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No matter what the industry, the era of blogging, YouTube, Twitter and Pinterest has hit, and there's no end in sight. Businesses compete on a global scale, reaching out to consumers who see thousands of advertisements every day. Increasingly, these consumers recognize good design when they see it. They also know when it's bad.
These forms of visual communication immediately create a perception of a company, helping consumers determine if they would recommend it to their friends, if their mothers would shop there and, ultimately, if they're going to spend money with that company.
Having good service, a quality product and an efficient manufacturing process are essentials for any good business. According to Schaub, those who intend for their businesses to stay ahead of the curve should add exceptional design and branding to that list.
"If your staff person has a visual background, they're going to bring that creative professionalism to the marketing and communications pieces you're able to produce," said Schaub. Having an employee with the necessary aesthetic and technical skills to navigate new forms of media can breathe new life into a business.
"You need someone who can think outside the box," said Schaub. "And that's what creative professionals are trained to do. That's what we do best."
Pamela Patton, editor of Kendall College of Art and Design's Portfolio Magazine, said the college responds to market need when considering what majors to offer. Out of the 14 undergraduate programs and three graduate programs, students in disciplines such as metal and jewelry design are likely to head to New York City upon graduation. But students in graphic design, digital media, art education, industrial and furniture design are increasingly staying in West Michigan.
The $28.5 million renovation of the Kendall Federal Building is set to be completed next month, bringing with it new classrooms, offices and gallery spaces for the quickly growing KCAD student body. The expansion will provide the necessary space for new programs, a few of which will be geared toward creating a sort of hybrid creative-business training program.
The collaborative design BFA program — the only one of its kind in existence — will be added in the fall semester. Patton said this ground-breaking program will span all artistic disciplines, training creative professionals in interactive communications, dialogue and personality development, and exposing them to nonprofit and for-profit organizational structures. The students will learn well-rounded artistic skill sets that can be applied to all the visual needs of a corporation, in everything from brand development and logo design to conceptualizing a space or creating multimedia communication pieces.
John Berry, Kendall's executive director of design in West Michigan, said corporations are increasingly aware that employees with broader educational experiences tend to have an easier time being innovative and using strategic thinking than those with a specifically focused discipline.
As Kendall began developing the collaborative design degree, school officials had a lot of conversations with companies that wanted their employees to be more creative in their thinking. "This (program) is absolutely aimed at developing those kinds of capabilities in students so they're able to hone that kind of thinking process for organizations," said Berry.
One of Kendall's existing programs, the MBA certificate in design and innovation management, is comprised largely of working business professionals looking to enrich themselves and their companies by developing their design thinking.
"I strongly feel that the benefit and value of the creative community in West Michigan is truly one of our unsung strengths and is just now becoming fully recognized as having the importance that it does to our economic growth," said Berry.
Evan Koons, an industry relations specialist at Compass College of Cinematic Arts in Grand Rapids, said companies such as Steelcase, Haworth and Amway are tapping into the cinematography talent in Grand Rapids, enhancing their business through videos. Compass students are finding film and video work in West Michigan in the form of commercial, corporate, web, creative, independent and even major motion pictures such as "30 Minutes or Less" and "Touchback."
"I think we're entering a creative class," said Koons. "Manufacturing is different. It's not just bricks and mortar: It's ideas. If we can encourage the growth of ideas in Grand Rapids and in Michigan, we're setting ourselves up for a larger plan down the road."


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Weddings are wonderful but they are truly just the beginning when it comes to life moments that bear celebrating, honoring, grieving, or just slowing down to witness and appreciate. Ceremonies allow us to step out of the busy of our day-to-day and to appropriately honor the significant moments and milestones of our lives.
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Verde Wins Major Environmental Study in Nigeria
During Ireland's Trade Mission to Nigeria and Ghana last week, Verde Environmental Consultants (VEC) announced that it had been awarded a contract to carry out an Environmental Impact Assessment in relation to a hydrocarbons release in the Bayelsa region in 2012. The full environmental impact study follows an earlier assessment by VEC in mid 2015.
