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Tax credits and deductions parents can take advantage of are now listed and explained on the Internet Tax Connection website.
Aug 17, 2015 — Tax preparation planner Frank Ellis now explains various tax credits and deductions for parents on the Internet Tax Connection website, which are claimed when filing one's tax returns. Examples include claiming children as dependents. If taxpayers fall within a certain income bracket, they can deduct up to $3,950 per dependent.
Ellis also lists the Child Tax Credit, for those with children under 17. Up to $1,000 per child can be claimed, the author states. Eligibility for the Additional Child Tax Credit and relevant publications are mentioned as well. The Dependent and Child Care Credit is available for those who pay for the care of children under 13, or one or more other people who fall under the qualifications.
The article mentions how one might qualify for the Earned Income Credit, open to people with or without children, and the Credit for Adoption for claiming certain costs of adopting a child. In addition, various tax credits for education are discussed. These include the Lifetime Learning Credit and the American Opportunity Tax Credit. Helping to cover costs of higher education, these are filed on the respective form listed in the article.
Also, IRS.gov offers an Interactive Tax Assistant tool to learn about eligibility.
Other potential tax credits for parents include the ability to deduct interest paid on student loans. Self-employed health insurance can also be deducted. These premium deductions cover yearly expenses and also the cost of covering children under 27. Lastly, the author explains how TurboTax can help identify whether one is eligible for any of the 350 deductions covered and helps taxpayers receive the biggest refund possible.
To learn more, go to http://internettaxconnection.com/parents-dont-miss-out-on-these-tax-credits-and-deductions/.
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Frank Ellis is a Traverse City Tax Preparation Planner and published author. He has written tax and finance related articles for eight years and has published over 900 articles on leading financial websites.
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Build bridges, not walls
Every time I visit South Texas I am struck by how little America understands it.
From its people to its economy, it is wide-ranging in riches. From the Spurs' roster representing countries from around the world to the diversity of the region's civic and economic leadership, it is a part of the nation that depends on bridges, not walls.
Unfortunately, the 2016 presidential campaign did not represent this reality. And early signs suggest President-elect Donald Trump wants to close America, and Texas, off from the world.
Most Texans know smart, fine and hardworking people who are contributing to our economy. American workers across the state are benefiting. From the expertise of skilled farmworkers in the Rio Grande Valley to the creativity of engineers in Austin, the Texas economy is healthier because of bridges with Mexico and the rest of the world.
Then there's the border itself. Never before has it been such a point of contention. Never has it been less understood. We are faced with an urgent need to reaffirm our core values, change this understanding and bring clear eyes to the border debate. To be clear, we need to emphasize effective barriers along our borders as part of a revamped immigration process. Our security and safety are paramount.
A wall spanning the entire border would cost $27 billion to $40 billion just to build, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have found. But there are better ways to ensure our safety than a border wall that will crumble under the weight of logic, logistics and cost. For example, eradicating the invasive and nonnative carrizo cane and salt cedar plants along the Rio Grande will provide Border Patrol with greater visibility and access to the river.
The U.S.-Mexico border is one of the safest regions in the country. And, because of that, research has shown that the overwhelming majority of border community residents actively oppose the construction of a wall, citing its significant cost to taxpayers, its damaging environmental and cultural impact, and the imposition it would pose on private property owners who live along the border.
Our border policy must take into account economic and cultural bridges between the U.S. and Mexico that allow both countries to thrive. According to the American Mexico PAC, 382,000 jobs in Texas depend on trade with Mexico. Since 1993, Texas' exports to Mexico have increased by 364 percent, totaling $94.5 billion in 2015, according to the Wilson Center Mexico Institute.
We have already made significant investments to secure our borders. And we can continue to secure and enforce our borders while remaining a welcoming nation. How? By improving border management and exploring legislative solutions. It's the bridges we build that facilitate trade with our third-largest trading partner and one of our closest neighbors and allies.
The voters made their choice. And we have more tough choices ahead. Instead of a wall, we need our leadership in Washington, D.C., to choose bridges that facilitate trade, tourism and the economic health of South Texas and two nations.
We face a choice, but not the choice the rhetoric of the campaign suggests it is. Our choice is between enabling immigrants to strengthen our communities and economy in a way that benefits all of us, or squelching that potential and handicapping ourselves. San Antonio can lead the way in defending these values, defending our neighbors, and advocating an immigration process that promises safety and security, benefits American workers and provides a pathway to legal status and citizenship for undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria.
It is the practical, accountable way. And it is the only way we will stay true to the values that have made us great.
Ali Noorani is the executive director of the National Immigration Forum.

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Sol spoke of the importance of stringing together results in our next few matches and insisted the occasion of todays Cheshire derby against Crewe will not change the way the players approach the game.
"I think we have been a little bit disappointed with our last two games.
"For whatever reason we have just not had that little bit of luck that we sometimes need in a game so really, we need to get back on track and with this game being a home game, we really need to get a good result.
"I think, for me, you have got to be professional about it.
"I think it's obviously good for the fans for these derby's to be played, but I think with the players you have got to have a cool head and go about our game in a proper, professional way and if you look at it, we need the points.
"Yes, it's a derby, it's great for the fans and the local area, but we need to keep cool heads and play our game."
The manager was also quick to point out that the results of our last two games could so easily have been different and called on the players to be ready ahead of this afternoons encounter.
"I think for us over the last two games, we have played footballing sides and we have done really well against these footballing sides.
