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(Bloomberg) — For a plan unlikely to become law anytime soon, Representative Dave Camp's proposal to revamp the tax code is causing a lot of agitation among U.S. companies.
The American Petroleum Institute says accounting rule changes could depress energy production. The Financial Services Forum, representing chief executives of the nation's biggest banks, warns that a tax on their companies' assets would curtail lending. The National Association of Realtors objects to changes limiting deductions of mortgage interest and property taxes.
Camp's 979-page draft proposal, released yesterday, would eliminate dozens of breaks and reduce rates in the most complete reconstruction of the U.S. tax system since 1986. U.S. business groups, backed by large corporations and their lobbying budgets, are escalating the political pressure on Camp and other lawmakers to prevent provisions that harm them from becoming law.
"This carries with it a seriousness that many view as the start of what will be a multi-year process," said Micah Green, a partner at Patton Boggs LLP in Washington who is a lobbyist for companies such as Lloyd's of London Ltd. "It's the ultimate trial balloon, and either it gets shot down or continues to rise."
Winners, losers
A clear picture of the winners and losers from Camp's plan will emerge in the coming days and weeks. Generally, companies that now pay high effective tax rates will get a boost from the plan's rate cuts and lose little from the vanishing breaks. Companies and constituencies that benefit from the current system would likely pay more under Camp's plan.
Retailers, medical device makers and franchise businesses yesterday were supportive of the plan.
"We need to carry the message that this is absolutely, critically important," said Kirt Johnson, vice president of tax policy for the Retail Industry Leaders Association, which includes Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp. and other big-box chains.
The oil, financial services, private equity and real estate industries were more critical.
"A targeted tax on financial institutions, regardless of form or motivation, is misguided and utterly at odds with the fundamental objective of comprehensive tax reform," said a letter from 11 banking groups, including associations that represent Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Business groups
The largest U.S. business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, applauded Camp's effort as progress toward boosting economic growth while stopping short of a full endorsement.
Declarations that Camp's plan is dead on arrival are disappointing, Business Roundtable President John Engler told reporters on a conference call today.
"The groups that are going to struggle with this in terms of their lobbying are those that have said for a long time that they don't like the current tax code, but they don't like any proposals and they've got none of their own," Engler said. "That's a hard position to be in."
Small-government groups such as Americans for Prosperity and the Club for Growth also praised Camp's plan.
"We particularly applaud Chairman Camp's willingness to take on the special interests that predictably screamed bloody murder as soon as he put out his blueprint," Club for Growth President Chris Chocola said in a statement today, while adding that his group doesn't agree with all of Camp's proposals.
'Crony capitalism'
"This plan takes on the big corporations that for too long have seen the Republican Party as nothing more than a rubber- stamp for crony capitalism," Chocola said.
Camp, 60, is a Michigan Republican who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. He said yesterday that he expects to hear plenty of objections to specific provisions — and that the public wants a simpler tax system.
"What they really want, and what this plan delivers, is a stronger economy," he said, citing a nonpartisan congressional study showing that the plan would boost economic growth.
Lawmakers in both parties don't expect Camp's plan to become law this year. House Republican leaders have distanced themselves from the details and haven't committed to allowing a vote. While the plan doesn't change the amount of revenue generated for the Treasury, Democrats want to use some of the revenue raised from limiting tax breaks to reduce the budget deficit or pay for more spending.
Big-picture divides
Senate leaders from both parties said this week that they saw little if any chance of bridging those big-picture divides. Even if they could, they would have to overcome opposition to changes in long-standing tax breaks for mortgage interest, charitable contributions and state and local taxes. Still, Leonard Burman, director of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington, said Camp's proposal is worth studying as the starting point for future tax policy. In that sense, he said, Camp has done a "real service" by showing the tradeoffs needed to pay for rate cuts and simplification.
"Everybody knows that we need tax reform and I think anybody that pays attention knows that it's hard," said Burman, who was a Treasury Department official in President Bill Clinton's administration. "Everybody who looks at the plan will have issues with it. That's kind of the nature of tax reform."
Child credit
For individuals, Camp would make the tax system simpler by increasing the standard deduction and the child tax credit, repealing the personal exemption and limiting or removing many deductions. The percentage of taxpayers who itemize would fall to about 5 percent from about 30 percent.
Taxpayers could no longer deduct state and local taxes, moving expenses, tax preparation fees, student loan interest or alimony payments, among others.
They could deduct mortgage interest on the first $500,000 of principal, down from $1 million now. They could only deduct charitable contributions that exceed 2 percent of adjusted gross income.
Camp would create a three-bracket structure with a top rate of 35 percent, compared with the top rate of 39.6 percent today. For married couples in 2015, that means 10 percent on the first $74,800 of taxable income and 25 percent on taxable income up to $464,200.
Above that, a very different set of rules would be in place. A 10 percent tax would apply on a base that includes the value of employer-sponsored health insurance, contributions to retirement accounts and municipal bond interest while excluding manufacturing income and charitable contributions.
High-income taxpayers
High-income taxpayers would also lose the benefit of the 10 percent bracket, the standard deduction and the child tax credit.
Those changes amount to "hidden taxes" that make the rate cuts for top earners less advantageous than they seem, Burman said. The loss of such benefits helps ensure that the tax burden doesn't shift away from top earners, according to the nonpartisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. Dividends and long-term capital gains would have a 40 percent exclusion, leaving effective rates for the highest- income taxpayers little changed.
