The original building, constructed in 1789, was destroyed by fire on November 15, 1802, and the present building was completed in 1803.  It is a rare surviving work of Ebenezer Clifford, a prominent master builder of the southern New Hampshire during that period.

The unincorporated and uninhabited township of Atkinson and Gilmanton Academy Grant in northern New Hampshire is named in part for the academy, to which it was originally granted.

The academy, in 1874, was under the charge of B.H. Weston, A.M., and was one of the oldest and most respectable institutions in the state. The 1803 school building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its architecture.

Notable alumni
 Jonathan Cilley, congressman from Maine
 William Cogswell, congressman from Massachusetts and colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Rockingham County, New Hampshire

References

1787 establishments in New Hampshire
School buildings completed in 1803
Public elementary schools in New Hampshire
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Schools in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Atkinson, New Hampshire

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What strange occurrences on Lake Baikal frighten visitors?
Lake Baikal is known for being the world's deepest and largest lake. Its size is larger than Belgium! But it's not simply because of its massive size that it's so well-known. The unexplained ghosts that materialize from time to time across the surface of this wonderful body of water have piqued the imagination of many more people.
Read the article to find out why Baikal fascinates visitors and residents alike, as well as what it may really be.
A train floating above the lake
Inhabitants of the settlement of Bol'shoe Goloustnoe often see a railway ghost floating above Lake Baikal's surface. This is not a fairy tale, as the works of researcher Lomakin provide proof.
Sometimes ghosts appear over Lake Baikal, including a fast train, which rushes somewhere into the distance
The prominent geologist writes about the ghost he saw in his books. He was once cruising across Lake Baikal on a boat when he walked out on deck to see an unbelievable sight: a fast train hurtling over the lake in complete darkness.
Lomakin claims to have seen the train's windows, which were brilliantly lighted and had individuals standing behind them. The trouble is, the train was really moving at the time, nearly 50 kilometers away from the ship, on the other side of the massive Baikal. However, it wasn't soaring through the air; instead, it was gliding down the rails. It was difficult to comprehend how its picture looked so distantly and clearly. Many individuals, however, have seen a rapid train speeding off in the distance across the serene Baikal.
Mirages often arise during the day, when the weather is calm, and there are no waves. Residents also report bizarre capes floating in the air. The meteorological station employees on Bolshoi Ushkany island, for example, observed the northern corner of Olkhon, together with the Khoboy cliff, lift-off and began to glide smoothly towards the mainland.
In the Lake Water, there is an Orange Village
Locals allege that a ghost hamlet may sometimes be seen floating over Lake Baikal. It has an orange glow to it and often appears in three locations at once. People have said that the ghost is so genuine that they have tried counting the number of residences and peering through their windows. The town may be found near Cape Sunny, which is located in the northwestern part of Olkhon Island, as well as close to Bolshoi Ushkanyi Island. People are usually taken aback when they see three or even five mirages at once.
However, there are days when Lake Baikal seems to be surrounded by twenty settlements. This is a very spectacular show that should not be missed.
Local media publish accounts of weird mirage ghosts with remarkable frequency. The Irkutsk press reported on the orange village: "The mirage occurred in Bolshiye Koty and resembled the well-known incidents in England and Greenland, where gorgeous temples and castles lingered in the sky for a long time, without vanishing."
UFOs or Flying Islands
The chairman of the Union of Photographers of Buryatia, Sergey Konechnykh shows the pictures he made in July 2009. ©NTV, Sergey Konechnykh
Those interested in ufology and who desire to observe an unidentified flying object at least once in their lives go to the magnificent Lake Baikal. Above Baikal, unexplained spheres, disks, and plasmoids arise on a regular basis. Travelers often report seeing a strange picture of a very enormous object flying in the air over the sea throughout the summer. It doesn't look like anything you'd see along Lake Baikal's coast. The unintelligible object, which is black or white in hue, resembles a massive flying triangle.
People often encounter ghosts in the shape of towering islands floating above the waters of the world's biggest lake. They are claimed to be so genuine and seem so large that sailors are terrified and strive to avoid them. After all, no island had ever been seen in this location before; where did it appear now? It is imperative that the course be changed right now.
A picture taken by Nikita Tomin shows three green-shaded lights on a UFO flying above a lakeside resort in the Irkutsk region. ©Baikal Press, NTV
You may cruise right to the island if you are certain it is an illusion. Nothing bad would happen; the ship would just sail through the item as if it were a cloud. However, no sailors have ventured to attempt this feat so far. Who knows, maybe it won't be a ghost this time, but an actual island. Shipwrecks are hazardous to anyone's health.
What explanations do scientists give?
What do scientists say about mirages appearing over Baikal? Unfortunately, we should disappoint those who want to believe in the supernatural. Beautiful and incomprehensible flying objects are mirages, so-called far-viewing illusions: not a village able to fly, not an express train without rails, not an island floating above Baikal, or even an unidentified flying object.
Lake Baikal has just perfect conditions for mirages to appear
Objects appear in the atmosphere, but it is not the same as in the hot desert, where bright sunlight is refracted in the heated air. Above Baikal, another variant is the redistribution of cool and warm air, which leads to the appearance of stunning mirages. And the real objects are very far from the lake. The distance can be up to a thousand kilometers! Yes, scientists have explained the appearance of Baikal ghosts. But a part of doubts remains because some phenomena can't be explained even from a scientific point of view.
But one thing is clear – Lake Baikal has just perfect conditions for mirages to appear: hot air and cool water on summer days, severe frosts, and still air in cold weather. In the air currents, which differ in density, the rays of light are distorted and get an amazing embodiment. A small duck can appear like a huge ship, and a man on a bicycle will look like an airplane coming in for a landing.
No less beautiful is such a rare atmospheric phenomenon over Baikal as the northern lights. Bright bursts of cold glow can be seen only at the Northern Baikal. Sometimes before sunset, vertical columns of color appear over the water, and at dark night – rainbows and lightning.
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A Case of Electroconvulsive Therapy–Resistant Depression Responding to Multiple Dopaminergic Medications

To the Editor: Treatment-resistant depression is common, challenging, and difficult to treat. In this case report, we discuss the role of using multiple dopaminergic medications to achieve remission of depression. To our knowledge, this is the first case report on the use of combination therapy (clomipramine, dextroamphetamine, pramipexole, and aripiprazole) for electroconvulsive therapy–resistant unipolar depression.