"Just for whatever reason it has not gone our way. It's another football game so we have got to play football because they will definitely be doing that, and we have got to take our chances when we can and defend well and I think it's going to be a great game.
"We are just going to have to be ready."
Despite an eagerness to prepare for the game in the right way, Sol concedes that the conditions have affected match preparation, but he is confident that the team are prepared for the challenge.
"We are at home and we have to impose ourselves on the game, have a good shape about us and just really believe that we can play the type of football that I know we can play.
"So, we have to get our thoughts together.
"It's a little bit more difficult this week because we have not been able to get out on the pitches or on the astro turf; that doesn't help, but I think we have done enough to get us straight and ready for the game tomorrow."
A positive for the Silkmen going into the game is the return of Harry Smith to the bench after missing the last few matches through injury.
"I think Harry is here and will be on the bench.
"We don't want to risk him too much but he's the one big plus for us. He's going to be on the bench so that's good.
"There are going to be a few changes here and there, but Harry is probably the biggest one for us, it's a big plus."
As well as the return of Harry, Sol spoke of the importance of not rushing the new additions to the squad into action and called for them to be given time to integrate themselves into the squad.
"I think anyone coming from another club into a new football team and a new environment, they have got to get used to how the lads are, how the manager wants the football to be played, and that takes time.
"It's all about integrating them slowly into the side so then it's not a big shock to them and the main side.
"I want to get everyone to understand, also in training, how I want the football to be played and then they can slowly come in. Some will take longer to come in, for sure, because that's how it is, others will be fast tracked into the team and start playing.
"I am trying to balance the whole side as much as I possibly can, and then obviously we have got some of the injury's coming back as well, long term injuries who will hopefully be back in the next two or three weeks and that will bolster and give me more options and hopefully they can give me more headaches as to who to play."
Despite having a couple of chances to climb out of the relegation places in recent weeks, the Silkmen remain in the bottom two for now, but Sol is eager for the team to take the next opportunity to finally get out of the drop zone.
"It's all hands to the pump, we have fifteen games to go and we have to look at it like this.
"We have to get a certain number of wins and that's it really, so let's focus now and really go for it, or we are going to be scrambling last five games.
"I would rather you focus for the next ten and get enough wins out of the next ten games, and then it's not job done but we will be able to breathe a little bit easier.
"We have got to fight for every single ball, for every inch on the pitch, and that's the sort of player I want on the pitch. Fighting for every inch, and then start playing football.
"That is the kind of mentality I want really. To really understand the predicament we are in, and also on the flip side to show how close we are to getting out.
"We have had a couple of chances to get out, so we have got to really focus so that when the next chance comes along, we have got to take it and then kick on and go from there."
Being back at the Moss Rose for the first time since our victory against Oldham is another positive for the team, and Sol called on the fans to get behind the team once more as we look to get a result against The Railwaymen.
"The fans are going to be amazing, for us, our home fans are like having another man on the pitch and I truly believe our players will respond to that."


text: - A solitaire card game, whose objective is, like in Klondike, moving all the cards to the foundations based on their rank, from ace to king of the same suit. The cards are initially dealt in eight columns on the tableau. The cards on the tableau can be built down by alternating colors (e.g., place 4♦ on 5♣) or moved to and from four cells which can store one card each. Multiple cards can be moved only if there are enough free spaces for moving each card individually.


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The Sharing Economy Doesn't Share the Wealth
By David Kocieniewski : bloomberg – excerpt
As Airbnb and Uber inch toward profits, tax authorities worry.
Every time Ian Haines rents out his spare room in the Australian port city of Albany, Airbnb takes a 13 percent cut. Haines, who's semi-retired, uses the extra money to supplement his income running a local farmers market. He says he's careful to pay taxes on the Airbnb money, because the San Francisco company may report the transactions to the Australian government.
For Airbnb, things are different. Because it manages its finances via units in Ireland and tax havens like Jersey in the Channel Islands, only a small part of its share of the revenue is ever likely to be taxed by Australia or the U.S. A review of Airbnb's overseas regulatory filings shows it has a far more extensive web of subsidiaries than it has publicly acknowledged—more than 40 in all.
This is the challenge that Airbnb, like Uber and other companies in the so-called sharing economy, poses for the world's treasuries. In the five years since these businesses began their spiraling growth, some cities and states around the globe have fought hard to make them play by the same rules as traditional hotels or taxis and collect various local taxes—often as not, they've lost. As the new breed of companies moves toward profitability, transforming larger chunks of the economy, policy experts say the battle is likely to shift to the national level, where billions of dollars a year in corporate taxes could be at risk. (A source close to Airbnb says the company will turn its first profit this year.) Governments have been slow to respond… (more)


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Author(s): Barney Hoskyns
'This book could save your life' John Crace'An unblinking account of living with - and more importantly, beyond - addiction. Brave, clear-eyed and inspiring' John Niven'A rich, uplifting memoir: Hoskyns portrays how painful inadequacy, masked by drugs, can be replaced by the messiness of ordinary life' Oliver JamesA few months after graduating with a 1st class honours degree from Oxford University, Barney Hoskyns sat in a damp Clapham basement and asked his best friend to inject him with heroin. From that moment on, for the next three years, Hoskyns is hopelessly hooked. This is the searingly honest story of what brought him to this place - and how he got himself out of it. Barney Hoskyns is one of the leading music writers of our time: his books have ranged the musical landscape from Led Zeppelin to Tom Waits, from Laurel Canyon to Woodstock. His articles have appeared in NME, Melody Maker, Rolling Stone and Vogue, and in 2000 he founded Rock's Backpages. Hoskyns beautifully describes the relationship between music and addiction, between love and infatuation. Never Enough is Hoskyns's raw, uncompromising and utterly compelling account of the highs and lows of life under the needle. Interspersed with photos and diary entries, Hosykns examines why he so willingly gave himself up to the death-grip of heroin, and what it took to finally free himself from it.