Taxpayers would have to live in their homes for five of the past eight years — instead of two of the past five — to exclude capital gains from their home sale from income.
Anti-poverty groups
Anti-poverty groups, including the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, warned of the potential effects from Camp's proposal to shrink the earned income tax credit for low-income workers. Camp makes other changes that would benefit some low- income families, and on average, by 2017, taxes would decline for households earning under $200,000, according to nonpartisan congressional estimates.
For corporations, Camp would set the income tax rate at 25 percent. That's down from today's 35 percent rate, which is the highest in the industrialized world.
The plan would repeal accelerated depreciation, require the amortization of research and advertising expenses and impose a quarterly 3.5 basis-point tax on the assets of the biggest banks and insurers.
It also includes a series of miscellaneous changes that will receive more scrutiny, such as an end to the National Football League's tax exemption, new tax rules for real estate investment trusts and limits on deducting gambling expenses.
President Obama
Tony Fratto, a former George W. Bush administration official, is among some Republicans who see Camp's plan as countering the party's philosophy on taxes and even echoing proposals made by President Barack Obama.
"He's made a populist lurch to try to win friends, and I think it lacks credibility and doesn't advance the cause," Fratto said in a telephone interview yesterday. He is a partner at Hamilton Place Strategies in Washington, a firm that advocates for big banks and insurance.
"The big cost is that Democrats are going to accept things like a bank tax," Fratto said. "I can see the Obama administration pocketing things like that and saying it's a quote-unquote Republican idea, when really it's just Dave Camp's idea."
U.S.-based multinational companies would have lighter taxes on certain future profits outside the country. They would have to pay a one-time tax on accumulated earnings under the current system, with a higher rate for cash and equivalents than for hard assets such as factories.
Retirement plans
The plan would push people into Roth-style retirement plans that rely on after-tax money instead of tax-deferred accounts. New contributions to standard individual retirement accounts would end.
Private equity managers and others who receive profits as carried interest would pay $3.1 billion more over the next decade, with a portion of income that is now considered capital gains becoming ordinary income with higher rates. The plan excludes real estate professionals and is a smaller tax increase than the one Obama has proposed.
"Even if it doesn't move forward this year, making our members' priorities known is important," Chris Whitcomb, tax counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business, said in a telephone interview.
The NFIB, which represents small businesses, opposes Camp's plan because many of its members don't benefit from the corporate-rate cut.
"This could serve as a benchmark for reform," Whitcomb said, "and it's important for everyone to take it seriously."
–With assistance from Derek Wallbank in Washington.
See also:
Camp's tax plan unlikely to pass but sure to ignite debate
Camp calls for killing medical deductions
Life insurance tax reform revenue pegged at $39B
Financial firms respond to Camp tax proposal


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The start of the next school year is August 25, so now is the time to start planning. To find out the answer to such questions as what school supplies to get, when bus schedules are announced, or where to register your child for school, visit Northside ISD's Back to School website.
News Archive
Since 1991, the NISD Board of Trustees signs a Code of Ethics annually, reaffirming their commitment to adhere to educational and ethical standards.
So You Think You Can Dance is a popular reality television show, but the reality of watching the San Antonio Deaf Dance Company perform is truly show-stopping. The Company's public performance is Friday, August 1 at 7 p.m. in the Marshall High School Auditorium, 8000 Lobo Lane. Admission is free but donations are accepted.
Pascual Gonzalez, Executive Director of Communications for Northside ISD, is the recipient of the Texas School Public Relations Association's (TSPRA) 2014 Key Communicator Award.
Northside ISD is holding a Transportation Job Fair for bus drivers from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, July 24 at McClung Transportation Station, 14173 Old FM 471.
Northside ISD is hosting a Job Fair to fill positions for food service workers and food service manager trainees in the Child Nutrition Department.
Northside ISD, in partnership with the San Antonio Sports' Fit Family Challenge, is encouraging families to get moving this summer and exercise together. To help with this, NISD is offering FREE Zumba and Kid Fit classes each week throughout the summer at Linton Elementary School, located at 2103 Oakhill.
Northside ISD rejects a recently published Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts report that incorrectly concludes there is wasteful spending in school construction by unfairly comparing school construction costs in different parts of Texas.
It might be summer but school zones are in effect through the beginning of August, although the times are slightly altered. All Northside ISD campuses are used for either summer school programs or as drop off/pick up sites for students.
Campus nurses are busy this summer calling more than 5,000 students who may be delinquent in updating their vaccines due to an increase in shots required at various grade levels.
The Rising Stars Theatre Camp is presenting Alice in Wonderland Jr. in a free public performance on Tuesday, July 1 at 2 p.m. in the Jay High School auditorium, 7611 Marbach Road.
At the June 17 Board Meeting, Northside ISD Trustees approved a $20.9 million compensation package that will provide salary increases for more than 14,000 employees. The raise includes a three percent increase for all employees effective the new school year.
The Northside Learning Tree After School Program is seeking outgoing, energetic, and positive role models to fill youth leader and site leader positions. Applicants must complete the online application for each position and interviews will take place through the end of August.
To comply with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations, Northside ISD will offer free meals to children from June 10-July 10 (Monday through Thursday). Last summer, NISD served more than 75,000 meals in one month. This year, free meals are available at 16 schools for children who are 18 years or younger.
Northside ISD is holding a Custodial Job Fair to fill more than 75 positions for custodians, assistant head custodians, and head custodians.
