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The government is watching you
Someone is watching you.
What you spend. Where you eat. Who you call. Where you travel. What you Google. What you give to charity.
Recent reports of government access to records from phone companies, Internet providers and credit card companies raise anew questions of just how much other people can know about you, especially in the age of the Internet and high technology.
They watch from the air, from cameras, from computers. And you help them, volunteering vast amounts of information about yourself in the magnetic stripe on the back of your credit card, the SIM card in your phone, the sites you visit on the Internet.
The government has access to some of it. And might have access to more from the vast corporations that compile it.
Finance: Credit Cards and IRS
The IRS
- Total number of individual tax returns for fiscal year 2012: 146 million.
- Total number examined or audited: 1.5 million (1%).
- The IRS targeted more than 300 conservative applicants for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status.
By Kevin Thibodeuax
The government knows how much money you earn, what you contribute to a church or charity, whether you had a lot of medical expenses, or moved in the past year.
Americans filing tax returns supply the Internal Revenue Service with a Social Security number, the names of their dependents, salary, and other forms of income, such as stock dividends.
And many supply the federal government with more information, so they can deduct additional expenses from their taxable income.
They report moving expenses. Teachers' expenses. Donations to religious organizations or charities. Union dues.
This mass of information has been routinely collected for decades. But recent revelations showed that IRS agents also sometimes asked intrusive questions of conservative taxpayers seeking tax-exempt status for their organizations. And they may have targeted conservative taxpayers who donated to similar organizations.
Questions included whether or not the groups endorsed candidates and how they assessed candidates. Some groups were also asked to provide copies of press releases, op-eds, letters to the editor and interviews with the media about any of the topics they were trying to promote.
The IRS has apologized, and said it stopped asking those questions. FBI and congressional investigations are ongoing.
Credit cards and magnetic strips
- In 2009, there were 21.6 billion credit card transactions.
- Millions of magnetic particles form a strip on credit cards that records transaction information.
- The government can monitor when and where a credit card was used and how much was charged.
By Ali Watkins
Think Uncle Sam knows where you buy your coffee? He might be able to tell you the exact café.
Once your magnetic-striped credit card gets swiped, the information is fairly easy for the government to get.
That stripe on the back of your credit card is swiped through thousands of electronic readers every year. Millions of iron-based magnetic particles form the black bar, each one 20-millionths of an inch wide. Individual particles can be alternated to point north or south to code information on to the card. That's how each credit-card holder has a personalized strip full of intimate data sitting right inside his pocket, and how each purchase he makes can be traced directly back to his wallet.
And the National Security Agency is monitoring just that.
Although the scope of credit-card tracking efforts are unknown, former NSA officials confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that the NSA had established relationships with credit card companies akin to those that they had established with phone carriers, which provide them with data under warrant, subpoena or court order. These former officials didn't know whether the tracking was ongoing.
What could they find? The metadata — digitally contained bits of information — from a credit card could show when and where a purchase was made, and what it cost.
Experts don't believe the metadata shows what was purchased, but that information is associated with the card, and undoubtedly accessible.
In any credit card transaction, card holder data is passed between retailers and credit companies. According to Payment Card Industry security standards, retailers aren't supposed to hold on to that information unless it's deemed "absolutely necessary" by the retailer. Oversight is left largely to credit companies themselves. A tiny digital footprint is created when and where you swipe your card. This information, with a warrant, could be traced back to you whenever and wherever you use it, says cyber security expert Robert Siciliano.
- 91% of adults in the U.S. have cell phones, most of which are smartphones.
- In 2011, the government made 1.3 million requests for subscriber phone data.
- The FISA court has rejected just 11 out of 33,900 government applications for surveillance.
By Ali Watkins
We've got a Pandora's box in our pocket, which raises the question: How much can the government see when they open that box?
With the advent of Smartphones and SIM cards, cell phones are no longer strictly for storage of digits and 180-character messages. We use them to navigate roadtrips, to buy vintage boots on eBay, and to watch the game when we're stuck on the subway. We deposit checks with a bank app and a camera, find the closest Happy Hour, and board a train with the flash of a QR-code. It holds on to our coupons, our favorite cat videos, and functions as a credit card when we forget ours at home.
Recent reports have revealed that the National Security Administration is collecting subscriber information from major cell phone carriers. This information is primarily based on metadata, snippets of digital information which include the location and duration of calls, along with numbers dialed. This metadata doesn't include the call's content, which the government would need a warrant to access.
But, says American University School of Communication Professor Christopher Simpson, metadata can be at least as dangerous.
"The problem with [metadata] in terms of a democratic society is that it works on the assumption of guilt as distinct from an assumption of innocence," said Simpson. Suspects are identified through algorithms, he said, which can make many completely innocent cell-phone users appear suspicious.
Although the conversation about phone tracking has heated up in recent days, this is not the first time that Washington has come under scrutiny for looking through mobile devices.
In 2012, Rep. Ed Markey, D-MA, wrote to major cell phone carriers asking about government requests for information. His questions came in the wake of an April 2012 article in The New York Times, and offered a look into phone tracking from providers, including Sprint, Verizon, T- Mobile and AT&T.
These responses noted an increase in law enforcement requests for subscriber information in 2011, totaling 1.3 million requests.
And, carriers noted, there's a good chance that the number of customers whose information was obtained in 2011 is far greater than 1.3 million. One of those 1.3 million, for example, could be for tower data, which could include hundreds or even thousands of mobile users at any given time.
Although many of these requests should require warrants, or at least easier-to-get court-ordered subpoenas, carriers reported that officials could request information and label it as an "emergency" -- which allowed authorities to collect the information without formal legal documents.
These government requests, both from 2011 and more recently by the NSA, are limited to metadata. That doesn't mean that the content of conversations is off-limits. The government just needs a warrant, granted through the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, to listen in on calls.
Established in 1978 as a way to grant government surveillance of suspected foreign terrorists, the Court (FISA) has been considered by the Obama administration to provide "judicial oversight" of the government's phone tracking habits.
The court approves almost every request, fully denying just 9 out of 33,900 government applications for surveillance over its 33-year existence, according to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reports submitted to Congress.
The overwhelming rate stems in part because most requests go through an intense vetting process by department lawyers before ever going to the court, said Timothy Edgar, visiting fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
By the time it gets in front of the court, he said, it's nearly foolproof.
- 742,713 people traveled by plane in the U.S. during 2012.
- TSA shares information with 6 airlines to make expedited pre-screening of passengers available.
- The TSA keeps information on frequent travelers for up to two years as part of the Known Travelers list.