Barney Hoskyns is the co-founder and editorial director of online rock-journalism library Rock's Backpages (www.rocksbackpages.com), and author of several books including Across the Great Divide: The Band & America (1993), Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes, & the Sound of Los Angeles (1996), Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2005) and Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits (2009). A former US correspondent for MOJO, Hoskyns writes for Uncut and other UK publications, and has contributed to Vogue, Rolling Stone and GQ.


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Naruto Shippuden 412 see's Gaara and Fuu trying to hang on as the enemy tries to extract their tailed beasts away from then, to which Neji, Tenten and Lee get there and begin helping them out, Neji tries to block the chakra point at which their chakra is being sucked out from. It works and they're able to defeat the enemy.
A brilliant episode, and since I watched the previous one before this one. It felt like they were both pretty good chapters. On top of which, Gaara has met friends of Naruto once again. Can't wait for next week's Naruto Shippuden 413, titled "Hopes Entrusted to the Future", when we see Gaara present the next part as well as see Fuu being attacked by the Akatsuki.


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You sell part of or your entire home to a home reversion provider in return for a lump sum or regular payments. You have the right to continue living in the property until you die, rent free, but you have to agree to maintain and insure it. You can ring-fence a percentage of your property for later use, possibly for inheritance. The percentage you retain will always remain the same regardless of the change in property values, unless you decide to take further cash releases. At the end of the plan your property is sold and the sale proceeds are shared according to the remaining proportions of ownership.
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Book: Single Status by Linda Swiftcategories: Book, Attraction, Tropical, Caribbean, Golf, Power Plant, Job Discrimination, Sibling Rivalry, Divorce, Loss, Contemporary Romance
Linda Swiftabout this book: While living in England I decided to write a story that had been growing in my mind since visiting St. Croix where my husband was working on another power plant consulting job. That assignment had been "single status" which meant that wives or family would not receive expenses to accompany them and workers were expected to share accommodations.
The island was beautiful and memories of the blue-green Caribbean and colorful villas seemed a perfect setting for a romance. Sitting in my small second floor study in our flat in Kingston-upon-Hull, I could see the muddy, turbulent River Humber which was a sharp contrast to the images in my mind. That cold English winter seemed a perfect time to write about warm sun, sand, and a tropical sea.
An image from another of my husband's jobs in Nevada hovered in my mind. One day while waiting to meet him, I saw a woman leave the work site wearing a hardhat and khakis, carrying a lunch box. I began to wonder what it would be like to be the only female on a power plant job normally reserved for males. So I took the woman from Nevada and put her in St. Croix and began constructing a plot. I gave the initials B.J. for a first name so she could easily be confused for a male "on company forms." Now all I needed was a male with a neutral name like Dana to add to the mix-up and the plot was off and running. But when I "ran" it by my agent, he said the plot wouldn't work; that no large company could allow anything like it to happen. Well, he was a good agent but he had no firsthand experience with large companies and I knew in my heart it could, so I continued writing the story which I called Single Status.
My next hurdle was my lack of knowledge of operations inside a steam plant. I knew what needed to happen in my story, so my longsuffering husband came home from a day in the plant and talked me through the technical details I needed to make that happen. I'm not a golfer either but being an avid golfer himself, he also talked me through a very competitive golf game.
Time passed, we returned to the US, and I decided to cancel my agent's contract and explore the digital publishing market. Single Status was one of my first three submissions to several publishers. And it was accepted and I had my first digital book contract in a matter of days. The editor wrote that she was marooned in her office in a snowstorm in Minnesota when she read this story and I feel sure the story's warm setting must have held great appeal for her. The book was first published as an ebook only, but now is available with another publisher in ebook and print. If you like a fast moving story, with strong male-female attraction and lots of humor, Single Status won't disappoint you.
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October marks the true heart of fall which means it's officially pumpkin season. Pumpkins are a surprisingly versatile fruit, not just meant for carving or festive Halloween decor. While supermarkets stock up with pumpkin-flavored everything, we enjoy cooking with the real thing.
The aromatic scents of baking pumpkin can put anyone in a fall mood. Little do people know that pumpkin is actually also a highly nutritious superfood. It's rich in Vitamin A and a great source of fiber, which promotes healthy digestion. Even as a sweet treat, our update on pumpkin bread is still a healthier choice than other sugary options. The praline topping is optional, but it sure adds for that extra bite for the sweet tooths out there. Check out the recipe below and happy baking!


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Windows Phone 8.1 Review: most of the things wrong with Windows have been fixed
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There's always been an excuse to not use Windows Phone. With Windows Phone 8.1, which tries to plug in many of the weakspots of the operating system, the list of reasons not to use it is getting smaller.
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Sensei Lee Nash tells us of his family oriented Karate class held in the Little Thetford village hall on Tuesdays 7—8 pm. Karate helps fitness, improves co-ordination and stamina, all whilst learning a self-defense skill. A four week trial course costs £29.95 per person, which includes a free uniform. Check the web site for full details.
