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State Tax Implications of Federal Tax Reform
December 14, 2017
Although there isn't a final tax reform bill yet, several provisions in the federal tax reform proposal will have a direct or indirect impact on state and local tax liabilities.
By Jeff Glickman, SALT partner
Within the last few days, it appears as if leaders of the House and Senate have agreed to a tax reform bill. Although nothing is final yet, there is plenty in the tax reform proposal that will no doubt have a direct or indirect impact on state and local tax liabilities. Below is a brief summary of some of those impacts.
Tax Base Expansion [1]
For both businesses and individuals, one of the main themes of this tax reform is the elimination of many deductions. While the bills are not identical in their approach, there is no doubt that many corporations will see higher federal taxable income ("FTI") and many individuals will see higher federal adjusted gross income ("FAGI"). Almost all states incorporate federal tax law changes into their state tax codes by using FTI and FAGI as their starting points for calculating state taxable income. Therefore, taxpayers should expect to have higher state tax liability as a result.
Two points to note:
- First, states do vary regarding their conformity date to the Internal Revenue Code ("IRC"). Of the states that impose an income tax, roughly half automatically conform to IRC changes and the other half conform as of a fixed date. For those states that use fixed date conformity, any tax reform will not be effective in those states unless the legislature updates the conformity date.
- Second, both versions agree to reduce the tax base by permitting taxpayers, for five years, to deduct 100 percent of the cost of qualifying property, such as machinery and equipment (as opposed to capitalizing and depreciating that cost over a period of time), and by increasing the Section 179 expense cap (the versions differ as to the cap amount). It is worth noting that many states have specifically decoupled from these types of accelerated depreciation provisions in the past, so it would not be surprising if states continued to do so, meaning that these federal tax benefits would not reduce the state tax base.
State and Local Tax Deduction
The tax reform proposal would cap the state and local tax deduction for individuals at $10,000, for any combination of state property tax and income tax (or sales tax). Essentially, for taxpayers whose combined state and local taxes exceed $10,000, they may be able to choose how they arrive at the $10,000 limit, although the details on that are not yet final.
However, there are a few indirect impacts from the limitation of this deduction. First, some states do not allow taxpayers a deduction for income taxes paid (some disallow generally, others disallow all except their state's income taxes), but do allow deductions for other state taxes, such as property taxes, if deducted on the federal return. For taxpayers whose state tax deduction is limited by the $10,000 cap, how they arrive at that deduction will be important. For example, if a taxpayer pays $8,000 of property taxes and $8,000 of state income taxes, it would make sense to allocate all $8,000 of property taxes and $2,000 of income taxes (or even sales tax instead of income tax) to the $10,000 deduction.
Second, although a taxpayer's actual state tax liability will likely not go up as a result of this change, it may feel as if the liability has increased. That's because taxpayers often consider the federal deduction when considering their state income tax cost. For example, assume a taxpayer pays a 6 percent state individual income tax and is in a 33 percent tax bracket for federal purposes. Currently, the taxpayer may really view the effective state income tax rate as being 4 percent. Under the tax reform proposal limiting the deduction, the effective state income tax rate will be closer to 6 percent.
Finally, some states offer credits to taxpayers that choose to make a contribution to a particular organization, with the most notable being the tax credit scholarship programs. These and other similar types of programs may see a further increase in popularity since they would allow a taxpayer to make a deductible charitable contribution in lieu of a nondeductible state tax payment (if the taxpayer already exceeds the $10,000 limit).
Standard vs. Itemized Deduction
This is an interesting one. It certainly isn't obvious that increasing the standard deduction from $13,000 (for married couples) to $24,000 could increase your state income tax liability. However, depending on the state, that's exactly what could happen for some taxpayers.
In some states, like Georgia, you are only permitted to deduct your itemized deductions for state purposes if you itemized on your federal return; if you take the standard deduction for federal purposes, you must use the state standard deduction. That may be a problem for some taxpayers depending on the amount of their itemized deduction.
For example, assume in 2018 that a Georgia resident taxpayer in the 25 percent federal tax bracket files a joint return and has $20,000 in itemized deductions. If no reform is enacted, the taxpayer would get to deduct those itemized deductions for both federal and state tax purposes. Under the proposed tax reform, the taxpayer is better off for federal tax purposes to use the $24,000 standard deduction. That increased deduction of $4,000 is worth $1,000 in federal tax savings.
However, by using the federal standard deduction, the taxpayer must now use Georgia's standard deduction, which for joint filers is currently $3,000. So instead of deducting $20,000 for Georgia purposes, the taxpayer can only deduct $3,000. At 6 percent, that loss of $17,000 costs the taxpayer $1,020 in Georgia income taxes. Therefore, for federal tax purposes, some taxpayers may elect to itemize, even though those deductions are less than the standard deduction, if the federal tax cost of doing so is more than offset by the state tax benefit of itemizing.
Note that this is not a new issue. Currently without tax reform, a Georgia resident with allowable itemized deductions approaching but not in excess of $13,000 would have to determine the total federal and state tax cost/benefit of itemizing versus taking the standard deduction. The proposed tax reform just shifts consideration of this issue to a different set of taxpayers (i.e., those with itemized deductions somewhere between $20,000 and $24,000).
Increased Attention to State Tax Liabilities
The joint tax reform proposal will reduce the corporate tax rate to 21 percent (from 35 percent). Combining that with base expansion discussed above, a taxpayer's state corporate income tax liability will be a greater percentage of the taxpayer's overall income tax liability. This is likely to cause taxpayers to pay more attention to state taxes and could lead to more planning, as well as protests/litigation involving state tax audit adjustment.