By Trevor Graff
Attempting to make travel safe for the masses may endanger an individual citizen's privacy.
Travelers' personal data could be used to learn where a person is going, where they've been and in some cases even their purpose for going there.
The Transportation Security Administration and airlines collect personal data on a daily basis.
Passengers are required to submit Secure Flight Passenger Data to the airline when booking flights. Each traveler submits a name as it appears on a government issued ID, date of birth, and gender.
Once collected, the airline submits this data to TSA's Secure Flight, where it is used to perform several cross-checks with watch lists of suspected terrorists.
Once the names are examined and cleared, TSA returns the matching results to airlines to allow the issuance of boarding passes.
TSA says the data is collected, stored and then disposed of.
Information filed by frequent travelers for the government's Known Travelers list — which allows access to special security lines – is retained by the TSA Office of Intelligence and Analysis for up to two years.
The TSA says external sharing of data is prohibited unless the individual is involved in a security incident or is found on other watch lists.
There is no private-sector knowledge of how the information may be used to track passengers from airport to airport.
The State Department's Smart Traveler Enrollment Program also collects travelers' information for government use.
International travelers can enroll in the program, giving the State Department personal information that allows them to keep track of travelers overseas. The program allows the department to send alerts and warnings to travelers.
It also assists the department in recovering U.S. citizens in international emergencies and natural disasters. The program assisted in evacuating 16,700 U.S. citizens from the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and 15,000 in the civil unrest that embroiled Lebanon in 2006.
- The government can access your email with either a warrant or subpoena depending on how old messages are.
- Google granted about 90% of government requests for user data in 2012.
- Microsoft granted about 65% of government requests.
By Kate Irby
The government can read your email.
Access to an email sent within 180 days requires a warrant, while an email older than 180 days and email drafts only require a subpoena and prior notice.
Prior notice can be delayed up to 90 days if it would impede an investigation. Since email services such as Yahoo! and Hotmail offer unlimited storage space on email accounts, that represents an extensive level of access to information.
Google will provide email account creation information such as name, associated email addresses and phone numbers on a subpoena, and data from email headers (subject, sender, recipient and priority) under court orders.
However, citing Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure, a Google spokesperson said they refuse to supply any email content information to the government without a warrant even if the email is over 180 days old.
Government officials can read all the ingoing and outgoing emails on an account in real time if they acquire a specific type of wiretap warrant, which is granted with probable cause for specific crimes, such as terrorism.
Google received 16,407 user data requests concerning 31,072 users from the U.S. government in 2012. It granted about 90 percent of those requests.
Microsoft, with its Outlook/Hotmail email service, received 11,073 requests concerning 24,565 users, granting (at least partially) 65 percent of those requests.
- 30 million surveillance cameras are watching Americans.
- There are 4,000 cameras in part of Lower Manhattan alone.
- Cameras on toll roads and at intersections record car data that can be shared with insurance companies.
Americans are constantly being watched by one of the United States' estimated 30 million surveillance cameras.
Walking to work, withdrawing money from an ATM or even shopping at a favorite local grocer, we are within sight of a surveillance camera. Police use them to monitor streets, subways and public spaces. Homeowners put them on their houses. Businesses mount them in stores and on buildings.
In Boston, the FBI used still photos and video pulled from cameras to identify suspects after the Boston Marathon bombing. The images showed the suspects making calls from their cell phones, carrying what the police say were explosives, and leaving the scene.
In New York, the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative uses 4,000 surveillance cameras in a 1.7 square mile area to track and combat crime, according to CNN. Through facial and object recognition technology, the cameras give the NYPD the ability to track people and cars through the networked area.
New high-tech, high-definition security camera manufacturers give police departments the options of thermal imaging, 360-degree fields of view, and powerful zoom capabilities for identifying people. Pelco even offers an explosion-proof camera designed for harsh environments such as the oil rigs of Alaska and offshore drilling sites in South America.
Whether these cameras help prevent attacks is a subject of debate.
Cameras helped police thwart a 2010 attack on Times Square in New York by tracking a vehicle packed with explosives.
But security analyst Bruce Schneier wrote in The Guardian, a British newspaper, that a police officer walking the street can easily respond to a crime as it happens while the officer manning the screen can only dispatch an officer to help, costing precious time in a volatile situation. In Schneier's opinion, cameras are only effective for gathering forensic evidence for use in investigations after the crime occurs.
Advances in camera technology enable new ways of monitoring American citizens.
Some states such as Colorado are using cameras as an alternative method of charging motorists toll fares. As a motorist drives through the toll lanes, motion-activated cameras capture an image of the license plate, and the driver is billed.
Traffic cameras are watching if you speed or run a red light, too.
Police departments in several metro areas began employing cameras to deter traffic infractions and raise revenue. Nine cameras placed on Washington, D.C.'s New York Avenue, for example, made more than $30,000 dollars a day in fiscal year 2011.
Libertarians and electronic privacy advocates oppose these methods, citing a lack of transparency in the use of the cameras and the retention of the data they collect. In some situations, EPIC Director Ginger McCall said, information from these traffic citations was kept indefinitely and released to third party insurance companies.
- The FAA expects 30,000 drones to patrol U.S. skies within 20 years.
- 81 agencies have been approved to use drones in the U.S.
- The FBI has acknowledged that the bureau used aerial drones for surveillance in the United States.
By Kevin Thibodeaux
For now, they're largely the unseen tools of warfare in far-off lands. But it's only a matter of time before fleets of drones fly over the U.S., providing surveillance from thousands of feet in the air.
As many as 30,000 domestic drones will travel the skies above U.S. soil within 20 years, according to a report for Congress by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Gearing up, Congress has called on the FAA to integrate unmanned aircraft into the national air system even sooner, by 2015.
Already, the FAA has approved domestic drone use by 81 agencies including schools, police departments and the Department of Homeland Security, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group of privacy advocates.
Among the applicants approved: the Arlington Police Department in Texas; California State University in Fresno; Canyon County Sheriff's Office in Idaho; the city of Herington, Kansas; the Georgia Tech Research Institute; Kansas State University; the Miami-Dade Police Department in Florida; the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources; the Seattle Police Department; and the Universities of Alaska at Fairbanks, California-Davis and Florida.
In March, the American Civil Liberties Union addressed the dangers of domestic drones and warned of the surveillance capabilities of this technology. Although these drones range in size, most are able to hover tens of thousands of feet in the sky, collecting images of people on the ground below.
Websites selling this technology boast about these drones' high-resolution cameras.