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London Anti-Capitalist Protesters Face Legal Action
British authorities were Tuesday to tell anti-capitalist protesters camped by St. Paul's Cathedral to remove their tents from outside the London landmark within 48 hours or face legal action.
The City of London Corporation local authority was to hand a letter to demonstrators who have turned the churchyard into a sprawling campsite and triggered turmoil in the cathedral hierarchy.
On Monday, Graeme Knowles, the head of St. Paul's, resigned after facing criticism for trying to move on the protesters, who are inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States.
The Occupy London Stock Exchange group pitched up in the churchyard two weeks ago. Around 200 multi-colored tents are spread out by the entrance and the north side of the cathedral.
The dispute over the demo has plunged the Anglican Church into crisis as it wrings its hands over how to handle the demonstrators while maintaining its principles.
Knowles became the third churchman to quit over the issue, saying his position had become "untenable".
St. Paul's said Tuesday the cathedral was not taking joint action with the Corporation of London in legal moves to clear the camp.
"Members of chapter met yesterday following the resignation of the dean and are due to meet with the Bishop of London today," a spokesman said.
"The chapter has not yet sought an injunction, nor are they serving notices on the protesters. They are committed to a peaceful resolution at all costs."
Overnight around 50 of the protesters, dressed as zombie bankers, marched into the city to mark Halloween.
They danced to Michael Jackson's 1984 hit "Thriller", stopping traffic outside the Bank of England. Police moved them on but they resurrected the dance outside the Royal Bank of Scotland's offices.
Home Secretary Theresa May urged the authorities to coordinate moves to clear the encampment.
"What I want to see is the church authorities and the Corporation of London and the police working together to ensure that the protesters can be moved as soon as possible," the interior minister said.


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Peter Cory has traversed Isis and become a 10th level WWyhr Läaq but R'gGnrök is still coming and H. Sapiens, Earth humanity, is still acting like a spoiled two-year-old with nukes as its toys and murder as its preferred method of conflict resolution. Before humanity can be trusted with the tools that it desperately needs to fight R'gGnrök It's going to need some Spēcial Education.
"David R. Palmer is one of the very best of Heinlein's Children—certainly the most audacious. It's great to have him back, at the top of his game."
—Spider Robinson,author of Robert A. Heinlein's VARIABLE STAR
"The best new writer since John Varley."
— Spider Robinson,Author of Mindkiller.
"Most SF novels complete one of two sentences: 'What if . . .' or 'If this goes on . . .' The rarest and most beautiful kind completes a finer sentence, 'If only . . .' and points a hopeful finger toward a better future. SPĒCIAL EDUCATION is the greatest avatar of that kind of SF I've seen in decades. There is no human problem too intractable for David R. Palmer—an attitude in particularly short supply these days. It's almost incidental that he's a gifted storyteller, with the knack of making you love his pixilated characters as much as he does. He doesn't even need glasses, let alone rose-colored ones, but his tomorrow is one I desperately want to live in. So will you . . . unless you happen to be French.
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I am participating in the Walk to End Hunger on November 28th.
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May 22, 2012
"Where am I? Among what do I move?"
I'm going to resume posting on this blog sections of the book I'm writing entitled Liology: Towards an Integration of Science and Meaning. Last year, I posted in this blog the first four chapters of the book. Today, I'm beginning with the first section of my chapter on the world of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, entitled "The Giving Environment: The World of the Hunter-Gatherers." It will examine their lifestyle and cosmology, and identify their values which are in many ways so fundamentally different from our own.
The first section, below, is called "Where am I? Among what do I move?" is about some of the conceptual issues arising from any serious study of hunter-gatherer cosmology:
- the common error of applying anachronistic viewpoints and values to hunter-gatherers;
- the question whether any universal values can actually be applied to such a diverse group;
- how valid is it to use observations about contemporary hunter-gatherer groups to understand those from our distant past.
As always, please feel free to leave me any constructive comments or thoughts.
'Where am I? Among what do I move?"
Modern political commentators frequently like to use the example of hunter-gatherers to make their point about our underlying human nature, as if to show that their position is unassailably correct. It's a tradition that goes back hundreds of years. The seventeenth century English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, famously wrote that "the state of men without civil society (which state may be called the state of nature) is nothing but a war of all against all," leading to "continual fear, and danger of violent death," as a result of which the life of man was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."[1]
In the turning intellectual tides of the following century, the diametrically opposed romantic myth of the "noble savage," associated with the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, took hold of the European imagination.[2]* Nowadays, the references are more sophisticated but the underlying themes remain. Liberal commentators like to emphasize the group-oriented, sharing mentality of our hunter-gatherer ancestors (also sometimes referred to as "foragers"), while their conservative opponents continue the Hobbesian line, pointing to the endemic warfare of many pre-civilized cultures.
In reality, any attempt to understand the hunter-gatherer worldview through the lens of our modern value system is doomed to draw a distorted and inaccurate picture. Such perspectives are by their very nature anachronistic, using conceptual structures that developed many thousands of years after the patterns of thought evolved that infuse hunter-gatherer cognition. Therefore, this chapter attempts the daunting challenge of painting an impression of the hunter-gatherer worldview without applying modern values to the picture. The approach is first to identify the underpinnings of how foragers made sense of their world, then to relate this to the mythic consciousness described in the previous chapter, and finally to trace how certain core values characteristic to hunter-gatherers arose from this worldview.