There are numerous other provisions that could have a direct or indirect impact on state taxes, including but not limited to, net operating loss changes, potential elimination of certain federal credits and the taxation of foreign source income. We recommend that taxpayers speak with their tax advisors to see if there are moves they should make now in anticipation of tax reform.
Contact Jeff Glickman, partner-in-charge of Aprio's SALT practice, at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
This article was featured in the November/December 2017 SALT Newsletter.
[1] While this article focuses on tax base expansion through the elimination of deductions, there are numerous other provisions in both versions that would change FTI and FAGI. Each of these, if states conform, could impact state tax liability.
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Jeff Glickman is the partner-in-charge of Aprio, LLP's State and Local Tax (SALT) practice. He has over 18 years of SALT consulting experience, advising domestic and international companies in all industries on minimizing their multistate liabilities and risks. He puts cash back into his clients' businesses by identifying their eligibility for and assisting them in claiming various tax credits, including jobs/investment, retraining, and film/entertainment tax credits. Jeff also maintains a multistate administrative tax dispute and negotiations practice, including obtaining private letter rulings, preparing and negotiating voluntary disclosure agreements, pursuing refund claims, and assisting clients during audits.


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My husband has just returned from the grocery store, where shelves were empty, people were tense and he waited in the checkout line for an hour.
It's stressful out there.
As usual, I look to our character strengths, the foundation of positive psychology, for some insight. Here are several qualities I know we all possess, to some degree, and that might help us to deal sanely with coronavirus.
Open-mindedness and Perspective
Let's keep our heads about us, shall we? Let's not freak ourselves out too much unless/until the facts support it. We should listen to the experts but maybe not all day every day. We can look at the facts from all sides and be willing to change our minds when we get new information.
Fairness and Kindness
We all deserve a fair chance to get everything from a free virus test to frozen chicken and hand sanitizer. We can see where shortages are in our communities and help out where we can, with donations or just sharing the toilet paper with the other folks at Costco. I think fairness extends to how we think about and treat our brothers and sisters across the globe, too.
I know when there's a shortage mentality going on around me I can pick up the energy and start thinking I should hoard. I'm working to control that and to keep the big picture in mind. As someone who works from home, I'm trying to make sure I do what I can to avoid blobbing out, too.
When not consumed with the bad news, let's look for the good, like the woman who helped an elderly couple buy their groceries when they were afraid to go into the store. Let's make good things happen for others, which is one of the most uplifting things we can do. And let's hope for the best.
Our families, offices, schools and communities are looking for strong, sane leaders. If you can, be one.
All that said, be careful out there. Take sensible precautions when you're healthy and if you get sick, stay home and follow your doctor's advice.
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Five ways machine learning will change your finance job in 2018
Machine learning is actively used to solve many problems today. Take for example, the text messaging function on your iPhone. It uses machine learning to try to predict the next word in the sequence. Google Translate applies machine learning to translate between languages. I can cite countless similar examples of application, which we use on everyday basis, which have machine learning at their core.
When it comes to finance, the use of machine learning is much lower. The difficulty of trying to predict financial markets is that they are constantly evolving. The market today is very different from that in 2008. This contrasts to problems which I've discussed above. Yes, old words go out of fashion and new words are invented, but the problem is largely unchanged. There is also the importance in finance of being able to interpret why a model has given you a certain answer. However, despite this, there are several areas where we might see machine learning being used more in finance, which we discuss below.
High frequency trading
Techniques such as deep learning need a large initial dataset to train the algorithm. In finance, an obvious area where there is a huge amount of data generated is in high frequency trading, where we can collect not only trade data, but also quotes from across the order book. There are notable challenges however, such as the need to execute code quickly, which can be at odds with using computationally expensive models.
Trade surveillance and fraud detection
Identifying suspicious trading activity for compliance teams can be a challenging problem given the sheer volume of trades executed. Machine learning can be used to identify such activity in an automated manner by going through trading data. It can also be extended to scan traders' communications, to flag messages for compliance teams to read for any unusual behavior. For consumers, machine learning techniques can be used to help identify potentially fraudulent activity.
Credit scoring and ratings agencies
Whenever a bank gives loans to consumers, they need to compute their credit scores. Machine learning can be used to scan through their previous spending patterns and general circumstances (such as their job, age and so on) to help establish the likelihood that they'll be able to pay back the loan.
Big Data could also be helpful for determining sovereign ratings thanks to its ability to process economic data.
Economic modelling
The abundance of Big Data about individuals' behavior can be used to improve economic forecasts. We can for example, use data derived from social media to enhance unemployment forecasts, or
use footfall traffic on high streets to help estimate retail sales. For emerging markets, where economic data might be sparser, we can use machine learning to identify night time lightintensity from satellite photos to estimate economy activity.
Cleaning datasets
It might not be the most glamourous area, but the first step of any sort of data analysis requires an element of data cleaning and finance is no exception. It can be an extremely time-consuming process. We can use machine learning to identify invalid observations in our dataset and free up time for actually analyzing the dataset.
Saeed Amen is a systematic FX trader, running a proprietary trading book trading liquid G10 FX, since 2013. He developed systematic trading strategies at major investment banks including Lehman Brothers and Nomura, and runs Cuemacro, a consulting and research firm focused on systematic trading.
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Jazmin Urrea received her MFA in photography and media from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA in photography from California State University, Long Beach. Her installations have been exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles); California Institute of the Arts (Valencia); University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach; Santa Clarita City Hall (California); Flatline Gallery (Long Beach); and Sade L.A. She currently lives and works in South Central Los Angeles.