Predator B drones, a type of unmanned aircraft that has a wingspan of 66 feet, have been used by the U.S. along its southern border of Mexico, according to the ACLU. The aircraft can reach an altitude of 50,000 feet, stay in the air for 27 hours and travel at speeds of nearly 300 mph.
Touted as having "persistent surveillance/strike capability for the war fighter," the Predator B drones can be equipped with electric-optic/infrared, a technology that allows for infrared imaging, night vision capabilities and range finding tools.
Lynx Multi-mode Radar can be used by these drones to provide photographic-quality images through clouds, rain, dust, smoke and fog, in daylight or total darkness with a range of nearly 50 miles.
Other drones come in smaller models, but can be equipped with the same technology allowing for high-quality surveillance from a great distance.
The ScanEagle, a smaller drone tested by the Houston Police Department, has a 10 foot wingspan and is only 4.5 feet long, roughly the size of a large pool table. The aircraft can stay in the air for 24 hours, travelling up to 19,500 feet in the air at more than 90 mph.
Smaller drones can measure 3 feet long, weighing around 4 pounds and be launched by hand. Drones of this size can stay in the air for almost two hours and reach heights of 14,000 feet.
The Nano Hummingbird, designed to look like its namesake, has a wingspan of 6 inches and weighs about as much as an AA battery. The miniature technology is equipped with a video camera to provide footage of its target.
"Based on current trends—technology development, law enforcement interest, political and industry pressure, and the lack of legal safeguards—it is clear that drones pose a looming threat to Americans' privacy," the ACLU report argued.
Computers and the Internet
- Government agencies can gain access to online behavior through warrants, subpoena, court order.
- Even a deleted Facebook account remains in backup logs for up to 90 days.
- Most search engines use cookies to keep user data for 180 days.
By Kate Irby
A quick Google search for a lunch spot? There's a record of that.
Arranging a vacation? Someone knows where you're planning to go. And do you check in with Facebook? The social network tracks all the sites you visit that have "like" buttons or allow you to sign in with Facebook – pretty much all of them.
If Internet giants can record so much about you, who can look at this electronic diary?
The government can access any emails, chats, searches, events, locations, videos, photos, log-ins and any information people post online with a warrant, which the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court can grant secretly.
The revelation of Prism, a secret government program for mining major Internet companies, suggests the government could have direct access to Internet companies' servers without a warrant.
Every company whose data was mined — Google, YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype, PalTalk and AOL — denied knowing about the program or providing direct access to their servers.
Each social media company has different standards and levels of access to private information that it will provide to the government.
Facebook, for example, only requires a subpoena for basic subscriber records, such as credit card information, name, length of service, email addresses and recent IP addresses of log-ins and log-outs. A subpoena usually only requires the signature of a court clerk, not one of a judge or magistrate.
Facebook requires a warrant for messages, photos, videos, wall posts and location information. Much harder to secure, the government must get the signature of a judge or magistrate for a search warrant. And it has to provide details on the information it seeks and the places to be searched, as well as facts that demonstrate a logical reason to believe that evidence in crimes would be found in those places.
Facebook also tracks other websites you visit that have Facebook features, such as the ability to sign in with Facebook or the "like" button. They can tell when you're on the site, the site URL and your user ID.
Deactivation of Facebook accounts does not remove any of the information they have stored on you. If you delete a Facebook account, which takes a month to do, some information remains in backup logs for up to 90 days.
Twitter, which was not involved in any Prism reports, requires a warrant for private communications such as direct messages. The company will disclose other private information about its users through subpoenas and court orders, though it will notify users before doing so unless law or court order prohibits it.
Google automatically stores certain information such as search terms, websites visited as a result of searches, IP addresses, private videos and location information, which can all be accessed if the government has obtained a warrant. Even if users have no account with Google, it can store their searches based on IP addresses.
If users have logged in and given them permission, search engines can keep users' search information indefinitely, though users can clear that history in their settings. Most will keep information on users' searches for 180 days through cookies, which can be deleted, then will anonymize search information after 18 months.
All of those companies specifically state in their privacy policies that they will not respond to overly broad or vague government requests for information.
- There were 153 million registered voters, in 2012, about 71.2% of the eligible population.
- 33 states record your party affiliation when you register to vote.
- In 2012, 1.5 billion people donated $200 or more to political campaigns.
By Kevin Thibodeaux
Americans may think their political opinions are a secret protected by closed curtains at the voting booth. But the federal government collects a slew of information regarding its citizens' politics.
Party affiliation, campaign donations as well as membership in some political groups that might be considered radical or extreme are all recorded by the federal government.
Individual donations to candidates and campaigns are reported to the Federal Election Commission – with the names, addresses and occupation of the contributor, the amount donated and the date.
This information is made public when people contribute more than $200. Contributions of less than $200 are reported but not revealed publicly – though the government still keeps the information on file.
The FEC uses this information to monitor contribution limits, according to Bob Biersack, a senior fellow with the Center for Responsive Politics and a former FEC staff member.
Federal law prohibits the use of the information for commercial purposes or for solicitation. Beyond that, it's fair game.
"The fact that that's published on the Internet, or it's available, means that it can be used in any number of ways," Biersack said.
Individuals who spend money independently, such as on a commercial endorsing a candidate, must then disclose that information the same as other contributors.
However, individuals donating to 501 (c)(4) organizations, tax-exempt groups labeled as social welfare organizations, do not have to be disclosed. The IRS acknowledged earlier this year that conservative groups applying for this tax exemption status had been more strictly scrutinized than other organizations.
Voter registration forms also collect a range of information on residents that are stored in government databases. Information ranges from a person's name and driver's license number to party affiliation.
These states record party I.D.'s when voting in a presidential primary: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii (for Democrats only), Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota (for Republicans only), Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota (for Republicans only), Utah (for Republicans only), Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Getting involved in political causes can draw the attention of federal authorities.
In 2010, it was revealed that the FBI improperly investigated liberal and anti-war groups including Greenpeace and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for terrorism. The Justice Department's Inspector General said the moves were wrong and without basis.


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There's consistent chatter about the new world of the cloud, and much of the discussion involves how a small business saves substantially and can then invest the savings elsewhere in its business.
For many small businesses that have used the cloud for a few years, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, the experience has largely been positive.
Operating servers both on-site and in the cloud is "a very effective way of reducing risk," said Michael Harries, chief technologist at Citrix Startup Accelerator, a Silicon Valley investment firm that works specifically with software startups, according to the Journal.
Business owners should make their cloud-deployment decisions based on the "support they have available," he said.