Verde Environmental Consultants are part of The Verde Environmental Group with their headquarters in Ireland. Verde have been active in the Nigerian market for the past three years and further information can be found on www.verde.ie.
The Trade Mission was led by Ireland's Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney T.D. Organised by Enterprise Ireland and an Bord Bia, over 40 companies took part, together with state and semi-state agencies and third level institutions.
Geoscience Ireland (GI) members participating were Verde, Nicholas O'Dwyer Consulting Engineers and PW Mining. Sarah Callanan of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade who is an observer on GI's Steering Committee attended, along with Ambassador Sean Hoy.
Commenting on the Trade Mission, Sean Finlay of Geoscience Ireland said
"The recent Trade Mission to Nigeria and Ghana which was led by a senior government Minister, Simon Coveney T.D. It was very well supported by the private sector, educational intuitions, state and semi-state agencies. Ireland has enduring and long standing links with both countries. Since the mid 1980's, Irish companies have discovered 3 major gold mines in Ghana and Len Commerford, PW Mining's CEO, serves as Ireland's Honorary Consul in Ghana. Nicholas O'Dwyer Consulting Engineers have been involved for over 50 years in infrastructure development in Africa.
Verde's persistence in Nigeria has paid off with its award of a significant environmental study. Sub Saharan Africa represents a key market for GI members and I was very pleased to participate in this Trade Mission"


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How Do You Know If a Poem is Good or Bad?
The question is misleading, and opens the door to trouble. Lots of self-appointed critics will try to convince you that their criteria for selection is the one true religion. There are objective criteria, and there are also subjective ones. Beware the authority who insists that their subjective judgment is an objective criteria: they will never give you the whole map, just their tiny corner of it. Always remember that it is much easier to tell if a poem is well-crafted than if it is great.
The truth is: It's an impossible question, with some conditional answers.
But I can tell you how to find all this out for yourself. Here's how:
Read, read, read, read, read, read, read some more, then read. And keep reading.
The more poetry you read, good or bad, the more likely you are to be able to spot something that stands out as great. You are also more likely to learn about clichés and how to avoid them. The more you read, the more you can see what works, and what doesn't. There is no substitute or short-cut for actually reading a lot of poetry. Apprenticeship takes time.
Anyone who claims that all you need to read, in order to write great poems, is their little style manual is lying. They are full of themselves, and wrong. There is no magic bullet.
Each poem is a complete universe, and must be judged on its own terms. Approach it as if you are stepping through a gateway into another world. Dive in, and wade around.
Leave the critical theories at home. If you must read them, read them after you've read the poems. Learning the craft or writing is good, because you need both inspiration and craft, working in harmonious balance, in order to create an outstanding poem. And you can learn a lot about craft just by reading a lot of poems. But do not think that you have arrived at wisdom if all you have studied is craft.
If you want to learn all the linguistic, grammatical and syntactical technical terms in writing, go ahead. But never confuse the trees for the forest. Those tools will help you analyse and understand a poem, and maybe even help you revise one, but they won't help you create one. Never let the tools of analysis dictate what you write; as wonderful as they are, that is not their proper place. If you manage to study the "rules" enough to have internalized them to the point where you don't consciously think about them when writing, all the better. "Learn the rules, forget the rules, break the rules." Which really means, "Transcend the rules."
Remember that academic "creative writing" programs, such as all those shiny new MFAs in poetry, can only teach you analysis and criticism: they are incapable of granting wisdom, or teaching inspiration or vision. They can teach you the tools of analysis, but that's about all they teach. They can help you hone your vision and your voice, if you already have one; but they cannot provide you with one.
I keep returning to what poet Adrienne Rich once said about what poems should do: Instead of being about an experience, a poem should be an experience.