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Jazmin Urrea explores the lack of access to fresh food faced by certain urban communities and the health risks posed by artificial dyes and additives such as FD&C Red No. 40 and Yellow No. 6, often found in cheap junk food. In Martin Luther King Jr. Park in South Los Angeles, Urrea makes this ongoing issue visual by creating large, site-specific minimalist sculptures filled with Frito Lay's Flamin' Hot Cheetos®. Standing about 8 feet tall, each clear, container-like sculpture is both a monument to consumption and a critique of the ubiquity of processed snack foods in areas underserved by quality grocers. The monuments are an amusing nod to a popular junk food item as well as an imposing reminder of the dearth of nutritional options in disenfranchised communities. Artists, farmers, and others who work with food take part in a conversation throughout the month to generate dialogue about food access and equity in the city.


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My girls are playing in their room, laughing and combing their dolls hair. They must be having a good time; I think to myself as I work.
Suddenly, one of the girls screams calling for me.
I rush to their room and find my eldest towering over her little sister, guns ablaze, eyes wide, fists folded as she refrains herself.
Her sister's eyes are wet, and once she sees me, he gains a little courage and uses her doll to hit her big sister.
I am tempted to tell her why hitting is wrong, and as my eldest brings her book of accusations, I question if all the positive parenting I use to raise these girls is working.
Positive parenting doesn't work.
At this point, I am tempted to think that positive parenting does not work. If it does, then not for me. Parenting is hard; there is no disputing that. But when I committed to becoming a positive parent, I thought things were going to be blissful, at least after a few months.
But four months down the line, my temptation to yell, punish my kids and threaten them into behaving was at its pick.
Honestly, it's just easier, and sometimes easier is what I want.
As I stood at the doorway looking at my girls, I was out of ideas on what I should I do. I pulled both of them into a hug (they were both crying at this point), and I had a moment to think about why this was not working. Here is what I found out.
I was not consistent.
Coming from being an authoritative parent, I find myself dishing out orders and answering with 'because I said so' whenever I need my girls to comply.
Sometimes I am too tired to or too busy working to give a valid logical reason for why things should go as I said.
This inconsistency, which included yelling and sometimes spanking, was sending mixed feelings to my girls. I become a gambling machine, and they always tried to win the jackpot by misbehaving and seeing if I would be nice, punitive or ignore them.
You see, who you are to your kids matter more than what you say. If you don't walk the talk, don't expect them to either. Their natural inclination is to do what you do. To have a positive impact, we need to demonstrate emotional control, understanding, empathy and all qualities we want our kids to have.
My expectations were too high.
I am guilty as charged. Sometimes I did expect my kids to behave more like little adults than kids. This is especially true because as a former authoritative parent, I expected total obedience and maturity from them.
I am afraid I might not have adjusted very well.
As a new positive parent, I learned that I needed to look at situations from their point of view, understand it as they would and see why they might be frustrated.
Was it easy, hell no!
Now that I allowed them to be kids again, they were probably experimenting with everything their little geniuses wonder about, and fighting was one of them.
They had been used to perfection standards they could never attain, and now they can learn through experience.
Kids want to experiment and learn on their own. While you should not let them hurt themselves or others, you can be sure that they will do things that will catch you off guard as they learn about the world and develop their personalities.
Our work as parents is to offer development appropriate limits and guidelines that will give them the freedom to learn and grow into autonomous human beings.
I was not listening
In situations such as this, I was fond of assuming that my oldest girl was at fault. Also, the fact that she was older, I thought she was in a better position to explain what was happening.
Big mistake.
First, the little girl felt that her sister was loved more than she was. Secondly, she felt that her needs were ignored and she was not heard.
Listening to your child has more impact than you think. When your little one is frustrated, allow her to tell you her side of the story before you tell her what you expect from her.
By listening to her, and putting yourself in her shoes, you might be surprised to realize that you would have been equally frustrated had the experience been yours.
Kids also listen better when they are calm, and talking it out is a great way to calm down. Also, listening to your child as they pour their heart out to you is a great way to connect.
The more I listened to her and understood her side of the story, the more she felt loved, and cooperated.
Give it time
Sometimes we are too quick to judger and give up. I did make some parenting hick-ups as I switched to positive parenting, but I was more informed the second time around.
I had learned from my mistakes, and I decided that I will give myself, and my girls time to adjust.
Do they still fight? Absolutely!
But today they find it easier to apologize, soothe each other and make one another feel better after a fight. I only intervene once in a while when I see the situation has escalated.
That day, I might not have handled the situation with tact and poise, but the little effort I made from that day henceforth has made me a better parent, and my home a peaceful haven, with minimal fights. Sometimes, it does feel like positive parenting does not work, but with effort, consistency, and practice, things start to shape up and look up.
Natalie Graham is a writer a full-time mom to two girls. Her interest is the psychology of child development. She relaxes with a book at hand and enjoys travel. Her motto: As you think, so you are.
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John Hagee is the founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church, a charismatic megachurch in San Antonio, Texas, a non-denominational evangelical church with more than 20,000 active members.
Hagee is also the CEO of his non-profit corporation, Global Evangelism Television (GETV).
Hagee is the President and CEO of John Hagee Ministries, which telecasts his national radio and television ministry carried in the United States on ten television networks, including 62 high-power stations aired to more than 150 million households. He is shown on networks around the globe, including The Inspiration Network (INSP), Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), and Inspiration Now TV. John Hagee Ministries is in Canada on the Miracle Channel and CTS and can be seen in places including Africa, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Hagee is the founder and National Chairman of the Christian-Zionist organization, Christians United for Israel, incorporated on February 7, 2006.