Harpaul Sambhi, chief executive of social-media recruitment firm Careerify, said running his company solely in the cloud has allowed him to focus more on business growth. Careerify allows a company to connect to its employees' social networks in order to find candidates for jobs at that company, be it through Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.
Sambhi said because an average employee has about 300 social-media contacts, he didn't want to burden his staff of 12 with trying to maintain servers that are mining the data of hundreds of thousands of users.
"It's a lot of work for us," he said.
Cloud Computing and 'Appification' Speed Up Software Innovation
Cloud computing and cloud storage not only can help trim costs, it also speeds innovation, according to several business executives.
Cloud computing and "appification" are changing the frequency and speed of developing software and, in turn, the way technology providers deliver those features to insurers and risk managers, according to an article on BusinessInsurance.com.
Kathy Burns, Chicago-based CEO of Aon eSolutions, which provides cloud-based and on-premises software to risk managers, said her firm's embrace of the cloud has accelerated the process of innovation. Instead of needing to push updates to separate clients that may be running separate versions of the on-premises software, cloud-based applications allow automatic changes, Burns said.
"We provide cloud-based solutions to risk managers and it enables us to do more for them more quickly," she said. "If we create a great report or piece of analytics or a new module for a client, I can then make it accessible to our broader client base."
Brian Vannoni, San Francisco-based director of product marketing for Guidewire Software, said the firm wanted a hybrid model blending the best attributes of on-premise and cloud-based software. In October, it launched Guidewire Live, a series of hosted applications intended to augment the functionality of the Foster City, Calif.-based company's underwriting, policy administration, billing and claims systems.
The advent of the cloud and app-driven development has freed business units to adopt new technology without taking the time to involve the IT department, Vannoni said. "Previously, the cycle time for technology-based innovation was so long that it stifled business innovation," he said.
OpenStack Brain Trust Gains $10M in New Funding
A cloud consulting firm recently received a $10 million infusion so it can, among other initiatives, increase the number of OpenStack contributors it employs.
Mirantis, a cloud consulting firm, announced it received $10 million in funding from Intel, Dell and WestSummit Capital, according to InformationWeek.com.
Mirantis has successfully self-funded its own growth up until its recent $10 million funding. CEO Adrian Ionel said it could have continued to do so. Rather than a handful of entrepreneurs working in a garage, it's already a staff of 300 consultants and engineers with a list of pedigree customers building major cloud projects, such as PayPal and AT&T.
Mirantis "is looking for organizational support," or members on its board who can boost its young reputation. Mirantis is already a close business partner of Intel Capital, which was the lead investor, as well as Dell Ventures. Mirantis is helping Intel build out an OpenStack cloud. Dell will base its own public infrastructure-as-a-service cloud on an OpenStack architecture, and Mirantis is "the designer and implementer" of that data center space, said Ionel in an interview.
Mirantis, Intel and Dell are all code contributors to the OpenStack open-source project, and the infusion of capital will help Mirantis both add to its consulting ranks and increase the number of OpenStack contributors that it employs. It currently has four developers working full time on the project. It will add six more in the next three to six months, said Boris Renski, co-founder and executive vice president, in an interview.
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (Blugolds.com) - Overtime was not kind to the UW-Eau Claire women's basketball team tonight as the Blugolds fell 58-51 in a conference matchup at UW-La Crosse.
Eau Claire, which led a majority of the game, picked up the first basket of the night off a two point jumper from Sarah Bingea (Sr.-Delano, Minn.). La Crosse was quick to answer and the two battled neck in neck for the entire first half, going into halftime with UW-Eau Claire up 19-17.
The Blugolds once again scored first to open up the second half. However, less than two minutes in, La Crosse made a fast break layup to tie the game 23-23. The Blugolds steadily built a 10-point lead with just over seven minutes left in regulation but La Crosse began to come back.
Late in the second half, Eau Claire had a two-point lead before a turnover, and then a UW-La Crosse score tied the game at 44 with only 30 seconds left in regulation. Two more consecutive Eau Claire turnovers and a missed shot by La Crosse sent the game into overtime.
In the overtime, the Eagles outscored the Blugolds 14-7 to win by seven. This was the Blugolds' second overtime game of the season. They beat UW-Platteville in overtime in December. It's only the third time in school history the Blugolds played two overtimes in the same season with the last time being 2003 (also played two overtimes in 1980).
Eau Claire shot 20-for-56 (35.7 percent) from the field and just 4-for-15 (26.7 percent) from beyond the arc. The Eagles went 17-for-58 from the field (29.3 percent) and 7-for-21 (33.3 percent) from three point range. La Crosse also missed only three free throws on the night, going 17-for-20 (85 percent) while the Blugolds shot 53.8 percent (7-for-13).
Bingea was the only player with a double-double on the night, scoring 21 points and snagging 14 rebounds to lead the Blugolds. Teenie Lichtfuss (Fr.-Oshkosh, Wis./Lourdes) added 14 points. Morgan Rustad (So.-Hudson, Wis./Hill-Murray) also crashed the boards for Eau Claire, grabbing nine rebounds. The Blugolds held a 53-30 rebounding advantage.
UW-Eau Claire falls to 9-9 and 4-5 in WIAC play. UW-La Crosse goes to 9-9 (3-6 WIAC).
The Blugolds will be back in action at home on Wednesday as they take on UW-Superior. There will be a special event as the team will be raising cancer awareness through the Coaches vs. Cancer campaign. Tip-off is 7 p.m.


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Calcipotriene is available as a cream, foam, and solution. It may also be used in combination with
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Calcipotriene, which is a form of vitamin D, controls the rapid
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Pam Corkery's proposed brothel for women--a world first--is another triumph for female equality. Yeah, right
I love an innovator, but I'm not sure why Pam Corkery's brothel for women is supposed to be progress.
Okay, so there has reportedly never been an exclusively female-focused brothel before and Godzone gets to host the first. 100 % New Zealand. Choice. And let's not forget prostitution is legal in this country, so Madam Corkery is not doing anything really shifty here, just morally blurred. Pammy's (cute name, no?) might even spur a little sex tourism of the sort found in Amsterdam and finally put us on the Global Sex Biz Map. In these recessionary times, we don't want to squash a striver, to scythe down yet another Tall Poppy, do we. Right?
I have heard it argued, notably by Pam Corkery in the Listener, that it's about time women had a place they could go to get uncomplicated sex from men, that doesn't involve dressing up for a night on the town and risking your life with a stranger. "Women are ready for it," Corkery says in the current Listener. "We'll be selling the dream date in many ways. No one's going to break your heart. You won't feel demeaned. You don't have to think about anything other than pleasure for yourself."