Note that Rich did not say "a poem should move you," or that it's all about feelings. Feelings are only one kind of experience. What she implies is that a poem should pull you all the way into its world for the duration of reading, so that you forget all other words. A poem should be immersive—not only either intellectual or only emotional. It should be a complete experience, in and of itself.
And don't forget to keep reading more poems. If that's all you ever do, that will suffice.
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Why did Health Canada sit on this information from 2003? Why did the Committee on Safety of Medicines and the Medicines Control Agency [MCA - Now MHRA] not do anything, when in the year 2000, they knew that withdrawal reactions were reported more frequently with paroxetine than with other SSRIs? [Curr Probl Pharmacovigilance 2000;26:11-2.]
Last year I had a meeting with the MHRA to discuss withdrawal issues [minutes]. According to this report, they already knew the problems some 8 years ago! The outcome of that meeting was a proposal to get withdrawal information into the BNF for ALL SSRi's. It took 8 years of sitting around and one feisty campaigner to get the current staff at the MHRA to relalise this?
I'm grateful for being allowed to have my say at the MHRA but why did it take a campaigner to bring the MHRA's attention to something that was known for 8 years?
A copy of this is heading toward the MHRA.
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors(SSRIs) are widely used and represent the largest market share of all prescribed antidepressants in Canada.1
Withdrawal reactions or discontinuation symptoms have been documented with all SSRIs.2,3 These reactions are clinically relevant because they are common, can cause significant morbidity, may be misdiagnosed, leading to inappropriate treatment, and can adversely affect compliance with future antidepressant treatment.2
Although defining the true incidence of withdrawal reactions associated with SSRIs is problematic, Canadian adverse reaction (AR) data along with spontaneous AR data from Australia, France, the United Kingdom and the United States reveal that withdrawal reactions are reported more frequently with paroxetine than with other SSRIs.4–7
Although the mechanism of the SSRI withdrawal syndrome is not completely understood, the onset, frequency and intensity of the symptoms seem to vary according to the pharmacologic and pharmacokinetic properties of the drug, such as the half-life (major risk factor), the presence of active metabolites and the anticholinergic effects of the agent.3,8
Compared with other SSRIs, paroxetine has a short half-life, no active metabolite, a greater anticholinergic effect and greater potency in blocking serotonin reuptake, which could be seen as contributing factors.3,5
The withdrawal symptoms may occur after the treatment is stopped, the dose is reduced, the treatment is switched to another antidepressant, or doses are missed.2,3,9 With paroxetine, symptoms occurred and became statistically significant as early as the second dose of placebo in a study evaluating the interruption of SSRI treatment.8
The symptoms observed following SSRI discontinuation can either be physical or psychological and are often grouped into the following categories: disequilibrium (e.g., dizziness, vertigo, ataxia), gastrointestinal disturbances (e.g., nausea, vomiting), influenza-like symptoms (e.g., fatigue, mlethargy,myalgia), sensory disturbance (e.g., paresthesia), sleep disorder (e.g., insomnia, vivid dreams) and psychiatric disturbance (e.g., anxiety, agitation, confusion).9,10
Withdrawal symptoms can easily be misdiagnosed as recurrence of depression, evidence of ineffectiveness of the antidepressant in a noncompliant patient, or adverse reactions of the new antidepressant following a switch of medication.2
Most withdrawal reactions are mild and transient, usually occurring within 1–3 days (up to 1 week) after stopping the medication and lasting 7–14 days, but occasionally the symptoms last for several weeks.2,9 However, some reactions can be severe and may require acute treatment.9
The October 1998 issue of this newsletter outlined a summary of 26 Canadian reports of suspected withdrawal reactions associated with SSRIs.10 Health Canada continues to receive spontaneous reports of such reactions for each SSRI, and Table 1 outlines these reports from the time each SSRI was marketed in Canada to Oct. 31, 2002.