Northside ISD offers free, half-day pre-kindergarten for eligible four-year-old students in their neighborhood schools. There are over 2,800 pre-kindergarten students projected for next school year.
Graduations will soon begin, and we are pleased to feature our high school valedictorians and salutatorians for this year.
Summer School is a time to catch up in your studies, learn something new, or try to get ahead. NISD offers a wide variety of courses, from classes to allow students to take more advanced and varied courses during the regular school year; classes needed for remediation; enrichment courses and campus that allow students to explore and have fun while learning something new.
Starting with the 2014-15 school year, all 7,000+ Northside ISD juniors will have the opportunity to take the college entrance SAT exam, as well as have access to online prep programs – all at no cost to the students and parents.
Northside ISD recognized hundreds of campus volunteers and business partners who donate their time and energy to enrich the education of thousands of NISD students.
The Northside Education Foundation will turn 20 this coming school year, and in preparation the organization partnered with the NISD Fine Arts Department and sponsor Security Service Federal Credit Union (SSFCU), to hold a student art contest for a 20th anniversary logo design.
Starting this week and next, approximately 6,300 seniors will don caps and gowns and collect their diplomas at one of 12 commencement ceremonies being held for all comprehensive high schools, Health Careers High School, and the Reddix Center.
The Northside Learning Tree After School Program is hosting a Job Fair to fill 100 youth leader positions. The job fair will be held Friday, May 30 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Northside Learning Center, Building C, 6632 Bandera Road.
Northside ISD, in partnership with the San Antonio Sports and City of San Antonio, is holding grand opening celebrations at its three new SPARK parks.
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What is a gallon 10 oz to ml?
Gallon is a royal as well as United States normal measurement system volume device. 10 oz to ml? There is one kind of gallon in the imperial system and also 2 kinds (fluid and completely dry) in the US customary dimension system. 1 US liquid gallon is specified as 231 cubic inches, 1 US dry gallon is 268.8 cubic inches and 1 royal gallon is 277.4 cubic inches. The abbreviation is gall. 10 oz to ml?
Gallons Conversion:
1 Gallon = 4 Quarts
1 Gallon = 8 Pints
1 Gallon = 16 Cups
1 Gallon = 256 Tablespoons
1 Gallon = 768 Teaspoons
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What is a liquid ounce (fl oz)10 oz to ml?
A liquid ounce is an imperial as well as US customary measurement system volume unit. 1 US fluid ounce equals to 29.5735 mL and 1 royal (UK) fluid ounce equals to 28.4131 mL. The acronym is fl oz. So, 10 oz to ml?
There are 8 fluid ounces in a United States mug and also 10 imperial liquid ounces in an imperial cup.
The list for your referral:
1 United States Fluid Gallon = 128 US Fluid Ounces
1 US Dry Gallon = 148.946 United States Fluid Ounces
1 Imperial Gallon (UK) = 160 Imperial Fluid Ounces (UK).
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Liquid Ounce 10 oz to ml
Liquid Ounce is utilized for volume, Ounce for mass, and also they are various.
As an example, 1 liquid ounce of honey has a mass of about 1,5 ounces!
But also for water, 1 liquid ounce has a mass of about 1 ounce.
10 oz to ml
If you imply an ounce of fluid says fluid ounce (fl oz).
In Summary:.
1 gallon = 4 quarts = 8 pints = 16 mugs = 128 fluid ounces.
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As many of you may have noticed, two somewhat major apps for Windows Phone received updates in the last 24 hours, so we'll pass on the news in case you missed it.
First up is Facebook, which has been receiving quite a few updates lately, generally a good sign…unless you consider everything so broke that it needs even more fixing. The last update was just a week ago for version 2.6 and now version 2.7 has landed in the Marketplace bringing with it some new fixes though no new features:
- Notifications now show updated time instead of created time
- Corrected thumbnail display on likes
- Now respecting except clause on posts with custom privacy settings
That's nothing terribly exciting though if you were experiencing any of those issues, hopefully you'll be a bit pleased with the update.
Next up is Amazon's Kindle ebook app. That app is now on version 1.2 which shows you how often that one gets updated (seriously, it has had one update in the last year). The good news here is this update is more significant:
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|Garmin HUD
|September (preorder at Garmin.com and Amazon.com)
|$129.99 on Garmin.com through 18 August; $149.99 after
|Device requires Garmin Navigon or Garmin StreetPilot smartphone apps (must be purchased separately)
Getting review hardware is fun, but I was more excited than usual to receive this particular piece of kit: an actual for-real stick-on heads-up display (HUD) for my car. Announced in July by Garmin, the simply named Garmin HUD attaches itself to your dashboard and projects navigation data up onto your windshield, just like you were in the cockpit of a fancy fighter jet.
At least, that's the idea. However, as I pulled the HUD out of its box and started photographing it, I was a little dismayed at what I saw. It was certainly a sturdy little device, but it didn't appear to have any place for batteries... and its "screen" turned out to be individual VFD (vacuum fluorescent display) elements, looking like those on a digital watch. My dreams of full holographic augmented reality projecting up onto my windscreen evaporated.
A HUD in the hand
I reset my expectations and took stock. The packaging contained the HUD itself, along with a snap-on plastic reflector, a small reflective film square for your windshield, a 12-volt power adapter for your car's cigarette lighter/accessory port/whatever we're supposed to call it these days, and a short manual. The HUD sits atop a big flexible base with an adhesive underside; the base is somewhat bendy, so it should stick solidly to just about any dash, no matter how curved. The connection to the base is adjustable, so the HUD can be pitched and rolled as needed to get it perfectly oriented.