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Hagee has been both praised and criticized for his support for Israel. He has also attracted controversy over his comments on Islam, Catholicism, and homosexuality.
Personal Life
John Hagee was born on April 12, 1940 as John Charles Hagee, in Goose Creek, Texas, now part of Baytown, to the Reverend William Bythel Hagee and Vada Mildred Swick Hagee. He graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio with a Bachelor of Science in History and Education in 1964. He was on a football scholarship and appeared on the academic dean's List.
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Hagee received a master's degree in educational administration from the University of North Texas in Denton in 1966 and completed his theological training at Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie. In 1989, he received an honorary doctorate from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2005, he received another honorary doctorate from Netanya Academic College in Israel. Hagee served on the Oral Roberts University Board of Regents from 1989 to January 2008.
In 1960, he married Martha Downing, they had two children John Christopher and Tish. In 1966 Hagee founded the charismatic Trinity Church in San Antonio, Texas. Hagee resigned as senior pastor of Trinity Church in May 1975. He also divorced his first wife Martha Downing in 1975. In 1976 Hagee married Diana Castro, they have three children Cristina, Matthew and Sandy.
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Hagee founded The Church at Castle Hills, on Mother's Day, May 11, 1975. The church started with 25 members, but within two years, had to build a new sanctuary seating 1,600 people. The church continued to grow. On October 4, 1987, Hagee dedicated a 5,000+-seat sanctuary and named it Cornerstone Church. Dr. W. A. Criswell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, anointed Hagee and Diana Hagee, Pastor Hagee's second wife, before the congregation.
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The best cloud antivirus software makes it simple and easy to protect your business computing assets from a single antivirus platform.
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Using best cloud antivirus software platforms makes it much easier to manage, especially as there's no need to constantly update software on multiple devices. However, it is worth bearing in mind that installing antivirus to combat malware can only be one part of an overall IT security policy.
Meanwhile, below are our top picks of the best cloud antivirus software currently available.
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Sophos Endpoint Protection is primarily aimed at businesses and organizations. In order to get a quote, you will need to fill in a request form. The company will then send you a quote suited to your needs. However, Sophos do offer a 30-day free trial that will include automated malware clean-up and cloud-based admin and reporting portal access.
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Webroot is a private American company, founded in Boulder Colorado in 1997. It operates across multiple countries such as Australia, Ireland, Japan and the UK. Their international headquarters are based in Dublin, Ireland. Webroot provide internet security for both consumers and businesses.
Webroot uses a multi-vector protection system. This protects against threats across email, web browsers and files amongst others. They use a 'Threat Intelligence Platform' which is cloud based. It classifies and scores over 95% of all website three times per day.
Webroot's Endpoint Solution offers a 30-day free trial which will deploy protection and scan in seconds, without the need for bulky updates. It also allows admins to manage Webroot protection products from a single management console.
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As well as its famous and powerful free anti-virus, Avast also provide a dedicated cloud-based security platform for small and medium-sized businesses called Cloudcare. It provides a single management dashboard from which any device connected to it can be managed for security purposes.
This can include anything from remote access for troubleshooting, transferring files, or even communicating with users, on top of more direct security operations such as anti-virus and malware protection. Additionally, Cloudcare doesn't just allow for monitoring of security threats from outside the network but also activity within it.
Web content filtering can be managed through a secure gateway, with email protection and anti-spam also provided. Backup and recovery solutions are also included as standard.
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ESET is an IT security company, established in 1992. Its headquarters are in Bratislava, Slovakia. ESET was voted the most successful Slovak company for three years running between 2008-2010. Their clients include Canon, Honda and Greenpeace who have tens of thousands of endpoints between them.
ESET offers protection for both home users and businesses. The ESET Security Management Center manages endpoint products from a 'single pain of glass' and can be installed on Windows or Linux.
ESET endpoint products use machine learning in conjunction with their other layers of defense. The company's endpoint protection has the ability to detect malware pre-execution, during execution and post-execution. By doing things this way ESET are able to provide extremely high levels of protection for your devices.
The software also includes a ransomware shield, which monitors all applications based on their actions. This is designed to protect and block processes that resemble the behavior of ransomware.
There are multiple options available to but the product, not least cloud-based as well as an on-premises solution. Also, you can buy from a partner which could be ideal for those looking for personal support in their home state.
Both the cloud and on-premises solutions are available to buy direct from the ESET website, with plans for cloud protection of 5 devices, with the ability to add more online.
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Hillary Clinton notched a decisive win in the Nevada Democratic caucuses Saturday that could go a long way to helping her regain her footing on the path to the nomination.
The former secretary of state fended off a fierce challenge from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has captured the energy and enthusiasm of younger Democratic voters.
Clinton's win was powered by strong turnout among minority voters and a well-organized machine in populous Clark County.
"I am so thrilled and so grateful to all my supporters out there," Clinton said as she took the stage at her victory rally in a ballroom at Caesar's Palace, giving a special thank you to hotel and casino workers "who never wavered."
"Some may have doubted us but we never doubted each other, and this one is for you," she said.
Clinton struck a populist tone as she sought to channel the anger of voters against big banks and corporations, which Sanders has so skillfully harnessed.
"Let me say this to the men and women who run our country's corporations: If you cheat your employees, exploit consumers, pollute our environment or rip off taxpayers, we are going to hold you accountable," Clinton said.
She also subtly knocked Sanders' agenda as unachievable: "Americans are right to be angry but we are also hungry for real solutions."
Wrapping up the rally, Clinton told her supporters she was headed to the upcoming primary state of Texas while her husband was headed to Colorado.
"The fight goes on!" Clinton said as the room erupted into cheers.