There were 102 reports of suspected withdrawal reactions (citalopram [5], fluoxetine [6], fluvoxamine [2], paroxetine [79] and sertraline [10]), and 49% were identified as serious. Table 2 outlines the symptoms described in these reports.
General strategies to prevent and manage symptoms associated with the discontinuation of SSRIs have been outlined previously in this newsletter and include a gradual tapering of the dose when discontinuing treatment with any SSRI except for fluoxetine.10
If withdrawal reactions occur while tapering or at the end of treatment, it may be necessary to increase the dose and initiate a slower rate of taper.2,3
Some authors suggest switching to fluoxetine if symptoms are severe and the patient is unable to discontinue the SSRI despite tapering.2,10,11 For paroxetine, some suggest reducing the dose by 5 mg/d at weekly intervals to below the initial minimum therapeutic dose.9
Clinicians should be aware that the use of an antidepressant with a short half-life may be an important risk factor for withdrawal reactions.9
Patients should be informed of the risks of withdrawal reactions on initiation of therapy to prevent unguided cessation of treatment. Proper diagnosis of withdrawal reactions may prevent unnecessary reinstatement of long-term antidepressant treatment, unnecessary tests to elucidate an underlying problem or an undesirable escalation of dose.
Susie Dallaire, BPharm; Heather Morrison, BSc, MLIS, Health Canada.
1. Hemels MEH, Koren G, Einarson TR. Increased use of antidepressants in Canada:1981–2000. Ann Pharmacother 2002;36:1375-9.
2. Haddad PM. Antidepressant discontinuation syndromes. Drug Safety 2001;24(3):183-97.
3. Zajecka J, Tracy KA, Mitchell S. Discontinuation symptoms after treatment with serotonin reuptake inhibitors: a literature review. J Clin Psychiatry 1997;58(7):291-7.
4. Committee on Safety of Medicines and the Medicines Control Agency. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Curr Probl Pharmacovigilance 2000;26:11-2. Available: www.mca.gov.uk/ourwork/monitorsafequalmed/currentproblems/cpsept2000.pdf (accessed 2003 Feb14).
5. Stahl MMS, Lindquist M, Pettersson M, Edwards IR, Sanderson JH, Taylor NFA, et al. Withdrawal reactions with selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors as reported to the WHO system. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 1997;53:163-9.
6. Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee (ADRAC). SSRIs and withdrawal syndrome. Aust Adverse Drug React Bull 1996;15(1):3. Available: http://www.health.gov.au/tga/docs/html/aadrbltn/aadr9602.htm(accessed 2003 Feb 14).
7. Trenque T, Piednoir D, Frances C, Millart H, Germain ML. et al. Reports of withdrawal syndrome with the use of SSRIs: a case/non-case study in French Pharmacovigilance database. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2002;11:281-3.
8. Michelson D, Fava M, Amsterdam J, Apter J, Londborg P, Tamura R, et al. Interruption of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment. Br J Psychiatry 2000;176:363-8.
9. Schatzberg AF, Haddad P, Kaplan EM, Lejoyeux M, Rosenbaum JF, Young AH, et al. Serotonin reuptake inhibitor discontinuation syndrome: a hypothetical definition. J Clin Psychiatry 1997;58(Suppl 7):5-10.
10. Macdonald L. Discontinuation reactions associated with SSRIs. Can Adverse Drug Reaction Newsl 1998;8(4):2-3. Also in CMAJ 1998;159(7):846-7.
11. Taman L, Ozpoyraz N. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor discontinuation syndrome: a review. Adv Ther 2002;19(1):17-26.
Read the new book, The Evidence, However, Is Clear...The Seroxat Scandal
'THE EVIDENCE, HOWEVER, IS CLEAR...THE SEROXAT SCANDAL' By Bob Fiddaman
"Self-harm, hostility, violence, mania, aggression, homicidal thinking, suicidal thinking, and suicide completion are not side-effects of antidepressants, they are effects of antidepressants.
The above are not quaint sides to be served alongside your main meal."