But first, another potential conceptual stumbling block has to be resolved. A chapter on the "hunter-gatherer worldview" implicitly assumes that there is, in fact, a unitary worldview of hunter-gatherers that can be described. How can that be? How can a group of forest-dwellers deep in the heart of the Amazon see the world in the same way as a community of Inuit up in the Arctic circle? For that matter, since hunter-gatherers have been around since time immemorial, who's to say if their worldview today has any similarity to that of their ancestors in past millennia? There is some truth in these objections. The languages and the specific attributes of the environment differ drastically for different hunter-gatherer cultures. One culture may be oriented around a river, another around the migration of a particular animal. In fact, the differences between various cultures are some of the marvels of our world and are justifiably celebrated as such. But over many decades of anthropological research, there has been an increasing realization of what the prominent anthropologist Bruce Trigger calls "certain cross-cultural uniformities in human behavior."[3] These uniformities tend to exist under the surface of the specific beliefs and practices of different forager groups, leading to underlying patterns of thought that are remarkably similar across cultures even while the manifestations of those patterns are delightfully unique for each culture. These underlying patterns relate to what's been described as "that organization of ideas which answers to a man the questions: Where am I? Among what do I move? What are my relations to these things?"[4] They are the underlying structures of the hunter-gatherer's "cognitive orientation in a cosmos."[5] In the words of anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell, "there are basic premises and principles implied, even if these do not happen to be consciously formulated and articulated by the people themselves."[6] In short, they form the infrastructure of the hunter-gatherer worldview, and it's this chapter's mission to try to describe them.
Given the earlier warning about anachronisms, it's important to spend a moment on another potential source of controversy in understanding hunter-gatherer cultures: whether or not it's valid to use contemporary observations made by anthropologists to impute the primordial hunter-gatherer worldview all the way back to Upper Paleolithic days.
The 19th century archaeologist Sir John Lubbock, who first coined the terms Paleolithic and Neolithic, kicked off this tradition, writing a bestseller called Pre-historic Times in which he considered the foragers of his era as "the living representatives of the hunter-gatherers of the Upper Paleolithic."[7] We've come a long way since then, and modern theorists warn that it's "unreliable to generalize from the ethnographic present to the paleolithic past without explicit supporting evidence."[8] After all, not only is there the question of how hunter-gatherer cosmology may have evolved on its own accord, but there's also the inevitable influence from agricultural communities surrounding those few hunter-gatherer societies that still remain. Nevertheless, in the words of modern scholar Robert Wright, "they're the best clues we'll ever have to generic religious beliefs circa 12,000 BCE, before the invention of agriculture. Cave paintings are attractive, but they don't talk."[9]* Given our search for underlying uniformities in the hunter-gatherer worldview, it seems reasonable to apply the general principle that the more you see a structural pattern in different contemporary hunter-gatherer cultures, the more confidently you can apply this pattern to the past.
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[1] Hobbes, T. (1651). Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, London: Andrew Crooke, Chapter XIII.
[2] See Keeley, L. H. (1996). War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage, New York: Oxford University Press, 5-8, for a detailed summary of the Hobbes versus Rousseau debate. However, it should be noted that Rousseau, although an ardent critic of Hobbes, in fact never used the "noble savage" phrase, which was coined by the English poet John Dryden in 1672 in the poem "The Conquest of Granada."
[3] Trigger, B. G. (2003). Understanding Early Civilizations, New York: Cambridge University Press, 683.
[4] Redfield, R. (1952). "The Primitive World View", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 96, 30-36.
[5] Hallowell, A. I. (1960/2002). "Ojibwa ontology, behavior, and world view", in G. Harvey, (ed.), Readings in Indigenous Religions. New York: Continuum, 19-20.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Renfrew, C. (2007). Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind, New York: Modern Library: Random House, 152.
[8] Ibid., 118-19.
[9] Wright, R. (2009). The Evolution of God, New York: Hachette Book Group, 17. His view is echoed by renowned archaeologist Graeme Barker who writes "… although there is today, and has been in the recent past, considerable variability in forager societies, much more striking are the similarities that can be discerned in the economic, organizational, and ideational or cognitive solutions that most of them have developed for living as they do. For all the difficulties of using ethnographic material, the behaviours of recent and present-day foragers remain an invaluable resource for helping us reflect on the likely characteristics of forager behaviours before farming." See Barker, G. (2009). The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 44.


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The Impact of Psychological Factors on Entrepreneurial Willingness among Students of Agriculture
Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 5, Pages 63-76, Published Online July 20, 2015
Dr. Azarmidokht Rezaei, Dr. Kiumars Zarafshani and Shahrzad Barani
The aim of the present study was to explore the impact of psychological factors on entrepreneurial willingness among students of agronomy at Islamic Azad University of Marvdasht. The population under study consisted of senior students, of whom 143 students were selected as the participants in the sample using Bartlett table. The instruments used in this study were a number of questionnaires whose validity and reliability were tested using the expert panel and structural equation modeling, respectively. The results indicated that the participants' entrepreneurial willingness was at an average level. Besides, the participants' low satisfaction with themselves and exclusion of entrepreneurship in career options were problematic for them. The results of structural modeling showed that norms, belief in self-efficacy, and attitudes have a positive impact on entrepreneurial willingness, respectively. According to the structural model, achievement motivation and subjective norms have a direct and positive effect on internal control and the latter, in turn, affects the belief in self-efficacy. Entrepreneurial internship, creative problem solving, entrepreneurial fairs emphasizing new products, self-regulated learning strategies, and development of entrepreneurial culture via producing documentary films are also discussed in detail in this study.