Sanders, for his part, complimented Clinton on an "aggressive, effective campaign" in Nevada in his nine-minute concession speech.
But he added that, "Five weeks ago we were 25 points behind in the polls. We've made some real progress."
He struck an upbeat tone and signaled that he was looking beyond South Carolina — where Clinton is expected to win — to the Super Tuesday states.
"We are going to be taking on a very well funded superPAC," he said. "On Super Tuesday, we would very much like the support of the American people. We have received over 3.7 million in individual contributions," he added, directing supporters to go to his website to help with additional contributions. "Taking on the establishment, the financial establishment, the political establishment, the media establishment is not easy. We have come a very long way in 9 months. It's clear to me that the wind is at our backs, we have the momentum," he said to cheers.
Nevada Democratic Party spokesman Stewart Boss estimated turnout at 80,000, falling short of the nearly 120,000 voters who turned out in 2008.
A win by Sanders, who trounced Clinton in the New Hampshire primary, would have dealt Clinton a dramatic setback. The victory was a huge relief for Clinton and her allies, who were clearly rattled by what appeared to be an unexpectedly tight race here in a state that was long viewed as her firewall.
Beyond name recognition, Clinton had enormous organizational advantages over Sanders — not least of which was the fact that she began organizing some six months before the Vermont senator.
In a wild final week where Nevada polls showed Sanders pulling even with the former first lady, Clinton's campaign pumped an additional half-million into its advertising buy on cable, broadcast and satellite — bringing her to parity with Sanders on the air, though she was already far better known than her rival.
Clinton also engaged in a furious campaign push in populous Southern Nevada, leaving nothing to chance even in the final hours before voters lined up to caucus.
In the days before the caucuses, she far outpaced Sanders on the campaign trail with a series of stops on the Las Vegas Strip to appeal to shift workers, visits to labor- and immigration-focused events and even a surprise stop at a Las Vegas caucus site Saturday.
One key to her victory: though the powerful Culinary Workers Union here stayed neutral, Clinton made an ardent push to win over their members (the union endorsed Barack Obama in 2008). She made an overnight visit to meet with the housekeeping staff at Caesar's Palace, stopped at a uniform department at one of the casinos and repeatedly went to casino employee dining rooms to make personal appeals to workers.
"She is the best person to help everybody — on immigration, and with the children," said 55-year-old Ofelia Sanchec, a Caesar's Palace housekeeping worker as she stood in line Saturday waiting to caucus for Clinton with fellow employees. "She is a lady, the first woman president. I hope she will help us."
Asked whether she considered Sanders, Sanchec said no: "For me, I know Hillary."
Though Sanders did better with younger voters, some, like 29-year-old Vanessa McCallum, said Saturday's decision was difficult down to the final moments, when she had to decide whether to sit on the Sanders or Clinton side of the caucus at Caesar's Palace.
"It's a heart versus logic thing," said McCallum, a Las Vegas massage therapist who ultimately caucused for Clinton. "I love Bernie Sanders. And I love him because he's the only candidate who is enticing everybody — the youth vote — to get up, get out and do something. I respect his policies. I respect him as a person."
In the end, McCallum said, she questioned what Sanders would be able to achieve. Voters across America, she said, "are scared of the whole democratic socialist thing."
"I've always been curious to know how is he going to guarantee that his next four years wouldn't be a repeat of Obama and his struggles of the first four years with everybody filibustering everything that he does," McCallum said.
As she sat down with the Clinton contingent inside the caucus, she covered her eyes and said she felt like she was "cheating on Bernie," but that logic had won out.
Clinton relied on strong turnout from Latino voters to hold Sanders at bay. Her surrogates fanned out across the Silver State this week, attempting to portray her as the more trustworthy candidate for Latinos.
In the final days, Clinton's allies slashed Sanders' immigration record, criticizing him as a "Johnny-come-lately" to the issue who has been too vague about his plans.
At the same time, in Nevada's rural counties Clinton's canvassers pressed the case that Sanders' proposals are unrealistic and unachievable in the current political climate.
Sanders emphasized his family's immigrant roots here in ads and on the campaign trail, noting that his father came to America from Poland and originally spoke little English.
"Immigration isn't just a word for Bernie Sanders," the narrator said in one Spanish-language radio ad for his campaign in November. "His story is the immigrant story."
But Clinton promised to make an immigration overhaul part of her agenda in her first 100 days.
On Thursday, the same day that her campaign put an additional half million into their ad buy, Clinton released an emotional immigration ad featuring the candidate talking to a tearful 10-year-old girl about the deportation letter that her parents received.
"I'm going to do everything I can so you don't have to be scared," she told the young girl in the ad, her arm wrapped around her. "Let me do the worrying. I'll do all the worrying. Is that a deal?"
Meeting with workers, the former secretary of state stressed that she understood their struggles.
"I know you do a hard job," she told Caesar's Palace housekeeping workers during that overnight visit to their linen room on Thursday after flying into Las Vegas from Chicago. She said that when she arrived at the hotel, she had asked herself: "Who is still working?"
"A lot of people are," she said, before asking the workers to caucus for her.


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All babies lack sufficient vitamin K at birth, putting them at risk for severe bleeding in the brain or intestines until they get the vitamin by eating solid foods, typically around six months of age. The vitamin is essential for blood clotting, and a vitamin K injection after birth eliminates this bleeding risk.