~ Bob Fiddaman, Author, Blogger, Researcher
"Self-harm, hostility, violence, mania, aggression, homicidal thinking, suicidal thinking, and suicide completion are not side-effects of antidepressants, they are effects of antidepressants. The above are not quaint sides to be served alongside your main meal."
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These NCDs, issued last month, are part of the Mumbai based real estate developer's proposed Rs 100 crore NCD programme, which was assigned a 'Provisional IND A+' rating with a stable outlook in December last year.
The company aims to augment medium- or long-term resources of fund through this issue.
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So, the other day, a guy named Sean sent me a pm through my last.fm profile asking me if I want to be the Asian indie contributor for his podcast radio show - 75 Minutes. 75 Minutes is a weekly online program playing independent music from all around the world (yay!). I listened to few of their shows, and enjoyed most of the songs/artists they recommended. I decided to join the team, since Asian indie music definitely needs more love, especially in the states ^_^ Another wonderful thing about 75 Minutes is that they offer their shows in 128kbps mp3 format and/or enhanced AAC files.
Interestingly, people from mainland China are 75 Minutes' second most listeners, after the US. Go Chinese indie lovers!
Check them out, and support the independent music scene :o)
About 75 Minutes: (Quoting directly from their site)
We at 75 Minutes scour the earth looking for the best of the independent music world: no matter the language, style, or level of presumed hipness. We have a bias for the new, but an appreciation for the path that lead us here.
We. like you, are music fans, not deeply crass and fraudulent critics of minutiae. We simply look for music that kicks ass, no matter which container it comes in.
Our goal is to contribute to the independent community, not just mirror or comment on it, and we hope to have listeners who will contribute, and be active in the community as well.
The world is now thoroughly connected by music. We simply want to make new connections.Official Site
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Click the below link to visit our new blog: Team Ridgeway Juniors. Find out what is going on in the exciting world of Key Stage 2. The blog is being added to regularly, so please check it whenever you can.
Primary parents – look out for letters coming home soon explaining our new fantastic online resource – Purple Mash. The link for this site is
Your child can use his or her normal Focus password to log on. The possibilities on Purple Mash are endless, and we are still exploring these in school. The children are certainly very excited so prepare for them talking to you all about 2Email, Coding, Serial Mash and Table Toons!
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The Long Island Rail Road, a New York-area commuter train service, is generally more associated in the public mind with suburban Long Island, but thousands of Queens residents take the LIRR every day to their jobs or for fun pursuits, catching the train at one of 23 stations in the borough. It's a fast and convenient way to get around this heavily populated region. And when there are subway delays, some neighborhoods, Woodside, Kew Gardens, Forest Hills, Jamaica, and Flushing, are lucky enough to have the LIRR as an alternative form of mass transit.
Queens Neighborhoods on the LIRR
Auburndale (Port Washington LIRR line)
Bayside (Port Washington LIRR line)
Bellerose (Hempstead LIRR line)
Douglaston (Port Washington LIRR line)
Far Rockaway (Far Rockaway LIRR line)
Floral Park (Hempstead LIRR line)
Flushing-Broadway (Port Washington LIRR line)
Flushing-Main Street (Port Washington LIRR line) - Downtown Flushing
Flushing-Murray Hill (Port Washington LIRR line)
Flushing Meadows-Mets-Willets Point (Port Washington LIRR line) - Service is strictly limited for Mets games and the U.S. Open
Forest Hills (main LIRR line)
Hollis (Hempstead LIRR line)
Jamaica (main LIRR line-major LIRR hub)
Kew Gardens (main LIRR line)
Laurelton (Far Rockaway LIRR line)
Little Neck (Port Washington LIRR line)
Locust Manor (Far Rockaway LIRR line)
Long Island City - Limited service
Hunterspoint Avenue - Limited service
Queens Village (Hempstead LIRR line)
Rosedale (Far Rockaway LIRR line)
St. Albans (West Hempstead LIRR line)
Woodside (Port Washington and mainline)
The Forest Hills Station
You are waiting for the LIRR to show up at the Forest Hills Station on Station Square. You're smack in the middle of Queens, one of the five boroughs in New York City, which has a population north of 8 million. But it's easy to imagine you are somewhere in the English countryside, surrounded by brick streets, Tudor houses and gardens brightening up medians with lampposts.