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Come & join us for some FUN & FRIVOLITY, good food & fabulous company! We love catching up with all of our members & this year we are combining both Toormina & Moonee Club Communities to DOUBLE THE FUN! We have even arranged a courtesy bus for trips both north and south if you wish to indulge.
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It must be her — Vikki Carr
Four-time Grammy winner Vikki Carr, who has made San Antonio home for more than 20 years, is chatting about the love of her life, her husband Dr. Pedro DeLeon.
The couple — Carr, 73, and DeLeon, 85 — celebrate their 22nd anniversary today.
"He is one of the reasons I fell in love with San Antonio all those years ago. The other reason was Holy Cross High School," she said.
Long known as the "Angel of Holy Cross," Carr has performed numerous benefit concerts for the West Side school since 1968, when she first learned it was in danger of closing. Through the years, Danny Thomas, Larry Gatlin, Trini Lopez and others have joined her on stage to benefit the school she saved, which went coed in 2005.
"I came here to perform at HemisFair in '68 when there was a knock on my hotel room door," Carr recalled.
In the hallway stood several men from Holy Cross. They pleaded to speak with the singer about a project to save their school.
"They didn't look dangerous, so we let them in and they told us the story about the school's financial predicament. I asked them, 'How the heck did you know what room I was in?' They said the bellmen are Holy Cross boys."
By then Carr — an El Paso native whose birth name is Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona — had been a Grammy nominee in 1964 for best new artist. Four years later came four more noms for her signature song and international hit "It Must Be Him." Her album that year was up against the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," which took the prize.
Carr, who has recorded more than 50 albums, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. In 2012 she was nominated for a Latin Grammy for her self-produced Spanish-language album "Viva la Vida," a sweet thank you to fans.
Come July, she'll receive a prestigious philanthropic award from the San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists.
The oldest of seven children, she grew up in California's San Gabriel Valley. She started singing at the age of 4 and launched her career while still a teenager. She's performed with legendary entertainers Tony Bennett, Tom Jones, Danny Kaye, Jackie Gleason and Count Basie.
Frank Sinatra said Carr "possesses my kind of voice." Dean Martin said she was "the best girl singer in the business." Bing Crosby called her one of his three favorite all-time singers. And while on a Las Vegas stage, Elvis Presley announced she was a favorite, too, because "she sang from the gut."
Carr said she often she can't help the tears when she performs, especially while singing Bobby Goldsboro's lyrics to "With Pen in Hand," a song about a woman going through a painful divorce without forgiveness from her husband.
"Music is universal and can touch everybody on every level — funny, happy, loving and sad," she said. "And hopefully in my past 57 years of performing, I've done that."
She recalled that her first hit songs shot to number one outside of the United States: "He's a Rebel" in Australia and "It Must Be Him" in England. Of course, the songs then triumphantly hit the charts in states, too.
"Still, I think a lot of the success that I have had has been based on people telling me, 'You can't do it,'" she said.
Carr has appeared on television, stage and film, performed for presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton. In 1973, she was the first woman to guest-host "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." In 1981, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
But it's her commitment to education and leadership development for Latino youth that she values more than any accolade she has received.
Brother Stanley Culotta, president of Holy Cross of San Antonio, remembered talking to Carr about the school's hardship all those years ago.
"She replied, 'I'm just a little lady, but I have a voice I can offer.' She may be a little lady, but she has a big voice that saved us," Culotta said.
"She put the spotlight on Holy Cross when we needed it the most. Best of all, she recognizes that education is extremely important. And she is so proud to hear when students are funded under her own scholarship."
Carr, who established the Vikki Carr Scholarship Foundation in 1971, was Holy Cross' first female honorary graduate.
"Imagine that," she said. "I mean, that's really something."
So is her marriage to DeLeon, who still clocks in part-time at a South Side practice. The two met during one of her early Holy Cross fundraisers. DeLeon often hosted post-concert suppers for the brothers.
"When I first saw him, I fell in love with him," she recalled. "We were both attached to other people at the time, but we made eye contact and the chemistry was there."
Flash forward to 1992. By then, Carr's benefit concerts had come to an end. She was in town for a singing gig for a national Hispanic group. Thinking about DeLeon, who was now single (as was she), Carr found his number in a phone book. He was busy with patients. She left her name with the receptionist, DeLeon's daughter. She responded, "He's been waiting for your call," and then summoned her dad to the phone.
Carr suggested they go to dinner. While sipping wine, she asked, "'Do you mind if I kiss you? I've waited for this for 30 years.' His lips were trembling, and he must have been thinking 'Who is this woman? Man, she comes on strong.'"
And the kiss?
"The kiss was everything."
Nine months later, they wed at San Fernando Cathedral with Carr's parents present.
"It has been a wonderful marriage — and a wonderful career," said Carr, who will turn 74 on July 19. "I cherish every moment and don't take anything for granted. I just keep going."
And there's no sign of stopping.
Summer will bring concert dates in San Diego and Monterrey, Mexico. She is developing a one-woman show. Several months ago, she packed them in at the Tobin Center. Last month, in Las Vegas, she performed to a full house on the night of the must-see boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
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LONDON, England -- Police are investigating reports that Paul McCartney scuffled with a photographer when the singer went to see magician David Blaine, who is in a plastic box dangling over the River Thames.