A tiny percentage of parents have always declined the shot but the numbers are growing, according to a new study. The research also found that children of these parents are 15 times more likely than others, at 15 months old, to have received none of the vaccines recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"Our finding of a link between vitamin K refusal and vaccine refusal was very concerning," says senior author Shannon MacDonald, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine. "We had expected a correlation between the two but had not expected the association to be so high." Vitamin K is not a vaccine or related to the manufacturing of vaccines.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has routinely recommended vitamin K injections at birth since 1961 because the vitamin does not cross the placenta well during pregnancy. The shot provides infants with enough vitamin K to last until they get sufficient amounts through diet. Vitamin K deficiency bleeding has always occurred but for years the condition was less common than other causes of infant death. "People were much more worried about their babies dying of measles, whooping cough and meningitis," says Clay Jones, a pediatrician specializing in newborns at Newton–Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts.
Classic vitamin K deficiency bleeding, although rarely fatal, occurs in the first week of life to 0.25 to 1.7 percent of babies who do not receive the compound. Late vitamin K deficiency bleeding, which generally can occur up to six months old, is rarer but deadlier; the hemorrhaging nearly always occurs in babies' brains but can also occur in the intestines and affects four to seven of every 100,000 infants without the shot. About 20 percent of the babies die and 50 percent sustain long-term brain damage. "They could be happy and healthy and doing fine and then—boom, they're neurologically devastated if not dead," Jones says. The shot has no side effects other than the brief pain of the injection and rare but possible bruising, and has little to no risk of an allergic reaction because it is injected into the muscle instead of a vein, he says.
Vitamin K can be administered orally, but bleeding has occurred even with this option. This method also requires multiple doses, which parents may forget. Breast-fed babies are at the greatest risk for vitamin K deficiency bleeding because breast milk contains extremely low levels of the compound, regardless of the mother's diet. Baby formula contains added vitamin K, but formula-fed babies are still at risk for bleeding if they ingest too little or if their bodies do not adequately absorb it due to antibiotics, vomiting, diarrhea or an underlying liver disease.
A report last year of four babies in Nashville who developed late vitamin K deficiency bleeding after their parents declined the shot prompted MacDonald and colleagues to investigate refusal rates and factors for refusals. Among more than 282,000 children born from 2006 to 2012 in Alberta, all but 0.3 percent received the vitamin K shot at birth, they reported in Pediatrics. But the rate of refusals doubled from 0.21 percent in 2006 to 0.39 percent in 2012. "The rate was low, but more alarming was the rising rate of refusal," says Mark Belletrutti, a pediatric hematologist at the University of Alberta. "I think refusal will grow, especially if we are not better in educating why vitamin K is important. No baby should have to die of a brain bleed from vitamin K deficiency in this day and age."
Jones says he suspects that the U.S. refusal rate is higher. Preliminary research presented this summer from two Nashville hospitals showed a refusal rate ranging from 2.3 to 3.7 percent. "Pediatricians have long thought the rise in vitamin K refusal mirrors the rise in vaccine hesitancy," he notes, although the Alberta studyis the first to offer evidence of the link. Some parents worry the shot will cause cancer, a possibility suggested by two studies in the 1990s that has since been refuted. That fear echoes the fear of an autism–vaccine link that was similarly refuted. Most refusals, though, stem from a mind-set that is skeptical of synthetic chemicals and medical interventions, Jones says, an observation the study authors also make.
"This group of parents often shares a particular worldview of health that includes a preference for natural health remedies and questions the standard recommended practices of established medical authorities," the authors wrote. Mothers who refused the shot were more likely to have epidural-free vaginal deliveries, and babies delivered by midwives were eight times less likely to receive vitamin K than babies delivered by doctors. Despite the overall low percentage of refusals, the rate was 14.5 percent among parents who had planned home births and 10.7 percent of parents at birthing centers. "As more children are born in birthing centers and at home, that number will absolutely rise," Jones says. The preliminary Nashville research showed a similarly high rate among five birthing centers where 28 percent of parents refused the shot. "Parents who decide not to get the vitamin K injection are often as much the victim as the newborn themselves," Jones adds, "because the parents are falling prey to misinformation online and [to their] trusted health care professionals, such as a small number of midwives." Further, mothers who give birth out of the hospital are more likely to exclusively breast-feed, so their babies are already at greater risk for vitamin K deficiency bleeding.
Refusing vaccines fits into that same worldview, but a vital difference between declining vaccines and declining vitamin K is the time window for bleeding risk, says Steven Abrams, a neonatologist at Texas Children's Hospital and member of the AAP's Committee on Nutrition. "It is important to clarify for families that there is an immediate risk to their baby of not having the vitamin K shot and there is no 'delayed schedule' that will work," he says, referring to parents who allow vaccinations, but delay them until their child is older. "To see babies whose lives will be seriously harmed by not getting this simple intervention is devastating."


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Scotland's Pupil Inclusion Network has posted some useful links following their recent seminar on how children and young people live their digital lives.
PINS Theme: Digital Lives
This PINS theme explores where children and young people go in the virtual world for fun, social networking and learning. Whilst recognising the major concerns we have – for example bullying and sexual or violent content – we also recognise the positive environments for learning and focus on the digital skills children and young people need.
NEW – Digital citizenship in the classroom
In Alberta, Canada they are exploring a whole range of ways to explore and advance the idea of digital citizenship and using technology for learning including equipping classrooms with the technology they need and children using their own devices. More HERE
NEW – EU kids online
Investigates children's online uses, activities, risks and safety in Europe and globally. More HERE
Does ICT in education interest you?