Interesting perspective, but I think most women's dream date is more about romantic gestures and extravagant surprises. An emotional connection with someone, not a business transaction. I think some of the would-be clients might feel demeaned when it came time to hand over their credit cards.
That's where the notion that this some kind of step forward for feminism falls down. These are the facts as I see them:
* Women deserve to be equal to men, yes. Duh.
* Women are not equal to men in all respects in New Zealand. Pay rates, for one.
* That is bullshit, and extremely vexing.
* However, giving women the opportunity to be as base and revolting as their male counterparts (ie exploiting someone else's body for their own pleasure) is not progress and is no cause for celebration.
I see a couple of other problems with Pam Corkery's business model. For one thing, there doesn't seem to be that much of a market for heterosexual male prostitutes. Annah Pickering of the Prostitutes Collective told the Herald there were just 20 male escorts working in Auckland, and they were aged in their 30s and 40s. Only half of them provided services exclusively to women. So if Pammy's is to cater to cougars with money, as is assumed, it is unclear where the staff are coming from.
Except that the brothel will feature in a reality television programme, focusing on the hiring of hunks to work at Pammy's. Which raises an uncomfortable point--would men sell themselves for money just to make it onto TV? People do strange things for fame, look no further than Big Brother, Fear Factor or The Bachelor for evidence. But are we comfortable with that kind of exploitation? I love to watch drunk dimwits on the brilliant Jersey Shore, but I think I draw the line at watching someone sell their soul. Yes, I have an old-fashioned perspective on sex-for-money. I support its legality because I think it is safer for sex workers, but that doesn't mean I don't think those workers wouldn't be better off in a different line of work.
Last point. The bordello--and isn't that a quaint old world, redolent of Wild West tarts in corsets--will apparently include a spa and bar where clients will "come and either just drink and be titillated, or go the whole nine yards". Hmm, strange that, running an establishment that incorporates a bar when you are a confessed alcoholic who told a national television audience that you were still taking it one day at a time. I'm not judging here, and all power to Corkery for kicking the booze, I just wonder if such an arrangement is asking for trouble.


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STE(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual STE(4) NAME ste -- Sundance ST-201 10/100 Ethernet driver SYNOPSIS ste* at pci? dev ? function ? Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary. See mii(4). DESCRIPTION The ste device driver supports the Sundance ST-201 10/100 Ethernet chip. This chip is found on the D-Link DFE-550TX, the quad-port D-Link DFE-580TX, and some other mid-range 10/100 Ethernet boards. SEE ALSO arp(4), ifmedia(4), mii(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY The ste driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6. AUTHORS The ste driver was written by Jason R. Thorpe <email@example.com>. NetBSD 5.1 June 19, 2001 NetBSD 5.1
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- China has developed Red Flag Linux (based on Fedora)- Cuba is developing Nova (based on Sabayon Linux)- Brazil has developed Litrix Linux (based on Gentoo Linux)- Russia is developing ALT Linux (based on the free GNU/Linux code)Here's the mascot for Russia's national OS? A penguin bear! -zridling (February 15, 2009, 03:43 AM)
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force. - Darth Vader
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1. Your Acceptance
1-1 This Cure WorldCosplay Terms of Use (the "Terms of Use") set out the terms and conditions of use of "Cure WorldCosplay" (the "Service") which is provided by Cure Inc. ("The Company"). Any individual that uses the Service (the "User" and collectively the "Users") is considered to have agreed the terms and conditions under the Terms of Use by using the Service.
1-2 All related notifications that The Company provides in accordance with the Article 3-1 will be incorporated in the Terms of Use.
2. Modification
2-1 The Company may, in its sole discretion, modify or revise the Terms of Use at any time without obtaining the User's prior consent. User's continued use of the Service will constitute User's acceptance of the modified or revised Terms of Use.
2-2 The modified or revised Terms of Use will be effective and enforceable on the date the modified or revised Terms of Use are posted on the Service website unless otherwise expressed by The Company.
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3-2 The notifications mentioned in the Article 3-1 will be effective and enforceable on the date such notifications are sent or posted on the Service website.
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5-2 Upon accepting the User's registration, The Company will provide the User with a set of User ID and password for the Service.
5-3 The Company can at any time suspend the User's account when The Company reasonably believes that the User failed to provide true and accurate data.
6. Account and Password Security
6-1 The User shall be fully responsible for the security of the User ID and password including but not limited to damages, losses and/or expenses from being used in error or wrongfully used.
6-2 The User shall notify The Company of any unauthorized use of the User's ID or password immediately after recognizing such use and follow The Company's instruction, if any, in order to prevent the User's ID and password from being used wrongfully.
6-3 The User shall be fully responsible to manage and store all data of photographs, information, text, images, graphics, data or other materials (the "Content") they have created on their own responsibility. The company shall have no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content maintained on the Service. The User shall be solely responsible for creating back-ups of their Content.
7. Photo Publishing
Photos of the user, props made by the user, photos taken or edited/collaborated by the user, and photos of the user's likeness posted with permission from other users may be uploaded to this website. (Below, these specified photos will be referenced as "submitted photos")
However, the creation and processing of the photograph which was uploaded to our service cannot be uploaded by users other than the user/subject photographed, photographer, post-processor/editor, and related persons directly involved in the creation of that photograph. (Below, these specified people will be referenced as "directly involved persons")
If any of the directly involved persons request for any submitted photos to be removed, they have the right to remove the photos from our service.
If the photo is published by a minor, any display of suggest themes, violence, and similar unsuitable displays will be removed. Please check the list below, as they are grounds for removal.
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- Sexually related, sexually implied, touching of genitals, intercourse, or sexual actions
- Images or ideology of extreme violence, mayhem, or imitation of such behaviors where it may cause danger or stimulate someone to do the same
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The following conducts are prohibited on the Service. The User agrees that the Company may remove or delete the Use's account, the User's profile data and/or any images that the User has uploaded and prohibit future use of the User. In addition, the Company shall not responsible to salvage the removed images.
- Conducts that violate, intentionally or negligently, the Terms of Use;
- Infringement or possible infringement of intellectual property rights such as copyright or design right of the Company or a third party;
- Reprinting of image data from this site without the creator's permission;
- Violation or infringement of any property, privacy or copyright of the Company or a third party;
- Conducts that discriminate unfairly or slander of the Company or the Third Party, encourage of discrimination against the Third Party, or damage their reputation or credibility;
- Posting the following images and information;
- Information that slanders any Posted Images maintained on the Service;
- Information identifying the name, address, work place, telephone number of the contributor (Including the case one can identify by checking through the posted images);;
- Images and information that its veracity is difficult to confirm, or deceptive content;
- Any other images and information that the Company has determined to be inappropriate;
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The Users who posts the Posted Images on the Service shall assure that the Posted Images do not violate any right of a third party. In case any disputes such as violating any right of a third party occure on the Posted Images, the User must solve the dispute at the User's responsibility and expense and the Company will not be held responsible. The user shall not harm the Company whatsoever.