Case report. Mr A is a 51-year-old Hispanic man with treatment-resistant depression stage V. According to treatment-resistant depression staging,1 stage V is failure to a course of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which is defined as 12 ECTs, of which 8 have to be bilateral. Mr A had received 10 ECTs, and the last one was 2 weeks prior to the first visit (week 0). He had comorbid anxiety and no illicit substance use disorder. The following medications did not help Mr A in the past: fluoxetine, sertraline, paroxetine, trazodone as a hypnotic, bupropion, imipramine, phenelzine, aripiprazole 20 mg, and buspirone. Dose and duration for some medications were not available in the chart. The 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) for measurement-based care has been used in psychiatric clinics.2,3 Medication titrations are summarized in Table 1.

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As shown in Table 1, Mr A attained near remission only after treatment with multiple dopaminergic medications, showing a decrease in PHQ-9 severity score as each medication was added. The final regimen at week 29 was clomipramine 300 mg at bedtime; dextroamphetamine 20 mg am, 10 mg noon, and 10 mg 4 pm; pramipexole 3 mg at bedtime, and aripiprazole 15 mg am. Mr A declined a blood test to check clomipramine levels. His corrected QT interval was 429 ms on clomipramine 300 mg and other medications. His functioning improved in the following areas: submitted thesis for his master's degree, had more contact with his family, and had more energy to take care of household chores. Mr A was followed for 6 more months without relapse.

There is evidence to support the use of stimulants for treatment-resistant depression.4 Dextroamphetamine releases both dopamine and norepinephrine, causing a surge of monoamines. Pramipexole, a presynaptic dopamine agonist, has affinity for D2, but higher affinity for D3, resulting in higher dopamine tone, which is a different mechanism.5 The D3 receptor is involved in the motoric and anhedonic symptoms.5 Large effect sizes (0.6–1.1) have been reported for both unipolar and bipolar depression.5 Eleven of 14 depressed patients responded to aripiprazole augmentation on the basis of the cerebral utilization of 6-[(18)F]-fluoro-3,4-dihydroxy-l-phenylalanine (FDOPA) in a positron emission tomography study.6 Whole-brain, voxel-wise comparisons of pre- and postaripiprazole scans revealed increased FDOPA trapping in the right medial caudate of augmentation responders. This finding suggests that augmentation of antidepressant response by aripiprazole may be associated with potentiation of dopaminergic activity.6 Pramipexole has been combined with antipsychotic treatment in people with schizophrenia with good response.7

There is evidence to support the use of the combination of clomipramine 300 mg, dextroamphetamine 30 mg, pramipexole 3 mg, lithium 900 mg, and quetiapine 200 mg daily in a patient with treatment-resistant bipolar depression.8 To our knowledge, this is the first case report on the use of combination therapy (clomipramine, dextroamphetamine, pramipexole, and aripiprazole) for ECT-resistant unipolar depression. Mr A responded only to multiple dopaminergic medications. This combination was safe, effective, and tolerable. The neurotransmitter dopamine is not frequently targeted in the management of treatment-resistant depression. Dopamine is involved in anhedonia, anergia, motor retardation, motivation, wakefulness, alertness, reward, and pleasure-seeking neuronal circuits. We emphasize the importance of targeting dopamine in the difficult-to-treat treatment-resistant depression patients with dopamine depleted brain.9,10 This combination may be used more often by clinicians in their practices when dealing with difficult-to-treat treatment-resistant depression patients.

References

 1.	Thase ME, Rush AJ. When at first you don't succeed: sequential strategies for antidepressant nonresponders. J Clin Psychiatry. 1997;58(suppl 13):23–29. PubMed

 2.	Koola MM, Fawcett JA, Kelly DL. Case report on the management of depression in schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type focusing on lithium levels and measurement-based care. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2011;199(12):989–990. PubMed doi:10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182392d8f

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Maju Mathew Koola, MD, DPM

majujuju@yahoo.com

MKoola@sheppardpratt.org

Jan A. Fawcett, MD

Author affiliations: Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Research Program, Sheppard Pratt Health System and University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (Dr Koola); and Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque (Dr Fawcett).

Potential conflicts of interest: Dr Fawcett has received stipends from the Nevada Psychiatric Association (2013) and the American Psychiatric Association (2013 and 2014) for CME lectures. Dr Koola reports no conflict of interest related to the subject of this letter.

Funding/support: None reported.

Acknowledgments: Dr Koola, a postgraduate year 4 resident in 2009–2010, was supervised by Dr Fawcett, attending psychiatrist in the Treatment Resistant Affective Disorders (TRAD) Clinic at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque. Dr Koola wrote the first draft of the manuscript.

Published online: April 30, 2015.