The HUD is a squat, sturdy device. According to my kitchen scale, it weighs 279 grams, which is about 0.6 lbs. It feels decidedly solid. This is a good thing—I didn't want to actually use the review HUD's sticky foot on my dash, and its weight was more than sufficient to keep it held in place under normal driving. The adhesive is not permanent, though, so swapping the HUD out between vehicles is not a problem.
Apps, apps, everywhere there's apps
On its own, the HUD doesn't do much at all. That heavy, sturdy body doesn't have a lot in it besides the VFD elements and a Bluetooth transceiver—it won't even function as a compass without a Bluetooth-paired smartphone and an app telling it what to do.
There are two different apps (across three separate platforms) that can control the Garmin HUD. The good news is that iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8 can all join in the party—one or both of the two supported apps is available for all three major smartphone flavors.
The bad news, though, is that the $149 price tag of the HUD isn't the only outlay of money required. You'll either need the Garmin Navigon app (for $39.95 on the Google Play store or $49.99 on the iOS App Store and the Windows Phone app store) or the Garmin StreetPilot app ($49.99 on the iOS App Store—StreetPilot also exists on other platforms, but only the iOS version can control the HUD as of release). For those who are existing Garmin app customers, easy integration with the navigation app of their choice is a boon. However, if you're not already participating in the Garmin app ecosystem, having to shell out another $50-ish on top of the HUD's $149 price definitely stings.
Additionally, the HUD only works with smartphones. If you have an existing Garmin GPS that supports Bluetooth connectivity, you can't pair it with the HUD and use the HUD to display its navigation directions.
So, following Garmin's app recommendations, I pulled down the USA version of its iOS Navigon application and loaded up the Texas map set, then I headed out to the car to get going.
Getting the hook-up
The HUD needs power, so the first thing to do was to plug in the 12-volt adapter and snake the cord across my console and up to the HUD. Annoyingly, the HUD is designed with the power adapter port on the left side of the device; for cars with right-hand drive this is ideal, but since I'm an American person with an American left-hand drive kind of car, the cord's natural tendency was to flop down directly in front of my instruments. It took a bit of fiddling to get it to stay put. If I were going to use this device permanently, I'd definitely want to look into a better way of securing the cord to keep it out of the way.
HUDs aren't magic hologram projectors—they don't actually "project" anything anywhere. Instead, they typically work via reflection, and this Garmin HUD is no exception. If you look at the HUD face-on, you'll notice that the VFD numbers and letters are both upside-down and backward; that's because it's designed to reflect up and back toward you, either off of the snap-on reflector or a more permanent film you place on your windshield.
Unfortunately, I had pretty bad luck getting the windshield reflector properly positioned. To apply it, you spray a bit of water onto the inner surface of the windshield and then position the film where it needs to be, scraping out bubbles with a credit card or other similar type of object. When the water has dried—which took a couple of minutes—you peel off the outer protective layer and your film is properly set. My film placement appeared optimal when I did it, but after a bit of usage it became obvious that I needed to move it; unfortunately, you can't move the film without damaging it, and Garmin only includes one film.
So I ended up using the small plastic snap-on reflector, and it worked just fine. The plastic sat low enough in my field of view to not block anything, and dropping my eyes to look at it once I was driving was no different from dropping them to check the speedometer or tachometer, and it was certainly far less disruptive than glancing at my in-dash nav system or my phone.
Once the HUD is powered and the display is properly aligned so you can see it, you need to pair the HUD with your smartphone. This process went off without a hitch—the HUD automatically starts up looking for compatible Bluetooth hosts, and it appeared in my iPhone's list of Bluetooth devices immediately.
Ramblers, let's get rambling
Without the paired smartphone within reach, the HUD displays a line of dashes; if you happen to leave home without your phone, the HUD isn't going to show you how to get anywhere. However, once paired and with your phone in range, the HUD displays the time, the direction you're facing, your current speed, and the speed limit of the road you're on (or at least what the navigation app thinks is the speed limit of the road you're on).
One odd thing I noticed was that on the occasions when my car was in a driveway, the HUD consistently failed to display the direction that the car (and the phone inside the car) was facing; on consulting the navigation app, the arrow indicating my present position remained on the street and faced my previous direction of travel. It's a small thing, but it was a little weird to be sitting parked with the HUD saying I was facing east when I was actually facing north.
Using the Navigon app's point of interest function, I selected Space Center Houston as my destination—it's a relatively short drive from my house, and I knew how to get there so I wouldn't have to blindly follow the GPS into a lake or off a cliff. Apart from some initial difficulty in figuring out where the car was—the fault of which lies with either my phone or the Garmin Navigon app, not the HUD—there were no surprises and we arrived alive.
Once you've got the HUD in a comfortable position, it's quite easy to see during the day or at night. There is no way to adjust the brightness on the device, but it does have an ambient light sensor that it uses to automatically set itself to an appropriate brightness level. In full sun, the HUD's retro digital clock display was quite easy to see floating at the bottom of my field of view; as the sun went down, the display dynamically adjusted itself down. I didn't notice any sudden stepping or shift from one light level to another—rather, the HUD always seemed to simply be bright enough without being too bright.
The display is easily visible from the driver's position, and most of it can also be seen from the passenger's position. I didn't have to do much angling to make the entire contents of the HUD's plastic reflector fully visible to my camera-holding passenger as we drove around.