The Forest Hills Station is the jewel in the crown of LIRR stations and is thought by many to be a destination in itself, with its Tudor architecture, red tile windows, and casement windows. It has wrought-iron signposts marked with the initials "FH" and lighting on the platform that is unique to this station.
The station was built in 1911 on Station Square along with the grand Forest Hills Gardens; the entire community, including the station, was planned, as opposed to just being built at different times and in different styles. This cohesiveness makes for a pleasing and harmonious scene, one that is in full view from the Forest Hills Station and its platform overlooking Burns Street. The station was renovated in the late 1990s to its current, but authentic, glory.


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The Adventure Starts Here - Curse All the Sky Modpack Server
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Rules for Kink Meme:
(Modeled After Inception Kink Meme)
1. Please be respectful of your fellows - there will be no bashing of kinks (YKINMK; MKINYK). If something in a prompt offends you, feel free to PM me or comment on the Mod Post.
2. Even though this is called a KINK meme, all prompts will be accepted. Posts can be gen, fluff, or straight-up porntastic.
3. Please only post one prompt per comment. Also be wary of prompt hijacking.
4. Prompts can be reposted in later rounds, but not in the round directly following the prompt's original round. Prompts from Round One should be reposted in Round Three; prompts from Round Two should be reposted in Round Four.
5. State any and all pairings clearly in the title of the comment, to make it easier for archiving.
6. Multiple fills are welcome on all prompts.
*7. Fills should be nested (If it has multiple parts, reply to part 1 to add new update)
8. Bashing of characters will not be tolerated.
9. RPF is allowed, though please declare it in the comment title. (RPF: Gabriel/Patrick etc.)
10. Crossovers are permitted, though please declare it in the comment title. (Crossover: Suits/Firefly etc.)
11. Warn for possible comment spoilers in the title. (Spoilers: Ep. 102 etc.)
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That's it for now; let me know in the Mod Post if you think I've missed anything or if something needs to be clarified. Now go forth, have fun, and be excellent to each other. <3


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Recent gyrations in the stock market highlight an important opportunity for advisers: to provide clients with lessons on minimizing their tax bill. These opportunities exist year-round, not only at year-end or when the April 15 IRS deadline is looming.
Tax-loss harvesting, charitable contributions and Roth conversions are three strategies advisers should be tapping into, not just in December as some are prone to do, but throughout the year depending on the state of the market, advisers said.
"Tax planning is really a 12-month process," said Neal Solomon, managing director at WealthPro. "People should be thinking about taxes and how they're going to try to minimize them all the time."
Some advisers, such as John Voltaggio, senior wealth adviser for Northern Trust, say that a market correction or recession provide the biggest opportunity for tax-loss harvesting because that's when client portfolios are most likely to have taken a hit — and stock valuations may not be quite so rich.
Tax-loss harvesting involves selling assets that have incurred losses in taxable accounts to offset any taxes that would arise due to gains realized elsewhere in the portfolio. If losses exceed gains, they can be used to offset up to $3,000 of a client's ordinary income per year and, if any losses remain, they can be carried over to offset any future capital gains.
"You're generating some benefits, alpha, from down markets by realizing losses," Mr. Voltaggio said. "If you just sit on your hands and don't proactively sell losses, you're costing your clients a lot of money."
When it's done correctly, Mr. Voltaggio said, an investor will realize a loss and immediately reinvest the sale proceeds in a similar but not identical security to maintain market exposure. (Repurchasing the same investment within 30 days isn't allowed under current rules.) This means that it's imperative for advisers to have a plan in place ahead of time so they know what they're going to buy on behalf of the client, he added.