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Ernest Borgnine, left, at Dec.7, 2004, commemoration of 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. In the middle is long time Valparaiso resident and fellow WWII Navy veteran Jimmy Kent. Bernie Doyle, right, then National Park Service chief of operations for the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, presented "Mr. Ernie," as he liked to be called, with a token gift of appreciation for his assistance that day.
CHESTERTON | When Hollywood actor Ernest Borgnine died recently of renal failure at age 95, it brought back memories for Chesterton Town Manager Bernie Doyle — memories of a friendship between the two men who connected over a respect for military duty, and a bad habit.
In 2004, Doyle, who was then chief of operations at the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, helped to plan an annual Dec. 7 commemoration, which brought him into contact with Borgnine.
"Each year we did a different theme in relation to the commemoration, and that year we did Hollywood's interpretation of WWII. And who better to do that than Ernest Borgnine?" said Doyle.
He said Borgnine was selected to speak at the event because he not only portrayed characters on film who had served in the war, namely as Lt. Commander Quinton McHale in "McHale's Navy," but he also was a Navy veteran.
"We asked him to come out and speak, and he didn't even hesitate. We offered to pay him a stipend and he refused. He came out for three days, and I had him over for dinner and got to know him and his family pretty well," Doyle said.
It was during this time, Doyle said, that the two bonded over a shared bad habit, one that Borgnine had recently kicked.
It was this kind of generosity that Doyle said distinguished Borgnine from others and caused Doyle to reflect with fond memories on the special bond they shared.
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We have used axure, its a good and fast. Have to try others as well. Its really useful before you start the project to finalize things.
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These will come in handy when designing the spec for an interface.
I've always loved MockFlow. It's such a great tool when you need to get your design across to the clients without spending hours upon hours coding it into html.
Excellent resources for those finicky clients.
Cheers for the article; have been using iPlotz for the past year and it has proven to be valuable. However, it's always useful to keep an eye out for other such tools!
Thanks for including us in your list of wireframing and prototyping tools! Being able to evolve simple, clickable wireframes to more interactive prototypes allows our customers to simulate a rich website experience prior to writing code.
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I love hotgloo, but $14/month is too pricey for a web app. Mockflow looks like a great alternative at only $4.91/month – seems to have all the features plus a desktop app.
Why is Excel overlooked as a Wireframing tool? I use it ALL the time and with great success.
You zoom it out, make cells be squares and by merging and splitting cells you get a pretty qucik wireframeing tool.
That's what I used to do. Now that I've tried Balsamiq I will never go back.
We use Mockflow at my agency and couldn't be happier. The user permissions for sharing are second to none. Completely worth the premo signup.
OmniGraffle is pro. Any ideas on a free Mac app for wire-framing?
Great list. I use HotGloo and it is fine.
Nice roundup. I'm in love with Balsamiq.
Great article and info. However, I would like to see a little more. I don't have time to explore all 10 right now. Which two or three would you recommend without consideration for budget?
I got a chuckle out of the excel for wireframing comment! I've been using HotGloo and really like it. This is a very good list and I do look forward to testing out the other tools. Balsamiq and Cacoo look pretty sweet.
I just find having a sketchbook doing my wireframe diagram and then translating to photoshop.
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I'd always used Illustrator for simply roughing out the content of a page. It was particularly easy to transition the wireframe into a high fidelity mockup.
I'm currently working on a large corp intranet and I've found Fireworks invaluable. I'm able to produce template masterpages and multiple content pages. there are some great addons for quickly creating dummy text and datagrids. I can create button links and export the whole thing as an interactive pdf or even HTML. There's a great tutorial on Lynda detailing this and a lot more.
Great list thanks. I just used Powerpoint. Goodbye Powerpoint!
These are perfect! Thanks for sharing. These will come in handy.
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Unfortunately Pencil is not available for FF 4+.
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Great list. We use Creately – (http://creately.com) for wireframes and everything else that goes with it. Flowcharts, UML, etc. Helps keep things in sync.
Great resource, thanks so much! Do any of the above incorporate a pattern library?
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Frehley, now a solo musician, became famous in the 1970s as the lead guitarist for KISS, a band beloved for its outlandish costumes, stage shows and heavy metal music. Frehley left the group in 1982 and rejoined it from 1996 to 2002.
KISS charted its biggest hits while Frehley was a member in the 1970s. The group's highest-charting song was the ballad "Beth," which hit No. 7 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1976.
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Cholon - Saigon's Chinatown
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Thien Hau Pagoda, Cholon
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Cha Tam Church, Cholon - Chinatown
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Cholon (Cho Lon) is Saigon's heaving Chinatown district. It's a great place to spend at least half a day. It's hard to believe but it's even more chaotic than downtown Saigon - but with a distinctly Chinese character.
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Chinatown in Saigon is among the biggest in the world. Known as Cholon or Cho Lon - which translates as big market - it dates back to the eighteenth century.
Saigon's Chinese population has a long history in the city - fleeing the collapse of the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century. In the centuries since, Chinese immigrants have continued to arrive. They've played a big role in the cultural and economic life of the city from dynastic times, through French colonialism, the Vietnam War, right through to the present.
Cholon has also been the scene of dramatic events in Vietnam's modern history.
In November 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem fled his palace in downtown Saigon for Cholon's Cha Tam Catholic church. He was captured there and murdered by coup plotters in one of the most significant events in the lead-up to the Vietnam War. There is a small plaque marking the pew where Diem spent his final hours.
In 1968, Cholon was a key battleground in the Viet Cong Tet Offensive. One of the most famous photos from the Vietnam War, Eddie Adams' shocking image of the execution of a Viet Cong prisoner by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan was taken at the height of the fighting.
Photo: Mark Bowyer Thien Hau Pagoda, Cholon
Modern-day Cholon is home to Chinese temples, churches and some outstanding colonial and post-colonial architecture. There's some impressive eating to be found too - from street stalls to Chinese restaurants.
The places we list here are all located close by one another and can easily be reached on foot or cyclo once in Cholon. Make sure you also take some time to cruise the packed streets and explore the alleys.
Walking Cholon
It's easy to walk around the main heart of Cholon. The traffic is intense in some areas. Try and explore the alleys as much as possible. Start at Thien Hau Pagoda and roam from there.
Apart from the buzzing street life, you'll pass by a mix of architecture - from temples to shophouses to modernist classics.
For now, heritage architecture seems to be holding up better in Cholon than downtown Saigon. There have already been some tragic demolitions though - and we fear there are more ahead.
Photo: Mark Bowyer Down an alley - Cholon
Binh Tay Market (Presently under renovation 2018).
Binh Tay market is the heaving wholesale market of Cholon. Food, clothing, pottery and plenty more are lined up in narrow corridors packed with stalls in this local institution dating back decades.
Watching the arrival of additional inventory on bicycles, motorcycles and an assortment of other curious road craft is part of the fun.
Binh Tay Market is under renovation (early 2018). We expect these to continue for another year. The market stalls have relocated to temporary structures around the main market structure. It was a mess during our visit and probably not worth a whole lot of time.
Thien Hau Pagoda
The most popular and one of the impressive of Cholon's Chinese pagodas, the temple is dedicated to Thien Hau, Goddess of the Sea. When the temple was established in mid eighteenth century, the Chinese community tended to be made up of merchants and seafarers who were grateful for the Goddess's protection.
The temple's significance was reinforced again the in late 1970s when many from Cholon's Chinese community fled Vietnam in small boats following China's invasion of northern Vietnam.
Quan Am Pagoda
Nearby Quan Am Pagoda is another favourite. It was established by Cholon's Fujianese community and dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy. A recent renovation has removed some of its edge but it's still worth visiting. Phuc An Hoi Quan Pagoda is also close by.
Cha Tam Church
Cha Tam church's significance lies mainly in its bit part in the demise of South Vietnamese President, Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963.
It was here that the devoutly Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem fled and was holed up having fled the coup from Gia Long Palace - now the Ho Chi Minh City Museum - in downtown Saigon.
His prayers came to nothing and he was captured and murdered by members of his own military, in an event considered pivotal in the unravelling of South Vietnam and an increased US involvement in the Vietnam war.
The Kennedy administration was implicated in the coup and Kennedy himself was assassinated just weeks later.
A small plaque marks the pew where Diem and his brother Nhu sat before their capture.
Cha Tam Church is a quaint little place that dates back to the beginning of the twentieth century. It was built by Father Tam (Cha Tam in Vietnamese) and he's buried right at the entrance.
It's a welcome refuge from the chaos of Cholon.
Photo: Mark Bowyer Cha Tam Church, Cholon - Chinatown
Street food in Cholon
There are street stalls everywhere in Cholon. There are also some excellent Chinese restaurants. We haven't had a proper meal here for a long time but we've dipped into the noodle stalls at the corner of Lao Tu and Phung Hung St. This is a great spot and a worthwhile stop for a bite.
Photo: Mark Bowyer Street food, Cholon - Chinatown
Cholon is 10 - 15 minutes from downtown Saigon by taxi.
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Microcystis aeruginosa är en sötvattenslevande art av cyanobakterier som kan bilda skadlig algblomning som är av ekonomisk och ekologisk betydelse. De är den vanligaste giftiga blomningen av cyanobakterier i näringsrikt sötvatten.