The London Evening Standard said Friday one of its photographers had clashed with McCartney, 61, who had joined onlookers at the London site.
Blaine is trying to stay in the clear box, near London's Tower Bridge, for 44 days without food.
A London police spokeswoman told CNN an investigation into the incident is ongoing. The scuffle happened just before 1 a.m. (midnight GMT) local time Friday.
"Officers near the David Blaine stunt show became aware of a dispute between a group of friends and a photographer and other members of the public. Following that, two counter allegations of common assault were made.
"The group of friends allege that they were assaulted by a man during an argument. He alleges he was assaulted by them."
Photographer Kevin Wheal is quoted by the Standard as saying that McCartney and his friends tried to stop him taking pictures.
He added: "One of them said: 'There's no way you're going to take a picture mate.'"
McCartney's spokesman Geoff Baker -- who initially said the musician had fired him for tipping off photographers about the trip to see Blaine -- issued a statement Friday saying reports of a "fracas" were exaggerated.
Baker's statement described how he, McCartney and friends of the musician went to see Blaine after dining in central London's Soho district on Thursday evening.
"One of the lads tipped off the press, who were watching a man in a sleeping bag in a box, that Paul was passing," the statement said. "Paul then continued to joke by telling his mate, who is his publicist, that he was fired.
"Paul then got into a car and went home. Reports that this was a fracas or anything other than a group of friends on a night out are heavily exaggerated."
It is the latest controversy surrounding Blaine's stunt, which has proved to be a security headache for police.
Blaine-baiting has become a popular pastime among some onlookers and tabloid newspapers.
The 30-year-old American has had to endure drums to keep him awake and the smell of barbecues to challenge his no food policy. Some people have pelted his box with eggs and on Tuesday a man was arrested after trying to sabotage his water supply.
New Yorker Blaine is allowed water, diapers, a journal, some pens, lip balm, a pillow and a pad to lie on in the box, which is about two meters deep, two meters long and one meter wide.
He began the stunt on September 5.
If this was true, it wouldn't surprise me.
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huh? i don't get it...paul mccartney went to see blaine in his box and beat up some photographers who tried to take a picutre of him (mccartney)?
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This topic can be defined very differently depending on the writer. Generation is usually defined as people all born and living at about the same time. Which that is what a generation is but in this essay I'll defined my generation. define my generation as being corrupted with teen pregnancy, rugs, and crime.
This is a generation I wish I wasn't born into because all the bad that goes on in it. Firstly, pregnancy has become the most popular thing in my generation. The U. S. teen birth rate is higher than that of many other developed countries, including Canada and the United Kingdom. Teen pregnancy ages range from 15-19 some teens are younger. In my opinion teenagers in my generation give birth more frequently than adults. Statistics read that, "Nearly one million teen girls get pregnant each year. " Some girls get pregnant more than once before their 20.
In some foreign countries when eens become pregnant their parents make them marry no matter age. On the other hand some girls pick adoptions. In my opinion 5 out of 20 teens in this generation get pregnant on purpose just to try to keep a boyfriend, but fail to realize still that will not keep them there. Secondly, drugs have also become a big thing in my time. Some teens use prescription drugs to get a high or sell the medicine. Teens in my generation also abuse prescription pain killers and become addicted. Marijuana is used most in teens. This generation is bad off with drug use.
Drugs are messing up todays society in a very bad ay everyone is strung out. During this generation some many new names for drugs have originated for example; molly. Kids today even mix cough syrup in with their soda and call it lean. Thirdly, crime in this generation is very high all that goes on is robbing, killing, rape, and drug dealing. Some people might think its teenager committing these crimes. Children fourteen years of age are going to jail for killing and being trialed as adults. Crime makes me afraid to step foot outside especially at night if I'm alone. Rape isn't that bad but happens every blue moon.
Once one the news I heard a police fficer was arrested on charges of Carnal Knowledge of a Juvenile. Robbing happens almost every 30 seconds doesn't matter if its store robbery, home invasion, or carjacking all done teens. Drug Dealers in this generation seek teens to prey so they can become part of their teams. Kids in elementary are standing on the corner selling drugs. TOO much crime goes on in today's generation that scares me. In my generation some people's opinion on this generation maybe good or bad. However, in next generation to come things may be triple times worse than now. The world we live in scary we never know what to expect.
When imagine the future get scared because my children one day may have to go through worse than me. Some may believe the world is reliving its self but I don't. I believe it's writing a whole new story and if it keeps going down this road god will end it in a bad way. read an article on this generation titled Troubled Generation: The Perceived Prevalence of Youth Crime and Corruption, so this lets me what some people think of my generation. All that happens in this generation makes me hate to be a part of it. Luckily I can say I am not part of any of the things I find that corrupt my generation.


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Well, I can successfully make Bouncing attack in Most Allied planes right now… Except for the famous 'Acemaker' … S.E. 5a. I don't know why, but everytime I start a diving attack in it, I have difficulties in keeping it on target.
Am I having problems in synchronizing both the roll and the yaw on the joystick, or are S.E. 5a's controls so sensitive that adjusting them in any way (I have 10% more sensitive for all planes) makes the flying MUCH harder, in fact?
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So, yadda yadda. Rx480. i7 6700k. 16gb ram.
Updated AMD relive and the what not and after restarting my pc all my games started lagging hard.
I tweak and check around with the hardware. No problem.
check Crimson.