Main screen turn on
The display is dominated by a large set of arrows to indicate which direction you should drive. To the right of the arrows is a set of VFD clock-style digits indicating the distance to your next turn. Below that is your estimated time of arrival, an indicator that lights up if your route takes you through traffic, and your speed and the current speed limit. To the left, below the directional arrows, are a set of lane assistance arrows that attempt to show you which lane you ought to be occupying in order to make your next turn.
The direction and distance indicators worked well enough, but the information displayed in the others was pretty dodgy. The Garmin Navigon app had incorrect speed limits for the majority of the roads I tested it on, including a stretch of I-45 (showing a speed limit of 75 mph instead of the correct limit of 65 mph). Similarly, the lane indicators fluctuated wildly—so much so that I had to check the manual to see what that portion of the display was actually for. Rarely did the lane indicators reflect anything close to reality, showing four lanes on two-lane roads, or two lanes on four-lane roads, and other craziness.
To be fair, though, these are not criticisms of the HUD, but rather the combination of the Garmin Navigon app and my iPhone 4's GPS. Since it contains no GPS hardware and is driven wholly by the attached smartphone, the HUD doesn't come up with any of the things it displays—it just shows what it's told to show.
It's also worth noting that there is no way to customize the display. You can't change what it shows or rearrange the display elements or have it echo your phone alerts up onto your windshield—absolutely nothing. The individual VFD elements of the display are as immutably fixed as the old-school alarm clock digits they resemble.
The Garmin app itself continues to function while navigating, so a passenger can hold your smartphone and provide more detailed instructions on upcoming turns or other route features. The app also continues to make voice announcements while the HUD is operational; these were issued via my car's speakers, connected to the iPhone via Bluetooth. The experience was very much like driving with the in-dash nav system, except I didn't have to pull my eyes down to see when I needed to turn.
A fun toy, but a pricey one
I enjoyed playing with the HUD, because who doesn't want an awesome heads-up display shining on their windshield? I've rented cars with HUDs, and I'd love for my next car to have one. Unfortunately, the Garmin HUD isn't quite the right way to go about it.
Every HUD-equipped car I've driven before has used a much more flexible LCD with individual pixels that could display a variety of different things, like moving analog-style tachometer gauges. Even so, I could forgive the use of a fixed-element display if the Garmin HUD didn't carry a $149.99 price tag. That's a pretty significant amount of money to drop on accessory that projects numbers up onto your windshield.
On the other hand, there is a whole lot to be said about visual simplicity when it comes to navigation. The Garmin HUD displays exactly what you need to know—what direction do I need to turn and how far away is that turn?—and doesn't clutter the visual field with extraneous and distracting motion or animation. The information it does display is crisp and exceedingly easy to see in an entire range of lighting conditions. The navigation information itself is provided via your smartphone and Garmin's application, so it should be much more up-to-date than the expensive DVD-based in-dash navigation systems that many cars are equipped with.
So I liked it. It worked well. But I'd still choke on the price if I were buying one for myself.
The good:
- Very visible and crisp display
- Shows you exactly what you need to navigate and does not distract from driving
- Far easier to grok, and far less cluttered, than an in-dash navigation system
The bad:
- Simple, totally non-customizable VFD
- Only a single reflective windshield film supplied, and it's easy to screw up its placement
- No batteries—requires a power cord
- That required power cord comes out of the left side of the device and probably hangs in front of your instrument cluster
- Doesn't always show you accurate direction or speed or lane choices—but, as stated, that's not the HUD's fault
The ugly:
- You're paying $150 for what is basically a simple VFD with digital watch-style elements, and it won't do a single thing without another $50 app


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The main thing to keep in mind, as we've mentioned in recent seasons, is that an increasing percentage of the available audience is recording shows to view later (a.k.a. time shifting) which is not included in the overnights; and the weekly numbers only include same day time shifted viewing (those are released on Tuesdays.)The real numbers is the Live plus seven days number, which we're lucky to hear about at all although it has usually been once or twice a season. The advertisers use the live plus three day numbers to set advertising rates, which we often don't information on, either.The most recent estimates I saw from Nielsen is that time shifting is now used by one half of all households.So it's hard to figure out what value the numbers have these days, but this is all we have to work with.
Broadcast viewership and cable viewership is always interesting, because shows like TAR got hurt by the Oscars, while "The Walking Dead" grew its 18-49 audience by 0.1 from last week and was completely unaffected by the Oscars:http://thefutoncritic.com/ratings/2013/02/26/sundays-cable-ratings-the-walking-dead-continues-reign-for-amc-449115/cable_20130224/The Walking Dead - AMC11.014 million viewers, #1; 7.243 million adults 18-49 (5.7 rating), #1 I wonder if TAR will take any hit when March Madness over-runs make it go head-to-head against a juggernaut like "The Walking Dead."