Morfologi

Kännetecken
M. aeruginosa tillhör stammen cyanobakterier, en bakteriestam som är rik på variation. Vissa cyanobakterier kan vara encelliga, andra kan leva i kolonier och vissa har förmågan att fixera kväve. Många cyanobakterier flockas i kolonier med hjälp självproducerat slem, som bildar en trögflytande massa i vattendrag. Till dessa s.k. planktoniska cyanobakterier hör M. aeruginosa.

Man känner igen just M. aeruginosa i övergödda vatten genom att vattnet bildar en flytande, böljande hinna, som liknar blågrön målarfärg. Förtärande av vatten som innehåller höga koncentrationer av M. aeruginosa kan leda till magkramper hos människor. För djur som hundar och höns är intagande av större mängder dödliga.

Fysiologi
Som den språkhistoriska härledningen talar om kännetecknas Microcystis av små celler (endast några mikrometer i diameter) som saknar omgivande kapslar.

Cellerna är ofta organiserade i kolonier (stora kolonier som kan ses med blotta ögat), till en början i en sfärisk struktur, men efter hand förlorar de sin sammanhållning och blir perforerade eller oregelbundet formade.

Protoplastens färgsättning är ljust blågrön, men uppträder som mörk eller brun på grund av gasfyllda blåsor (vesiklar) som skapar optiska effekter; det kan vara användbart som ett särskiljande kännetecken när man använder ljusmikroskopi. Dessa blåsor tillhandahåller den för M. aeruginosa nödvändiga flytkraften som krävs för att stanna kvar på en och samma nivå i en vattenspalt, så att de kan erhålla optimala ljus- och koldioxidnivåer för hastig tillväxt.

Ekologi
M. aeruginosa gynnas av varma temperaturer, men giftighet och maximal förökningshastighet korrelerar inte helt med varandra, då cyanobakterier växer som kraftigast i laboratorium vid 32 °C, medan dess giftighet är högst vid 20 °C. Allt eftersom temperaturen överstiger 28 °C, sjunker giftigheten som en funktion av temperaturen. Tillväxten är begränsad under 15 °C.

Toxiner

M. aeruginosa kan producera både neurotoxiner (lipopolysackarider, LPS) såväl som hepatotoxiner (mikrocystiner). De senare är cykliska peptider som är mycket skadliga för människor, såväl som andra land- och vattenlevande djur. På många ställen har inhägnade betesmarker flyttats, på grund av förekomsten av microcystiner.

Ekonomisk betydelse
I och med att Microcystis aeruginosa kan bilda ihållande mikrocystin-toxiner vid rätta miljöbetingade förhållanden, har den kommit att bli en källa till dricksvattenförgiftning. Detta kan leda till ökade ekonomiska kostnader, såsom riskreducerande åtgärder av vattenkvalité i form av ökade kostnader vid vattenreningsverk, såväl som minskning av lokalturism, orsakat av skador på sjöar och andra vattendrag med höjd giftighet.

Ekologisk betydelse
När algblomningar ligger vid vattenytan och därmed förorsakar syrebrist under ytan kan det leda till död för fiskar och annat marint liv. Dessutom förorenas hela vattendrag av algblomningen, såväl som att den orsakar dålig lukt och smak hos dricksvatten, samt att den försämrar vattenkvalitén i allmänhet.

Forskning
Dreissena polymorpha, även känd som zebramussla, är en invaderande art som är ekologiskt katastrofal, som har påträffats i Nordamerikas stora sjöar. Forskning har visat ett samband mellan algblomningar orsakade av M. aeruginosa och förekomst av D. polymorpha i Huronsjön. Ett forskarlag har till exempel påvisat att zebramusslor ändrar N/P-förhållandet (kväve/fosfor-förhållandet) i vattnet. Detta skapar ännu en selektiv faktor som hjälper M. aeruginosa att reproducera sig och trivas.