The Scottish Government is keen to ensure that those with an interest in ICT in education feel engaged with and informed about future activity. Complete this short survey before Friday May 10th. More HERE
esafety briefings
The UK Safer Internet Centre is delivering free-of-charge esafety briefings across Scotland in May. More HERE
Research with young people using digital media
Young Digital is about using digital research with children and young people. More HERE
It's all about making, being creative and sharing. Every child can be a maker. More HERE
New internet safety resources from With Scotland
A new Internet Safety Resource covers topics such as Safer Social Networking, Online Gaming and Internet Use and Children's Sexual Development and Behaviour. More HERE
Sexting Information for young people
The Corner have created a magazine targeted at young people to explain in simple terms the risks around sexting. More HERE
Digital Literacy Survey 2013
A lack of skills is damaging young people's job and life chances. More HERE
Technologies and Curriculum for Excellence
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Google went all in on its quest to become a proper smartphone maker with the launch of the Pixel 2 line of phones. The new LG and HTC-made handsets feature premium specifications, promise to mend most of the things the company got wrong with the first-generation like waterproofing and bet on an AI-first future. But more importantly, the new Pixel 2 phones have the smartest camera ever on a phone thanks to the Google's software prowess. Here's how.
Hardware-wise, the sensors on the Pixel 2 can be considered incremental. But dive deep into the software, and you'll realize how far Google has come by investing the majority of its resources in software. One of the key representations of this is the new Portrait Mode. Yes, it's a direct rip-off of what Apple offers on iPhone's Plus variants, but the Pixel lacks a dual-camera setup.
Who Needs Two Cameras When you can use AI
Instead, Google is employing something called a Dual Pixel technology. In layman's terms, it essentially means every pixel the phone captures is actually a pair of pixels. Along with better focus, the Pixel 2, therefore, has significantly more information to process and play with. On an iPhone, you get two pixels which are half an inch apart but the Pixel 2 benefits from two pixels which are less than a micron apart.
What does this mean, really? Well, the Pixel 2 will theoretically produce dramatically better and accurate depth-of-field effects. Of course, we'll have to wait for reviews to find how effective this approach is but considering what the company has done with electronic stabilization, I'm optimistic.
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The Pixel 2 has another feature that is also inspired by Apple — Motion Shots. You can record a quick three-second movie with every single shot, but Google has added an additional layer of software processing that smoothes out any rough edges and develops a much coherent end result. The Pixel 2, in addition to EIS, now utilize hardware-based Optical Image Stabilization as well for letting you record exceedingly stable clips. The camera makes use of both the technologies together to achieve this.
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The new Pixel 2 phones are also the first ones to support the company's new Google Lens feature. It allows you to search the web by simply pointing the camera towards objects. For instance, click a picture of a flower and learn its type. Book tickets for a concert by capturing its posters. You get the idea. Lastly, the camera on the Pixel 2 comes with Augmented Reality stickers. These are basically virtual creatures you can superimpose and interact with while clicking pictures. Google has partnered with a bunch of production houses initially for bringing official content from popular shows like Stranger Things.
The camera on the Pixel 2 series presents a tiny glimpse at how software will dominate every inch of your phone in the coming future. And Google wants to remain at the forefront of this coming age. With a much deeper integration of machine learning, the search engine juggernaut has managed to refine and innovate almost every single photography feature smartphone OEMs have been trying to figure out through hardware for the past year. It will be quite interesting to see how these new features perform in real life scenarios once we get our hands on the new phones. Hence, stay tuned for that.


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Both Rey Mysterio and MVP are pushing WWE officials to sign former WCW wrestler Norman Smiley to a contract, either as a wrestler or an agent.
Smiley, 41, has worked a number of dark matches for WWE over the past few years, but has never landed a WWE deal. Smiley worked a dark match with Vladimir Kozlov a few weeks ago. The match went well and Smiley received a huge pop from the audience when he made his entrance.
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The Municipality of Chatham-Kent is pleased to announce a new local transportation option has officially launched. Uride, a company based on the popular ridesharing model, received their licence to operate as a private transportation company in C-K on Sept. 28.
The following day, Uride announced through Facebook that they had given their first ride in Chatham-Kent.
Municipal officials say it is their goal to improve access to affordable and reliable transportation services within the urban and rural communities of Chatham-Kent. Uride's growth in the area is a response to the work done by the municipality and council to amend local By-laws regarding vehicles for hire.
"This is a great example of the success that can be achieved when we look at reducing red tape and making Chatham-Kent even friendlier for business," said John Norton, General Manager of Community Development, in a media release. "Chatham-Kent has quality bus and taxi services, and now residents have more options with rideshare companies stepping forward."
Currently Uride is providing transportation primarily from the city of Chatham.
"We are in the process of recruiting more drivers in the surrounding communities and rural areas of Chatham-Kent," said Skye Volpi, Chief Operating Officer for Uride. "We're only a few days in and we've seen a lot of positive interest from the community. It's been very welcoming and we appreciate both our drivers and our customers for working with us."
One of the first rides provided was to Coun. Brock McGregor. McGregor put forward the motion to Chatham-Kent council to amend the local By-laws and the Vehicle for Hire By-law recommendations passed June 18.
"The ride was a great experience. From the time I opened my phone, got the app, and placed the request for a ride, it was less than 10 minutes and the driver was there at my door," said McGregor. "It's wonderful to have another option in town that is helping to address the transportation needs of the community and I'm glad to see a Canadian company step up to provide the service."
In addition to bus, taxi, and rideshare options, residents who are looking to access medical appointments in Chatham-Kent can use an affordable health transportation service called Carelink. Carelink is a partnership between several health provider agencies and can be accessed by calling 1-855-728-1433.
You can find more information about Uride on their website at www.uridetech.com, their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/uridetech/, or download the Uride app which is available on both Apple and Android.


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Google have just launched Chrome beta onto the Google Play store, available to download right now. No, you haven't travelled back in time. Unlike earlier this year, when the beta was the only available option, this re-release is alongside the stable version so that you can have a choice of which version you want to download.