TV Ratings Sunday: 'Once Upon a Time' Hits Low, 'The Amazing Race', 'The Simpsons' & 'The Good Wife' Rise, 'Celebrity Apprentice' Returns Down, 'Red Widow' Premieres LowBroadcast primetime ratings for Sunday, March 3, 2013:Time Net Show 18-49 Rating/Share Viewers (Millions)7:00 CBS 60 Minutes 1.7/5 11.95ABC America's Funniest Home Videos 1.6/5 6.53FOX The Simpsons - R 1.3/4 3.11NBC Betty White's Off Their Rockers - R 0.8/2 3.567:30 FOX The Cleveland Show 1.5/5 3.27NBC Betty White's Off Their Rockers - R 0.8/2 3.328:00 CBS The Amazing Race 2.4/6 9.12FOX The Simpsons 2.3/6 4.76ABC Once Upon A Time 2.1/6 7.22NBC Dateline 1.3/3 6.098:30 FOX The Cleveland Show 1.9/5 3.809:00 FOX Family Guy - R 1.9/5 4.11CBS The Good Wife 1.6/4 8.94NBC Celebrity Apprentice (9-11PM) - Season Premiere 1.6/4 5.08ABC Red Widow (9-11PM) - Series Premiere 1.4/4 6.929:30 FOX Bob's Burgers 1.7/4 3.6410:00 CBS The Mentalist 1.5/4 9.10 -Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2013 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.What's causing these low viewers? I'm not an expert on this stuff.
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flashplugin-nonfree has not been working on Gutsy for a while. I noticed when I installed Gutsy on my eldest son's Christmas computer on December 25. Quite a bummer for a teenager, but he accepted to wait for an official fix rather than using some workaround. He's been patient, but yesterday, well, that was it, I had to do something.
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The 'Cats — led by their high-scoring offensive attack — cruised to a 56-28 victory over Karns, scoring more than 50 points for the third time this season. With their 18th straight win over the Beavers, Oak Ridge improves to 5-2 overall and 4-1 in District 3-AAA.
The Wildcats got the ball rolling early, turning an opening drive fumble by Karns into a 57-yard drive to take an early 7-0 lead in the first quarter. Sophomore running back Isiah Jones ran the ball in from four yards out; and, after a quick stop by the defense, senior quarterback Jaylin Henderson connected with senior wide receiver Blake Goins on a 24-yard touchdown pass to take a 14-0 advantage.
The Beavers answered with a 27-yard touchdown pass to cut the lead in half — and make it a 14-7 ball game with 9:07 to play in the first half. Unfortunately for Karns, that would be as close as they would get, as the Wildcats would reel off three straight scores to blow the game open.
Oak Ridge drove 80 yards on the following series, capping the possession off with another touchdown run by Jones. The Wildcats defense kept the Beavers off the field, and junior running back Jaleel Luster punched the ball in for a 6-yard score to give his team the 28-7 lead.
A punt return by junior wide receiver Brandon Bonds would set up Isiah Jones' third touchdown run in the half, but Karns put together a late drive to cut the score to 35-14 with 1:07 to play before the break.
With just over a minute to play in the first half, however, Henderson proved there was plenty of time to add to the lead. The 6-0, 165-pound quarterback connected to three different receivers in just 45 seconds, hitting WR Goins on the run from 24 yards out to take a 42-14 lead into halftime.
Oak Ridge head coach Joe Gaddis was impressed with the offense as a whole, but complimented his quarterback in particular for growing each week.
"He's a senior, but he's kind of like a sophomore in that he has little experience," said Gaddis. "He's getting better every week."
After playing sparingly as a sophomore, Henderson skipped football his junior season but decided to come back to football with the return of Gaddis as coach. Henderson got his first start in Oak Ridge's home-opener this year against the Clinton Dragons, to whom the Wildcats handed a 51-14 loss Sept. 6 at Jack Armstrong Stadium.
"It's very critical that he understands the game — and can adapt to and adjust to things that happen on the field," Gaddis explained. "He's doing that like a seasoned veteran right now … and that's huge for our offense. "
Both teams would sputter offensively to begin the second half, but the 'Cats finally added to their lead with 2:30 to play in Q3. The Beavers fumbled the football and Henderson capitalized with a 3-yard play action run to increase Oak Ridge's lead to 49-14. A 36-yard touchdown pass by Karns cut the lead to 49-21, but a final 26-yard TD pass from Henderson to junior wide receiver Jiminquas Johnson with 9:05 to play would keep the game out of reach.
The Beavers added a late score, but it wouldn't be enough to overcome the deficit.
Johnson's scoring play made him the fifth different Wildcat player to reach the end zone on Friday night. The Oak Ridge offense continues to prove it is multi-dimensional and has a variety of weapons to keep its opponents — and even its head coach, sometimes — guessing.
"It's kind of strange," said Gaddis. "We'll have a player have a really good game one week, and then sometimes that player won't get a pass for a week and someone else will step in."