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10-1 The Company owns all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in the software etc. provided by the Company in relation to the Service (the "Software"). The Company grants the User the non-exclusive right to use the Software only for the purpose of using the Service. The User shall n not reproduce, copy, modify, translate, create a derivative work from, reverse engineer, decompile or reverse assemble the Software without obtaining prior written approval from the Company.
10-2 The User agrees to grant the Company the royalty-free and perpetual right, in related to the Posted Images, to modify, copy, revise, alter (including but not limited to resize and change the brightness of the photograph) or sublicense of such rights to the extent that the Company may deem necessary ("Modification"). When the Company use information of the Content, the name or part of the information displayed can be omitted.
10-3 The User agrees not to exercise the moral right of the Posted Images, nor to have the author exercise the moral right of the Posted Images, when The Company exercises the license in accordance with the Article 9-2 above.
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The Company shall not be responsible for storing the Posted Images in the Service. Therefore, the User should always have the back-ups of such photographs.
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The Company may temporarily cease the provision of the Service without prior notification to the User when the following events occurred;
- When the facilities of the Service are during maintenance;
- When the facilities of the Service are in failure;
- When the telecommunication provider fail to provide the service; or
- When The Company considers it necessary.
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- For identification or to prevent fraudulent use;
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- To analyze such personal information for the purpose of improving the Service;
- To provide advertisement in regard to The Company or its business partners;
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- When The Company provides certain business partner with User Information to the extent that the business partner needs to know such User's Information in order to implement the business in relation to the Service entrusted by The Company, only after The Company has imposed on the business partner an obligation, in a contract etc., to manage such User's Information properly; or
- When The Company provides the result of the analysis of User's Information, only after editing and processing such User's Information into unidentifiable information.
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- When the law allows;
- When The Company finds sufficient reasons to believe that the User is violating the Terms of Use and has to disclose the User's personal information in order to protect The Company's rights, properties or services;
- When it is necessary to protect a person's life, body or property, and obtaining the User's prior consent is difficult;
- When it is especially necessary for improving public health or promoting the sound growth of children, and obtaining the User's prior consent is difficult;
- When The Company is required to cooperate with a state organ, local government, or an individual or a business operator entrusted by one in executing the affairs prescribed by laws and regulations, and obtaining the User's prior consent is difficult; or
- In the case that the User's personal information is provided as a result of the succession of our business in a merger, demerger, business transfer, etc.
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15-2 The Company doesn't guarantee that the Service (including but not limited to the Posted Images) is free from de facto or legal flaws (including but not limited to stability, reliability, accuracy, integrity, effectiveness, fitness to certain purpose, security-related faults, flaws, bugs, violation of rights). The Company shall not be responsible for providing the Service without such defects.
15-3 On no event will The Company be liable to the User for any damages and losses arising out of the use of the Service and/or the provisions of the Terms of Use including but not limited to Article 2 (Modification), Article 6 (Account and Password Security), Article 7 (Upload), Article 11 (Storage), Article 12 (Suspension of the Service), and Article 13 (Termination of the Service).
15-4. The Company is not involved in communication between the Users. In case any dispute occurs among the Users, the Users must solve at the Users's responsibility, and the Company will not hold any responsibility;
15-5. The Company, concerning the Posted Images, and other information about the Posted Images, takes no responsibility in the accuracy of legally documenting information. The Company also assumes no responsibility on suitability for the Posted Images by the User, concerning the internal rules of propriety for corporations and organizations they belong to;
15-6. The Company, in the cases listed below, shall browse, store, or disclose to third parties, concerning the Posted Images and information about the Posted Images. (will state hereinafter in this subsection as "viewed."). The Company assumes no responsibility whatsoever for any damages resulting from this action:
(1) In case the Company send an email to seek the approval of viewing to the User who posted the Posted Images, and if applicable in one of the following cases: The Company, in the case of an e-mail sent requesting agreement for inspection to registered users who post the Posted Images falls under any of the following listed in each item:
- When the Users agree to such inspection;
- Answers of the Users by e-mail does not reach to the mail serves of the Company within 7 days after the Company send the e-mail to seek the approval of viewing. Except when there is an unavoidable reason like an emergency;
- To ascertain and solve the technical trouble of the Service;
- When the Company receives the official referral by law from courts, police and other public institutions;
- When the Company judges the Company needs to confirm the content of the Posted Images and information about the Posted Images in case that the Posted Images are violating or may have violated Terms and Conditions or any other conditions;
- If the Company judges that there is an urgent need to prevent damages to a person's life, body, or property;
- When there are needs to operate the site appropriately.
15-7. The Company may terminate or suspend the membership, delete all or part of the image data or change the published limitation of the User when the Company judge there are enough reasons to support that the User violated or may have violated the Terms and Conditions or any other conditions. The Company assume no responsibility whatsoever for any damages resulting from this action.
16. Indemnity
In case when The Company has suffered a loss or damage or been charged an expense (including but not limited to the lawyer's fee) directly or indirectly (including but not limited to the case when The Company has been claimed by a third party) due to the User's use of the Service violating applicable laws or the Terms of Use, the User shall immediately compensate or indemnify such a loss, damage and/or an expense according to The Company's demand.
17. Separability
If any provision of the Terms of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction or governmental authority to be invalid, the provision will be removed from the Terms of Use without affecting the rest of the Terms of Use. The remaining provisions of the Terms of Use will continue to be fully effective and enforceable.
18. Right of Termination
The Company, in following ways, can make public changes and can delete all or parts of the information concerning Posted Images (including images themselves) that violate the terms and conditions:
- When the Company will determine the information concerning the Posted Images (including images themselves) as obscene;
- When professional or public institutions (national, local governments, organizations ensure reliability guidelines set forth in the law regarding disclosure of information and the caller's liability limits specified telecommunications service provider, the Internet Hotline, or lawyers) point out that the Posted Images or information about the Posted Images are illegal, offensive to public order and morals or violates the right of a third party;
- When a third party claims the copyright of the Posted Images;
- When the Company believes that the Posted Images and information about the Posted Images violate the copyright of third parties.