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Cyanobakterier
Cyanotoxin
Algblomning
Microcystin
Butylerad hydroxytoluen (BHT)

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Learn how to work with crop options for pictures in PowerPoint 2010.
After inserting a picture in your slide, you should first consider if the picture you have used complements the message of your presentation and slide. Even if it is relevant, you should consider making it more pertinent by removing the areas that may be not required -- in other words, you must ponder and decide whether you want to use PowerPoint's Crop options. Cropping an area removes extraneous areas, and lets you add focus to the areas of the picture that are appropriate to the topic of your presentation -- for example the picture on the left side in Figure 1 below shows a businesswoman with several of her colleagues blurred into the background. Cropping the same picture in the sample on the right focuses attention solely on her, and creates a more powerful visual. In some scenarios, the picture on the left may be more suited -- but in most cases, you will want to use the picture on the right.
We are assuming you already have a picture inserted on your slide, or a shape filled with a picture. Select the picture to display the Picture Tools Format tab (highlighted in red within Figure 2) of the Ribbon. Activate this contextual tab by clicking on it -- locate the Size group, and click the downward pointing arrow in the Crop button (highlighted in blue within Figure 2).
Crop: This basic Crop tool is used to make a simple crop. When you select this tool (which is equal to simply clicking the Crop button within the Size group), dark crop handles appear on the edge of the picture (or on the edge of the shape if you are cropping any picture used as a fill), as shown on Figure 3. Typically, you will see four corner handles and four side handles.
To crop one side of the picture, drag the side handle of that side inward.
To crop equally on two sides at the same time, press and hold Ctrl key while you drag the side handle on either side inward.
To crop equally on all four sides at the same time, press and hold Ctrl key while you drag any corner handle inward.
You can also move the picture within the placeholder area to show more important areas of the picture. To do that, place your cursor anywhere in the middle of the placeholder away from the edges so that your cursor changes to a four-headed arrow as shown in Figure 4, below.
Then press the Enter key or double-click the picture to perform the crop.
Crop to Shape: Enables you to change the shape of the picture to a specific shape. When a picture is cropped to a specific shape, it automatically trims to fill the geometry of the shape and picture proportion is maintained. Select the picture or pictures that you want to crop to a specific shape. Learn more about this option in our Crop to Shape tutorial.
Aspect Ratio: With this option you can crop the picture to a common aspect ratio (the ratio between picture width and picture height) so that it easily fits into a picture frame. Make sure that the picture is still selected -- within the Crop drop-down gallery, select the Aspect Ratio option to bring up a sub-gallery, as shown in Figure 5. Choose any of the Square, Portrait, or Landscape ratios.
Fill: A very common problem occurs when you use a picture fill for a shape -- it gets squished down to fit inside the shape, as shown in the example on the left side in Figure 6. Choosing Fill will scale the picture to completely fill the shape while retaining the proportions of the original picture as you can see on the right side in Figure 6. You can later nudge the picture and make a particular area to be seen within the shape - we explain this option in our Reposition Picture Fills with Crop in PowerPoint 2010 tutorial.
Fit: This option scales the picture so that it fits entirely within the shape, and also maintains the original picture aspect ratio. Figure 7 shows the difference.


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Landowners File Opening Brief in Lawsuit Against TransCanada's Eminent Domain for Keystone XL
By Mark Hefflinger
Tagged Eminent Domain, Keystone XL, LB 1161
Landowners pack the Holt County, Nebraska courthouse for a hearing in their lawsuit challenging TransCanada's eminent domain authority to build the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. (Photo: Mark Hefflinger)
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Landowners Opening Brief Filed in Nebraska Keystone XL Battle
Omaha, NE — Lawyers for Nebraska landowners submitted written arguments in Court on Monday, August 31st. They contend a 2012 Nebraska law unconstitutionally authorizes TransCanada, a foreign pipeline company, to use eminent domain and to take their land.
Landowners won temporary injunctions halting eminent domain proceedings in February 2015. The highly publicized Keystone XL Pipeline project has been stalled since then by the Nebraska lawsuits, and a veto by the President of the United States.
If built, the pipeline would dissect Nebraska from north to south.
Briefs were filed on Monday with Holt County District Judge Mark D. Kozisek.
In Nebraska, four members of the State Supreme Court ruled for a landowner group in a previous challenge to strike the law down. But 3 members refused to vote on the merits, resulting in no definitive decision. The Nebraska Constitution requires 5 of 7 Justices must concur to strike down a state law.
That January 2015 action by the State Supreme Court led to the new round of landowner cases. It came as TransCanada started the condemnation process. And it halted TransCanada's actions.
Since the January ruling, one member of the three-judge group on the Court retired and was replaced by a state District Court judge who ruled for the landowners at the trial court level in the prior lawsuit.
Nebraska lawyers Dave Domina and Brian Jorde wrote the 30 page brief submitted to Judge Kozisek. The case will be heard at O'Neill on October 19th. Domina and Jorde handled the earlier case for landowners as well. That case is Thompson v Heinemann, 289 Neb 798 (2015).
Domina and Jorde argue that LB 1161, passed by the Legislature in 2012, violates Nebraska State Constitutional provisions.
Several prohibitions in the State Constitution are involved. The landowners argue that these include: 1) a requirement the Public Service Commission, not the Governor, must make decisions about common carriers like pipelines; 2) lack of any legal standard for decision making about pipelines; 3) failure to provide a procedure for hearing contests about pipeline applications; 4) lack of judicial review in any appeal process; and 5) a troublesome pledge of a $2 million revolving credit line to the pipeline company to finance its route study.
Domina said, "Our positions are strong. We are eager to be in Court on October 19 for trial, and are optimistic for the legal positions of our Nebraska landowner clients."
TransCanada and the Nebraska Attorney General have 30 days to respond to the landowners. The landowners will then have the final written word before the October 19 trial in O'Neill.
Steskal v. TransCanada
Mark Hefflinger Bold's Digital + Communications Director. Mark was born and raised in Omaha, and holds a Bachelor's degree in English and Communications from Boston College. Mark has worked as a journalist in California, covering the digital media industry, music and LGBT issues, and since 2012 has worked as a digital organizer for progressive causes.
Email: mark@boldnebraska.org
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Bold's Jane Kleeb Statement on Keystone Pipeline's 22nd Spill on Dec. 7th
TC Energy's original Keystone oil pipeline recorded its 22nd spill on Dec. 7, 2022. According to Reuters, "An emergency shutdown and response was initiated at about 9 p.m. CT on Dec. 7 after alarms and a pressure drop in the system, the company said in a release, adding booms were deployed to control downstream migration […]
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Add Your Name: Support Legislative Resolutions to Study Property Rights, Mead Ecological Disaster
Your action is needed now to make your voice heard to Nebraska State Senators considering two resolutions: LR 421: Interim Study of Property Rights Issues (Eminent Domain) LR 159: Appoint Special Committee to Investigate the Mead Environmental Disaster In this year's Nebraska legislative session, Bold supported Sen. Bostar's LB 1186, a common-sense bill intended to protect […]
Tagged Keystone XL, Ponca Nation of Oklahoma, Ponca Trail of Tears, Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, Sacred Ponca Corn
2022 9th Annual Planting of Sacred Ponca Corn in the Path of Keystone XL
By Tom Genung
UPDATE: View photos of the 2022 Ponca Corn Planting on Facebook. We and our hosts Helen and Art Tanderup and family are excited to be able to invite all of our friends to join us again this year on Saturday, April 30th for the Ninth Annual Planting of Sacred Ponca Corn, on Ponca Nation land […]