September could prove to be a good time to execute on that strategy, since it is historically the worst month of the year for markets.
However, tax savings shouldn't trump an overall investment plan for a client, Mr. Solomon cautions.
"Never make an investment decision solely based on taxes," he said. "Taxes are something you keep in mind, but it's secondary to what you want to do with an investment portfolio."
Making charitable contributions using long-term appreciated stock — stock that's been held for at least 12 months — is another tax strategy advisers said that they consider on a continual basis. Rather than writing a check to a charity, investors can donate the appreciated stock and pare back exposure in a particular security without paying any capital-gains taxes.
A donor-advised fund is a way to front-load these contributions into a calendar year, allowing clients to realize the full benefit of a tax deduction in one year but pay out the charitable contributions from the fund over time. Offsetting tax obligations resulting from a financial windfall, such as an IPO or business sale, is an example of when a donor-advised fund could be an appropriate vehicle.
Recent market movement has led Neela Hummel, a partner at Abacus Wealth Partners, to reconsider her strategy with donor-advised funds, though. When putting together a charitable strategy for a client, she usually makes several years' worth of contributions using a donor-advised fund, but she said wouldn't recommend that approach right now.
"There's a part of me that's holding off on making some of those [large] contributions and not making a huge contribution [that's] more than normal, because of the recent volatility," Ms. Hummel said.
For example, instead of contributing appreciated shares worth $100,000 to a donor-advised fund to be paid out in $20,000 installments over five years, just contributing one year's worth, or $20,000, may be a better bet this year, Ms. Hummel explained. Due to the "extreme" volatility of late, "putting the brakes on a little bit" is warranted, she said.
Ms. Hummel also said a dip in the market provides a good opportunity for Roth conversions in individual retirement accounts, especially those with high balances. Clients in higher tax brackets may be hesitant to take a large tax hit years before it's absolutely necessary, but the hit on a converted account will be less in depressed markets, Ms. Hummel said, and then the account can grow tax-free afterward.
"You're taking advantage of the depressed values," she said. "Once things recover, the best case is they recover when you're in the Roth."


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Insurance carriers and government regulatory agencies require various work-related accident and injury reports. Under the OSHA recordkeeping regulation (29 CFR 1904), covered employers must prepare and maintain records of serious occupational injuries and illnesses using the OSHA Recordkeeping Forms.
Employers with more than 10 employees and whose establishments are not classified as a partially exempt industry must record work-related injuries and illnesses using OSHA forms 300 (log of injuries), 300A (summary of injuries) and 301 (incident report). Employers are not responsible for reporting on subcontractors. Subcontractors are considered separate employers by OSHA and must maintain their own OSHA records.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2015, ALL employers* will be required to notify OSHA of work-related fatalities within eight hours, and work-related in-patient hospitalizations, amputations or losses of an eye within 24 hours.
Employers have three options for reporting these severe incidents to OSHA:
Previously, OSHA's regulations required an employer to report only work-related fatalities and in-patient hospitalizations of three or more employees. Reporting single hospitalizations, amputations or loss of an eye was not required under the previous rule.
This requirement became effective on Jan. 1, 2017. The new reporting requirements will be phased in over two years and requires certain employers, including those in construction, to electronically submit the injury and illness information they are already required to keep under existing OSHA regulations. Data submission from OSHA Forms 300 (Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses), 300A (Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses), and 301 (Injury and Illness Incident Report) for these establishments will be phased in as follows:


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Working Dog Costume
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It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog . . .
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This homemade costume for pets entered our 2015 Halloween Costume Contest.
A word from Karen, the 'Working Dog' costume creator:
My dog, Marley, is wearing the costume. She always wants to sit at the table when someone is working me on the laptop. We decided that since she likes it so much, we'd put her to work. :-)