19. Procedure to Prohibited Act
The Company will take the following measures upon the perpetrating user when the User violates the Terms and Conditions, and any other conditions, or when the Company judges necessary:
- Request to delete or revise the Posted Images;
- Delete part or all of the Posted Images, change the range of publication or disable browsing;
- Compulsory execution to terminate the membership;
- No acceptance of the membership.
The user shall have no objection to these measures of the Company.
20. Anti Social Forces
20-1. Users must warrants that Users are not /will not be the Anti Social Forces, a member of the Anti Social Forces, or do /will not have any socially criticized relationship with the Anti Social Forces, which shall mean an organized crime group, a corporate racketeer, and any other similar organization. The Users must warrant that Users do/will not claim made with forceful behavior or acts of violence, use threatening statements or violent acts, or act/ behave which may cause damage to The Company's credit or its business by spreading false rumors or the use of fraudulent ways or by force. 20-2. Users shall understand and agree that The Company is entitled to terminate Users' ID by the Company's sole discretion without prior/any notice if Users breach any of the above 1.
21. Superiority of Japanese Version
Although The Company has provided the User with the translations of the Service and the Terms of Use in English and other languages, the User agrees that such translations are provided only for the purpose of the User's convenience and that the Japanese language version will govern the relationship between the User and The Company. If there is any contradiction between the Japanese language version and its translations, the Japanese language version will supersede such translations.
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The Terms of Use shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Japan without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
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Here is an article about Stellarium, that appeared on today's issue of Kannada daily Samyukta Karnataka (9/27/2012). Click on the image for a enlarged view. My article is at the bottom of the page:
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(I wrote this article last year for ಅರಿವಿನ ಅಲೆಗಳು by Sanchaya).
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A massive military exercise of potential importance to Taiwan will be staged in December on and around the Ryukyu Islands by the Japan Self-Defense Forces and ships from the US 7th Fleet.
According to a study just released by James Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara, associate professors of strategy at the US Naval War College, the exercise is aimed at perfecting plans for recapturing the lightly protected islands should they be invaded by China.
"The sad fact is that these islands, which have hitherto been vacation destinations, are now becoming a major military and strategic feature of East Asia," said Arthur Waldron, a former professor at the US Naval War College.
In an e-mail to colleagues, Waldron said: "The last island in this chain, Yonaguni, is only sixty miles [97km] from the east coast of Taiwan — which is visible, looming up far above the horizon, on a clear day."
Waldron said the Japanese-held Ryukyu Islands could effectively block any Chinese attempt to attack the east coast of Taiwan from the north.
"In case of conflict, the actual Taiwan Strait itself is likely to be impassable, as each side will have the ability to destroy just about anything that moves," he wrote.
"This would mean that the only attack direction is from the southeast, which means passing to the east, north of the Philippines, at the point where the strait is widest, before turning to the north and east to gain access to Taiwan's strategic east coast — with its high stone cliffs and very deep water, good for submarines," Waldron said.
"My own view is that if the defender had good anti-ship missile capabilities, which according to some reports Taiwan does, this would be a very risky operation," he said.
In their joint study, Holmes and Yoshihara said the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has been making efforts to break out of the first island chain and operate freely in the Western Pacific, "either to threaten the east coast of Taiwan or for some other purpose."
They add that occupying one or more of the Ryukyus offers one way for the PLAN to do so.
"Once ensconced within the island chain, PLA forces could drive off allied navies, keeping Tokyo and Washington from slamming the nautical gateway shut," the study said.
One possibility, it said, is that the Chinese might stage a narrowly focused attack on the Ryukyu Islands designed to open a corridor through the archipelago.
A prime candidate is Miyako Island, which abuts both Miyako and Ishigaki straits, it said.
Alternatively, the PLA could try to capture the entire Ryukyu chain from Japan in an effort to bar maritime Asia to US reinforcements while keeping forces already in the theater from entering the Taiwan Strait, the authors said.
PLA forces entrenched along the island chain could supply air and sea cover for PLAN vessels cruising off the east coast of Taiwan.
"Stealthy, missile-armed Type 022 Houbei-class catamarans stationed at the many small harbors in the Ryukyus could hold off allied forces while the PLAN fleet overcame the Taiwan Navy and pounded away at shore targets," he said.
An obvious step, the study says, would be for Japan to fortify the islands themselves against attack, "sparing Japanese forces the hazards of retaking them from PLA occupiers."
"Dug-in and armed with anti-ship and anti-air weaponry, Japanese troops could make the Ryukyus exceptionally hard targets to capture for PLA forces operating far from their bases," it said.


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For astronauts
living in space, coping with medical emergencies far from a hospital or trained
doctor can be a difficult and dangerous task. During future missions to the moon
and Mars, crewmembers' health and mission success will depend upon their ability
to deal with these emergencies with the help of a doctor on Earth. This challenge
is the focus of an upcoming NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations expedition,
"Aquarius, with its physical
and psychological isolation on the floor of the Atlantic, will provide the real
stresses needed to validate telemedicine in an extreme environment," Todd said.
October, during a two-week stay in Aquarius, two NASA astronauts, a Canadian Space
Agency astronaut and a Canadian doctor will test telerobotic technology while
performing surgery on a simulated patient. They will work remotely with colleagues
at the Centre for Minimal Access Surgery (CMAS) at St. Joseph's Hospital, in Hamilton,
to Dr. Mehran Anvari, CMAS director, NEEMO 7 will demonstrate and evaluate innovative
remote technologies and procedures for remote surgery. Anvari, based in Hamilton,
Ontario, will use two-way telecommunication links to guide the aquanauts through
diagnosis and surgery on a mock patient inside Aquarius. Another simulation will
involve virtual reality control technology to guide telerobotic surgery on the
mock patient.
will also perform scheduled dives, sampling and monitoring the watery environment
around the underwater habitat.
Curator: Kim
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Katie Hanson is a military spouse; her husband, Lt. Cmdr. Marc Hanson, is on active duty in the Navy.
He has Florida as his home of record, even though he is based at Naval Air Station North Island, Coronado, in California. The Hansons never lived in Florida as a married couple. She now lives and works in California, and they own a home in South Carolina that they rent.
So where do they pay taxes?
She has to file a California return and they both have to file in South Carolina. If Florida had a state income tax, he'd have to file there. That's on top of their federal return.
For military personnel, "it's not unusual to have to file taxes in multiple states," said Katie Hanson, project manager for TurboTax's military edition.
That's just one of several tax complexities that military families must deal with when figuring out their taxes.
"Quite often the service members are aware of the benefits but their families are less aware," said Mark Luscombe, principal analyst at CCH, a tax preparation service. "Sometimes problems come up when a service member dies." He said survivors don't always understand the military tax issues.