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This South By, Man Man were good good (last time we make that joke). We caught the face-painted Philly boys twice this week -- both outdoors -- once at Cedar Street Courtyard as part of the Anti- showcase (great), then a late-night set out at the way-off-the-beaten-path Scoot Inn for the Solid PR showcase (even better). We managed to get some video footage of Rabbit Habits standouts at the Cedar Street show -- raucous, organ-pumping "Mister Jung Stuffed" and kazoo funk-vamp jam "Hurly/Burly." Impressive beard growth, dudes. Can we do a top five bands of SXSW? OK, cool. Man Man makes the list. Meet "Mr. Jung": -Stereogum.com
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text: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 CMS Reports 'Moderate' Number of Part B Outpatient Therapy Claims Rejected in Error The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently reported that physical therapists and other providers who bill Medicare for outpatient therapy services may have recently noticed an increase in the frequency of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act rejection codes on their provider notification letters. Medicare routinely mails these letters to providers when various identified claims cannot be successfully crossed over to their patient's supplemental insurance companies. The codes are: H51000: The Procedure Code ____ is not a valid CPT or HCPCS Code for this Date of Service H51061: 'Procedure Modifier 1' ___ is not a valid CPT or HCPCS Modifier Code H51062: 'Procedure Modifier 2'____ is not a valid CPT or HCPCS Modifier Code H51063: 'Procedure Modifier 3' ____ is not a valid CPT or HCPCS Modifier Code H51064: 'Procedure Modifier 4' ____ is not a valid CPT or HCPCS Modifier Code H51108: _______ is not a valid 'Line Level Adjustment Reason Code.' (Where you see "_____" directly above, the value [for example, G8978; modifier CH; or CARC 246] was reported, when applicable, on the outbound provider notification letter that billing offices would have received.) CMS states that the new functional G-codes, new severity/complexity modifiers, and new Claim Adjustment Reason Code (CARC) 246 for the January 2013 Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) and CARC updates were inadvertently not loaded. As a result, a moderate number of Part B outpatient therapy claims (claims for physical therapy, speech-language pathology services, and occupational therapy) were rejected in error. The newly added severity/complexity modifiers were as follows: CH, CI, CJ, CK, CL, CM, and CN. The new functional G-codes fall within the following ranges: G8978—G8999 G9158—G9176 G9186 To remedy this issue, the Coordination of Benefits Contractor (COBC) HIPAA validation vendor added the new G-codes to its HCPCS table as of January 28. The vendor then added the new severity/complexity modifiers to its HCPCS table as of February 11. Lastly, the vendor added the new CARC 246 to its table as of February 25. Thus, Medicare participating therapists, physicians, and nonphysician providers should now see a drastic decrease in the incidence of error codes H51000, H51061-H51064, and H51108 reflected on their provider notification letters. If your billing office received a provider notification letter from Medicare indicating that claims could not be crossed over due to one of the H-series error messages described above, there unfortunately is not a way for Medicare to retransmit the affected claims to your patients' supplemental insurers. Therefore, you will need to bill your patients' supplemental insurers directly. To help mitigate this kind of problem in the future, CMS will implement a fail-safe strategy in advance of the scheduled installation of new HCPCS or other code updates. This will ensure that any incorrectly rejected Medicare crossover claims will be repaired by all A/B Medicare Administrative Contractors, thus minimizing the impact to the provider community. This notice, titled CMS Reports Problem Impacting Crossover of Medicare Part B Outpatient Therapy Claims, can be found in the March 7 issue of Provider e-News. Comments My case load is totally wound care. How do the caps and "G" codes apply to wound care when the outcomes and goals are not functionally based? Posted by Pamela Connor on 3/15/2013 3:53 PM Please help: Can an assistant write a portion of the 10th visit Progress Report. The registered clinician, of course, would do their parts and sign. Posted by jackie on 3/15/2013 9:10 PM I have sent in G codes incorrectly for some medicare patients secondary to my misjudgement on which codes were to be used on first, tenth and d/c visits. Is there any way to go back and fix this issue? Posted by Connie on 11/20/2013 10:12 PM H51108 '2' code is not valid line level???? what exactly does that mean? even Availity was not quite sure of its meaning. Posted by SUSAN on 12/21/2015 12:22 PM


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This is the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
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Crime Magazine's Review of True-Crime Books
by Denise Noe
A multitude of approaches can be taken in crime writing. Crime is a subject that lends itself well to academic research. Thus, much writing on crime seeks to illuminate its history and the history of crime fighting techniques as well as to explore the social and psychological underpinnings of criminality. Humor is well known as a psychological defense mechanism. Much work on crime is written from a humorous slant as the most awful things in life can often inspire bursts of laughter. In addition, human weaknesses and faults of all kinds are always ripe for comedy. True crime books can also tell the stories of those victimized by crime and those who commit crimes. In this column, I examine a group of books that represent all of these diverse approaches to crime writing.
The Truth Machine: A Social History of the Lie Detector by Geoffrey C. Bunn (The John Hopkins University Press, 2012) is a book that genuinely deserves to be called "extraordinary." It is not merely the story of the polygraph. The first chapters make no mention of the machine. This "social history" demonstrates how popular views about criminality, and about lying, had to develop in order to facilitate the entire concept of a machine that can pinpoint truth. Bunn records the persistent tension between the view that criminality is the ugly manifestation of negative tendencies intrinsic to being human and the view that sees criminals as a species apart, perhaps even biological "throwbacks" to savage pre-history. Bunn shows how fiction writers planted the idea of the lie detector in the popular imagination. He observes, "The 'invention of the lie detector' was predominantly a matter not of technological advance, but rather of conceptual, procedural, and, to some extent, terminological innovation." Bunn points out that the concept of a "lie detector" is, ironically enough, something of a lie. The Truth Machine is a thorough investigation into the search for truth. It is a solid achievement that should be read by anyone interested in criminology.
A Miscellany of Murder: From History and Literature to True Crime and Television, A Killer Selection of Trivia by The Monday Murder Club (Adams Media, 2011) is a delightful potpourri of shivery murder related information. Organized around the Seven Deadly Sins of Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride, the book ransacks history and tradition, real cases and fictional, film and television, to provide its readers with items that never fail to fascinate. The book includes games inviting readers to match one thing with another such as sexy TV cops and the actors who play them or fictional victims to the books in which they are murdered. It is sprinkled with witty remarks such as Lee Israel's "Hatchet murders were the house specialty of the [New York] Journal, whose front page was a virtual abattoir of murder most foul." There are many sprightly paragraphs about murders most foul as well as about the odd twists and turns of justice (too often) most capricious. This book resembles a box of delicious and rich chocolate candies.