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NASA's new asteroid alert system gives five days of warning
by Evan Gough, Universe Today
A huge asteroid impacting Earth would be catastrophic, but we may face a greater danger from more numerous, smaller asteroids. Credit: NASA
Everyone knows it was a large asteroid striking Earth that led to the demise of the dinosaurs. But how many near misses were there? Modern humans have been around for about 225,000 years, so we must have come close to death by asteroid more than once in our time. We would have had no clue.
Of course, it's the actual strikes that are cause for concern, not near misses. Efforts to predict asteroid strikes, and to catalogue asteroids that come close to Earth, have reached new levels. NASA's newest tool in the fight against asteroids is called Scout. Scout is designed to detect asteroids approaching Earth, and it just passed an important test. Scout was able to give us five days notice of an approaching asteroid.
Here's how Scout works. A telescope in Hawaii, the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) detected the asteroid, called 2016 UR36, and then alerted other 'scopes. Three other telescopes confirmed 2016 UR36 and were able to narrow down its trajectory. They also learned its size, about five to 25 meters across.
After several hours, we knew that UR 36 would come close to us, but was not a threat to impact Earth. UR 36 would pass Earth at a distance of about 498,000 km. That's about 1.3 times further away than the moon.
The key part of this is that we had five days notice. And five days notice is a lot more than the few hours that we usually have. The approach of 2016 UR36 was the first test for the Scout system, and it passed the test.
The Pan STARRS telescope in Hawaii. Credit: Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
Asteroids that come close to Earth are called Near Earth Objects (NEOs) and finding them and tracking them has become a growing concern for NASA. In fact NASA has about 15,000 NEOs catalogued, and they're still finding about five more every night.
Not only does NASA have the Scout system, whose primary role is to speed up the confirmation process for approaching asteroids, but they also have the Sentry program. Sentry's role is a little different.
Sentry's job is to focus on asteroids that are large enough to wipe out a city and cause widespread destruction. That means NEOs that are larger than about 140 metres. Sentry has over 600 large NEOs catalogued, and astronomers think there are a lot more of them out there.
NASA is getting much better at discovering and detecting NEOs. Credit: NASA/NEO Program
NASA also has the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), which has got to be the greatest name for an office ever. (Can you imagine having that on your business card?) Anyway, the PDCO has the over-arching role of preparing for asteroid impacts. The office is there to make emergency plans to deal with the impact aftermath.
Five days notice for a small asteroid striking Earth is a huge step for preparedness. Resources can be mobilized, critical infrastructure can be protected, maybe things like atomic power plants can be shut down if necessary. And, of course, people can be evacuated.
We haven't always had any notice for approaching asteroids. Look at the Chelyabinsk meteor from 2013. It was a 10,000 ton meteor that exploded over the Chelyabinsk Oblast, injuring 1500 people and damaging an estimated 3,000 building in 6 cities. If it had been a little bigger, and reached the surface of the Earth, the damage would have been widespread. five days notice would likely have saved a lot of lives.
Smaller asteroids may be too small to detect when they're very far away. But larger ones can be detected when they're still 10, 20, even 30 years away. That's enough time to figure out how to stop them. And if you can reach them when they're that far away, you only need to nudge them a little to deflect them away from Earth, and maybe to the Sun to be destroyed.
Large asteroids with the potential to cause widespread destruction are the attention-getters. Hollywood loves them. But it may be more likely that we face numerous impacts from smaller asteroids, and that they could cause more damage overall. Scout's ability to detect these smaller asteroids, and give us several days notice of their approach, could be a life-saver.
More than 15,000 near-Earth objects and counting
Source: Universe Today
Citation: NASA's new asteroid alert system gives five days of warning (2016, November 3) retrieved 15 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2016-11-nasa-asteroid-days.html
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REPUBLICANS INTENTIONALLY BLIND…..FAIL TO ACKNOWLEDGE HOW BIDEN HAS HELPED ORDINARY TAXPAYERS
Posted on January 12, 2023 by keywestlou
The first bill passed by the new Republican House majority was to slash $80 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act Biden had signed into law. Told the American public the purpose of Biden's $80 billion was to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to pursue and audit them. They also justified the slash claiming some of the monies were to arm the agents with guns. Threatening and scary.
An outright lie. The Inflation Reduction Act made it clear that the purpose of the $80 billion was to make "millionaires, billionaires, and corporations" pay taxes. The three groups that either successfully avoid paying taxes or pay little. The law also was to add technological upgrades to IRS processing.
Yesterday, it was announced that the IRS had sent out 12 million tax refunds totaling nearly $15 billion after making corrections to taxes that were filed. The refunds averaged $1,232. The Republicans have made no mention of this refund.
Why the refund? Another Biden law made it possible. The American Rescue Plan of 2021. Biden signed it into law 3/21. The portion of the law requiring the refund concerned itself with taxpayers who overpaid on unemployment compensation in 2020. It excluded "up to $10,200 in unemployment compensation from taxable income allocations."
The refunds impacted single taxpayers and married couples whose modified adjusted gross incomes were less than $150,000 in 2020.
Doesn't sound to me like Biden was out to get the ordinary lower echelon taxpayer?
Two years in office and Biden signs 2 laws helpful to everyday American wage earners. Yet the devious House Republicans fail to even mention it. I'm sure they were aware of both laws and how they worked. Isn't it their job to know?
The 1915 House of Representatives are reflective of a backward and repressive mentality similar to the new Republican House members. The 1915 House rejected 204-174 a proposed Constitutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote.
The new Republican House has only been in business 3 days. Their extreme views are like bugs coming out of the wood work. Good! Let the nation see what and who they are. The American people do not want extreme. They do not want political wars. They want their government to care for the peoples' ordinary everyday needs.
Such was the election message of 2022. The Republicans are deaf and blind to it. They will pay a worse penalty in the next election.
Prohibition was a national tragedy. Key West experienced its share in getting rid of the booze this day in 1925. It was "legal sunshine" day at the Key West Custom House. Authorities poured various brands of confiscated liquor into the ocean near the western foot of Greene Street.
The fish got drunk!
On this day in 1969, I sat with my father in his living room watching Super Bowl III. I will never forget. I doubt anyone who recalls the game will.
The American Football League was relatively new. The New York Jets were a member of the League. Every team in the League considered by most as second class citizens.
The game was played in the Orange Bowl. Joe Namath was the Jets quarterback. He was before the game as he is now. Loud, boisterous and confident. He repeatedly said, "We're going to win!" No one agreed. He was laughed at.
Namath and the Jets did win 16-7.
What a game!
It was Syracuse/Virginia Tech last night. Syracuse won 82-72. Syracuse took a 20 plus lead at the beginning of the second half and never was in trouble thereafter.
Syracuse seems to improve with each game. Even the ones they lose. I hope they continue the pace. By the end of the season and entering the playoffs, they will be a power if they do.
Never had dinner last night with Dan and Lisa Reardon. He is a Syracuse fan also. We opted to watch the game instead. Dan at his place and me in mine. We are having dinner tonight at Antonia's. It will be good to see them.
Busy day even before dinner time. A haircut with Lori at noon and manicure with Tammy at 1.
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Ernest Henway on January 12, 2023 at 10:24 am said:
What's in those top-secret docs Biden stole from the White House six years ago, and has been hiding in Delaware and Pennsylvania? And when will the FBI raid his beachfront (no global warming or Sealevel rise in Delaware apparently) home?
Big Steve on January 12, 2023 at 5:38 pm said:
While trump has no excuse for stealing top secret docs, Biden does. He's farkin senile! He needs a timer to remind him to change his diaper.


Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) can be a great tool for trifecta tax efficiency. Yep, I said trifecta! Additionally, they can be used as an investment vehicle.
Who doesn't love to legally avoid paying taxes?? I do!
I wanted to invest in an HSA account. However, formerly my employer-sponsored health plan did not allow for that.
How Do You Qualify to Contribute to An HSA Account?
Firstly, to be able to contribute to an HSA account, you need to be on an HSA qualified medical plan. Because HSA accounts provide a tax break, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sets limits on the type of health plans that qualify.
HSA qualified plans are high deductible health plans in which everything is subject to the deductible. The only exception is zero dollar cost preventative care. Preventative care is included in all Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliant health plans.
As you can see from the chart above, the minimum deductible is $1,350 (single)/ $2,700 (family). There has been no change in deductible minimums from 2018 to 2019.
Of course, a qualified plan can have a higher deductible. However, the highest the maximum out of pocket can be is $6,750 (single) / $13,500 (family) for 2019. The maximums have gone up slightly from 2018 to 2019.
Obviously, with the IRS being able to change limits each year, you'll want to investigate this in the year you are considering an HSA qualified plan.
Your employer may offer several options in health care plans. There are several things to consider before choosing an HSA qualified option.
Ask your employer when is the open enrollment period for the healthcare plan. Additionally, find out what type of health care plan options your employer offers.
Each year your employer-sponsored health plan has an open enrollment period. During open enrollment, you can change from one plan to the next and/or come on if you formerly waived coverage.
Ask to see the Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBCs) of the offered plans. Yeah, health insurance is like alphabet soup!
Anyway, the SBC will tell you almost everything you need to know about your health plan options. Furthermore, you'll want to find out your share of the premium for all of the plans offered. This is also called your payroll contribution.
If your employer set up a cafeteria (or section 125) plan, your payroll contributions will be taken out pre-tax.
High deductible HSA qualified plans are typically cheaper in premium than the traditional type of plans with copays up front. That is because you must meet a deductible before the plan pays (except for preventative care).
Deductibles typically run calendar year and re-set annually. There are some employers who have deductibles which run plan year and re-set when your plan renews. You should ask your Human Resource department about yours.
If you're insuring your family as well as yourself, you'll want to know if you plan has an embedded or aggregate deductible.
An embedded deductible is better as it protects single members inside of the family. It means that if one member of the family hits their single deductible, they are then covered. At least two members need to make up the family deductible before the entire family is covered.
An aggregate deductible means that the entire family deductible must be met before even one member is covered.
Let's say you're on a plan with a $1,350 (single) / $2,700 (family) deductible, 0% coinsurance & $1,350 (single) / $2,700 (family) Maximum Out Of Pocket (MOOP). I'll explain coinsurance in a bit.
If it's an embedded plan and one member of the family meets $1,350 in claims, that member is then covered 100%. Now if other members incur claims, combined they will have to meet another $1,350 before the entire family is covered 100%.
Now let's say you have the same deductible, coinsurance and MOOP parameters but it's an aggregate deductible plan. If one member incurs a lot of claims on an aggregate deductible plan, they will have to meet the family deductible of $2,700 before being covered 100%.
Coinsurance is a percentage that you split with the insurance company after the deductible has been met. If you have 0% coinsurance, the insurance company pays 100% after deductible.
Many plans have an 80%/20% split where after the deductible has been met, the insurance plan pays 80% and you, 20%. Know what this is! Your coinsurance share will continue until you hit your MOOP.
Some HSA qualified plans have co-payments after the deductible for certain episodes of care. The co-payments are typically for office visits, prescriptions drugs, urgent care, and emergency room. Remember if it's an HSA qualified plan, the copayments kick in after you first meet your deductible.
These will continue until you hit your MOOP.
All plans have a MOOP and this is the most you'll pay in one calendar year for your health care expenses (not including premium).
Once again know what this is!
If you know how often you typical seek care, you can estimate how much you'll spend in a year. Additionally, make sure you can afford the deductible & MOOP.
Many people choose traditional plans with co-payments that kick in before deductibles are met. Reason being is that they know what they'll pay each time they visit the doctor.
However, doctor visits are not really expensive. It's the major tests, in-patient stays, surgeries, emergency room visits, and high-cost prescriptions that you need to watch.
Once you're on an HSA qualified plan, you can contribute up to certain amounts set by the IRS each year into a tax-advantaged HSA account. Go back up and look at the graphic taken from SHRM.
The 2019 contribution limits are $3,500 and $7,000. They're going up slightly from 2018. If you are currently maxing out your HSA for 2018 (me included), you'll want to make sure you let payroll to increase it in January to the new limits for 2019.
HSA accounts are so magical because you can contribute pre-tax dollars to them. Furthermore, if you use the money for qualified medical, dental, and vision expenses, you will not have to pay taxes on the backend. Score!
Most HSA accounts allow you the opportunity to invest your contributions into mutual funds. This means you can have tax-free contributions, tax-free growth, and potentially tax-free distributions. Winner, winner chicken dinner!! It's a trifecta!