First off is the question of where the home of record is.
Home of record is where you enter the military, Hanson said. Or it can be the place where you live while in the service that you consider your home. It's where the military will move you back to when you leave the service. Your home of record will determine where you file state income taxes.
There's also the question of what income is taxable.
"The basic pay in the military is taxable but a lot of the secondary stuff is excludable," Luscombe said.
Pay while serving in an officially declared combat zone, for example, is not taxable as income.
"When I was in the Navy in Vietnam, the rule then and still is that you have to have been in the combat zone for at least one day a month to get the exclusion for that month," Luscombe said.
Today, combat zones include Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf region, including Iraq, and the Balkans.
"Service in a combat zone includes any periods you are absent from duty because of sickness, wounds or leaves," says the Internal Revenue Service.
Those who were injured or exposed to diseases in combat zones can, for tax purposes, exclude from income their pay during the time they were hospitalized, even if the hospitalization occurs outside the combat zone. Usual tests pertaining to time and distance for moves do not apply for members of the military.
Service members deployed to combat zones can get an automatic extension for filing their federal tax returns, to 180 days after they return to the United States.
Members of the military also may request to defer payment of income taxes due during their time of service for up to 180 days after that service ends.
They also may include their nontaxable combat pay in their earned income if that would mean a higher earned income tax credit. The amount of the credit, which benefits low- and moderate-income taxpayers, is determined by income and the number of dependents. It is refundable, meaning you will receive it even if you don't owe taxes.
The government will reimburse the moving costs incurred by military personnel relocated to different bases. Anything over and above what the government pays for can be deducted provided it meets the distance requirements. For example, the military will not pay the full cost of shipping a car, Hanson said.
Active-duty military personnel also have more leeway in qualifying for the capital gains exclusion on the sale of their home. Usually to qualify for the exclusion — up to $250,000 for an individual and $500,000 for a married couple filing jointly — you have to own and live in the house at least two of the previous five years. For members of the military, the five-year period can be suspended if they are on active duty.
As for uniforms, Hanson said it's a myth that members of the military can deduct their cost. "If you can wear khakis or uniforms off base, you don't even qualify," she said.
But things like battle dress uniforms that cannot be worn when off duty, and insignia of rank or epaulets can be deductible. Still, the cost has to meet the threshold of 2 per cent of your income.
The IRS will grant tax forgiveness to members of the military who die "while in active service in a combat zone, from wounds, disease or other injury received in a combat zone or from wounds or injury incurred in a terrorist or military operation."
Because of the complexities of military tax returns, TurboTax has created a special edition of its tax software for servicemen and women and their families. The product was created by former members of the military and military spouses.
The IRS has also has a special publication, Publication 3, for members of the armed forces.


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By Peggy Aulisio
By Peggy Aulisio
ACUSHNET — Three firefighters were honored Jan. 14 for their daring rescue of Karen Szymczyk, 52, from a Jan. 6 fire at her house on Coloumbe Street.
Firefighters Adam Hebert, Paul Frysinger and Tom Farland received praise from Fire Chief Kevin Gallagher and selectmen at a ceremony attended by family members and fellow firefighters.
Mr. Hebert, 19, was responding to his first fire as the youngest member of Acushnet's Fire Department. He was hired as a call firefighter in January 2012 and has attended the call firefighter academy in Fall River.
Chief Gallagher said the firefighters committed "a courageous act" when they responded to the woman's pleas for help from inside the burning house.
Chief Gallagher said when Mr. Hebert and Mr. Frysinger entered the house, they encountered "heavy fire on the stairway." He said they extinguished it, but then "heard cries for help."
The chief said the firefighters "abandoned the hose" and found the victim, who was "suffering from smoke inhalation and burns." They then helped her out of the building, Chief Gallagher said.
The house at 42 Coloumbe St. is three blocks from the Russell Street fire station. Chief Gallagher said it took two minutes for the Fire Department to respond after receiving a 911 call from a neighbor at 11 p.m.
He said Mr. Farland was the first on the scene, followed by Mr. Hebert and Mr. Frysinger who came from their homes.
Ms. Szymczyk was flown by helicopter to Rhode Island Hospital in serious condition with burns to both legs. On Monday, the chief said she is still at the trauma center, but that her family says there is a slight improvement every day.
Mr. Hebert and Mr. Frysinger are first cousins. Chief Gallagher said their relationship isn't unusual because becoming a firefighter is a tradition in some families.
"We're exceptionally proud of him," the chief said of Mr. Hebert.
One unusual twist is that this is only the second time in 21 years that someone was rescued from a burning house in Acushnet and it was from the same house. Alfred Robichaud, who recently retired as a captain, rescued a woman in that fire in 1994.
Selectman Leslie Dakin said he had to call on firefighters earlier in his life and felt they were "angels of mercy." He told the firefighters Monday, "and that's just what you were."
Selectman Kevin Gallagher called their actions "a fine example of bravery," and Chairman David E. Wojnar said, "You're a testament that this country's in good shape."


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The man with the big ideas wasn't so good with the details. In Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius (W.W. Norton, $24.95, excerpted below), Hans Ohanian writes that Albert often let his intuition overrule flawed proofs and shaky math. Maybe you'll feel a little better about your own flubs.
(See this earlier DISCOVER story for more detail on Einstein's biggest flubs: thinking black holes were impossible, believing the universe was static, and saying that "God does not play dice." Also see DISCOVER's recent special issue on Einstein.)
Chronology of Einstein's Mistakes
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Shaw's Wants You To Shop More With Their Wheeled Baskets
Shaw's has wised up to the trick of using a basket instead of a shopping cart to physically limit your grocery purchases, and they've come up with a creative workaround: convertible baskets that you can drag behind you on wheels when they become too heavy to carry.
"This allows them the possibility to move inside the store without having to carry all the items in their hands with the handheld baskets," spokeswoman Judy Chong said. "When you're picking up a half gallon of milk and two-liter bottles of soda, it gets heavy."
According to their North American distributor, another big benefit of being able to pull the Shop n' Roll baskets is that they prompt some shoppers to load them with more groceries, instead of perhaps heading to the checkout when carrying them becomes fatiguing.
"They promote more items being purchased," said George Braeunig, who handles North American sales for distributor SCS Inc. in Boca Raton, Fla.
We like it. It's like a basket and a shopping cart had a little baby. You should just be aware that there's an intentional "buy more stuff" side effect if you're not careful.
"Shaw's rolls out baskets with wheels" [Boston Herald] (Thanks to Henry!)
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