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story by John O'Dowd (BearManor Media, 2006) is an enthralling book that is almost impossible to put down. It tells the heartbreaking story of Barbara Payton, a bountifully talented movie star whose life careened out of control through the tragic and interlocking factors of alcohol and violence. The book takes its title from the 1950 motion picture Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye in which young Barbara Payton, a relative newcomer to the screen, played opposite Jimmy Cagney. In the difficult role of a naïve woman corrupted by her relationship with a gangster and driven to violence by their love-hate relationship, Payton gave a believable and nuanced performance. She had previously garnered rave reviews in her first major role in the 1949 thriller with Lloyd Bridges Trapped. After the release of Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, many believed the beautiful and shapely Barbara Payton was poised for superstardom. But a little over a decade later, she was a decrepit and alcoholic has-been, a skid row prostitute selling her favors for as little as $5. In the aftermath of the success of Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, she garnered a multitude of condemnatory headlines for a violent episode in her personal life. Lusty Barbara had been juggling boyfriends. One was the elegant A-list actor Franchot Tone and the other the muscular B-movie denizen Tom Neal. Infamy crashed down on all angles of the triangle when a jealous Tom Neal beat Franchot Tone into a coma, giving Barbara a black eye in the process. This was not the first time Barbara's life would be upended by brutality and it would not be the last. A boyfriend had previously viciously assaulted Barbara's landlady in a dispute over Barbara's rent. After the end of her career, Barbara suffered a beating and near gang rape. Still later she was stabbed by a deranged trick. O'Dowd has written a brilliant book that brings Barbara Payton to life in all her glorious and inglorious contradictions: ambitious, sensuous, conniving, kind, generous, loving, exhibitionistic, and all-too-often utterly out of control. Stunningly attractive and tastefully attired in her youth, she gained weight and became sloppy as she entered middle age. O'Dowd draws the reader into this story of a young woman from the small town of Cloquet, Minnesota who headed for Hollywood to make her dreams come true and soon found herself trapped in a nightmare from which she could not escape. Raised in a family in which alcohol was habitually abused, she may have sought male approval to compensate for the lack of it from an emotionally distant father. O'Dowd points out that as long as Barbara had a movie career, she often gave fine performances even when the film itself hardly merited it as in the campy 1951 Bride of the Gorilla in which "the curvaceous Barbara smolders with a sexual intensity that is nothing less than riveting." In the 1953 Run for the Hills, an oddball effort in which Sonny Tufts plays an insurance actuary who takes refuge in an old mining shaft because he fears the Cold War might burst into a hot one and Barbara plays his wife, she proves in her only comedy that she could be refreshingly funny. Indeed, Barbara Payton was multi-talented: a fine actress, a gourmet cook, a gifted interior decorator, and a skilled upholsterer. Her wealth of skills makes her end in alcoholic poverty all the more tragic.
Hands Through Stone: How Clarence Ray Allen Masterminded Murder from Behind Folsom's Prison Walls by James A. Ardaiz (Craven Street Books, 2012) tells a frightening story with all the tension and color of a first-class mystery novel. However, it is no novel but the true story of a truly diabolical criminal. Clarence Ray Allen, leader of a robbery gang, bullied an associate, Eugene "Lee" Furrow, into committing the brutal murder of Mary Sue Kitts, 19, because Allen feared she might talk to the cops. While serving a life sentence in Folsom Prison for that murder, Allen talked another prisoner into carrying out a robbery that included the murder of three young people and the wounding of a third at Fran's Market in Fresno, California in 1980. That robbery was a cover for the revenge murder of a witness who had testified against Clarence Ray Allen in the murder of Mary Sue Kitts. Ardaiz was the prosecutor who prosecuted Allen for the Kitts's murder and won a sentence of life imprisonment and also prosecuted him for ordering the murders at Fran's Market. That conviction got Allen the death penalty, a sentence that was carried out at San Quentin in 2006 with Ardaiz looking on as a formal witness. Allen, at age 76, was the oldest person ever executed by the State of California. He was also the last person executed in California; a moratorium on executions has been in effect since then due to the lethal-injection controversy. The book is a revealing insider's view of the investigation in this case, but it could have been far better and more succinctly written by a professional writer as an "as told to" account.
Busted: Mug Shots and Arrest Records of the Famous and Infamous by Thomas J. Craughwell (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2012) is as advertised, from Frank William Abagnale to Yanni, with hundreds of others in between. Three of the Beatles (Lennon, Harrison and McCartney) were busted for marijuana possession in separate incidents. Chuck Berry jailed 20 months for violation of the Mann Act (interstate transportation of a white woman for "immoral" purposes). Mel Gibson, drunk driving. Gary Coleman, domestic violence. Tom Delay, conspiracy and money laundering. Zsa Zsa Gabor, assault for slapping a police officer who pulled her over for a traffic violation. O. Henry, embezzling $854.08 from the Austin, Tex., where he worked; sentenced to five years. Charles Keating, securities fraud. Rush Limbaugh, prescription fraud. Norman Mailer, felonious assault for stabbing his wife, Adele Morales, with a pen knife. Dudley Moore, domestic violence on his fourth wife, Nicole Richardson. And all the other usual suspects are in here from Mafia dons, to terrorists, to war criminals, to serial killers and assassins.


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