The beta version brings some very minor interface changes, but the main purpose is to give a big boost to the speed of the browser. Like all betas, you are likely to run into some glitches, so it might be worth downloading both just in case.
Source: Google Play


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The U.K.'s Mirror, related her testimony before the UN: "Rape was used to destroy women and girls and to guarantee that these women could never lead a normal life again," she told them.
Nadia described her horrific ordeal, saying how she was taken by bus to a building in the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, where thousands of Yazidi women and children were exchanged by militants as gifts. A few days after she was taken by a man, she said: "He forced me to get dressed and put my makeup on and then that terrible night, he did it. He forced me to serve as part of his military faction, he humiliated me every day." When she tried to flee, she was stopped by a guard. "That night he beat me. He asked me to take my clothes off. He put me in a room with the guards and then they proceeded to commit their crime until I fainted," she said. She sobbed as she begged the Security Council: "I implore you, get rid of Daesh (Islamic State) completely.
But Nadia is not the only victim of the deterioration of the Middle East. We, here in the U.S., have struggled to understand the civil war in Syria. Who are the good guys? Who are the bad? Why have we chosen the rebel's side? While I believe that we are intentionally kept in the dark, there is no escaping the human toll in that war-torn country.
BBC News reports that civilians are under siege, and Opposition activists in Syria have told the BBC that people are dying of starvation in the government-besieged town of Madaya, near Damascus. Reports say residents have resorted to eating grass in two Shia villages further north, Foua and Kefraya, which have been blockaded by rebel forces for even longer. The World Food Programme and the International Red Cross describe conditions in some areas as "extremely dire", after nearly five years of civil war.
The U.N. has released figures of nearly 400,000 besieged citizens throughout the country of Syria, and the meager supplies that have reached them is clearly disturbing: "In September, some 7,800 people were reached with water, sanitation and hygiene assistance in one besieged location. In October, 10,500 people in besieged locations were provided with food, health and basic relief assistance and some 16,700 people were provided with water, sanitation and hygiene assistance. In November, 1,077 children received textbooks and 50 children were provided with winter clothes," the UN report states. "No other assistance reached the besieged areas in November."
A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, reported that people had begged him for baby milk when he travelled to Madaya in October (the last time aid reached the town). Mothers were so malnourished they were not producing milk, and there was no way to feed newborns and young babies, he was told. A local official in Madaya told the Associated Press that the cost of goods had recently soared, with wheat costing about $250 for a kilogram and powdered milk more than $300. (Is anyone else thinking of Revelation 6:5-8?).
Perhaps the saddest aspect of this siege is that out of the 400,000 encircled citizens, only 460 people were evacuated under the auspices of the UN and Red Cross by means of a local agreement covering the four besieged towns of Zabadani, Madaya, Foua and Kefraya. That leaves hundreds of thousands still in danger of dying from malnutrition, disease, and lack of basic human comforts.
While half-way around the world, Millennials here in the U.S. revealed through one of the never-ending surveys that our culture is fond of, that they expect to retire early, with 15 % of them believing that winning the lottery is a viable retirement strategy, while 11% expect to be "gifted" money for retirement. I'm assuming that they think that somehow the government is going to come up with a new entitlement program for them, just because they will need it. Sadly, their concepts of what it takes to survive the current economic market, as well as their understanding of how current and world events will affect them is based on faulty assumptions.
That being said, I am not ready to disparage the entire Millennial Generation. I personally know several that give me hope; young men and women with curious minds that seek to add to their knowledge, rather than accept what they are spoon-fed. They are the hope for the future. But are there enough of them to change the course of the world? Will they turn to the Creator and away from the Beast? And I fear this widening chasm among the world's population. I'm afraid that what I have disclosed about the experiences of the youth in the Middle East will not be detained to that region. In these two scenarios, we are seeing the extremes of constant war and relative safety; famine and waste; poverty and wealth... and I do not know if the Riders of the Apocalypse have begun their foray or not, but I'm not ready to discount them, either.
It seems as if we are barreling towards the End Times and no one is putting the brakes on. I know that our God is Sovereign and in control; and I know there is a purpose for each of us in His plan. I just don't want the youth of this country to be ignorant that they have a part to play -- and it is not the part that this world system would assign them. Please, Lord, help those of us who understand what time it is to guide them to You; to help them to throw off the beguiling veil through which they see the world; and to help them engage their minds and spirits for a greater purpose. I'm feeling it stronger every day --- this is the generation that must stand; and we can help that happen, with Your Grace, Mercy, and Power.
Matthew 6:25 Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?


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Thursday, October 29, 2009
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Very Funny
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
My good friend and talented designer starts blogging on Honeyee.com
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
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Visit to a washing factory China Earlier this year
Nice Bike........
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Standard Issue
Earlier this year we completed a few days consulting for Standard Issue in New Zealand. They are one of the only people who still make garments below the office and in pure New Zealand Lambswool. You would think there are hundreds when you consider the amount of sheep around. The final product and new website that we worked on has just been launched. Website build was by The Church.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Vintage Furniture
I was recently in Holland meeting some friends and was was invited to look around an amazing vintage furniture warehouse in Waalwijk. If my office was ready I would have bought most of the store. Its a must if your around that area.
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Click Here to check out Fabriek's Website.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
"When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it."
Steve Mc Queen
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Monday, October 12, 2009
View 2 Magazine
Issue 7 of View 2 magazine has just been published. We contributed a page interview with Ian Paley from Garbstore and Inside View. A collection of peoples favorite items. Go subscribe!
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Denim Demon
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