I cannot write an article about HSAs without linking to this stellar article by the Mad Fientist. He nails it.
Use the HSA account as a debit account to pay for your qualified expenses.
Invest the HSA monies, pay for your qualified expenses with post-tax dollars, save your qualified expense receipts, and reimburse yourself later.
The second option can be useful for the person looking to retire early and wanting access to investments.
Edit: Seonwoo reminded me of the absence of a time limit in reimbursing yourself. As long as you save your receipts for qualified medical, dental, and vision care, you can reimburse yourself years later after lots of growth occurs. Truly Amazing!
Unfortunately, Vanguard does not offer HSA accounts. Actually, your employer may have a specific bank they recommend for your HSA account needs. However, you can also open your own HSA account at any bank who offers them.
I currently use Health Savings Administrators and am very happy with their investment options. Through Health Savings Administrators I have access to Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund, Admiral Shares (VTSAX).
I'm not really quite sure how as I don't have the $10K minimum which is typically required for admiral shares. When I saw it was an option, I didn't ask, I just signed up for it!
Anyway, one can also do a combo of the above two options which is what I'm currently doing.
This way, I don't need to budget for medical expenses and can use my debit card to pay for them. At the end of 2018, I'll see how much money I have left in the cash account (if any) and adjust my 2019 percentages accordingly.
If you have no qualified health, dental or vision expenses, wow! You are truly blessed! However, you may be wondering how you can access these monies.
The way to get the tax break trifecta is to withdraw the money for qualified medical expenses.
I've discovered now that I'm not living paycheck to paycheck, I can manage a high deductible health plan. Moreover, it's giving me access to another tax-advantaged vehicle to max out.
Take the time to do a little homework with your employer-sponsored options. See if an HSA qualified plan will work for you. Then you can tap into this magical vehicle and get the trifecta win!
A very comprehensive look at HSAs. I think many people don't participate because they're complicated and benefits people don't know how to explain them. I'm not sure they understand them.
Your article does a nice job of breaking down the various parts of HSAs. Healthcare is far more complicated then it needs to be.
Thanks for pulling back the covers and letting us see inside.
Yeah, I think healthcare is complicated and people tune out because of it. I know too much about it and will be happy to share with anyone who wants to learn. Thank you for your comment, Fred!
I love the HSA hack. Super cool that you sold your boss on getting you one! We don't have an HSA where I work but the company gives us $600 yearly for a (HRA) Health Reimbursement Account. This is a use it or lose it benefit. I lost out the first year with the company as I didn't understand how it worked. These benefits are little understood and usually not promoted well with the company. Thanks for bringing awareness to these golden nuggets.
Yeah, I have an awesome boss for sure! I used to be on an HRA type of arrangement but calculated that I would do better being able to invest in an HSA. Maybe you can suggest it to your HR department? That is a bummer you lost out of some of it. This stuff is too complicated. I am happy to share what I've learned.
The important part about the investing aspect of HSA is that the "reimburse yourself later" clause has no time limit. You can literally save your receipts for decades, letting your money grow, and then reimburse yourself after all that growth.
Excellent point about the absence of a time limit on reimbursing yourself, Seonwoo. Thanks for bringing that up! Perhaps, I should add an edit about that.
Additionally, your comment on avoided payroll taxes is spot on. This is why pre-tax is boss!
No HSA option for me, though I wouldn't have wanted a high deductible plan for the past ~4-5 years or so between being pregnant, giving birth (c section), having a kid, and then dealing with my own personal hearing loss. Now that things have settled down, a high deductible plan sounds more interesting, but I do appreciate the coverage we have currently.
Thanks for your comment, Angela. You are a perfect example of why it might not work for everyone. Yeah, those are some high-cost episodes of care. There is a bit of risk in taking a high-deductible, the nice thing is that it can be calculated.
Thanks for the great write up on HSA's. I have been struggling to grasp the complexity behind them, this article along with some research has proven them to be rather simplistic in nature. I just recently opened an HSA with an annual company contribution, and man did I smile upon receiving a nice deposit into my HSA account. Plus the tax incentives mentioned above, I'm sorry I never explored this option before.
Yeah, once you get it, they aren't too hard to grasp. Nice on the annual contribution! Thank you for your comment.
Congrats on talking your employer into offering one! 2018 was my first year of participating and I am sticking around for 2019. So far I have been able to pay for my health care costs with after tax dollars so will keep my HSA as an investment until I need it.
Thanks, Jenny! Yeah so this year I've put 25% of my contributions into a cash debit account but I'm leaning towards investing it all in 2019 and also using after tax dollars for my healthcare expenses. Why not let that baby grow!
I have been maxing out my Hsa for nearly 10 years. Unfortunately with 4 children and using for things like braces and pregnancy expenses before deductible kicked in, I have less than $7k saved. Plus side is that the expenses were 100% deductible that way versus using the 7.5/10% AGI deduction on the Sch A.
Yeah, with a family you certainly have more healthcare expenses. Nice on the expenses being deductible – I need to look into that.
Such an amazing investment vehicle and sonubderestimated!
It is a powerful investment tool indeed! Thanks for reading and commenting, Cooper.