Watmann state 7 is set to 600mhz! (see attachment)
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Last Sunday found us in Williamsport, PA, and the hotel we were staying at (the downtown Hampton Inn) always has the local paper on hand for free. Noted in the classifieds that two estate sales were on their second day. Sure, that meant that a lot of good stuff might have already been sold, but these sales were near each other and not far from the hotel either. So it wouldn't take much time to check both out.
I have to admit, my heart sank a little when I pulled up near estate sale #1, for the exterior of the house was decidedly run down. Unfortunately this isn't unusual for the part of town I was in, but since I was on the scene I decided to see what was still left.
There were a couple of tables set up on the front lawn with knick-knacks, and the people running the sale said there was more stuff inside. Alas, the interior of the house wasn't in any better shape, so I didn't spend much time in it. It was really pretty sad to see.
One fun thing - to me, anyway - about an estate sale is wandering around in the rooms in the house open for the event. The folks outside told me there was furniture in one of the upstairs rooms for sale, but I declined to go up and look, explaining that I was a visitor and thus had no way to take bigger items back with me. This was true, but if the interior had been nicer, I would have gladly gone up the stairs to take a look around.
The people running the sale were as nice as could be, though. I learned that an elderly friend of one of them had recently been placed in a nursing home, and these folks had offered to run the estate sale for the family.
As I hastily beat a retreat from inside the house, I happened to glance at a box of postcards sitting among a pile of odds and ends on the front porch. I poked around enough to see they were vintage, so I asked how much for them. When I was told five dollars for the whole box, I bought it.
At the time I didn't realize just how many postcards I had purchased. They were in a box that had once housed an avocado-colored GE, made-in-the-USA two-slice toaster. Avocado color? A small appliance made in this country? The box itself was vintage too!
Began sorting the postcards when we got back home, state by state. This took awhile, as there were far more postcards than what I had anticipated. The couple hundred I'd thought had been stuck in that box turned out to be around 900!
Here's a portion of what I sorted:
Not surprisingly, most of the postcards are from Pennsylvania, although Texas, New York and Illinois are well represented too. Trips to Niagara Falls and Yellowstone yielded several postcards apiece.
This collection revealed a well-traveled bunch: a total of 41 states and three foreign countries (Canada, France and England). Not all had been mailed, but of those postcards with postmarks, the oldest one was from 1908, and the newest from 1984. Most are from the 1930's-1960's.
I'll show off a few now.
From "Sept. 1 & 2 1956", a multi-postcard set of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Don't know what the rest of the world thought of its claim as "The World's Greatest Highway", but it was the first long distance limited access highway in the US when its earliest section opened in 1940. The rest of the construction was completed in 1956, so perhaps the original buyer bought the postcard set to commemorate a trip on the newly-completed stretch.
One of the postcards in the set shows a laughably empty turnpike, with just a few cars and one truck in the distance. After moving to Pennsylvania in 1991, we quickly learned to seek other routes rather than taking the turnpike all the way across the state when traveling back and forth from the Midwest and Philadelphia. It wasn't just to save money - we would always use the Ohio Turnpike - but a congested road with narrow lanes wasn't our cup of tea.
One category of postcards I was hoping to find in the box was the motel scene type. Back then, these postcards trumpeted up-to-date amenities and decor, which of course makes them fun to look at now.
There were only a few vintage motel scenes among the postcards, including this one from the Clock Inn Motel in Oklahoma City:
No postmark, but the interior looks 1950's-ish. Love the small TV on a wheeled stand.
And look!
On to a classic scene:
The Cyclone roller coaster at New York's Coney Island. "FASTER THAN EVER" it says underneath the horizontal Cyclone sign. Gee, wonder what they did to make it faster?
This postcard had been mailed out, so I know it dates from 1953. The message reads "Dear folks. This isn't Texas having a nice time and trip. Can talk better than write". Given that brevity, looks like the sender was correct.
From Watseka, IL:
The "New Watseka Theatre". The marquis sign reads: CONSTANCE BENNET "BORN TO LOVE".
Looked up that movie and learned it had come out in 1931. So of course the Watseka Theatre is no longer new. But that date explains the Art Deco styling:
They don't make them like that anymore! I happily learned that the theatre is still around; it now hosts (fittingly) old-time movies, concerts and various special events. It looks to be appreciated like the treasure that it is.
This now looks like a classic car show, but back then it was a beach scene from Jacksonville, FL, circa 1958.
Also from Florida, this time 1959:
Just as movie theater designs have changed, so have gas pumps!
While sorting out the postcards, I was surprised to see the towns of Terre Haute, IN and Stevens Point, WI represented. Neither town is considered much of a destination on its own, but since I'd once lived in both cities, I got a kick out of their inclusion among the collection.
This is labeled "One of the "wiener roasters" in Deming Park, Terre Haute, Ind." When we lived in Terre Haute (1998-2002), the area was struggling financially, but the parks system was very nice. Since the early 1990's, Deming Park has been home to one of only 21 holly arboretums worldwide. That's even nicer than having a wiener roaster! (Postcard is undated.)
From Stevens Point, WI:
A scene from Martins Island; postcard is from 1912. I lived in Point (as the locals call it) from 1988-1991 and while I don't recall any mention of Martin's Island, I'm guessing the waterway shown is the Wisconsin River.
I've enjoyed showing off a small fraction of the postcards here and will continue to enjoy studying the rest of them in further detail as well.
And for the second estate sale? It was in a house in better shape, but didn't see anything I had to have, so I walked away empty-handed. Buying hundreds of postcards at once was enough of a haul for me!


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